Although the number of Imperial soldiers surrounding the area where the orc shipwrecks landed was very large. But they need to set up defensive lines in many places in all directions. Therefore, the total strength of the soldiers and orcs in each defense zone is actually comparable.

Although the Astral Force commander could predict the landing area of the orc shipwreck, he could not guess which direction the orc's main force would attack.

Spread out your forces to surround the orcs, then slowly shrink the encirclement and annihilate all the orcs. This was already the best strategy that the Astral Force commander could come up with.

However, the orcs, under the leadership of the orc warlords, hit their troops, and before the imperial troops from other regions could rush to support, they had already broken through the imperial defense line in one direction, slaughtered a lot, and then left.

The loss of any line of defense would make the Astral Force commander's plan completely defeated.

Because that meant that the orcs had carved a passage from their landing area to the various parts of Radium. No one knows where they will be next in Radium.

The Commander of the Astral Army, whose plan failed, could only warn the other Imperial forces on Radium to be careful of the oncoming orc attack.

Then with a long sigh, he informed the Imperial troops on the other lines of defense that they did not need to come to support again, leaving one unit to clear the battlefield, and the remaining soldiers to return to the various nest cities.

Some people may wonder why the Imperial soldiers in all directions have a numerical advantage in the face of the orcs when they are combined, so why first surround and then encircle and suppress, and give the orcs a chance to break through. Instead of f2 directly after the orcs landed, and then a passed, and wiped out the orcs in one fell swoop.

The reason is simple, orcs will run.

Although the orcs are brutal and direct in their approach to everything. They don't waste time thinking about why they did it, or how they could do it better. Instead, they just act, following their instincts to go through the cycle of conquest and violence.

They yearn for war, they are not afraid of death, they are either cutting people or thinking about how to cut people.

But orcs are not stupid. Those who think that the orcs are stupid and coarse will have to meet the emperor sooner or later.

Commanders who really know the orcs know that the cunning of these greenskins is on par with their ferocity.

While an orc war leader usually uses brute force to decide everything, there is a cunning heart hidden in their well-limbed bodies.

If an orc can become the leader of the war and hold the position of the leader of the war, it must be because he is huge and proficient in the "art" of war.

If the Astral Army commander is desperate, then under the leadership of the orc warlord, the orcs are likely to leave a small force to drag the Imperial soldiers, and then the large army of the orcs will run to the rest of the radium star to burn and loot.

And the huge scale of the Imperial Army, the speed of travel is definitely not comparable to that of the orcs, and they can only be hung behind the butt by the orcs to eat ashes.

This is also the reason why when the orcs broke through the defense line of the Imperial forces, the Astral Army commander did not mobilize soldiers to chase after them, but let them return to defend the various nest cities.

If the number of people is small, it will be sent, and if there are many people, it will take time to mobilize, and the orcs will be long gone. And the large legion marches slowly, it is difficult to catch up with the orcs, and it can only be in vain.

Now that the initiative of the war is in the hands of the orcs, it is impossible for the soldiers on the radium star to hunt for orcs on a large scale and all over the planet, and now, they can only passively defend in the nest.

The cunning of the orcs can also be seen here.

They didn't find a human city to start a large-scale attack as soon as they broke through the siege, but hid somewhere on the radium star.

Although the Imperial soldiers did not conduct large-scale searches, small-scale reconnaissance operations never stopped.

Various sentinel mechs and Valkyrie gunboats searched the area around the hive and in some places where orcs might appear. But they didn't gain at all.

Like a drop of water melted into the sea, the orcs disappeared without a trace on the radium star.

But everyone knows that the orcs are not really disappearing, but secretly observing every move of human beings, ready to launch a deadly attack on the human nest city at any time.

This made the spirits of those imperial soldiers tense all the time, and they did not dare to relax in the slightest. They kept building fortifications on the outskirts of the city, and the orcs put a lot of pressure on them.

No one knows what the huge orc forces are doing, and no one knows how the orc warlord with his right leg destroyed will take revenge on the humans.

