Chapter 546, Battle of Mentus
Using ships to be more proactive than the planetary defense system, the Alliance's ships carried out pulling tactics again and again.
This is a proven strategy.
As long as the strength of the fleet does not differ too much compared to the planetary defense system, this method can seriously defeat a planet with complete defenses.
Don't even think about it being defeated if it can't withstand one round of firepower. Moreover, the firepower of your own fleet can cause definite damage to the space station and star fortress of the defense system in a short exchange of fire. This way, you can slow down the attack. Slowly wear away the defense facilities on the planet's orbit bit by bit.
Of course, by adopting such an approach, on the one hand, although the fleet's losses are controllable, they will not be too small. After all, since it is a war, any accident may happen. The alliance's first wave of attacks unexpectedly lost a frigate that was hit continuously by the Star Castle's main gun.
This is inevitable.
On the other hand, grinding slowly like this actually takes a very long time.
According to the estimates of the naval staff, if we fight purely in this way, it will take more than a year to capture the outer orbit of Mentus II.
This does not include the cleanup of the anti-orbital system on the ground.
Gu Hang wasn't in a particular hurry, but he didn't want to stretch the time it took to conquer a planet to such a long time.
There will be many known or unknown changes.
And attacking too eagerly will result in greater losses.
The solution is not just fleet firepower.
Three months later, during this period of time, the Alliance knocked out about 20% of the orbital defense facilities on Mentus II, and caused a relatively large hole in one of the three star forts. The vehicle was damaged and had to be pulled back to a track closer to the ground for emergency repairs and maintenance.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the alliance suddenly launched a fierce offensive.
At first, the defenders on Mentus II did not feel anything special. They thought it was just the same battle to kill and attack effective forces in the past three months.
But what suddenly surprised people was that this time the attacking alliance fleet did not open a line and fire at them from a distance.
They increased their speed and rushed towards Mentus II's orbital defense line.
This is a very decisive gesture, as if a sledgehammer is coming, as if he must smash the planetary orbital defense system to pieces today, completely ignoring that in the process, he may also be violently injured. Shattered to pieces in the collision.
"Fire!"
‘Fire! ’
"Fire with full force!"
In the communication signals of Mentus II's various space stations, star forts, star ports, and ground fortresses, various different voices all expressed the same meaning fiercely.
They will use the most ferocious firepower to fight against the incoming Alliance fleet.
The defenders of Mentus II have realized that this time seems unusual, and they are not sure whether the planet's defense can really defend against the Alliance fleet's attack regardless of losses.
However, they had no other choice but to pour out all their firepower.
But at the same time, the generals of the defending army will also feel a little confused: Why is the alliance doing this? Do they really want to use their precious naval battleships to fight to the death with orbital defense facilities that are far less valuable than battleships?
Regardless of winning or losing, this is a huge loss!
However, they soon understood why the alliance was so vicious.
On the side of the planet facing the incoming Alliance fleet, all the orbital guns deployed opened fire. But after all, the Alliance fleet has not yet reached low-Earth orbit, and is a bit far away. The deterrent power of the ground artillery group is still greater than the direct lethality. The main reason is that the hit rate is too unguaranteed.
At this stage, the most reliable thing is orbital defense facilities.
However, among the most important starport fortress and the three starforts, only the one that rushed into battle, which had been severely damaged before, successfully opened fire.
The Starport and the other two Starforts should be the backbone of the defense line, but they both failed at the same time.
Seeing this scene, the garrison generals on the ground who were nervously observing the battle situation felt cold in their hearts.
What's going on?
what happens?
Contact messages were sent one after another.
They urgently want to know why the orbital facilities that should be used to maximize their effectiveness are not responding.
However, they did not receive a response for a long time, and they could only watch as the Alliance ships, with the battleship "Avatar Nova" as the core, arrogantly destroyed the star fort that was already seriously damaged but had to fight alone. Destroy, and at the same time also eliminate various armed space stations in large quantities.
The garrison generals closed their eyes in pain.
Mentus II's orbital defense system is finished.
The Alliance fleet also paid some price, but it was much less than what they should have paid.
None of the main ships were damaged, and at most one cruiser was damaged, plus a few more were damaged.
This kind of loss is not small, but it is completely within the acceptable range of the alliance.
And it was only then that the general command center on the ground received a reply from the Star Port:
The enemy has joined forces.
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Mentus II's defense preparations in all aspects are quite good.
However, they lacked only one crucial point: the ability to defend against psychic energy.
And this ability, when faced with the Storm Mage Group led by Gu Hang himself, will be very demanding.
What will happen if you fail to meet the requirements?
That's what Mentus II is like.
It's not impossible to directly use psychic energy to tear apart space facilities of this level such as star castles and star ports.
Gu Hang fully expanded the Kingdom of Storms and raised his psychic power to Alpha level. Even higher, he could forcibly tear apart the Star Fortress. However, this required him to take a ship and go to a closer distance. Otherwise, on the scale of space, even if it is so far away, the projection of psychic power will still be attenuated a lot.
In other words, although Gu Hang's psychic energy is powerful, its 'range' is far less than that of a naval gun.
