Him and their stars

At this moment, in Crystal City, which was still more than two thousand kilometers away, Yu Lian didn't know that the situation in the ancient ruins in the Lord's Canyon was completely out of control. I don’t even know where something disharmonious seems to have escaped.

Of course, his attention has been attracted by the heated exercise scene. As a man with good values ​​and normal aesthetics, how could he not get excited about this scene?

A silver war construct more than three meters high was flying across the field. Intensive artillery fire fell around them, rising up into balls of orange-red flames. The burning flames seemed to have raised the surrounding temperature by more than ten degrees. The sand on the field had been ignited and splashed to the surrounding area. At first glance, it looks like ignited lava.

Although it was just a drill, the warhead of the artillery shell was reduced in material, and the power of the energy beam was also adjusted. But despite this, the sound and light effects and vibration effects that should be there are not lacking at all. If ordinary people lack protection, the simulated firepower used in this kind of exercise will still be fatal.

Anyway, the "Glory Mission" military exercise already has casualty indicators. The 12th Garrison Division, composed of elite armored grenadiers, faced the opponent's Astral Knights, but they were even less polite.

However, although the silver heraldic machines worn by the knights were gorgeous as delicate and fragile works of art, they were still standing like unshakable gods amid the smoke and dust of the Great Pulse field and the sand and gravel splashed by the explosion. of.

Immediately afterwards, these "gods" had already passed through the line of fire. Facing an enemy a hundred times their size, they did not hesitate in attacking. In the eyes of the Star Knights, as long as they enter within ten meters of their own side, these mortals are by no means their enemies.

The standard land combat exoskeletons equipped by grenadiers are on average a head shorter than the heraldic machines used by knights, and their appearance is also much slimmer. At first glance, it looked like rebellious old farmers besieging the knight.

However, in most cases, even if the old peasants gathered hundreds or thousands of times more troops and were hacked to death by the knight master, they would collapse on the spot. But the grenadiers, who are also the elite of the empire, have a certain tendency to fight to the death.

In addition, because it was an exercise, the Astral Knights did not use the standard atomic light spears and their own Noble Phantasms. They used the same type of crystal battle axes, power hammers, chain swords, etc. as the Grenadier. That is, like Shameen, he made some modifications according to his own habits.

Aren't they just a hundred knights? They won't kill anyone anyway, so what's there to be afraid of?

The junior officers of the 12th Garrison Division may have thought so. So, when the vanguard of the Astral Knights broke through their first layer of firepower, they immediately led the soldiers and rushed over.

But things didn't develop as they expected. The military nobles of Tirello are all unruly people, but as long as they are official members of the Astral Knights, they will actually be the best in the imperial army in terms of organization, discipline, tactical understanding and execution ability.

Although it has only been half a year since the Astral Knights started experimentally practicing the "Four Elephant Tactics", they have already mastered a certain essence. The four-person team's ability to integrate offense and defense, as well as its adaptability to any situation on the battlefield, are superior to the previous mainstream three-person team. Considering that there is one more psyker dedicated to assisting, even mobility will not be affected.

At this time, the Astral Knights who landed on the battlefield in advance formed a tactical unit of four people and formed a not too tight arrow formation to attack, and they were invincible wherever they went.

As for the arrowhead of the entire big front, if it wasn’t Viscount Shameen who took the lead, who else could it be?

The noble psykers of Tirero have a tradition of charging into battle with guns drawn and standing on horseback since the time of their home planet thousands of years ago. The more lofty a leader is, the more he needs to be visible to all warriors.

The Tirero people value brave men, and leaders must be brave.

However, there is still a big difference between the courage of a famous general and the courage of an ordinary man. The strict training and advanced education of the Astral Knights are to make the leaders of these Tirero people understand the difference.

And Shameen is the best. He really knows very well what should be done and what should be rash, and he also knows which direction he should go in if he is rash.

As the leader of the attack, he chose the joint between the two regiment defense areas. Although they will face a frontal attack with fierce firepower, the Astral Knights said that if they did not have the ability to penetrate the enemy's defense line with frontal firepower, who would they be as psykers and wear heraldic machines?

A gap was opened for the grenadiers of the two regiments, and they could only cover it from both sides. However, they bumped into the arc blades on both sides of the "front arrow", which still could not slow down the knights' progress by half a step.

