Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 405

Chapter 404, Iron Teeth War

The total construction cost of the 400 million Alliance Army exceeded 20 billion, and it consumed about 2.1 billion of the Alliance’s military expenditure every year for maintenance.

This is a much larger expense than maintaining 30 million Star Army, even if the total amount is not mentioned and the per capita is the same.

This means that although the Alliance Army can only be regarded as a planetary defense army in the sequence of the Empire, its actual combat effectiveness is probably much stronger than that of the standard Star Army such as the Dragon Eagle Legion.

Normally, the Alliance cannot build such an army. In addition to personnel training, the production and maintenance of military equipment are also too expensive.

But in fact, the Alliance did not spend so much money on its books.

Most of the products, especially the expensive ones, were actually lowered by at least half when they were supplied to the Alliance Army.

This is to make the Alliance’s military expenditure look more normal. Otherwise, if the army was built at 20 billion and the annual maintenance cost was 2 billion, the outside world would doubt how the Alliance could afford such a cost.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the Alliance really could not afford this money. The book price can be made lower at will, but the actual production cannot be faked. After all, the troops really need so much equipment and ammunition supplies.

But the Alliance has a unique advantage in this regard.

Some equipment directly produced by the black box is almost free, just the material cost. When producing relatively cheap things such as firearms and armored vehicles, the advantage is not obvious; but when producing heavy tanks such as the Lion King tank, which costs more than 300,000 yuan per unit, a black box is equivalent to picking up one for free, free of charge. The

direct production of the black box is still a small head. The most important thing is that the production line directly pulled out by the black box is efficient, and the production line itself is also free of charge.

When the same equipment does not need to consider the R&D cost and production line cost, but only the manpower and material cost required for manufacturing itself, then this cost will become very easy to accept.

Moreover, the larger the scale of production, the lower the production cost will be. The Alliance will definitely make as much as it can, and the army equipment that it cannot use up will be regarded as the imperial tax. With an imperial tax of more than 10 billion a year, there is no fear that it will not be able to consume the production capacity.

Let’s not talk about the actual situation. On paper, the Alliance only spent 7 billion on the army, and it was spread over the past six years; the maintenance cost is only 600 million a year, and it is still increasing year by year.

However, the other major part of the military expenditure, the construction of the navy, is not so easy to deal with.

The black box can’t pull out the finished product, only the manufacturing blueprint, and can only produce key components one by one to build the production line.

Although this is already very good, and it also greatly reduces the cost of manufacturing. However, due to the small number of warships and high unit prices, it is not easy to do the accounting.

And there is no need to do too much accounting, the difference in the middle is not particularly large.

In the past four years, the Alliance has invested about 7 billion tax coins in the construction of the navy.

The current Alliance Navy has three Crazy Shark-class destroyers and five frigates, including three “Silver Helmets” and two “Silver Swords”.

This is the main force of the Alliance Navy, plus 21 “Blackfish-class” patrol ships. There is no need to say more about this small boat, and it can only be used as a side dish.

Du Shiliang of the Tianma Fleet saw the appearance of the Alliance Navy, and his expression was a little subtle at the time.

On the one hand, the current combat power of the Alliance Navy is incomparable to that of the Pegasus Fleet, even if it is just the remnants left behind. The cost of the entire Alliance Navy is about the same as that of a Musician-class cruiser.

But on the other hand, the Alliance Navy is also a star sea force that cannot be ignored. They built all this in just four years. In comparison, how many years did it take for the Pegasus Fleet, which is funded by imperial taxes, to be established from the beginning to its current strength?

Three hundred years!

The Pegasus Fleet was founded from scratch during these three hundred years, accumulating ships, fighting, exploding ships, and continuing to accumulate ships… all the way.

The Alliance Navy is not the Imperial Navy. They are nominally called the escort team within the Alliance Star Region. The Ministry of Military Affairs or the Imperial Navy Command cannot control them.

There is no need to unconditionally obey the Empire’s orders and go to dangerous battlefields to fight hard. It is only escorting within the star region, and the probability of exploding ships is extremely low.

