Chapter 690, Battle of Rheaduches (5)

Chapter 690: Battle of Rheaduches (V)

If Le Roux still regards himself as the commander-in-chief of the northern front who is on par with Gu Hang, then what is there to authorize and not authorize?

There is no need to be a ground combat commander. Isn't it better to just command the imperial forces on all sides?
He didn't do this.

He wanted to be the commander, and his first reaction was to ask Gu Hang for authorization. This gesture made Gu Hang very satisfied.

Relatively low, and fully recognized Gu Hang's leadership.

Gu Hang was satisfied with this gesture.

As for apologies and the like, Gu Hang actually doesn't care that much.

An apology is more of a personal surrender. If there is no apology, then there is no apology. Gu Hang will not force anyone, let alone act in an overbearing manner.

Since he had no intention of killing Leroy on the surface, and Leroy's attitude was not bad, there was no need to offend him. As long as he survived until the end of the war, he would still be a big figure in the Black Crusaders after returning, and he would be ranked third in this powerful regiment.

In addition, with Xi Rui being able to rank in the top five, Gu Hang would also have some "connections" in the Black Crusaders.

There is no fundamental conflict of interest between the two sides. In this case, it is better to have more friends than one more enemy.

As for whether Le Rouva is suitable to be the ground commander, Gu Hang thinks there is no problem.

The identities are suitable. After all, most of the troops on the ground now are actually the remnants of the northern front who survived the first battle, and they were originally under the leadership of Le Roy.

He has enough experience and there should be no problem with his ability.

Although he had experienced a tragic defeat before, he was still capable of being the commander-in-chief of the front. As a commander of ground combat, he was definitely qualified.

Moreover, if Leluwa is not used, Gu Hang will have no one to use. Although he has some people he trusts, such as Martins, but... the risk of fighting on the ground is too high, and there is no telling when the extinction order weapon will take effect. At that time, no matter who is commanding the battle on the surface, they may die before they can withdraw.

Send Martins, or some other key person, down there at risk, and let him lead a force that is not subordinate to him, with a high-ranking figure like Leroy in it, and he may not be able to withdraw...

It was not suitable and Gu Hang himself was reluctant to do so.

It’s good to let Leroy continue to lead.

As for the risks of the extermination order...actually, Gu Hang lied.

He told Le Luwa that he would talk about it when the time was right, but in fact, he was eager to use psychic power to send the Burning Sky Torpedo directly to the surface of the planet.

Isn't that impossible?
Psionic teleportation not only requires an excellent psionicist, but also has requirements for the target to be teleported. The target must at least be a living being that can be accepted by the subspace. This means that the so-called "soulless" and "untouchables" who have no "soul" cannot be the target of teleportation; dead objects without "souls" are also not acceptable.

There is no problem with weapons, equipment, and even power armor that follow the target. But the core reason is that these equipment are relatively small and carry the will of the owner. They can also be recognized by the subspace as part of this "soul", or an extension of it.

A Burning Sky torpedo is as big as a small starship and is completely unsuitable for teleportation.

But even though he couldn't use such a convenient and fast means of teleportation, the battle on the surface had cleared fourteen anti-aircraft nests in the airborne zone. When the probability of the transport ship landing increased from less than 5% to about 20%, he had already given the order to release the Burning Sky torpedoes.

The human fleet was close to orbit, having to withstand attacks from both ground-based orbital guns and the Zerg fleet, but it moved closer and dropped eight Sky-burning torpedoes at the cost of a Moon-class cruiser.

All were intercepted.

This is completely different from the proportions of a transport ship.

According to the proportion of transport ships, at least one out of eight shells must land.

Just bad luck?

Nor is it.

Gu Hang noticed that every time an extinction weapon was launched, the Zerg's various interception methods would become more active.

They should have some ability to quickly distinguish whether the ship dropped by the Alliance ship is an ordinary transport ship or an extermination order.

