In order to win the space war with the Federation, for the past seventy years, His Majesty had not hesitated to incite internal strife, squeezing productivity to the extreme, ignoring the seven long years of interstellar travel, and continuously sending a huge amount of manpower and material resources — millions of Imperial soldiers and hundreds of millions of tons of supplies — to the front line of the West Woods.
Despite such great determination and courage, the Imperial expeditionary force still could not achieve a decent victory. In the end, they could only hide in three planetary systems and linger on with their last breaths. That was because the Federation had The Glory Of The Charter.
With the multi-layer surveillance network everywhere, the Federation could control all the military operations of the Imperial expeditionary force. No matter how secretive these operations were, they could not escape the eyes of The Glory Of The Charter.
The central computer underground in the Federation's capital special district had unimaginable calculation, or as it was called, deduction ability. With the help of the central computer, the mobilization of the Federal Army could be achieved to the maximum extent of instantaneous and automatic. It was like a battle between two experts. One of them had a black cloth over his eyes, while the other could see all the movements of his opponent clearly. How could such a battle be fought?
The Imperial soldiers had launched several desperate and frenzied attacks, but in the end, they were still forced to retreat under the cold glare of The Glory Of The Charter. Fortunately, during the last war, they had completely destroyed the surveillance network in the two semi-planetary systems of the Federation, so they had a temporary place to rest and recuperate.
These two semi-planetary systems were the 3,320 planetary systems, the 163 planetary systems, and half of the 5,460 planetary systems.
The war that broke out at the end of the 1960s of the Constitutional Calendar was a huge military operation named Victory. The strategic goal that had to be achieved was to drive the invaders of the Empire away from the two and a half planets that they had occupied for decades.
In order to achieve this strategic goal, and to reduce the terrifying investment of military resources and the number of deaths of soldiers as much as possible, the first thing that the Federation military authorities had to do was, of course, without a doubt, to reconstruct the heavy surveillance network so that the glory of the Charter could shine through the darkness at the edge of the West Woods again, so that the Imperial expeditionary force hiding on the three planets would become a black spot that was not new under the sun. There was nowhere to hide and nowhere to run.
Since the flames of war ignited on the 5,460 planetary system, the Federal military began to speed up the pace of reconstructing the Charter network. Countless highly sensitive self-changing orbit satellites were released into space by warships, and countless miniature electronic positioning devices were scattered in the grasslands, forests, and oceans.
However, in the decades of war, millions of Imperial soldiers had died because of The Glory Of The Charter. The Imperial expeditionary force had always been extremely vigilant against the Federation's electronic surveillance network. How could they allow the Federal Army to reconstruct the network right under their noses? It was like countless chains strangling their throats.
On the basis of the lack of fleets and long-range missiles, the Imperial armies developed powerful anti-surveillance methods and concealment technologies to counter the highly sensitive satellites. They also mastered the method to find and destroy those miniature electronic positioning devices in an extremely short amount of time.
Therefore, the Federal military needed to lay out the low-frequency band network on the ground, and this required a large number of ground engineering units to complete. In order to avoid the intensive electronic surveillance of the Imperial armies and avoid the unreasonable and crazy destruction of the newly laid surveillance network by the enemy, the ground engineering units could not even mobilize heavy armored units, let alone eye-catching mechas.
Before the Federation's main forces landed on the surface of the planet, there were already many such engineering units that took great risks and quietly snuck in. The Seventh Team of the Shell Motor Company was one of the inconspicuous units.
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The Seventh Combat Team was not very lucky.
After arriving at Planet 163, they immediately threw themselves into the work of repairing The Glory Of The Charter. Today was the first time they carried out the task of laying out the surveillance network. Temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Third Battle Area Command in the West Woods, they left the temporary air transport transfer point in the morning and spent half a day hurriedly completing the installation of the equipment in the designated area.
However, no one would have thought that on the way back, less than ten kilometers away from the light battleship pickup point, they unluckily encountered an Imperial expeditionary force patrol unit. The encounter was a coincidence. Presumably, the Imperial patrol unit also did not expect to encounter a group of sneaky Federation people in this beautiful landscape.
It was already very unlucky to encounter the enemy on the way back from their first mission. However, the Seventh Combat Team was even more unlucky because the Imperial patrol unit they encountered was actually a light armored unit!
Bullets whizzed past the top of his head. Xu Le held a standard precision gun with both hands and leaned his back against the simple fortification above the gentle slope. He lowered his head and did not move. From the corner of his eyes, he saw his subordinates retreating under the cover of the heavy machine guns. His mood was slightly relieved.
This was also the first time he had encountered a real battle. In the Yellow Mountain Range of Planet 5460, operating a mecha to fight was completely different from just wearing the equipment for individual soldiers. However, for some reason, he narrowed his eyes, listened to the sound of guns and cannons, and smelled the faint burnt smell of gunpowder. He did not feel any sense of panic. It was as if the dangerous battlefield was originally the place that his big heart was most familiar with.
