Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 133

133. Chapter 133, Global Strategy Timeline

As the commander, Perbov was riding in the “Listener” command vehicle, not far from the front line.

The enemy had no long-range firepower strike capability, so he was not too afraid.

The overall progress of the war did not exceed his expectations. The front line formed by the looters was quickly destroyed under the coordination of infantry and artillery. The subsequent troops were also hit head-on by the coordination of infantry and tanks.

Although the number of enemies was far greater than that of his subordinates, at this point, the battle was far from being fought by manpower, but by firepower.

Compared with firepower, these looters could not be compared with his first heavy composite battalion. Only two motorized infantry companies that got off the vehicle to fight, with the support of the artillery support company and the tank company, directly defeated the group of looters.

The defense line was penetrated with a poke, and the counterattack was shattered with a touch. This is the true portrayal of those looters.

There is no suspense in winning this battle.

The only thing left to do is to expand the results of the battle.

Perbov certainly did not forget that his mission was not just to defeat this group of enemy troops. He wanted to fight a beautiful annihilation war and really wipe out these bandits who threatened the trade routes and the surrounding settlements.

Killing everyone or taking most of them captive were both options.

Of course, there would be no thieves if they died; for those who were not dead, some of them who had committed many evil deeds were picked out and killed, and the rest were sentenced to five to ten years of hard labor, thrown into the abandoned cave community to work as coolies in the mines, or thrown into the alien forest to cut trees for building materials and synthetic starch raw materials.

In order to effectively expand the results of the war, the two mechanized infantry companies cruising in the other direction also received orders and began to launch an attack.

In fact, the most powerful ones in his synthetic battalion were these two mechanized infantry companies, not the tank company.

Those captured “Challenger” tanks were just local products, imported from a heavy industrial group called Blackbird in the west. It is said that Blackbird Heavy Industry was once a part of the Alliance. It was a heavy industrial center established with the aid of the Empire during the first governor’s period. It is located further west than the Western Desert.

However, during the second governor’s period, they basically left the Alliance. Now, apart from trade, there is no exchange between them. The Alliance’s orders are like farts.

It is precisely because of this that the seventy tanks in the old Alliance Legion were left a long time ago. I am afraid that they are at least ten years old.

Compared with the infantry fighting vehicle “Wanderer V” which is widely equipped in the main imperial star army, it is really useless except for the tank gun.

In terms of armor, it is true that their infantry fighting vehicle is thin and meaty. It is also true that the armor plate is much thinner than the tank armor of the “Challenger”, but it can maintain better defensive performance while being thin. How can this be justified?

In terms of mobility, the excellent off-road performance allows the “Wanderer V” to climb hills or run in muddy ground. It’s just a matter of speed. The Challenger tanks had to move on flat terrain. If the ground was too bad, they would break down in a matter of minutes.

As for speed, tanks and armored vehicles were no match.

Even if we really talk about firepower, the 40mm twin-barreled machine gun is not as powerful as the 76mm smoothbore gun, but it has a much faster rate of fire. It is even more powerful as infantry support equipment.

When the two mechanized infantry companies launched the attack, the looters had no chance to make a splash.

The defensive positions they set up were smashed to pieces by the machine guns and explosive machine guns, and the infantry squads that followed them to fight easily took down one position after another.

Their assault speed was very fast. After piercing through Sanchi Town’s buttocks, they also rushed to the rear of the front battlefield.

Logically speaking, the situation should not have been so smooth. We have fought several battles with these looters, and they are not so bad. When their butts were taken out, they should have taken some reaction measures. Although the result was already determined, they should at least cause some trouble to the two assaulting mechanized infantry companies.

But they didn’t.

These looters seemed to have lost their command, and they looked dull, rigid and chaotic.

It made Perbov a little confused.

I don’t have elite special forces to carry out decapitation operations or cut off command communications? Why did these people do this?

But soon, he figured out the key.

I’m afraid that the enemy leader has already escaped?

It’s really possible!

It’s probably not realistic to expect the leader of these looters to fight to the death.

In connection with the previous statement from Morgan’s group, they pretended to surrender but rebelled again. To a large extent, it was the leader who carried out his own selfish desires to coerce his subordinates. If those lower-level looters were really given a chance to live a stable life, why would they refuse to do it?

After figuring this out, he had another idea.

Drive the battalion headquarters forward, including the communication vehicles.

Then, the loudspeakers in the army began to sound:

“Your leader has fled!”

“Put down your weapons, surrender and you will not be killed!”

These two short sentences were constantly transmitted to the ears of the Anxie looters through the loudspeakers, mixed with fierce artillery fire. What they saw before them were dozens of steel behemoths…

They really couldn’t stand it.

What’s more, the previous statement of “the leader fled” might be true.

Many middle-level leaders really haven’t received orders from the big leader Terrell in the rear for a long time. Even when they went back to ask, there was no news. The battlefield communication was blocked by the “listeners” who rushed forward, and there was a lot of noise in the intercom; those who were sent back to interrogate people either simply never came back, and it was unknown whether they died on the way or ran away, or they wandered around like headless flies and found nothing, and came back confused.

