Him and their stars

Shameen knew that since this was a situation decided by the director's department, there was naturally no room for bargaining.

At this time, he wanted to ask the other party whether King Suliuka agreed with this opinion, but in the end he only opened his mouth slightly and said nothing.

It is impossible for the empire to stop investing tens of millions of troops in exercises because of a disaster that "merely" encounters 500,000 people. This is a natural choice.

The young leader of the Astral Knights understood it very well, but he still felt a little uncomfortable. But as for why, even he himself couldn't explain clearly.

Admiral Diyong added: "Vice-Admiral O'Baran's fleet has not left the Sarna system yet, and I have approved his rescue request. However, they have just gone through a big battle and returned to the Lion's Den Fortress for repairs. On the fleet There are not enough stormtroopers, so we have to use fighter planes to provide airborne support."

Vice Admiral O'Balan's fleet is naturally the red side's "sunken fleet" that we encountered before. According to the empire's military tradition, even for exercises, battleships must carry a certain amount of live ammunition. But even so, the fleet lacks marines after all, and the only ones that can provide help are the fighters on the aircraft carrier.

In addition, the flagship of our own support fleet, the "Yaoguang Goddess" also has a squadron of support fighters that can be used for bombing the enemy.

In terms of the aircraft capacity of a large aircraft carrier, this is indeed too few. But there is no other way. The fleet commanded by Major General Bai Ya is dedicated to providing backup support to the Knights. The hangar space is prepared for the assault landing module and heraldic aircraft. Not only is the number of fighters carried by it limited, but most of them are pure. dedicated to space warfare.

There is no other way. You can't let your own warships bombard your own planet from orbit.

The Viscount expressed his gratitude to Admiral Jiguang. Although he himself couldn't really tell how much damage the weapons carried on the fighter plane would do to these virtual monsters, it was still better than nothing.

Half a minute later, the source wave signal transmitted through the fleet in low-Earth orbit was sent to the heraldic machine terminal of each astral knight. They quickly removed the limiter of the atomic light spear, and in an instant, what was originally a gorgeous beam of light that looked like holiday lights turned into the most deadly energy weapon.

Although the number of Yaxu beasts is large, they are still appearing continuously. But these virtual realm fragments that act on instinct are like a group of brainless beasts. Even with hard power, he is far from an opponent like an astral knight with a weapon and a heraldry machine. Coupled with the reinforcements of the Panzergrenadiers of the 12th Division. The Imperial soldiers fought a textbook... close-range hand-to-hand battle in this vast wilderness.

There is no way, the Panzergrenadiers have discovered that the most useful thing against these monsters is the hammers and axes endowed with spiritual abilities in their hands.

Sure enough, the true warrior of the empire should be the one who faces the front line with his sword. This is the national character of our people in Great Tiruro!

With the efforts of the red and blue soldiers, the battle line soon became stable. At this time, 12 support fighters from space orbit finally arrived on the battlefield. Four of them came from Shameen and their own support fleet, and the other one was sent by Obalan.

This is the X15 multi-purpose Salamander fighter. Although it is "multi-purpose", it is actually an air superiority fighter that cooperates with the fleet to break through in space warfare. Eighty percent of the weight is used to fight warships and other fighters. , Ground bombing is indeed not very professional. But despite this, they still accurately dropped more than twenty electromagnetic pulse bombs on the battlefield.

This kind of bomb has no direct lethality, but it is indeed more effective than all high-explosive bombs against monsters composed of mutant energy like the Yaxu Beast.

Within the scope of Shameen's investigation, in this round of bombing alone, at least two to three thousand virtual monsters were re-decomposed into quantum states invisible to the naked eye by the violent electromagnetic waves.

Of course, accidental injuries still occur. A dozen grenadiers who stood too close to the explosion range had their armor disabled, but this was not considered a casualty at all.

This bombing was flawless.

Of course, Viscount Shameen still had a little regret. He knew that if alchemy bombs were used, all the problems here would probably be solved.

But that thing was made of zero elements after all. It was more of a disposable "noble phantom" than a weapon. After all, this is an exercise, who would bring such a priceless gadget?

Haven't you seen that he is now reluctant to use the dragons on his own ship?

Those dragons are preparing for the attack on the Lion's Den Fortress later, so they must recharge their batteries!

