Chapter 71: Operation "The Great Evacuation" (7)
From Behemoth, Yang Yi finally got a relatively clear battle report from Xinggang. However, the bad situation did not make him much relieved.
Honestly, he now had the idea of bringing Black Rose and the Pride of Ortaris over to solve the siege. But the pride of Otaris really doesn't have much self-preservation ability, and now this situation is a burden, but it is not appropriate to leave her there alone, so I can only let Black Rose help watch it.
With no way to break the situation, Yang Yi could only choose to believe in the ground forces. But he wasn't going to just look at it. With the current temporary loss of Starport, it has become unnecessary to continue to maintain the air corridor for the time being. He informed the Huberian side that the two ships had temporarily abandoned their plans to maintain the air corridor and instead concentrate on ground warfare.
In view of the fact that the enemy's air force still has a considerable degree of threat and is unable to release the communication station for effective communication relay, the two ships decided after discussion to reduce as much as possible the communication capacity required for air combat on the one hand, and to seek alternative solutions on the other hand.
Fortunately, this is a human colonized planet, and the surface of the planet is not without communication facilities. The large quantum communication base station that they called in the first place was the best communication relay platform, enough to maintain all the communication connections of the two warships and their subordinate units. But the problem is that if the surface communication base station is used as a relay station, the ground forces will allocate a part of their forces to defend this base station, and this base station is currently in a state of disconnection, and it is presumed that it has been lost.
And now the troops are already insufficient, lack of heavy equipment, and the ground forces are still difficult to supply, it is really too difficult for them to take those base stations and maintain enough troops to recapture the occupied areas.
As a result, A1 had to be airdropped again, and ground forces would place low-frequency laser beacons as guidance at designated locations. The heavy equipment in the inventory is one less if you lose one, and Yang Yi thought in his heart that this time he would definitely have to slaughter that guy from Renault. And do the math, the three-month probationary period is almost up, let's see if he continues to be employed, if you plan to continue to use him, you have to increase the pay a little bit......
To say that Yang Yi can rely on the command network to communicate with Behemoth, Renault's side is really blind. The ground forces lacked the means to communicate with the fleet command, and the remnants of the Rangers scattered across the wilderness began to try to recapture their mission objectives after regrouping, unable to communicate with their superiors.
However, no one knew at this time that the whole operation was actually on the verge of failure.
From the time the Rangers were defeated, the whole operation could actually be regarded as a failure. Especially after the swarm bloodied the temporary capital of Agrea, other human cities were slaughtered after being overrun by the swarm, which means that there are actually not many refugees left to save the entire operation.
The Rangers, who really discovered these situations, were not only irritated by the smell of blood all over the ground, but also had no way to contact their superiors, so they could only begin to organize a retreat to Port Charles, trying to contact the fleet from there to inform them of the situation.
However, if they want to evacuate the troops on the planet, they still need Port Charles, after all, they still need a platform for take-off and landing transport planes to withdraw these troops to the ship.
After consulting with Douglas, Behemoth returned to his hull to take command, and then left a specially hatched worm with speech capabilities to deliver the message. However, this queen only has the function of language, to put it bluntly, Behemoth will say whatever he passes to her, and then transmit back what Douglas says, nothing else, and does not have a complex cognitive system like Behemoth.
In addition to the problem of Xinggang, Yang Yi and Renault are also more concerned about the whereabouts of Dr. Hansen. It was the Provisional Governor of the Colony who hired them and paid them in the end, and if she was gone, it would really be Renault's kindness to the world, and he would lose his wife and lose his army.
As a last resort, they immediately located the location of the quantum communication base station, and then strictly stipulated the communication permissions at all levels to ensure that the limited communication capacity would not be filled up by unnecessary communication. Then, a unit of A1 carried a batch of heavy equipment that had arrived urgently, reorganized into a mechanized infantry company, went to the given coordinates, and in any case restored the communication line as soon as possible.
At the same time, with the cooperation of the insects, the ground forces began to launch a tentative attack on the starport, but they were all repulsed by the enemy. However, at this point, A1 was able to contact a force trapped on the tarmac - this force had been stationed on the tarmac, and they were changing shifts with the local defenders during the large-scale attack of the swarm, and in the event of an emergency, the garrison was twice as large as usual, so it barely resisted the enemy surprise attack. Since then, they have continued to receive the remnants of the starport to consolidate their defenses. The regimental headquarters also fled here to try to regroup, but in the absence of a command center, it was impossible to effectively communicate with superiors or subordinates.
After reorganizing communications with the ground, A1 and the regimental headquarters finally resumed communication. After learning more about the situation, A1 asked them to stay put, stating that a coalition of survivors and insects outside the city was trying to retake Starport, and that they would hold out until reinforcements arrived.
With the above guarantees, the survivors here naturally finally breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, due to the presence of the tarmac, human transport planes began to rush equipment and supplies to the ground in the face of bullets and bullets, trying to continuously renew the lives of the ground defenders, including transporting reinforcements and replacing the wounded.
After learning that there were defenders alive in Starport, the human troops outside the city also injected a shot in the arm and began to plan a general attack.
Of course, the most important thing is that after 72 hours, Behemoth, scarred by the enemy, finally won the air battle over Port Charles, which lasted for several days, and the ground troops finally received support from the air force. Out-of-town and in-city forces began to use transport planes to liaise with each other, and the Insect Air Force began to carry out ground support missions. Behemoth was able to begin sending out air units to begin to spread out and reconnoiter the situation in the vicinity.
At the same time, the Ranger survivors on the ground finally made contact with Hyperion, and a group of Ranger survivors reorganized into a company-level combat unit managed to recapture a civilian communications base station on the ground, and then a Ranger Engineer managed to expand the communications signal for a brief contact with fleet command.
Although the communication time was short, it was enough for the bridge to know what was probably going on the ground. Of course, these reports will definitely not make Renault very happy......
(I saw that someone finally said that the protagonist was a dung lift, which is too difficult QAQ I have been trying to create an image of dung lifting, but I have never seen anyone say it, and I thought I had failed again...... I tried to write a dung image when I was writing about the same people at station b before, but it failed...... I didn't expect it to finally succeed this time, it's not easy, it's not easy. )