Four years have passed in a hurry, and this is the fifth year that Ruggie Likohi has been fighting on Koroga.

Looking at the ruined city of Fino from afar, he couldn't help but think of the meeting they had seen four years ago, when the Governor had passed by Koroga on his way back to the Raging Star after the engagement ceremony, and that conversation.

At that time, he had been fighting in Koroga for less than a year. He remembered that he had given the Governor some of his views on the war.

He was a soldier, and before that he wasn't even a soldier. He was originally just a small merchant active in Junk Town, reselling some daily necessities and minerals, until his wife and children died at the hands of the Greenskin Alien, he took the gun and vowed to kill all the Greenskins.

The formation of the beast slaughtering group was all a later thing, and he was just driven by hatred at that time, so he did it ruthlessly.

At that stage, he never thought that just to be able to better kill the green skin, after joining the alliance along the way, he really killed the green skin in a short period of time. The heavenly fire that fell from the sky and seemed to destroy everything is still fresh in his memory to this day.

It was from then on that he was hardened and turned into a military mentality, playing for the Alliance.

He went through the entire war process of the unification of the Angry Owl, and then was sent to Koroga to fight the demons non-stop, from the acting commander at the beginning, to now almost the entire army of the Angry Bear Legion of millions, and was promoted to the rank of Imperial Brigadier General by Zhenger Bajing a few years ago.

But no matter how his identity has changed over the years, he has always considered himself a soldier, and he can only see things from the perspective of a soldier.

This is how the so-called military needs for the solution of the Koroga question, which he proposed to the Governor at that time, came about.

But he also remembered that after listening to his words, Governor Gu smiled bitterly and sighed, and then said to him:

"Looks like you're going to be in Koroga for many years."

In a word, it is a proverb.

With the thinking of a soldier, Li Koshi has a lot of things that he does not understand. For example, he didn't understand why the solution he proposed at that time was impossible for the governor to know when he heard it.

Isn't that a simple thing to do?

Fifty million Astral Army, or one billion native troops, this number is simply astronomical at first glance. But if you put it in the context of the human empire that spans the galaxy, and Koroga, which has a population of 40 billion, it doesn't seem to be anything.

In the Dragon Eagle Star Domain, the Dragon Eagle Legion named after the star field alone has nine army groups, and other named Astral Army troops, similar to the Raging Bear Legion, are not a few, and now only the 3rd Army Group is in the Tianma Star Zone.

According to Li Kexi's thoughts, there is always a way to squeeze out a group of armies from other places.

As for the one billion troops, it is an exaggeration, but for Koroga, who has a population of 40 billion, it is only necessary to achieve 2.5% of the mobilization ratio of the army.

He did not ask the Governor about this question at the time, and over the years he had come to think of some of the reasons himself. For example, although the empire has many troops, there are more enemies in the empire, and no army can be squeezed out; For example, it is relatively easy for millions or tens of millions of people to achieve a high mobilization rate, but it is very difficult for Koroga to have 40 billion people, and the requirements for the government's mobilization capacity are not of the same level, not to mention that Koroga's finances simply cannot support an army of one billion people to fight.

But after thinking about this, Li Kexi's questions not only did not become less, but more.

It is true that the difficulties in reality exist objectively, but ...... Fuck it's a damn time! When death is dying, I am still talking about this difficulty, that difficulty!

When the fucking 40 billion people fall, the lamentation played by the bodies, lives, and souls of the entire 40 billion people echoes in the subspace, turning the entire Koroga into a super magic cave, and then radiating outward and engulfing the entire star region, and even several surrounding star regions, evolving into a star-level threat no less than the iron tooth green skin, not to mention those difficulties, right?

He admits that he has a stomach full of grievances.

He is not a Koroga, but after fighting here for so long, watching countless Koroga people suffer, as long as it is a person, his heart will always be touched. Even if it is just the position of a soldier, he needs to know what the meaning of fighting for himself and the soldiers under his command is.

But no matter how big the grievance is, it can't change the situation.

