Chapter 235: Rubion Hell Raiders, a Grand Series!

In the Federation, Luion Galaxy.

In the base area of ​​the ‘Heavenly Pillar II’ space elevator of the colonized planet Luion V, three cabins are completing the final deceleration and slowly falling into the berth.

As a planet of importance and comfort in the T2 echelon, Luion V has built a total of three large orbital elevators.

Among them, ‘Heavenly Pillar II’ is the largest one, and the entire area is also larger than the other two space elevators.

Compared with the ‘basic version’ space elevator that is only for solving the problem from scratch, this upgraded version of the space elevator has a total of 32 cabins with higher carrying capacity.

When Luion was occupied by the Imperial Expeditionary Force, the Imperial Fleet did not adopt a saturation orbital strike method for this densely populated planet.

After all, it is not so fast to colonize after killing all the civilians.

So Duke Duke adopted the tactic of ‘cutting sausages with a knife’.

First, most of the garrison fleet was annihilated to ensure the safety of the airspace.

Then the orbital paratroopers and the space marines conducted a ‘heaven-earth cooperation’ and quickly captured the three orbital elevators.

Finally, with the assistance of the space transport aircraft, the full deployment of the three expeditionary strike divisions was completed in a short period of time.

According to the organization of the Imperial Royal Army (don't worry, the army has never rebelled), each expeditionary strike division has two armored brigade combat teams and one infantry brigade combat team.

After the deployment of troops, the subsequent battles are actually very simple for the Imperial Expeditionary Strike Group, which has completely mastered the right to control the sky.

Let the three expeditionary divisions, a total of 9 brigade combat teams, "frame A".

The autonomous government garrison troops on the surface of the planet are actually very similar to the private soldiers of the imperial nobles to some extent.

According to the "Federal Constitution"/"Noble Basic Law", the galaxy level/noble title corresponds to the size of the troops, and the troops are formed by themselves.

The construction costs and equipment of the troops also need to be taken care of by themselves.

The command of the troops belongs to the galaxy autonomous government/nobles, but when necessary, they must respond to the call of the federal government/imperial royal family.

Like, very similar.

The biggest difference between the two may be that the garrison troops of the autonomous government not only come from the local area, but also from other parts of the federation.

At the same time, the scale will be much larger than that of the nobles' private soldiers.

This also leads to the fact that the autonomous governments of the various galaxies in the Federation cannot take the "elite" route like the imperial nobles and purchase more advanced equipment for their private soldiers.

The local garrison troops of the Federation often follow what the regular army of the Federation uses, and sometimes they are even one generation behind the regular army in some equipment.

In addition, the training level is similar to the troops Amber has seen on Robert IV.

After years of security wars, they have basically degenerated to the level of being able to fight back and forth with mobs and guerrillas.

Such troops are basically "broken at the first touch" when facing the serious Imperial Army or the most powerful armored brigade-level combat team.

As a T2-level galaxy, Rubion's troop construction scale will be higher than that of T3-level marginal galaxies such as Robert.

But in fact, it is still not much.

Theoretically, the garrisons on its colonized planets should be composed of "8+10+8".

That is, 8 heavy combined brigades + 10 medium combined brigades + 8 light combined brigades, with a total of 102,400 people.

But as I just said, it is "theoretically".

Since military construction is a very expensive task, there was no sign of war breaking out in the entire federation until the Star Dragon Empire launched the invasion.

In this context, the galaxy autonomous government did not want to maintain such a large army and just put it there every day.

So military construction had to give way to economic construction.

The original '8+10+8' organization was abruptly reduced by the Rubion galaxy autonomous government to the heaven-defying '4+5+4' organization.

In terms of total strength, it was even less than half of the garrison on Robert IV at the time.

"TM, they were all just a bunch of ragtag troops, with poor combat effectiveness, and now they have been reduced to this level. If I were the commander of the Empire Expeditionary Strike Group, I would also choose to start here."

Amber, who arrived with the last batch of Atlas's deployed troops, looked at the latest briefing from Lilith with difficulty after sitting in a command vehicle.

He felt that his expression now must be the same as Cao Kefan who had eaten nine-turn large intestine.

The Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government, when bidding, was very cunning to conceal the situation of their ground force reduction.

Although Amber also knew that their garrison troops must have been crippled, he actually calculated the remaining garrison based on the complete "8+10+8" structure at that time.

He felt that no matter how unscrupulous the Galaxy Autonomous Government was, it would not reduce the number of troops in its hands. At most, it was not fully staffed.

But now he had to admit that he still underestimated the bottom line of these people.

