That night, the large-scale instance—a massive battle scenario simulating the liberation of Gui Xu City, involving nearly a hundred thousand military personnel and civilians from the mining base, along with several million NPCs—got off to a very smooth start.
As in the previous simulations, once the battle began, Viking fighters, Liberator gunships, Banshees, and other air support units roared across the sky. After fiercely bombing and blocking off the designated primary attack zones, as well as the areas where the daemons might send reinforcements, they almost instantly turned the entire western part of the city into a sea of blazing fires, divided into isolated pockets.
Then the first assault squads were dropped, one after another, into the separated zones of rubble by countless Medivacs and other transports. They immediately began setting up positions or launching guerrilla attacks to pin down the daemons, who were still reeling from the bombardment, and prevent the monsters from regrouping.
Next!
Under the cover of charging ground armor of all sizes—the Siege Tanks, Hellions, Spider Mines, Cyclone missile launchers, and even the large, medium, and small mechs such as Thors, whose guns thundered as they advanced—the Marines, the most numerous troops in the human army, charged forward in their CMC Powered Combat Suits, armed with Gauss rifles and all kinds of other weapons. Together with the other light and heavy infantry units, they smashed through the daemons' defenses with ease and stormed the ruins of Gui Xu City, where the daemons had been entrenched for days. Before long, they were locked in fierce street fighting with the vicious, savage Warp Daemons among the ruins of the western district.
However!
Quite unexpectedly, unlike in the previous simulations, the moment they pushed into the area where the daemons of the former Crimson Skull Cult had been entrenched,