Chapter 419: Consider joining the alliance?

Chapter 419: Consider joining the alliance?
Relying solely on orbital bombardment and the counterattack of the Planetary Defense Force, the situation on Hippogriff III was greatly alleviated.

The vanguard fleet of the Alliance Navy left a destroyer and several armed merchant ships to continue to provide assistance in the orbit of Hippogriff III, while waiting for the arrival of subsequent large forces. The rest continued to explore and entered Hippogriff VI. Then we entered the sector capital - Hippogriff II.

Wherever the Alliance Navy went, the greenskin fleet retreated!
It’s impossible not to retreat.

The leading fleet of the Alliance Navy has dozens of ships, no cruisers, and several destroyers. With this quantity and quality, the green-skinned offshoots of the plundering fleet would certainly not be able to compete with them.

In fact, in Hippogriff II, another green-skinned raiding fleet was bitten and lost four ships before running away.

It can be said that when the alliance's army entered the Hippogriff sector, the space that was originally chaotic and almost allowed the green-skinned marauding fleet to do whatever they wanted, suddenly became clean.

Humanity has regained space and orbit, and the battle on the ground has become much easier.

At this time, the main force of the alliance army also entered the Hippogriff III.

They only stayed here briefly, and Gu Hang met with the planetary governor of Hippogriff III.

The other party had signed a seven-horse agreement more than half a month ago, and the alliance came to fulfill the agreement.

It was precisely because they accompanied the Alliance troops to do these 'chores' that they saw with their own eyes how the Alliance fought.

If the greenskins want to fight the Alliance army, they first have to endure a round of fierce bombardment from the self-propelled artillery regiments that always accompany the main force in marching, followed by a ruthless crushing by the armored forces.

In fact, the green skin has a vague meaning of taking root on the planet. After they defeated a defense force unit on the tropical continent of the planet, they established an ecosystem and planted mushrooms everywhere.

It is not feasible to use all the people as soldiers, because the weapons are not enough.

They began to believe that with the help of the Alliance army, victory would eventually belong to them.

The first wave of orbital bombing takes care of the main force of the Orcs, and the second wave takes care of their ecosystem.

The Hippogriff III's two million army is still a force that must be well utilized.

One skeleton division, six infantry divisions, and one armored brigade, totaling about 330,000 people, all of which are alliance army units.

Before leaving, he dropped eight divisions on Hippogriff III.

Greenskins love to use trash, but they're not really trash.

With them, the problem of Hippogriff III should be solved.

The greenskin strongholds were uprooted one after another, and the Alliance soldiers who followed quickly eliminated all threats. The Home Defense Force at the back can just transport supplies, use flamethrowers to burn mushrooms, set fire to the battlefield, and help cut down trees to clear the way.

Soldiers are always a little proud, even the Planetary Defense Force. No matter what they did, they had been fighting bloody battles with the greenskins in the past month and suffered heavy losses. Although he didn't win, he still made sacrifices. We are very happy that the Alliance is here to help us, but where is the argument that all power will be handed over to you all at once?
It doesn't matter if you are the Astra Militarum. We are all defense forces. If you have more money, you will be awesome?
However, the governor of Hippogriff III is quite capable, and under his forced orders, the defense forces were quite obedient.

However, all this was destroyed and disintegrated after the arrival of the alliance army.

At first, the Planetary Defense Force was a little reluctant.

The two sides were very close, and they were often able to seize the opportunity. With more than a dozen guns, they focused their fire to eliminate the green-skinned orcs one after another without distracting the firepower, and the cooperation was quite perfect.

The Hippogriff III defense force was quickly impressed and became more obedient. They actively cooperated with the actions of the alliance army, and gradually got rid of the haze that over the past month, they felt that everything was going to be over and they could not win.

that's the truth.

Even if they really want to retreat, it will be an order from their superiors to carry out a strategic mission, rather than being easily defeated.

Even if there is an emergency, the Alliance soldiers will not be afraid to bayonet, and several people will surround and suppress the green-skinned orcs rushing up.

Orcs are not people willing to sit back and wait for death.

Even if they really manage to get close to the Alliance tank, the Alliance infantry is not a vegetarian.

Then, after the Alliance Army landed, in accordance with the Seven Horse Agreement, the Alliance Army Colonels who commanded these eight divisions became the supreme commander of the planetary battlefield, and the nearly two million planetary defense forces of Hippogriff III also belonged to them. Unified deployment.

We can't let civilians use pitchforks and mining picks to fight against greenskins, right? It was pure slaughter.

