Chapter 687: Chapter 389, Capturing Planet_4
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However, regardless of how many are willing to buy in, the internal chaos within the United Government has brought him immense trouble.
The Defense Army forces he had managed to muster in a short period had gathered in Starport City. He had originally planned to retake the capital region, but the rate at which other Defense Army units responded to the call and assembled was painfully slow.
And most crucially, the speed at which all sorts of military supplies and logistics were arriving was also not fast enough.
In the short term, he simply had no strength to launch a counterattack.
As if that weren’t enough, while he was sweating bullets coordinating troops from all quarters, a force of several hundred thousand troops had unexpectedly pushed out from the capital region.
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The Defense Army in the capital hadn’t just failed to resist; they had outright defected!
This was something he had not anticipated!
Before he could even properly establish his defensive lines, his troops had already been struck.
And the attack was so fierce that the troops loyal to him couldn’t withstand it at all!
Cai Minjin knew that he couldn’t leave the first battle to the recently subdued capital Defense Army. Should they face a tough battle and suffer setbacks, the already low morale would collapse completely, and the troops might doubt whether their choice to follow him had been correct.
Thus, for the first battle, he still relied on his old assets.
Among the troops he brought to the surface, besides three large infantry divisions, there was also an armored division. Needless to say, within the armored division, there were Lion Tanks, but most critically, it also included a Lion King Tank.
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At the same time, three Lion King Tanks from the capital Defense Army—all acquired externally by the Fatches government forces—had also been pulled out by him and manned with his own tank crews.
Four Lion Kings, leading a cluster of Lion Tanks, launched a fierce assault on Starport City.
Under the formidable armored force, the troops on the outskirts of Starport City, who were completely unprepared for defense, crumbled upon the first strike; within Starport City itself, they barely managed to organize a street fighting defense, and relying on the fairly decent defensive fire power of the city’s bastions, they were able to somewhat block the advance of Cai Minjin’s troops.
Even so, due to some over-eagerness, one of the Lion King Tanks was destroyed during the street battle.
However, at the critical moment, it was the Interstellar Warriors who stood out.
Cai Minjin had no authority to command the Phoenix’s Interstellar Warriors, but Kalduce, the centenarian soldier, had an exceptional sense for warfare. He needed no one’s direction and could easily identify the crucial aspects of the current battle situation.
He personally led his company, under the cover of an assault by part of the Star Realm Army’s armored units, deep into enemy territory, capturing multiple bastions and destroying two enemy command posts as well as a temporary ammunition depot.
Suffering critical damage and witnessing the arrival of The Emperor’s Death Angels, who were indeed as invincible as legends suggested, the defending army of Starport City collapsed.
If they had been half-convinced before, wondering if they had truly become traitors to the empire or if they had been deceived by the Fatches Family’s political propaganda, the arrival of the Interstellar Warriors destroyed all such beliefs.
How many soldiers loyal to the empire could accept being enemies with The Emperor’s Angels?
Their morale completely shattered, and mass surrenders began occurring.
Starport City thus fell to the loyalist forces of the Star Realm Army; the entire process didn’t take more than five hours. Although sporadic resistance remained in certain areas, it no longer affected the overall situation.
The Defense Army marshal had attempted to flee at the last moment, but with the Phoenix’s forces there, there was no escaping.
Kalduce, the company commander, personally captured this ‘highest successor’ and the ‘supreme commander,’ who had only assumed office a few hours before, and executed him publicly.
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Thank you to [Trailblazing Axe] for the second chief patron! Much gratitude!
Having a chief patron is, of course, delightful!
But… the previous chief patron’s debt hasn’t been settled yet, and here comes another…
I can only say… it’s a pleasurable pain.
This chapter is 6.2k words; still owe 9k. Add today’s [Trailblazing Axe], the second chief patron, another 20k, so now I owe 29k.
My goodness! The debt increases… It might not be cleared within January, and I have to travel for business for two weeks before the year ends…
I’ll strive to settle it by February!
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