Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 152

152. Chapter 152, It’s so big and so green

. Baking Axe, along with the evil fear can he was driving, was killed by fifty 155 howitzers that fell from the sky. The

dense artillery fire fell down, and he, who had just recovered his power, had no time to leave the explosion range.

And his armor, no matter how strong it was, could not withstand such a baptism of artillery fire.

Of course, in this process, accidental injuries are inevitable.

Within two minutes, there were still many of his own soldiers who did not have time to run to a safe place. Even if they found a shelter on the spot, they would still die if they were too close to the explosion area.

But this is the necessary price.

Gu Hang’s proactive attack only reduced this price to the minimum.

Of course, it is also valuable to save one or two hundred soldiers from dying.

The death of Baking Axe also marked the complete collapse of the front line that led the orcs to confront the human army in this area for more than a month.

Moreover, after the morale collapsed, the greenskins had no way to escape.

Human armies were surrounding them from all sides. Even if they could fly, they could not escape.

And this was exactly Gu Hang’s goal.

What he wanted was not only a battle of defeat, but also a battle of annihilation.

Although the casualties were not small in general, more than a thousand soldiers were probably killed or wounded in the full-scale attack. But the result was that at least four thousand greenskins were wiped out. 70% of the enemies died from the artillery coverage that fell like rain in the early stage.

It was at this time that Gu Hang saw that new changes had taken place in his [Event] panel.

[Event: Greenskin Threat]

[The greenskin orcs who appeared inexplicably on the planet have grown into a threat that cannot be ignored in a few years. But under your leadership, the brave warriors not only defended against the invasion of the greenskin orcs, but also annihilated their main forces through orbital bombardment, artillery coverage, and full-scale assaults. However, regardless of the intelligence obtained from the front or your own feelings, these green-skinned orcs look very unusual. They don’t look like wild orcs that have developed independently on the Wrathful Owl Star, but they also don’t look like space orcs that have invaded from outside the star. 】

【Phase 1 goal: Completed】

【Phase 1 reward: T5-level additional troop training option – Beast Slayer Regiment, obtained】

【Phase 2 goal: Find out the reason for the rise of the greenskins. 】

【Phase 2 reward: An important piece of information】

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In the [Event] panel, the first phase reward of [Greenskin Threat] has been settled.

Gu Hang can already see the training option of the new additional troop, ‘Beast Slayer Regiment’, in the [Soldier Card] interface. As long as it is a T5 or higher troop, spending more gifts can give the troop a part of the special attack effect against greenskinned orcs.

As for the ‘Beast Slayer’ feature that was given directly for free by the 3rd Independent Regiment, it can actually be counted in the first phase reward, saving him 60 points of gifts.

And the second phase was what Gu Hang was supposed to do. It was just that the reward for the so-called “important intelligence” made him a little concerned.

What would it be?

We’ll know when the time comes.

After taking a quick look at the updated event information, Gu Hang stopped paying attention.

The situation on the battlefield is still the top priority.

After disintegrating the main resistance of the green-skinned orcs, the large army rested on the spot, and at 5 pm, they all ate the dinner sent by the logistics, and after another hour and a half of rest, they set out again at 6:30 and headed deep into the ruins of the tower.

This is not radical.

There should still be a small number of greenskins surviving in this position, but it is no longer important.

It is not possible to ignore it completely. After all, the follow-up troops still have to continue to perform their tasks in the depths of the ruins of the tower, and the logistics supplies also need to pass through here to be transported up. The safety of this area still needs to be protected.

Therefore, Gu Hang left the 6th and 7th Garrison Divisions, one in the north and one in the south, responsible for continuing to clear out the sporadic greenskins that may still survive in this position, and as a reserve force to ensure the safety of the logistics line.

The clearing mission is not difficult.

The main force also did not encounter any difficulties in advancing deeper.

The previous orbital bombardment was no joke. Under such a large-scale attack, only a few greenskins could survive.

Especially the most important targets: the departure positions of the greenskin attacking forces and their base camps were hit hard.

The firepower in other places was relatively light, but the number of greenskins was also small.

As the troops advanced all the way, they could indeed occasionally see some sporadic greenskins popping up, but they were not a threat at all. Of course,

in order to ensure stability and the later stage, a garrison division would be left behind for every 20 kilometers of travel.

