Chapter 499, Erso's Death, Recovering the Territory

The battle between Martins and Erso lasted the longest among the 68 battles.

The two giants wearing different Terminator power armors fought desperately with superb swordsmanship.

As time went on, Martins gradually found the key to dealing with Erso.

Don't even think about fighting with swordsmanship. There is a gap, and you have to face it. He must make good use of his equipment advantage.

And he did it really well.

He used the "cheating" tactics again and again. When he suffered a loss in swordsmanship, he would often give up defense and launch a fierce counterattack. It's obvious that you may cut my iron cavalry with a sword and hurt me, but my sword, with the unyielding defense effect, you will definitely hurt more than me.

Erso definitely won't fight this kind of exchange and can only return to defense.

But sometimes he can't help it.

Or think that this exchange can make money.

In fact, in several exchanges, the two basically took advantage of each other. You cut a scar on my abdomen, and I will give you a hard one on your arm.

Often, Martins was less injured due to the thickness of his armor; but due to the difference in swordsmanship, he always suffered more attacks than Erso.

After fighting to this point, both of them were already covered with scars, and it was hard to say who was in a worse condition.

But the accumulation of fatigue and injuries made the two no longer fight as airtight and foolproof as when the battle just started. They inevitably began to make mistakes, which further led to them being more easily hit by the other side during the confrontation.

The warriors of both war groups who were watching became more nervous. They could see that the duel had come to an end and was about to decide the outcome. With more mistakes on both sides, the probability of the next sword deciding the outcome was becoming greater and greater.

And this moment finally came.

Erso once again found an opportunity through his exquisite swordsmanship. And this opportunity was better than every time before. Under his mobilization, Martins's door was wide open, and his sword went straight to Martins' head.

Previously, he had hit Martins' head. However, the sword was a little crooked, and Martins reacted quickly, so he failed to end the battle, but only split a crack on Martins's cavalry helmet.

Now, he had the opportunity to follow this crack and hit him again. He was sure that he could kill Martins with this sword.

Martins could no longer block Erso's sword, and he still adopted a similar strategy as before, giving up defense and stabbing the power sword forward with his backhand. The part he chose was the junction of Erso's chest armor and abdomen, which had also suffered a round of attacks from him before.

And this time, Erso did not choose to return to defense.

He chose to take a knife alone and split Martins' head off.

Even if Martins' knife might stab into his heart along the abdomen, he would not hesitate.

Space Marines have two hearts, and destroying one is a serious injury, but it will not kill them on the spot, and they can be rescued later.

The two men's attacks hit almost at the same time.

Erso's sword clearly hit Martins' head, and it was stuck precisely on the crack that had existed before.

Under his heavy blow, the crack suddenly became larger. Although he felt a sense of sluggishness, the sword continued to chop down. Until, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen.

His power armor was pierced.

Moreover, Martins's method was just as he expected in the worst case, piercing his heart diagonally upward.

In order to do this, Martins' body also leaned forward as much as possible, with his head against Erso's sword, so that he could stab diagonally upward with the sword.

This certainly made it easier for Erso to slash with his sword, but he felt terrible that he didn't seem to have completely cut through the helmet, and his power sword seemed to be stuck.

The helmet was hard enough, and maybe Martins' skull was hard enough.

He was still trying to break it completely, even if his body was pierced, and even a heart was pierced, it did not affect his power output.

Of course it hurts, and it's a serious injury, but as a genetically modified super warrior, the Space Marines can be regarded as a powerful war machine. Especially for a top master like Erso, unless he dies completely or suffers objective injuries such as broken limbs, his combat effectiveness will hardly be affected.

Even if one heart is lost, the other will beat more vigorously, giving him power that is no less than his peak moment.

This is of course not sustainable, and it is a huge burden, which will affect the recovery of future injuries. But at the moment of risking his life, there is no need to worry, his body will automatically and instinctively react like this.

However, before he completely cut off Martins' helmet, a terrible electric current suddenly appeared in his body, piercing his second heart.

But at the same time, Erso's sword finally cut into the entire helmet.

The bodies of the two people were fixed.

...

"Who won?" Carduso couldn't help asking Pastor Rizzo next to him.

At this moment, a power sword was embedded in Martins' head, cutting half of it; another power sword pierced Erso's abdomen, sinking most of it.

After being connected together by the power sword, the two war captains were like two wax figures, motionless.

Even with Carduso's eyesight, he couldn't tell what the final result would be.

On the one hand, it was a bit far, but the most important thing was that the two people fought too fiercely, and the difference at the last moment was too subtle. No matter who won or lost, who lived or died, it was possible.

There was even a considerable probability that the two people would die together in this duel.

Even Pastor Rizzo frowned at this time. What Carduso couldn't see, he couldn't see either.

Even with a strong belief, he still didn't speak at this time, just like everyone else, staring at the situation in the arena nervously.

The moment of waiting seemed very long at this moment.

The two people who were still finally moved.

Martins slowly pulled out the power sword that had pierced Erso's body.

Erso's body lost support and fell backwards with a bang. The heavy Terminator power armor smashed a large piece of dust on the ground.

Martins staggered back a few steps, and the power sword was still embedded in his helmet. He let go of his sword, then grabbed Erso's sword, pulled it out, and then took off his helmet.

A hideous blood mark was on his face, from the top of his forehead, cutting his left eyebrow, cutting one of his eyes, and tearing his left face apart...

Erso was really just a little bit away from cutting Martins' head open.

But in the end, Martins was still the one who survived.

