Less than twelve hours after the end of the combat meeting convened by Lieutenant General Wolfgang, the Imperial Rebels, who believed that if they did not launch an uprising, would miss the best opportunity, they successively launched "Zorbagis" attacks on their positions. "Rebellion in the name of.
After receiving the news that a large-scale mutiny suddenly broke out among the defenders of the second line of defense, not only the army headquarters on Krohoka fell into an atmosphere of extreme uneasiness and panic, but even the people in the imperial capital Chiennia Emperor Sazha XXII raised stern questions on behalf of the royal family and the Inner Circle Council.
The news of millions of people mutinying at the same time is not small. Even if the news has been embellished more than once when it is sent back to the imperial capital, the emperor and ministers can still learn the real situation on Krohoka through their private intelligence sources. Far less optimistic than imagined.
In the defense plan formulated by the new outer ring commander, Imperial Count Cerdi Targa, the Imperial Legion, which still occupies about 40% of the planet's land area, was divided into three parts, and each was divided into three parts on the sand table. The next line of defense also has different combat missions.
Most of the first line of defense is defended by troops composed of pure outer ring legions. Their weapons are backward, their supplies are scarce, and their soldiers are demoralized. It can be said that they have completely lost the capital to continue fighting with the People's Alliance Army.
Fortunately, the proportion of such troops in the army is not high, only one quarter. About four million old and weak soldiers and their commanders were ordered by Count Cerdi to use their lives to delay the general attack that the People's Alliance might launch at any time.
When the order to hold the position was issued to every junior officer, all the soldiers understood that this meant that no matter how fierce the enemy's offensive was, they would not be able to receive any support from the rear except for moral encouragement. .
Either they were annihilated in the trenches and bunkers by the ferocious human firepower, or they were captured and executed by the eyeing Imperial Supervisory Team stationed on the second line of defense.
The former can also leave a pension for relatives as fallen soldiers, while the latter will involve them in infamy. Their children and families will live because their sons, fathers and husbands became deserters during the war. In the shadows.
No one wanted to die meaninglessly, but Count Cerdi's conspiracy forced them to accept this result and to shed their last drop of blood for the empire.
On paper, the situation of the second line of defense is much better than that of the first line. The defenders with as many as eight million people possess the largest number of heavy weapons and equipment in the entire army. Densely packed fire support points integrated the entire arc-shaped defense line into one.
In the view of Imperial Count Cerdi, the main planner of this line of defense, his masterpiece is like a tight spring at this time. Although it is not impossible to be compressed again by external forces, who dares to underestimate the force of the spring when it rebounds? If the reaction force explodes, then he will definitely bleed.
And although the morale of these troops is not high, they can barely maintain it at normal levels with relatively sufficient supplies.
The Central Ring reinforcements mixed in with the outer ring armies will help the headquarters monitor every move of all the defenders. Any suspicious details will be reported to the Count himself. The seemingly overly cautious arrangement actually greatly reduces the occurrence of mutiny in the army. The possibility also made Yuri, who had been transporting supplies for the rebels these days, miserable.
In order to dispel the suspicions of the empire's top brass, he ordered several unmanned transport ships driven by intelligent computers to fall into a trap. While pretending to be transporting supplies for the federation, he passed through some dangerous areas at the junction of the two armies and was intensively attacked by the empire's army. After the anti-orbital firepower, it soon turned into flaming meteors that filled the sky in the atmosphere.
Fortunately, Yuri's flesh-cutting plan was a big success. Every time a transport ship used as a bait crashed, he could always earn enough money from the arms deal with the rebels to build several or even a dozen Sparrow-class transport ships. Otherwise, Yang Tianyi would not be able to bear the terrible battle losses of a spaceship sinking every few hours.
Count Cerdi never imagined that in his internal layout, which could be described as a dragnet, there were always hidden many generals and soldiers loyal to the former commander Zobagis. Perhaps most of them just don't want to endure the tyranny of the Empire anymore, but for now, their goals are aligned.
In the darkness before dawn, everyone is quietly waiting for the opportunity for revenge, and the Star Group gives them a spark in the gorgeous meteor shower that is about to start a prairie fire.
The top leaders of the rebel army knew very well that the weak rebel army alone would not be able to overthrow the empire, even if all the defenders on Krohoka rebelled. Only by joining the People's Federation and relying on the unstoppable power of human civilization can they accomplish things that they could not even imagine in the past.
In their eyes, who are in urgent need of spiritual encouragement, the Star Group is a messenger of goodwill who comes to release on behalf of mankind. Yuri brings them not only powerful arms and weapons, but also the confidence to fight against the empire.
As long as they could persist in the encirclement for seventy-two hours, the human army that came to support them through many defenses could become a protective umbrella over the rebels' heads, preventing their little ship that had just set sail from being overturned by strong winds and waves.
This is the promise given by humans to the top leaders of the rebel army, and it is also the biggest result of Yuri's hard work these days.
And whenever Lieutenant General Wolfgang mentioned the third line of defense deployed by Cerdi in front of his men, he couldn't help but laugh about it.
