The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 292 291. Team-level air and space fire support

The battle on the administrative planet of the Todd galaxy began to draw to an end just one hour after the "Octopus Devil" drone mecha was put into combat.

The indigenous forces on the United Government side destroyed the city in the most direct way, thus avoiding a fierce battle with the enemy's elite troops in the city alleys.

After most of the city buildings in the capital of the Administrative Star were destroyed, the surviving enemy troops finally began to despair and collapse.

There was a phenomenon of deserters and disintegration.

The remnants of the official guards of the Todd Galaxy, who had been under siege, seized the opportunity.

Together with the indigenous troops of the United Government who came to support them, they attacked from the front and back, killed off the elite enemy troops with a stronger fighting will, and finally successfully forced the remaining enemies to land.

The fierce fighting lasted for nearly 12 hours, although the commander of the vanguard corps did not participate in the front-line fighting.

However, the constant combat mobilization, situation analysis, troop tactics, strategic decision-making, etc., consumed a great deal of his energy.

It was not until the last enemy unit on the planet gave up resistance and surrendered that he, as the commander, finally couldn't hold on any longer and lay down on the muddy armored vehicle to relax.

“Report immediately to the United Government Army Plane Operations Command.

The 6th Corps of the 158th Naturalized Army has successfully completed its support mission and has now eliminated all hostile military forces.

Please ask the Command to give the next instructions..."

They said they were asking for instructions, but in fact they wanted to win credit to the Allied Command by reporting military intelligence. At the very least, they could make themselves familiar to the Command and let the other side know that their 158th Corps was an elite force that could and dared to fight.

The commander of the Vanguard Corps believed that their force, which was responsible for supporting operations in the Toad galaxy, had performed extremely well.

With only 300,000 troops, they successfully defeated the enemy's coalition force of over one million that came to encircle and suppress them.

You know, their army group is composed of indigenous soldiers of the United Government who have not received the [blessing of democratic election].

It was the first time I participated in a plane war and I won such a satisfying victory.

The commanders of the Vanguard Corps have now begun to imagine the dream scene where the military leaders of the United Government will personally award them titles after the plane war ends.

He didn't dare to hope for the qualification of [God's Chosen Blessing].

But citizenship, the qualification for [popular blessing] is almost set in stone.

It seems possible that the entire 158th Corps will be promoted to the second-line main force of the United Government Army?
However, what he did not know was that the victory report of the 158th Corps of the Sixth Naturalized Army did not cause the slightest ripple in the United Government Army Command.

“So far, the 63 fronts under the Sixth, Fourth, and Second Naturalized Army Groups have successfully completed their assigned support missions.

32 Allied systems that requested assistance have been dealt with.

Among them, 26 colonized galaxies belong to lower-level target galaxies..."

Reports from the Intelligence Staff continued to ring out in the Allied Forces Headquarters.

The victory report of the 158th Legion was not even worthy of being presented alone in front of the commander-in-chief of the United Government who was in charge of the strategic command of this plane war.

The Todd galaxy is a remote galaxy of the federal government and has not made any outstanding achievements in important areas such as energy, military industry, and economy.

It is the most common and largest local colonial galaxy under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

In addition, the naturalized army group consists of ordinary indigenous troops temporarily recruited.

Therefore, it is understandable that it is not taken seriously.

"Where are the main armies responsible for attacking the energy system?
How is the situation now? "

The Allied commander merely glanced at a series of victories from indigenous forces, including the 158th Legion, and paid no more attention.

Instead, he asked about the main force of the coalition government, which he was more concerned about.

The ownership of galaxies on the edge of the federal government, such as the Todd galaxy, is actually not important to both sides of the civil war.

What is really key are those galaxies that concentrate various military, energy and technology product raw materials and are enriched with various related core industries.

They are the real source of the federal government's war potential.

The Coalition Government certainly understands this.

So when the full-scale war broke out, most of the main forces of the United Government were sent to fight for these key galaxies.

“Several main army groups have completed their tactical deployment.

Now they are attacking the federal government's 'Twelve Energy Galaxies' with all their might.

Responsible for the defense are several energy industry groups that have close ties with the federal government, as well as the private armies of some chaebols that monopolize the military-industrial complex.

Their troops are numerous and their equipment level is comparable to that of the federal government's army.

Do we need to consider letting the main force of the Star Legion join the battle?"

The United Government possesses technology that can provide nearly unlimited energy, and does not value the energy galaxies under the Federal Government.

