Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 344

344. Chapter 343, Four Years

years passed quickly, and this is the fifth year that Lugi Likoshi has been fighting on Koroja.

Looking at the ruined city of Fino from afar, he couldn’t help but think of the meeting and conversation they had four years ago when the Governor passed by Koroja on his way back to the Wrathful Owl Star after the engagement ceremony.

At that time, he had only fought on Koroja for less than a year. He remembered that he told the Governor some of his views on this war.

He is a soldier, and before that he was not even a soldier. He was originally just a small businessman active in the garbage town, reselling some daily necessities and minerals, until his wife and children died at the hands of the green-skinned aliens, he took up his gun and vowed to kill all the greenskins.

Forming the Beast Killing Group was all later. At that time, he was just driven by hatred and did it fiercely.

At that stage, he never thought that just to be able to kill the greenskins better, he joined the alliance according to the situation, and actually killed all the greenskins in a very short time. The skyfire that fell from the sky and seemed to destroy everything is still fresh in his memory.

From then on, he was determined and changed his mentality to serve the alliance.

He experienced the entire war process of the unification of the Angry Owl Star, and then was sent to Korojia to fight against the evil demons. From the acting commander at the beginning, he now almost commands the entire million-strong army of the Angry Bear Legion. In the past few years, he was officially promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the Empire.

But no matter how his identity has changed over the years, he always considers himself a soldier, and he can only look at things from a soldier’s perspective.

That’s how he proposed to the governor the so-called military needs to solve the Korojia problem.

But he also remembered that after listening to his words, Governor Gu sighed with a wry smile, and then said to him:

“It seems that you will stay in Korojia for many years.”

A word became a maxim.

With a soldier’s mindset, Li Kexi didn’t understand many things. For example, he didn’t understand why the Governor knew that the solution he proposed at that time was impossible to achieve.

Isn’t that a very simple thing?

50 million Star Army, or 1 billion local troops, this number is simply an astronomical figure at first glance. But if it is placed in the context of the human empire that spans the Milky Way and Koroja with a population of 40 billion, it seems nothing.

In the Dragon Eagle Star Region, there are nine army groups named after the star region alone, and there are many other named Star Army units, such as the Angry Bear Legion. Now only the 3rd Army Group is in the Pegasus Star Region.

According to Li Kexi’s thinking, there is always a way to squeeze out an army group from other places.

As for the 1 billion troops, it is exaggerated to say that there are too many, but for Koroja with a population of 40 billion, it only needs to mobilize 2.5% of the army.

He didn’t ask the Governor about this question at the time, and over the years, he gradually thought of some reasons. For example, although the Empire has many troops, the Empire has even more enemies, and no army can be squeezed out; for example, it is relatively easy to achieve a high mobilization rate for millions or tens of millions of people, but it is difficult for Koroja’s 40 billion people. The mobilization capacity required of the government is not at the same level, not to mention that Koroja’s finances cannot afford to support a 1 billion-man army to fight.

But after thinking about these, Li Kexi’s doubts not only did not decrease, but increased.

The difficulties in reality do exist objectively, but… this is a life-threatening time! You are still talking about this and that difficulty when you are about to die!

Wait until the fucking 40 billion people fall, and the mournful song played by the flesh, life, and soul of 40 billion people echoes in the subspace, turning the entire Koroja into a super magic cave, and then radiating outward to engulf the entire star zone, and even several surrounding star zones, evolving into a star-level threat that is no less than the iron-toothed greenskin, and then you won’t talk about those difficulties, right?

He admitted that he had a lot of resentment.

He is not a Koroja, but after fighting here for so long, watching countless Koroja people suffer, anyone would always be touched. Even if it is just a soldier’s standpoint, he needs to know what the meaning of what he and his soldiers are fighting for is.

But no matter how much resentment he has, it can’t change the situation.

The power he expects to solve the problem has never come in the past four years.

