Chapter 440, Temir Meat Grinder No. 5

Chapter 440, Temir Meat Grinder No. 5
The war situation on Temir 4 is basically progressing according to the plan planned by the War Staff.

Although there were some surprises, such as the landing of ground troops and rendezvous with the Planetary Defense Force, the fleet also provided support in orbit. After more detailed investigation of the enemy's specific situation, they discovered that the green skins they had initially expected There was a mistake in the quantity.

There are not 4 million greenskins on Temir , but close to million. There are to million serious orcs, and there are not million butchers, but more than million.

There was a big deviation in the estimate of the enemy's situation, but it did not actually affect the implementation of the specific strategic plan.

How to fight, or how to fight.

The few detected greenskin gathering places and ecosystems were directly destroyed by orbital bombing. The ground troops deployed are still the same eight million people, but their next battle will be more difficult.

On Temir 4, the armor is a bit difficult to deploy. Just as the orcs were hampered by various mining areas and potholes, it was difficult to eliminate the human army on Temir 4. When the human side switched from defense to attack, it was difficult to attack the greenskins. Those aliens can also hide in potholes.

Unless there are some particularly large and normal guard positions, tanks cannot drive into these potholes.

Because of this, the several armored divisions that went down thought about it and exchanged some equipment with other brother units, significantly reducing the investment in Lion tanks, Lion tanks, and even artillery.

Instead of heavy tanks, there are a large number of sentinel mechas.

In short, if tanks are no longer needed, then find other armor alternatives; if artillery is not useful, then find other firepower alternatives.

Thanks to the mobilization order issued by the Alliance's rear and tens of billions of skilled workers working overtime to produce various war supplies and equipment, the Alliance Army still has enough and a wide variety of things to fight against those greenskins.

Planet 4 lost about 35 million people in the early stages of the war, and relied on 5 billion people to create an army of 14 million, with a mobilization rate of more than %; the rest of the population also worked almost entirely for the war.

After asking Commander Gu for instructions, the execution of the governor on Temir 4 was characterized as 'clearing out traitors', which of course did not count as rebellion.

And if the orcs don't come, they will dig when they should. The excavated minerals will be processed into steel alloys on the spot, processed into raw materials in chemical plants, and then sent to the newly established arsenal to be produced into weapons or bombs and supplied to the front line. Army, innovate equipment and strengthen firepower.

Not to mention the grenades, the bomb is used to enter the cave, find the key parts, install it, and blow up the cave to collapse it. Once the key passage collapses, whether he dies or not, the green leather tube inside will eventually die. It is true that the greenskins do not need to eat and can 'photosynthesize', but there is no sunlight for them in the underground caves.

What replaces artillery is stronger individual firepower. Equipped with more offensive grenades, bombs, and rocket launchers.

This thing is definitely not as useful as a heavy tank on the frontal battlefield. With that little armor, even a machine gun cannot withstand too many rounds and will be damaged; it cannot be like a tank and directly carry a large-caliber round. Tank guns, if you can, bring some machine guns, rocket nests and the like.

Its natural enemies on the frontal battlefield: artillery groups and heavy tanks, all disappeared in the narrow and complex environment, or were ineffective. Isn't that just the Sentinel Mecha showing off its majesty?

With only 5 million defense troops fighting against a similar number of orcs and two or three times as many goblins, they would of course be at an absolute disadvantage.

Even so, they cannot maintain the entire planet's front. Often when a hole in one place is finally blocked, the orcs suddenly advance in another place. This situation is often accompanied by the fall of a city with a large population, followed by insufficient human resources due to La Kua's administrative organizational skills, and further losses...

This is how the human pool is being consumed like crazy.

However, it can be regarded as an armored unit and is flexible. It is roughly human-shaped, and although it is much taller than a normal human soldier, it can basically go where infantry can go.

There is no complicated and defensive terrain like on Planet 4. This is a very conventional civilized world.

Once the big situation is settled, that's it.

In fact, under Gu Hang's instructions, the Alliance Military and Political Department was already forming troops under the framework of the Seven-Horse Agreement. This will be the third army force that Gu Hang will control besides the Alliance Army and the Astra Militarum - the Entente Army.

There are 400 million green-skinned orcs, and there are fewer grunts, but there are still over a billion.

The number of greenskins here is similar to that of Temir No. 2.

Moreover, as a civilized world, the productivity of Temir No. 5 should be much more developed than No. 4. However, these productive forces were not effectively organized to serve the war.

