This Terra is a little weird.

Luo Chen thought about it. Now all the people added up to more than 10,000 people, of which Cardia and Sarkaz mercenaries accounted for 6,000 people, and other companies brought a total of 4,000 people, with Kalan Trading and Black Steel having the largest number of people. Rhine Life, Penguin Logistics and Rhodes Island seemed to be people who came here to support this war.

Rhine Life came here from Victoria, and its purpose is self-evident.

Kalan Trade...Luo Chen didn’t understand what Yinhui sent people to do.

Black Steel is mainly an arms supplier to various countries and a partner of Cardia, so sending some people out can be considered as support.

In this case, the main force of the legion will be handed over to Kadia and the Sarkaz mercenaries, and the rest will continue with their previous combat methods and continue to fight in groups. To put it bluntly, Luo Chen needs them to act as a fire brigade. No matter where the problem occurs, they must arrive at the first time.

As the main forces, Cardia and Sarkaz have the most people, the best equipment and combat power, and they will act as the hammer that makes the final decision.

Luo Chen could see that this joint army was actually a mess. Except for the people of Cardia, no one would listen to him. If it weren't for the contract brought by the congressman, they couldn't even get together. They could cooperate in daily business, but they all had their own purposes in participating in the war.

Luo Chen has already made plans. What he can win over are Penguin Logistics and Sarkaz mercenaries. As for Rhodes Island, Luo Chen believes that they can only be deployed as special forces because there are too few people.

But Doctor, Luo Chen must make her a staff officer. He needs Doctor's ability to control the overall situation of the battlefield. When he was the commander-in-chief in Ursus before, he had the entire staff, the chief of staff Kashaw, and the great help of Mr. Patriot. But now, the Joint Corps has not been officially established yet, and everyone's hearts are no longer united.

Luo Chen must act quickly, and the main Penguin Logistics, Sarkaz mercenaries and Rhodes Island must be won over as soon as possible.

After thinking about this, Luo Chen couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. Since when did even a war that humans united against an external force become so fraught with intrigue?

He really hoped that Tallulah and Alina could be there to give him advice, but Tallulah had returned to the company and Alina were dealing with other urgent matters. W, Frost Star and Mudrock were not proficient in this matter, so Luo Chen could only rely on himself.

After the meeting, the first person he looked for was Hedley.

Fortunately, the Sarkaz mercenaries and the people of Cadia had the same idea.

However, the way Hedley looked at him was...hostile?

Luo Chen looked at W who was pointing at Ines and cursing at him, and he understood. He didn't have time to explain to Hedley.

He went to Penguin Logistics without stopping, won the support of Texas and Emperor Penguin, and then rushed to Rhode Island.

"Doctor, time is running out. I'll just say it directly. I need your team to serve as my advisor. In return, I will try to send the Rhodes Island team to places where the war intensity is lower. What do you think?"

"I was just about to talk to you about this. Kal'tsit told me that you would most likely say so."

"So, what do you think?"

"I promise."

"Okay, that's great."

"By the way, you can go to Black Steel and talk to them."

"Black Steel?" Luo Chen looked embarrassed. "There is nothing to talk about with those Black Steel guys. Instead of letting them serve as a rapid reaction force, I might as well let the Space Marines take on this responsibility."

"Don't use the Space Marines unless it's a crisis. I don't think they have much supplies, right?"

"..."

"We should try to gain as much strength as possible now. This is not the time to compete with Black Steel. We also have many Black Steel people in Rhodes Island, and they are all very kind."

"That means Jessica, Razer, and Franka...Okay, I'll go give it a try."

"Is Skadi okay? I haven't seen her in a week."

"Except for the house arrest, everything else is fine. All reasonable requests are met, and we will not make things difficult for her."

"Now that it's confirmed, then let her out..."

"Hush, Doctor, think carefully about what the congressman said in the meeting today. The meaning is very clear. Skadi must either remain as she is or disappear completely. The outside world will not believe a person who carries Hai Si with her. This is... Alas, I am also very curious, why didn't the parliament imprison her themselves and let Rhodes Island put her under house arrest? Later I figured it out..."

"They are afraid that Rhodes Island may not be able to control the runaway Ishamara, and Cadia, or the Space Marines, are the only solution capable of quickly solving problems once they arise," said the doctor.

