The landing force suffered quite serious losses when it broke through the atmosphere. The ground-based orbital defense network has not been seriously damaged, although the firepower has been weakened, but this does not mean that it has completely lost its combat capability. Two platoons of the reinforced company of A1 directly lost contact, the reinforced company of Black Rose was scattered, a key armored platoon was destroyed in the air, and by the way, a squad seemed to have been hit by fragments, lost contact, and most of them were gone. Yang Yi didn't know the loss of the rangers, but it was estimated that it was not small

Not long after the first landing force landed, it encountered Orlan's mobile troops, a mechanized squadron dominated by vulture vehicles and fire chariots, and the landing force of A1 lost contact directly on the ground before half an hour. Black Rose's landing force was a little lucky, with two squads evading the search and successfully placing low-frequency laser-guided beacons.

But this also exposed themselves, and Yang Yi immediately ordered A1 and Black Rose to drop a second batch of landing troops at the beacon location at the same time. The situation was not clear to the Rangers, Renault had not contacted him, and he did not bother to ask, anyway, he did not have much hope for the company, it would be enough to distract Orlan a little.

But the problem is that due to the lack of heavy equipment and sufficient forces of the ground forces, it is simply impossible to clear the landing zone. Another strike by the advance fleet against the ground-based orbital defense system still did not yield too good results. Yang Yi asked the advance fleet to lower its altitude to increase accuracy and the power of the weapon, but the commander of the advance fleet refused—that would be too dangerous. If you lower the altitude any more, you will venture into the range of weapons of ground-based orbital defenses.

The second landing force with heavy equipment lost more than half of its strength under the blockage of the orbital defense system, and then smashed into the location of the beacon. This time, due to the guidance of low-frequency laser beacons on the ground, the vast majority of the drop pods were concentrated near the beacons.

The landing force, though also suffering heavy losses, brought with them much-needed heavy equipment, and even one siege tank was lucky enough to evade the Orlan forces.

The accompanying SCVs quickly began to erect fortifications, and at the same time, Black Rose and A1 launched a third landing force.

This is the case with landing operations, where human lives are filled in batches. In particular, when it is simply impossible to inflict effective damage on the enemy's orbital defense system, and when one's own ships are simply unable to descend to the atmosphere to support friendly forces, one by one they fill it with the lives of the marines, and either their own losses are too large and they are forced to retreat, or the other side cannot withstand the continuous attacks and finally the ground forces successfully stabilize the airborne zone.

As the third landing force attempted to break through the atmosphere and enter the landing zone, Mira Han's second group of ships arrived in the outer airspace of the asteroid. This fleet brought with it the raid landing force of the raider fleet.

However, Yang Yi did not expect that this batch of landing troops did not plan to use the traditional airdrop capsule assault method at all, but directly used small ships to convert into assault landing ships, and directly carried a large number of troops into the atmosphere to carry out landing operations.

“…… Is this possible? ”

A1 shook his head: "It's not impossible...... After all, no matter how small the ship is, as long as it is not of the level of a shuttle, the number of troops it can carry far exceeds that of the drop cabin. However, these assault landing ships are too large to be cost-effective compared to the drop pods. Although it is difficult to gather after landing, it also ensures that the enemy will not wipe out the landing force at one time. ”

"This kind of assault ship has been in service in the old Union and the Imperial military, but the problem with this kind of assault ship is that the target is too big, too easy to be hit by the orbital defense system, and once destroyed, it can be the loss of an entire platoon or even an entire company. Moreover, this kind of assault ship is also easy to be discovered by the enemy after landing, and it is very likely that the landing force will be attacked by the enemy before it has established a solid position. Moreover, the cost of such an assault ship is much more expensive than that of an airdrop capsule. Far less cost-effective than the drop pod. ”

God knows why the Marauder fleet chose this landing method, and even the wealthy Imperial Army finally gave up this unaffordable landing method. This batch of Mira's assault ships mainly carried two battlecruisers, and it looked like they should be Behemoth-class and Leviathan-class battlecruisers, both of which were old capital ships that had been decommissioned.

After exchanging information, the pirate commander who commanded the fleet agreed to provide support to the ground forces of the Black Rose Pirate Regiment, which had formed a landing zone, and sent three assault landing ships converted from transport ships from the three capital ships, according to the information provided by the commander, each of these three assault ships was loaded with a lightly armored squadron, which was about the size of an imperial battalion and company, but this squadron was composed of only a squadron of the Vicious Fire Chariot and the Vulture Chariot, The ascension is all infantry equipped with CMC series power armor, and the firepower is worrying.

"It's better than nothing......" After learning about the establishment of these three lightly armored squadrons, Yang Yi didn't plan to expect anything.

It's not that he looks down on these rangers and pirates, it's true that Yang Yi was spoiled by the A1-trained Imperial Biochemical Force...... The biochemical units trained by each ship will have different qualities and specialties depending on the background of the ship. Like the A1, a serious ark ship built by the empire with a lot of painstaking efforts, and the trained biochemical troops are the regular army of the Tyranid Empire, from grassroots soldiers to senior officers, they have professional military literacy and have received regular military training. You can't expect them to pull off any miracles against the wind, but you can rest assured that they won't waste their advantage in vain.

Black Rose's troops are traditional pirates. She is a pirate capital ship herself, and the biochemical troops she trains are also a group of pirates. If you want to talk about robbing homes and houses, killing people and setting fires, these guys dare to say second, and no one in the fleet can say first. But these guys can really fight with the wind and the waves. To be honest, Yang Yi wants to play a stable force more than a group of pirates who play up and down.

It can't be said that the Rangers and Pirates are really inferior in combat effectiveness, on the contrary, many Planet Marines in the core world are not necessarily more experienced than these Rangers and Pirates. But the professionalism is there, and he would rather trust a group of professionals with little experience than trust a group of amateur ticket holders who have experience but no professional training......

Just when Yang Yi was thinking wildly, the third batch of landing troops broke through the blockade of the defensive network on the ground and successfully arrived at the landing area. Reinforcements were brought to the ground forces. At the same time, three assault ships began to break through the atmosphere, trying to break through the blockade of the orbital defense system.

(I've seen people comment on why it's logical...... emm, how to say it, if you don't talk about logic, I think this already cool novel will be even more unreadable. Blizzard eats books, we can't eat along, right...... This kind of atmosphere is not a good atmosphere after all. In addition, we are only exploring some necessary things, and we don't delve too deeply. I haven't discussed with you what the nature of psionic energy is...... I read an article on Zhihu before that explores what psionic energy is, including entropy increase and a bunch of professional terms that I don't understand (I'm a history major ==). Most of them are needed when writing things, and it can be regarded as letting everyone agree on it, after all, many times the settings given by Blizzard are vague, and many times there are different opinions. ）

(Today, I will leave the simplest question, which I feel has been for a generation: How strong is UED?) I've seen countless versions of the answer. It must have been speculated from the UED unit of the first generation, some said it was a reconnaissance team, some said it was a scientific expedition team, and some said it was an expeditionary force...... Some people analyze that UED is invincible all over the star sector, and some people analyze that although UED is stronger than Tyran's humans, it is not so invincible...... The answer to this question will be discussed by yourself, and I will eat a melon (laughs). ）