Chapter 123: War (7)
With the initial results of the official prototype of the anti-living weapon in the K5 operation, the human-insect war has entered a very delicate situation at this moment.
From the standpoint of mankind, returning the latest actual combat data of anti-living weapons to the center of the BU program will give birth to projectile weapons with the characteristics of "forced restoration" in a very short period of time, and then gain great battlefield economic advantages.
However, K11 is still facing the pressure of the right-wing swarm advancing on all fronts at the moment, once K11 is not guaranteed, the official version of the anti-living weapon will not help, and after losing the right to choose the route, humanity can only advance and retreat at the other end of the bridge.
Pan Wen's opinion of attacking the left wing of the swarm in an all-out way was judged by the actions of the Demon King.
The Demon Kings took the initiative to break the deadlock and began to attack the K41 area, apparently wanting to continue to expand the supply point.
No matter how rich the environment of K42 is, after all, it has just started to develop out of the competition stage, and there is no huge national machine like the MR star cluster to provide it with a steady stream of personnel and weapons, perhaps with the geographical advantage of the new interstellar bridge, it can suppress the swarm in the short term, but with the attritional tactical analysis that the swarm is good at, K42 does not have the conditions to hold on for a long time.
K42 will inevitably collapse, and then the swarm will soon gain a terrifying war potential, on the other hand, the human side of the empire and the federation need to guard against each other, it is impossible to unreservedly support the human and insect war, if the sea of insects that can be infinitely replenished occupies K11, considering the reduction of the benefits of re-occupying the KT star cluster, the power that can be invested in re-emptying K11 will become a little weak.
Based on this judgment, destroying the swarm on the left wing of the KT cluster will reduce the number of planets that the swarm can use in a short period of time, and the swarm will need to expand beyond K42, and it will face the dilemma of not being able to defend K11 without loopholes, especially if humans have a freak like a scout ship.
"Actually, I'm doing a good deed and getting rid of the left-wing part, and the swarm will probably be able to make up my mind to use the K41-K42 Starbridge as a strategic support to enter the next stage." After the captain's vote, Pan Wen explained to the representative of the Anike mercenary.
Although the Anike mercenaries are known for their ferocity, after all, they have always been just a petty fight as pirates, and in the face of a super-large-scale space war in which thousands of warships are lost and tons of tons are sunk, after the K5 annihilation war, their fighting spirit has declined very obviously.
To put it bluntly, the Anikes are a bit cowardly.
"What will happen to the next stage with the K41-K42 interstellar bridge as support? What do we get? You need to know that our losses in this battle are somewhat large. Representative Anike asked Pan Wen for favors.
Indeed, the Anike mercenaries are all big ships, and they are the central fleet of the ragtag army throughout the battle, and in the very center of the entire umbrella formation, although this area is not the first wave of contact under the support of the umbrella-like structure, it is the point where it will inevitably be set on fire when it is most intense, so the loss of the Anike mercenary forces is about 10% higher than the overall average during the whole battle.
"I think that with your contribution in the battle, after the end of this operation, there will be no substantial obstacles to obtaining the right to develop asteroids in the left-wing star sector."
For the Anike people, who only have broken systems and stellar resources, there is no doubt about the attractiveness of the development rights of the asteroid belt, although it is not an exclusive development, it is also the greatest benefit that can be obtained for the Anikes in the short term by referring to the influence of the vigilante front.
Pan Wen actually concealed some important information - after taking the left flank, it will not be possible to eradicate the small-scale activities of the insect swarm in a short period of time, and the development rights of the asteroid belt in the region will have a very strict entry threshold for combat power at this stage, not all cats and dogs can come to mine, and the Anike people have a natural advantage in combat power, and it will not cost any resources of the militia front to pull out the banner of "equality" in operation.
When this sentence was spoken, the representative of Anike in the other paragraph was silent for a while before responding: "I hope you are worthy of our trust as always." ”
Pacify the Anikes, who are a little wavering in their attitude, and move on to the next stage of action.
More than 100 personnel from the command center of the miscellaneous fleet and the command center of the coalition fleet came up with a new line of operation after group discussions and exchange of views.
