Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 334

334. Chapter 333, Titans are all finished

. The Phoenix Regiment has been part of this battle from the beginning.

Such a reliable force, of course, Perbov could not ignore it.

On the contrary, it was his trump card.

He could realize that the Alliance Army had a complete crushing advantage over the enemy in all aspects, except for the Knight Titan.

Let these Knight Titans fight, and one Knight Titan can easily destroy a hundred Lion tanks.

On the contrary, the conventional forces of the Alliance are very difficult to threaten these terrible war machines. If they really want to fight head-on, they can only send enough armored troops as “sandbags” to let others fight and act as meat shields, and then use the tank’s armor-piercing guns and the heavy artillery fired from the rear to wear down the energy shield on the Knight Titan until it is broken and destroyed.

In this process, the losses are simply immeasurable.

From the beginning, Perbov did not want the war to turn into that.

It was too passive.

If you have the card of Space Marines in your hand, you would be a fool not to use it.

But after discussing with Captain Martins, he did not immediately put the Phoenixes in the open.

On the one hand, good steel should be used on the blade, and they don’t need to go out in some ordinary battles; on the other hand, they have to hide their tricks to prevent the enemy from noticing them from the beginning and being on guard.

Of course, those Knight Titans are on guard.

When the figure of the Space Marines appears among the opponents, who can ignore it?

However, maintaining attention requires “cost”. When the battle is so fierce that they have no time to take care of other things, how can they maintain attention on the Space Marines who have never appeared on the battlefield?

So, the first victim appeared.

The Phoenixes ghostly rushed out from the cover of a Lion tank. With a distance of less than 100 meters from the target, they can reach it in a few seconds with a full sprint.

Some people are responsible for fire suppression and destroying the sentinel mechas blocking the way, and some people quickly break through. After dodging the Knight Titan’s subconscious kick, he jumped high, lay on the Titan’s body, attached the hot melt, and quickly left.

The power of the hot melt bomb was still enough. More importantly, the hot melt placed close to the body was not affected by the energy shield at all, and it was no problem to destroy a Knight Titan.

After the first one, the second one followed.

The two Knight Titans who dared to break through the formation, the final result was that they asked for a hammer and got a hammer. The time of being destroyed was only eight minutes.

The remaining four Titans were really a little panicked.

In front of them was a surging group of tanks, and behind them were a large number of self-propelled artillery. Under the combined firepower, the remaining four Titans on their side were not in any danger for a while, but the accompanying troops under their feet gradually began to feel that they could not hold on.

If the strength of both sides was at the same level, it would be fine; however, during the previous evacuation, some troops had already lost track of where they were evacuating; some troops were simply caught up in the extremely urgent pursuit of the Alliance Army, and were either annihilated or dispersed, or were still engaged in fierce exchanges of fire.

At this moment, there were not many conventional troops around them, and they were even more shaky under the fierce attack.

When the conventional troops collapsed, their four Titans would be lambs to be slaughtered.

Without the assistance and protection of conventional troops, the tall Titans could easily be drilled into the feet of people without being noticed, passing through the protection of the shield, and then being destroyed.

This was not easy in the first place, after all, the Knight Titans were not without any close-range self-protection ability. For conventional means, the punches and kicks of the Knight Titans and their melee weapons were all fatal threats.

However, didn’t the figure of the Space Marines appear in front of them?

They saw with their own eyes how the two Knight Titans were finished, so how could they not know how powerful they were?

The risk was too high, so they thought they shouldn’t continue fighting and thought about retreating.

Before retreating, they aimed at the red figure of the Phoenix and fired several heavy artillery rounds at it.

It’s true that the firepower of the Knight Titan was a threat even to the Space Marines.

In their field of vision, three Phoenixes fell to the ground after being bombarded by the heavy artillery on the Titan.

They didn’t have time to confirm the casualties of the target, but just retreated while bombarding the target.

The Knight Titan wanted to retreat, and there was indeed nothing that could stop it for a while. However, the Alliance army followed closely behind and pursued it.

What’s worse is that this will trigger a series of chain reactions.

The regular troops of the Kingdom Army began to waver more seriously.

