Canis, within the asteroid ring surrounding Korhal 4.
This is a small satellite with a diameter of about three million feet (more than 900 kilometers). Its surface gravity is only a dozen times that of Kehal 4, and some are smaller, with carbonaceous and metallic cores.
Planets and ice blocks are surrounded by the gravitational influence of the satellite. These gray-brown asteroids within the locking range of the satellite fortress sentry turret reflect the light of the star, rotating or standing still.
When Lieutenant Colonel Curt Josephine arrived at his garrison in a speedboat equipped with an afterburning accelerator, he could see through the porthole the inter-system space missile that had been densely covered with steel fortresses on its surface.
Dark brown satellite completely covered by launch silos and anti-aircraft missile towers.
This moon named Cannis has given birth to many beautiful fairy tales and poems, and now observers at the observatory can find that its original rocky surface has been transformed beyond recognition, and there are hundreds of towering structures on the moon's surface and back.
Thousands of railguns, railguns and cluster laser weapons are installed on the fortress.
Those solemn and magnificent polygonal fortresses are located among the craters, and are connected by countless underground pipelines, missile launch towers, command centers, radar launch stations and barracks into a huge whole. The ten-foot-thick armor plates of the fortress are reflected in the star light.
Glittering with golden light, the flag of the Korhal Revolutionary Army and the golden wolf flag of the Mengsk family were placed diagonally on the top floor of each fortress, hanging low due to gravity.
Cannis has turned into a giant space fortress, with a huge nuclear fusion reactor buried in its core, which can not only provide energy for all weapons and internal systems, but can also be manually detonated when necessary. On this small satellite, the traces of human modification are
It is so large and majestic that the landscape of Cannith has been permanently changed, and even the gravity and diameter have undergone significant changes.
At this moment, there are about 80,000 Korhal Revolutionary Army soldiers and operators of turrets, missile launch towers and other defense facilities stationed in Cannis and the sixteen orbital stations within twenty miles of it. More than 100% of these people are
Eighty-five of the soldiers are from Kehal 4, and the rest are basically Umo Yang volunteer soldiers.
Josephine's shuttle stopped on the parking platform of a fortress on the far side of the moon. The artificial gravity and internal air circulation system allowed him to walk on flat ground and breathe freely. More than a dozen adjutants, division staff, majors and Umo Yang
The commanders of the volunteer army came towards him one after another. They surrounded Josephine and brought bad news one after another.
"Lieutenant Colonel, there are a total of twenty Behemoth-class battlecruisers." The commander of the Yumoyang Volunteer Army said: "According to the heroes returned from the galaxy telescope and drones, and based on the paintings and prints on the sides of these battleships, these
The fleet should be a mixed fleet of Delta Squadron, Nova Squadron, Beta Squadron and Omega Squadron."
"Their auxiliary fleet is still on its way...According to calculations, the location where Omega Squadron was last seen was a thousand light-years away from Korhal. It can be seen that they are at least three standard Earth circles away.
The jump to the core galaxy begins within."
"The enemy's mixed fleet's flagship is less than two AU (astronomical units) away from Cannae. They have not dispatched detection drones and assault ships. According to their driving speed, it only takes 20 minutes at most to reach the Siren giant planet.
"The revolutionary army has nearly a hundred high-energy gas refineries on that planet." A staff officer said: "And we only have less than 50,000 troops stationed on that planet."
"Who is their commander?" Josephine, wearing a thick school uniform, looked up at the starry sky above her head. After Augustus handed over nearly 20,000 revolutionary soldiers to Josephine half a year ago,
No matter how incompetent he is, he still possesses some leadership qualities.
Josephine was not a famous general who was used to strategizing and was good at fighting. He graduated from Stillling Academy of Arts and knew nothing about leading troops in war, but he knew that he should listen to the opinions of professionals extensively.
, how to manage a huge army in order.
"The flagship is the Nord 1 of the Beta Squadron. According to the information provided by the Umoyan Intelligence Agency, this battlecruiser is commanded by Garth Duke. It is reported that he is related to the famous general of the Federation Navy, Edmund Duke.
Relationship." said the staff officer.
"Maybe they will stop on the giant planet and replenish fuel." Josephine said: "The Federation Navy has already secured the victory, and Gather Duke is a man who likes success. We don't have a fleet that can be used to stop them, so we can only send
Hope and the folly of the Federation fleet commander.”
