Ninety-seven hours after landing, the details of Ciel's surface were finally sorted out from scattered sources, and then conveyed by Black Rose to the fleet's side through the command network. The fleet command finally got specific information about the ground.

Soon, A1 came up with a solution. First, the ground forces are currently facing an urgent need for supplies, and in order to prevent large-scale non-combat attrition of survivors on the ground, they must find opportunities to drop supplies on the ground through drop pods. Second, in order to continue their mission, they must send reinforcements to the ground, including but not limited to siege tanks, APCs, Goliath armed robots, and other heavy armored units.

This hidden survivor base gives them the perfect base to move forward, but it's not suitable for airdropping heavy units, let alone deploying large forces. As a result, it can only be used as a temporary distribution point for the landing force, where reinforcements will assemble and then quickly leave the valley and move towards the mission area to establish a base.

Given that the threat to Tadarin's ground-based orbital defense system still exists, A1 requires the ground forces to first address the area's orbital defenses to ensure that reinforcements can reach the surface with low losses, otherwise there is a risk of repeating the mistakes of the previous Black Roses.

A1's request seems reasonable, but in fact it is asking the ground troops, which have been scattered in terms of equipment, morale, personnel, and organization, to attack the garrison stronghold established by Tadarin for orbital defense weapons, and to some extent let them fill it with human lives.

The Ranger commander questioned this order, demanding that he not take his Ranger brothers to his death unless Renault personally ordered it. As for the A1 people, none of them objected - of course, not that they were too pessimistic about life and death, but they knew that it was useless for them to oppose it.

Renault, for their part, also expressed concern that they could not be sure of the success rate of the ground forces in completing this task. Therefore, they also refused to give mandatory orders to their own troops. Therefore, this operation naturally did not count on the people of the rangers.

However, the Rangers did not really intend to do so, they said that they could harass and delay the reinforcements of Tadarin's main force for them, as long as they could blow up Tadarin's crystal tower at the first time, they could ensure that Tadarin's rapid reaction force would not arrive on the battlefield in the first place.

Then there is nothing to say about the next mission, the Rangers are responsible for the peripheral reconnaissance and harassment of the Tadarin troops, and the rest of the troops are to attack the only Tadarin orbital defense base in the area that has been identified as the main force. It's a standard battle, and Tadarin's defense system is completely different from that of humans, and there is little room for humans to play with bells and whistles.

Black Rose and the reaper troops drawn out form a assault group, which is mainly responsible for rushing in the direction of the crystal tower under enemy fire. Nothing else, blowing up the crystal tower is half the battle; Each fire group, including large-caliber machine guns, mortars, etc., forms a B reinforcement group, which is mainly responsible for suppressing the fire of Tadarin and weakening the enemy's firepower that can pose a threat to the assault group as much as possible; The remaining Marines, Marauders and other units formed the C Support Group, which was mainly responsible for forming a front-line front, attracting the attention of the Tadarin defenders and opening the way for the assault group; The Rangers were the D Reserve Group, which was responsible for reconnaissance of the perimeter, harassment of Tadarin's forces, and the retreat of the main forces.

Although it is said that it is rushing forward against firepower, it is not really rushing towards the photon battery. In order to ensure the accuracy of hits and to extend the coverage as much as possible, most of the orbital defense systems are basically located at the high point of the area, in other words, either on the hill or on the slope. This is where the Reaper's jetpack comes in handy, with the support of Group B and Group C, climbing up the treacherous cliffs, not only to get into the highland troops' firing corners, but Tadarin is not able to send troops to intercept them before they reach the top.

However, according to Nelson's words, if there was a siege tank, the battle would not have killed the reapers......

With the launch of three red flares, the assault on the Tadarin base officially began.

The initial phase of the operation went very well, with Group C moving towards the forward line and forming a front on the forward line as planned, attracting Tadarin's attention. Group B provided fire support at the far end to suppress the fire output from the Tadarin side. Group A, under the cover of the other two battle groups, managed to reach the predetermined position on the advance line, and rushed straight out of the line in a red smoke bomb, and began to climb the cliff with the help of a jetpack.

The Tadarin base was on top of a steep cliff, and Group C drew the attention of Tadarin's forces to its gentle slope leading into the wilderness, while the massive orbital defense cannon was on the other side of the steep cliff. If you attack from a gentle slope, you will have to break through Tadarin's fortifications all the way, and Tadarin will have plenty of time to send reinforcements and even make dumplings for the attackers.

But with the Reaper, the cliff became an excellent target due to the defenders' attention. The Reaper relied on a mountaineering pickaxe in his hand and a huge jetpack on his back to climb up little by little without Tadarin noticing. As for a certain captain, he originally planned to climb up little by little, but in the end, he was too tired to climb, so he simply borrowed his bounce power and psionic energy to assist, ran directly at the foot of the mountain, and then jumped high and smashed it halfway up the mountain......

Of course, the cliff trembled violently. If A1 were here, I'm afraid I'd be going to scold Black Rose with a face. There's really no fear of landslides that will kill them all in the rubble pile—of course, it's hard to say if Ciel's planet will have landslides like what they know them to do......

In this way, the entire Tadarin base sensed that something was wrong, and then someone found the A assault group that was climbing up the cliff, and they were so "inevitable" exposed - but exposure is exposure, and Tadarin really can't do anything about them.

The Zealot's psionic blades couldn't deal with the enemies who climbed the mountain, so they climbed down little by little themselves at most, and then fought with them halfway up the mountain with one hand in the mountain and the reaper with the other. Of course, it is not that Tadarin has tried this, either he was unlucky enough to meet Black Rose, a pervert with tenth-level psionic energy and physical fitness equal to that of a ship, or he was shot back to his hometown by the Reaper's Gauss pistol before it reached his face.

The Stalker does have ranged weapons, but the problem is that the Stalker's weapon is not at a low angle to hit enemies below the gentle slope, and the cliff is almost the same as a right angle, and the Stalker wants to ...... You can only lean out. The problem of the Immortal and the Stalker is almost identical, but the Immortal's weapon has a depression angle, but the Immortal cannot see below, in other words, he can't reach out, and the fight is a blind shot to the bottom of the cliff.

It's the same with mechanical sentinels, and it's more cumbersome. These astral robots don't have legs, and they have to be held by fanatics to be aimed underneath to get hit.

So now it's a bunch of astral troops walking back and forth on the edge of the cliff, one or two immortals blindly hitting the bottom, a few fanatics carrying a few sentinels cautiously leaning forward to try to hit down, and then sometimes accidentally stumbling and falling off the cliff, and from time to time a few astral fanatics jump down, and then they are either sent home by Black Rose or fired by Gauss's pistol.

(wdnmd, the more you write, the more you write, the more you can't do it...... ）