Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 333

333. Chapter 332, the decisive battle

To be honest, encirclement does not mean victory.

When the news of the cut-off of the rear route reached the Kingdom Army deep in the enemy camp, they did not panic.

Although the logistics supply could not be transported for a while, there were more than 500,000 people in this encirclement of 60 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers deep. If the supply was cut off for a little longer, it would easily lead to a comprehensive and uncontrollable collapse.

But they did not think this would happen.

The cluster of twelve Knight Titans is still here. They are going around the rear to encircle us?

It is not certain who will encircle whom!

They did not continue to maintain the forward offensive posture, but divided a part of their forces and went behind them.

Six Knight Titans and more than 500 Sentinel Mechas formed the battle core, ready to recapture the lost rear positions. If conditions permit, it would be best to fight one or two more effective encirclement and annihilation battles.

However, at this time, their nightmare came.

The Alliance’s army seemed to know their plan completely and was ready to hold on.

Moreover, this time the alliance was determined not to retreat at all.

They did not even take the approach of relying on trenches, fortresses and the like to hold on and consume the Kingdom Army in a positional war.

The tank troops took the initiative to attack, and the Falcon fighter planes in the sky risked lowering their altitude and began to provide fire support to the ground. Especially when some enemy artillery positions were detected in the rear, they would often just fire a few missiles at them. If they were not completely destroyed, they would rather risk being hit by rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns, and use laser guns to shoot at the remaining mountain guns in the enemy’s artillery positions.

On the front battlefield, the total force of the alliance participating in the decisive battle on the battlefield was ten armored brigades.

The numbers were the 1st Xifeng Brigade, the 13th Armored Brigade, the 35-38 Armored Brigade, and the 59-62 Armored Brigade.

These ten brigades had a total force of only more than 80,000 people, but they brought together nearly 900 Lion tanks and more than 2,000 combat armored vehicles of various types!

There is no doubt that Perbov went all out and regarded this battle as the most important decisive battle on the Black Arrow Star. A

total of 600,000 people from both sides fought fiercely on a front line about 60 kilometers wide, with brigades and regiments as the structure!

For the Kingdom Army, the decisive battle came a little unexpectedly, beyond their initial psychological expectations.

Originally, at the beginning of the full-scale offensive, they were mentally prepared for a big battle. However, after several days of overwhelming victories, they relaxed. Some idiots thought that the Alliance Army was nothing more than that, and some other not-so-stupid people tended to think that the Alliance was not ready for a decisive battle with them and chose to avoid the edge. But they

did not expect that the Alliance was not unprepared for a decisive battle, but decided to put the decisive battle at the time when the encirclement was formed and the two sides exchanged offense and defense.

The current situation is also quite clear.

Otherwise, they would directly assemble the Alliance and put it behind their buttocks, and smash all the ten armored brigades that were poking their assholes in one breath.

Otherwise, they would be completely wiped out if they lost all their supplies in the encirclement.

At this critical moment, they were cowardly.

The main reason was that they only sent six Knight Titans to the rear to deal with the encirclement at the first time.

According to the commander of the Kingdom Army, it was not that they did not dare to fight a decisive battle, but that the forces they gathered before the decisive battle were not enough.

First, they should withdraw these six Titans and the main force, and wait until all the twelve Knight Titans were gathered, and then turn back to fight this decisive battle, so that they would have a better chance of success.

From some perspectives, the commander-in-chief of the Kingdom Army was not wrong in his thinking. However, he made a mistake in one point, which was to seriously underestimate the determination of the armored forces of the alliance in this battle.

In such a decisive battle, courage and morale are extremely important.

If anyone is a little cowardly, then a little failure may lead to the collapse of the whole situation.

And this happened on the front battlefield.

After receiving the news of retreating and joining the other six Titans, the six Knight Titans on the front line naturally did not choose to continue to attack forward and retreat.

But then, the armored forces of the Alliance had already advanced to a very deep position.