Furthermore, they should have retained some orbital interception reserves. If all of these reserves were activated to destroy the transport ship, it might not be possible to completely intercept it, and it would not be possible to further increase the interception efficiency to a particularly high level.

Besides, the Queen may not think it is necessary.

Even if some of the army soldiers fell, the numerical advantage of the ground swarm could not be eliminated. Even if some of the anti-aircraft insect nests were destroyed, it would be troublesome, but most of them would still remain, and the queen insect could reuse its stored biomass, or simply digest some of the soldier insects to hatch and generate more anti-aircraft insect nests.

But intercepting the extermination order is something that must be done. If one of them explodes, it will be a complete disaster.

On this basis, the Queen had a lot of back-up plans, which allowed the orbital air defense and the Hive Fleet to retain some interception methods. Moreover, at the moment of identifying the release of the Extermination Order, all these reserved methods were used, and the Extermination Order weapons were specifically intercepted, which greatly increased the success rate.

Afterwards, Gu Hang also tried to use a transport ship to transport the Extinction Order weapon to the ground.

But I tried three times and the result was the same.

Gu Hang did not waste any more Burning Sky Torpedoes.

no need.

By observing the interception of the Burning Sky torpedo, we can know that the problem is not the method of delivery. The Zerg does not use the delivery method to distinguish whether the human beings dropped the Extermination Order or the ordinary troop transport ship or supply ship. They should have a more efficient way to distinguish.

I have to think of other ways.

First of all, we still cannot relax the deployment of troops on the ground.

The ground is now showing some results.

We must not only preserve it, but also expand and strengthen the results as much as possible.

We must prepare for the worst. Even if we have to fight the Zerg to the point of exhaustion and the Queen's biomass cannot keep up with consumption, we must win this war.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.

In fact, don’t go to this step if you can avoid it.

Gu Hang was still thinking of other ways.

Later, the human coalition tried to launch the extinction order again. This time, they directly replaced it with a frigate, modified it with a void shield, and rushed to the ground.

As long as they entered the atmosphere and released the Burning Sky torpedoes, the mission would be a success. As for the tens of millions of people on the ship... forget it. If they didn't even care about the millions of people and thousands of space warriors fighting on the ground, how could they care about anything else?

But this time it also failed. The frigate was blown up.

Want to go a step further and give away a cruiser or even a higher-level warship?
No thanks.

Gu Hang didn't think that he would succeed that way.

We need to think of another way.

However, before any new methods could be figured out, the battle situation on the ground gradually improved with the passage of time.

During the battle, Leroy finally demonstrated his ability as the Marshal of the Black Crusaders.

The base area controlled by human forces is constantly expanding.

They cleared out all the Zerg in a certain area.

Currently, Le Roux has about two million troops at its disposal and controls an area of ​​more than 50,000 square kilometers.

A more direct manifestation is that in this area designated as a large-scale airdrop area, the probability of successful landing of transport aircraft has risen sharply to 60%.

Although the Extinction Order weapons still cannot be dropped, this drop ratio is actually quite ideal.

However, at this point, it is actually approaching its current limit.

The main reason was that the remaining northern troops from the first battle had almost all been assembled. The remaining ones that had not yet assembled either had to travel too far to break through the Zerg's numerous obstacles and could not come, or had been completely wiped out and could no longer be counted on.

In addition, the Zerg became extremely vigilant against these survivors and began to intensify their hunting efforts everywhere.

This made it impossible to obtain troops directly from the ground by gathering the remaining troops.

At the same time, the airdrops, with a greatly improved success rate, restored the combat effectiveness of the remaining troops on the northern front after delivering a lot of war supplies and armored vehicles.

The improvement in this area has reached its upper limit.

After the scale has increased, especially with a stable base, the Zerg no longer needs to disperse a large number of troops to guard against airdrops as before. The Zerg troops on standby have recently completed their assembly and began to launch a fierce siege on the base built by humans on the surface of Rheaduches.

