The total construction cost of the 400 million alliance army exceeds 20 billion, and the alliance has to eat up about 2.1 billion military expenses every year to maintain.

This is a much larger cost than maintaining 30 million Astral Army, even if you don't mention the total amount per capita.

This also means that although the Alliance Army can still only be regarded as a planetary defense force in the Empire's sequence, its actual combat effectiveness is probably much stronger than that of a standard astral army like the Dragon Eagle Legion.

Normally, the alliance will not be able to build such an army. In addition to personnel training, the production and maintenance of military equipment is also overpriced.

But in reality, the league didn't spend that much money on its books.

Most of the products, especially the expensive ones, were actually quoted at least half or more when they were supplied to the Alliance Army.

This is to make the alliance's military spending look normal. Otherwise, according to the annual maintenance cost of 20 billion army building and 2 billion yuan, the outside world should wonder how the alliance can afford such a cost.

In fact, under normal circumstances, it is really impossible for the league to afford to spend this money. The book price can be made low, but the actual production cannot be faked, after all, the troops really need so much equipment and ammunition supplies.

But the alliance has a unique advantage in this regard.

Some of the equipment directly produced by the black box is about the same as no money, just a material cost. When it comes to producing relatively inexpensive things like guns and armored vehicles, the advantages are not obvious; But in the production of the Lion King tank, a heavy tank that costs more than 300,000 yuan, making one out of the black box is equivalent to picking up one for nothing, and it doesn't cost money.

The most important thing is that the production line directly pulled out through the black box is highly efficient, and the production line itself is equal to no money.

When a piece of equipment does not need to consider R&D expenses and production line costs, but only considers the cost of manpower and materials required for manufacturing itself, then this cost will become very acceptable.

In addition, the larger the scale of production, the lower the production cost. The alliance must be a powerful building, and the army equipment that cannot be used up by itself will be paid as imperial taxes. With more than 10 billion imperial taxes a year, I am not afraid that I will not be able to eat the production capacity.

Let's not talk about the actual situation, on the books, the alliance only spent 7 billion on the army building, and it was also spread over the past six years; The maintenance fee is only 600 million a year, and it is still increasing year by year.

However, the construction of the navy, another major source of military spending, is not so easy to do.

The finished products that can't be pulled out of the black box only have manufacturing blueprints, and they can only produce key components one by one to build the production line.

Although this is already excellent, and it also greatly reduces the cost of manufacturing. However, due to the fact that warships are small and the unit price is high, it is not easy to do accounts.

And there is not much need to do accounts, and the difference in the middle is not particularly large.

Over the past four years, the alliance has invested about seven billion dollars in naval construction.

The current Alliance Navy has three Shark-class destroyers and five frigates, three of which are 'Silver Helmets' and two 'Silver Swords'.

This is the main force of the Alliance Navy, plus 21 'Blackfish-class' patrol ships, this kind of small boat is not much to say, only beating the side drum.

Du Shiliang of the Pegasus fleet saw the appearance of the Alliance Navy, and his expression at that time was a little subtle.

On the one hand, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the current alliance navy, it is not comparable to the Pegasus fleet, even if it is just the remnants left behind. The entire Union Navy combined is about the same cost as a musician-class cruiser.

But on the other hand, the Alliance Navy is also a star sea force that cannot be ignored, and it only took them four years to build it all. In contrast, how many years did it take for the Pegasus fleet, which was allocated by the Imperial Tax, to its current strength?

Three hundred years!

It was during these 300 years that the Pegasus fleet was founded from scratch, accumulating ships, fighting, bursting ships, and continuing to build ships...... So all the way.

The Alliance Navy is not the Imperial Navy, they nominally bear the name of the escort team within the Alliance Star Sector, and neither the Military Affairs Department nor the Imperial Navy Command can control them.

There is no need to unconditionally obey the orders of the empire and go to the dangerous battlefield desperately, but to escort the ship inside the star sector, the probability of exploding ships is extremely low.

Just save up your money like this, and with the further growth of the alliance's production capacity, especially the production capacity of the Angry Owl Shipyard, wouldn't it be possible to save a third of the Pegasus fleet in twenty or thirty years?