No matter how unhappy you are, can you resist being beaten?
The Alliance Army, which has obtained the power of general command, has no intention of using local troops as cannon fodder as the local army fears. Although the millions of people participating in the war were still required to fill the battle line, it was just a task of filling the line. For the real critical battle, the Alliance Army rolled up its sleeves and fought on its own.

Although the orcs, who are thick-skinned and powerful, can cause considerable casualties to the Alliance soldiers by relying on their tenacious vitality and powerful ka-ka guns when fighting at close range, the Home Defense Force has I have never seen Union soldiers fearful at all.

If the equipment gap is still the dissatisfaction of the Hippogriff III defense forces, then in terms of combat skills, tactical abilities, and fighting will, there is really nothing to say about this all-round gap.

The Governor of Hippogriff III took a photo with Gu Hang holding the paper document of the Seven Horses Agreement.

If they cannot be eliminated for a few years, there is no need to recruit more troops from the star sea, and their own scale will double.

Moreover, as the war began, even the unhappiness in the hearts of the defense force generals and officers quickly disappeared.

The Lion King led the lions to ruthlessly knock down and crush the jungle trees. Elite tanks equipped with anti-gravity engines don't care about road conditions at all. Powerful power and highly traversable tracks are the basic configuration. If you go on a dirt road and activate the anti-gravity equipment when necessary, the weight of the vehicle body will be greatly reduced, and it can even float a few centimeters off the ground in a short time. You can really go down any bad road.

After all, the Alliance Army only had more than 300,000 people on the Hippogriff III, but they had to face millions of greenskins, which they couldn't really defeat on their own.

The Alliance Army's participation in the battle immediately turned the ground situation of Hippogriff III, which had been improved by orbital bombing, into a complete advantage.

The quality of the Planetary Defense Force of Hippogriff III was mediocre, with a scale of only a few million people. Half of them were taken away by Yuan Chengchuan and sent to the Steel Wings. When faced with a million-scale greenskin invasion , they resisted very hard.

Gu Hang left with the main force of the alliance satisfied.

They generally have excellent shooting skills, superb tactical skills, and high morale. They are not afraid of direct confrontation with the greenskins. The heavy machine guns in the squad, the heavy bolters in the company, and the infantry cannons and rocket launchers will also cause those greenskins a lot of trouble as infantry firepower.

With the closer cooperation between the two sides, the iron-toothed orcs' territory on the tropical continent of Hippogriff III has become increasingly tight.

Those green-skinned orcs who were quite difficult to deal with in their eyes were overwhelmed by the Alliance's steel torrent, even if they used the rainforest as a cover.

Hippogriff III is an agricultural + mineral world with a population of about 800 million. The greenskins have currently invested about a million troops in this world.

The morale recovery of the Planetary Defense Forces will also help the Alliance Army.

The well-equipped Skeleton Division, using its own armored units as arrowheads, found a place and plunged into the tropical rainforest of Hippogriff III.

They also launched a ferocious and cunning counterattack.

A defense force under the command of the alliance army is encircling and suppressing a group of orcs who have lost all their heavy firepower and armor with eight times the strength.

This should have been a relatively simple task. Even in a face-to-face fight, even if the defense force has a four-fold advantage, it may be overwhelmed by the orc troops. But if the greenskins lose their heavy artillery, murder canisters, war trucks, and giant ancient beasts, and only hold rifles and machetes, they still can't fight against the defense forces supported by heavy artillery.

Although destroying them will still cost a certain amount of casualties, it is still a battle with a 90% chance of winning.

If something unexpected happens, there is an infantry regiment of the Alliance Army not far away, and they will be able to provide support soon.

However, the accident did happen.

A green-skinned army came from outside and surrounded them.

They can only ask for help.

The Union infantry regiment immediately rushed to support, but the enemy's numbers exceeded initial estimates and they were surrounded.

Continuing to call for help, an alliance army division and a defense force of about 100,000 people came.

Then, they too were surrounded.

Only then did the humans discover that there were not only many enemies, but also advanced units such as killing tanks, death tanks, and heavily armored orcs.

With the combat power and quantity of this greenskin, they could have annihilated the human troops in the encirclement a long time ago, without even leaving them a chance to call for help.

The reason why they didn't do this was of course intentional. They were fishing, or in other words, gathering around the spot to call for reinforcements.

In this wave, 40,000 alliance army troops and 100,000 defense troops were lured in. This was enough. The iron-toothed boss who personally led the team planned to close the net with satisfaction.

He even brought out a swarm of skogo beasts that had been hidden for a long time.

The Scrooge is an extremely excellent weapon of war. They are like giant unicorns, and the smallest ones are as big as a Lion tank.

