“Here they come.”
On an astronomical platform in the Golden Palace, Su Ziyu slowly opened his eyes. He glanced at the golden-haired angel not far away, nodded slightly, and then turned to Queen Isabella behind him and said, "The front battlefield is left to you."
"Well. Leave it to us." Queen Isabella nodded firmly, and then a figure wearing a blood-red interstellar armor floated down from the second floor.
Su Ziyu could not take over the command of the imperial army. He was not familiar with the military system of the empire. His existence was like a trump card that would only be used when necessary to deal a fatal blow to the Orcs. Queen Isabella was the best commander, and only she could fully mobilize the entire empire's army. In this battle, Su Ziyu could not be too far away from the Golden Palace, because when the situation was critical, he had to enter the Psychic Synchronicity Center.
Queen Isabella looked back at Su Ziyu, then put down her cold mask, turned and walked towards the square in the distance.
A huge number of troops have gathered there, almost all of the empire's main forces have been mobilized, and all the imperial cities have been blocked. Because most of the empire's cities are built underground, they are equivalent to natural shelters. As long as the outer defense system is not breached, there is no need to worry about the safety of civilians inside for the time being.
Channels were opened one after another.
As Queen Isabella boarded the Titan-class battleship Queen, tens of thousands of fighter planes also took off.
The ground forces had already assembled on the surface. More than one million troops were divided into twelve legions and deployed near all the important cities of the empire, with a defense line of tens of thousands of kilometers. They could not determine where the first target of the Orks would be, but the imperial forces with orbital launch technology could send supporting space warriors to any corner of the planet within thirty minutes.
"Your Majesty."
"The forces in outer space have lost contact." A cold electronic voice sounded.
Queen Isabella nodded silently upon hearing this, with a slightly bitter expression on her face. The empire's civilization route was developing by leaps and bounds. Having inherited the legacy of the ancient lost empire, they had directly entered the interstellar age from medieval civilization. This also resulted in their technology tree being incomplete, and not climbing up step by step.
Under normal circumstances, the Empire could have used thousands of years to complete these technology trees, but before they had time to do so, they suffered a terrible defeat.
The failure of psychic ascension directly led to a huge fault in the empire's technology tree.
The most major gap is the corresponding interstellar navigation technology. They have no ability to build new interstellar battleships, which has led to their complete loss of the ability to fight a tough battle with the Orks in outer space.
Fortunately, within this crystal wall system, there are two races that do not like fighting in outer space at all. On the contrary, they like to actively seek landing operations.
The two races are the Zerg and the Orcs.
The Zerg's ground combat capability is quite strong, and the flying forces can only exert their strongest strength in a planetary environment. The reproduction and energy source of the Zerg swarm must rely on the resources of the planet. Once a protracted war breaks out in the environment of outer space, the Zerg swarm without sufficient energy replenishment will be greatly affected.
Therefore, the first wave of the Zerg's attack often begins with a forced landing on the planet.
The situation is similar for the Orcs. They are quite confident in their ground combat capabilities, and only in a planetary environment can they maximize their racial advantages.
The race that loves space combat the most is the legendary Eldar, but they haven't been seen in thousands of years.
They were directly crushed by the Orc Empire once in the Golden Age. The Orc army forced its way in with almost barbaric means and penetrated into the interior of the Eldar planet. Then the endless Orc army directly flattened the Eldar's base camp.
In the sky.
Flaming meteors fell from the sky, their number was almost impossible to count, and even in broad daylight, one could still see the meteor shower covering the sky.
This is the Orcs' main fleet making an orbital landing, and their warships are not entering the interior of the planet directly.
As if out of fear of some existence, the orcs took the lead in launching a wave of tentative attacks.
But even if it was just a tentative offensive, judging from the countless orbital modules in the sky, the Orks had deployed more than one million troops!
"Prepare to counterattack!"
Queen Isabella stood in the captain's room, and all projections appeared simultaneously in hundreds of command rooms.
As her order was given, tens of thousands of missile units began to operate frantically on the battle line that stretched for hundreds of kilometers. Missile silos that were sealed underground were opened one by one, and a large number of missile units locked onto targets with radars. As a cold order was given, the flames and dust raised in an instant obscured the entire battlefield.
