Chapter 566: Chapter 332, Titan is Completely Done_2
However, the increasingly torrential heavy artillery and fierce attacks caused these units to rapidly diminish in number.
When their numbers dwindled to a certain level, the final general assault began.
They saw, not far from themselves, space twisted and dozens of red-armored warriors barely taller than their knees appeared out of nowhere.
Accompanied by a small number of regular units, they could no longer stop these interstellar warriors who had suddenly used Spiritual Energy to teleport closer.
The Titans almost immediately unleashed their firepower, and some brave souls swung massive Gravity Fists or giant chainsaw swords at those interstellar warriors.
However, this could not change their ultimate fate.
Out of the four Titans, three were damaged, and the remaining one surrendered.
And the Alliance Army, with the momentum of a great victory, swept through the retreating forces toward the main body of the kingdom’s army!
In contrast, the kingdom’s army felt as though they had been drenched with a bucket of ice water amid their fervor!
A few days ago, they were unstoppable; although they learned that their rear had been outflanked, they were not at all panicked.
However, the entire situation hadn’t been unfolding for long before they were jolted by the news that all six Knight Titans had been destroyed in a single battle!
The entire army was shaken!
They couldn’t even regulate this news because the sounds of the Alliance’s gunfire were getting closer, audible to everyone; standing on a slightly higher hill, one could see the clouds of yellow dust kicked up by the Alliance’s armored groups moving through the wilderness, with the red banners barely visible within, fluttering in the wind.
In front of the Alliance’s vanguard, the kingdom’s army was being chased and beaten like stray dogs.
What’s more terrifying was that they would soon become one of those stray dogs themselves.
The entire encirclement was only sixty kilometers wide and eighty kilometers deep. If they achieved a significant victory today, they might not make it by tomorrow, and by the day after at the latest, gun barrels would be pressed right up to their throats. In such a situation, no one could utter tough words.
What to do?
This question lingered over the entire kingdom’s army, both high and low.
The kingdom’s army’s supreme commander had made a decision, the only option left: muster all forces and fight a decisive battle to the death against the Alliance Army.
Otherwise, what else could they do?
Their previous eight days of triumph were now converted into equal amounts of fear and unease.
The previous offensives had been too smooth; there hadn’t been enough time to construct defenses in this area, nor were the various supplies in reserve sufficient. The option to hold out for reinforcements was nonexistent.
Moreover, even if they could hold the line, who could come as reinforcements?
All twelve of the Knight Titans were already here!
Only through a battle to the death, only through victory, could they break out of the encirclement.
The commander-in-chief of the kingdom’s allied forces was already fervently encouraging all the officers, especially the six Knight Titan pilots. He painted a future where, should they win this war, the backbone of the Alliance Army would be broken. In the near term, they wouldn’t be able to organize an armored group with thousands of tanks, and such a devastating defeat would severely shake the Alliance’s control over Heijian Star. In the territories already occupied by the Alliance, there would be a strong upsurge of resolute resistance…
In short, the future was bright! If only they could win this ultimate battle, they would all be heroes of the entire world!
However, take it with a grain of salt.
At most, these words served only to prevent morale from looking too dismal on the surface.
In private, those officers, those aristocratic Knight Titan drivers, what they really thought, to be honest, the old marshal of royal Panbos bloodline had no idea.
Even he himself, amidst the turmoil, had muttered a few words to a relative of royal lineage among the Titan pilots.
According to him, one should of course fight bravely during battle; but if, by any chance, one faced an insurmountable and imposing tide, then don’t act foolishly, for surrendering wasn’t entirely unacceptable.
As long as they were alive, surrendering with their Mechas might give them a chance to preserve as much hope as possible for the royal bloodline.
This was preparing for the worst-case scenario.
If even the highest commanders and the core force of the Knight Titans held such an attitude, how could the decisive battle be won?
On the third day of the formation of the Alliance’s encirclement, the climax of the second phase of the battle arrived.
And the result of this battle was that one of the six Knight Titans fled—one couldn’t be stopped—and three were destroyed, while two surrendered.
The kingdom’s army undoubtedly suffered an overwhelming defeat.
And this defeat was much larger than the Alliance’s previous two offensive campaigns.
Previously, Perbov had carefully selected and tactically arranged a beautiful pincer attack and repeated the tactic, fully utilizing the Alliance Army’s armored and firepower advantages to conquer half a million of the kingdom’s army, the majority of which were mere foot soldiers, and at most included a significant number of Sentry Mechas, a painful loss for the kingdom’s army but not a crippling blow.
But the results of this battle, which could be called decisive over the past half month, went far beyond just ‘painful.’