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Volume 1 Chapter 222 Planet Crete

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    Chapter 222 Planet Crete

    At dawn, parts of the 1st and 3rd regiments of the 5th Marine Division finally successfully landed in the landing zone and quickly launched an attack formation to advance in depth.  Their mission is to expand the scope of the airborne landing zone as much as possible and clear the nearby air defense firepower to create conditions for the next larger-scale airborne landing.

    Stationed in this area are the 3rd Division of the Sixth Army and the Armored Teaching Group, which are the main force of the Sixth Army. In particular, the Armored Teaching Group is one of the Sixth Army's trump cards.  They caused huge losses to the airborne 5th Marine Division of Yale. Nearly a quarter of the landing craft were destroyed in the air, including the division commander of the 5th Marine Division, Gado, and the division headquarters who were on the same landing craft with him.  The 5th Marine Division's scattered skirmishers landed on the ground. The largest combat group at present is the third regiment that arrived on the ground first. Their regiment headquarters and regiment-affiliated reconnaissance battalion were lucky enough to escape the dense aerial artillery blockade. After gathering the remaining soldiers,  , a temporary headquarters was set up two kilometers away from the landing area, but the situation they are currently facing is not optimistic.  The main force of the Sixth Army's armored training regiment is less than thirty kilometers away from them, and they will be discovered in twenty minutes.  The situation of others was also not good. The 3rd Infantry Division of Charno completed the battlefield rehearsal before the 5th Division landed and quickly completed the tactical encirclement of the landing zone.  This is thanks to the "Doltat" landing craft, an old model that should have been eliminated long ago. Once the landing point is established, it cannot be changed, allowing Charno's ground forces to easily delineate their landing area.  .

    The Sixth Army Corps, the wartime headquarters, is located in an exhausted mine, six kilometers underground. After being rebuilt and strengthened by the logistics engineering corps, the original complex horizontal and vertical tunnels were used to build it into a  A complete military engineering base, more than 60,000 troops and 300,000 miners stranded on Crete live in this huge underground maze.  The solid alloy deck is as thick as twelve layers, and the middle of each layer is filled with a concrete layer mixed with reinforcement. Unless the Empire uses planet-level tactical missiles to directly hit it, it is basically impossible to be hit from the air.  Totally destroyed.

    Initially, when the imperial military detection satellite discovered this huge energy source from the sky, the aviation technicians responsible for the detection at the time were shocked into a cold sweat.  Because the image of this base on the Dopod imager looks too much like a tactical missile launch center, this is a surprising discovery.  If there is really a Charnian tactical missile launch center hidden on Crete, it is simply impossible for the current attacking troops to conquer Crete, and it is even more likely that they will be attacked by the opponent's missiles.  Completely destroyed.  After analysis by senior analysts and repeated scanning by several reconnaissance satellites, Sussman finally felt relieved.  This is just an underground fortification of astonishing scale.  However, the problems he faced next were not easy either.  According to the three-dimensional structure diagram of the base restored from the scanning results, the entire underground defense system covers an area of ??nearly thirty square kilometers and is connected by intricate corridors. What is even more surprising is its huge alloy metal cover that also covers an area of ??thirty square kilometers.  Analysis shows that none of Starfleet's largest caliber naval guns can directly destroy it.  There is no weak point on this metal shell that is as smooth as the lid of a large steamer. The only way to overcome it is to send ground troops.  Sussman didn't know how much alloy ore and manpower it would take to complete this, it must be an astronomical figure.  Faced with such a base that was deep underground and armed to the extreme, even though Sussman had strong confidence in the combat effectiveness of Yale soldiers, he felt a little helpless.

    The commander of the Sixth Legion, Guan Xiaotian, graduated from the 121st class of the Starship Academy. Although his surname is Guan, he has no relationship with the Guan family on the capital planet that had long been destroyed by the starship.  Now thirty-nine years old, he is at the most talented age of a soldier. He has always longed to devote himself to this great Patriotic War and defend this country with his blood and life.  But unfortunately, in the eyes of the wealthy family, preserving strength has become the primary factor. He and his legion had to be stationed on this desolate resource star where birds could not cross, hiding in the snow for several years.  Today, the Imperial invasion finally gave him what he wanted.  However, the situation he faced forced him to proceed with caution.

