Chapter 426 The first lesson(1/2)
Battle Scar Canyon, Outpost 1829.
More than 3,000 federal soldiers relied on the defensive fortifications they built to hold back an imperial force that was ten times their size.
The sound of artillery fire continues, but the sound is not strong. Is it because the war has eased relatively?
No, it's just because of the extremely thin atmospheric environment of the alien planet. If those gunfires were on the blue star, it would be no exaggeration to say that it was deafening, like a thunderstorm.
"Mechas, they've sent out mechas."
"Where's our mecha?"
"The assembly has been completed."
"Let them go."
In a stalemate position defensive battle, there are generally only three ways to break the situation: 1. Use indiscriminate covering firepower to level the defensive position. 2. Use a large number of troops to forcefully break through the fire blockade regardless of casualties, and fill those defensive positions with corpses.
fortifications.
The third method is to use the mecha to rush in directly and destroy the fire output units on the position.
Even an empire that has a jump gate and can mobilize all its citizens is unwilling to use the first two methods to attack federal positions unless necessary.
So their mecha troops naturally launched an attack on outpost 1829.
The federal mecha warriors who had been waiting inside the outpost's defense line for a long time started screaming after receiving the order to dispatch.
When many people face "beasts" like the Imperial Orangutan, they hope that they can also transform into beasts.
"The numbering is completed, each unit pays attention to its own goals."
"Team three, all of them, follow me."
"Pay attention to the cooperative fighting. If you can fight more, don't fight alone. If anyone dares to fight alone, I will break their legs when they come back."
"The one with more Venus goes up first to attract firepower."
"With great power comes great responsibility. It's time to fulfill our responsibilities."
The more than 400 mechas at the outpost were divided into sixteen squads. When the order to dispatch was given, the communication channels of each squad sounded a bit chaotic.
However, their formation after breaking out of the bunker was not chaotic at all. They lined up neatly and everyone occupied their positions.
The more than 400 federal mechas actually had no numerical advantage when facing the 300 charging imperial mechas.
The individual combat power gap between the Federation mecha warriors and the empire mecha warriors will not be directly smoothed out by the miracle brought by Ji Xinghe. They are also standard mecha warriors, and the vast majority of the federation mecha warriors cannot guarantee that
Winning a duel, let alone winning without any injuries.
Judging from past performance, the more than 400 mechas at the 1829 outpost, with the cooperation of positional firepower, would have to lose at least 100 to repel these 300 imperial mechas.
It can only be repulsed, not completely annihilated.
All of them knew this, but none of them chose to retreat when they should have charged.
fear death?
If they were all afraid of death, Battle Scar Canyon would have been completely occupied by the Empire.
They are not afraid of death.
When they begin to charge, the Empire cannot stop them, but someone can.
"Ready to charge!"
When the shouts rang out, more than four hundred federal mechas roared into action, and their footsteps made the ground tremble.
But before their speed could surge, a new order suddenly came.
"Mecha formation, retreat immediately."
The charging momentum of more than 400 federal mechas suddenly stopped, and the formation was somewhat chaotic. The order from the outpost commander made them subconsciously look at the alarm prompt system.
No imperial missile bombing?
So why retreat?
In the communication channel, several super mecha warriors made angry noises.
"Are we going to give up on 1829? It's only been more than half a month. We retreated from 1840 to 1829. Do we still want to retreat?"
"Retreat to the headquarters? Don't you want the Western Theater Command?"
"Even if we have to give up 1829, we can't retreat. We can only retreat by letting others retreat first."
"Everyone is here, ready to continue charging."
A super-class mecha warrior directly disobeyed military orders and shouted angrily on the entire communication channel: "Brothers, we can't retreat first, because if we retreat first, no one can stop them."
This is another account that cannot be calculated at all. How to calculate the lives of more than 3,000 federal soldiers and the lives of more than 400 federal mecha warriors?