"Yes, in fact, I thought so too. This is why I cannot send Skadi back to Rhodes Island. Too many eyes are staring at Cardia. In an emergency, it is better to be cautious."

"Now that you have Space Marines, have you ever considered conquering everyone? They can do it easily, right? Don't you think you're tired?"

"I have said countless times that I am not the Emperor. No one can truly unify the entire human race. The regime established by the Space Marines, in my opinion as someone who is familiar with the law, involves the Space Marines seizing power, which itself is not allowed... Damn it, this is not the Empire."

The Doctor shook his head, "It's up to you. Your insistence complicates too many things. You obviously have the power... Go to Black Steel's camp now, while their boss is still here."

Chapter 212 Attempt to Attack

After entering autumn, the activity range of the phobia fish has increased a lot. The climate in the south is warm, unlike the north, which starts to get cold in autumn.

The people of Ursus are not used to the local climate, but it can be overcome. Just drink a few more vodka and there will be no problem.

Since the arrival of the mobile battleship, the first line of defense has been completely stabilized, and the knight mechas driven by the Linguang family do not have to move around to fill the gaps.

Hellagur convened a meeting of the Astra Militarum to discuss the possibility of a counterattack by the Astra Militarum.

There are very few troops now, only five corps plus one joint corps, with a total of more than 400,000 people, but there are only more than 100,000 actual front-line personnel.

The reason why Hellagur thought so was that the mechanization ratio of the army on the Iberian front was already very high.

They have armored units, the infantry have Chimera and newly manufactured armored personnel carriers, they also have a large number of unmanned equipment and various industrial mechas.

The first line of defense is more than 200 kilometers away from the coast, and many places can be used as strongholds.

They can confine Hai Si to the beach, and with the help of mobile battleships and knight mechas, they can gain a foothold.

But before that, the Terrorfish had caused a lot of damage to RemBitto's attack.

The Space Marines arrived quickly indeed, but they were only able to rescue those in southern Rembil.

The facilities in those settlements were severely damaged, especially the southern land city of Caen, where 90 percent of industrial equipment was damaged and transportation roads were destroyed.

Hai Si seemed to be intentionally destroying human production facilities and infrastructure.

Rem Bito is an important industrial zone and also the place where the Second Corps obtains supplies. The mission of the Space Marines is to rescue civilians. No remedial measures have been taken for the industrial zone. The entire southern part of Rem Bito is almost in a semi-paralyzed state. For this reason, the Second Corps is anxious to organize an offensive to take back southern part of Rem Bito.

The meeting was quite clear about sending a small-scale force to conduct an exploratory attack. After such a long period of fighting, they had already understood Hai Si's combat capabilities, but as for offense, the Star Army had no experience against Hai Si.

If the armored forces are dispatched rashly, they will most likely be paralyzed on the offensive path due to the enemy's mental attack. Therefore, Helag is preparing to launch a massive vanguard team, which is actually just a mixture of infantry and a small number of armored units. Their purpose is to test the intensity of Haisi's reaction to human attacks.

This mission was quite dangerous, because the total number of people needed in the Second Corps and the First Line of Defense was no more than 5,000. Among them, Rem Billiton's attack was quite practical, and was needed as a prerequisite for the general offensive to take back the southern region a few days later. As a result, Rem Billiton deployed 3,000 people.

The Iberian side was really just testing.

When the order came down, Luo Chen also planned to participate, but he wanted to deploy very few people, basically only as a special force to assist the Star Army's attack. The location he chose was Rem Billiton.

As for Iberia, the failure of the exploratory attack does not affect the situation. As long as the first line of defense remains solid, the situation in Iberia will also be solid.

But Rem Billiton was a Haisi landing point that no one had expected before. There was no defense line here and the local defenders were not prepared. Although the Second Corps had been warned, it was also somewhat flustered by the sudden attack.

The southern region must be taken back no matter what. Through lobbying, the commander of the Second Corps successfully obtained the support of two Squire Knights. Although they are not as powerful as super heavy tanks, they are designed for the purpose of the mission. The Squire Knights can cooperate with the Sentinel Mechs to provide highly flexible support for the vanguard.

The main purpose was to rely on the large chainsaw swords carried by the squire knights to quickly cut open the body of the sea beast. As for the promethium that the knights needed to burn, they could only draw some from the oil depot.

