Chapter 583: The Fruit of Victory is So Sweet

Chapter 583: The Fruit of Victory is So Sweet

Joining the battle is never an easy task.

At least that's what Martins thought before he got involved with Gu Hang.

In his combat experience, whether in the heyday of the Phoenix or in the later Atonement Crusade, he participated in many boarding operations.

Every time, it is quite dangerous.

The reason is very simple. No matter how strong the individual combat power of the Space Marines is, they cannot avoid the risk of boarding. Whether it is the failure of psychic transmission due to interference, or the boarding torpedo or boarding ship being shot down halfway, as long as it happens, the soldiers who are doing boarding can only die helplessly.

Even if they did board, the danger was great. The number of soldiers who could survive the dangerous boarding process, especially the leading ones, was bound to be small. Generally speaking, the current starships would be loaded with a large number of poorly equipped marines and army elites. The troops who boarded could only fight the enemy desperately under the premise of limited equipment and limited numbers.

To hold their ground, they need to complete tasks such as shutting down enemy ships' interception systems and artillery, creating landing sites, and waiting for follow-up reinforcements.

The arrival of follow-up troops is often not large enough, and they do not arrive in a single wave, but are rather scattered.

When the enemy occupies the home field and often has an advantage in equipment and numbers, the difficulty of boarding operations can be imagined. Often, the battlefield will be turned into a meat grinder, and the boarding party will bear huge losses in deploying troops, and then bear huge losses in fighting under unfavorable conditions. Only by overcoming various crises can a successful boarding operation be completed.

However, after starting to work for Gu Hang, he discovered that boarding a ship and fighting was not that easy.
It's not that it's really easy. After all, since the battle with the Alfonzo fleet in the Bovan Galaxy, the Phoenix has lost more than 400 fighters in the battles. This loss of nearly half of the personnel is very heavy in any case.

However, compared to the results they achieved, capturing one huge ship after another and destroying countless elite Crusaders and rebellious Space Marines, this loss was simply "too worthwhile".

If it weren't for Governor Gu's almost undisturbed and 100% successful psychic teleportation, who knows how many people would have died during the multiple boardings, and many operations would not have been possible at all; if it weren't for those magical heroes leading the charge, relying only on a few hundred phoenixes, they would have been trapped in a vast ocean of elite enemy troops, and it would have been a fantasy to complete the mission.

It is these two things that make the Phoenixes' boarding battles so invincible that it seems like a miracle to the blood sharks next door.

In the capture of the few remaining ships of the Fury Fleet, Phoenix knew clearly that Governor Gu played the greatest role in this matter.

At the beginning, Gu Hang was not on the Ronglin, the ship that was targeted, but on the Eagle Horse.

The Alliance deployed the main force of the Phoenix, a total of 600 warriors, on four ships: Eagle Horse, Ronglin, Angry Owl, and Yunluo. Except for Eagle Horse with 300 people, the other three ships had only 100 people each.

When the news came that Rong Lin was under siege, Gu Hang set off and teleported to the Rong Lin with two hundred phoenixes.

This is actually something beyond Martins's understanding.

How far is the distance between the Eagle Horse and the Ronglin?
That is not within the scope of normal space naval warfare!

Even if there is no interference and there are coordinates, this matter is too incredible.

But Martins was numb.

I've seen it a lot, so it doesn't matter.

After the naval battle, the Ronglin was seriously damaged. The damage management unit tried their best, but they could only barely restore the battlecruiser's ability to move so that the situation would not continue to deteriorate. Fighting was impossible, and the ship could only be used as a fixed target without any effect.

But the attack on Phantom Moon Star still started as planned. The lack of a battlecruiser did not hinder the Alliance's offensive.

In fact, this is a relatively traditional fight for the orbital defense system. After clearing a relatively safe airspace, troops are dispatched to land on the surface on a large scale to fight for the seedlings.

During this process, the Alliance even drove the two captured ships, the 'Wings of Spark' and the 'Fire of Triumph', into the orbit of the Phantom Moon Star.

