My empire of stars

A round-headed missile with a diameter of one meter slowly extended upward from the inside of the mecha tank.

A few seconds later, a burst of fire suddenly appeared on both sides of the tank, and the missile instantly took off from the tank.

The missile continued to rise until it entered the planet's low-Earth orbit dozens of seconds later.

At this time, there were already dozens of similar missiles floating in orbit in space.

When the tail thrusters of the missiles were turned off, they began to spray gas around them, adjusting the missile's posture to aim the warhead at the ground.

Then, the thrusters at the tails of these missiles ignited again, and these missiles were instantly accelerated to sub-light speed and rushed towards the ground.

Just after passing through the atmosphere, the fairings on the heads of these missiles exploded and flew backwards, revealing the 36 nuclear warheads densely tied together inside.

When the missiles rushed into the low altitude and were about to reach the enemy's air defense range, these sub-warheads suddenly broke free and sprinkled on the ground like flowers scattered by fairies.

The total of sixty ballistic missiles launched by the Imperial forces carried more than two thousand nuclear warheads.

These nuclear warheads fell towards the encirclement of tens of thousands of square kilometers where the Imperial landing troops were located.

Just as the interception beam of the Spiral Federation was about to be launched, the main body of the missile, which had already fired out the warhead, suddenly turned into a small sun and shot out dazzling light all around.

At this moment, all the optical scanning equipment on the battlefield failed, and the electromagnetic waves released by the missiles that were invisible to the naked eye also interfered with the radar of the interception equipment.

When the light faded, when the soldiers of the Spiral Federation were about to intercept these warheads, they were horrified to find that these warheads had already flown in front of them.

In mid-air, the two thousand nuclear warheads exploded instantly, and two thousand small suns appeared in the sky instantly.

Immediately afterwards, two thousand shock waves instantly enveloped the entire defense line of the Spiral Federation.

The air pushed by the nuclear bomb explosion once again formed a second shock wave that lifted up all the armored vehicles and fortifications on the defense line that were not destroyed by energy.

Although each of these nuclear warheads launched by the Empire is only the size of a fist, each of them has a power equivalent to tens of millions of tons of TNT.

The reason why antimatter is not used is that the cost of antimatter is too high. Ground forces are not worth using such expensive weapons. Moreover, nuclear weapons are also extremely powerful in planetary ground battles. In addition, the current technology makes the production cost of nuclear weapons extremely low.

When the smoke and dust on the battlefield dissipated, the defensive positions of the Spiral Federation opposite the Empire's ground forces had been completely overturned.

Although it seems to be terrifyingly powerful, it actually only has a lethal effect on the opponent's infantry.

Those armored vehicles and tanks that were blown away gently supported themselves on the ground with a mechanical arm and turned themselves over.

Now the armor and shields of ground units of the same level of civilization as the Empire can no longer be wiped out by nuclear weapons.

The shock wave generated by nuclear weapons can also have a lethal effect on those soldiers who are only equipped with power armor.

The armored vehicles and tanks that were blown away were only slightly injured. If you want to destroy these heavy targets, you must put them right in the center of the nuclear explosion.

However, the target of the Empire's nuclear weapons was not them. The target of the Empire's nuclear weapons was the heavy artillery that the enemy had just exposed!

These nuclear bombs seemed to fall aimlessly, but in fact they were all located above the heavy artillery positions of the Spiral Federation when they were detonated.

And the position that once deployed a large number of heavy artillery is now only a big pit.

"All-army assault!" After seeing a message pop up on the screen, the commander of the Empire Clone Corps showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth and issued an order to assault the entire army.

The Empire mecha tank that had inserted its mechanical legs into the mud immediately stood up and rushed towards the enemy's defense line.

The clone soldiers hiding under the tank also stood up and followed the mecha tank with weapons.

At this time, the Spiral Federation's defense line had not yet recovered. Although the nuclear explosion just now did not destroy many of their heavy armored units, their infantry did lose 80%.

The remaining 20% ​​were also injured, so they had to send the heavy armored units to the defense line alone first, and the light infantry could only wait for the rear to replenish.

But taking advantage of this gap, the Empire's troops rushed up.

The four main guns on the mecha tanks fired wildly at the Spiral Federation tanks and armored vehicles on the defense line.

One tank and armored vehicle after another was pierced by the Empire's artillery and turned into a twisted and burning scrap metal.

At this time, the disadvantage of losing light infantry was revealed. Due to the limited firepower of the Spiral Federation's tanks and armored vehicles, they could only deal with the Empire's mecha tanks, but the Empire's clone soldiers had no power to stop them.

The Empire's clone soldiers were extremely scattered and kept crawling forward in a serpentine trajectory. Although they were crawling forward, with the help of power armor, they were enough to catch up with the speed of normal people running!

This made it extremely difficult for the heavy machine guns on the Spiral Empire's armored vehicles and tanks to suppress the enemy. After all, the enemy was too scattered, and at this time the heavy machine guns were not as good as the rifles in the hands of the infantry.

At this moment, the infantry in the rear of the Spiral Federation finally caught up. Millions of soldiers carrying rifles and wearing power armor ran rapidly in the craters created by the nuclear bombs, crossing the burning wreckage along the way and rushing towards the front line.

But just when the Spiral Federation thought their defense line had been stabilized, they suddenly felt that the sun had disappeared and the entire land was shrouded in shadow.

When they raised their heads in surprise, they saw the 20,000 warships that had left in the sky returning to the battlefield again.

These battleships slowly mobilized the secondary guns on the bottom of the battleships to aim at the running soldiers on the ground.

Bang bang bang, tens of thousands of loud noises sounded continuously, and then bursts of "mushroom clouds" rose from the ground.

The running Spiral Alliance soldiers were directly sent into the sky by these shells, and their limbs were flying all over the sky.

The artillery on these warships is not comparable to ground weapons. The lethality of any secondary gun shell can kill anyone within a few hundred meters in diameter, even if they are wearing power armor!

Two salvos of millions of secondary guns on 20,000 battleships wiped out all the infantry sent to the front line by the Spiral Federation!

Immediately afterwards, these secondary guns aimed their muzzles at the Spiral Federation's armored vehicles and tanks in front of the defense line.

At this time, the soldiers of the Spiral Federation really realized what the textbook meant by not fighting when orbital control was lost.

Facing these space battleships, the troops on the ground were ravaged by them like toys!