From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 268: After I finish speaking, who is in favor and who is against?

Ptolemaic City, which ranks among the top three in terms of GDP contribution on the planet, was once an extremely prosperous and noisy city, but its southern urban area is now completely different.

The traces of the fierce battle are like a scar that cannot be healed, deeply imprinted on every inch of land in the south of the city.

Those dozens of stories high buildings are like incomplete giant skeletons at this moment, with broken glass and reinforced concrete fragments completely exposed from the riddled building shell.

The scorched black marks are a symbol of being swept by high-energy laser beams, and the 'trachoma'-like scars on the reinforced concrete and steel structures indicate that the place has also been ravaged by heavy metal ion jets.

When both warring parties invest heavily in directed energy weapons, these extremely long-range weapons often cause greater collateral damage in urban warfare.

It is common for buildings several kilometers away from the battle zone to be penetrated by missed heavy particle cannons.

After the coalition's self-propelled artillery group destroyed 90% of its ammunition reserves, it was difficult to find an undamaged building in the southern part of Ptolemaic City.

Gunpowder smoke intertwined into a dark curtain in the air, slowly swirling in the streets and alleys, mixed with the burnt smell and pungent chemical smell, almost suffocating.

After the fire was extinguished, the embers still dotted the ruins sporadically, like the weak pulse beating in the heart of the city, shining with a desolate red light.

In the blocks where the fiercest fighting had been, a large number of HCP wrecks could be seen lying along the way. The huge metal bodies were twisted and deformed, and some were even embedded in broken buildings.

The coalition forces and the remnants of the empire, in a panic, went crazy and kept pouring troops into these "meat grinding areas". Even the "patron saints" of the mobile infantry, those steel giants called "Titans" , also became a consumable in this battle.

Groups of surrendering imperial soldiers walked out of buildings, bunkers, and combat vehicles with their hands raised like zombies. Then, under the supervision of coalition forces, they headed to the 'Prisoner of War Holding Area' outside the city.

The bodies of soldiers who died on both sides of the enemy were scattered in every corner of the southern war zone of the city. Some fell among the ruins of the wall, and some were still maintaining their last-minute fighting posture behind the bunker.

The two combined garrison brigades with the smallest casualties in the coalition were now serving as the 'corpse collection teams'.

The northern hemisphere of Lubion 5 has begun to enter summer at this time. If the bodies are not disposed of in time, it is likely to cause a large-scale plague.

Soldiers wearing combat exoskeletons and turning on the internal circulation mode cleared out the coalition and empire soldiers and sent them separately to main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles that were transformed into 'corpse carriers'.

After the coalition soldiers are identified, their ashes will be burned and stored separately, and then handed over to private military companies and defense contractors to handle the aftermath on their own.

The corpses of the imperial soldiers were simply thrown into the incinerator, and nothing would be left.
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With the surrender of the remaining imperial soldiers in Ptolemaic City, the remaining imperial soldiers on the other two continents will naturally no longer hold on.

When the last remaining Imperial soldiers threw away their weapons and walked out of the bunker, the battle aboard Rubion 5 finally came to an end.

However, some necessary matters after the war may be more troublesome than war in the eyes of the galaxy autonomous government and various companies.

A small number of imperial soldiers did not surrender, but were hiding, and the garrison troops needed to clear them out bit by bit.

After the identities of the fallen soldiers are confirmed, each company must also start the aftermath procedures and prepare to pay large pensions.

Atlas could not escape the iron law of soaring casualties in urban warfare this time. Although each combat unit had tried its best to avoid casualties, in the final "nuclear bomb raid" link, due to the tight time and heavy tasks, there were still There were quite a few casualties.

Based on the statistics of casualties and vehicle losses of each battalion-level combat unit, the losses in this battle on the Lubion 5 are as follows (including previous battles):
231 people were killed, including 181 motorized infantry, 47 combat vehicle crew members, and 3 HCP pilots.

