Starting from the Planetary Governor Chapter 1520 - 864: Breaching the Fortress2

Ironfist Ambassador Battle Group Leader Ouyi, in the instant he charged out from the frontal defense of the iron shield, crushed the skulls of three beastman youths under the ceramic steel boots.

With a swing of the battle blade, one heavily-armored beastman after another fell under his sword, until the head of the beastman leader was cut off, clearing the last obstacle on the path of the area they were attacking.

Around the Interstellar Warriors, tanks and armored vehicles rumbled past, squad after squad of Alliance soldiers, their military songs loud and clear, swiftly eliminating the remaining beastman forces.

Every ti he looked at their figures, Ouyi felt a sense of awe.

This was the second most shocking thing to him since he joined the Alliance with the battle group.

The first was Mr. Gu, whom he had only t once, and who could really swiftly replenish the personnel and equipnt of his battle group, instantly restoring them to their peak.

Nothing could be more shocking than that.

But the Alliance Army remained praiseworthy and comndable.

During their wanderings as a Ship-Based Battle Group, he had seen countless Human Empire troops, never had he seen a mortal army of such elite scale.

Especially after personally fighting alongside them, the realization deepened.

Unlike many other battle groups whose combat styles didn’t quite fit mortal troops and didn’t require much infantry cooperation, the Ironfist Ambassador’s Iron Curtain advance couldn’t rely solely on its own power. No matter how good they were at frontal warfare or how quickly Mr. Gu replenished their ranks, it couldn’t hide the fact that a battle group was just a thousand people.

In the process of advancing, the accompanying mortal troops played a very important role.

The artillery units and Ironfist’s artillery command system could organically unite; the armored units’ advance, the infantry tactics’ rapid line fill-in, and tily air force support all coordinated with the Ironfist Ambassador itself as the backbone and core of the advance. This comprehensive integration was the key to their battle group shining in this war.

The more elite, reliable, and combat-capable the mortal troops were, the stronger the Ironfist would be.

Honestly, even Ouyi had not thought that his own battle group could beco so imposing.

Such a thing wasn’t recorded in the history of the battle group.

In that sense, it wasn’t just about bringing the battle group back to its forr peak. He could even say he had brought the Ironfist Ambassador beyond the peak to a higher stage.

Perhaps, only the so-called Punisher Legion from the army era, ntioned in the fragntary words of battle group history, truly had such grace?

Even the current parent group, the Punisher Legion, might not be able to execute an attack like theirs—not because they were stronger than the parent group, but because their parent group probably couldn’t find such excellent collaborators like the Alliance Army.

With the help of this elite army, the Ironfist Ambassador was also one of the most outstanding on Ancache VIII’s ground battlefield. Even compared to the Phoenix Battle Group, led by Martins Battle Group Commander himself, which was in the sa attack direction and even the overall commander of the ground campaign, their record was only comparable to theirs.

Well, of course, that’s partly because the Phoenix Battle Group didn’t go all out, leaving many frontal attack opportunities to them. Even in so challenging key battles, whenever they called, the Phoenix ca to help but never tried to upstage them.

Ouyi was very grateful.

The battle group’s ability to achieve brilliant results brought many benefits.

One could see the attitude of Steel Bone Butcher, who used to have a much higher status and dominated the past friendship, during the last cooperation.

To have co this far from a battle group that was close to demise and extinction, he was utterly satisfied.

He was very grateful to the Alliance and determined to continue contributing in the upcoming battles.

Ouyi also envisioned that after the Ancache campaign, Ironfist’s renown would resound throughout the Dark Side Expedition and spread to half of the Empire along with the expedition!

And for now, what he had to face was a gate at the end of a marching avenue.

Breaking through here, the Ironfist Ambassador would earn the honor of being the ’first to breach the fourth ring of the fortress’.

Incidentally, the first to breach the fifth ring would also be them, which was the outermost circular defense line of the Throne Fortress.

The helt display projected the battlefield situation onto his retina, with fire spewing furiously above the iron gate of the bastion.

Even though multiple permanent bunkers and turrets had been destroyed in the previous bombardnt, the Green Skins continued to resist stubbornly. They were constructing new firing points using the bombed turrets. Even if the old cannons couldn’t be used, they’d at least get heavy machine guns and mortars up there; there were also Green Skin engineers temporarily repairing positions on the battlefield.

But Ouyi would not give them more chances.

Upon his command, twelve Heavy City Breaker chas appeared from the rear and slowly advanced.

As their na suggests, these big guys, adapted from Vengeful Goddess-class Knight chas and only slightly smaller than Titans, were designed for city sieges.

Compared to the original multipurpose combat models, the City Breakers were much heavier, sacrificing mobility and dueling capabilities for their heavy equipnt, which was highly destructive against various defense structures.

From its shoulder reactive armor, two thermite shells popped out, while the shock drill on the end of its chanical arm began preheating, blue-white electric arcs jumping on the composite ceramic drill tip.

When the City Breakers began advancing, a barrage of shells also rained down on the enemy positions.

This was to create attack opportunities for the City Breakers and suppress the Green Skins.

Despite the Green Skins’ suicidal counterattacks, they were often blown to bits when they peeked out, and found it hard to stop the City Breakers’ advance.

"Thermite team, advance!" Ouyi continued to command, "Burn through them once the shockwave ends..."

Warning signs suddenly erupted on the tactical link, and the rusty tal plates atop the bastion were blown away entirely. A thirty-ter-tall War Machine erged from the ground. The beastman technicians used Insect Race carapace to weld a giant nozzle, pointing at the City Breaker formation, as the crude nozzle spewed out dark green fus.

At the sa ti, the iron gate they had targeted suddenly opened, and several super-large battle chas charged out. Following them, a mass of heavily armored Greenskins sward out, and the gate quickly closed again.

"Gao Mao King Kong! They were hiding such a thing?"

Ouyi’s brow furrowed deeply; this was sothing he hadn’t anticipated.

He had thought that after the bombing, the Greenskins were only putting up a futile resistance with their last bit of strength.

He hadn’t expected they had such a card up their sleeve.

Previous aerial reconnaissance and probing attacks hadn’t forced this thing out. Was the cunning Greenskin commander waiting for this mont?

The newly erged Greenskin units posed a considerable threat to the City Breaker chas, which were relatively weak in direct combat power.

Under the unexpected barrage from the new giant cannon on the bastion, one City Breaker cha was already dissolving in a green energy stream, and the operator’s screams abruptly ended in the communications channel.

"Titan support team, this is Ironfist Ambassador. We need clear..."

"No Titans left, Battle Group Leader!" A voice from an Engine Prophet of the Sect of chanics, with data stream noise, replied, "The last two Warhound-class Titans were disabled by the Ork Suicide Squad twenty minutes ago, and new Titans are en route."

Another piece of bad news...

The tactical visor showed that the third bastion’s defense strength exceeded expectations.

Ouyi pulled up energy readings, and those seemingly scattered tal scrap piles under the battlents were forming waagh field amplifiers.

"Carion, take your second company, coordinate with the 2577th regint, and destroy the scrap piles in the southeast corner... Third company, assist the 2578th regint to quickly support the City Breakers... Artillery company, collaborate with the 113th division’s artillery battalion to suppress that bastion giant cannon!"

In the exchange of words, the troops quickly executed the response asures.