Chapter 663, Titan War

The ships of both sides are entangled with each other in space. If one side comes to the vicinity of the planet orbit to support the ground battlefield, the other side will definitely not agree.

However, both sides can always be caught in similar opportunities.

The ships of the other side will come to rescue immediately, and the orbital guns on the ground will often open fire at this time. Soon, the starships that come to interfere with the ground battle can be driven away.

However, it doesn’t take a long time for the starship to come to support. Just a short while, a few missiles, macro guns, and light spears can make a significant change in the ground battle.

Both sides have to rely more on orbital gun groups to drive away enemy ships and intercept orbital firepower.

What needs to be intercepted is not only the orbital strikes from the occasional starships, but also the opponent’s land-based missiles.

The battle launched in this plain area has a seemingly long contact surface of 300 kilometers. But in fact, under the attack of high-destructive weapons, it is actually very short.

Some Dongfeng Fen-class missiles were transported to the ground, and then equipped with missile launchers to directly attack the opposite positions from land, which is also a feasible solution.

One Dongfeng Fen can cover dozens of kilometers - a few more can cover the entire enemy's front line.

Under this missile, all exposed personnel within a radius of six kilometers in the central area will be eliminated, no matter how many soldiers are stockpiled inside; for soldiers in trenches, the killing radius can also reach about three kilometers, which means that hiding in trenches is not very useful.

Unless in some solid permanent fortifications and shelters, perhaps as long as the distance from the impact point is more than one kilometer, you can survive.

Using this super-large bomb as the core is originally a conventional tactical means. After the huge missile explodes, the ground troops will come up with three-defense equipment, and get twice the result with half the effort.

Both sides have also deployed this weapon on the ground, and in the sky, there are also larger starships.

Once the bomb explodes, there are often tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the battle lines of both sides will change greatly.

But the reason why the battle line was not fully covered by this big bomb was due to the interception of various anti-aircraft firepower.

This thing is expensive and has a small reserve. After it is released once and intercepted at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the power that can be exploded is of course still there, but it is relatively limited, and depending on the interception position, it may also bomb its own people.

To put it bluntly, the interception methods of these colleges and universities are the key to the continuation of the ground war.

But who doesn't want to bomb the opponent while not wanting to be bombed by the opponent?

Salisius and Martins thought.

Before, they tried to conduct space warrior infiltration operations to attack the enemy's defense interception firepower and railgun fortresses, trying to destroy them.

But they failed every time.

Iron Armor attaches great importance to this defense.

Just like the Empire attaches importance to the defense of its own interception positions.

And this is the reason why the precious Titans were used to create a large salient in the battle line.

This kind of salient is an excellent starting point for attacking, and it is easier to encircle the enemy, because this salient itself poses a threat to the enemy's flank, and it is also the closest to the strategic target behind the enemy, shortening the distance to be advanced.

The salient created by the Alliance National Knights directly points to a core area behind the enemy.

There is not only the material transportation center of the Iron Armor Party on the ground, but also a large storage base of the Empire before the outbreak of the Wanzhou Star Battle. At the same time, there are also key fire interception positions and rail guns.

If this place is taken, not to mention winning the battle, at least some of our own super-large bombs, whether dropped by missiles or strategic bombers, will have a better chance and will be less likely to be intercepted.

But from a defensive perspective, the salient position is extremely disadvantageous. Because the length of the defense line of this salient is much longer than the length of the defense line pulled into a straight line, it means that more troops are needed for defense, and because the flanks are exposed, it is easy for the enemy to break in from the roots of the two wings and fall into encirclement.

It is precisely because of the obvious advantages and disadvantages of the salient that both sides of the war fought fiercely around the salient, and even strategic decisive battles.

At the moment, the Empire was unwilling to give up the opportunity to attack, so it invested a lot of troops to protect those salients; and Iron Armor was naturally aware of the strategic goal of the Empire. In order to eliminate the threat of this "offensive springboard" to the important base in the rear, it also tried its best to eliminate this salient deep into its own defense line.

