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Say it's half an hour, of course, it's scaring people.

The fleet that carried out the replacement work was the fleet that escorted the Archangel-class support ships before, and the one who escorted the Archangel-class support ships back to the moon was the original orbital defense fleet, and they would accompany the support ships and drag the damaged own starships away, and the original escort fleet, when entering the battlefield, had already descended to low-earth orbit and prepared for an orbital bombing mission.

The reason why Lin Hai wants to say this is just a dissatisfaction with the behavior of the people of country Y who are still thinking about how to preserve their strength at this time, and only know how to let reinforcements from other countries go up to fight hard.

It is naturally impossible for the people of country Y to know that Lin Hai is scaring them, and they have no way of knowing if the orbital fleet really needs that long to enter the bombing coordinates, but in half an hour, they can indeed hold on, as long as they don't continue to preserve their strength.

It was only a few minutes after the end of the communication, and the people of country Y no longer retained their strength, and hundreds of unmanned armored troops and manned troops drove onto the road from all over the country and rushed to the front line, while the manned troops that were originally guarding behind the defensive positions formed by the drones and were ready to deal with the breakthrough of the Sijing people at any time retreated a few kilometers to the rear, giving up the positions they were originally stationed in to the newly reinforced drone troops.

Not to mention the number of long-range attack troops in the rear, more intensive artillery bombardment was also assigned to the inner side of the encirclement, and began to suppress the attacking Sijing troops, so as to prevent the drone troops from being taken advantage of by the Sijing people to break through when they were deploying and adjusting.

At this time, the heavy rocket artillery brought by the expeditionary force of country Z performed very well, and a large number of rockets with terminal sensitive shells almost covered the entire battlefield, except for the armored weapons of the Sijing people with their own shields or their own extremely strong armor, the infantry of the Sijing people suffered heavy losses under such a blow, which was equivalent to withdrawing from the battle in advance.

Then, the active attack of the coalition army's unmanned armored forces also further reduced the range of activities of the Sijing troops in this area, allowing them to concentrate more in the center, so that the subsequent orbital strikes could annihilate them at a smaller cost.

Although the situation became more and more bad through the active attack of the coalition forces, and the commanders of the Brotherhood also continued to increase troops in the rear, trying to attack the rear on both sides of the encirclement to relieve the pressure on the troops in the encirclement, but in this operation, in addition to long-range artillery fire to cut off their reinforcement routes, the rear of the coalition forces on both wings of the encirclement, there were other troops deployed in place after the encirclement was formed, specifically to protect the two wings from being broken by other troops of the Sijing people, so for a while, It is unlikely that the Sijing troops will break the siege for the center by striking at both flanks of the coalition forces.

Fifteen minutes after the end of the communication, meteors began to appear in the sky, constantly falling and exploding in the center of the Sijing troops, swallowing up one group after another of the Sijing troops - this is not the beginning of the orbital attack, but just the orbital fleet is using missiles to bombard the ground, clearing out some offensive that may break through the ground defense line of the coalition forces, and driving those Sijing troops who are trying to escape from the battlefield back to the central area.

Black balls of light began to appear among the Sijing troops, which were the teleportation wormholes they opened, ready to evacuate the ground troops from the battlefield through the wormholes, but when those black balls of light expanded to two meters in diameter, they automatically broke and then swept away a circle of air around them and disappeared completely. This is what all wormholes do.

Not only GDI, but even the people of country Y have also set up a number of high-power new gravitational traps around the battlefield to interfere with the opening of the wormhole.

In the end, the Sijing people thought about it quite a bit, and did not continue to withdraw their troops, or they no longer planned to care about the life and death of this army, they had more advanced observation methods, and they knew the outcome of this battle one step ahead of the coalition forces, they no longer tried to save this army, and simply gave up this army, as well as those Brotherhood officers who were mixed in the Sijing troops and commanded those unmanned weapons for them.

Just after the wormhole stopped opening and the backup stopped sending reinforcements to open up the coalition positions, more and more meteors appeared over the battlefield and fell on the heads of those troops who had been abandoned by the Sijing people!

Continuous explosions filled every part of the encirclement area, and every smoke and fire could destroy an area of nearly a kilometer and several square kilometers -- to carry out orbital bombardment, if you do not use weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear bombs and orbital ion guns, and only use conventional weapons, if you want to blow up these tens of square kilometers, it will require an extremely huge amount of ammunition to do this.

The power of kinetic weapons is huge, but the penetration is too strong, and the solid kinetic armor-piercing shells fired from the standard 600 mm main gun of the Kodiak class have no problem drilling a deep hole in the ground, but if they want to destroy a large area like a nuclear weapon, it is definitely impossible, unless GDI is replaced with a larger-caliber railgun, or directly dragged a large-diameter asteroid over and thrown to the ground, but that will affect the ground geological environment, it is impossible for the people of country Y not to agree not to say, Even on the part of the United Nations, there will not be much support.

