Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 420

Chapter 419: Consider joining the alliance?

The situation on Hippogriff III was greatly eased by orbital bombardment and the counterattack of the planetary defense forces.

The vanguard fleet of the Alliance Navy left a destroyer and several armed merchant ships in the orbit of Hippogriff III to continue to provide assistance, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up large forces. The rest continued to explore and entered Hippogriff VI, and then entered the capital of the star zone-Hippogriff II.

Wherever the Alliance Navy went, the greenskin fleet retreated!

They had to retreat.

The vanguard fleet of the Alliance Navy had dozens of ships, no cruisers, but several destroyers. With this number and quality, the greenskins’ branch plundering fleets could not resist.

In fact, in Hippogriff II, another greenskin plundering fleet was bitten and lost four ships before running away.

It can be said that when the Alliance army entered the Hippogriff star zone, the originally chaotic space, which almost allowed the greenskins’ plundering fleets to do whatever they wanted, suddenly became quiet.

Humans have recaptured space and orbit, and the battle on the ground has become much easier.

At this time, the main force of the Alliance army also entered Eagle Horse III.

They only stayed here for a short time, and Gu Hang met with the planetary governor of Eagle Horse III.

The other party had signed the Seven Horses Agreement more than half a month ago, and the Alliance came to fulfill the agreement.

The governor of Eagle Horse III took a photo with Gu Hang with the paper document of the Seven Horses Agreement.

Gu Hang left with the main force of the Alliance with satisfaction.

Before he left, he sent eight divisions to Eagle Horse III.

A skeleton division, six infantry divisions, and an armored brigade, totaling about 330,000 people, all of which are troops in the sequence of the Alliance Army.

With them, the problem of Eagle Horse III should be solved.

This is indeed the case.

The participation of the Alliance Army immediately turned the ground situation of Eagle Horse III, which had improved due to orbital bombing, into a complete advantage.

Eagle Horse III is an agricultural + mineral world with a population of about 800 million. At present, the accumulated troops invested by the greenskins in this world are about one million.

The quality of the planetary defense force of Hippogriff III was originally average, with a scale of only a few million people. Half of them were taken away by Yuan Chengchuan and sent to Steel Wing Star. When facing the invasion of millions of greenskins, they had a very hard time resisting. It is not

possible to make everyone a soldier, because the weapons are not enough.

We can’t let civilians fight against the greenskins with pitchforks and pickaxes, right? That would be a pure slaughter.

In fact, the greenskins have already vaguely intended to take root on the planet. After defeating a unit of the defense force on the tropical continent of the planet, they established an ecosystem and planted mushrooms everywhere.

For a few years, they could not be eliminated, and there was no need to send more troops from the star sea. Their own size could double.

However, all of this was destroyed and disintegrated after the arrival of the Alliance army.

The first wave of orbital bombardment took care of the main force of the orcs, and the second wave took care of their ecosystem.

Then, after the Alliance Army landed, according to the agreement of the Seven Horses Agreement, the Alliance Army colonel who led the eight divisions became the supreme commander of the planetary battlefield, and the nearly two million planetary defense forces of Hippogriff III were also under their unified deployment.

At first, the planetary defense forces were not very happy.

Soldiers are always proud, even the planetary defense forces are the same. No matter what, they have fought bloody battles with the greenskins in the past month and suffered heavy losses. Although they failed to win, they also paid a sacrifice. We are very happy that the Alliance came to help us, but how can we give all the power to you all at once?

If you are the Star Army, it’s fine. We are all defense forces. You are awesome just because you have a little money?

However, the governor of Hippogriff III is quite reliable. Under his strong orders, the defense forces are still obedient.

Moreover, after the war began, the generals and officers of the defense forces quickly disappeared even if they were not happy.

No matter how unhappy they are, can they resist others and fight?

The Alliance Army, which had obtained the power of general command, had no intention of using the local troops as cannon fodder, as the local army worried. Although they were still required to fill the battle line with the one million people participating in the war, they were only responsible for filling the line. In the real battle, the Alliance Army rolled up their sleeves and went up.

The well-equipped Skeleton Division, with its own armored forces as the spearhead, found a place and rushed into the tropical rainforest of Eagle Horse III.

The lion king led the lions to knock down and crush the jungle trees mercilessly. The elite tanks equipped with anti-gravity engines did not care about the road conditions at all. Strong power and highly passable tracks are basic configurations. When on the muddy road, the anti-gravity equipment can be activated when necessary, and the weight of the vehicle body is greatly reduced, and it can even float a few centimeters off the ground for a short time. It can really go on any bad road.

