The baking axe, along with the sinister terror tin he was driving, was killed by fifty rounds of 155 howitzers falling from the sky.

The dense artillery fire fell down, and he, who had just regained power, had no time to leave the explosion range.

And his armor, no matter how strong he is, can't withstand such a baptism of fire.

Of course, in this process, accidental injuries are inevitable.

Within two minutes, there were still many of their own soldiers, and they didn't have time to run to a safe place. Even if you find cover on the spot, if you are too close to the explosion area, you will still die.

But that's the price of necessity.

Gu Hang's initiative only reduced this price to a minimum.

One or two hundred fewer soldiers died, of course, were also valuable.

And the death of the baked axe also marks the complete collapse of the front that led the orcs to confront the human army in this area for more than a month.

Moreover, after the collapse of morale, the green skin has no way to escape.

There are human armies in front and behind, and even if they can fly away, they will not be able to escape.

And this is exactly Gu Hang's goal.

What he wants is not only a crushing battle, but also a war of annihilation without discounting.

Although the casualties were not small on the whole, I am afraid that more than 1,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in the attack on all fronts. But in exchange for the result, at least 4,000 greenskins were completely wiped out. 70% of the enemy died from the rain of artillery in the early stage.

It was also at this time that Gu Hang saw that a new change had taken place in his [Events] panel.

[Event: Greenskin Threat]

[The green-skinned orcs that inexplicably appeared on the planet have grown into a threat to be reckoned with in a few years. But under your leadership, the valiant warriors not only held off the greenskinned orcs, but also annihilated their main force with orbital bombardment, artillery coverage, and all-army assault. However, whether it's the intelligence that lies ahead, or your own feelings, these green-skinned orcs look unusual, not like the wild orcs that developed independently in the Angry Owl, but also not like the space orcs who invaded from outside the planet. 】

[Phase 1 Goal: Completed]

[Stage 1 Reward: T5 Additional Class Training Option - Beast Slayer, obtained]

[Phase 2 Goal: Identify the reasons for the rise of the Green Skin.] 】

[Stage 2 Reward: An Important Piece of Intelligence]

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In the [Events] panel, the first stage reward of [Green Skin Threat] has been settled.

Gu Hang has been able to see the training option of the new additional class of 'Beast Slayer Regiment' in the [Armor] interface. As long as it is a unit above T5, spending a little more Grace can add a part of the special attack effect against the green-skinned orcs to the troops.

As for the 'Beast Slayer' trait that the 3rd Independent Regiment directly gave for nothing, it can actually be counted into the rewards of this first stage, saving him sixty points of gifts.

And that second stage was originally what Gu Hang was going to do. It's just that the so-called 'important information' reward makes him a little concerned.

What could it be?

You'll find out when the time comes.

After taking a look at the updated incident information, Gu Hang didn't pay attention anymore.

The situation on the battlefield is still the number one priority.

After breaking down the main resistance of the greenskinned orcs, the large army rested on the spot, and at 5 p.m., they ate the dinner sent by logistics, rested for another hour and a half, and set off again at 6:30 a.m., heading deeper into the ruins of the tower.

It's not radical either.

There should still be a small number of greenskins alive on this position, but it doesn't matter anymore.

It doesn't work at all, after all, the follow-up troops will continue to carry out their tasks in the depths of the ruins of the tower, and the logistics and supplies will also need to pass through here before they can be transported, and the safety of this place still needs to be defended.

As a result, Gu Hang left the 6th and 7th Garrison Divisions, one north and one south, responsible for continuing to clear out the scattered green skins that may still survive in this position, and as a reserve force to ensure the safety of the logistics line.

The task of clearing is not listed for the time being, and there is no difficulty.

And the main forces advanced into the depths without any difficulties.

The previous orbital bombardment was no joke, and there were very few greenskins that survived a strike of that magnitude.

In particular, the most important targets: the starting positions of the Greenskin attacking troops, as well as their base camps, were hit with great focus.

The other places received relatively light fire, but the number of greenskins present is also small.

When the troops were advancing all the way, it was true that some sporadic green skins could still be seen occasionally popping up, but they were not a threat at all.

Of course, in order to ensure stability and later period, the Gu Navigation Society would leave a garrison division on every nearly twenty kilometers of the road.

