Chapter Twenty-Six: The Action Begins
On the morning of September 3, Tianhe 623, Operation Hurricane officially began......
The operational fleets of the operation in turn lifted off from their respective battleship moorings and headed for the predetermined area of operations. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and Zhang Yunfan also set off with his own temporary comprehensive fleet.
This fleet consists of a small combat fleet, two small supply fleets and a medium transport fleet. There were two medium-sized Sait-class cruisers, eight light Merlin-class destroyers, ten 30,000-ton class small supply ships, two 400,000-ton transports and ten 30,000-ton transports.
As an assault force, Ye Su was distributed in the ten transport boats with the mecha troops scheduled for the landing operation, ready to carry out the raid mission at any time.
The goal of this raid is to recapture the Ling Haixing occupied by the Zerg, which is located in the core of the Zerg occupation area, and if you take it, you can use it as a base to advance and cut off the connection between the various occupied areas of the Zerg, so as to achieve the overall goal of dividing and encircling and annihilating the invading Zerg in one fell swoop.
Over time, various fleets successively reached attack positions......
"It's 12:57 on 09/03/09/623 in Tianhe, and the attack is expected to start in three minutes." In the public channels of the fleets, the voice of the commander of the Third Fleet, Admiral Fafort, who will personally direct the battle, sounded. "The units are starting to check the table!"
At 13 o'clock that day, the battle officially began......
"The landing fleet is dispatched."
As soon as the words fell, ten transport boats carrying the landing force sailed towards Ling Haixing. The order to be fulfilled by these units was to establish a stable line of bridgeheads to secure the landing of subsequent reinforcements.
The danger of this kind of operation is naturally high, and the reason why the landing force does not send spirit armor troops is precisely because of this. After all, in the eyes of some commanders, the loss of a spirit seed serving on the front line is much more painful than the loss of a thousand ordinary soldiers.
Another reason is that although the spirit armor troops are strong, they are also more dependent on energy supplies. In isolation and defense, with no stable supply source, the Spirit Armor troops can only continue to fight for a maximum of three hours. This is not enough to complete the follow-up login action
Therefore, this kind of kinetic mecha with superior performance, powerful power, and most importantly, cheap leather has naturally become the best choice in the eyes of commanders. The Spirit Armor Unit was assigned to the third batch of Login Units in order to maximize its effectiveness.
Soon, the ten transport boats reached the orbit of Ling Haixing's satellite, and after moving near the morning line of the planet, they began to sail towards the interior of the planet. This login method was adapted by Zhang Yunfan based on the planet landing method during the Space War.
In the event of a space war, after paralyzing the planet's radar, nanowave and other detection means in the universe, the fleets of various countries often choose to log in in the night hemisphere of the planet to reduce the losses when they are attacked by the guard forces.
And Zhang Yunfan let the troops log in from the planet's morning line, which can obtain a good combat environment for the advance team, after all, a good line of sight environment is more important to human beings. And using this method allows the advance team to gain a whole day's time to consolidate its position.
Slowly, the ten transports disappeared into Ling Haixing's thick atmosphere......
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After entering the atmosphere, the transporters turned off the main engines and only turned on the suspension engines to reduce noise. Then the hatch opened, and the cotton threads could be seen as small specially modified landing craft peeking out of the belly. It was loaded with all the troops and weapons and equipment of this advance operation.
One by one, the landing craft drove out of the transport boats, turned on their engines and lowered to the ground, and after these transport boats completed these tasks, they turned on their full power and accelerated away from the battlefield, after all, in this combat environment, large targets such as transport boats are simply good live targets for the Zerg.
Soon, the landing craft reached the planet's surface, and a team of kinetic mechs stepped out of the capsule. After all the mechs left the boat, these landing craft turned into marine armored vehicles with a large cannon after a few simple form adjustments.
"Attention everyone, assemble at the designated place!" After quickly checking his equipment, Ye Su quickly ordered the troop detachments to assemble and form a defensive front.