The greenskins’ strongholds were eliminated one by one, and the Alliance soldiers following behind quickly eliminated all threats. The local defense forces behind them just delivered supplies, burned mushrooms and battlefields with flamethrowers, and helped cut trees to clear the way.

It was precisely because they accompanied the Alliance army to do these “odd jobs” that they saw with their own eyes how the Alliance fought.

Those greenskin orcs, who were quite difficult to deal with in their eyes, were defeated by the impact of the Alliance’s steel torrent, even with the rainforest as cover.

If the greenskins wanted to fight with the Alliance’s army, they would first have to endure a round of fierce artillery bombardment from the self-propelled artillery regiments that always accompanied the main force, and then the ruthless crushing of the armored forces.

Even if they really managed to get close to the Alliance tanks, the Alliance’s infantry would not be vegetarians.

They generally had excellent shooting skills, superb tactical skills, and high morale, and were not afraid of direct confrontation with the greenskins. The heavy machine guns in the squad, the heavy bolters and infantry guns and rocket launchers in the company, as infantry firepower, would also make those greenskins suffer a lot.

When the two sides were very close, they were often able to seize the opportunity and use more than a dozen guns to concentrate fire on one orc after another, without dispersing firepower, and the coordination was quite perfect.

Even if it was really a close call, the soldiers of the Alliance would not be afraid to use bayonets, and several people would encircle and suppress the rushing green orcs in groups.

Although the orcs with thick skin and strong strength could cause considerable casualties to the soldiers of the Alliance when they were close to the gun, relying on their tenacious vitality and powerful ka-ka guns, the local defense forces had never seen the soldiers of the Alliance being afraid.

Even if they really had to retreat, it was an order from their superiors to carry out strategic tasks, rather than being easily defeated.

If the gap in equipment was still the gap that the defense forces of the Eagle Horse III were dissatisfied with, then the gap in combat skills, tactical capabilities, and fighting will was really beyond words.

The quickly convinced Hippogriff III defense army became more obedient. They actively cooperated with the actions of the Alliance Army and gradually got rid of the haze of the past month, thinking that everything was going to end and that they could not win.

They began to believe that with the help of the Alliance Army, victory would eventually belong to them.

The morale of the planetary defense army was also helpful to the Alliance Army.

After all, the Alliance Army only had more than 300,000 people on Hippogriff III, but they had to face millions of greenskins. It was impossible for them to defeat them all by themselves.

The greenskins liked to use garbage, but they were not really garbage.

The two million army of Hippogriff III was still a force that should be used well.

With closer cooperation between the two sides, the Irontooth Orcs’ territory on the tropical continent of Hippogriff III became increasingly tight.

The orcs were not willing to sit and wait for death.

They also launched a fierce and cunning counterattack.

A defense army that obeyed the command of the Alliance Army was encircling and suppressing a group of orcs who had lost all their heavy firepower and armor with an eight-fold advantage in strength.

This should have been a relatively simple task. Even if they fought face to face, the defense army could be overwhelmed by the orc army even if they had a four-fold advantage. But if the greenskins lost their heavy artillery, killing tanks, war trucks, and giant scimitars, they would still be unable to fight against the defense army with heavy artillery support with only rifles and machetes.

Although there would still be some casualties in destroying them, it was still a battle with a 90% chance of winning.

If they really encountered that 10% accident, there was an infantry regiment of the Alliance Army not far away, and they would be able to support them soon.

However, the accident really happened.

A greenskin army came from outside and surrounded them.

They could only ask for help.

The Alliance infantry regiment immediately rushed to support them, but the number of enemies was far more than the initial estimate, and they were also besieged.

They continued to ask for help, and a Alliance Army division plus a defense army of about 100,000 people came.

Then, they were also surrounded.

At this time, the human side realized that the number of enemies was not only large, but also had advanced units such as killing tanks, death tanks, and heavy orcs.

With the combat power and numbers of this greenskin, they could have wiped out the human troops in the encirclement long ago, and they wouldn’t even have given them a chance to ask for help. The

reason they didn’t do this was of course intentional, just fishing, or to say, to surround and attack the reinforcements.

This wave attracted 40,000 Alliance Army and 100,000 defense troops, which was enough. The iron-toothed boss who led the team personally planned to close the net with satisfaction.

He even took out a group of Squigs that had been hidden for a long time.

Squigs are an excellent war weapon. They are like huge unicorns, and the smallest one is as big as a Lion King tank.

On their huge bodies, there is a layer of thick scales. Their skin is also extremely tough, and their bones are like steel.

