Chapter 419, Turning the Tide of the War
Joining the Seven Horse Pact still has to be forced to a certain extent, and joining the Alliance, those governors will not consider it now.
The Seven Horse Entente is still a military agreement plus a trade agreement, as for the imperial tax, whoever collects it anyway, the governors can ignore it, and if there is a problem, the empire should go to the alliance.
But if you want to join the alliance...... They had also heard about the Pegasus Zone. Under the Alliance, although there are still planetary governors, after all, this is a position under the jurisdiction of the Empire, and the Alliance cannot be abolished. However, the planetary governors of the alliance, either the leader of the alliance, Gu Hang, will be the leader of the alliance himself, or he will find a high-level leader of the alliance to be him, or he will find the original ruler to be a symbolic position, anyway, it is a symbolic position.
Within the Alliance, the Planetary Governor has evolved into an honorary position that does not involve the management of any planets, and even the Governor himself does not necessarily stay on his own planet in name for long.
For example, the two governors surnamed Fastes are now happy every day in the beautiful environment of the Flying Wings.
Not only the governors of the Fog Horse, but also the governors of the Hippogriff, have not yet thought of giving up their own world.
The Union does not persecute either.
Don't rush, take your time.
What they will have in the future is the opportunity for them to choose freely.
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There are many worlds in the Fog Horse Star Region that have joined the Seven Horse Entente, but as the Alliance's diplomats have been honest, the Alliance's main force will not be able to survive for the time being.
In fact, even if it is to solve the problem of the Hippogriff Star Zone, it is also a matter of course.
The main forces of the alliance are still rushing to the Steel Wing. The Hippogriff III, Hippogriff VI, Hippogriff II, and Brock II that passed by along the way, since they all passed by, naturally solved the problem.
If you don't go way, you can only send a branch fleet, and you have to be careful, especially if there are still troops in the transport ship, and the loss of a ship will be huge.
Worlds that are both unpopular and very marginal, such as Hippogriff IV, Hippogriff V, and Fire Feather Star, forget it, you can't go for the time being. However, the problems of these worlds are not particularly serious in themselves, there are not many green skins, and the defense forces can withstand it.
The main thing is the situation on the battlefield of the Steel Wing Star, which has some deterioration meaning. Tilemins was already a little dissatisfied with Gu Hang's slow take-off and time-wasting march on the road, and wrote letters urging him again and again.
And this so-called deterioration of the war situation is not a major change in the battlefield situation. The most important thing is that on the ground battlefield, Yuan Chengchuan is a little unbearable.
The main force in his hands is the Planetary Defense Force of Steel Wing, as well as the Planetary Defense Force that was mobilized from all over the Hippogriff Star Region during the preparation for war. The total is about 50 million.
The green-skinned orcs, on the other hand, persistently threw troops to the surface.
Green-skinned warships are much higher than human crews.
Actually, you don't need that much. After all, there are so many people needed for the ship to be opened, the guns to be operated, and the work inside the ship to run smoothly. However, the greenskins tend to cram ships three or four times the number of human navies, and the extra part is to act as a 'marine' and engage in gang warfare or something.
The green-skinned transport ship is more like a human transport ship. A small transport ship similar to the Flying Dolphin class can transport 100,000 people at a time; Similar to a whale-class transport ship, that is, two or three million people; Similar to a large transport ship like the giant belly, the whole ship is nearly 30 kilometers long, and a ship with 15 million people is not a problem.
This is still a conventional transportation capacity, if it is a little more crowded, a little more extreme, the distance is shorter and you don't need to bring so many subsistence materials, this transportation volume can be increased by three or four times.
No one knows how many greenskinned boys are stuffed into the main greenskinned fleet that invaded the Hippogriff Star Zone.
For the ground offensive of Steel Wing, they threw down 20 million in the first large-scale landing. Tens of thousands of drop cabins were constantly released, even if more than half of them did not land in the end, but tens of millions of them still landed, so that the entire northern continent of Steel Wing Star was pulled into the flames of war.
After that, the small-scale dropping of a few or a dozen rock drop capsules was not counted, and there were two large-scale landings like the first one.
At present, the total number of irontooth orcs on Steelwing, which is constantly waaagh, is estimated to be more than 35 million.