From that point of view, that's a bit scary.

But in fact, Gu Hang's idea may go further than Du Shiliang imagined.

In twenty or thirty years, only a third of the Pegasus fleet has been saved, which is too little.

If he is really given such a long time, the productivity growth of the alliance is estimated to be exaggerated. Starships will be dumpling faster, and the regular productivity boost can also free the Winged Star from paying Imperial taxes with starships, and can directly leave those starships and fill them in the Alliance Navy.

The speed at which the alliance can build a navy will become faster and faster over time.

Not to mention a third of the Pegasus fleet, if the entire alliance develops steadily, he is sure that in twenty years, he will be able to accumulate a naval force that is not inferior to the entire Pegasus fleet.

……

The battleship that Gu Hang was riding arrived at Korojia.

He inspected the recent reorganization of the Union Army, and held a military parade in front of an elite regiment.

Then, he traveled among several nests to meet with some officials, and stayed in the governor's palace for a few more days, so that he could be considered to have completed the trip to Koroga.

At present, Gu Hang spends half of his time in the Governor's Mansion of the Flying Wing Star or the Raging Star every year, and the other half of the time is spent flying around the various planets of the Alliance, looking around.

There was a Shark-class, two Silver Helmets-class, and seven or eight patrol ships, which were specially used as his car, taking him around the star area.

On the destroyer named "Meditation", a cabin was specially converted for this purpose, which was used for him, as well as his head office, the alliance staff group, to assist him in his work. At the same time, it also strengthened the Meditation's star signal, making it easier for him to perform official duties here and liaise with officials at all levels of the Alliance, ministries, and various planets.

Think about it this way, life as the top leader of such an alliance is so boring and boring.

However, there is an incident that has happened recently that needs his attention.

The main force of the Pegasus fleet is coming back.

At the same time, it means that Yelicia is coming back.

……

It's been more than six years since Elicia left the Pegasus Sector.

got engaged, but it turned out that the marriage hadn't been completed for six years.

But that's not the way it is.

Earlier, I didn't expect the war against the Iron Tooth Clan to last so long.

The Iron Tooth Clan has been entrenched in the northeast of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain for more than seventy years. Not only have they not been solved, but they have continued to grow over the past seventy years.

From the beginning, it was just a small trouble on one planet in the Tieguan Star Region, and it evolved into an entire Star Region being dragged into the flames of war; Then, the first Iron Tooth War began, and mankind suffered a crushing defeat in the ground war under the premise of having space superiority, followed by a large number of landing modules launched from the surface and desperately jumped onto the human warships in orbit, which eventually led to the destruction of at least fifty naval ships of all levels.

The green skin is not fatal, and it is impossible for the human army to send a manned rocket directly from the surface to orbit, and even blow up and land in one go, which is something that the human army cannot do; After they seized the navy ship, they drove the ship directly to the surface, and the big guy who was dozens of kilometers stunned could drive to the surface of the planet, and it didn't matter if it crashed.

After the defeat of the First Iron Tooth War, Starfield urgently mobilized more forces to fight again. However, before the Second Iron Tooth War began, the entire Tieguan Star Region fell. The greenskins are not only on the ground for a long time, a large number of greenskinned garbage ships that look tattered and weak in combat effectiveness, but there are a large number of them, began to rampant in the Tieguan Star Area and spread around.

The Second Iron Tooth War broke out, a battle dominated by naval warfare.

The human army, which had miscalculated the strength of the enemy, was defeated once again.

And this time, the result was the fall of the Yinguan Star District, the Kuoluo Star District, and the Jiangmei Yuxing Area around the Tieguan Star District.

The war warlords, who had unified all the Greenskin tribes, launched a grand waaagh and launched a fierce assault on the surrounding areas of the Tieguan Star District.

Humanity hurriedly faced the battle, followed by the Third Iron Tooth War, which started in the Jinguan Star Region.

In this battle, the human army finally won the victory.

The death of a Greenskin Pirate Overseer causes the vast Greenskin fleet to fall into chaos and be wiped out on a large scale; The extinction order that humans threw on the surface of a planet killed most of the greenskins on the planet and led to the death of the great greenskinned warlord who personally led the expedition.

