Chapter 260 Star Wars? World War II!

Although the Star Dragon Empire's expedition to the Federation is fundamentally the product of the party struggle between the two major domestic parties.

But no matter what, in the closed-door meeting of the Imperial Parliament, the motion of "launching a war" was still passed unanimously.

In other words, whether it is the Regent Party or the Princess Party, or even the few Royal Party members, they all believe that this war is needed as a vent for the sharp contradictions and pent-up emotions in the country.

In this context, although the Regent Party and the Princess Party are still secretly making trouble, and even using this battle to frantically eliminate the other party's "chess pieces".

But in general, the Star Dragon Empire does want to fight this war seriously.

"Although I pit each other, sell out my teammates, collapse and retreat, I still want to win this game~", this is the Star Dragon Empire.

Therefore, the fleets and army units that can participate in this expedition are not only the most elite in the battle sequence of various branches of the Star Dragon Empire, but also well-trained veteran units.

The 7th, 8th and 9th expeditionary divisions of the Star Dragon Empire Royal Army deployed on Rubion V, and their 9 brigade-level combat teams, have participated in some domestic battles in the "peaceful period" of more than 80 years, and can be regarded as relatively experienced in combat.

However, the experience gained in those battles of suppressing rebellion and maintaining stability obviously does not include being abandoned on a planet by the navy, with no way out, and being surrounded in an isolated city, watching the enemy slowly forming an encirclement.

Finally, there is a "letter of persuasion to surrender" sent to the combat terminal of each officer and soldier.

Faced with the situation that this force is likely to mutiny, Viscount Drake immediately made a public speech through the internal network to appease the morale of the army.

At this time, we have to mention that the planetary garrison of Rubion V and the coalition forces formed later contributed "materials" to Viscount Drake before Amber took over the command.

These "materials" allowed the viscount to easily list a lot of battles that they had just experienced in person, where the few defeated the strong.

And told them that the failure of the previous battle and the current situation of being besieged in Ptolemy City were only temporary, and the command was planning a real counterattack and breakout.

Finally, while constantly "greeting" Duke Duke and his three generations of naval fleet members in his heart, Viscount Ptolemy also "violated his conscience" to the imperial soldiers:

"The naval fleet will come back soon, and then it will cooperate with the ground forces to completely destroy the resistance of the Federation!"

In short, Viscount Ptolemy tried every means to temporarily gather the strength of the troops to the greatest extent and temporarily strengthen the soldiers' determination to resist.

After the general speech, he held another officers' meeting.

The content of the meeting was mainly to require grassroots officers to pay close attention to the ideological dynamics within the troops and to guide possible wavering and uneasy emotions.

It was suggested that they praise the deeds of holding their positions and fighting bravely, and at the same time severely punish any attempt to surrender or defect, to ensure strict military discipline and prohibition.

After this, it was a thorough investigation of the military intranet by the centralized technical officers.

Obviously, the fact that all soldiers, including Viscount Drake himself, received the message showed that the enemy had successfully invaded the military intranet and obtained considerable authority.

But after completing the "mass message", Lilith hid herself in cyberspace and even stopped the spread of the electronic warfare virus, making herself completely "disappear" from the empire's military intranet.

While the technical officers were at a loss in the face of the calm military intranet and didn't know where to start, Viscount Drake also ordered the patrolling troops in the city to increase the patrol frequency.

And lifted the previous restrictions on crossfire based on the possibility of accidental injury to citizens, authorizing them to "directly fire at any suspicious target."

He knew that the military intranet was completely cut off from the external network. What happened in the morning was obviously that the military network was invaded, and this invasion could only be carried out through physical connection.

"It seems that the enemy's infiltration troops have infiltrated the city in a way we didn't expect, bypassing the front-line defenders!"

Viscount Drake made his conclusion at an emergency meeting of senior officers.

"This also means that the enemy's strong attack is imminent. Get ready for the next battle, gentlemen."

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It has been two days since the "Letter urging the Imperial Invasion Army (remnants) to surrender" spread throughout the Imperial Remnants.

In the past two days, the patrol troops in the city have been searching for traces of the coalition infiltration troops like crazy.

But the special operations team has greatly reduced the frequency of activities in the past two days.

They would never go out during the day, and even if they go out at night, they would go out at three or four in the morning, when humans are most tired and most likely to fall asleep.

Not only did they collect a lot of information about the Empire's deployment inside the city, but they also successfully passed the information out. In short, it was very outrageous.

While the Imperial patrol troops in the city were unilaterally "played" by the special operations team.

Residents in the city also learned about the upcoming general offensive of the coalition through various channels - gossip from somewhere, local news that was still secretly updated, and "I heard" from their elders.

Although these news came from different sources and the time of the attack also covered every day of the next month, each piece of news mentioned one thing.

That is to suggest that citizens leave dangerous areas, especially the edge of the city, main streets, landmark buildings and other locations that are prone to become war zones.

