Chapter 688: The Surviving Marshal, Battle of Rheaduches (Part 3)
Before the main human force began the formal attack and carried out large-scale airborne operations, the number of people who landed on the ground through Gu Hang's psychic transmission was very small, only more than 400.
Except for Qin Zhiping, most of the others are Space Marines.
Such a precious teleportation spot should naturally be given to the strongest fighter.
Gu Hang would not put all his hopes on how many of the remaining troops on the northern front were still alive. For these elite soldiers who were teleported to the ground through psychic energy, finding the remaining troops on the northern front was only a secondary task. More importantly, they had to first understand the situation in the expected airborne area and try to destroy some air defense nests before the airborne began; even if they could not do it because of too few people, they had to cooperate with the landed army troops after the airborne began to deal with these air defense nests as soon as possible.
However, the situation left by the remnants of the troops on the northern front on the surface was better than expected.
It is not easy to contact the remaining troops.
In the absence of supplies and orbital cover, they would not be able to gather large-scale forces and occupy a stable surface base... Otherwise, both the Zerg's ground attack and the threat posed by Zerg ships in orbit would pose a devastating threat to the ground forces.
This forced the remaining troops on the northern front to hide. They had to preserve their limited supplies as much as possible to avoid unnecessary battles. Once a battle occurred, they had to do their best to eliminate the enemies they saw, and then move away immediately to prevent the swarm from tracking them along the last location of the missing troops.
After hiding, it was difficult for the bugs to find them, but Qin Zhiping was also difficult to find.
However, since he asked Gu Hang to let him be the first wave of people to land, he naturally had some ideas about how to find the remaining troops on the northern front who were hiding.
He brought a communication device.
When performing psychic teleportation, the equipment you carry with you cannot be too large, otherwise a simple star language tower would be a better choice.
But having such a communication device is enough.
The channel and password were set to a highly confidential channel dedicated to the Northern Front Corps, and then a more popular channel was set. The former was to contact the high-ranking members of the remaining Northern Front Corps who might be alive, and the latter was to expand the search range as much as possible.
Then, one hundred Phoenixes and one hundred Blood Sharks began to prepare for the subsequent large-scale airborne operations. As for Qin Zhiping, under the protection of another two hundred Space Marines, he began to move around in a large area, looking for possible remnants of the northern line.
The Space Marines protecting him were mostly from the Black Crusaders under Xi Rui, the rest were from the Silver Watch, and a few were elites drawn from other regiments.
It makes sense that the Black Crusaders would send so many people down. After all, if the remaining troops on the northern front really existed, most of them would come from the Black Crusaders. In the first battle of Reyaduches a year and a half ago, the Black Crusaders sent the most troops down. They sent about 1,500 people down.
Both search channels used by Qin Zhiping produced results.
Many of the remnants of the northern front did survive. In the first battle, they had left tens of millions of soldiers behind. Although most of them died, and only one in ten survived, there were still millions of people.
Of course, these people were scattered. They were generally in the mountains, in the tunnels, and in the ruins of the lower levels of the hive. Their conditions were extremely difficult, with equipment, food, ammunition... all in short supply.
There is no doubt that this is a slow death.
But a slow death is better than a quick one.
As long as you're alive, maybe you can hold on until the situation changes.
For example, right now.
In this way, Qin Zhiping contacted some of the remnant troops.
As long as there is such a beginning, the rest will be easy to handle. Although these lingering troops dare not show up, many of them are connected to each other. If you contact one, you can contact many.
Of course, Qin Zhiping couldn't save them either.
If you want to live, you can only save yourself.
He shared with these troops the coordinates of the location where the Imperial Alliance would conduct a large-scale airborne landing a few days later.
The way to save yourself is to move immediately, take all the equipment and manpower you can, no longer worry about any consumption of ammunition, and move towards the area with all your strength.
If they are too far away from the drop site, thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers away, then there is no way and no one can save them, unless they can really travel thousands of miles to reach the drop zone.
But most of them were within a thousand kilometers, or even those already in this area, and they became active one after another.
When the coalition forces selected the airdrop area, it was basically the same as the airdrop area chosen by the Northern Front Corps in the first battle. On the one hand, this place was indeed suitable, and on the other hand, it was also considered that the remaining troops on the Northern Front were actually in this area, and the possibility of remaining was the highest.
After receiving the news from Qin Zhiping, these remnants indeed began to move one by one.
If you don't move you will die.
Moreover, this was an order jointly signed by Xi Rui, Gu Hang, and Salisbury. The commanders-in-chief of the northern, southern, and western fronts gathered together.
Qin Zhiping made use of highly confidential communications and achieved an especially great result: he contacted Le Roy!
The marshal of the Second Fleet of the Black Crusaders and the real commander-in-chief of the northern front was not dead!
During the first battle, Le Roy's flagship exploded in the naval battle, and then there was no news of him, and Xi Rui took over the duties of commander-in-chief.
But in fact, when the ship exploded, Le Roux and a small number of his personal guards boarded a lifeboat, and took advantage of the chaos of the naval battle to flee to the surface of Rheaduches.
This was certainly not a good choice. If he had the opportunity to board other ships at that time, it would definitely be best.
But isn’t there anything we can do about it?
It was also good luck, and the air defense on the surface of Readuches had been relaxed at that time. If one of these two points was not met, Le Luwa would have been blown to death in the process of falling to the surface.
And it’s not like Leroy has been doing nothing in the past year and a half.
He alone could not bring about any change in the situation in the battle of Rheaduches, but there were some positive aspects.
For example, he contacted troops from all sides and united many remnant troops. Under such difficult circumstances, he established a unified command system and prevented the remnant troops from falling into a state of disunity.
In particular, a large number of Space Marines were contacted. Although not all of them were by his side, there were at least 500 of them; in addition, there were more than 500 warriors who could be contacted at any time to assign tasks.
This is another huge good news.
(End of this chapter)
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