Chapter 159 The Sorrow of Kehal

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The Korhal galaxy, the second satellite of the Korhal IV star, Ursa.

Usa is a small dark brown satellite with a diameter of more than 3.6 million feet (about 1100 kilometers). Like its sister satellite Canis, the surface of this satellite has been transformed into dense fortresses, electromagnetic railguns and anti-aircraft missile launch towers. And the super military fortress of the star port city.

With the largest satellite Usa as the center, another satellite and the Korhal orbital platform Sky Shield II and III as the fulcrum, a firepower network is formed to block the federal fleet. A total of about 1.9 million Korhal revolutionary troops are stationed there. , each high-altitude orbital defense platform has more than two thousand sentry unmanned attack aircraft and automatic turrets.

Even so, the Korhal Revolutionary Army still found it extremely difficult to deal with the four federal fleets in the war with more than 60 Leviathan and Behemoth-class ships and thousands of affiliated fleet ships.

The main reason why the Federation fleet was able to inflict heavy losses on Korhal's guarding army in a short period of time was that they were not stingy about using nuclear weapons, let alone the negative effects of nuclear weapons.

As Angus Mengsk saw on the main screen of the command center on another satellite, Ursa:

Just ten minutes after the Federation fleet appeared, Cannith, who was on the other side of Korhal's orbit, suffered a devastating blow. Judging from the images sent back by several Revolutionary Army military orbiting satellites that were not paralyzed by the signal interference electromagnetic waves emitted by the Federation fleet, Canis is being distorted by the high temperature.

Angus Mengsk, who was wearing an ordinary dark gray Revolutionary Army officer uniform, had a twitching nose and many wrinkles on his chiseled face. He had never paced back and forth as much as he did today.

This also heralded that Cannith's commander Curt Josephine, a descendant of Korhal's oldest noble, and more than 80,000 soldiers under his command were sacrificed in these few seconds. They and their Many of the colorful lives and ambitions we had have become a thing of the past, and more and more families have lost irreplaceable relatives forever.

Human beings are a race with emotions. The trauma caused by war is permanent for their short life, and the trauma can never be healed.

Angus Mengsk realized that he had made a huge mistake. He once compared the federal government and the political interest groups and monopoly aristocrats it represented to a dragon, but he underestimated the cruelty of this dragon.

Reality is far more unrealistic than fake news, and it now seems that if the Creation Family is not based on absolutely indifferent considerations, then they are truly irritated by the failure of the assassination of Angus.

Not only did the assassination fail, Angus also had ample evidence to prove that the Federation was afraid of him. Well, this just shows that the federal government and the Angus are so afraid that they have to resort to such despicable methods.

The popularity and prestige of Angus and the new ideas and new regime he represents in the Tyranid Federation have also increased with the fierce criticism and smearing of UNN Universe News Network and UNN Universe TV Station.

Gradually, after the Federal Assembly's vote to use an apocalypse-class nuclear bomb to destroy Korhal was exposed, those who believed that Angus and the Korhal Revolutionary Army he represented were the evil thugs described in the official propaganda were different from those who believed that the federal government would destroy Korhal. There are just as many human beings.

What the federal government wants to do is solve Korhal's problem once and for all. Instead of spending time and money to regain control of Korhal over several generations, it would be much more convenient to destroy it permanently.

No matter how tragic the bloodshed and sacrifices of the revolution were, Angus never thought of the possibility that the entire planet of Korhal would be destroyed by a nuclear strike. But even so, Angus never regrets the decision he made.

As early as Grandpa Angus's time, the Mengsk family was dissatisfied with the federal government's policy of strengthening the power of the central government to exploit its colonies. This prestigious family has always regarded its rights as equal to its duty to defend the people. -Though so far Angus seems to have brought only war and misery to his people.

At the moment Cannis was destroyed, an uncontrollable sob could be heard in the Usa Satellite Command Center where Angus was located. He was an ordinary information technology soldier.

Angus and the generals around him could not blame him; the soldier's father and all his brothers were on Cannis.

"Activate all missile interception weapons. As long as a nuclear bomb falls on our head, we will all be doomed." In the time of sighing, Angus didn't need to say anything more. Colonel Lundstein beside him had already given the order. Ordered.

While several soldiers were helping the technician down who was crying uncontrollably, twelve more Federation Behemoth-class battlecruisers made a short jump to the Usa satellite. All battlecruisers were black and red. The painting and the huge inverted U-shaped logo are eye-catching.