If we accumulate our wealth in this way, and as the production capacity of the alliance, especially the production capacity of the shipyard of the Angry Owl Star, further increases, wouldn’t it be possible to accumulate one-third of the Pegasus Fleet in 20 to 30 years?

From this perspective, it is indeed a bit terrifying.

But in fact, Gu Hang’s idea may be even further than Du Shiliang imagined. It would take

20 to 30 years to accumulate one-third of the Pegasus Fleet, which is too little.

If he is really given such a long time, the productivity growth of the alliance is estimated to be very exaggerated. The speed of starship production will become faster, and the conventional productivity improvement can also free the restriction of the Flying Wing Star to pay the imperial tax with starships, and those starships can be directly retained and filled into the alliance navy.

The speed of the alliance to form a navy will become faster and faster as time goes by.

Not to mention one-third of the Pegasus Fleet, if the entire alliance develops steadily, he is confident that he can accumulate a naval force that is not inferior to the entire Pegasus Fleet in 20 years.

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The battleship that Gu Hang was riding arrived in Korojia.

He inspected the recent reorganization of the Alliance Army, and an elite army held a military parade in front of him.

Then, he visited several nests to meet with some officials, and stayed in the Governor’s Mansion for a few more days. He completed this trip to Korojia.

At present, Gu Hang spends half of his time every year in the Governor’s Mansion of Feiyi Star or Angry Owl Star, and the other half of his time is flying around and looking around the various planets of the Alliance.

There is a Crazy Shark-class, two Silver Helmet-class, plus seven or eight patrol ships, which serve as his vehicles and take him around the star regions.

On the destroyer named “Meditation”, a cabin was specially modified for this purpose, which is used for him, his head office, and the Alliance staff group to assist him in his work. At the same time, the star language signal of Meditation was strengthened to facilitate his performance of official duties here and to communicate with officials at all levels of the Alliance, ministries, and various planets.

Think about it this way, the life of the top leader of such an alliance is so boring and tedious.

However, something happened recently that needs his attention.

The main force of the Pegasus Fleet is coming back,

which also means that Ye Lishia is coming back.

…

It has been more than six years since Ye Lishia left the Pegasus Star Region.

She was engaged, but the marriage has not taken place in six years.

But there is nothing that can be done about it.

Earlier, I actually didn’t expect the war against the Iron Tooth Clan to last so long.

The Iron Tooth Clan has been entrenched in the northeast of the Dragon Eagle Star Region for more than seventy years. Not only have they not been defeated, but they have continued to grow in the past seventy years.

From the beginning, it was just a small trouble on a planet in the Iron Pass Star Region, but it evolved into the entire star region being dragged into the war; then, the first Iron Tooth War broke out, and humans, despite having the advantage in space, suffered a disastrous defeat in the ground war. Then, a large number of landing capsules launched from the surface jumped onto human warships in orbit without regard for their lives, and eventually at least fifty naval ships of all levels were destroyed.

The greenskins were reckless, and they launched manned rockets directly from the surface to orbit, and solved the problem in one go, including bombing and landing. This is something that the human army cannot do; after they seized the naval ships, they drove the ships directly to the surface, and the big guys of dozens of kilometers could actually drive to the surface of the planet, and it didn’t matter if they were smashed.

After the failure of the first Iron Teeth War, the star domain urgently mobilized more forces to fight again. However, before the second Iron Teeth War started, the entire Iron Pass Star Region fell. The greenskins no longer only had ground combat power. A large number of greenskin garbage ships that looked tattered and had weak combat power, but were numerous, began to run rampant in the Iron Pass Star Region and spread to the surrounding areas.

The second Iron Teeth War broke out. This was a battle dominated by naval operations.

The human army, which misjudged the enemy’s strength, was defeated again.

The result this time was the fall of the Silver Pass Star Region, the Kuo Luo Star Region, and the Jiang Meiyu Star Region around the Iron Pass Star Region.

The warlord who unified all the greenskin tribes launched a grand waaagh and launched a fierce attack on the surrounding areas of the Iron Pass Star Region.

Humans rushed to fight, and then the third Iron Teeth War started in the Golden Pass Star Region.

In this battle, the human army finally won.