While ensuring logistical access, they are also responsible for clearing the local green-skinned orcs.

Soon at nearly 12 o'clock that night, the troops arrived at the assembly place of the green-skinned orcs that the Space Marines had reported earlier.

According to the latest information before the most orbital bombardment, there should have been more than 4,000 green-skinned orcs and three times the number of fart cannon fodder, as well as a considerable number of heavy equipment that was more sophisticated than the previous encounter.

However, now there is only a huge crater here, and a large area of wreckage.

In the center of the Greenskin staging area, there is a huge crater with nothing in it. On this huge crater, it is reasonable to combine thousands of people, but at this moment they are all gone.

There are no bones left in the true sense of the word.

On the periphery of the crater, some suspicious wreckage began to appear.

Looking at the appearance of those wreckage, you can probably guess that this should belong to some green-skinned corpse or fragments of equipment.

But that's just speculation.

Shapeless pieces, things that melt and then cool, can only be guessed.

Farther away, you can see parts that can be identified as what they belonged to before they were destroyed, such as fingers, half of a thigh, etc., and the corpses will appear denser here.

Further afield, you can see individual complete equipment wreckage, such as overturned, charred and dilapidated trucks, immovable killing canisters, and relatively intact charred corpses.

The green-skinned orcs, who had gathered here in a majestic and high-spirited manner, ready to set out to destroy everything, had suffered a devastating blow here.

I don't know if any greenskinned orcs survived on the fringes of the bombing, but if they did, there were certainly not many alive, and they must have run away a long time ago.

For such a blow effect, Gu Hang is still very satisfied.

But the only thing that made him feel a little uneasy was why the Space Marines hadn't sent him information about the effects of the strikes before.

It shouldn't be.

After completing the marking of the various targets more than 10 hours ago, the Einsatzgruppen left the area that might be affected by the orbital strike, and they had more than 10 hours to evacuate, so there should be no big problem.

Even, there is no need to retreat so far, as long as you maintain a certain distance, and then make sure that you are not marked by orbital strikes, there will be no artillery fire from space, and you will naturally be in a safe place.

After the orbital strike was over and the magnetic field of the wireless communication stabilized, they also had a call with Gu Hang, which was regarded as a report of safety, indicating that they were not affected by the orbital strike, and at the same time accepted Gu Hang's request to go to the two most important targets, that is, the assembly place and base camp of the green-skinned army, to explore the effect of the orbital strike.

It stands to reason that with their distance, they will definitely be able to find out the situation very quickly.

But the actual situation is that the large army led by Gu Hang has already seen the situation of the green-skinned orcs assembly place with their own eyes, but the special task force that should have reported the information a long time ago has not received any news.

It's twelve o'clock at night, and it's late. All the officers and men had gone through a battle since eleven o'clock in the morning, and had marched through the ruins to clear the green skins, and had no time to rest for thirteen hours, except for a short rest at lunchtime, and were now very tired.

It's not good to let the big forces move anymore.

He sought out the Signal Soldier and sent a request for radio communication to the Immortal Bird Warband.

There was no response.

He felt even more wrong.

He called Pobov and arranged for his troops, after resting, early tomorrow morning in the direction of the green-skinned orc base camp mentioned in the previous intelligence, to advance and reconnoitre, and if he encountered the green-skinned orcs in the middle, he did not need to carry out a special clearance, and the main task was to find the traces of the special operations team.

Gu Hang was a little worried.

Although, with five Space Marines in the squad, there are no major problems in theory, but ......

When it comes to the Antigen Primal Rage Owl Sect, you can sacrifice a Space Marine, let alone fight against the Greenskins.

In particular, these greenskins look slightly different from wild greenskins that develop independently from spores.

Wild green skins and space green skins are all green skins, and there is no difference in terms of body structure and social form, except that the latter has developed more powerfully, has a more advanced technical level, and is ruled by powerful orc generals and even orc warlords.

The most terrible orc catastrophe in legend occurred 7,000 years ago, and that catastrophe almost destroyed the entire human empire.

However, before the elimination of that powerful space orc clan, the orcs who have grown up independently on some planets and have not yet become the ultimate threat of the galaxy will be called wild orcs.