While ensuring the logistics route, they were also responsible for clearing out the local greenskin orcs.

Soon at nearly 12 o’clock that night, the troops arrived at the gathering place of the greenskin orcs reported by the Space Marines before.

According to the latest intelligence before the most orbital bombing, there should have been more than 4,000 greenskin orcs and three times the number of fart spirit cannon fodder gathered here, as well as a considerable number of heavy equipment that was more sophisticated than what they had encountered before.

However, now there is only a huge bomb crater and a large area of wreckage.

In the center of the greenskin assembly area, there is a huge bomb crater with nothing in it. In theory, thousands of people could be gathered on this huge bomb crater, but now all of them are gone. There is

no trace of the body in the true sense.

Some suspicious wreckage began to appear outside the bomb crater.

Looking at the appearance of those wreckages, it can be roughly guessed that these should belong to some greenskin corpses or equipment fragments.

But it is just a guess.

Fragments that are completely shapeless and things that have melted and cooled can only be guessed.

Further away, some parts that can be identified as what they belonged to before they were destroyed can appear, such as fingers, half thighs and the like. Here, the corpses will appear more dense.

Only in places further away can you see some intact equipment wreckage, such as overturned, charred trucks, immobile killing cans, and relatively intact charred corpses.

The green-skinned orcs who gathered here with great vigor and prepared to destroy everything suffered a devastating blow here.

It is unknown whether there are any green-skinned orcs who survived in the edge of the bombing, but even if there are, there must be not many alive, and they must have run away long ago.

Gu Hang was very satisfied with the effect of the strike.

But the only thing that made him feel a little uneasy was why the Space Marines had not sent him information about the effect of the strike before?

This shouldn’t have happened.

The special operations team left the area that might be affected by the orbital strike after completing the marking of the strike targets more than ten hours ago. They had ten hours to evacuate, so there shouldn’t be any problem.

In fact, there was no need to evacuate so far. As long as they maintained a certain distance and made sure that they were not marked by the orbital strike, there would be no artillery fire from space, and they would naturally be safe.

After the orbital strike ended and the magnetic field of the wireless communication stabilized, they also had a call with Gu Hang to report that they were safe, indicating that they were not affected by the orbital strike. At the same time, they also followed Gu Hang’s request to go to the two most important strike targets, namely the assembly area and base camp of the greenskin army, to explore the effect of the orbital strike. Logically

speaking, with their distance, they would definitely be able to find out the situation quickly.

But the actual situation is that the large force led by Gu Hang has seen the situation of the green-skinned orcs’ gathering place with their own eyes, but the special operations team that should have reported the information long ago has not received any news.

It is now twelve o’clock in the night, which is already very late. All officers and soldiers have experienced a battle since eleven o’clock in the morning, and have been advancing and clearing out the greenskins among the ruins. In the thirteen hours since they came here, they had no time to rest except for a short break at lunch. Now they are very tired.

It is not good to let the large force move.

He found a signalman and sent a radio communication request to the Phoenix Regiment.

There was no response.

He felt even more wrong.

He called Perbov and arranged his troops to rest and rush forward to the direction of the green-skinned orcs’ base camp mentioned in the previous intelligence tomorrow morning for reconnaissance. If they encounter green-skinned orcs in the middle, they don’t need to carry out special clearing. The most important task is to find the traces of the special operations team.

Gu Hang was quite worried.

Although there are five Space Marines in the action team, theoretically there won’t be any big problems, but…

when fighting against the original wrathful owl sect, one Space Marine can be sacrificed, not to mention fighting against the greenskins.

Especially these greenskins look slightly different from the wild greenskins that have developed independently from the spores.

Wild greenskins and space greenskins are all greenskins. There is no difference from the body structure to the social form. The only difference is that the latter has developed more powerful, with a more advanced technology level, and has powerful orc warlords and even orc warlords.

The most terrible orc disaster in the legend occurred seven thousand years ago. That disaster almost destroyed the entire human empire.

But before removing that powerful space orc clan, the orcs who grew up independently on certain planets and have not yet become a galaxy threat will be called wild orcs.

