Chapter 352, ‘Prey’

Chapter 352, ‘Prey’

  When the soldiers on Koroga were preparing for the final fight required by the governor; when the officials and people in Yancheng were working hard for the governor's war plan; when Lois, the special envoy of the star field, was preparing for When the Governor is under pressure from all parties, what is the Governor doing?

  The Governor himself was on an outing.

  There were six other people accompanying him on the outing.

  The first is Martins, the leader of the Phoenix Chapter. Naturally, no further introduction is needed.
  The second is Eureka Pampos. He comes from the Black Arrow Star. He was originally the prince of Pampos, the largest kingdom, and the pilot of the Knight Titan of the Black Arrow Star. Then, with the support of alliance diplomats, he forced his father to abdicate and became the king of Pampos - of course, the king in the alliance era almost had a purely honorary position, and almost all management authority rested with the alliance government. There.

  And he himself, with this king's identity, also joined the Alliance's 'Allied National Knights', and still shines as a Knight Titan pilot.

  This is a very important political signal, which means that the alliance accepts the old forces of Black Arrow Star.

  Even your king can continue to hold important power in the alliance, so what do you have to worry about?

  Originally, his position in the Knights had more symbolic meaning than practical significance. Is the alliance really short of such a driver? However, as time went by, Governor Gu began to gradually let him have more power.

  The reason for this is of course that Governor Gu found on the [Hero] interface that the King of Eureka really recognized the alliance and his loyalty was guaranteed. Then let him go to the Loyal Heirs Academy on the Raging Owl Star, spend Gift Points to activate the hero attributes, and spend Gift Points to train him to become a political commissar. After ensuring his loyalty, Gu Hang simply let this guy who really has outstanding potential The pilot, who leads the alliance's knights as a king.

  He is not afraid of anything going wrong.

  Nothing will happen.

  The third and fourth are Leonardo Neves and Earo Lacrocha. They are all from the 5th Brigade of the Alliance. The latter is a super soldier with outstanding achievements. He has also put on feedback power armor. He is the strongest in the Alliance besides the Space Marines. His personal level has reached LV[-], and he has extraordinary potential. . In fact, some of Phoenix's new recruits couldn't beat him.

  However, La Crocha had no talent or ability to command troops, and he was unwilling to do so. Neves is the brigade commander of the [-]th Brigade, the Alliance Brigadier General. When the military commanders of general division and brigade-level units only had the rank of lieutenant colonel and at most colonel, he, as a brigadier general, could be said to have demonstrated the importance of the [-]th Brigade.

  The fifth is Dany Deris, the leader of the Alliance Storm Mage Group.

  These five are all members of the alliance.

  The sixth one has a rather special status.

  She is the Superior Sister of the Sisters of Holy Mercy, Lady Gerrit.

  The Holy Lily of Mercy is an order of battle sisters, with more than 3 battle sisters before the war. Their main responsibility is to station and protect the missionary work of the National Religion on Koruga No. [-], and by the way, they also preach the mission themselves. In addition, it is to respond to the call of the empire and the state religion and participate in wars in other galaxies.

  Holy Mercy Lily was born out of the Holy Fire Rose Order and belongs to the third-class order under the Holy Fire Rose. The Lily of Mercy is small compared to the most famous religious orders of the Ecclesiastical Order, such as their former sect, but they are an extremely important defensive force for Koroga.

  In fact, before this, most of the fighting sisters, whether it was Garrett or the Holy Mercy Lily, were fighting on the front line, especially in Fino City.

  During the past few years of war, Holy Mercy Lily has lost over a hundred nuns. They always fight on the front line and go wherever there is danger. They really provided a lot of help.

  But it still failed to stop the spread of the plague.

  Until Fino City was abandoned, they had no choice but to withdraw, and now they have regrouped in Mingyan City.

  There are currently more than [-] nuns in total.

  Logically speaking, even if Gu Hang has become the governor of Koruga, he does not have the authority to directly govern Holy Mercy Lily. They belong to the state religion, and although they are also part of the empire, they are completely different systems.

  However, a theater commander is another story.

  And even apart from this part of the power relationship, Holy Mercy Lily itself is willing to contribute to this war against the plague demon.

