Chapter 558, Battle of Heyang

The Mechanicum is very realistic.

When it's no good, they don't want to take care of anything; when it's good, they look greedy, rushing to get a share.

For the Mechanicus, the biggest benefit is naturally technology.

Especially the technology of another sect.

The relationship between different sects of the Mechanicus is not necessarily very close.

Sometimes heretics are more hateful than heretics.

However, the heretical technology is still very fragrant.

However, at this stage, the Mingyang Sect mainly focuses on speaking.

If they really wanted to fight, they were still a little timid and could only say that they were willing to send a small number of troops.

After all, they have not yet recovered from the greenskin disaster. The Titan Legion and the Skitarii may already have good combat effectiveness, but the most important thing is the Mechanicus fleet, which is not very good now. The starship production capacity of Jindi Star has all been allocated to the alliance, and they have not saved much of their own ships.

Moreover, they have changed their views on the alliance and become actively cooperative, but they are still doubtful about whether the alliance can really defeat the armored army and the skitarii of a powerful sect like Alfonzo head-on.

Regardless of how strong the alliance is now, who knows what it will be like after the main force arrives?

Of course, Gu Hang actually looked down upon the Mingyang Sect's combat effectiveness.

The Mingyang Sect's navy is now in shambles and has not yet recovered. As for the army, the Skitarii and the Titan Legion are pretty good, but the Alliance does not lack the army.

It is a great achievement to be honest and engaged in production at the rear. If we really have some seizures by then, we will consider leaving some soup for them to drink.

…

Paulson's visit was just a brief interlude and did not affect the pace of the alliance's march.

When the Furious Flame Fleet was forced by the Blood Shark Fleet and three Alliance battle cruisers to act cautiously as a group and come all the way to Heyang VIII, the alliance's main fleet had also arrived at the Heyang VIII system.

As soon as they arrived, the Alliance ships arrested industrial ships on the spot that were mining in several surrounding asteroid belts.

Afterwards, all Alfonzo's ships operating outside the planet were quickly seized, and those that could run fast were all blocked into the orbit of Heyang VIII.

Immediately afterwards, the alliance issued an ultimatum to Heyang VIII.

The conditions are the same as those discussed with Todd Paulson, the business sage.

Total surrender.

Then, the alliance can open a channel so that the so-called knight families on the ground can leave Heyang VIII with their own equipment and a certain number of servants on a certain number of ships.

The attitude of the alliance is actually very clear.

The military operation against Heyang VIII is not to attack the powerful forces. The alliance can also do as Alfonzo wishes and not treat them as enemies for the time being.

But you must give me this planet.

The deadline given by the alliance is three days.

On the third day, Heyang VIII gave a reply.

They agreed to the alliance's demands.

However, I hope the league can give it more time.

After all, countless knights scattered around the planet need to gather together; everyone has wealth and needs to move away. When it comes to an entire planet, so many people and so many materials have to be transported from a few space elevators or a small number of spaceships and transport ships.

It takes a long time.

You can't agree today and let us all leave tomorrow, right? It’s not realistic either!

The league fully understands this and has promised to give it grace time.

One month, okay?

The surface quickly gave a reply: It’s not good, can it be a little longer?

The alliance generously extended the time by two times, and thoughtfully said that if moving was inconvenient, the alliance could still help.

For example, the Alliance can invest a large number of troops on the surface now to help various knight families move for free. Don't stop gathering knights. The alliance can also send transport spaceships into the planet's atmosphere to help everyone transport them.

Moreover, Alliance engineers can now enter Heyang VIII's starport to optimize the efficiency of the space elevator and help build one or two new simple space elevators that can be used temporarily.

This argument was once again rejected by the ground.

They put forward a new argument: there is no need to help with the relocation, and the Star Port cannot be taken over. Please ask the alliance to give them three months, so that they can solve the problem themselves, and then hand over such a clean Heyang VIII to the alliance!