More than 200,000 surface-to-air missiles were launched almost simultaneously!
Boom!
The sound of explosions that blocked out the sun continued, and everyone stared at the projection screen nervously. The continuous explosions seemed to ignite a grand firework display in the sky, and all the missiles launched almost hit the target perfectly. However, before they could show happy expressions, the scene they saw in the next second made them stand still.
The orbital modules, like meteors, were still rapidly descending.
Although it roughly looked like an enormous iron coffin, the missiles launched from it had almost no effect on it.
"Replay the scene!"
The footage in the command room was replayed. With careful observation by others, they saw that at the moment the missiles exploded, an invisible energy field emerged on those rough and crude iron lumps, which completely isolated the damage from the missiles and could not shake them at all.
"WAAAGH force field!..." A forty-year-old officer murmured with a bitter smile on his face.
The orc is still the orc.
But the empire is no longer what it once was.
Inside the Queen's battleship, Queen Isabella seemed to have anticipated everything that happened. Her expression did not change at all. She just clenched her fists and said in a serious tone, "Everything is proceeding according to plan."
"Prepare laser weapons!"
"Electromagnetic railgun begins charging!"
Buzz.
As Queen Isabella's order was issued, a buzzing sound was immediately heard on the imperial army's defense line. A faint blue light began to emerge, accompanied by a huge amount of electromagnetic energy gathering. In an instant, thousands of energy beams directly cut through the sky.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Explosions sounded one after another, and on the holographic projection screen, the orcs' orbital modules exploded one after another, turning into dazzling fireworks.
"The attack is effective!"
"Keep charging! Kill them all!"
There was a cheer from the command room.
But before they could be happy for long, there was a loud noise coming from the ground not far away, and a cloud of dust was raised like an earthquake. A huge iron lump with a diameter of about 20 meters and a length of about 50 meters fell from the sky. With a "sizzle", accompanied by the heavy hatch being opened, a group of extremely sturdy green-skinned giants rushed out of the orbital module. They were equipped with various kinds of mechanical armor on their bodies and held extremely heavy rocket launchers in their hands. As soon as they appeared, they poured artillery fire towards the front.
"WAAAGH!!!" Under the protection of this group of green-skinned giants, a slightly smaller orc jumped out. Its muscles were not as strong as those of other orcs, but its eyes revealed a cunning light. It held up a gun with a somewhat strange shape, and some kind of energy crystal was inlaid on the top of the gun. As the green-skinned boy pulled the trigger, a beam of light came and aimed at the Thunderbird fighter in the distance.
Space is distorted.
A strange ripple appeared in the space around the Thunderbird fighter, and the next second the Thunderbird fighter exploded instantly, turning into a huge fireball that fell into the sky.
"Dimensional shock gun!..."
"It's the orc psychic!..." An old man said in a low voice in the command room.
The sudden shooting down of the Thunderbird fighter did not cause any panic among the Empire's army. As a large number of gun barrels shifted their targets, dozens of shells were aimed at the orbital module that landed first in the distance in the next second.
Boom boom boom!
In the rising flames of the explosion, the orcs who rushed out were directly overwhelmed by the artillery fire, and in a blink of an eye, only minced meat was left on the ground.
Bang.
Almost at the same time when these orcs were overwhelmed by artillery fire, another orbital module fell from the sky. This time it landed directly within the Empire's defense line. The heavy orbital module instantly crushed the heavy tank into pieces. Then, with a muffled sound, dozens of green-skinned orcs rushed over.
"WAAAGH!!!"
When the orcs' roars sounded, the nearby heavily armored Astra Militarum troops immediately unleashed a terrifying metal storm. Countless bullets completely submerged the green-skinned orcs, but these bullets could only leave shallow marks on their bodies. For humans, the bullet storm that was enough to shatter the entire body into pieces only severely damaged them.
boom!
The visible air wave spread like a shock wave, and a spider-web-like crack appeared on the hard ground, extending for more than 30 meters. The center had completely collapsed into a pit.
After those orc boys attracted the first wave of firepower, a green-skinned giant nearly seven meters tall rushed out of the orbital module.
A flash of fire appeared!