After a night of mutual competition between the Space Marines, the sky was about to dawn, and the Iron Armor side launched a fierce attack on the salient.

In the early morning, the heavy artillery covered the Empire's position.

That was almost every inch of land was bombed once.

The heavy artillery of the Empire was also firing back.

It was a bit difficult to bomb the opponent's artillery position, and both sides moved the artillery position to a relatively backward position. But it can predict the direction of the enemy's attack. Regardless of whether the enemy has really launched an attack, it is correct to cover it with countless shells.

However, the Iron Armored Infected Army still rushed forward under the pressure of the bombardment.

Many human soldiers appeared in the place where every inch of land had been bombed. Machine guns, rifles, and company-owned howitzers were pushed out from the anti-gun holes one by one, and both sides even faced each other and fought with bayonets.

And both sides are still constantly sending reinforcements to the front line of the battle.

But this reinforcement is very difficult. It is not easy for artillery to directly bombard the troops of both sides fighting face to face, but the bombardment line can be moved back a few hundred meters. Whether it is the infected troops of Iron Armor, or the infantry and armored troops of the Empire, if they want to come up, they have to cross this bombardment line, and I don’t know how much it will cost.

In this process, the situation of reinforcement on the human side is more ideal than that on the Iron Armor side.

People are smarter and know how to dig tunnels to reinforce forward; if the tunnel is blown down, they know to stop for a while; if they insist on climbing over the ground, they also know to take it step by step, find cover, and move forward in the gaps between bombardments.

There are still huge casualties before they can reinforce the front line.

Fortunately, the opposite side is a little worse. The stupid infected people have a lower proportion of reinforcements.

Staring at the salient, they worked hard for a whole morning, with heavy casualties and a lot of artillery shells, but the effect of the fight is average.

The Empire also faced great challenges and suffered heavy casualties, but at least it managed to hold on.

By noon, the number of new infected troops coming to reinforce was decreasing, and the remaining enemies were eliminated one by one. The Empire soldiers on the battlefield thought they could calm down for a while, relax their spirits, and fight the next battle.

As a result, the expected calm did not come, on the contrary, the whole earth shook.

The soldiers were a little surprised.

They were familiar with this shaking feeling.

The footsteps of the Titans.

Two days ago, when they fought out of this salient, they fought with the Titans.

Titans are coming again? But I haven't heard of any large-scale offensive operations recently?

Titans are not defensive weapons, they are the most powerful offensive weapons.

Perhaps because it is difficult to defend the salient, the superiors sent Titans to fight and give the attacking infected people a taste of color?

But soon, they felt something was wrong.

As time went on, it was not just the shaking of the earth that was heard. When the real footsteps appeared, they suddenly discovered that the direction from which the Titans came was actually from the enemy!

The Titans of Iron Armor were dispatched!

The Iron Armor rebels also had Titans. Before, they had such a good relationship with the Alfonzo sect, so of course they would ask Alfonzo for the support of the Titan Legion.

They also had Titans and Knight Mechas.

However, the number of Titans and Knights owned by Iron Armor was definitely much less than that of the Empire.

In previous battles, they rarely used such powerful but precious weapons.

But today, they used them, and once they were used, they invested a large amount.

At least two hundred Knights and Titans rushed into this position!

A few days ago, the Iron Armor side suffered a lot under the attack of the Alliance Titans, and now all the frustrations were returned.

After paying a great price and defending the defense line for a whole morning, it was broken.

The Ironclad rebels even pushed their artillery positions forward and fired at the Empire's artillery positions.

Titan was doing the same.

In an instant, the Empire's artillery positions, which had been firing fiercely before, became somewhat subdued.

If they continue to bomb like this, I'm afraid the whole thing will be destroyed.

