Chapter 546, Battle of Mentus

Chapter 546, Battle of Mentus
Using ships as a relative planetary defense system, which is more proactive, the alliance's ships carried out tactical actions again and again.

This is a proven strategy.

As long as the strength of the fleet is not too far behind the planetary defense system, this trick can be used to take down a planet with complete defenses.

Don't be defeated if you can't even withstand one round of enemy firepower. The firepower of your own fleet can cause definite damage to the space stations and star fortresses in the defense system in a brief exchange of fire. In this way, you can slowly wear down the defense facilities in the planet's orbit bit by bit.

Of course, this approach would mean that the fleet's losses would be controllable, but they would not be too small. After all, since it was a war, anything could happen. In the first wave of the alliance's attack, a frigate was accidentally lost after being hit continuously by the Star Fortress's main gun.

This is inevitable.

On the other hand, it takes a very long time to grind it slowly like this.

According to the estimates of the naval staff, if they were to fight purely in this way, it would take more than a year to capture the outer orbit of Mentus II.

This does not include the cleaning of the ground-based anti-orbital system.

Gu Hang was not in a hurry, but he also did not want to prolong the time required to conquer a planet.

There will be many known or unknown changes.

However, if we attack too hastily, we will suffer greater losses.

The solution, then, is not just a fleet-fire confrontation.

Three months later, the Alliance had destroyed about 20% of the orbital defense facilities on Mentus II during this period of time, and caused one of the three star fortresses to suffer relatively serious damage, so it had to be pulled back to an orbit closer to the ground for emergency repairs and maintenance.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the alliance suddenly launched a fierce offensive.

At first, the defenders on Mentus II did not feel anything particularly unusual, thinking that it was just the same battle as in the past three months to deplete and attack their manpower.

But what surprised people was that this time the attacking alliance fleet did not just line up and open fire from a distance.

They increased their speed and rushed towards the orbital defense line of Mentus II.

This was a very resolute attitude, as if a sledgehammer was coming down, as if he was determined to smash the planetary orbital defense system to pieces today, completely ignoring the fact that in the process, he might also be smashed to pieces in the violent collision.

"Fire!"

'Fire!'

"Fire with full force!"

In the communication signals of various space stations, star fortresses, star ports, and ground fortresses of Mentus II, all kinds of different voices were fiercely expressing the same meaning.

They will use the most ferocious firepower to fight against the incoming Alliance fleet.

The defenders of Mentus II have realized that this time seems to be unusual, and they are not sure whether the planetary defense can really withstand the attack of the Alliance fleet regardless of losses.

However, they had no choice but to do their best to unleash their firepower.

But at the same time, the generals of the defending army would also feel a little confused: Why would the Alliance do this? Do they really want to use their precious naval warships to fight to the death with orbital defense facilities that are far less valuable than warships?
No matter you win or lose, it’s a huge loss!

However, they soon understood why the alliance was so fierce.

On the side of the planet that was facing the Alliance Fleet, all the orbital guns were fired. But after all, the Alliance Fleet had not yet reached the low-Earth orbit and was still quite far away. The deterrent power of the ground artillery group was still greater than the direct killing power. The main reason was that the hit rate was too low to be guaranteed.

At this stage, the most reliable thing is still the orbital defense facilities.

However, among the most important star port fortress and the three star fortresses, only the one that was hastily deployed and had been seriously damaged before successfully opened fire.

The star port and the other two star fortresses should have been the strongest force in the defense line, but they all failed at the same time.

Seeing this scene, the defending generals on the ground who were nervously observing the battle situation felt a chill in their hearts.

what happened?

what happened?

Contact messages were sent one after another.

They were eager to know why the orbital facilities, which should have been able to achieve maximum effect, did not respond.

However, they did not receive a response for a long time, and could only watch as the Alliance's ships, with the battleship 'Nova' as the core, proudly destroyed the already severely damaged star fortress that had to fight alone, and at the same time destroyed a large number of armed space stations.

The defending generals closed their eyes in pain.

The orbital defense system of Mentus II is destroyed.

The Alliance Fleet also paid some price, but it was much less than they should have paid.

None of the main battleships were damaged. At most, one cruiser was destroyed and a few more were damaged.

This loss is not small, but it is completely within the acceptable range of the alliance.

It was not until this moment that the ground command center received a reply from Starport:
The enemy has joined our team.

……

The defensive preparations of Mentus II in all aspects are quite good.

However, they lacked one crucial point: the ability to defend against psychic energy.

And this ability will require extremely high standards when facing the Storm Mage Group led by Gu Hang himself.

What will be the consequences of not meeting the requirements?
This is the case with Mentus II.

It is not impossible to use psychic power to directly tear apart space facilities such as star fortresses and star ports.

If Gu Hang fully deployed the Storm Kingdom and raised his psychic power to the Alpha level, or even higher, he could tear the star fortress apart. However, this required him to take a ship and go to a closer distance. Otherwise, on the scale of space, the projection of psychic power would still be attenuated at such a long distance.

In other words, although Gu Hang's psychic power is powerful, its "range" is far less than that of naval guns.

