The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2767 Dantu's Defeat (Part 2)
2766. The Defeat of Dantuin (Part 2)

Upon receiving this news, Lieutenant General Zell Johnson was shocked. He no longer had time to feel smug about becoming the supreme military commander of Dantuin.

There is no doubt that this attack was premeditated. The Kingdom of Dawn likely knew their whereabouts before their meeting and launched the attack precisely when they were in session.

And while attacking, they sent fighter planes to assassinate General Maximilian Wells!
At this moment, the chief combat advisor said with a serious expression, "General Johnson, now it's up to you how to allocate the supplies and reinforcements in my hands. Make the decision."

Johnson took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping over the flashing red dots on the holographic star map in the operations room. The chief operations advisor's words gave him a sudden, exhilarating feeling, like someone who had been constipated for two weeks and then suddenly had a massive, satisfying bowel movement.

Indeed, this made military command of the entire Dantuin planet ground war zone instantly smooth, all obstacles were removed, and the command chain was no longer hampered.

This is what a war should be like!

However, this also means that he will have to take over the huge mess left by General Wells.

Taking over would be quite troublesome, because he would first have to take over the command system that originally belonged to General Wells, and his subordinates and agencies would be completely unfamiliar to Johnson.

Not to mention that the Dawn Kingdom's army has already been detected to be mobilizing on a large scale!
“Wells…you bastard!” Zell-Johnson muttered through gritted teeth, then whirled around and said, “Deploy all reserves to Konda! First, secure the landing zone, and restore the spaceport to operation as soon as possible! Then, send five infantry corps to reinforce Black Mountain Base! The newly formed armored corps will deploy to the left flank, and once the frontline defenses are secured, immediately attack the separatists’ rear!”

There was no other way now. Although he desperately wanted to launch a counterattack and make a name for himself, he also knew very well that if he did not deal with the Dawn Kingdom's offensive immediately, everything would be in vain!
There should still be time to deploy reinforcements to the area around Kunda as soon as possible. Once we get through this wave, we can then reorganize the forces in the Dantuin war zone!

Zell-Johnson continued, “I will return to the Mosa theater first, where my staff and command system are located. Now I formally appoint you as my operations adjutant to coordinate and organize the operational deployment in the Konda theater. Afterward, I will move my command headquarters here.”

“I understand, General Johnson.” The chief operations advisor nodded. “Based on your instructions, I will immediately deploy reinforcements to strengthen the defenses of Konda City.”

"I will have my troops launch a limited counterattack in the Mossa region, threatening the separatist northern mining areas, hoping to tie down some of their forces. In short, this is our most difficult time, but if we can hold off this offensive and wait for more reinforcements to arrive, the initiative will return to us!"

"Okay, General."

General Zell-Johnson walked out of the command center and, accompanied by guards and entourage, headed toward the barracks. He then boarded a 1-H super-heavy hover tank and sped toward his combat zone.

Now, he vows he will never ride the shuttle again.

……

However, what Zell Johnson didn't know at that moment was that, as Thron had said before, when the enemy is really preparing to attack you, they won't give you an hour.

In modern warfare, with countless detection methods, the number of available tactics is decreasing, but there is one tactic that will never change.

That's the time difference!

That's right, at the very moment General Maximilian Wells's car was shot down, General Dai Hongkui's attack had already begun!

The first to launch the attack was not the ground troops, but the orbital airborne troops!

Ten Grey Horse-class escort carriers have been deployed in near-geosynchronous orbit above the Black Mountain Base, the frontline troop assembly point in the Galactic Empire's Kunda City war zone.

Generally speaking, whenever the Dawn Kingdom is detected to be making moves in outer space, the Galactic Empire's fighter squadrons in outer space will immediately take off to harass them.

This time, however, they were already struggling to protect the large number of transport ships that were crowded around the space station. In addition, the Dawn Kingdom's fleet, led by Sabre fighters, kept harassing them and had already shot down more than ten transport ships, which made the chaos here even worse.

