This Terra is a little weird.

The Reunion Movement pretended to resist in the southern region, and deployed the Ice Fortress and the Southern Fortress for this purpose. The Patriot, Tallulah, Froststar and others joined in this drama, which left a deep impression on Algidon and caused his troops to suffer heavy losses, but it was still at an acceptable level.

In the end, the Integration Movement pretended to be strong and slowly retreated from the southern region. In order to make it look realistic, it even launched a "death" attack in an attempt to take back the initiative, but was repelled by Orgiton, successfully ensuring the safety of the southern region.

Trade between Victoria and Ursus then began. It was not known whether it was intentional on Capps' part, but he used the excuse that the new equipment had to be escorted in strict confidentiality to extend the transaction time for a long time. Although Ursus was a little impatient, the quality of the foreign trade weapons was indeed good, so he waited patiently.

During this period, Luo Chen completed the reorganization of all the troops, transformed another land ship, and improved the mobile city under construction, especially the Ice Fortress, which has become the flagship of the integration movement.

However, the activities of the Emperor's Internal Guards increased greatly during this period, and Patriot and Frost Star had to join in the struggle with the Internal Guards. Fortunately, Tallulah helped to take on part of the military affairs, which allowed Luo Chen to carry out large-scale military reforms.

Caps sent people to the Ursus Ice Field secretly to receive data. This was the first time that Luo Chen came into contact with people from Rhine Life.

"Ms. Saria, this is all the data."

"Well, thank you, General."

"You're welcome, it's just cooperation."

"This research ship is very valuable."

"Oh? Miss Saria is interested?"

"Its design looks very good in modern times. If it can be used normally, I believe it will be a very good experience whether working or researching on it."

"Since Miss Saria likes it so much, you can go there to conduct research anytime after the Integration Movement digs it out."

Luo Chen didn't think anything of it. He really wanted to recruit this researcher. Although he didn't know her background yet, seeing that other people were respectful to her, her status should be quite high, or her knowledge should be very high.

"Thank you for your kindness, General, but I still have a contract with Rhine Life, so I can't come to this research ship."

"It's okay, Miss Saria."

After sending away the people from Rhine Life, the secret transaction came to an end, and Luo Chen was ready to confront the Seventh Army head-on (not likely).

The patriot watched him confidently from the side: "Sneak attack, prepared, completed, when, start?"

"How can you call it a sneak attack when you're a soldier? A surprise attack."

"... As long as you are happy, victory is the most important thing."

The army is ready, and Luo Chen has already discovered the enemy's weak points. He wants to launch an attack while the Seventh Army is still scattered, dividing the battlefield into a melee so that the advantages of the integration movement can be brought into play.

"Sir Patriot, we will win."

"Prepare, have done enough, go all out, and you will win."

Chapter 38: Phased Victory

When the winter in Ursus just passed, the Integration Movement left its garrison area and launched the "Spring Offensive" against the Seventh Army entrenched in the southern part of the ice field.

The Integration Army used modified land ships as the vanguard to break through the enemy's defense line one after another, and outflanked the enemy on both sides. It was not until the Ice Fortress and the Southern Fortress appeared behind the enemy that Orgiton realized the intention of the Integration Movement.

The entire Seventh Army might be divided into several small pieces and then eliminated one by one. He immediately withdrew from the southern region and turned to attack the western part of the ice field. At the same time, he ordered all scattered troops to assemble in the south immediately. However, Orgiton came up empty-handed on the ice field. Not only did he not find any trace of people, but he was raided several times by the troops led by the Patriots. A large number of grassroots command forces were lost, and senior officers had to bear more and more pressure.

Luo Chen leaned over the command table, staring at the battle map and giving orders from time to time.

"Report! Our 47th Regiment has captured the enemy ship 'Buka'."

"Our 11th and 13th Regiment has captured the enemy ship 'Roon'."

"Report, the First Stormtrooper Division has successively captured the enemy's second and fourth forts in the south and is approaching the enemy's supply ship."