There is a thick layer of scales attached to their huge bodies. Their skin is also extremely tough and their bones are like steel.

The green-skinned craftsmen boys will also put a lot of armor on their bodies.

While being adequately protected, its brute strength, fangs, and big feet can break down those solid defenses. They often carry a huge cannon on their backs, and there are many fighting cabins hanging on the sides of their bodies. The green boys shoot down or throw explosives in the fighting cabins.

Therefore, the Scrooge can be used as a battle tank, personnel carrier and siege weapon at the same time.

However, despite the heavy investment, the greenskins were still embarrassed when closing the net. Even though this division of the Alliance Army was besieged, it was still surprisingly difficult to chew.

Heavy artillery is the core of the infantry division, causing the greenskins to suffer a lot. Many high-level units were destroyed by heavy artillery during the battle.

The terrifying Squig beast could not withstand too many heavy artillery bombardments.

The greenskins thought of many ways to deal with the heavy artillery of the trapped Alliance Army. The air strikes of the Ork flying squadron, the airborne infiltration of the special operations boys, the heavy artillery bombardment, the assault of the armored behemoths...

Of course it was effective, but on the one hand it was not completely eliminated, and on the other hand it suffered huge losses.

The alliance's infantry division also pays great attention to air defense. The anti-aircraft servo skull locking effect of the anti-aircraft vehicle is very strong, and it also carries anti-aircraft missiles; Falcons and unicorns took off one after another, fighting with the green-skinned air force.

The green-skinned air forces suffered heavy losses, while the infiltrating special operations forces were fiercely blocked by the Alliance Army's guard artillery array and were annihilated wave after wave.

The armored behemoth's assault was effective. The Skogo behemoth's dispatches were often able to capture a position. However, the retreating humans, even though they suffered heavy losses, were extremely tenacious and quickly rebuilt a new position behind them. The giant beast had to be chewed off piece by piece, and it had to bear the risk of heavy firepower.

And heavy artillery is also useful for bombardment. The number of artillery assembled by the greenskins at this moment is quite large.

However, the problem has been going on for a long time, and it is destined not to be solved immediately.

The iron-toothed boss found out awkwardly that if they wanted to completely defeat this besieged human army, the greenskins themselves would have to lose twenty to thirty thousand men, and the losses of various high-level units would not be small. At the same time, at least Take six or seven days.

If you want to reduce losses, you can also adopt siege tactics. If the opponent is trapped until they run out of ammunition and food, then you don't have to injure too many green-skinned boys. But it will take at least two or three months.

Before he could decide what to do, the human reaction came first.

The Skeleton Division in the Alliance Army arrived directly with an armored brigade. Even the 200,000 defense troops were gathered together.

This annihilation battle, which was originally just a matter of green-skinned orcs fishing and gathering reinforcements, quickly evolved into a major battle.

The green-skinned boss is also fierce. Now that it has reached this point, he is constantly recruiting reinforcements.

In the fierce and fierce fighting that lasted for a month, the two sides continued to mobilize their troops and continued to add fuel to the fire. The war became more and more intense.

In the end, the total number of troops participating in this battle reached more than one million people.

The final result is that the human side wins.

When one after another Skogo armored behemoths were killed under human heavy artillery and in confrontation with the Lion King; when one after another green-skinned armored units were wiped out by various anti-armor firepower; when one after another After the green boy was knocked down by various weapons...

The green-skinned boss was also knocked down by a plasma gun during a charge he personally led, and then a melta bomb eliminated him.

The orc army collapsed.

Nearly three hundred thousand greenskins were wiped out in this battle.

Although the Planetary Defense Force lost more than 300,000 people, the Alliance Army also sacrificed more than 70,000 people, and various armor units and artillery units also suffered heavy losses.

However, the victory of this main battle also established the victory of the entire Hippogriff III ground battle.

The green-skinned army lost its commander and became disorganized. More importantly, their elite strength was almost completely lost, leaving the five or six million greenskins still alive with a serious lack of high-end units, and their overall combat effectiveness became extremely low.

At the moment, they can no longer pose any threat to Hippogriff III. In addition to the war zone, Hippogriff III is already working hard to resume production and restore social order.

Within the war zone, these greenskins will be completely surrounded and wiped out within half a year at most.

The governor of Hippogriff III was very happy.

He personally went to the front line to express condolences to the Alliance Army, and incidentally also expressed condolences to his own defense forces.

The governor praised the colonel of the Skeleton Division so much that he even prepared medals and military ranks. How can the rank of colonel reflect his contribution? At least the entire rank of general!

