Chapter 546, Battle of Mentus

Using ships, which are more proactive than planetary defense systems, the alliance's ships are carrying out tactical actions of pulling again and again.

This is an effective strategy.

As long as the strength of the fleet is not too different from the planetary defense system, this trick is a means to take down a planet with complete defense.

Don't be defeated if you can't even withstand one round of firepower from others, and the firepower of your own fleet can cause definite damage to the space stations and star fortresses of the defense system in a short exchange of fire, so that you can slowly wear down the defense facilities in the planetary orbit bit by bit.

Of course, taking this approach, on the one hand, the loss of the fleet is controllable, but it will not be too small. After all, since it is a war, anything can happen. In the first wave of the alliance's attack, a frigate was accidentally lost by the main gun of the star fortress.

This is inevitable.

On the other hand, it takes a very long time to grind it slowly.

According to the estimates of the naval staff, if you fight purely in this way, it will take more than a year to take down the outer orbit of Mentus II.

This does not include the cleaning of the anti-orbital system on the ground.

Gu Hang was not particularly in a hurry, but he did not want to drag the time required to conquer a planet to such a long point.

There will be many known or unknown changes.

And too eager to attack will result in relatively large losses.

The solution is not just fleet firepower bombardment.

Three months later, the alliance knocked out about 20% of the orbital defense facilities on Mentus II during the repeated consumption during this period, and caused one of the three star fortresses to suffer relatively large damage and had to be pulled back to the orbit closer to the ground for emergency repair and maintenance.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the alliance suddenly launched a fierce offensive.

At first, the defenders on Mentus II did not feel anything unusual, thinking that it was just the same consumption and attack on the living forces in the past three months.

But what surprised people suddenly was that this time the attacking alliance fleet did not open up a line and fire from a distance.

They increased the speed and rushed towards the orbital defense line of Mentus II.

This is a very resolute attitude, as if a sledgehammer is smashing down, as if it must smash the planetary orbital defense system to pieces today, completely ignoring the fact that in the process, it may also be shattered in the violent collision.

"Fire!"

'Fire! '

"Fire with all your strength!"

In the communication signals of various space stations, star fortresses, star ports, and ground fortresses on Mentus II, various different voices are fiercely expressing the same meaning.

They will use the most fierce firepower to fight against the incoming alliance fleet.

The defenders of Mentus II have realized that this time seems to be unusual, and they are not sure whether the planetary defense can really defend against the attack of the alliance fleet regardless of losses.

However, they have no more choices, and can only do their best to pour out their firepower.

But at the same time, the generals of the defenders will also feel a little confused: Why does the alliance do this? Do they really want to use precious naval warships to fight to the death with orbital defense facilities that are far less valuable than warships?

Regardless of winning or losing, this is a very bad thing!

However, they soon understood why the Alliance was so fierce.

On the side of the planet facing the Alliance fleet, all the orbital guns were fired. But after all, the Alliance fleet has not yet reached the scope of low-Earth orbit, and it is a little far away. The deterrent power of the ground artillery group is still greater than the direct killing power. The main reason is that the hit rate is too unreliable.

At this stage, the most reliable thing is the orbital defense facilities.

However, among the most important star port fortress and three star fortresses, only the one that was rushed into the battle and was seriously damaged before successfully fired.

The star port and the other two star fortresses should be the most solid forces of the defense line, but they were silent at the same time.

Seeing this scene, the garrison generals on the ground who were nervously observing the battle situation felt cold in their hearts.

What's going on?

What happened?

Contact messages were sent one after another.

They were eager to know why the orbital facilities that should have played the greatest effect did not respond.

However, they did not receive a response for a long time. They could only watch the alliance ships, with the battleship "Nova" as the core, proudly destroying the star fortress that was already severely damaged but had to fight alone, and at the same time destroying a large number of armed space stations.

The defending generals closed their eyes in pain.

The orbital defense system of Mentus II was finished.

The alliance fleet also paid some price, but it was much less than what they should have paid.

The main ships were not damaged. At most, one cruiser was exploded, and several more were damaged.

This loss was not small, but it was completely within the acceptable range of the alliance.

And it was not until this time that the ground command center received a reply from the star port:

The enemy jumped board.

...

Mentus II's defense preparations in all aspects were quite good.

However, they only lacked a very critical point: the ability to defend against psychic energy.

And this ability, when facing the Storm Mage Corps led by Gu Hang himself, will require very, very high requirements.

What will happen if the requirements are not met?

It is like Mentus II.

It is not impossible to directly use psychic power to tear up space facilities of the level of star fortresses and star ports.

Gu Hang fully unfolds the Kingdom of Storm God, pulls his psychic power to the Alpha level, or even higher, he can forcibly tear up the star fortress.

However, on the one hand, this requires him to take a ship and go to a closer distance. Otherwise, on the scale of space, the projection of psychic power will still be attenuated a lot at such a long distance.

In other words, although Gu Hang's psychic power is powerful, the "range" is far less than that of naval guns.