They had to launch another landing operation, but the target was not the badly damaged landing site in Konda, but the two landing sites in the capital city of Garang.

This operation also required fighter escort, so no one paid any attention to the Grey Horse-class escort carriers.

On the belly of these modified escort carriers, 20 pylons are installed, from which metal pods are suspended.

Orbital Drop Pod!
As the attack began, 200 orbital drop pods descended from the sky, hurtling directly towards the Black Mountain base at high speed.

These orbital drop pods differ from those previously used by the Kingdom of Dawn, primarily in that they have increased the control precision and power of the retro-propulsion engines, and also have an additional set of thrust engines installed on top.

The main reason is that the Greyhorse-class escort carriers lacked the sophisticated facilities of the Korsov-class battlecruisers that previously carried orbital drop pods; these pods were essentially dropped. To ensure the accuracy of the orbital drop, thrust engines were also added.

When the orbital drop capsule is about 500 meters from the ground, the retro-rockets start instantly. The powerful thrust immediately reduces the speed of the drop capsule, ensuring that it does not trigger the deflector shield's reaction.

boom! boom! boom!
One after another, the airdrop pods crashed to the ground and disintegrated instantly, and one after another, three-meter-tall Inchori people covered in fine scales roared out, each holding a specially made large shotgun!

This is none other than the Injori Avenger T-104!
After several generations of updates, the current Injori Avenger is the fourth model. This model is created using the Veronica virus, and the bodies of the Injori are all derived from clones. The virus was introduced during the cloning process, making fundamental genetic modifications. The current Injori Avenger T-104 model possesses physical strength comparable to a human tank, and they also possess basic intelligence, even capable of using simple firearms!

This transformed them from mindless beasts into true battlefield killers!
However, its massive size meant that this orbital drop pod could only carry three Injory Avenger T-104s, so this orbital drop attack only had 600 units.

In fact, the large-scale orbital airdrop module that is designed to accompany it has already been developed and manufactured, but the Grey Horse-class escort carriers will never be able to carry it.

Six hundred terrifying killing machines descended, causing immense trouble for the Galactic Empire's forces stationed at the Black Mountain base. After their infantry suffered a brutal massacre, the troops began deploying armored units to confront these horrific biological weapons.

Seizing this opportunity, the forces of the Dawn Kingdom launched an attack!

Unlike before, when the B-1 combat robots led the charge, this time, leading the Dawn Kingdom's attacking force were thousands of menacing mechanical wolves!

A-130, the Predator Mechanical Wolf!

This is not a mere machine, but rather one with a built-in biological brain, behaving like the most ferocious beasts—undoubtedly, this is also the work of Umbrella. It is a product of Genetic Engineering, one of the companies that emerged after the split of the Umbrella Pharmaceuticals Group.

Under the influence of this biological brain, the A-130 Predator mechanical wolf is not driven by a program, but by the wild instincts inputted into its brain, making its actions more flexible and unpredictable.

Thousands of predator mechanical wolves pounced on the Black Mountain base with incredible agility and speed!

A large number of combat robots followed closely behind. B-1 and B-2 combat robots were always the most reliable cannon fodder in the Dawn Kingdom's army. They were cheap to produce, numerous, and their combat AI had been greatly improved after multiple upgrades. And no matter how rudimentary they were, the beams fired from their blaster rifles were still deadly—that was enough!
Combat robots and elusive predatory mechanical wolves swarmed toward Black Mountain Base like a tidal wave.

The Galactic Empire's defenders were busy dealing with the Injori Avengers that had been airdropped from the base's orbit. The long-range artillery fire they had organized was not dense enough to threaten the predator mechanical wolves. Soon, these mechanical wolves had crossed the shield's range and stormed into the defenders' positions.

A fierce battle erupted inside the Black Mountain base, with 600 Inchori Avengers and thousands of Predator mechanical wolves wreaking havoc throughout the base, causing immense chaos.

Faced with these incredibly ferocious weapons, the Galactic Empire soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the base commander could only set up defensive lines inside the base to block these terrifying beings that roamed around everywhere.