Luo Chen pulled out the blue chess pieces representing the enemy from the battle map and placed the red chess pieces in those positions.

"What's the situation of the Western Task Force?"

"We are currently engaging the enemy's flagship, and the results are impressive."

Luo Chen assigned the task of blocking the invading enemy forces from the west to Patriot and Frost Star. They needed to use the least number of people to block 60% of the Seventh Army's troops until Luo Chen cleared all the enemy forces in the southern region.

"Send the Hurricane and the Blue Dragon to attack the third fortress in the south. Make sure to take it down!"

"Yes!"

"Report! The Second Regiment requested artillery support, the coordinates have been accepted."

"Let the Earthshaker fire. Three shells."

"Yes!"

At the artillery position in the Icefield Fortress, the stormtroopers raised their earth-shattering cannons. Two men stuffed the overweight shells into the barrel and closed the bolt.

"Fire!"

The earth-shattering cannon roared loudly, and the shell flew into the sky, accurately smashing into the enemy's land ship after a parabola. The explosion evaporated the surrounding enemy troops and bunkers. The soldiers of the Integration Movement rushed over immediately, bypassing the huge crater and high-temperature area, and launched an attack on the core area.

In order to ensure the speed of the attack, Luo Chen took out the earth-shaking cannons from the holy weapon. There were three in total, with sixty shells, but only one shell was needed to destroy the entire position, leaving no corpses behind. This thing was also the main force of the Astra Militarum artillery unit. Once this cannon fired, all the efforts of the parents to raise the space marines would be in vain. Even if a Space Marine was hit directly, he would definitely not survive.

Luo Chen counted on his fingers and found that a total of eleven shots had been fired since the start of the war. The enemy's morale suffered a serious blow. Seeing that their own artillery units were so powerless under the threat of the enemy's artillery, many of them had lost their combat effectiveness.

"Didn't you see the damn bombardment? There was not a wreck left."

"Of course I saw it! So what do you want me to do?! Disobey military orders?"

The soldiers of the Second Regiment broke into the core area, and the guards followed the heavy armored soldiers and crashed into the enemy's phalanx. When the heavy armored soldiers pulled away their shields, what appeared were not the swords of the guards, but the new bows and crossbows of the crossbowmen. A large number of arrows knocked down the soldiers who didn't react in time. The Ursus crossbowmen fired back at them, but were killed by the magic of the warlocks of the Second Regiment.

"Report, the Second Regiment has occupied the core area of ​​the Carter and is pursuing the remaining enemy."

At the same time, two modified land warships of the Integration Movement entangled with the Southern Fortress No. 3. The two warships surrounded the fortress from both sides and aimed their side strings at Fortress No. 3, fiercely bombarding the fortress with Originium cannons and automatic cannons at a long distance.

Fort No. 3 was not willing to be outdone. The moment the city defense artillery was debugged, it began to fight back. They bombarded each other back and forth on the plain. The huge mobile city crushed the ground of the plain beyond recognition. The broken armor and steel fell helplessly on the ground and became scrap metal.

But in the end, the modified battleships had the upper hand. When the Originium cannons of both sides were cooling down, the automatic cannons were still firing non-stop. Shells were concentrated one after another on the barracks, fortifications, city defense cannons and battle formations. By the end of the first round of shelling, the walls of the Southern Fortress No. 3 had been overwhelmed and could no longer support the Ursus soldiers in battle.

Cannons from another empire fired at the young Ursus and at the young Terra, showing the roar of humanity struggling in pain in that dark galaxy, but Luo Chen understood that these things were used against humanity's enemies.

All humans on this land are sub-humans, and some are even different from the sub-humans that Luo Chen is familiar with. But to the humans on this land of Terra, he, who claims to be a pure-blooded human, is the real alien. Human is just a name given to himself by humans. Luo Chen has long abandoned his prejudice.

