Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

The edge of the Oslo sector.

Kaplan Colony.

The raging of the alien space storm has caused the entire universe to be filled with strange red and purple "clouds", and shrouded this terrestrial planet with a diameter of about 7,000 kilometers.

Aside from the metropolitan area, there are countless villages and towns on the surface of Kaplan, with a total population of about 2.4 billion.

It should have been a comprehensive colony planet with tourism, agriculture and industry. Governor Russ also intends to focus on development and develop it into a planetary base to facilitate the expansion of the star sector to provide sufficient manpower and material resources.

In terms of garrison strength, if you include the sheriff, there are about 20 million people, which is suitable for Kaplan, whose population does not exceed 3 billion.

65% of them are young people from Kaplan.

Most colonized planets implement a "three-year military service policy", which means that after turning eighteen, you can choose to join the military and become a UNSC soldier.

This policy provides many benefits for the soldiers themselves and their families. In addition to the compulsory education content that people have been exposed to since childhood, as well as film and television, game works and cultural influences, the current social atmosphere is quite military. Even if there are no benefits and discounts, people are still willing to join the army. , to experience a military career.

After three years, soldiers can choose to continue serving, but only if they pass an extremely demanding screening process.

And retired soldiers can continue to go to school, or directly enter the society, and when looking for jobs and interviews, their status as retired soldiers is definitely a plus.

But at this moment...

Kaplan's surface is beyond recognition.

Since the first portal was opened and the first demon was released, it has only been two hours, and there have been two billion people, and even more residents have been slaughtered and abused by demons, achieving an alternative and perverted sacrifice. .

Even though Kaplan has a defensive force of 20 million and retired soldiers who are willing to pick up guns and ammunition again, he is still unable to stop the torrent of demons.

There is smoke and fire everywhere. Demons continue to rush to Kaplan through the portal to collect human corpses, skin and bones, and use them to build various indescribable **** buildings, and then use their flesh and blood to spread the ground to achieve erosion and corruption. the goal of.

The surface is equivalent to being occupied, and only the 07 area of ​​the city can still be regarded as a "pure land". The remaining military forces of mankind stick to this place, delay the demons as much as possible, and buy time for the last batch of civilians who are about to evacuate.

However... all the civilian ships were already crowded, carrying civilians into low-Earth orbit, entering the fault space and evacuating outside the storm area.

The only seven escort-class warships currently moored above the star port, and the live ammunition has been exhausted, and the "they" who have lost the logistical supplement can only rely on the plasma secondary artillery to provide cover for the ground troops.

And more than 300,000 civilians gathered in the star port to wait, and then took the ferry, the Pelican and the Yuou and other transport vehicles to the hangars of the seven warships.

At this time.

The front line in the north of Xinggang...

"Tattoo!"

"嘡! 嘡!"

"Ri~Boom!"

Gunshots and artillery masterpieces.

Everyone is pulling the trigger regardless, pouring ammunition into the demon wave.

Although the live ammunition of the battleship specification is successful, the ground troops are still rich, and not only are there fortifications between the streets and buildings, but even the tunnel network under the surface, many wild wolves and wolf cubs are responsible for defense, avoiding The demon broke into the star port.

rear of the camp.

Inside the temporary command center…

"A high-intensity psionic response has emerged from the eastern position! The high school asks for support!"

"Send all the surviving hunter troops, and then notify Captain Kent, and ask them to rush to the eastern position with thirty wild wolves. We must defend it no matter what!"

"Yes! Colonel!"

The intensity of its "war situation" is in no way inferior to that of the outside world.

Andre, standing in the center of the command center, is relying on the reports of the soldiers and the information provided by the holographic screen for scheduling.

Genroe was seriously injured and was on the verge of death. After being brought back to the Hayfyotte by the wild wolves, Andre, who used to be the major of the UNSC Airborne Division, is now Colonel Umbrella, and has the most seniority and age. command.

However, no matter how much actual combat experience Andre had, he would never be able to lead the surviving troops to counterattack and win a miraculous victory.

They only have 120,000 fighting strength left, and they can't even reach a fraction of the devil.

"Colonel..." A soldier stopped what he was doing, stood up, and said in a slightly blank tone:

"The latest report from Lieutenant Lorraine, saying that the last batch of civilians has been lifted off, which also means...represents..."

