Chapter 446, Mutinous Space Marine
Gu Hang's idea was very natural: he knew that a green-skinned reinforcement would arrive, so of course he had to try to defeat the enemy in front of him before the reinforcements came.
Even if it costs something.
If you don't do it now, it will be even more difficult when they converge.
On the ground battlefield of Temir 5, it is unrealistic to want to divide the victory and defeat so quickly. Billions of green skins, even if you kill a pig, you can't kill it so quickly.
The previous one won by Perbov was of course successful in disrupting the Greenskins defense line in an entire direction, and causing the Greenskins of the entire planet to fall into chaos because of the loss of the Supreme Commander. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he commanded the troops well and fought several battles of annihilation and destruction.
Moreover, the entire planet, the entire continent, the human army has set off a wave of offensive climax. On a front spanning 10,000 miles, with the Alliance Army as the core and the Entente Army as the auxiliary, the whole front was attacked. It is often a breakthrough point that hits, provokes a greenskin counterattack, and then the emptiness on both sides is surrounded by humans after being attacked, and eat a dumpling.
Or maybe a garbage city was raided by the elite soldiers of the Human Alliance, and the orcs were unable to support each other due to their lack of subordination and confusion in command, resulting in a bunch of farts in the garbage city. That would not be bargaining under the hands of the human elite, and it would be quickly wiped out. The large number of human losses was secondary, mainly the loss of production capacity in the garbage city, as well as a considerable amount of green-skinned ordnance that had not yet been shipped.
Similar situations are repeated throughout the planet.
In total, more than 200 million greenskins were wiped out in the two months after the battle. Among them, the real green-skinned orcs were also killed at least 50 million.
The green-skinned forces on the surface of Temir No. 5 have shrunk directly.
And in order to kill these 200 million green skins, the loss of human beings also exceeded 30 million - most of them were Allied armies, and the Alliance Army probably lost more than 10 million.
The battle damage ratio is still quite beautiful, even if you don't count people when you get rid of the fart, it's still 3:5, which is okay.
What's more, the fart is not really a human being. The logistical support they provide to the Greenskins is an important guarantee for the Greenskins to continue the war, and they are also suitable controllers of long-range fire strikes.
However, the recent situation of Temir 5 has slowed down a bit.
The human army, after two months of onslaught, was a little impressed. Soldiers should take turns to rest, the supplies that should be replenished must be in place, and those occupied areas must be 'sterilized', otherwise they will have to grow new green skins when they turn back, and they will have to spend manpower to guard them.
In addition, the orc leader Saru has also sent a new Overseer to the surface. Greenskin's chain of command is beginning to recover, and it is no longer so chaotic, and it is not so easy to harvest Greenskin's lives as easily as before.
Both sides are licking their wounds.
And the battle in space, the two sides are still pulling. No one wants to fight a decisive battle, and no one wants the other side to easily support the ground, isn't that it?
Gu Hang would not let Du Shiliang go to those greenskin fleets right now.
The win rate is not big enough.
What is there to fight in the five-five battle?
And it just so happens that Elicia's tour of the Seven Horses has ended, and all the worlds have signed the Seven Horse Entente.
Although it is better to allow half of the combined fleet to continue to tour and deter for a while, after all, the separatism of some 'vassals' is not low.
But looking at it the way it is, it's not quite appropriate.
Yelicia had to take half of the combined fleet to the Temir system as soon as possible, and by the way, pick up Gu Hang halfway and join Du Shiliang, striving to destroy or at least severely damage the greenskin fleet before the arrival of the greenskin reinforcements.
However, when Gu Hang was just about to give an order to Yelicia to start with the fleet, the female general took the lead and a message came.
Iron Horse Star Zone, something happened.
The Xia Xing I system is a galaxy with three habitable planets in the Iron Horse region. In the previous payment of imperial taxes, the other two were fine, but on the planet I3, there was a situation.
