Chapter 581, after the war

Chapter 581, after the war

To put it bluntly, the subsequent main force of the alliance is actually just the two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers, Ronglin and Yunluo.

Of the Alliance's six battlecruisers, the Flying Wing is under repair, the Steel Wing and the Koroga were lost in the Battle of Bowang, and the only fast ships that can be mobilized now are these two Dragon Snakes and the Furious Owl that has already arrived, a total of three ships.

With just this level of combat power, they simply don't have the ability to confront the enemy fleet head-on.

Even Gu Hang is no exception.

An Emperor with three Serpents can destroy three battlecruisers without any shields.

Only with the addition of Blood Shark's 'Ghost Shark', the frontal combat capability can be considered to be able to barely compete.

Moreover, this battle also has its points.

First of all, the Alliance fleet, which is charging forward with all its might, will not actually get very close to engage in a confrontation with the enemy fleet.

When fighting at a fairly long distance, you can take advantage of your ship's greater agility and flexibility, and try to rely on maneuverability to avoid damage.

Of course, this makes it difficult to be hit, but it also makes it difficult to hit the enemy.

But it doesn't matter.

The fleet's firepower was never the key to the alliance's victory.

During the battle, two enemy warships suddenly went silent.

One of them was the Emperor-class battleship; the other was a Dragon Serpent.

The two ships were attacked fiercely by boarding ships almost at the same time.

Or to be more precise, the Dragon Snake class was the main target of the boarding operation. The Blood Sharks and some Phoenixes used psychic teleportation to break through the enemy's teleportation interference and started killing.

Three hundred warriors went in from the Blood Shark group, and two hundred from the Phoenix group.

It is still difficult to capture the entire battleship with only 500 soldiers.

However, it was enough to turn the interior of a Dragon Snake-class battleship upside down.

This is why it misfired.

On the other side, on the Emperor-class battleship, Gu Hang nominally ordered four hundred Phoenixes, under the leadership of Martins, to carry out a boarding operation.

But in fact, they did not board the ship immediately.

It was the Heroic Spirits who messed up the Emperor-class battleship.

The reason why it has to be covered up is that if something like a heroic spirit were to be shown to thousands of people, it would be hard to justify it, as it would look too much like alien or heretical behavior.

In fact, up to now, the only ones within the alliance who have truly fought alongside these heroic spirits are the Phoenixes.

The heroic spirits were in front of them, so the risk was relatively controllable. After all, Phoenix and Gu Hang shared weal and woe, and every member of the team had undergone "political commissar" training, so their loyalty and will were trustworthy.

Gu Hang would definitely not let those blood sharks see the heroic spirit with their own eyes.

As for the Blood Sharks, they would find it incredible when they knew that only 400 Phoenixes could raid the Emperor-class battleship, which was much larger than a battlecruiser, and suppress the fire inside the ship... Then let them think whatever they want.

When the enemy's two main warships, especially the Emperor-class, fell silent, Gu Hang gave an order and the three battlecruisers and Blood Shark's battle barge all maxed out their engines and attacked at full speed.

The instantly shortened distance made the firepower between both sides more threatening.

When Alfonzo's fleet was at its most powerful, it was cruising around and engaging in guerrilla warfare; now that the two main ships had been silenced, the Alliance Fleet began to attack fiercely. Alfonzo's remaining two battlecruisers not only did not receive support from the side for a while, but one of them also had its void shield torn apart and disappeared after a flash. Naturally, they were the main targets of the Alliance Fleet's attack.

Under the concentrated fire of three battlecruisers and a Ghost Shark, the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser was struggling with almost all its might, using its full mobility and firepower interception system to its fullest, hoping to survive.

However, all these efforts only slightly prolonged its survival time and could not play a key role. It was eventually completely destroyed under the fierce concentrated fire.

Next, the only remaining battlecruiser followed suit shortly afterwards.

Then, the alliance fleet began to clear out the other small and medium-sized ships.

A random cruiser or large destroyer would be hit by luck, and then the void shield would be gone. Then, at least two or three X-class heavy artillery would be aimed at them and blasted hard. One or two misses would not be a big problem, as long as one was hit, then without the protection of the void shield, they would be blown up directly in mid-air.

