My initial battle plan went like this:
The Federation's fleet swaggered to a high orbit to attract the enemy's space fleets to engage in battle. Then, they would use their superior combat strength in psionic mode to annihilate all those sampans. The Federation's most outstanding ghost agent, Nova, would infiltrate the control center of the space railguns. After the Federation's army had taken control of space, she would change the direction of the railguns and bombard Crystal Peak with saturation bombardment. This would destroy the enemy's low orbit air defense bases. Finally, they would land on the enemy. 300,000 starving and thirsty Marines, Templars, and Einherjars would head down to snatch money, food, and territory. Two hours later, there would be a celebration. The ending credits would be played, and the enemy's credits would be completely black …
At least, that was the case before the battle began.
But now, there was a small problem. I only remembered what the next step of this plan was after I gave the order to blow up the railguns.
Human battlecruisers didn't possess the ability to carry out orbital bombardment. Although the Astral fleet was capable of burning glass in any situation, Crystal Peak just couldn't withstand their high-powered artillery fire. The Empire's fleet did possess this ability, but before the military operations in other places started, I didn't intend to have the Shepherdians send too many fleets to the Western Skies.
I had seen the blueprint of Crystal Peak's defense system that Funa had sent over. This military fortress was as perverted as a hedgehog, and its defensive capabilities were even more so. Its shiny crust was basically filled with anti-air cannons other than mines and energy stations. Reynolds did a rough calculation. If the entire Federation's fleet were to descend from the sky, a battlecruiser would need to suffer more than 1,300 bombardment before it could see the horizon. Crystal Peak's original garrison definitely came from a tower defense map. They had been stationed here for more than 30 years without doing anything except building turrets.
Of course, it was a pity that these countless turrets were destroyed by a few spies in the end. Once again, I salute the spies of the Church of Gustav.
Without orbital bombardment to destroy the energy nodes of those turrets, descending would be courting death.
Fortunately, I still have a big sister whose DPS is even fiercer than a railgun.
A stack of one-meter square white paper was spread out on the table. The elder sister was holding a two fifty whiteboard pen in her hand. She was surrounded by curious Einherjars and Federation soldiers. They had only heard about the power of the elder sister's curse before, but none of them had seen the real power of the elder sister's curse. They could not associate the elder sister, who was always smiling gently, with a weapon of mass destruction. However, the moment the elder sister fully unleashed her power, they were stimulated by some kind of cold aura and suddenly understood one thing: don't underestimate anyone who has anything to do with Schilling, even if it's the healing type.
"That's all. It's enough."
We all know that due to certain reasons, the rune structure of the elder sister's curse … is very simple. Therefore, in less than a minute, dozens of white papers have been modified into something with infinite power. After rolling the white papers into a paper tube, the elder sister handed it to Reynolds, who was on standby. The latter looked into the paper tube curiously, and the elder sister instantly chuckled. "Hehehe, if you open it in advance without permission, it will bring disaster to your descendants for more than twelve thousand generations …"
This is too ruthless … However, the cursed beacons used to replace orbital bombardment might really be that powerful.
"Use the invisible Banshee to drop those things above the main energy station of Crystal Peak, then drop them from a high altitude. It's that simple." The elder sister stretched her body and suddenly leaned over. There was a hint of tiredness in her voice. "Ah Jun, I'm a little tired. It seems that this kind of curse that needs to change the law of gravity is really exhausting."
The Federation's fleet, which had the upper hand, quietly hovered outside the firing range of the Crystal Peak's defensive cannons. On the other side, although there are countless anti-air cannons, the Gusta invading army on the surface must be in a state of panic. All of their space fleets were wiped out within twenty minutes, and the Space Rail Cannon Control Center urgently reported that an invisible ghost had entered the space station before it was detonated by someone. Now, they also discovered that the entire star system is filled with high-frequency electromagnetic waves, interfering with all distress signals from Crystal Peak to Gusta. It is easy to imagine how much psychological pressure they are under. Therefore, when a large number of space entities start to fall to the surface, the entire crystal planet suddenly explodes.