The way the greenskin infection spreads to another planet is difficult to trace. During an interstellar voyage, a certain cargo with greenskin spores invisible to the n*ked eye boarded the interstellar spacecraft. When unloading, it fell to the ground or was blown to a certain place by the wind. When it encountered a suitable environment, it began to take root and sprout, and the first Squigmon grew. This aggressive and ferocious little beast secreted and split many spores when hunting, fighting, getting injured, defecating, dying… and began to give birth to more Squigmons, fart spirits, and even orc boys.

Generally speaking, before the greenskin ecology of wild orcs on the planet is fully developed, the greenskins are in a primitive tribal state. There is no technology to speak of, nor is there any organizational structure. They are just a group of wild beasts with relatively high intelligence.

They will fight each other and fight internally. After all, fighting is the nature of the greenskins. As for whether the target of the battle is the same tribe or a foreign tribe, they don’t really care.

In the fight, they will select a greenskin boss as the leader of the tribe. The greenskins who make up the tribe will start to fight everything around them that can be fought under the leadership of the boss. If they can’t find it, they will split themselves and then fight themselves.

In this process, their number will gradually spiral up, and a large number of greenskins will die from internal consumption. However, although the number fluctuates, it is still rising overall. At the same time, as more battles and more greenskins are involved, their so-called ‘waaagh’ force field will become thicker.

This supernatural power, which is inextricably related to psychic power but not psychic power, is similar to some kind of “idealistic technology”. It will make their tribe stronger and stronger, and technology will inexplicably advance. All kinds of weapons and equipment that only greenskins can use will allow them to embark on a journey to the stars one day.

Of course, if there is no external force, this process will be very long.

But if there is an external force, such as they have eaten enough brains of foreigners, such as they have seen enough war technology of humans or other intelligent races, then the orc technical boys, goblin technicians, technical masters… a series of technical greenskins who have received “enlightenment” will rapidly speed up this process.

According to this standard, in the ruins of the tower, the orc tribe with a scale of only 10,000 people should not have things like killing cans and fear cans. They have guns and hot weapons, which can only be said to be developed fast enough.

Similarly, in the past reports on the garbage town, there has never been any mention of large-scale greenskins waging war against each other.

This is not quite consistent with the situation of wild greenskins.

But it is even more different from space greenskins.

If there is a greenskin clan that can cross the star sea and set its sights on the Wrathful Owl Star, then forget it, there is no way to resist it.

The greenskin orcs that appeared here in the ruins of the tower of the Wrathful Owl Star are indeed a very exceptional case.

But it may also be that humans have not yet fully studied the ecology of greenskin orcs, and Gu Hang’s recent crazy knowledge of cramming is difficult to mention this area.

Because of this, he is worried about the current situation of the special operations team.

This greenskin orc clan is so special, who knows if there will be something that even the Space Marines can’t cover up?

The Emperor’s Angel of Death is often just like its name of a demigod; but in the confrontation between many monsters in the universe, sometimes they die one by one.

Greenskins are just one of those “monsters”.

…

Gu Hang can’t be said to be a jinx, but the special operations team is really in big trouble now.

Time goes back to 11 noon. When the orbital strike landed, they were indeed not hurt.

They waited patiently for a while. After the residual heat of the bombing dissipated and the radio communication was restored, they reported to the governor that they were safe. Then they followed the governor’s instructions and went to the location of the orbital bombing.

The main strike location to be explored is actually the assembly area and base camp of the greenskin orcs.

They went to the base camp first.

Here, the scene is almost the same as the departure point. It is also a huge bomb crater, and the surrounding buildings are all razed to the ground. The difference is that there are many more fart spirits and craftsmen in the destruction here, and there are many more wreckages of greenskin buildings.

Nothing more than that.

They wandered around the strike site for a while, evaluating the effect of the strike and looking for any survivors nearby.

The greenskin military factory was confirmed to be destroyed;

the greenskin camp was confirmed to be destroyed;

the three greenskin hatchery farms were confirmed to be destroyed;

and it must be said that greenskins are really tenacious and terrible. Even with this level of destructive bombing, which is more powerful than a nuclear bomb, the greenskins who were farther away from the center of the explosion, especially those who happened to be in some solid bunkers when the attack came, were really fine. Fortunately

, there were not many of them, and they were scattered.