478 people were injured, of which 62 were seriously injured and required surgery and prosthetic modifications, 280 were moderately injured, and 136 were slightly injured.

A total of 45 vehicles were lost, including 8 light multi-legged combat vehicles, 27 various wheeled vehicles, 5 main battle tanks, 2 heavy multi-legged combat vehicles, and 3 HCPs.

By the way, the pilot who flew a hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft at a low altitude at Mach 3 suffered a mechanical failure soon after flying out of the city.

Unable to restore the Swift reconnaissance aircraft to normal, Jacobs had no choice but to eject in an extremely dangerous abnormal attitude at an airspeed greater than Mach 1 before the aircraft completely lost control.

However, perhaps because of his call sign 'Miracle Walker', this reconnaissance pilot also received the favor of Lady Luck and created a miracle.

When he was retrieved from the wild by the search and rescue team, although this guy had multiple injuries and fractures, at least he still saved his life.
To be honest, Amber almost fainted when she saw this battle loss report.

He can accept the loss of vehicles. After all, in a mature industrialized system, it only takes half an hour for a main battle tank or HCP to be driven off the assembly line.

What saddens him more is the human casualties.

Injured soldiers are easy to talk to. Even if they are seriously injured, the company can install prosthetics for them for free. If you want, you can continue to fight under the banner of Atlas.

But the fallen Roma soldiers made him feel very sad. After all, when people are gone, they are really gone.

Although it is said that at the current training speed of Babel, a batch of recruits can be 'mass-produced' in 3-4 months, such a casualty rate still takes Amber some time to accept.

Of course, Atlas's troops were not completely without gains during the battle.

7 tactical nuclear warheads, a large number of imperial individual combat exoskeletons, combat vehicles and some HCPs that can still be used.

At the same time, several brigade-level combat teams that retreated to Ptolemy City also 'contributed' their division and brigade-level command terminals and supporting command vehicles, communication relays and network node vehicles, and a number of non-combat but not An equally important combat vehicle.

Other coalition forces were too embarrassed to snatch these things from Atlas.

In other words, even if they want to rob now that their losses are more serious, they don't have the ability.

In addition to these material gains, Atlas' troops have also experienced a wave of tests and growth at the technical and tactical level. Both soldiers and officers have gained a lot of experience in combat.

The test equipment of the ATT squadron also obtained precious actual combat data, which provided a lot of reference information for the final improvements before qualitative mass production.

Finally, there was Amber herself, who was inexplicably promoted to level five psychic strength during the battle.

Looking at the current psykers in the entire human world, they are basically the first echelon to reach the top of the pyramid.

Amber knew that among the human psykers who were still alive at least so far, the one with the highest psychic strength reached level six.

It’s unclear where those seventh-level psykers who will be famous in the future are hiding at this stage.
Although his strength has grown, Amber found that he did not feel very happy. The strange experience in the battle made him find that there was a new mystery in himself.

After reviewing the results, he basically concluded that this should be a process of 'predicting the future', rather than a more unnatural 'looking back in time'.

But at present, he doesn't know what the triggering conditions are, if it is triggered by predicting that his 'lifeline' will be 'cut off' in the future.
Then it may really be related to the legendary "Forerunners", because according to the news revealed in the game's branch plot, the "Forerunners" civilization does have a technology to "predict the future".

And it is only used when facing a crisis of racial survival.
In general, in this first large order taken by Atlas Private Military Company, it did suffer a lot of losses, but there were also some gains.

However, Amber still decided to have a good negotiation with the galactic autonomous government so that they could "explode some gold coins" to make up for the losses suffered by Atlas this time.
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On the other side, the Lubion System Autonomous Government, after the battle on the entire planet was completely over, quickly began to count the casualties of local residents, and at the same time prepared to rebuild these cities that had been devastated by the war.

Since it involves reconstruction, it is inevitable to enter the stage of 'divorcing the spoils after the war'.

