Chapter 352, 'Prey'
While the soldiers on Koroja were preparing for the final fight of their lives demanded by the Governor; while the officials and people in Mingyan City were working hard for the Governor's war plan; while Lao Yisi, the star domain envoy, was bearing the pressure from all sides for the Governor, what was the Governor himself doing?
The Governor himself was on an outing.
There were six other people joining him on the outing.
The first one is Martins, the leader of the Phoenix Regiment. Needless to say,
The second one is Eureka Pampos. He is from Black Arrow Planet. He was originally the prince of the largest kingdom of Pampos and the driver of the Knight Titan of Black Arrow Planet. Later, with the support of the Alliance diplomats, he forced his father to abdicate and became the King of Pampos. Of course, in the Alliance era, the king was almost a purely honorary position, and the management authority was almost entirely in the hands of the Alliance government.
As for himself, he not only took on the identity of a king, but also joined the Alliance's 'Alliance National Knights' and continued to shine as a Knight Titan driver.
This is a very important political signal, which means that the Alliance accepts the old forces of Black Arrow Star.
Even your king can continue to hold important power in the alliance, so what do you have to worry about?
Originally, his position in the Knights was more symbolic than practical. Could it be that the Alliance really lacked such a pilot? However, as time went on, Governor Gu began to gradually give him more power.
The reason for this is, of course, that Governor Gu found on the [Hero] interface that King Eureka really recognized the Alliance and his loyalty was guaranteed. So he asked him to go to the Zhongsi Academy on the Wrathful Star, spent grace points to activate his hero attributes, and spent grace points to train him to become a political commissar. After ensuring his loyalty, Gu Hang simply let this pilot with outstanding potential lead the Alliance's Knights as a king.
He is not afraid of accidents.
Nothing will happen.
The third and fourth are Leonardo Neves and Aiaro Lacroxia. They are both from the Tenth Brigade of the Alliance. The latter is a super soldier with outstanding achievements. He also changed into a feedback power armor. He is the strongest in the Alliance except for the Space Marines. His personal level has reached LV5 and his potential is extraordinary. In fact, some Phoenix recruits can't beat him.
However, Lacroix had no talent or ability to command troops, and he was unwilling to do it. Neves was the commander of the 10th Brigade, a brigadier general of the Alliance. When the military commander of a general brigade-level unit was only a lieutenant colonel or at most a colonel, he, as a brigadier general, showed the importance of the 10th Brigade.
Fifth, there is Dany Therese, the leader of the Alliance's Stormcasting Corps.
These five are all members of the alliance.
The sixth one has a rather special identity.
She is the head nun of the Sisters of the Holy Lily of Mercy, Ms. Grit.
The Holy Lily of Mercy is a battle sisterhood with more than 400 battle sisters before the war. Their main responsibility is to garrison and defend the missionary work of the State Church on Koroja 3, and to preach the gospel themselves. In addition, they respond to the call of the Empire and the State Church and participate in wars in other star systems.
The Holy Lily of Mercy was born out of the Holy Fire Rose Convent, a third-class order under the Holy Fire Rose. Compared to the most famous large-scale convents of the Ecclesiarchy, such as their former sect, the Holy Lily of Mercy is small in size; but for Koroja, they are an extremely important defense force.
In fact, before this, most of Grit and other combat nuns of Holy Lily of Mercy were fighting on the front lines, especially in the city of Fino.
In the wars of the past few years, the Holy Lily of Mercy has lost more than a hundred sisters. They are always fighting on the front line, going wherever there is danger. They have indeed provided great help.
But it still failed to stop the spread of the plague.
Until the city of Fino was abandoned, they had no choice but to withdraw, and now they have regrouped in Mingyan City.
There are now more than 300 nuns in total.
Logically speaking, even if Gu Hang had become the governor of Koroja, he had no power to directly govern the Holy Mercy Lily. They belonged to the state religion, and although they were also part of the empire, they were completely two different systems.
However, theater commanders are another matter.
Even apart from this power relationship, Holy Lily itself is willing to contribute to the war against the plague demon.
