Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 147

147. Chapter 147, Do you know how expensive orbital strikes are?

“Greenskins are born for war. As long as the war continues, the greenskin spores of the same tribe will develop faster and more greenskin aliens will be generated. It’s not just a matter of quantity. Their technology will also grow rapidly in the process.”

Martins carefully supplemented Gu Hang with the knowledge about the “Cancer of the Universe”.

“Fortunately, you didn’t lose. If they won a key battle, their growth rate would become even faster. In fact, these guys in the garbage town before have already given those greenskins a victory, which is equivalent to stepping on the accelerator for the development of their clan.” “

Fortunately, this greenskin clan has not developed for long enough, and the starting point of development is in the ruins of the city. It is said that there are often waste energy storms here… If it was in a warm forest area with more fertile land, perhaps we would face a tide of millions of greenskins.” “

Facing such an enemy, it is not a wise choice to continue to fight a war of attrition. It takes twenty years for a human soldier to become a qualified warrior from birth; those greenskins can fight as soon as they grow out of the ground.”

“If we don’t solve the problem quickly, what we will face next may not be 20,000 green-skinned orcs, but twice as many green-skinned orcs, and ten times as many low-level green-skinned creatures like fart spirits. Their technology will even be more advanced, and their artillery may become more powerful and shoot farther, and their armed trucks will become larger and more ferocious. It would not be surprising if something as evil as a demon appeared again. Among the green-skinned race, sometimes there will be a creature that can tie with a Space Marine just by relying on physical strength.”

…

After listening to the information about the green-skinned orcs that Martins told, Gu Hang’s face had completely darkened.

Some of the previous plans had to be overturned.

Just like the characteristics of the green-skinned orcs that Martins mentioned, the best way to deal with this kind of enemy is to flatten them in one wave, don’t fight a war of attrition, and don’t expect to reduce the number of enemies. Even if you can’t flatten them in one wave, you have to keep their number down to a very low level.

Otherwise, there will be endless troubles later.

“I understand what you mean. Thank you for your intelligence.” After thanking Martins, Gu Hang made a request, “I will contact the Quintet right away. Brigadier General Ye Lixia will provide us with orbital strike support. Once the orbital strike firepower covers us, we will immediately launch the attack. Let’s set the time in three days.”

Martins nodded: “Three days, no problem.”

“Then it’s settled. We will still need your help at that time.”

…

Three days is the time Gu Hang needs to distribute the equipment of those garrison divisions, consume the gift points, and train them to the T5 level.

This is the necessary troop preparation.

At the same time, he also took this time to have an in-depth communication with Ye Lixia in the sky.

When Ye Lixia’s holographic image appeared in front of him, he saw the blonde female captain elegantly cutting a steak with a glass of red wine at hand.

The corners of Gu Hang’s mouth twitched slightly.

These things were all the supplies he sent to the Quintet.

The Quintet has its own synthetic starch production capacity, and also has military logistics supplies before it sets out to perform the mission on the Wrathful Owl Star. Even if no logistics are replenished during the two-year mission, it will not be hungry, but don’t expect to eat well.

They have helped a lot, so Gu Hang should always show some appreciation.

When he was very poor before, he would always remember to replenish some consumer goods on the return transport spacecraft after getting some money from Ye Lishia, and it is even more so now.

Of course, the Quintet will not send out spacecraft specifically to transport logistics supplies. Otherwise, if it only transports some food, that little bit of food will not cover the cost of one takeoff and landing of the transport spacecraft…

The last time the transport spacecraft came, it was for business.

A team of combat sisters from the Holy Mercy Lily came down from the spacecraft. They were the support recruited by Sister Grit. Twenty combat sisters arrived at the Wrathful Owl Star from the headquarters of the Sisters of Koroja 3.

Including the two who died before, there are a total of twenty-nine of them.

Grit had a fight with the original Angry Owl Sect. Some time ago, they had completed the investigation in Renaissance City and caught some cultists who were hiding deep inside.