Under such circumstances, it was natural that a large number of leaders at all levels among the looters took the lead in surrendering.

The war should be almost over by now.

However, a piece of news soon stopped Perbov from laughing.

He received intelligence from the front line that the soldiers saw dozens of green-skinned orcs on the battlefield.

He immediately thought of the raider tribe called “Prisoners of the Dead” that surrounded the Broken Cave Society and almost killed them all.

When that battle was fought, he had not yet joined the army and had not seen it with his own eyes. But the relevant information was compiled and he had studied it; he also heard some of it when communicating with Captain Yan Fangxu, now a colonel.

If there really were green-skinned orcs of that level, and there were dozens of them, it would be a big trouble.

For such monsters, rifles or even machine guns in the hands of ordinary soldiers are unlikely to cause effective damage. The one outside the Broken Cave Society was said to have been shot dead by the squad of the Governor’s personal guards with a more powerful electromagnetic rifle, and the Governor himself even helped.

His soldiers don’t have such powerful individual weapons to use.

According to the firepower in the hands of the soldiers, it is probably necessary to use rocket launchers, machine guns on armored vehicles, and grenade launchers to achieve effective damage.

But those monsters have strong destructive power, enough to tear a human body apart with bare hands. Not to mention, they may have some powerful individual firearms in their hands.

Perbov immediately prepared to order the front-line soldiers not to force their way in when encountering such enemies, but to look for the “Wanderer” infantry fighting vehicle nearby and fight with the firepower on the vehicle. If there is really no nearby, they will also rely on the firepower team to use individual rocket launchers to eliminate the enemy.

At the same time, he was also prepared for the troops to suffer a lot of casualties.

“It was such a great victory, but we had to encounter such an accident!”

He cursed in his heart.

If there was intelligence and preparation in advance, it might be okay. The troops were pursuing the victory, expanding the results of the battle, and even in the process of surrendering the enemy, and suddenly encountered such an enemy, casualties were almost inevitable.

However, just when he was worried, a new front-line battle report was delivered.

After listening to the report, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was good news.

On the one hand, the enemy’s preparations also seemed very hasty. When those green-skinned orcs appeared, they were mainly in the formation of those looters. Moreover, they did not seem to have any good control ability over those monsters. After those orcs appeared, they attacked all the surrounding humans indiscriminately. This also made the main casualties borne by the looters themselves.

Another good news is that those green-skinned orcs are far from as strong as Perbov remembered.

Their ability to withstand damage is indeed very exaggerated, but it is not to the point where ordinary firearms can’t hit them at all. They can still be killed after taking dozens of bullets. The most important thing is that they don’t have much brains and often rush out recklessly. The thermal weapons they use are also those that the robbers already have and their power is average.

During this period of time, there were indeed many reports of casualties, and even whole squads were wiped out. But at the same time, a large number of green-skinned orcs were also killed.

Especially after the infantry fighting vehicles entered the field and performed special cleaning tasks, the situation stabilized again.

After more than half an hour, the battle on the main battlefield had completely subsided.

The green-skinned orcs were killed, and most of the remaining looters surrendered, with only a few scattered people fleeing. The “Hunter” motorcycles and some infantry fighting vehicles have been driven out and started the pursuit work in the plain area.

It is estimated that the pursuit mission will last for one or two days, and the number of looters who can finally escape is estimated to be over 100.

After the basic battle was over, Perbov personally went to the front line of the battle and saw the bodies of those green-skinned orcs.

No more, no less, a total of 80. Their appearance caused about 27 casualties among the soldiers.

Perbov sighed deeply. He felt very sorry for the casualties of his soldiers, but he also understood the truth that kindness does not lead to good management of the army.

In the end, he could only give the order:

“Burn the bodies of these green monsters, and make sure to burn them clean.”

…

[Slightly in the upper hand, 347 points of grace]

[154 losses, 2772 eliminated, 2468 prisoners]

[1st Wind-extinguishing Brigade (1st Synthetic Battalion): 154 losses, 2772 eliminated]

After the pursuit was over, Gu Hang received the belated battle statistics in the system.

Before that, Perbov’s battle report arrived first.

The casualties, losses, and prisoners were consistent, but the number of eliminations was a little different. After all, Perbov had to clean up the battlefield, and the specific results were determined by questioning prisoners and cleaning up the bodies. Some were missing, could not be found, their bodies could not be pieced together after being bombarded by artillery, and they were buried under the ruins and could not be dug out for a while…

Under various circumstances, it was normal for the numbers to be different from those given by the system.

The benefits of this wave of grace were not bad, but relatively speaking, Gu Hang cared more about the green orcs mentioned in the intelligence.

If this group of “cosmic cancer” is allowed to develop on the Wrathful Owl Star, it will be a complete disaster. This is a race that can really start a war that will sweep across multiple galaxies.

In fact, when Gu Hang encountered a human who could turn into a greenskin after drinking medicine outside the Waste Cave Society earlier, he had already raised his vigilance. However, before, with the few hundred guns and bases under his command, he really didn’t have the energy to solve that problem first.

