Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 148

148. Chapter 148, Active Attack (6k subscription required!)

Martins accepted Governor Gu’s request without much hesitation.

This is indeed what they are good at – at least one of the things they are good at.

Space Marines are powerful, but the lack of numbers is always a big disadvantage. On a battlefield of any scale and intensity, it is extremely stupid to put elite but scarce Space Marines into a frontal battle to compete with others for consumption, and the Space Marines themselves will not accept such orders. No matter how

hard the power armor is, to be honest, it cannot withstand a single shot from a 155 howitzer; no matter how powerful the grenade gun is, it is not a big problem to penetrate the domestically produced “Challenger” tank, but if it encounters the regular Lion tank or even the Lion King tank of the Astra Militarum on the top battlefield, it will also be a tickle.

They are sharp knives and should not be used as hammers.

While Gu Hang needs three days to prepare the troops and launch a counterattack, the five Phoenix warriors will sneak into the enemy’s rear to find and mark high-value strategic targets.

Accompanying them were 28 soldiers from the Storm Squadron. They were the elite Marines on the Quintet, and now they have been trained to the T3 level by Gu Hang. Their individual strength is guaranteed. Even in a close combat, it is not a problem to kill an ordinary green-skinned guy.

They will accept the temporary leadership of the Phoenix, obey orders, and act in coordination.

Without much nonsense, a total of 33 people set off under the cover of night.

They set off from the southernmost side of the entire north-south front. In order to cover their actions, the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Garrison Division stationed there also launched an active attack.

An artillery battalion was allocated from the joint artillery position in the rear. Thirty artillery pieces advanced five kilometers forward and fired twenty rounds of fire coverage in the direction where the infantry regiment was about to attack.

The first five rounds were fired rapidly, and the next four rounds were fired about every three or four minutes to maintain the overall bombing rhythm.

Those greenskins were stunned by the bombing.

It’s not that they haven’t been bombed in the past. But generally speaking, when they launch an attack, those shrimps will ask for artillery support from the rear, and then there will be fierce firepower to cover their attack or retreat routes.

The main goal is to block their attack and cause casualties.

Or after their iron barrel artillery fires, there are also many cases where those shrimps counterattack.

Like today, it is not uncommon to fire at their own positions, but only occasionally. Like

this moment, in an hour, six hundred heavy artillery fell in a small area. That is really a situation that has never been encountered.

At least, the greenskins stationed here have never seen it.

The orc leader here, named Gu Li, was not killed. The fortifications he was in were built on the ruins of a reinforced concrete building, and further transported various construction wastes. It was quite solid. Unless the heavy artillery hit the fortifications where he was, it would not be able to do anything here except fragments and shock waves.

However, there are not many fortifications with such a high level of protection in the entire position. In addition, the bombardment came too suddenly, and the casualties would probably not be small.

Of course, the main casualties came from the early stage, and those who were still alive later were all hiding in various anti-artillery fortifications. There will indeed be a lot of losses, but it is still within the acceptable range.

However, even though he understood this, Gu Li still paced back and forth in the fortifications anxiously, spewing out all kinds of green-skinned swear words.

He knew that those shrimps were inexplicably firing violently, and they were definitely not playing. His green head could clearly think that this was probably a prelude to the active attack of those shrimps.

But at this moment, he couldn’t run out of the fortifications and kick those guys’ asses to make them cheer up and prepare for the battle.

The artillery above his head would explode every few minutes, and it would be easy to be killed if he left the fortifications.

If he was killed, he couldn’t fight.

He could only hold back his anger and continue to hide.

But soon, the opportunity for a fight came.

After the last round of shelling, no new shells fell within ten minutes, but the sound of gunfire and shouts during fighting were heard.

He became energetic and rushed out of the fortifications with a few boys.

He came to the ground that had been bombarded by heavy artillery and the heat and smoke had not yet dissipated.

He looked in the direction where the gunshots came from, and not far away, he vaguely saw the shrimps rushing over.

Those shrimps walked forward quickly, and continued to send people to clear every fortification and building wreckage they passed.

In many places, in Gu Li’s impression, there were his own boys stationed. However, only a few of them had fought.

In those places where there was no fighting, the shrimps just went in for a while and came out again.

