The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 291 290. You are as ridiculous as your bunker

This war that took place in the Todd galaxy was a war in which three local colonial galaxies launched a full-scale military campaign.

In fact, almost no one in the entire federal government cares about it.

The war that concerns the survival of three galaxies seems insignificant in the eyes of the United Government and the Federal Government.

However, a speck of dust from the times falling on ordinary people is like an insurmountable mountain.

Millions of warriors fought and died on the administrative planet Todd.

Hundreds of millions of people were caught up in the aftermath of the Earth Federation civil war.

Even if this war had no impact on the outcome of the civil war.

But as individuals participating in this war, everyone must do their best.

"Let those guys who are asking for help shut up!
We are already moving at full speed!

Tell them I have only one request.

That is to let them live until we get there!"

The commander of the Vanguard Corps wiped the black ash from his face caused by the gunfire and smoke.

Sweat mixed with cigarette ash left a black mark on his face.

The officer's uniform was also torn in many places.

After several rounds of enemy encirclement and counter-encirclement, they broke out of the siege many times.

He was no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning.

The enemies on the plane war battlefield were even more terrible than he had imagined.

According to the standards of the United Nations government forces, a soldier who has only received three years of compulsory military training can only be called a reserve militiaman.

But among the federal government's remote local colonial galaxy forces, this is definitely considered elite.

The three galactic forces currently fighting in the Todd galaxy can only be described as a fight between weaklings.

More than 90% of the military power comes from the cheapest and least technologically advanced ground army forces.

The only ones that are worthy of the interstellar age are probably the air forces within the atmosphere.

It has only been a few years since the arms ban was lifted, and the local colonial galaxy forces have not yet formed a complete set of military training standards.

We can only follow the model of the federal government army and imitate it as much as possible.

The indigenous troops who take the main forces of the United Government Army as their role model and goal are naturally not comparable to the armed forces of these colonial galaxies.

But the problem is that there are too many opponents.

The 300,000 troops coming to support from the Slade Galaxy have been busy traveling and fighting since they landed.

There are millions of troops from the three forces spread across the Toad Administrative Planet.

What's more troublesome is that the Toad Galaxy armed forces, which belong to the Slade Galaxy's allies, are being besieged by the other two parties.

No matter how much the commander of the Vanguard Corps looked down on the enemy, he had to admit that the enemy had an overwhelming advantage over them in terms of numbers.

The indigenous soldiers of the Vanguard Corps are also human beings, and like the opponents, they are all flesh and blood.

They have not received the [blessing of popular election] and are only ahead in military quality.

After eight hours of forced marches and continuous skirmishes, the Vanguard Corps was already exhausted.

However, the requests for help from their target of rescue, the last remaining resistance in the Todd galaxy, were becoming more and more frequent.

Apparently, the enemy has learned of the landing of reinforcements from the Thraide Galaxy.

The other side wanted to speed up the encirclement and suppression offensive and encircle and kill the target of the rescue by the reinforcements from the Thraide Galaxy in advance.

A heavy artillery piece came whistling towards them, even though they had ordered their men to lie down and avoid it in advance.

The shock wave from the heavy artillery explosion still killed three Vanguard Corps soldiers.

There was no time to mourn these soldiers, and it was not even possible to collect their bodies on the battlefield.

The soldiers hurriedly took off the military badges hanging on the necks of their fallen comrades, listened to the orders of the middle-level officers in the army, picked up their weapons and continued to advance towards the front positions.

The standard weapon of the indigenous forces is the electromagnetic pulse gun, in addition to individual equipment including various chemical gunpowder individual weapons.

The heavy weapon is a combination launch slot containing 16 micro rockets.

With just two people operating, they can easily and instantly unleash excessive explosive firepower on the enemy.

In addition, there are a small number of suicide micro-drones and reconnaissance drones used to assist in the calibration of medium and short-range artillery strikes.

The military equipment level of the indigenous forces is almost two to three generations behind that of the United Government Forces.

Not to mention the Delta series of power armor, even the most basic battlefield real-time intelligent AI system is not fully connected and equipped.

On the one hand, the military level and physical fitness of the indigenous troops are still far behind those of the main forces of the United Government.

