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Chapter 235: Lubion Hell Strategy, serialized!

Within the Federation, the Lubion system.

In the base area of ​​the 'Pillar of Heaven II' space elevator on the Rubian 3 colony planet, the three-seater cars were completing their final deceleration and slowly falling into their berths.

As a planet in the T2 echelon in importance and comfort, Rubian V has built a total of three large orbital elevators.

Among them, 'Pillar of Heaven II' is the largest one, and its entire area is larger than the other two space elevators.

Compared with the 'basic version' of the space elevator that is only designed to solve problems from scratch, this upgraded version of the space elevator has a total of 32 cars with higher capacity.

When Rubian was occupied by the Imperial Expeditionary Force, the Imperial Fleet did not adopt a saturation orbital strike method against this densely populated planet.

After all, after slaughtering the civilians, it would not be possible to colonize it so quickly.

So Duke adopted the 'knife-slicing-the-sausage' tactic.

First, most of the garrison fleet was annihilated and the security of the airspace was assured.

Like, very similar.

That is, 8 heavy combined brigades + 10 medium combined brigades + 8 light combined brigades, with a total of people.

The federal local garrison forces often use whatever the federal regular army uses. Sometimes they even lag behind the regular army by a generation in some equipment.

But it’s still not much.

Finally, with the assistance of air and space transport aircraft, the deployment of all three expeditionary strike divisions with all personnel and equipment was completed in a short period of time.

After the deployment of troops is completed, the subsequent battle is actually very simple for the Imperial Expeditionary Strike Group, which has fully mastered the power to control the sky.

The garrison on its colonial planet should theoretically be composed of '8+10+8'.

After years of fighting the security war, it has basically degenerated into a level where we can only fight back and forth with mobs and guerrillas.

You also need to pay for troop construction expenses, equipment, etc. by yourself.

The command of the troops belongs to the galactic autonomous government/nobles, but must respond to the call of the federal government/imperial royal family when necessary.

At the same time, the scale will be much larger than that of the noble private soldiers.

According to the establishment of the Imperial Royal Army (rest assured, the Army has not rebelled), each expeditionary strike division has two armored brigade-level combat teams and one infantry brigade-level combat team.

According to the "Federal Constitution"/"Basic Law of Nobility", the size of the army corresponding to the galaxy level/noble title, the army is formed by itself.

This also resulted in the autonomous governments of the federal galaxies not being able to follow the 'elite' route like the imperial aristocrats and purchase more advanced equipment for their private soldiers.

Coupled with the level of training, it was similar to the troops Amber had seen on Robert IV.

The biggest difference between the two may be the garrison force of the autonomous government. The soldiers come not only from the local area, but also from other regions of the federation.

The autonomous government garrison on the surface of the planet is actually very similar to the private soldiers of the imperial nobles to a certain extent.

Just let 3 expeditionary divisions, a total of 9 brigade combat teams, be 'Frame A'.

Such a unit, when faced with the serious Imperial Army or the most powerful armored brigade combat team, would basically be 'broken' at the first touch.

Then the orbital paratroopers and space marines conducted a "cooperation between heaven and earth" and quickly captured three orbital elevators.

As a T2-level galaxy, Rubian's troop construction scale will be higher than that of a T3-level edge galaxy like Robert.

But like I just said, it's 'in theory'.

Since military construction is a very expensive task, until the Star Dragon Empire launches its invasion, there is no sign that war is about to break out in the entire federation.

In this context, and the galactic autonomous government does not want to maintain such a large army, it just shows off every day.

Therefore, military construction can only give way to economic construction.

原本‘8+10+8’的编制，硬生生被卢比昂星系自治政府缩减到了堪称逆天的‘4+5+4’编制。

Judging from the total strength, it was even less than half the garrison on Robert IV at that time.

"TM was originally just a flimsy force with poor combat effectiveness. Now it has been reduced to this ridiculous state. If I were the commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Strike Group, I would choose this place to start."

Amber, who arrived with the last batch of Atlas deployment troops, got into a command vehicle and looked embarrassed when she looked at Lilith's latest briefing.

He felt that his current expression must be the same as that of Cao Kefan who had eaten nine large intestines.

The Lubion System Autonomous Government, when conducting tenders, very shamelessly concealed the drawdown of their ground forces.

Although Amber also knew that their garrison must have been disabled, he actually calculated the remaining garrison based on the complete '8+10+8' structure.

He felt that even if the galactic autonomous government had no bottom line, it would not be able to reduce the number of troops on hand. At most, it would not be completely full.

But now he had to admit that he still underestimated the bottom line of these people.

