Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 415

Chapter 414, Total War

Gu Hang accepted the invitation to join the war and was willing to personally lead the alliance’s army to the Eagle Horse Star Region to participate in the war. Of course, there was a factor about Ye Lixia, but it was not the key.

The most important reason was that the enemy had already reached the door, and this war had to be fought.

In the past, Gu Hang had reservations about the Dragon Eagle Star Region government’s war strategy against the Iron Tooth Clan. He felt that things here had not been cleaned up for decades, and if they were delayed until now, it would sooner or later explode.

However, it was still a little too fast, so that people were caught off guard.

After all, not long ago, the Star Region government had just declared that they had won the war and achieved considerable results in the war. But now, everything is actually on the verge of collapse.

Relatively speaking, the current strength of the alliance is still somewhat insufficient to deal with this disaster that may endanger the entire star region.

He does not have the ability to cover the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region for the time being.

Gu Hang had to admit that he was indeed worried about the current situation in the star region.

But this did not prevent him from making the right decision.

However, although it has been decided to join the war, it is not time to send troops right now.

The situation in the Eagle Horse Star Region is difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, if Gu Hang leaves in a hurry now, there will be no good results. By then, not only will he not be able to ease the situation, but he will also be involved, which will be a more earth-shattering thing.

Gu Hang realized that fighting the green-skinned orcs cannot be a situation of adding fuel to the fire, which will only make the fire burn more and more vigorously. Unfortunately, he does not have enough power to pacify the iron-toothed orcs in one fell swoop.

But it is precisely because of this that the alliance must gather as much strength as possible. Only by clenching your fists can you accumulate the strength to change the situation.

The war machine of the alliance has been turning since Gu Hang received the situation report from Ye Lishia.

The branch of the Pegasus Fleet in the star region originally received an order from Lieutenant General Tillemans, requiring Du Shiliang to lead all ships and go to the Eagle Horse Star Region immediately.

However, he was stopped by Gu Hang.

Gu Hang requested that Du Shiliang and the two cruisers he was commanding and several other ships should act together with the Alliance’s army.

With the Northern Fleet destroyed, the Yunluo Fleet fleeing, and the main force of the Tianma Fleet trembling, could Du Shiliang with two cruisers have any ability to change the situation?

Obviously not.

It would be better to follow the Alliance’s army instead of rushing there by yourself.

If something happened on the way, it would be too late to regret.

Du Shiliang hesitated about this.

In the past few years, his cooperation with the Alliance was relatively comfortable. He was also used to following Gu Hang’s “suggestions”. But at this moment, he felt that Gu Hang’s suggestions made sense, but they were obviously contrary to the instructions of his superiors.

At the critical moment, Gu Hang asked General Fofana to do ideological work on Du Shiliang; on the other hand, after knowing Gu Hang’s opinions, Ye Lishi also gave Gu Hang full trust.

Ye Lixia chose to believe that Gu Hang was not using various excuses to save power and avoid war, but really had some ideas.

So, she also personally found Lieutenant General Tillemans and persuaded him to withdraw his previous order.

In addition, the Alliance Navy is also actively preparing for war.

The existing fleet has completed its assembly and will act with Du Shiliang. Not to mention, the two major shipyards on the Angry Owl Star and the Flying Wing Star are also quickly taking stock of all the work on hand to build docks.

First of all, all employees cancel their vacations and work overtime in the factory. The corresponding workers’ welfare will be improved, and “overtime allowances” must be given; at the same time, political and ideological work will be intensified. The propaganda department of the alliance is fully committed to exaggerating the atmosphere of the coming war, publicizing the importance of the navy, and publicizing that this is a critical moment that determines the fate of everyone. All alliance personnel should grit their teeth and get through the difficulties.

For this reason, the alliance still thinks it is not enough. More factory technicians were mobilized to the shipyard. All problems that can be solved with more manpower and material resources are solved as much as possible.