In fact, there is no need for gossip to urge, many citizens have already found a way to leave the city before the imperial remnants retreated to Ptolemy City.

Like Franklin, these "ambitious young people" can actually leave, but they finally chose to stay in the city to cause trouble for the imperial remnants.

And those who really can't leave, basically gathered in the underground bunker in the north of the city, which is now the safest place in the entire Ptolemy City.

In this way, the soldiers in the outer defense line of the city spent the last few days before the coalition launched a general offensive in a tense, uneasy and irritable atmosphere.

In the past two days, the frequency of the coalition's attacks on the positions has been reduced, and they no longer try to let the troops launch attacks, but simply suppress them with indirect firepower.

Everyone knows that the coalition is holding back a big round.

For the imperial soldiers on the defense line, such days are very tormenting. They would rather fight with the enemy immediately than guess anxiously when the coalition forces will launch an attack amid the sporadic gunfire.

Today, the two major forces of mankind have fought again after more than 80 years.

After the Federation and the Empire fought on several planets, military scientists and commanders on both sides were surprised to find that the form of ground warfare was not fundamentally different from decades ago or even hundreds or thousands of years ago when humans just entered the gunpowder age.

Reconnaissance still comes from intelligence sent back by satellites, drones and front-line infiltration teams, which is not completely clear and transparent.

Although the weapons and equipment and firepower projection capabilities of the troops of both sides are no longer the same as in the past, there has not been much improvement in the combat thinking.

Firepower preparation still exists, but it is completed by more accurate self-propelled artillery groups, straight/curved dual-purpose artillery of front-line combat vehicles, and orbital strikes in space.

The bunkers used in combat defense are constantly being updated. Even the remnants of the empire can still quickly build a set of semi-permanent bunkers outside the city through standard titanium alloy frames, foamed metals and various standardized components.

And through the mine-laying system and artillery mine-laying system of the combat engineer unit, a wide minefield was laid in front of the position.

After watching the photos of the enemy positions taken by the drone, I took a few veterans across the front line and looked at the "wall" looming in the fog outside the city through a telescope in the "no man's land" where the two armies confronted each other.

Amber felt an absurd and familiar feeling surged in her heart.

"Am I fighting a war in the interstellar era or in World War I and II?"

Amber didn't know whether this sense of absurdity and familiarity was due to the imprecise military settings of the game planners in her previous life, or because of the natural evolution of this world.

Anyway, behind those seemingly fancy technological advances, only the fleet battle in space looks like a very novel thing, and the basic form of ground warfare does not seem to have changed much.

Even though directed energy weapons are everywhere, combat exoskeletons are in everyone's hands like the most basic rifles, and the integrated command system can also allow combat commanders to have a bird's-eye view of the situation.

But in the final analysis, a large number of infantry as the backbone of the "filling line" are still needed to seize, control and advance the front line.

For example, the attack that the coalition forces are about to launch is essentially to gather heavy troops in one direction of attack, and then start the process of "cannon bombardment, infantry charge, infantry charge, cannon bombardment".

Because Ptolemy City is too big, although the coalition forces have been supplemented by two synthetic brigades of garrison forces, it is obviously unrealistic for these tens of thousands of people to complete the encirclement of a super-large city.

Divide into multiple forces and attack from different directions at the same time?

Amber does not want to follow the footsteps of Yang Hao and Juniper.

Among the coalition forces, except for the mixed synthetic brigade of Atlas that can confront the remnants of the empire head-on, other friendly units can easily be killed and defeated when facing the same-sized imperial army, not to mention the complex and cruel urban street fighting.

So the safest way is to concentrate on punching out.

Amber, who withdrew to the command center, looked at the electronic sand table. At this time, there were 20 minutes left before the scheduled fire strike before the attack began.

On the 25-kilometer-long wide attack surface, the coalition units have arrived at their respective scheduled attack launch positions.

The long-range fire strike forces of each unit are also ready, and the two orbital attack ships and the Hermes have also lowered their altitude and entered the attack orbit.

Amber took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly. This was his first time commanding a ground war of this scale.

Because in the game he was more responsible for fleet battle command, and his experience in commanding ground battles was far from reaching this scale.

And this is not a game, and the soldiers under his command are not NPCs who will not feel sorry for their death.

But at the moment, he can't be indecisive. Since he has already stood in this position, he will do everything he can to the best of his ability.

"All units will launch attacks according to the predetermined plan after the artillery preparation is completed.

I will lead the HCP troops to launch the first round of attacks according to the original plan, and wait for an opportunity to carry out decapitation operations.

The subsequent specific command will be handed over to you. As usual, Hogg will be responsible for the overall coordination. This is also the graduation assessment for you future commanders."

Amber looked up at the people in the headquarters. These human and Roma staff officers from Atlas had nervous, excited, and apprehensive expressions on their faces.

But without exception, their eyes were firm enough.

"Okay, let's get started."