Chapter 655: It’s an alliance!

Chapter 655: It’s an alliance!

When Major Akanji saw another landing airship crashing into the defense zone, he was already somewhat desperate.

As a member of the Sun's auxiliary army, it is not appropriate to have such emotions.

He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that his mission would not be completed, and he was afraid that the 'Changqi Star' where he was stationed would be lost.

Akangi was not a senior officer. He was just a member of the expeditionary force that originally belonged to the Solar Auxiliary Army and now formed with the Ortopis Regiment to come to the Spider Web Universe to participate in the war.

Even though he didn't know much about the general situation until now, he could see some problems from the orders he had received recently.

First, the rapid advance was stopped.

Originally, the comrades were discussing a competition with the Northern Front Legion to see who could break into the enemy's base camp, Readuches, first, but suddenly, the order became to stay on the spot and do their best to eliminate the local insect infestation.

An infantry regiment led by him had just captured a few digester tanks when they saw a swarm of insects swarming in!
The Solar Legion was considered the best among all the well-known Astra Militarum Legions in the entire empire. Putting aside the training level, as the direct lineage of the Holy Terra Astra Militarum Legion, their level was quite high.

Although it was just an infantry regiment, it had a lot of equipment, from heavy artillery to heavy bolters. These could even be considered conventional weapons. In his regiment, in addition to the three ordinary combat battalions, there was also an elite combat battalion, all of whom were equipped with exoskeletons!

There are also two ferocious mobile artillery vehicles in the regiment’s artillery company - the petrified lizard cannons!
These armed forces, coupled with elite training, enabled his troops to perform quite bravely in combat.

Not only did they hold their positions, they even gathered many troops that had fled from other directions. These troops, recruited and armed from the locals, were not even up to the level of the Astra Militarum, but were just ordinary planetary defense forces, so they could not expect too much.

Akangi only executed military law on a small number of troops who were only thinking of fleeing. The remaining troops were gathered together and deployed to various fronts to strengthen the defense.

They held out until the arrival of reinforcements, including even the bronze warriors of Ortopis!

Just as he was about to accept orders from his superiors to launch a major counterattack against those hateful Zerg swarms, a transfer order required him and his troops to leave their positions, leaving only some local defense forces to garrison.

He protested against this, arguing that these defense forces were not up to the level of defense and would lead to the deterioration of the situation.

But his superior shut him up with just one sentence.

"I know, but there is no way. We have more important tasks to accomplish."

What is the so-called more important task?

Garrisoned at the starport.

A fleet under the banner of the Iron Armor Regiment has entered the Changqi Galaxy and is attacking the planet.

The defense of the planet, the star port is the top priority. His mission is to enter the star port and garrison there.

He could not help much in the confrontation between the space fleet and the planet's orbital defense system. However, the living landing capsules of the Zerg kept flying into the starport. The starport observatory where he was stationed had been hit again and again in the past half month.

What he had to face were not only the bugs that came out of the living landing capsule, but also the infected people who fought alongside the bugs.

These infected people are not the kind of garbage and waste that we encounter when clearing the surface of the planet.

All of them were wearing standard equipment of the Astra Militarum, and under the various body fluids and hyperplastic flesh, one could still vaguely see from their gray-purple attire that they were the 'Imperial Princess Legion'.

At least it used to be.

When the expeditionary force just arrived in the Magre space, he had fought with the Princess Legion. He had to admit that this legion was a strong opponent. Not only was the equipment level quite good, with the support of the so-called Alfonzo Mechanicus, but the training level was also better than some unknown star legions.

However, the 'Infected of the Princess' Legion' he was facing was even more powerful than he had imagined. The difference was that these infected people had stronger physical fitness, and they would not necessarily die even if they were shot. They had strong vitality. Moreover, they really did not fear life and death, and there was no such thing as morale collapse or being repelled.

Of course, from another perspective, they may have become weaker: the movement and combat mode of the entire army has changed a lot, more like a swarm than a human army. This makes them often adopt some particularly radical combat strategies, resulting in many unnecessary casualties.

However, there were too many of them! There were also real bugs nearby!

The most dangerous battle took place right in front of them, as three space warriors in black and grey armor suddenly appeared!

Those are the people from the Iron Armor Regiment!

The elite combat battalion that Akanji was so proud of was brutally massacred.

Just when his defense was about to be irreversibly breached, an Ortopis warrior arrived on the battlefield, holding a round shield and a spear, wearing red copper armor, and with a horizontal crest on his helmet, symbolizing his status as a champion.

He single-handedly killed the three armored Space Marines, with only a few bullets, but it seemed that he was not seriously injured.

After the battle, he had just gone up to express his gratitude when he was given a new order: counterattack.

It turned out that an electric power facility guarded by a brother regiment next door had been breached, and they had to take it back.

Although the troops had suffered heavy casualties, Akangi still gritted his teeth, squeezed out the mobile forces he could use, and handed them over to the Ortopis warrior to take away.

Then, there was no news from them.

Then, before his troops could catch their breath or even replenish their ammunition, they were attacked again and again.

Until now, he couldn't even contact the division headquarters.

He knew that the war situation was getting worse.

And how bad is it?
Coincidentally, the important place he was guarding was the observatory.

At his request, the technical specialist accompanying the army operated the observation platform and took a look outside.

The Iron Armor fleet was getting closer and closer. Every time they attacked, some of the armed platforms on Changqi Star would be damaged.

Today, their attacks are becoming more and more radical.

The planet's defense system was collapsing, and the observatory where he was stationed seemed unable to withstand the next attack.

The troops he had available were no more than 200 men. The guard company, logistics battalion, artillery... all those who could fight on the front line had to go.

Another powerful attack and this place will surely collapse.

However, it was on this last day that he saw the technical specialist who was accompanying the army running to him, with a look of joy on his face: "We have reinforcements!"

"Which unit is it?"

"It's the Alliance!"

(End of this chapter)