Chapter 416, Battle of Steel Wing Star

Chapter 416, Battle of Steel Wing Star

Gu Hang has always been paying close attention to the war on Steel Wing Star.

Tilemance's choice in the warp point naval battle was of course the right one, and he fully supported it.

What he fears most is that some front army general will have his own ideas and give him the whole job.

It is absolutely unacceptable to use the outcome of an entire battle to have a 30% winning rate.

Play it safe, it's more reliable than anything else.

And in the follow-up, the green-skinned orcs who suffered a loss were of course unwilling to give up. They chased the escaping Pegasus fleet all the way to the Steel Wing Star.

At that time, the main force of the Pegasus fleet was already in place.

The greenskins didn't care, they just launched a ferocious and violent attack.

Needless to say, such an offensive situation really brought a lot of pressure.

Steel Wing Star has not experienced war for many years, and many war equipment have only been reactivated recently. It was really a bit confusing for a while.

But after finally overcoming the initial discomfort, they still took advantage of the complete planetary defense system. Not only did they tenaciously prevent the greenskin fleet's attack, but they also caused a lot of damage.

During the month-long war, the greenskin fleet successively paid the price of thirty or forty warships, but the result was only the destruction of some armed space stations and firepower platforms. The most important star fort and star port are still standing. The main force of the Pegasus fleet was also preserved, with only three ships consumed.

If this exchange ratio continues, this business can be done a hundred times.

No matter how large the greenskin fleet is, they cannot withstand such a fight.

They slowed their attack quickly.

However, during this process, the Iron Teeth Clan unleashed another move: a large number of green-skinned orcs landed on the surface with the help of landing pods.

Forcibly landing on a well-defended planet like Steel Wing Star would cost a huge price. More than half of the landing modules were intercepted and destroyed during the landing process.

However, after all, the planet is so big. Compared to the entire planet, even a star port like a space city is a small thing. The greenskin fleet can always attract attention by feigning an attack on one place, and then other ships can go around to a less heavily defended place and drop landing troops.

Even if half of them were defeated, tens of millions of fearless orcs landed on the ground.

This is what worries Tielemans the most.

If the Iron-toothed Orcs just have more ships, then it's okay to say that they can stay a little bit smaller and rely on the planet's defense system. In addition, the Pegasus fleet itself is not a vegetarian, so who is afraid of whom?

What they are afraid of is a large-scale ground attack.

The empire's regular Astra Militarum troops would have a very hard time fighting the Iron-Toothed Orcs on the ground, not to mention that at the moment, the main ground force of the Steel Wing Star was still the Planetary Defense Force.

Although the number is quite large, hundreds of millions, and the quality can be regarded as a gathering of elites within the Hippogriff Sector, overall, Tielemans does not dare to completely trust them.

The result of the battle on the ground is very important for the naval battle. Once a large area of ​​​​the planet's surface is occupied, the anti-orbital guns deployed on the ground in the first place will be gone. Without the cover of anti-orbital guns, starports and starforts would be in danger. If these two big things are destroyed, the orbital defense system of the Steel Wing Star will be completely collapsed.

That day the Horse Fleet would have to run away again.

And it’s not necessarily possible to escape.

To a certain extent, they are now trapped in the Steel Wing Star.

In order to prevent the worst case scenario from happening, Tilemance diverted several ships away from the confrontation with the greenskin fleet and instead supported the ground battle.

But the greenskins will also respond. Their ships will also move to the corresponding position and fire on the surface when the key battle on the ground begins.

Although a large amount of firepower will be intercepted, it can still have some support effect.

The Battle of Steel Wing Star started like this.

The battle situation was still very cruel.

Now, Admiral Yuan Chengchuan is very grateful for the twenty shipments of supplies sent by the alliance before.

Although the Hippogriff Sector itself was well prepared, a large amount of supplies had been gathered on the Steel Wing Star during the previous war preparation period. However, when the war really started, he still found that no amount of arms and supplies was enough.

Especially, the things sent by the alliance are all good.

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about food supplies and conventional ammunition supplies. The key is that many heavy bolters, plasma guns, and high-performance melt bombs are quite reliable things.

