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Volume 1 Chapter 226 Battle of Crete (2)

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    Chapter 226 Battle of Crete (2)

    Robert was knocked to the ground by a huge shaking. He had no time to get up. He stared at the starry sky instrument that had just restarted in shock. Countless black light points representing meteorites were hitting the fleet in a trajectory that violated the laws of gravity.  The shock just now was a series of collisions caused by an unprepared outer starship being smashed into the dense starship formation by a meteorite.  At this time, the fleet could no longer take care of the densely packed Charno starfighters that were constantly shooting out rays of death, and turned all its firepower towards the meteorites that were rushing toward the fleet.  The Charno people had obviously been waiting for them here for a long time. They had installed propellers for the meteorites. In the special environment, these inanimate meteorites were far more threatening than any weapons.

    The officers¡¯ roars came from the noisy and chaotic tactical communication channel: ¡°Release the fighter jets¡­¡± ¡°Watch the left side, oh, my God¡­¡±

    Robert felt like an executioner, sending his soldiers into the abyss of hell with his own hands.  As an excellent starship commander, he clearly understood that unless a miracle happened, Charno's ambush fleet, which was waiting for work and well prepared, would be enough to send everyone to hell, and only a handful of people would survive.  Robert lay quietly on the cold metal floor that was constantly shaking, watching in despair as the starry sky instrument fell silent again. After only a few minutes, the noisy tactical channel in his ears was no longer the officers.  Instead of screams of terror, there were muffled explosions and hysterical desperate wails that could not be heard at all.

    A senior staff officer crawled to Robert's side, "General, general" He shook Robert's weak body vigorously, "You have to cheer up, our soldiers are still fighting and waiting.  Following your orders."

    "Order?" Robert slowly turned his head and looked at the alloy armor window that was only half closed. There were flashes of explosions everywhere outside the window. The flying Charno fighter jets rushed into the dense formation of the fleet under the cover of meteorites.  Heavy missiles dragged long flames and wreaked havoc everywhere in dazzling trajectories; the starships that were not destroyed were still desperately releasing fighter planes into space. As soon as the fighter planes left the fighter release platform, they came from nowhere.  The Charno fighter plane that emerged took aim at them, and then exploded into a pile of fragments after a series of dazzling light rains; further away, the starships that kept exploding kept spraying survival shuttles outwards, roaring.  The meteorites, high-speed starship wreckage, and starfighters shuttled back and forth in the sky turned the Yale meteorite circle into a death trap.

    Robert closed his eyes in pain, "Order the fleet to surrender!"

    The main force of the fleet led by Yi Lexiang did not participate in the attack, and the narrow channel was not suitable for the main starships to launch.

    "The enemy has sent a signal to surrender!" a staff officer shouted in surprise.

    "If you don't accept surrender, order the fighter planes to continue attacking!" Before Yi Lexiang could answer, Chen Yatian's cold voice rang out.  Many officers who were busy raised their heads in surprise. Many of them were old men who had followed Yi Lexiang in the Northern and Southern Wars. They had never seen anyone dare to issue orders without Yi Lexiang's consent.  What happened to Chen Yatian?  The staff officer turned his attention to Yi Lexiang. Yi Lexiang leaned over and seemed to be studying the next military deployment, "General"

    "Well, execute the order!" Yi Lexiang put down the electronic pen in his hand, raised his head, and answered expressionlessly.

    "yes!"

    Chen Yatian glared at the staff officer fiercely. These guys usually seemed smart, but they slipped up at critical moments.  Does the general need to give such an order personally?  Ordering the massacre and surrender of troops is a lingering stain on a general's command career no matter which country he is.  Originally, Chen Yatian wanted to bear this infamy.

    Yi Lexiang leaned down and continued to study the battle situation, "Chen Yatian, don't do such smart things in the future."

    "Haha" Chen Yatian scratched his head naively, as if he couldn't tell that he had just given such an order cold-bloodedly, "Aren't I afraid that you won't be able to do it?"

    Yi Lexiang straightened up and looked at Chen Yatian who was pretending to be calm for a long time. Until Chen Yatian lowered his head in confusion, he said softly: "I am a soldier, the same soldier as you!"

    When Halifax led the 22nd Air Force in the skies of Crete, Sussman had already moved the headquarters to a place on the ground sixty kilometers away from the underground fortress.  After the Sixth Corps voluntarily abandoned strategic locations on the surface, Sussman unceremoniously ordered the fleet to begin a large-scale airborne operation. When Halifax arrived in the dust, the Yale Ground Corps of more than 200,000 people  The huge encirclement formed has gradually taken shape, and densely packed landing craft and transport ships are still sending troops to the ground.  Under the cover of heavy armor and mecha troops, the Yale Legion launched attack after attack.

