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Chapter 355, Meritorious Troops

"not the right time yet?"

Lieutenant General Hans was a little angry.

"How long will it take? One day, one million casualties, and twenty army groups need to be withdrawn from the front line for rotation. My Lord Governor, my Lord Commander of the Theater, do you know what this concept is?"

"I have been in the army for forty years, and I have never fought such a tragic battle! Even when I fought against those greenskins in the Jinguan Star District on a larger scale, I have never suffered so many losses in one day and night on such a small front. warrior!"

"If this situation continues, how long do you think our army can sustain it?"

"When the legion collapses and Mingyan City is swallowed up, no matter how many and sophisticated plans you have, it will be meaningless!"

Lieutenant General Hans dealt fiercely to Gu Hang.

Gu Hang, on the other hand, only gave some comfort to this: "I know the heavy sacrifices made by the Legion, I fully understand them. They are also my people and my army. Don't I feel sorry for their sacrifices?" , Isn’t it painful?”

"But these are all for a greater victory."

"Don't you even have the right to know about your so-called greater victory?"

"Do you know that this matter has no meaning." Gu Hang said, but he made more demands, "I still need the troops under your command to do one more thing."

"what?"

"The next phase of the war mission is to invade Fino City."

Lieutenant General Hans laughed angrily: "Do you know what you are talking about?"

"Of course I know."

"It can't be done!" Lieutenant General Hans refused decisively, "This is an impossible goal."

"Lieutenant General Hans, please pay attention." Gu Hang's tone became serious, "I am definitely not discussing a battle plan with you, but the clearest military order."

Gu Hang's tone became more serious and solemn: "You and your troops must complete the mission of attacking Fino City in the next eight days without delay! Do you understand?"

Hans took a deep breath.

He held his breath, feeling unhappy no matter what.

But in the end, he still held this breath tightly.

He is a soldier and it is his duty to obey orders.

And Gu Hang is now his clear superior. He just couldn't carry out Gu Hang's orders with even the slightest discount.

No matter how much he doesn't understand or agree with it.

He gritted his teeth and responded, "Yes, Commander."

……

After the communication ended, Gu Hang stood on the edge of the cliff, staring at the battlefield below.

The distance is very far, and it stretches hundreds of kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers deep, and it is impossible to see the end at a glance.

However, despite this, what you see is an extremely magnificent scene.

All the tragedy and cruelty of war, those deaths and severed limbs, those sacrifices and lamentations, can neither be seen nor heard here. All that can be seen is splendor and magnificence.

Explosions are the most beautiful fireworks. The battle lines are as far as the eye can see, twisting and twisting, changing from time to time.

But Gu Hang would not feel any pride because of this.

He knew that what Hans said was true. Countless human warriors made huge sacrifices on the battlefield below.

But not being ready means not being ready.

At this time, Gu Hang must be able to harden his heart.

Not that he was unprepared.

Over the past four months, an elite team has been ready to go.

At the same time, he himself had already calculated the specific method of psychic transmission together with his group of mages. Gu Hang himself also immersed himself in his Kingdom of Storms from time to time, thinking about how to use the Divine Kingdom to sneak into the subspace and go to the core of Fino City.

But he has not forgotten what the ultimate goal of their adventure is: to destroy the anti-orbital cannon and void shield in the center of Fino.

If you want to accomplish this goal, you need to reach the target location as soon as possible, which requires that the transmission must be accurate; at the same time, you also hope that the enemy's defensive forces around the target should be as small as possible, which requires external pressure, resulting in Those evil spirits will allocate the defensive forces of the target area to respond to the enemy.

Of course, having the army under Lieutenant General Hans violently attack Fino City and attracting the enemy's attention is only a secondary goal. The more important point is that when Fino City is directly attacked, especially the more human warriors enter the activated city, then as the node where subspace and the real world overlap, the gap between Fino City and subspace will The connection will be weakened accordingly.

And this will directly affect the extent to which certain powerful demons from the abyss of hell can exert influence on the real world.

