Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 416

Chapter 415: Warp Point Naval Battle

Chapter 415,

No matter how much the Alliance needs to assemble and prepare in advance for the war at the war point, it cannot be delayed for too long. If

the war lasts too long, the Alliance will have to fight the greenskins on their own soil if the Eagle Horse sector is rotten.

It would be better to fight on Steel Wing.

The departure date was set forty-five standard Terra days after Gu Hang promised Ye Lishia that he would participate in the war.

This time made Lieutenant General Tillemans and Admiral Yuan Chengchuan sweat profusely.

Needless to say, the former is the commander-in-chief of the Joint Defense Force in the Eagle Horse sector, and the latter has just been awarded the rank of general of the sector.

This rank of general is an honorary title, or it can be said to be the admiral of the planetary defense force, which is not the same as the admiral of the star realm army. Although the military ranks within the planet are also recognized by the empire, their ranks are only valid within the planetary defense force. No one recognizes them outside the planet.

Yuan Chengchuan was originally just the military commander on the capital of the star sector, Eagle Horse II. At this special time, in order to unify the military forces of the star zone and resist the invasion of the green-skinned orcs, Ren Wanxia, the leader of the Eagle Horse Star Zone, created the title of “Star Zone Admiral”, and all the planets in the entire star zone were awarded the rank of admiral to facilitate the unification of the defense forces of the entire star zone.

At present, on the Steel Wing Star, Tillemans is the commander of the naval forces, and the entire war zone is roughly headed by him; Yuan Chengchuan is the assistant, mainly responsible for the overall command of the ground forces composed of the planetary defense forces.

The two of them are under great pressure now, especially the news from the Jinguan Star Zone, one after another, no good news, a basket of bad news, and a lot of information for help and assistance.

But how to help?

There is no help at all.

At present, the entire Jinguan Star Zone is caught in the flames of war. There is no need to say much about the space area. After the Yunluo Fleet fled to the Curse Bone Star Zone and the Pegasus Fleet withdrew to the Eagle Horse, the Northern Fleet was in danger of life and death, and the Jinguan Star Zone was essentially abandoned.

Of course, losing the space part does not mean that the war is over. The orc fleet has indeed deployed a large number of troops to invade the thirteen worlds in the Jinguan Star Region, but there are also planetary defense forces on these planets to resist.

In addition, since the Jinguan Star Region has been in the front line of the war with the green-skinned orcs for the past few decades, the economic development situation is definitely not that good because of the war, but the star region government has been persistently migrating people, sending troops, and recruiting soldiers here. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the planetary defense forces of each world in the Jinguan Star Region is stronger than that of ordinary places.

It is not easy for the green-skinned orcs to take down every world so quickly.

Even the chances of winning may not be that great.

The number of Iron Tooth Orc tribes is indeed terrifying, but the number of troops required to fight in thirteen worlds at the same time is also astronomical. It is not certain that there will be many allocated to each planet.

What’s more, the surface of the four planets in the Yinguan Star Region may still be resisted by human armies. After all, on those four planets, there are four army groups, the first, second, sixth, and eighth of the Dragon Eagle Legion, with a total force of over 200 million. These are all serious Star Army, and it is not so easy to wipe them out.

Of course, when fighting on the ground, the control of the orbit is very critical. If one side completely loses the ability to control the orbit, the threat from above is extremely terrifying. The attack of naval guns on the ground is completely uncounterable, powerful, and relatively accurate.

However, there are not completely no means of response.

A large number of excavated fortifications, especially underground fortifications, can effectively prevent the bombardment of heavy artillery.

If a person hides and is directly hit by a naval gun, then it goes without saying that even if he hides 20 meters underground, he may be doomed; but as long as he is not at the center of the explosion, the fortifications and air-raid shelters can play a very large role, and if he is at the edge of the explosion, he will be dead on the ground, but here he may be unscathed.

In addition, the troops should be deployed separately, and the defense positions should not be too dense…

This can effectively reduce the casualties caused by orbital bombing.

However, if such a combat posture is adopted, then the active attack is basically out of the question.

