Chapter 429: Late Reinforcements

"Ahem, I'm here to make you familiar with the Empire's combat methods. You will be in charge of the future battles." Li Mingze coughed twice after seeing Andris's frustrated expression.

"Now we have basically taken over this planet. The alien troops and one million orbital airborne troops will stay to occupy this planet and resist possible enemy reinforcements."

"The remaining troops will all return to the fleet, and we will go to the next target." After arranging the task, Li Mingze handed over the authority to Andris.

A few hours later.

The orbital airborne troops, who had circled around on the ground without firing a shot, boarded the transport ship and returned to the fleet.

Only five million alien troops and one million orbital airborne troops were left on Missisi Star.

All the remaining troops have returned to the fleet, and there are countless defensive weapons left on the ground. The soldiers left behind will use these weapons to persist until the end of the entire war.

Although Li Mingze knew that only a few of these people would survive when the war ended, these orbital airborne troops must be sacrificed for the war.

The sacrifice of the orbital airborne troops, who were all non-Imperial citizens, was of no consequence to Li Mingze. These people were nothing more than data.

On the ground of Mississi, the remaining soldiers looked up at the sky. As the bright lights in the sky disappeared, they knew that the Empire's fleet had left and they could only rely on themselves.

Fortresses began to stand in various parts of the city with the efforts of the airborne soldiers.

The alien troops also hid in various buildings in the city, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Three days later, the Alliance's fleet finally arrived at Mississi, but the Sith Empire's fleet had long disappeared, leaving them with countless debris floating in orbit.

The original four space cities were blown to ashes by the Empire's fleet after the population was transferred.

"Sir, we are late. Mississi has been occupied by the enemy." A soldier in the bridge of the Alliance Fleet flagship bowed his head to the masked man sitting in the command seat.

The masked man angrily smashed the console: "Send out the landing troops, take this planet back for me!"

"Report to the commander, Asa, three light years away, has just been attacked by the Empire. The orbital space station on Asa had been destroyed when the information was sent." A soldier ran to the masked man and reported breathlessly.

"Damn it! We can't catch up with these warships of the Sith Empire by relying on sub-light speed flight." The masked man gritted his teeth.

"From beginning to end, we can only follow them to clean up the mess. If this goes on, our planet..."

The reality is somewhat different from what he expected. Originally, he planned to lead the Alliance Fleet to use the kite-flying tactics to wear out the Empire's fleet bit by bit.

But now the situation is reversed. The Sith Empire knows that they don't have the technology to fly faster than light speed and actually fights a guerrilla war with him.

In just these seven or eight days, he has received at least ten messages about planets being attacked by the Empire Fleet.

The Alliance Fleet, which had gathered together, had no choice but to divide its troops into several routes and take back the occupied planets bit by bit.

"Ignore the new distress message. By the time we get there, the planet will have been occupied."

"We need to gradually recapture the occupied planets bit by bit!"

"Deploy troops to Mississippi immediately!" The masked man waved his hand and lay down on the chair.

Soon, landing ships in the Alliance Fleet separated from the fleet and flew towards the ground.

To the Alliance's surprise, they did not encounter any anti-aircraft weapons during the landing process, which made the orbital weapons they prepared useless.

The thrusters on both sides of the landing ship blew the dust on the ground into the air, and the wide and heavy ship body fell heavily to the ground.

As the deck of the landing ship fell to the ground, armored vehicles rushed out of the transport ship, followed by dense Alliance infantry.

"Safe!"

"Safe!"

"Safe! No enemy found!" The soldiers who were scattered and on guard raised their hands and made a safe gesture.

There was not even a shadow of the enemy around their landing area. Could it be that all the imperial troops had retreated?

"Meet up with other troops and move toward the city!" The commander of the squad got on an armored vehicle nearby.

A squad consisting of ten armored vehicles and two hundred infantrymen began to move toward the nearest city.

Such a scene appeared around all the cities on the entire Mississippi star, and all the troops strangely did not encounter a single enemy.

After more than an hour of rushing, a city consisting of countless gray skyscrapers appeared in front of the troops.

"All troops did not encounter any enemies. The enemies may have retreated or hidden in the city."

"Request an orbital scan of the city ahead!" The commander of the squadron connected to the fleet's communication.

"The fleet received it and will start scanning in five seconds." A burst of noise came from the communicator.

Immediately afterwards, a light curtain visible to the naked eye descended from the sky, scanning the entire city several times in sequence.

"Scan completed, information is being sent." The voice of the fleet communications officer sounded again in the communicator.

A few seconds later, a hologram of the entire city appeared in front of the commander.

"All residents are locked up in various buildings. Is this to prevent us from using weapons of mass destruction?"

"Interesting." A smile of unknown meaning appeared on the commander's lips.

"Report to the headquarters, a large number of enemy civilians disguised as civilians were found in the building complex ahead, request carpet bombing!" The commander directly connected the communicator to the air force responsible for assisting the ground battle.

"Air Command received it, we are about to start carpet bombing the target!" As soon as he finished speaking, three triangular bombers with a wingspan of at least fifty meters swooped down from the clouds.

These bombers did not know what targets they were about to bomb. They followed the requests of the ground forces to attack.

As three mushroom clouds slowly rose, a large building cluster housing tens of thousands of citizens and hundreds of orbital airborne troops was reduced to ashes.

There was a hint of coldness in the commander's eyes when he saw the building being wiped away. It didn't matter to him what kind of citizens he was. They were not citizens of his country anyway. Although it was now said to be an alliance and a collective, the lives of people in other countries did not matter. Not in his eyes.

What's more, now the place has lost contact with the outside world, and the only ones who can communicate with the outside world are their troops.

So what if he massacred civilians, all the truth has been turned into powder by the bomb, and no one can prove what he did.