And now he was standing on this land, working hard for the collective in a group, or for a goal that he himself did not understand in his heart. That was it. The artillery from the Human Empire became the voice of the Integration Movement revolution in his hands. Luo Chen thought this was what he wanted.

"Order the artillery, fire a salvo of ground-shaking cannons, target the southern fortress No. 3, thirty rounds."

The stormtroopers closed the bolt and pulled the fuse. The shells shot straight into the sky and hit the southern fortress. The Ursus soldiers, who had just had a respite from the automatic artillery attack, were once again frightened by the earth-shaking volleys of the earth-shaking cannons. They ran around in the streets without organization and were then turned into ashes in the bombing.

"Order Hurricane and Blue Dragon to launch a boarding battle and capture the fortress."

This is the final stage. By taking down the Southern Fortress and integrating the movement, we can seize the entire southern region and truly possess the strength to compete with Ursus.

The two land ships turned their hulls and aimed their huge rams at the fortress, then rushed up at full speed. The rams tore through the armored walls that could not bear the weight and crashed into the city.

The hastily organized defense troops on the city wall were met with the stormtroopers' bullets. Brand-new bullets shot out from the barrels, piercing through the armor and tearing the flesh. The Ursus soldiers fell to the ground like wheat.

Luo Chen received help from Rhine Life. He successfully found several stable strong substances and produced a new batch of gunpowder. It was almost the same as the automatic rifle bullets produced before with Originium. More importantly, it was cheaper and could be mass-produced, which was economical and affordable.

"Put down your weapons and surrender. The Integration Movement will treat innocent prisoners with respect!!!"

Hearing the roar of the political commissar, the Ursus soldiers slowly laid down their weapons, walked out of the bunkers and surrendered. The storm troopers subdued them and sent them to the warships in the rear.

Some people resisted stubbornly and were killed by the storm troopers. Then the soldiers of the Eighth Regiment began to advance into the city together with the storm troopers. Here they witnessed the terrifying power of the earth-shaking cannon. The city area had lost the value of street fighting. They had never seen artillery of such power.

Apart from those powerful Originium artists who are rumored to be able to do this, I have never heard of any artillery that can

With such power, the general must have been sent by God to help the integration movement.

A non-commissioned officer from the Eighth Regiment caught up with the Ursus officer holding the secret key and chopped him to the ground with a knife.

"You rebels! Have you forgotten the favor of the Emperor?!"

"I will never forget the emperor's kindness to us infected people! Times have changed now! Sir!" After saying that, the sergeant chopped down with a knife and took out the secret key from the officer's arms.

"Come with me to attack the core city!"

The soldiers responded to his call. The Stalker armored vehicles led the way. The armor-piercing bullets fired by the heavy logging rifles tore through the obstacles in front of them. The Stormtroopers filed in and cleaned up the remaining soldiers.

"Report! The battle is over! Our army has occupied Fort No. 3 in the south!"

The headquarters erupted in cheers that seemed to blow the roof off, and everyone hugged each other to celebrate the victory.

Luo Chen knew that the battle was not really over yet, and most of the Seventh Army in the western part of the ice field was still there, but he did not want to disturb everyone's celebration at this time, so he let them have fun.

"Damn it! I was defeated by the tactics I am best at." Orkidun pulled his collar and let out a breath.

Although the staff officer at the side did not want to report the battle report in his hand, his duty required him to say: "Major General Clayton was killed by the Patriots, and all three battleships in his fleet were paralyzed. We are losing our advantage, and we need to find a solution."

"Solution?! Where is the solution?! The request for support was sent out three days ago, who came?! Which noble had the foresight to send troops?!" Olgidon was so angry that he picked up a table and smashed it, "A bunch of termites! They should be judged in front of everyone! Cut off their heads!!!"

"No matter how angry you are, I can't do anything about it, but! Our soldiers still have to live!!! What's the point of you getting angry here? ! ! Let's go to the command room! We have to come up with a solution!"

"...Order the troops to retreat and leave space for Langge to return to the east along the border."

"You want to retreat? It's His Majesty's order to wipe out the rebels!"

