From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 733: Beaten into a pot of porridge
"Isolation gates 14 to 18 have been sealed! These intruders are using powerful weapons, aren't they afraid of demolishing this platform?!"

Somewhere on the Saint-Saunière planetary orbital defense platform, an Imperial Marine was sweating profusely, cursing, and his fingers were quickly operating a control panel in the cabin anxiously.

The Imperial Marine heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the icons on the screen representing isolation gates 14 to 18 finally turn from red to green.

He turned around suddenly, looked at his comrade hiding behind another workbench, and shouted at the top of his lungs on the communication channel:
"Hasn't the reinforcements arrived yet?! We can't hold out for long with just the few people we have left!"

"There are only 5 more compartments left, and we'll be there soon! Don't worry, just get to your defensive position!"

The cabin where they were was in a mess. More than a dozen surviving Imperial Marines were busy recovering various ammunition and supplies from the bodies of their fallen teammates on the ground.

The Marine platoon that was originally responsible for defending this node suffered heavy losses in the sudden attack. The Atlas Group's assault cabin crashed directly into it, followed by a barrage of shrapnel from the front of the assault cabin, instantly taking away half of the lives.

The remaining people had just recovered from the explosion when they had to face the fully armed Atlas Group heavy power armor rushing out of the assault cabin. They were completely powerless to fight back.

They could only fight and retreat, but by the time they retreated to this small cabin, there were only a dozen people left in the entire platoon, and the platoon leader, sergeant major and others had already died in the battle.

If there was no place to escape on this orbital defense platform, this broken team would have collapsed long ago.

"boom!"

A dull explosion came from the other side of the isolation door, like the whisper of death, and everyone's nerves were instantly tense.

Then there was another explosion.

"Fuck, these lunatics are blasting their way forward again!"

The Marines near the control panel stared intently at the situation of the isolation door displayed on the panel.

In just a few minutes, isolation gates No. 14 and 15 had turned into a glaring red, representing "severe damage."

"MD, this is too fast, we may not be able to wait for the support!"

One Marine shouted desperately.

"Where are the automatic defense weapons in the cabin?" another person asked, with a tremor in his voice.

"It has already failed. The enemy released an electronic warfare virus during the raid. The main personality of the defense platform is currently mobilizing computing power to fight back."

The Imperial Marine in charge of the control panel looked at the red alarm flashing on the screen with a look of deep powerlessness in his eyes. He knew that it was impossible to stop the advance of the Atlas combat units.

He leaned over, picked up a few smart grenades from a cold corpse at his feet, and tremblingly mounted them into the vacant slots of his exoskeleton.

After doing all this, he ran and jumped back to his teammates and hid behind the makeshift shelter.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The sound of explosions from the other side of the isolation door continued to be heard, one after another, like a death warrant.

The Imperial Marines silently counted the number of explosions in their minds, calculating how far the Atlas Group's combat units were from this cabin.

At the last moment, they raised their weapons and aimed at the cabin door.

Although their hearts were filled with fear, they had no choice but to fight to the death.

"Hold on, hold on. Even if it means death, we must teach these bitches a lesson."

The only non-commissioned officer left in the cabin was shouting at the top of his lungs to boost morale.

But before he could finish his words, a loud noise suddenly came from the ceiling of the cabin.

"boom!"

A huge hole was blown open, and the decompression alarm instantly rang throughout the cabin. The violent airflow began to rapidly drain the air in the cabin, and the Marines were sucked towards outer space by this powerful suction force.

It all happened so fast that the Imperial Marines didn't even have time to activate the electromagnetic suction devices on the soles of their feet.

One by one, they were sucked out of the cabin like puppets with their strings cut.

The only remaining non-commissioned officer saw the scene outside the cabin the moment he was sucked out of the gap.

Two heavy powered armors painted white stood quietly beside the gap. Behind them, there were more than a dozen highly mechanized "Marine Soldiers", whose cold metal bodies constantly reflected the light of the galaxy's stars.

……

"Cabin 074 has been evacuated...pressure inside and outside are balanced, you can enter."

Baninger's voice sounded calmly in the communication channel, and the isolation door of this cabin slowly opened, and another team of Immortal Legion soldiers quickly filed in.

After the cabin lost pressure, the gravity control unit here also failed, and everyone floated in mid-air.

"Legion Commander!"

A soldier saluted Baninger.

Baninger nodded slightly and pointed to the intact isolation door on the other side of the cabin.