The unknown is the greatest fear.

This was originally a good thing for the people of the Empire on Radium, as the Empire's support was on the way. The more the orcs dragged on, the closer the Empire's support came to Radium.

But the planetary governors and imperial commanders on Radium had already known through the psionics on the planet that a subspace storm had surrounded Radium.

These storms can last for days, months, or even centuries. As ships pass through these storms, in the best case, they may be blown off course, appear thousands of light-years away from their target, or simply run off into uncharted territory in the galaxy.

As a result, the top brass of these radium stars are actually pessimistic about whether the Empire can send support. However, they repeatedly confirmed with the Ministry of Military Affairs, which said that the support would definitely arrive on time.

The Imperial War Department wouldn't lie to us, would it......

No way......

While the Empire's people on Radium were expecting the Empire's support, the orcs began to attack humanity after nearly ten months of hiding.

The orcs were a deadly attack, destroying the defenses of some of the smaller hive cities with overwhelming greenskin devotion and massive bombardment.

These small nest cities simply can't resist the attacks of the orc army, and they can't even hold the orcs back for a while until support arrives.

In some nest cities, it took only one day for the Greenskins to turn the magnificent buildings that countless people had worked so hard to build into rubble.

Despite the heroism of the Empire's soldiers, tens of thousands of orcs poured into the human nest capital. The remaining cities around it were also conquered one after another.

Large numbers of Imperial soldiers and hastily armed Imperial subjects were slaughtered by the orcs, and blood was spilled on the streets of the hive.

The nest is full of red and green.

Those who survived were used as slaves by the orcs, who built weapons of war for them, and worked day and night until they died.

The Orc Technician Kid and the Great Techmaster stripped the city of almost all of its resources, and the factories of the former empire were filled with orcs and their slaves, who used the resources they plundered to build more weapons and vehicles. Waaagh for the orcs! Provision of strategic supplies.

Orcs waaagh! There is no fixed direction, and it randomly appears near any nest on Radium. It is difficult for the Empire's troops to snipe or intercept the orcs in advance, and it is also very difficult to support.

Few of the small nests could hold off the fierce attacks of the orcs. When the large nests are attacked, the nearby cities may have fallen, and there are no troops nearby that can support them quickly. Therefore, in the face of the attack of the orcs, most of the nests can only find their own way.

As the orcs captured more and more nests, they became more and more emboldened. The large, heavily guarded, impregnable nests have also become their targets.

Each wall was surrounded by a long series of trenches and fortresses that had already been erected in these nests, and there were many Imperial soldiers stationed in these nests, many of which had been breached by Imperial soldiers retreating.

Under their protection, it would be difficult for the orcs to break through the defenses of these nests. In fact, the invincible orcs can only stop in front of these nests.

They have paid many orc lives, but they can't shake the slightest defense of these nests. But 10,000 orcs can't work, then 100,000, 100,000 can't, then million, million can't work, then invest 10 million orcs!

The Orcs are one of the most numerous races in the galaxy, and no race in the galaxy can match them in numbers and reproduction.

The genetic factors of these orcs are made up of a plant spiral and an animal spiral, which gives them the all-important ability to reproduce asexually, and to think and act freely like animals. And the terrible thing is that every orc is a good warrior, they are born muscular and powerful.

Orcs reproduce in an extremely efficient way: as adults, they begin to unconsciously scatter a large number of spores, grow whenever they are in the soil, and reproduce asexually.

These fungal spores will grow into a plant-like uterus that feeds a variety of green-skinned organisms. The first to appear are the Farts and Scroog, who will prepare for the birth of the Orcs, and then the Orcs will appear.

This means that wherever the orcs go, they will have an abundance of food, slaves, and other resources, a self-sufficient ecological chain. When they unleash their waaagh! and don't need to worry about your logistics.

Although all orcs release genital spores throughout their lives, large releases of spores usually occur when an orc is injured or killed. When an orc falls, thousands of orcs will stand up.

A massive waaagh! It will cause the orc genital spores to spread all over the planet, and then after a while, the green ocean will flood the entire planet.

