Korhal's Lament

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Korhal galaxy, Korhal IV star second satellite, Ursadon.

Ursadon is a small dark brown satellite with a diameter of more than 3.6 million feet (about 1100 kilometers). Like its sister satellite Canis, the surface of this satellite has been transformed into a super military fortress with dense fortresses, electromagnetic railguns and anti-aircraft missile launch towers, and star port cities.

With the largest satellite Ursadon as the center, another satellite and the Korhal orbital platform Sky Shield II and III as the fulcrum formed a blockade Confederacy Fleets's firepower network has a total of about 1.9 million Korhal Revolutionary Army stationed. Each high-altitude orbital defense platform has more than two thousand sentry unmanned attack aircraft and automatic turrets.

Even so, Korhal Revolutionary Army is still extremely difficult to deal with the war's four Confederacy Fleets, more than sixty Leviathan and Behemoth-class, and thousands of attached Fleets ships.

The main reason why Confederacy Fleets was able to inflict heavy damage on the guarding army of Korhal in a short period of time was that they were not stingy about using nuclear weapons, let alone the negative effects of nuclear weapons.

Just as Angus·Mengsk can see on the main screen of the command center of another satellite Ursadon:

Just ten minutes after Confederacy Fleets appeared, Canis, which was on the other side of Korhal's orbit, suffered a devastating blow. From several Confederacy The signal emitted by Fleets interferes with the electromagnetic wave and is paralyzed by the electromagnetic wave. Judging from the images sent back by the Revolutionary Army military orbiting satellite, Canis is being distorted by the high temperature.

Angus·Mengsk, who was wearing an ordinary dark gray Revolutionary Army officer uniform, had a twitching nose, and there were many wrinkles on his clear-cut face. He had never paced back and forth as much as he did today.

This also indicates that the commander of Canis, Curt Josephine, the descendant of the oldest noble of Korhal, and more than 80,000 soldiers under his command were sacrificed in these few seconds. They and their many colorful lives and ambitions have become a thing of the past, and more and more families have lost irreplaceable relatives forever.

Human beings are a race with emotions. The trauma caused by war is permanent for their short life, and the trauma can never be healed.

Angus·Mengsk realized that he had made a huge mistake. He once compared the Confederacy government and the political interest groups and monopoly aristocrats it represented to an evil dragon, but he underestimated the cruelty of this evil dragon.

The reality is far more unrealistic than fake news. Now it seems that if Old Families is not based on absolutely indifferent considerations, then they are truly irritated by the failure of the assassination of Angus.

Not only did the assassination fail, Angus also had sufficient evidence to prove that Confederacy was afraid of himself. So, this just shows that the Confederacy government and Angus were so afraid that they had to resort to such despicable methods.

The popularity and prestige of Angus and the new ideas and new regime he represents among Terran Confederacy have also increased with the fierce criticism and smear campaign by UNN Universe News Network and UNN Universe TV.

Gradually, after Confederate Congress's decision to use Apocalypse-class Nuclear Missile to destroy Korhal was exposed, there are as many people who believe that Angus and the Korhal Revolutionary Army he represents are the evil thugs described in official propaganda as those who believe that the Confederacy government is inhumane.

What the Confederacy government wants to do is to solve the problem of Korhal once and for all. Instead of spending time and money to regain control of Korhal over several generations, it would be much more convenient to destroy it permanently.

No matter how tragic the bloodshed and sacrifices of the revolution were, Angus never thought of the possibility that Korhal's entire planet would be destroyed by a nuclear strike. But even so, Angus would never regret the decision he made.

As early as the era of Grandpa Angus, Mengsk Family was dissatisfied with the Confederacy government's policy of strengthening the power of the central government and exploiting its colonies. This prestigious family has always regarded its own power as equal to its duty to protect the people.--Although so far Angus seems to have only brought war and suffering to his people.

At the moment when Canis was destroyed, there was an uncontrollable sob in the Ursadon satellite command center where Angus was located. He was an ordinary information technology soldier.

Angus and the generals around him could not blame him. The soldier's father and all his brothers were on Canis.

"Activate all missile interception weapons. As long as a nuclear bomb falls on our head, we will all be doomed." In the time of sighing, Angus didn't need to say anything more. Colonel Londerstein beside him had already issued the order.

While several soldiers helped the technician down who was crying uncontrollably, twelve more Confederacy Behemoth-class Battlecruiser made a short jump to the Ursadon satellite. All battlecruisers were painted in black and red, and the huge inverted U-shaped logo attracted attention.

