Chapter 661, Battle of Wanzhou Star

Chapter 661, Battle of Wanzhou Star
The Battle of Wanzhou Star was a defensive battle, and Tiekai was the one who took the initiative to attack.

During the counterattack to the west, Salilius and Martins also observed a weakness of the Iron Armor - there was also a problem with their supply.

Although the Iron Armored Corps was completely infected and transformed into insects, the bodies of the Iron Armored Soldiers killed on the battlefield were stripped of their armor, and even without dissection, it could be seen from the outside that the flesh inside was like a combination of insects and humans. The deformed skulls, the chitinous structures growing on the bodies... Further dissection revealed that the superhuman organs inside had also changed.

To be honest, these changes have made the Iron Armor even stronger in terms of physical strength, combining the advantages of the Space Marine's superhuman physique with the Zerg's advantages as a biological weapon.

After transforming into insects, their average strength is even stronger than some ordinary regiment warriors.

But precisely because they have not completely transformed into insects, it is impossible for them to be almost independent of supplies like normal insects.

Of course, the Void Zerg units will get tired, injured, hungry, and run out of "ammunition". However, when they are hungry, they can eat their own kind to replenish their energy, and their own kind will not resist. Everything is the order of the node creatures. The lower-level bugs have no self-will, so naturally they will not object.

Their so-called ammunition is the super-hard chitin bullets differentiated from their bodies, fired by the "guns" that are essentially biological organs and symbiotic. They are all biological products, and can all be provided by themselves. When they run out of ammunition and food, they can even digest unnecessary organs in their bodies. For example, if they are sure that they can't eat anything and just want to be cannon fodder to die, they can decompose their digestive system and differentiate into "bullets". Or they can evolve by cannibalizing their own kind, the corpses of their enemies, and the parts of nature that can be used.

The soldier bugs, gun bugs, and the like are not obvious yet. When it comes to units like bio-cannons and bio-tanks, the same logic applies.

The Zerg also has a special "corpse collection team", a group of small insects with only digestive organs. At night and in between battles, they sneak onto the battlefield and surrounding areas and are responsible for devouring corpses, whether their own or the enemy's, to recycle biomass and provide it to the hatching center in the rear.

In this way, even in the case of extreme lack of logistics, the combat effectiveness of the Zerg will not be greatly affected. In theory, the Zerg need logistical biomass supplies when fighting, but in reality, it is almost impossible to defeat them to the point of being cut off from logistics.

The logistical difficulty of the human army and the Zerg army is not on the same level.

But the Iron Armor Corps' transformation into insects was not that thorough.

Their fighting mode still retains the appearance of humans.

Basically, all infected people are like this. After all, they are just infected by parasites, their brains are replaced, and their bodies are transformed, but they are not biological weapons designed by the queen from the beginning and born from the hatching nest.

Iron-armored warriors still need power armor to provide Space Marine-level combat power; the grenade launchers in their hands still need explosive shells to fire; their ships are still made of steel and require fuel, rather than being able to fly like the Zerg's biological ships.

This means that they need similar logistical supplies as human armies.

It is unknown what state Humphrey Paul is in now, but he is probably still clear-headed in terms of military affairs. Before launching the campaign, he not only hid his troops, but also must have stockpiled a considerable amount of war supplies.

However, it has been such a long time since the fight began, and a lot of money has been spent.

Especially after Martins and Salisius joined forces to launch a fierce counterattack to the west, the intensity of the war suddenly increased significantly.

As the intensity increased, the consumption of various war materials of Tiejia also increased sharply.

By now, the Ironclad Regiment was in a difficult situation.

The number of Zerg that emerged from the Princess Star Domain was less than expected, and failed to put enough pressure on the Empire.

This was caused by the fact that Gu Hang had fought his way from the Alfonzo Star Domain into the Princess Star Domain.

The Western Army's offensive, which was originally intended to destroy the empire from both the east and the west, was also disrupted by the northward advance of the Alliance's Martins's troops.