The soldier was slow to continue talking.

"It means that there must be someone among us... no, it should be said that the vast majority of people must stay here, on this dead planet."

Andrei helped the soldier speak the rest of the words.

After all, the seven frigates threw everything that could be thrown away. At present, the remaining carrier-based aircraft are assisting the ground troops to carry out the task of suppressing and bombing. Even the ground crew of the hangar and many aerial bombs have been transferred to the star port together. .

In this way, it was extremely reluctant to squeeze more than 300,000 names. Where can there be room to accommodate their group of soldiers?

heard.

The command center fell into a sudden silence, and the outside was still full of gunfire.

Andre turned on the full-frequency communication of the power armor, looked around at all present, and raised his voice:

"Soldiers! Children! The last of the civilians have been transferred, our struggles and the sacrifices of our comrades have not been in vain!

but…

There are not many spare "seats" for us to choose from the ship that is about to be evacuated. As an old man over 100 years old, I will not compete with young people for seats. I will stay here! Stay on this dead planet and continue to fight the **** that slaughtered your brethren!

so!

Want to be with my old man! Teach them with me Andrei Aleksevich Ivanovsky, let them see what it means to be victorious, let them know what a soldier's brat is! "

Andrei's unique Russian emphasis, and the emotional voice fell...

"I! Colonel!" The soldier who was in charge of reporting before responded immediately.

"Me too!"

"Hahaha! Exactly! I still want to continue hunting demons with the old colonel!"

"This is Lieutenant Colonel Gao Haosen. On behalf of the 01st Regiment of the UNSC 621st Infantry Division, I will fight with the Colonel until the last moment!"

"This is Captain Horner Williams, and I represent..."

"here is…"

All the officers and soldiers in the command center expressed their positions one after another, and even the lieutenants and colonels deployed in various positions responded in the communication. It seems that they also don't care about the so-called "ship tickets" and are willing to stay in Kaplan.

"Hahaha! Good! Refreshing!" Andre laughed heartily, and then the old colonel looked at the soldier before and ordered:

Gu free

"Tell all the captains to take off immediately and not to delay the flight. This is an order! Otherwise, neither we nor them will be able to withstand the next wave of psionic shocks from that group of garbage."

"Yes! Colonel!"

"Okay! Brats! Grab your weapons and rush to the eastern position with me!"

"Haha!!"

outside the command center.

View from the air.

Andre, armed with a laser rifle, took the lead and went to the eastern position where the pressure was high and against the demons with high psionic energy.

And on the eastern front...

Countless demons of different shapes are using the psionic barrier to continuously attack warheads and artillery such as lasers, pulses and bolts.

The "vacuum" between the two sides is gradually shrinking.

When they were about to face the situation of hand-to-hand combat, the remaining Krieg, as well as the wild wolves and wolf cubs, drew out their melee weapons and confronted them without saying a word.

In the end, the Hunter Unit of the Supervision Department, which had less than 100 people, was scattered among the positions according to past experience, and while fighting, reminded the UNSC, sheriffs and retired soldiers how to fight the demons more effectively.

"Ow~!"

"Roar~!"

There are a few elites and iron-blooded hunters who are too lazy to care about the formation or discipline. They let out their unique roars, "stand out" from the crowd, and wield double-edged energy swords and retractable wrist knives.

"puff!"

"Pfft!"

In an instant, the entire area was splattered with flesh and blood.

At this time, the seven warships that received the evacuation order appeared above the stalemate position.

Some soldiers who changed their magazines could not help smiling just by looking up, and after changing the magazines, they continued to fight recklessly.

Looking at the porthole of the battleship, it was full of people looking down, some weeping, and some loudly expressing thanks.

There are also young children with immature faces, who saluted the soldiers below in a similar manner, which may have been infected by the atmosphere, or more likely because of their heartfelt actions.

seem…

The belief of fighting bravely, giving up one's life, and even some kind of unspeakable belief, has been quietly passed on.

The seven battleships sped up into the air and eventually disappeared from sight.

In contrast, Xinggang District 07…

When the 120,000 soldiers learned that the civilians had been safely lifted off, they finally had a problem.

