Chapter 686, Battle of Rheaduches (I)

Gu Hang had expected the atmosphere in the conference room, so he was neither sad nor happy.

His fingers tapped the table, and his smile faded.

"You are all commanders of various parties, most of you have rich combat experience and understand the current situation. I will not waste any more words."

"Suppress the hive fleet, clear the orbit, clear the ground... This is our only way."

"Don't be afraid of sacrifice, don't be afraid of failure."

"Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the empire. We can never fail under the Emperor's watch!"

"Besides this, you all know that I am a pretty good psychic. Even in the shadow of the warp, I can provide some psychic help. I dare not say that I can play an absolute key role, but at least, I can guarantee that from brain worms to high-level neuroprotozoa, they will not affect our troops."

"The rest of the things require the lives of the three armies."

"Everyone, no matter where you come from, where you will go after the war, and what goals you have in the war, victory is the only way to achieve our interests and our glory. Abandon all false thoughts and do everything for victory!"

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"Everything for victory!" Colonel Lin Xiaodong, who got off the spaceship, issued an order to all his officers.

He is a division commander of the Alliance Army. His division should have more than 40,000 soldiers, consisting of 12 front-line combat regiments, plus varying numbers of logistics, guards, air defense, divisional artillery, armored troops, special operations battalions...

Such a division is called a "large-scale division" in the Alliance Army. It has complete independent combat capabilities and is enough to support the ground war on the surface.

And Lin Xiaodong's division is also the ace division of the group army, so it is natural to take on the combat mission when the first wave of attacks reaches the ground.

But in fact, Lin Xiaodong can now command only two regiments and a few divisional troops, which may not exceed 5,000 people in total.

His entire division was fully invested in this war. As for the remaining troops, they were actually shot down during the airborne process.

In the cockpit of the large transport spacecraft, he watched the ships carrying his soldiers not far from the spacecraft he was in explode in mid-air. From the disintegrated spacecraft, countless bodies of soldiers, even living soldiers, fell from the sky like rain.

Every time he saw a ship explode, Lin Xiaodong's heart would twitch. He was afraid that his warship would also be destroyed and he would die before he could accomplish his mission; he was also angry because countless subordinates died before landing.

And when he really landed, under his command, all the troops that could still be contacted immediately took action.

The first to move were the only two remaining armored companies. Tanks and armored vehicles rushed out in a fighting posture when the hatch of the transport ship opened.

Facing the swarm of insects that had been waiting for a small number of ships to land near the landing point and slaughter the descending humans, the armored company rushed up without hesitation.

However, there were only eight Lion tanks and more than twenty armored vehicles, which were too small compared to the swarm of insects that swarmed all over the sky. No matter how big the Lion tank was, it was still nothing to the swarm of insects.

The main gun and secondary gun of the Lion kept firing, not even caring about the life of the gun barrel - the life of the whole vehicle was not sure how long it could last!

The parallel machine guns also did not stop for a moment.

The oncoming swarm of insects was swept down and blown up in batches. This also included some advanced Zerg units, such as warrior insects and tank insects, which could not resist the assault of the tank company.

The task of the armored forces was to charge against the swarm of insects, to crush and disperse the huge incoming swarm of insects, and to buy time to establish a defense line and artillery positions for the infantry that would follow immediately behind.

However, there were still things in the swarm of insects that could threaten the armored units.

The biggest threat came from the living artillery in the swarm of insects. All kinds of living bombs were fired and bombarded. The level of bombardment by the Bone-piercing Worm, which is similar to the mortar level among humans, is not a big threat to the Lion Tank, but if it hits the Walker Tank, it can still cause considerable damage; and if it reaches a small number of heavy artillery worms, or even higher-level fire-releasing worms, even the Lion Tank can't withstand a live shell. The artillery bombardment of the swarm is different from that of the human army.

They are the best executors of infantry-artillery coordinated tactics, and they even dare to let the infantry rush three to five meters outside the artillery line.

This is because the swarm is essentially a biological weapon, and their execution of orders is cold and absolute. No charging worm beast will not move forward because of fear, nor will it be bombed too far forward because of mistakes.

Of course, in fact, nothing is so absolute. In the actual execution process, there will still be many worm beasts that are bombarded by their own artillery.

However, they don't care.

They really don't care about the probability of the swarm being accidentally injured.

It doesn't matter.

As long as they can cause enough damage to the human armored forces in the assault, that's enough.

In fact, their goal was indeed achieved.

During the assault, one tank after another was destroyed. Colonel Lin Xiaodong, sitting in the command vehicle, looked at the information of his own tanks on the front line. Every once in a while, one less tank would be destroyed.

The tank company did buy them some time.

But...

"How is the artillery position going?!" he shouted hoarsely.

"Report to the division commander! It may take a few minutes..."

"In a few minutes, all our tanks will be finished!" He picked up the walkie-talkie on the side, "The guard company is dispatched! The armored vehicles drive forward at full speed to support our forward troops!"

"But division commander, if there are bugs approaching at this time..."

"If the artillery position cannot be established and our defense line cannot stand, then we are all finished! Why do you care about my safety? Follow the order!"

"Yes!"

However, the situation did not improve much.

The guard company has not yet provided support, and the tank company on the human side can no longer rush.

What to do?

He has no idea.

Is this landing doomed to fail?

What about other divisions?

I hope other brother troops can do better and avenge them...

When Lin Xiaodong couldn't help but think of such thoughts in his mind, he heard the adjutant shouting:

"Division commander! Look! There are reinforcements!"