Now, it was their turn to face the most embarrassing situation.

The previously stockpiled war supplies were consumed greatly due to the fierce war that lasted for half a year.

The key is that there is no place to make up for it.

In the past, Iron Armor had to support such a large-scale war. Who could provide the huge logistical supplies?

First, we rely on the Alfonzo Cult. This ally is a powerful Mechanic Order that not only owns an entire star field as a resource mining site, but also has three forge worlds. With the productivity in motion, it will certainly be no problem to arm a large army.

Secondly, they relied on core areas such as the Princess Star Region to provide a large amount of war supplies. After all, before the Princess Star Region rotted, it was their core nest, and the resources that hundreds of worlds could provide were still abundant. When the war expanded, Iron Armor occupied almost the entire Spider Web Universe at its peak, and resources were put into operation everywhere to supply the army's needs.

Now, these two most important sources of war resources are gone.

The war supplies they had saved during the previous dormant phase were their last resort.

Now, even if they gathered and reappeared again, and reoccupied many worlds in the process of attacking the Western Front Legion of Salilius, the supplies they could obtain from them were not enough.

There are some resources, but not many.

Insect infestations have repeatedly spread over the past few years, causing huge damage to productivity. Moreover, Salisbury's troops also need supplies, and they have also skimmed oil from the locals during previous wars.

After several rounds, there was no longer enough oil to scrape.

They do have another option, which is to continue evacuating westwards to the Magre Universe and collect resources on the spot.

But in that case, how can they put pressure on the imperial army on the west? By then, the Western Front Army will stop chasing and join forces with Martins's troops to rush into the Royal Princess Space, and go to the east and west with Gu Hang to fight the main force of the Zerg army. Then Humphrey Paul will be dumbfounded.

What's more, is it really that easy to retreat westward?
not always.

When they showed up more than half a year ago and the Western Front Legion was in crisis, Holy Terra also reacted as if something was on fire.

Over there, a new army is already being formed.

The central government of the empire must be prepared for the situation in the eastern border to deteriorate further.

Later, when the alliance took action to stabilize the situation, these assembled troops were not disbanded, but were sent to the Magre Realm. On the one hand, they were to strengthen the defense of the central territory of the empire, and on the other hand, they were also to provide support to the Western Front Legion.

Although the size of this army was not too large or too strong, when Tiekai retreated westward, he would inevitably be entangled with them.

It’s hard to choose no matter what.

It was like a noose that had been put around Iron Armor's neck. The only thing left now was to slowly tighten the rope and finally strangle this powerful army of infected people at the junction of the Spider Web Universe and the Magre Universe.

This will be a long process, but it is also the strategy with the highest winning rate and the most stable.

Although Gu Hang was still waiting for the western front to be liberated so that he could attack the Princess Star Region together with him, Martins and Salilius decided to take it slow after discussion.

They had fully communicated this idea with Gu Hang, and Gu Hang also said there was no problem with it.

Victory is the most important thing. If you must pursue winning and winning quickly, then if you don't do it well, you will lose everything. At worst, Gu Hang will try to slow down his actions in the Queen Star Region.

It just so happened that he also needed to take the time to steadily clear his way forward and ensure a stable route.

The two sides reached a consensus, and the overall situation was developing in this direction - that is, the rope around Tiekai's neck was getting tighter and tighter.

At this time, Humphrey Paul made an astonishing move: he gathered a powerful force and launched a fierce attack on Wanzhou Star.

Wanzhou Star was the logistics supply center for the coalition forces of Salilius and Martins during their attack on Iron Armor, and a large amount of supplies were stored here.

He fought this battle very beautifully.

The troop deployment before the war was particularly sophisticated, and the Empire almost didn't notice it; when the action started, it was even more powerful, a single-point breakthrough, and when the attack came in, the Empire's troop deployment had not yet had time to form.

This put Wanzhou Star into a huge crisis.