With one, it can form a solid fire position; with one sweep, or two shots from the plasma gun, it can destroy a roaring Orc war truck, or destroy a murder canister.

This can often save a position or save dozens of lives.

The land area of ​​Steel Wing Star accounts for 43% of the global area, and there is only one complete continent, basically located in the Eastern Hemisphere. The ground part of the battle soon reached almost the entire northern hemisphere.

But the human army cannot completely ignore the southern hemisphere.

Greenskins fly down from airdrop pods, and there are often thousands or even thousands of greenskins inside a 'meteorite' made of rock and metal structures. As long as one of them lands, the alarm will sound for its landing position and a large area around it.

In this case, human forces must be equipped with defenses in all land areas of the entire planet.

Even those seemingly worthless wilderness areas cannot be relaxed under surveillance. If a group of green skins were really allowed to fall into the wilderness, plant those green skin spore fungi, and develop, then the subsequent green skins would not even need to carry a huge attrition rate, transport troops from the Jinguan star area, and then carry out airborne operations .

They will soon build a unique green-skin ecosystem in the wilderness, from basic fungi and plants, to various squig beasts, to gromlins, and even green-skinned boys... They will soon start from It keeps growing in the ground and then becomes a disaster.

If the enemy is still invading now, then if it gets to that point, human troops will have to fight against the 'planetary cancer'.

It's best not to let this happen, and even if you can't do it, delay it as much as possible.

In fact, the green-skinned orcs actually made a similar attempt.

They tentatively dropped some airdrop pods to the southern continent.

This also reflects the importance of always being on guard throughout the planet.

It is impossible to expect to kill all the green-skinned orcs. There are many orc boys and bastards on the hundreds of ships. Some green-skinned ships even managed to defeat half of them, and then returned to the Jinguan star area to bring a few ships over.

The most important goal that Yuan Chengchuan has to achieve is not to lose the anti-orbital capability;

The second goal is to prevent the enemy from establishing a stable ecological cycle system. As long as this sign is discovered, then even if it has to pay a high price, even if it has to call for the support of the busy Pegasus fleet, it must be resolutely eliminated.

The third goal is to eliminate the enemy's effective forces as much as possible.

Under this guiding ideology, the entire Steel Winged Star finally stabilized after surviving the chaos at the beginning of the war.

For such an 'interesting' war, the green-skinned orcs were also quite devoted. They continue to invest power on the surface and continue to put pressure on human orbital defense systems in space. The war began to stalemate.

And this is also the result Gu Hang hopes to see.

The Steel Winged Star turns into a huge magnet that can firmly attract the enemy's attention and can also hold it, which is the best.

At present, it seems that if the greenskins do not further increase their troops on a large scale, there is a high hope that Steel Wing Star can defend it for half a year or a year, not to mention two months.

But soon, these greenskins also took some measures that Gu Hang didn't want to see.

Their main force, while blocking the Steel Wing Star, split off part of their force, using a dozen or twenty small garbage ships as a structure, to move towards the interior of the Eagle Horse Sector.

This cannot be stopped.

If the enemy divides their forces on a large scale, then the Pegasus fleet is not dead. They can chase behind and concentrate their efforts to destroy the enemies who have divided their forces; but if it is only such a small-scale separation, the main force still gathers on the Steel Wing Star, and the Pegasus fleet will start the decisive battle immediately. Without the cover of the Steel Wing Star orbital system, the winning rate is still very low.

They still have to shrink and cannot control those small-scale divisions.

However, the significance of this small-scale division of troops is not that great.

The combat capabilities of a dozen small green-skinned garbage ships may not be as good as those of ordinary human frigates. In addition, the ships are thin-skinned, and it is unlikely that they can independently destroy a planet's orbital defense system.

However, there are many planets in the Hippogriff sector that have only mediocre orbital defense systems, and there is nothing they can do about these junk ships.

These garbage ships just go around, bomb the planet a few times, drop a bunch of airdrop pods, and then change to another galaxy.

Soon, the entire Hippogriff sector was caught in the flames of war. Within the star area, almost every one of the twelve worlds has been invaded by green skins, but the situation is either serious or minor.

Even the Wuma Star District to the north next door also suffered.