The moment they appeared, the missile ejection bays of these battlecruisers ejected missiles flying all over the sky. The laser weapons plowed shocking scratches on the dozens of feet thick shaped ceramic steel and new alloy armor plates of Ursadon's military fortress.

"Lock those battlecruisers and confirm their unit numbers." When commander Londerstein gave the order to the officer in the missile tower control center, Angus turned his head and said to a Revolutionary Army technician in front of the main screen console.

The flagship bridge of Confederacy Fleets gradually enlarged on the main screen of the command center. After a few seconds, an X-shaped skull logo appeared in front of everyone.

"Omega Squadron." The adjutant in the command center began to mechanically read the information entries provided by the Umojan agent organization:

"Skeletons of the Dead, Black Skeletons, Death's Head, Legion of Death. This is a Fleets wandering around Dylar System, and their main base is in Dylar System Dela IV is located inside the territory of Terran Confederacy. This is an army mainly composed of Resocialized Soldier, and its soldiers come from prison planets all over Terran Confederacy."

"While washing away the antisocial personalities of these criminals and reprogramming their memories, the 'doctors' in the Terran Confederacy resocialization factory retained the most aggressive aspects of these criminals' personalities, allowing them to activate the craziest parts of their personalities under instructions from their commanders when necessary, and massacre Confederacy's enemies in the most brutal and brutal way."

"It is reported that the doctors amplified the sinful personalities of some of these people during the transformation, so that at the end of the battle, friendly forces may find Omega Squadron marines and airborne soldiers lying on the corpses of Kel-Morian people to feast, eat raw human flesh, use the enemy's liver as a barbecue or desecrate the enemy's corpse - such weird, cruel and twisted cases are often closely related to the reasons why they were imprisoned."

"Terran Confederacy is transforming living humans into weapons." Angus silently watched as the interceptor missiles in the Ursadon satellite base and the missiles of Omega Squadron collided with each other in mid-air, forming a gorgeous scene composed of continuous explosions of light spots.

What can be found is that although some missiles fall on the military fortresses on the Revolutionary Army and Ursadon satellites from time to time, less than 5% of the missiles that land on the satellite's surface carry nuclear warheads.

These nuclear bombs destroyed Revolutionary Army's military fortresses one after another, and even shook the geological structure, but Ursadon would not be directly destroyed like its own sister planet Canis.

It can be seen that the number of nuclear bombs carried by Confederacy Fleets is not large enough for them to squander it unscrupulously.

From the intermittent communication signals, Angus learned that two other high-altitude orbital defense platforms and a space-based weapons station had been surrounded by Confederacy Fleets, and the enemy seemed to have more ammunition than they could use up, and they were bombing them indiscriminately.

The command center is completely closed, and Angus can only closely monitor the battle situation above Ursadon through the camera outside the fortress. Omega Squadron's battlecruiser is parked on the satellite, and after two hours of non-stop bombing, their attack gradually subsided.

Both sides are consuming their own ammunition and weapon energy reserves on a large scale. From time to time, diffuse circular light spots appear on the surface of Ursadon, which come from the destroyed Revolutionary Army fortresses one after another.

At this time, the commander of Confederacy Fleets had to admit that it was indeed difficult for them to break through the Korhal Revolutionary Army's defense in a short period of time. The Korhal people had spent more than ten years of weapons and resource reserves on this defensive battle, and established several unparalleled defense base stations in space.

As early as a year ago, Umojan began to transport military supplies and a considerable amount of advanced artificial intelligence and robot manufacturing research and development technology to Korhal IV through trade routes.

The Umojan government's economic subsidy plan was also the main reason why Korhal was able to develop steadily economically during the Guild Wars period. To be precise, the unnatural growth of the Korhal economy during the war was also related to Umojan's large-scale blood transfusions.

Both the army and the military factory were organized and built by Umojan people with the help of Korhal people. Not only that, Umojan also tried its best to assist Korhal engineers by delivering spare parts and resources to build high-altitude orbital defense platforms and space-based weapon stations in half a year.

If Korhal relied on their own power alone, they could not even prevent Confederacy Fleets from swaggering into the Korhal galaxy to carry out orbital bombing and deliver nuclear bombs.

After spending six hours destroying one-third of the buildings on the surface of Ursadon, Omega Squadron also paid a certain price. Five of the twelve battlecruisers were severely damaged by the powerful firepower of anti-aircraft missiles and pulse cannons with extremely long ranges that could even hit Korhal's homeland.