But now, he feels that this matter can’t be delayed any longer.

What’s more, according to the recent situation, this group of greenskins seems to have a trend of further expansion.

This is supported by two aspects of intelligence.

The first is the incident that Perbov encountered.

The second is from the Garbage Town.

Gu Hang had already made arrangements in the Garbage Town, an important raw material supplier. Denison Henry then imported a large amount of high-quality arms and bulletproof vests from the Waste Cave Area to the Garbage Town, and operated a trade route that brought alloy plastic steel to Fuxing City and then purchased food from Fuxing City to Garbage Town. He really made a lot of money in the past one or two months.

Although the trade route behind was stopped for a few days due to war and disaster, it recovered quickly after the war. He even took up a consultant position in the New Alliance Commerce Department, specializing in the import of raw materials and the sale of finished products.

And he has recently increased the purchase of arms. The weapons left by the old alliance legion that are about to be eliminated have not been sent to the Qinggu area according to Osena’s idea of military sales to assist the area. Many of them have been sold to Garbage Town first.

Why does Garbage Town suddenly need so many arms and excellent bulletproof vests?

They even want to further strengthen and thicken the plastic steel bulletproof inserts that are already very strong and cannot be penetrated by ordinary bullets!

That is to fight against the greenskins.

The number of greenskins in the ruins of the tower is much more this year than in previous years, which has seriously threatened the survival of Garbage Town, which collects waste from the ruins of the tower.

This matter cannot be ignored.

Tomorrow, Henry Dennison will come to Fuxing City, and Gu Hang will meet him in person to decide what to do about the affairs of Garbage Town.

That was actually the largest settlement in the direction swept by Perbov’s battalion.

There are three continents in total on the Wrathful Owl Star. The other two continents that once had rich psychic gas fields are not mentioned. They were the main battlefields of the apocalyptic war a hundred years ago and were also the most thoroughly destroyed places. They can basically be regarded as wasteland with no one living there. Waste energy storms cover them all day long.

The main continent they are currently in can be roughly divided into six areas.

With Renaissance City as the center, this area with a total length and width of one thousand kilometers in the north, south, east and west is conventionally designated as the Central Region, which is the area directly managed by the Alliance Government in its heyday.

There are about five million people living here, one million of whom are in Renaissance City.

Nearly two thousand kilometers east of the eastern border of the Central Region is called the Tower Region, which is the most prosperous urban cluster in the pre-war era. A large number of super cities are scattered all over the place, and a developed road network connects many cities.

Of course, what the Tower Region has now is just a large area of urban ruins.

There are about five million people living in the ruins of those cities – just an imaginary number.

Five or six hundred kilometers south of the central area, or one thousand kilometers south of the Taqun area along the eastern coastline, is a peninsula that is obviously contracted and faces the sea on three sides, which is called the Qinggu area. This name has been passed down since before the war. It is also the place on the entire continent that was least devastated by the war. It was originally a grain-producing area with a population of about 15 million.

Six hundred kilometers north of the central area, it enters the cold area, which was once a heavy industrial center. Now it is also an area where ruins and wilderness are mixed. The population is the smallest, about three million people.

From the central area to the west, it is also five or six hundred kilometers away, and you will enter the two thousand kilometers long Western Desert area. The people there survive on scattered oases and the pre-war three-dimensional planting bases under the oases. The population is about five million, but the grain production is large and the export volume is large.

Further west, after the Western Desert area, it is the heavy industry area, which was also a former industrial center, or simply said that the heavy industry in the cold area was spread northward from the heavy industry area. There is a big force there – Blackbird Heavy Industry Group, which was fully supported by the first generation of governors, but quickly became alienated from the alliance during the second generation of governors, and even fought a war across the Western Desert.

Most of the food exports in the Western Desert are sent westward to the Heavy Industry Region.

This is the overall pattern of the entire main continent of Angry Owl Star.

Gu Hang’s current plan is to take Fuxing City as the center, completely control the entire central area of the main continent, take care of these five million people, and then wait for an opportunity to advance to the east and south, especially the Qinggu area with the largest population, which is the most important.

He set the time for controlling the central area at half a year; advancing to the Qinggu area and the Pagoda area must be completed within half a year.

In this way, he will have more than 20 million people under his command, and control important food production bases and industrial raw material bases. In combination with the black box technology of the system from Fuxing City and Weixing City, he will develop for a year and have hope of paying taxes.

After all, the preferential treatment he received was only one-fourth of the standard amount required for the first tax payment.

Of course, this is a guarantee. In fact, according to the practice of previous years, people in the Western Desert, Heavy Industry Area, and Cold Area will also send their taxes when the deadline arrives-although it is far from the full amount.

But if they pay some, Gu Hang’s production pressure will be less, and he can keep more in his hands.

After the first taxation problem, he can plan for another two years to control the world, and then deal with the first full taxation in four years.

According to this schedule, his expansion plan cannot be stopped. Garbage Town is also a place that needs to be taken down in the near future. It can’t be delayed.

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