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In the end, the GDI orbital strike fleet managed to evacuate the theater of operations without losing a single starship - but almost all of the capital ships, namely the four Kodiak-class battle cruisers, were damaged to varying degrees, and the anti-orbital weapons of the Sijing people were all aimed at them and fired, even if these anti-orbital weapons were extremely slow to fire, they were powerful, and the plasma was able to track the target, which was the main cause of these damages.

Lin Hai also left London after arranging the follow-up reinforcement plan for GDI.

In the absence of a better solution to those anti-orbital weapons, it is difficult for the Space Fleet to continue to provide fire support for ground forces, and can only rely on long-range artillery fire to destroy the large shields and defenses deployed by the Sijing people in the city of London.

Fortunately, the Colossus Shelling Mecha has an ultra-long range of 200 kilometers, and with the ablation-resistant heavy armor-piercing projectile that is difficult to intercept even with a strong laser, it only takes a few shots to break through the large shield generated by the Pillar of Storm, destroying it along with the Pillar of Storm itself.

GDI has already planned for various situations, including how to fight when the ground forces cannot be supported by the space fleet, so the GDI staff is not too nervous and anxious about the space fleet not being able to participate in the war, and they are mobilizing troops equipped with Colossus artillery support mecha from the European continent to country Y to support according to Lin Hai's order (the troops sent before are only equipped with conventional self-propelled guns, and there is no long-range cannon like the Colossus mecha), while deploying the existing equipment in hand, Launch an attack on the City of London.

Regardless of whether the GDI orbital strike fleet withdrew from the battlefield because they did not dare to pay too many losses, at least before they withdrew, they destroyed the mind controller center of the Sijing people's remote control of nearly a million civilians, which was equivalent to solving the biggest trouble for the ground forces, and the road to attack London had been opened. Although it was still a little too early to attack London at this time, and the troops scheduled in the original plan had not been gathered, in order not to give the Sijing people a chance to rebuild the thinking control center, the coalition forces still launched an offensive in advance - it was indeed a last resort, from the coalition ground forces being counterattacked by the Sijing people, to the GDI orbital strike fleet destroying the control center and then being forced away by anti-orbital weapons, and finally the coalition forces changed from a defensive state to an offensive state, and a total of less than twenty-four hours had passed, everything was too urgent.

However, among the forces currently participating in the attack, basically only the GDI troops - including the Z Expeditionary Force with the name of the GDI troops - the Y army has only sent a small number of armored troops to participate in the operation, and its main force is busy with the GDI medical institutions to remove the controllers from the heads of those who are controlled. That's nearly a million people who are controlled, and it takes a lot of time and manpower to carefully remove the controllers one by one, and it also has to prevent the Sijing people from continuing to attack the coalition forces after they have successfully rebuilt the control center before the tactical estimate, so it is essential to have a large army to stay in the rear.

The troops responsible for the siege of the city, as soon as they changed the previous cautious mode, directly used artillery to open the way - anyway, the entire city of London was completely razed, and they would not be distressed, and the builders would be very happy when they rebuilt after the destruction - as long as there were Sijing troops and defensive lines in front, they would contact the rear, and within ten minutes, a burst of supporting fire composed of long-range howitzers and rocket artillery would cover the entire target area, regardless of whether there were Sijing troops or London construction facilities, they would be destroyed and blown to pieces.

Only a few functionally important buildings, such as power plants and waterworks, as well as historically important buildings, such as royal palaces and museums, escaped the guns of the coalition forces. In order not to damage these facilities, the coalition forces could not pour artillery fire on these buildings at will, so they could only send troops to clear the enemy formations on the perimeter of the buildings, and send infantry into the buildings to clear the enemy infantry to seize them.

Fortunately, such a building is not too much even in the whole of London, and the offensive efficiency of the troops has not been greatly affected by this, and the current government of country Y is more interested in not marking too many things that need to be preserved. It's just that London is so big after all, and the coalition forces are indeed a little insufficient in terms of the number of troops, if you want to take London in a short period of time and not give the Sijing people the opportunity to rebuild the thinking control center, then there will be a lot of troops and materials needed.

Fortunately, after the attack began, the human side could directly deploy the gravitational trap generator to the front line, completely suppressing the ability of the Sijing people to open wormholes in this area, and on the other hand, it could be regarded as cutting off the support and replenishment ability of the Sijing people, which could be regarded as barely changing the gap in the strength of the two sides, so that there would not be a situation where 10,000 people would be used to surround 1 million people.