Gu Li could think that the boys he sent to garrison those places were probably killed in the previous shelling. Otherwise, they would not have watched the shrimps come in and ignored them.

How many boys died?

He didn’t know.

He shouted loudly: “Waagh!! Boys! Get out of here! The shrimps are coming! It’s time to show how good we are! We can’t let the shrimps look down on us!”

“Waagh!!”

There were many green-skinned boys’ battle cries around, and a group of boys crawled out of the bunkers where they had been hiding before. Some even drove out the armed pickup trucks that survived the previous bombardment, and some rolled out the “cannons” tied with iron barrels.

However, the overall number seemed to be much less than Gu Li had expected.

Half of the people did not come out.

The big booms of those shrimps were still very powerful.

But it doesn’t matter!

Even if only half of the people are left, they can kill all the shrimps who dare to come out to fight!

Gu Li led his boys and charged forward!

…

Observing the situation on the front line, Reid Mesheko couldn’t help shaking his head.

He was a sergeant in the original Cordy Company. Later, he signed up to become a trainee political commissar in the recruitment of Lieutenant Colonel Thadius. Then, during the reorganization of Garbage Town, he was assigned to the 4th Regiment of the 7th Garrison Division as a political commissar, and his rank jumped directly to captain.

His rank rose very quickly, but this was a common situation among those old troops who had been with Gu Hang for a long time. The army was expanding very quickly, and as long as the veterans were loyal and willing to make progress, they would be promoted very quickly.

When the rear headquarters asked them to fully cooperate with the Phoenix Regiment’s actions and Captain Martins asked them to launch a frontal attack to cover the enemy, Mesheko was very determined to carry out the task.

He knew that their captain was not happy to do so, even when the adventurers were reorganized into regular troops, they tried to disrupt the organization and stripped away the personal attributes of the adventure captains who became officers to the troops. However, the nature of these former adventurers is still not so easy to erase.

They will instinctively fear such tasks that require a lot of sacrifices, especially to cover the actions of others.

However, this is the difference between soldiers and adventurers.

Under his strong pressure and military orders, the 4th Infantry Regiment still launched an attack.

Before the fight, whether it was soldiers or officers, they were all afraid.

In the past, the shadow brought to them by the greenskins was too great. Even if there were hundreds of shells in front of them to open the way for them, they still instinctively feared when they came up.

This is where Reid Mesheko was dissatisfied.

But fortunately, after the fight, the resistance encountered by the troops was not strong.

The greenskin troops were obviously stunned by the explosion, and a large number of greenskins died in the fortifications. There were not many who could form resistance at the first time.

Those greenskins still showed a strong will to fight. Under close-range shooting, they still often had to sacrifice the lives of two or three people to shoot a greenskin; if they were close to it, they were not soldiers of the slaughtering group, and even with bayonets, they often did not dare to fight.

This is not a problem of tactics or military skills, but a problem of morale and courage.

But in the end, the 4th Regiment still relied on more numbers to break through those greenskins.

Facts have proved that greenskins will also run away. When three or five greenskins popped out of the fortifications and saw hundreds of human soldiers shooting at them with guns, they would also run away with their heads in their hands.

Some were shot to death from behind, and such greenskins were the most despised.

Soon, the few greenskin boys who escaped alive came back to kill again. Behind them, a large number of greenskins rushed out, with a total of more than 200.

The greenskins howled and laughed at the guys who ran away, and the greenskins who were laughed at rushed back in anger.

In the exchange of fire, greenskins kept falling down, and soldiers kept falling down.

This was a bloody fight. When a greenskin fell down, two or three human soldiers would be beaten to death.

According to this exchange ratio, the human side is of course still a sure win. Especially when they also took out weapons such as rocket launchers and mortars, an armed pickup truck that rushed over was blown up halfway.

At most, only about 500 casualties would be paid.

This is still estimated according to the worst case scenario. In fact, when a certain number of greenskins are killed, their threat will also decrease sharply, and their morale will collapse, and they will turn around and run away, just like the ones they just encountered.

If they keep fighting, humans will not die so many people.

But even so, it was the human soldiers who first shrank back and dared not move forward.

They were terrified by the sight of their comrades whose bodies were smashed by the greenskins’ high-powered guns.

After suffering more than a hundred casualties, they were actually on the verge of collapse.