But the alliance colonel refused and left one sentence:

"Perhaps, before long, all military ranks will be unified."

After hearing this, the governor of Hippogriff III didn't know whether he should be happy or not.

……

The battle on Hippogriff III is a microcosm of the situation in the entire sector.

When the alliance's military frontier entered the Hippogriff Sector, similar situations occurred in many worlds here.

The modes are similar. As soon as the Alliance fleet enters the corresponding star system, it drives away or destroys the green-skinned ships, then provides orbital support to the corresponding planet, and then puts down some troops based on the situation of the planet.

Hippogriff III is relatively small, and the greenskin threat is not that big to be honest. It only has a million orcs, and it can be solved by releasing eight divisions.

The bigger problem is in Hippogriff II. There are three human worlds in this galaxy. The main star among them has a population of 40 billion. This is also the world with the largest population in the Hippogriff Sector.

The entire Hippogriff sector, the 12 worlds combined, only has a population of about 150 billion. Stars No. and No. of Hippogriff II each have only tens of millions of people, and are pure mineral planets.

The main star of Hippogriff II was attacked by greenskins. Tens of millions of greenskins descended on the world. The defense forces on the main star of Hippogriff II were violently beaten. Within a month, many key cities were captured. The defense forces' Defeated steadily.

The Union Army invested an entire army group here.

More than 20 million Alliance Army soldiers undoubtedly withstood the attack of the green-skinned orcs, and combined with almost the same number of defense forces, began to conquer the lost territory and destroy the green-skinned ecosystem.

The situation in the Hippogriff sector can be said to have been quickly stabilized after the alliance army entered.

This incident is actually quite shocking.

Photos of Gu Hang with the planetary governors and the unstoppable battle of the Alliance army in the Eagle Horse Sector were all sent to many surrounding star sectors along with the astrological messages.

This makes the work of alliance diplomats much smoother.

Some star regions that have not been beaten may still be considering and waiting to see. However, another star region that was also invaded, the Wuma Star Region, quickly changed its attitude.

They were willing to accept the Seven-Horse Agreement, and they just wanted the alliance's troops to move over quickly.

There are thirteen worlds in Fog Horse, one more than Hippogriff, but the total population size is actually smaller. At 134 billion, they are basically dominated by agricultural worlds, mining worlds, and desolate worlds. Even the capital planet Wuma I is just an ordinary civilized world with only three billion people.

The invasions suffered by the Foghorse Sector were not as severe as those in the Hippogriff Sector. Even a considerable part of the invading green-skinned orcs jumped from the Steel Wing Star to the Mist Horse Star area where Emerald Spring II entered. The conflict star area that the Wuma Star Area deals with, that is, the direction of the Tongguan Star Area, is not the main attack direction of the Orcs.

However, there is no barrier like the Steel Wing Star in the Wuma Star District to withstand and attract the main force of the orcs.

The entire star area was driven straight in by the green-skinned orcs, and most of them were already caught in the flames of war.

There is no naval force in the sector, and as for the army, there is only the local Planetary Defense Force, which has limited strength.

More importantly, without space delivery capabilities, it means that each planet is an isolated island, and armies cannot support each other. Some planets are not seriously invaded, and they can still control the situation and prevent it from collapsing. There is obviously enough spare capacity to support other planets in serious situations, but it is unable to do so due to limitations of delivery problems.

After seeing that the Alliance easily solved the threat from the Hippogriff Sector, which had a more serious problem than their own, the governors of the Fog Horse couldn't help it.

Their sector leader has not nodded yet and is still arguing with the alliance diplomats, but many planetary governors in the Wuma sector can no longer bear it. They took the lead and contacted the alliance privately. Expressed willingness to sign.

The thinking of these people is also very simple. As the planetary governor, save your own life first.

Moreover, as long as you sign it, what does the hell district government do? According to the Seven Horse Agreement, not only the military protection and trade alliance, but also the imperial tax will be collected by the alliance.

After signing, the sector government is nothing.

For these planets, the Alliance took them all down with a stroke of a pen.

However, the alliance's diplomats also made it clear to the governors of Wuma that if they sign now, they will receive the due military protection, and the alliance will never break its promise.

However, the most important thing in the entire war situation at the moment is still the Battle of Steel Wing Star.

The main force of the alliance will solve the problems there first.

Governors, you still need to think of some solutions on your own planet and persist for a while.

Not too long, a month or two at most.

"The Seven-Horse Agreement is an agreement to help each other. It is not an agreement that you can just lie on the agreement and wait for the alliance to solve all problems. However, if Mr. Governor really wants that, I have an agreement to formally join the alliance. You can consider it. .”

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