On some planets, even if the initial orc invasion fails, it can be difficult to completely clear a planet of greenskins. Decades after defeating the orc invasion, there will still be wild orcs out of nowhere attacking the people of the Empire.

Although the original commander of the Astral Army left a force to clean up the orc corpses on the battlefield, there were always missing orc spores that took root, and the orcs also left reproductive spores elsewhere. It is impossible to prevent the birth of new orcs.

Now the orcs on the radium star have developed for nearly a year, and after these new orcs break the ground, no one knows how many of them there are now.

Millions? Millions? Or hundreds of millions? It's a frightening number anyway.

Although those nests besieged by the orcs temporarily blocked the orc's attack, it was only a matter of time before their defenses were breached with the advance of countless orcs.

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The capital of Radium Star, the largest nest city.

The brutal attack of the orcs has terrified everyone in the hive. Although the orcs' attacks were never able to break through their powerful defenses, it became increasingly difficult for them to resist the orcs' attacks.

A fireteam of various orc war machines aimed at the barrier of the hive capital and launched an attack. They broke the outer wall of the Hive Defence, their tracks running over the rubble.

Countless green-skinned vehicles with orcs followed them, and they cut through the gaps in the defensive line, destroying all the fortifications with their weapons.

As the chariots passed through the final trenches, the orcs began to attack the gates of the hive. Once the gate is breached, the chariots laden with orcs start their engines as fast as they can.

The Orcs' attacks are multi-directional, and they also drop Storm Kids via warplanes or helicopters, and send cunning Special Operations Boys to infiltrate from the Nest's complex sewer network.

After resisting the attacks of the orcs, the Nest was already a little overstretched.

Therefore, the officers in the nest capital ordered those imperial citizens to also pick up laser guns and rush to the battlefield, and those gangs at the bottom of the nest were sent to the front line. Of course, this is indispensable for the process of "persuading" and "probating" these scumbags by the political commissars.

They realized that it was an incomparably glorious thing to dedicate their lives to the emperor. With the addition of these living forces, the soldiers once again repelled an attack by the orcs.

The orcs were torn apart by the Nest's anti-aircraft fire, and the Special Operations Kid encountered the Astral Army's drills that were blocking the underground attack.

Every movement of the orcs was blocked, and they had no idea how to break through the defenses. But at the behest of the orc warlord behind them, they began to prepare for the next charge again.

The orc warlord knows that the vast orc legion is enough to overwhelm everything.

Wave after wave of green skins is released, and sooner or later, they can flood into the city at will.

While the orcs were preparing for their next attack, the Astral Force commander in the city was also checking the situation of the troops and adjusting the defenses to deal with the orcs.

How many times can the soldiers hold out on to an orc attack?

The Astral Force Commander had been thinking about this in his heart.

He looked at the tired and scarred soldiers, and he already had an answer in his heart.

“waaagh！”

The roar of the orcs reappeared, like a trumpet in battle. All the soldiers, no matter how exhausted, immediately returned to their combat positions, and the Astral Force commander immediately returned to the command room.

Under the attack of the orcs, everyone was extremely focused, focusing all their minds on the current battle and not thinking about anything else.

So when the communicator in the command room sounded, the preoccupied Astral Force commander didn't pay attention to it at all. He is constantly learning about the situation on the battlefield through holograms and walkie-talkies, giving orders to the soldiers.

The rumbling of the orcs' cannons also drowned out the sound of the communicator, so that no one in the command room noticed the communication.

It wasn't until the Commander of the Astral Army saw the scene outside the window when the soldier reminded him that he turned his head to look at the exclusive communication device, and then walked over to connect the communication.

"That's right, I saw it, support has arrived."

The Thunderhawk flew out of the clouds, and the roar of the engine could be heard before the shock wave of the bomb hit. Space marines, the best warriors in the service of the Emperor, have arrived.

Bands of power-armored, spacemarines burst out of the Thunderhawk gunboat and headed for the oncoming Green Tide.