Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1222 - 662, Titan Battle_2

Chapter 1222: Chapter 662, Titan Battle_2

Despite every inch of the land having been bombed, many human soldiers emerged at this moment. Machine guns, rifles, even connected grenade launchers were pushed out from anti-artillery bunkers, and both sides were face-to-face, desperately clashing with bayonets.

Moreover, both sides were continually sending reinforcements to the front line of battle.

Yet, this reinforcement was highly challenging. It’s hard for artillery to directly bombard troops in such close combat, but it could move the bombing line back a few hundred meters. Whether you’re the infected troops in iron armor or the Empire’s infantry or armored soldiers, you have to pass through this artillery line, and the cost of doing so is unknown.

In this process, the human side’s reinforcement situation was somewhat more favorable than that of the iron-armored side.

Humans are clever, knowing to dig tunnels to advance reinforcements; if the tunnel collapses due to bombing, they pause; if they must traverse over the surface, they do it step by step, seeking cover, advancing in the intervals of shelling.

Nonetheless, heavy casualties are inevitable to reinforce the front line.

Fortunately, the opposite side was even worse. The foolish infected soldiers had an even lower rate of reinforcing successfully.

Staring at the salient area, they kept it up through the morning, enduring heavy casualties and vast ammo expenditure, but the results were mediocre.

The Empire also faced a great challenge, suffering severe casualties, but at least they maintained their defense.

By noon, the number of new infected troops reinforcing became fewer, and the remaining enemies were eliminated one by one. The Empire soldiers on the frontline thought they could take a breather, regain spirit, and fight the next battle.

However, the anticipated calm did not arrive; instead, the entire earth began to shudder.

The soldiers were somewhat puzzled.

This trembling sensation, they were familiar with.

The sound of Titan footsteps.

A couple of days ago, they fought at this salient alongside Titans.

Titans were coming again? But there hadn’t been any news of a large-scale offensive recently?

Titans aren’t defensive weapons; they are the most formidable offensive tools.

Perhaps because defending the salient is arduous, their superiors sent Titans here to show the attackers a thing or two?

But soon, they felt something was off.

As time moved on, the tremors were accompanied by real footsteps, and they were shocked to discover that the Titans were coming from the enemy’s side!

The iron-armored Titans were moving!

Iron-clad rebels definitely had Titans too. Previously, their relation with the Alfonso Sect was good; of course, they would ask for Titan Legion support from Alfonso.

They have Titans, they have Knight Mechas, all of them.

However, the number of Titans and Knights that the iron-clad possess is definitely far fewer than that on the Empire’s side.

In previous battles, such powerful yet rare weapons were seldom deployed by them.

But today, they put them out, and when they did, they unleashed a considerable force.

At least two hundred Knights and Titans charged into this battlefield!

A few days ago, the iron-clad side had suffered frustrations under the Alliance Titan’s assault, and now they’re returning the favor.

With immense cost, the morning’s defense line, held at great cost, was ultimately breached.

The iron-clad rebels even pushed their artillery positions forward by a considerable amount, projecting firepower toward the Empire’s artillery positions.

Titans were doing the same.

Instantaneously, the previously raging Empire artillery positions fell silent.

If they continued bombing like this, it seemed the entire thing would be destroyed.

And the worse part is, the iron-clad rebels’ attack targeted the ’root’ of the salient. Should they penetrate it, the entire salient’s troops might be enveloped like dumplings.

Within the salient, not only are there sixteen divisions deployed as defense, but there is also a large contingent poised to launch a forward offensive from this salient.

If truly encircled by the iron-clad rebels, with the supply lines cut off and logistics failing to keep up, they might face the outcome of being systematically annihilated.

That’s over a million troops!

Should such a situation occur, it would be a devastating defeat.

At this critical juncture, the Alliance’s National Knights’ Regiment made their presence felt.

As iron-clad rebels’ Titans flaunted their might, the Alliance’s Titans emerged too.

Following this, on the Wanzhou Star, a rare Titan Corps confrontation erupted.

…

Colonel Gu Zhouhua was on the control panel, tensely multitasking, both observing the enemy situation and constantly monitoring the information from various components of the Warlord Level Titan he was in.

Beside him were two deputy operators at the rank of Major; within the Titan, there were fourteen others responsible for operating and coordinating various components.

Together, they formed the operation unit for this Warlord Level Titan.

That’s the main distinction between Titans and Knight Mechas. Titans require a whole operation unit for control, whereas Knight Mechas are operated solo.

According to general tradition, ranks are not distinguished within the Titan Legion.

This is easy to understand.

The Empire’s Titan Legion largely belongs to the Sect of Mechanics. Internally, the Sect of Mechanics doesn’t rank members based on military ranks, thus naturally, there are generally no ranks within the Titan Legion.

But the Alliance was clearly not the ordinary case.

The National Knights’ Regiment, bearing the title of knights operating Knight Mechas and Titans, yet in reality, they remain part of the Alliance Army, governed directly by the Military Department of the Alliance Army. Their precious equipment is majorly produced by the Alliance itself, with a small fraction from the Mingyang Sect of Jindi Star. Even from the Sect of Mechanics, they are purchased. The drivers, the personnel of the Titan operation unit, are cultivated by the army itself, hence they are managed based on ranks.

Colonel Gu Zhouhua was such a case.

His surname is Gu, and he indeed comes from the same family as Governor Gu, albeit with somewhat distant blood ties; his grandfather was once a mid-level manager at the Gu Commercial Firm. By his generation, the Gu Family members were no longer just tangled in commercial firms and transportation teams.

Although Governor Gu hadn’t shown any special care, just by surname, background, coupled with some personal capability, within the Alliance system, they could still achieve some progress in various aspects.

Gu Zhouhua graduated from military school, graduated from Loyal Heir Academy, and then, relying on decent results, entered into the Titan Legion and within a few years, ascended to the role of Warlord Level Titan Commander.

Still, he was very tense at this moment.

Before this, despite having gone through many Titan confrontation drills, is training the same as real combat?

During training, it was mostly practice; the fired shells were fake training rounds, the melee combat held with restraint, in fear of any damage, for Titan repairs are incredibly costly.

They’ve had combat experience, for sure.

Wasn’t the previous battle just recently fought by Titans?

Even further back, as a decisive force within the army, they had seen plenty of action.

Yet, this kind of Titan confrontation is truly a first.

But a small relief was that the enemy’s numbers seemed fewer.

Upon receiving the urgent attack order, the Alliance National Knights Regiment surged out in full force.

Three hundred Knights and Titans, facing what seemed like somewhat over two hundred from the opponent.

This brought Gu Zhouhua some relief.

Surely, they should win?

Then he quickly grew worried again.

Victory and defeat are grand strategies. When truly fighting, on the front lines, who lives or dies doesn’t completely tie into the overall victory’s attribution.

But these chaotic thoughts vanished when the first shell struck the Warlord Level Titan he was stationed in.

“Confirm Void Shield depletion!”

“Weapon systems ready!”

“Lock target! Fire at the most prominent traitor mecha!”

“Fire!”

“Fire again!”

“Charge! Finish them off!”