Amidst the roar and impact of steel, and occasionally the halo of spiritual energy flickering, grenadiers who were "killed" continued to fly out from the military formation, hitting the ground and instantly lying down like a nest. The broken limbs of the earth.

Tantai Jing knew that if the Knights adopted the previous three-man team tactics, the grenadiers would not be able to stop them, but they would never be in such a destructive state.

Yu Lian felt that this was what Major Poppas wanted to see the most when he came here. He started recording and at the same time sent a message to the other party.

"Sure enough, your tactical reform is right. However, I never expected that the empire would have such courage to abandon the tactics that have been used for nearly a thousand years, but choose your tactical ideas from a young man on earth." Tantai Jing's tone was a little subtle: "Don't you regret it?"

"There is nothing to regret about this. In this world, the most unconcealable and unnecessary thing is tactics. The Astral Knights have only practiced this kind of tactics for two or three months, and we started last year. This kind of first-mover advantage is not so easy to shake in a short period of time.”

To be honest, the various changes derived from the "Four Symbol Formation" took a lot of time to be slowly refined in the last world line. But now, who knows this better than myself? Not even the original founder, Countess Giafel herself, could do it.

Yu Lian added: "I estimate that the astral knights who are using the Four Elephant Tactics should be the more than two hundred knights led by Viscount Shameen now. Even he himself, if he hadn't eaten me at the God of War Festival, It’s a big loss, I’m afraid they won’t pay so much attention to this new tactic.”

Tantai Jing thought of the deep-seated arrogance of noble Tirillo, and had to admit that what Yu Lian said was reasonable.

"In addition, whether to carry out all-round tactical improvements is probably still in the discussion stage within the Knights, so this exercise was held. But even if it is verified that the new tactics are indeed effective, it is only the beginning. It is still needed After long discussions between the Grand Marshal's Palace, the Privy Council and other agencies, and finally reported to the emperor, it was possible to complete the systematic reform of the entire Knights. During this period, there were no arguments and games with the conservatives. How many times have we seen each other? Senior brother, never underestimate the power of bureaucracy. And for an organization with a long history and a large scale, how can there be no bureaucracy?"

At the moment when the two were talking, the knights had easily penetrated the defense lines of the two regiments, but their attack finally stopped. Because at this time, several of the grenadiers who knew about it activated their self-destruction devices, turning the nearby positions into a sea of ​​fire.

Of course, this "sea of ​​fire" is an image simulated using holographic projection, and what is restored is the effect produced when the energy clips of hundreds of heavy ion cannons are activated at the same time.

Viscount Shameen had already discovered the problem before and asked his comrades to get out of the way quickly. He and most of the others were not directly affected by the explosion. But despite this, the director still made a judgment that the ten closest heraldic machines and the knights inside had lost their combat capabilities.

"It's really brave." Senior Brother praised: "If you use this tactic in the exercise, won't it be against the rules?"

"Normal military exercises will definitely prohibit unconventional tactics. However, this ban is not absolute. Brigadier General Kebede happens to be the special one." Yu Lian said.

Brigadier General Kebede, who commanded the 12th Garrison Division, was a ruthless man. He would always fuck his subordinates to death, and he would never be satisfied if he kept pushing his soldiers to the point of schizophrenia. Thanks to this method of military management, once his men start a war, they will fall into a state of fanaticism that is close to madness.

In Brigadier General Kebede's opinion, this is the real elite soldier. The top brass of the imperial military seemed to agree with this statement.

Of course, no matter how strict or even anti-human the training is, this werewolf general shares the joys and sorrows with his soldiers. In addition, he never took any of the bonuses distributed by his superiors, and distributed them all to ordinary officers and soldiers. He also treats his officers and soldiers equally, whether they are citizens or citizens, whether they are humans or other alien races. The military achievements made will be reported truthfully, and we will strive to fight for their due rights based on reason.

Because of this, although Kebed's military management methods can be called ruthless and even cruel, he has always won the hearts of the soldiers.

Even in actual combat, he will definitely arrange such suicide tactics, and there must be such decisive tough guys under his command.

However, who would want to adopt this tactic if they were not at the end of their rope?