Because it was parachuted directly to the defensive site, the place where the troops moved was omitted. Regarding this location, it has to be said that the coalition forces went out of luck.
After the battle plan was formulated, the senior staff members in the fleet had been worrying about how to defend themselves against the underground attack of the large Zerg, when a chronicler stumbled upon this place.
This is arguably the ideal place for defensive positions. This place is surrounded by mountains and the wind is fierce. With the exception of the Alliance airships, which have strong propulsion capabilities, the Scythes with thin forewings do not want to fly across the valley.
Moreover, these mountains contain a large amount of carbon nitride, and setting up positions on such mountains can effectively resist the underground raids of the Zerg.
With sufficient supplies, this place can completely block the siege of the Zerg.
"Immediately set up positions according to the original plan and wait for the next wave of reinforcements." Yip Su gave instructions to the assigned correspondents. It will then be conveyed by their heads and mouths to the various positions.
After all, the results of the "reconnaissance" of the fourth base are still there! Before the battle, no commander was willing to reveal his position in advance on the planet occupied by the Zerg.
In this way, the defensive formations on the mountains were set up in an orderly manner, and the occasional wandering zerg was also killed by the sniper team set up in advance. Until the planned preset positions were all completed, there was no large Zerg army.
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On the flagship of the receiving fleet, Zhang Yunfan was staring closely at the projection of the position in front of him, his eyes half-narrowed, and he pondered silently.
"You've been staring at that projection for hours." Fei Lin, who was appointed as Zhang Yunfan's temporary adjutant, walked up to him with a cup of fragrant tea. "Let's have a drink!"
After getting along in the past few days, Fei Lin probably understood some of Zhang Yunfan's living habits. Therefore, instead of preparing the common coffee for him, he replaced it with the traditional drink of the Ming people.
"Something is wrong~~Something is wrong~~" Zhang Yunfan frowned. He felt a hint of danger. The operation of the landing force was too smooth, and it was already going a little abnormally.
"Didn't everything go according to plan?" Filine looked at his performance with some puzzlement.
"If it were according to the plan, their position should already be full of smoke by now, and the front of the position should be full of insect corpses!"
"This ...... Maybe the Zerg haven't discovered them yet. Fei Lin comforted Zhang Yunfan, and at the same time comforted herself. After all, if all this is a conspiracy of the Zerg, then everything the fleet has prepared will only be exchanged for an irreparable fiasco.
"When they landed, it wasn't a small move! If it were a normal time, there should have been a Zerg reconnaissance team to investigate. Zhang Yunfan rubbed his temples and continued: "So far, apart from those stragglers wandering outside, have you seen an organized Zerg army? ”
"This ......" Fei Lin also realized the seriousness of the problem, and hurriedly said: "Then withdraw quickly!" Before there is a loss. ”
"Fortunately, none of the fleets have yet to attack, and as long as we don't finish the battle here, they won't leave the safe assembly area." Zhang Yunfan looked at the starry sky map and said, "Now, the only one who is really in danger is our fleet. ”
"So what are we going to do?"
"No hurry...... Stop the second batch of reinforcements first," Zhang Yunfan clenched his left hand into a fist, pressed it against his head, and pondered: "We have to find a way to verify whether our idea is correct." ”
In fact, Zhang Yunfan has long thought of the easiest inspection method. That is to let the advance team that landed in Ling Haixing turn on the communicator and send messages at a high frequency. If there is no Zerg attack in this way, then everyone can run away as soon as possible.
But he could not give such an order. Because, if the idea is right, then there are excusable circumstances. But what if he was wrong? And how many people will die because of this order? He can't and won't test a soldier's life just because of one of his own ideas.
"Command!" Zhang Yunfan stood up abruptly and said loudly: "Each ship has sent three groups of reconnaissance aircraft to control the largest range around the fleet. The transport fleet emptied its holds, lightened its load, and all supplies were suspended overboard. ”
"Yes!"