Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 307

307. Chapter 306, Check the Situation

Luigi Likoshi was one of the few people whose military rank did not decrease during the process of transferring from the Alliance Army to the Star Army and becoming the Angry Bear Legion.

For example, Yan Fangxu was supposed to be the head of the legion, at least a brigadier general, but in the end, he was made the second in command by Gallardo, and only had the rank of colonel. Compared with his official rank of major general under the Alliance system, he dropped two levels.

Likoshi was much better. He was originally a colonel in the Alliance. When he was transferred to the Star Army, he should have been demoted to a lieutenant colonel like other divisional and brigade-level leaders. However, soon Gu Hang, as the legion commander, pulled him back to the rank of colonel under his authority – as the legion commander and brigadier general, he had the power to do so.

It was nothing more than nomination, reporting, and waiting for approval.

Gu Hang was on Koroja 3. There were also representatives of the Star Army and the Ministry of Military Affairs in each investigation team, so the process was quite fast.

The reason why Li Kexi’s rank was raised was to allow him to legitimately command the half of the Angry Bear Legion that came to Koroga 3.

According to Gallardo’s request, the Military Affairs Department issued a transfer order for the Angry Bear Legion to come to Koroga 3 to participate in the war.

77,000 Angry Bear warriors have been away from home for half a year and are fighting in this foreign land.

Seven division-level units are all commanded by Colonel Li Kexi. In terms of numbers, it is equivalent to two large divisions of the Astra Militarum.

Lieutenant General Jaden Hansen, the commander-in-chief of the Koroga theater, did not take them seriously at the beginning.

Just more than 70,000 people, it is nothing in the army of tens of millions of people participating in the war in the occupied hive city of Fino. This matter is completely unnecessary, and he just thinks it is a trick of Gallardo, the war apostle, to play tricks on people.

Of course, he was not familiar with Gallardo, and there was no conflict of interest, not to mention that the war apostle was now unknown, so he had no need to please a dead person, and he would just handle the matter impartially.

The Angry Bear Corps was not his direct force, so he would not give it special preferential treatment; Gu Hang was the commander of this legion, and he had just demonstrated the strength of an A-level psychic. He was in the limelight under the current special situation of Koroja 3, so he would not deliberately use the Angry Bear Corps as cannon fodder.

The 77,000 people of the Angry Bear Corps took the normal treatment of the Star Army and undertook some normal military tasks.

However, Lieutenant General Hansen soon noticed something wrong.

This Angry Bear Corps…wasn’t it agreed that it was only a planetary defense force half a year ago? It was just transformed into the Star Army.

But why is it so fierce?

He assigned them tasks according to the work that the two large divisions should undertake. But this group of people were able to complete their work relatively easily every time, and even under the command of Colonel Li Koshi, they were always able to provide some extra help to the friendly forces next to them.

Two months ago, during a large-scale plague demon riot, a defense force consisting of tens of thousands of local soldiers was defeated at an exit of the lower zone. Tens of thousands of plague zombies, mixed with a large number of medium and high-level plague demons, rushed to the quarantine zone.

There are at least 300,000 uninfected people in this quarantine zone, who are being identified and alienated.

Lieutenant General Hansen did not want to give up easily. He mobilized two large divisions and fought for the place again.

However, the number of enemies was unexpected, and they poured out almost endlessly.

His troops soon fell into a bitter battle, and the tens of thousands of local troops who came to support them were like water poured into the desert, which did not play any role and soon evaporated.

In a week, the area was turned into a quagmire and a meat grinder. Four hundred thousand human troops were trapped in it, which was more than the number of people waiting for rescue in the area.

Moreover, when Lieutenant General Hansen began to consider abandoning the area, withdrawing troops, blowing up the entrances and exits to prevent further losses, he found it very difficult to retreat.

A large number of troops, intertwined with the plague demons, were trapped in the entire complex building area, biting and fighting hand-to-hand. How could they withdraw just like that? If

things go wrong, the retreat will turn into a rout. The safety of 400,000 troops, including two divisions of the Star Army, is not a small number. Even in the worst case, it is possible that the demons will take advantage of the chaos to kill to the next block, thus forming a chain reaction of domino collapse on the entire blockade of Fino City.

