Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 322

322. Chapter 321, A Larger Raid

“The thirty-first.”

Anato pulled out the bloody chainsword from the chest of the fallen Sentinel mech in front of him, and with his other hand, he held a bolter and fired non-stop, blowing into pieces one Stefano after another who tried to threaten him.

After a moment, the magazine was empty.

This was the last one he had, and there were still many enemies.

But he was not nervous at all.

The chainsword swung, and the other empty hand clenched into a fist, which was also like a heavy hammer.

People who were touched by the chainsword would have their entire bodies torn apart, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. Under the chainsword that was enough to tear steel plates, human flesh was exaggeratedly fragile; the same was true for the fists of Space Marines. Even without equipment such as gravity fists and power fists, the iron-cast gloves were enough to completely crush any part of the human body no matter where they hit with the power armor, just with the power of the Space Marines and the output of the power armor.

Anyone who blocked his way and dared to approach him would be ruthlessly eliminated. Anato’s entire body was soon stained with blood, but the blood splashed on the fiery red armor made it less obvious.

However, he did not try to kill all the enemies when he ran out of ammunition, but chose to break out from behind.

Although there were many enemies, not many dared to stop him.

The death of the ‘Knight’ had a great impact on the fighting spirit of the remaining soldiers.

This was also the purpose of Anato’s active attack. He wanted to stab the sentinel mecha to death with a sword and destroy the resistance of this small group of enemies.

After the success, he would retreat.

Although the bullets in his bolter had been emptied, it was still not difficult to retreat.

The remaining enemies were only ordinary soldiers.

Those with low morale had already collapsed and fled directly; the bravest ones dared only to shoot a few shots from a distance. Let’s not talk about whether the hit was hit or not. Even if it was hit, even if the weapons in the hands of these palace guards were regular LR series laser guns, they would still have no effect on power armor.

As for the flashlight, everyone knows it.

Of course, this is a joke. LR series laser guns are much more powerful than G series live ammunition firearms.

Anato took good care of the armor on his body. It would take a long time to repair it if it was damaged, and Phoenix was not rich enough to give them all a spare machine. He didn’t want to be exposed to these “flashlights” too much, because the surface armor coating would be melted, and severe metal fatigue would cause armor damage.

He dodged bullets, killed enemies around him, and quickly retreated to his own defense line.

Two combat brothers who were guarding the blown-up gate on the wreckage of the building nodded to him slightly.

He returned the greeting slightly and saw an old soldier commander behind him. He reported that the mission was completed and replenished some bullets from the ammunition box next to him.

After a quick look, there were not many bullets left in the ammunition box.

If the fight lasted a little longer, everyone would be out of bullets.

This was exactly the dilemma they were facing.

Before, after the team he led intercepted the Iron Curtain Queen Ispsi and her group, they did not evacuate with the prisoners, but returned to the core of the Kingdom of Stefano.

This is very obvious, putting oneself in danger.

They have not completely occupied the city yet. Here, there are still 200,000 troops of the Kingdom of Stefano guarding. Their queen has been captured and is still in the palace. The reaction of those Stefano people is predictable.

No matter what the purpose is, they will try every means and gather all their strength to take back their queen.

This is also the goal of the Space Marines – to use the queen as a powerful bait to attract the enemy here firmly.

After gathering two teams that have completed the destruction of the air defense system, Anato and others, a total of 20 Phoenixes, guarded the center of the kingdom and began to compete with countless enemies who came to rescue the queen.

Or it can be said to be a one-sided massacre.

The “brave Stefano people” mentioned by Ispsi are indeed not nonsense. Those so-called “guard knights”, that is, the kingdom nobles driving sentinel mechas, led a large number of guards, and rushed forward one by one to break through the important roads guarded by the Space Marines to save their queen.

But they achieved nothing.

In this short period of time, twenty Space Marines destroyed thirty sentinel mechas and killed more than two thousand guards.