To attack, you need to gather troops; as long as you gather, you will be easily discovered; if you are discovered, you will be hit by a cannon from the sky and it will be over.

If you just defend, the pressure will be much less.

Of course, the enemy will be under the cover of orbital firepower, and the offensive can often be regarded as invincible, but the defending side may not be able to drag out the time by gritting its teeth and holding on.

Although the end of defeat may not be avoided, it is common to drag the battle for several months, one or two years, or even five or six years.

The most important thing is that this is not a human civil war. When fighting against hostile races such as green-skinned orcs, no matter how low the morale of the soldiers is, no matter how desperate they are, there may be a situation of rout and fear of war, but they will never surrender.

The orcs do not accept surrender either, they just want to fight, kill, kill, kill. Surrender is also death, the only difference is being massacred or being enslaved and then tortured within a month. It is better to fight for your life and bite the other side when you really die.

Moreover, the most strange thing is that those green-skinned orcs basically did not use orbital firepower when conducting ground attacks. The messages for help from all directions mentioned this point. Although the green-skinned orcs came in large numbers and their offensive was very fierce, which caught them off guard and caused heavy losses, they were indeed rarely subjected to orbital bombardment.

In fact, most of the orbital defense firepower on the planets in the Jinguan star zone is still in place, and some have not even lost their starports.

Why is this?

It is obviously unlikely that the green-skinned orcs showed mercy.

The green-skinned orcs don’t know what mercy means.

Where did the huge fleet of the orcs go?

The answer is obvious. Either the Northern Fleet was not completely destroyed. Although they have lost contact, they may still be somewhere, involving a lot of Orc ships. At the same time, another part of the main force of the Orc fleet should be chasing the Yunluo Fleet to the hinterland of the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Of course, there is also a possibility that a considerable part of the fleet is coming to the Eagle Horse Star Region.

In this case, can they hold on to the Steel Wing Star for forty-five days?

What’s more, the forty-five days mentioned by Gu Hang is only the time for the main force of the alliance to set off. Even if they set out from the nearest Fachers Galaxy, they will have to go through five star tunnel jumps to reach the Steel Wing Star, which will take at least half a month.

If you really want to wait for the main force of the alliance to arrive, it may be sixty days later.

However, after a personal communication with Gu Hang, Gu Hang’s quite calm attitude made him accept the reality: this is indeed the most extreme time for the alliance to gather all its forces, issue a mobilization order, and then set off.

We can’t let the alliance come right away, because that would cause problems with the deployment of ships. The army can’t just send 100 million people. A series of heavy equipment, even larger loads, countless shells, bullets, and food supplies are all needed.

After all, the troops are sent here to fight, not to die.

And Gu Hang is quite sincere.

The first advance fleet has already set off.

This fleet consists of 20 transport ships and a part of the armed merchant ship escort team. They mainly transport various types of weapons and equipment, shells, food, etc. They can strengthen the reserves of Steel Wing Star through materials, and also make some preparations for the arrival of the subsequent main force.

On these ships, the most important things for the Pegasus Fleet are the technical workers who came with the ships, as well as some important ship accessories.

These are all urgently needed by the Pegasus Fleet.

After all, they have gone through six years of war. Although they have also carried out simple maintenance work in the Jinguan Star Region, the damage to the ships and some parts after such a long battle is inevitable.

A group of professional technicians came to replace some seriously worn parts, and the status of the entire fleet will be significantly improved.

Looking at those technicians, Tillemans even saw some familiar faces.

They were some old technicians from the Feiyi Star Shipyard. This made him know that Gu Hang was indeed very sincere, planned, and rational in doing the right thing.

But even so, he couldn’t restrain his worries.

According to intelligence detection, his previous guess was basically true: the greenskin fleet did not cover their ground forces to attack, but continued to gather forces and constantly spread the flames of war to various parts of the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

A greenskin fleet has arrived at the Temir Galaxy in the Jinguan Star Region.

There are three imperial planets in this star system. The greenskin fleet carried out a wave of bombardment in various places of these three worlds, knocked out some orbital defense system organizations, and put down a group of greenskin legions, and then left.