The ordinary infantry who stayed behind to guard the rear could not withstand such a great offensive pressure. In the rear, under the artillery fire of self-propelled artillery, their defense was already shaky; when the armored vehicles really began to attack their front, they almost did not form any effective resistance and collapsed completely.

Then, some core troops of the Kingdom Army were attacked.

Dozens of Sentinel Mechas were bitten by the Alliance’s Walker Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Under the strong attack of hundreds of machine guns, those Sentinel Mechas and the surrounding Kingdom Army infantry had to turn around to fight.

In the hasty battle, there was a relatively large gap in the number of both sides, and they were suppressed very badly.

What’s more, if the battle lasted a little longer, there would often be batches of dense 155 howitzers bombarding the rear of the Alliance Army.

The artillery battalions under the Alliance’s armored brigades and the artillery support companies in each synthetic battalion have fully upgraded the original towed artillery to self-propelled artillery. The process of transferring, launching artillery positions, and then transferring has become much faster than in the past, and can adapt to armored forces more smoothly, providing fire support when the enemy makes a rapid breakthrough attack. At present

, these firepowers have played a big role.

Under the bombardment of heavy artillery, the sentinel mechas that lacked cover during the retreat were destroyed very quickly.

Especially when the distance of the exchange of fire is close to a certain extent, the infantry of the Alliance Army can also pose a great threat to them.

I won’t say much about the mortars of the company and platoon. The accuracy of this thing is not enough. Facing the sentinel mechas that are much more flexible than tanks, it is not easy to hit them. They can only be used to fight the cannon fodder infantry of the Kingdom Army.

But that’s enough.

The more terrifying thing in the hands of the infantry is the heavy grenade gun.

A company only has one, and if it is hit by a few or a dozen rounds, it is not a big problem; but if it is hit by a series of rounds, even a tank may not be able to withstand it, not to mention that the armor thickness of the Sentinel Mech is much less than that of heavy armored vehicles such as tanks.

The machine guns and bolter guns on the infantry fighting vehicles, the heavy bolter guns of the infantry company, the long-range 155 heavy artillery… Dozens of Sentinel Mechs and thousands of Royal Army soldiers could not withstand such fierce firepower for long and soon collapsed completely.

There were not many surrenders or escapes, and most of them were wiped out on the spot.

After this happened several times in a row, the six Titans that were retreating also felt something was wrong.

The blood loss was too severe. In less than half a day, they lost more than 30,000 troops.

If these ordinary infantry were not worth their attention, after all, they were just some low-value cannon fodder. Then the loss of hundreds of sentinel mechas could not be ignored.

Sentinel mechas are also very expensive and important combat machines!

What’s more terrifying is that they are clearly just conducting a regular tactical retreat, retracting their fists so that they can hit harder when they punch next time.

But looking at the current situation, their tactical retreat is tending to develop into a complete collapse.

Their six Knight Titans gathered together to form this core area, which is not a big problem, but the other parts are at risk of being completely destroyed by the Alliance’s military front.

They can’t help but start to get tangled up.

Although their six Titans are the most important, if they lose all other troops, it will not be good news in the next decisive battle. After all, if there are only Titans, without the protection of infantry and Sentinel mechas, it is not easy for Knight Titans to exert their full strength, and it is easy to be caught in a weak point and destroyed.

They discussed whether they need to go back to support and gather the troops more.

However, when they were still thinking about the so-called “next decisive battle”, for the Alliance’s army, the decisive battle had already begun and had reached the climax of this stage!

While they were still hesitating, they were caught up.

At first, the 61st Armored Brigade, which belonged to the Alliance Central Army Group, appeared in their field of vision.

The reason why they could recognize it was that the brigade, as well as the battalions and companies under it, embroidered their unit numbers on the red battle flags, which were flying high on the armored vehicles, and they could be seen at a glance.