In this post-colonial planet of 800 million people, the separatist forces have been so fierce that they have set off a definite rebellion and plundered the planet's prepared imperial taxes.
The entire planet has a total of 80 million taxes, and they only robbed about 20 million in supplies.
But the nature of this matter is very bad, and it must be solved.
The local troops that have been reorganized into the Entente Army are already counterinsurgent, but the alliance is not good, and they don't care about anything, and the Seven Horse Entente has been signed, so how can you just collect money and ignore things?
It just so happened that Elisia was also nearby.
Coalition agents went down to investigate the situation, and then they called for reinforcements, saying that they had found the location of the rebel leader and requested direct force to eliminate them.
The way to destroy it was to send a few frigates from Yelicia to blast a few missiles towards the reported coordinates. Then, the Marines, led by a squad of immortal birds, descended to the ground.
They were to eliminate the enemy's leader, destroy the command center, and then evacuate.
These tasks should be considered easy for the immortal birds.
It stands to reason that such physical specifications would have solved the problem, but the unexpected happened.
The undead birds that landed and the marines they led were all normal after landing, but suddenly at a certain moment, they all lost contact.
Very unusual.
If there were only marines, then there would be a whole squad of undead birds leading the team.
Even if the battle is fierce and the mission is more difficult, but they are space marines, how can they lose contact without saying a word?
Then, the commander on the starship received another message from the landing agent.
They claim that there was an accident between the Immortal Bird and the Marine Squad, and that the rebels had the ability to jam information, which caused the task force to be unable to contact the upper echelons. The task force is now besieged by the rebels' superior forces and needs to send more reinforcements to the ground.
The commander on the starship had some apprehensions, but after thinking twice, he sent new reinforcements.
Another round of missiles fired at the enemy's assembled position, followed by a new group of undead birds with the elite of the Marines and headed for the ground.
This time, their goal was not even to eliminate the enemy leader or strike the rebel center, but only to cover the troops that had gone down earlier and evacuate by transport plane.
However, the results of this support were still not ideal, and the team that went down quickly lost contact.
This time, the matter is serious.
Ground agents reported the situation on the ground again and asked for reinforcements, but the commander, who had already been suspicious in the previous round, could not be fooled a third time.
On the one hand, he stabilized the agents on the ground, and on the other hand, he contacted the superior unit of the group of agents and reported the situation.
Then, a new group of agents went down, and quickly came to the conclusion that the group that had gone down earlier had defected. The two waves of elite troops that went down before are now probably more auspicious.
The commander on the starship was furious.
But at the same time, there are some doubts.
Agent Mutiny...... Is there such a good mutiny? How can a group of homegrown rebels on the planet allow agents trained by the three major intelligence agencies of the alliance to mutiny?
And even if they rebelled and lured the elite of the alliance to land, but the two waves added up to twenty or thirty immortal birds and thousands of marines, where would it be easy to be eliminated?
Even if you have a small number and lack of heavy equipment, you can't beat it and will be besieged, but how can you be wiped out so quickly?
The commander above no longer considered the possibility that the troops going down were still alive and had only their communications jammed.
Very low.
Those mutinous agents continue to spread false information, and the goal is to trick more immortal birds and more human troops into going down. They don't worry about self-defeating at all, and that attitude is more like I eat as much as you come.
Are these rebels so strong?
But in any case, it's time to abandon the idea of a scalpel blow and a quick fix.
The commander called for more reinforcements, and soon there were more than just a few frigates on the Heroes I system.
More ships arrived and a large number of land forces were laid down.
The 17th Army Group of the Alliance Army, the 3rd Army, was dropped on the surface of Planet I-3.
The scale of the rebellion set off by the separatists on the I-3 is not small. The five provinces on the planet were swept in, and the population in the area under their control reached 50 million, and the number of rebels was also more than 3 million.
They fought back and forth against the 5 million-strong Entente army.