  After Gu Hang talked with Zhao Qinghong, the bishop of the State Church in the Korokga Diocese, and the leader of the nuns, Grand Sister Mei Dixi, they were willing to send a team of [-] people to participate in Gu Hang's action.

  The leader of this team was Sister Sister Gerrit, who had collaborated with Gu Hang and helped a lot during the establishment of the alliance.

  At this moment, the location of their outing is located on the west side of Mingyan City, on the edge of the army position where the defense line is being built. This is a cliff.

  The six of them were silent, waiting for Governor Gu, who had his eyes closed but made a gazing posture, to fall from mid-air.

  The one who was most frustrated was Gerrit.

  She couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty the Governor, is this here? Is this the place we are looking for?"

  Gu Hang slowly opened his eyes, turned around, and said, "Although the conditions are not perfect, you can't pursue perfection in everything. Just choose this place."

  After a pause, he continued: "Next, I will mobilize a division to establish a secret camp on the cliff. After returning, you will have to bring your own teams here. We will make some preparations in advance. .”

  Brigadier General Neves asked: "What about you, Governor?"

  "I will always wait for you here." Gu Hang chuckled softly, "I want to teleport more than a thousand people, as well as big guys like the Knights Errant and War Dog Titans, to the core of Fino City. But It’s not an easy task. We have to overcome many obstacles and deceive a big demon. There is still a lot to do.”

  Everyone was awestruck when they heard the word 'big devil'.

  Gu Hang said sternly to the six of them: "The empire's troops are ready, and the empire's subjects are doing their best to contribute to the battlefield. But the most important part of this war is still with us. We have the responsibility to stop that devil's cave, and even It is the important task to paralyze its void shield and cut off its connection with hell. Even if everyone involved in this battle is a well-deserved elite or even a hero, there is still no telling how many people can survive after this. Come back. You have to prepare the team mentally."

  Gerrit and Martins stood up almost immediately: "For the empire!"

  The rest of the people followed quickly.

  Gu Hang responded equally seriously: "For the empire!"

  ……

  103 Terran Standard Days later, the creeping hive city of 'Fino City' is already close at hand.

  The distance between it and Mingyan City is only more than [-] kilometers.

  But in fact, it has already encountered the western defense line of Mingyancheng. More than [-] million troops formed more than [-] army groups, stretching out a strategic depth of more than [-] kilometers on a battlefield of nearly [-] kilometers wide. In between, bunkers, trenches, and sentry towers were densely packed, forming layers of defense lines.

  Lieutenant General Hans is still very capable. The difficulty of organizing an army of [-] million people is far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Even if he has a huge staff group, and even if a large number of sinking officers have strong independent execution capabilities, it is still extremely difficult to organize such a behemoth in such a vast area.

  Lieutenant General Hans can no longer control units at the division level. He can only control units at the group army level at most. More than eighty group armies have each divided their defense zones and are ready to mobilize at any time.

  But even so, the human army still weaves a huge web on this prepared battlefield covering an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers, waiting for the arrival of 'prey'.

  And now, the 'prey' is here.

  But, who is the prey?

  The crawling city of Fino apparently regarded the human legion that had set up a trap as its 'prey'.

  This city has further expanded in size after swallowing up a hive city. The width of the side where it advances towards the human army reaches eighty kilometers.

  After the city of Fino entered firing range, thousands of guns were fired.

  The imperial artillery fired its most ferocious firepower on the creeping hive.

  A void shield composed of evil subspace magic suddenly appeared and enveloped the entire city.

  The cannonballs stirred up waves on the void shield, and the effect was quite significant.

  In previous battles, the firepower produced by the accompanying self-propelled artillery at the same time was far less dense than the firepower density that had been prepared for several months. At this moment, under the arrangement of the generals and officers of each human army group and division, the artillery was arranged very reasonably. The current artillery array arrangement is the most suitable for intensive bombardment.

  The effect of countless cannonballs falling was almost comparable to that of the Pegasus fleet's previous naval bombardment.

  If Fino City didn't react and just stayed there and let countless human artillery bombard it for a day or two, the void shield would really be blasted.

  There are so many ants that they can kill an elephant, let alone a serious army heavy artillery.

