The sudden retreat order made all the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were fighting the rebels a little dazed. Although the vanguard was unfavorable and fell into the rebel attack between the two mountain beams in front and back, the follow-up offensive clusters were constantly coming in to support. Relying on their local superiority in strength and fighting with heavy casualties, the ground offensive forces are turning the tide of the war step by step.

Nevertheless, in line with the duty of obeying orders, the various armored detachments adjusted their firepower in accordance with the orders of the commander, and retreated back in an orderly manner under the cover of each other. In order to cover the retreat of the main force, some of the chariots with destroyed marching devices and the mechs with broken legs and arms were firmly in place to attract the fire of the rebels until they were smashed into a pile of scrap metal. After all, to retreat safely from such a fierce close-quarters melee, someone had to make sacrifices.

The retreat made the bloody soldiers of the expeditionary force drip blood in their hearts, and they would rather fall head-on on the way to the charge than be chrysanthemums bloomed by the rebels in the midst of a somewhat chaotic retreat. In order to cover their comrades, there are constantly chariot mechs who disobey orders and turn their guns in place, buying precious every second of retreat time for others.

Finally, after a battle that was even more tragic than the attack, the vanguard with heavy casualties hurriedly withdrew from the mountains, out of close contact with the rebels. A timely round of artillery fire cut off the pursuit of the rebels from the mountains, causing the rebels to retreat in a huff and turn to the small units of the remaining expeditionary force that had volunteered to stay in place to attract firepower.

"Fuck, what a battle this is called!" Listening to the fierce artillery fire still heard in the mountains in the distance, Hao Yi, whose eyes were red, smashed his fist on the track of the siege tank beside him, and scolded with gritted teeth. As he retreated, an armor-piercing spike flew past his helmet, the fragments of the helmet slicing through his forehead, and blood was dripping from it. The euphoria of the first time in battle has long since been replaced by a full of resentment.

"Brother Hao, stop scolding! It's good that we can get back! Hu Erpang on the side sat on the ground with a chariot and said panting. A large hole had been cracked in the armor of his left arm, and a patch of red blood was slowly oozing out.

"Erfat, are you injured?" Hao Yi turned around when he heard the sound and asked in surprise. After more than 10 battles, Haoyi's maintenance detachment was reduced from more than 100 people who had just been put into the battlefield to less than 40. In that "hijacking operation", Zhao Jiakun was seriously injured and was sent back to the base to recuperate. The team leader Xu Feng was also unfortunately killed in a battle, and now only he and Hu Erpang are left in Haoyi's team. Now that both of them have been promoted to corporal in an exceptional rank, there is no joy in the hearts of Haoyi and the others.

"It's okay! Scratched by shrapnel from the dog's day! Hu Erpang smiled reluctantly, shook his head and said.

Haoyi frowned, and was about to lean over to check Hu Erpang's injuries when the commander's order suddenly came from the headset, "All units quickly reassemble and prepare for the second round of attacks!" ”

This brainless order once again confused Haoyi and the others. Just as the soldiers of the expeditionary force were about to open their mouths to curse the bastard commander, patches of "dark clouds" suddenly appeared in the space above their heads.

At first, the soldiers thought it was about to change, but when they heard the rumbling "thunder" that something was not quite right, they looked up. "Look! Battlecruisers! Some sharp-eyed soldiers quickly recognized that the small, square, and angular "dark clouds" were actually the figures of large space battlecruisers. As soon as the words landed, there was a commotion in the crowd.

"I'm X, it's a battlecruiser!"

"Damn, what are these big guys doing here?" The soldiers were babbling and talking. The distance was too far to tell with the naked eye whether these cruisers belonged to the Seventh Space Fleet or the rebels, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force were inevitably uneasy.

Since the Battle of Planet Solomi, the space battleships of both sides have been busy fighting for air supremacy in outer space, and neither has time to support their respective ground forces. At present, those space cruisers can smoothly enter the atmosphere, which means that the battle in outer space has begun to be clear, and only the side that has air supremacy can send a fleet to enter the low altitude to assist its ground forces in combat.

With a heavy hull that is several kilometers long, powerful main guns, countless laser secondary guns, and a large number of ghost escort fighters, once it enters the atmosphere, it is an extremely terrifying giant air fortress for ground forces. If the battle cruisers above their heads were on the side of the rebels, the regrouped expeditionary force in the Gobi wilderness in front of the mountains would undoubtedly be bombarded devastatingly.

Those air giants, due to the rapid descent, brought rolling black clouds around the hull, and they looked even more "hideous", like a large cloud of robbery slowly covering the heads of the expeditionary force soldiers. The faint roar of a nuclear-powered engine in the air shook the internal organs of every soldier of the expeditionary force, and the shadow of panic and fear quickly filled everyone's hearts. Many soldiers were so frightened that their legs trembled slightly, and many more opened their mouths wide, looked at the "dark clouds" above their heads in surprise, and invariably stopped their movements.