Therefore, although the GDI starship is huge, it has not been able to carry so much ammunition for conventional artillery bombardment, and every shell fired to the ground is loaded with a special high-explosive substance, which is second only to nuclear weapons in power.

GDI's orbital bombardment method is to divide the participating starships into several groups first, but gradually shoot from the periphery of the intended bombing area to the center, and after completing one round, another round will be carried out like plowing the field and bombing again and again, and a standard orbital bombardment will end - this is different from precision bombing, in addition to the longer consumption time, the ammunition consumption is larger, and the scale and scope of the attack are also broader.

The ground forces of the Sijing people who were besieged in the encirclement naturally mostly disappeared in such a blow, and only a small number of guys who were extremely lucky had a very small probability of surviving such an orbital bombardment.

It's just that without waiting for the smoke and flames caused by the orbital bombardment to disappear, although a large number of unmanned armored units that were too closely entangled with the Sijing troops were also lost in the orbital bombardment, more human unmanned armored troops, as well as manned armored troops, rushed into the mushroom clouds that had not completely dissipated, and began to encircle and suppress those lucky ones who had a very small chance of surviving.

With orbital bombardment and drone units, the front-line troops at the front will naturally have a lot fewer opportunities to obtain meritorious service: if the battle is won, the great credit belongs to the high-level personnel in the security rear, and the manned troops who are also on standby in the relatively safe area have no reason to get the credit. Now this kind of opportunity can be regarded as the time when someone's troops will finally obtain merit after fighting a battle, and naturally there will be people who are willing to grab this kind of combat merit that is not very risky, although such combat merit is not high.

Although there were many situations in the middle of this battle plan, and the losses exceeded the previous expectations, the human side was considered to have won the victory, and the eliminated Sijing troops also exceeded the expectations in advance, and the final result was still happy, and no one would mention the various internal contradictions and external pressures in the process - those coalition generals on the ground did not know that the GDI space fleet had obtained better things than theirs.

What those people on the ground think, Lin Hai doesn't care, he still has a lot of work to do, this operation, for the GDI space fleet, is just a test, to test whether there are any problems in the coordination of strategic support between the space fleet and the ground forces, this is a rehearsal for the North American battle plan later. If it succeeds, then the GDI will be able to use this kind of massive orbital bombardment as a standard tactical support when fighting in North America, and can often use this method to fight - after all, the clone forces from another time and space have long been used to it, but the humans of this era have not yet experienced this kind of experience.

This is also why the Sijing troops, who were obviously trapped in the encirclement by the coalition forces, did not need the space fleet to launch orbital bombardment at all, and they could be solved with long-range artillery fire, but they still used the GDI space fleet to complete the annihilating blow. If it weren't for this rehearsal need, and Lin Hai also planned to take the opportunity to see if he could make a splash on the Sijing Space Fleet, otherwise he would not have agreed to this kind of wasteful battle plan.

Now that the battle is over, the ground is trimmed, and the celebration is celebrated, but this has nothing to do with Lin Hai. He was now sitting around a holographic map with several Space Fleet generals, all clone officers, working on their next course of action.

"It's easy to say anything else, but the layer of ion clouds that surround the eastern part of North America is always a headache." I am still on the space fortress at Lagrange Point, but Vice Admiral Tovin, deputy commander of the GDI Space Fleet, who participated in the meeting with a cost-effective projection, said (Iron Eagle is still only a brigadier general within the ranks, and the rank of lieutenant general was awarded by the United Nations after Iron Eagle was included in GDI, and Lin Hai is now in the GDI rank, which was also promoted to general by the United Nations, but this general does not count in his system ranks, he is still only the rank of lieutenant general in the Global Defense Forces), "It doesn't matter if communications are greatly affected in that area." However, even the observation equipment will be affected, which is very troublesome, and if the observation is not accurate, the probability of bombing oneself and the enemy is the same as that of carrying out orbital bombardment over North America. ”

"Precision bombing is not possible, and that ion cloud will also interfere with the positioning of missiles." Colonel Tagate, who was at the scene, followed his old superiors and said, "In short, all electronic equipment will be interfered with there, and the effect of orbital support will be greatly reduced. ”

"I know the situation there, and I have also been to the scene in North America when the Sijing people made an ion storm there before." Lin Hai said, "So in the operation in North America, I think it is still necessary to focus on ground operations, and it must be ground armored warfare with no air support." The reason why we were going to carry out an orbital strike on the New York area was because it was determined that the ion storm might be caused by some kind of large facility of the Sijing people, and that kind of facility was deployed in New York, and if we blew up New York, then the ion storm might gradually disappear. ”

"But Dr. Kane's new research report is discouraging." Towin shook his head and said with some regret.