Before, there were six Titans as the core of the entire front. Even in the face of the impact of the steel torrent, they watched the tanks in front of them being destroyed one by one, and they still had the courage to fight. But now, even two Knight Titans were broken, and the remaining four were about to run away. What could they do?

The conventional troops collapsed.

And the four Titans had no way to deal with this.

They had tried their best and called on the team to maintain resistance, but it was still of little use.

Only a very small number of people stayed by their side and accompanied them in retreating.

However, the increasingly turbulent heavy artillery and increasingly fierce attacks caused the number of these troops to decrease rapidly.

When the number of these troops was reduced to a certain extent, the final general attack began.

They saw that not far away from them, the space was distorted, and dozens of red-armored warriors who were only a little above their knees appeared out of thin air.

The small number of conventional troops accompanying them could no longer stop these Space Marines who suddenly used psychic teleportation to approach.

The Titans almost immediately launched firepower, and there were also brave ones who wielded huge gravity fists or giant chainsaw swords to attack those Space Marines.

However, this could not change their final fate.

Among the four Titans, three were damaged in the battle, and the remaining one surrendered.

The Alliance Army, with the power of victory, swept towards the main force of the Kingdom Army with the defeated army!

On the contrary, the Kingdom Army on the other side was like being poured with a bucket of cold water in the midst of enthusiasm!

A few days ago, they were still unstoppable; although they learned that their retreat was cut off, they were not panicked at all.

However, not long after the whole thing happened, they suddenly heard the result that all six Knight Titans were killed in a battle!

The whole army was shocked!

They couldn’t even control the news, because the sound of the coalition’s artillery fire was getting closer and closer, and everyone could hear it; standing on a slightly higher hill, they could see the armored group of the coalition in the distance, and the yellow smoke that covered the earth when they marched in the wilderness was raised one after another, and the red flags could be seen faintly in the wind.

In front of the coalition army, the Kingdom Army was like a dog that had lost its home, being chased and beaten.

What was even more frightening was that they would soon become one of the dogs that had lost their home.

The entire encirclement was only 60 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers deep. Today, they won a big victory, but they couldn’t reach it tomorrow, and at the latest the day after tomorrow, the gun barrel would be stuck in their throat. In this situation, no one could say anything stubborn.

What should we do?

This question was lingering over the entire Kingdom Army.

The commander-in-chief of the Kingdom Army had made a decision, which was also the only way to go: to gather all forces and fight to the death with the coalition army.

What else could they do?

How proud they were in the previous eight days, how anxious they were now.

The attack in front was too smooth. In this area, there was no time to build positions, and the various supplies in stock were not sufficient. They didn’t have the conditions to hold on and wait for help.

What’s more, even if they could hold on, who would come to serve as reinforcements?

All twelve Knight Titans are already here!

Only by fighting to the death and winning can they break out of the encirclement.

The commander-in-chief of the Kingdom Alliance has been trying to cheer up the generals of the entire army, especially the drivers of the six Knight Titans. He described the future. As long as this war is won, the backbone of the alliance army will be broken. They can’t organize an armored cluster with thousands of tanks in a short time, and after such an extremely tragic defeat, it will greatly shake the alliance’s rule over the entire Black Arrow Star. In the rear, those countries that have been occupied by the alliance will also be encouraged and resolutely resist…

In short, the future is bright! As long as they win this ultimate battle! They are all heroes of the whole world!

However, just listen.

These words, at most, only helped to make the morale look less bad on the surface.

Privately, what exactly did those generals and the noble drivers of the Knight Titans think? To be honest, the old marshal, who was born in the royal family of the Kingdom of Panbos, was not sure.

Even, not to mention others, even he himself, while struggling, muttered a few words to a younger generation among the Titan drivers who was also born in the royal family.

According to him, when fighting, of course you have to be brave; but if, just in case, you really encounter an overwhelming situation, then don’t be stupid, and choosing to surrender is not completely unacceptable.

As long as the people are still there, surrendering with the mecha, there may be a chance to leave some hope for the royal bloodline as much as possible.

This is already making the worst plan.

Even the top commanders and the core Knight Titans of the entire army have this mentality. How can the decisive battle be won?