The greenskin craftsmen will also hang a lot of armor on their bodies.

While being adequately protected, its brute force, fangs and big feet can all break down those solid fortifications. They often carry a huge cannon on their backs, and there are many fighting compartments hanging on both sides of their bodies, where the greenskins shoot down or throw explosives.

Therefore, the Skug monster can be used as a battle tank, a troop carrier and a siege weapon at the same time.

However, despite the huge investment, the greenskins still got stuck when closing the net.

Even though this division of the Alliance Army was surrounded, it was still unexpectedly tough to deal with.

Heavy artillery is the core of the infantry division, and it caused the greenskins a lot of trouble. A large number of advanced units were destroyed by heavy artillery in the battle.

The terrifying Squig monsters could not withstand too many heavy artillery bombardments.

The greenskins thought of many ways to deal with the trapped heavy artillery of the Alliance Army. The air strikes of the Orc Flying Squadron, the airborne infiltration of the special warfare boys, the heavy artillery bombardment, the armored monsters’ advances…

Of course, there were results, but on the one hand, they were not completely wiped out, and on the other hand, they also suffered heavy losses.

The infantry division of the Alliance also pays great attention to air defense. The air defense vehicles are equipped with a special air defense servo skull with a strong locking effect, and they also carry air defense missiles; individual soldiers also have air defense missiles; the flight squadron of the Alliance Army will not sit idly by and watch their comrades being besieged. Feng Falcon and Qilin took off one after another and fought with the greenskin air force.

The Greenskins’ air force suffered heavy losses, while the special forces that infiltrated were fiercely blocked by the Alliance Army’s guard artillery array and were annihilated wave after wave.

The armored beast assault was effective. The dispatch of the Squig monsters often managed to take down a position, but the retreating humans, even if they suffered heavy losses, were extremely tenacious and quickly rebuilt new positions in the back. The monsters had to bite off piece by piece and had to bear the risk of being hit by heavy firepower. Heavy artillery

bombardment was also useful. The Greenskins had assembled a lot of artillery at this time.

However, the bombardment would take a long time, and it was destined to be a problem that could not be solved immediately.

The iron-toothed boss found it embarrassing that if they wanted to completely bite off this group of besieged human troops, the Greenskins themselves would have to lose 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the losses of various advanced units would not be small. At the same time, it would take at least six or seven days.

If you want to reduce losses, you can also adopt a siege tactic, trapping the other side until they are out of ammunition and food, so there will be no need to kill too many Greenskins. But it would take at least two or three months.

Before he could decide what to do, the human reaction came first.

The Skeleton Division of the Alliance Army, with an armored brigade, arrived directly. Two hundred thousand defense forces were also assembled.

This annihilation war, which was originally just a fishing and siege of the greenskin orcs, quickly turned into a major battle.

The greenskin boss was also fierce. Since it had come to this, he was constantly mobilizing reinforcements.

In the fierce battle that lasted for a month, both sides continued to mobilize troops and add fuel to the fire, and the war became more and more intense.

In the end, the total number of troops participating in this battle reached more than one million.

The final result was that the human side won.

When one after another Squig armored beasts died under the heavy artillery of humans and died in the collision with the lion king; when one after another greenskin armored units were destroyed by various anti-armor firepower; when one greenskin boy after another was knocked down by various weapons…

the greenskin boss was also knocked down by a plasma gun in a charge he led himself, and then the hot melt bomb destroyed him.

The orc army collapsed.

Almost 300,000 greenskins were destroyed in this battle.

Although the planetary defense force lost more than 300,000, the Alliance Army also paid more than 70,000 sacrifices for this, and various armored units and artillery units also suffered heavy losses.

However, the victory of this main battle also laid the foundation for the victory of the entire ground battle of Hippogriff III.

The greenskin army, which lost its commander, became a mess. More importantly, their elite forces were almost lost, leaving the remaining 500,000 or 600,000 greenskins who were still alive, seriously lacking advanced units, and their overall combat effectiveness became extremely low.

At present, they can no longer pose any threat to Hippogriff III. In addition to the war zone, Hippogriff III has been working hard to restore production and social order.

In the war zone, these greenskins will be completely wiped out in half a year at most.

The governor of Hippogriff III was very happy.

He personally went to the front line to express his condolences to the Alliance Army and his own defense army.

The governor praised the colonel of the Skull Division and even prepared medals and ranks. How can the rank of colonel show his contribution? At least the rank of general!

But the colonel of the Alliance refused and left a sentence:

“Perhaps, all ranks will be unified before long.”