Compared to the time-consuming and labor-intensive mining of raw materials and then energy production.

Directly using heavy nuclear fusion technology, silica products that are ubiquitous in the universe, such as sand and stone, can be used as fuel, which saves time and effort.

But for the Earth Federation Government, energy is their lifeline.

Not only military strategies but also military vehicles and equipment require energy supply. At every moment, the civilian energy consumption on various planets is also an astronomical figure.

With this in mind, the Allied Command launched targeted strikes on the Earth Federation Government's twelve most important energy galaxy clusters.

The largest number of main forces of the United Nations government forces were deployed here to participate in the battle.

To speed up combat operations and secure victory as soon as possible.

The intelligence department proposed to let the coalition's most elite interstellar legion join the combat sequence.

But obviously, the coalition commander had his own concerns.

“The main force of the Federation star fleet has not yet appeared.

The Interstellar Corps is reserved for emergencies.

Order all main army groups to speed up their offensive and force the main force of the Federation to appear as soon as possible."

After the order was issued, an important energy-producing galaxy cluster under the jurisdiction of the federal government: the Twelve Energy Galaxies, was attacked almost at the same time.

The attack launched by the main force of the United Government Army was far beyond the imagination of a marginal galaxy like the Todd galaxy.

Similarly, as the defending party, the energy industry group and the huge private army maintained by the military-industrial monopoly tycoon are not comparable to the ordinary local colonial galaxy armed forces.

The Heavy Guard Division is one of the main offensive forces.

"Lucky Boy Peter", who once made great contributions in the Transformers dimension, is a member of the 306th Mobile Armored Regiment under the Heavy Vanguard Division.

Although they can only be regarded as the second-line main force in the combat sequence of the joint government forces.

However, they were all equipped with heavy equipment and were allowed to participate in the first round of raids against the enemy's fortification clusters.

The aerospace defense system of the "Energy Twelve Star Systems" is quite complete. In addition to the low-Earth orbit defense system, there are also electromagnetic cannons weighing hundreds of tons on the ground, which can launch high-energy accelerated projectiles on the surface of the planet to carry out devastating strikes on local heavy aerospace vehicles above the low-Earth orbit.

Coupled with a large number of aerospace fighters, it has extremely strong defensive capabilities both inside and outside the planet's atmosphere.

The space battleship fleet escorting the Heavy Vanguard Division carried out a saturation attack on the planet below for 16 hours, barely destroying most of the exposed enemy air defense facilities.

Wait until the landing ships of the Heavy Vanguard Division enter the planet's atmosphere.

Thousands of enemy fighter planes then emerged from their hidden underground bunkers and rushed towards the landing ships.

The commander of the space fleet in charge of the escort immediately turned pale.

His mission was to ensure that the heavy vanguard division was safely delivered to the ground.

Those landing ships were not protected by energy shields, and losses were almost inevitable in the face of harassment from enemy aircraft.

Before the fleet commander's roaring orders could be heard throughout the fleet, aerospace fighters piloted by real pilots quickly emerged from the space battleships.

It charges from outer space into the atmosphere at a speed exceeding Mach 10.

The space fleet, which has already achieved "air supremacy" in outer space, is also constantly using ship-borne high-powered electromagnetic pulse cannons and laser weapons to launch attacks on enemy air force clusters in the atmosphere.

But unfortunately, it is difficult for a high-powered electromagnetic pulse cannon to lock onto a high-speed moving enemy aircraft.

Laser weapons are also less effective because of the dense pollution clouds caused by the high concentration of energy industries in the planet's atmosphere.

Peter, who was inside the landing ship, could see the fierce air battle inside the planet's atmosphere, which was almost happening in the airspace not far from the landing ship.

Nearly a hundred United Government aerospace fighters made of Cybertron alloy moved unimpeded within the thousands of Federal Air Force clusters.

Every charge and every move could steadily take away several enemy planes.

Before the landing, the soldiers of the heavy-armored vanguard division in the landing ship cheered for the bravery of the friendly forces.

The Federal Air Force Cluster also seemed to be aware of the huge gap in quality between the two sides' fighter jets.

They gave up air combat and began to focus their targets on landing ships that had almost no resistance.

These landing ships, carrying thousands of main force soldiers of the United Nations government forces, began to suffer damage.

This scene undoubtedly stimulated the commander of the space fleet.

Now that they have seized air supremacy in outer space, every federal government soldier who dies before setting foot on the surface of the planet is a slap in the face of their aerospace forces.