Moreover, even if he ventures to get close and tear up the star fortress with psychic power, it will be a thankless task. Going all out will also consume a lot of energy for Gu Hang. After doing this once, he may not have enough power to do it again.

But the enemy still has at least one star fortress and a larger star port fortress.

It's laborious, and unnecessary.

Is psychic power so inconvenient?

There is no need to be so violent, there are smarter ways to use it.

For example, with the Storm Mage Corps, they can stir up the subspace waves, completely block the communication between the star port, star fortress and the ground, and even seriously interfere with the communication within the star port and star fortress.

Then, by means of psychic teleportation, the powerful army of the Alliance is directly sent to these space facilities.

Airdrop and boarding are dangerous tasks, and the most dangerous stage is the stage in space before reaching the destination.

A landing craft carrying dozens of space warriors, if it is intercepted by a cannon halfway, the loss will be too great.

In fact, psychic teleportation is also very dangerous. This kind of teleportation work that is tens of thousands of kilometers away can be fatal if there is a slight mistake, the teleportation is wrong, or it is interfered by the opponent's psychic power, so that the teleported person is lost in the subspace.

But doesn't this mean that the defenders of Mentus II have almost no psychic defense capabilities?

They actually had some, but they were recruited by the Fury Flame Regiment to strengthen their ability to fight Gu Hang.

The Fury Flame Fleet itself has enhanced its psychic defense capabilities, but Mentus II has suffered.

They can't interfere with the Alliance's teleportation tactics at all.

They can't even detect it.

The two intact star forts and the fortress starport were still preparing to open fire, but in the blink of an eye, the azure teleportation array appeared in front of them. Before they had time to react, there were often two red-armored space warriors who came out to kill together.

This situation occurred at many strategic points in the star forts and starports.

Control consoles, contact centers, command centers, heavy artillery firepower platforms...

Countless teleportation arrays scattered and threw in many space warriors.

But these teleportation arrays did not stop working after completing the teleportation of the Phoenix.

Then, teams of elite soldiers came out.

Three light infantry skeleton divisions were specially mobilized and were on standby on the Fire Nova. After the Space Marines took the lead, the three skeleton divisions were gradually teleported to the starports and star fortresses in an orderly manner to assist the Space Marines in fighting, and also control the key nodes that were shot down, freeing the Space Marines so that they can do more important tasks.

The so-called light infantry skeleton division is a unit that has basically removed all heavy vehicles on the basis of the general skeleton division.

Of course, it is not a simple removal, otherwise, except for the elite soldiers, what is the difference between it and an ordinary large-scale infantry division?

The difference is that the heavy vehicles that have been removed have been replaced by many light armored units that can fight in narrow and complex spaces. For example, more sentinel mechas, more feedback-type power armors, and some fast assault vehicles, such as armed hoverbikes, and rapid-fire self-propelled floating guns...

That is, the money for buying tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery is used to equip these smaller and more flexible armored units.

On the front battlefield, this light skeleton division will definitely be courting death if it fights against a serious skeleton division.

At the same price, a lion tank can beat five or six sentinel mechas; a lion king tank can destroy a knight mecha.

However, the lion king tank cannot be driven in the environment of star ports and star fortresses.

The light skeleton division has its own exclusive combat environment.

When accompanying the space warriors to attack, these troops, which are definitely elite troops among mortal troops, also played a huge role.

After all, the number of space warriors is scarce. For the occupation of the entire star port and star fortress, more army or marines are still needed.

In short, the land forces deployed by the Alliance through psychic transmission quickly disintegrated the armed forces of the three star forts and star ports at the beginning of the battle before they could strike the Alliance's fleet.

Then, the star ports and star forts that were completely occupied began to turn their firepower to attack other remaining armed space stations.

However, some accidents still occurred at this stage.

After receiving the report from the star port and seeing that the star port and star fort began to attack their remaining space stations, the ground defenders made a very decisive decision.

The fortress artillery group on the ground began to focus fire on the starport and star fortress.

Since these units occupied by the enemy could no longer serve as their own helpers and instead became the enemy's firepower points, they had to be destroyed as much as possible.

Moreover, the defense of the starport and star fortress facing the surface was not very sufficient. What's more, they were close to the surface and lacked mobility, so they were really hit accurately.

The starport and star fortress were inevitably damaged because of the competition and fighting with the alliance's boarding troops.

Under various circumstances, two star fortresses and a starport could not hold out for long under the bombardment of the ground orbital artillery group and were quickly destroyed.

In this regard, the alliance also lacked some means to deal with it.

But fortunately, before the starport and star fortress were destroyed, the alliance urgently evacuated its landing troops.

Landing craft and small ships flew to the starport and star fortress one by one, and quickly took the people back.

Of course, picking up people is definitely not as convenient as teleporting.

There are still many Alliance soldiers who died with them in the starports and star fortresses. There are also cases where the evacuation spacecraft was shot down during the evacuation process.

But in general, the losses are still controllable.