Chapter 702: Ground Warfare
The beam from the space station was just as the Imperial fleet had expected, and the damage caused by a single salvo did not even break through the dimensional armor of the ship that rushed at the front.
After the attack passed, the attacked battleship aimed all its weapons directly at the space station.
A barrage of antimatter shells and missiles crashed into the orbital structure, which was tens of kilometers in diameter.
The violent explosion directly tore it into dozens of pieces, and the huge wreckage of the space station began to float in all directions, and some of the debris fell directly into the atmosphere.
The orbital elevator in the center of the space station strained for a moment and then snapped, and the entire elevator began to fall towards the ground.
The people on the ground looked into the air in horror, and the slender body of the tall tower that had been standing in the middle of the plain began to break into knots in the middle and fall towards the surrounding city.
Although the quality of the materials that make up the rail elevator is very low, it still produces great destructive power under the action of gravitational acceleration.
The elevator is like a knife falling from the sky, splitting all the buildings in its place!
Before the dust from the elevator fell away, 20,000 Imperial captive warships had already passed through the atmosphere and reached the inner side of the atmosphere.
The entire sky was shrouded in the battleships of the Imperial fleet, and the ship's guns under the battleships that covered the sky were still firing, blasting one defense point after another on the ground into ruins.
When the ground fortifications were emptied, the ships began to look for flat terrain to land.
Before the ships could come to a standstill, two million clone soldiers and two hundred thousand mecha chariots rushed out of the ship's cabin.
As soon as the mechanical legs of the armored combat vehicle touched the ground, the turrets on the combat vehicle began to fire wildly at all suspicious locations around it.
Regardless of whether the buildings were civilians or enemy soldiers, any dangerous structures that could threaten the Imperial forces were named one by one by the tank's electromagnetic railguns.
Buildings collapsed into ruins after being hit by railguns, which also greatly broadened the view of the Imperial troops.
"All troops are advancing in all directions in a radial pattern!" The commander of the Imperial Clone Legion looked at the holographic screen in front of him and commanded the movements of the ground troops in a deep voice.
The 20,000 battleships captured by the Empire took off again after unloading all the landing forces, and quickly returned to orbit with the propulsion of the light flame behind them.
Their mission is not to support the battlefield, but to return to the Empire's forward base to pick up a second group of troops.
Due to the design of these ships, each battleship can only carry one hundred clone soldiers and ten mechs at a time.
After exceeding this limit, not only will there be no space in the warehouse, but there will also be no place for the soldiers who carry more to rest.
After the withdrawal of the battleship, the Imperial forces on the ground lost cover from orbit.
The 10,000 unmanned Zeus-class warships of the Imperial fleet continue to attack the next star system, and they want to attack as many colonies as possible to attract the attention of the Spiral Federation to these planets.
On the planet where the Imperial forces landed a few days later, the sky was already lit up by artillery fire fired from the tank.
After several days of high-intensity fighting, the Imperial forces had advanced the offensive line by more than a hundred kilometers.
All enemy units that confronted the Imperial forces head-on were crushed.
If it weren't for the enemy's reaction, which sent the entire planet's troops to this line of defense, and used heavy artillery to cover fire, it is estimated that the Empire's troops would have advanced thousands of kilometers away.
"Attention! The opponent's heavy artillery coverage is here again! One of the observers shouted into the communicator after spotting the surrounding artillery shells through the radar.
The Imperial clone soldiers on the battlefield immediately skillfully burrowed under the Imperial mecha chariot and crouched down to protect their heads with their hands.
The armored fighting vehicle also raised all its weapons, and lowered the height of the combat vehicle slightly, and the eight mechanical legs were firmly inserted into the dirt.
By this time, a dense whistling sound was already heard in the sky, and hundreds of thousands of shells covered the sky with fire.
"The close defense system is activated, and the main artillery interceptor missile is launched!" The Clone Legion commander commanded decisively.
The mecha tank's four heavy railguns fired four interceptor rounds into the air.
In the air, these interceptor missiles shattered into dozens of small sub-warheads, which were also filled with warheads.
When the enemy's shells meet these sub-warheads, the sub-warheads detonate instantly, blowing these shells to pieces in the air!
However, there were still some fish that escaped the net and dodged the interceptor bombs and smashed them into the mecha chariots on the ground.
At this time, the close defense guns on the combat vehicle began to work, and the shells mixed with lasers swept into the air.
These shells, which can hit the roof of the vehicle or nearby, finally disappeared due to multiple interceptions.
But at this time, those shells that did not have time to intercept smashed into the open space of the Imperial War Workshop.
The moment the shell detonated, it created a huge impact, mixed with stones and metal fragments on the ground, and swept towards the surroundings.
At this time, the armored combat vehicle suddenly unfolded its shield, protecting itself and the Imperial clone soldiers hiding under the chariot.
The dust from the shock wave of the explosion instantly flooded the armored combat vehicles, and the entire battlefield was covered in dust.
At this time, the Spiral Federal forces, who seized the opportunity, immediately fired a second round of heavy artillery.
Shells whistled down from the sky again, and the radar scanning system of the Imperial mecha was already severely affected by the dust and metal shavings flying in the sky! It was simply not possible to accurately scan these falling shells.
The main guns on the tank again fired interceptor shells, and at the same time all the weapons on the vehicle fired aimlessly into the air.
However, the effectiveness of this interception was greatly reduced, because it was impossible to scan the exact landing point of these shells, and all interceptions were based on luck!
This time, the luck of the Imperial troops was much worse, and the falling shells accurately hit thousands of Imperial armored fighting vehicles.
The explosion caused by these shells instantly shredded the armor of the Imperial mecha tank, and then lifted the armor on top of the vehicle, and the entire vehicle was blown to scrap metal!
Luckily, the Imperial clone troopers who were hiding under their chariots survived, and although their armor was badly damaged, they were able to continue fighting.
This wave of heavy artillery bombardment successfully caused a large number of Imperial troops to be attribution, but correspondingly, the other side also revealed the location of its heavy artillery.
"All the coordinates of the opponent's artillery have been deduced backwards, and the finishing missile has been fired!" With a loud roar from the mecha chariot radar officer, a circular armor in the middle of the four turrets of all mecha chariots suddenly opened to the sides.