At this time, in the city, there were already many squads of Astral Army soldiers who were entangled by the enemy. And the enemy's large forces are still coming towards them.

If there were only rebels and Chaos warriors, these elite astral armies would be able to retreat silently from front of them, even if they couldn't annihilate them all due to their numbers.

In a complex urban environment, the rebels and Chaos Warriors are powerless to hold these astral armies in their hands, and they can't stop the astral armies from retreating.

That's how it should be.

But when the enemy decided to attack the Astral Army defense line outside the city in two directions, the demons gathered under the leadership of a Dreadbook Lord and rushed north.

Rebels with armored vehicles, Chaos Dauntless, and Chaos Titans, members of the Chaos Gang, and the World Eater Legion have all been assigned to this mixed force. They have a lot of firepower.

Most of the buildings around the Astral Squads they found were destroyed by their fire, or damaged by Titans and vehicles. There are very few bunkers that allow the Astral Force squad to hide, dodge fire, and line of sight.

A team of the Astral Army was besieged like this, and it was difficult to rely on its own strength to break through it. And if any of the Astral Army squads are accidentally dragged, many nearby enemies will rush here, making it even more difficult for them to evacuate the area.

If these enemies swarmed up, they would be able to destroy the Astral Army soldiers who were surrounded by them. But they didn't do it, they just blocked it, besieged it.

These enemies want to trap these astral troops in the city as hostages, so that the Imperial side does not use weapons of mass destruction. The warships in space still hang over their heads.

If they can trap these astral armies, the Imperial side will be constrained. It will be able to buy time for the follow-up more powerful demon engines and chaos warriors to rush through the subspace rift.

These sadistic believers will then wage war against the Astral Army on this planet. Endless demons will appear and flood the planet, and the people of the empire will be slaughtered.

An endless army of Astrology will spread the planet with Sadistic symbols and piles of corpses for a blood sacrifice with the blood and skulls of the Astral Army and the Empire's people.

This level of violence and carnage will pollute the planet and put it under the control of the bloody clutches of terror.

The planet's subspace rift will be unprecedentedly large, enough to pull the planet into subspace. But the Sadist will not do so, the planet will serve as a bridgehead for the Sadistic Attack Reality, and the warships of the forces of Chaos will emerge from the subspace to wage war with the Empire.

Well... It's a good idea.

But even if the abusive calculations snapped, his plan might not succeed.

If the Astral Army chooses to abandon the besieged soldiers and go straight to orbital bombardment, then the plan of the Sadistic Forces will be bankrupt in the first step.

But if they were lucky, Sivir not only changed the weapons and equipment of the Imperial soldiers, but also changed the combat concepts of the Imperial soldiers. Unless there is nothing else to do, the empire will not give up the lives of its soldiers lightly until the last minute.

After the Chaos and Rebel forces besieged a total of hundreds of Astral Army tactical squads in various parts of the city, large numbers of troops began to gather around these places.

There was no need for them to look for the other Astral Army tactical squads in the city, they just needed to keep an eye on the Astral Army that had been encircled.

If the Imperial Commander doesn't care about the deaths of these Astral Army, there's no point in them besieging more soldiers. And if the commander of the empire still cares about the life or death of these astral troops, then these astral troops of about 10,000 people besieged are enough to make the empire a rat trap.

At this time, in the crack of the subspace in the center of the city, countless high-level demons and demon engines came out of the subspace every minute and every second. The Chaos side is constantly growing in combat power, and the Astral Army must withdraw their comrades from the city as soon as possible.

But fortunately, whether it is the new Titan squad sent by the Astral Army or the Thunderhawk squadron, they are all extremely mobile troops. After they set off, they rushed to the side of the surrounded astral army at great speed.

But it has become a very tragic battlefield.

When the Astral Army outside the city sent new Titans and Thunderhawk gunboats to support, some of the Astral Army in the city also received distress messages from their comrades.

Therefore, not only the enemies in the city are approaching the surrounded Astral Army, but the rest of the Astral Army in the city is also approaching the place where these Astral Army are surrounded.

They planned to cooperate with their encircled comrades to flank the enemy on both sides, so that the encircled Astral Army could break through the enemy's encirclement and break out of it.