The greenskin ships that sneaked from the Steel Wing Star to the Cuiquan II system in the Wuma Star District, and the green skins that invaded the Cuiquan I Star from the Tongguan Star District, which was already in a war zone, made the situation in the Wuma Star District rapidly deteriorate. .

This behavior of the greenskins has greatly interfered with the support for war in various human worlds.

On many planets, productivity has been destroyed, and due to invasions, they were forced to find ways to focus on immediate problems, slowing down their contribution to the overall war situation.

At the same time, the Iron Teeth Clan's behavior of spreading war across the board has also plunged many star regions into panic.

Of course, these are all disadvantages, but from another perspective, when it catalyzed the panic, a plan that Gu Hang was advancing became smoother.

While the entire alliance has activated its wartime system and is racing against time to gather strength and prepare to participate in the war, the alliance is also engaged in multi-faceted political efforts.

The Tianma Star Region is located in the southeast corner of the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region. This place also has a name, called 'Qima Di'.

The reason why it is called this is because this corner is centered on the Pegasus star sector, and is surrounded by six star sectors: Hippogriff, Fog Horse, Purple Horse, Bianma, Kenma, and Iron Horse.

Added together, it is the so-called seven horse lands.

Gu Hang, on the other hand, is promoting the establishment of the 'Seven Horse Agreement', which is a mutual military defense agreement.

In order to face the attack of the green-skinned orcs, he hoped to establish a wartime mechanism to integrate the forces of the other six star regions. This agreement should stipulate that all star regions 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 Horses Agreement is naturally the Pegasus Sector, that is, the Alliance.

The Alliance will ensure the military security of every Entente world.

Gu Hang's envoys have already traveled to various places on the fast traveler, carrying his letters to discuss with the heads of major star regions and planetary governors.

The negotiation process of the Seven-horse Agreement was not smooth.

Your boss Gu, aren't you taking advantage of the war to expand your so-called alliance?

How big is the difference between signing this seven-horse agreement and joining the alliance?

Although, after signing the agreement, the alliance will not continue to expand its own system. However, the military must be subject to the deployment of the Seven-Horse Entente. The Planetary Defense Force is no longer our own. In addition, there is also a financial expense to fully support the 'Enterprise Legion'. Provide soldiers, provide resources...

Of course, various planets will have great doubts about this.

Imperial taxes are already a huge burden on all planets, so why do you still need to pay your alliance a 'protection fee'?

Why?

You guys alone can't stop the greenskin attack.

Another important factor lies in the situation of the entire star field.

Not to mention the battle situation in the eastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, in the central part of the Star Territory or even in the west, that is where the green-skin craze is more turbulent.

The focus of the battle on the Steel Wing Star is not really the main force of the Iron Teeth.

In fact, the main force led by the orc chief named 'Titus' chased the remnants of the Yunluo fleet and burned the war all the way to the core area of ​​the Dragon Eagle Star Territory.

From the Golden Pass Star Region to the Cursed Bone Star Region, to the Snow Eagle Star Region and the Speed ​​Eagle Star Region, they have been completely swept by the green-skinned wave. The Yunluo Star District, where the capital of the Star Territory is located, and the Steel Fire Dragon Star District, where Jindi Star, the only forging world in the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, is located, may soon be the next stage targets of the green-skinned orcs.

In fact, the difficulty of conducting astral communication from Qima Di to the capital of the Star Territory is now extremely difficult because of the greenskin wave. The imperial taxation work that was supposed to start this period was forced to stop because of this - the tax fleet was impassable, and the road in the middle had been cut off by the greenskins.

Under this situation, Governor Gu claimed that he had been authorized by the Star Territory 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 whether it is true or not.

But in confusion, some people made decisive choices.

The leader of the Hippogriff Sector, Ren Wanxia, ​​took the lead in announcing that he and all the planetary governors in his sector would sign the 'Seven Horse Agreement'.

This is a good example.

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I slept all day yesterday and took antipyretics at night to feel better, so I managed to finish writing this chapter.

I'll see if I still have the energy to write another chapter tonight.

Go back to sleep.

There is also a war zone star map at the back.

(End of this chapter)