Chapter 864: The Universe is Burning (1)
Chapter 864: The Universe is Burning (XI)
After Bonebreaker defeated the huge swarm of Zerg and won a super waagh victory, the green-skinned twin gods were very excited, as if they were the coolest guys in the entire warp.
The other gods were unwilling to face its sharp edge at this time and just hid away obediently.
But now, these two can no longer be so arrogant.
Their representative on earth, the Bone Crusher King, seems to be in a bad situation.
They were all beaten to their doorsteps by the human army with superior forces and surrounded.
Obviously, judging from the current situation, Broken Bone has no hope of breaking out.
He didn't seem to want to break out.
Once a strategy is formulated, I never think of wavering and am determined to stick to it.
It took the humans twenty days to fight their way through the defense line outside the Throne Fortress. So, how many days would it take for the humans to fight through the fortress with high walls, deep fortifications, abundant troops, and various artillery batteries and fortifications?
It turns out that the Throne Fortress is indeed a tough nut to crack.
The earth shield extends about one kilometer outward from the walls of the Throne Fortress, and human heavy artillery has basically no way to get within the shield range to bombard.
Of course the artillery can be pushed forward. After all, the shield can only defend against high-speed attacks, not low-speed attacks.
But if they get within a kilometer, won't they be completely lost to the enemy? Just a few shots will destroy the important artillery positions.
It is also impossible for human troops to attack a fortress without heavy firepower.
That is courting death.
Even if Titans, tanks, Space Marines, and elite soldiers in exoskeleton power armor worked together, it wouldn't work.
The enemy was inside, and they began to bombard with heavy firepower from dozens of kilometers away. The human troops had to withstand the firepower and advance to within one kilometer before they could fight back; even if they entered the earth shield, they still had physical fortresses, bunkers, and firepower points set up to blockade...
If we fight like this, it will be useless no matter how many lives we sacrifice.
Unless you expect to lose your life, you have to use up all the enemy's bullets and ammunition.
But there must be an arsenal inside the Throne Fortress, and it is impossible to use up all of them.
If they really fight like this, the current supreme commander in charge of ground command, Chapter Master Salas Martins of the Phoenix, should be brought to a military court.
The first thing to deal with is the earth shield itself.
Martins once thought about whether he should mobilize the elite Space Marines to attack and destroy the shield generator inside the Throne Fortress.
The Space Marines are very familiar with this set of things. Whenever they encounter difficult problems, they will do it this way. It has become a fixed idea.
But this time, he rejected the idea himself.
It’s not that I’m afraid of death, but the main reason is that there is little hope of doing this.
Failure once is not terrible, but failure too many times, not only the sacrifice of fighting brothers is one thing, but the delay of the overall strategic plan is even more unacceptable.
Martins had another idea.
After fully discussing with the headquarters in the sky, he asked all units to concentrate all their heavy firepower and use it together. Together with the concentrated firepower of the naval guns in the sky, they bombarded the Throne Fortress.
This wave caused the earth shield to be unable to withstand the explosion.
No matter how strong it is, no matter how much energy it stores, no matter how much energy it can draw from the pulse of the earth, it cannot withstand such an explosion.
If it was just orbital firepower, it would still be able to hold up. After all, the heaviest bombardment would be intercepted, and the rest could be blocked by the earth shield.
The powerful anti-orbital firepower of the Throne Fortress itself, as well as the large number of anti-orbital firepower deployed in various areas of the planet outside of the key human airborne areas, together constitute a threat to human orbital forces.
In the past twenty days, the total loss of human warships has exceeded one hundred. Among them, the most painful is the loss of two battlecruisers and thirty-one cruisers.
This once again proves that for naval starships to engage in a bombardment with surface anti-orbital firepower is a very disadvantageous and unprofitable proposition.
In other words, the number of ships that Gu Hang deployed into the war this time was really too many; the greenskins had just finished a decisive battle with the Zerg, and had no time to further arm the surface defense of Ankachi VIII, otherwise, the situation between the two sides would have been reversed.
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for humans to use the power of starships so unscrupulously to support the surface.
However, it is different when the ground forces surround the throne world.
The artillery positions were almost connected into one piece.
The 155mm guns were deployed in large groups with their muzzles facing the sky. Forty kilometers away from the target, they formed a forest of gun barrels that surrounded the entire fortress.
At the command, not just ten thousand cannons, but hundreds of thousands or even millions of cannons fired at the same time!
The power of a single shot is really nothing to the earth shield and is far inferior to the terrifying naval guns.
However, with such a terrifying number, the shells bombarded the earth shield like rain, and hundreds of thousands of shells in a short period of time, it was a completely different concept.
Fortunately, the transportation of materials by the human army was also restricted. When the transport ships went to the ground, no matter how much orbital escort they had, the orcs' air defense forces could still form a certain interception rate, so that humans could not let the huge amount of artillery fire recklessly. Otherwise, just with the cooperation of ground artillery, the earth shield could be directly blown open.
However, just the first bombing made Broken Bones, who was sitting on the throne, begin to feel uneasy.
After all, the human army, in addition to large numbers of 155 heavy artillery, also has a lot of other heavy firepower.
The laser cannon carried by the Titans; humans also have some 400mm caliber heavy artillery in the siege divisions equipped at the army level and in the A-type divisions, as well as electromagnetic cannons using hypervelocity projectiles... These things may be more powerful than the smallest caliber S-class cannon on a starship.
Not to mention, there are also various missile launchers and rocket nest vehicles...
The supporting firepower of each regiment and company is less powerful but more numerous.
Under the crazy bombing, the human army used up half of their accumulated artillery shells in just half a day.
In coordination with the ground attack, the human starships in the sky also fired their expensive naval guns one after another, as if they were free. No matter how high the interception rate was, or how great the risk of close-range bombardment was, they would bombard to death!
No skills, just hard power!
Just like the two racial gods of the green-skinned orcs could no longer laugh, the Bonebreaker King looked at the earth shield that had been blasted to purple and red in just a short while, and his worry grew day by day.
The firepower of the army troops deployed by humans to the ground still exceeded his imagination.
The earth shield is about to break.
(End of this chapter)
