Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 417

Chapter 416, Battle of Steel Wing Star

Gu Hang has always been paying close attention to the war on Steel Wing Star.

Of course, Tillemans’ choice in the war at the war point was right, and he fully supported it.

What he feared most was that the generals of some fronts would have their own ideas and give him a big job.

It was absolutely unacceptable to risk the outcome of an entire battle to gamble for a 30% chance of winning.

Being safe is more reliable than anything else.

And later, the green-skinned orcs who suffered a loss were of course unwilling to give up. They chased the fleeing Pegasus fleet all the way to Steel Wing Star.

At that time, the main force of the Pegasus fleet had already been in place.

The greenskins didn’t care about anything, they directly launched a fierce and violent attack.

To be honest, such an offensive posture really brought a lot of pressure.

Steel Wing Star has not experienced war for many years, and many war equipment have only been reactivated recently, so it was really a bit hectic for a while.

But after finally getting over the initial discomfort, they still took advantage of the planet’s complete defense system, not only stubbornly blocking the attack of the greenskin fleet, but also causing considerable casualties.

In the war that lasted for a month, the greenskin fleet paid the price of thirty or forty warships one after another, but the result was only the destruction of some armed space stations and firepower platforms. The most important star fortresses and star ports are still standing. The main force of the Pegasus fleet was also preserved, with only three ships consumed.

If this exchange ratio continues, this business can be done a hundred times.

No matter how many greenskin fleets there are,

they can’t withstand such a fight. They quickly slowed down their attack.

However, during this process, the Iron Tooth Clan released another trick: a large number of greenskin orcs landed on the surface with the help of landing capsules.

It would cost a huge price to forcibly land on a well-defended planet like Steel Wing Star. More than half of the landing capsules were intercepted and destroyed during the landing process.

However, after all, the planet is so big that even a star port like a space city is a small thing compared to the entire planet. The greenskin fleet can always attract attention by feinting in one place, and then other ships will go around to places with less strict defenses and drop landing troops.

Even if half of them are taken down, there are still tens of millions of fearless orcs landing on the ground.

This is what Tillemans is most worried about.

If the Irontooth Orcs only have a lot of ships, it would be fine. They can fight back a little and rely on the planet’s defense system. In addition, the Pegasus Fleet itself is not a vegetarian. Who is afraid of whom? What

they are afraid of is a large-scale ground attack.

The regular Astra Militarum troops of the Empire will fight very hard when fighting with the Irontooth Orcs on the ground, not to mention that at present, the main ground force of Steel Wing Star is still the Planetary Defense Army.

Although there are many of them, there are hundreds of millions of them, and their quality can be regarded as a gathering of heroes within the Eagle Horse Star Region, but overall, Tillemans dare not trust them completely.

The result of the battle on the ground is very important for the naval battle. Once a large area of the planetary surface falls, the anti-orbital guns deployed on the ground will be gone. Without the cover of the anti-orbital guns, the starports and star fortresses will be in danger. If these two big things are destroyed, the orbital defense system of Steel Wing Star will be completely declared collapsed.

Then the Pegasus Fleet will have to run again.

And it is not certain that they can run away.

To a certain extent, they are now blocked on Steel Wing Star.

In order to prevent the worst situation from happening, Tillemans turned to withdraw several ships, leaving the confrontation with the greenskin fleet and supporting the ground battle.

But the greenskins will also respond. Their ships will also move to the corresponding positions at the beginning of the key battle on the ground and fire at the surface.

Although a large amount of firepower will be intercepted, it can still play a supporting role.

The battle of Steel Wing Star started like this.

The battle was still very cruel.

Now, Admiral Yuan Chengchuan is very grateful for the twenty ships of supplies sent by the Alliance before.

Although the Eagle Horse Star Region was well prepared, a large amount of supplies were gathered on Steel Wing Star during the previous preparation period. However, when the war really started, he still found that there was really not enough military supplies.

In particular, the things sent by the Alliance were all good things.

There is no need to say much about the food supplies and conventional ammunition supplies. The key is that many heavy bolters, plasma guns, and high-performance melt bombs are quite reliable.

With one, you can form a solid firepower position; a volley of strafing, or two shots from a plasma gun, can destroy a raging orc war truck, or eliminate a killing tank.

