Genie Kuangya could already sense that victory was not far off. He could even smell the scent from the core engine power compartment of the shrimp ships.
Destroy that, and victory would be his.
But soon, a new squad of soldiers appeared before them, blocking their path.
Kuangya was slightly puzzled.
The attire of these newly appeared soldiers was different from the shrimps they had encountered before. They were not the shrimp wielding laser guns, electromagnetic rifles, like those of the Navy Marine Corps, nor as formidable; neither were they the armed sailors, though they were a bit stronger than them.
But soon Kuangya didn't care.
They were all shrimps anyway, just kill them and that's good.
The hundred or so people even set up bombs in the road, but it was meaningless. The Spiritual Energy kids and artisan kids who stormed with him all had ways to detect these buried bombs in advance and detonate them beforehand.
The occasional misses weren't a big problem either. Explosions that somewhat harmed the average Green Skin Orc, barely mattered if they stood a bit further away, let alone the armored units.
After the bombs proved ineffective, what remained was a bloody confrontation—or rather, a one-sided slaughter.
The strongest firepower of this platoon was nothing more than some bombs, a small number of rocket launchers. The configurations of machine infantry with armored vehicles in front had been swept clean like cutting melons and vegetables, not to mention these guys.
In three to five minutes, the entire platoon was nearly wiped out.
Their reluctance to retreat in a death struggle was not due to unwillingness, but because they simply didn't have time to run, or they wouldn't be able to get away if they tried. Turning their backs to the enemy only led to being shot down more quickly.
However, the lives they had given were not without value.
At the very least, they had slowed down the orcs' assault squad by a few minutes.
It was these same minutes that allowed Gu Hang and his elite team to complete the defensive preparations outside the core engine power compartment.
Actually, there wasn't much that could be set up. Even if they wanted to build some fire points or shelters, it was difficult. Aboard a starship, it was not like being on the surface of a planet. In the wild, you could dig trenches in the soil, and in city ruins, you could use various debris and building materials to build shelters.
But on a starship, there was nothing but various rooms or corridors, narrow or spacious. Unless the structure itself had something bulletproof to hide behind, you'd have to exchange fire with flesh and blood or simply turn the corner and dive straight into a bloody close-quarters brawl.
In such an environment, the size of the Green Skin Orcs was obviously an advantage. Humans indeed had bulletproof armor inserts, but Green Skins also had scrap metal armor, so no one lagged behind the other. And when it came to physical resilience, Kuangya's elite guards could take a couple of hundred bullets a piece—far more formidable than humans.
All Gu Hang could rely on was greater numbers and stronger firepower.
The location he chose for battle was a crossroads.
Taking the forward direction of the starship as north, the Green Skin assault squad was coming from the south to the north, and on their route they were bound to pass through a broad crossroads. Gu Hang positioned a heavy force to the north of the intersection, which was the direction leading to the power compartment.
Two battalions of the Wind-Extinguishing Brigade were all there, but not heavily concentrated. Instead, they used fighting vehicles as cover, roadblocks, and fire points, with soldiers setting up multiple obstacles on this eight-meter-wide passageway.
If Green Skins were to reach the power compartment, they would have to step over the bodies of the Rage Owl People from this crossroads onward for every meter.
At the same time, on the narrower east and west passages of the intersection, troops were also stationed. The 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division placed a combat battalion on each side.
Rows of soldiers lay prone, with a row crouching behind them, and another row standing behind that. They held their guns aimed at the intersection, and a bit further back, there were rocket launcher troops ready to unleash a full-force barrage on the Green Skin Orcs as they passed.
Additionally, there was a reserve force composed of a battalion also from the 22nd Regiment. They stood by on the fringe of the battlefield and would flank the rear of the Green Skin assault team from the south side of the intersection as soon as the battle started.
Gu Hang prepared a large net for them.
But the key to this net was himself and the four Phoenixes.
Before boarding the starship, Gu Hang had leveled up.
The battle in the ruins of the Eradication Tower, besides yielding generous points of grace, also maxed out his experience, enabling him to advance to level five.
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Advancing to level five required a full five hundred points of grace.
This brought an increase of one point in constitution, one point in intellect.
Beyond that, there was a new talent.
When boarding the starship, he had thought that he might need to deal with the Green Skin Fleet's boarding combat. Although he could never have imagined that boarding would indeed soon threaten the "Quintet," he had prudently chosen to invest in a layer of Spiritual Energy.
And this brought him an upgraded talent: [Advanced Telekinesis Control].
[Advanced Telekinesis Control: This talent will replace Telekinesis Control. You can now use Spiritual Energy more forcefully to control physical objects. Intellect +2]
Although no new talent arrived, the upgraded version of Telekinesis Control was still quite reliable.
Telekinesis Control was a general and potent Psychic Spell with outstanding effects.