The fragments of the mechas and the blood of the soldiers dyed all the areas that could be dyed red, and the broken limbs and steel debris were scattered everywhere.

The Space Marines were not injured.

Even the brave Stefano people, in such a desperate contrast, inevitably lost their morale.

They have taken all measures and are no longer afraid of sacrifice, but they still can’t see any hope of breaking through the defense line composed of 20 Phoenixes.

They are still working hard.

After enough sacrifices and lessons in the front, the guards knights and kingdom soldiers who came later no longer recklessly charged. They kept shouting, asking ordinary soldiers to carry weapons and cover those who were carrying high explosives, and rush to the Space Marines.

Betting on luck, plus betting that the Space Marines have limited bullets.

This is indeed the case.

Space Marines have a strong carrying capacity, and their tactical backpacks are designed with every inch of space left, so that they can carry as many supplies as possible.

However, the size of the explosive bombs is much larger than that of ordinary bullets, and the number that can be loaded is always limited.

Each Phoenix carries at least 600 rounds of explosive bombs, but after the previous battles and the long battle here, they are almost exhausted.

They have begun to consciously save ammunition in battle, but even Space Marines cannot be forced to kill an enemy with every shot. Necessary fire suppression, fire reconnaissance, and misses during long-range shooting are all normal situations.

Not to mention, even if they can kill an enemy with every bullet, the number of enemies is still more than their bullets.

Faced with the new enemy’s retreating style of play, Anato volunteered to kill the enemy alone when the enemy’s offensive ended. He bypassed the field of vision, and then after the enemy discovered him, he used the chainsaw sword to destroy the sentinel mecha hiding behind the command.

After completing the goal, he did achieve his goal.

No matter how brave the Stefano people were, they could not hide the nature of this feudal army. After the absence of the noble officers, the rest of the ordinary soldiers were obviously at a loss and shrank back.

At this moment, the Phoenix’s defense line could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Until the next group of enemies reorganizes, they should not need to be so tense, and the ammunition consumption problem can be slightly alleviated.

As for the future, there will always be a time when the bullets will run out.

But so what?

Anato paid attention to the panel built into the tactical helmet.

There were only a dozen minutes left before the scheduled time.

…

At this moment, above the Stefano Capital Fortress, whistling sounds came one after another.

Hundreds of wind falcon fighters came to the sky above the city.

Before that, the wind falcons did not dare to come.

Conventional anti-aircraft firepower is fine, and the efficiency is just so-so. If the flight altitude is raised a little and the speed is maintained, there will be no problem in bombing. Anyway, these local forces of Black Arrow Star are lame in air force construction. Although they also have wind falcons, there are only a dozen in a kingdom, and they dare not take off to fight.

However, they spent a lot of money to build a set of orbital defense and control systems. The Defender live-fire air defense system, equipped with many precise air defense missiles, can even guarantee a certain interception efficiency for starship bombing on the ground, not to mention that the air force dares to fly over the city’s airspace.

But now, the raid of the Space Marines has destroyed the defense and control system of this city.

The wind falcons can come here in a swagger.

They circled arrogantly at the top of the Palace Fortress. Those who were going to unload soldiers and ammunition and supplies went down first, and the rest fired their airborne missiles at any target that might pose a threat to the airborne landing, and even lowered their flight altitude to dive and shoot.

After the wind falcons that had completed the unloading flew up, they took over their tasks, and the rest continued to unload personnel and supplies.

After four or five rounds of rotation, everything was unloaded.

The whole process was smooth.

The Space Marines worked very reliably. Not to mention the anti-aircraft fire attack on them, the surrounding threatening areas had long been cleared, and even a few ordinary soldiers were seen shooting into the sky with rifles.

After the wind falcons used up their missiles and machine gun shells, they left with satisfaction.

