Nes Luman and Gu Ming, after a conflict erupted, had to reconcile under the pressure of reality because they were in the same boat.
They reacted quickly, gathering a stronger army to face the predicament.
Of course, their target was still very clear: to deal with the suburban town.
The reason was simple.
They had already experienced the combat effectiveness of the Rage Owl Star People. Gu Ming couldn’t understand how his young nephew, who had been on Rage Owl Star for less than two years, could have trained such a strong army on that planet?
Before he arrived, that planet even had great difficulty paying the Imperial Tax!
But no matter how incredible he found it, this was an ironclad reality, and lamenting would only lead to compliance.
They dared not underestimate the mighty Rage Owl Star People. If tens of thousands of fresh troops descended from the sky, they didn’t know how long and at what cost it would take to annihilate them all.
Even to put it bluntly, the two powerful dukes mentioned by Nes Luman, the real nobility, even if they followed his words and obeyed his orders to start gathering troops immediately, it might already be too late to do anything now.
In a feudal country, how strong could the military organization capability be? The Rage Owl Star People’s troops had already crossed the sky and begun orbital landing; calling forces from all over the country now would simply be too late.
At most, they could squeeze out a bit more military strength from the nearest locations. The rest of the troops would be nothing more than strong reinforcements and reserves at best.
The newly enlisted forces would be divided into two parts.
One part would be deployed to the outskirts of Capital Pansel City to join the siege on the suburban town.
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They could also sense that the soldiers from Rage Owl Star in the suburban town were at the end of their rope. With a surge of fresh troops and added vigor, maybe in the following days, they could break through the small town.
During the past few days, they could confirm that Miss Wang Qi had definitely not escaped from the town. As long as they could capture or kill Wang Qi, there would still be room for discussion.
The other part of the army would be organized to confront the new reinforcing troops of Rage Owl Star People.
Based on the streaks of fire across the sky, they could roughly estimate that those landing craft descending from orbit were about two to three hundred kilometers away from Pansel Capital.
They speculated that the Rage Owl Star People did so mainly to avoid the orbital defense system’s most powerful area above the capital.
Indeed, Gu Ming’s nephew must have seized the opportunity, assumed the mantle of the Imperial Navy, and was sure they would not dare attack an official fleet of the Imperial Navy. However, landing craft descending to the surface were a different matter.
Ground-based orbital air defense could reach starships in space if the relative position of the starship was within the firing angle and the distance was indeed in orbital range, and it could just barely reach them.
But planetary firepower was inevitably stationary, and it couldn’t be powerful enough to destroy escort ships in the sky with a sudden barrage of fire, or else wouldn’t the enemy just flee?
If they fled, adding the accusation of attacking the Imperial Navy, both Gu Ming and the Luman Kingdom of Heijian Star would be unable to shake off the accusation of being traitors to the Empire who attacked the Imperial Navy.
It was different for landing craft; they couldn’t escape while flying towards the surface.
That Gu Hang probably had some fear too, worrying that if they were indeed attacked during landing, the losses would be too great. Moreover, there would be room for contention afterward.
The distance of about three hundred kilometers allowed them to break through the atmosphere from other airspaces.
When they flew lower and left the angle of attack of the orbital air defenses, the safety was much higher, and they became difficult to target—unless the Luman Kingdom was so powerful as to integrate all other countries’ orbital fire on the entire planet for a joint strike, achieving full coverage. Otherwise, relying solely on themselves, they indeed couldn’t cover the entire planet’s airspace.
After landing, when the army moved rapidly forward, orbital air defense would be of no use.
Although a distance of about three hundred kilometers wasn’t too far for a mechanized, motorized ground army—indeed, they could arrive in a few days if they rapidly advanced—Nes Luman and Gu Ming still decided to take some action.
The newly enlisted troops were gathered for this purpose.
This force would carry out strict defense along the way, setting up barriers, and blocking the approaching Rage Owl Star People’s army.
They did not seek victory or annihilation, only to delay the marching speed of the enemy and buy some extra time for the battle on the outskirts of Pansel.
If the battle on the outskirts of Pansel concluded in victory, then they would have succeeded.
They felt this strategy was very meaningful—implementing it seemed to have a quite high chance of success.
Even though they would have to face an Alliance Army within the Luman Kingdom afterward, as long as Wang Qi died, many things could be discussed later.
However, the three pieces of news that reached their ears next were all bad.
The first was that the remnants of the Alliance Army in the suburban town had erupted with a strong will to resist. They seemed to realize that reinforcements were nearby, and under their heightened morale, they became even more tenacious.
The second was that the newly arrived Alliance Army did not rest after landing. Instead, with an incredibly large number of over a hundred Lion Tanks leading the way, followed by numerous armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, and transport trucks, they assaulted forward fiercely, rushing with astonishing speed.
The hastily gathered defense troops were rendered ineffective, dispersed with a single charge, shattered with a single strike.
Even in a minor engagement, twenty Mecha sentries of the Luman Kingdom dug out a stout position, along with the hard-earned assembly of two thousand infantry, intending to resist for at least several hours. Yet, within twenty minutes, they were thoroughly defeated.
Of course, if it was just that, it would have been merely embarrassing for them and not caused complete panic.
What truly alarmed them were two forces that moved so fast they couldn’t think of a countermeasure.
When the two had just received the news about these two forces, they were already nearing the outskirts of Pansel City!
These two forces comprised fifteen red-armored giants and more than a hundred Wind Falcon Rapid Attack Vessels!