Him and their stars

At this moment, the Sobaek fleet, with the battlecruiser Yu Rabbit as its flagship, has arrived at the DL102 galaxy, which is only two jumps away from the Yaochi star.

On the bridge of the Royal Rabbit, Rear Admiral Yeager Soback held his head high, looking at the expectant expression on Miss Viscount Serlu's face, and pressed his temples with a headache: "So, those who are besieging the Yaochi Galaxy Major General Sumer, do you hope I can help you and give him some advice?"

Miss Serlu nodded gravely.

Soback pressed his forehead helplessly: "Is it already the third day of the landing operation over there? Could it be that the progress is not going well?"

"It's not just that the progress is not going well. It's simply that we have lost our troops and abandoned our armor." Miss Serlu showed a more painful expression.

Soback glanced at the other party suspiciously: "I don't know if it's my imagination. Serlu, are you gloating now?"

"This is your misunderstanding! Okay, okay, there is really nothing I can do. Since you have asked, I can't help but answer." Miss Serlu said helplessly: "Okay, I admit it, to Major General Surmei Our respect is indeed limited. This is actually the accumulated grievances of several generations."

"Oh, the grievances between princes and lords? The kind that can be filmed for 10 seasons of TV series by accident?" Soback, who was born in a run-down noble family, expressed envy.

"Yes, there have been some discords between my family and the Surmei family for generations. But I have no personal grudges with Major General Surmei. Although he was the instructor of the superior officer when he was studying at the Royal Military Academy, he asked the inferior officer to I rewrote the paper three times, but this is a business matter after all, and there is really no personal grudge.”

Good guy, this is not a hatred as deep as the sea!

"However, you should know me. No matter how bad I do, I will never treat the casualties of our soldiers as a joke."

"...In short, Major General Surmei didn't win?" Yeager decided to return the topic to the current situation.

Miss Serlu put on a rather heavy expression: "Yes, the situation is not optimistic."

Jaeger Soback said it was difficult to understand. Our own side has absolute orbital air supremacy and absolute fleet superiority. Even if we are not optimistic, how can we not be optimistic?

Then, Miss Serlu began to explain in detail the battle situation of the past three days.

The fleet led by Major General Suermei entered Yaochi with a very cautious attitude. They had already launched a large-scale wide-area anti-reconnaissance mechanism before the jump, so they immediately sensed the signals of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and satellites, and even followed the clues to capture the signal source on the surface of the Yaochi planet.

Major General Suermei immediately ordered a long-range attack on the signal source of the Yaochi planet.

He did not use thermonuclear warheads. On the one hand, they did not want to destroy the balance of the natural environment of the Holy Land planet, and on the other hand, they also planned to persuade the 38th Division and Marshal Li Gelu to surrender.

This academic general was a simple, strong and steady man, but he was not a bloodthirsty person.

Missiles with conventional warheads plowed through almost all the peaks and mountains near Marshal Li Grad, knocking out all signal sources. Subsequently, the destroyers under his command entered low-Earth orbit, and after issuing an hour-long bombing warning for the entire planet, they conducted a round of exploratory bombings on the barracks and fortresses on the outskirts of Grad, Marshal Li.

This time, conventional warheads were also used. This is of course to warn the defenders that they can switch to more lethal three-phase bombs at any time.

Immediately afterwards, naturally he was persuaded to surrender. The Imperial Army sent an emotional letter of persuasion to surrender to Marshal Li Golla, written by Major General Surmei himself, stating that as long as the defenders surrendered, all dignity and honor could be retained, and no one would be mistreated. , even non-human prisoners of war can be guaranteed humanitarian treatment.

Then, Marshal Li Gele's response was only two words: "F*ck!"

Major General Surmei was furious. He was born in a noble family and was an academic. He felt that the people on earth were a bit too unreasonable. If they didn't surrender, they wouldn't surrender. Why would they utter vulgar words?

At this point, if he didn't launch a fierce attack, his prestige as the commander-in-chief of an army would be gone.

Of course, as a cautious and steady academic general, Major General Surmei was not so reckless as to directly parachute the soldiers into the urban area of ​​​​Gela, Marshal Li. He parachuted half of his troops, two Marine brigades and one Armored Grenadier brigade, into the wilderness 50 kilometers away from the city. He opened the formation in a standard fan pattern, established a command post and set up artillery positions in an orderly manner. , field hospitals and maintenance depots.

It must be said that although this prudent approach seems overly cautious and inefficient, it will not go wrong. If a group of crazy wild beasts hadn't suddenly launched an attack, these construction projects would have laid a solid foundation for the Yaochi strategy, right?

They were a group of beasts with carapace on their backs, hoof-shaped feet that were good at running, and were close in size to mammoths, but also had tusks. In this holy planet, they should live in the ecological chain of wolves. Unfortunately, due to the start of the war, the natural history commissioners of the Galactic Civilization Council did not arrive and could not conduct more detailed biological research.

Therefore, the Empire really did not expect that the carapace of these things could actually block bullets.

They did not expect that Brigadier General Mobisu, who was in charge of the construction, would be shot in the head by a cold gun that came out of nowhere during the melee.