He used his left hand to pull a thin rope on the edge of his bulletproof vest. The end of the rope was a video storage device about the size of a fingernail. He gently placed it on the floating soil that was shaken up by the cannonball.
Half a second later, the image of the situation below the gentle slope appeared on the small ultra-thin light screen in front of Shan Qiu's helmet.
There were eleven Imperial heavy-armored tanks charging toward the position at high speed. The ground trembled slightly with the roar. In the middle of the tank formation, there were hundreds of Imperial expeditionary force soldiers carrying cold machines. They silently and suffocatingly began to charge.
The Empire's light-armored squad.
Xu Le saw this scene and became slightly nervous. He silently cursed a few vulgarities. He subconsciously licked his dry lips and found that the soil on the planet beside his lips was actually a little sweet. He did not know if it was because it was originally like this or because it was stained with the blood of his comrades.
Today was the first time Group 7 had ventured into the side of the battlefield, and the installation of low-frequency surveillance equipment went smoothly. Unfortunately, they were too unlucky. When they were retreating, they accidentally ran into the Empire's patrol team. However, this Empire's patrol team was obviously much stronger than the standard patrol team. How could Group 7, lacking heavy weapons and equipment, block the enemy's charge?
When they discovered the enemy, Group 7 immediately retreated and set up a simple fortification in the middle of the slope. Behind the slope was a grassland. If the Empire's armored squad were to take advantage of their speed, the fate of the hundred or so soldiers of Group 7 would be in danger.
After a few rapid breaths, Xu Le's face became a little pale. However, his eyes became brighter and brighter. He suddenly half-squatted and continuously pulled the trigger while facing the gentle slope.
Within half a second, half of the bullets in the magazine were fired. The gunfire strung out of the black barrel and made a buzzing sound.
It looked like he was shooting aimlessly, but several Imperial soldiers hiding behind the armored vehicles suddenly had several bullet holes in their bodies and fell heavily to the ground.
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The bullets drew scorching white lines in the sky above their heads. They were extremely dense. The crisp and terrifying gunshots drilled into people's ears.
There was a clear feeling of the recoil coming from his fingers. He did not have time to observe the result of the shooting. Xu Le's left foot deeply stomped on the ground. With a muffled sound, every piece of dirt was shaken to the point that it was incomparably solid. Meanwhile, his body used this recoil force to strangely turn into a gray line and move five meters along the simple fortification.
He fell heavily to the ground. Almost at the same time, an Imperial armored vehicle's machine gun roared and began to fire at the patch of dirt he was originally on. A dense rain of bullets came whistling and directly turned that patch of dirt into a swamp.
At that moment, if Xu Le had hesitated for a moment, if he was excited by the results of the battle and proud of the shooting ability he had learned from Magnolia, he would probably have become a corpse by now. Even if he was wearing the latest soft ceramic bulletproof vest developed by the Federation, under the bombardment of the Imperial armored vehicle's machine gun, only one of his limbs would have been torn apart.
Every pair of muscle fibers was extremely tight. Powerful strength filled every corner of his body. With a pale face and bright eyes, Xu Le dragged the machine with his right hand and moved at an unbelievable speed above the gentle slope. He was like a shadow. The Imperial soldiers below could not determine his position at all.
Behind a large rock on the western side of the gentle slope, Xu Le wiped the sweat and dust from his face and curled his body into a ball. A few meaningless bullets on the battlefield had just hit the rock beside him and splashed out a few sparks.
He poked the gun in his hand out of the rock and began to fire with all his might. Through the vision of the infantry helmet, he could clearly see that most of the bullets had landed on the armored vehicle. Only one of the Imperial soldiers had a few bloody holes in his thigh.
On the gentle slope of the battlefield, countless gun barrels began to emit flames and spit out bullets. The members of Team 7 tried to use this wave of bullets to temporarily suppress the Imperial soldiers' charge. After all, the speed of the armored vehicles when entering the gentle slope was greatly limited.
Other than the dozen or so veterans responsible for blocking the attack, there were also some rookies who did not have time to retreat to the grassland. They bravely stood up and began to fire at the Imperial soldiers below. However, their actions were inspired by courage or fear. The effect of their shooting was not good, and it was extremely dangerous.
However, this wave of counterattack did not achieve the desired effect. The Imperial soldiers' formation was not messed up at all. Their charging speed was extremely fast, and they completely ignored the fallen comrades around them. It looked like they were about to reach the bottom of the gentle slope.
Xu Le picked up his gun and began to change his shooting location. He found an inconspicuous haystack and narrowed his eyes as he stared at the holographic screen. He asked through the comms system, "When will the air support arrive?"
"Two more minutes." Magnolia's calm and quick reply came through the earpiece.
Two minutes seemed like a very short period of time. However, on this gentle slope of the meadow, amidst the rain of bullets, it felt like an eternity. Just as Xu Le was silently thinking of a way out while shooting, he suddenly heard an explosive roar from the haystack beside him.
"Run!"
Xiong Linquan stood up majestically from the haystack, shaking up countless strands of grass. With a loud roar, the Darlin autocannon in his thick arms rotated at high speed and shot out six beautiful fireworks.
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