The new line of movement will not directly fight against K6, but will instead prioritize the K1-K4 area, with the aim of destroying all bug-infested planets, anyway, with the current strategic situation and the degree of "cultivation" of these planets by the insect swarm, it is no longer feasible to keep them for redevelopment. In the process of taking K1-K4, the civil society groups guarding the gate behind the door, such as mercenary retail investors, will spy on K6 through K4, K5, K7, and K8, and use the special channels of mercenaries to inform the weak areas.
The change of direction of action also goes back to the battle of K11, the K11 Western Front command recalled most of the first-class reconnaissance ships, and in the next few hours, the fleet will have a maximum of three or four first-class reconnaissance ships that can directly self-destruct support the battle. With the size of the fleet at the moment, three to four first-class reconnaissance ships can only complete one "forced door opening" action, but the first-class reconnaissance ship has a probability of hitting the celestial body in the mission action mode (not stationary after jumping), and there is almost no error tolerance, so the action plan must be more cautious, and try not to "open the door" to the first-class reconnaissance ship in the process of entering K6.
Although according to the information provided by the previous type of reconnaissance ship system, the size of the swarm in the K1-K4 area is on the low side, and the fleet is not in a hurry during the operation, the entire fleet jumps to a certain place to perform a cleanse of the swarm that can be monitored, and complete the destruction of the swarm-infected planet.
The Combined Fleet was somewhat negative at this stage of the operation, and this passivity was not a deliberate failure to carry out orders, but a decrease in the synchronization rate of execution between the Imperial Army and the Federation Army. For example, if several ships attack a giant production worm target, if there is not enough synchronization rate, it may take two or three times the strength to destroy the giant production worm that also has a shield.
But even though he knew that the coalition forces were fishing, Pan Wen still helped to block the pressure of the mercenaries, and only let the coalition forces perform marginal tasks during the K1-K4 operation, and the miscellaneous army took on the main attack itself.
In Pan Wen's opinion, the coalition forces are just ordinary NPC troops after all, they don't seem to be poorly equipped, or they have a few good commanders, but their overall resistance to pressure for a long time cannot be compared with small elite troops of mercenaries or pirates. Therefore, when conditions permitted, he coordinated all parties and acquiesced to give the coalition forces a certain amount of time to adjust and meet the attack and defense of K6 in a better state.
It took 27 hours to take all the way to the K1-K4 area.
For more than a day, K11 also experienced a harsh second round of fire baptisms.
The swarm unexpectedly got more than 500 human warships out of nowhere, and the addition of these warships made the military structure of the swarm more complex and more difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, the empire and the federation reacted quickly and toughly, and forcibly requisitioned the domestic and MR242-MR243-K11 channels in a short period of time, so that a batch of first-class reconnaissance ships could be put into the battlefield in a mission operation mode in time.
Although it is not a battleship, the new batch of first-class reconnaissance ships has once again controlled the amount of time delivered by the swarm to K11, providing a buffer time for all parties to deliver force and materials.
K11 has survived until now, and the Eastern Front Command may still not be able to hold it, but as long as the swarm does not invest more bizarre forces, this wave should not be able to take K11.
K6 has a large swarm of bugs, but when the miscellaneous army and the coalition fleet start to clean up K1-K4, these bugs will be scrapped, and once they move, they will immediately liberate the defenders of K7 and K8. They don't need to defend, as long as they cooperate with the coalition forces, the huge force can destroy all the infectable planets of K6 within two or three hours, and then go back to the defense of the western front to release all the coalition combat power or directly support the eastern front, which will become a force to shake the situation in the field.
The defensive pressure on the Western Front has gradually decreased with the clean-up of the left flank, and the gradually released forces have also become an important factor in the K11 defensive battle to reach this stage.
Returning to the left flank, in the twenty-seven hours of cleaning up K1-K4, the miscellaneous army and the combined fleet of the coalition army only completed the clearing of the main body of the insect swarm in each area, and did not carry out pursuit, large-scale clearance and other actions. In these 27 hours, the most important thing accomplished by the fleet was not to fight, but to complete the rotation of the commanders of each ship and the first batch of service personnel, so as to ensure that the next operation against the K6 had sufficient combat strength.
When performing the jump against K6, Pan Wen did not forget another important direction, the CT Nebula.