What was left behind were thousands of special warfare elites of the 10th Brigade wearing exoskeletons, and their ammunition and supplies that were enough for them to fight a whole day of high-intensity combat.

After the wind falcons returned, they would load another batch of soldiers and supplies and come again. Including the installation time and the journey, the next time they arrive will not exceed eight hours.

On the ground, the three special operations battalion commanders of the 10th Brigade, who had just landed, and three major battalion commanders, gathered in front of Martins.

Wearing exoskeletons, they saluted the Alliance Army in awe to the tall and majestic commander in Terminator power armor in front of them.

After Martins returned the salute, he began to assign tasks to them without any nonsense.

Soon, each unit took people and went everywhere.

Martins stared at the whole city.

It was hurried and chaotic, and the flames of war were raging.

He was already very familiar with this scene. He had been here for hundreds of years.

Space Marines do always deal with all kinds of monsters and demons. Those powerful enemies are the most memorable, but if you dig into your memory again, those ordinary counterinsurgency missions, dealing with enemies who can be called chickens, are actually the most frequent battles.

Sometimes he doesn’t understand. Obviously, his regiment, whether at its peak or during the later Atonement Crusade, had been divided into companies of dozens of people, constantly running in the starry sea, responding to requests for support from planetary governors and the Imperial military at the ends of the earth. Most of the battles were to help various planets quell rebellions.

They really didn’t have much time to rest, but the planetary governors always said that requesting Imperial reinforcements, especially requesting support from Space Marines, was an unattainable thing. When the opportunity was cold, the Space Marines didn’t come.

The two were very contradictory and often confused Martins.

He always felt that as the Emperor’s angel of death and the most powerful warrior of the Empire, their enemies should be those aliens, demons, and those great enemies of mankind. But most of the time, their opponents were just humans, just constantly quelling rebellions, quelling rebellions, and quelling rebellions.

Of course, he knew that it was because the territory of the Empire was too large, and even if the regiment ran around desperately, it could only quell one place at a time.

But what he really didn’t understand was why there were rebellions everywhere? Even, why did the rebellion that they had just put down rise again in just a few years?

He had a long life, but his life was always full of battles, so it was difficult for him to have enough time to think about this problem.

But now, it seemed that there was another person who came to think about this problem for him.

On the Angry Owl Star, he not only witnessed, but also participated in the process of Governor Gu Hang unifying the world. He was originally calm about this, because he had helped too many worlds to unify and suppress rebellions.

But he rarely saw that when the so-called unification really came, every person and every group of people who were included in the rule of Governor Gu lived a much better life than in the past; those who did evil were really punished.

He knew what the state of the Angry Owl Star was when Gu Hang first came there, so he felt that everything he did seemed to be really valuable.

At least, he could not see any signs of a large-scale rebellion on the Angry Owl Star.

And this situation was also confirmed to a certain extent on the Black Arrow Star. The Kingdom of Luman also quickly calmed down after being conquered.

Although, the speed of its development was not particularly exaggerated because it was not native and the political system had not been completely changed. However, there were no people who starved to death or froze to death.

Martins knew that he did not have particularly sharp political thinking, but with his shallow and simple understanding, he felt that those Luman people would not rebel.

The governor to whom he had sworn allegiance had more complete thoughts and definite methods on the issues of “why people rebel” and “how to eradicate rebellion” than himself, a warrior who only knew how to fight.

Let’s see.

He had to admit that after swearing allegiance to Gu Hang, although the war group flourished and showed signs of recovery, he had some thoughts in his heart, “I used to be loyal to the grand goals of the Emperor, the Empire, and humanity, but now I have become loyal to one person, which is really shameful.”

Sometimes, he even asked himself, for the continuation of the war group, was it worth it to lose the honor of the war group?

And now, his sense of shame that he should not have is gradually diminishing with what he has seen and heard.

“Then let me wait and see.”

He whispered, raised the gun in his hand, and walked towards the battlefield in front of him.

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