After the silence, there was the jubilant shouting of the Phoenixes.

In sharp contrast, the rage on the opposite side was as quiet as a library.

Under the cheers of his fighting brothers, Martins raised his broken helmet, not caring about the blood on his face, and cheered loudly!

…

The duel between Martins and Erso was also the last duel of the entire regiment.

They haven't even finished a hundred games, let alone the Fury Flame has to win a hundred games.

So far, they have only won 11 games in total.

For these 11 victories, the Fury Flame Regiment paid the sacrifice of the regiment commander, the first captain, the second captain, three regiment champions, a series of company champions and sergeant veterans.

The eleven captives who were exchanged for them knelt on the ground. They themselves didn't think that their lives were worth so much.

And the remaining eighty-nine under the care of the Phoenix didn't want the regiment to continue fighting at all.

They couldn't fight anymore.

The surviving senior leaders of the Fury Flame Regiment - the third captain and the chief priest, stood up.

No matter how bitter they felt, they could only negotiate with the Phoenix while dragging back Kazimierz Erso's body:

"That's it, the duel is over."

"You want to admit defeat?" It was Carduso who spoke for the Phoenix, and Rizzo stood beside him.

Martins was also seriously injured. After returning to the military train, he actually fell into a coma and was dragged to the back where the pharmacist was urgently rescuing him.

Facing Carduso's contemptuous question, the third captain of the Fury Corps, Adler Paulitos, who spoke on behalf of the Fury Corps, lowered his head: "Yes, we admit defeat, you won."

"Then there are still 89 prisoners. According to the regulations, they will not be released."

Abandoning comrades.

Even if Paulitos stood up to admit defeat, all the consequences had been thought of and accepted, but when he really had to say it in person, he still felt as uncomfortable as a knife.

He even wondered why he was not the one who ended up in the previous duel?

He would rather die in the duel than endure such humiliation.

However, the humiliation had already come.

When only 11 wins out of 68 games were won, the commander of the chapter died in battle, and if the battle continued, eight hundred people might die here and they would not be able to win a hundred games, the honor of the Fury had been lost.

The humiliation was bound to fall on the Fury Chapter, and it would be "famous" throughout the universe with this duel.

Paulitus really would rather die.

But it couldn't.

The chapter had to survive, and living required greater courage than dying.

He could only take a deep breath and said, "Let you deal with it."

After that, he left without looking back.

Before boarding the ship leaving the surface with the silent Furies, they heard gunshots.

As if it was intentional, the gunshots in the distance were heard one after another.

No one wanted to count, but every Fury Space Marine clearly heard the 89 gunshots in the distance, no more, no less.

At the moment before boarding the spacecraft, as the last person on board, Paulitos couldn't help but look back.

In fact, it was too far away, even with the superhuman vision of the Space Marines, it was not clear.

But the place where the 68 core members of the regiments shed blood, and the way 89 Fury prisoners were executed, all seemed to be revealed in front of his eyes and deeply engraved in his heart.

...

The backbone of the Fury Regiment was broken.

Perhaps, with the perseverance of the Space Marines, they will be able to recover from such a blow in the future.

But at least not now.

They fled from the Dragon Eagle Star Region in a panic like a stray dog, without staying for too long.

Even the Space Marines could not avoid the effect of morale being broken.

They tried to take away all the naval ships under their control, but it was not just them who had morale broken.

The result of this duel spread quickly, and many ship commanders who originally followed Fury would also wonder in their hearts: Is it really a good thing to follow Fury like this?

The direct fleet brought by the Fury Regiment, that is, their regiment fleet, did not have this problem. Although morale was low, they were all their own people after all, so Fury could still take them away.

However, in the Dragon Eagle Star Region, many of the ships that originally stood with them were not their direct line. More than half of the ships were still from the Imperial Navy.

Among them, the Yunluo Fleet was the main force, and in addition to some of the previous Iron Teeth War, the Eastern Space Government mobilized some support ships from all over the universe, which basically fell under the command of the Fury Corps.

When Fury was about to evacuate, they had no obligation to go with Fury. After this duel, they didn't want to leave even more.

Many ships were "left behind" while evacuating; especially before the jump points of some star tunnels, some ships seemed to have started the jump engine, but after the jump, there were always a few or a dozen ships that stayed in place, as if the jump engine was broken.

These ships were successfully "incorporated" through the Alliance Navy Command Center that accompanied them from afar.

It's not that they were completely incorporated, that's against the rules, these ships all have their own fleet sequence.

However, Ye Lixia ordered these ships to temporarily obey the command in the name of the Imperial Navy Admiral - she is now - so there is no problem.

Until the Fury Flame Regiment left the Dragon Eagle Star Region, they were left with only the direct fleet they brought into the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

It was even less than that time, after all, a lot of losses were in the war.

As for the evacuation plan formulated by the Fury Flame Regiment's command before the duel, all the plans could not keep up with the changes and were abandoned.

They had no time and no mind to plunder and search on various planets.

Even if they forced the implementation of this evacuation plan, it was actually unrealistic.

The main fleet of the alliance and the ferocious Phoenix were following behind.

They had thought about this situation before. If the alliance dared to do this, they would turn around and fight the alliance, and have a local conflict. Who is afraid of whom?

But now, he has already admitted defeat, so what's the point of fighting?

Can he win?

The Broken Spine Dog has no intention of fighting, and just wants to leave this nightmare star field as soon as possible.

The Alliance has thus recovered the entire Dragon Eagle Star Field.