The left-wing insect swarm emerged from the CT Nebula, and although it did not have the physical conditions to produce a large number of bugs, if it was not vigilant, it could be attacked like the original Blue Country.
While entrusting the mercenaries to contact the K7 garrison allies to begin disbanding, Pan Wen asked them to persuade some of them to go to the CT Nebula to inquire about the situation.
Enter K6.
Judging from the size of the swarm, it seems that K6 should be a difficult battlefield comparable to K5, but the actual situation is not like that at all.
The moment the fleet jumped into K6, it was equivalent to announcing the release of the temporary defender energy of K7 and K8, and except for a very small part of these two forces, they would respond to the call to go to the CT nebula, and the remaining overall strength was equivalent to two imperial legions. The two corps can't do much on the battlefield of K11 today, but it is no longer a big problem to take over the remaining defensive work of the Western Front and resist the counterattack of the fish that slipped through the net on the left flank, and the Western Front Command only needs to leave a small number of countermeasures, and the rest can be put into the frontal battlefield of the Eastern Front.
After completing the counteroffensive on the left flank and basically eliminating the possibility of counter-invasion of the swarm, the combined fleet of the miscellaneous army and the coalition army has no worries when it enters K6, and the fleet has no time pressure to operate in K6. Even if the situation of the K11 deteriorates again, it is impossible for the combined fleet, which has been operating continuously for more than 60 hours, to be put into the battlefield in a short time, and the K6 operation is already the last battle of the fleet in this human-insect conflict.
Without the pressure of time and follow-up additional missions, the fleet carried out a simple and time-consuming cannibalization operation in K6, which did not directly conflict with the K6 swarm production source, and cleaned up the small swarms scattered on the periphery as much as possible.
In a long-term offensive and defensive battle, the human fleet will suffer a little, and the defeated bugs will be partially "reborn" due to the production of infected planets, and more bugs need to be defeated overall, but as long as the bugs cannot interfere with the action line of a class of reconnaissance ships, there will be no need to try luck if you want to replicate the previous examples again to complete the attack on the planet - not to mention that the number of first-class reconnaissance ships at your disposal cannot support the action of trying your luck.
The battle continues, Pan Wen, who has finished the mission planning, has nothing to do, the gold is the flagship unit of the miscellaneous army, in addition to providing the "halo" in large-scale operations, it is not necessary to provide direct firepower, and the fire that basically does not attract insects does not need the captain to do any temporary contingencies, and the idle Pan Wen has begun to think about the post-war affairs.
It seems that humans have resisted this wave of insect attacks, but the initiative will not return to humans in the short term, and it depends on the actions of the swarm.
The swarm has two options next: fight directly with the humans, or push K42 to open up the interstellar bridge on the other side to get a new big rear.
The former option may seem brainless, but it is the easiest to achieve.
According to the information in hand, it can be expected that the Eastern Front Command will be completely disbanded, and the remaining fragments will be turned into civilian organizations or absorbed by the newly established Central Alliance as a whole, and the former KT Star Cluster's right-wing sector evacuation troops will be completely reduced to history and become a marginal role in the next human-insect war.
The damage of the coalition forces of the Islamic Empire and the Gabri Federation this time is not small, in the left-wing anti-occupation war, the battle losses before and after may add up to more than two integrated corps, and the losses in K11 are even greater, if the situation does not change greatly in the next stage, the overall battle losses will soar to more than three percent.
In addition to this guy Pan Wen, the armed forces of the militia front can only be regarded as a logistics system that can be ignored.
The only mercenary groups that can maintain sufficient status in a short period of time are not small in battle, but their overall size and ship level are still slightly weaker.
This means that after the war, the state of readiness of the entire K11 is weaker than before the empire and the federation recently deployed 11 legions!
It's essentially the best time for the swarm to break through K11 and even the MR243 bridge.
Of course, referring to the actions of the right-wing swarm and the offensive and defensive scale of K11, the hoarding bugs of K17-K40 should have produced some weak points. If the Demon King wants to pile up the swarm to take down K11, he must concentrate almost all his energy, and there will be no room for maneuver, and if they fail, they will be finished. You don't even need to really fail, as long as in the process, K42's new alliance defenders come out and stab you in the back, and the end of the Demon King will be wonderful.