However, the swarm of combat robots following behind the Predator mechanical wolves suffered heavy losses from long-range artillery fire from the Galactic Empire.

Compared to the Kingdom of Dawn, the Galactic Empire, with its more profound foundation, possesses a very complete long-range firepower system for its army, ranging from the AV-7 self-propelled howitzer to the AV-10 heavy self-propelled howitzer, the AT-AP artillery walking machine, the AT-UT hover artillery, the SPMA-T self-propelled turbolaser cannon, the SPHA-T heavy self-propelled turbolaser cannon, and so on.

These terrifying war machines are perfectly coordinated, ranging from short-range to medium-range to long-range. Given the opportunity to unleash their full potential, their long-range firepower is absolutely terrifying.

Under such three-dimensional bombing, large swathes of combat robot units were destroyed, and the plains area in front of the Black Mountain base was almost entirely littered with the wreckage of destroyed combat robots.

However, the large-scale loss of these combat robots did have some effect. With them drawing fire, the Dawn Kingdom's army was able to launch a decisive offensive.

Deafening cannon fire came from behind, and the artillery positions of the Dawn Kingdom also began to fire. Their target was very clear: to counter-bomb the Galactic Empire's artillery positions that had just fired at the combat robot troops.

Hundreds of siege tanks were deployed on the southern highlands, forming a powerful artillery position. Among them were 10 giant mechs, each 15 meters tall, called Thor Mechs, mass-produced models!
These Thor mechs were in a kneeling position, equipped with four 330mm caliber Punisher siege cannons on their backs, which were firing continuously.

Most of the siege tanks were also brand new models, with larger cannons that made a deafening roar when they fired.

Meanwhile, in the command center at the rear, a short, stout engineer with his left arm modified into a mechanical plier was roaring like a madman, "That's right! That's right! Taste my vortex bomb! You stupid dogs of the Empire! Kinetic weapons are the romance of men! I'll shove a vortex bomb up your ass when I get back! Just you wait, Zhang Jiarui, hahahahaha!"

This guy was none other than Rory Swan. Most of the armored units in the reinforcement force targeting Dantuin were produced by Terran Heavy Industries, and he had come to the front line to observe the effectiveness of his latest combat weapon.

The ideological debate between him and Zhang Jiarui regarding kinetic versus energy weapons has been ongoing. Now that he has finally seized the opportunity, he naturally brought a large number of his new equipment directly to the front lines.

More than 10000 soldiers of the Kingdom of Dawn, equipped with CMC-300 power armor, charged forward amidst heavy artillery fire and a hail of bullets. More army soldiers followed, forming a massive battle line 70 kilometers wide in skirmish formations, directly encircling the Black Mountain base.

The Vulture Company, equipped with Vulture flying mechs, flew at extremely low altitudes, employing a different tactic this time.

After they broke into the shield's range, they maneuvered and circled in the air like a large flock of vultures, without forming groups or gathering together, but acting independently, flying around almost everywhere in the skies above the entire Black Mountain base.

They are like a flock of vultures waiting for their chance to strike. They don't rush to attack, but instead circle around, waiting for an opportunity to strike and then leave without taking credit. They just keep creating more chaos.

By this time, the Inchuri Avenger T-104s and A-130 Predator mechanical wolves had been almost completely wiped out, for which the Galactic Empire army suffered extremely heavy losses. Meanwhile, the harassment by the Vulture Company kept their positions in chaos, making it difficult for them to organize.

Just as the Black Mountain base's main position was under attack, the Galactic Empire's armored forces, which were spreading out to the flank in preparation for a flanking maneuver, also ran headlong into another armored torrent!
The Galactic Empire 1-H super-heavy hover tank formation took the lead, rapidly maneuvering towards the flank. At that moment, a large amount of smoke and dust rose ahead, followed by a burst of intense artillery fire.

As the smoke gradually dissipated, a formation of equally heavy tanks came rushing towards them!