Chapter 836, Armored Attack
Ricardo did not choose to launch an attack from the air with fighter jets.
A lot of fighter planes had been lost in the previous battles, and now humans have basically lost air superiority. Flying out in fighter planes is very risky. It is easy to be entangled by the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower, or by the orc fighter planes and airships that are much more numerous than one's own, before getting close to the target. That would be fatal.
It would be better to attack from the ground.
The ground forces that Ricardo mobilized were almost the last mobile force he could use. The only remaining Warhound Titan and six Knight mechas were the core assault force. Beside them, there were fourteen Alliance Holy Sword heavy tanks, and a total of one hundred Lion King tanks and Lion tanks. Along with many armored vehicles of various types, from wheeled assault guns to anti-aircraft vehicles to armored infantry fighting vehicles and troop carriers, everything was available. In addition, there were about six thousand elite army soldiers who cooperated with the armored vehicles, which together constituted the main force of this operation.
Although the absolute number is not large, even those soldiers have all reached elite levels of ability.
What they wanted to carry out was a decapitation operation, not a full-scale confrontation on the battlefield. When the front battlefield had actually collapsed, gathering more numbers was no longer meaningful.
In fact, if this operation is to succeed, it will mainly depend on the fifty or so Space Marines led by Ricardo himself.
The main task of other troops was actually to send Ricardo and his warriors to the orc warlord Uru.
The tightly locked fortress gate suddenly opened.
The orc army that was attacking the gate and the city wall nearby was stunned for a moment.
They had no doubt that they would win in the end, but how did these shrimps open the door by themselves?
But it’s a great thing anyway!
The grumpy green guys are tired of shooting at those shrimps across the city wall.
They howled with joy and rushed towards the gate, but were met with fierce artillery fire that blew them to pieces.
This level of artillery power was common at the beginning of the war. At that time, the human defenders had sufficient artillery reserves and a sufficient number of artillery. However, as the war progressed, more and more human artillery failed for various reasons. The biggest factor was naturally the suppression of human artillery positions by the orcs, which destroyed a lot of them.
When heavy firepower was no longer enough to compete with the orcs, humans also learned to be smart. They reduced the frequency of firing, changed positions after each shot, and paid attention to shielding when building artillery positions... All these methods did allow human artillery units to survive longer, but also significantly reduced the support for the front line.
The sudden and fierce bombardment at that moment had not been seen for some time, and the orc troops that were charging towards the fortress gate suffered heavy losses in the sudden bombardment.
But the orc boss in charge of the front-line command was not worried.
This is just the shrimps' last fragile resistance!
He shouted to the rear, demanding a counterattack on the exposed artillery positions of the humans, regardless of whether the work was done by his own heavy artillery or the air force boys in the sky.
At the same time, he also forced the orc boys under his command to continue attacking regardless of casualties.
It is a rare thing that the door is wide open. Although I don’t know the reason, this opportunity should not be missed.
He even threw in his own elite reserve forces.
It was an orc armored unit, with heavy trucks made of various mechanical wreckages, randomly loaded with some strange-looking but uniformly large-caliber heavy artillery, and a few killing cannons and Squiggle war beasts dotted among them.
He was going to rush into the fortress in one breath and take the credit for being the first to reach it. At that time, he would be praised by the warlord, and more waaagh power would fill his body, making him bigger, stronger, and more powerful.
He was still holding on to such a beautiful dream, but the human troops rushing out of the gate of Dong Kai's fortress shattered his fantasy.
The first thing that catches your eye is the Holy Sword heavy tank.
He had seen this thing before. It was very big, very hard, and very difficult to blow up. The few that were blown up could be dragged back and reassembled to become a super cool heavy truck, much stronger than an ordinary truck. Even some fragments would cause multiple bosses to fight over them.
Good things appear right in front of you?
The two cars driving side by side seemed to him like a huge fortune!
But soon, two more followed, and then two more... The heavy tanks drove out, and the main guns fired directly into the orc army. Four secondary axle heavy guns were also a deadly threat to ordinary combat trucks.
Even the largest Squiggle was knocked to the ground after being hit by a heavy cannon on the side of its neck. The angry beast turned its head and roared at the human army with its bloody mouth wide open, but the next cannon hit it right in the mouth and blew its head flat.
Following the Holy Sword tanks came a large number of lions and lion kings. The main guns attacked units such as killing tanks and combat trucks, while the coaxial machine guns and small-caliber secondary guns wiped out the lives of the orc light infantry that followed the team.
The battlefield was already a bloody mess.
The orc boss pressed forward and wanted to rush into the fortress in one breath, but not only did he fail to achieve this goal, he was pushed back out by the human armored forces in one breath.
The furious orc leader roared, raised his battle axe, and called on his personal guards and the most elite group of heavily armored orc warriors around him, intending to counterattack.
However, the bigger thing that came out after the tank further crushed his thoughts.
That was the knight mecha team led by Titan.
The already shaky orc army was defeated.
Even the orc boss had to flee with them.
But how can one escape?
Ricardo, who came out in the chariot, had been eyeing this person for a long time.
He shouted to speed up the vehicle, and when the distance between the two sides was less than a thousand meters, he jumped out of the car and led a fierce charge with a dozen Dragon King's Spear warriors.
They wantonly hacked and killed the approaching orc troops like a sharp spear, without stopping at all.
Ricardo himself even caught up with the orc boss.
The orc boss, who was heavily armored and even taller than Ricardo in Terminator armor, turned around, raised his battle axe, intending to fight a final life-and-death battle with Ricardo.
But after just one confrontation, the company commander's thunder hammer smashed the battle axe away.
With another blow of the hammer, the orc boss's head was smashed into pieces with his door wide open.
(End of this chapter)
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