At the same time, Temir 4’s minerals, raw material processing, and the developing military industry can also be exported to the alliance’s undertakings.

Obviously, the Iron Teeth Clan treats Temir No. 5 as the same place as No. 2.

Temir 4 no longer has a governor. Their governor escaped from the battle when the disaster struck, but was stopped and executed by the angry soldiers and civilians on Temir 4 before it took off.

But it doesn't matter.

The 4 million people on Temir can all be included in the framework of the Allied Forces.

The conditions here are even more favorable. After all, there is a developed industrial base, which can be transformed by the greenskins into their garbage factories and garbage cities.

The local defense force will become stronger and stronger as war experience increases and equipment is updated!
As long as space can prevent these orcs from being replenished, it is only a matter of time before the planet is cleared of orcs.

This is the convenience that tanks cannot replace. In an environment like Datmir 4, which is full of potholes and full of fighting inside buildings, it can play a huge role.

Although Temir 4 is still in a state of war, all production activities in the human-controlled area have been fully revived. They no longer need to be afraid that starting production will attract the orcs and lead to their destruction, as before. Now they are eager for the orcs to take the initiative, and then the defense force with enhanced equipment will be the main force, and the alliance army will be the decisive weapon to become an organized and effective force to destroy the enemy. .

The defense organization of Planet 5 is not as reliable as that of Planet 4. Not only is the terrain different, but the government's organizational capabilities are also different.

Even as the battle lines become more and more stable, these defense forces who have emerged from the war can be recruited to go to other battlefields.

No one stipulates that only those with the word "horse" in their star zone can join the Seven Horses Agreement, right?
……

Of course, if you want to clear out the green skins in Temir No. 4, it will not be done in a short time. The Alliance just killed eight million people. In the end, it still had to rely on the local army of hundreds of millions to be the main force. Even if the greenskins have no backup and are afraid of orbital attacks, they must retreat. But because of this, with the help of pure defense based on the terrain, if the human side wants to completely eliminate the opponent, it may not be possible for eight or ten years.

At the same time, artillery is not easy to deploy in this war environment. It was okay when we were defending, but when we were attacking, the cave was winding and winding, and it couldn't be blown down by artillery. It was useless even if the artillery went in, not to mention that it couldn't be entered.

Now, the commander of the native Planetary Defense Force is in charge of the planet.

The rocket launcher is suitable for shooting directly into the hole when attacking. Regardless of whether there is anyone inside, just put three or five tubes in first, and then the infantry will go inside.

Cities were occupied and burned one after another, and green-skinned ecosystems were established one after another.

Compared with No. 4, the situation of Planet No. 5 will be more difficult.

The commander-in-chief of the defense force was temporarily appointed by Gu Hang as the acting governor of Temir 4, and the planet was brought into the Seven-Horse Agreement.

But Planet 5 has an initial population of 120 billion. Even though it has lost more than 20 billion, there are still 4 billion left. But the number of defense forces they have organized is now the same as that of Planet 5, with only 5 million people, and the mobilization rate will be close to %.

The Human Defense Force can only maintain a size of about 500 million. The planetary government at the rear has been recruiting troops "desperately", but often by the time a legion of tens of millions of people is formed and sent to the front lines across the planet, the front lines in various places have already shrunk a lot, and thousands of people have been sacrificed. Thousands of people.

This world is particularly in need of the alliance to invest great efforts to solve it.

The Extermination Order cannot be used, and the only things that can be used are fleet support, orbital bombardment, and ground troops.

Fifty million Alliance Army troops were invested on the surface.

The already brutal ground battle on Star 5 took its intensity to a higher level.

The Alliance was quite dissatisfied with the original battle command system on Planet 5. The commander-in-chief of the Alliance Army, Lieutenant General Commander of the Alliance's First Army Group, Perbov, fully demanded that the command of the Planetary Defense Force be given to him. all.

Moreover, under the leadership of the Alliance Army, the human army fought three beautiful battles in three different directions within a week.

Such a short time is not even enough for starships to drop troops and then assemble them for war. A considerable part of the army was directly deployed not far from the frontline battlefield and then directly entered the battle.

It was this situation of divine soldiers descending from the sky that shocked the Home Guards, making it much smoother for Perbov to take over the command.

Next, it's regular combat.

Use armor and artillery to find the main green-skinned force and fight the decisive battle.

And often, the decisive battle is always won by the human side.

The excellent quality of the Alliance Army is one thing, but it is not critical. After all, although the greenskins' tactical skills are rubbish, their individual quality is too high, and sometimes it cannot even be solved by tactics.