More than 60 Lion tanks gathered together, each with a distance of about 20 to 30 meters. The tank guns were raised high, and while moving, they would suddenly retreat from time to time, or blast the Kingdom infantry with high-explosive shells, or smash a Sentinel mecha with armor-piercing shells.

More than 150 infantry fighting vehicles accompanied and interspersed around, providing additional fire support.

The brave and elite infantry not only did not shrink back, but instead marched between the tanks and even in front of the armored forces. They seemed to have no fear of death at all. With the support of the firepower of the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the rear and the firepower of the self-propelled artillery in the back, they launched a coordinated attack.

Often after the heavy firepower was over, before the Kingdom Army could recover from the deafening sound of the artillery, the infantry of the Alliance had already appeared in front of them, only a few dozen meters away, and the cold muzzles were almost stuffed in their mouths.

Under this situation, the six Knight Titans finally reached an agreement.

They could not retreat anymore, they had to turn around and fight.

In fact, they could not retreat anymore.

At this distance, there were actually self-propelled artillery of the Alliance, which fired howitzers at them, but they were blocked by the energy shield.

The six Knight Titans who were determined to fight were actually dragged into a decisive battle without much psychological preparation.

But despite the fact that this was the case, they actually did not have enough awareness at this time.

After all, there was only one brigade in front of them.

At the beginning, they had the mentality that after destroying this brigade or temporarily repelling it, they could continue to retreat and continue to gather the other six Knight Titans in the rear according to the commander-in-chief’s opinion.

As a result, their counterattack seemed quite weak.

They first fired a series of missiles.

These missiles did destroy a lot of self-propelled artillery behind the 61st Brigade, greatly reducing the density of the alliance’s firepower in a short period of time. Then, they used the automatic loading howitzers on their arms to bombard the alliance’s tanks.

The precise artillery fire can really blow up a Lion tank with one shot. Moreover, the automatic loading and multi-barrel muzzle make their firing rate quite fast.

After these Titans launched a counterattack, the 61st Armored Brigade began to suffer tragic casualties.

However, it must be said that the time when these Titans started to launch a counterattack was still a little too late.

The surrounding Kingdom Army troops have begun to disintegrate.

In terms of morale, the final blow was dealt to them by the numbers of two troops, which appeared on the front battlefield on the left and right at the same time.

They were the 1st Wind-Quieting Brigade and the 13th Armored Brigade.

These two brigade-level units had a total of 300 Lion tanks.

When they came in groups, the tracks rolled up the yellow sand all over the sky, bringing the atmosphere of the battlefield to a climax.

The voices of the Knight Titans resounded throughout the army. They tried their best to fire shells, destroy tanks, and try to stabilize the morale of the entire army.

However, the effect was not particularly ideal.

In the end, tanks, armored vehicles, and even infantry units began to rush to a place not far from them, and opened fire at a distance of about a kilometer to bombard them.

The energy shields on the six Titans kept flashing. The Alliance, suffering huge casualties, forced these Titans into a situation where they had to fight with all their strength.

A distance of a kilometer was already very close for the Titans.

They were not cowards. After a brief discussion of tactics, two of them began to move forward quickly.

In addition to long-range firepower, the Titans are equipped with gravity fists and super-giant chainsaw swords, which are even more terrifying weapons.

When they rushed into the tank cluster, a sword, a kick, and a punch would destroy a tank.

The energy shield does have zero protective effect at close range, but they are accompanied by the sentinel mechas, the most elite soldiers of the Kingdom Army, and the firepower cover of another four Titans in the rear. Under normal circumstances, the alliance’s army cannot take the initiative to enter the energy shield.

They began to kill all around.

Then, suddenly, the most violent explosion broke out on the battlefield.

The core of the explosion occurred on a Knight Titan that was fighting at close range.

An elite team wearing red power armor withdrew from the center of the explosion.

That was naturally the Phoenixes.

With the cover of conventional troops, after they approached the Knight Titan, they quickly eliminated the surrounding protective sentinel mechas, installed hot melt bombs, and finally retreated unscathed!

(End of this chapter)