On multiple planets, all industries related to the shipbuilding industry have also adopted corresponding strategies.

The work of building naval ships is not a matter of one day or one night. The cycle of building cruisers at Feiyixing Shipyard is four years for one ship, and there are two docks. The previous ship delivery cycle has just passed, and the new cruiser project has just started construction. Even if various means are taken to speed up the construction cycle, it will take three and a half years, at least three years, to deliver the next two ships.

However, some small ships, such as destroyers and frigates, are already at the end of the construction cycle.

These are the key objects that need to be conquered.

The resources within the shipyard are also allocated in this way. Priority is given to putting all efforts on those ships that are about to be completed or are about to be completed. Strive to add more ships to be available in the shortest time.

According to estimates, within a month, three more destroyers and five more frigates can be available, and the other small patrol ships will not be counted.

In addition, there is another strategy that Gu Hang is also pushing with his mother.

The alliance has no ships, and the Pegasus Fleet has no ships, so there is only so much potential to be tapped.

However, there is another company with many ships in the Tianma Star Region: Gu’s Company.

Although most of the ships of Gu’s Company are civilian ships, transport ships and merchant ships. Those Feitun-class, Whale-class, and even Giant Belly-class ships do not have any combat capabilities.

However, in the early days, there were many armed merchant ships in the company.

The combat effectiveness of these armed merchant ships is definitely far inferior to that of regular naval fleets of the same specifications. But a large number is also an advantage.

The naval department of the alliance, in conjunction with the two major shipyards, quickly assessed the situation and issued a document to further strengthen the armed merchant ships to adapt to the needs of the next fight against the green-skinned orcs.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there is nothing: the basic characteristics of the armed merchant ship itself, such as structure, energy, and power, cannot be changed too much. However, if there is a margin, it is possible to install a larger shield or find a way to cram in more naval guns.

Strengthening protection and firepower is the most basic increase in combat effectiveness.

Although the cost is not low, and under normal circumstances, it is quite wasteful, but in this war period, it is obviously not the time to consider cost-effectiveness. Under the premise of extremely limited time, the Alliance must create as strong a force as possible.

According to the latest estimates, including those armed merchant ships that have been conscripted, the branch fleet of the Pegasus Fleet, the strength of the Alliance Navy itself, and the ships that can be completed quickly… Adding them all together, in one and a half months, the Alliance will launch a space force with 200 ships of various levels.

Although the quality is a bit poor, with only two musician-class cruisers and about thirty destroyers as the mainstay, there are at least two hundred ships here. If used properly, the effect they can achieve will not be too bad.

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As for the army, the alliance cannot send out all the troops. People must be left on each planet.

The 30 million troops of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion and the Angry Bear Legion must be moved; a large number of combat forces will be drawn from each planet, especially Korojia. The Alliance Army will take out 80 million combat troops, including a large number of top-ranked teams within the Alliance Army, to participate in the war.

In addition to the preparation of the military forces, Gu Hang also took out a sum of grace points.

It is not meaningful to temporarily pull out more troops. After all, if more troops are really needed, it is no longer a problem of the troops themselves, but a limited delivery capability.

But in comparison, Gu Hang can improve the combat capability of the delivery troops.

If a large proportion of the soldiers’ level is pulled to the T4 level, then Gu Hang does not have so many grace points.

For a T4-level soldier, 1 point of grace can only train 10 people.

In the foreseeable large-scale battlefield, the role that this amount of manpower can play is relatively limited.

However, Gu Hang has another trick.

Under his soldier card training function, there is another ability that was rarely used before: giving soldiers who have completed T5-level soldier training the “beast-killing” characteristic.

This is a characteristic that has a special attack effect on green-skinned orcs. Soldiers with this characteristic will have a better understanding of the weaknesses of enemies like green-skinned orcs and master the various skills needed to deal with such enemies.

Although their various strength levels are still at the T5 level, after having the corresponding characteristics, they will be significantly strengthened when fighting against green-skinned orcs. If they cannot reach the T4 level, they can at least be considered a T4.5 level.