In other words, if you don't put yourself in the inferior position, why would you consider this tactic?

"If it were you, junior brother, what would you do?" Senior Brother looked at Yu Lian with interest.

"If it were me..." Yu Lian showed a vicious and ferocious smile: "I won't let the other party break through the frontal fire blockade so easily. Even if I really can't hold on, I will be prepared in advance to let him go. A retreat route out of the battlefield space, and cost the Knights at least fifty people.”

Yu Lian does have this confidence.

It’s still the same issue I’ve mentioned before. Since the whole universe has the habit of digging graves, the speed of entering space is too fast. There is a lack of accumulation and induction of experience in ground warfare - although the space fleets who are keen on bow-to-enemy and gang-hopping battles are not very clear about decisive battles, the tactics on the surface of the planet are particularly unscientific, which is martial ethics. This is true of abundant empires.

Although Tantai Jing didn't know where Yu Lian's confidence came from, he nodded with relief: "You are not a person who is aimless. I am looking forward to it."

All in all, after suffering a head-on blow, the Cavaliers' momentum did slow down a bit. This was not because they could not bear such casualties, but because the sand and dust formed during the battle and the energy that had not yet dissipated actually condensed into a large, invisible gray-yellow fog, covering almost half of the battlefield.

If it only covers the naked eye, that's it. The key point is that the heavy fog interferes with various radar signals and even interferes with psychic energy.

The lenses of Yu Lian and others in the observation post were also completely covered by yellow sand, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

"This should be Count Seliola's action." Tantai Jing said with a smile.

Yu Lian also believed that this should be Count Seliola's method: "But if we do it like this, we can't see clearly, and the people in the director's department can't see clearly either."

"Count Seliola is a mature and prudent person and will know how to handle it."

There is no way. Once high-level occult operations are involved, there are no technological means to observe or intervene, let alone simulate them. Once a psychic attack is involved in a military exercise, one has to either let a more powerful boss sit nearby, or one can only count on the two parties taking action to stop it.

Fortunately, the First Knight Commander is indeed a kind man. Although he has expanded a large-scale psychic field, he cannot really kill all his subordinates and juniors in it.

Although, based on Tantai Jing's understanding of him, it seems that he really has this ability.

In short, the Astral Knights and their heraldic machines who had just killed everyone were trapped in the heavy fog filled with yellow sand, completely unable to find their way.

Shameen, who was in the heavy fog, also guessed something.

This massive psychic array? The red knight set up an ambush here? No, absolutely impossible! If they were here, we should have rushed over first when we were under shelling and were not able to gain a firm foothold. How could we let ordinary garrison grenadiers come to die?

For the proud Astral Knight, it is difficult to accept that he is hiding behind ordinary people.

There is only one possibility! Count Seliora has arrived!

Viscount Shameen quickly figured this out, and after being stunned for a moment, he slowly became excited. He gave up the jammed communicator and directly called out to his comrades in the yellow sand in a loud voice: "Come closer to me! Anti-field array! Formation B!"

The majestic Astral Knights have of course conducted training in various large-scale psychic fields, and there are at least seven or eight types of formations available and well-drilled. The knights present could list the formations with their eyes closed.

Shameen was basically certain that the person he had to face must be His Excellency the deputy commander, but he was not worried at all. He knew that even if he was delayed, the second batch of knights and the third group of knights who landed later would definitely seize the opportunity to penetrate the opponent.

"Get in formation! Hold him back! It's our supreme honor to die together with the deputy commander!" he shouted.

"Oh!" The knights in formation responded loudly, their fighting spirit was high, and no one was ready to back down.

Although Yu Lian couldn't hear Shameen's words, he felt that the yellow sand filled scene was inexplicably irritating, and he immediately felt sorry for Feifei again. If that girl just shoots some random material and then goes back and cuts it again, it might be enough material for war movies in the future.

While he was amazed, he called Major Poppas again.

Fortunately, even though it was dark and dark, the communication with the others was still not cut off.

However, after the communication was connected, there was another burst of intensive gunfire.

Yu Lian looked at his terminal suspiciously, picked his ears, and then asked in a low voice: "Hello? Major? You can hear me. We are fighting fiercely here, you missed it..."

"It's more intense here! Sir, come and help!"