Moreover, even if he ventured to get close and use his psychic energy to tear the Star Fortress apart, it would be a thankless task. Going all out would consume a lot of energy for Gu Hang, and after doing this once, he might not have enough energy to do it a second time.

But the enemy still has at least one star fortress and a larger star port fortress.

It's laborious and unnecessary.

Is psychic power such an inconvenient thing?

There's no need to be so violent, there are smarter ways to use it.

For example, they could bring the Storm Mage Corps and stir up waves in the subspace, completely blocking the connection between star ports and star fortresses and the ground, and even seriously interfering with the communications within the star ports and star fortresses themselves.

Then, using psychic teleportation, the alliance’s powerful army was directly deployed into these space facilities.

Airdropping and boarding is a dangerous mission, and the most dangerous stage is the stage in space before reaching the destination.

If a landing craft carrying dozens of Space Marines was intercepted by a cannon fire midway, the loss would be too great.

In fact, psychic teleportation is also very dangerous. This kind of teleportation work that involves tens of thousands of kilometers can be fatal if there is any mistake, such as sending the teleported person in the wrong direction or being interfered with by the other party's psychic energy, causing the person being teleported to get lost in the subspace.

But doesn't it mean that the defenders of Mentus II barely have adequate psychic defenses?
They actually existed originally, but they were recruited by the Fury Corps in order to strengthen their ability to fight against Gu Hang.

The Fury Fleet itself has enhanced its psychic combat capabilities, but Mentus II has suffered.

They were completely unable to interfere with the alliance's teleportation tactics.

Can't even notice it.

The two intact star forts and the fortress starport were still preparing to open fire, but in the blink of an eye, a deep blue teleportation array appeared in front of them. Before they could react, two red-armored space warriors came out to kill them together.

This situation occurs at many strategic points in star fortresses and star ports.

Control desk, contact center, command center, heavy artillery firepower platform...

Countless teleportation arrays threw in numerous Space Marines.

However, these teleportation arrays did not stop working after completing the teleportation of the phoenix.

Afterwards, team after team of elite soldiers walked out.

Three light infantry skeletal divisions were specially mobilized and were on standby on the Fire Nova. After the Space Marines took the lead, the three skeletal divisions were gradually transported to the starports and star fortresses in an orderly manner to assist the Space Marines in the battle and control the key nodes that were shot down, freeing up the Space Marines so that they could do more important tasks.

The so-called light infantry skeleton division is a unit that has been basically stripped of its heavy vehicles based on the general skeleton division.

Of course, it is not a simple removal. Otherwise, apart from having more elite soldiers, what is the difference between it and an ordinary large-scale infantry division?
The difference is that the heavy vehicles that were removed were replaced with many light armored units that can fight in narrow and complex spaces, such as more sentinel mechas, more feedback power armors, and some fast assault vehicles, such as armed hoverbikes, and rapid-fire self-propelled cannons...

That is, the money used to buy tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery is used to equip these smaller and more flexible armored units.

On the front battlefield, if this light skeleton division were to engage in a confrontation with a regular skeleton division, it would definitely be seeking death.

At the same price, a Lion tank can easily beat five or six Sentinel mechas; a Lion King tank can destroy a Knight mecha.

However, the Lion Tank cannot be driven in environments such as star ports and star fortresses.

The Light Skeleton Division has its own unique combat environment.

When accompanying the Space Marines in the attack, these troops, which were absolutely elite among the mortal troops, also played a huge role.

After all, the number of space marines is scarce. To occupy the entire starport or star fortress, a larger number of land forces or marines are still needed.

In short, the Alliance's land forces deployed through psychic teleportation quickly dismantled the armed forces of the three star fortresses and star ports at the beginning of the battle, before they had time to strike at the Alliance's aggressive fleet.

Afterwards, the star ports and star fortresses that had been completely occupied began to turn their firepower to attack other remaining armed space stations.

However, some unexpected events occurred during this stage.

After receiving the report from the starport and seeing that the starport and star fortress began to attack their remaining space station, the ground defenders made a very decisive decision.

The fortress artillery on the ground began to concentrate fire on the star port and star fortress.

Since these units occupied by the enemy can no longer serve as aids to our side and have instead become the enemy's firepower points, we must destroy them as much as possible with all our might.

Moreover, the defenses of the star ports and star forts facing the surface were not very strong. Moreover, they were close to the surface and lacked mobility, so they were hit accurately.

Internal damage is inevitable inside the starport and star fortress due to the competition and fighting with the alliance boarding troops.

Under various circumstances, the two star fortresses and one star port could not hold out for long under the bombardment of ground orbital artillery and were quickly destroyed.

The alliance also lacks some means to deal with this.

Fortunately, the Alliance urgently evacuated its landing troops before the starport and star fortress were destroyed.

Landing craft and small ships flew swiftly to the star ports and star fortresses and quickly picked up the people.

Of course, picking someone up is definitely not as convenient as teleporting.

There were still many Alliance soldiers who died with them in the starports and star fortresses. There were also cases where the evacuation ships were shot down during the evacuation process.

But overall, the losses are still controllable.

(End of this chapter)