For some generals on Nantianmen, this account is actually easy to settle, but for the soldiers on the battlefield, this account should not be settled.
"I say it again, everyone is here to execute the retreat order."
"We are retreating, will you stop us?"
This kind of debate should not happen between professional soldiers, but before becoming professional soldiers, they all have a common identity - human beings.
Now that the enemy is approaching, this argument is fatal to Outpost 1829.
The commander who wanted to force the order to buy time and then explain it later ignored that his authority was actually not enough.
This is normal. It took more than half a month to retreat from the defense line where Outpost 1840 was to the location of Outpost 1829.
How many heroic bones have been left along the way?
Morale is low and people's grief and anger are accumulating. How many people are not afraid of death just because they want to die?
When the troops from all walks of life were reduced to fragments and mixed to defend outpost No. 1829, the temporary commander was not commanding the direct troops.
Seeing that more than 400 federal mechas were disobeying orders and preparing to continue charging, the commander came helplessly and prepared to explain.
But his explanation was interrupted.
A voice sounded on the communication channel.
"I am Ji Xinghe, I will block it."
The charging momentum of more than 400 federal mechas that had just started stopped again. They could see them behind them without turning around at all. They actually controlled the mechas to turn around and look behind them.
Because of the terrain, they were unable to see the scene they imagined.
But that voice was so familiar, so familiar that they didn't need to doubt it at all.
Colonel Ji Xinghe... no, it's General Ji Xinghe, is he here?
They were in the midst of a war, and their communications with the rear were affected and controlled to a certain extent, so they didn't know that the Ping An had landed, or that Ji Xinghe had chosen to join the war at the first opportunity.
But what they knew was that if Ji Xinghe said he would block it, then he would definitely be able to block it.
"retreat."
"Retreat immediately, everyone is there, return to the bunker."
More than 400 federal mechas that had just disobeyed military orders, just because Ji Xinghe said eight words to them, so they all carried out the order that they were unwilling to carry out just now.
They didn't even know how many mechas Ji Xinghe had brought for support.
The commander of Outpost 1829 was a little excited and a little helpless. He also felt a little embarrassed and a little regretful.
His idea was actually correct. There was no need to say three or five sentences about a matter of one sentence. We should retreat first and then talk about it. More than four hundred mechas were standing there neatly, weren't they waiting for the empire to bombard them with artillery fire?
But after all, he overestimated himself and underestimated Ji Xinghe.
If he had known that Ji Xinghe's words were so effective, why would he have embarrassed himself and just asked Ji Xinghe to give the order?
It’s just one sentence, why is the difference so big?
Fortunately, he is from Yingzhou, otherwise, what he said would be the same as Ji Xinghe's.
The empire's artillery fire has arrived, and the more than 400 federal mechas that began to retreat retreated behind the bunker in evasion.
But their eyes were always focused on the back of the defense line, and the scene they were looking forward to finally appeared.
Ten federal mechas charged side by side, crossed a gentle slope, and appeared in their sight.
The gold stars on these ten mechas shine like the stars in the night sky under the light of the sky that penetrates into the canyon.
Dazzling but not dazzling, on the contrary, it brings endless warmth to people like the spring sunshine.
"Ji Xinghe, this is General Ji Xinghe."
"General Ji Xinghe is here, he is here."
Cheers suddenly sounded from the fighting outpost No. 1829. Everyone who saw the ten mechas couldn't help shouting, as if they had already won the victory.
When ten mechas passed through their defense line and were bombarded by imperial artillery fire, they rushed straight towards three hundred imperial mechas.
People were shocked again.
"Zhanshan? General Ji Xinghe is driving Zhanshan? Not Xingyue? Not General A?"
"Where's the back? Where's the Galaxy Mecha Independent Corps? Why is there no more back there?"
"Ten, only ten mechas?"
When more than 400 federal mechas faced 300 imperial mechas, at least 100 of them had to be sacrificed to defeat them.
To be continued...