Chapter 268 I Have Finished Speaking. Who Agrees and Who Disagrees?

Ptolemy City, a city that ranks among the top three in terms of GDP contribution on the planet and was once extremely prosperous and noisy, now has a completely different look in its southern part.

The traces of fierce fighting are like an unhealable scar, deeply imprinted on every inch of land in the south of the city.

Those dozens of stories high buildings are now like incomplete giant skeletons, with broken glass and reinforced concrete fragments completely exposed from the broken building shells.

The charred marks are a symbol of being swept by high-energy laser beams, and the "sand eyes"-like scars on reinforced concrete and steel structures indicate that this place has also been ravaged by heavy metal ion jets.

With the large-scale investment of directed energy weapons by both sides in the war, these weapons with extremely long range often bring greater collateral damage in urban warfare.

It is common for buildings several kilometers away from the battle zone to be penetrated by heavy particle cannons that miss.

Under the "baptism" of the coalition self-propelled artillery group destroying 90% of the reserve ammunition, it is difficult to find an undamaged building in the southern part of Ptolemy City.

Gun smoke interweaves into a gray curtain in the air, slowly swirling in the streets and alleys, mixed with the smell of burning and pungent chemical smell, almost suffocating people.

The embers after the fire was extinguished are still scattered in the ruins, like the weak pulse of the city's heart, flashing a desolate red light.

In the blocks where the battle was the most intense before, a large number of HCP wreckage can be seen along the way, the huge metal body is twisted and deformed, and some are even embedded in the broken buildings.

The coalition forces and the remnants of the empire are crazy and keep sending troops to these "meat-grinding areas". Even the "guardian gods" of the mobile infantry, those steel giants called "Titans", have become consumables in this battle.

Teams of surrendered imperial soldiers, like zombies, walked out of buildings, bunkers, and combat vehicles with their hands raised high, and then, under the supervision of the coalition forces, went to the "prisoner reception area" outside the city.

The bodies of the fallen soldiers from both sides were scattered in every corner of the southern war zone of the city. Some fell between the broken walls, and some were still fighting behind the bunkers.

The two garrison combined brigades with the least casualties in the coalition were now serving as the "corpse collection team".

The northern hemisphere of Rubion V has entered summer at this time. If the bodies are not handled in time, it is likely to cause a large-scale plague.

The soldiers wearing combat exoskeletons and turning on the internal circulation mode cleared out the soldiers of the coalition and the empire, and sent them separately to the main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles that were transformed into "corpse transporters".

The coalition soldiers needed to confirm their identities, incinerate and collect the ashes separately, and then hand them over to various private military companies and defense contractors to let them deal with the aftermath.

The bodies of the imperial soldiers were thrown into the incinerator and nothing would be left.

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With the surrender of the imperial remnants in Ptolemy City, the imperial remnants on the other two continents would naturally not hold on any longer.

When the last imperial remnant threw away their weapons and walked out of the bunker, the battle on Rubion V was finally over.

But some necessary post-war matters may be more troublesome than fighting in the eyes of the galaxy autonomous government and various companies.

A small number of imperial soldiers who did not surrender but hid still needed the garrison troops to clear them out bit by bit.

After the identities of the fallen soldiers were confirmed, each company also had to start the aftermath procedure and prepare to pay a large sum of pensions.

This time, Atlas could not escape the iron law of soaring casualties in urban warfare. Although each combat unit had tried its best to avoid casualties, there were still considerable casualties in the final "surprise nuclear bomb" link due to the tight time and heavy tasks.

According to the statistics of casualties and vehicle losses of various battalion-level combat units, the combat losses on the Rubion V are as follows (including previous battles):

231 people were killed, including 181 mobile infantry, 47 combat vehicle crews, and 3 HCP pilots.

478 people were injured, including 62 people who were seriously injured and needed surgery and prosthetics, 280 people were moderately injured, and 136 people were slightly injured.

A total of 45 vehicles were lost, including 8 light multi-legged tanks, 27 various wheeled vehicles, 5 main battle tanks, 2 heavy multi-legged tanks, and 3 HCPs.

By the way, the pilot who flew a hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft and completed a low-altitude normal at a speed of Mach 3 soon had a mechanical failure in the aircraft after flying out of the city.

Unable to restore the Swift reconnaissance aircraft to normal, Jacob had no choice but to choose to perform an extremely dangerous abnormal posture ejection at an airspeed greater than Mach 1 before the aircraft completely lost control.

However, perhaps because of his call sign ‘Miracle Walker’, this reconnaissance pilot also received the favor of the goddess of luck and created a miracle.

When the search and rescue team found him in the wild, although he had multiple injuries and fractures, he at least saved his life.

To be honest, Amber almost fainted when he saw this battle loss report.

He could accept the loss of vehicles. After all, under a mature industrial system, it only takes half an hour for a main battle tank or HCP to drive off the assembly line.

What hurt him more was the casualties.

The injured soldiers are easy to deal with. Even the seriously injured ones can be installed with prosthetics for free by the company. If they are willing, they can continue to fight under the Atlas flag.