The problem-solving power he was looking forward to has not arrived for the past four years.

And he could only watch his soldiers, sending countless bullets and shells to those monsters; Watch his soldiers fight bravely, sacrificing one batch after another......

Although the Angry Bear Legion has been expanded, most of its strength now comes from Koroga itself, and once every two years, the Ministry of War divides a portion of the population from the Imperial Tax received from Koroga to the Raging Bear Legion. On the one hand, it is to replenish the losses of the Raging Bear Legion in previous battles, and on the other hand, it is to further expand the army.

Four years ago, the Angry Bear Legion had expanded to 500,000 men; And now the Angry Bear Legion directly has a million numbers, and it belongs to the more and more it is fighting.

At this level, only 20% of the Bears are from the Alliance, which is about the same as the total before the expansion, and the rest of the newly expanded troops are basically from Koroga itself.

At the same time, in accordance with Gu Hang's requirements, the Angry Bear Legion also maintained at least 10% of the number of alliance soldiers in the newly built troop number.

Weapons and equipment and logistical supplies were directly supplied by the Alliance by receiving orders from the Imperial Military Department.

But even after several rounds of expansion, the Angry Bear Legion is dominated by Koroga, but they are still the best performing army group in the entire Koroga. Under the command of Lieutenant General Hans, the Angry Bear Legion has always had a very important mission.

Li Kexi asked himself, they had fought hard enough. At the same time, the soldiers of the Dragon Eagle Legion-3rd Army Group who fought side by side with them also had a very high evaluation, and the Astral Army and some planetary defense troops were indeed not the same concept.

But they still flinched.

Four years ago, they were able to control the top floor of the nest capital in Fino City, and from time to time they could launch some military operations on the ground part, snatching up some resources, evacuating some uninfected people, or striking at enemy clusters mentioned by intelligence.

Two years ago, they had almost withdrawn from the ground part of the nest, and even the top part of the nest capital had begun to be seriously eroded.

A year ago, the Astral Army was already feeling overwhelmed. The city of Fino is now a dead land, and there are almost no more armies, or living people in the service of them. Normal residents would have been evacuated in the past few years; The rest is basically hopeless.

In addition, a year ago, there were more and more plague infection incidents and plague cult incidents reported in many other nest areas. Even in the planetary capital, the famous salt city, the bottom area has begun to show signs of getting out of control.

The Koroga defense force, which is seriously understaffed and has only just expanded to 200 million, can't control so many super-large-scale nest capitals. In some serious places, the Astral Army also divided troops to deal with it.

This also seriously weakened the Astral Army's control over the situation in Fino City.

So, a year ago, Lieutenant General Hans made a decision to completely withdraw all forces from the city of Fino and not to continue to spend here.

All the troops, within a month, with all the healthy people they could take with them, left the nest.

Immediately afterwards, a cruiser of the Navy, together with several destroyers, began to work together to strike at the city of Fino.

This blow was carried out in an extinct manner. There were no more scruples, and they planned to completely destroy the entire city of Fino, destroying the biggest demon cave and the source of infection.

In this way, whether it is the Astral Army or the local defense force, the vacated forces can also be invested in other nest capitals to solve those problems that can still be solved.

Anyway, the city of Fino is hopeless.

However, as it turned out, the decision was made too late.

When the heavenly fire fell, that orbital blow was even more magnificent than when Li Koxi saw the bombardment of the green-skinned orcs on the angry star. After all, in addition to one cruiser, several destroyers were involved in the strike. Nor are they just going to deliver one round of strikes, but intend to carry out multiple rounds of super-saturated orbital bombardment.

If you want to destroy, you have to make sure that you destroy it cleanly.

However, after the bombing started, the first few rounds still had a relatively good effect, and the entire upper district of Fino City was basically destroyed. Then, above the half-ruined city of Fino, a purple and green film of light appeared, blocking the blow from the orbit.

Although it was not the same as the regular one, in the end, they confirmed that what appeared in the sky above Fino City was the Void Shield.

