From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 497: Who is it? It's so hard to guess
Although the armed forces of the Renaissance Alliance are a mixed military and police force, their ability to fight tough battles is relatively weak and it is difficult for them to tackle tough problems.

But with their advantage in military strength, they will have no problem fighting a favorable battle.

Especially after the four Immortal tactical teams airdropped by Atlas wreaked havoc on the four main defense lines of General Lampard's forces, causing tension and chaos in the enemy's troop deployment, Franklin's troops finally launched a relatively smooth offensive.

Prior to this, an important reason why the Renaissance Alliance could not launch an offensive was that they lacked HCP pilots with rich combat experience who could pull and dance on a long front line.

As the absolute assault core in current ground combat, HCP is indispensable in offensive battles.

Relying on its extremely high mobility, it can move around the battle line and then use fierce firepower to devour all the advancing enemies, or gather these steel giants together as a sharp spear to tear through the enemy's defense line.
In short, HCP, which is basically equivalent to cannon fodder in space fleet battles, has transformed into the "protagonist" that everyone is paying attention to in ground battles.

But unfortunately, there is a great lack of such 'protagonists' in the armed forces of the Renaissance Alliance.

Before the large-scale armed rebellion broke out in the Rubion galaxy, the HCP force was actually a major component in urgent need of reinforcement among the rebuilt garrison forces.

And what is missing is not the machine, but the pilot.

Most of the HCP pilots who survived the previous war were reorganized into several main forces. More than half of these forces are still in the hands of the government army and are currently firmly defending the "absolute defense line" of the administrative capital of Rubion No. 5.

The rest, together with some rookie pilots who had just finished training and joined the team, formed the main assault force in the hands of the various "rebels".

Therefore, the "decisive factor" in the confrontation between these "rebels" depends largely on the proportion of "old Ass" in the HCP pilot teams of both sides.

The force with more experienced HCP pilots will often have the advantage in battle and ultimately win.

Unfortunately, the HCP team of the Renaissance Alliance is basically ranked in the bottom tier in terms of the proportion of "old Ass".

And General Lampard, who was facing them, had several real ACEs among his HCP pilots.
Until today, when the ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance crossed their "long-awaited" position, they finally realized that the enemy's HCP forces seemed to have most of them on holiday. The few HCPs that occasionally appeared and tried to block them were also repelled under the absolute superior firepower.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! The Deep Attack Battalion continues to advance! The 2nd and 4th HCP companies coordinate from the flanks!"

"The forward attack battalion is resting in the occupied position, waiting for the mobile group to arrive and receive supplies and repairs!"

"The enemy's HCP forces seem to have been dispersed! Each attacking unit should seize the opportunity to defeat them separately!"

"Forward command and long-range artillery groups begin to move forward, pay attention to the hidden points marked on the reference map!"

Orders were passed down among the various troops of the Renaissance Alliance. This force, which had not tasted the joy of attack for a long time, attacked desperately like a long-awaited rain, intending to occupy more battlefields before the enemy counterattacked.

Then they calmly switched to the defensive battle they were best at.
Amber, who had been watching the battle in the virtual space, was surprised to find that the four immortal combat teams dropped in from the air had achieved greater results than he had expected.

Three teams, including Banninger's team, successfully destroyed the fusion reactor substation or tactical support factory in the enemy's logistics node.

The remaining group that did not achieve similar results was not idle. They directly set off fireworks at the ammunition depot in the logistics node, and successfully eliminated a large number of defenders in the node, including 4 HCPs, before all members returned to Valhalla. This is why the attacking force of the Renaissance Alliance did not encounter too many enemy HCPs. Most of the HCPs under General Lampard were forced to scatter and provide support when the four positions were attacked.

When they finally "killed" the enemies who attacked various logistics nodes and prepared to return to the front line to assist in defense, they found that most of the front-line positions had been lost. The fierce firepower of the enemy's heavy armored troops also completely dispelled the idea of ​​these HCP troops to continue the attack.

After a whole night and a day of fighting, although the armed forces of the Renaissance Alliance still suffered considerable losses in the attack, they successfully captured three of the four positions.

The remaining one was exactly the position that Banninger and his men had attacked before. After the fusion reactor substation was torn to pieces by a heavy particle cannon from their own HCP, the strategic value of this logistics node had been infinitely reduced to zero.

The forces under General Lampard had previously surrounded the Renaissance Alliance, but when the latter launched an all-out attack and achieved great results, they were put in a "disadvantage" of fighting each other.

You see, this is the consequence of lack of defensive depth.
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When the armored command vehicle that Franklin was riding in drove into a tactical node of the enemy, the trend of frequent victories continued on all fronts.

Right now, this enemy's tactical node has been rapidly transformed into a basic command post, and the command level of the Renaissance Alliance's armed forces has also been transferred here one after another.

Field air defense, long-range artillery and several extremely valuable tactical missile launchers were also secretly moved to the nearby area and deployed to complete battlefield camouflage.

An old officer in the base who was in charge of commanding the entire armed forces had previously been quite critical of Franklin's direct involvement in combat command, but after seeing the results of the battle, the look in his eyes when he looked at Franklin had changed.

In his opinion, he had underestimated Franklin before. The supreme leader of the Renaissance Alliance might have many more cards up his sleeve, and the orbital airdrop that broke the deadlock last night might just be one of them.
After a brief communication with the officers of the base command, Franklin, accompanied by Eleanor, came to a huge wreckage that had not yet been dealt with in the tactical node.

The entire right side of the wreckage of this large humanoid unit was blown away by the heavy particle cannon, leaving only the left mechanical arm, stepper unit and part of the torso still barely recognizable.

"This is one of the mysterious troops that carried out orbital airdrops last night. It is slightly larger than the heavy power armor, but much smaller than the HCP. It is a new type of unit we have never seen before. It can be confirmed that it is not a unit under General Randall's command."

Eleanor pointed to the remains of a power armor that was almost crushed in the power glove on the left mechanical arm of the wreckage and said.

This power armor is a common model in the Federation, and the arm armor also has the iconic "crossed daggers" logo of General Randall's troops.

"But our people have already checked the wreckage. There is no marking on the external armor except for camouflage, and there is no information on the internal parts that can prove the identity or origin. The enemy has hidden all the information that may reveal their identity.
What's even more outrageous is that no biological tissue samples were found inside the wreckage. Although it was only roughly checked, the person in charge of the inspection said that even if it was towed to a specialized laboratory, it would probably not be found.

This also means that there is no pilot inside this unknown unit, but it is an unmanned unit."

After that, Eleanor looked at Franklin with some confusion: "This combination of information is really strange. Whose troops do you think these are? The autonomous government or the federation? Or some other force on the planet? But the premise is that they still have troops in orbit that can be mobilized."

Franklin stared at the wreckage in front of him in a daze. He didn't know what was going on in his mind at the moment. Facing the girl's question, he just spoke in a daze:

"Yeah, whose unit is this? It's really hard to guess."

(End of this chapter)