But the dead Roma soldiers made him feel very uncomfortable. After all, when they are gone, they are really gone.

Although Babel Tower can "mass produce" a batch of new soldiers in 3-4 months at its current training speed, it still takes Amber some time to accept such a casualty rate.

Of course, Atlas's troops did not gain nothing in the battle.

7 tactical nuclear warheads, a large number of Empire's individual combat exoskeletons, combat vehicles and some HCPs that can still be used.

At the same time, several brigade-level combat teams that retreated to the city of Ptolemy also "contributed" their brigade-level command terminals and supporting command vehicles, communication relays and network node vehicles, and a number of non-combat but equally important combat vehicles.

The other coalition forces did not dare to compete with Atlas for these things.

In other words, they have suffered more serious losses and do not have the ability to rob them now.

In addition to these material gains, Atlas's troops also experienced a wave of tests and growth in terms of technical and tactical levels. Both soldiers and officers gained a lot of experience in the battle.

The test equipment of the ATT squadron also obtained precious actual combat data, which provided a lot of reference information for the final improvement link before the qualitative mass production.

Finally, Amber himself was inexplicably promoted to the fifth level of psychic strength in the battle.

Looking at the psychics in the entire human world at present, they are basically the first echelon at the top of the pyramid.

Amber knows that among the human psychics who are still alive, at least so far, the highest psychic strength is only at level six.

Those famous level seven psychics in the future are still unknown at this stage.

Although his strength has grown, Amber found that he did not feel very happy. The strange experience in the battle made him discover that there were new mysteries about him.

After reviewing the game, he basically determined that this should be a process of "predicting the future" rather than the more heaven-defying "time travel".

But he is still unclear about the triggering conditions. If it is triggered by predicting that his "lifeline" will be "cut off" in the future.

Then it is really possible that it is related to the legendary "Forerunners", because according to the information revealed in the branch plot of the game, the "Forerunner" civilization does have a technology to "predict the future".

And it will be used only when facing a crisis of racial survival.

In general, in the first large order taken by Atlas Private Military Company this time, it did suffer a lot of losses, but there are also some gains.

However, Amber still decided to negotiate with the galaxy autonomous government so that they can "explode more gold coins" to make up for the losses suffered by Atlas this time.

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On the other hand, after the battle on the entire planet was completely over, the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government quickly began to count the casualties of local residents and prepared to rebuild these cities that had been devastated by the war.

Since reconstruction is involved, it is inevitable to enter the stage of "dividing the spoils after the war".

According to the contract signed between the galaxy autonomous government and various private military companies and defense contractors, the share of the "post-war reconstruction project" will be distributed according to the combat contribution of Party B after the battle.

This is also the most concerned issue for the commanders and on-site business representatives of each company after the battle.

After all, how much share of the reconstruction project they can get in the end also determines how much bonus and dividend their respective companies will give them.

In the city hall of Ptolemy City, in a large conference room that was temporarily cleared, the commanders and business representatives of each company gathered together.

Even including the companies fighting on the other two continents - their representatives immediately found a plane to rush over after the battle.

On the main seat of the conference room were the administrative adjutant, secretary-general, auditor general and treasurer of the Rubion galaxy who came down from orbit. They were also the organizers of this meeting.

However, the four of them now looked helplessly at the noisy group of people under the stage.

Obviously, the link of dividing the spoils after the war is also the link that is most likely to cause internal conflicts.

Representatives of various companies were unwilling to give in to each other, and they all tried their best to gain more say and take more shares.

"Bang!"

The door of the conference room was roughly pushed open, and the sound made everyone look back at the door.

The first few people who were arguing were about to turn around and curse who was so blind, but when they saw the person walking in, they immediately sat down.

Amber walked into the conference room slowly with his hands behind his back. The original noisy atmosphere had disappeared. No one spoke at this moment, and everyone in the conference room looked at him with a complicated look.

"I just said a few words casually."

Amber looked around the representatives of various companies in the conference room, watching them all standing there in a daze, and added:

"Why are you standing there like an idiot? Aren't you tired? Sit down and listen"

As he said this, the people around him sat down one by one, although they didn't know why they were so "obedient".

"I don't care how your companies allocate it. This is your own business. Anyway, Atlas will get 70% of the reconstruction share no matter what."

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.

No one expected that the person in charge of Atlas, who had been in the limelight recently, would come up and start talking to the lion.

"Mr. Rebir, I admit that Atlas has contributed a lot in this battle, but are you too greedy in allocating it this way? One Atlas company took 70%, and the remaining dozen of us The company will share the remaining 30%?”

A middle-aged man in a suit stood up and said. Judging from his appearance, Amber estimated which company he should be a business representative.

At the moment, the expression on the business representative's face highlighted the feeling of "fighting the evil forces to the end", and at the same time he continued to speak righteously:

"I know that your company's business capabilities are very professional and strong, but you can't just be a dominant company and completely ignore the life and death of the rest of us, right?"

"Yes, we need to eat too, why would you leave some meat residue for us after you finish all the meat?!"

"That is, which company here does not suffer heavy casualties this time? If we don't take back more shares, how can we explain to the company?"