A special Void shield powered by subspace evil.

This was too surprising, and even at this time, people were shocked to realize that in the past few years of losing control, under the festering wounds that the Astral Army could not solve, those plague cults had actually developed to this extent!

Things changed further when Vice Admiral Hans urgently convened a meeting to discuss how to deal with the Void Shield hanging over Fino City so that the orbital strike could continue.

From the hole leaking out of the destroyed upper area of Fino City, more than a dozen dark green missiles in succession pierced the pale atmosphere of Korogana and soared straight into the sky.

Vice Admiral Hans, who immediately sensed something was wrong, immediately contacted the Imperial Navy in orbit.

Sure enough, they were hit.

The Plague Cult in Fino City has not only mastered the Void Shield to protect the city that already belongs to them from orbital attacks, but has even further developed countermeasures. This kind of anti-orbital firepower is undoubtedly a direct threat to the fleet of the Imperial Navy.

The Imperial Navy did not anticipate this at all, and the cruiser 'Concerto', without even opening the Void Shield, took a solid shot.

It is also understandable that they do not open shields. They weren't fighting a naval battle, and they didn't expect to be beaten at all. Whether it's a void shield or an energy shield, it takes a lot of energy to support it, and it's all money.

But it was such an oversight that caused considerable damage.

The body of the cruiser is still hard enough, and it is only damaged by a single shot, and it is not a big problem, it is nothing more than to go back and repair the ship. But there was a destroyer that also did not open the energy shield, and it was quite unlucky to take six shots directly, one of which even penetrated the power compartment, causing an implosion.

So, on Koroga, people in the right position, looking up at the sky, can see a huge fireworks exploding in the sky.

The loss of a destroyer, this is definitely not a trivial matter. The battle destroyers of the Pegasus fleet, no matter which one they are, cost no less than 1.3 billion.

According to the calculation of ten tax coins and one big soldier, this is the life of 30 million big soldiers.

What's more, on that fully staffed destroyer, there were already more than 40,000 naval soldiers.

This time it was all blown up.

The naval fleet in the midst of the chaos immediately opened the void shield and energy shield one by one, and then projected fire on the surface more ferociously.

The confrontation between the orbit and the surface lasted for three days.

Li Kexi and the people who surrounded Fino City also watched the extremely splendid 'fireworks display' for three days.

And this battle of artillery bombardment between the ground and the orbit finally ended with the Imperial Navy giving up.

In the final decision-making communication, the commander of the Imperial Navy, with considerable embarrassment, made it clear to Hans that they would not fight any further.

On the one hand, they ran out of ammunition.

On the other hand, and most importantly, they don't see any hope of winning.

Although during these three days, the Imperial Navy always occupied the initiative, after all, they could fight if they wanted, and if they didn't want to fight, they would fly along the planet's orbit to the other side, avoid artillery fire, and wait until the energy shield was not overloaded and then come back. It was precisely because of this initiative that the Imperial Navy never suffered further losses.

However, they apparently did not have much to do with the city of Fino.

As ships continued to be forced away by the anti-orbital fire of the plague cultists, the orbital firepower in the past three days had never reached the initial saturation state, and it was impossible to completely break the Void Shield in Fino City.

Vice Admiral Hans was also quite dissatisfied, and he asked the navy, why did he not dare to completely destroy the Void Shield at the expense?

The navy lord on the opposite side was even more outdone, losing a ship was already a big loss, and they were never willing to accept the risk of dropping another ship.

In their words, "any ship is worth more than all your lives on earth combined." Instead of making us desperate, you guys should launch a ground attack, and as long as you destroy their anti-orbital firepower, I will continue to bomb the surface. ”

These words made Lieutenant General Hans angry, but even if what the other party said was not the truth, it might not be much worse.

The two sides could only engage in a ferocious war of words, spraying each other, but the end result was obviously that no one could convince anyone to bear the sacrifice.

This matter has dragged on like this, until now, a whole year.

(End of chapter)