The key is that the price is much cheaper.

100 people/point, the price is the same as training a T5-level soldier, which is ten times cheaper than a T4-level soldier.

Gu Hang had 100,000 gifts on hand, plus the money he just got this month, a total of 140,000. He spent 100,000 and directly found 10 million soldiers with this characteristic among the soldiers who were about to go to the war.

Compared with the naval force of the alliance, which had just started, the army of the alliance was a more reliable force. After all, the alliance started with the army.

But no matter how strong the army was, the deployment of the hundreds of millions of troops who were about to participate in the war was a big problem.

You can cross the sea in a bathtub, but you can’t really cross the starry sea.

But fortunately, the alliance has more than 200 warships. Each of these ships is stuffed with some alliance army. It’s not about how many people can be loaded on the warships. The key is that those greenskins like to engage in boarding operations very much during naval battles. The conventional marines, not to mention their combat capabilities, their own numbers are also worrying. If someone breaks through and smashes in some landing capsules and landing spacecraft during the battle, and lets those greenskins make a big fuss inside the ship, even if there are only a few hundred or a few thousand of them, it will be a headache.

With the army inside, people can feel much more at ease.

In fact, who says that humans can’t board the enemy?

However, if the naval battle problem can be solved with strong ships and powerful guns, then try to use strong ships and powerful guns to solve it. For human troops, boarding is always a very late choice.

Except for the Space Marines.

On the main battleship of the navy, 500 Phoenixes are ready to go. They may be the key force at some critical moments.

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These are about the military-related preparations.

During this period, Gu Hang held one pre-war military meeting after another to discuss the general direction of various matters.

It is impossible for him to grasp the specific details in person. The mobilization of hundreds of interstellar warships and hundreds of millions of troops is not something he can handle with his head. At this time, he could only fully believe that the alliance system he had built could withstand the test of this sudden outbreak of total war.

However, Gu Hang never forgot one thing: war is about politics and economy.

If he went to the Eagle Horse Star Region and failed to win, or even lost, or even annihilated, and then the group of green-skinned orcs really made it all the way and killed their way into the Pegasus Star Region, then there would be nothing to say.

At that point, everything would be over, and Gu Hang would have to think about how to run away with the bucket, and then see if he could find a place to make a comeback, and also find a way to wash off the stain on himself.

However, as long as it is not that kind of situation, the war will be a stalemate to a certain extent, whether it is an advantage, a disadvantage or a balance of power, then in the end, it will still require a steady supply of all war materials from the rear.

War is not only a matter for soldiers, but also a matter for administrative officials, workers, farmers, and even all 61 billion people in the alliance.

The meaning of the so-called total war and total war lies here: comprehensively use all the power of the political body to fight the war!

This is not a matter of one war. Military is only a part of the total war. Although it is very important, the maintenance of the wartime economy and the continuous supply in the rear are more important.

Can the alliance defeat 100 million troops and then immediately have another 100 million; defeat 200 ships and then produce dozens or hundreds of dumplings in these years?

If it can, then there will always be a dawn of victory in the war.

Apart from other things, the tolerance rate is much higher, and the military can adopt a lot more room for military strategies.

This is what Gu Hang asked of Prime Minister Ossena of the Alliance and the entire Alliance government.

As for earlier, his request for the Alliance government to increase its GDP by more than 10% each year, it will be shelved indefinitely.

When the war is over, we will talk about it later.

For this reason, all administrative forces established by the Alliance on the nine planets in the Tianma Star Region have been mobilized to serve this purpose.

Gu Hang has signed relevant documents, declaring that the Alliance has entered a wartime system. The third-level mobilization order has been issued, and the second-level mobilization order is on the way. A large number of civilian factories were converted to military use, and a large number of people who could not join the army at least had to enter all industries related to war.

The atmosphere of war fell on everyone.

(End of this chapter)