"What are our artillery doing?! Doesn't this bastard Mips even know how to fight back?! Where is that bastard?!"
In the secret headquarters deep underground, Commander Zobagis, wearing gray and white heavy armor, roared angrily and asked his question, but no one could answer it.
After an unknown amount of time, the river bank defenders finally counted the casualties and barely restored order. They reported the news that Imperial General Mips had been killed in the bombardment to the calmed down Zobagis, and asked the latter to calm down in the cold. After snorting, he gave up his plan to hold members of the Mips family accountable.
There is nothing to be ashamed of in the disastrous defeat caused by his own lack of ability. Zobagis must admit that the outstanding combat effectiveness of the Human Federation Army was indeed a bit unexpected for him, so that he, who always likes to take over everything, wants to take the responsibility They all blamed it on the dead Mips.
However, after learning that the river bank defenders were counterattacking, and that the two slave legions and an elite offensive legion that he had arranged to flank the People's Alliance Assault Corps to launch an attack had been prepared, he finally showed a rare smile since the war began. .
"Mips, Mips, whether your family can escape His Majesty's butcher's knife depends on whether this offensive can be successful..."
Staring at the more than 700,000 troops on the map that are slowly advancing towards the flanks of the 7th Legion of the Human Federation, and their opponent this time, an icon representing the 13th Assault Legion that has just been promoted from the Colonial Defense Force less than a day ago, The scales between Zobagis' eyebrows were almost twisted together.
After hesitating for a while, since there was no extra force to mobilize on the front line, he had to split another legion from the Central Reinforcement Army that had just arrived at Krohoka, increasing the strength of 700,000 people to It took nearly a million people to feel relieved.
In the view of Commander Zobagis, in addition to having slightly better equipment, these troops supported by the Central Ring are not even as good as the soldiers from the Outer Ring who have adapted to various harsh environments and come from poor families in terms of fighting will. Therefore, he originally planned to use the Zhonghuan reinforcements as a reserve force. If there was a loophole in the front line, he would use the lives of Zhonghuan people to plug it.
But it just so happens that he can test the quality of the Central Army through this battle, and it will also facilitate him to rationally distribute the reinforcements sent from various planets according to their different combat effectiveness in the future.
Of course, before that, he had to eat up the two lone Human Alliance legions to make up for the losses they had caused to the empire, and the Thirteenth Assault Legion led by Colonel Joseph Magellan was treated as a meal by him. Desserts, whether to eat them or not depends on the situation and appetite at that time.
As for whether he will be broken by this "hard food", Zobagis does not think that this will happen to him - even if there are some twists and turns in the process, he always firmly believes in the Qien Empire He will be the one with the last laugh on Krohoka.
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Compared with the enemy's confidence, Joseph, who was leading the legion in combat for the first time, was also full of confidence.
Through the high-intensity carpet reconnaissance of drones and stealth satellites, the movement of Qien Empire's millions of troops traveling thousands of miles a day has long been clearly seen by the Federation.
It is not difficult to see from their performance that the other side's commander is obviously convinced that Lieutenant General Wolfgang will not withdraw his troops easily. Even if he knows that the flank is in danger, he will never let the two teams successfully break through easily. The assault corps evacuated.
Although Joseph was not among the best in the capital military academy like Ernst, he was also a first-class genius in the colonial military academy where he attended, so he quickly saw Zobagis's strategic intentions.
The 700,000-strong army defended the river bank defense line, holding the Sixth and Seventh Assault Corps firmly against the powerful firepower of the Federal Assault Corps. In order to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, the task handover between the Sixth and Seventh Assault Corps would not be too hasty. , which bought enough time for the millions of troops who came to them through strategic maneuvers, so that they would not face the Seventh Army and their Thirteenth Assault Army at the same time.
The opposing commander is not afraid of his own troops at all, he is afraid of the well-equipped and energetic Seventh Army!
Joseph, who felt that he had been slighted, had no unnecessary thoughts. If it were him, he would not think that the colonial defense force, which had just formed an army, could have any combat effectiveness. Perhaps the other party had secretly regarded him as Wolfgang. The lieutenant general's decision-making error was viewed as a mistake.
Through holographic projections and tactical maps accurate to meters, the colonel has become more familiar with the enemy's movements than his own way home. So when the troops of the Qien Empire were still entering their positions, they planned to rest for a while before launching an attack.
Joseph prepared to copy the gourd, imitating Lieutenant General Wolfgang's surprise attack tactics, and launched a small-scale penetration attack against the enemy with tens of thousands of Z-1 robots with specialized protective functions as the core.
Compared with the diversified tactics that the 6th and 7th Assault Legions have to choose from when facing the enemy, it neither has a large number of armored units and superior forces that can be used for armored surprise attacks, nor does it have the ability to call in electromagnetic gun array strikes at any time and sufficient plasma launchers. Attack the enemy with overwhelming firepower, so a infiltration attack with infantry as the core has become his best choice at present.
As the supreme commander, he certainly could not put himself in danger this time, so he asked his adjutant, Major Ernst Rechel, to take charge of the more than 20,000 elite troops attacking nearby, and he would personally operate from the rear. Command the battle to ensure nothing goes wrong.
