Chapter 234, Roll In
The Chaos Eight-Pointed Star Formation that connects the real world is impregnably guarded by humans.
When there were only Space Marines and others like No. 180, they were able to hold off the storm monsters from breaking through. However, as the battle progressed, fatigue and ammunition reserves gradually made them unsustainable.
But Gu Hang's arrival eliminated all these two negative problems.
At the same time, he also ordered that the remaining 500 special elites guarding Area C7 also step into the underground space and be pulled into the realm of the Kingdom of God of the Original Angry Owl.
And with these five hundred people, the blockade of the Chaos Formation has become even more impregnable.
But Gu Hang was still not satisfied with this.
Letting the 31st Airborne Division assemble and letting Thaddeus lead the Northern Army to the designated position as soon as possible are all for the follow-up plan.
He planned to bring in the entire army.
Doesn’t the original angry owl like to pull people?
So what does it mean that Xiao Jiazi is so angry that he only pulls the area around the cultists' formation? Let’s get a bigger one!
In fact, it was not that the original angry owl wanted to draw humans into his domain, this was completely accidental.
After the Chaos Formation opened the barrier between the realm of the Raging Owl Evil God and the real world, the connection between the two became extremely close. The breath of the hell abyss naturally spreads out, passively pulling anyone who gets too close into here.
It is said to be "half" because the real body of the person being pulled in is still in the real world, and what comes here is the mind, will and soul.
But the abyss of hell, or the entire 'real world', is not a pure energy world. This is a place where physical laws are chaotic, spiritual energy is dense, and energy, will, and matter are chaotically entangled with each other.
When people come here, they will get the same body as in the real world, and the things they carry with them will also be sent in in some way. Ammunition emptied here cannot be used in the real world; when a person is injured here, the same injury will be reflected on the body outside, and death is even more so.
Previously, what Gu Hang achieved in 'eliminating fatigue' was purely using spiritual power to interfere with the warriors' feelings and use spiritual energy to replenish their 'stamina'. As for the ammunition, he had 'carried' it from the real world and placed it on these soldiers.
Then, when it came to pulling half of the 31st Airborne Division into the kingdom of the evil god, Gu Hang deliberately expanded the influence of the evil energy formation and directed it to the assembly area of the 31st Airborne Division, bringing them all in. Pulled in.
The entire airborne division, with its artillery and more than 5,000 people, was dragged in. Of course, it was not just to seal the chaotic formation.
If you just want to do this, the existing manpower is enough.
In fact, what Gu Hang was targeting was the Angry Owl God himself.
At this moment, human warriors have occupied a large area within the Kingdom of Angry Owl. Half of the infantry division deployed multi-level defensive positions in a circular front with a circumference of almost two kilometers.
Previously, the goal of the human warriors was to prevent the monsters from rushing out of the chaos formation. But now, let alone rushing out, it is impossible for those monsters to even get within three hundred meters of the Chaos Formation.
However, those ordinary monsters made of storms were never in Gu Hang's consideration.
Although they are numerous, endless, and generated at any time, even long-range attack methods are scarce. A few powerful ones can launch wind bombs, causing a certain amount of damage, but as long as such a thing appears, they will be wiped out from a distance.
On the contrary, the firepower on the human side is too much.
The real world also has a real impact on the real world. After those artillery pieces were passed over, the 155mm howitzers fired still had terrifying lethality.
And none of these blows required Gu Hang's strength.
On the contrary, after so many humans stably occupied this three-hundred-meter-deep position, some special changes occurred here. The dark clouds above the head have dissipated a little, and the solid ground has become soft. If the shovel is poked downward, it can poke cracks in the rock; if it is pushed a few times, a hole can be dug.
This is a change in the laws of the field.
Areas that humans have occupied for a long time are gradually breaking away from the concept of the evil god's realm and will no longer be controlled by the original angry owl.
This is exactly Gu Hang's goal.