The moment they appeared, the missile ejection bays of these battlecruisers ejected missiles flying all over the sky. The laser weapons plowed out a path on the dozens of feet thick shaped ceramite and new alloy armor plates of the Usa military fortress. Shocking scratches.

"Lock those battlecruisers and confirm their unit numbers." When Commander Lundstein gave the order to the officer in the missile tower control center, Angus turned his head to a revolutionary soldier in front of the main screen console. said the technician.

The flagship bridge of the federal fleet gradually enlarged on the main screen of the command center. After a few seconds, an X-shaped skull logo appeared in front of everyone.

"Omega Squadron." The adjutant in the command center began to mechanically read the information entries provided by the Umoyan agent organization:

"Skeletons of the Dead, Black Skeletons, Heads of Death, and Legions of Death. This is a fleet traveling in the Daila Galaxy. Their main base is on Daila IV in the Daila Galaxy, located within the territory of the Tyranid Federation. This It is an army composed mainly of resocialized soldiers, with soldiers coming from prison planets across the Tyranid Federation."

"In erasing the antisocial personalities of these criminals and reprogramming their memories, the 'doctors' in the Terran Confederation's resocialization factories retained the most aggressive aspects of these criminals' personalities, making them Ability to activate the craziest part of their personality under orders from their commanders when necessary, to slaughter the enemies of the Federation in the most barbaric and brutal way."

"It is reported that the doctors amplified the evil personalities of some of these people during the transformation, so that at the end of the battle, friendly forces may find the Marines and Airborne Troops of Omega Squadron lying on the corpses of the Kaimorians. Gorge themselves on raw human flesh, roast their enemies' livers or desecrate their corpses - grotesque, cruel and twisted examples that often go hand-in-hand with the reason for their imprisonment."

"The Terran Federation is transforming living humans into weapons." Angus watched silently as the interceptor missiles in the Usa satellite base and the missiles of the Omega Squadron collided with each other in mid-air, forming a continuous explosion of light. A gorgeous scene composed of dots.

What can be found is that although some missiles fall on the revolutionary army's military fortresses on the Usa satellite from time to time, less than 5% of the missiles that land on the satellite's surface carry nuclear warheads.

These nuclear bombs destroyed the military fortresses of the Revolutionary Army one after another, and even shook the geological structure, but Ursa would not be directly destroyed like its own sister planet Cannis.

It can be seen that the number of nuclear bombs carried by the Federation fleet is not large enough for them to squander it unscrupulously.

From intermittent communication signals, Angus learned that two other high-altitude orbital defense platforms and a space-based weapons station had been surrounded by various federal fleets, and the enemy's ammunition seemed to be too much to use up. Blast to your heart's content.

The command center is completely closed, and Angus can only keep a close eye on the battle situation over Usa through the cameras outside the fortress. The battlecruisers of Omega Squadron were anchored on the satellite. After two hours of non-stop bombardment, their attack gradually subsided.

Both sides are consuming their own ammunition and weapons energy reserves on a large scale. From time to time, diffuse circular light spots appear on the surface of Usa, which come from the destroyed revolutionary army fortresses.

At this time, the commander of the Federation fleet had to admit that it was indeed difficult for them to break through the defense of the Korhal Revolutionary Army in a short period of time. The Korhal people had spent more than ten years of weapons and resource reserves on this defensive battle. Several unparalleled defense base stations have been established in space.

As early as a year ago, Umoyan began to transport military supplies and a considerable amount of advanced artificial intelligence and robot manufacturing research and development technology to Kehal IV through trade routes.

The economic subsidy plan of the Umoyan government was also the main reason why Korhal was able to develop steadily during the Kailian War. To be precise, the unnatural growth of Korhal's economy during the war was also related to Umoyan's large-scale blood transfusions. related.

Both the army and the military factory were organized and built by the Umoyan people with the help of the Korhal people. Not only that, Umoyan also tried its best to assist the Korhal engineers in building the high-altitude track in half a year by delivering spare parts and resources. defense platforms and space-based weapons stations.

If they relied solely on Korhal's own power, they would not even be able to prevent the Federation fleet from leaping into the Korhal system to conduct orbital bombardment and deliver nuclear bombs.

After spending six hours destroying one-third of the buildings on the surface of Ursa, Omega Squadron also paid a certain price. Five of the twelve battlecruisers were attacked by anti-aircraft missiles and extremely long-range missiles that could even hit the Kremlin. Kazakhstan's local pulse cannon was severely damaged by the powerful firepower.