It's not that they're making their own decisions, they're also carrying out orders from the Commander of the Astral Army. They will cooperate with the new Titans who arrive to rescue their fighting brothers.

Some people may wonder, dozens of new Titan squads, a total of hundreds of new Titans, these Titans' combat speed and movement speed are often far beyond the reach of ordinary infantry, they themselves are the most powerful weapons, how can this great weapon need the Astral Army to cooperate? Aren't they enough to rescue the encircled Astral Army?

On the battlefield, no matter how powerful people are, they need comrades-in-arms. The role of each branch of the armed forces on the battlefield is irreplaceable, and it is a relationship of learning from each other's strong points and complementing each other's weaknesses.

Even a war machine like a Titan, in some special terrain, as long as the appropriate ambush tactics and infiltration tactics are adopted, and the appropriate equipment and elite troops are used, even if it is an emperor-level Titan, the infantry can be eliminated through infiltration or ambush, just like ants eating elephants. At first glance, it sounds ridiculous, but in fact it is a real threat.

Not to mention that the armor defense of the new Titan is much weaker than that of the Titan, and it is not yet protected by the powerful Void Shield.

For this reason, when the Empire uses Titan vehicles, it is often used in conjunction with infantry. The Titan Legion of the Mechonists even has a dedicated infantry unit called the Titan Praetorian Guard.

Moreover, now that the battlefield is in the city, in such a complex terrain, if there is no excellent force that can protect the Titan's feet, then the Titan is very easy to be ambushed, infiltrated, and even destroyed by the jumping gang. The superhuman warriors of the Space Marines are even more experts in it, and they can even be said to be deadly threats to the Titans.

At this time, a qualified infantry unit can well assist in the Titan's feet, or go out to reconnoitre, or offensive assault, or simply accompany the defense, which can provide early warning for the Titan and intercept various enemy infiltration attempts.

Moreover, these elite astral troops can also accompany the Titans in their assaults, sharing the pressure on the Titans from non-Titan forces, allowing the Titans to concentrate on more critical targets.

It can be said that a legion that works well with the Titans can often make the Titans exert far more power than the Titans without the infantry accompanying them.

"Look, it's a... It's nearly a hundred pilots! We've won! ”

At a certain location where the Astral Army is surrounded, more than a dozen new Titan squads appear together. This greatly boosted the morale of the Astral Army and dealt a blow to the enemy's prestige.

In fact, before the appearance of these new Titan squads, the surrounded Astral Army had already broken through the enemy's blockade and made peace with the Astral Army who came to rescue them.

However, in order to rescue them, the Commander of the Astral Army integrated the remaining Astral Army tactical squads in the city and formed them into a series of Astral Army companies. Only in this way can the enemy's battle line besieging the Astral Army be broken. But this also makes it easier for the enemy to hold back the large forces of the Astral Army.

Previously, the Astral Army was sent into the city in the form of tactical squads for a large-scale search for the subjects of the Empire.

Moreover, because the city has narrow streets and many buildings, it has had a great impact on the input of combat forces and the use of weapons and equipment. As a result, the role of the traditional battle formations was limited to a certain extent, and the formed Astral Army companies could not fully enter the city. The commander of the Astral Army combined the characteristics of the city's terrain and sent the Astral Army in the form of a tactical squad.

But now, the task carried out is to storm the enemy's front. It was a face-to-face collision with the enemy, and the combat mode of the squad was obviously very unsuitable for the current combat situation.

Operations are a huge and complex system, and in the course of conducting a battle, the forces participating in the battle should carry out coordinated actions in accordance with the combat methods determined by the commanders. According to different battlefield conditions and war objectives, they can be combined into different battle formations.

A rational battle formation facilitates commanders to command and control their subordinate forces, gives play to the technical performance of weapons and equipment, facilitates close coordination among the forces participating in the battle, prevents accidental injuries on the battlefield, and enhances the overall combat capability of the forces participating in the battle.

Therefore, although the number of the Astral Army has not changed in the slightest, they have undergone the reorganization of their troops, and they can release more powerful combat energy in the frontal attack.

Of course, this kind of reorganization in battle is not something that any soldier can accomplish even in the elite Astral Army. If it weren't for the fact that all the members of the tactical team who entered the city were members of the Astral Army, I am afraid that such a reorganization would only greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

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So why are the members of the Tactical Squad squad so special?