After he gained a lot of understandable knowledge, this was the solution he came up with - he wanted to completely kill this evil god, disintegrate its kingdom, and solve the original cult that shrouded the Raging Owl Star from the source. question!
When a considerable part of the area was occupied by humans and the attributes of the Kingdom of God were removed, the original angry owl moved forward even more slowly.
Although it was originally an angry owl that belonged to the real world, over the past few hundred years, it had long embraced the Hell Abyss, been accepted by it, and became a part of the Hell Abyss.
It wants to cross the curtain between the real world and the real world, which is very, very difficult, and the restrictions it receives are very large. Even if someone opens the 'door' for him, he has to open the curtain bit by bit by himself. .
Originally, this process only took three to five hours, but the destruction of the cult ritual by the Space Marines forced the high priest to rush the ritual to its climax, which resulted in the time being greatly extended.
But despite this, it will eventually reach the destination in fifteen or twenty hours.
But more and more humans joined in, and even separated part of the area where the Chaos Array, which was equivalent to the gate, was located from his kingdom of God, which made this time even longer.
The manifestation of this was that the Angry Owl God was extremely angry and tried very hard to move forward, but he walked slower and slower, and even got farther and farther away.
But Gu Hang was still not satisfied.
At present, it seems that it will take about thirty-two hours for this original Angry Owl to reach the humans.
This is enough for the main force led by Thadius to reach the battle site.
But he didn't want to do it so extreme.
Now, we should prepare in advance for the next battle.
Under his will, humans began to continue to advance.
The Space Marines and the Battle Sisters formed a vanguard team and suddenly broke out of the position and expanded a part of the space outward. Then, the special warfare elite immediately followed to consolidate the position; then, the ordinary soldiers of the 31st Airborne Division took over the consolidated position.
At the same time, the Space Marines and the Battle Sisters will continue to rush out, and the special warfare elites will follow...
And so on.
They are further expanding the occupied area.
On the one hand, this will delay the arrival of the original angry owl at the gate, making the subsequent plan more relaxed; on the other hand, as the occupied area expands, it will also strip away more parts of the kingdom of God and weaken the strength of the original angry owl.
However, when the position was expanded to a depth of 600 meters, they still stopped.
Gu Hang also needs to save his strength.
Although, in the real world, his psychic strength has also risen by several levels, but it is limited after all. Later, he will have to bring in 50,000 people, plus countless weapons and equipment.
He doesn't want to consume too much before that.
Therefore, in addition to "carrying" ammunition from outside to replenish it, he doesn't plan to do anything to relieve fatigue for the soldiers. The cost is not large, but if the number is more than 5,000, it is still considerable.
The soldiers began to take turns to rest and fight.
It is enough to maintain this 600-meter-deep defense position, and there is no need to do more.
But even though one-third of the soldiers were always resting, those ordinary storm monsters still had no way to break through the human defense line.
Heavy artillery could always reduce their numbers in large numbers from a distance, making it impossible for them to concentrate their forces to rush to one place. As long as they showed such an intention, there would be whistling artillery fire.
If they rushed over in a scattered manner, they would not be able to stop the blockade of machine guns.
If they were closer, they would be shot by rifles.
After death, the monsters would dissipate into the wind and wait to re-condense. Therefore, these monsters wanted to rush over by accumulating corpses as cover.
Of course, the human side was not without casualties.
In 32 hours, the soldiers of the 31st Airborne Division suffered nearly a thousand casualties.
The reason why they suffered a casualty rate of almost 20% was mainly because those storm monsters were too fearless and did not need to rest. In these 32 hours, there was a real battle going on all the time, not to mention that the soldiers on the human side needed to rest.
Those monsters rushed forward mindlessly, even if they could rush up and release a wind bomb.
The most threatening attack method of those monsters is to charge in groups. Although most of their attempts to do so were destroyed by artillery bombardment during the charge. However, the ammunition of the artillery is not unlimited. Even if Gu Hang transferred all the shells delivered to the Polar Industrial City to the evil god kingdom here, there is still no way to really make dozens of artillery fire continuously.