"Ten thousand robots with 10,000 soldiers? Doesn't that mean everyone can be assigned a Z-1 robot? This seems to be a bit far from the optimal ratio of one to five that Lieutenant General Cagat told us. Sir?"
Facing the question from the adjutant, Joseph said that there is never any so-called "optimal ratio" on the battlefield. If there is money, the Federation may even choose to use an all-robot mechanical army to compete with the slave army of the Qin Empire.
Unfortunately, judging from the current domestic military expenditure ratio and the wishes of the people, it is estimated that the army will have to wait until the navy builds 180 battleships first before the army can take off.
After glancing at the local time that kept beating on the projection, and silently calculating in his mind, Joseph ordered through the screen: "Without further ado, before the Qien Empire's army has a firm foothold, Ernst, Attack immediately!"
"Yes, sir!"
After receiving the order, Ernst hurriedly left the communication channel, and more than 20,000 troops began to grope towards the vanguard of the Qien Empire's million-strong army. The extra ammunition and batteries carried by each Z-1 robot are only enough for them to continue fighting for three days and three nights, so the major is not worried that his unit's combat effectiveness will plummet due to lack of supplies during fierce battles.
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The Qien people, who discovered through radar and detection sensors that a large group of human troops were approaching, also became vigilant. However, Commander Zobagis, who personally directed the battle, repeatedly assured that the enemies they needed to face were just a group of people defending from the colony. A ragtag group of people reorganized from the army.
Therefore, after learning that the number of enemy troops was only a little over 20,000, the grassroots officers responsible for mobilizing the army decided to continue to rest and recuperate in place. A team of 10,000 Qian people and 100,000 Toth slave soldiers went there. Block human "invasion".
However, when they discovered that their laser rifles and various weapons did not seem to work as well as before, they all exclaimed as if they had seen a ghost.
"Are those lights outside the human body a shield? How can a deflection shield be equipped on an individual!?"
A Qien officer who had lost all his thousands of slaves because he underestimated the enemy was huddled in a temporarily dug foxhole, listening to the sound of gunfire that was still ringing on the battlefield, hoping that his friendly forces could attack him. Get rid of those damn humans and robots.
Of course, this is just wishful thinking on his part.
Compared with the belt-type shields equipped on human soldiers, the shield generators on robots are directly connected to the power supply battery. This means that ordinary weapons cannot cause any damage to them before their energy is exhausted. Effective damage.
And when some Qien soldiers managed to exhaust the shield energy of a robot through continuous shooting and began to cause considerable damage to the armor, the rest of the robots and humans soon filled in, and the mechanics at the rear would Come as quickly as possible to replace the battle-damaged robot standing on standby with a new shield generator or a battery with sufficient energy to restore it to its best condition.
The ingenious colonial mechanics ensured the feasibility of this tactic, and the powerful logistical capabilities increased it to a terrifying level of reliability, making the advance of these 10,000 Z-1 robots unstoppable. The robots were destroyed due to shield overload. There are even fewer.
On the contrary, the heavy-duty electromagnetic weapons in the hands of the robot caused serious damage to the Toth's carapace that had become brittle due to the reflective paint. Each electromagnetic projectile that hit the target was able to pierce a Tot both human and shell. , no matter how bad it is, it can smash the target's body to pieces, causing it to die on the spot after spitting out a few mouthfuls of internal organ fragments.
When the infiltration attack launched by the Thirteenth Assault Legion reached its peak, a team of 10,000 slaves who tried to block the advancement of the robot army did not even last twenty minutes before they were beaten to death by a torrential rain of electromagnetic projectiles. There were corpse fragments and carapace fragments on the ground, and the position was also occupied by human soldiers following the robot.
In the end, the disparity in battle loss ratio that could be seen with the naked eye forced the desperate slave army commander to use the oldest close combat method.
On the way to seek support and shelter from the large army, he ordered all the Toth slaves who were still in the position to curl up in their shells and pretend to be dead, and suddenly poke their heads out when robots or human soldiers accidentally passed by. , using their powerful strength that is not inferior to that of the Qien people, and the robots made of steel to engage in a close combat with flesh and blood flying everywhere.
Using their sharp claws to grab, their thick thighs to kick, and their sharp teeth to bite, the Thoth slaves' all-out blocking methods like street gangsters did have a certain impact on the progress of the robot army.
But soon, these Toth slaves, whose neural implants were burned by the controllers used by Qien officers, thus completely liberating their beast instincts, found that their sharp claws would be broken by the thick alloy armor, and their skin would become rough and fleshy. The limbs will also become bloody and bloody due to the lasers and stray bullets that attack from time to time, making them unable to recover.
As for the terrifying bite force they are proud of, it cannot withstand a high-explosive grenade stuffed into their mouths.
After the battle, the robot troops and the 13th Assault Corps achieved huge results that neither side had expected.
The troops formed by the 10,000 pure Qians were dispersed and evacuated in disarray. The loss would not be less than 5,000, and the 100,000 Toth slaves were completely destroyed. Due to losing the control of Officer Qien, the robot had to kill all the slave soldiers who were lying in a pool of blood but still wanted to bite him, leaving no one alive.
Faced with this result, the commanders of both sides restrained themselves and did not continue the bloody battle with the exhausted soldiers. Instead, they gathered the troops that had been scattered for various reasons and asked their superiors for instructions, hoping that they could tell them the next step. How to act.
