Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 357

357. Chapter 356, I promise you

the 35th Brigade did not suffer no losses during the advance.

Although the orbital strike created a passage for them, it did not last too long, and the firepower invested was not enough. The main reason is that the anti-orbital guns in Fino City have also increased their investment. They did not care about the ground forces in the attack, and put more firepower on fighting against interstellar battleships.

This caused a lot of trouble for the Pegasus Fleet. The void shields and energy shields of several ships had been blown up, and they had to evacuate urgently. There were even two frigates, because the shields were broken too suddenly, resulting in several shots before they remembered to leave the anti-orbital gun’s attack range. Although the ship did not explode, the armor was penetrated, causing considerable damage to the hull, which can be regarded as a serious blow.

This is what the noble navy master is not happy about.

When Gu Hang made the request, the Tianma Fleet was unwilling to do so. Although Gu Hang was the commander of the theater, the temper of the navy was different from that of the “stubborn” army. After hearing the “unreasonable” mission, they would curse, protest, and even complain to the higher level.

It was okay to fight a mighty naval decisive battle; it was stupid to use the precious fleet to bombard the surface fortress equipped with anti-orbital guns – just like the navy in the 2K era bombarding the coastal defense guns.

However, for the greater goal, they were finally forced to do this job.

Now, there was a loss. The two ships would probably take two or three years to repair in the shipyard, and the total cost would probably be 200 million.

This loss made the commander of the Tianma Fleet even more unhappy.

He communicated with the ground and Governor Gu, and reported that if the battle continued like this, the losses would increase.

But Governor Gu asked them to act according to the plan.

After expressing his strong dissatisfaction, the rear admiral could only angrily say that at most he would fight according to the plan and would never take on more responsibility; if the fleet suffered any more losses, he would make his own decision on whether to retreat. Even if the military department had to review it in the end, then let it be reviewed.

Gu Hang ignored him.

Things like attitude, let’s put it aside for now, the most important thing is to get the job done.

And the deputy commander who stayed behind in the Pegasus Fleet, after all, didn’t dare to really give up the fight.

Although he was unwilling to take on more responsibility, he at least followed the normal battle plan and continued to fire at the void shield of Fino City to suppress it.

As for the enemies outside the city?

The battle plan only called for one round of orbital bombardment, so why a second round?

Moreover, the armored clusters of the ground forces had already begun to advance along the places they had bombarded, so what was there to bombard?

As for the cover strikes against the enemies around the route… Anyway, the battle plan requires two destroyers and six frigates to perform this task, but because the number of ships that have been out of the battle sequence due to shield shattering has exceeded this number, it is normal that they are unable to assist. It is not the navy’s problem.

In the case of a slightly weak naval support, the attack of the ground armored forces will naturally not be so smooth forever.

If there is only one round of orbital bombing, it is impossible to bomb every inch of land; even if it is really bombed, there are people who are on the edge of the explosion, in fortifications, or simply lucky enough to survive.

After the bombing, the plague demon army around the bombing line that was not taken care of by the orbital firepower also hurried to support.

All of these have caused considerable obstacles to the path of the human armored forces.

But despite these various factors, the armored group’s advance is still swift. Those troops who hurriedly blocked it rarely received support from the evil energy cannons in the city of Fino in the rear, and they were relatively scattered and rushed.

Under the torrent of steel, these monsters blocking the road were ruthlessly crushed.

After paying a certain price, the 35th Brigade became the first army to break into the void shield of Fino City.

When their military boots, wheels, and tracks stepped into a piece of squirming flesh and blood, the most difficult part of the battle came.

Their troops carried enough special weapons.

Incendiary bombs, flamethrowers… As the troops advanced, they burned the ground as they walked, incinerating and burning away the activated flesh and blood, revealing the gray-black cement surface below, and in some places, there were exposed steel bars.

They used artillery, tank guns, machine guns, and even threw bombs into the surrounding flesh and blood buildings, blasting them to pieces and collapsing them. On the one hand, they cleared out the enemy forces that might exist in those flesh and blood buildings, and on the other hand, destroying those flesh and blood itself was also the purpose.

