Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 303

303. Chapter 302: Can’t afford to play? !

They said they wanted to fight fast, but the war on the western front of the alliance still lasted for half a year.

When the war was almost a month old, the 700,000 Star Army troops behind had already arrived at the front line.

The total number of the coalition forces, 1.3 million, was considered to be unstoppable in the next five months, but they were still temporarily suppressed by the mechanical army of Blackbird Heavy Industry in some battles.

This also shows from the side how ridiculous Cai Minjin’s original idea of producing results in three weeks, ending the battle in six weeks, and rushing back to the Fache star system to celebrate the New Year was.

If Yan Fangxu were to say what the root cause was, he thought it was that the Star Army of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion was not as strong as expected.

Strictly speaking, according to the most standard requirements of the empire, the combat effectiveness of the Star Army should be very strong. In terms of the quality of the soldiers, they should be one in a hundred.

Under the training of the governor’s magical recruit camp, the army of the alliance just met the minimum requirements of the Star Army for recruits.

However, the facts are not so.

From what Yan Fangxu saw, the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion was a formal Star Army organization. Although it was not a well-known legion, it should be at least not worse than the Alliance’s army, right?

But in fact, it was a level worse.

Take a so-called large division as an example. Generally, there are nine reinforced regiments, of which only two or so can reach the level of Alliance soldiers. The remaining few… can’t be said to be just making up the numbers, they are definitely better than ordinary soldiers. For example, the soldiers of the Luman Kingdom encountered on the Black Arrow Star were far inferior to them.

However, compared with the level of Alliance soldiers, they were still a step behind.

This was just a problem of the quality of the soldiers. The equipment of these people… Yan Fangxu still looked down on them.

This group of Star Army did not even have enough troop transport vehicles.

If the Alliance did not have sufficient logistical support, mobilized a large number of civilian vehicles, and the newly built trains to help with transportation, these Star Army would have to rely on their own legs to run three or four thousand kilometers to the Western Front battlefield to fight.

The battle was almost over, and these people might not be able to walk.

The Alliance’s army, even the third-line garrison division, is a combination of infantry and heavy artillery, but the number is a little less. However, these so-called large-scale divisions of the Star Army do not have any synthetic forces. Infantry regiments are infantry regiments, artillery regiments are artillery regiments, and armored regiments are armored regiments.

Yan Fangxu did not comment much on this, perhaps just because of different military concepts. Perhaps the people of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion think that heavy firepower and armored forces should be concentrated and used, which is not wrong in itself.

Organizing the army in this way may be able to exert stronger power in some decisive battle scenes?

But… no matter whether you are doing concentrated firepower and concentrated armor, or the Alliance Army’s multi-arms synthetic forces, and assembling firepower and armor when necessary, the total number of various firepower and technical equipment should be sufficient, right?

They have a large-scale division with a total of more than 40,000 troops, which is equivalent to four divisions and brigades of the Alliance. But there is only one armored regiment in it, with a total of more than 100 armored vehicles and 40 tanks.

Take the Wind-Extinguishing Brigade for example. It only has more than 9,000 people, 80 tanks, and more than 200 armored vehicles.

The armored vehicles and tanks of a Wind-Extinguishing Brigade are equal to those of two large divisions of the Dragon Eagle Legion.

If this is not a gap, then what is the gap?

Even if we count pure infantry, whether it is the infantry company in the combined brigade or the troops under the infantry division, they have all completed motorization and all have military vehicles dedicated to the squad level; each squad has two to three rocket launchers, each platoon has one to two mortars; each company has a heavy bolter as a fire support point.

The infantry regiment of the Star Army does have these things, but they are all concentrated at the regiment level, and the number is not as good.

The difference in the quality of the soldiers and the difference in weapons and equipment made the actual performance of the two sides different in the six-month battle.

Often, at the same time, the offensive efficiency of a large division of the Star Army with 40,000 people is similar to that of two brigade divisions of the Alliance with 20,000 people.

The Alliance can use half of its troops to get the same results as the soldiers of the Dragon Eagle Legion.

During the six months of fighting on the Wrathful Star, Cai Minjin did nothing more. He just served as the second-in-command of the coalition forces and took care of his own business.

On the one hand, his legitimacy and status were suppressed by Martins; on the other hand, the combat capability demonstrated by the coalition forces in actual combat really left him speechless.

However, in the last stage of the war, the two sides still had a conflict.

That was when the enemies had been almost wiped out, leaving only the last strategic target – Blackbird City.

Martins formulated an offensive plan, and the army of the alliance was the spearhead.

However, Cai Minjin here rarely raised objections.

This kind of thing has not happened in the past six months.

Martins and Yan Fangxu also understood the thoughts of General Cai.

He may have come with a mission.

Fachs is certainly not the master of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion, but they have a strong influence on this force whose troops and supplies are basically from the three worlds of the Fachs galaxy. It is normal for Cai Minjin to receive any special orders when he set out.

And this order must be related to Blackbird Heavy Industry.

The manager of Blackbird Heavy Industry, Iron Fachs, has not been found yet.

In the previous battles, they had found spider-shaped mechanical monsters with the face of Iron Fachs many times. Their combat ability was secondary. The most important thing was that they seemed to always be the key node of information and command of the mechanical army. If they were eliminated, the strategic coordination ability of the mechanical army would be greatly damaged.

But obviously, these were not the real Iron Fachs himself.

His body must still be in the center of Blackbird City.

Cai Minjin’s task was probably to destroy all evidence of the connection between Blackbird and the Fachs family.

Although the existence of Iron Fachs and the investment of the Fachs family in Blackbird Heavy Industry made the relationship between the two sides unclear. But they were already trying to cut off the relationship, and with a positive attitude, it would be much more comfortable to destroy the evidence again.

In this case, Cai Minjin really didn’t want the alliance to take the lead.

Even if his army would lose a lot of manpower in the final attack, he would take on this task.

Martins thought about it and didn’t intend to argue with this imperial major general who rarely stood up.

The war of half a year has finally calmed down, and this general’s cooperation is indispensable. So in this final battle, it is only right to give him some face.

He made a decision to let two troops, one in the south and one in the north, attack Blackbird City in a pincer attack.

Fair competition, the first to enter the city is the king, is this okay?

Cai Minjin knew that this was the best result he could get.

He went back to prepare the troops and secretly summoned several officers to discuss the battle plan.

Although the army of the alliance had given him a great shock before, and he did not dare to underestimate these armies with the name of planetary defense forces, but their strength was stronger than that of the regular star army, but at the moment, in such an important strategy, he was still determined to win once.

Then, he heard a piece of news:

After the military meeting, the commander of the Martins regiment personally led more than 30 fully armed phoenixes to the north.

Judging from his intention, it was obvious that he was going to personally go down and join the battle sequence of the alliance.

The heated strategic discussion in the Dragon Eagle 3rd Army’s command center suddenly stopped.

In the silence, Cai Minjin threw the document in his hand and cursed:

“Can’t you afford it?!”

(End of this chapter)