187: Chapter 187, Rose Plains, End

The final assault of the Lux Aliens was about to begin.

They only had a month and a half left.

Within that month and a half, they had to push the front line to the foot of Holy Mountain City; otherwise, everything would be futile and worthless.

Just then, within the fleet of the Lux Aliens, the three princes found a way to advance: treating their own soldiers as disposable human bombs.

As long as they rushed in front of the human soldiers and detonated, they would send at least one person to their death.

The loss of ordinary soldiers was negligible to the Lux Civilization; they were willing to sacrifice ten or even a hundred of them.

But the humans could not afford this; once the losses became too high, the human manpower pool would face depletion.

Within a month, this new offensive strategy achieved massive results, as the human front line was blasted open with one gap after another by the continuous stream of human bombs.

Subsequently, the Lux Aliens launched their charge, and now two-thirds of the entire Rose Plains were occupied by the aliens.

The forces of the Imperium of Man could only retreat step by step.

It was not as if they hadn't tried to mobilize Titan units to reverse the trend of the battlefield.

However, every time a Titan unit showed its head, an escort vessel would appear in the sky, acting as a suicide craft and crashing into the ground.

Forced by necessity, the Imperium of Man had to keep the Titan units hidden, not daring to mobilize them at will.

The Great Xia's army was currently organizing their forces in the last fortress complex of the Rose Plains, and they were withdrawing in an orderly fashion.

With the entire war situation in the Rose Plains on the verge of collapse, Xia Xingchen, after discussing with the Department of Military Affairs, decided there was no longer any need to remain in the Rose Plains.

After all, the only thing the Lux Aliens knew how to do now was to use their soldiers as human bombs, continuously crashing them into their defensive positions.

The Sixth Regiment was the rearguard unit stationed here, responsible for covering everyone's retreat.

The soldiers of this regiment rested their laser guns on the firing ports, aiming at the positions outside.

The alarm sounded, and all the soldiers acted decisively, pulling their triggers.

They fired wildly into the mist, not caring whether they hit anyone.

Based on previous battles, they had long since judged that when facing the attacks of the Lux Aliens, one just needed to keep pulling the trigger, because the number of aliens was so vast that they could never be wiped out by gunfire alone.

Until the laser guns exhausted their energy magazines, the soldiers could clearly hear the sound of lasers piercing through flesh within the mist.

They did not stop for a moment, immediately grabbing backup energy magazines from the ammunition crates beside them, swapping them out, and then continuing to fire.

Meanwhile, the automatic turrets outside the bunker had, under continuous firing, seen their barrels glow red like heated iron rods.

The soldiers soon heard the sizzling sound of electricity from the mist, and everyone knew that the Lux Aliens were already close at hand.

Because this was their final line of defense: barbed wire strung across the entire battlefield, charged with tens of thousands of volts of high voltage.

These Lux Aliens were inflexible and, when faced with obstacles, would only use flesh-and-blood charges to force their way through; thus, relying on this method could slow the advance of the Lux Aliens.

With a crisp snapping sound, the Lux Aliens rushed out.

A massive number of green figures rushed toward the fortress like a tidal wave. The soldiers inside the fortress looked at the Lux Aliens in terror, as the fierce firepower kept them from raising their heads.

The barbed wire and spikes in front of the fortress had been filled up by the Lux Aliens with their own flesh, buried under countless corpses, and were no longer visible.

The Lux Aliens climbed over the entire fortress, stepping on the corpses of their own kin.

Seeing this, the soldiers immediately prepared to retreat back into the fortress.

A soldier complained as he walked:

"Our defensive line is basically just for show; they can just rush up from other places anyway."

"Stop talking so much and hurry into the interior of the fortress, otherwise, if you stay outside, you'll just be waiting to be fed to the aliens as fertilizer."

After retreating to a gate, the squad leader confirmed that the last soldier had entered, then slammed the button for the gate.

A gate nearly a meter thick slowly descended, sealing off the entire passageway.

When the squad leader and his soldiers retreated to the designated rally point, the company commander quickly issued a new order to all the soldiers of the company.

"Evacuate immediately via the secret passage; the Star Guard is preparing to blow up the entire fortress."

Just as the soldiers were still trying to process this, ten members of the Star Guard appeared from the shadows, dragging a high-temperature hydrogen bomb in their hands.

"What are you standing there for? If you don't want to die, get moving!"

The company commander immediately urged his soldiers.

The soldiers finally snapped out of it and hurriedly followed behind the company commander, passing through that pitch-black door.

The entire fortress had been taken over by the Star Guard, and outside the door came the sound of massive cutting and the sound of steel being corroded and melted.

The Star Guard quickly placed the hydrogen bomb and then pressed the countdown timer on it.

"We can watch fireworks in a moment."

The Star Guard quickly followed behind the Astra Militarum, retreating out of the entire fortress.

Accompanied by the sound of collapsing metal, the Lux Aliens finally rushed into the very bottom of the fortress, but at this moment, only the sound of a nuclear bomb's countdown finishing remained at the bottom of the fortress.

A massive mushroom cloud rose from the Rose Plains, and the enormous explosion could even be seen from the outskirts of Holy Mountain City.

Commander No. 24 also saw this scene from a distance and immediately grabbed an adjutant nearby, asking:

"How many troops were lost?"

The adjutant's eyes darted away; in that explosion just now, nearly 300 million Lux Aliens had died.

One had to know that the lethal range of the hydrogen bomb explosion was not limited to just the fortress, but also included other areas, with the affected area reaching one-third of the Rose Plains.

Commander No. 24 stood at the edge of the shockwave, and a group of guards quickly used shields to protect him, blocking the dust filling the sky.

Commander No. 24 sighed. In any case, it had been two months and twenty-one days.

We have successfully taken the entire Rose Plains, which counts as an answer to the three princes on the warship, and with the remaining three days, we can fully advance to the outskirts of Holy Mountain City.

Commander No. 24 quickly had a messenger convey this news to the fleet, then immediately ordered the adjutant to calculate the losses.

"Commander, out of our total of 10 billion soldiers, only 3 billion survived."

This number made Commander No. 24 feel dizzy; this loss was simply unacceptable to him.

"Are our soldiers really that incompetent? Can they not even achieve a one-to-one exchange ratio?"

The adjutant heard the commander's complaint and immediately explained:

"There is nothing we can do; the enemy's weapons are superior to ours, and their defensive equipment is far better than that of our ordinary soldiers. Plus, these humans are all hiding behind solid fortifications, so we cannot engage in close-quarters combat.

If we could fight in close quarters, I believe at most ten Lux Aliens would be able to take down one human soldier."

Commander No. 24 felt completely disheartened; it would have been better if he hadn't said anything at all.

"Then shut your mouth and immediately have the fleet redeploy troops while there is still time."

"Yes."