On the other hand, the indigenous forces, which are reserve militias in the military sequence of the United Government, have never had the opportunity to participate in the plane war before, so they do not need elite, cutting-edge weapons and equipment.

When the Vanguard Corps advanced to the outskirts of the administrative star's capital, they finally encountered the strongest enemy since their landing.

An elite force supported by a monopoly military-industrial tycoon to its subordinate colonial galaxies.

The vast majority of the nearly 20,000-strong force are retired veterans of the federal government army and mercenary gangs within the federation.

The weapons and equipment are also the most advanced technological products under the control of the monopoly military-industrial tycoons.

When the three-way galactic war broke out, it was this elite army that dealt a devastating blow to the native indigenous armed forces of the Todd galaxy.

If it weren't for the five biochemical clone legions produced by Slade Industries stationed in the capital.

I'm afraid that the Todd Galaxy authorities won't be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive.

Although this elite corps is supported by the military-industrial monopoly chaebol, it still has a big gap with the elite mobile infantry regiment of the federal government army.

But for those indigenous troops who were just used as "make-up numbers" by the United Government, this was a huge pressure.

Enemies equipped with Federation jet-powered backpacks have extremely strong battlefield mobility.

They often appear in unexpected locations without warning, using laser weapons with an effective attack range of several kilometers to carry out "name-by-name" sniping.

This unconventional combat mode, which is more inclined towards special operations, has caused the Vanguard Corps a lot of headaches.

After an hour of fighting, the vanguard corps with a total of 80,000 people was still firmly pinned down by the enemy on the edge of the city in the far suburbs of the capital of the administrative star, unable to advance an inch.

"Sir, my guys have tried three times, but those damn guys won't fight us head-on.

It’s hard for us to break through in the urban street fighting, and we need heavy equipment support…” The middle-level officers leading the front line came to report, and their blood-stained uniforms showed the fierceness of the battle ahead.

The enemy was well prepared and had planned from the very beginning to drag the vanguard corps into the complex terrain of the city to fight.

After several unsuccessful attempts, the vanguard troops, which suffered heavy losses, could only ask for support from the rear.

The commander of the Vanguard Corps frowned upon hearing this.

Heavy equipment?

The indigenous forces are not taken seriously at all in the United Government Army. They are not qualified to be equipped with the heavy equipment commonly found in the United Government Army.

Only those things that are left over by the main force of the federal government army and that they don't like will be delegated to the indigenous forces.

The commander of the Vanguard Corps scratched his head and suddenly remembered the "bottom-of-the-barrel" equipment on the Kunpeng transport aircraft.

As an indigenous force participating in the plane war for the first time, he will not miss any opportunity to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

So after the three Kunpeng transport aircraft loaded all 300,000 troops and various standardized military equipment.

The commander of the Vanguard Corps looked at the transport warehouse which still had plenty of space, and shamelessly applied to the Armaments Department for permission to install some additional armaments and weapons.

Considering that this is an unprecedented full-scale military operation involving 1.3 billion people.

The Ordnance Department flatly rejected the Vanguard Corps commander's request for additional standardized military equipment.

However, there is no obstacle for those military equipment that are not standardized and have extremely low demand.

The giant mecha from the Pacific Rim plane is a typical example.

In the eyes of the main force of the United Government Army, the giant mecha is completely a useless piece of military equipment.

In addition to being useful in the specific battlefield environment of Pacific Rim, it also has a certain effect against specific enemies like Kaiju.

In the complex and ever-changing battlefield of plane war, a giant mecha that cannot be equipped with an energy shield generator is simply a sitting duck.

The Leviathan-class dreadnought can be a perfect substitute.

It is precisely because of the dislike of the main forces of the United Government Army that the second- and third-line reserve forces also have prejudices against giant mechas.

As the governor of the Pacific Rim plane, Liu Qi has repeatedly protested against the United Government Army's prejudice against the plane's cutting-edge military products.

For a long time, it has been committed to promoting the giant mechas produced in this plane to the United Government Forces.

But over the years, the results have not been satisfactory.

So much so that now that all-out war has been mobilized, few people are interested in the large number of giant mechas that the Pacific Rim plane has proactively provided.

The main force of the United Government Army would rather choose those elite troops, such as the second-hand ones eliminated by the Interstellar Legion reserve soldiers, than accept the brand-new mechas produced in the Pacific Rim plane.