"Order -" Josephine said: "All fighter planes take off and recharge the fortress's main guns."
"Yes, sir." The order was quickly conveyed without any hesitation.
From the parking platform on the top of the fortress where Josephine was standing, he could see the Avengers fighter planes with vermillion primer paint and gold stripes driving out of the electromagnetic projection track of the fortress. Thousands of fighter planes were like sharp swords.
Take off.
At this time, there was darkness on the far side of the moon in Cannis, with faint lights flickering on the fortresses. The ice-blue plasma thruster flames of the Avengers fighter jets were like dots of light rising up one after another. The fighter jets flying out from the other side of the satellite were like
It is a comet that passes by a satellite.
An interceptor carrier about a thousand feet (three hundred meters) long sailed past Cannis under the cover of the Avengers fleet, and ten frigates converted from Fomorian-class frigates were arranged horizontally behind the mothership. These
The battleships are only a dozen miles away from the ground in Cannis. From the fortress, they look like countless stars.
This is the only fleet we have.
There was almost no chance that these warships and fighter planes could successfully return home. All pilots and warship crew members set sail with the determination to die.
Josephine thought sadly and sadly: If you were here, Augustus, what would you do. We don't have a fleet, so we can only be passively beaten. The outcome of Korhal 4 has been doomed from the moment of the rebellion.
Although Josephine is an open-minded person by nature, even he can feel a tragic sense of mission at this moment. Everyone who fights alongside him is ready to sacrifice for Korhal. Josephine
Fin originally thought that great people did not exist. He never realized that more than one million Korhal soldiers possessed such noble moral character and willingness to sacrifice.
At critical junctures for the survival of the race, many ordinary but great people will always emerge among us.
These revolutionary soldiers are not re-socialized soldiers. They have sound and independent personalities. They have their own thoughts. Of course they are also afraid. Many of them were just the sons and daughters of workers and farmers before they carried Gauss rifles.
Some of them even act selfishly in their daily lives, but they remain on Korhal.
Everyone knew what they were going to face, and if the Federation wanted Korhal 4 to be reduced to ashes, then they would all be reduced to ashes.
"Where is General Mengsk's fleet?" Josephine said, putting on a military coat handed over by her subordinates, and walked down the spiral staircase leading to the interior of the fortress from the parking platform.
"The fifth-level encrypted communication one day ago mentioned that the First Fleet has arrived in the mty324586 system, which is less than six light-years away from the planet Dela 4 where the Dellarian Shipyard is located. They have arrived now." Approximately.
A young lieutenant of Serphin said: "Even if the intelligence department of the Terran Federation can find this one among millions of puppet messages, it will take several days to completely decipher it."
"If everything goes well." Josephine walked down the spiral staircase and entered the command center: "Presumably the members of the Tarsonis Federation Council will already be crying for their fathers and mothers by this time."
The fortresses of Cannis are all built using modular panels. Each one is equivalent to the Howe Fortress in Turasis 2. It can accommodate 5,000 fully armed Revolutionary Army soldiers.
A shelter to withstand a Category 4 nuclear blast.
Along the way, Josephine saw many Revolutionary Army soldiers patrolling the corridors. So far, the Revolutionary Army still only had starter armor for officers, so the private soldiers were still wearing ordinary dark gray uniforms, with boat-shaped caps and armbands.
Since the Keha Revolutionary Army is not a loose organization with the nature of a peasant rebel army, it is written into the oath of enlistment that junior officers and soldiers must salute immediately when they see senior officers. Therefore, the soldiers saluted immediately after seeing Josephine.
And with a serious and respectful expression. This is a well-disciplined army, and Josephine is sincerely proud of being able to command such an army.
Josephine never thought that she could become a school officer. She had had many sweet dreams and nightmares, but none of them could compare to the magic in reality. Josephine probably never thought that one day she would be in such a capacity.
Standing here, a year ago he was just an ordinary federal marine, and his only idea was to join the army to avoid the limelight.
When Josephine was young, he was considered an incurable playboy. His mother, Mrs. Josephine, was even so angry that she was bedridden because of her son's dissoluteness. Josephine herself never repented or had any regrets.
After changing his mind, his life was probably like this, dying as a Marine in an unknown battle on an unknown battlefield.
No one cares, no one mourns.
Compared with his old boss Augustus, Josephine was much more of a bastard when she was young. Among the old lovers she abandoned were noble ladies with excellent family backgrounds, Ph.D.s in colleges and universities, and leaders of the Stillling underworld.