This is not a fantasy. Immediately, a large division of the Dragon Eagle Legion was in trouble.

And at this moment, a surprise force came out from the sky.

It was a synthetic battalion of the 35th Brigade of the Angry Bear Legion.

The mixed assault of tanks and armored vehicles came with great determination, and the timing and direction chosen were quite tricky. It was the critical moment when the enemy was about to encircle the more than 30,000 Dragon Eagle Legion soldiers and block the evacuation passage.

Speaking of tanks and armored vehicles, the Dragon Eagle Legion was not without them. Everyone used Lions and Walkers, and no one was better than the other.

But the difference was that their combined battalion had a much closer infantry-tank coordination capability than the Dragon Eagle Legion. The infantry squads and motorized infantry squads of the mechanized infantry company’s armored vehicles could quickly keep up with the advance of the armored forces and could firmly hold the gap torn by the armored forces. On the one hand, the “wounds” on the enemy’s formation could not be healed, and on the other hand, it also prevented the armored forces from being surrounded by a large number of enemy troops when they attacked.

Then, the artillery support company would follow up immediately.

In the nest city environment, the power of artillery was greatly weakened.

The entire nest city is more like a giant structure than a huge building complex. Although it is quite open in some places, in general, the existence of various obstacles makes it basically impossible for artillery to accurately support artillery fire to the place where it is needed at a distance of 20 kilometers.

However, this does not mean that artillery is useless.

It is difficult to hit from a distance, but can it be done from close?

Facing the threat of the enemy, with the help of the armored brothers and infantry brothers in front, they can forcibly build firepower points and throw firepower to the places they can take care of in a nearly direct way. Their firepower coverage has changed from being able to hit 20 kilometers in a normal field environment to only covering a distance of 2 kilometers, and it is often easy to be blocked.

But heavy artillery is heavy artillery, and they can still destroy the targets they hit!

The extremely skilled and smooth coordination of multiple arms of the combined battalion stunned many officers of the Star Army who saw this scene.

The smooth offensive like mercury not only refreshed the cognition of many of them, but also really saved the lifeline of this division.

They did not let the brothers of the Angry Bear Legion fight alone. Soon, multiple companies came to support and assist the soldiers of the Angry Bear Legion to hold this retreat route, and then the entire division began to retreat gradually according to orders, leaving this hopeless neighborhood.

In this battle, there is no doubt that this combined battalion of the Angry Bear Legion made great contributions.

Their appearance not only saved an entire division, but also prevented the area from being completely eroded.

Although it did not completely reverse the situation and turn defeat into victory, it can be regarded as saving the building from collapse.

The key is that this is just a battalion-level battle group of less than a thousand people.

This matter alarmed Lieutenant General Hansen.

On the one hand, it solved a major crisis, allowing him to finally sleep well.

On the other hand, he was surprised that the people of the Angry Bear Legion suddenly appeared there, and they still had such a strong combat effectiveness. He

didn’t need to explore the answer himself.

Many of his staff officers gave him the answer.

The large staff team quickly delivered the report to the desk of the lieutenant general.

There was nothing special about the reason why a unit of the Angry Bear Legion appeared on the battlefield.

They were previously sent to a nearby area for a routine clearing mission, and when they successfully completed their mission, they were several days ahead of schedule.

While the troops were stationed there, waiting for the local defense forces to take over, they noticed that the situation nearby had changed, so Colonel Li Kexi sent a battalion to “take a look at the situation”.

This one look solved the “situation”.

And another thing is worth a good study by Lieutenant General Hansen.

Why is the Angry Bear Legion so powerful with the same equipment and a small number of people?

According to the report of the staff, first of all, in terms of individual quality, every soldier of the Angry Bear Legion has reached the standard requirements of the Star Army.

It’s interesting to say, but there are certainly many soldiers who have reached this level among the more than 20 million soldiers of the Dragon Eagle III Legion, but in terms of the overall proportion, it is only about half; of this half, another half was trained to this level after coming to the Star Army.

This shouldn’t be the case, but it is a helpless move under the current situation.

The soldiers of the Star Army mainly come from the soldiers paid by various planets when paying imperial taxes, and the Star Army may also directly transfer the planetary defense forces to the Star Army.