In this situation, an alliance army group, with a million scales, plus super-standard orbital fire support, is definitely not something that the rebels can resist.
If there is anything beyond the specifications among the rebels, they will naturally be able to force it out.
This is indeed the case.
Under pressure, the core force of the separatists emerged: hordes of Space Marines.
Space marine?!
When the alliance commander on the track got this information from the ground forces, his eyes were about to pop out!
How is that possible?
Why are there Space Marines among the separatist forces of a group of indigenous planets? How could they possibly have the help of the Space Marines?!
Could it be that everyone is the Governor of Gu?
In previous wars, it was the alliance that relied on immortal birds to make others stunned, overwhelmed, and completely unsure of what to do.
And now, the same situation is happening in reverse to the alliance itself.
But then, they soon realize that the Space Marines who helped the I-3 Planet Separation Force are not normal Space Marines.
They don't have the emblem of the Imperial Aquila on them, they don't have those medals of honor.
This is a renegade among the Space Marines?
It's serious.
Relevant information was quickly sent back. At the same time, the warships in planetary orbit are also preparing to intensify fire support.
What happened to Space Marine? With no orbital control at all, no matter how awesome the Space Marines are, they have to be honestly bombed on the surface.
However, soon the commander of the combined fleet was slapped in the face.
Do those mutinous Space Marines really have no means to threaten orbit?
Not really. Xia Xing I-3 even the starport is old and broken, there are only a handful of anti-orbital guns on the ground, there is no star fort on the track, only a few armed space stations, which support the small pirates under guard.
As for the frigates and destroyers in orbit that add up to 10 figures, and the patrol ships have at least 20 or more naval scales, there is no ability to deal with them at all.
But...... Who said that this group of renegade space marines who came out of nowhere could only exert their power from the surface?
As the ships of the Combined Fleet were happily exploding in orbit, the stargazers on board soon made a terrifying discovery: they noticed a large, unidentified starship suddenly appeared in the galaxy!
This starship, in the past, seems to have been hiding on the back side of the star, blocking many conventional monitoring methods through this huge star.
And now, the sudden slaughter of this battleship is unexpected.
But if it's just a warship, there's nothing to be afraid of.
On the orbit of the I-3, there are more than 30 battleships.
But soon, when this behemoth gets closer and closer, and can be observed more closely by stargazers, the relevant information is transmitted, and the relevant information is transmitted, it will be a great danger!
This ship, it's too big!
It looks like it's 28 kilometers long! From the point of view of shape, although it is very gloomy, although there are many disgusting sheep's horn demon heads hanging on it, there are many chaotic eight-pointed star patterns that are clearly taboo in human society and are not allowed to appear. But judging from the overall shape, it can still be recognized by some naval veterans, it is a ship very similar to the 'Retribution-class' warship in the human navy.
'Retribution class', that's the main battleship of the whole world! It was also the most common battleship in the Imperial Navy!
Obviously, this is not a friendly army.
Most likely, it's the cars of those mutinous Space Marines on the ground.
No one could have imagined that this group of interstellar marines would still have a battleship in service.
Although, this Retribution-class battleship is only a single ship, and there are not a large number of non-main ships to fight together, which will make its combat effectiveness a certain discount, and it will become much more vulnerable.
However, no matter how fragile and how much combat effectiveness is reduced, it is still a serious battleship.
Right now, the Combined Fleet ships surrounding the I-3 are all children for this battleship. The X-sized main gun on it can be completely done with one shot and one child.
It doesn't matter what level the energy shield or armor on the body is, anyway, it's just a frigate or destroyer-level boat, and no matter how high the energy shield power is, it's just like that.
One cannon will surely explode with the ship and shield.
And these small firepower of the Combined Fleet, on the contrary, was much less of a threat to the battleship.
I'm afraid that even other people's void shields can't be broken, and my thirty ships will be named one by one, and all of them will be destroyed.
(End of chapter)