What Gu Hang is most worried about is the big demon, Gawaja.

Obviously, the plague disaster on the planet Koroga was a major action by Gawaga. It has been looking forward to it for a long time, has been full of fat intestines, and is not satisfied. Its greedy eyes have already looked at the tens of billions of people in the entire world, and it will never give up.

In fact, it came very close. As long as Mingyan City is swallowed up, the entire planet will no longer be able to resist it.

Once it discovers that its plan is at risk of failure, there is no doubt that it will do its best to prevent it.

At the beginning, on the Raging Owl Star, Gevaga could not physically pass through the curtain of reality, but this was not the case in Fino City. This place has been too severely corrupted by subspace, and the curtain of reality has long been fragile. If it is willing to pay a sufficient price, it can come over.

Currently, we are at this critical point.

Gu Hang needs the human army to set foot in Fino City. They don't need to complete the task of capturing Fino City. As long as there are enough people stepping on it, the reality curtain will be strengthened; as long as the body of Fino City is burned and the pressure on this activated city is high enough, the erosion of the subspace can be reduced.

This will also directly reduce the possibility of the Great Impure Gawaja personally intervening in the battle.

Even if it is not completely stopped, every time Gawaja pays a higher price and takes longer when passing through the curtain of reality, it will directly affect the mission success rate of the special operations force.

This is a key action to save [-] billion people on the entire planet, so even if they know that letting Hans carry out the attack order will cause huge losses, no one can tolerate weakness at this moment.

Of course, in addition to the sacrifices the ground troops had to make, Gu Hang would not forget the difficulty. It does not mean that the troops can be invaded without sacrificing their lives.

Gu Hang also needed to find some extra help for the troops on the ground.

In fact, he doesn't have many choices.

He dialed the communication with Envoy Nair Lois.

"I need more support from the space fleet..."

……

This is destined to be a sleepless night. Whether it is the combat soldiers on the front line who are resisting the plague army, the second-line troops in the rear who are responsible for transporting logistics supplies, or the combat staff who are taking refreshing potions and working all night long, they cannot sleep this night. .

The ground forces, the staff group of the Central Command, made a battle plan for a comprehensive offensive and divided the tasks into various subordinate armies. The general staff of the group army is also working, and the corresponding tasks are assigned to division-level units, and then broken down...

The entire defense line, on the first day of Governor Gu's death order and the second day after the battle began, stood still and continued to focus on defense.

On this day, the test faced by the human army was not too great - at least compared to the first day of the battle. The casualties along the entire defense line were approximately more than [-].

This is still a terrifying number, but compared with the situation on the first day where there were [-] casualties in six hours, one million casualties in one day, and the complete defeat of a dozen army groups, it was simply much better.

By the third day, the entire defense line was even retreating.

But unlike the first day, the retreat this time was relatively orderly, and they took the initiative to abandon this position.

Moreover, a group of troops stationed on the defense line were replaced.

The main reason for this is that Fino City has advanced nearly sixty kilometers in the past two days. If they do not retreat, the human army's defense line will once again enter the range of many evil energy cannons deployed in the living city.

This is also to prevent those plague demon armies from once again starting an offensive investment without hesitation of manpower and casualties after having more sufficient heavy firepower support. In this case, the pressure on the defense line will be too great.

This is trading space for time.

Lieutenant General Hans also explained his strategy to Governor Gu: In order to break into Fino City, in addition to taking the initiative to attack and break in, there is another way to wait for Fino City to come on its own.

After all, the living city can move.

It advanced sixty kilometers in two days, while the human army retreated fifty kilometers.

It was the same for the next few days.

Fino City advances thirty kilometers per day, and the human army front retreats twenty kilometers per day.

The reason for doing this, rather than standing on a defensive line, is because as Fino City gets closer and closer, the pressure on the human army will increase. The front position was severely damaged after many battles. The positions dug out in the rear are relatively complete and help reduce casualties.

At the same time, it will also take some time for the various forces, especially those local defense forces, to become more adaptable to such a tragic battlefield environment.