Thinking of this, Shameen finally knew why he felt a little uncomfortable before. He finally realized that he was actually a typical Tirello military noble, and he had never changed at all.

He smiled self-deprecatingly and quickly put these random thoughts behind him. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity on the battlefield, he contacted Brigadier General Kebede, the commander of the 12th Division.

Although the two were "enemies" half an hour ago, they now became comrades fighting side by side. However, both of them were professional soldiers who were decisive in killing, so they had no time to sigh and sigh, and got straight to the point.

"Brigadier General Kebede, what is the current casualty status of our army?"

"547 people died in battle, and 489 were injured. The battle line here has been stabilized, and I have already sent people to collect the remains of the soldiers." The corners of the werewolf brigadier general's mouth twitched. Even for a tough guy like him, it is really hard to accept that thousands of soldiers would lose their lives in this place.

However, as a top front-line commander, he regained his energy in an instant: "Don't worry, with the spiritual array arranged by Count Seliola, our soldiers can still stabilize the battle line for the time being. I just talked to O'Baran The lieutenant general has completed the communication. He will airdrop some ammunition to us. In addition, our cloud transport ship is turning back after getting the news. It will send spare power skeletons and supplies in up to six hours."

This is also the long-standing tradition of the imperial military. All military ships, even transport ships, will carry some supplies and spare weapons for actual combat, no matter what mission they are performing. This will of course have certain security risks. But the empire believes that this is to make arrangements for the imperial army to enter the actual combat state in the shortest possible time at any location in the galaxy and to execute any role. This is the unique national condition of our Tireiro warriors. In comparison, a little safety hazard is nothing at all.

After hearing what the other party said, Shameen felt a little relieved. If timely ammunition supplies can be obtained, a full division of armored grenadiers, coupled with air support landing in space orbit, will be able to cope with most situations. Even if a virtual realm lord descends... well, if a virtual realm lord really descends, one division will definitely not be able to deal with it, but it should still be able to stop the opponent until the fleet arrives.

"Should we cover the residents of Crystal City to evacuate to the coast, towards Big Pulse City?" Shameen asked humbly. He knew that he was only a genius psychic, but not a genius tactician. Although his grades in the military academy were good, he did not have much commanding experience. The largest unit he had ever commanded was in three figures, and they were all comrades who stayed with the Knights day and night.

In areas where you are not so comfortable, you should fully listen to the opinions of others. Shameen felt that this was the biggest gain he had gained from that failed God of War Festival.

Brigadier General Kebede did not expect that the recognized future leader of the Knights would be so modest. A warm current flowed through his heart, and he explained seriously: "With our current military strength, it is no problem to stabilize our defense line and defend the military warehouse behind us, but we must It is still a bit stretched to protect more than 300,000 civilians from the undefended wasteland. What's more, although the current situation has stabilized, we still don't know what will happen. Who can solve the problems related to occultism? Is the judgment really accurate? In comparison, citizens should be safer staying at home."

The citizens of Crystal City are indeed safer in their own homes.

You must know that the Tiruiro people, who are full of martial virtues, even ordinary civilians, are not unarmed lambs to be slaughtered as imagined, but they have always had a tradition of regional self-policing and community defense. In addition, all cities in the empire will assume certain defense functions. If there is a real danger, isolation walls will be stretched between each community street and the main road, turning the entire city into an isolation cabin structure on a spacecraft. In addition, civilians within the community will also open arsenals to defend their homes under the leadership of grassroots bureaucrats and local armed citizens (most of whom have experience in military service).

In this way, each block will be turned into an armed stronghold with basic defense capabilities. The entire city is equivalent to a complete fortress.

Now, Crystal City has a total of 320,000 citizens, of which 120,000 are humans. Although there are no noble military nobles, there are nearly a thousand citizen families, enough to complete the basic military organization of the city.

The Brigadier paused for a moment: "However, you have seen the abilities of those monsters just now. We cannot transfer all the responsibility of protecting ourselves to the citizens. We must divide our troops as soon as possible and go to the city to protect them."

Viscount Shameen nodded, feeling that this was the right thing to do.

Although the traditional Tiruiro military nobles do not regard the people at the bottom as human beings, the sense of honor that maintains the martial tradition has always been there. In their view, since they are sheep raised by themselves, they have the obligation to protect them.