While these peripheral threats were being quickly dealt with by the fleet's gunfire, landing craft from three battlecruisers and several Moon-class cruisers left the starship and flew towards the Mechanicus battlecruiser that was being attacked by the Blood Sharks and Phoenixes.

This is a very rough way to board a ship, purely brute force.

The starship that launches the landing spacecraft is quite far away from the target, which means that the landing spacecraft needs to be exposed in space for a long time before it can reach its destination.

Under normal circumstances, this would be tantamount to murder. The landing ship would be continuously intercepted during the flight. If one of them exploded, it would not only mean the loss of a landing ship, but also the thousands of soldiers and war equipment on board would all become victims.

However, the alliance is helpless in doing so.

If the 'Hippogriff' was here, with the capabilities of the Zhuge-class aircraft carrier, on the one hand, the internal loading space is large, and there is no need to disperse the boarding troops onto so many different starships; on the other hand, the catapult technology can also deliver these landing ships to the face of the enemy ships more safely and quickly, greatly reducing the time that the landing ships full of soldiers are exposed in space.

Unfortunately, the Hippogriff was too slow to catch up with the battle.

Then we can only use this rough method.

However, the actual situation is not that dangerous.

The main reason was that the enemy's ships had been invaded by Space Marines, and the interception system was not working well. The cruisers, destroyers, and frigates that were supposed to provide cover for it when it was in trouble were also cleaned up.

During the long flight, the Alliance's landing forces encountered very little artillery interception.

Although about 10% of the alliance spacecraft were intercepted midway, which meant that more than elite fighters were killed, overall, the losses were still within an acceptable range.

The remaining more than 50,000 elite alliance troops landed on the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser.

The Blood Sharks and Phoenixes had already established landing sites in advance. The Skitarii on the ships had tried for hours but had not been able to recapture these places.

And now, landing ships arrived one after another, "rammed" into the gap, dropped off the soldiers, and then quickly evacuated, making way for the next ship to release the people.

With a large number of conventional troops, the Space Marines no longer needed to use a small number of inferior troops to fight against the Skitarii on the ships. After the two regiments lost a total of about seventy people, their first phase of the mission was completed.

The second phase of the mission is relatively easier. All you have to do is accompany the Alliance's regular forces to launch a full-scale attack on the entire Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser and prevent the enemy from destroying the ship.

The capture of the entire ship was carried out by the Alliance troops, which gradually increased to more than 100,000. When the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser was controlled by the Alliance, there was only one Alfonzo ship floating in space.

The half-paralyzed Emperor-class ship.

The rest of the warships were destroyed.

And this Emperor-class ship had been badly damaged by the heroic spirits.

The four hundred phoenixes led by Martins only boarded the ship at this time.

The Phoenix Chapter Master personally led the team and raided the Sage of the Main Business based on the clues discovered by the Heroic Spirits in the previous battle.

Martins killed him with his own hands.

Then, the landing ships of the Alliance Army and Marine Corps began to fly towards the Emperor-class ship.

In fact, the most important task of seizing the ship had already been completed by the Heroic Spirits and Phoenixes. The army came here just to do the final occupation work.

Before the Army and Marines boarded the ship, the Heroic Spirits retreated.

In order to seize this Emperor-class ship, Gu Hang did not let the Blood Shark board.

Although Captain Ewing offered to take the lead, he was rejected by Gu Hang.

What he said to Ewing in jest was actually the truth:
"If the task of seizing this Emperor-class battleship is also given to you, then I will have a hard time paying you later."

You Yin was embarrassed.

……

At this point, the Battle of Bowang finally came to an end.

In this battle, the Alliance lost more than 200 small and medium-sized ships of all kinds; in addition to the loss of two battlecruisers, all ships of all levels involved in the battle also suffered varying degrees of damage. In particular, as the main force in the battle array, the "Nova" was severely damaged despite the support of various aspects, and had to enter the shipyard for repairs.

The Phoenix Regiment, which had a full complement of 1,000 men, made great contributions in the various operations of seizing ships, boarding, and teleporting during the naval battles. But at the same time, their losses were also not small.

