Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 161

161. Chapter 161, Brilliant Explosion

Hearing the so-called “starting point of the road of glory”, Ye Lixia snorted coldly, as if she was very disdainful, and didn’t want to pay attention to Gu Hang, turning around and continuing to be busy.

She kept giving orders, constantly listening to the news reports from various departments, and making corresponding responses and judgments, forming orders to pass on.

She seemed a little nervous and tried to keep herself focused. She was indeed not an experienced naval veteran, and she didn’t even have serious practical experience, but her excellent grades in the Naval Academy were not fake. If it wasn’t really very good, even with this family background, how could she become a captain? She is not the only one in the younger generation of the Fofana family.

Her mind was full of various tactical ethics that she had learned in the Naval Academy, and combined with the real-time situation on the battlefield, she responded and issued orders in a standard way.

This would be a little dull, but it would not be easy to make mistakes.

When Ye Lixia was in school, she had thought of many strange naval tactics in her mind, but after having practical experience, she found that her early ideas were purely self-entertainment. There were a few that were really useful, and even seemed to be able to work wonders in the current battle situation.

But she didn’t dare to use them.

Who knows whether the means that have not been verified in actual combat are miraculous or useless?

In the current situation, what she needs to do most is not to make mistakes, and to take advantage of the powerful firepower and strong defense capabilities of the “Quinte” cruiser to play steadily.

It is better to play a little more rigid.

Gu Hang looked at Ye Lixia’s serious expression, a smile appeared on his face, and his mood relaxed a little.

How to ease the relationship with this female brigadier general later, that is a later story, let’s get through this difficult time first.

There was a contradiction between the two of them just now, and even a conflict almost broke out.

After Gu Hang boarded the starship with nearly 20,000 soldiers, the “Quinte” drove to the jump point of the No. 1 tunnel of the Angry Owl Galaxy.

Before this, Ye Lixia tried to let the astropath on the starship send a message to the “Beautiful Girl” to remind Wang Jiarong to prepare in advance. But the message failed to send, probably because the other party was traveling in the star tunnel. In this state, it is difficult for the astropath to locate the target of the information transmission and transmit the message.

So far, they gave up the communication and let the ship quietly stop in the void.

Silence all communication information, turn off most of the engine power except for the necessary energy supply…

The starship floated silently in the void, and it was like a grain of dust on the observation scale of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Even if the enemy started scanning the surrounding environment immediately after passing through the star tunnel, it would be difficult to find traces.

Ye Lixia strictly implemented her previous ideas. She squatted here and waited for things to happen.

Fight if you can, and run away if you can’t.

After seeing the green-skinned fleet chasing the beautiful girl caravan, Ye Lixia fell into a somewhat difficult situation.

Let’s not talk about the frigates for now. It’s difficult for a bunch of small-scale weapons to penetrate the defense system of the main cruiser.

But the four destroyers can’t be ignored. The medium-sized firepower loaded on them can really pose a threat.

But to be honest, it’s not that there is no chance of winning. The Beautiful Girl Caravan still has four ships. With them, there is still a chance of winning, and it’s even quite large, 60%, or even 70%.

However, a 60% to 70% chance of winning is not enough for Ye Lishia to gamble.

If you lose the bet and have nothing, it’s better to retreat, go back to get people, and assemble the entire Pegasus fleet. It won’t be difficult to destroy this group of greenskins.

As for the safety of the Angry Owl Star?

Forget it, a planet with an annual tax quota of 5 million coins, what’s there to save.

The cost of a frigate, the cheapest one is more than 500 million, and the Angry Owl Star has to pay taxes for a hundred years to afford a frigate.

But for Gu Hang, the concept is completely different. It’s

okay if Ye Lishia withdraws, but the Angry Owl Star is finished.

He strongly requested Ye Lishia to join the battle.

That’s how the conflict between the two of them came about.

Ye Lishia was not very willing. During the argument, Gu Hang didn’t say it explicitly, but vaguely mentioned that there were 20,000 of his soldiers on the starship.