      Twenty minutes ago, Sussman had just ordered the starships in space to pour tons of explosives on the fortress, destroying the bunker fire network above the underground fortress. This was already within an Earth hour.  The third fire attack was ordered.  However, every time the heroic Yale soldiers rushed forward, the automatic elevating turret would rise from the ground again and spray out deadly flames, and rows of soldiers fell on the path of the attack.  This made Sussman extremely angry and helpless.  Artillery fire from the air can only destroy fixed defenses, and those automatic elevating turrets can sneak underground before the artillery fire arrives every time, until they surface when the Yale Ground Corps attacks again.  To destroy these floating turrets, rough bombing from starship cannons orbiting in outer space will not work. Precision-guided strikes from the planetary aviation are required.

    On the ground, surrounding this huge irregular ring-shaped defense line, there were burning tanks and broken mecha fragments everywhere. The medical soldiers didn't even have time to clean up the corpses scattered everywhere.  The arrival of the 22nd Air Division excited Sussman.  After connecting to the communication in Halifax, he gave an unceremonious order to the member of the Strong Royal Family who was at the same level as him, asking them to launch an air strike immediately. His tone was rude and arrogant.

    Halifax ignored General Yale, who was jumping up and down like a giant monkey on the screen and furious. Instead, he ordered the fleet's fast reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance on the outer reaches of Crete.  The situation on Crete was somewhat beyond his expectation. According to the route of the Charno fleet, they should arrive earlier than the 22nd Division that took a detour.  However, at this moment, the battlefield on the ground is in full swing and the battle is fierce, and there is no trace of the Charno fleet in space.

    After Halifax finally confirmed that everything was normal, he finally ordered the aviation force to enter the battle before Sussman went berserk.  However, for safety reasons, he left the fleet in planetary synchronous orbit and was ready to evacuate at any time.  The failure to discover the Charno fleet not only did not make Halifax breathe a sigh of relief, it actually made him even more nervous.  He ordered his staff to open the starry sky map of the Danube Star Territory.  If the Charnor fleet had not appeared on Crete, where would it have gone?

    Halifax's eyes kept searching the starry sky map, and suddenly he seemed to be stimulated by something, "Has the fleet to support Crete already set off?"

    His adjutant looked at the report in his hand and said, "We've already set off."

    "Which interstellar route did you take?"

    "Jeph Space Gate!"

    "How long have you been without contact?"

    The adjutant glanced at the stern-looking Halifax in surprise. The support fleet had indeed temporarily lost contact with Crete.  But this often happens in interstellar navigation. The unpredictable universe always has problems of one kind or another. Supernova explosions, fluctuations in space energy, and even a passing rogue asteroid may interrupt this connection.  According to the regulations of the Imperial High Command, an accident can be deemed to have occurred in the moving fleet only when contact between two Earths has been lost.  The adjutant lowered his head and looked at the atomic watch on his wrist. It had only been twenty minutes since he lost contact with the support fleet.  "The space environment near the Jeph Space Gate is extremely harsh, and the surrounding area is filled with meteorite circles composed of large and small meteorite fragments"

    "It's also a good place for an ambush!" Halifax sneered. His intuition told him that this was the reason why the Charno fleet did not appear on Crete.  He didn't care about the destruction of a support fleet composed of other empires, but the following actions of the Charno people "Ask me, how long will it take for Susman to capture Crete? Immediately!"

    "yes."

    The battle on the ground gradually became intense. The Yale Legion, supported by precise air strikes, finally broke into the corridor of the underground fortress after paying heavy casualties.  Sussman moved his headquarters to a location less than thirty kilometers away from the fortress. This position was already within the opponent's fire range.  But Sussman, who was in a rage, couldn't care about this at all now. In the battle just now, two more Yale ground divisions were completely disabled. The battle damage rate of more than 60% indicates that even if they win in the subsequent battles,  , these two divisions will also permanently withdraw from the battle sequence of the Yale Empire, and there is no need to reorganize them at all.  Coupled with the losses in the battle to seize the landing point, so far, three ground divisions have had their designations revoked, two divisions have been severely damaged, and the enemy's casualties are unknown.  Such casualty data could not be accepted by Susman in any case. He was already in complete madness. Regardless of the strong objections of his staff, he concentrated his troops above the underground fortress and launched powerful attacks underground from all directions at the same time.  A round of attacks.  More than 300,000 people were crowded into an area of ??less than 30 square kilometers. This was a serious violation of tactical regulations.  If the Charnor fleet reaches Crete, just a few super cloud bombs can send hundreds of thousands of Yale soldiers to hell.  But no one can stopSusman's crazy behavior stopped, and several senior staff officers standing in the temporary headquarters looked helpless. The only person who could stop Susman at this time was General Robert, but General Robert was still rushing to Crete.  On the way to the stars.

    At this moment, they don¡¯t know that Robert will never reach Crete.
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