    The Sixth Army has five marine divisions, three armored divisions, two armored teaching regiments, one military division, and one military mountain division, with a total of more than 200,000 people.  In addition, the Sixth Army is also equipped with a not very powerful interstellar fleet. At this moment, this fleet is playing hide and seek with the Imperial fleet in space. For the current war, this interstellar fleet does not exist at all.  What he faced was the Yale Ground Attack Corps of the "Imperial Alliance" and an interstellar fleet of the Ottoman Empire, with a total strength of nearly 400,000 people.  According to the enemy strength report he received from the headquarters before the Imperials blocked the planet Crete, the Imperials could put approximately 100,000 marines on the ground.There are 300,000 people, more than one-third of the total strength of the Sixth Army.  This is not what Guan Xiaotian is most worried about. The defensive side always has the advantage.  Calculated based on the general battle loss ratio between the offensive and defensive sides, the Empire would need at least 600,000 ground troops to complete the military operation to capture Crete.  If you add this huge underground fortress, the number will be even greater.  But he lacked air support.  Ground artillery fire has huge destructive power against bulky landing craft, but once faced with light and flexible planetary fighters, the effect will be greatly reduced.  He still doesn't understand why the Imperials didn't have aviation to cooperate with their landing operations.  However, since the enemy commander does not care about the lives of his soldiers, he has no reason to care about this as an enemy.  Perhaps he would be more happy to see the enemy take more idiotic actions.  In addition to air support, the enemy's continuous reinforcements are a truly unbreakable chess game for Guan Xiaotian.

    Crete, unlike ecological planets, often deploys giant energy cannons to attack starships in space.  Crete is just a resource star, and all its defensive weapons are on-planet weapons. Even this huge underground fortress was secretly built under the guidance of the Guan family and without the knowledge of the military.  The political power of the Guan family in the Danube Star Territory is enough to ensure that this plan is not known to the military.  As for Republican officials like Guan Xiaotian, they have no idea that this expensive underground base is actually a "black house."  What's ridiculous is that the Guan family's purpose in building this underground fortress was neither to leave a way out for themselves nor to raise a private army. Their purpose was to store wealth, which is the metal alloy layer that makes up the top layer of the underground fortress.  These refined special alloys are expensive in the interstellar black market. If these special alloys were put into the market at once, it would be enough to drop the price of this alloy by 30%.  The Guan family used a very "alternative" means of storing wealth, but now these have become Charno's national wealth.  The Guan family's unintentional actions created a big trouble for Sussman in space, and also created a glimmer of hope for the Sixth Army.

    The landing operations of the Imperials were still continuing. The 5th Marine Division suffered heavy casualties after entering the ground battlefield. After Sussman saw the battle report, not only did he not activate the backup aircraft landing point, but he also attacked the aircraft that had been surrounded by Charno's 3rd Division.  Lower the point and once again invest two divisions of troops.  Dazzling fireworks once again blasted over the landing point.  Sussman had his own considerations in doing so.

    Crete is a pure resource planet. Most areas are barren mountains composed of various ores. There are no roads connecting various places on the surface, nor are there any population gathering points for troops to rest and recuperate. He can choose from  There are not many landing points in the area, and most of them are under the control of Charno's army.

    As for putting troops into undefended areas, he would only do that unless he was crazy.  If the lightly-armed troops want to get out of the no-man's land on their own feet, it will be impossible for them to do so within a few months.  As for the delivery of heavy armored troops, it is even more impossible. The surface of Crete is almost entirely composed of hard metal-rich ores. It is impossible for heavy armored troops to move in such mountainous areas.  He and his staff considered the possibility of sending mecha troops, but in the end they had to give up.  The powerful firepower and super maneuverability of the mecha are indeed not afraid of rugged ground rocks, but these combat mechas are all energy-hungry and require the cooperation of aviation supply ships. However, the 22nd Aviation Army responsible for supporting the landing is still counting.  Years away awaiting the end of the interstellar storm.  The intraplanetary supply ships of the Sussman battle group simply could not support such a large consumption, and the delivery of a small number of mecha troops was not enough to bring enough attack pressure to the Charno defense forces, so this plan was temporarily shelved.

    So Sussman finally chose to continue attacking this landing point. At least here, the Fifth Division that insisted on fighting could contain part of Charno's air defense force.

    At the same time, in the wartime command post of the Sixth Army, Guan Xiaotian was also paying close attention to the Imperials' landing operations.  He was also surprised by the tenacious combat style of the Imperial landing force. The Imperial Marines trapped in the siege continued to attack the outer siege. Even if there was only one company, they dared to take the initiative to attack.  With the delivery of the other two ground divisions, the Third Division of the Sixth Army is under increasing pressure. After annihilating a regiment-level headquarters of the Imperial landing force, the armored training regiment has withdrawn to the encirclement.  On the periphery, assist the ground defense artillery fire attack more and more landing craft in the air.  The situation at the landing point is deteriorating.
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