Their next target is the Eagle Horse Star Region.

The star tunnel of the Temir system is directly connected to the Steel Wing Star.

This means that the opponent that Tillemans has been waiting for has finally arrived.

When he learned that a greenskin fleet was shuttling from the Temir system in the Golden Pass Star Region to the Steel Wing Star, he activated the strategy he had conceived before. The main force of the Pegasus fleet rushed to the jump point of the system and began to wait for the enemy.

The two sides had an expected collision at the jump point.

The Pegasus fleet deliberately wanted to intercept here, and the greenskins could actually foresee it. Although this creature is reckless, warlike, and loves to get ahead, it looks stupid and stupid and only knows how to work hard, but it is actually a very cunning and cruel enemy with considerable combat wisdom.

It is very difficult to easily trick them.

That’s why it’s said that this was an expected battle, short and fierce.

Tillemans was experienced. Before the greenskins’ garbage ships appeared, he had roughly predicted at which minute and which second they would appear and where. The firepower was already accumulated in advance, waiting for the moment when the greenskins’ garbage ships appeared to hit the opponent’s face with the most intense artillery fire.

There were many greenskin ships in the first wave of jumps. They had long expected that human ships would intercept them here. The moment they came out, they had already propped up the dark green energy shield and were ready to fire.

However, the heavy artillery of humans still gave these greenskins who were rushing all the way a wake-up call.

A large number of greenskin ships, under the concentrated fire, suffered a devastating blow because the energy shield power could not be fully pulled up for a while.

Then, under the bombardment of both sides, the greenskin fleet had just completed the jump, and even if the firepower was prepared at the fastest speed, the strength of the fight back was still slightly insufficient.

The key is that the speed of the ships is still the same as before the jump. There is a speed difference between the two sides, which was also caught by Tillemans. The greenskin fleet rushed out as soon as it appeared, but the Pegasus fleet passed by at an oblique angle and circled around the greenskin fleet, which made a lot of greenskin firepower miss, and the human fleet took some advantage.

After more than a dozen rounds of bombardment, at least fifteen greenskin ships of all levels were blown into space junk, while the human fleet was basically unscathed, with only one frigate lost.

This is undoubtedly a victory.

Then, the human fleet withdrew immediately.

Before the war, Tillemans may have had some fantasies: if this wave of greenskin fleets is not large in number, not strong, and not well dealt with, the human side can achieve a big enough victory at the beginning, and they may try to completely annihilate the invading enemy here.

If an annihilation war can be fought, even if the Iron Tooth Clan has many ships in the future, it can at least greatly reduce the pressure and greatly postpone the time for the greenskin wave to attack.

But unfortunately, fantasy is fantasy after all.

The number of greenskin ships emerging from the jump point is increasing, and soon it has exceeded 300, and it is obvious that there will be more in the future.

Although the quality of a single ship of the Pegasus Fleet is much better than that of the greenskin garbage ship, the number is barely 100.

There is still a gap in the strength of the two sides.

If they really fight, taking advantage of the first-hand advantage, they may be able to achieve good results in the early stage of the battle, but it is obviously impossible to annihilate them quickly. When time is prolonged, the greenskin ships have adjusted, and the advantage is slowly lost. The two sides will fight with hard power.

At that time, the Pegasus Fleet’s winning rate may be at most 30%.

Although the one in front of them is definitely the main greenskin fleet, if they can win, it will definitely be a major victory.

But to bet the entire Pegasus Fleet on a 30% winning rate…

forget it.

Tillemans is not that reckless.

He took advantage of the fifteen ships and ran away quickly, withdrawing to Steel Wing Star.

There is a complete orbital system there, and there are a large number of anti-orbital guns on the ground. It is a more suitable place for a decisive battle.

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Today I went back to the countryside for the New Year and then back to my own home. It was already very late when I got home…

I will try to update more tomorrow!

I owe so much, if I don’t start paying it back soon, I’m afraid it will take until June to pay it back…

(End of this chapter)