And he can only watch his soldiers send countless bullets and shells to those monsters; watch his soldiers fight bravely, sacrifice one batch and then another batch…

Although the Angry Bear Legion has been expanded, most of its troops now actually come from Koroja. Every two years, the Ministry of Military Affairs will allocate part of the population part of the imperial tax received from Koroja to the Angry Bear Legion. On the one hand, it is to make up for the losses of the Angry Bear Legion in previous battles, and on the other hand, it is to further expand the army.

Four years ago, the Angry Bear Legion had already expanded to 500,000 people; and now the Angry Bear Legion has a direct number of one million, which is more and more.

Under this number, only 20% of the soldiers in the Angry Bear Legion came from the Alliance, which was roughly the same as the total number before the expansion, and the rest of the newly expanded troops basically came from Korojia.

At the same time, the Angry Bear Legion also followed Gu Hang’s requirements and maintained at least 10% of the Alliance soldiers in the newly established troop numbers.

As for weapons and equipment and logistical supplies, the Alliance accepted orders from the Imperial Military Affairs Department and directly supplied them.

But even after several rounds of military expansion, the proportion of the Angry Bear Legion’s personnel was mainly Korojia people, but they were still the best performing army-level force in the entire Korojia. Under the command of Lieutenant General Hans, the Angry Bear Legion always took on very important tasks.

Li Kexi asked himself, they have fought hard enough. At the same time, he also had a very high evaluation of the soldiers of the Dragon Eagle Legion-3rd Army Group who fought side by side with them. The Star Army and some planetary defense forces are indeed not the same concept.

But they still retreated step by step.

Four years ago, they were still able to control the top of the hive city of Fino, and could launch military operations on the ground from time to time to grab some resources, evacuate some uninfected people, or strike at enemy clusters mentioned in intelligence.

Two years ago, they had almost withdrawn from the ground part of the hive, and even the top part of the hive began to be seriously eroded.

A year ago, the Astra Militarum was already overwhelmed. Fino City has now become a dead zone, with almost no army or living people serving the army. Normal residents have either been evacuated in the past few years; the rest are basically hopeless.

In addition, a year ago, there were more and more plague infections and plague cult incidents reported in other hives. Even in Mingyan City, the capital of the planet, the bottom hive area has begun to show signs of being out of control.

The Koroja defense force, which was seriously understaffed and had only just expanded to 200 million, could not control so many super-large hives. In some serious places, the Astra Militarum had to split up its forces to deal with them.

This also seriously weakened the Astra Militarum’s control over the situation in Fino City.

So, a year ago, Vice Admiral Hans made a decision to completely withdraw all forces from Fino City and no longer waste time here.

All the troops left the hive within a month, taking all the healthy people they could take with them.

Then, a cruiser of the navy, together with several destroyers, began to coordinate the attack on Fino City.

This attack was carried out in an extermination manner. There was no more room for scruples. They planned to completely destroy the entire city of Fino and eliminate this largest demon cave and source of infection.

In this way, the freed-up Astra Militarum and the local defense forces could invest their freed-up forces in other nests to solve the problems that could still be solved. Anyway

, Fino City was already beyond salvation.

However, later facts proved that this decision was made too late.

The skyfire fell, and that orbital strike was even more magnificent than the bombardment of the green-skinned orcs that Li Kexi had seen on the Wrathful Owl Star. After all, in addition to a cruiser, there were several destroyers involved in the attack. They did not just carry out one round of attacks, but planned to carry out multiple rounds of super-saturated orbital bombardment.

Since they were going to destroy, they had to ensure that they destroyed it completely.

However, after the bombing started, the first few rounds had a relatively good effect, and the entire upper area of Fino City was basically destroyed. Then, above the half-ruined city of Fino, a layer of purple and green light film emerged, blocking the strike from orbit.

Although it was different from the usual ones, in the end, they confirmed that what appeared above Fino was a void shield.