Now, it's time to let the demons who only play and abuse people's hearts and are driven by instinctual desires see what is a real "war"...

"In company platoons, we stick to our posts~! Immortal as flames~! Firm as rocks~!  …"

I do not know who, suddenly hummed a song during the fierce battle.

But listening to this authentic Russian tone, it is not difficult to guess that it is Andre, a veteran who has experienced bipolar hegemony and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and then witnessed the end of the civil war and gradually moved towards the Xinghai Galaxy.

The 120,000 soldiers flew away with the civilians, and with the "high accompaniment", they showed a counter-offensive trend for a time, and the demon who had the absolute advantage had nothing to do.

After leaving the city and leaving the turbid atmosphere, the seven escort-class warships reached the designated height, and they opened the transition entrances one after another, carrying the last concerns of 120,000 soldiers, and then drove into the fault space one after another.

Waiting for the jump entrance to dissipate...

All that remains is Kaplan, who is about to be corrupted and assimilated by demons.

Immediately afterwards, the plasma bombs and nuclear bombs that were buried when the troops retreated one after another were detonated remotely by Andre and the others, lighting up a dazzling "fireworks feast" for the demons.

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at the same time.

90 light-years away, the Fenris star in the central space of the Oslo star sector.

As the capital of the star region, Fenris is much larger in volume and mass than Kaplan, with a diameter of about 14,000 kilometers, similar to that of Earth.

Two large-scale planetary transformation devices installed at the north and south poles have transformed Fenris, which was originally cold and frozen, into suitable planets that are now full of oceans and forests.

The pre-war population was about 10.3 billion.

During the war, that is, at the moment when the storm in different space was raging, the population did not decrease as rapidly as Kaplan, but climbed to 17 billion.

The demons ravaged the star sector, so that nearly half of the colonized planets chose Fenris as the evacuation point with Primarch Russ in the seat, and the rest went straight to the most reassuring ones, and had Primarch Rogge and Magnus stationed there. solar system.

The number of troops increased, and the troops and fleets representing the subsequent withdrawal also hit Fenris.

2,500 warships and supply ships of all levels were concentrated in the low-Earth orbits of metropolitan areas and major cities. On the ground, there were already more than 100 million regular military personnel, totaling about 460 million.

Sheriffs and retired soldiers who responded to the call to pick up firearms and equipment were not even included in the regular ranks. They were responsible for maintaining normal order in the metropolitan area and the city behind the positions, ensuring that the war did not lead to outright riots.

However, at this time, people hid at home in accordance with the official curfew order, and the "refugees" who came here from different colonial planets were properly placed in large facilities by the authorities, and would not cause riots in a short period of time.

Although the Red Queen tried to mobilize nearby support forces according to Sui Bian's order, the fastest batch still took an hour to arrive.

As for the surface situation, under the leadership of Russ, it successfully resisted the demon's first erosion.

Moreover, the number of portals opened was much "less" than Kaplan, so that Fenris' casualties were not too heavy.

only……

In the suburban plain to the north of the metropolitan area, there is a space distortion, like a broken mirror, a crack with a length of 100 kilometers.

This strange phenomenon had to be taken seriously by Ruth, so he transferred the main force of his corps, reserves and auxiliary forces, Krieger and UNSC's infantry division and airborne division to this place, always on guard against unexpected events. open rift.

Thanks to Krieger, who is good at digging trenches and building fortifications, and the various units actively cooperating with Umbrella's engineering department, they can build a line of defense that is almost equal to the gap in a very short time.

In the defense line, there are tens of millions of soldiers and 40,000 wild wolves, as well as 120 mobile fortresses of Mammoth with 240mm parallel Gauss guns or 300mm caliber plasma guns, 300,000 Scorpio, Siege tanks, armed personnel carriers and other armored units.

In mid-air, the flagship Destroyer of the Space Wolves was moored, as well as ten Gorgon-class battleships with absolute suppressive firepower.

now.

As the governor of the sector, Ruth, who is the best at charging among all the Primarch brothers, stood on the observation platform in the center of the defense line, looking at the cracks overflowing with purple and pink light, he couldn't help showing a tired look, and his eyes were full of With nostalgia, he whispered to himself:

"If only Roger's broken mouth was here."