After the imperial army wiped out the herd, they also discovered the dead body of the Laitalin general in the seven-to-eight landing engineering camp. Half of his head was torn off by a cold gun, and the remaining eye on his half-drawn face was filled with shock and regret, which made people shudder to look at it.

Among the senior officers and important personnel who also died in the cold gunfire were a colonel, a lieutenant colonel, two majors, and four senior sergeants in charge of technical work.

The Jaegers immediately launched an all-out search, but no definite clues were obtained from thermal imaging and biological trace restoration. It was not until the fleet's chief navigator, Colonel Arianne Einach, landed on the surface in person and played a cameo role as a psychic detective. It was finally determined that the enemy snipers should have landed from the coast 15 kilometers away from the camp.

After their attack was completed, they quickly evacuated and have now escaped into the sea.

The Imperial Hunters were now preparing to change into deep-sea equipment and continue the pursuit.

But before they could finish changing their equipment, a huge shadow suddenly appeared on the sea level in the distance. The giant thing in the sea, which was as huge as an island, let out a long cry like an ancient bell, and then submerged into the blue waves.

The imperial soldiers trembled one after another. They all couldn't help but feel that at that moment, this blue sea full of vitality seemed a little bit restrained inexplicably.

The forward base still needs to be repaired, but it will probably need to be moved to a different location, and it must be on alert.

As a result, the nearly 20,000 imperial soldiers could only stay away from the coastline in disgrace and embarrassment, found a new base location, and prepared to set up a cordon and set up basic monitoring equipment.

There is no way, if the camp is only halfway built and is charged by crazy beasts, the blow to the morale of the army will definitely be devastating.

However, before the camp's monitoring and defense equipment could be set up, that night, the earthlings' night attack began.

It was clear that the warships in the orbit of the planet were already controlling the surrounding fields around the clock, but the Earthlings' army still found their way into their camp and sneaked in through the surveillance network that had not yet been closed.

...Well, strictly speaking, they are not earthlings, they are just a group of sand people, indigenous people conquered by earthlings.

Generally speaking, for these natives who had just surrendered to the primitive society, the empire had always regarded them as large livestock and spent little effort on collecting information about the sand people. Little do they know that in the past year, the Sand People's Army has built several caves for hiding soldiers at a depth of 500 meters underground in the wilderness near Marshal Li Galle, and carried out operations through a dense network of tunnels. connection.

A company of sand civilian troops had been hiding in the hidden soldier cave. They started underground civil engineering work overnight and dug until they reached the vicinity of the Imperial Army camp before launching the attack.

The newly repaired maintenance platform and warehouse were blown up, and five ATATs were damaged. Six semi-automatic fire support vehicles were implanted with viruses and began to attack indiscriminately, immediately igniting a transport landing ship that had just landed fully loaded with ammunition and energy.

The sand people company retreated as soon as they arrived, along the way they came, and also blew up all the hiding caves and tunnels, disappearing like ghosts into the boundless wilderness.

This group of imperial troops can indeed be considered elite. It only took them an hour to completely restore order in the camp. After taking inventory, they found that the losses were not large. A total of only 127 people were killed and more than 300 were injured. The burned supplies and equipment were also within the acceptable range.

However, for the Imperial Army soldiers who had just achieved a glorious victory in the Ring of Miracles, it was an intolerable humiliation.

Brigadier General Mando, who took over from Brigadier General Mobisu to command the early landing battle, was a Wolfgang Brigadier with a bad temper. He roared loudly at the messy camp and the disgraced officers.

"This is not kicking my ass! This is clearly a slap in Commander Surme's face! No, this is clearly giving His Highness King Su eye drops! How can you accept such humiliation?"

So, the three regiments of stormtroopers began a mighty pursuit!

However, before the pursuing troops saw Marshal Li's fortress on the outskirts of Grad, an ATAT charging at the front was hit by a rail artillery shell that came from nowhere. Immediately afterwards, a row of violent plasma cannonballs roared over, falling on the soldiers' queue like a heavy rain, and immediately turned into a high-temperature energy vortex.

This is so unscientific! Why didn't we find the enemy's artillery positions? Are those space rats in planetary orbit high on moon candy? Frontline commanders expressed incomprehension.

He quickly ordered a retreat.

But at this time, another large string of spider mines jumped out from the waist-high grass, from the mounds of the platform, and from the cracks in the rocks, and kept exploding at the feet of the soldiers.

These thumb-sized spider mines are actually difficult to cause fatal injuries to Imperial stormtroopers wearing mechas, but they are very likely to tear apart the enemy's leg and ankle armor, or directly knock out the mecha's engine. , directly depriving the imperial soldiers of their mobility.

And we all know that on the battlefield, a soldier who has lost his mobility often needs two or more friendly troops to take care of him.

The imperial commander called for bombing support from orbit and finally retreated with the soldiers.

Brigadier General Mando counted the number of people and found that an ambush had resulted in the loss of one ATAT and three hover tanks, and the number of casualties exceeded 800.

In this way, three days before the Empire's landing, they had already suffered four-digit casualties before they even had time to touch Marshal Li's city defenses in Grale.