  But things obviously won't be that easy.

  How could the creeping hive city, which was enhanced by the evil magic of subspace, not respond?
  Swarms of plague flies that covered the sky roared out from the city's towers. Wherever they flew, the sunlight was blocked and the sky became dark.

  Countless anti-aircraft firepower began to fire into the sky, and there was no need to worry about hitting. Such a dense swarm of flies could be hit at any time.

  Countless sparks exploded in the air, throwing countless charred and broken giant fly corpses to the ground.

  But despite this, it still cannot stop such a large number of plague flies from attacking.

  They are both living creatures, the lowest form of plague monsters, and also ‘cannonballs’.

  Giant flies swarmed one after another, swooping down from the sky. When the height drops to a certain level, even the firearms in the hands of human soldiers can kill them. But these brainless demons still insisted on swooping down, aiming directly at various predetermined units: artillery positions and air defense positions.

  Seven corrupt dragons appeared under the cover of the plague flies. The thick corrupt breath covered a large area of ​​the ground under the plague toxin. The human soldiers who were directly enveloped in the breath wailed and died in pain; even the steel would be temporarily activated into flesh and blood due to the power of this terrible plague demon, and would not return to its original steel until the breath dissipated. state, but has long been distorted and out of shape.

  In recent years, all soldiers fighting on the front line have been issued with corresponding protective masks and chemical protective suits. Otherwise, not only will the area directly breathed out be devoid of humans and animals, but even the soldiers further away will contract the disease on the spot due to breathing the poison of the plague, lose their ability to fight, and will quickly die in the next few days. Die.

  The sky on the battlefield was almost occupied by demons.

  On the human side, there are actually thousands of air fighters.

  However, this number seems to be a lot, but if compared with the enemy, it is far behind. On today's battlefield, there is simply no way to rely on these fighters to gain air superiority.

  But if we can’t fight, why don’t we fight?
  Braving a huge numerical disadvantage, the first batch of hundreds of fighters of all types took off from the ground. The main goal is to coordinate with ground air defense firepower to reduce the number of plague flies in an area as much as possible and protect our precious air defense and artillery positions.

  The giant plague fly cannot fly very high and is not very fast. These shortcomings allow human fighters to seize many opportunities. After shooting, you can raise the height to disengage, go back and refill the ammunition and start shooting again.

  However, there are also those who are not careful and are destroyed in the air - the corrupt dragon does not have those weaknesses!

  It can even use evil methods to use the giant plague flies around it as cannonballs, accelerating and 'throwing' them high into the sky; or, under the cover of clouds of plague flies, it can sneak under the fighter plane, and then He suddenly rushed up, rushed to the fighter plane at an extremely fast speed, and tore it apart out of thin air with his fangs and claws...

  But the sacrifice of human fighters is also valuable, at least when the number of things of the level of the Corruption Dragon is still small, with a total of seven appearing. When their eyes are fixed on the sky, the pressure on the ground will be reduced.

  However, no matter how ferocious the anti-aircraft firepower is and how heroic the human pilots are, the sky that cannot be taken back cannot be taken back.

  And the devil's ground attack also began.

  Countless demons poured out of the creeping hive like a tide.

  Regardless of the 'road', it is possible to open a hole in any living wall, and Wuyang Wuyang's plague zombies will rush out from it.

  These corrupt enemies have guns in their hands. Some are like weapons of the corrupted human army, and some are simply guns and cannons fabricated purely by the evil magic of subspace in the real universe, firing vicious evil bullets.

  This is how the brutal ground battle began.

  The true meaning of human troops must be to engage in close-range firefights with the enemy when they lose their air superiority and their long-range heavy firepower is constantly subjected to enemy air attacks, resulting in untimely support.

  The giant cannons in the Creeping Nest City also began to exert their power, blasting at human positions one after another.

  In the sixth hour when the battle officially started, the first line of defense of the human legion was completely lost and collapsed.

  In this process, the forward speed of 'Fino City' was not slowed down even a little. The human army failed to invade the interior of Fino City and failed to threaten its flesh and blood. Naturally, it could not slow down its pace.

  At this point, Fino City solidly advanced to a distance of twelve kilometers.

  (End of this chapter)