After the 35th Brigade entered Fino City on a large scale, the speed of the activated city’s advance slowed down greatly.

However, at this moment, a large number of plague demons emerged from all directions, besieging the human army with their own flesh and blood and sacrifice, vowing to slow down their advance; many giant flies appeared and hovered above the battlefield, and many began to dive and self-destruct in the face of the attack of anti-aircraft vehicles and infantry anti-aircraft firepower.

Even a corrupt dragon flew to the battlefield. A large breath sprayed at a lion tank for several seconds. During these few seconds, the armor grew granulations and paralyzed into a half-flesh and half-iron thing. Naturally, it could not be driven, and even the soldiers inside died.

The casualties suffered by the 35th Brigade began to grow rapidly.

However, it did not stop their pace.

…

“Brigade Commander! The front line of the 3rd Company of the 3rd Battalion on the side has been breached, and the brothers of the artillery battalion were ambushed by a group of monsters!”

“The tank battalion sent news that they have lost 60% of their combat vehicles!”

“The air defense battalion was attacked by that dragon again, and our air defense interception capability has dropped by 70%. The vehicle that the political commissar who was supervising the battle in the air defense battalion was riding in was destroyed and can no longer be contacted.”

“The 4th Battalion has completely lost contact and cannot contact any company. It is possible that they encountered a useless machine, but the possibility of annihilation cannot be ruled out.”

Colonel Tikov, the commander of the 35th Brigade, heard all bad news at this moment.

From a conventional perspective, the entire brigade has reached the end of its rope.

But there was no hesitation in his eyes.

He picked up the communicator, switched to the general channel, and then said: “Comrades of the 35th Brigade, I am your brigade commander Dikov. Now, it’s time to prove our loyalty!”

“I order all troops to advance forward at all costs! The brigade command moves forward at full speed, from the brigade headquarters to the guard battalion, to fully support the front-line battle!”

“We must do our utmost, at all costs, to ensure that the line of defense we tear open is large enough!”

“For the Empire! For humanity! For the Alliance!”

“Forward, forward, forward!”

The chief of staff next to him stared at Tikov with wide eyes. After Tikov put down the communicator, he said bitterly: “Our 35th Brigade will be finished. We will all die here.”

Tikov smiled instead: “Then let us die gloriously and magnificently!”

“Drive!” These two words were said to the driver.

The command vehicle stepped on the accelerator and began to press forward with the entire brigade headquarters and the guard team. According to the order of the brigade commander, the two guard companies drove infantry fighting vehicles and joined the front-line battle; the infantry of the guard company on foot filled the excessive infantry losses of the front-line troops.

The entire 35th Brigade lost personnel quickly, and even with the objective decline in combat effectiveness, it had to maintain the offensive, and the rate of loss was faster than at the beginning.

However, no matter what, they were indeed still fighting forward.

…

Deep in the creeping hive city ‘Fino City’, in a huge flesh and blood nest, Tomlinson was looking up at a creeping wall.

On it, the image of the 35th Brigade’s attack was projected.

His body had long lost the weakness it had when he was a human. Blessed, he was three meters tall, bloated and powerful. The body covered by the robe was still twitching from time to time.

Only his eyes were still firm and penetrating.

Looking at the projected image, his body was ups and downs.

He, Thomson, was the contemporary leader of the Ascension Sect, the apostle of the Great Demon, the promoter of the spread of the Koroja Plague, and the current blessed one.

He had long forgotten that many, many years ago, as a human warrior, he was incorporated into the Star Army after being handed over as an imperial tax and survived hundreds of battles.

But today, when he saw those passionate warriors advancing despite the extremely heavy casualties, the glorious years that had been sealed in his memory appeared in his mind again.

But these memories that came up not only did not make him feel nostalgic, but made him even more angry.

Even if he put aside his anger, he knew that he couldn’t let this army rush forward just from the perspective of the war situation.

The gap inside Fino City was getting bigger and bigger. The deeper this human army rushed, the more human troops would enter Fino City in an easier way.

They destroyed the body of Fino City, forcing the entire activated hive to use more power to repair the body. This would lead to the weakening of the power of the subspace.

