Chapter 927, Covering the Sky and the Sun
Just as Martins had expected, when the Chaos army launched the attack, even though his troops had prepared for defense, they were still immediately caught in a tough battle.
After the last wave of battles, the human army had almost no time to rest. Although as a biological attribute of human beings, individuals must inevitably need to rest; but at the level of the army, rest is not necessarily necessary, at least it can be rotated.
In the past dozen hours, the human army has adopted a rotation method, allowing those who need to rest to rest, and those who can hold on will rebuild their defenses as soon as possible to prepare for the next wave of attacks.
Many soldiers were taken to their assigned positions by their drivers while they were taking a nap in military vehicles.
In a hurry, the human side reused and deployed the army defense line located in the outer area of Savenir Cathedral, which was almost destroyed before. They even picked up some surviving heavy artillery that had not been destroyed in time from some captured and destroyed artillery positions.
At the same time, after the number of Space Marines became more abundant, Martins also ordered to directly fill in a large number of Space Marines in important areas of the outer defense line.
Although the troops at hand are limited, the space in the Savinir Church is even more limited. It is unwise to put all the troops at hand into the church. The flexible space outside is the lifeline. If all the surrounding positions are lost, there will only be the church area left, and the battle cannot be fought. If you just stay inside and passively take the beating, you will be beaten down sooner or later.
And filling the front lines with Space Marines directly can significantly strengthen the defense of the front lines.
In general, the alliance has done its best to make every effort to strengthen its defense during the preparation period.
But after the battle started, red alarms were transmitted to the command post from all lines.
"This is Hill 0104 on the northwest line. We are under heavy bombardment. Requesting counterattack!"
"This is the 0332 position on the due north line. A corrupted Titan appeared in front of us. We have destroyed it, but we have lost seventeen Phoenix warriors. Our forces are running out and we need reinforcements!"
"This is position 0746 on the northeast line. The number of enemies attacking our unit is far beyond our expectations. We can only hold out for 20 minutes at most!"
Everywhere is under pressure, everywhere is calling for reinforcements, everywhere is reporting that they can't hold out for much longer...
In theory, the person who should have listened to the report, the supreme commander Martins, was no longer in the command center.
Already fully armed, he and the commando team he led had boarded the fighter plane and took off.
Setting off together is a huge group of fighter planes from the alliance!
If there is one area where the Alliance can barely tie with their opponents at this moment, it is air power.
When the last alliance conducted airborne operations near the church, a large number of fighter jets mobilized did not return.
From the Wind Falcon to the Dragon Elephant, as well as various modified versions, they basically all have the means of vertical take-off and landing, and the requirements for the take-off environment are very low. The temporary airport can fully meet their needs.
Martins had anticipated the current situation. Not long ago, a new batch of transport planes arrived under the protection of another wave of fighter planes.
Not only did they bring an elite Army Guards Division - the official name of the Union Army was the S-Class Division.
This is a more powerful existence than the A-class division. It was reorganized from the former Glory Guards and incorporated into the army sequence. The S-class division not only has powerful artillery, armor, and Titan units, but all infantry are equipped with feedback power armor.
The standard for establishing the Guards Division is to "use the strength of a regiment to match that of a Space Marine Chapter."
A Guards Regiment has a strength of approximately three thousand troops, including four infantry battalions and two armored battalions, which are six front-line combat units, totaling about two thousand people; the remaining one thousand people are support forces, including five self-propelled artillery support companies, as well as the regiment's logistics, reconnaissance, field medical brigade, staff, guard battalion, etc., a series of various troops.
They are said to be comparable to the Space Marines, but in reality, they probably still cannot defeat them if they really meet. After all, although they have three times the number of ordinary Chapters, can three elite Army soldiers in feedback power armor defeat one Space Marine?
It's difficult.
If possible, Martins would certainly prefer to use the precious transport capacity to send another 3,000 Space Marines over.
But unfortunately, he didn't have that much on hand.
In the Southern Front Army where he was, there were a total of 43 Chapters, and the total number of Space Marines should theoretically reach more than 40,000. However, such a powerful force would not be together all the time. In fact, in most cases, the Space Marines would be dispersed to various places where the Army was advancing in the form of companies. With a total of 22 detachments of the Southern Front Army, they were active in thousands of worlds in one or two universes, fighting according to strategic goals.
Of course, the biggest force will naturally be in the main fleet of the front, that is, Martins.
There are five chapters in total.
This force, which is the reserve force controlled by the front headquarters, will fight with the main fleet on the one hand, and will also be ready to attack at any time when other detachments need it on the other hand.
But even if they belong to the same main fleet, the five thousand Space Marines will not gather together. In fact, there are a total of thirteen worlds in the multi-star zone where Papalil is located, all of which are the targets of this wave of offensive. The other four thousand warriors are now in various places in the multi-star zone, together with other ships of the main fleet.
They have received the news and are rushing here at full speed, but it will take at least three to four days to complete the assembly.
In other words, all the interstellar warriors that Martins can mobilize are now on the surface.
He wanted to increase the odds further, and the highest level of combat power he could mobilize was only the S-type division, which was the Army Guards Division.
A Guards regiment cannot compare to a Space Marine chapter, but if they really met one, they would be more than capable of fighting back, but at least they could give it a try.
This Guards Regiment was also assigned to fight on the front line.
Along with this Guards Regiment came a large number of aviation energy crystals to serve as energy supplements for the fighter jets.
This supports the current all-out attack by alliance fighters.
The fighter planes that covered the sky and the sun faced the Chaos Army's defense firepower and bombarded the Chaos Air Force that also took off.
Although we cannot completely control the air supremacy, we can at least complete some strategic operations in the air.
For example, bombing, or sending Martins and his commandos to where he wanted to go.
(End of this chapter)
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