Chapter 415, Battle of the Steel Wings
Regarding the battle of Steel Wing, Gu Hang has always been paying close attention to it.
Tillemans' choice in the Battle of the Transition was of course correct, and he fully supported it.
What he is most afraid of is which general of the front army has his own ideas, and then gives him the whole job.
Taking the victory or defeat of an entire battle and fighting for a 30% victory rate is absolutely unacceptable.
It's safer, it's more reliable than anything else.
And in the follow-up, the green-skinned orcs who suffered losses were of course unwilling to give up. They chase the fleeing Pegasus fleet all the way to Steelwing.
At that time, the main force of the Pegasus fleet was already in place.
The greenskins didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, they directly launched a ferocious and irritable attack.
Not to mention, such an offensive situation really brings a lot of pressure.
Steel Wing Star has not experienced war for many years, and many of the war equipment has only recently been reactivated, and it is really a bit of a hurry for a while.
But in the end, after surviving the initial discomfort, they still gave full play to the advantages of the complete planetary defense system, not only stubbornly preventing the attack of the greenskin fleet, but also causing a lot of damage.
During the month-long battle, the Greenskin Fleet paid the price of thirty or forty warships one after another, but the result was only the destruction of some armed space stations and fire platforms. The most important Star Castle and Star Port are still standing. The main force of the Pegasus fleet was also saved, and only three ships were consumed.
If this exchange is continued, then this business can be done a hundred times.
The number of the greenskin fleet, no matter how large, cannot withstand such a fight.
They quickly slowed down their attack.
However, in the process, the Irontooth Clan unleashed another trick: a large number of green-skinned orcs, with the help of landing modules, landed on the surface.
Forcibly landing on a well-defended planet like Steel Wings would come at a huge cost. More than half of the landing capsule, in the process of landing, were intercepted and destroyed.
However, after all, the planet is so big, compared to the entire planet, even a starport like a space city is a small thing. The Greenskin Fleet is always able to attract attention by feintifying in one place, and then other ships go around to less well-fortified areas and drop landing troops.
Even if they were halfway down, tens of millions of orcs who were not afraid of death landed on the ground.
That's what Tillemans fears the most.
If the Irontooth Orcs just have a lot of ships, then it's okay to say, fight a little tighter, rely on the planet's defense system, and the Pegasus fleet itself is not vegetarian, then who is afraid of whom?
What I am afraid of is a massive ground offensive.
The regular Astral Army troops of the Empire will fight very hard when they are engaged in ground battles with the Iron Tooth Orcs, not to mention that at the moment, the main ground force of the Steel Wing Star is still the planetary defense force.
Although there are quite a few of them, hundreds of millions, and in terms of quality, they can be regarded as a group of heroes in the Hippogriff Star Zone, but overall, Tilemence does not dare to fully trust them.
The results of battles on the ground are very important for naval battles. Once a large area of the planet's surface falls, there will be no anti-orbital guns deployed on the ground in the first place. Without the cover of anti-orbital guns, Starport and Starfort are dangerous. If these two big things are destroyed, then the orbital defense system of Steel Winging Star will completely collapse.
That day the horse fleet had to run again.
And it doesn't necessarily have to run away.
To some extent, they're now stuck in Steelwing.
In order to prevent the worst from happening, Tilemence instead drew a few ships and broke away from the confrontation with the Greenskin fleet to support the ground battle.
But the greenskins will also have a response. Their ships will also move to their corresponding positions at the start of a critical battle on the ground and fire at the surface.
Although a lot of firepower can be intercepted, it can still have some support.
The Battle of Steel Wings began.
The battle was still very brutal.
Now, Admiral Yuan Chengchuan is very grateful for the twenty boatloads of supplies sent by the alliance before.
Although the Hippogriff Star Zone itself was already prepared, a large amount of materials had converged on the Steel Wing Star during the previous preparation period. However, when the war really started, he still found that the amount of arms and materials was really not enough.
In particular, the ones sent by the alliance are all good things.
Needless to say, those food supplies, conventional ammunition supplies, the key is that many heavy blast guns, plasma guns, and high-performance hot melt bombs are quite reliable things.