Thanks to the heroic sacrifices of human soldiers and the airborne reinforcements at all costs, Le Roy withstood wave after wave of attacks and retained the base.

However, being able to do this is already the limit of the current situation.

The number of insect swarms surrounding the area is increasing.

Not only were the Zerg armies of the entire planet gathering here, but all the hatcheries controlled by the Queen were also operating at full capacity. Piles of biomass were transformed into various types of Zerg troops.

The speed at which their numbers increase is faster and more direct than the human army that continues to parachute in at a rate of 40% casualties.

The base area has a total of hundreds of kilometers of borders, and there are wars everywhere. The base area is also constantly subjected to various types of bombings.

The situation has reached a stalemate.

Le Roux has done its best to keep its base, and he really can't ask for more.

If you want the battle situation to develop further, you must put more forces on the ground.

Gu Hang’s answer was of course yes.

The largest ground-to-ground airborne assault since the Second Battle of Rheaduches had begun.

Not only did a large number of transport ships fall down, but there were also various types of fighter planes covering the sky.

Wind Falcon, Qilin, Dragon Elephant... these three fighters of increasing levels, although they are also divided into space version and planet version, in general, even the latter can persist in fighting in the space environment for a period of time. The air knights driving them do not need to follow the transport plane to gamble their lives, but can use a more flexible posture, and even use machine guns and high-performance servoskulls to assist in fire control to break the bombardment of interception artillery fire.

Thousands of fighter planes successfully entered the atmosphere, then quickly descended, and pulled up when close to the ground, and all of their missiles smashed into the heads of the Zerg that were charging towards the human base. The most brutal ones were the dozen or so precious Dragon Elephant fighter planes, each of which carried a Dongfeng Fen missile.

Once this kind of L-class missile is launched, not to mention the Zerg swarm, even an entire medium to large Zerg nest will be destroyed.

The rest can also use machine guns to lick the ground like crazy.

Thousands of fighter planes caused huge casualties to the insect swarm. They were not driven away until the flying insects, which were dozens or even hundreds of times more numerous than human fighter planes, swarmed in and covered the sky.

Of course, the fighter planes that have entered the atmosphere cannot return to orbit or to the warships. However, an airport and hangar have been built inside the base.

While fighting, the humans retreated to the interior of the base. The anti-aircraft guns that had been placed there sprayed out tongues of fire, shooting down large swathes of flying insects and preventing the Zerg air force from pursuing them.

This wave of attack greatly boosted the morale of the human side!
Not only did we see a brilliant fireworks show, the Zerg was also severely damaged, and we also clearly received a lot of support.

During the landing of the transport ship, the success rate of the airborne operation increased significantly due to the escort of thousands of fighter jets, reaching an unprecedented 75%.

Not only did over a million army troops arrive, they also brought a lot of heavy weapons - armor and artillery.

There are more than four hundred Lion King tanks alone!
This thing is much bigger and more powerful than the Lion tank.

In addition to this, what’s even more terrible is that half of the Titan army has landed.

Half of the Titan Legion came from Mars and was brought by Salilius from the Solar Star Region; the other half came from the Alliance National Knights.

In addition, Gu Hang also teleported down 500 Space Marines from various regiments despite the powerful Warp Shadow of the Queen of Zerg.

So far, Le Roux has nearly two thousand Space Marines.

Gu Hang was quite satisfied with the ground support delivery this time.

To be honest, the two Burning Sky torpedoes that were secretly hidden in the transport ship and disguised as an ordinary troop transport ship still failed to be transported to the ground. They were accurately identified and intercepted.

What a pity.

But in any case, there is now a very powerful force on the ground.

Although the number of people was reduced to two million due to the brutal losses in the previous period, after replenishing one million people, it was enough for elite troops.

Gu Hang was looking forward to Le Roux achieving some satisfactory results after receiving large-scale reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)