Yuan Chengchuan's defense army was able to rely on numerical superiority at the beginning, relying on the defense facilities scattered all over the planet. However, as the number of the two sides was greatly reduced, the lack of quality of the planetary defense force and the old and disrepair of many fortresses in the steel wing star were exposed one by one.
The strategy he originally insisted on went bankrupt one by one and could not be realized.
If you want to form a living force to annihilate the green-skinned orcs, this will not be considered at all after the second large-scale landing.
And after a large number of areas are lost, the fact that the green skins are not allowed to establish ecosystems is basically a matter of fate. If the Pegasus fleet in space has time to help with a few cannons, then bombard, anyway, the ground forces will not be able to cooperate a little.
After the third large-scale landing, even Yuan Chengchuan's strategic bottom line, that is, the task of holding those precious anti-orbital gun fortresses, has become very difficult to complete.
Often, after a railgun fortress was invaded by the greenskins, the surrounding human army tried their best to send troops to defend, and after a bloody battle and heavy casualties, the fortress was finally overcome.
Before retreating, the human army would not destroy the railgun at first, thinking that if there was a chance later, it would be able to take it back and use it again.
However, after a period of development, they found that those green-skinned orcs had inexplicably mastered the ability to transform human railguns, and then the few railguns that were taken away by the orcs became the firepower of the Pegasus fleet in the sky.
It was really uncomfortable.
So far, this has not happened in many cases, and it has been able to withstand it. The few railguns that were captured, and the Pegasus fleet smashed them on the ground, which was considered to be the end.
But this cannot be the case.
If most of the railguns were captured and used by the Greenskins, Steelwings would probably not be a defensive place, and the Pegasus fleet would be caught in the middle and beaten on both sides.
Subsequently, if the human army is really forced on the ground and cannot hold the railgun fortress, they will often choose to destroy the railgun before retreating.
It was a very reluctant choice, but it could only endure the pain.
But even if it is destroyed, the situation will be bad, at most it will not be as bad as being occupied and reused.
In short, if this situation continues, the Pegasus fleet will really not be able to bear it.
It's no wonder that Tilemence is in a hurry.
He also heard the news that the alliance army had been marching all the way after entering the Hippogriff Star Zone. The combat effectiveness shown by the Alliance Army surprised him incomparably. At the beginning, when he first left the Pegasus Star Zone to go out to fight, he didn't know that the alliance was so capable of fighting.
Over the years, things have changed a little bit.
Of course, this is a good thing, and the league will definitely play better and better. But...... Boss Gu Hang, don't play tricks, if you want to come, come quickly! I can't stand it here!
After Gu Hang arrived with the main force, he quickly deployed the fleet to a position close to the Steel Wing Star.
In the process, the two fleets also made contact, and once wanted to complete the flanking attack on the greenskin fleet in the orbit of the steel wing.
If they can sandwich the green-skinned ships in orbit, with the blessing of the orbital defense system, they are even confident that they can turn all these green-skinned ships into space junk in one wave.
It's just a pity that it didn't work out.
The Greenskinned Fleet Overseers are not stupid, and no matter how reckless, they will not put themselves in such a dangerous position to engage a powerful enemy.
When Gu Hang's fleet passed through the astral tunnel and entered the star system, the greenskin fleet naturally observed it.
In fact, the actions of the alliance fleet along the way are not small, and when they beat up a lot of their detachment fleets, they can actually know all the way to where the alliance fleet is.
However, in the process, the Greenskinned Fleet Overseer, who is also the commander of the Greenskin's main force, the Onetooth, decided to try to take down the Steelwing Star before the Alliance's main force arrived.
It was also under this decision that they successfully dropped 35 million greenskins into the surface of Steelwing, but 30 million also died in the process.
It's a reckless, irrational decision, but it's green-skinned.
Obviously, now humanity is carrying it.
At this stage, no matter how irrational he is, he has to let go.
His ship, withdrawn from the orbit of the Steelwing.
Even, he tried to find the main force of Gu Hang's fleet that was coming to the Steel Wing Star to fight a decisive battle after leaving the orbit of the Steel Wing Star. Eliminate Gu Hang first, and then go back and continue to besiege Steel Wing.