If you have one, you can form a solid fire position; A single strafing shot, or two shots from a plasma gun, can destroy a raging orc war truck or a kill canister.
This can often save a position or save dozens of lives.
Steelwings occupy 43% of the world's land area and have only one complete continent, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. The ground part of the battle soon spread to almost the entire northern hemisphere.
But human armies cannot completely ignore the southern hemisphere.
The greenskins are flown down from the drop pod, and there are often thousands, if not thousands, of greenskins in a 'meteorite' made of rock and metal. As long as one of them lands, the alarm will be sounded at the landing location and a large area around it.
In this case, the human forces must be defended in all land areas of the planet.
Even those seemingly worthless wildernesses can't relax their surveillance. If a batch of green skins are really allowed to fall into the wilderness, plant those green skin spore fungi, and develop, then the follow-up green skins don't even need to carry a huge attrition rate to transport troops from the Jinguanxing area, and then parachute in.
They will soon build a unique ecosystem in the wilderness, from basic fungal plants, to various Scrogomon, to fart spirits, and even Greenskins...... They will soon grow out of the ground and become a disaster.
If it is still an invasion of the enemy, then if it comes to that point, the human army will have to fight against the 'planetary cancer'.
It's best not to let this happen, and even if you can't, delay as much as possible.
In fact, the green-skinned orcs actually made a similar attempt.
They tentatively dropped some drop pods on the southern continent.
This shows the importance of always being on guard throughout the planet.
It was impossible to expect to kill the green-skinned orcs, and there were many orc boys and fart spirits on the hundreds of boats. Even, a few green-skinned ships were half-defeated, and they returned to the Jinguanxing area to pull a few boatloads of people over.
The most important goal that Yuan Chengchuan wants to achieve: not to lose the ability to counter-orbit;
The second goal: to prevent the enemy from establishing a stable ecological circulation system, as long as this sign is discovered, then even if it is a big price, even if it is to call for the support of the busy Pegasus fleet, it must be resolutely eliminated.
The third goal is to destroy the enemy's living force as much as possible.
Under this guiding ideology, the entire Steelwing Star has finally stabilized after surviving the chaos at the beginning of the war.
For such an 'interesting' war, the green-skinned orcs are also quite involved. They continue to throw power into the surface of the earth, and they continue to put pressure on the orbital defense system of mankind in space.
The war began to stalemate.
And this is also the result that Gu Hang wants to see.
Steelwings turn into a giant magnet that can firmly absorb the enemy's gaze and hold on, which is the best.
At present, it seems that if Greenskin does not further increase its troops on a large scale, it is very promising for Steel Winging Star to hold for two months, not to mention for half a year or a year.
But soon, these green skins also took some measures that Gu Hang did not want to see.
Their main force, while blocking the Steel Wing Star, divided a part of its forces, and used a dozen or twenty small garbage ships as a structure to come to the interior of the Hippogriff Star Zone.
This cannot be stopped.
If the enemy divides his forces in a big way, then the Pegasus fleet is not a dead man, and they can chase after them and concentrate their forces to destroy the enemy who divides their forces; But if it is only such a small-scale separation, the main force still gathers the Steel Wing, and the Pegasus fleet starts a decisive battle right now, and if it is separated from the cover of the Steel Wing Star orbit system, the victory rate is still very low.
They still have to shrink back, and they can't control those small divisions.
However, this small division of troops is not so significant.
A dozen small green-skinned garbage ships, whose combat capabilities may not be as good as those of ordinary human frigates, coupled with the thin skin, are unlikely to independently destroy a planet's orbital defense system.
However, there are many planets in the Hippogriff Star Zone whose orbital defense systems are average, and there is nothing to do with these garbage ships.
These junk ships just go around, blow up the planet a few times, drop a bunch of drop pods, and then change the galaxy.
Soon, the entire Hippogriff Star Zone was caught in the flames of war. Almost every one of the twelve worlds in the Star Zone has been invaded by the Greenskins, but the situation is more or less severe.
Even the foggy horse star area in the north of the next door has also suffered.
The greenskinned ships that slipped from the Steel Wing Star to the Cuiquan II system in the Fog Horse Star Zone, and the green skins that invaded the Cuiquan I Star from the Tongguan Star Zone, which was already in a war zone state, also made the situation in the Fog Horse Star Region deteriorate rapidly.