Moreover, even if you risk getting close and tearing apart the Star Castle with your psychic powers, it will be a thankless effort. Doing it with all his strength will consume a lot of money on Gu Hang. After doing this one time, he may not have enough ability to do it a second time.
But the enemy also has at least one star fortress and a larger star port fortress.
Effortless, unnecessary.
Are psychic powers such an inconvenience?
There is no need to be so violent at all, there are smarter ways to use it.
For example, leading the Storm Mage Group to set off subspace waves completely blocked the communication between the star port and star fort and the ground, and even seriously interfered with the internal communications of the star port and star fort.
Then, the alliance's powerful army was directly delivered to these space facilities through psychic transmission.
Airdrop and gang jumping are dangerous tasks. The most dangerous stage is the stage in space before reaching the destination.
If a landing craft, carrying dozens of space warriors, is intercepted by a shot on the way, the loss will be too great.
In fact, psychic teleportation is also quite dangerous. This kind of teleportation work that can take place tens of thousands of kilometers away. If there is a slight mistake, the transmission is askew, or it is interfered by the other party's psychic energy, causing the person being teleported to be lost in the subspace, then All are fatal.
But isn't it true that the defenders of Mentus II had barely adequate psychic defense capabilities?
They actually existed originally, but they were recruited by the Raging Flame Chapter in order to strengthen their ability to fight against Gu Hang.
The Raging Flame Fleet itself had enhanced its psychic resistance capabilities, but Mentus II suffered a lot.
They were completely unable to interfere with the alliance's teleportation tactics.
Can't even notice it.
The two intact star forts and the fortress star port were still busy preparing to fire, but in the blink of an eye, a blue teleportation circle appeared in front of them. Before they could react, there would often be two red-armored space warriors working together to kill them.
This situation occurs at many strategic points in star forts and star ports.
Console, contact center, command center, heavy artillery firepower platform...
Countless teleportation arrays scattered and threw in many space warriors.
But these teleportation arrays did not stop working after completing the teleportation to the Phoenix.
Then, one team after another, elite soldiers walked out.
Three light infantry skeleton divisions were specially mobilized and were on standby aboard the Yuhuo Nova. After the Space Marines took the lead, these three skeleton divisions were gradually transported to the starport and star fort in an orderly manner to assist the Space Marines in the battle, and also controlled the key nodes that had been knocked down. Free the Space Marines for more important tasks.
The so-called light infantry skeleton division is a unit based on the general skeleton division, with basically all heavy vehicles removed.
Of course, it is not just a simple removal. Otherwise, apart from having more elite soldiers, what is the difference between it and an ordinary large-scale infantry division?
The difference is that the heavy vehicles that were eliminated were replaced by many light armored units that can fight in narrow and complex spaces. For example, more sentry mechas, more feedback power armors, and some fast assault vehicles, such as armed floating motorcycles, floating rapid-fire self-propelled cannons...
That is to say, the money spent on tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery is used to equip these smaller and more flexible armored units.
On the frontal battlefield, if such a light skeleton master competes with a serious skeleton master, he will definitely be looking for death.
At the same price, a Lion tank can defeat five or six Sentinel mechas with no problem; a Lion tank can destroy a Knight mecha.
However, the Lion Tank cannot be driven in environments such as starports and starforts.
The Light Skeleton Division has its own unique combat environment.
When accompanying the Space Marines in their attack, these troops, which were definitely elite among the mortal troops, also played a huge role.
Space Marines are, after all, few in number. For the occupation of the entire starport and starfort, a larger number of armies or marines are still needed.
In short, the Marine troops invested by the Alliance through teleportation quickly disintegrated the weapons of the three star forts and star ports at the beginning of the battle before they had time to deal a blow to the Alliance's advancing fleet. .
Then, the starport and starfort, which were fully occupied, began to switch their firepower to attack other remaining armed space stations.
However, at this stage, some accidents occurred.
The ground defenders made a very decisive decision after receiving the report from the star port and seeing the star port and star fort begin to attack their remaining space stations.
The fortress artillery group on the ground began to focus their fire on the star port and star fort.
Since these units occupied by the enemy can no longer be used as support for one's own side, but have become the opponent's firepower point, they must be destroyed as much as possible like a strong man cutting off his wrist.
Moreover, the defense on the side of the starport and starfort facing the surface is not very adequate. What's more, they are close to the surface and lack mobility, so they can be hit one at a time.
Inside the starport and starfort, due to the competition and battles with the alliance's gang members, internal damage will inevitably occur.
Under various circumstances, the two star forts and one star port could not hold on for long under the bombardment of the ground orbital gun group, and were quickly destroyed.
In this regard, the alliance also lacks some means to deal with it.
But fortunately, before the starport and starfort were destroyed, the alliance urgently evacuated its landing troops.
Landing craft and small ships flew quickly to the star port and star fort one after another, and quickly picked up the people.
Of course, picking up people is definitely not as convenient as teleporting.
There were still many Alliance soldiers who were buried with them in the starport and starfort. There are also cases where the evacuation spacecraft is shot down during the evacuation process.
But overall, the losses are still controllable.
(End of chapter)