StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 187 Duke Offensive
At this time, it was already 2:19 on February 16th, and seventeen hours had passed since the Alpha Squadron was on the Mar Sa** mainland.

Augustus was standing in the center of the headquarters of the Fort Martin Command Center, closely watching the communication network of the revolutionary army headquarters at all levels.In front of him is a holographic projection screen made of blue-green lines, on which is a constantly changing battle map.

Behind Augustus are lined up with consoles close to the walls and glass observation windows, and massive amounts of information are being sent to the command center through wireless communication.This information comes from dozens of different areas and departments, including the capital area battlefield, the Renault Department, Tychus Department, and Mira Han Department in the movement, as well as the outposts of the Revolutionary Army, mining areas, etc., and they will eventually be reclassified, screened and summarized , passed to the main console where Augustus is located.

Standing in front of the console are the revolutionary army operator and the officer staff of the command headquarters in the dark gray uniform of the revolutionary army. Panda badge.The officers of the Revolutionary Army who can enter the General Staff must first of all have good conduct and be able to perform their duties beyond reproach. Secondly, they must be members of the Pan-Tyran Party and be able to pass the examination of psykers.

The holographic projection combat map in front of Augustus is constantly changing with the time axis, and the signs representing the positions of his own troops and enemy troops sometimes change and sometimes stay still. These data come from the last report two hours ago, both There were many delays in the inaccuracy, and the main force of Alpha Squadron could have moved hundreds of miles in vehicles overnight without Augustus's command center knowing.

But even so, for Augustus, this combat map could still clearly and intuitively reflect the battlefield situation.

Before landing, the fleet of Alpha Squadron launched an attack on the First Fleet of the Revolutionary Army staying in the Mar Sara synchronous orbit. After a brief but intense exchange of fire, the six battlecruisers of the Revolutionary Army made a short jump to the nearest Three star systems.

After repeated weighing, Duke ordered the fleet to pursue according to the detected transition signal. The fleet was divided into four, and only the flagship of the Alpha Squadron and the other three behemoth-class battleships remained on Mar Sara. cruiser.And these four warships encountered the eight battlecruisers of the Second Fleet of the Revolutionary Army who had jumped from other galaxies two hours later, and the two sides immediately fought in synchronous orbit.

On the surface of the planet, the first confrontation between the two sides is the air force. The three airports of the Revolutionary Army located in the capital area, Fort Martin, and Hero Autonomous Prefecture have dispatched more than [-] sorties of Avenger fighters and the four air force wings of Alpha Squadron in multiple Battlefield confrontation.Since the Revolutionary Army Air Force had an advantage in the confrontation with the Alpha Squadron Air Force, the Federal Army could not use transport planes to send troops to various places in Mar Sara without any scruples, and could only use the railway and road hubs to deploy ground troops.

Two divisions of the Alpha Squadron, an armored brigade and an artillery brigade landed on the Plain of Bones and the Red Terrace in the north of the Capital District. This force of more than 2 people, each with power armor and Gauss rifles, advanced southward. Forty miles later Tychus Finley's four mobile battalions were encountered.

As expected by the enemy commander, Colonel Duke, the "rabble" with poor equipment and weak combat effectiveness collapsed at the first touch.Tychus fired a few shots and ran away, threw a bunch of supply boxes to the vanguard of the Alpha Squadron, and then retreated around the capital area to the desolate valley in the south in an armored personnel carrier obtained from the Mar Sara Planet Defense Force.

The smug Colonel Duke immediately ordered the Marine Brigades of the two Alpha Squadrons to pursue Tychus' troops, and he led the remaining six brigades to support the capital district all the way and arrived two hours later.

But at that time, Augustus had already ordered the first division of Rundstein in the west of the capital area to launch a general attack. It took only half an hour for Rundstein to kill Governor Mar Sara and nearly [-] soldiers. The unarmored Planetary Defense Forces drove them out of the Capital District and forced them to flee all the way north.

This resulted in a nighttime head-on collision between the first two battalions of Marines of Alpha Squadron, which was rushing to break the siege of the Capital District, and the shattered Planetary Defense Forces and militia.

This led to disastrous consequences. This army composed of planetary defense forces, civil defense forces and a small number of marines from various places in Mar Sara came from dozens of different regions. Commanders who belong to the same system.

Since the supreme commander, Governor Mar Sara, did not fulfill his duty to restrain the army during the rout, this panicked and fleeing army, lacking a unified command, plunged headlong into the marching convoy of marines and armored vehicles middle.

The chaos began, tens of thousands of panicked Mar Sara soldiers mixed with Alpha Squadron soldiers, shouting everywhere and scattered lights of power armor searchlights.Soldiers started shooting at each other when a poorly trained militiaman from No. 1 accidentally misfired.

So Colonel Duke, the commander of the Alpha Squadron, had to order his soldiers to clean up the deserters of Governor Mar Sara. After leaving more than 1000 dead bodies and several times the number of wounded soldiers, the Governor's troops ran back and fled in all directions. .

This unspeakable chaos for the military lasted all night, and it was already daylight when the Alpha Squadron arrived at the ruined Capital District Governor's Mansion.When the revolutionary army retreated, it was obvious that there was still enough time and spare energy to remove the heavy artillery and supplies, and did not leave behind even one seriously wounded or sacrificed soldier.

This morning, the monitoring department of Augustus overheard Duke’s report announcing that he had defeated the rebels after recapturing the capital area, and it will take at least two weeks for this report to be translated and strengthened by a large number of interstellar communication base stations. To Tyranid Federation Naval Headquarters in Tarsonis.

In the report, Duke proudly referred to the battle as the Duke Offensive, bluntly stating that the rebels were vulnerable.

So far Augustus was finally able to confirm that it was indeed Edmund Duke who personally led the Alpha Squadron to land on Mar Sara, which was consistent with his usual combat style, and he was indeed angered by Augustus. I am eager to get my revenge.

The slogan of the Alpha Squadron is to attack first and leave the battlefield first. They always charge ahead of their friendly forces, tear through the enemy's defenses like a heavy hammer, and retreat.

After retaking the Capital District, Duke's Alpha Squadron continued south without rest, chasing the fleeing Tychus Finley's forces across the Capital District, the State of Florence, and beyond in six hours. The Sandworm Desert spans nearly 1000 million square miles of land.On Augustus' combat map, Alpha Squadron's marching route is a nearly straight line.

At the same time, more than [-] soldiers from Augustus' Reynolds, Harnack, Mira and the retreating Rondestein are approaching this straight line from different directions-a encirclement circle is rapidly taking shape.

If Augustus and his staff and military advisers are not wrong, then Duke's target should be the command center of Fort Martin where he is located. The Alpha Squadron fleet on the Mar Sara synchronous orbit can easily find this A huge military base, this is an obvious primary target, the heart of the Revolutionary Army's command system.

At this time, the revolutionary army transport plane in the Martin Fortress air port was taking off.Augustus got a report that Tychus's troops had fled into the desolate canyon. At first, Duke ordered the two federal marine brigades to pursue Tychus, followed closely behind, while the capital area directed the main force led by Duke. is also approaching rapidly.

At the marching speed of Duke's troops, it took them less than an hour to reach the last barrier in front of Fort Martin - a barren canyon with complex terrain.

In Augustus' eyes, Duke was like a flying insect about to fall into a spider's web.

(End of this chapter)