This can often save a position or save dozens of lives.

The land area of Steel Wing Star accounts for 43% of the world’s area, and there is only one complete continent, which is basically located in the Eastern Hemisphere. The ground part of the battle soon reached almost the entire Northern Hemisphere.

But the human army cannot completely ignore the Southern Hemisphere.

The greenskins flew down from the airdrop pods. There are often thousands or even tens of thousands of greenskins in a “meteorite” made of rock and metal structures. As long as one lands, the landing location and the surrounding area will sound an alarm.

In this case, the human forces must be equipped with defenses in all land areas of the entire planet.

Even those seemingly worthless wildernesses cannot be relaxed. If a group of greenskins really land in the wilderness, plant those greenskin spore fungi, and develop, then the subsequent greenskins will not even need to carry a huge loss rate, transport troops from the Jinguan star area, and then airdrop.

They will soon build a unique ecological system for greenskins in the wilderness, from basic fungal plants, to various types of Squiggo beasts, to fart spirits, and even greenskin boys… They will soon grow out of the ground and become a disaster.

If it is still an enemy invasion, then if it reaches that step, the human forces will have to fight against the “planet cancer”.

It is best not to let this happen. Even if it cannot be done, it should be delayed as much as possible.

In fact, the green-skinned orcs actually made a similar attempt.

They tried to drop some airdrop pods to the southern continent.

This also reflects the importance of always being on guard on the entire planet.

It is impossible to expect to kill all the green-skinned orcs. There are many orc boys and farts on their hundreds of ships. In fact, some green-skinned ships were halfway through the battle and returned to the Jinguan star area to pull a few ships over.

The most important goal that Yuan Chengchuan had to achieve was: not to lose the anti-orbital capability;

the second goal was to prevent the enemy from establishing a stable ecological cycle system. As long as this sign was discovered, even if it cost a lot and even if it required the support of the Pegasus Fleet, it must be resolutely eliminated.

The third goal was to destroy the enemy’s living force as much as possible.

Under this guiding ideology, the entire Steel Wing Star finally stabilized after going through the chaos at the beginning of the war.

For such an “interesting” war, the green-skinned orcs were also quite devoted. They continued to invest power on the surface and continuously put pressure on the human orbital defense system in space.

The war began to stalemate.

And this is also the result that Gu Hang hopes to see.

The Steel Wing Star has become a huge magnet that can firmly attract the enemy’s attention and can also defend it. That is the best.

At present, it seems that if the greenskins do not further increase their troops on a large scale, the Steel Wing Star will not be able to defend for two months, but it is very likely to defend for half a year or a year.

But soon, these greenskins also took some measures that Gu Hang did not want to see.

While blocking the Steel Wing Star, their main force separated a part of its strength and came to the interior of the Eagle Horse Star Region with a dozen or twenty small garbage ships as the structure.

This cannot be stopped.

If the enemy divides its forces on a large scale, then the Pegasus Fleet is not dead, they can chase behind and concentrate their forces to eliminate the enemies who have divided their forces; but if it is only such a small-scale separation, the main force still gathers on the Steel Wing Star, and the Pegasus Fleet immediately starts a decisive battle. If it leaves the cover of the Steel Wing Star orbital system, the winning rate is still very low.

They still have to shrink and cannot control those small-scale divisions.

However, the significance of this small-scale division is not that great.

A dozen small green-skinned garbage ships may not have the same combat capability as ordinary human frigates. In addition, their skins are thin, so it is unlikely that they can destroy a planet’s orbital defense system independently.

However, the orbital defense systems of many planets in the Eagle Horse Star Region are just average, and there is nothing they can do

about these garbage ships. These garbage ships are just having fun everywhere, bombing this planet a few times, dropping a bunch of airdrop pods, and then changing to another star system.

Soon, the entire Eagle Horse Star Region was caught in the flames of war. In the star region, almost every one of the twelve worlds was invaded by greenskins, but the situation was either serious or minor.

Even the neighboring Mist Horse Star Region to the north suffered.

The greenskin ships that slipped from Steel Wing Star to the Cuiquan II Star System in the Mist Horse Star Region, and the greenskins that invaded Cuiquan I from the Copper Pass Star Region, which was already in a war zone, made the situation in the Mist Horse Star Region deteriorate rapidly.