The route by which the infection of the green skins spread to another planet is difficult to trace. During an interstellar voyage, a cargo carrying green skin spores that are invisible to the naked eye and got on a starship. When unloading, it falls to the ground, or is blown somewhere by the wind, encounters the right environment, and begins to take root and sprout, growing the first Scrogomon. This aggressive and ferocious little beast hunts, fights, is wounded, excretes, and dies...... The many spores that were secreted and split began to give birth to more Scroucons, Farts, and even Orc Kids.

Generally speaking, when the greenskin ecology of wild orcs on the planet is not fully developed, the greenskin is in a primitive tribal state. There is no technology to speak of, and there is no organizational structure, but it is equivalent to a group of beasts with relatively high intelligence.

They will fight each other and fight among themselves. After all, it is the nature of the Greenskins to fight, and they don't really care if they are fighting against their own race or a foreign race.

In the midst of the fight, they will screen out a green-skinned boss to be the leader of the tribe. The greenskins that make up the tribe will begin to fight with everything around them under the leadership of the boss. If they can't find it, they will split themselves, and then they will fight themselves.

In this process, their numbers will gradually spiral, and a large number of green skins will die from internal friction, but although the number fluctuates, the overall number will still rise. At the same time, as more battles and the number of greenskins increase, their so-called 'waaagh' force field grows.

This kind of supernatural power, which is inextricably related to psionic energy, but is not psionic energy, is similar to a certain 'idealistic technology', which will make the strength of their race higher and higher, and the technology will also make inexplicable progress.

Of course, without external forces, this process can be very long.

But if there is an external force, such as they have eaten enough foreign brains, for example, they have seen enough human beings or other intelligent races of war technology, then the 'enlightened' orc tech boys, goblin technicians, and technical tyrants have been ...... A series of technical greenskins will speed up the process dramatically.

By this standard, in the ruins of the tower, the orc tribe that is only counted in the scale of 10,000 people should not have such things as killing cans and fear cans. They have guns, they have thermal weapons, and they can only be said to have developed fast enough.

Similarly, in the past reports of Junk Town, there has never been any mention of large-scale greenskins waging war against each other.

This does not quite match the situation of wild greenskins.

But it's even more different from the space greenskin.

If there is really a greenskin clan that can cross the sea of stars to target the angry star, then wash and sleep, it is impossible to resist.

The green-skinned orcs who appear in the ruins of the Raging Star Tower are indeed a very exceptional case.

But it may also be that human beings have not yet done enough research on the ecology of green-skinned orcs, and it is difficult to mention Gu Hang's recent crazy and evil knowledge.

That's why he is worried about the current state of the special operations unit.

This green-skinned orc clan is so special, who knows if there will be something that even a space soldier can't hold onto?

The Emperor's Angel of Death, in many cases, is like the name of a demigod; But in the confrontation between many cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in the universe, sometimes they die one by one.

Green skin is one of the many 'cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods'.

……

It can't be said that Gu Hang's crow's mouth, but the special task force is indeed in big trouble now.

Rewind the clock to eleven o'clock in the afternoon, and when the orbital strike fell, they were indeed unharmed.

They waited patiently for a while, and after the afterglow of the bombing had dissipated and radio communication had been restored, they reported to the Governor that they were safe, and then they followed the instructions of the Governor and headed for the site of the orbital bombardment.

The main strike site to be explored is actually the assembly place and base camp of the greenskinned orcs.

They went to the base camp first.

Here, the scene is almost the same as the starting point, with a huge crater and all the surrounding buildings flattened. The difference is that among the mutilations here, there are a lot more fart spirits and artisan boys, and there are a lot more wreckage of green-skinned buildings.

Nothing more than that.

They wandered around the area of the strike for a while, assessing the effect of the strike and seeing if there were any survivors nearby.

The Greenskin Military Factory was confirmed to be destroyed;

Camp Greenskin confirmed destroyed;

Three Greenskin hatchery farms confirmed destroyed;

And I have to say that this kind of thing is really tenacious. Even if it is a devastating bombing strike of this level, it is more fierce than a nuclear bomb falling, but far away from the center of the explosion, especially when the attack is coming, the green skin that happens to be in the bunker at some solid point is really fine.