"Don't panic, everyone! Those battle cruisers are our Seventh Space Fleet, and they will assist us in attacking the rebel positions! A timely explanation from the field commander came from the headset, which suddenly relaxed the tense heartstrings of the soldiers.

"The Seventh Space Fleet is mighty!" I don't know who took the lead and shouted excitedly, and the entire front line exploded, and the excited and somewhat chaotic cheers of the soldiers were everywhere.

"I'm X, I'll just say, it must be our own battle cruiser, look at that mighty appearance! Gee! How cool it would be to be a spaceman in the Space Force! One of the Marines said with a big grin.

"Liu Lao Liu, why didn't you fucking fart just now! I still seem to see your legs shaking, it can't be scared, right? Another soldier scolded with an unceremonious laugh.

"What the hell is ...... me" The Marine was about to quibble, but the commander's command sounded in his ears: "All units speed up and reassemble, and in half an hour, launch a new attack!" ”

"Brother Hao, that's a space battleship!" Hu Erfat, who was so frightened that his face was a little pale, looked up at those giants and exclaimed: "It's so fucking big!" It's several times bigger than those space carriers! ”

"Tut-tut, how exciting it would be to get one to drive away!" Haoyi on the side looked at himself, his eyes were shining, drooling and fantasizing.

"Uh, Brother Hao, I heard that big guy can't drive it alone!" Hu Erpang reminded him uninterestingly.

"Uh...... Pack up your gear and get ready to work! Haoyi, who was in YY, glanced at Hu Erpang angrily, "You are a foodie, you always like to disturb Lao Tzu's pride!" ”

As he spoke, the battle cruisers, which were wrapped in rolling thick clouds, had descended to an altitude of several thousand meters and dispersed to the designated combat area in units of two or three battleships. There were also two battleships hovering on the front to which Haoyi belonged. The thick clouds around the battlecruiser hovering high in the air slowly dispersed, revealing the true colors of these big guys.

The cold light glittering hull armor is covered with a forest of laser secondary guns, all kinds of light frequently flashed around the hull, the classic mallet-shaped bow looks mighty and domineering, the inverted T-shaped hull carries launchers for orbital nuclear bombardment on both sides, and the four huge nuclear power engine vents distributed in the stern of the ship are even more spectacular. However, because the battleship was suspended at this time, there was no blue tail flame in the engine vent.

As soon as the battleship came to a stop, the ejection ports of the fighters in the middle of the hull opened one after another, and one after another ghost escort fighters buzzed out of the battleship. Compared to a giant mothership, the tiny Ghost Fighter is like a swarm of flies, buzzing around an adult. However, despite this, the number of Ghost fighters in the hundreds, is also a great threat to the battleships of the giant.

The Ghost Fighter is primarily designed to assist space battleships in their struggle for air supremacy in outer space. Its main armament is a 105mm laser cannon that can penetrate the battlecruiser's secondary steel armor, while also carrying a variety of space torpedoes or air-to-air missiles. The space torpedo is actually a low-speed, heavy, high-power missile specifically aimed at battleships, while the air-to-air missile is a high-speed light missile used against warplanes.

Although the Ghost Fighter is small and exquisite, its laser main guns and space torpedoes are also a great threat to battleships, and once the number reaches a certain size, a single battlecruiser has to be afraid of three points. While assisting near-ground forces, the Ghost Fighter can also use laser guns to carry out air strikes against armored targets on the ground. What's more, within a certain range from the mothership, the ghost fighter can also use the anti-gravity force field of the mothership to stimulate the stealth force field of the airborne, so as to achieve the purpose of stealth. Its stealth effect is comparable to that of the Banshee Fighter, except that once it is out of the mothership's force field, the Ghost Fighter automatically loses its invisibility function.

Moments later, the ground forces had regrouped into attacking formation, and the space battleships above their heads began to move slowly, and the nuclear-powered engines spewed out blue light and rumbled over the rebel positions.

"Whew!" When the huge figure of the space battleship slowly covered the mountain that had just experienced a tragic offensive and defensive battle, a dazzling yellow laser cannon beam roared towards the mountain.

"Boom!" Countless smoke and dust suddenly rose with the light of the fire, and the earth trembled. In order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops on the front line, the battleship did not use the powerful nuclear main gun, the Yamato gun. However, the salvo of hundreds of laser secondary guns equipped with it is also far more powerful than the heavy artillery clusters of the ground forces.

Billowing smoke and dust poured down the slopes of the high ground, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force who had already assembled in the distance were shocked.

"Units, prepare to attack!" Before the salvo of the secondary guns on the battleship stopped, the command of the field commander was heard in Haoyi's headset.