This behavior of the Green Skins has greatly interfered with the support of various human worlds for the war.
Many planets, where productivity has been destroyed, and because of the invasion, they have been forced to find ways to take care of the problems at hand, slowing down their contribution to the overall war situation.
At the same time, the irontooth clan's behavior of spreading war in an all-round way has also caused many star sector territories to fall into panic.
Of course, these are all disadvantages, but from another point of view, when the panic was catalyzed, a plan that Gu Hang was promoting became smooth.
While the entire alliance has activated its wartime system and is racing against time to gather forces to prepare for war, the alliance is also making political efforts on many fronts.
The location of the Pegasus Star Region is located in the southeast corner of the entire Dragon Eagle Star Domain. This place, also known as 'Seven Horses'.
The reason why it is called this is because in this corner, with the Pegasus Star Region as the center, there are also six star regions around the Hippogriff, the Fog Horse, the Purple Horse, the Border Horse, the Ken Horse, and the Iron Horse.
Together, it's the so-called Seven Horses.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, is promoting the establishment of the 'Seven Horse Entente', which is a military mutual defense pact.
In order to face the attack of the green-skinned orcs, he hopes to establish a wartime mechanism that can unite the forces of the other six star sectors. In this agreement, it should be agreed that each star sector should establish a unified military command system and a unified resource allocation mechanism under the Seven Horse Agreement.
Of course, the leader of the Seven Horse Pact is naturally the Pegasus Star Region, that is, the Alliance.
The alliance will guarantee the military security of every Entente world.
Gu Hang's envoy had already taken the fast voyager to various places, bringing his letters, and discussing with the heads of the major star regions and the governors of the planets.
The negotiation process of the Seven Horse Entente was not very smooth.
Didn't you, Gu Chief, take advantage of the war to expand your so-called alliance?
How different is it from signing this Seven Horse Pact and joining the alliance?
Although, after signing the treaty, the alliance will not continue to expand its own system outward. However, militarily, it is necessary to listen to the deployment of the Seven Horse Entente, the planetary defense force is no longer its own, and there is also a financial expense, which must fully support the 'Entente Legion'. Provide soldiers, provide resources......
The planets, of course, will have great doubts about this.
The imperial tax is already a huge burden on the planets, and you have to pay another 'protection fee' to your alliance?
Why?
They can't stop the attack of the greenskins on their own.
Another important factor is the situation in the entire star field.
Not to mention the battle situation in the eastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Field, in the middle or even the west of the Star Field, that is where the green-skinned frenzy is more turbulent.
The focus battle on Steel Wing is not a real Iron Tooth workhorse.
In fact, the main force led by the orc chief named 'Tietus' chased the remnants of the Yunluo fleet and burned the flames of war all the way to the core area of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain.
From the Jinguan Star Area to the Cursed Bone Star Area, and then to the Snow Eagle Star Area and the Speed Eagle Star Area, they have been swept by the green skin wave. The Yunluo Star Region, where the capital of the Star Domain is located, and the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region, where the only casting world in the Dragon Eagle Star Domain, Jindi Star, is located, I am afraid that they will soon be the next stage of the target of the Greenskin Orcs.
In fact, the difficulty of communicating in the Star Language from the Seven Horse Land to the capital of the Star Domain has now become difficult because of the green wave. The Empire's tax collection work, which was supposed to begin, was forced to come to a halt - the tax fleet was impassable, and the middle road had been cut off by the greenskins.
Under these circumstances, Governor Gu claimed that he had been authorized by the Star Domain Government to do extraordinary things in extraordinary times, and even had the authority to allocate the current imperial tax.
Many people have doubts about this and don't know if it's true or not.
But at a loss, there are also people who make a decisive choice.
The head of the Hippogriff Zone, Ren Sunxia, was the first to announce that he and all the planetary governors in the region would sign the 'Seven Horse Entente'.
It's a good example to take the lead.
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Yesterday I slept all day, and I took fever-reducing medicine at night to get better, and I barely finished writing this chapter.
Let's see if I still have the strength to write another chapter tonight.
I went back to sleep.
There is also a war zone star map in the back.
(End of chapter)