I have never seen so many laser cannons shooting out from the surface of the planet at the same time. In an instant, Crystal Peak seems to have turned into a cactus. The laser cannons that are so concentrated that it makes one's tongue tied shoot out from every inch of its surface, swiftly filling up the entire low-altitude orbit. The intense firepower starts to frantically block the falling objects from outer space. At this moment, I feel that the Federation's army was wise not to forcefully land on the planet. With such a powerful anti-air network, even the warships of the Empire would suffer damage.
After all, every civilization in this world has to be on guard against the dangerous Shepherdians. Even if these defensive weapons that are targeted against the Shepherdians aren't effective, they are definitely not just for show. Based on what Funa said, the defensive cannons of Crystal Peak are sufficient to successfully counterattack the attacks of a normal Shepherdian army. From the looks of it, this might be true.
What are the things that fall from space?
Wreckage, accumulated from two major battles, countless warship wreckage, disintegrated space station fragments, rail gun components, and large amounts of metal that have melted to the point of being indistinguishable. That is a thousand Free Kingdom aircraft carriers, three hundred Gustav motherships, tens of thousands of small and medium-sized warships, and a huge cluster of wreckage formed by the entire space rail gun ring. When the power of the curse gathers at the energy nodes of Crystal Peak, the greatest disasters will befall those places, and there are only a few types of disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and objects that fall from the sky. Crystal Peak does not have oceans or volcanoes, and its geological structure is also abnormally stable. It can even be said that due to its special structure, there is no tectonic movement at all, and the probability of earthquakes is zero. However, disasters from the sky — these war wreckage floating in space will fall to the ground sooner or later. The power of the curse changed the probability of these wreckage falling, causing the massive amount of wreckage that should have fallen slowly over the course of several months to be taken care of by the anti-aircraft cannons on the ground one by one to fall to dozens of key locations on the planet's surface within ten minutes. Indeed, Crystal Peak's anti-aircraft firepower is indeed powerful, but it is still limited. When tens of millions of space wreckage are bombarded at the same time, those cannons seem to be stretched thin. There is something even worse: there is no atmosphere on the surface of Crystal Peak, and the warship wreckage that was smashed into pieces would not be able to burn in the atmosphere due to friction. They would only be melted by the laser cannons, and if the number is small, these melted wreckage will be vaporized by the subsequent cannon fire and no longer pose a threat. However, when the number reaches a certain level, the hundreds of millions of tons of metal will not be able to vaporize in time, and something even more terrifying than falling objects will happen.
They turned into large clumps of molten metal, which weighed tens of thousands of tons.
Molten metal and molten metal rained down on Crystal Peak's energy nodes. This wasn't something that any man-made fortifications could withstand. In an instant, 46 of Crystal Peak's main military energy stations were enveloped in a rain of fire from the sky. The planet's military facilities also lost their power. Due to the energy being cut off, the dense laser fire was visibly thinning out. From the intercepted radio transmissions, Gusta's ground defense troops had already started to give up on their anti-air firepower. They were retreating from the bases that had been turned into scrap metal and were preparing to engage in guerilla warfare.
"Prepare to land!"
Renault took over the command of the fleet and loudly announced from the commander's seat. Then, he looked towards us with a questioning gaze. "Your Majesty, are you really going to personally participate in the landing operation?"
"Are you doubting my combat strength?"
"No, I feel that you're bullying them …"
"… Cough, cough, I'm just going down to join in the fun."
Uncle Stubble had also learned bad things. Speaking of which, wouldn't it be better for me to personally go down and help you reduce your losses?
Not only me, Liliana was also planning to go down with me. Of course, there was no need for the Commander-level Shiring Apostles to personally fight against a bunch of stray dogs who had already lost their will to fight. We were just going down for fun. Perhaps you wouldn't understand, but …
It felt really good to sit on a piece of metal that weighed several tons and smash people down from outer space!
In the Outer Atmosphere Airdrop Orbital Component (A.A.O.M) that Aiur's Light had temporarily loaded, the marines who were preparing to participate in this operation had already entered their respective landing pods. The Templars had also taken their positions on the short-distance teleportation device. Only a group of high-level heroic spirits were still making a ruckus. There was no other reason than that they were all excited since this was the first time they had come into contact with something as novel as an orbital airdrop.
The most excited of them all was Cuchulin …
"Don't fight with me! I'll be the first to go down! Leonidas, your landing pod is over there!! "
"Why is he so enthusiastic?"