"Quick, prepare for directional blasting on the hatch over here. A company of Imperial Marines is coming to reinforce this side. Let's give them a surprise~"

"Yes!"

While the soldiers of the Immortal Legion were busy making their arrangements, Banninger seemed to have sensed something and turned to look at the other side of the universe.

As a burst of space fluctuations ended, one warship after another appeared out of thin air in the outer space of Saint-Saunière. Their neat and precise formations, uniform paint jobs, and the logos printed on the sides all proved their identity - the Atlas Group's 'Golden Dragon Battle Group'.

The most conspicuous thing in the fleet is the large spaceship or airdrop fortress that looks like eighteen door panels.

Baninger knew that all members of the First Army and a large amount of spare equipment and combat elements of the Immortal Legion were loaded into these "door panels", and the upcoming assault landing operation would be the most adventurous military operation since the establishment of the Atlas Group.

These "airdrop fortresses" will forcibly enter the atmosphere of Saint-Saunière when the orbit is not yet controlled, and will eventually be deployed to the area around the imperial capital to form a control zone.
However, just as Baninger saw the eighteen 'door panels' break away from the formation and lower their orbital altitude at a very fast rate, the violent space fluctuations in the distant universe just ended.

In a burst of continuous white flashes, another wave of imperial warships appeared in the universe, and an imperial artificial celestial fortress also appeared synchronously behind these warships.

"Glorious Fortress. It looks like Duke Soran's troops have arrived. This is really going to be a mess."
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"No, no, no, Duke Soran is definitely here to help the Regent! Even the Archbishop is on the same front with him. As a die-hard supporter of the old emperor, Duke Soran is of course here to deal with Agnes."

On the surface of Saint-Saunière, at the main entrance of the Princess Villa, Amber leaned against the back of a composite armored bunker and said to Ramos, the temporary commander of the Golden Dragon Battle Group, and Isabel and others:

"You know what, the old emperor was quite cautious in dealing with his own daughter. He brought together the royalists, the church, and the regent. Is it really worth using such an 'all-star lineup' to deal with the princess's power?"

"The more important reason is probably that we have formed an alliance with Her Royal Highness the Princess. I'm not trying to belittle myself, but Atlas does have the capital to interfere in the internal affairs of the empire now," Isabel said.

Amber shook her head after hearing this. "Tsk, it's too late to talk about this now. Let's get the fortress group down quickly. Oh, and let ATT send a squadron down first, along with my landline. The time is almost up."

"Got it. I've already notified them. Amber, how are you doing over there? Can you hold on?"

"Okay"

Hearing Isabel's question, Amber turned her head and peeked out from behind the cover.

On the open space outside the main entrance of the princess' villa, the wreckage of three HCPs was lying. Judging from the signs of melting on the wreckage, it was obvious that they had not been able to withstand the heavy particle cannon fire from the fixed turrets on the villa side.

Around the wreckage of the three HCPs, there were many corpses of infantry units of the Imperial Guards and the Martyr Corps, as well as the wreckage of several infantry fighting vehicles and multi-legged chariots.

In the first round of attack by the Imperial Guards and the Martyrs' Legion, they were indeed stunned by the fierce firepower from the Villa Garden. After leaving a lot of corpses at the main gate, they gave up the attack and retreated temporarily.

But Amber knew that this was only temporary. The enemy would soon realize that their attack was blocked, and they would not be able to take down the Princess Villa with just this few troops.

At that time, no matter they send more troops or let the long-range firepower cover this side several times, Amber and his team's subsequent defense will become very difficult.

Not to mention, Amber actually came with a mission.

After accidentally traveling to today, he had guessed that the one who came to his aid in times of crisis was most likely himself.
So in order to complete the time loop and prevent myself from encountering any accidents in the encirclement of the Martyr Legion when I traveled through time, I must now rush to the designated position just like what I saw at that time and complete the attack that was destined to be launched.

"Amber, a squadron of ATT and your plane have separated from the Dawn and are descending towards the Princess Villa. But are you sure they won't be intercepted by anti-aircraft fire?" Isabel's voice sounded again, with a hint of worry in her tone.

"Don't worry. At this point in time, the ground air defense firepower is already exhausted and has no time to care about the landing of these ten HCP targets."

As Amber spoke, she looked up into the sky and used the optical sensor of her power armor to amplify a series of light spots in the sky. Those were airdrop fortresses that were entering the atmosphere, and they were now attracting the attention of all ground-based anti-aircraft firepower in the Imperial Capital area.

(End of this chapter)