What's worse is that the Ironclad rebels' attack this time is aimed at the "root" of the salient. Once they really penetrate it, the troops in the entire salient will probably be surrounded by people.

In the entire salient, there are not only 16 divisions deployed as defenders, but also a large force ready to launch an offensive from this salient.

If the Ironclad rebels really want to surround it, then the retreat will be cut off, and the logistics cannot be supplemented, and I'm afraid they will have to bear the consequences of being annihilated as a whole.

That's a million troops!

If this happens, it will be a painful defeat.

At this critical moment, it was still the Alliance's National Knights who showed off their power.

When the Titans of the Iron Armor Rebels were showing off their power, the Titans of the Alliance also appeared.

Suddenly, a rare battle between Titan Corps broke out on the land of Wanzhou Star.

…

Colonel Gu Zhouhua was on the operating table, nervously doing two things at the same time. On the one hand, he was observing the enemy situation, and on the other hand, he was always paying attention to the information from the various parts of the warlord-level Titan he was in.

Beside him, there were two major-level deputy operators; inside the Titan, there were another 14 operators and coordinators responsible for various parts.

Together, they formed the operating team of this warlord-level Titan.

This is the biggest difference between Titan and Knight Mech. Titan requires a whole operating team to operate, while Knight Mech only has one person.

According to general tradition, there is no distinction between military ranks in the Titan Corps.

It is also easy to understand.

The Empire's Titan Corps basically belongs to the Mechanicus. Each Mechanicus does not use military ranks to distinguish superiors and subordinates, so naturally, there are no military ranks in the Titan Legion.

But the Alliance is obviously not the general case.

The National Knights, with the title of a Knights, drive knight mechas and Titans, but in fact, they are still part of the Alliance Army and are directly led and governed by the Alliance Army Department. Most of their precious equipment is produced by the Alliance itself, and some is sent from the Mingyang Sect of Jindi Star. But even if it is from the Mechanic Church, it is bought. The drivers and Titan operating team are all trained by the Army itself, so they are naturally managed by military ranks.

Colonel Gu Zhouhua is one of them.

His surname is Gu, and he is really from the same family as Governor Gu, but the blood is far away. His grandfather was a middle-level manager of Gu's business. By his generation, the Gu family has long been not only in the business and transport team.

Although Governor Gu did not take special care of them, just relying on this surname, origin, and his own ability, they can still make some achievements in all aspects of the entire alliance system.

Gu Zhouhua was born in a military school and Zhongsi College, and then he entered the Titan Corps with good grades, and in a few years, he became the commander of this warlord-level Titan.

However, he was still very nervous at the moment.

Before this, although there had been many confrontational trainings between Titans, can training be the same as actual combat?

During training, the main purpose was to practice, and the shells fired were all fake training shells. In close combat, they were even more cautious, for fear of damaging the Titan a little, which would be very expensive to repair.

Of course, they were not without actual combat experience.

Wasn't the battle a few days ago fought by the Titans?

Going back further, as the decisive force in the army, they participated in many battles.

However, the battles they fought before were always fought with superior forces against inferior forces; with superior equipment, they fought infantry, tanks, and fortresses.

This kind of deadly confrontation between Titans was indeed the first time.

But what made people feel relieved was that the number of enemies seemed to be less than theirs.

After receiving the urgent order to attack, the Alliance National Knights came out in full force.

Three hundred knights and Titans, while the opponent looked like there were only a little over two hundred.

This made Gu Zhouhua feel a little relieved.

Should we win?

But he soon became worried again.

Winning or losing is a matter of strategy. When a real battle breaks out, who lives and who dies on the front line has nothing to do with who wins in the end.

But these messy thoughts disappeared when the first shell hit the warlord-level Titan he belonged to.

"Confirm the loss of the void shield!"

"Weapon system ready!"

"Lock on the target! Hit the most prominent traitor mech!"

"Fire!"

"Fire again!"

"Charge! Kill them!"

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To make up for yesterday, there is still one chapter.