Even if there are wind falcons outside constantly delivering shells, they can't withstand the current consumption rate.
Even if there are enough shells, the life of the gun barrel can't withstand it.
In this case, those storm monsters can still find an opportunity to complete a large-scale group charge.
The artillery can't keep up, the machine gun can't finish sweeping, and the rifles haven't killed them all, and there are still a lot of monsters rushing to the face.
Although they will eventually be wiped out, before that, the human warriors will still suffer certain losses.
Thirty-two hours later, the number of losses reached a thousand people.
A casualty rate of nearly 20% would normally have a significant impact on morale.
But in this special battlefield, the situation was not bad.
First of all, there were the Governor, the Space Marines, the Sisters of Battle, the Political Commissars... all of which were great morale boosters for ordinary soldiers.
And secondly, and fundamentally, the goal: they were not fighting aimlessly here. They had a clear combat goal. According to the Governor, reinforcements would arrive in just 32 hours.
At that time, it would be time for them to launch a full-scale counterattack and completely eliminate this evil monster that was wreaking havoc on the planet.
The soldiers believed this was true, because the Governor himself had always been here and had never left.
And the fact was that the Governor was not bluffing.
Or rather, Thadius was not bluffing.
Thirty-two hours, thirty-two hours.
In addition to the 31st Airborne Division, which had entered and even completed the occupation of the Polar Industrial City by infiltrating in disguise and airdropping with hundreds of aircraft, Taddius also has five division-brigade units under his command, namely:
The 9th Garrison Division, the 30th, 32nd, and 33rd Infantry Divisions, and the 35th Combined Brigade.
This adds up to almost 50,000 people, and the heavy equipment is quite sufficient.
They are the army that the president of Polar Industry, Pierre, had gathered at the northern border after receiving the news.
Before the 31st Airborne Division and many elite alliance troops took action, they had already entered the northern region and rushed all the way to the Polar Industrial City.
There are indeed some armed forces in the middle.
For example, the guard regiment of the Polar Industrial City, and the militia self-defense forces of some settlements.
However, Taddius completely ignored them.
As long as those local armed forces don't go crazy and try to stop them, Taddius will not make trouble. His primary goal was to cooperate with the airborne troops and reach the Polar Industrial City as soon as possible.
If there were any who tried to stop them, Thadius would mercilessly command his troops to run over them.
No one could stop their troops in a field battle.
Especially when eighteen Lion tanks rushed forward in a row, followed by hundreds of Wanderer infantry fighting vehicles, they didn't need to stop at all, just stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward in the field. Those who tried to stop the car with their arms could not withstand the heavy artillery on the Lion tanks, nor could they withstand the bombardment of the machine guns and heavy grenade guns on the infantry fighting vehicles behind.
Of course, since the enemies along the way were not cleared, there would indeed be some risks.
If the subsequent battles were not smooth, the supply of the army would become a big problem.
However, at least in the short term, there was no need to worry. The joint logistics forces that followed the army group, thousands of baggage trucks, loaded with ammunition supplies, moved with the army.
No matter how cautious Thadius was, he didn't think anyone could hold out in the North until their ammunition ran out.
Of course, if the target was an evil god, that might make people a little uneasy.
So Thadius mobilized the 8th and 25th Divisions to escort more supplies from the Central Province on the way as a backup.
When the Governor gave the order, the BJ Army Group was not far from the Polar Industrial City.
And after 32 hours, his troops not only arrived at the designated location: the west side of the Polar Industrial City.
Even, they had time to blow up the western wall of the city, and then the entire army advanced another kilometer into the city.
Gu Hang greatly appreciated this.
Originally, the target location designated for them was on the western outskirts of the Polar Industrial City. At that time, it was considered that it would take too much time for large troops and heavy equipment to enter the city.
But now, it is obviously a better approach to blow up the wall and run directly in.
The closer they were to the chaos formation, the easier it would be for Gu Hang to pull people into the evil god's kingdom.