Originally, the knights could rely on their own energy reactors to power the entire body, but this kind of energy cannot be produced on the earth at all, and Luo Chen does not have any stock. When using the knight, he half opens and half closes it, using only 50% of the power, and does not even turn on the void shield. Anyway, nothing on the earth can penetrate the platinum armor.

At worst, I can burn more promethium source stone mixed fuel. This stuff is enough.

For this operation, Luo Chen planned to send out several demon teams to explore the situation first, and even set off much earlier than the vanguard of the Second Corps.

On the day before the operation was launched, Luo Chen sat in the command room, waiting for news from the demon squad.

He recalled the details of the interview with the boss of Heigang. No matter how he thought about it, he still earned a lot. Luo Chen's requirements were that Heigang's employees needed to accept his command and that Heigang could provide more personnel.

The other party's request was to share the technology of making automatic guns. Luo Chen refused at first, but then he thought, take it. Automatic guns have no bullets, they are just firewood sticks. What you want is the technology of automatic guns, and you didn't ask for the technology of 10mm armor-piercing bullets. So I will give it to you. You will have to buy bullets from me then. Even if Heigang sells the guns, those customers can only buy bullets from Kadia in the end.

Because the automatic gun has no Originium Skill Resonator installed and no reserved slots, although the gun is rough and simple in structure, each structure has its own function, and changes will cause many problems.

This is also the reason why Luo Chen dared to give the technology to Heigang. Besides, by the time Heigang had built the production line, the automatic guns on Kadia's side would have been developed to the sixth generation.

I can also get more soldiers, why not? Luo Chen felt that he had made a fortune.

In the current joint army, there are more than 8,000 people including Cadia, Sarkaz Mercenaries, Black Steel, Rhodes Island and Penguin Logistics, and they are basically elite forces.

As for the people from Rhine Life, Kalan Trading and some other companies, they were not under Luo Chen's actual control, and he had never expected these people to take on big responsibilities. Basically, they all carried out some insignificant patrol and guerrilla missions.

Luo Chen would only entrust logistics, transportation and other important tasks to his own people. Only when he had these lifelines in his hands could Luo Chen have real power. Otherwise, he might as well just take the people of Cardia out to work alone.

"Command, this is the reconnaissance team, can you read?"

"I can hear you, report your location."

"We are in the No. 1 river where it flows into the sea and the situation is terrible. The fish are nesting in the river. It's like they have become freshwater creatures overnight."

Luo Chen rubbed his eyes. Could Hai Si’s adaptability really change his genes so quickly?

"How many are there?"

"Too many to count. The river has been blocked and many areas have been flooded. The subsequent attack is likely to be difficult. We also saw a large number of humanoid sea creatures. They are very close to humans, and some of them are holding strange-looking guns."

"pistol?"

Luo Chen suddenly remembered what Goretia said. Deep-sea hunters never used guns in long battles. They were afraid that the sea disciples would learn this way of attack. The spitters were mutant fish that had witnessed the use of spells or bows and crossbows and had undergone adaptive changes.

Today, in battles with humans, faced with large numbers of firearms and long-range projectile weapons, they will surely gradually adapt and evolve their own ways of coping.

Luo Chen didn't expect that they would evolve so fast.

This time the Second Corps' attack might really be an exploratory attack. The road conditions became worse and new variants appeared among the terrifying fish.

"You guys retreat for now."

Luo Chen left the tent and went to the corps headquarters to explain the situation.

The current legion commander is a member of the Luper tribe with superb Originium skills. The previous legion commander was transferred to another legion, and Luo Chen does not know the new legion commander.

"So, you want us to stop our operation tomorrow?"

"No." Luo Chen drew a line on the holographic map: "We will continue with the plan, but we will stop there. The road system in the south of Rem Billiton has always been bad. It has been OK for trucks to pass through in recent years, but after the flood, the road is impassable and the outside is all muddy. If you insist on walking, only Chimera can take the soldiers there, but your entire regiment has only more than 20 Chimeras, which can transport more than 400 people. This number of people is not enough to advance."

"Mr. Luo Chen, does your company have no extra Chimeras?"

"That will take three days. The armored personnel carriers we built won't be able to move on this kind of road, so we'll just attack the upper reaches of the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 rivers, and release chemical agents into the river water, so..."

"You want to poison the river? This is not what we agreed on."

"Indeed not. The fish have filled the downstream area. Do you think many creatures can survive? Once the fish have eaten all the fish and shrimp downstream, they will turn against each other and some worse variants will appear. Even if we poison the water, there is no ecosystem worth protecting downstream and in the ocean. It has already been destroyed."