At this moment, Fino City had completely stopped advancing.

Admittedly, according to the current situation, the human army should have been destroyed long ago. But in fact, that should have been done an hour ago.

“Destroy them.” Tomlisson said, “Let the dragons descend; let the father’s beloved dogs attack; let the blessed ones attack! They must be destroyed for me! After destroying them, we must follow this road and drive all the enemies out of our city for me!”

“Follow your orders, messenger.”

Another voice echoed in this flesh and blood nest.

Then, not long after, the battlefield scene that Tomlisson saw changed.

Several different troops appeared on the battlefield.

The so-called “father’s beloved dog” refers to the “rotten meat beast”, which is a sick and ugly monster. Its lower body is like a long, maggot-like wriggling; its upper body is raised high, and a huge mouth is opened in its abdomen. The lower limbs extend next to the huge mouth, which can not only assist in movement, but also help catch prey for eating; its upper limbs are in the form of arms, which are extremely powerful.

The so-called “blessed” is the guy called Chaos Egg by humans. This thing is two or three meters tall, about the shape of a human, but completely distorted. This is what humans become when they receive the blessing of the gods, but can’t bear it anymore.

Five or six giant beasts, with dozens of Chaos Eggs, appeared on the front line of the battlefield, which immediately brought about a direct change in the battle situation. Chaos Eggs

can’t withstand tank guns, but bullets are not very effective against them; after they charge close, they can overturn the tanks with their flesh.

The rotten meat monster could even withstand tank gunfire. With one shot, a piece of its body was broken off, and its flesh and blood flew everywhere, but it was not fatal at all. The squirming flesh and blood would grow back soon. The strong corrosive pus spit out from the huge mouth of its abdomen could melt tanks.

No matter how determined the 35th Brigade was to fight, it was finally unable to move forward under such a strong resistance.

And the dragon in the sky dived directly at this moment!

It was injured by anti-aircraft artillery fire, but it also destroyed two anti-aircraft vehicles with its dragon breath. After landing, its position was not far from the command vehicle of the brigade commander Tikov.

It had been eyeing it for a long time.

Facing the crawling dragon, Tikov’s command vehicle was not afraid. The only firepower on it – a heavy grenade gun, continued to fire at the dragon.

Under the heavy bombs and without the swarm of plague flies to cover it, the dragon’s rotten body was beaten and rotten flesh flew everywhere.

But it still rushed to the command vehicle quickly, overturned it, and then slapped it with its claws. After seven or eight attacks, the entire command vehicle was smashed to pieces.

After venting, the dragon roared to the sky, wantonly and proud!

But before the roar ended, a heavy artillery hit its head and blew its head off.

Thomson could see clearly that this was not a simple human artillery or tank gun.

The projected image was pulled away, and he saw a steel behemoth coming from a distance with green smoke coming out of the muzzle.

It was a Lion King tank.

Following the space created by the 35th Brigade, the armored cluster of the human army finally had a stronger main force on the scene!

Its two secondary guns were also firing, and the main gun that had just completed a one-shot kill was once again charging.

The next shot destroyed another rotten meat behemoth.

Thomson spoke in a deep voice: “We must stop these humans, send more troops!”

…

“Send more troops! We must not let the sacrifice of the 35th Brigade go to waste!”

Li Kexi shouted loudly.

He was appointed as the front-line commander of this armored assault and was giving orders to the staff.

His face was extremely red, and he was very distressed by the sacrifice of the 35th Brigade. But despite his distress, he did not stop himself from seizing this opportunity.

After giving the order, he calculated and dialed an encrypted communication channel.

“Governor, fifteen divisions have already entered Fino City, achieving your expected goal. Afterwards, I am confident that within the hour, another fifteen divisions will be sent in, including some infantry divisions, with a total number of more than 300,000!”

“Okay, thank you for your hard work.” Governor Gu’s voice came later, “Make sure to maintain the offensive.”

“I understand!” Li Kexi replied first, then asked hesitantly: “We have made great sacrifices, and the final victory will belong to us, right?”

“I promise you.”

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I must update early tomorrow, I really can’t stand it at four o’clock…

(End of this chapter)