Chapter 685: Strategy of issuing extermination orders

Salilius's change of mentality is very interesting.

Although his expression had basically not changed from the moment he entered the door to the moment he sat down, and he always had the most common poker face among Space Marines, Gu Hang could still roughly guess the change in Salilius's mentality from the slight fluctuations in his spirit and soul, as well as the changes in his eyes when he swept across the two seats.

He chuckled in his heart.

In fact, no matter which position Salilius chooses, no matter what kind of mentality he has towards this battle, it will not have any impact on the result. Gu Hang doesn't care too much.

It just determines how Gu Hang faces him.

Now, this is a good result.

Putting these thoughts aside, Gu Hang coughed lightly and said, "Now that everyone is here, let's get started."

"First of all, I want to inform you of a piece of news: the time we have for the Battle of Readuches is very limited. A hive fleet is rapidly approaching Readuches at a sub-light speed in the real universe. It is certain that it is the reinforcements called by the Queen of the Zerg. They will arrive in a year. Once that fleet arrives, the situation in Readuches will be greatly changed. We'd better get rid of the Queen of the Zerg before that."

"The quickest way to deal with her is obviously not to engage in a conventional war, which would take a long time and may take countless years to win;"

"We can't use a decapitation tactic either. Although we have the most elite fighters, the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and orbital biological fleet are huge, and we can't find the Queen's specific location. The loss of decapitation is very high. We can't waste the lives of these most elite fighters in vain."

"I am determined to use the Extermination Order to completely destroy this world that is already filled with corruption and depravity."

"Who is for and who is against this matter?"

No one raised any objections.

Very good, it puts an end to Gu Hang’s idea of doing something bad.

In fact, it is normal.

Gu Hang's prestige is unparalleled now. Even when Salilius comes, he has to sit down and acquiesce that the leader and commander-in-chief of this battle is a mortal like Gu Hang. So when he puts forward an idea, as long as it is not too outrageous, who can object?
What's more, if you oppose something, you must have reasons to oppose it.

What Gu Hang said is very true.

Using the Extermination Order to strike at Readuches is definitely the most cost-effective, most thorough and fastest way to achieve results, as long as it succeeds.

And the human army does have this capability.

After the southern and western lines merged, all the weapons of the Extermination Order could be used together. After entering the Princess Star Region, the two lines of the army had used up quite a few weapons of the Extermination Order. Many completely infected worlds were worthless, but there were still a lot of bugs in them, so they should be baptized with the Extermination Order.

But no matter how much they use, both sides still have some inventory together.

Moreover, due to the special situation of the war in the Princess Star Domain, there were not enough weapons for the Extinction Order, so a lot of them were urgently transferred from the surrounding universe.

Almost all of them are Burning Sky torpedoes, which are the most common ones.

One after another, they were loaded into transport ships and delivered to the corps on the southern and western fronts, waiting to be used.

Now, adding up the two sides, there must be thirty Burning Heaven torpedoes. If necessary, it would not be a problem to requisition another thirty within the next year.

If the problem could be solved with just a few dozen Burning Sky torpedoes, that would undoubtedly be the best.

Although, the value of one Burning Sky torpedo is equivalent to half a cruiser. Thirty torpedoes are worth nearly 100 billion tax coins. However, compared with the results achieved and the costs avoided, it is still a business that definitely pays for itself.

But it's easy to say, the only problem is, how to deliver the extinction order weapons to Rheaduches?
It is not advisable to launch to the surface while confronting the Hive Fleet in orbit. If you do this, let alone thirty torpedoes, even three hundred or three thousand will be useless, and all will be intercepted halfway. But no one asked this question.

The eyes of all the important people present were focused on Gu Hang.

They believed that since Gu Hang proposed this idea, he must have something else to say and there must be a solution.

Facing these gazes, Gu Hang smiled instead.

He said, "Why are you all looking at me like that? I want to hear what you think."

The big guys present didn't look at Gu Hang this time, but looked at each other, and still no one spoke.

Everyone actually has a bottom line in their hearts.

To be more realistic, if you want to issue an extermination order to Reyaduches, the most practical way is to take one step at a time. First, suppress the Zerg's biological fleet in the planet's orbit and try to create a space for the troops to land.

Then, under the firepower of the enemy fleet and the ground, we will clear the orbital artillery groups on the ground. We don't need to clear all the areas, but at least we can make the airspace above an area safe.

Next, they had to deploy troops to the ground, bearing considerable losses.

Maybe one out of ten transport ships can go down. This requires investment at all costs until the ground forces can temporarily gain a foothold, fight for and destroy the biological artillery nest, and further clear the anti-orbital firepower.

Once the area is cleared to a certain extent, the Extermination Order weapons can be deployed.

It is impossible to raise the success rate of drop to 100%. After all, there will be other anti-aircraft guns in the distance, and the Zerg will have flying demon swarms to attack the dropped bombs; and there will be attacks from biological ships in orbit that have not been destroyed and can only be considered expelled at most.

If there is only one or a few extinction order weapons, they cannot be released under low probability conditions. After all, if they are intercepted, they will be gone.

But humans now have thirty of them.

If the probability of successful delivery is higher than 3%, it seems worth a try.

This can be calculated by looking at the degree of damage to the transport ships when the troops are deployed to the ground.

However, there are two problems with this:
First, how much will humanity have to pay before the success rate of the launch reaches 3%? Facing ground firepower, driving away the Zerg fleet; facing the Zerg fleet, clearing ground firepower... In these two steps, I don't know how many warships will be lost.

If it was just a loss, it would be fine. This is the final battle. No matter what the loss is, as long as we can achieve the final victory, it is acceptable.

But the problem is that there is a huge risk. Under such extremely unfavorable circumstances, the human fleet will suffer a devastating defeat at the hands of an enemy that is clearly inferior to itself.

Then everything is over.

Compared to this question, the second point, that is, the 3% success rate, is not necessarily true. Facing the transport ships that are sending troops to the ground, the Zerg's interception is one level; facing the extinction order weapons, their interception must be another level.

It would be embarrassing if all thirty Burning Sky torpedoes were launched and the last one failed.

These are things that everyone present can imagine, and they are also the reason why they are reluctant to speak up.

Having said that, it's nothing more than this set of things. There's nothing fancy about it, but it can hardly be called a brilliant tactic either.

(End of this chapter)