And this behavior of the greenskins has greatly interfered with the support of various human worlds for the war.

The productivity of many planets was destroyed, and because of the invasion, they were forced to find ways to take care of the current problems, slowing down their contribution to the overall war situation.

At the same time, the Iron Tooth Clan’s behavior of spreading the flames of war across the board also caused panic in many star regions.

These are of course disadvantages, but from another perspective, when the panic was catalyzed, a plan that Gu Hang was promoting became smooth.

While the entire alliance launched the wartime system and raced against time to gather forces and prepare to participate in the war, the alliance was also making political efforts on many sides.

The location of the Tianma star region is located in the southeast corner of the entire Dragon Eagle star region. This place is also called “Seven Horse Land”.

The reason for this name is that in this corner, with the Tianma star region as the center, there are six star regions around it: Eagle Horse, Mist Horse, Purple Horse, Bian Horse, Reclamation Horse, and Iron Horse.

Together, it is the so-called Seven Horse Land.

And Gu Hang is promoting the establishment of the “Seven Horse Agreement”, which is a military joint defense agreement.

In order to face the attack of the green-skinned orcs, he hopes to establish a wartime mechanism to integrate the forces of the other six star regions. This agreement should stipulate that each star region should establish a unified military command system and a unified resource allocation mechanism under the Seven Horses Agreement.

Of course, the leader of the Seven Horses Agreement is naturally the Pegasus Star Region, that is, the Alliance.

The Alliance will ensure the military security of every world in the agreement.

Gu Hang’s envoys have been traveling to various places on the fast traveler, carrying his letters to discuss with the heads of the major star regions and the planetary governors.

The negotiation process of the Seven Horses Agreement was not very smooth.

Isn’t your leader Gu taking advantage of the war to expand your so-called alliance?

How big is the difference between signing this Seven Horses Agreement and joining the Alliance?

Although, after signing the agreement, the Alliance will not continue to expand its own system outward. However, in terms of military affairs, it must listen to the deployment of the Seven Horses Agreement. The Planetary Defense Force is no longer its own. In addition, there is a financial expenditure to fully support the “Entente Legion”. Providing soldiers and resources…

Of course, each planet will have great doubts about this.

Imperial taxes are already a huge burden on each planet, and you have to pay a “protection fee” to your alliance?

Why?

You can’t stop the attack of the greenskins by yourself.

Another important factor is the situation of the entire star field.

Not to mention the battle situation in the eastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Field, in the central and even western parts of the star field, that is where the greenskin frenzy is more turbulent.

The focus battle on Steel Wing Star can not be regarded as a real iron-toothed main force.

In fact, the main force led by the orc chieftain named “Titus” chased the remnants of the Yunluo Fleet and burned the war all the way to the core area of the Dragon Eagle Star Field.

From the Jinguan Star Field to the Curse Bone Star Field, and then to the Snow Eagle Star Field and the Speed Eagle Star Field, they have been completely swept by the greenskin wave. The Yunluo Star Field, where the capital of the star field is located, and the Steel Fire Dragon Star Field, where the only forging world in the Dragon Eagle Star Field, Jindi Star, is located, are probably the next stage of the greenskin orcs’ targets.

In fact, the difficulty of conducting star language communication from the Seven Horses to the Star Region Capital has become extremely difficult because of the greenskin wave. The work of the Empire’s taxation, which should have been started, was forced to stop because of this – the tax fleet could not pass, and the road in the middle had been cut off by the greenskins.

In this situation, Governor Gu claimed that he had been authorized by the Star Region Government to do extraordinary things in extraordinary times, and even had the authority to allocate the current imperial tax.

Many people doubted this and didn’t know whether it was true or not.

But in the confusion, some people made a decisive choice.

The head of the Eagle Horse Star Region, Ren Wanxia, took the lead in announcing that he and all the planetary governors in his star region would sign this “Seven Horses Agreement”.

This is a good leading role.

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I slept all day yesterday, and I felt better after taking antipyretics at night. I barely finished this chapter.

Let’s see if I have the energy to write another chapter tonight.

I went to sleep again.

There is also a star map of the war zone at the back.

(End of this chapter)