The two warships have not yet completed their overhaul, and there may even be surviving original crew members living in a remote corner of the ship. After all, these two ships are huge ships that can fight hundreds of thousands of people, and there is no problem in treating them as a city in space.

They are basically unusable in alliance battles, and many systems within the ships need to be cracked or simply replaced.

But that doesn't stop the Alliance from starting them up first, then putting them in orbit around the Fantasy Moon Star and showing them to the enemy.

This is a kind of showing off one's strength. While boosting one's own morale, it will also drastically undermine the morale of the enemy. It is equivalent to telling the defenders of the planet clearly that you have no hope and surrender is the only way out.

The effect is also surprisingly good.

Multiple orbital space stations sent signals of surrender to the Alliance. They allowed the Alliance's boats to land without resistance, then laid down their weapons and were taken away by the Alliance. The space stations did not need to be blown up, but only temporarily abandoned, so that they could be reused later.

While the orbital defense system was rapidly disintegrating, the ground offensive was becoming increasingly successful.

Without the interference of the orbital defense system, the Alliance fleet began to be able to support the surface attack more smoothly.

The orbital guns on the surface were still resisting in vain, but when facing attacks from both the sky and the ground at the same time, defense became extremely difficult.

Even when the Alliance attacked the surface, it did not send any Space Marines.

The main force this time is the battle sisters of the Holy Lily of Mercy. Sister Grit is the highest person in charge. The battle sisters she leads do not have the individual combat strength of the Space Marines, but with the assistance of one thousand battle sisters and more than six thousand Glory Guards, they can ensure that they will not be broken through by the Fury and the New World Torch in the surface combat.

At the same time, the enemy did not dare to assemble space marines on a large scale.

During a battle for an important hub city on the surface, the enemy showed up with a hundred concentrated Space Marines, who repelled the Alliance Army's attack on the city.

Immediately afterwards, the Alliance did not act rashly, but surrounded the city, opened a humanitarian corridor, and gave the residents three days to evacuate.

There was no way the Space Marines could escape; they were too conspicuous to blend in with the walking masses.

They tried to break out several times, but in the battle on the great plains, what they had to face was not just the Battle Sisters and the Glory Guards. There were large numbers of tanks and heavy artillery, and they could not break through by charging head-on.

Only a few people managed to break through, while the rest were forced back into the city.

Afterwards, the Alliance no longer cared about how many civilians were still in the city and the orbital bombardment began.

After three days and three nights of bombing, the entire city was physically razed to the ground. According to subsequent estimates, there should be no living organisms surviving inside.

After this battle, the Fury and the New World Torch rarely gathered in large groups - unless they launched a surprise attack at night or in a complex environment, but they would often withdraw quickly after quickly gaining the upper hand, fighting guerrilla warfare, and would not dare to try to expand their victory.

At the same time, they also abandoned almost all important strongholds and fortresses, thus shifting the front line to the city's underground passages, bunkers they had previously dug, and complex areas such as valleys and mountains.

This place is not suitable for large-scale military operations, and the scattered layout also makes it difficult for orbital bombing to be effective.

This certainly made them almost completely give up control of Fantasy Moon Star.

If a Space Marine is determined to survive and defend his position, it is really difficult to kill him.

Even the Burning Sky Torpedoes might not be able to completely wipe them out. If they had enough supplies and oxygen, and hid in excavated mountains or underground places, they might really be able to survive the hot period for several years and emerge again after cooling down - as for how to escape from a dead planet, that was another topic. But at least they could survive.

Unless a higher-level extinction weapon like the Earth-Blasting Planet Destroyer is used to directly explode the planet into countless space fragments. Perhaps they will reassemble due to gravity after thousands of years, or they may form countless asteroids and meteors. But after all, this is the only way to truly exterminate a planet and all life on it without omission.

Not really, not yet.

But in this situation, the war situation is still quite embarrassing.

It is true that the Alliance basically controls the entire Fantasy Moon. However, their military advantage is mainly based on the thousands of top elite troops of the Holy Lilies and the Glory Guards, plus at least two battlecruisers in the sky and ten moon-class ships in cruise support.

In this situation, Nuyan and Xinshi Torch really didn't dare to show their heads and could only hide in the gutter like rats.

