Chapter 66: Operation "Great Evacuation" (3)
Agrea.
The 17th Independence Company departed at around 5 p.m. in Port Charles. The 76th Infantry Squad of the company quickly went to the target city to reconnoiter the situation and stabilize the situation in the faster Vicious Fire Chariot and Vulture Chariot, while the main force of the slower company advanced to the target city in the form of a covering leap.
At the same time, because the 8th Light Armored Company of the Rangers, which was the second landing force, was trapped near the landing zone and could not move, the Hyperion side was forced to send the 12th Infantry Company in advance as the third landing force to rescue the trapped friendly forces.
After A1 won the air battle at Port Charles in Behemoth and ensured the safety of the starport, it sent a basic four-piece set to the starport to build a surface forward base in the starport.
After winning the battle against the swarm on the opposite side with heavy losses, Behemoth did not choose to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but chose to shrink his forces to consolidate the defense of Starport. At the same time, a communication line with the nearest city was opened. After contacting the fleet command and communicating with the Provisional Government of Agrea, a convoy of migrants that had already been loaded set off from the city and moved towards Starport, with the swarm of Behemoth escorting them along the way.
At the same time, the two Hercules-class cargo ships in the starport, which were already fully loaded, took off to the air under the escort of the Behemoth Air Force, flew to Agria low-earth orbit at full speed, and under the cover of A1 and Hyperion, they opened a twist and jump under artillery fire, and quickly disappeared into the starry sky.
This is the first batch of refugees to be successfully evacuated. The successful evacuation of these ships greatly boosted the morale of the colony, but it also angered the swarm on the opposite side. Six hours after the successful evacuation of the first spacecraft, a human city lost contact with the Provisional Government. According to the not very clear aerial photographs taken by the fleet at high altitude in orbit, the city should have been destroyed by insects.
Now humans and insects have begun a rally that is extremely difficult for each other, whether humans can evacuate all the refugees first or insects can attack all the cities of humans first, no one knows the final result, but both humans and insects are constantly putting their forces into their respective strategic goals.
An hour after the city was lost, Hyperion and A1 dropped the fourth and fifth batches, by which time a third of the forces on both ships had been dropped to the surface. The larger Rangers were responsible for the defense of the various cities, while the units of the A1 served as a mobile force and a starport defense force.
After several hours of preparation, the swarm of Behemoth launched a general sweep of the human-occupied territory three hours after the fifth landing force arrived at the surface. Behemoth's Insect Force began to quickly clear the roads of the wandering Insect Troops, allowing the refugee convoys to set off in the surviving cities.
At the same time, a second batch of two Hercules-class cargo ships was already loaded with refugees, and once again managed to escape the system.
The refugee boats would go to Meinhof to unload the refugees and then rush back again to continue loading the refugees until all the refugees had been evacuated from Agrea.
And at this time, a more serious problem arose - the carrier-based aircraft on the two battleships had already run out.
The Leviathan and its swarm flying units are fierce. What's more, these alien insect units Leviathan can be incubated in the field, but the carrier-based aircraft on the two warships cannot be produced in the field, which is very different from the carrier of the Star Spirit. Hyperion's hull has squadrons of unmanned tactical aircraft, but these unmanned tactical aircraft are a drop in the bucket when the number and quality of the insects are not bad.
After a long war of attrition, the shields of A1 and Hyperion have been destroyed, and the armor of the battleship has also suffered a lot of losses, especially since A1 only bandaged the previous wounds in El and went directly to battle.
Two hours later, the 17th Separate Company arrived at the target city, consolidating local defenses and routed a besieging swarm force. Left behind the 63rd Armored Platoon to assist in the defense, he then returned to Starport to continue his mission.
Five hours later, after the third group of migrants had evacuated Agrea, Yang Yi proposed that the two warships temporarily withdraw to the surface to recuperate, temporarily suspend the planned evacuation, and replace them with Behemoth to contain the Leviathan at high altitude in orbit.
Behemoth's confrontation with Leviathan is either a father-son break, or a brother's fight, and the two sides will definitely not collapse at the touch of a button anyway. Behemoth's main mission is to contain the Leviathan from descending into the atmosphere and engaging in ground combat. But the problem was that Behemoth's combat power was not able to create a path sufficient for the evacuation of the ground transport ship, so the evacuation had to be temporarily suspended.
When Hyperion suffered severe damage and needed to be repaired, Renault agreed to Yang Yi's proposal and notified the provisional government headed by Hansen. At this time, the Provisional Government had already evacuated a certain number of refugees. Upon learning of the damage to the two warships, the Provisional Government expressed its understanding and offered to send technicians to carry out emergency repairs.
Agrea has always been known for its cutting-edge technology, although it is actually one of the Empire's main food producers. Both were happy to have a technician to do the field repair. After emergency planning and arrangement, Behemoth ascended to orbital altitude and took over the work of the two human warships. The A1 descended to Port Charles, while the Hyperion descended to the temporary capital of the Provisional Government.
Agria's technicians began to quickly board the ship for temporary repair work, and the two warships also took the opportunity to quickly transport the ship's personnel and equipment to the surface to strengthen the surface defenses. During this period of suspension of retreat, other cities also quickly gathered refugees and retreated to Starport. In any case, these refugees will eventually be concentrated in Port Charles, and it is better to send them there now, and the more they are delivered, the more they will be able to leave.
After all the refugees were evacuated, humanity abandoned two empty cities and shrunk their defenses. Now, there are only three cities left for refugees to evacuate, one of which is the capital of the Provisional Government of Agria, where the Huberian anchored above.
At the same time, the swarm has weakened its attack, and it seems that the humans are planning to take a break for a while. The long onslaught seems to have made the insects feel tired - of course this is impossible, why is the word exhaustion of the insects? The fleet command guessed that this should be the insects gathering forces to launch a decisive attack.
So what is Yang Yi doing at this time? Most of the things were handled by A1 and the junior officers, who actually just sat and waited for the battle report below, and now that the two sides were in a semi-truce, he had nothing else to do...... So he began to practice his psionic powers under the guidance of Shantila.