"If we go by what they said, half of the ground garrison was wiped out. Damn it, there aren't many people left!"

Amber lay weakly on the uncomfortable chair in the command vehicle, bumping with the ups and downs of the vehicle. If we say that Amber was quite happy when she received the 'order' and gathered her employees to set off for the Lubion system.

Now he regrets it, very much.

"Lilith, next time something like this happens, you must report it as soon as possible. Don't wait until all my troops are deployed. You tell me it's 'Hell Difficulty'."

"Master, although I do have a certain amount of responsibility, I think that the bottom line of this galaxy government is too low, which is the direct cause of all this.

I have seen a lot during the time I have been following you, but throughout human history, there have been very few people who have reduced the military on their own."

Lilith's voice sounded in Amber's mind.

There were three parts apologetic, three parts wronged and four parts surprised in her voice.

"Okay, then you have learned a lot. I hope it can add new samples to your research on humans."

Amber is now calm. She's already here, so let's take a look at the situation first.

If something really goes wrong, there is a combat detachment of ten warships in the orbit of the Lubion 5, and there is another fleet waiting silently in deep space.

The worst case scenario is for Cleeves to command the fleet to seize the spaceport, and then lead his people from the ground into the space elevator to evacuate.

Anyway, it’s not the first time I’ve done this job.

"Lilith, so the other companies that won the bid don't know the true situation of the ground garrison now?"

"That's right, the Lubion Galaxy Autonomous Government did not disclose this information to the outside world. I only found out about this situation after I came here and looked around in their database out of curiosity."

As Lilith spoke, she projected a report marked 'Top Secret' on Amber's tactical visor.

"Even within the Rubian System Autonomous Government, only some senior officials know how many people are left in the ground garrison."

"Well, I hope people in other companies don't know about this situation, otherwise I think our morale will collapse before the fight starts."

Amber opened another report, which is the situation of other companies participating in this 'free recovery'.

This time's defense contracting project bidding is considered a large-scale project in the entire federation.

Including Atlas, a total of 15 private military companies and defense contractors won the bid.

During this period, various companies deployed more than 12 combat troops to the planet.

On the Atlas side, there is a 3000-man combat force composed of two Roma battalions plus a 'teaching team' and former Yaoguang defense personnel, plus all active ground combat vehicles.

At the same time, a group of pilots and maintenance teams with land combat experience were removed from each warship, and 30 HCP units were modified for land combat to form an HCP heavy equipment battalion.

Judging from its strength on paper, it may be the one with the fewest combat deployments among these 15 companies.

But paper strength does not necessarily represent real combat power.

After reading the report, Amber opened the top hatch of the command vehicle and leaned out her upper body.

Behind him, a huge space elevator soars into the sky, its upper part hidden in the clouds, like a miracle.

In front of him was a dilapidated road.

The last deployed convoy of Atlas was heading along the road to the predetermined assembly point to join the others.

As the main artery of the planet's external transportation, the roads near the space elevator could not be so dilapidated.

However, after the Federation Navy drove away the Imperial Expedition Fleet, it retook the space elevator in order to assist the defense forces of the Rubion System.

Multiple orbital strikes were carried out against the Imperial defenders near the three 'Heaven Pillars', and orbital paratroopers were dispatched to complete a scalpel attack on the base area of ​​the space elevator.

The surviving garrison troops on the ground also took the opportunity to launch an attack. Under the "center bloom" of the orbital paratroopers, they defeated the garrison near the space elevator.

Although the empire's ground forces also tried to counterattack, they wanted to drive away the federal troops again.

However, the Federation fleet, which had already taken control of the sky, under the guidance of a large number of "elite combat control teams" deep behind enemy lines, once again conducted multiple rounds of orbital strikes, thwarting the attack of the imperial ground forces and causing considerable casualties.

However, the attack by the main federal force stopped here.

After recovering the orbital paratroopers and combat control team, the Federation Navy fleet immediately left the Rubian system and headed to another system still in the hands of the Empire to pursue the victory.

The Rubian System Autonomous Government, which was originally waiting to take back the planet in one fell swoop, was immediately dumbfounded.

This is the story of the subsequent defense contract bidding.

Looking at the dilapidated road and the obvious traces of tactical ground-to-surface missiles in the distance, Amber was glad that the federal navy at least carried out an orbital strike and cleared the 'landing site'.

Otherwise, Atlas, which does not yet have large-scale orbital airdrop capabilities, may not be able to participate in this "Freedom Recovery" operation.

"We're here now. If we don't take advantage of this battle to make a fortune, it would be a big loss!"

(End of this chapter)