Once another person starts, others will start to follow.

The mood in the conference room instantly changed from a dispute just now to a 'united front to denounce Atlas'.

Amber didn't feel angry at all despite everyone's condemnation. He casually pulled out a stool and sat down, then stared at everyone in the conference room.

Gradually, the commanders and business representatives of these companies slowly lowered their voices under his gaze, and finally closed their mouths one by one, and the conference room quickly returned to silence.

"Is it all over?"

Amber looked at the people around her without emotion, and after confirming that no one else wanted to speak, she looked at the business representative who had just taken the lead in the objection.

"Which company are you from?"

"New Bay Private Military Company."

"How many combat units did you come over this time?"

"It's just a medium-sized synthetic brigade, with 5,400 people. Although it's not many, it's still stronger than your more than 3,000 people."

The business representative seemed very proud of the fact that his troops had more troops than Atlas.

"Haha, then may I ask how many people you lost during the attack on Ptolemaic City and how many kilometers you advanced?"

"this"

The sales representative's mouth opened and closed. He looked around at the 'friends' who were staring at him and found that it seemed inconvenient to say this information now.

Obviously, these data of Xinwan Private Military Company are not very good-looking. If it is said out in public now, then it will be very passive when allocating shares later.

"Can't say it? Still don't dare to say it?"

Amber raised her eyebrows, a sneer flashing across her face.

"If you can't tell, let me tell you - the Xinwan medium-sized combined brigade killed 934 people and injured 1,395 people in the battle to attack Ptolemaic City, with a casualty rate of 43.1%.

After paying such a heavy price, how far did the offensive zone you were responsible for advance? 1.1km”

This set of data was everywhere, and there was a lot of discussion in the conference room.

In addition to marveling at the short advancement distance of Xinwan, everyone is also curious about how Atlas obtained these data.

"Don't talk nonsense here!" the business representative of Xinwan Private Military Company became anxious.

The reason he was anxious was not because Amber was talking nonsense, but because everything Amber said was true.

"Nonsense? You may have forgotten that I had obtained command of the ground forces before. It is very simple to obtain this information after accessing the command system. Besides.

The drones flying in the sky are not blind. I can clearly see how far you have advanced the front line. "

Amber's words made the sales representative not know how to respond for a while, but the 'understanding' Amber naturally did not let him stand here in embarrassment for too long.

"43.1% casualty rate, 1.1 kilometers of advancement distance. If you ask me, your Xinwan Private Military Company is not qualified to participate in this meeting!

I believe that none of the other companies here have made less progress than you, right? "

"You're talking nonsense! Riyan Defense is on our flank. They only advanced 800 meters and were blocked by a battalion of imperial remnants!"

Xinwan's business representatives immediately began to rebut, pointing the finger at another defense company that was attacking on their flank.

Naturally, the ground commander and business representatives of this company were also present. As a small company, they were originally prepared to "eat the melon", but they didn't expect that they would end up eating the melon.

"Well I'm not. I didn't."

A feeble explanation sounded, but unfortunately it was not convincing.

The business representative from Xinwan apparently discovered a new way to divert trouble to the east, and immediately began exporting it to other companies.

A new round of intense 'discussions' quickly entered the conference room. Each company began to expose each other's background. The scene was as chaotic as a 'Legislative Yuan' somewhere.

But soon, everyone discovered that they seemed to have mistaken the target. The biggest threat now was obviously Atlas, but the person in charge of the other party sat quietly and watched, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Amber's attitude naturally made others very unhappy, and many people in the company wanted to "drag him into the water".

But everyone present soon realized that they really couldn't "start a group" with Atlas.

Because the data and battle results of this company were too hard, so hard that they couldn't even find anything to "take advantage of".

In this case, the conference room soon became quiet again, and everyone focused their attention on Amber again.

Amber, who had been thinking about other issues on the side, stopped wasting time after noticing that others had stopped "communicating" and immediately started to confront others.

"Now that everyone has finished discussing, I believe that everyone present should have a deeper understanding of your respective abilities and battle results, right?

Now that everyone has self-knowledge, let me be frank. We, Atlas, will take the 70% share, but I can offer two mutually beneficial plans.

First, in the subsequent reconstruction of Rubion V, we, Atlas, will try our best to choose other subsidiaries of the group behind the companies present as our raw material suppliers or service providers, so that we can make money together.

Second, I believe that everyone has seen our company's test equipment in the battle. Since the losses of each company this time are relatively large, you can consider conducting a 'one-stop' test at our Atlas Industry. 'style' equipment procurement, including but not limited to individual exoskeletons, multi-legged combat vehicles, main battle tanks, other combat vehicles and HCP.

As long as your companies place orders, you will definitely get the best price close to the cost price, and we will also provide free overall firmware upgrade services no more than 10 times within 3 years.

Believe me, the money saved here is definitely not a small amount, and you can more or less report it when you go back. "

After speaking a lot in one breath, Amber took out a can of energy drink from her pocket, took a sip to moisten her lips, and said:

"I'm done, who agrees? Who opposes?"

I've been a little tired of typing these days, so today I'll just add 5400 words together and take a break on Friday~