Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 260

260. Chapter 259, Enemy at the Gate

The conversation between Gu Hang and Wang Qi, mother and son, was all about what to do after the war. No matter how many disagreements there were between the two, and how much Wang Qi worried about her son’s plan, there was one thing that they had never discussed, but it was taken for granted as the premise of everything:

Gu Ming and Ness Luhman were dead.

The reason for this tacit agreement was that neither of them regarded this as a problem, but as a fact that was set in stone.

And the reality also proved that the two of them were not blindly arrogant.

After the Phoenix and the Air Force Corps completed a beautiful assault and destroyed a Knight Titan, the Luhman Corps that besieged the suburban town collapsed.

It was also thanks to the Phoenixes that they were short of intelligence during the assault, and they didn’t know that Gu Ming and Ness Luhman were next to the Knight Titan that they killed, so they let the two of them run away. Otherwise, with the Phoenixes’ ability, they could kill the two on the spot.

But they can run for a while, but not forever.

In the following days, several things happened in succession, which were the symbol of the alliance between the two of them, which was heading for disintegration and collapse.

Moreover, these things happened very quickly.

First of all, the last Knight Titan in the Luman Kingdom Army was destroyed.

After the defeat in the battlefield of the suburban town, the Luman military was trying to gather its troops and retreat to the city of Pinser while the main force of the alliance’s reinforcements had not yet arrived.

However, at this time, an armored composite battalion of the 1st Xifeng Brigade, as the first unit of the army to get off the landing ship and the vanguard of the entire army, had already rushed to the battlefield.

Seeing the reorganized main force of the Luman Army, this composite battalion was still a little scared.

Their strength was only a thousand. Although there were nine Lion tanks and more than fifty various infantry fighting vehicles, it was really difficult to attack the main force of tens of thousands of enemy troops, especially in the enemy’s army, there were hundreds of Sentinel mechas and a Knight Titan. It was indeed difficult to deal with it. If they rushed in, they might not be able to come back.

The commander of this unit, a major battalion commander, thought about it again and again, and decided to play it safe.

He commanded the troops, just following from a distance to monitor the movements.

In fact, the major battalion commander was still very nervous.

His troops were too small, and they were all armored and mobile troops. In order to keep chasing the enemy, it was impossible to dig out any temporary positions or fortifications. If the enemy really attacked head-on, it would be a lot of trouble.

Especially if the Knight Titan moved, it would be even more terrifying.

However, he soon found out that he was worrying too

much. The opponent’s performance was much more panicked than his.

When the armored troops led by him appeared, the enemy jumped up directly like a frightened bird.

In his military telescope and the reports of his scouts, he could see that the enemy army became extremely panicked. The Knight Titan that made him so afraid even accelerated away from them.

This made the major battalion commander feel very absurd.

Not to mention his synthetic battalion, the cost of the Knight Titan was much more than their entire brigade combined.

As a result, when the Titan, surrounded by a large number of other troops, found that his battalion of troops appeared nearby, his first reaction was to speed up and flee?

While thinking this was absurd, he suddenly had a different idea:

how about killing them?

The Luman army was too lame.

It was like his spine was broken.

However, his reason was still online, and he was not directly bewitched by this tempting idea.

But soon, another thing catalyzed his thoughts and made him make a decision: the Space Marines and the Alliance Air Force came.

The military communication was directly sent to his command vehicle. After a brief communication between the two sides, he made a decision.

Oh, he didn’t have to make this decision now. In the military sequence of the Alliance, the authority of the Phoenix Chapter Master Martins was quite high. According to the military regulations of the Alliance, he needed to obey the orders of the Chapter Master on the battlefield, unless the orders of the Chapter Master absolutely conflicted with the mission he was currently performing, he would need to ask for instructions.

Now, Captain Martins just asked his surveillance team to launch an attack directly to distract the enemy’s attention. This is not a situation of contradiction or conflict.

The only thing to worry about is the loss.

But this is a serious battle order. How can there be any reason not to go because of the worry of loss?

The troops quickly prepared for the battle and launched an attack.

They were already in a state of combat readiness at any time. They did not need to prepare anything extra. They could start fighting at the command.

And the result of the fight…

As expected, the Lumans had no will to fight at all. They were beaten and fled in panic. Under the torrent of steel, they fled in all directions like crushed sand and gravel.

This was a rout. The specific casualties were actually not large. A battalion of troops could not perform any operations such as encirclement and organized annihilation.

However, their assault also achieved real results.

The Lumans, whose morale collapsed after the defeat in the battle in the suburban town, were only barely reunited at this moment. After being rushed, they tended to collapse again.

Of course, there are always reliable ones among them.

That is the knights.

In the feudal legion, these feudal lords who serve as middle-level officers, the knights who have been carefully trained since childhood, have good fighting will.

Under the command and persistence of these knights, the assault of this synthetic battalion inevitably began to slow down and gradually tended to fall into a quagmire.

After all, their troops are still a little too few.

The Knight Titan also reacted and did not continue to flee, but used long-range firepower to attack the alliance’s army.

Casualties began to appear.

But at this time, the Phoenix appeared.

The iconic roar of the wind falcon arrived first. Their initial position was at least 100 kilometers away, but after the battle began, they arrived at the battlefield in just fifteen minutes.

There were no missiles. In the previous battle in the suburban town, they had used up all the airborne missiles, and there was no condition to replenish them for a while.

However, the airborne laser cannon and the real single cannon still played a very powerful effect.

After a round of licking the ground, the Luman army became more scattered.

And the Space Marines also dropped from the sky.

The three wind falcons performed a juggling act, lowering their altitude to about ten meters, and their flying speed also decreased slightly, while fiercely firing at the surroundings.