Some time ago, all 29 combat sisters had left Renaissance City, following the clues they had obtained and heading north.

Gu Hang wished them good luck.

It would be the best if they could solve the cult problem on the Angry Owl Star by themselves. And if they needed any help, Gu Hang would not be stingy.

To put it bluntly, they were helping him.

And the spaceship that brought down 20 combat sisters also brought something that Brigadier General Ye Lishia valued the most on the return journey: a letter of commendation.

The letter of commendation was written by Gu Hang himself. The content was that he thanked Brigadier General Ye Lishia for his outstanding contribution in confronting and eliminating the evil god believers and evil god projections who did not obey the emperor in the name of the Governor of the Angry Owl Star.

Of course, if this letter was only written by Gu Hang himself, it would not be of much use.

The commendation letter from the planetary governor can indeed be used as a reference for military generals to gain merit after the action. In other words, if Ye Lishia took this commendation letter and reported it, the imperial military would recognize it.

But the degree of recognition is not certain.

For a strong governor or even a forging general of some forging worlds, there is no doubt that a letter is enough to get promoted; for someone like Gu Hang… it is not so good, the gold content is not enough.

But if this commendation letter is also attached with the signature and wax seal of a space warrior chapter leader and a nun of a nun, it will be different.

Gu Hang is not sure how valuable such a commendation letter is, but at least when he saw Ye Lishia’s smiling face at that time, he knew it should be good.

Of course, it is impossible to bring only one letter on the return trip of the transport spacecraft. Although the commendation letter is the most important, it is not good to leave the cabin empty, so it is better to transport some scarce logistical supplies up. Try

to please this rich woman in the sky a little.

That included some red wine, which was seized when the homes of the rich and powerful were raided in Fuxing City. It was said to be a fine product from some places in Qinggu.

As for the steak, it came from the barbarian bull. After the truck production in Weixing City rose to nearly 200 vehicles per month, the demand for animal power dropped significantly.

Not only did the barbarian bulls used by a large number of merchants in the caravans of Fuxing City lose their service value, but they returned to the livestock farms to breed beef and dairy cows.

And the steak that Ye Lishia was eating now came from this.

“Madam Brigadier General, you seem to be in a good mood.”

“It’s really not bad.” Ye Lixia swallowed the beef slowly, took a sip of red wine, and commented: “However, the quality of your beef is not very good, the meat is too rough, and the taste of the red wine is also slightly inferior.”

“You’re still picking it up.”

“Just a few words of emotion.” The waiter next to him took away the tableware, and Ye Lixia continued, “This is the most difficult period of my life. In fact, I still thank you for the supplies you sent up, otherwise the collections I brought would not last more than two years.”

“…”

Gu Hang coughed twice, not wanting to talk to Ye Lixia about these corrupt lives anymore, and turned to business: “I hope to get support for an orbital strike.”

“What specifications?” Ye Lixia was still slow.

“Full force.”

“What?” Ye Lixia was not so calm now, “What kind of enemy are you going to encounter on the surface that requires me to carry out a full-force orbital strike?”

“Greenskins.”

Gu Hang said concisely, and Ye Lixia frowned deeply.

“Are they still those greenskins? Is there any particularly major change?”

Ye Lixia asked this because she had paid attention to the greenskin threat on the Angry Owl Star before. As the war progresses, relevant intelligence will be compiled every once in a while and sent to the starship.

She knows what the situation is on the ground. That’s why she had doubts.

According to the latest situation she had seen, the fighting was quite stalemate, but it was far from a major incident.

Gu Hang coughed lightly and said, “We can’t keep fighting a war of attrition with those greenskins here. If we don’t solve the problem thoroughly, after a while, these greenskins will grow again, and we will have to face a larger-scale war with a more difficult enemy. By then, we may not be able to win.”

“I understand this, but… do you know how much it costs for the ‘Quinte’ to fire once at full specifications?”

Gu Hang didn’t expect Ye Licia to ask this question.