Without being discovered, they did not spend time to clear them out. Of course, if it was particularly convenient, they would just kill them.

With the characteristics of creatures like greenskin orcs, as long as their boss was killed in the bombing, and there was no leader among the remaining greenskins, they would become “beasts with intelligence”. They acted completely on instinct and fought each other until another boss emerged from among them.

And this period of time was their weakest time. As long as humans seized this opportunity, they could completely exterminate them.

Then, they would carefully clean up every inch of land that the orcs had passed through, and the orc crisis would be resolved.

Of course, with their tenacious characteristics and the way the spore form developed, the crisis of the orcs could never be relaxed. For a long time to come, this planet must always monitor and explore places where greenskin disasters have occurred, and regularly kill suspicious plants.

But as long as you don’t relax your vigilance and follow the relevant regulations and ethics of the empire, the problems will generally be minor ones, and most of them can be strangled at the stage where they just appear, so as not to cause a major crisis.

But just when their mentality gradually relaxed, a roar came from somewhere far away.

They were startled, but soon realized that it should not be their whereabouts that were discovered.

It was more like a greenskin orc, howling to gather his subordinates with sound.

Communication basically relies on shouting, which is a bit funny, but now no one can laugh.

The emergence of this situation means that there is still an orc leader with appeal, and a lot of appeal, in this area.

And it is unlikely that he was chosen in the fight just now. On the one hand, it is not so fast, and on the other hand, the new boss who just came out is unlikely to have such a temperament.

Then the answer is obvious: Under the previous powerful orbital bombardment, a powerful leader among the greenskin orcs did not die.

I don’t know if it was because of good luck, not in the core area of the bombardment, or for some other reason, but this is obviously not good news.

They decided to check the situation.

If there are already a large number of greenskin orcs gathered under their call, then forget it, just pass the news to the governor and then have someone monitor it.

But if the number of greenskins gathered is not large, Martins and other five Space Marines plan to kill the greenskin boss.

The decapitation tactic is one of the most effective tactics against the greenskins.

A huge ‘waaagh’, even an expedition across the star sea, requires a strong orc warlord to organize and initiate. Only a strong enough leader can unite the greenskins.

But at the same time, as long as the boss dies, the remaining greenskins will immediately become a mess, and usually more than half of them will be killed in internal fighting.

They don’t have any idea of exterminating their race and defending against foreign enemies first.

Even in a specific battle, the death of a squad leader will greatly shake the entire greenskin squad; the death of the commander of a battle will cause the entire battle to collapse…

When dealing with greenskins, the best way is to find the biggest, greenest, and strongest one at the moment, and then kill it.

So who is the most suitable for this kind of thing on the battlefield?

Of course, it is the Space Marines.

In the past wars, as long as the Phoenix fought against the greenskins, they would inevitably perform similar tasks five, six, seven, or eight times in a battle.

At present, it is just a return to the old business.

In fact, the Space Marines still miss it a little.

However, when they quietly arrived at the place and saw the greenskins gathered there, they gave up the idea of a surprise attack.

The number is more than they expected.

There are more than a thousand orcs there. Not only light infantry, but also some combat trucks and killing tanks. Roughly speaking, there are no less than fifty heavy equipment of all kinds.

Moreover, there are sporadic greenskins gathering here.

Martins was shocked by the number.

Why are there so many?

During the discussion, they came up with a guess that could explain it:

it is estimated that the orc leader was originally leading his gathered troops to the assembly area. Halfway through, the orbital bombing came.

The most important targets of the bombing were the base camp and the assembly area. Those two places suffered the most violent and unavoidable blows; but they happened to be on the road, in the middle of the two places, and were lucky enough to escape.

There must be a lot of dead greenskins. Martins and his men saw many orcs with wounds. After all, this wave of orbital bombardment is not just two large macro cannons, but also twenty small macro cannons and hundreds of orbital missiles, which are everywhere. Those things are also very fierce.

But in general, thousands of greenskins survived.

The decapitation tactic is difficult to implement.

Not only are there a large number of enemies, but the green orc leader is also worth paying attention to:

it is so big and so green.

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