According to the contracts signed between the galaxy autonomous government and various private military companies and defense contractors, after the battle, the share of the 'post-war reconstruction project' will be allocated based on Party B's combat contribution.

This is also the thing that commanders and on-site business representatives of various companies care about most after the battle.

After all, how much share of the reconstruction project they can ultimately get will also determine how much bonuses and dividends their respective companies will give them.

In the Ptolemaic City Hall, in a large conference room that was temporarily cleared, the commanders and business representatives of various companies gathered together.

Even including two other companies fighting on the continent - their representatives immediately found a plane and rushed over after the battle.

On the main seat of the conference room are the administrative deputy, secretary-general, auditor-general and treasurer of the Rubian system who came down from orbit. They are also the organizers of this meeting.

However, these four people now looked helplessly at the noisy group of people in the audience.

Obviously, the division of spoils after the war is also the link where internal conflicts are most likely to arise.

Representatives of each company refused to obey anyone and tried every means to give themselves a greater voice and win more shares.

"boom!"

The door to the conference room was roughly pushed open, and the sound made everyone look back at the door. While the first few people were arguing, they were about to turn around and scold them for being so short-sighted, but when they saw the people walking in at the door, they all sat down immediately.

Amber slowly walked into the conference room with his hands behind his back. The original noisy atmosphere had disappeared. No one spoke at this moment. Everyone in the conference room looked at him with complicated eyes.

"I'll just say a few words."

Amber looked around at the representatives of various companies in the conference room. Seeing them all standing there blankly, he added:
"Why are you standing there stupidly? Aren't you tired? Just sit down and listen."

As he said these words, the people around him also sat down one by one, although they didn't know why they were so 'obedient'.

"I don't care how your companies allocate it. This is your own business. Anyway, Atlas will get 7% of the reconstruction share no matter what."

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.

No one expected that the person in charge of Atlas, who had been in the limelight recently, would come up and start talking to the lion.

"Mr. Rebel, I admit that Atlas contributed a lot in this battle, but are you too greedy in allocating it this way? One Atlas company took 7%, and the remaining dozen of us The company will share the remaining 3%?”

A middle-aged man in a suit stood up and said. Judging from his appearance, Amber estimated which company he should be a business representative.

At the moment, the expression on the business representative's face highlighted the feeling of "fighting the evil forces to the end", and at the same time he continued to speak righteously:

"I know that your company's business capabilities are very professional and strong, but you can't just be a dominant company and completely ignore the life and death of the rest of us, right?"

"Yes, we need to eat too. Why would you leave some meat residue for us after you finish all the meat?!"

"That's right, which company here doesn't suffer heavy casualties this time? If we don't take back more shares, how can we explain to the company?"

Once another person starts, others will start to follow.

The mood in the conference room instantly changed from a dispute just now to a 'united front to denounce Atlas'.

Amber didn't feel angry at all despite everyone's condemnation. He casually pulled out a stool and sat down, then stared at everyone in the conference room.

Gradually, the commanders and business representatives of these companies slowly lowered their voices under his gaze, and finally closed their mouths one by one, and the conference room quickly returned to silence.

"Is it all over?"

Amber looked at the people around her without emotion, and after confirming that no one else wanted to talk, she looked at the business representative who had just taken the lead in the objection.

"Which company are you from?"

"New Bay Private Military Company."

"How many combat units did you come over this time?"

"It's just a medium-sized synthetic brigade with 5400 people. Although it's not many, it's still stronger than your 3000-plus people."

The business representative seemed very proud of the fact that his troops had more troops than Atlas.

"Haha, how many people did you lose during the attack on Ptolemaic City, and how many kilometers did you advance?"

"This"

The sales representative's mouth opened and closed. He looked around at the 'friends' who were staring at him and found that it seemed inconvenient to speak out this information now.

Obviously, these data of Xinwan Private Military Company are not very good-looking. If it is said out in public now, then it will be very passive when allocating shares later.