After Gu Hang talked with the Bishop of the State Church in the Korojia Diocese, Zhao Qinghong, and the leader of the congregation, Sister Medici, they agreed to send a team of 100 people to participate in Gu Hang's operation.
The team was led by Sister Grit, who had worked with Gu Hang before and had helped a lot in the establishment of the alliance.
At this moment, the place where they were outing was located on a cliff, on the edge of the army position that was building a defense line to the west of Mingyan City.
The six people were silent, waiting for Governor Gu, who had his eyes closed but looked out, to fall from mid-air.
The one who couldn't keep calm the most was Grit.
She couldn't help but ask, "Governor, is this the place? Is this the place we are looking for?"
Gu Hang slowly opened his eyes, turned around, and said, "Although the conditions are not so perfect, we can't always pursue perfection in everything. Let's choose this place."
After a pause, he continued, "Next, I will mobilize a division to set up a secret camp on this side of the cliff. After you go back, you must bring your teams here. We need to make some preparations in advance."
Brigadier General Neves asked, "What about you, Governor?"
"I'll be waiting here for you." Gu Hang laughed softly, "It's not an easy task to teleport more than a thousand people, as well as big guys like the Ranger Knights and the Warhound Titans, to the core of Fino City. We have to go through many obstacles and deceive a big demon. There are still many things to do."
Hearing the word "great devil", everyone was awed.
Gu Hang said to the six people in a serious tone: "The Empire's army is on high alert, and the Empire's subjects are doing their best to contribute to the battlefield. But the most important part of this war is still here. We are responsible for stopping the demon cave, paralyzing its void shield, and severing its connection with hell. Even if everyone participating in this battle is a well-deserved elite or even a hero, we still don't know how many people can come back alive. You must prepare the team mentally."
Grit and Martins stood up almost immediately: "For the empire!"
The others followed quickly.
Gu Hang responded with equal seriousness: "For the empire!"
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103 Terran standard days later, the creeping hive city of 'Fino City' was within reach.
The distance between it and the famous Yancheng is only more than 600 kilometers.
But in fact, it has already hit the western defense line of Mingyan City.
More than 60 million troops, forming more than 80 army groups, stretched out a strategic depth of more than 600 kilometers on a battlefield nearly 200 kilometers wide. In between, bunkers, trenches, and sentry towers formed layers of defense lines.
Lieutenant General Hans was quite capable. The difficulty of organizing an army of 60 million people was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Even though he had a large staff and a large number of officers who had been sent down to the frontline had strong independent execution capabilities, it was still extremely difficult to organize such a huge army in such a vast area.
Lieutenant General Hans could no longer manage divisional units. He could only manage the army group at most. More than 80 army groups were divided into defense zones and were ready to be mobilized at any time.
But even so, the human army still wove a huge net in this reserve battlefield covering an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, waiting for the arrival of the 'prey'.
And now, the 'prey' has arrived.
But who is the prey?
The crawling city of Fino apparently regarded the human army that set up the net as its 'prey'.
After swallowing a hive city, the city expanded further, and the width of the side facing the human army reached 80 kilometers.
When the city of Fino came within range, thousands of cannons fired at once.
The Imperial artillery unleashed its most ferocious firepower upon the crawling hive.
A void shield formed by the evil magic of the subspace suddenly appeared and enveloped the entire city.
The shells created circles of waves on the void shield, and the effect was quite significant.
In previous battles, the firepower of accompanying self-propelled artillery at the same time was far less than the current firepower density that had been prepared for several months. At this moment, under the arrangement of generals and officers of various human armies and divisions, the artillery was arranged very reasonably. The current artillery formation arrangement was the most suitable for intensive bombardment.
The effect of countless falling shells was almost comparable to the previous naval artillery bombardment by the Pegasus fleet.
If the city of Fino did not respond and just stayed there to be bombarded by countless human artillery for a day or two, the void shield would really be broken.
Even a large number of ants can kill an elephant, let alone a serious army's heavy artillery.
