By 7 a.m. on the 20th, the sky cleared up, and the steep, almost vertical rock wall on one side of the desolate canyon was bathed in the cold sunlight, while the other side was still dim.
Augustus, wearing the commander's power armor, stood in a command center at the forefront of the bottleneck position, looking towards the main battlefield a few miles away. Standing beside him were ghost agent Sarah Kerrigan and his guard commander.
Corporal Faraday.
This has almost become the standard image of a revolutionary army marshal when he appears. Whether he is wearing a dark gray thick woolen military coat like a cape or wearing power armor, there must be a common-faced corporal and a red-haired agent beside him.
Sometimes Raynor, Tychus or other revolutionary generals would follow Augustus to survey the terrain in Mar Sara and formulate battle plans. But as long as Augustus was there, Corporal Faraday and Kerrigan would definitely
will appear, and the reverse is also true.
Thousands of transport planes and small and medium-sized spacecraft were flying at a low altitude of 2,000 feet, traveling between the battlefield and the field hospital near the Martin Fortress command center, carrying seriously injured people and medical soldiers in urgent need of rescue.
In addition to the APOD series military transport ships standard by the federal army, nearly two-thirds of them are civilian spacecraft rented by the revolutionary army. Most civilian spacecraft are painted in dark yellow and black, with various styles, ranging from
They range from elegant butterfly shapes to disc-shaped beetles.
Some spacecraft thrusters are still emitting black smoke. This is because the locals of Mar Sara still use illegally mined and privately refined gas fuel. Until now, the planet still implements an almost strict fuel policy.
Due to the limited time and limited supply policy, smuggled gas that is cheap but not pure enough has become the first choice for many residents of edge worlds.
The residents near the desolate canyon have a far better impression of the revolutionary army than Governor Mar Sara and the government troops of the Alpha Squadron who arrived. They are willing to lend their illegally modified small spaceships to the revolutionary army, as long as the revolutionary army can pay.
Affordable for the negligible gas bill.
Below the bottleneck position is a ramp with a gap of several hundred feet. From Augustus's position, one can see convoys carrying lightly wounded people and captured supplies rumbling up the ramp.
Armored personnel carriers, starport buses, factory trucks, heavy-duty trucks used to transport crystal mines, and many trucks carrying grains from local farmers in Marsala drove past Augustus one after another, and the road was smoothed by road rollers.
After passing through the canyon, drive out of the canyon toward the south.
Most of these trucks coming from Augustus were full of wounded. Soldiers who had taken off their armor lay scattered in the truck bed. Almost everyone was wrapped in blood-stained bandages and hugged their rifles. The more seriously injured Revolutionary Army soldiers
The soldiers who were drowsy but still awake were silent.
Behind the convoy full of wounded were heavy trucks pulling heavy artillery, ranging from rail cannons with a caliber of more than 150mm, howitzers to rocket launchers. Augustus alone could count 500 of them, which was enough for Augustus.
All are armed with a reorganized artillery brigade under the marshal's command.
Then there were trucks loaded with CMC-powered armor, ammunition supply boxes and heavy machine guns. Both sides of the convoy were full of Revolutionary Army soldiers advancing on foot. Each Revolutionary Army soldier was separated by twenty or thirty yards, with a middle
He was a disarmed Alpha Squadron soldier, wearing only a black and white combat uniform.
In the pre-dawn battle, Augustus's revolutionary army finally defeated Alpha Squadron's landing force, and at the same time seized nearly 10,000 well-preserved sets of CMC-300 power armor and more Federal Marine Corps standard ammunition, leaving only the remaining
The thousands of sets of power armor that were purchased could be repaired and reused by Rory Swann and Hiram Fike.
At the same time, more than 200 arc-light tanks and more than 160 Goliath armed robots of Alpha Squadron, which inflicted heavy losses on the Revolutionary Army during the battle, were also captured. The remaining armored vehicles and infantry combat vehicles used by Alpha Squadron as carriers,
The total number of reconnaissance vehicles and Vulture motorcycles reached 2,000, and the harvest was astonishing.
By this time, with the surrender of Alpha Squadron's active flagship Norad III, the battle in Mar Sara's synchronous orbit also came to an end. The Revolutionary Army's fleet was defeated with only two Leviathan-class battlecruisers seriously damaged.
Defeated Alpha Squadron's fleet.
Four Behemoth-class battlecruisers of the Alpha fleet were destroyed, two battlecruisers, including the Norad III and the Napoleon, surrendered, and the remaining five jumped away from the Sara system.
"How many people were killed in the battle?" Augustus waved to a truck going away, maintaining his steely and determined expression, and asked Kerrigan beside him.
"Less than 8,000 people, and more than 30,000 wounded." Kerrigan said carefully choosing her words: "The number of casualties of Alpha Squadron compared with ours is about one to two, but the number of killed in battle is more than ours. Their equipment
Better than us, with more firepower."
Compared with the number of soldiers put into the battlefield by the Revolutionary Army and Alpha Squadron, the casualty ratio of the Revolutionary Army was not as high as that of Alpha Squadron. In fact, the number of deaths of Alpha Squadron was close to the number of participants in the battle. Those who survived were only because they accepted Du
Order to surrender.
"Resocialized soldiers are a bunch of lunatics. They would rather shed their blood to continue fighting and ignore the cries of their wounded comrades. They are just cheap consumables. In comparison, the equipment on these people is more
valuable."
"Take them all back." Augustus said: "I can't bury them here, I want to take them home."
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He always keeps a serious smile on his face.
"Notify the newly formed body disposal office that I need them to transport the ashes of the soldiers back to Umoyan." At this point, Augustus was silent for a few seconds.
"Soldiers from the Port of the Dead - follow the advice of their families. If no one takes them, then bury the Hong Kong soldiers who died in the battle in the Heroic Cemetery in New Steelling, Umoyan. Wait until we rebuild Korhal
, and then bury them in Stillling——"
"I forgot, Stirling no longer exists." Augustus said: "Then he will be buried in the cemetery of the new capital."
After saying this, Augustus stopped talking, because he was seeing a green vulture chariot in the distance, riding past the convoy and heading straight for Augustus.
When the Vulture stopped in front of Augustus with a beautiful turn, Jim Raynor jumped out with Mira Han in her back seat.
"This is the most tragic battle I have ever fought." Renault said sadly.