Ye Lishia’s face suddenly darkened.

Even if it wasn’t said explicitly, it was a threat.

She had hoped that Gu Hang would bring his troops up before, just in case. The greenskins like to use boarding tactics in space naval battles, which is written in the Navy’s teaching ethics. Although there are marines on the starship, it would definitely be safer to have 20,000 more soldiers.

However, who knew that this would become Gu Hang’s weapon to threaten her at this time?

Once civil strife breaks out on the starship, let alone whether her marines can suppress the 20,000 soldiers under Gu Hang, there is no doubt that it will take a long time.

And the internal strife of the ship will pose a fatal threat to the safety of the “Quinte”.

Gu Hang could see that Ye Lishia was being held.

He did not continue to use this topic and continue to force it.

If both sides were to suffer losses, that would make the greenskins on the opposite side laugh.

Then, he softened his tone and said a few words about defending the empire, protecting the caravan, and destroying the alien enemies. He also drew a picture. If this time, the greenskin fleet was really wiped out, then Ye Lishia would undoubtedly have made a huge contribution.

A cruiser, fighting independently, annihilated an entire greenskin fleet consisting of four destroyers and eight frigates. This military exploit is extremely brilliant. Not to mention in the Pegasus Fleet, it can also be mentioned in the entire Imperial Navy.

Even after having such a record as a foundation, plus enough family background to support her, her military rank may be able to move up again in a short time.

There is a huge threshold between the rank of brigadier general and the rank of major general. Generally, a brigadier general will not be called a general, but a major general is a formal general, and no one will question it.

If it really works, she might be the youngest general in the history of the Tianma Star Region, and no one would dare to say that she was promoted by relying on the protection of her family.

Her reputation would spread far beyond the Tianma Star Region, and even in the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region and the entire Eastern Universe. The name Ye Lixia would shine throughout the star sea and become a new rising star in the Imperial Navy.

These words made Ye Lixia’s heart beat. It’s

not that she didn’t think of it, but when someone pointed it out, the feeling in her heart was different.

With these two factors combined, Ye Lixia finally gritted her teeth and ordered the ship to leave the silent state, prepare to open fire, and contact the Beautiful Girl.

Things have developed to the current situation.

Gu Hang has contributed to the current situation, and his influence on future events will be very limited.

Ship command is not his ability.

He could only be a spectator for the time being.

It was quite beautiful.

In this entire starry sky, there were a total of more than a dozen space giants on both sides, projecting fierce firepower at each other, the rays of light, spots of light, and shells of different colors, the flashes of various colors that lit up when the void shield and energy shield were hit, and the fire that exploded when the artillery fire hit the ship…

At least on the scale that Gu Hang could observe, on the bridge of the Quintet, the strike effects from the Thinker array, and the schematic diagram of the battle scene, all could be seen clearly.

The lonely starry sky became lively.

However, these beautiful lights all contained terrible power and fatal damage.

However, when Gu Hang was a spectator, he was not just watching the fun. He carefully observed Ye Lishia, combined with the current situation on the battlefield and the various instructions issued by Ye Lishia, and tried to absorb and learn all kinds of knowledge about space naval battles.

He didn’t quite understand many of the situations that occurred and the responses made by the female brigadier general, but it didn’t prevent him from trying to remember them. When there is a chance, he can ask someone to send him some theoretical books, and maybe he can grow.

It is really useless for him to learn these things now, but Gu Hang has deeply realized how important space power is in this interstellar era.

This is a decisive force.

In the future, if conditions permit, he will certainly form his own navy.

Maybe if he is lucky, he can quickly extract the navy’s technology?

Uh… No, I can’t afford it even if I extract it. Starships are still a top-level manufacturing industry that can only be reached after the productivity of the planet is highly developed.

While he was thinking about it, he realized that the bombardment between the two fleets had reached a white-hot stage.

