Mech Wars The Rise of the Hero in Exile

Tian Kaiwen looked at the two Federal female soldiers who were glaring at him intently, feeling rather gloomy. Maybe if they were two ugly women, the fat guy could have left them with a brazen and shameless remark like, "I've taken care of the one guarding you. Hurry up and run for your lives." But with these two beautiful women in alluring uniforms right in front of him, he just couldn't bring himself to say such words.

If he left them behind, they surely couldn't escape. Moreover, there was a high possibility that they'd be shot during the escape or executed after being caught. There were various ways of execution, and the most likely one was being "executed" in turns by the imperial soldiers. Judging from the situation at the base, the purpose of bringing these two female soldiers here was quite obvious. This was an imperial forward base with no prisoners-of-war camps built. The fat guy could figure out with a bit of thought what two pretty Federal female captives were brought here for.

The soldier escorting them was killed. Whether the captives were responsible or not, they were implicated. And the Gacharin's brutality towards captives was well known. Even if one captive escaped, the imperial army would shoot all the captives in the same team as the runaway. Other atrocious acts, such as burying captives alive, burning them, using them for chemical experiments, or putting them in old civilian space transport ships as target drones due to difficulties in guarding or fearing they'd be a burden, were countless.

Just thinking about these two lovely female soldiers, as delicate as flowers, being brutalized by the imperial soldiers made the fat guy feel pity, anger, and even a bit of jealousy. It's a common male trait. Since he couldn't do certain things himself, he didn't want others to do them either. However, while it might be easy to escape from this jungle, it was extremely difficult to get past the enemy's patrols and defenses and successfully flee with two women across a flat plain where one could see several kilometers away.

"You... well, I mean... how did you two get captured?" The fat guy felt that the expressions of the two female soldiers he'd saved were rather unfriendly. He looked at himself but didn't find anything wrong. He didn't feel the slightest bit of shame about stripping naked right in front of them just now.

"The airport in the northeast of the city was captured. That's where I was caught." The beautiful pilot quickly got over the annoyance caused by the fat guy's strip show. She pointed to the other female soldier beside her and said, "She was too. She's a medical staffer in the aviation flight brigade."

"What about the city? How far has the enemy advanced?" The fat guy warily observed the surroundings, making sure no imperial patrol happened to come across the three poor Federal unfortunates, one man and two women.

"The first line of defense was breached last night. The enemy forced their way through the junction of our two divisions with nearly two hundred heavy mechas and five hundred medium-sized mechas. By the time the reserve troops rushed up to retake the position, it was already too late. If the airport hadn't been occupied by their airborne troops, it would have taken them at least a week to break through the first line of defense." The beautiful female pilot seemed to care more about her appearance than her life safety. She casually sat down, let down her messy hair, held a pink rubber band in her mouth, and tried to comb her hair neatly with her hands.

Her movements were quite charming, and it took the fat guy a great deal of effort to shift his gaze away from her soft and fair hands.

"However, our situation isn't too bad. Although the 6th Division of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force and the 9th Division, which served as the reserve, couldn't stop the Gacharin Empire's armored division from breaking through, they managed to hold them off for over three hours, preventing them from outflanking and dividing our forces immediately. Most of the troops from the first line of defense have withdrawn, and the losses aren't too large." Having tied her hair into a ponytail with the rubber band tightly, the beautiful female pilot looked full of sunshine and vitality.

"What about the area between the first and second lines now?" The fat guy seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

"Not optimistic... Basically, it's been occupied by the Gacharin Empire. When we came here, except for a few areas still resisting, most of the Federal troops had been withdrawn to the south of the Supengman River. The enemy is now deploying troops, getting ready to attack our second line of defense." The female pilot cupped her chin with both hands, looking dejected.

"It's over. Just what I was afraid of has happened." The fat guy groaned in his heart. Although he had deduced the general situation from the actions and arrangements of the imperial army here, he still had a glimmer of hope. Now that the situation was certain, with imperial troops all around, he either had to hide from the enemy in the forest until the war ended or rely on his own strength to escape back to the second line of defense.

The fat guy's expression kept changing, and his mind was filled with a thousand thoughts. He was already in a difficult situation, and if he had to take these two women along...

Just as he was thinking something ruthless, he suddenly felt his clothes being tugged. Looking up, he saw the innocent-looking female medical staff quietly pulling at his clothes. Her half-smiling, half-serious expression seemed to have guessed what was on the fat guy's mind. There was still a trace of annoyance in her brows from what had happened earlier, but her clear eyes were full of trust. The fat guy surrendered immediately. Screw it! If I die, I die! More people, more strength. Maybe we can escape using the old method. But where to escape?

He furrowed his brows, thinking about the direction of escape. New Rome, with its heavy military presence, was definitely out of the question. And the cities or military bases near New Rome had almost all been surrounded or occupied by the large-scale landing imperial forces, so they couldn't go there either. The only place that might be safe should be the capital of this planet, Galiparan City.

Galiparan City is located in the Three-Lake Basin of Milock Planet. Besides the three huge lakes with a complete ecological chain, the tall mountains around the basin also tightly protect the capital, Galiparan. Before destroying the six air bases in the city and the more than three hundred anti-air missile bases scattered in the mountains, the imperial army's giant air transport ships simply couldn't land. Without ground troops, taking the capital was just an empty talk.

If the imperial ground troops landed outside the basin, facing the complex geological conditions, changeable climate, and steep mountains of the basin, even the best land-based combat mechas would be at a loss. To capture this place, the only way for the Gacharin imperial army was to concentrate all their air forces for air strikes, destroy the air defense system, and carry out forced airborne operations while launching a fierce attack on the two highways leading into the basin. However, these highways were not only heavily fortified by the Federal forces but also winding through the mountains, with countless bridges and tunnels, giving the defenders enough ways to create difficulties for the imperial army's advance.