Liliana looked at the usually lazy Cuchulin in confusion. She found it strange that he was working so hard this time.
"He probably wants to take revenge." I shrugged and carried Liliana up and stuffed her into the landing pod. "That fellow was smashed by the same thing before, so he probably has some regrets … Hey, don't move around. Sit inside and make room for me."
"Warning, incorrect operation. Warning, incorrect operation …"
Just as I was fighting with Liliana for a seat near the window, a series of alarms suddenly sounded beside us. I don't know what Cuchulin had randomly pressed in his own landing pod, but the latter immediately alerted the alarms. Jingle rattled in the cabin as though a house was being torn down. A certain gunner whose luck was in the negative EX class was shouting loudly, "Hey hey hey! What's going on! I can't even touch these things … Phew, it's finally over. I can't have any regrets on such an important first time in my life. "
"I think it's better for me to switch to another landing pod." Red A crawled out of the landing pod while cold sweat dripped down his back. He was supposed to be in the same pod as Cuchulin. "I've already been struck by lightning more than ten times when I was with this fellow."
"Attention, please check your weapons and communication system five minutes before the landing pod is to be released. Press the green button in front of your seat to lock the pod door and confirm that you are in position."
The announcement that was about to be released finally made this group of unorganized and undisciplined Heroic Spirits feel a sense of urgency. They clamored as they hurriedly found their own pods. The allocation of each team also began the final confirmation.
"The anti-air firepower of Crystal Peak has been eliminated. Pandora and General Visca are currently eliminating the resistance forces in Zone A1 to B5. The Templar troops are following the plan to clear Zone B6 to C5. The Marines are following the plan … You will be landing in Zone F2. All the landing pods are in position. Final countdown, 5, 4, 3 …"
Hundreds of thousands of troops were released from thousands of warships as they rapidly descended towards Crystal Peak, which was already a third of the occupied planet.
After a few moments of intense weightlessness and acceleration, the mixed Heroic Spirits and Templar troops that we personally led successfully arrived at the landing spot. The moment the pod door opened, I was instantly blinded by the dazzling light.
Crystal Peak, this thing is just too bright!
Everything that entered my sight was covered in silver, as though it was an eternally frozen world. The milky-white, translucent crystallized quartz ore formed the ground beneath our feet. The distant mountain range and the stone forest beside us were beautiful. The scorching sunlight from the twin stars in the sky shone on the crystal ore without any obstruction from the atmosphere, reflecting dazzling light everywhere. If Little Bubble were to come here, she would probably immediately dig a hole on the spot all the way to the core of the planet.
"We have successfully landed," Liliana wore a pair of sunglasses that took up almost half of her face as she slid around on the shiny ground excitedly. "Everyone is here, right … Ah, sh * t!"
"What's wrong?"
"Casualties, a landing pod has crashed!" Liliana said to me with a solemn expression as she covered one side of her ear and pretended to listen to a report.
I was immediately shocked. "Could it be that the enemy's anti-air cannons are still in operation?"
"No, Cuchulin's deceleration engine isn't turned on."
… Who told you to just press on it!
"Wait … Wait! I … I'm here. " Just as I was lamenting about Kuchulin returning to the Hall of Valhalla in such a pitiful manner, I heard a painful voice behind me. I looked toward the source of the voice and saw a spearman limping over with his magic spear. His armor was tattered and his body was covered in crystal shards. He was bleeding profusely as he limped over. "Heh, I arrived twenty minutes earlier than you guys..."
This unlucky child sure is optimistic. Are you used to it?
While our small team was busy reconnecting Cuchulin's bones, the troops that had landed on Crystal Peak had already begun their operations. The Church of Gustav's army was an expert in space warfare, but their ground troops were a complete mess. They were as weak as a bunch of monks. Each of our teams had a few heroic spirits mixed in with them. As the warriors of the Goddess of Life, they had uncanny senses towards all life forms. Not a single one of the Church of Gustav's soldiers who tried to hide in the ruins or blend in with the mine workers were able to escape.
"Zone C8's third team reporting, the target location has been cleared."
"Zone C9's third team reporting, the target location has been cleared."
"Zone D5's first team reporting …"
Reports of victory came one after another. The entire planet was gradually falling into our hands.
