Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 150

150. Chapter 150, Orbital Bombardment

After receiving the news, Gu Hang couldn’t even enjoy his meal.

There are 10,000 greenskins, including more than 3,000 real orcs, and the number is still increasing.

There are differences in individual combat capabilities, and the biggest gap is in the ability to resist attacks. Now, the opponent has added all kinds of heavy firepower and heavy equipment that are crude and ridiculous but cannot be ignored…

This is already a very huge threat.

My goodness, Gu Hang was planning to call for orbital bombardment in two days and then launch a full-scale counterattack, but now it is those greenskins who are going to attack with all their strength first?

Fortunately, this intelligence was discovered in advance. If they were really unprepared and suffered such an impact, it would be a big problem.

Gu Hang is considering a solution.

First of all, the mobilization of troops must be accelerated.

The troops who are still taking turns to rest in the joint military camp must be assembled urgently.

At present, the number of soldiers on the front line has actually been reduced to about 50,000. There are still about 50,000 people taking turns to rest and reorganize in the rear.

Although the front line is half-manned, it is definitely more stable than when the adventurers in the garbage town were stationed. After the reorganization, the soldiers have more reliable equipment and their military skills have been greatly improved. They can fight much better than the adventurers.

However, isn’t this to prepare for the impact or even a full-scale counterattack?

The follow-up troops must of course move forward as a reserve, ready to put out fires at any time.

Of course, if they are not used, it is definitely the best.

Wasn’t the orbital strike firepower that Ye Lishia asked for before to solve similar problems?

If those greenskins are scattered and hiding in the ruins of the city, it would be really difficult to fight. The orbital strike is powerful, but can the city that is already in ruins be blown into pieces? Those greenskins hiding in the ruins have strong vitality. If they are in the core area of the orbital strike artillery bombardment, there is no doubt that they will die. They will be buried to death. But if they are in the marginal areas, I am afraid that many people can survive.

Now, they have gathered together and cleared an open area as a starting position. Isn’t it clear that they are targeting him?

Gu Hang was willing to ask Ye Lishia to help with a small-scale but more targeted bombardment.

Use a few “Hot Hammer” macro cannons, plus ten “Scalpel” ship-borne missiles, to bombard the starting position directly. It may not be possible to kill all the greenskins gathered there, but it is probably not a problem to kill 90%.

However, after thinking about it, Gu Hang still suppressed this tempting idea.

You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry. If you bomb it now, the benefits will not be maximized.

Ye Lishia can only get him a chance for a round of bombing, so he must seize it.

Be patient, be more patient. What he needs to do now is to prepare his troops to deal with all challenges and take the initiative, and then wait patiently for the intelligence ahead before making a decision.

…

Deep in the ruins of the tower, while walking, Martins suddenly asked Schneider beside him a question:

“These greenskins are not right, do you feel it?”

Schneider thought for a while and responded: “There is nothing wrong with them, they are no different from the greenskins we have eliminated in the past.”

“This is the biggest problem.” Martins said, “They shouldn’t be so powerful. There are not enough of them, only tens of thousands of greenskins, not enough to support a disaster. If the greenskin spores fell on this planet for some reason, took root and sprouted, and then this clan developed from scratch, at this stage and with this number, they should only be able to maintain a very primitive technological state. Even if the original natives of the garbage town gave those greenskins some brains during the battle to accelerate their development, they should not have this level of greenskin technology so quickly.”

“You mean, these greenskins are not developed purely from the local area?” Schneider’s attitude also became cautious.

If this is the case, these greenskins come from a powerful, interstellar clan, then there will be big trouble.

But soon, Schneider rejected this idea again: “It’s unlikely. There has never been any report of alien attacks on the Wrath of the Owl. If the greenskin clans with interstellar navigation capabilities really set their sights on this planet, given their characteristics, they would not send only a few teams here. Several large warships, loaded with hundreds of thousands or even millions of greenskins, will multiply rapidly after landing and flood the planet. That is their conventional method.”

Martins also agreed with what Schneider said: “So, this is the most contradictory part of the whole thing. We must remind our brothers that we cannot simply regard these greenskins as wild orcs or primitive orcs in this operation. We must be vigilant. I really don’t want to see the loss of a fighting brother in the battle of the power plant outside the city of Renaissance again.”

Hearing what the warband leader said, the other four also fell silent.

They no longer said anything.

It was not difficult to find the enemy base camp along the route where the greenskins transported supplies and replenished troops.

On the evening of the second day after departure, they had already found the target.

Of course, those greenskins were also fully preparing for war. Their base camp was brightly lit, and their factory was bustling.

Space Marines and Storm Troopers did not have the ability to sneak into the base camp. After all, without the conditions for disguised reconnaissance, cross-race exploration could only do this much at best.

But it was enough.

They marked the base camp of the greenskins, marked the greenskins’ military factories, and then found three large-scale hatching farms in the surrounding areas. Those huge, tropical-like things grew strongly in the ruins of the city.