That's very nice to say.

only……

After Ye Lixia heard the news, she immediately found Gu Hang:

"They are coaxing fools." The admiral bluntly pointed out the problem. "They are not sincere and they are just stalling for time. Who knows, the main fleet of the Alfonzo sect is already approaching Wenqi Star."

The Wenqi planet she was talking about was a planet close to Alfonzo in the star tunnel connecting the Alfonzo Star Domain and the Proud Claw Star Domain.

Gu Hang laughed: "I agree with your view."

He looked at the beautiful planet in the distance and said, "So, it's time for us to do something..."

…

"Sage! The Alliance attacked our star port without any warning!"

"I know, I can see it."

On the rooftop of the tower, Paulson, covered in a red and black robe, raised his head and stared at the stars.

His body looked like a hunched old man; however, compared to the guard who came to report, he was as big as a small mountain.

This was his true body. Hidden under the red and black robe was a mechanical body that had long been transformed beyond recognition.

His scarlet eyes, which were looking up at the stars at this moment, were of course also transformed. He did not need to use any equipment to directly observe the current battle situation in the near-Earth orbit.

The alliance's attack came too suddenly.

As the alliance guessed, they were indeed stalling for time. Agreeing to "move" was purely fooling the alliance.

Of course, they also considered the possibility that the alliance would not be fooled.

Whether it was on the planet or in the orbit of the starport and space station, they were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, always ready to be hit in the face by the alliance.

However, the speed of this "slap in the face" was really a bit too fast.

The moment before, the Alliance's ships were still at the outermost periphery, quietly staying outside the range of the orbital defense firepower, just like the past few days.

The next moment, all the ships suddenly started at full power and rushed to the orbital system.

The orbital defense system of Heyang VIII is not bad, with a star fortress and a fortified star port. If you really want to fight hard, you will have to pay a heavy price.

However, the star fortress and the star port failed to open fire to stop the Alliance's ships in the first time.

They were boarded.

The Phoenix jumped directly to these two places through teleportation technology.

The Alliance's teleportation technology really made Paulson feel outrageous.

Normally, most psychic teleportation requires a coordinate. Short distances of tens or hundreds of kilometers may not matter, and direct transmission is not a problem; but in interstellar combat, a teleportation is a distance of thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers.

Generally, for such ultra-long-distance teleportation, the ship needs to first send a torpedo with the teleportation coordinates to the target location.

Because it only needs to hit and does not need to cause damage, the teleportation torpedo can be made very small and not easy to be intercepted.

But there must be such a thing.

However, the Alliance's teleportation, shameless, does not need these.

The real world was directly torn open, and then the red-armored phoenix came out from it.

There are two ways to do this: either, there is some advanced teleportation device that can skip this link. Some rare devices that cannot be mass-produced and excavated by archaeological excavations can do it. It is said that the blood shark has this method.

Another way is that the psychic who presides over the teleportation has a special talent and a very strong psychic strength.

Which kind is the Alliance?

Paulson was thinking carefully.

He did not think about the battle situation, that was not his business.

In fact, the starport and the star fortress were heavily guarded. There are many elite knights of the Heyang Knights on them. With the direct support of a powerful mechanical sect like Alfonzo, the Heyang Knights are not just a bunch of small garbage with a bunch of sentinel mechas to fill the numbers.

Those who drove the Sentinel Mechs were all just attendants, not worthy of the title of knights at all; above the Sentinel Mechs, there were attendant Mechs, which were much smaller than the regular knight Mechs, but only slightly smaller than the Space Marines' Dreadnought Mechs; the Ranger Knights were the main force, and there were quite a few of them; above the Rangers, there were higher-level knights such as the Vengeance and Domination.

These big guys were serious heavy units, but because they were humanoid, they were not heavy armored vehicles like tanks, so they could not enter many complex terrains. For the Knight Mechs, unless the place was too small, they could still go even if the terrain was complex.

Since the starports and star forts on Heyang VIII were designed to guard the homes of the Knight World, they were naturally specially designed. Many key places were made larger in size to facilitate the activities of the Knight Mechs.