But since Revolutionary Army does not have Fleets that can deal a fatal blow to these severely damaged battlecruisers, Angus can only watch these damaged battleships sail away or be towed away by large ships using tractor beams.

From the beginning of the war to Confederacy Fleets had a comprehensive ceasefire for more than twelve hours. During this period, Omega Squadron and other Fleets did not send any landing troops. When Omega Squadron's ship sailed out of a safe distance and parked quietly in deep space, many soldiers of the Revolutionary Army breathed a sigh of relief. They almost thought that Confederacy Fleets It is necessary to give up before the difficulties.

Even though he knew basically nothing about the war, Angus was still keenly aware that Confederacy Fleets was either planning a new attack method, or he wanted to completely block Ursadon and the high-altitude orbital defense platform, but he was only besieging but not attacking.

"Confederacy The commander of Fleets is in no hurry to defeat us in a short time." Colonel Londerstein handed over a dry towel.

"What are the casualties, Colonel." Angus wiped the sweat from his face with a towel and looked at Londerstein.

Angus admired this young officer who was not much older than his second son. He was a descendant of a noble family and a general whom Augustus trusted deeply.

In terms of commanding the army, Londerstein is not outstanding in all aspects. He is not a genius general, but he is better because he is calm and can carry out Augustus's orders to the letter.

If the detailed combat plan is given to Londerstein, he will definitely follow the steps and make it watertight. But unfortunately, we all know that the situation in war is always unpredictable.

"Based on five thousand people per fortress, we have lost at least 300,000 soldiers, Speaker Angus." Londerstein's face turned blue. He could not remain indifferent to this. Many of the Revolutionary Army soldiers who died in the battle today were his classmates.

"Hmm--" Angus was about to say that he wanted to build a monument for these Revolutionary Army soldiers who died in the war, but he immediately realized that this was not the political forum or podium that he was familiar with.

Regardless of the lost soldiers and family members, he does not need to promise anything anymore.

"Maybe they want to besiege us for a long time." Londerstein said with an ugly expression, "There are not enough synthetic food and hydroponic crop factories here. As long as Confederacy Fleets besieges us for a week, the soldiers will starve. After two weeks, the combat effectiveness will drop significantly. By the third week, the army will tend to collapse."

"No, if they don't want a quick victory, then this is exactly what we want." Angus shook his head and said.

But the changes that followed were beyond both of their expectations, because they were able to notice that Omega Squadron actually left three battlecruisers that could not enter the jump orbit and entered the hyperspace channel.

Within a few minutes, all Fleets had jumped away from the Korhal system, leaving behind seven abandoned battlecruisers.

An intercepted encrypted signal was playing what Speaker Confederate Congress said, "All Fleets, return Tarsonis immediately!"

"They retreated! Haha - Korhal IV is saved!" People in the command center hugged each other. They could guess what was happening at this moment. Just as planned, Fleets of Augustus must have successfully raided Tarsonis.

Angus's smile disappeared briefly, and he immediately ordered, "Point the satellite's camera at Korhal!"

The laughter and laughter of the Revolutionary Army soldiers in the command center came to an abrupt end.

There are several light spots visible to the naked eye on the main screen, part of Confederacy when Revolutionary Army and Confederacy Fleets are fighting in space Fleets is already carrying out their mission of delivering nuclear bombs to Korhal - but judging from the currently detected explosion points, there are actually not as many as a thousand as expected. A considerable part of the nuclear bombs that were supposed to be delivered to Korhal fell on Canis, Ursadon and the two high-altitude orbital defense platforms.

The impact of this is that Korhal did not turn into a black crystal without any integrity like the original timeline. Most areas were not even affected in a short period of time.

Confederacy Fleets Only about one hundred and fifty to two hundred Apocalypse-class Nuclear Missile were delivered to the ground, but the landing points of these nuclear bombs were not random.

Korhal IV Almost all major cities and industrial areas have been targeted by nuclear bombs. The black smoke rising from the explosion point will enter the sky ten miles high. The black clouds will cut off the sunlight for a long time, causing the temperature in Korhal to plummet for several months.

Within a few years, Korhal will fall into a cold nuclear winter. More than 95% of the animals and plants on the surface will be extinct due to drastic climate changes and strong nuclear radiation. The lush and beautiful Korhal will no longer exist.

In the next few centuries or even longer, this planet will no longer be suitable for human habitation unless it undergoes large-scale environmental modification.

"No matter what, we have to leave Korhal." Angus said, looking at the planet with dazzling spots blooming on the home screen.

"Let us bury those who died today and set sail."

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