Chapter 687, The Eldest Son Legion

Chapter 687, The Eldest Son Legion

"reinforce?"

Lin Xiaodong, filled with hope, even walked out of the command vehicle and looked into the distance with a telescope.

He saw a bright red flag planted on the high hill in the direction of the tank company's charge.

And that direction is exactly where the fierce artillery fire of the Zerg came from. The biological artillery of the Zerg nest should be there.

Lin Xiaodong could also recognize who the bright red flag came from: the Eldest Son Army from Frost Plain Star.

Their uniforms are always bright red, and they wear the iconic long-haired leather earmuffs with the imperial eagle logo in the middle of the hat. The soldiers of this Star Army Corps basically come from a nest world called "Frost Plains" in the northern border of the empire. According to the tradition of Frost Plains, the eldest son of every family on this planet should enter the Corps to serve.

In addition, the entire planet has abundant geothermal energy and mineral raw materials, as well as long-term cooperation with the Mechanicus, and its productivity is relatively developed, so it can produce all its own equipment.

The relatively harsh natural environment on the planet has also cultivated the extremely tenacious qualities of the Frost Plains people.

The combination of many factors makes the combat effectiveness of the Eldest Son Legion quite outstanding.

Although the natural environment of the entire planet is average, it maintains good stability through its strong military force. The huge military force is also enough for them to form a star army and accept the call of various parties in the empire.

The Legion of the Eldest Sons has long been active in various parts of the empire, and has participated in many wars over the past thousand years. It has not only made considerable military achievements and gained many benefits for its home planet, but has also become a well-known interstellar military legion throughout the empire.

When the Northern Front Army was established, the Eldest Son Army joined it; afterwards, they also increased their strength several times and sent more troops. At its peak, the Eldest Son Army had as many as 50 million troops in the Northern Front Army.

But now, it supposedly no longer exists.

They should have all been lost in the naval battle on the Northern Front.

To be honest, the Eldest Son Legion's defeat was quite unfair.

It had nothing to do with them at all. They couldn't let these soldiers of the Star Army take the blame for the defeat in the naval battle.

On the contrary, they are the biggest victims. Millions of people have disappeared without a trace even though they have done nothing wrong.

The remnants of the Northern Front Army that were rescued by the Alliance did not include any members of the Eldest Son Legion. It was even less likely that they would be included in this tactical operation of landing on the ground with huge losses.

So where did these soldiers of the Eldest Son Legion who raided the Zerg's living artillery position on the other side of the mountain come from?

Could it be that they were the troops that remained on the ground in Rheaduches when the Northern Front Legion was defeated a year and a half ago?
They managed to hold out for a year and a half without any external supplies, with the orbit completely out of control and under the constant siege of the Zerg?
It's incredible.

But now is not the time to think about these things.

"Comrades, move faster! Don't waste the opportunity!"

"Try to get in touch with the troops ahead that are suspected to be the Firstborn Legion, confirm the situation, and discuss what to do next."

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"Have them quickly set up artillery positions and cooperate with us to eliminate this Zerg force. Then they must follow us and set off together. Our target is an air defense nest forty kilometers away from us."

The person who spoke was Qin Zhiping, the senior judge of the Anti-foreign Tribunal. At this moment, he was wearing a set of feedback power armor, and there were ten soldiers of the Silver Watch beside him, fighting side by side with the soldiers of the Firstborn Legion.

He had already eliminated many living artillerymen and was doing the final cleanup work. Several vanguard companies of the Firstborn Legion had already built firepower positions on the top of the mountain to block the insect swarm's retreat.

After the high-altitude firepower positions were constructed and the artillery positions of the Alliance Army were set up to provide abundant firepower cover, Qin Zhiping led his ten Silver Watch Space Marines, under the cover of many Firstborn Legion soldiers, to launch an assault on the Zerg that was blocked from front and back, and completed the decapitation operation.

That was an "executioner". This was a high-level unit in the Zerg swarm, and its combat power could even surpass that of an ordinary Space Marine. At the same time, it was also the highest node creature in the current Zerg army. When its head was cut off, all the low-level bugs around it immediately became demented.

Although the subsequent battle continued for a while, it was not long and the cost was much lower than a normal battle with this Zerg force.

After the two armies joined together, the Allied Army's division commander, Lin Xiaodong, asked about their situation in surprise.

Qin Zhiping did not refuse to answer, but asked the two troops to unify their command first and follow him to attack an anti-aircraft insect nest.

After conquering it, at least the troops landing later in this area near the ground will be safer.

Lin Xiaodong thought about it for a moment and agreed.

Firstly, their mission was to try to join up with the surrounding friendly forces after landing, establish a stable ground position, and receive the troops that landed later. If they could directly attack and destroy an enemy's anti-aircraft bug hole, it would obviously be a better choice.

Secondly, there was no problem letting Qin Zhiping command them. This chief judge of the Anti-foreign Order had a very high status and could even talk to their Governor Gu. There was no problem in commanding their division, which only had one-tenth of its troops left.

On the contrary, Colonel Lin was more surprised why Qin Zhiping was here.

Although he didn't know him and his identities were far from that of Qin Zhiping, Lin Xiaodong knew in heaven that Qin Zhiping was an important figure among the remnant troops on the northern front who were rescued.

It seems a bit strange to mix the key figures of the remaining northern army who were rescued by the Alliance with the Eldest Son Legion that completely disappeared a year and a half ago.

On the way, Qin Zhiping explained the reason to Colonel Lin.

By now, there was nothing to keep secret.

In fact, he was one of the first people to land on the ground in this battle, much earlier than Lin Xiaodong and the others.

However, they did not come down by boat. Otherwise, it would be a sheer waste to send important figures like Qin Zhiping and precious combat forces like Space Marines to the ground with such a high casualty rate.

They came to the ground through Gu Hang's psychic teleportation.

In the military meeting before the battle, he specifically mentioned that a year and a half ago, the Northern Front Legion had deployed a large number of ground forces to the ground of Readuches.

When the fleet collapsed later, these people were essentially abandoned.

But Qin Zhiping believes that there must be a considerable number of people who are still alive.

Maybe not many, but these people should not be ignored.

If they can be used, it will be much more useful than risking the loss of troops with a single-digit success rate. If they really exist and can be organized, they can be of great help.

One hundred people were equivalent to three thousand airborne troops. After all, the success rate of the initial transport spacecraft landing was only 3%. Lin Xiaodong's division was lucky to have two of the twelve regiments land. Some divisions were fully staffed when they set out, but no one survived the landing.

His proposal was supported by Gu Hang. He was not the kind of person who only proposed ideas, and he took the initiative to request to be the first batch of people to be teleported to the ground to contact the remaining troops on the northern front who might be alive.

He actually got in touch.

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It's a little late, but the second chapter is up!
sleep!

(End of this chapter)