Because this flashy defense line seemed to be an impenetrable copper wall, but in the eyes of him and the commanders of the People's Alliance, it was full of loopholes and could be easily torn apart and destroyed.
The confidence of the generals is not unfounded, just because each of them has a holographic map of the empire's deployment on the third line of defense.
The detailed defense map, subdivided into tens of thousands or even thousands of troops, is still changing based on intelligence sources, so much so that they can't help but secretly guess whether the Count Cerdi of the Raushi Empire was planted by the Federation within the enemy. Spy?
Otherwise, such comprehensive intelligence would be so unbelievable that Lieutenant General Wolfgang had to guarantee with his personality that the source of the information was correct before they dared to use the holographic map to formulate an attack plan and military deployment.
And this "ace spy" that makes the generals dream of him is none other than Jia Tu, the commander of the Blazing Star slave-catching regiment, which should now be called the "Fire Ambition Legion", or simply the Blazing Legion.
Since in the previous battle, the Blazing Legion had a very pleasant cooperation experience with the "Golden Claw" Legion supported from the inner ring, so much so that the former's designation was obtained in that unexpected counterattack.
Therefore, when Count Cerdi was planning the defense line, he deployed the most powerful Golden Claw Legion around his headquarters as expected, with the intention of using these battle-hardened elites as his personal guard.
However, in view of the Earl's respected status and the need for elite protection to avoid being decapitated by humans, the commander of the Golden Claw Army agreed, but he also made his own request to the Earl.
That is to put the Blazing Legion from the Central Fiery Star as the last line of defense, and together with them defend the headquarters and several starship parking areas with the highest strategic value.
After all, the combat effectiveness of the opponent is obvious to the entire Golden Claw Army. Without their heavy fire support and thousands of exoskeleton warriors fighting on the front line, no matter how sharp the radio frequency sword given by His Majesty is, they will still be able to kill creatures as tall as buildings. There is nothing the war beast can do, let alone achieve a good battle loss ratio.
What's more, Jatu has never responded directly to his request to purchase exoskeleton armor in large quantities. In his opinion, this obviously does not trust the performance of the Golden Claw Legion enough. Therefore, by convincing the earl to move the opponent from the more dangerous second line of defense to the rear, it can be regarded as repaying the favor they owed in the last battle, and it can also strengthen the relationship between the two parties. Why not?
It was this unintentional move that brought disaster to the imperial defenders on the third line of defense.
As the Blazing Legion is part of the defense line, Commander Jatu is naturally qualified to participate in the empire's combat meetings and understand a series of deployments made by Commander Cerdi.
Although he couldn't get a word in most of the time, Jatu knew that his task was not to help the empire strengthen its defenses, but to firmly remember every detail on the holographic sandbox so that the Alliance army could attack more easily and with less effort. .
The brain and organs enhanced by genetic agents gave him memory and insight far beyond ordinary people. Often after a combat meeting, Jato could accurately estimate Count Cerdi's true strength just by relying on some minor changes. intentions, and added these speculations to the confidential message sent to Yang Tianyi.
It was then processed by the group's intelligence department and handed over to Lieutenant General Anya. The detailed information made the other party couldn't help but nod in approval. He bluntly said that he was right about Yang Tianyi and that all the investments in Qunxing Group were worthwhile.
"The empire has three lines of defense, and we also have three major advantages."
A few hours after the rebels launched the rebellion, and after confirming that the other side was indeed fighting the imperial army with real swords and guns, Lieutenant General Wolfgang urgently summoned all the commanders of the assault corps on the front line to prepare for a final strengthening of their attack. war confidence and reduce the effects of tension.
"Needless to say the first line of defense, our combat strength advantage is enough to support each assault corps to maintain a crushing posture when fighting the enemy. Penetrating this weakest line of defense and annihilating all large-scale resistance forces, the general headquarters will give Our time is forty-eight hours, no more, no more."
"As the second line of defense, we have the advantage of reinforcements. The 500,000 troops and one million rebels supported by friendly forces will become our right-hand man. Please do not regard them as inferior beings, and try your best to contact the rebels. Appeasement and support. Unless absolutely necessary, allies will never be allowed to be used as cannon fodder."
"As the saying goes, 'the good will help many, the bad will help little.' The future of the Federation needs them to work with us to build it."
"The battle will end within seventy-two hours. Troops with excessive casualties can stay where they are to rest, but not for more than twenty-four hours."
"The third line of defense is the same as the first line. I hope you will not waste the absolute intelligence advantage in our hands and let the blood of those agents who voluntarily undergo genetic modification surgery for the country be shed in vain."
"The general offensive will last for a week. If our army cannot take Tianxixing within a week, the navy will intervene in the battlefield. My old face doesn't care. I just hope that you young people will not feel embarrassed by then."
After Lieutenant General Wolfgang finished speaking, his face that had been smiling just now suddenly became serious.
He straightened his military cap, exchanged a military salute with everyone in the command room, and then said in a deep voice: "Then, the future of the Federation is up to you!"
"Long live the Grand Marshal!! Long live the Human Federation!!"
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