"If it is according to what they said, half of the ground garrison troops were wiped out. Fuck, there are not many people left!"

Amber lay weakly on the uncomfortable chair in the command vehicle, bumping with the ups and downs of the vehicle.

If Amber was quite happy when he took the "order" and gathered his employees to set off for the Rubion Galaxy.

Now he regrets it, very much.

"Lilith, next time this happens, be sure to report it earlier. Don't wait until my troops are deployed before you tell me it's 'hell difficulty'."

"Master, although I do have some responsibility, I think the bottom line of this galaxy government is too low, which is the direct cause of all this.

I have been following you for a while, and I have seen a lot, but looking back at human history, there are few cases of voluntary reduction of the army."

Lilith's voice sounded in Amber's mind.

In her voice, there were three parts of apology, three parts of grievance, and four parts of amazement.

"Okay, then you have learned a lot, and I hope you can add new samples to your research on humans."

Amber is now indifferent. Since she is here, let's see the situation first.

If there is a big problem, there is a combat detachment composed of ten warships in the orbit of Rubion V, and there is another fleet silently on standby in deep space.

At worst, let Cleves command the fleet to seize the spaceport, and then lead people from the ground to kill into the space elevator to evacuate.

Anyway, this job is not the first time.

"Lilith, so the other companies that won the bid don't know the true situation of the ground garrison now?"

"That's right, the Luion Galaxy Autonomous Government did not disclose this information to the public. I only found out about this after I came here and went into their database out of 'curiosity'."

As Lilith spoke, she projected a report with the word 'top secret' printed on Amber's tactical mask.

"Even within the Luion Galaxy Autonomous Government, only some senior officials know how many people are left in the ground garrison at present."

"I still hope that people from other companies don't know about this situation, otherwise I think their morale will collapse before the battle even starts."

Amber opened another report, which was about the situation of other companies participating in this 'free recovery'.

This defense contracting project bidding is a large-scale project in the entire federation.

Including Atlas, a total of 15 private military companies and defense contractors won the bid.

During this period, various companies have deployed more than 120,000 combat troops on this planet.

Atlas has a combat force of 3,000 people, including two battalions of Roma, the "teaching team", and some combat personnel from the former Yaoguang Defense, plus all active ground combat vehicles.

At the same time, a group of pilots and maintenance teams with land combat experience were drawn from each warship, and 30 HCPs modified for land combat were added to form an HCP heavy battalion.

From the perspective of paper strength, it may be the company with the least number of combat personnel deployed among the 15 companies.

But paper strength does not necessarily represent real combat power.

After reading the report, Amber opened the top hatch of the command vehicle and leaned out.

Behind him, the huge space elevator rushed straight into the sky, and the upper part was hidden in the clouds, like a miracle.

And in front of him, there was a dilapidated road.

The last deployed convoy of Atlas was heading along the road to the predetermined assembly point to meet up with others.

As the main artery of the planet's external transportation, the road near the space elevator could not have been so dilapidated.

But after driving away the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, the Federal Navy, in order to assist the garrison of the Luion Galaxy, recaptured the space elevator.

It carried out multiple orbital strikes against the Imperial garrison near the three ‘Pillars of Heaven’, and sent orbital paratroopers to complete the surgical attack on the base area of ​​the space elevator.

The surviving garrison on the ground also took the opportunity to launch an attack, and under the ‘central blossoming’ of the orbital paratroopers, the garrison near the space elevator was defeated.

Although the ground forces of the Empire also tried to counterattack and wanted to drive the Federal forces away again.

But the Federal Fleet, which had already controlled the power of the sky, under the guidance of a large number of ‘elite combat control teams’ deep behind enemy lines, once again carried out multiple rounds of orbital strikes, thwarting the attack of the Imperial ground forces and causing considerable casualties.

However, the attack of the main force of the Federation ended there.

After recovering the orbital paratroopers and combat control teams, the fleet of the Federal Navy immediately left the Luion Galaxy and went to another galaxy still in the hands of the Empire to pursue the victory.

The autonomous government of the Luion Galaxy, which was waiting to recapture the planet in one fell swoop, was immediately dumbfounded.

This is how the story of the defense contract bidding came about.

Looking at the dilapidated road and the obvious traces of tactical ground missiles in the distance, Amber was also glad that the Federal Navy at least carried out an orbital strike and cleared the "landing site".

Otherwise, Atlas, which does not have the ability to carry out large-scale orbital airdrops for the time being, may not be able to participate in this "free recovery" operation.

"Since we are here, it would be a big loss if we don't make a fortune from this battle!"