Chapter 1397: Battle of Saddle Star
Several sniper battles that took place on the border of Yingzhou not only boosted the morale of the people and the army in Yingzhou. It also made the expeditionary fleet of the Gaoting people a little jealous, and then it was obviously more cautious and restrained in the direction of Yingzhou.
The fact is that in the next half a month, there was no more hostility on the border of Yingzhou.
It was not until March 7, 32442 in the federal calendar, that several exploration satellites deployed by the military in the Cartier star field once again discovered the traces of the Gaoting people.
A group of 65,000 Gaoting ships reappeared in the border area, rushing towards the direction of the Xin'anshan Administrative Star in Yingzhou.
At this time, Zhang Xin was secretly relieved.
The Gaoting people undoubtedly attached great importance to the threat in the direction of Yingzhou, and the 65,000 warships were most likely the limit of the forces they could draw now. The pressure on the Yingzhou direction is also incomparable.
But the so-called unknown is the most disturbing, what he was most worried about before was that the Gaoting people would shift the direction of the main attack and directly turn the army to Yingzhou - although this may be very small, but once it happens, the main ship group of the Gaoting people will be like a giant hammer, smashing all their arrangements and all their resistance to smithereens.
And now this situation is nothing more than soldiers coming to block the water and cover the earth.
The New Anshan Administrative Star is indeed the weakest part of their defense, but Zhang Xin still has the absolute confidence to block the Gaoting people's offensive here.
And in the afternoon of the same day, this large-scale fleet battle had broken out in the administrative star of Xinanshan.
A total of 72,000 warships in the Guangying Theater gathered here, and with the help of the 160 floating batteries and 640 fortress-class main guns that had been arranged near the Xin'anshan Administrative Star, they started a fierce battle with the Gaoting people.
As Zhang Xin expected, the army under his command successfully stopped the footsteps of the Gaoting people, but the price paid was also extremely tragic.
This large-scale fleet battle of 140,000 ships lasted for a whole day and a half, until 7 o'clock in the evening of the next day, when the Gao Court fleet lost 23,000 warships and was forced to evacuate.
At this time, the Earth Federation was also unable to pursue, and their casualties were also extremely heavy, with as many as 17,000 sunken ships alone, and nearly half of the 160 floating batteries. It is estimated that more than 1.2 million people will be killed in the war.
However, the greater loss is still the high-level combat power under Zhang Xin's command.
Despite this battle, a large number of biochemical war beasts manufactured by Alpha Pharmaceutical participated, making up for the lack of high-level combat power. But the fifty-four elite mecha brigades under the jurisdiction of Shenwei Transportation and Shenwei Security have lost as much as 20% of their personnel!
Among them, 24 A-class combatants were killed, and 1,800 B-class combatants were killed.
Zhang Xin's feelings were extremely heavy, and the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Gao Ting people greatly exceeded his expectations. Casualties of this magnitude were completely unexpected.
This battle was a heavy blow to his follow-up plan.
According to preliminary calculations, they will spend 25 billion federal coins just to replenish the lost warships and mechs.
The pension paid for this war is even more than that, and the total amount is expected to be as high as more than 45 billion federal dollars.
——Fortunately, this fund does not need to be borne by the Weiyan Group. All war expenses such as pensions will be borne by the federal government, and then Guangcheng, the local taxes of Yingzhou and Xindulan Star Domain will also subsidize a part.
Otherwise, the financial resources of the Weiyan Group will be overwhelmed.
In fact, that's all there is to it, the key is that the current Earth Federation may not be able to buy warships even if there is money. Well-trained combatants are being scrambled by various families, and it is difficult to hire them anymore.
So after the war, Zhang Xin hated the Buffett empire very much.
If it weren't for the fact that two hours before the start of the battle, an unknown fleet of 40,000 ships suddenly appeared on the east side of Yingzhou, and if it wasn't for the time when the big battle happened, he sensed the sudden increase of two X-class on the battlefield. Their losses would never have been so severe.
- Zhang Xin had to spare a lot of spare strength to deal with the enemy who had put the dagger on their backs. This led to a difficult situation at the beginning of the battle.
In this battle, there is only one thing that makes Zhang Xin happy. That is, their combat power above the S level, due to the activity of Xie Ling'er and others on the battlefield, there is no loss.
In this battle, there were as many as three strong people who broke through to the S-level in the immediate battle, and as many as forty-two people with A-level strength.
Zhang Xin expects that in the next six months, there will be some B-level combatants who will break through.
This brutal war is not only a heavy memory but also a valuable asset for the vast majority of the combatants.
Next, the theater command center headed by Zhang Xin fell into busyness again.
- Cleaning up the battlefield, compensating for the dead and wounded, replenishing warships, replenishing personnel, strengthening the defensive line, etc., all need to be carried out at the same time.
Even Zhang Xin himself is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground.
At this time, he will still find some time every day to start live broadcasts. However, the content of the live broadcast is no longer Gu Wu Qunying, but his own experience on the front line of the war, such as condolences to the front line, inspecting the troops, observing the enemy situation, dealing with insensitive military affairs, etc.
However, because it involves military content, the vast majority of this so-called 'live broadcast' is delayed until half an hour later, and some sensitive places are deliberately marked with mosaics, and even directly edited out. But Zhang Xin's number of fans has not decreased at all, but has experienced another explosive growth, with tens of billions of viewers staying in his live broadcast room every day.
Compared with those war correspondents, Zhang Xin's perspective as the commander of the front army is undoubtedly more worthy of the words 'battlefield live broadcast'. It is also more conducive to them to know the real battle situation ahead, rather than being deceived and bewitched by the media.
For this reason, Tianyan Live had to purchase a large number of additional servers, and arranged dozens of quantum network relay devices in Guangcheng and Yingzhou Star Fields to channel these surges in traffic. But the picture seen by the audience in this live broadcast room is still inevitably stuck.
This has greatly increased the valuation of Tianyan Live, and it has become one of the several live broadcast apps with the highest traffic in the Earth Federation during this time, and Zhang Xin himself has also benefited a lot.
On the one hand, his daily growth of spiritual energy has tripled to what it used to be, and on the other hand, he has received a large number of donations, and the people of the Earth Federation have harvested nearly 22 billion federal coins in a short period of time in the form of rewards, which has greatly reduced his financial burden.
On the fifth day after the Battle of Xin'anshan, the first two paramilitary forts custom-built in the name of Shenwei Transportation Company were finally built, and in the following days, they were moved to the Yingzhou front.
The next three fortresses will also be completed and deployed in ten days' time.
Although at this time, the garrisons they had equipped for these five military fortresses were not able to skillfully control the various weapons equipped with these fortresses, and although the expeditionary force of the Gaoting people increased their troops again, so that the number of their warships reached 65,000 again, this battle line on the border of Yingzhou was still stabilized.
On this day, the shares of the major subsidiaries of Weiyan Group were directly up and down. The total market value, which originally fell to 800 billion yuan, has recovered to about 920 billion.
Next, the border defense line of Yingzhou calmed down again. Until April 3rd, the second batch of expeditionary fleets of the Gaoting people also entered the territory of Cartier from the Columbus Domain.