Once Tiekai takes Wanzhou Star, not only will they be able to obtain a valuable wave of supplies, but the Empire will also be temporarily short of supplies. Although the Alliance's supplies will continue to be replenished from the rear, resources cost money, and the Alliance is not that rich. At the same time, it takes time to operate.

At that time, not to mention the possibility of the army being defeated, at least it would have to restrain its edge and temporarily suppress large-scale attacks.

The war, which was originally expected to take a long time to win, is likely to last even longer.

As one side gains while the other loses, the situation has reversed, which is certainly unacceptable to Salisbury and Martins.

And at this time, the latest news came.

Wanzhou Star was not conquered.

Although the main force of Iron Armor surrounded the entire galaxy, an Ortopis company stationed on Wanzhou Star, plus half of the Spear of the Dragon King, fought desperately in the battle.

Together with the cooperation of the heroic mortal soldiers of the Solar Legion on the ground, they have been controlling the locations of many key areas on the planet.

Under such circumstances, the coalition forces, which were already gathering troops and preparing for the worst-case scenario in order to retake Wanzhou Star, had to speed up their actions.

The first reinforcements arrived soon.

But they failed in the naval battle and suffered heavy losses.

It doesn’t matter, the second batch, the third batch... the large army will arrive soon.

The fleets of both sides were entangled in the sea of ​​stars; the troops that had been deployed to the ground attacked each other with all their might; and reinforcements from the Empire were also sent to the ground.

To put it bluntly, Tiekai's offensive against Wanzhou Star was only on its last breath.

They were unwilling to accept defeat and increased their military strength.

The number of troops deployed by both sides increased in a very short period of time.

This surprise attack launched by the Iron Armor against the logistics hub of Wanzhou Star was heading towards a decisive battle between the two sides' large armies.

It was normal that the Empire did not want to hand over the logistics center; on the other hand, although the raid was clearly a failure, Iron Armor had no intention of stopping.

The Imperial General Staff analyzed that Tiekai was throwing everything he had into the air.

Of course, they also knew that if they continued to fight like this, they would be heading for a decisive battle on Wanzhou Star. However, since it was obvious that the battle would become more and more difficult as time went on, Tiekai actually didn't mind fighting such a decisive battle while his combat power was still at its peak and all the war materials could still support it.

And the Empire will not back down.

Not to mention anything else, after a considerable number of reinforcements had been sent in, it was impossible for them to retreat.

Unless they are not only willing to hand over a large amount of logistical supply resources, but also abandon the numerous troops that have been deployed on the surface of Wanzhou Star.

That is of course unacceptable.

Although the Empire was not mentally prepared for this before the Wanzhou Star Battle began, by now they have unified their thoughts.

In Martins' words, "We will inflict the most painful defeat on the traitors in Wanzhou on behalf of the Emperor!"

……

The Battle of Wanzhou Star reached its climax when the two supreme commanders, Martins and Salilius, arrived together with their most loyal troops.

The fleets of both sides are still entangled in space, and it seems that neither side can win quickly.

The battle on the surface was extremely brutal.

More than seven thousand iron-armored warriors have already landed on the ground.

Many orbital gun systems have been captured, and star ports have fallen into enemy hands. This makes it difficult for the Empire's ships to enter the planet's orbital system. Many strategic materials have been transported out and given to Iron Armor as supplies.

In this situation, both Martins and Salisius personally led their troops to the ground.

The fleet withstood the attack from the few captured orbital guns, went around to the other side of the occupied starport, and released the main ground forces.

Since then, the number of Space Marines on the ground on the Empire's side has exceeded 3,500.

On a large plain, the two sides launched a fierce battle.

On a battle line about 300 kilometers long, both sides had a total of tens of millions of troops, forming a confrontation battlefield with great width and depth.

The Empire, on the other hand, took the initiative to launch a single-point assault.

As the spearhead of the assault, the most eye-catching troop is not the Space Marines, but the 'Alliance National Knights' from the Alliance!
This army, which had a huge number of Titans, launched a fierce attack on one of Iron Armor's defensive positions with the coordination of a large number of infantry and armored units.

(End of this chapter)