Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 356

356. Chapter 355, Meritorious Forces

“Isn’t it time yet?” Lieutenant

General Hans was a little angry.

“Then how long do we have to wait? One million casualties a day, twenty army groups need to be withdrawn from the front line for rotation. My Lord Governor, my Lord Theater Commander, do you know what this means?”

“I have been in the army for forty years, and I have never fought such a tragic battle! Even when I was fighting with those greenskins in the Jinguan Star Region, the scale was larger, but I never lost so many soldiers on such a narrow front in a day and night!”

“According to this situation, how long do you think our army can hold on?”

“Wait until the legion collapses, wait until Mingyan City is also swallowed up, no matter how many and how sophisticated your plans are, it will be meaningless!”

Lieutenant General Hans fiercely attacked Gu Hang.

Gu Hang only comforted them a little: “I know the great sacrifices made by the Legion, I fully understand. They are also my people and my army. Am I not sad and painful for their sacrifice?”

“But these are all for a greater victory.”

“Don’t I have the right to know about your so-called greater victory?” “Do

you know that this has no meaning for this matter?” Gu Hang said so, but made more requests, “I still need the troops under your command to do one more thing.”

“What?”

“The next stage of the war mission is to attack the city of Fino.”

Lieutenant General Hans laughed out of anger: “Do you know what you are talking about?”

“Of course I know.”

“Can’t do it!” Lieutenant General Hans refused decisively, “This is an impossible goal.”

“Lieutenant General Hans, please pay attention.” Gu Hang’s tone became serious. “I am not discussing the battle plan with you, but the most clear military order.”

Gu Hang’s tone became more serious and grim: “You and your troops must complete the task of attacking Fino City within the next eight days. No delay! Do you understand?”

Hans took a deep breath.

He held his breath and felt that he couldn’t help but vent.

But in the end, he still held his breath tightly.

He is a soldier, and obeying orders is his duty.

And Gu Hang is now his clear superior. He cannot make any concessions to Gu Hang’s orders.

No matter how much he doesn’t understand or agree with it.

He gritted his teeth and replied: “Yes, Commander.”

…

After the communication ended, Gu Hang stood on the edge of the cliff and stared at the battlefield below.

The distance was very far, and it stretched for hundreds of kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers deep. You can’t see the end at a glance.

However, despite this, what you see is an extremely magnificent scene.

All the cruelty and brutality of war, the deaths and broken limbs, the sacrifices and wailing, can’t be seen or heard here. What can be seen is all magnificent.

Explosions are the most beautiful fireworks, and the battle lines are winding and twisting as far as the eye can see, changing from time to time.

But Gu Hang will not feel heroic because of this.

He knows that what Hans said is true. Countless human warriors have made great sacrifices in the battlefield below.

However, not ready is not ready.

At this time, Gu Hang must be able to harden his heart.

It’s not him who is not ready.

In the past four months, the elite team that is ready to set off has been ready.

At the same time, he and his mage group have already calculated the specific method of psychic transmission. Gu Hang himself also immersed himself in his Storm Kingdom from time to time, calculating how to use the Kingdom to sneak into the subspace and go to the core of Fino City.

But he has not forgotten what the ultimate goal of their adventure is: to destroy the anti-orbital guns and void shields in the center of Fino City.

To achieve this goal, it is necessary to reach the target location as soon as possible, which requires accurate transmission; at the same time, it is also hoped that the enemy defense force around the target is as small as possible, which requires external pressure, so that the evil demons will withdraw the defense force of the target area to fight the enemy.

Of course, letting the army under Lieutenant General Hans attack Fino City fiercely and attract the enemy’s attention is only a secondary goal. More importantly, when Fino City is directly attacked, especially the more human warriors enter the revitalized city, the connection between Fino City and the subspace will be weakened accordingly as the node where the subspace and the real world overlap.

And this will directly affect the extent to which some powerful demons, from the abyss hell, exert influence on the real world. What

Gu Hang is most worried about is the big demon, Gowaga Benmo.