Even if the Space Marines wanted to deal with them, it would definitely not be easy.

Perhaps, the people of the Phoenix used the special means of transmission of the Alliance to cause chaos in the star forts and starports for a while.

But Paulson believed that the number of Space Marines that could be teleported over was always limited, right? Could Space Marines alone kill all the knights deployed above?

He didn't think so.

Not to mention that the surface had already reacted and reinforcements were on the way.

As long as the Phoenix could not kill the knights stationed in the star forts and starports above, then a steady stream of reinforcements would be there.

Paulson continued to think about how the Alliance's teleportation method was implemented.

And, he calculated in his mind whether there were any suitable countermeasures.

In the future, the number of times he would deal with the Alliance would probably not be small.

If the right means were not found, those Space Marines who could easily board safely, quickly, and in a way that people could not react to would be a very difficult group of things.

The Mechanicus also had some very powerful elite units to fight against, such as knights, such as the Armed Priest Corps composed of many Mechanicus members above the level of Mechanicus. After all, if a mechanical priest is willing to make a large-scale modification to his body, then according to his technical ability and the resources he has at his disposal, his combat power should not be underestimated.

It would be best if he could cut off the source of technology...

"Hmm?"

While thinking, the scene in front of him interrupted his thoughts.

In the sky, the only star fortress of Heyang VIII exploded into a huge fireball.

The star fortress... was destroyed?

This...

was indeed a bit beyond Paulson's expectations.

His mechanical brain began to quickly calculate and deduce the possibility of the war.

Under his robe, a nerve cord stretched out and connected to a machine in front of him. One command after another, without oral instructions, became an electrical signal and was transmitted to various places.

In addition, multiple ground rail artillery arrays were also directly connected by him. With his powerful computing ability, he directly controlled at least hundreds of artillery to launch attacks in the sky.

With the blessing of this senior master, these artillery fires seemed to come alive in an instant, and their accuracy and coordination were greatly increased.

The star fortress has been destroyed, so the remaining starports must be saved.

Under his efforts, the suddenly increased ground firepower brought greater damage to the alliance. Not to mention the loss of the small boats, at least three cruisers had their void shields destroyed in just a short while, and even the hulls were damaged to a certain extent, so they had to leave the orbital system and withdraw from the battle.

However, in his calculations, the starport that could hold out for more than two days under the fierce attack of the alliance lost the protection of the void shield in the third hour.

It was obviously shut down from the inside.

After losing protection, the starport will be destroyed in two hours at most.

Paulson's mechanical brain paused for a moment again-what to do?

If it can hold out for two days, then with the ground firepower, the price the alliance has to pay will become very significant, and it may lose two battlecruisers or a battleship here. If the alliance does not want to bear such losses, it has to withdraw, and then the orbital defense system of Heyang VIII will be saved.

If it really has to fight hard, it is also profitable to exchange the orbital system for a battleship. Moreover, the next ground battle will also drag the alliance into the quagmire.

But now, there is no way.

Of course, Paulson did not interrupt the control of the ground railgun. Instead, he invested more computing power to optimize the trajectory calculation as much as possible.

It's not time to give up yet.

However, the Alliance retreated.

A few days later, the Alliance came back again.

This time, they destroyed all the space stations in orbit; half of the ships that were unable to land on the ground in time or could not land on the ground were destroyed, and the other half were boarded, and the control of the ships was seized from the inside, becoming the spoils of the Alliance.

After that, the Alliance did not send troops to the ground.

Although Heyang VIII has not been lost yet, after losing all the orbital systems and ships, the Alliance can leave in a swagger. This planet no longer has any ability to take the initiative.

Paulson was silent.

He really didn't understand how his starport and star fortress were lost.

Even if the Phoenix Warband came out in full force, could a thousand Space Marines break through the defense of the Heyang Knights stationed in the starport and star fortress in a few hours and turn off the void shield?

Why?

Even if the Ironclad came, they couldn't do it, right?

It would take at least two thousand or even three thousand Space Marines to do this, right?

Paulson was confused.