Reid Mesheko was furious.

He yelled at the commander beside him: “Look at these soldiers! It’s a shame!”

The commander of the 4th Regiment had no words to say.

Didn’t he give orders, requiring all troops to maintain the front line and strive to advance, but what should he do if they just can’t push forward?

He didn’t dare to talk back, because this red hat was a direct officer sent by the governor, like a military supervisor.

Seeing his appearance, Mesheko was even more angry.

“Go to the front! Let’s go to the front together! We must lead by example!”

He took out his pistol and pulled the commander.

The two of them, as well as the guard company, began to push forward in person.

Mesheko knew that as a commander, the biggest responsibility was to command the battle, not to be on the front line. Even if he was at the front, how much difference would there be in combat ability between him and an ordinary soldier?

But now is a special moment, and there is nothing to command. What the soldiers lack is not strategy, not tactics, but courage.

That requires senior officers to set an example and lead by example.

While leading the guard company and the regiment commander to push forward, he encountered a team that was fighting and retreating.

Meshko was so angry that he found the company commander of this team, grabbed his collar, and shouted loudly: “The military order given to you is to advance! Advance! Advance again! Who told you to retreat?!”

“I…” The company commander’s face turned pale and he couldn’t speak.

Meshko kicked him in the stomach and knocked him down, pointing his pistol at his head:

“Retreat without authorization, cowardly and not moving forward, is considered a deserter. As an officer, the crime is even more serious!”

“No, no…” The company commander was still trying to defend himself, and the regiment commander standing next to Meshko also wanted to persuade him.

But Meshko was too lazy to listen to anything and pulled the trigger directly.

The bullet passed through the head of the officer who had just received the rank of second lieutenant, and his body fell down weakly.

Then, Mesheko shouted to the company instructor who was watching in a daze: “You take over the command now! Take your company and follow me!”

The instructor nodded suddenly as if waking up from a dream, and hurriedly called the team.

Mesheko waved his hand again, signaling the guard company to follow, and said to the regiment commander next to him: “For the governor! We must win! You can’t be like before! We are soldiers! Not scavengers looking for food in the garbage dump!”

“I… I understand.”

“Pick up your gun! Fight like a soldier!”

Seeing the regiment commander bite the bullet, Mesheko picked up the mobile phone and issued orders to the instructors of every company in the regiment, strictly ordering them to ensure that the troops are always in an offensive posture, and those who are afraid of fighting can be executed immediately.

Then, Mesheko raised his pistol and fired into the sky, roaring to the surroundings: “Comrades! Follow me to charge!”

Under his strict and strong orders, after he and the regiment commander led the guard company to participate in the battle in person, the entire army’s cowardly situation was finally reversed. Under the leadership of officers at all levels, especially the political chief under the instructor system, the team began to resume the offensive.

As the distance between the two sides was further shortened, the battle quickly became more bloody and cruel. The advantage of the greenskins in close combat was brought into play, and the casualties suffered by human soldiers became greater, but at the same time, the advantage of more people and stronger firepower on the human side was still maintained, and the accuracy of close-range shooting was also higher.

Human soldiers continued to fall, and even officers died in battle, but the speed of the greenskins falling was also faster.

When the loss of the 4th Regiment reached 15%, that is, more than 200 people fell, there were only about 70 or 80 greenskins left.

Gu Li knew clearly that they were in a desperate situation.

Because they were too close, retreat was impossible; but the bloody battle had completely activated the warlike factor in his heart. His skin became greener, and his body size also grew slightly before the battle.

“Waaagh!” He howled, rushed out of the bunker, and rushed towards the nearest position occupied by human soldiers.

Under his infection, all the greenskins who were still alive entered a state of frenzy.

The last wave of charge began.

Gu Li held a heavy gun and fired six times during the charge, killing five soldiers. At the same time, he was hit by at least hundreds of bullets. He was bleeding all over his body, almost covering his green skin; one of his eyes was blinded, but the remaining one became more ferocious.

He rushed into the position where the infantry platoon was located, and instantly turned into a meat grinder on the battlefield. The thick-backed machete in his hand spun like a whirlwind of death. In just a short while, he slaughtered all the soldiers here.