Nearly three hundred soldiers closed their eyes forever, and another hundred lingered in the life support cabin, waiting for the arrival of the Dreadnought mecha. In the future, they will have to live in the Dreadnought iron coffin for the rest of their lives.

The loss of four hundred men dealt a heavy blow to the Phoenix Regiment.

The brilliant results of the war were achieved at the cost of great sacrifices.

It is worth emphasizing that these 400 casualties are not ordinary Space Marines, but all of them are Space Marine veterans, sergeants, and even company champions trained by Gu Hang at great cost.

Gu Hang will always remember the sacrifice and dedication of the phoenix.

If an ordinary regiment came over, let alone four hundred deaths, even if the entire regiment was wiped out, they would not be able to achieve the same effect as the Phoenixes.

In the final analysis, the gap in strength between the Alliance Fleet and the Alfonzo Ark Fleet was still too great. Moreover, there was an unexpected existence of the Neurozoa among the other side, which limited Gu Hang's psychic power to a certain extent at the beginning of the battle.

In order to make up for these gaps, the powerful phoenixes must be sacrificed.

Without them, victory would hardly have come this easily.

From the perspective of losses, the alliance's victory was barely achieved thanks to Gu Hang's cheating and the great sacrifice of the Phoenix.

It was probably just a pyrrhic victory.

However, from the perspective of benefits, the value of this tragic victory is also enormous.

The Alliance lost two battlecruisers, but recovered two battleships and a battlecruiser!
Let's put the Serpent-class battlecruiser aside for now, not to mention the extraordinary value of the Retribution-class battleship. The most important thing is the Emperor-class battleship, which is now named "Pegasus" by Gu Hang.

With their joining, the Alliance Navy's direct combat capability can actually be said to have been completely upgraded to a higher level.

At this point, the main fleet of the Alliance Navy became 3 battleships, 1 aircraft carrier, and 5 battlecruisers.

Moreover, as time goes by, in the rear of the alliance, the Feiyi Star-Angry Owl Star Shipbuilding Center and the Jindi Star Forging World, these two places with the ability to manufacture giant ships, will send a new batch of ships.

In another year or two, two Holy Grail-class ships and two Serpent-class ships will join the fleet. If this time is extended a little longer, the first product of the Retribution-class battleship technology that Gu Hang had drawn before, which was built by using the dock to construct the main body and using a black box to pull the core components, can also be delivered to the front line.

If we work harder, we can build another Zhuge-class ship.

In the next three years, the Alliance will add six more giant ships!
However, before that, the alliance was at its weakest.

After the Battle of Bowang, a large number of warships, including main battleships, suffered varying degrees of damage, but all needed to be repaired.

During the Alliance's military meeting, some people mentioned whether or not to press on the victory to pursue the enemy. After the destruction of the Alfonzo Ark Fleet, the enemy's base camp was empty, so they simply rushed into the Alfonzo star field and entered the base camp of the oil men who had been declared as a "fallen sect" by the joint statement issued by the Imperial Center and the Mechanicus Mars Headquarters.

But this proposal was rejected by Gu Hang.

The current state of the Alliance Fleet does not have the capability to launch an active offensive.

The rest period will take at least half a year.

If a strong enemy appears at this time, it may be a big trouble.

How to get through this most dangerous time is something that needs careful consideration.

The first problem to be solved is the Fantasy Moon Galaxy.

The two chapters, Fury of Flame and New World Torch, are still hiding in Fantasy Moon.

They must have received the news about the Battle of Bovan by now, and they also knew that the Alfonzo Fleet, which they had expected to be their greatest savior, had been destroyed. The only surviving battlecruiser in the Alfonzo Fleet also went to Huanyue to join the two regiments.

If they set off and run away, that's what Gu Hang expected.

Although the Alliance Fleet was in a bad condition, Fury and his men were in an even worse condition. They had to use their last bit of strength to get rid of them.

At that point, the Proud Claw Star Region would be basically peaceful, and the Alliance Fleet would be able to carry out repairs without having to worry too much.

However, their choice made Gu Hang a little disappointed.

They stayed in the Fantasy Moon Galaxy and did not move.

(End of this chapter)