On the third day of the formation of the alliance’s encirclement, the climax of the second phase of the battle arrived.

The result of this battle was that one of the six Knight Titans escaped – they could not be stopped – three were destroyed, and two surrendered.

The Kingdom Army undoubtedly suffered a great defeat.

Moreover, it was a much greater defeat than the previous two active attacks of the Alliance.

Earlier, Perbov carefully selected and arranged tactics, launched a beautiful pincer attack, and repeated the same trick again, making full use of the armor and firepower advantages of the Alliance Army. In total, he only ate 500,000 Kingdom troops, most of which were miscellaneous soldiers, and at most there were a certain number of Sentinel Mechas in them. For the Kingdom Army, it was only painful, but not a serious injury.

In the past half month, the result of this decisive battle was far more than just “pain”.

This was an extinction loss.

Eleven Knight Titans, more than 900 Sentinel Mechas, and 500,000 troops were either scattered, destroyed, or captured…

The Kingdom Army gathered together to carry out this all-out attack, and the troops were completely annihilated!

This was a catastrophe for the political situation of the King’s Council in the rear.

Did they expect failure?

Of course they did.

In a war, everyone thinks about losing and how to make up for it.

However, none of the ways they thought of losing before were as tragic as this one.

It was nothing more than attacking the Alliance’s defense line and failing in vain;

the worst case was that they were beaten to pieces by the Alliance’s armored forces and the counterattack of the Space Marines.

They might lose some Knight Titans and suffer serious injuries.

But now? It’s far from a serious injury, it’s already over.

In the past four months of fighting, they lost a full million troops and almost all Knight Titans.

What’s more serious is that they lost the confidence to defeat the Alliance.

They knew that this war would be difficult to fight.

However, their mentality has changed now.

Now most of them think that this war cannot be won.

…

Eureka Pampos, squatting in the prisoner-of-war camp, still clearly remembers the situation of the battle a few days ago.

He is the youngest son of the current King of Panpos, a knight known as a ‘genius’, the youngest knight Titan driver in the kingdom in the past hundred years, and the sixth in the succession sequence set by King Panpos.

But now, he can only squat here, like everyone else – including the most ordinary low-level soldiers who he would never look at before, chewing the hard-to-swallow synthetic starch block with cold water, but he has to swallow it firmly, otherwise he will really starve to death.

He felt that this thing had become a lump in his throat.

It’s not that he has never suffered, and he is not the kind of dandy prince. Since he was a child, he knew that he could not inherit the throne under normal circumstances, so he was determined to join the army and was recognized by his father. He is hardworking, has been working hard in the army, has received the most rigorous training, and finally has the performance he has today.

But in his life experience, he really has never felt what hunger is.

Since he was a child, he has always enjoyed a rich supply of nutrition for training. No matter how hard or tiring the training is, a hearty meal is always necessary afterwards.

But he felt it in the Alliance’s prisoner-of-war camp.

It was not that the Alliance was intentionally abusing the prisoners, but that the Alliance had received too many prisoners at once, and there was a problem with the food supply.

In this regard, the Alliance’s approach was even a little unexpected for him.

The so-called “political commissars” in the Alliance actually came to the prisoner-of-war camp to do ideological work with the prisoners, saying that the current difficulties were only temporary and the problem would be solved soon, so that everyone should not panic. By the way, they would also shoot several prisoner-of-war camp management officers who distributed food unfairly and withheld prisoners’ rations – usually, these were the vassal army officers from the Kingdom of Luman or the Kingdom of Stefano.

These measures made the Alliance’s political commissars popular among the prisoners.

The prisoners listened to the political commissars talk about how people live on the distant Angry Owl Star, the Alliance’s policies, and some changes that the soldiers had heard about in the Kingdom of Luman in the past year…

Prince Eureka found that those originally restless and panicked prisoners, under the condition of food shortage, actually became magically stable!

In the past, this was something he would never have dared to believe. But now, after it was actually happening before his eyes, he seemed to be thinking about something.

After being defeated and captured, he kept wondering why the Kingdom Army seemed so strong, but still lost in the end.

Up to now, he has not figured out the reason, but at least he has figured out part of it.

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