Not long after, the green-skinned frigate that had been hit by the Quintet’s macro cannon and whose energy shield was overloaded also exploded in mid-air.

It was the concentrated fire of the Beautiful Girl and two other frigates that blew it up.

There are also experienced battleship commanders in the caravan led by Gu Hang’s cousin. It keenly captured the impact of the battle situation caused by the firing of the Quintet and completed the fatal blow.

This is the second ship that has exploded since the start of the naval battle.

Without two ships, the firepower of the greenskin fleet has been reduced by almost a quarter.

The results of the Quintet’s ambush are enough to tilt the balance of victory to them again by ten percentage points.

If the opposite greenskin fleet has replaced a rational human leader, the best choice at this moment may be to run away quickly.

But unfortunately, that is not the style of the greenskins.

They still rushed up against the firepower of human ships.

After paying the price of another destroyer and two frigates, they blew up a frigate of the caravan and successfully boarded the other two.

The firepower of the ship that was boarded soon became very weak, and an explosion occurred inside.

It is still unknown whether they can eventually drive out the greenskin orcs who have landed, but at least now, the help they can provide in the naval battle has been reduced by at least half.

The pressure of the battle was getting bigger and bigger.

As the greenskin ships approached, although they lost five ships, their firepower became more powerful – this was due to the shortened distance between the two sides.

The Quintet was indeed a strong ship with powerful guns. Four of the five greenskin warships in front were destroyed by it. The L-class large-scale naval gun, “Wrath of the Loyal Heir”, was extremely powerful.

However, when those greenskins separated some ships and pulled the “Quintet” to a distance of 50,000 kilometers, the accuracy of the super-standard firepower on the greenskin ships was greatly improved, and the Quintet also felt that two fists could not beat four hands.

The most direct manifestation was that the void shield had turned purple, and there was even a trend of further change to red. The greenskins’ heavy artillery also began to have shells that could penetrate the shield and hit the ship’s armor.

Gu Hang felt the large vibration of the hull several times on the bridge.

The ship’s stabilization device cannot completely eliminate the big vibration, which probably caused definite damage to the ship. Even if it is not big, it is afraid that it will cost a lot to repair the ship.

However, in order to achieve this effect, the Orc fleet lost another frigate.

Now, they only have two destroyers and four frigates left.

In Gu Hang’s cognition, the battle has come to the final critical stage.

He was deeply impressed by the greenskin fleet’s fearless and fighting to the end.

For the human side, victory is almost at hand.

But the remaining question is what the price is.

Although the human side has only exploded one frigate so far, the void shields of the remaining three ships of the Beautiful Girl Caravan have been overloaded, and two of them have been invaded by boarding, and they are in crisis; even the Quintet, the void shield is almost red.

If it really comes to the end, the greenskin fleet is completely wiped out, but if the Beautiful Girl Caravan is completely wiped out and the Quintet is severely damaged, this result will be quite uncomfortable.

The additional political consequences will also be a bit serious.

Gu Hang also heard Martins sighing beside him.

“If our regiment’s strength is still there, we can jump over one or two hundred people, and cooperate with a certain number of mortal auxiliary troops, which is enough to conquer an entire ship.”

From what the regiment leader said, they have done this kind of thing before.

Gu Hang patted him on the shoulder and was about to say something, but he saw that many indicator lights on the bridge suddenly turned red.

This is a dangerous signal.

The Thinker Array passed the information over: “Warning! There are many invasions in our hull! The greenskin landing ship deceived the interception system through some unknown energy technology. We only shot down 70% of the landing ships, including a large number of bait cabins. At present, it is estimated that 17 landing cabins have successfully landed, and more than 2,000 greenskin orcs have entered the hull! The Marines have already exchanged fire with them, but are currently at a disadvantage.”

Ye Lixia suddenly looked at Gu Hang.

“It’s time for you to play a role.”

Gu Hang turned around and left without saying a word.

It is indeed time for him to pay, so there is no need to say anything, just go for it.

(End of this chapter)