The death of a greenskin pirate warlord caused the huge greenskin fleet to fall into chaos and be wiped out on a large scale; humans took the opportunity to launch an extermination order on the surface of a planet, killing most of the greenskins on the planet and causing the death of the greenskin warlord who personally led the expedition. The

Orc Empire in the four star regions fell into civil strife. After losing the leadership of the warlord, many first-level greenskin warlords began to fight among themselves.

This can be regarded as a traditional skill of the greenskin orcs. Under the leadership of a unified warlord, the greenskins will burst out with powerful combat power; but once the leader is gone, civil strife will immediately begin until they compete for a new leader.

In theory, this is the best time to completely eliminate all greenskins. But in fact, after three consecutive Iron Teeth Battles, the first two were defeated, and the latter could only be regarded as a miserable victory at best. After the battle, there was really not enough power in the star field to pursue the victory.

The greenskins did have internal strife, but after all, their numbers were still there. The internal strife was also between planets, and even between the bosses who occupied multiple planets at the same time.

If you want to recover the lost territory one by one and eliminate the greenskins, you still need enough strength.

And the Dragon Eagle Star Region no longer has the corresponding strength. The support they requested from the surrounding star regions and the higher-level cosmic government is also far away.

In this case, they can only make an attempt to recover the Jinguan Star Region and clean up the greenskins inside the star region. They are unable to carry out a thorough annihilation operation in the four star regions that have completely fallen into the hands of the greenskins.

The Third Iron Tooth War was twenty-six years ago. During these twenty-six years, the Dragon Eagle Star Region established a line of defense in the six star regions that could be directly contacted around the four fallen star regions, locking the four fallen star regions. This line of defense is called the “Iron Tooth Line of Defense”.

The human army often organizes troops to attack the fallen areas, trying to recapture some planets, eliminate the greenskin fleet, and destroy the greenskin shipyard.

But at the same time, the Iron Tooth Clan’s plundering fleet often entered the six star regions that made up the Iron Tooth Line of Defense and attacked the human side.

The greenskins would also fight each other, and the whole situation showed a dynamic balance.

Until six years ago, the star region government felt that it was back. Seeing that the greenskins had not yet formed a unified group, and the entire star region had recovered a lot of strength after twenty years of recuperation. So the star region government planned to organize another war to give the Iron Tooth Clan a hard blow.

Of course, we can’t expect to solve the problem that has not been solved for seventy years at this moment. But at least, we have to achieve some results.

The first step of this war initiated by the human side is to cut off the tentacles of the greenskins extending to the three defense line star regions of Jinguan, Tongguan, and Jiaoshou, and completely liberate the worlds in these star regions that are trapped in the greenskin war; then, we will fight in the Silver Pass star region, at least capture and destroy three to four greenskin worlds, establish a bridgehead, and prepare for subsequent actions.

Adhering to this plan, the main force of the Pegasus Fleet was transferred away.

At the same time, the Dragon Eagle Fleet and several main army groups of the Dragon Eagle Legion also took action.

At the beginning of the war, it was said that it was going quite smoothly. In a little more than a year, the greenskins in the three star regions of the Iron Teeth Defense Line were eliminated by the human army. Then the fleet and the army entered the Silver Pass Star Region and began to carry out the second phase of combat missions.

But here, it became a stalemate and progress was slow.

What was originally expected to be done in three years has been delayed to now, a full six years.

But recently, there is finally good news.

Silver Pass 2, Silver Pass 3, Water Mist Star, White Mist Star, these four scheduled targets in the Silver Pass Star Region were finally captured.

Since then, the human army has established a bridgehead inside the Silver Pass Star Region.

Although the war was quite difficult along the way, the greenskins in the “Iron Teeth Defense Line” were eliminated and four worlds were conquered in the occupied area. This result can be considered to be explained.

What happens next is waiting for another wave of power to gradually erode the interior of the occupied area.

The Star Region Government even formulated a timetable for completely eliminating the greenskins, and vowed to completely solve the greenskin problem in the Star Region within the next fifteen years!

Under this premise, the war goal was initially achieved, and the Pegasus Fleet also had the opportunity to come back for a rest.

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A star map of the Pegasus Star Region is placed at the end

(end of this chapter)