"Can't say it? Still don't dare to say it?"

Amber raised her eyebrows, a sneer flashing across her face.

"If you can't tell, let me tell you - the Xinwan medium-sized combined brigade killed 934 people and injured 1395 people in the battle to attack Ptolemaic City, with a casualty rate of 43.1%.
After paying such a heavy price, how far did the offensive zone you were responsible for advance? 1.1km”

This set of data was everywhere, and there was a lot of discussion in the conference room.

In addition to marveling at the short advancement distance of Xinwan, everyone is also curious about how Atlas obtained these data.

"Don't talk nonsense here!" the business representative of Xinwan Private Military Company became anxious.

The reason he was anxious was not because Amber was talking nonsense, but because everything Amber said was true.

"Nonsense? You may have forgotten that I had obtained command of the ground forces before. It is very simple to obtain this information after accessing the command system. Besides.
The drones flying in the sky are not blind. I can clearly see how far you have advanced the front line. "

Amber's words made the sales representative not know how to respond for a while, but the 'understanding' Amber naturally did not let him stand here in embarrassment for too long.

"43.1% casualty rate, 1.1 kilometers of advancement distance. If you ask me, your Xinwan Private Military Company is not qualified to participate in this meeting!
I believe that none of the other companies here have made less progress than you, right? "

"You're talking nonsense! Riyan Defense is on our flank. They only advanced 800 meters and were blocked by a battalion of imperial remnants!"

Xinwan's business representatives immediately began to rebut, pointing the finger at another defense company that was attacking on their flank.

Naturally, the ground commander and business representatives of this company were also present. As a small company, they were originally prepared to "eat the melon", but they didn't expect that they would end up eating the melon.

"Well I'm not. I didn't."

A feeble explanation sounded, but unfortunately it was not convincing.

The business representative from Xinwan apparently discovered a new way to divert trouble to the east, and immediately began exporting it to other companies.

A new round of intense 'discussions' quickly entered the conference room. Each company began to expose each other's background. The scene was as chaotic as a certain place's 'Legislative Yuan'.

But soon, everyone discovered that they seemed to have mistaken the target. The biggest threat now was obviously Atlas, but the person in charge of the other party sat quietly and watched, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Amber's attitude naturally made other people very unhappy, and many people in the company wanted to 'draw him into trouble'.

But everyone present quickly realized that they really didn't seem to be able to 'start a group' with Atlas.

Because this company's data and combat results are so tough that they can't even find anything to say.

Under this circumstance, the conference room soon became quiet again, and everyone once again focused their attention on Amber.

Amber, who had been thinking about other issues, stopped ink-writing after noticing that others had stopped 'communicating', and immediately started a showdown with others.

"Now that everyone has finished the discussion, I believe everyone present should have a deep understanding of your respective abilities and battle results, right?
Now that everyone is self-aware, let me be clear. Atlas will decide on the 70% share, but I can give two mutually beneficial plans.

First, in the subsequent reconstruction work of Lubion 5, we at Atlas will try our best to choose other subsidiaries of the group behind each company present as our raw material suppliers or service providers, and everyone will make money together.

Second, I believe that you have seen our company's test equipment in battle. Since each company has suffered relatively large losses this time, you can consider 'one-stop' equipment procurement at Atlas Industries, including but not Limited to individual exoskeletons, multi-legged combat vehicles, main battle tanks, other combat vehicles and HCP.

As long as each of your companies comes to place an order, you will definitely get the best price close to the cost price, and we will also provide free overall firmware upgrade services no more than 3 times within 10 years.

Believe me, the money you save here is definitely not a small amount of money, and you will be able to make a difference to some extent when you go back. "

After talking a lot in one breath, Amber took out a can of energy drink from his pocket, took a sip to moisten his lips, and said:

"After I finish speaking, who is in favor? Who is against?"

　I've been a little tired from typing these days, so I'll just add 5400 together for one update today. I'll take a little rest on Friday~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)