The figure of the green-skinned giant flew a distance of nearly two hundred meters and appeared directly in front of the soldier wearing a heavy exoskeleton. With a roar of WAAAGH, he threw a punch without any reason, instantly knocking the figure of the heavy exoskeleton warrior fifty meters away.
Exaggerated dents appeared on the extremely hard alloy steel of the exoskeleton. The Astra Militarum soldier inside was probably in danger. After landing, there was no movement at all, and only traces of blood seeping out of the armor could be seen.
A serrated blade more than three meters long ejected from the armor added to the green-skinned giant. It roared and rushed towards the heavy tank in front. It jumped a distance of dozens of meters and hit the heavy tank like a cannonball the moment it landed.
The dark red serrated blade directly cut through the tank in front of it. With a rumbling explosion, its figure leaped out in the rising flames and pounced directly on the next target.
"WAAAGH!!!"
Hazy light and distortion appeared around the green giant's body. The bullets hitting its body were like tickling. Its roar resounded throughout the battlefield, and the green orcs that had successfully landed around it seemed to go into a state of frenzy in an instant.
The WAAAGH force field emanating from these orcs showed some kind of strange frequency synchronization, and was further strengthened in a resonant way.
at the same time.
Inside the Golden Palace, Su Ziyu looked at the green-skinned giant that appeared on the holographic projection, and his expression instantly became solemn.
"So strong?"
"The Hulk is just like this, right?" Su Ziyu's face looked a little ugly. In the holographic projection, the green-skinned giant was almost rampaging through the Empire's defense line. No one could stop its steps. Tearing a tank apart with bare hands was nothing. It could even severely damage a super-large exoskeleton mecha head-on.
This is the boss unit of the Orcs.
What's worse is that as more and more orbital modules arrive, there are far more than one such orc leaders. There are more than a dozen targets captured on the holographic projection alone.
If they are allowed to rampage through the front line, the entire Astra Militarum defense line will be riddled with holes.
In the command room.
A man in his thirties with a serious expression stood up. He looked like a noble. He bowed slightly to Queen Isabella in front of him and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty!"
"Let my knights deal with them."
These orc leaders are simply not something that mortal men can fight against, even with heavy exoskeleton armor, because they simply do not have the terrifying mobility of the other side. The bodies of these orc leaders have been strengthened to an incredible level, and the WAAAGH force field around their bodies is enough to block most of the artillery fire.
"It's not the right time yet."
"Let all the Knights and Space Marines stand by." Queen Isabella shook her head slowly.
This was just a tentative attack by the Orcs.
If this would require the mobilization of the Empire's most elite Knights and Space Marines, then there would be no need to fight this battle at all.
"Dreadnought mecha!"
"Prepare to attack!" A cold order was issued.
In the holographic projection, one could instantly see silver-white hatches opening, followed by dull footsteps, and a heavy mecha weighing nearly 12 tons appeared on the battlefield.
"Flame Leap!"
The reactor inside the Dreadnought mecha instantly increased its output power, and blazing flames appeared behind these heavy mechas. Then their figures took off into the air, flying directly over a distance of thousands of meters, falling from the sky like cannonballs, and appeared directly around the green-skinned giants.
"Power Sword!"
With a humming sound, power swords forged from dark blue metal were ejected from the arms of the Dreadnought mechas, and electromagnetic beams visible to the naked eye converged on the unopened blade.
The green-skinned giants stopped their violent attack. They narrowed their eyes slightly and their gazes fell on the dreadnoughts around them.
These huge lumps of iron have made these battle-hardened creatures feel a hint of danger.
and.
Unlike the heavy exoskeleton soldiers that were easily defeated before, these dreadnought mechas are too flexible. Conventional heavy exoskeleton armors can hardly even roll over, but these dreadnought mechas can cross a distance of thousands of meters and use their body balance to relieve the impact force at the moment of landing.
"Electronic neural bundle connection?"
Su Ziyu's sights also fell on these dreadnought mechas. The drivers inside were all the most elite Star Army soldiers. Electronic nerve bundles were implanted in the connection between their spine and brain, which were directly connected to the neural magnetic force field of the dreadnought mechas.
In other words, this huge mecha is an extension of their bodies.
Although the price they paid for this power was also heavy.
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