The orc empires of the four sectors are mired in civil strife. After losing the leadership of the war warlords, many of the second-level Greenskin Overseers began to fight among themselves.

This is also the traditional art of the green-skinned orcs. Under the leadership of a unified war warlord, the Greenskins will burst into great combat power; But once the leader is gone, civil strife begins until they compete for a new leader.

It stands to reason that this is the best time to completely eradicate all greenskins. But in fact, there were three successive battles of Iron Teeth, the first two defeats, and the latter one could only be regarded as a crushing victory at best. After the battle, there was really not enough strength in the star field to chase after the victory.

The Greenskins are indeed in civil strife, but after all, the number is still there, and the civil strife is also between planets, and even the bosses who occupy multiple planets at the same time.

If you want to regain the lost territories one by one and destroy the greenskins, you still need enough strength.

And the Dragon Eagle Star Domain no longer has the corresponding strength. The support they had asked for from the surrounding star fields and the higher-level governments of the Celestial Regions was also far away.

In this case, they can only make a few attempts to recover the Jinguan Star Zone, clean up the green skins inside the star area, and they are powerless to go to the four star regions that have completely fallen into the hands of the green skins to carry out a complete annihilation operation.

The Third Iron Tooth War was already 26 years ago. In the past twenty-six years, the Dragon Eagle Star Domain has established a line of defense in the six star sectors that can be directly connected around the four fallen star sectors, locking the four fallen star sectors, and this line of defense is called the 'Iron Tooth Defense Line'.

From time to time, human armies will organize their forces and attack the Fallen Territories in an attempt to recapture some planets, wipe out the Greenskin fleet, and destroy the Greenskin Shipyard.

But at the same time, the raiding fleets of the Irontooth Clan often enter the six sectors that make up the Irontooth Defense, attacking the human side.

The greenskins will also fight each other, and the whole situation presents a dynamic balance.

It wasn't until six years ago that the Starfield government felt like it could do it again. Seeing that the greenskin has not yet formed a unity, and the entire star field has recovered a lot after twenty years of recuperation. So the Star Domain government plans to organize another war to give the Iron Tooth Clan a hard blow.

Problems that have not been solved for 70 years certainly do not expect to be solved at once. But at the very least, there is something to be done.

The first step in this war initiated by the human side is to cut off the tentacles of the three defense lines of the Green Skins to the Golden Pass, the Copper Pass, and the Jiaoshou Star Zone, and completely liberate the worlds in these Star Zones that have fallen into the Green Skin War; Then, go to the Yinguan Star District, capture and destroy at least three or four greenskin worlds, and build a bridgehead to prepare for the follow-up operation.

With this plan in mind, the main force of the Pegasus fleet was transferred.

At the same time, the Dragon Eagle Fleet and several main army groups of the Dragon Eagle Legion also took action.

At the beginning of the war, I heard that it was quite smooth. In a little more than a year, the green skins in the star area of the three iron tooth defense lines were solved by the human army, and then the fleet and the army drove into the Yinguan star area and began to carry out the second phase of combat missions.

But here, it is a stalemate, and progress is slow.

What was expected to be done in three years has been delayed for six years.

But lately, there has been good news.

Yinguan 2, Yinguan 3, Water Mist Star, and White Mist Star, the four predetermined targets in the Yinguan Star Zone, were finally captured.

Since then, the human army has established a bridgehead within the Yinguan Star Region.

Although the war was fought quite hard, the elimination of the green skins in the 'Iron Tooth Line' and the defeat of four worlds in the occupied area can be regarded as a passable result.

The rest of the matter is waiting for another wave of power to accumulate and gradually encroach on the interior of the occupied area.

Even, the Star Domain government has also formulated a timetable for the complete elimination of the Green Skins, and has vowed to completely solve the Green Skins problem in the Star Field in the next fifteen years!

Under this premise, the goal of the war was initially achieved, and the Pegasus fleet also had a chance to return to rest.

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There is a star map of the Pegasus star region in the back

(End of chapter)