However, they also used a force of less than two thousand Space Marines to tie up a considerable part of the Alliance's forces and fix them in Fantasy Moon.

If the starships withdraw, even if only the large ones, there will be fewer starships left, making it difficult to achieve global coverage. I'm afraid that Fury and his men will increase their activity frequency; and once the nuns and the Glory Guards also withdraw, they will be able to establish bases more unscrupulously and even regain control of the planet.

But if we don't retreat, we won't be able to wipe out these two battle groups quickly.

What a headache.

……

Gu Hang knew about Huanyue's affairs, but he didn't pay too much attention to it.

There's nothing to worry about.

Perhaps, the war there was quite brutal, and the guerrilla warfare of the two remaining regiments gave Grit a lot of headaches.

However, in general, the output of Huanyue is being rebuilt. Under the current global military control, the output is taken by the Alliance at 20%, and Grit, as an army, obtains about 10% of the output from the local area as military supplies, mainly food and other basic supplies, as well as equipment maintenance.

The rest will be distributed among the interest groups within the original planet.

That'll be fine.

As for the raging flames in the mountains and the earth and the Torch of the New World, I will leave it to Grit to deal with.

Withdraw some of the starships above the Fantasy Moon and keep some. Three cruisers will be enough.

It is impossible to cover the entire world, but it can ensure that when Grit orders the detection and encirclement of rebellious Space Marines, there will be fire support at any time.

As for some production sites in Huanyue being frequently attacked, then just attack them.

That little output is not important.

The cleanup of the two regiments will be done slowly.

Anyway, Gu Hang is no longer in a hurry.

As for himself, he had more important matters to deal with.

In the Battle of Bowang and its derivative battle, the Battle of Fantasy Moon, the Alliance won an unprecedented victory and achieved unprecedented results.

After counting, two battlecruisers were exchanged for one Emperor-class, two Retribution-class, one battle barge, and one Serpent-class.

Wow, after one battle, we have one more alliance fleet!
Just robbing the ship is enough to make a fortune!

There have also been major changes in the war situation.

The main force of the Alfonzo sect collapsed, and the Flame of Fury and the Torch of the New World collapsed. Once these two major problems were solved, it meant that the two threats that the Alliance might suffer in the Proud Claw star field were completely eliminated.

Over in the Princess Star Region, the main force of the Iron Armor Regiment is fighting a desperate battle with the Phoenix Lord in the west. The scale of the battle there is even larger than that here in the Alliance. Can Humphrey Paul spare more forces to expedition to Proud Claw?

I'm afraid not.

The Alfonzo sect lost a war ark and an emperor. Does it still have the ability to organize another fleet to sail south?

I'm afraid not.

The Alliance will indeed have a period of weakness after the Battle of Bowang, and it will take at least half a year to a year to repair all of its ships.

But in fact, Gu Hang was not too worried that he would face any military threats during this period of weakness.

On the contrary, it is his enemies who should fear his military threats.

It is true that he is in a weak period, but it is estimated that whether he goes from Proud Claw to the Nepeta Star Region, or from Proud Claw to the Alfonzo Star Region, it is unobstructed and the defense is empty.

As the winner of the war, could it be possible that he would feel worse than those who lost the war?

Makes no sense.

Even if Paul of Iron Armor, or Alfonzo's great sage Martin Varüc, wanted to cause trouble for Gu Hang, even at the cost of shaking his foundation, it would not be easy to withdraw their forces.

Spanning several star regions, it is unknown how long it will take just to assemble, dispatch, and march the troops.

Even with the most conservative estimate, Gu Hang felt that there would be two years to catch his breath.

Oh, it's not him who's breathing, it's Paul and Varuk who's breathing.

"They are still too weak. If the fleet's strength is intact, we won't even give them a break!"

Gu Hang sighed, then turned around and began to digest the results of the battle.

The fruits of victory are so sweet.

The victory in the Proud Claw Battle, in addition to seizing a batch of ships and "eating" a neurozoan, gained an advantage in the overall strategy, but there is another result that cannot be ignored: the gift points.

(End of this chapter)