Just as Martins told Gu Hang before, this is definitely not an ideal place for greenskin orcs to reproduce. Even if these greenskins have tried their best to open up a relatively flat area, expose the soil as much as possible, and connect to the water flow as much as possible, but the soil is not suitable, the light is not good, and the water resources are not sufficient…

The greenskins are tenacious enough, and they can grow one after another in this environment.

Now is the season for “harvesting” greenskin plants. They saw with their own eyes, under the light, they saw huge fruit pods hanging down from the twisted plants, and something seemed to be wriggling inside, and then suddenly, the fruit pods opened directly, and a green-skinned creature fell out of it.

This process happened constantly in front of them.

Most of the time, what fell out was a beast of different sizes but similar in shape.

This thing is called Squig, a kind of orc livestock that has always existed in the greenskin tribe. These creatures lack intelligence and have a ferocious temperament. They have a pair of sharp teeth and can open their mouths to an exaggerated degree. But in fact, they play the role of livestock in the greenskin ecosystem.

Some are used for beauty and hairdressing, some are used for food, and some are raised by the orc boys as pets. The largest ones can even be ridden on the battlefield.

These Squigogs feed on all kinds of garbage.

Squigogs eat things that orcs don’t eat, and orcs eat Squigogs.

Together with fungi, they become the main source of food for orcs.

In addition to Squigogs, the second most numerous are fart spirits.

They are the servants, cannon fodder, and can also be eaten when necessary.

And the fewer are the real green-skinned orcs.

Whether it is Squigogs, fart spirits, or orcs, they are adults as soon as they land.

This hatching farm is really in the harvest season.

If the three hatching farms that were checked are all hatched at this efficiency, I am afraid that within a month, the number of green-skinned orcs alone will have to increase by 20,000, and the number of fart spirits will at least increase by 50,000 or 60,000.

Martins is now very glad that he seriously warned Gu Hang of the risks involved. He is also glad that Gu Hang listened to his warning and did not ignore the threat.

Otherwise, there will be a big trouble.

The next thing is relatively simple.

It’s nothing more than marking the coordinates.

It can’t be very accurate, because when they marked, they were actually a certain distance away from the target location. Even at this distance, they encountered greenskins several times, but they were killed silently.

With the discipline of the greenskins, they should not be able to detect a few people being lost – they have to die a lot of people in their internal fights every day.

But even if the marking is not very accurate, it doesn’t matter much. It’s probably this position. The macro cannon bombarded, and the coverage area is still very large.

A “scalpel” missile can almost destroy a small wind farm, not to mention the much more powerful macro cannon and the large macro cannon “loyal heir’s anger”.

Of course, in order to improve efficiency, they still set the value level for these places.

The two points with the highest value are the base camp and the starting position where the greenskin army is gathering.

The second is to mark the arsenal, the hatchery, and the killing tanks in the greenskin army in more depth. Then, they marked a bunch of places that could not be explored in depth but were suspected to be valuable.

After completing these tasks, they left the greenskin base camp and informed Governor Gu of the news.

Then, they soon received a reply from the Governor:

“Leave the area as soon as possible. You have 14 hours to escape the orbital strike. Please ensure your own safety and confirm the strike effect after the orbital strike is over.”

“Received.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

…

After replying to the task force’s message, Gu Hang breathed a sigh of relief.

All preparations were finally completed.

He contacted Ye Lixia again, provided the relevant strike coordinates, and told the female brigadier general that all actions were going as planned.

Tomorrow, at 11:00 Terra standard time, the orbital strike will arrive as scheduled.

His troops will complete the pre-war preparations before then, eat well in advance, and then launch an attack on the enemy in front after the orbital bombing is over.

The green-skinned orcs facing them will not be bombarded too strongly. At most, there will be a few “scalpel” missiles that will hit several key positions accurately, and the macro cannon will not hit here.

The main reason is that the macro cannon is too powerful, has a large coverage area, and is not as accurate as the “scalpel” missile. If it is slightly off, it is easy to cover your own position.

It is better to use the “scalpel” to bomb a few times, and then leave the rest to your own army.

…

On the front line, the commander of the 3rd Independent Regiment, Ruggie Likoshi, who was striving to regain the title of “Beast Slayer Regiment”, had just finished the combat meeting and sent off the Chief of Political Work of the Army, Taddius, who came to inspect. Lieutenant

Colonel Taddius conveyed the Governor’s order to them. At the meeting where all the military commanders and instructors of all company-level units and above were present, he announced that the 3rd Independent Regiment would be the fist and the vanguard in the full-scale counterattack at noon tomorrow.

Their goal was to tear open the greenskins’ defense from the front in the middle of the entire defense line, completely capture the position they were in, cut the front line into two sections, and create space for the three mechanized synthetic battalions to penetrate from the middle section.

Afterwards, after the follow-up friendly forces came up to take over the position, they would dispatch troops, accompanied by a synthetic battalion, to carry out a detour to the north, cut off the retreat space of the greenskins on the north side, and complete the encirclement with the friendly forces in the front to completely annihilate the greenskins there.