"I know! But even if he is the emperor, he can't joke with the lives of the soldiers!! If we don't leave, we will be the ones to be wiped out. I have made up my mind and am ready to go to the military court. You go ahead and leave me alone."

"Algidon! You... forget it."

The chief of staff put down the document before leaving: "Even if you don't want to live, you have to consider your wife and children, and the families of the soldiers."

Olgidon sat down, poured a glass of wine and listened to the staff officer.

"If we go back like this, we will all be deserters. If you want all the soldiers to have their homes confiscated and their families executed, then you must fulfill your responsibilities as the supreme commander of the Seventh Army and at least make it acceptable to His Majesty."

The staff officer glanced at Algidon and sighed.

"That's all I can say. The rest is up to you to decide."

After saying that, he closed the door and went out, leaving Orgiton alone to drink.

Chapter 39: For Tomorrow

The Seventh Army was preparing to retreat, and in the chaotic command center, Orgiton was the only one who was not in a hurry.

"Chief of Staff, come here."

The staff officer came over with a pile of documents and put them down: "What's the matter, General?"

Orkiton took out a pistol from an exquisitely packaged box and handed it to the chief of staff.

"This short gun was given to me by my father. It is very suitable for the use of Originium Techniques. You and I have fought together for a lifetime. Now I think it is the right choice to give it to you."

"General..."

"You're right. The Seventh Army came here under the orders of His Majesty, but now it is about to be defeated by the rebels." Olgidon took a sip of wine: "Except for the 2,000 soldiers of the late emperor, the rest are all brothers who broke out with us. I really should let His Majesty see that I am not wrong."

"So you plan to lead the Ninth Regiment to attack the rebels and die there in the end so that His Majesty can forgive everyone? Defeat itself has no good ending."

"It's better than being a deserter and having your whole family suffer. The Ninth Regiment is the biggest obstacle to your retreat. Let's go."

".....Everyone will remember you, Algidon."

"People will only remember a defeated conservative general." Orgiton flipped through the Reunion brochure. "I used to think their ideals were naive and stupid, but now they are able to defeat the Ursus army. Chief of Staff, whether you believe it or not, they are full of vigor and vitality. Perhaps Ursus can really change."

"Change? Will the surnames be integrated from now on? And then the people will continue to suffer in a few decades?"

"I don't know. This is not something you and I can know. All we can do is to fulfill our responsibilities. As for where history will go, let it go."

".....You are a hero, Algidon, but you were born in the wrong era."

"I'm not a hero, just a soldier. Heroes are in our barracks and in our country. There are tens of thousands of them, ordinary yet extraordinary. I hope you can take a good look at the new Ursus, my friend."

".....Maybe, Algidon, goodbye...forever."

"farewell."

One afternoon, Algidon drove the flagship Star Shuttle and led two thousand elite soldiers of the Ninth Regiment to meet the encirclement force of the Reunion Movement.

Orgiton stood at the front. He was the first commando in the boarding battle. The elite of Ursus broke through the defense of the 7th Regiment of the Integration Army and fought a bloody battle with them in the city. In the end, they blew up the core city and completely paralyzed this land battleship that originally belonged to Ursus.

Just as Orgiton was about to step onto another warship, a huge figure blocked his way.

"Sir Patriot, I have heard of you since I was a child in the Empire, and I am honored to meet you today."

"Surrender and you can live."

Orgiton looked at the soldiers behind him, who still had the former glory of Ursus. He knew that he had no way to retreat now. From the time they set out until now, the empire's spies had never left.

"I am carrying out the Emperor's orders, but I cannot obey them!"

Orgiton mobilized his strength regardless of his life, his body was burned by orange flames, and then he rushed towards the Patriot. He was not at a disadvantage for a short time, but no matter what, there was a qualitative gap between him and the Patriot.

The moment the momentum of the Originium technique weakened, the Patriot knocked him to the ground with a spear, and then gave the brave general the last bit of dignity.