Obviously, the plague disaster on the planet Koroga is a major action of Gowaga. It has been looking forward to it for a long time, and it has eaten its fill and is not satisfied at all. Its greedy eyes have already looked at the tens of billions of people in the world, and it will never give up.

In fact, it is indeed very close to success. As long as Mingyan City is swallowed, the entire planet will no longer be able to resist it.

Once it finds that its plan is at risk of failure, then there is no doubt that it will do its utmost to stop it.

At the beginning, on the Angry Owl Star, Gowaga could not pass through the reality curtain in his true body, but it was not the case in Fino City. This place has been corrupted too seriously by the warp, and the reality curtain has long been fragile. If it is willing to pay enough, it can come.

At present, it is at this critical point.

Gu Hang needs the human army to set foot in Fino City. They don’t need to complete the task of capturing Fino City. As long as enough people step on it, the reality curtain will be strengthened; as long as the body of Fino City is burned and the pressure on this revitalized city is great enough, the erosion of the warp can be reduced.

This will also directly reduce the possibility of the Great Unclean One Gowaga personally intervening in the battle at that time.

Even if it cannot be completely stopped, the greater the price Gowaga pays when passing through the reality curtain and the longer it takes, it will directly affect the success rate of the special operations force’s mission.

This was a crucial operation to save the 40 billion people on the planet, so even though they knew that letting Hans carry out the attack order would result in huge losses, no one could be soft-hearted at this moment.

Of course, in addition to the sacrifices that the ground troops had to make, Gu Hang would not forget the difficulty involved.

It doesn’t mean that the troops can get in at all costs.

Gu Hang also needs to find some extra help for the ground troops.

He doesn’t have many choices.

He dialed the communication with Special Envoy Neil Laois.

“I need more support from the space fleet…”

…

This is destined to be a sleepless night. Whether it is the combat soldiers on the front line who are resisting the plague demon army, or the second-line troops in the rear who are responsible for transporting logistical supplies, or the combat staff who take refreshing potions and work all night, they can’t sleep this night.

The ground forces, the staff group of the central command, made a comprehensive offensive operation plan and decomposed the tasks to the subordinate army groups. The army group’s staff is also working, and the corresponding tasks are divided into various division-level units, and then decomposed further…

The entire line of defense, on the first day of the death order issued by Governor Gu and the second day after the battle began, did not move and continued to focus on defense.

On this day, the test faced by the human army was not too great – at least compared with the first day of the battle. The casualties of the entire line of defense were about 200,000.

This is still a terrifying number, but compared with the situation on the first day, where 400,000 casualties were suffered in six hours, 1 million casualties were suffered in one day, and more than ten armies were completely defeated, it was much better.

On the third day, the entire defense line was even retreating.

However, unlike the first day, this retreat was relatively orderly, and they

took the initiative to abandon this position. In addition, a group of troops stationed on the defense line were replaced.

The main reason for this was that “Fino City” had advanced nearly 60 kilometers in the past two days. If they did not retreat, the human army’s defense line

would once again enter the range of many evil energy cannons deployed in the living city. This is also to prevent the plague demon army from once again starting an offensive investment at the cost of manpower and casualties after having more sufficient heavy firepower support, which would put too much pressure on the defense line.

This is exchanging space for time.

Lieutenant General Hans also explained his strategy to Governor Gu: To break into Fino City, in addition to taking the initiative to attack and break in, there is another way to wait for Fino City to come over.

After all, that living city can move.

It advanced 60 kilometers in two days, while the human army retreated 50 kilometers.

The same thing happened in the following days.

Fino City advanced 30 kilometers a day, and the human army retreated 20 kilometers a day.

The reason for doing this instead of sticking to one line of defense is that as Fino City gets closer, the pressure on the human army will increase. The front position was severely damaged after many battles. The position dug out in the rear is relatively intact, which helps to reduce casualties.

At the same time, it will take some time for the various troops, especially those local defense troops, to adapt to such a tragic battlefield environment.

Of course, this may also cause the morale of the local troops to collapse.