Of course, this may also cause the morale of the local troops to collapse.

But there is no other choice but to do this. We can't just rely on the Dragon Eagle Legion's own troops to fight this battle. These local troops number more than [-] million. The role they can play will have a decisive impact.

One can only hope that they will adapt to the battlefield and not completely collapse.

From the current point of view, the situation is not developing in the worst direction.

According to the speed at which the distance between the human position and Fino City was approaching ten kilometers every day, by the early morning of the seventh day, the distance between the human legion's forward defense line and Fino City was already less than thirty kilometers. At this time, a large number of evil energy cannons had entered the range, and the pressure on the defense line increased a lot.

But apart from being beaten badly by fel cannons and air strikes, the enemy's ground attack was not too crazy.

So far, the total casualties and losses of the human legions have reached nearly four million. In general, the exchange ratio between the human legions and the plague demon army in battle was still one to seven. This means that the plague demon army also lost [-] million in number.

Although most of them are plague zombies and living dead armed with the simplest weapons, the consumables required to transform these are not small, not to mention that many powerful flesh and blood monsters were consumed during the battle. Many disease wizards and immortal believers who were responsible for creating, controlling, strengthening, and commanding ordinary troops were killed in the battle.

This also makes the enemy somewhat unable to move.

At this moment, Lieutenant General Hans' fatal counterattack began.

All the Lion tanks were put into the battlefield at once; several armored divisions were formed into a fist, and even multiple armored brigades of the Raging Bear Legion participated. In the center of the battle line, an armored cluster was launched. . A large number of elite infantry followed closely behind to provide support at any time.

And at this moment, the fire from heaven came to the world.

The starships of the Pegasus fleet all dispatched almost at the same time and arrived directly above the battlefield. It even included what was left of the tax fleet brought by Nair Loyce.

Most of the tax fleet has left the Pegasus sector long ago. After all, they still have the important task of traveling to collect imperial taxes. But the few frigates and destroyers that remained also supplemented the firepower of the Pegasus fleet.

But this time, their goal is not just to suppress Fino City. The starships with full power were not afraid of confrontation with anti-orbital cannons, and began to put more pressure on Fino City, forcing them to turn more fel cannons into the sky for counterattack and orbital interception.

In this way, the human armored clusters on the ground suffered much less evil firepower.

At the same time, a large number of orbital strikes were carried out, and a round of intensive orbital bombing was carried out along the defense line where the armored clusters were advancing.

Especially the L-class heavy artillery shot down by a few rounds had an earth-shattering effect.

The results achieved and the number of enemies eliminated were secondary. The main reason was that the enemies in the direction of the armored group's attack were blown to pieces and disoriented.

Suddenly, the ground troops' attack was extremely smooth!

The total distance was less than thirty kilometers. By evening, the void shield of Fino City was already in sight. The spearhead troops could even see the artillery fire blasted down from the starships in the sky being intercepted by the fel cannons, or the unintercepted artillery fire directly hitting the void shield and causing large waves.

"Go, go, go! Long live the 35th Brigade!"

The unit at the front was a combined battalion from the 35th Brigade of the Angry Bear Legion.

The 35th Brigade can be regarded as a meritorious force of the alliance. It was established early. During the Unification War of the Raging Owl Stars, they made contributions in the war to regain the northern border. Later, most of them followed Gu Hang into the army at that time. In the realm of the evil god occupied by the original angry owl, he fought against the storm monster and finally killed the god.

Later, they participated in the war against Blackbird Heavy Industries, which had violated the omnic ban. At the same time, they were also the first batch of army-building troops transferred in when the Raging Bear Legion was first established. They came to Koroga to fight early and achieved many results. The division has received numerous awards from the Alliance Government, the Astra Militarum Command, and the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the honor wall is filled with them.

But now, this meritorious brigade has once again stolen the limelight. In the huge battle of Koroga, they took the lead and became the first force to pass through the void shield and attack Fino City!
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  It was so cold in the early morning, so I fell asleep...

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