On the tactical map, according to the report from an hour ago, the ground forces have already begun to operate.

"Will Renault's infantry battalion really hold out until the orbital defenses are destroyed?" Yang Yi looked at the battle situation on the tactical map and hesitated.

"Commander, the most important thing on the battlefield is to trust your teammates."

"yes. But I can't rest assured that Renault's militia. He shook his head, "He's not like we have a well-trained biochemical force. Reynolds' Rangers were all recruited from outraged traitors to the Empire...... may have been thrown directly into the battlefield after a few months of training, which is not more reliable than the stormtroopers. ”

"At least they still have some advantages in numbers, and they are mainly only responsible for containing the Star Spirit Army, so there shouldn't be any major problems."

"I hope so."

Since the purpose of the battle is not to capture the planet, but only to deal with the Astral Spirit Base built on the Star Spirit Temple, there is no need for humans to destroy every orbital defense facility, only need to clear the six orbital defense cannons in a fixed area.

The APC convoy departed from the two forward bases, and the troops went to six orbital defense guns in six routes. According to orbital scans, the Starlings have sent a small number of additional troops to these six areas. However, given the current lack of strength of the Star Spirits themselves, it is estimated that the total strength of the six locations will not exceed a hundred Star Spirits, and they will need to face more of the Star Spirits' photon turrets and some temporarily modified Star Spirit Machines.

A Marine battalion of the Rangers rode an APC convoy to build positions near the Starling base. This Marine battalion was reinforced with a Goliath platoon, with artillery support from two tank platoons of eight siege tanks from two forward bases.

The Astral Spirits were aware of the humans' intentions, but were helpless to do anything about it. A battalion of marines in front of the door has set up a posture next to the base. Obviously, as long as Tadarin dares to send reinforcements, they will directly attack the city in the next second.

However, Tadarin is not easy to mess with. As star spirits, in addition to advanced technology, they also have another advantage, that is, powerful and violent psionic energy.

Due to the Starling's powerful jamming technology, A1's scanning and detection of the Starling base is often blurry and unsustainable. Therefore, very often, in fact, they make extrapolations about the enemy's situation with common sense and little pitiful intelligence. This time was no exception.

Therefore, when there were screams and nightmares from the Marine battalion, the A1 of Hyperion was a little confused.

It stands to reason that the Marine Battalion will not be within range of the Star Spirit's defensive weapons, but will only set up a position near the base to contain the Star Spirit. According to speculation, the current troops at the Star Spirit Base are not enough to defeat the Marine Battalion with artillery and armor support in an instant. As long as they give enough time to the rear, they can bring in more troops to wrap the Star Spirit troops directly into dumplings.

But they all forgot, or rather underestimated, the power of the promoter.

This can't be entirely blamed for their stupidity. After the Battle of the Brood, the battle between humans and the astral spirits was only a skirmish, and no large-scale wars broke out. Whether it is the high-ranking Templar of Tadarin, the dark archon of the Saguras Star Spirit, or the high-level Templar of the Dharam Star Spirit, their status in the army is not low. For example, Tadarin's promotion is considered a unit at the level of a commander in a war zone, which is very rare, and has never fought against a human army.

One of the most memorable Templar strikes in human memory can be traced back to Tassadar's drunken driving during the Battle of the Brood four years ago. As a result, they did not pay due attention to the promoters during the campaign. Renault was unaware of the existence of the promoter, while Yang Yi seriously underestimated the threat of the promoter.

The promoter is always a high-level star spirit unit that has gone through life and death struggle on the chain of promotion. Even a single man can pose a lethal threat to a Marine platoon. Not to mention that this promoter also has an entire Star Spirit base of Star Spirit troops as a support. According to the post-battle battle review, the Marine battalion was directly sprinkled with three psionic storms, and the front line, which had been reorganized, was immediately torn open, and when they reacted and sent the reserves, the fanatics of the star spirits had already rushed in, and the pursuers had already flashed and ran to the rear of the defense line.

The front-line Marine battalion collapsed in just two hours and quickly retreated towards both bases. However, instead of pursuing them, the Astral Spirit forces quickly sent troops to the six orbital defenses in an attempt to stop the human plan.

The wolf's den and the intersection, which had no idea what was going on on the front line, could only wait until the forward base had collected the deserters to report on the battle situation, and at the same time send a warning to the Sixth Route troops who were heading to the target location - even if the Star Spirit reinforcements were already on the way, they would not dare to withdraw their troops and wait any longer.

Soon, the first group of routs who were quickly evacuated on the APC returned to Kekha Point, and a combat report was finally received on the bridge. After learning that the enemy promoter had made a move, both sides had some headaches.

Renault is suffering from the lack of units to fight with, while Yang Yi is having a headache with A1 not being able to play now. She's also in charge of controlling the ship. And the Hydra itself has only 6 levels of psionic energy, and if you face a promoter with an average level of 8 and has been killed for a long time, it is basically equivalent to giving away a head.

He misses Black Rose a little now, but Black Rose is still in the Port of the Dead, and she can't communicate with her in the Port of the Dead without a large communication base station. For now, we have to think of another way.

However, the promoted person is not able to fight forever, and A1 has not found any signs of leaving the interference range of the Star Spirit Base. Although some of the Astral units left the interference range and headed for the six orbital defenses, there were no high-energy response signals.

But this promoter is always a threat. Yang Yi and Renault negotiated a solution to that guy. Renault considered using the method of attacking all sides and breaking through multiple points, so that the promoter was lacking in skills, even if he could break the offensive trend of one point, he would be powerless for other breakthrough points.

Yang Yi directly said that he had a weapon that could deal with the promotion, but he could only use it after the battleship broke through the atmosphere to support. Although Renault was skeptical, approving Yang Yi's use was a way to reduce casualties — and even if it didn't work, the blame was not on him.

However, for now, they still have to watch out for whether that guy will directly come and threaten the two forward bases that have been set up with great difficulty.

(I don't know if I've seen it, but I'll say it anyway.) ）

(The Stalker should not actually be in Tadarin's troops, as the Stalker is the equipment of the Sagulas Spirits, i.e., Volazon, Zeratul, and the Stars they belong to.) According to the official canon, not my original content, the Stalker is primarily a walking battle mech inspired by the Dragon Knight, controlled by the Dark Templar. On top of that, the Stalker requires the Dark Templar to perform a ritual and use the Shadow Essence to manipulate the mech. The Stalker is also the power of the Dark Templars, so it stands to reason that Tadarin should not have the technology to produce the Stalker. ）

(But in fact, what appears within the Wings of Liberty is that Tadarin does have stalkers, so I can only explain this place at the moment, which can be regarded as fooling around.) The main thing here is to explain to you, understand the specific situation, and don't be misled. ）

(I'll find a way to make up for the conflict in this section later, but for now, I'll try to fit the original setting as much as possible.) Sorry upfront. ）