"They are very adaptable. There are many individuals that use toxins and acid. Are you sure poisoning will work?"

"Of course, nerve agents have a 100% mortality rate. Even if the Originium explodes in front of you, you can still breathe a few more times before dying. But with this kind of stuff, just a little bit, a little bit that you can't even feel, is enough to kill a giant crab."

"When did Cardia develop the poison?"

"We have never developed this weapon. We can only say that it is a gift from the Emperor."

“…If something goes wrong, there’s no way I can take responsibility.”

"It doesn't matter. My application has been approved. You can use it without hesitation. If the fish flood our roads, we will destroy their nervous systems."

The next morning, the Second Corps dumped dozens of barrels of nerve toxins at the confluence of the three rivers upstream and downstream.

An hour later, the Valkyrie flew over the river and saw a large number of dead fish floating on the surface of the river. She immediately reported it.

Twenty minutes after receiving the news, the first batch of Chimera armored vehicles, together with Sentinel Mechas and Squire Knights, began to attack the southern area. Their mission was to assault all the way to the area marked on the map.

The fish and nests in the river were killed by the neurotoxin, but the sea urchins in the swamp area temporarily formed by the flood survived. Although their numbers are still huge, there is no follow-up support. Even if more of them came out of the ocean, it would not be enough to quench their thirst.

What's more, more than an hour has passed, and the toxin is estimated to have entered the ocean, and the fish near the coast will also be affected.

The knight mechas and sentry mechas ran in front to clear the way, and the automatic cannons and machine guns cleared one swamp after another, until the squire knights began to fight with the behemoths that were several times larger than themselves. Mortar-like creatures appeared among the terror fish, and a large group of terror fish, led by the humanoid Hai Si, surged in from the outside of the huge swamp.

The soldiers of the Second Regiment jumped off the Chimera, but their feet were stuck in the mud, making it very inconvenient for them to move. It was difficult for them to deploy a formation to resist the impact of the school of terrifying fish, and they could only fight around the Chimera. Fortunately, the Valkyrie's Hellfire missiles in the sky were always supporting them.

The Astra Militarum used rounds of volleys to repel the Terrorfish, and heavy bolters and laser cannons to kill the special mutants.

In addition to the mud under the soldiers' feet, there were also huge amounts of mud. These living muds slowly corroded the soldiers' bodies and undermined their spirits.

The humanoid Haisi joined the battle halfway. They first cast spells from a distance, and then took the strange bone guns in their hands and accurately injured the soldiers of the Second Regiment.

The bullets fired from these guns had a strong mental impact. They had already been exhausted by Hai Si's magic, and now they were hit by bullets. Blood flowed from their mouths and noses, their faces turned black, and they fell into the mud.

The Valkyrie fighter pilots saw the sea turtles and fired Hellfire missiles towards them. A series of explosions disrupted the rhythm of the Terrorfish attack.

The squire knights also chopped down all the behemoths. They charged forward, their huge chain swords sweeping the ground like brooms, and black mud and the broken limbs of the monster fish were scattered into the sky.

The warlocks accompanying the army simply treated the soldiers' injuries. They boarded the Chimera with their legs covered in mud and went around the flank of the squire knights together with the sentinel mechas.

Several teams of Space Marines parachuted onto the battlefield in Thunderhawks, their target was the humanoid Sea Heirs.

Chainswords and bolters tore through the Terrorfish that swarmed around them, and there were constant streams of Spitters and Wanderers trying to stop the Space Marines, but their attacks were muted when they hit the thick ceramite armour.

The leading sergeant held a thunder hammer and smashed it hard on the ground. The power field threw a large amount of sludge into the air. The remaining energy spread out with the sergeant as the center, and the surrounding terrifying fish were flung into the air.

Several Space Marines took advantage of this gap and quickly crossed the open space. Their stance swords cut the humanoid sea creatures in two and their bolter rifles smashed their heads.

They turned and began to attack the surrounding terrifying fish. The thunder hammers and chainsaw swords created piles of meaningless flesh and blood. The Thunder Eagle gunship continued to project its amazing firepower as always.

Without the hindrance of mental spells, the soldiers of the Second Regiment used flamethrowers to burn the surrounding abysses. They cleared the terrifying fish around the Space Marine squad and took over the swamp.