However, since the Revolutionary Army did not have a fleet that could deal a fatal blow to these severely damaged battlecruisers, Angus could only watch as these damaged battleships sailed away or were towed away by large ships using tractor beams.

It had been more than twelve hours from the beginning of the war to the complete ceasefire of the Federation fleet. During this period, neither Omega Squadron nor other fleets sent any landing troops. When the ships of the Omega Squadron sailed out of a safe distance and parked quietly in deep space, many soldiers of the Revolutionary Army breathed a sigh of relief. They almost thought that the Federation fleet was about to retreat.

Even though he knew basically nothing about the war, Angus was still keenly aware that the Federation fleet was either planning a new attack method, or it wanted to completely block Usa and the high-altitude orbital defense platform, but it was only besieging but not attacking.

"The commander of the Federation fleet is in no hurry to defeat us in a short time." Colonel Lundstein handed over a dry towel.

"What are the casualties, Colonel." Angus wiped the sweat from his face with a towel and looked at Lundstein.

Angus admired this young officer who was not much older than his second son. He was a descendant of a noble family and a general trusted by Augustus.

In terms of commanding the army, Lundstein was not outstanding in all aspects. He was not a genius general, but his advantage was that he was calm and able to carry out Augustus' orders to the letter.

If the detailed combat plan was given to Lundstein, he would definitely do it step by step and make it watertight. But unfortunately, we all know that the situation in war is always unpredictable.

"Based on 5,000 men per fortress, we have lost at least 300,000 soldiers, Speaker Angus." Lundstein's face turned blue. He could not remain indifferent to this. He died in battle today. Many of the revolutionary army soldiers were his classmates.

"Hmm -" Angus was about to say that he wanted to build a monument to these revolutionary soldiers who died in the battle, but he immediately realized that this was not the political forum or podium he was familiar with.

No matter the soldiers or family members he lost, he didn't need to promise anything anymore.

"Maybe they want to besiege us for a long time." Lundstein said with a very ugly expression: "There are not enough synthetic food and hydroponic crop factories here. As long as the federal fleet besieges us for a week, the soldiers will starve. , the combat effectiveness will drop significantly after two weeks, and by the third week, the army will tend to collapse."

"No, if they don't want a quick victory, then that's exactly what we want." Angus said, shaking his head.

But the changes that followed were beyond both of their expectations, because they were able to notice that Omega Squadron actually left three battlecruisers that could not enter the jump orbit and entered the hyperspace channel.

Within minutes, the entire fleet had warped away from the Korhal system, leaving behind seven abandoned battlecruisers.

An intercepted encrypted signal was broadcasting the words of the Speaker of the Federation Council: "All fleets, return to Tarsonis immediately!"

"They retreated! Haha - Korhal IV is saved!" People in the command center hugged each other. They could guess what was happening at this moment. Just as planned, Augustus' fleet must have succeeded. Raid on Tarsonis.

Angus's smile disappeared briefly, and he immediately ordered: "Point the satellite camera at Kehal!"

The laughter of the Revolutionary Army soldiers in the command center came to an abrupt end.

There are several light spots visible to the naked eye on the main screen. When the Revolutionary Army and the Federation fleet were fighting in space, part of the Federation fleet was already performing their mission of delivering nuclear bombs to Korhal - but judging from the currently detected explosion point In fact, there were not as many as a thousand as expected. A considerable number of the nuclear bombs that were supposed to be delivered to Korhal fell on Cannis, Usa, and the two high-altitude orbital defense platforms.

The impact of this is that Korhal did not turn into a black crystal without any integrity like the original timeline, and most areas were not even affected for a short period of time.

The Federation fleet has only delivered about 150 to 200 Apocalypse-class nuclear bombs to the ground, but the landing points of these nuclear bombs are not random.

In Kohal IV, almost all major cities and industrial areas have been targeted by nuclear bombs. The black smoke rising from the explosion point will enter the sky ten miles high. The black clouds will cut off the sunlight for a long time, making the temperature of Kohal almost dropped sharply within a few months.

Within a few years, Kohal will fall into a cold nuclear winter. More than 95% of the flora and fauna on the surface will be extinct due to drastic climate changes and strong nuclear radiation. The lush and beautiful Kohal will no longer exist.

In the next few centuries or even longer, this planet will no longer be suitable for human habitation unless it undergoes large-scale environmental modification.

"No matter what, we have to leave Korhal." Angus said, looking at the planet with dazzling spots blooming on the main screen.

"Let us bury those who died today and set sail."

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