But things obviously won't be that easy.
How could a creeping hive city, strengthened by the evil magic of the warp, have no reaction?
Swarms of plague flies whistled out from the city's high towers, blocking out the sun and darkening the sky wherever they flew.
Countless anti-aircraft guns began firing into the sky. There was no need to worry about hitting the target. Such a dense swarm of flies could be hit easily.
Countless sparks exploded in the air, throwing countless charred and broken giant fly corpses to the ground.
But despite this, it was still impossible to stop such a large number of plague flies from launching an attack.
They are both living creatures, the lowest level of plague monsters, and 'cannonballs'.
Swarms of giant flies dived down from the sky. When they dropped to a certain height, even the guns in the hands of human soldiers could kill them. But these brainless demons still insisted on diving down, aiming directly at various predetermined units: artillery positions, anti-aircraft positions.
Seven corrupt dragons appeared under the cover of plague flies. The thick corrupt breath covered a large area of ground positions with plague toxins. The human soldiers who were directly covered by the breath died in agony; even steel would be temporarily revived into flesh and blood by the power of this terrible plague demon, and would not return to its original steel state until the breath dissipated, but it had already been distorted and deformed.
That is to say, in recent years, all soldiers fighting on the front line have been issued with corresponding protective masks and chemical protection suits. Otherwise, not only would people and animals be wiped out in the area directly hit by the breath, but even soldiers further away would be infected with the disease on the spot due to breathing in the plague's toxicity, lose their ability to fight, and quickly die within the next few days.
The sky over the battlefield has almost been occupied by demons.
The human side actually also has thousands of air fighters.
However, this number seems to be a lot, but compared with the enemy, it is far behind. On the battlefield today, there is no way to rely on this number of fighters to gain air superiority.
But if you can’t win, then you shouldn’t fight anymore?
Despite the huge numerical disadvantage, the first batch of hundreds of fighter planes of various types took off from the ground. The main goal was to coordinate with the ground anti-aircraft firepower to reduce the number of plague flies in an area as much as possible and defend their precious anti-aircraft and artillery positions.
The Plague Flies can't fly very high and their speed is not very fast, but these shortcomings allow human fighters to seize many opportunities. After the fight, they can pull up to the altitude and leave, go back to replenish ammunition and fight again.
However, there are also those who are not careful and are destroyed in mid-air - the Corrupted Dragon does not have those weaknesses!
It can even use evil methods to throw the giant plague flies around it into the sky like cannonballs; or, under the cover of the cloud-like swarm of plague flies, it can sneak under the fighter plane, then suddenly rush up, rush to the fighter plane at an extremely fast speed, and tear it apart with its sharp teeth and claws...
But the sacrifice of human fighters is also worthwhile, at least when the number of things of the level of corrupt dragons is still small, there are seven in total. When their eyes are fixed on the sky, the pressure on the ground will be reduced.
However, no matter how fierce the anti-aircraft firepower is, or how heroic the human pilots are, the sky that cannot be taken back will still not be taken back.
And the demons' ground attack also began.
Countless demons poured out from the crawling hive like a tide.
Regardless of the 'road', a hole may be opened on any living wall, and then a large number of plague zombies will rush out from it.
These corrupt enemies held guns in their hands. Some looked like the weapons of the corrupted human army, while others were simply guns and cannons made in the real universe by the evil magic of the subspace, firing vicious evil bullets.
Thus began the brutal ground battle.
The human forces' positions must engage in close-range firefights with the enemy after losing their air superiority and their long-range heavy firepower constantly being attacked by enemy air strikes and unable to provide timely support.
The huge cannons in the crawling hive also began to show their power, bombarding the human positions everywhere with shot after shot.
In the sixth hour after the battle officially began, the human army's first line of defense was completely lost and collapsed.
During this process, the advancement speed of "Fino City" did not slow down at all. The human army was unable to break into Fino City at all and could not threaten its flesh and blood, so naturally it could not slow down its pace.
With this, the city of Fino advanced steadily to a distance of twelve kilometers.
(End of this chapter)
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