My only daughter, I can’t remember all the countless one-night stands.
Anyway, by the time Josephine came to his senses, the hired killers were already eager to chop off his head. In order to prevent his family from suffering, Josephine had to join the army.
It doesn't really matter if he dies in the Federation Marines. A scum like him will just die.
But Josephine survived in the end. The war forged his strong will, and the friendship between the team somewhat reshaped his sense of responsibility that might not have existed at all. The experience of the Demon in Paradise taught Josephine about the relationship between people.
A strong and indivisible collective can also be formed in time. So Josephine began to regain the past that she had escaped from, trying to make up for the wrong things she had done.
Before this battle, Josephine could have escaped with the last batch of colonial spaceships evacuating the Korhal system, but he did not do that. Josephine's aging father also joined the Korhal Revolutionary Army and was on Korhal at this time.
Served in the First Fleet of the Revolutionary Army.
The Josephine family is the nobles of Korhal. The nobles of Korhal have always stood between the people and disaster. Just like those knight lords who have been eliminated by the times but still pick up their armor, pick up their giant swords and mount their war horses,
The nobles in the colonies who are much younger than Korhal and Tarsonis can still see the blood left over from their ancestors.
The reason for Josephine's stay is simple. Just like Lundstein, he is a Korhal, and he is also an heir to the old Korhal aristocracy. If outsiders like Harnak and Lisa are willing to stay,
If they came down to fight for Korhal, they would consider themselves cowards for fleeing.
Among the generals who were born in the Demons of Heaven, only Josephine and Lundstein were Korhal nobles who were born and raised here. Their ancestors swore an oath to protect their people in the early colonial era. Although this oath is now
The glory it brought has long since dissipated, but almost every noble who survived the wave of the Korhal Revolution sent their children to the battlefield, and those who had no heirs took up arms themselves.
"What do you need us to do?" said a young revolutionary soldier, probably in his early sixteen years.
"Stay at your post, soldier." Josephine could feel that the young soldier was very nervous, and his legs were even shaking slightly. No one forced him to stand here, and he was determined to do this today
The place fights in this way depends entirely on its own will.
"Fight for Korhal!" the young warrior suddenly saluted, "I'm ready to die."
"Fight for Korhal!"
"Fight for the beautiful Korhal, for our ancestral homeland." Josephine said as she walked into the command center. In front of the console in front of a huge radar map and star map, there were about twenty radar monitors.
The members are talking at the same time.
A Behemoth-class battlecruiser of the Tyranid Federation Navy appeared on the radar scan, with a dangerous red light flashing on the bow, and the rest of the battleships followed closely behind.
"If this is just the vanguard, sir." Looking at the radar chart glowing with dark green light, a major officer said, "How many more fleets are there to follow?"
"What is that?" Suddenly, a radar monitor shouted.
Josephine followed the sound and saw the artificial intelligence in the command center's notes on the dense red dots on the radar map: missiles or other small flying objects, some of which were probably empty bombs used to confuse the field of vision.
After their explosion, the fragments traveling at high speed in the vacuum appear as dozens of reflected signal sources in radar images.
"A dense swarm of long-range missiles and space torpedoes, with more than four thousand signal sources, and more."
"But the Federation fleet is far away from one point and five astronomical units - another fleet, Zeta Squadron -"
“There’s a nuclear bomb in there—”
"Apocalyptic."
"One hundred pieces - there are one hundred more - three hundred pieces - the Holy Son is on top, four hundred pieces -"
"Intercepting——"
All Cannis' anti-aircraft missile towers and all kinetic energy weapons began to fire. In the near-vacuum environment, everything was quiet. Josephine and his men could only see thousands of fire points firing at the same time, and the light
shine.
"It can't be stopped," Josephine said. "I hope they only bring so many nuclear bombs."
In space wars, nuclear bombs may be a less efficient weapon. Nuclear explosions in a vacuum environment do not produce shock waves, and the light pressure generated is negligible. Therefore, they cannot cause the mechanical impact of explosions in the atmosphere. All its energy will be
Released in the form of radiation and electromagnetic pulses.
However, just like what Josephine saw, at the very center of the detonation of the apocalyptic nuclear bomb, the extremely high temperature electromagnetic waves caused the steel fortress on the surface of the Canis satellite to begin to melt, as if it were a melting sugar cube.