Chapter 404, Iron Teeth War

Chapter 404, Iron Teeth War

The total construction cost of the 21 million Alliance Army exceeds billion, and it consumes approximately billion of the Alliance's military expenditures every year for maintenance.

This is a much greater cost than maintaining 30 million Astra Militarum troops, even if the total number is not mentioned and the per capita calculation is the same.

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

Under normal circumstances, the alliance would not be able to build such an army. In addition to personnel training, the production and maintenance of military equipment are also too expensive.

But in fact, the league did not spend so much money on its books.

Most of the products, especially the expensive ones, were actually offered at a discount of at least half when supplied to the Alliance Army.

This is to make the alliance's military spending look normal. Otherwise, based on the 200 billion army construction and 20 billion annual maintenance costs, the outside world should doubt how the alliance can afford such expenses.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the league would not be able to afford this money. The book price can be lowered at will, but the actual production cannot be faked. After all, the army really needs so much equipment and ammunition supplies.

But the Alliance has a unique advantage in this regard.

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

The Alliance has invested approximately 7 billion tax dollars in naval construction in the past four years.

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

Moreover, the larger the scale of production, the lower the production cost will be. The alliance must be well built. The army equipment that I can't use up will be paid as imperial taxes. With an annual imperial tax of more than 10 billion, there is no need to worry about running out of production capacity.

It was during these three hundred years that the Pegasus Fleet was founded from scratch, building ships, fighting wars, destroying ships, and continuing to build ships... this way.

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

From this perspective, it's really scary.

The Alliance Navy now has three Shark-class destroyers and five frigates, including three 'Silver Helmets' and two 'Silver Swords'.

And there is not much need to do accounting, and the difference is not particularly large.

Although this is already excellent, it also greatly reduces the cost of manufacturing. However, because warships have few ships and high unit prices, it is not easy to do accounting.

For finished products that cannot be pulled out of a black box, there are only manufacturing blueprints, and key components can only be taken out one by one to build a production line.

The Alliance Navy is not the Imperial Navy. In name, they are a convoy within the Alliance sector. Neither the Ministry of Military Affairs nor the Imperial Navy Command has any control over them.

But on the other hand, the Alliance Navy is also a star sea force that cannot be ignored. It only took them four years to build all this. In comparison, how many years did it take for the Pegasus fleet, which was allocated from imperial taxes, to be built to its current strength?

Three hundred years!

This is the main force of the Alliance Navy, plus 21 'Blackfish-class' patrol ships. I won't go into detail about this small boat, I can only talk about it.

The direct production of black boxes is still small. The most important thing is that the production line pulled directly from the black box is highly efficient and the production line itself is free of charge.

On the one hand, the current combat effectiveness of the alliance navy is incomparable to the Pegasus fleet, even if it is just the remnants left behind. The entire Alliance Navy costs about the same as a Musician-class cruiser.

Let's not talk about the actual situation. On the books, the alliance only spent 7 billion on building the army, and it was spread over the past six years; the maintenance cost was only 600 million a year, and it increased year by year.

Just by saving a fortune like this, and with the further growth of the alliance's production capacity, especially the production capacity of the Raging Star Shipyard, wouldn't it be possible to save one-third of the Pegasus fleet within twenty or thirty years?

There is no need to unconditionally obey the empire's orders and go to dangerous battlefields to fight. They are just escorting within the star area. The probability of ship explosion is extremely low.

Du Shiliang of the Pegasus Fleet had seen the appearance of the Alliance Navy, and his expression at that time was a bit subtle.

Some of the equipment directly produced by the black box is almost free of charge, just a material fee. When producing relatively cheap items such as firearms and armored vehicles, the advantages are not obvious; but when producing heavy tanks like the Lion tank, which cost more than 300,000 yuan each, producing one from a black box is equivalent to I picked one up for free, for free.

It took twenty or thirty years to save one-third of the Pegasus fleet, which is too little.

If you really give him such a long time, the league's productivity growth will probably reach an exaggerated level. The speed of dumplings from starships will become faster, and regular productivity improvements can also liberate the Wing Star from paying imperial taxes on starships, which can directly keep those starships and fill them into the Alliance Navy.

The speed at which the alliance builds a navy will become faster and faster as time goes by.

Not to mention one-third of the Pegasus fleet, if the entire alliance develops steadily, he is sure to build a naval force that is not inferior to the entire Pegasus fleet in twenty years.

……

The battleship Gu Hang was on arrived at Koroga.

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

Then, he visited several nest cities to meet with some officials, and stayed in the Governor's Mansion for a few more days. He had completed his trip to Koroga.

Currently, Gu Hang spends half of his time in the Governor's Mansion on Winged Star or Angry Owl Star every year. The other half of his time is spent flying around various planets in the alliance, looking around.

There is a Mad Shark-class ship, two Silver Helmet-class ships, and seven or eight patrol ships, which serve as his vehicles and take him around the entire star.

On the destroyer named 'Meditation', a cabin was specially modified for this purpose for him, his chief's office, and the alliance staff to assist him in his work. At the same time, the Meditation's astrological signal was also strengthened to facilitate him to perform official duties here and communicate with officials, ministries, and planets at all levels of the alliance.

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

However, something happened recently that required his attention.

The main force of the Pegasus fleet is coming back.

At the same time, it means that Ye Lixia is coming back. …

It has been more than six years since Ye Lixia left the Tianma Star Region.

I got engaged, but it's been six years since I got married.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

Earlier, I did not expect that the war against the Iron Teeth Clan would last so long.