But the standard level of the Star Army requires that soldiers receive at least five years of military training under the training of experienced instructors before they can generally reach it. On many planets, the total service time of conscripts and volunteers is not that long.

Of course, it is not a problem of the Star Army. According to regulations, the Military Affairs Department and the Star Army Command should not be in charge of these things. Those who fail to provide qualified soldiers will not be counted as taxes. But there are some political and economic factors mixed in, plus some corruption factors…

There is nothing to do.

Hansen is just a lieutenant general, he can’t change these things. All he can do is that when the soldiers come to his troops, at least they can be trained into qualified soldiers by him.

But even so, it is quite difficult.

When there is no war, the budget of the Star Army is not enough, so how can there be an opportunity to open up and let the soldiers practice military skills? Without bullets, there will be no sharpshooters.

The same is true for artillery, tank soldiers and the like.

But if it is just a difference in the quality of the soldiers, it is impossible to have such a big specific performance. To put it bluntly, the soldiers of the Dragon Eagle are not weak.

Here is the third factor mentioned by the staff: tactical concept.

The synthetic force plan adopted by the Angry Bear Legion is not particularly new. The Star Army has many talented people. Don’t you think of it?

It doesn’t exist.

To put it bluntly, the advantages of synthetic forces are that they are modular and flexible, with more officers under the same strength, intensive technical equipment, and multiple arms working together under one command system.

It sounds good, but each of these advantages is bought with money.

If you want to have a small organization and flat command, you need more officers, which costs money. Whether it is training officers or giving them higher treatment after training, it is not a small amount.

Intensive technical equipment is direct money.

The coordination of multiple arms requires a lot of training, which is also money.

The Military Affairs Department and the Star Army are of course rich; but they have more places to spend.

All these advantages are not as good as the advantages of saving money to support more soldiers under the current large-scale division regulations. And when it comes to the decisive battle, large troops have the advantages of large troops.

Synthetic forces, within the entire Star Army system, can only be a small-scale elite force.

To be honest, Lieutenant General Hansen didn’t understand why Governor Gu Hang was willing to pay the imperial tax with such an army. It was

too uneconomical, too honest… Shouldn’t the routine operation be to just recruit tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have been trained for one or two years, bring appropriate light equipment, and then try to manage the relationship, and then be done with it?

In that case, after paying one million tax coins, the actual cost is only 700,000.

What you are doing now is equivalent to a cost of 1.3 million, which offsets one million in taxes.

It’s a loss.

But no matter what, this is a good thing for Hansen.

He suddenly found that he had 70,000 more elite troops.

Although there was only one brigade of real armored combined divisions, the several infantry divisions of the Angry Bear were all motorized, and the heavy bolt guns were equipped to the company, and the firepower of various squad weapons was also stronger than that of the Star Army with the same number of people. Anyway, it

was stronger than his own troops.

With mixed feelings, he didn’t hesitate and began to frequently let this army from the Angry Owl Star take on more important tasks.

That’s different from being cannon fodder.

Supply and logistics are all top priorities; when you are a spearhead, you also need to have a handle, and there are also a lot of supporting troops and cooperative troops behind you. He was even generous enough to give the command to Colonel Li Kexi instead of the senior officers of the Dragon Eagle Legion when they attacked together.

In addition, when he won the battle, he was not stingy with rewards. From the combat allowances of soldiers and officers to the report of the whole army to the Military Affairs Department, he did not miss a single detail.

When Gu Hang came to Fino City this time and met Li Kexi, Lieutenant General Hansen, who heard the news, also rushed over and met with him.

While he sincerely thanked Gu Hang, he also expressed some apologies.

After all, no matter how much logistics is guaranteed and how much merit is reported, when undertaking more important military tasks, more casualties are inevitable.

Gu Hang also expressed his understanding of this.

Although he was also heartbroken about the casualties of his own soldiers, the warriors of the Angry Bear fighting here also brought a lot of benefits and interests.

When the Astra Militarum fights, it is not in vain.

Otherwise, he would not have instructed Li Kexi to perform normally in the battle. Otherwise, even if he was slacking off, the command of the Dragon Eagle Corps would not have discovered it.

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4.2k There is another chapter

in the second half of yesterday

night, but it will be very late…

(End of this chapter)