The key lies in orbital fire support.

As long as the human army finds a main force of green skins, whether it is a battle involving tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people, the information of the green skinned orcs will be basically transparent under orbital detection. . They will be bombed when they are gathering, the logistics ammunition depot will be bombed, and the transportation unit will be ambushed and destroyed by the infiltrated human infantry company and sharp knife company...

Even if they really set up a battle formation and fight, the two sides are often not within range of the infantry. The greenskins not only have to endure bombings from heavy artillery clusters and aviation attacks from various divisions and brigades, they also have to suffer violent orbital strikes. .

There is no way the greenskins can fight this kind of large-scale decisive battle.

After several losses, they became smarter.

They rarely gather large forces. When they encounter large groups of human troops gathering to march, they will disperse, even if they lose key places such as the ecosystem and garbage city arsenal that they managed with great difficulty. .

And the greenskins who were broken into pieces, relying on the fact that they did not need food supplies, and had some armed trucks put together from garbage, plus the consignment of skogo beasts, and even some extra ammunition supplies on their own, became roughly one by one. Armies ranging in size from a few hundred to just over 10,000 were thrust deep into the human army's front lines.

Often on the front, a large number of farts form a cannon fodder army, attracting the attention of the main human force, while the real orc troops fight guerrillas and small-scale operations in the back.

This time, the offensive momentum of the human army was curbed.

feeling bad.

These greenskins can really fight without logistics - at least their dependence is much lower than that of humans. The human army can hardly fight without logistics. People need food, guns need bullets and cannonballs, and cars need energy... If anything is missing, the combat effectiveness will immediately drop a lot.

Otherwise, they don't need to eat, or they can eat the Grots and Squig beasts accompanying the army; they also need ammunition and energy, but the former can be rubbed by hand, and the latter can be captured.

Turn around and suppress the bandits?

A small-scale battle with the greenskins?
That's a real disadvantage.

In fact, the ground troops were okay. They captured the greenskins and held them back while others came to support from all directions. It would be better if the greenskins also provide reinforcements, and they would be happy to have a decisive battle.

But often it doesn't happen. They don't want reinforcements, they just try to break out. If that doesn't work, they just hold on and fight hard.

The green boys were fighting and howling.

Such a small force would suffer a lot if it called for naval gun fire.

The Navy's mastery habits are much better here in the Alliance. You won't tell me to blow up a hole that can be filled with 20,000 lives. But if you really call a ship over and bomb it for you for a day, it will cost you as much as it costs in shells. , the firepower-to-cost ratio will become outrageous.

Then we can only rely on army firepower to fight.

There will be quite a few casualties.

The Alliance Army is valuable and elite, and the main combat power depends on them, so it can only rely on the Home Defense Force to fill this hole. The Alliance's heavy artillery provides fire support, the armored troops provide assault, and the infantry finishes.

But even so, the Home Defense Force still didn't have much objection.

Although it sounds awkward to say that they are being used as cannon fodder, the casualty ratio is much lower than when they fought independently before.

Perbov also didn't want to be led around by a bunch of greenskins. While providing necessary support to the Planetary Defense Force, he also assembled the Alliance Army as much as possible and selected many strategic targets.

Rescue the occupied city, save the population, destroy the garbage city, destroy the green skin ecosystem... If you dare not fight a decisive battle with me, I will dig up your roots.

As for the countless scattered and complicated front lines at the rear, almost spread over tens of thousands of kilometers around the world, those battles that can be called meat grinders can only continue to be fought.

With the Alliance Army as the core backbone of each battle, and with the firepower reinforcements of the space fleet, the countless meat grinders are not only grinding human flesh, but also grinding green skinned ones.

Before the alliance came, the exchange ratio between humans and green-skinned orcs was about 10:1, but now, it has been reduced to less than 2:1 - most of the human casualties are still local defense forces.

This is without counting those farts. Taking into account the farts, the battle loss ratio can be reversed, humans 1, greenskins 2.

The combat effectiveness of goblins is far inferior to that of serious orcs.

Cut off the external reinforcements of the green skins, destroy the green skin ecosystem as much as possible, and reduce local production...it is a waste of the existing green skin creatures, and the billions of green skin creatures still can't consume humans.

But even so, it is estimated that to eliminate the greenskins on Planet Light 5, humans will probably have to pay more than million casualties.

This number made Purbov feel frightened after reading the data given by the staff department.

Five hundred million people...the native residents who were burned to death by the sky-burning torpedo dropped on Temir 2 were less than half of this number. But if you want to eliminate Temir 2 through ground attack, the losses will not be less than this number, or even more.