The commander of the Vanguard Corps still can't forget how he said all the good things and wanted to ask the leaders of the Ordnance Equipment Department for a few small and medium-sized dreadnoughts to supplement the troops' firepower, even if they were repaired second-hand ones.

However, they were rejected by the other party on the grounds that they were just an indigenous force and not of high enough rank.

Instead, it was the PPDC department officials from the Pacific Rim plane who took the initiative to recommend to him the culmination of their plane's latest military equipment: the eighth-generation "Octopus Spider" model - the Octopus Demon.

The name sounds intimidating, but I'm not a rag picker. If I treat as a treasure something that the main force doesn't value, wouldn't that be too embarrassing?

With this in mind, the commander of the Vanguard Corps, who wanted to refuse, saw the officials from the Pacific Rim plane introducing and recommending him persistently, and then he remembered the experience of being rejected just now.

How can an indigenous army be qualified to be picky?
Finally, the commander of the Vanguard Corps signed the application for two Octopus Devil machines with the one-stop service of PPDC officials.

By the time the Vanguard Corps commander's thoughts returned to reality, two of the Pacific Rim's newest drone mechas had already been deployed to the front line.

With the support of the federal government's cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, the control of this unmanned mecha is easier than the Vanguard Corps commander expected.

Equipped with the most advanced portable intelligent AI chip, the "Octopus Demon" can independently judge the battlefield situation and respond in the best combat state that best suits its body functions.

In fact, the commander of the Vanguard Corps had no idea how powerful the enemy was.

An indigenous force that has not yet been equipped with the "Battlefield Master" artificial intelligence combat assistance system and is even called a "security force" has never seen the most advanced military technology of the United Government.

A drone mecha from the Pacific Rim plane, although its battlefield performance may not be as good as that of a dreadnought mecha.

However, in terms of intelligent integration and advanced technological application, it can definitely be regarded as the mainstream echelon under the coalition government.

The order to "interfere with the activities of the enemy's elite forces within the urban cluster" has just been issued.

Two giant unmanned mechas, each weighing more than 3,500 tons and covered with titanium-tungsten alloy, began to quickly attack the urban cluster like "squids".

The appearance of the giant mecha attracted the attention of the enemy's elite troops in the urban cluster.

Before the other side could gather heavy weapons to respond, two "Octopus Demons" had already broken into the city's building cluster.

Wherever it went, masts were bent and oars were broken, and dust was flying all over the sky.

Many enemies hiding in the city's alleys and buildings were turned into dust as the buildings collapsed before they could evacuate.

The arthropod-like "limbs" made of titanium-tungsten alloy are like reinforced tunnel boring machines, which instantly turn all construction materials into powder while moving.

The battlefield monitoring system works with the intelligent AI chip inside the "Octopus Devil" to lock on all threatening enemies within the detection range.

Then they sneaked underground and in building clusters to quickly raid the enemy's position.

Even the active offensive weapons on the "Octopus Devil" are not needed at all.

Simply by "destroying urban buildings", they taught these so-called elite forces of the monopoly military-industrial tycoons a severe lesson.

'You are as laughably fragile as your cover.'

When the two "Octopus Demons" entered the city's building complex, the commander of the Vanguard Corps was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

The two giant mechas weighing thousands of tons don’t look like war machines at all, but more like two “demolition machines”.

All the buildings they touched collapsed and were destroyed almost instantly.

A cloud of dust rose above the city.

In the face of the intensity of war at this level among the indigenous forces, the appearance of the "Octopus Demon" is almost a dimensionality reduction attack.

The commander of the Vanguard Legion had no idea how many enemies were still alive in the ruins of the city's suburbs, which were already littered with rubble.

But he knew that he had found a treasure.

"Quick! Keep up with the speed of the drone mecha!

I will completely eliminate all enemies in the Administrative Star Capital before sunset!"

The commander of the Vanguard Corps, with a rosy face, could almost imagine himself reviewing the troops in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Influenced by the battlefield performance of the "Octopus Demon", the morale of the indigenous warriors in the legion was greatly boosted, and they rushed rapidly towards the urban battlefield that had been reduced to ruins.

(End of this chapter)