But then his choice went bankrupt.
Gu Hang didn't fight him.
It is true that he has two hundred warships in his hands, and the Greenskin is estimated to be three hundred and five. But the two hundred ships in Gu Hang's hands, most of them are on armed merchant ships, and the odds of winning with the green skin are low.
Even if Gu Hang's fleet merges with the Tianma fleet and fights with the main force of the greenskins, but even then, it is only a five-five chance of winning.
Even if there is a fifty percent win rate, Gu Hang still doesn't want to fight.
The probability is still low.
He didn't want to use all his possessions to gamble on a fifty percent chance of winning.
There is a more secure way, and it must be used.
Gu Hang avoided the greenskin's main fleet, and the Pegasus fleet also chased it out, the two sides exchanged a few cannons with each other in the void of space, separated by a very long distance, you chased me and tossed for two days, and the final result ended with each side dropping two small boats, and the human fleet returned to the steel wing star orbital defense system.
Then, the nightmare of the greenskinned ground forces, came.
The first was intensive and ferocious orbital bombardment.
With the Greenskins Fleet not continuing to suppress the human fleet for the time being, they took half a day to carry out a ferocious firepower bombardment of the Greenskins' ground forces.
The Greenskins have very little anti-orbital firepower and means, and they are the attackers in the first place.
In the midst of the ferocious bombardment, all of Greenskin's offensive operations came to a standstill. By the way, the ecosystem that Greenskin has managed to build up has also been devastated.
A large number of green-skinned orcs died in this wave of bombardment.
It is also thanks to the fact that their previous attacks were relatively scattered, with more than 30 million in number, distributed throughout the northern hemisphere of the planet. After being bombed, the living learned to disperse as much as possible and flee in all directions, plus in the process of orbital bombing, the ground troops were not easy to encircle and suppress, which made those green skins not so many people who were really killed.
However, there is no doubt that all their offensive posture was completely disintegrated in this half-day bombardment. A large amount of heavy equipment that was difficult to transfer and disperse was eventually destroyed in the bombing.
This is a very serious blow.
The orbital bombardment of the human fleet will not end until the fleet led by the one-toothed man returns in a hurry and renews the suppressive attack on the human ships.
But in the process, tens of millions of astral troops have been dropped to the surface.
The Raging Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle Legion all went down, and by the way, there were also alliance armies of about 20 million in size.
With the orc army dizzy and suffering heavy casualties due to orbital bombardment, the nearly 50 million elite human army will be an impossible opponent for those greenskins to resist.
Moreover, the situation of space warfare has changed.
The Greenskin Fleet is no longer able to crush the human navy.
After the merging of the two fleets of the human race, in the naval battle in the void, the victory rate of both sides is only fifty-five, not to mention that the battlefield is now around the orbit of the Steelwing.
Although one-third of the railguns on the ground are hung up, the remaining two-thirds, combined with the Star Fort, Star Port, and Armed Space Station, can still provide great help to human ships.
The green-skinned fleet, which took the initiative to attack and tried to suppress the human ships, soon hit the nose and swollen face.
Several attacks were repulsed, and cumulative losses of more than two dozen ships were accumulated.
Even if it's all small boats, it hurts.
The point is that there are so many losses, but there are no results.
There were only four or five ordinary warships on the human side at most, and the damage reached the point where they could not fight. The key is that people can still hide in the star port, and if they can't repair it, they will open it out again; If it can't be repaired, dismantling the usable parts and putting them on other ships is also a means of urgently restoring combat effectiveness in wartime.
The green-skinned ship exploded, it really exploded.
While they did prevent human ships from continuing fire support on the ground, the cost was too great.
However, whatever?
What about ground battles?
There are at least 20 million green-skinned boys who are still alive, and they can't be withdrawn.
Even with the kid who lost the airdrop in front of him, he smashed 70 million troops into it. Even for the greenskinned orcs, this is a force that cannot be ignored.
It would be quite bad if the Grand Chief of Tietus knew that he had paid such a big price and had no results in the battle.
The one-toothed man is in a dilemma.
But Gu Hang's 'intimate' didn't make him a dilemma for too long.
The human fleet seized the moment and launched a counteroffensive.
(End of chapter)