Chapter Twenty-Three: Promotion in the Line of Fire

"God, who will save us!"

The Moon, the starting point of the Earth-Moon system, has always been an important port for the Earth's external connection, where you can see minerals from Vesta and high-yielding crops from Mercury Farms.

Fleets of transports depart from here, departing with finished products from the earth's processing and returning to Earth with cargo, and there are also several air travel companies that receive tourists here, which would be beautiful if it weren't for the dense warships in the sky.

But there is no if, after the plan to attack the earth fails, the Martian Eighth Fleet quickly adjusts its strategy, and since it can't win quickly, it will starve the earth to death! And to complete this plan, the Martian fleet must take the moon.

In fact, this task was originally given to the Olympus Mountain, which could have had terrible consequences after firing at full power, destroying a strong fortress in a few seconds, and pushing an asteroid out of orbit with sustained fire. So this port on the moon is completely complete for Olympus in just a few minutes of continuous shooting.

However, because of the impact of the Punishment, the Olympus Hill suddenly jumped to the corner of the ditch, so the heavy responsibility of seizing the port fell on the shoulders of the remnants of the Eighth Fleet's advance team and reserves.

"Hurry up, get up, get up!" The Martian battleship, which bullied the moon and did not have heavy anti-aircraft fire, directly threw the assault force down against the opponent's painless anti-aircraft fire, while the moon's UNSA troops had less than a few thousand coast guards and a small number of frigates. Can't stop the wolf-like Martian colonization army at all.

The two squadrons of Jackal fighters who took off in desperation launched a desperate assault on the enemy who was more than ten times their own, but the result was tragic, these coast guards only managed to damage one enemy plane, and they all turned into cosmic dust.

"Mantis arm blocking the car!" Fisher could only feel sorry for these brave soldiers, but only for that.

"Mr. Colonel, the airspace has been cleared, and your Marines can move on!"

"Thank you very much, Commander Fisher!" It was the commander of the Marine Corps who spoke, and his soldiers were just being frantically suppressed in the crater by a gunboat that had just been lucky enough to rise into the air, and at the critical moment, Fisher took 50 guns and plowed the upper anti-aircraft turret of the gunboat, which freed the ground troops.

The commander who is grateful to Dade said that when the battle is over, he will definitely praise Fisher to the above, and now Mars is short of talents like you.

Fisher is naturally as good as he knows, the high-ranking officers of Mars have high privileges, free access to various classified laboratories, and the most important thing is that he can only be received by Salenkoch if he is promoted, so that he can have a chance to do something for him.

Fisher has been coveting the Mount Olympus for a long time, both the robot troops and the equipment inside are first-class in the Martian equipment industry, but the aviation squadron only has the activity authority of a few locations, such as the engine room reactor, he will be stopped by the heavily armed robot soldiers before he passes. There will also be a black hole sentry cannon next to it, even if he turns the commander of the air force into his own man, it is useless.

And on the battlefield, thanks to strong fire support and a large number of cannon fodder robot troops, half of the lunar airport soon fell, the terminal building was breached, because there was no direct order from Salenkoch, so the robots and the Martian marines were busy chasing the retreating coast guard, and the trembling civilians survived a lot, and Fisher also jumped off the plane, asked for some robots from the marines, entered the airport, and put those civilians in a relatively safe warehouse with a scolding.

In addition to retrieving the souls of a large number of fallen soldiers and turning them into firewood, Fisher found that because of his actions, the gratitude of those troubled civilians to him also made his star torch change a little.

A little golden starlight slowly melted into his body, and Fisher raised his hand, and found that it seemed as if his spiritual energy had been upgraded, but there was little time for him to study it properly.

"Sir, sir?" Seeing Fisher in a daze, a Marine non-commissioned officer tentatively called him twice.

"What's wrong? Sergeant! Fisher coughed and asked in a serious manner.

"No, I just think you seem to be more radiant!" The Marine non-commissioned officer gave a small compliment.

"Yes, very discerning, I will recommend to your commander that you be promoted to sergeant!" Fisher patted the other man on the shoulder and walked out of the room first.

"But I'm already a sergeant!" The Marine Corps non-commissioned officer looked confused.

After settling the civilians, Fisher ordered the Marines to weld the gate to the ground, and at the same time instructed the robot to bring a pile of debris to block the gate, and then returned to his landline, according to the plot, the Punishment should support the moon at the speed of light after emergency repairs.

Eager to meet the intrepid Captain Reyes, Fisher turned up the opportunity and returned to a Martian carrier in the name of supplies.

Fisher proved to have made the right choice, and just minutes after he landed, the Punishment arrived with the only surviving destroyer, the Tigris.

After entering the battlefield, the Punishment took the lead in dropping out the marines it carried, and in the furious advance of the lunar assault vehicle, the outer defense line of the Martian colonists was directly torn open.

Then the Punishment relied on its own elite jackal squadron and the coast guard jackal team that took off from the moon to break down the Martian defense line, and the Martian pilots who had suffered a lot in the previous Earth raid had to fall into a bitter battle again, but under the opponent's raid and home advantage, they lost again, with a loss of nearly 100, of which ten of the dead aces alone.

The tragic battle situation made the Martian fleet no longer bearable, although most of the battleships are still there, but without the cover of fighters, they are a piece of fat in the eyes of the opposing fighters, and anyone can come to take a bite.

After several hours of fierce fighting, the Mars fleet once again staged a situation of annihilating 8,000 enemies and turning into victory.

The Martians, who had been hit in two raids in a row, wailed, but Fisher was happy because of his previous successes and the heavy losses of the Olympus pilots, so his wish was granted, and Salenkoch wanted to boost the morale of his men and regroup them to deal with their current worst enemy, the Earth carrier Punishment!