All officers and soldiers listened to Thadius’s description of the battle objectives and requirements in silence.

The silence continued.

But this was by no means fear or dread.

Li Kexi could see a fire in the eyes of his subordinates.

And he was the same.

They had waited too long.

“Okay, let’s go back.” Li Kexi broke the silence, “Go back to your respective companies and get ready. There are still 13 hours until tomorrow noon. The staff will break down tomorrow’s offensive tasks and deliver them to you tomorrow morning at the latest. This is a battle we have been looking forward to for a long time, and it is also an opportunity we never dared to think about in the past. I have only one request: we must fight beautifully! We must be worthy of the people we have lost, the hatred we are willing to sacrifice our lives to avenge, and the opportunity given to us by the governor!”

“Roar!” The officers stood up and returned to their respective teams.

Andrei Alexei, who was transferred to the independent regiment as the political commissar, was a little confused. He just wanted to boost the morale of the officers as the chief political officer, but found that it seemed unnecessary.

The regiment commander, Li Kexi, patted him on the shoulder without explaining anything.

The soldiers of the Beast Slaughter Regiment didn’t know how many of them could really sleep well.

But they would force themselves to have a good rest, all for the sake of being able to show their style tomorrow.

Tonight was particularly long.

…

No matter how long the night was, it would always be over.

When the sky was bright, Li Kexi, who had woken up, went to the front line of the troops to check.

He watched the soldiers eat, watched them check their weapons, watched the officers talking to the soldiers…

All this made his anxious heart inexplicably calm down.

They had done everything they could do, just waiting for the order to attack.

The pocket watch that was issued ticked to eleven o’clock in the afternoon. The

order to attack had not been issued yet, but he saw many red spots of light, faintly appearing in the sky.

Meteor shower?

No, he quickly overturned this idea.

This should be part of the powerful attack that Lieutenant Colonel Thadius had mentioned before.

At that time, he thought it was the artillery position in the rear that would fire fiercely without restriction, but it seemed that it was not just that.

He watched the red meteor showers streak across the sky, getting closer and closer, and then falling into the endless ruins in front of him.

Then, two huge balls of light that almost covered the city suddenly appeared.

Along with these two huge balls of light, there were many smaller ones, but they were not so real because of the obstruction of the ruins of the buildings.

This scene made people feel inexplicably strange. There was only light, no sound, as if watching a silent movie.

But what they were waiting for soon came.

The ground was shaking.

As if there was an earthquake, some soldiers who were not standing firmly even staggered. Even some ruins that were not strong enough due to artillery fire in the previous battle collapsed in this vibration.

Fortunately, the fortifications they were hiding in were specially reinforced, so there were no casualties.

Then came the shock wave accompanied by a huge sound! It

was like a strong wind blowing, and it also brought a sense of heat. Many people took several steps back and felt stuffy in their chests.

Although they felt very uncomfortable physically, all the soldiers of the 3rd Independent Regiment, from Li Kexi down, were very happy!

The explosion occurred deep in the ruins of the tower, where the greenskins were most entrenched!

Even from dozens of kilometers away, the aftermath of the explosion could be felt so clearly, whether it was the scorching heat or the shock wave… Then what about the greenskins at the core of the explosion?

Even if the vitality of those monsters was much stronger than that of humans, they could never survive such a blow!

As long as they eliminated the enemy in front of them, this greenskin disaster that had spread for several years and gradually became more and more serious would end in their hands!

Li Kexi couldn’t wait to command his troops to charge.

But it was not time yet.

The order to attack had not come yet.

However, a whistling sound came from the top of his head.

The artillery positions in the rear began to show their power.

On the joint artillery positions, one hundred 155 howitzers were lined up in order, with the barrels pointing to the sky, firing continuously.

The output of artillery shells is limited. In order to support the logistics supply of hundreds of thousands of troops, Weixing City has to produce a lot of things. Armored vehicles, bullets, guns, equipment, explosives, grenades, rocket launchers, artillery…

They have worked hard to increase the output of artillery shells, but they still cannot withstand too intense consumption.

However, since it has been decided that today is the final battle, there is no need to save.

Hundreds of artillery pieces fired at full speed. At a rate of 500 shells per minute, they poured artillery rain on the orc positions in front of them.

This is a full-scale bombardment that has never been seen before. The artillerymen no longer care about the life of the barrels and the consumption of artillery shells.

They are ready to smash 15,000 heavy artillery on the green-skinned orc positions within half an hour. At present, the total reserve of artillery shells is only less than 20,000.

The remaining 4,000 to 5,000 shells are also not being saved, but to be left to cooperate with the infantry attack.

When the artillery opened fire, Ruggie Likoshi finally got the order to attack.

He couldn’t wait to convey the attack order to the entire regiment.

More than 5,000 soldiers of the 3rd Independent Regiment need to move to a position about 200 meters away from the enemy position and stand by within 25 minutes. They have five minutes to rest and launch a full-scale attack on the orcs’ position at the moment the bombardment ends.

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