He waited in silence for Ye Licia to continue speaking. Obviously, this was not really asking him, but a sentence that asked and answered itself.

Ye Lixia continued, “The last time you asked me to help you with precision strikes, it was the least powerful and cheapest strike method on the Quintet: the Scalpel ship-borne missile. The price of one missile is three hundred tax coins, and a full-scale round of bombardment is hundreds of Scalpels;” “

The next level up is the Heat Hammer macro cannon, which is a small macro cannon. The price of one shell is four thousand tax coins, and there are twenty shells in one round.”

“The highest level is the Wrath of the Loyal Heir macro cannon, and the price of one shell is fifty thousand tax coins. I only have two on my ship.”

“Do you know how expensive it is now?”

The more Gu Hang listened, the uglier his face looked.

He knew it was expensive, but he didn’t know it was so expensive.

The so-called “tax coin” is not a currency concept in the conventional sense. It is a tool used by the imperial tax department to measure the value of materials provided by the planet when collecting taxes on various planets. One tax coin is roughly equivalent to the minimum standard output value of the population of an ordinary world in one year.

One healthy adult is worth five tax coins; one well-trained soldier with a full set of individual equipment is worth ten tax coins.

In the registration records of the empire, Angry Owl Star pays taxes according to the lowest record – 10 million tax coins for two years. Moreover, the preferential treatment given to Gu Hang allowed him to pay only a quarter of the tax for the first time, which is 2.5 million tax coins.

According to Ye Lixia, the total cost of such a round of bombardment is 210,000 tax coins.

Fifty rounds of ammunition alone is enough for Angry Owl Star to pay the full amount of imperial tax; twelve rounds are enough for Gu Hang to pay taxes for the first time; four rounds are enough for the lives of all the soldiers in the nine division-level units under Gu Hang.

He understood what Brigadier General Ye Lixia meant: orbital strikes can be carried out, but after the strikes, are the soldiers who are saved from death worth the money for my shells?

This is the “courage” of the first-class people in the navy: they calculate the price of shells with human lives.

One round of artillery fire is worth the lives of 20,000 well-trained soldiers. If you can fill the hole with 20,000 lives, don’t ask the honorable navy master to blow you up.

But…

Gu Hang suddenly smiled, and he deeply understood a truth in his heart: the navy’s money is not my money, and the dead soldiers are really my soldiers!

So he said: “We still have to blow it up.”

Ye Lixia shook her head helplessly: “I knew you would say that. If you insist, then I will help you.”

Anyway, the navy’s money is not my money.

Of course, it can’t be too much.

So Ye Lixia added: “But… you have to do two things. First, determine the target. I have read your original plan. I can’t let the expensive artillery fire aimlessly attack the entire city ruins. The cost ratio is too high. You need to give me an accurate target to improve the efficiency of the attack. This is for your own good. Facing a target of this level, a full-scale attack can only be carried out once at most. You must cherish this opportunity and strive to achieve the best results.”

“In addition, you need to give me a copy of the post-war effect statistics. Afterwards, these things will be reviewed by the Military Affairs Department. There needs to be a reasonable explanation for the results and costs. If the results are too outrageous, the Military Affairs Department will make trouble for you, and you may be asked to pay for the related artillery shells. There is a precedent for this kind of thing. And I will also be responsible, so don’t make it difficult for me.”

“I understand. Thank you, Ye Lixia.”

This time, Gu Hang removed the honorific title and seemed closer.

He knew that Ye Lixia still helped.

Otherwise, if Ye Lixia really values herself and is unwilling to take too much responsibility, and insists on doing things according to the rules, this round of orbital strikes will really not be approved, and I’m afraid that at most it will be a small gesture.

Since she has helped, Gu Hang will not deliberately cheat her.

Isn’t it just to accurately find the target to strike?

Brothers from the Phoenix Regiment, please help.

For example, the space warriors of the special forces and special forces sneak behind the enemy, mark important strategic targets, and facilitate the implementation of orbital strikes. Isn’t this a routine use?

(End of this chapter)