But there is no other way, so we can only do this. We can’t just rely on the Dragon Eagle Legion’s own troops to fight this battle. These local troops have a number of more than 50 million, and how much role they can play will have a decisive impact.

We can only hope that they will adapt to the battlefield instead of completely collapsing.

As of now, the situation has not developed in the worst direction.

At the speed of the human position approaching ten kilometers away from Fino City every day, by the early morning of the seventh day, the distance between the front line of the human army and Fino City was less than thirty kilometers. At this time, a large number of evil energy cannons had entered the range, and the pressure on the defense line increased a lot.

But apart from being beaten badly by evil energy cannons and air strikes, the enemy’s ground attack was not too crazy.

So far, the total casualties of the human army have reached nearly four million. In general, the exchange ratio of the human army to the plague demon army in the battle is still maintained at one to seven or more. This means that the plague demon army has also lost 30 million people.

Although most of them are plague zombies and living dead with the most rudimentary weapons, the consumables required to transform them are not small, not to mention that many powerful flesh and blood monsters were consumed in the battle, and many plague wizards and immortal believers who were responsible for manufacturing, controlling, strengthening, and commanding ordinary troops died in the battle.

This also made the enemy a little bit unmovable.

And at this time, Lieutenant General Hans’s fatal counterattack began.

All the Lion King tanks were thrown into the battlefield at once; several armored divisions formed a fist, and even several armored brigades of the Angry Bear Legion participated in it. In the center of the battle line, an armored cluster rushed forward. A large number of elite infantry followed closely behind, ready to provide support at any time.

And at this time, the skyfire descended.

The starships of the Pegasus Fleet were all dispatched at almost the same time and arrived directly above the battlefield. This even included a part of the tax fleet brought by Neil Laois.

Most of the tax fleet had left the Pegasus star region long ago, after all, they still had the important task of collecting imperial taxes on a tour. But the few frigates and destroyers that stayed behind also supplemented the firepower of the Pegasus Fleet.

And this time, their goal was not just to suppress the city of Fino. The starships with full power were not afraid of the bombardment with the anti-orbital guns, and began to exert greater pressure on the city of Fino, forcing them to turn more evil energy guns to the sky for counterattacks and orbital interception.

In this way, the human armored clusters on the ground suffered much less evil energy firepower.

At the same time, a large number of orbital strikes were carried out along the defense line where the armored cluster was advancing, and a round of intensive orbital bombardment was carried out along the line.

In particular, several L-class heavy artillery shells fired down had a shocking effect.

The results of the battle and the number of enemies eliminated were secondary. The main thing was that the enemies in the direction of the armored cluster’s attack were bombarded to pieces and dizzy.

For a while, the ground force’s attack was surprisingly smooth!

The total distance was less than 30 kilometers. By dusk, the void shield of Fino City was already in sight. The spearhead troops could even see the artillery fire from the starships in the sky being intercepted by the evil energy cannons, or those that were not intercepted directly hit the void shield and caused a large wave.

“Charge, charge, charge! Long live the 35th Brigade!”

The troop running in the front was a synthetic battalion from the 35th Brigade of the Angry Bear Legion.

The 35th Brigade can be regarded as a meritorious force of the alliance. It was established early, and during the unification war of the Angry Owl Star, they made great contributions in the war to recover the northern border. Later, most of them followed Gu Hang into the evil god’s domain which was still occupied by the original Angry Owl at that time, fought against storm monsters, and finally killed the gods.

Later, they participated in the war against Blackbird Heavy Industries, which violated the ban on intelligent machines. At the same time, they were also the first batch of army formation troops transferred in when the Angry Bear Legion was just established. They came to Koroja early to fight and achieved many victories. The division headquarters has received many commendations from the Union Government, the Star Army Command, and the Military Affairs Department, which are listed on the wall of honor.

And now, this meritorious brigade has once again become the limelight. In this huge battle in Koroja, they took the lead and became the first troop to penetrate the void shield and attack the city of Fino!

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It’s so cold in the early morning, I’m going to sleep…

(End of this chapter)