A special void shield driven by the evil magic of the subspace.

This was too surprising. Even at this time, people were shocked to realize that in the past few years without control, under the festering wounds that the Astra Militarum could not solve, those plague evil followers had actually developed to this extent!

When Lieutenant General Hans held an emergency meeting to discuss how to solve the void shield covering Fino so that the orbital strike could continue, things changed further.

From the hole leaking out of the destroyed upper area of Fino City, dozens of dark green missiles broke through the pale yellow atmosphere of Koroja and rushed into the sky.

Lieutenant General Hans, who immediately felt something was wrong, immediately contacted the Imperial Navy in orbit.

Sure enough, they were hit.

The plague cult in Fino City not only has the void shield to protect the city that already belongs to them from orbital strikes, but has even developed countermeasures. This anti-orbital firepower is undoubtedly a direct threat to the Imperial Navy’s fleet.

The Imperial Navy did not expect this at the beginning. The cruiser “Concerto” did not even open the void shield and was hit by a solid shot.

It is understandable that they did not open the shield. They are not fighting a naval battle with others. In their original expectations, they did not expect to be hit. Whether it is a void shield or an energy shield, it requires a lot of energy to support it, and that is all money.

But such an oversight caused considerable losses.

The body of the cruiser is still strong enough. It is only damaged by a shot. It is not a big problem. It is nothing more than going back to repair the ship. But a destroyer that also did not open the energy shield was unlucky enough to be directly hit by six shots, one of which penetrated the power cabin and caused an implosion.

So, on Koroja, people in the right position looked up at the sky and saw a huge firework exploding in the sky.

Losing a destroyer is definitely not a small matter. The cost of any of the battle destroyers of the Pegasus Fleet is no less than 1.3 billion.

According to the calculation of 10 tax coins per soldier, this is the life of 130 million soldiers.

What’s more, there were more than 40,000 navy soldiers on that fully staffed destroyer.

All of them were blown up.

In the chaos, the navy fleet immediately opened the void shields and energy shields one by one, and then projected firepower more fiercely on the surface.

This bombardment between the orbit and the surface lasted for three days.

Li Kexi and the people surrounding the city of Fino only watched the extremely brilliant “fireworks show” for three days.

And this artillery battle between the ground and the orbit ended with the Imperial Navy giving up.

In the communication for the final decision, the commander of the Imperial Navy made it clear to Hans in a rather embarrassing manner that they would not continue to fight.

On the one hand, they were running out of ammunition.

On the other hand, and the most important reason, is that they can’t see the hope of winning.

Although the Imperial Navy has always taken the initiative during these three days, after all, they can fight if they want to, and fly to the other side along the planet’s orbit if they don’t want to fight, avoid the artillery fire, and come back when the energy shield is not overloaded. It is precisely because of this initiative that the Imperial Navy has never suffered further losses.

However, they obviously have no way to deal with the city of Fino.

With more and more ships being forced away by the anti-orbital firepower of the plague evildoers, the orbital firepower in these three days has never reached the saturation state at the beginning, and it is impossible to completely break the void shield of the city of Fino.

Lieutenant General Hans was also quite dissatisfied. He asked the navy why they didn’t dare to completely destroy the void shield at the cost of sacrifice?

The navy masters on the opposite side were not willing to be outdone. Losing a ship was already a huge loss, and they were absolutely unwilling to accept the risk of losing another ship.

In their words, “The value of any ship is more valuable than all the lives on earth. Instead of letting us fight, you should launch a ground attack. As long as you destroy their anti-orbital firepower, I will continue to bomb the surface.”

This made Vice Admiral Hans furious, but even if what the other party said was not true, it might not be much different.

The two sides could only engage in a fierce war of words, spraying each other, but the final result was obviously that no one could convince the other to bear this sacrifice.

This matter has been delayed until now, a whole year.

(End of this chapter)