The biggest trouble for the coalition forces now is not the expected Sijing troops, but the vast ruins formed by the debris of human city buildings that have been destroyed and collapsed in the shelling, and the Storm Pillar defense system with large shields that is difficult to destroy due to insufficient firepower.

In the face of the shield generated by the Pillar of Storm, as well as the Ion Storm, the missiles are basically useless, and all missiles that attack the Pillar of Storm, whether they are ground-penetrating missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, or even anti-tank missiles, are either destroyed by the storm when passing through the Ion Storm Cluster, or successfully avoid the storm, but are stopped by the shield due to lack of power.

The ruins of the city formed by the destruction and collapse of the battle made it difficult for the heavy equipment of the coalition army to pass through, not to mention wheeled vehicles, even if it was a tracked vehicle like a tank, it was powerless in the face of some ruins formed by the collapse of dozens of floors, and it was often ambushed by the Sijing infantry in front of such a terrain, and it paid some price.

At this time, only the infantry, especially the new infantry equipped with a powered exoskeleton, really felt like a fish in water. These new infantrymen wear powered exoskeletons with armor carapaces with certain protective capabilities, and use more powerful but also heavier individual firearms, and some special exoskeletons also carry heavy firepower such as automatic grenade launchers, rocket nests, and individual anti-tank missile launchers.

Although the troops in this configuration were not comparable to a standard composite battalion in terms of numbers and firepower, in such an environment, they had attacked the ground forces of the Sijing people more than before.

Shuttling through the forest formed by reinforced concrete, these flexible, fast, and fast figures hit the troops, defense lines, and camps of the Sijing people in various ways. There are very few types of individual soldiers of the same flexible Sijing, and only the half-human, half-mechanical synthetic creatures whose technology is derived from the Brotherhood can fight with the human power exoskeleton troops, but their firepower and defense capabilities are far inferior to the other party, and they finally caught up with those human squads, but they were sent into the sky by various human explosives in the firefight-in addition to guns and cannons, some people will also carry a large number of types of mines, which are specially used to deal with the pursuit troops of the Sijing people.

This is just the conventional power exoskeleton troops, like the heavy troops under the direct unit of the GDI command (clone troops), wearing power armor with higher performance than power exoskeleton equipment, although it looks taller and bulkier, but contains more advanced technology power armor, so that these regional armor soldiers using power armor can use more powerful firepower than ordinary power exoskeleton troops, have better protection capabilities, and have a higher combat duration.

In this way, the armored troops in these areas even dared to attack some of the more defended Sijing camps without having to wait for reinforcements from the rear or call for fire support.

In the face of this human offensive, the reinforcements have been cut off by the ground gravitational trap, and there are also GDI fleets in space that have blocked high orbits (the anti-orbital weapons currently deployed by the Sijing people can only pose a threat to the human fleet in the low-earth orbit position, and its rate of fire and projectile speed are not enough to threaten the higher altitude orbit, in these places, the human starships can easily dodge the plasma clusters launched from the ground, even if they have tracking functions, in fact, as far as GDI observes, the anti-orbital weapons of the Sijing people, in the face of the human fleet in high orbit, it will not fire at all, but it is impossible for the human fleet to descend into low earth orbit to attack them), and it is no longer a problem for the Sijing troops to be completely cut off from support, and they are eliminated from London.

As soon as the Colossus mecha transferred by GDI arrives, it is only a matter of time before those core bases of the Sijing people protected by the Pillar of Storm are breached by humans.

Of course, it is impossible for the Sijing people to give up the city of London that they have occupied, and the unplanned siege of the human race did catch them off guard, even the commanders of the Brotherhood made a mistake in judgment, they originally thought that the human race would attack only after all the controlled civilians in their hands were disposed of, but unexpectedly, the GDI side didn't care about those civilians of country Y at all, and after handing over all the people to the people of country Y to deal with themselves, they launched an attack on the same day without waiting for all the backups to arrive.

Moreover, the way the human alliance attacked also made them a little unresponsive. As the capital of country Y, it is also a city with a relatively long history in Europe, when human beings attacked here, they did not regard this place as the capital of one of the five permanent countries and a historical city, and it was completely an attitude of razing the city and the enemy together.

All of a sudden, they were indeed blinded.

However, after all, the Sijing people are also a civilization that has long stepped into the interstellar age, even if there are only a bunch of alien refugees on the earth with incomplete technology and equipment, but there is a generation gap between them and human technology, although there is GDI to catch up with these generation gaps, but in time human beings do not have much chance of catching up.

When there was no GDI fleet overhead to provide a direct, accurate orbital strike, the heavy armored forces in the hands of the Sijing people also appeared in front of the human coalition forces and launched the same counterattack.