Because only those fighters who have completed their service in the Scout Squad, Assault Squad, and Destroyer Squads are eligible to join the Tactical Squad. The battlefield functions of the tactical squad will constantly change with the change of the battle situation, and only the fighters who are proficient in various tactical tactics and can use various weapons can flexibly switch their roles and join the tactical squad to effectively carry out various tasks of the tactical team.

Also because of the particularity of the tactical squad, each tactical squad does not have a unified weapon configuration. Depending on the situation, they will swap out a variety of heavy firearms or special weapons that can further enhance the combat capabilities of tactical teams and be useful in specific missions.

For example, if a tactical squad is assigned to guard a specific building, they may be equipped with heavy blasts and plasma guns; If you want to deal with enemy armored units, then laser cannons and gravity guns are good choices.

A mission like entering a complex city with a variety of enemies in search of the Empire's subjects can lead to anything. As a result, tactical squads usually carry weapons for different situations, and some tactical squads carry weapons that can destroy armored vehicles.

The commander of the Astral Force builds "building blocks" to draw combat forces with different combat functions from tactical squads with different weapons to form "modular" troops.

Relying on the information network system provided by the tactical face armor, each combat force shares situational information in real time, and gives full play to its own advantages in its own space and position to carry out actions around the same combat objective.

The "shape" of this seemingly battle formation is no longer clear and irregular, but in essence, it has achieved the effect of "scattering and gathering", which not only achieves the purpose of effectively rescuing the comrades-in-arms of the Astral Army, but also achieves the effect of destroying the enemy.

Sivir made the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Astral Army not only reflected in the equipment, but also greatly strengthened the combat effectiveness of the Astral Army by the training of the commanders of the Astral Army in those military academies.

The tactics of the Astral Army now are not as indecisive as before. The former Cartier Legion, or the Sun Auxiliaries of the Great Expedition, are somewhat similar to the current Astral Army. But it's just the same, and the current Astral Army is a super enhanced version of them.

By assembling the soldiers with hot melt guns and plasma guns in the Astral Army warrior squad, the Astral Army Commander was able to form hundreds of anti-armor Astral Army reinforcement squads.

Some of them were armed with hot melt guns that were highly effective anti-armor weapons and were used by various Imperial armies for close-quarters attacks and anti-tank combat. They are most lethal at close range, with almost any material being melted into a pile of scum by the ultra-high temperature air stream fired from the hot melt gun.

Some soldiers are armed with plasma guns, and their weapons fire a high-energy hydrogen-based plasma ball. The principle of operation is to inject liquid hydrogen fuel into a miniature nuclear fusion core inside the weapon, and hydrogen is injected into the substance in the plasma state, and the plasma is held in the core by a strong magnetic field. When ignited, the magnetic field expands, and the plasma is ejected by the linear magnetoaccelerator as a beam of superheated material, similar in appearance and temperature to a solar flare.

The plasma fired from the Plasma Gun can wreak havoc on heavily armored enemies, light armored vehicles, and light tanks, making his master a tank hunter.

The Gauss rifles used by the snipers in the Astral Army can also penetrate enemy vehicles, killing pilots or gunners with precision. They can provide fire support and strategic help to anti-armor forces.

Under the exquisite command art of the commander of the Astral Army, these "good gangs" were completely used on the "blade". Destroyed one enemy vehicle after another.

The Chaos forces have far fewer vehicles in the city than they can be called armored forces, and they have only a handful of vehicles under attack from the Astral Army.

While they were struggling to fight the Astral Army, more than a dozen new Titan squads from the Empire arrived. Their appearance completely laid the foundation for the victory of the Astral Army.

With the cooperation of the Astral Army, the iron pilots of the new Titans are like ruthless hunters in this steel jungle, and those vehicles of the Chaos forces are prey, and they cannot escape the hunting of the hunters at all. One by one, they were hunted clean.

After clearing the Chaos Forces' vehicles, the pilots quickly left the area in the new Titan and headed to the next location to provide support.

And the remaining Chaos forces, the Astral Army alone can completely deal with them, but there is no need for that. After taking out all the vehicles of the Chaos forces in this area, those Thunderhawk transports will be able to land here safely. Evacuate the Astral Army here outside the city.