Fortunately, there are not many of them, and they are scattered.

Without being discovered, they did not waste time to clean it up. Of course, if it's particularly convenient, it's slaughtered.

With the characteristics of creatures like the Greenskins, as long as their boss is killed in the bombardment, and there is no leader among the remaining Greenskins, they will become 'intelligent beasts'. Act completely instinctively and fight each other until one more boss is killed among them.

And this is the time when they are at their weakest. As long as human beings grasp this opportunity, they can be completely exterminated.

Then, carefully clean up every inch of the land that the orcs have experienced, and the orc crisis will be solved.

Of course, with their tenacious nature and the way their spore form develops, the orcs can never let their guard down in crisis. For a long time to come, this planet must always monitor and probe the places where greenskin disasters have occurred, and regularly kill suspicious plants.

But as long as you don't let your guard down and follow the relevant rules and ethics of the empire, then the problems are generally minor, and most of them can be stifled at the stage when they are just showing signs and prevent a major crisis from breaking out again.

But just as their mentality gradually relaxed, a roar came from somewhere.

They were startled, but quickly reacted that it was not their whereabouts that had been discovered.

It was more like a green-skinned orc, using their voices to gather their subordinates by howling.

It's kind of funny that communication is basically roaring, but now no one can laugh out.

The emergence of this situation means that there is still an orc leader with appeal and a lot of appeal in this place.

And it's unlikely that it was just a choice. On the one hand, it's not so fast, and on the other hand, the freshman boss who has just been killed can't have such a temperament.

Then the answer is coming: under the previous orbital bombardment, there is a powerful leader among the greenskinned orcs, and he is not dead.

I don't know if it was luck, it happened to be not in the core area of the bombing, or something else, but this is obviously not good news.

They decided to check it out.

If there are already a large number of green-skinned orcs gathered at its call, then forget it, just pass the news to the Governor, and then divide the people to keep an eye on it.

But if the number of greenskins gathered is not large, Martins and the other five space marines plan to kill the greenskinned boss.

The decapitation tactic is one of the best tactics for the greenskinned orcs.

A huge 'waaagh', even if it is an expedition across the sea of stars, requires a strong orc warlord to organize and initiate. Only a strong enough leader will be able to unite the greenskins.

But in the same way, as long as the boss is dead, the remaining green skin will immediately turn into a plate of loose sand, and usually more than half of the people will be killed first in the infighting.

They don't have any thoughts of exterminating the race and defending against foreign enemies first.

And even in the middle of a specific battle, the death of the leader of a squad will greatly shake the entire Greenskins squad; The death of the commander of a campaign can bring the entire battle to its knees......

When dealing with the greenskins, the best way to find the biggest, greenest, and strongest one at the moment, and then slaughter it.

So who is best suited to do this kind of thing on the battlefield?

Space marines, of course.

In the past wars, as long as the immortal birds fought the green skins, then they would inevitably perform similar tasks five or six or seven or eight times in a battle.

For now, it's just a matter of getting back to the old business.

Even, the Space Marines still miss it a little.

However, when they crept to the place and saw the greenskins gathered there, they dismissed the idea of raiding.

There were more than they expected.

There are more than a thousand orc boys there. Not even just light infantry, there are some combat trucks, killing canisters, and roughly counting, all kinds of heavy equipment, no less than 50 units.

And, there are still sporadic green skins, converging here.

Martins was shocked by this amount.

Why are there so many?

While deliberating, they came up with a guess that could be explained:

It is estimated that this orc leader was already leading the troops he had gathered to the assembly area. Halfway through, orbital bombardment came.

The most important targets of the bombardment were the base camp and the staging area, which suffered the most violent and inescapable blows; But they were on the road, in the middle of the two, and they were lucky enough to escape.

There must still be a lot of greenskins dead, and Martins alone saw many orcs with wounds. After all, this wave of orbital bombardment is not only two big guns, but also 20 small guns and hundreds of orbital missiles, which are everywhere, and those things are also very fierce.

But in general, thousands of greenskins survived.

The decapitation tactic is no longer possible.

Not only is there a large number of enemies, but the green-skinned orc leader is also worth paying attention to:

It's so big and so green.

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