At the same time, the hatch opened and the Space Marines jumped down one by one.

However, it is said that no enemy should be underestimated.

Some of the knights driving the Sentinel Mechs had experienced the battle in the suburban town. After the iconic sound of the Wind Falcon appeared in the sky, some of them were brave and raised their guns and fired at the Wind Falcon.

Most of them missed.

The Wind Falcon flying at high speed was not so easy to be hit.

However, the three Wind Falcons carrying the Phoenix were in trouble.

The lower altitude and lower flight speed made them face greater risks.

One of them was hit on the wing by continuous machine guns when it was dropping the Space Marines.

The whole Wind Falcon rolled down and fell heavily to the ground, smashing the Sentinel Mech that blew up the Wind Falcon.

The morale of the surrounding Lumans was briefly high.

Shooting down a plane, especially this plane is loaded with formidable Space Marines.

However, the reason why this high was short-lived was that it was soon replaced by fear.

Not to mention the ten Space Marines who successfully landed, the slightly deformed hatch of the crashed Wind Falcon was suddenly kicked open from the inside.

A Space Marine rushed out and fired violently at the surroundings with a grenade launcher, clearing out the threatening targets.

Of course, the so-called “threat” was not that threatening. In fact, when the Lumans saw that the Space Marines could get out of the crashed aircraft unscathed, they only thought about running.

Later, several Space Marines came out and the five-man team gathered.

In the case of the Wind Falcon crash, none of the five Space Marines were seriously injured and all retained their combat effectiveness.

However, the crash still delayed some time. Their fighting brothers had already rushed towards the Knight Titan not far away.

There was no need for these five to rush.

They raised their weapons and began to clear the surrounding enemies, mainly targeting those Sentinel mechas with a strong will to resist.

During this process, their attention did not ignore the most important goal, and they saw with their own eyes that their chapter leader quickly destroyed the Knight Titan.

The most important means of defense for the Knight Titan, that is, the shield generator installed on it, is ineffective for the Space Marines – unless they are stupid enough to attack with only long-range weapons.

The problem of not being able to identify slow targets allows the Space Marines to walk through the energy shield and use cold weapons to attack directly. There is not much difference between having a shield generator and not having one.

Of course, the Knight Titan itself also has heavy armor. It’s a pity that Martins has a power sword in his hand. In front of this kind of weapon with a decomposition field, ordinary armor is like paper.

How did he dismantle the Knight Titan in the suburban town? He is now doing the same thing.

When this Knight Titan fell down, the Luman Legion, which was about to collapse, collapsed even more thoroughly. Not to mention the ordinary Luman soldiers, even the knights driving the sentinel mechas had lost the will to continue fighting.

This also made the evacuation of the Space Marines smoother. They easily evacuated with the combined battalion division that had escaped the quagmire.

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The road from the suburban town to the city of Pinsel was covered with the corpses of the Lumans.

Unfortunately, the main force that came to support was not unloaded fast enough. Many of them were still in the back, crushing the troops sent to intercept them in a torrent of steel, so that they could not take advantage of the enemy’s collapse to fight a beautiful encirclement and annihilation battle outside the city of Pinsel.

The Alliance’s troops could only use small-scale wolf pack tactics to continuously bite off pieces of meat from these collapsed troops.

Although a large number of the enemy’s living forces were killed and a considerable number of Lumans were forced to become deserters. But until the end, about 20,000 people were allowed to enter the city.

It looks like a large number, but in fact, more than 80% of the enemies have died or fled, and they are not organized and threatening.

Moreover, most of those who fled back to Pinser City were miscellaneous soldiers.

The main army of the Kingdom of Luman, even if it still existed in name, was actually finished.

This country, with a population of 40 million, supported an army of about 500,000 people, but most of them were controlled by feudal lords. The core of them was actually about 600 knights, and the top layer was six Ranger-class Knight Titans supported by the whole country.

In the political ecology of the Kingdom of Luman, there were two great marquises, each of whom had a Knight Titan and more than 200 knights swore allegiance to them. Although they were vassals of the kingdom, they were relatively independent.

The most core force that King Ness Luman could control was called the Royal Knights, which consisted of 200 royal knights and two Ranger-class Titans; plus the two earls who were directly loyal to the royal family and their vassals, that was another 200 knights and two Titans.

These constituted the overall military strength of the Kingdom of Luman.

From the very beginning, Ness Luman almost used all his war power. There were not many ordinary soldiers, only about 150,000, but he called for 400 knights and 4 Titans in advance in the name of “festival”.

This almost took out all the basic base of his men.

And then, all was gone.

The most painful thing, of course, was the loss of the four knight Titans.

This loss cannot be seen only from the cost of 700,000 tax coins. The maintenance cost of these big guys is more than 100,000 tax coins each time, and they have to be maintained every two or three years, otherwise their combat effectiveness will be damaged. Over the years, the Kingdom of Luman has spent a lot of money on them.

Now, all are gone.

And the 400 knights driving sentinel mechas, no more than 50 were withdrawn.

In terms of the political ecology of the Kingdom of Luman, those knights are the middle-level rulers of the country; Titans are the high-level rulers.

After catching them all in one net, not only the military force was lost, but also the political ecology of the kingdom was destroyed.

In this sense, even if the alliance suddenly showed kindness and stopped, withdrew its troops and left without paying any compensation, the Kingdom of Luman would most likely cease to exist.

The other six countries on the Black Arrow Star would not let go of such a weak Luman; the remaining two marquises, whose strength was not greatly damaged, might not have any ideas.

Moreover, it was obvious that Gu Hang would not be so kind. The

army was at the gates.

The reorganized alliance army surrounded the city of Pinsel.

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