"Blockhead, Blockhead, calling Blockhead!"
Huh? Did something strange sneak into the communication link just now?
While I was busy listening to the reports of victory, the above message suddenly rang in my head. I was stunned for a few seconds before I realized that it was a long-distance call from the City of Shadows.
"Lass Xue? What's wrong? I'm busy with the war! "
"Oh, anyway, you're definitely just a bystander." Lin Xue didn't hold back at all. She almost subconsciously said the truth that she shouldn't have said. Then, before I could flip out, she sent me an explosive piece of news. "Mercury Lamp has gone over!"
"Mercury Lamp … What?! What's going on? Why is she … "
"Her body has recovered. She's bored staying at home all day." Lin Xue yawned. "The teleportation coordinates are set near you. Un, you're on the battlefield. It shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"Don't underestimate our strength." Since the teleportation had already begun, I was starting to miss the short-tempered puppet. I replied confidently. "I will protect her well."
"Alright, I hope that you won't be frightened … That group of Mercury Lamp."
After leaving behind such an ambiguous sentence, Lin Xue hung up the communication link.
Didn't Half-fairy mention something subtle at the end of our conversation?
However, I didn't have the time to ask. There was an obvious tremor in the surrounding space. I did a rough calculation and found that it was a tremor zone with a radius of more than 20 kilometers. To teleport a puppet that was only 92.5cm tall, was there really a need to set up a teleportation zone with a radius of 20 kilometers?
The Heroic Spirits and Templars had already spread out to search for signs of the enemy's life. Even Cuchulin had recovered most of his strength thanks to Jingle's divine power. He forcefully left to carry out his mission. In his words, he couldn't afford to lose face here. Only Liliana and I were left. Looking around, the two of us started to search for Mercury Lamp's shadow. However, we couldn't find anything.
At that moment, I felt someone tugging on my pants from behind. When I turned around, I was stunned.
A 60cm tall Mercury Lantern, who was equipped with a toy-like jungle combat suit and a carbine, was standing behind him, looking at him with its cartoonish big eyes.
"Woah!!"
"What's wrong, boss?" Lina turned her head and let out a cry of her own. "Holy shit!!"
"Girls should pay attention to their image." I knocked her on the head.
"Mercury Lamp already has a three-headed body. Do you still care about my image?"
Just as we were shocked, the cartoonish Mercury Lamp wearing jungle combat equipment suddenly shouted, "Soldier Mercury Lamp found the target! Soldier Mercury Lamp found the target! "
"Bo … Boss … What's going on?"
It was as if they had appeared out of thin air. We didn't know when, but we were surrounded by these creatures that should be called Mercury Lamp. They were all 60cm tall, had three-headed bodies, cute cartoonish faces, and wore the same black hair accessories as Mercury Lamp. However, they were wearing all kinds of equipment. Jungle combat uniforms + carbine rifles, ammo boxes + six-barreled machine guns, modified Jedi battle robes + mini lightsabers, and there were even some with a lightning axe in their left hand, a Heart of the Rising Sun in their right, two mini eggblades on their back, and the number 9 painted in black ink on their faces …
On average, there were at least a few hundred Mercury Lamp of each type of equipment. Liliana and I were surrounded by such a large group of strange three-headed creatures.
At the same time, the air was filled with chatter.
"Soldier Mercury Lamp found the target!"
"Terminator Mercury Lamp says that Soldier Mercury Lamp is just relying on the fact that we're closer to the target!"
"Terminator Mercury Lamp, remain silent. Also, Sith Mercury Lamp, you're holding your lightsaber the wrong way!"
"Magic Tomboy Mercury Lamp wants to know where the enemy is! Why isn't the main body here yet? "
"The main Mercury Lamp and the Titan Mercury Lamp are together. They'll only arrive after a while. Red and White Witch Mercury Lamp kindly explained … Ah! The self-destructing truck Mercury Lamp is here! "
Then, the group of Mercury Lamp, which had covered the entire ground, chattered as they moved to the side to create a path. Liliana and I stared in astonishment as several dozen small trucks, which were obviously filled with children's toys, drove over. Every truck had a three-headed Mercury Lamp installed on it — they really installed it!
… Damn it, can someone be kind enough to explain to me what's going on!!
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