What's even more frightening is that on Temir 2, there are still a large number of Planetary Defense Forces here without No. 5 - which should be called the Allied Forces now - serving as friendly forces to the Alliance. By then, most of the losses may have to be borne by the Alliance Army.

Who can bear it?

In the interstellar battlefield, both sides fought a war across star regions and combined the power of all races. The scale was so exaggerated that it was unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Purbov no longer had any doubts about whether he should really release the world-destroying weapon.

All he has in his heart now is hatred for the alien race.

After gritting his teeth and commanding his troops to destroy an orc garbage city, he suddenly received a piece of bad information.

That comes from heaven.

Commander Du Shiliang told him that from this moment on, the fire support the alliance navy can provide will be greatly reduced.

Because, the green-skinned fleet is coming.

Although it has not arrived yet and is still traveling through the astral tunnel, the navy must save its naval gun reserves. Otherwise, if a naval battle breaks out, the supply of naval guns from the rear has not yet arrived, and it would be ridiculous to fight a naval battle without firepower.

And soon, a few days later, Du Shiliang's combined fleet was forced to leave the planet's orbit.

This planet does not have any orbital defense system to provide protection for the human fleet, so it is not a wise choice to stick to the orbit and fight the Orc fleet outside that can advance and retreat. You will be blocked in the orbit of the planet and beaten.

They had to be dragged out into the vast star field to confront and pull against the orc fleet.

Generally speaking, the strength of both fleets is similar. After all, there is only half of the combined fleet here, and the remaining half is with Yelicia.

There are hundreds of warships and four main cruisers.

Opposite there are two hundred green-skinned ships, including three cruiser-class main warships.

This number is one more than the number of capital ships that escaped from the Steel Wing Star.

It seems that the orcs still have some background.

Du Shiliang must act carefully. When the two sides are similar in strength, he really doesn't dare to engage in a fleet battle.

The impact of winning or losing is too great.

With both sides having some defensive skills, they began to hide and seek in the entire star field, test each other, make sneak attacks, exchange a few shots with each other over a long distance and then evade them in a hurry. By the way, both sides would take time or pass by the planet to shoot. Two shots over...

In this space situation, neither side has control over the universe, but the ground battlefield is brewing the most majestic battle since the war began.

When he heard that he had no orbital support, Purbov's first reaction was of course nervousness.

This is certainly not good news.

He didn't even think about whether he would win or lose the naval battle. Anyway, if he lost, he would be as miserable as the greenskins who were bombed some time ago.

Just looking at the moment, without naval gun support, the green-skinned ground troops would probably no longer be able to fight guerrillas in such a frustrated way.

It is very likely that they will unite and gather their strength to fight a large-scale battle with humans.

And when the time comes, can the human army, which lacks orbital fire support, still be able to guarantee victory?
Can we still ensure a high battle loss ratio?

These are all areas of concern.

But...Perbov may have a bit of a gambler in his nature.

This may also be an opportunity.

Fighting countless small-scale meat grinder battles, the fire support that the fleet can provide is originally relatively limited, and is more of a deterrent to prevent the enemy from gathering.

The actual battle is fought with a relatively fixed loss ratio.

This is certainly 'stable', but if a clear victory can be achieved in a certain battle, it means that countless greenskins will lose their combat effectiveness. The heavy artillery clusters and armor clusters assembled by humans can massacre the orc army that finally gathered after victory.

Wouldn't that be more wonderful?
Of course, if you lose the fight, the same situation might happen to you.

But Purbov felt he could take a gamble.

And this opportunity came quickly.

When the green-skinned fleet actually appeared in the Temir galaxy, the leader of the green-skinned orcs on Planet 5 obviously also got the news.

This cunning orc warlord immediately thought that this was a good opportunity to counterattack.

He had had enough of fighting guerrillas. If possible, which orc wouldn't want to fight an earth-shattering war?
Under his intentional command, multiple green-skinned orc armies that were originally scattered quickly gathered around him. In just a few days, a large force of more than half a million people was assembled.

At the same time, more troops were gathering towards where he was.

But he couldn't wait any longer.

He immediately launched an operation and deployed heavy troops to break through on a front line hundreds of kilometers wide.

Mighty armed trucks, Skogo war beasts, death jars...these green-skinned heavy equipment are all here!
The human army was instantly beaten to the point of losing its armor!
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6k
Still owe 62k
It’s so hard to pay off the debt…

(End of this chapter)