The Iron Teeth Clan has been entrenched in the northeastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory 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, but it evolved into the entire star region being dragged into the flames of war; then, the first Iron Teeth War started, and mankind was defeated miserably in the ground war despite having space superiority. , followed by a large number of landing pods launched from the surface, desperately jumping onto the human warships in orbit, eventually leading to the destruction of at least fifty naval ships of all levels.

The greenskins didn't care about their lives. They launched manned rockets directly from the surface to the orbit, and the bombs and landings were solved in one go. This was something that the human army could not do. After they captured the navy ship, they sent the ship directly to If the surface of the planet is opened, a big thing of dozens of kilometers can be driven to the surface of the planet, and it doesn't matter if it is smashed.

After the failure of the first Iron Teeth War, Star Territory urgently mobilized more forces to fight again. However, before the Second Iron Teeth War even started, the entire Tieguan Star Region fell. The greenskins no longer only had ground combat capabilities. A large number of greenskin garbage ships that looked shabby and had weak combat capabilities, but were numerous, began to run rampant in the Tieguan star area and spread to all directions.

The Second Iron Teeth War broke out, which was a battle dominated by naval operations.

The human army, which misjudged the enemy's strength, was defeated once again.

The result this time was the fall of the Yinguan Star District, Kuoluo Star District, and Jiangmeiyu Star District surrounding the Tieguan Star District.

The warlords who unified all the greenskin tribes launched a grand waaagh and launched a fierce attack around the Tieguan star area.

Humanity hurriedly fought, and then the third Iron Teeth War started in the Jinguan Star Region.

In this battle, the human army finally won.

The death of a green-skin pirate warlord caused the huge green-skin fleet to fall into chaos and be wiped out on a large scale; humans took the opportunity to place an extermination order on the surface of a planet, killing most of the greenskins on the planet and causing The death of the green-skinned warlord who personally led the expedition.

The Orc Empire in the four sectors fell into civil strife. After losing the leadership of the war warlords, many sub-level green-skinned warlords began to fight among themselves.

This can be regarded as the traditional skill of the green-skinned orcs. Under the leadership of a unified warlord, the greenskins will explode with powerful fighting power; but once this leader is gone, civil strife will immediately begin until they compete for a new leader.

Logically speaking, this is the best time to completely eliminate all greenskins. But in fact, in the three consecutive Iron Teeth battles, the first two were defeated, and the subsequent one could only be regarded as a miserable victory at best. After the fight, there really wasn't enough power in the Star Territory to pursue the victory.

The greenskins are indeed in civil strife, but after all, the numbers are still there. The civil strife is also between planets, and even the bosses who occupy multiple planets at the same time are fighting against each other.

If you want to regain the lost territory one by one and eliminate the green skins, you still need enough strength.

The Dragon Eagle Star Territory no longer has the corresponding strength. The support they requested from the surrounding star regions and the higher-level space government was also far away.

In this case, they can only try to regain the Jinguan Sector and clean up the green skins inside the sector. They are unable to go to the four sectors that have completely fallen into the hands of the green skins to carry out a thorough attack. Annihilation operations.

The third Iron Teeth War happened twenty-six years ago. In the past twenty-six years, the Dragon Eagle Star Territory has established a line of defense in the six star districts that can be directly contacted around the four fallen star districts, locking the four fallen star districts. This line of defense is called the "Iron" tooth defense line'.

The human army often organizes troops to attack occupied areas, trying to recapture some planets, destroy the greenskin fleet, and destroy the greenskin shipyards.

But at the same time, the plundering fleet of the Iron Teeth Clan often entered the six star areas that formed the Iron Teeth Defense Line and attacked the human side.

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

Until six years ago, the Star Territory Government felt that it was doing well again. Seeing that the green skins have not yet formed a unity, and the entire star field has recovered a lot of strength after twenty years of recuperation. So the Star Territory Government planned to organize another war to give the Iron Teeth Clan a severe blow.

Of course, we cannot expect to solve problems that have not been solved for seventy years at once. But at least some results must be achieved.

The first step in this war initiated by the human side is to cut off the green skinned tentacles extending to the three defense sectors of Jinguan, Tongguan and Jiaoshou, and plunge the world into a greenskin war in these sectors. Complete liberation; then, attack the Yinguan star area, capture and destroy at least three to four green-skinned worlds, establish a bridgehead, and prepare for subsequent actions.

Adhering to this plan, the main force of the Pegasus fleet was transferred away.

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

When the war first started, I heard it was going quite smoothly. In a little more than a year, the greenskins in the three iron-teeth defense lines were eliminated by the human army. Then the fleet and the army entered the Yinguan star area and began to carry out the second phase of the combat mission.

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

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

But recently, good news finally came.

Yinguan 2, Yinguan 3, Water Mist Star, and White Mist Star, these four planned targets in the Yinguan star area were finally captured.

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

Although the war was quite difficult all the way, the greenskins within the 'Iron Teeth Defense Line' were wiped out and four worlds were conquered in the occupied areas. This result can be considered satisfactory.

What happens next is just waiting to accumulate another wave of power and gradually encroach into the occupied area.

The Star Territory government has even formulated a timetable for the complete elimination of green skins, with ambitious plans to completely solve the green skin problem in the Star Territory within the next fifteen years!

Under this premise, the war goal was initially achieved, and the Pegasus fleet also had the opportunity to come back and rest.

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There is a star map of the Tianma star region at the back.

(End of this chapter)