Although those human soldiers had followed tactical ethics and put on bayonets to fight after he approached, the two sides were not on the same level in terms of strength, resistance to blows, and even flexibility. After being stabbed with the bayonet seven or eight times, Gu Li showed no signs of exhaustion, and killed all the soldiers who dared to fight him in close combat.

When the courageous people died, the rest had no desire to fight.

After the sergeant was killed, the few soldiers who were still alive in the infantry platoon fled in panic; after the company instructor who came to support was also shot in the upper body, the entire company began to collapse.

This formed a chain reaction. The greenskins who followed Gu Li to charge, after paying more than 20 casualties, defeated a company attacking from the front, and then the two companies next to them were caught off guard and faced with the ferocious greenskins rushing towards them, and also showed signs of collapse.

Reid Mesheko observed this sign.

He would never allow the victory he had won to be lost again. He immediately led the guard company to block the gap and ordered several surrounding companies to block it together.

In his words, heaping up human lives, he could also pile up the remaining fifty greenskins to death.

Gu Li also saw the red hat who kept shouting, and he howled and rushed towards him. The big gun with the loaded bullets fired wildly in the direction of Mesheko.

In a moment, three or four soldiers around Mesheko were killed, and the greenskin leader who could not be defeated rushed straight towards him.

Mesheko was very calm at this moment.

He knew he had made a mistake. He had forcibly boosted the morale of the entire regiment, and he was now too close to the front line so that the enemy could rush directly at him. If he died here, the morale of the entire regiment might collapse.

At that time, it would really become a joke that thousands of people were overwhelmed by dozens of greenskins.

But this mistake had to be made. This army, which had just been reorganized from adventurers, had not had time to carry out ideological work, and its morale was not high. If he had not done this before, he would probably not have been able to achieve the current level.

He knew that the odds were against him, but he could not run away.

He could only take out his pistol and stand still, his black coat fluttering in the wind.

He held his head high and kept firing bullets at the greenskins rushing towards him.

Even if he died, he would die standing up.

He hoped that the way he looked before his death would infect the soldiers around him. The enemy was just a spent force, and as long as he held on for a breath, he could kill them all.

The damage of the pistol ammunition to the greenskins was quite limited, and it could only be said to be a symbolic resistance.

But at this moment, a burst of gunfire came from behind him.

Then, heavy footsteps approached quickly and soon passed by him.

It was a giant wearing red power armor.

The Emperor’s angel had arrived.

The gunfire in front was obviously the sound of a bolter.

The flying bullets hit the three greenskins behind Gu Li, killing them all.

With the level of the Space Marine veteran, he could hit the target at a distance of dozens of meters. The power of the grenade launcher is not comparable to the small water pipe of the G9 rifle. A shot on the greenskin is also fatal.

However, the two bullets fired at Gu Li did not kill him. He dodged the first bullet at the critical moment – not because he could really dodge bullets, but because he saw the Space Marines rushing out from behind the red hat shooting, so he made a pre-judgment action.

As for the second bullet, it hit his right chest solidly, opening a big hole, but the furious orc leader only paused, but did not show any weakness, and continued to charge with a howl.

Gu Li had never seen such a shrimp that looked similar to himself, not to mention that the guy was wrapped in red cans. But he already felt that it was a strong enemy, and he was excited that he could face such a strong enemy!

He raised his thick-backed machete high and slashed at the red-armored giant.

The charging Phoenix Warrior twisted his waist and dodged the slash, then took out a combat blade and stabbed it into the waist and abdomen of the green skin. Following the force of the charge, a large amount of blood mixed with internal organs sprayed out.

But Gu Li was not dead yet! He even had the strength to fight back!

He grabbed the Space Warrior’s arm with one hand, pulled it suddenly, and tripped again, and actually fell to the ground.

Gu Li turned over and pressed on him, grinning, as if he could not feel the pain in his waist and abdomen. He pressed the lower edge of the Space Warrior’s helmet with one hand, and raised the thick-backed machete with the other hand, as if he wanted to cut off the head of the Phoenix.

However, this knife could not cut it down.

During this process, the Phoenix, who had fallen to the ground and was pinned down, had already used the combat dagger to stab Gu Li several times in the heart and neck, ending his life completely.

Pushing the corpse away, the red-armored warrior stood up and looked around. The battle was almost over.

(End of this chapter)