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Chapter 815: Chapter 446, Mutinous Star Warriors_2

Very unusual.

If it were only members of the Marine Corps, that would be one thing, but there was an entire squad of the Phoenix leading the team.

Even if the battle was intense and the mission difficult, they were Interstellar Warriors, how could they disappear without a sound?

Then, the commander on the Starship received information from the ground operatives.

They reported that the Phoenix and the Marine squad had encountered an accident, with rebel forces capable of information interference, resulting in the special task squad being surrounded by enemy forces and unable to contact the higher ups. Reinforcements were urgently needed on the ground.

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The commander on the Starship was worried but, after much deliberation, decided to send in more reinforcements.

Missiles were fired again at the enemy’s gathered position, followed by a new team of Phoenix leading elite Marines to the surface.

This time, their goal wasn’t even to eliminate the enemy’s leader or strike at the rebel heart, but merely to cover the previously landed troops and evacuate them via transport craft.

Yet, the outcome of this reinforcement effort was still far from ideal, as the team quickly lost contact after landing.

At this point, the situation was serious.

The ground operatives reported back with updates and requested reinforcements again, but the commander, already suspicious from the previous round, was not going to be fooled a third time.

On one hand, he reassured the ground operatives, and on the other hand, he contacted the superior unit of that group of operatives, reporting the situation upwards.

Then, a new group of operatives descended, and quickly concluded that the previous group had defected. It was feared that the two waves of elite troops, now likely faced grim odds.

The commander on the Starship was furious.

But he also had some doubts.

Defection of operatives… was it that easy to defect? What could a group of native rebels on a planet offer to tempt the special operatives trained by the Alliance’s three major intelligence agencies to defect?

Even if they had defected, luring elite Alliance forces to land, but how could dozens of Phoenix and hundreds of Marines be so easily wiped out?

Even with fewer numbers and lacking heavy equipment, if they couldn’t win or were surrounded, how could they be wiped out so quickly?

The commanders above no longer considered the possibility that the troops on the ground were still alive, just cut off from communication.

Very low.

Those defection operatives kept sending out false information, aiming to lure more Phoenixes, more human forces to descend. They didn’t seem worried about their scheme backfiring; their attitude was more like, ‘the more you send, the more I’ll consume.’

Were these rebels that strong?

However, it was now time to abandon the approach of surgical strikes and quick resolutions.

The commander called for more reinforcements, and soon the ships in the Xiaxing I Star System were not just a few Escort Ships.

More vessels arrived, deploying large numbers of Land Forces.

The 17th Army Group of the Alliance Army, and the 3rd Army Group, were deployed to the surface of Xiaxing I-3 Planet.

The separatists on Xiaxing I-3 had sparked a substantial rebellion. Five of the planet’s provinces had been swept up in it, with a controlled population of fifty million and rebel numbers around three million strong.

They were up against a Pact Army of five million, with the battle ebbing and flowing.

Under such circumstances, an Alliance Army Group of a million soldiers, with extra-ordinarily powerful orbital fire support, would undoubtedly be too much for the rebels.

If there was something extraordinary among the rebels, it would naturally be forced out.

And indeed, it was.

Under pressure, the core military forces of the separatists emerged: swarms of Interstellar Warriors.

Interstellar Warriors?

When the Alliance commander orbiting above received this intelligence from the ground forces, his eyeballs almost popped out!

How could that be possible?

Why would Interstellar Warriors appear among a group of separatist forces from a native planet? How could they possibly get the help of Interstellar Warriors?!

Could it be that everyone is Mr. Gu?

In previous wars, it was the Alliance that stunned others with the Phoenix, leaving them dumbfounded, completely at a loss as to what to do.

Now, the same situation has happened to the Alliance itself.

But soon after, they realized that the Interstellar Warriors helping the separatist forces of Xiaxing I-3 Planet were not ordinary Interstellar Warriors.

They did not bear the Imperial Aquila insignia, nor did they carry the medals that proclaim honor.

Were these members of the Interstellar Warrior betrayed?

The situation had become serious.

Relevant intelligence was rapidly transmitted back. At the same time, warships in the planet’s orbit began to prepare to step up fire support.

What about Interstellar Warriors? Without any orbital control, even the most formidable Interstellar Warrior would still have to obediently take the bombardment on the surface.

However, the United Fleet’s commander was quickly proven wrong.

Did those mutinous Interstellar Warriors really not have any means to threaten the orbit?

Indeed not. Xiaxing I-3 had a decrepit small starport, a few anti-orbit cannons on the ground that could be counted on one hand, no Star Fortresses in orbit, only a few Armed Space Stations, at best able to defend against small-scale pirates.

Against the current naval scale above in orbit, with escort ships and destroyers adding up to a double-digit count, and at least twenty patrol ships, they had no capacity to respond.

But… who said that these mutinous Interstellar Warriors, popping up from who knows where, could only exert force from the surface?

While the ships of the United Fleet were busily bombing from the orbit, their star gazers soon made a chilling discovery: they noticed the sudden appearance of a massive, unidentified starship within the star system!

This starship apparently had been hidden behind the star all along, its massive presence obstructing many standard monitoring methods.

And now, this warship had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, catching everyone by surprise.

But if it were just one warship, there would be nothing too frightening about it.

After all, there were more than thirty warships in Xiaxing I-3’s orbit.

But soon, as this colossal vessel drew nearer, and observers were able to examine it in greater detail, and the related intelligence was transmitted back, sheer terror ensued!

The ship was enormous!

It appeared to be 28 kilometers long! Despite its ominous appearance and being decked with many disgusting demonic goat’s head images, and many chaotic eight-pointed star patterns that were explicitly defined as taboo and not allowed in human society, the overall design still allowed some veteran navy personnel to recognize it as a ship very similar to the Retribution-class battleship of the human navy.

The ‘Retribution class’ was a bona fide mainline battleship! It was also the most common battleship in the Imperial Navy!

Clearly, this was no friend.

It is highly probable that it was the ride of those mutinous Interstellar Warriors on the ground.

Nobody could have imagined that this group of Interstellar Warriors actually had a battleship in their possession.

Although this Retribution-class battleship was just a lone ship, without a large number of non-mainline ships to fight alongside it, which would reduce its combat effectiveness and make it much more vulnerable.

But no matter how fragile, no matter how much its combat effectiveness was reduced, it was still a bona fide battleship.

Presently, the ships orbiting Xiaxing I-3 that were part of the United Fleet were all children compared to this battleship. Its main guns of X-grade could take out a ‘child’ with a single shot.

No matter the grade of the energy shields or the armor, just escort ships or destroyers with their high-powered energy shields were just that.

A single shot would blow up both the ship and its shields together.

Conversely, the lighter firepower of the United Fleet’s ships was much less of a threat to the battleship.

They probably couldn’t even break through the enemy’s Void Shields, and our thirty ships would be called out one by one and be completely destroyed.