Chapter 837, The Last Battle
Ricciardo undoubtedly won a brilliant victory.
After the armored troops drove out of the gate, they not only completely defeated the orc army that was attacking the fortress gate, but also killed the enemy commander in battle.
For the orcs, the death of their leader had a particularly significant impact. A considerable number of orc attacking forces were left, but they collapsed immediately.
It's a big win anyway.
However, on the battlefield of the entire planet, a victory of this scale alone was not enough to change the situation of the war.
Victories like this may have to be achieved a hundred or even hundreds of times before the situation can be completely reversed.
But is that possible?
No, Ricardo knew that very well.
After putting away Thor's hammer, he did not look excited at all. He just urged the troops to continue the attack.
For a long period of time afterwards, Du Amen did not encounter more or stronger enemies.
The orc troop that was defeated earlier clearly made the long journey ahead easier for them.
But what is the cost?
The price was that the fortress gate was breached.
The orcs' counterattack actually came very quickly. Although it was quite difficult to intercept the human armored forces in front of them, their actions had obviously attracted the attention of the orcs' command center.
There are orc troops who are already encircling their retreat.
This force was intentionally mobilized from the orcs' headquarters and took over the gate of the core fortress.
After the armored troops came out, the gate was naturally closed again. However, the human artillery positions that were previously used to cover the armored troops were exposed due to concentrated fire. Subsequently, under the air strikes of the Orc Air Force and the concentrated counterattacks of the Orc artillery, the human artillery positions were basically destroyed.
Without the fire support of heavy artillery, the gate naturally could not be defended.
Although he knew that it was only a matter of time before the fortress fell, Ricardo still felt heavy-hearted when the last line of defense of the fortress was lost.
He could only comfort himself that after the orcs invested their forces to attack the main fort, the number of troops coming to encircle and suppress him might not be that large?
Maybe that's a good thing.
Although that meant that the space blockade device would definitely be destroyed, it was something that could not be defended in the first place. It should be worthwhile to take something that could not be defended in exchange for smoother actions.
However, just thinking this way does not mean that their actions will be smooth.
The green-skinned orcs' military strength is much greater and more elite than imagined.
When two or three giant orc King Kongs, clusters of death iron cans, and clusters of war beasts appeared on the battlefield, the assault of the human armored forces became more difficult.
The enemy has surpassed the human side in both the number and quality of armored forces. It is not certain that they can win a head-on battle, let alone achieve a frontal breakthrough.
But Ricardo did not give up.
The current situation was probably within his expectations.
Finally, after issuing an order requiring the entire force to attack fiercely regardless of cost and casualties, he quietly led the Space Marines in several Rhino assault vehicles and left the main force.
On the front battlefield, the armored forces of both sides collided with each other like two steel torrents, causing chaos and darkness. The huge war weapons of extraordinary value were constantly destroyed in the brutal battle and turned into broken scrap metal.
The team led by Ricardo himself did feel a lot less pressure after bypassing the front. The fierceness of the frontal battle was quite attractive to the aggressive orcs.
At this moment, what Ricardo encountered on the road were mostly small groups of troops who came to provide support or to "watch the fun".
With his strength, he led fifty Space Marines and killed these small forces one after another.
During the breakthrough, Ricardo had swung the thunder hammer countless times, and countless orc boys were beaten into pieces by his hammer. His green and white power armor had long been stained by the orcs' hot blood.
And it's not just him, the fighting brothers behind him are also like this.
As they fought their way up, the number of the fifty fighting brothers kept decreasing.
Orcs are not an easy race to deal with. Even the most ordinary Orc boy, using the simplest rifles, quick guns, or ordinary machetes and battle axes, has the power to threaten the Space Marines when facing them head-on.
One, three, five of these are fine, but when the Space Marines have to face the constant siege of dozens at the same time, it is a different story.
Those so-called small orcish troops are called "small", but their number is often several hundred or even thousands.
Every time they break out of the encirclement, there will often be one or two fighting brothers who will lie behind forever and unable to break out.
However, this is not the worst.
As the battles here continued, the direction of their breakthrough also became the "liveliness" itself, so more orc troops would rush here.
They began to face more battles.
As their numbers decreased, their breakthrough speed became slower and they were easier to be surrounded.
In this process, a fighting brother will disappear silently.
But Ricardo had no time to care about anything else.
He is the strongest spearhead in the entire breakthrough line, and the pressure he bears is the greatest among everyone.
How could he have time to look behind him? In front of him, leaving aside the ordinary orc boys, killing cans, death cans, and heavily armored orc warriors appeared one after another.
Among these high-level units, there are some that he cannot kill with just a single hammer.
There was even an orc warrior who fought with him in a fierce offensive and defensive battle for twenty rounds in a head-on combat.
Although, in the end, Ricardo won as his head was smashed to pieces by a hammer, but the opponent also left a huge scar on his chest armor, so much so that the exposed wires inside the power armor could be seen.
He took off his helmet, breathing heavily, his eyes almost blurred by sweat.
After killing the warrior, he looked around and found that none of his battle brothers were left standing.
But the number of enemies around did not decrease at all.
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