An aerospace carrier was ordered to sprint into the planet's atmosphere.

At top speed, the friction between its huge body and the air in the atmosphere will cause irreparable damage to the aerospace mothership.

But obviously, the fleet commander cared more about the lives of the soldiers of the friendly landing forces.

It was not until this aerospace carrier broke into the battlefield airspace that millions of "Predator" unmanned fighters began to launch rapid and fierce suicide attacks on enemy aircraft in the airspace.

Suddenly, the entire airspace looked like a nighttime fireworks display.

The suicide drone attack, which was at the level of a nuclear grenade explosion, soon cleared out the enemy aircraft that were wreaking havoc in the nearby airspace.

There were only about a hundred surviving enemy planes left. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, they fled to the distant airspace.

Drone clusters and aerospace fighter units are still cruising in the planet's airspace, trying to seize air supremacy in the planet's atmosphere as quickly as possible.

There was no time to pray for these heroic air force comrades. With a violent shock, the landing ships of the Heavy Vanguard Division began to land on the ground one after another.

The squad leader's roar kept repeating inside Peter's tactical helmet.

His team is a medium-sized dreadnought mecha crew under the 306th Regiment of the Heavy Vanguard Division.

This medium-sized dreadnought mecha, called "Shield Guard", is 13 meters high and weighs 124 tons. It is inherited from the original dreadnought mecha model of the Dragon Flame Interstellar Legion.

The "Shield Guard" equipped with titanium-tungsten alloy front armor is the most important armored resistance force in the heavy vanguard division and is often sent to the front-line battlefield where the enemy's firepower is the fiercest.

The moment the landing ship's hatch opened, Peter, the driver, had already controlled the "Shield Guard" to rush out, attracting subsequent comrades to land and blocking enemy firepower.

"Boom~"

Even with the heavy armor of the Dreadnought and the sound insulation and noise reduction system, Peter could still feel the continuous artillery bombardment around him.

There was no enemy in sight, but the extremely eye-catching heavy equipment he was driving had been targeted by enemy fire.

Thanks to the extreme defensive properties of the "Shield Guard", Peter and other crew members only felt a little shocked.

Before the enemy's second round of artillery fire arrived, the heavy vanguard division's anti-artillery reconnaissance drone had already uploaded the location of the enemy's artillery positions to the battlefield command center.

The next moment, several high-yield conventional missiles with thick white tail flames rapidly approached a hill three or four kilometers away at a speed that was almost impossible to capture with the naked eye.

Following a slight earthquake-like movement, dust and smoke billowed from the distant hills.

The enemy's artillery fire, which had been as dense as rain, suddenly fell silent.

Peter drove the Shield Guard and followed the instructions of his squad leader, heading towards an enemy underground strategic firepower point 12 kilometers away.

Following behind him were ten comrades equipped with the latest "Delta" series light power armor.

This is the "infantry-tank coordination" in the new era of the coalition government.

The difference is that the firepower of the main forces of the United Government Army is far beyond the reach of those neglected indigenous forces.

After the enemy's firepower points on the hilltop were knocked out, only permanent fortifications and bunkers under camouflaged shelters remained around the landing area, constantly obstructing the heavy-armored vanguard division on the march.

The "Heavy Harpoon Depleted Uranium Armor-Piercing Bomb" on the "Shield Guard" was fired, successfully blowing away these "permanent fortifications" made of reinforced concrete.

The Heavy Vanguard Division proved through actual combat that the so-called permanent fortifications were just a joke in the face of absolute firepower advantage.

Before Peter's team could move forward, another enemy hidden in an underground bunker in the dense forest not far away launched an attack on the team.

The squad leader received an order to arrive at the assembly point before the specified time.

There is no time to clear out these troublesome enemy fortifications that are as troublesome as "gophers" one by one.

The impatient squad leader immediately requested fire support from his superiors.

Fire support from a space battleship on standby soon arrived from above the planet.

With clear latitude and longitude coordinates, as well as laser beacon guidance for the squad.

The attack from the ship-borne heavy electromagnetic pulse cannon was imminent.

A blue-white beam of light appeared in the sky above the planet, and the next moment, the dense forest in front of the team began to shake as if it had been hit by a meteorite.

Before the dust at the scene could fall to the ground, one "Rod of God" after another struck through the air.

This "squad-level air and space fire support strike" finally ended when four football-field-sized pits, five or six meters deep, appeared in front of the team.

(End of this chapter)