"I have sent some knights to Crystal City to support them, led by very reliable comrades. As long as Crystal City can activate the emergency warning in time, they should be able to arrive in time.

Of course, you want to quickly clear out the enemies there and minimize the damage to civilians. The city really needs reinforcements.

The two quickly discussed it. Without affecting the stability of one's own defense line, the Twelfth Division can allocate two regiments to support Crystal City. There were more than a hundred knights under Shameen's command, and he said that he could still divide his troops. One group rushed to Crystal City to support, and some stayed to help Kebed defend.

"No, you need to divide your troops into three groups." Brigadier General Kebede explained: "After the mutation happened just now, Count Seliola began to analyze the cause. He said that he had sensed the reason why the mutation happened. The node should be in the ruins of the coordination robot factory. After the count stabilized our spiritual weapon array, he has already set off to rush there."

The spiritual weapon array cannot be stable just by saying it is stable. This kind of field formation that attaches buffs to tens of thousands of grenadiers theoretically requires psykers to maintain it in real time.

This means that Count Seliora can already remotely operate a large psychic field, and can he do other things at the same time?

Shameen naturally admired the strength of the Knight Commander, but there were more important things at the moment. He couldn't help but frown and asked: "Coordinate the robot factory?"

"Yes, it is located in the northeast of the city. There is a natural underground cave space there, which is enough to accommodate a city. The former lord of this planet built a huge robot factory there. However, it has been abandoned for almost two hundred years."

Brigadier General Kebede pondered for a moment and then said: "Some time ago, General Griffiths, a military observer from the Iron Army Complex, and his party have been conducting archeology in that ruins."

Could this change be the work of those bugs from the Iron Army Complex? Viscount Charmaine thought.

No, although the Palladium bug is tough, it's not that desperate, right? If a sudden change were to occur on this planet, tens of millions of people would die in the empire at most, but it would have a good reason to go to war with the Iron Army Complex. And it was the kind of reason that was so determined that the Pallai people were demolished even by their country and race, and neither the alliance nor other countries could say anything.

"In addition, the Earth's observers..." The Brigadier carefully observed Shameen's eyes and said, "It's that Yu Lian. He has also been hanging out with the Tiejun people during this time. Moreover, the Earth's observers, and That Tantai Jing is here. Viscount, what do you think..."

"I understand. I will immediately bring people to support Count Seliora." Viscount Shameen interrupted the other party.

Brigadier General Kebede shrugged and said nothing more, acting like "I'm just a porter of information." As for how the other party decides, he himself doesn't bother to care.

Viscount Shameen forced himself to give up the urge to take people to the observation post to arrest Yu Lian on the spot, and once again completed the detachment of his men.

Some knights led two regiments of grenadiers to Crystal City for support, some stayed at the scene, and the last group, led by him personally, rushed to the ruins of the coordination factory as quickly as possible.

Of course, he didn't know that the old enemy he wanted to arrest on the spot and the person he rescued were already having a "historic" meeting in the ruins of the coordination factory.

Yu Lian looked at the middle-aged man ten meters away in the passage directly in front of him, showed an awkward but polite smile, quickly took back his atomic light spear that had already glowed with golden light, and then saluted him with a military salute. : "Hey, what a coincidence! Earl."

After all, his military rank is Imperial General, and out of diplomatic etiquette, he should salute first.

Moreover, Yu Lian, a diplomatic attaché and member of the observation group, was theoretically invited, but not only did he not pay a visit to express his gratitude, he even beheaded his disciples and more than one of his juniors.

It's really rude. Yu Lian thought. It is normal for people to have grievances.

"Yes." The Earl nodded expressionlessly.

Now Yu Lian is fully armed, while the opponent seems to be unarmed, but it is he who is completely at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.

Yu Lian faced the leader of the Astral Knights, Duke Sartolan, who was more powerful than Count Bigliola.

He also once had a pleasant chat with the most powerful psyker in the universe, Emperor Elithel. However, he must admit that only now, the pressure he feels is the strongest.

There is no way, after all, this is not a sanctimonious social occasion, and as a warrior, Count Seliora does not need to hide his hostility or even murderous intent.

"It's just you and me here?" He showed a peaceful smile.