Chapter 59 (1/2)

Chapter 59: All on the Line

The war had broken out in the desert!

More than 12 thousand espers soldiers rushed out of the Atlantic. They have been supressing their rage for a long time, and now they all ran out like a group of mad dogs towards those raiders that were in the middle of having fun.

In the past few months, Earth was under constant attack from these outlaws and suffered great casualties.

Now, the only way out was laid in front of the soldiers from Earth: if they wanted to prevent these tragedies from happening again, they have to eliminate all these enemies in front of them right now! Stomp them until they no longer dared to set foot on Earth.

Rumble!

Just as the soldiers flooded towards the enemies, the Atlantic also began its violent battle with the pirate battleships.

Although the interception bomb could paralyze the engine, it couldn’t interfere with the energy and weapon systems so the battleships could still fire their cannons.

The Atlantic opened up its four missile launchers and fired towards the sky, bombarding those battleships that were stuck. It also started firing its heavy cannon into the sky even though, at the same time the Atlantic was also under heavy fire from enemy ground fire. As Earth’s only battleship, it had no choice but to rely on its energy shield and thick metal armor to defend against the enemy attacks.

The battle situation was very tricky, Atlantic chose to not target ground units and focused all their effort on bringing down the 4 destroyers and 8 frigates in the air. This was a strange tactic, because the raiders had more battleships parked on the ground, there were at least 6 destroyers and 19 frigates.

The Atlantic’s firepower strength was undoubtedly powerful. Its primary cannons could one shot an enemy frigate, and its heavy canons only needed 7-8 shots to sink an enemy frigate. Although the enemy’s destroyers had very tough defenses, against the cruiser class warship’s heavy firepower, they could hardly last more than 30 seconds under the Atlantic’s full onslaught.

However, even if the Atlantic could completely shoot down all the enemy battleships in space, what about the other 25 parked on the ground? Now their cannons were all locked onto the Atlantic, under the siege of so many enemy ships, the Atlantic’s energy defense system started quickly depleting. Could Long Chuan be planning on giving up Earth’s only battleship?

On the ground battle, the one leading the charge was the United Government’s 1st Legion, personally led by Long Chuan. Han and his Wolf Fang squad was placed behind the 1st Legion, and behind them were the special tactic squads from difference major branches of the Esper Administration.

This was also an arrangement that Han couldn’t get his head around. Placing the crucial squad that could both attack and defend in the rear, Han could still understand. Long Chuan didn’t want to lose the young talents that were Earth’s hope of competing in the Milky Way Gathering, so he wanted them to execute coordination and support missions.

But what about the special tactics squad?

Different from the 1st Legion, Special Tactics troops were the senior troops on Earth and they have been cooperating with each other for years. Other than the fact that they were smaller with only 2000 members, their fighting strength was ahead of the 1st Legion for sure.

However, Long Chuan placed such a strong army in the very rear rather than having them lead the charge, it didn’t meet the conventional tactical arrangements.

Rumble~

Kill them!

Suddenly, the 1st Legion that was leading the charge had collided with the enemy. Large-scale battles among espers were very cruel. Both sides had powers, fire balls, ice arrows, tornadoes, all kinds of super powers appeared, and the chaos and anxiety of this battle was far from being comparable to conventional wars.

According to Long Chuan’s arrangement, the two wings of Earth Federation Army consisted of espers that specialized in long range attacks, and the center assault troop primarily consisted of strength descent espers, the Monk that was good friends with Han was placed in the central assault team. This arrangement was conducive to strengthening fire coverage as it was also the typical blitzkrieg tactic.

Bang~

As the leader of the Wolf Fang squad, Han was not only responsible for assault, but he also needed to constantly observe their surroundings and maintain a clear head.

Just when he turned around to see how the Special tactic troops were doing, he was suddenly shot in the chest. The bullet hit his black Kylin suit and Han felt a burning pain. The outlaws began to use firearms to prevent the 1st Legion from advancing.