After hearing this, the governor of Hippogriff III didn’t know whether he should be happy or not.

…

The battle of Hippogriff III is a microcosm of the situation in the entire star zone.

When the Alliance’s military vanguard entered the Hippogriff star zone, many worlds here played out similar situations.

The pattern is similar. Once the Alliance fleet enters the corresponding star system, it drives away or destroys the greenskin ships, then provides orbital support to the corresponding planet, and then looks at the situation on the planet and deploys some troops.

Hippogriff III is small, and the greenskin threat is not big to be honest. There are only a million orcs, and eight divisions can solve it.

The bigger problem is Hippogriff II. There are three human worlds in this star system, and the main star has a population of 4 billion. This is also the world with the largest population in the Hippogriff region.

The entire Hippogriff region, 12 worlds together, has a population of only about 15 billion. The second and third stars of Hippogriff II have only tens of millions of people, and are pure mineral planets.

The main star of Hippogriff II was attacked by the greenskins. Tens of millions of greenskins descended on this world. The defense forces on the main star of Hippogriff II were beaten. In a month, many key cities were conquered, and the defense forces were defeated.

The Alliance Army invested an entire army group here.

More than 20 million soldiers of the Alliance Army undoubtedly withstood the attack of the green-skinned orcs, and united with almost the same number of defense forces to begin to conquer the lost land and destroy the green-skinned ecosystem.

The situation in the Eagle Horse Star Region can be regarded as quickly stabilized after the Alliance army entered.

This matter is actually quite shocking.

Gu Hang’s group photo with the planetary governors and the example of the Alliance army’s overwhelming victory in the Eagle Horse Star Region were all sent to multiple surrounding star regions along with the star language message.

This made the work of the Alliance diplomats much smoother.

Some star regions that were not beaten may still be considering and waiting. However, another star region that was also invaded, the Mist Horse Star Region, quickly changed its attitude.

They are willing to accept the Seven Horses Agreement, and only hope that the Alliance army can go there quickly.

Mist Horse has thirteen worlds, one more than Eagle Horse, but the total population size is smaller, about 13.4 billion, basically dominated by agricultural worlds, mining worlds, and barren worlds. Even the capital planet, Wuma I, is just an ordinary civilized world with a population of only three billion.

The invasion suffered by the Mist Horse Sector was not as fierce as that suffered by the Hippogriff Sector. In fact, a considerable number of the invading greenskin orcs jumped from Steel Wing Star to Green Spring II to enter the Mist Horse Sector. The conflict star area that the Mist Horse Sector is dealing with, that is, the direction of the Copper Pass Sector, is not the main attack direction of the orcs.

However, the Mist Horse Sector does not have a barrier like Steel Wing Star to resist and attract the main force of the orcs.

The entire star area was directly invaded by the greenskin orcs, and most of them have been caught in the flames of war.

There is no naval force in the star area, and the army only has the local planetary defense force, which is limited in strength.

More importantly, there is no space delivery capability, which means that each planet is an isolated island, and the army cannot support each other. Some planets are not seriously invaded, and they can still control the situation and not collapse. Obviously, there is enough power to support other planets with serious situations, but it is unable to do so due to the limitation of delivery problems.

After seeing the Alliance easily solve the threat of the Hippogriff region, which was more serious than their own, the governors of the Mist Horse could not help it.

Their star region leader had not nodded yet and was still arguing with the diplomats of the Alliance, but many planetary governors in the Mist Horse region could not help it. They contacted the Alliance privately first and expressed their willingness to sign.

The idea of these people was also very simple. As a planetary governor, they should save their lives first.

Moreover, as long as the signature is signed, why would they care about the star region government? According to the Seven Horses Agreement, not only military protection and trade alliance, but also the imperial tax will be collected by the Alliance.

After signing, the star region government is shit.

For these planets, the Alliance took them all with a stroke of the pen.

However, the diplomats of the Alliance also made it clear to the governors of the Mist Horse that if they signed now, the military protection they should have would definitely come, and the Alliance would never break their promise. However,

the most important thing in the entire war situation at the moment is the Battle of Steel Wing Star.

The main force of the Alliance will go to solve the problem there first.

Governors, you still have to think of some ways to stay on your own planets and hold on for a while.

It won’t be too long, at most one or two months.

“The Seven Horses Agreement is an agreement of mutual assistance, not an agreement where you can just sit back and wait for the Alliance to solve all problems. However, if you really want to do that, Governor, I have an agreement to formally join the Alliance, you can consider it.”

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6k

paid back 2k, still owed 72k

(End of this chapter)