Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 421

Chapter 420, Turning the Tide of War

To join the Seven Horses Pact, they had to be forced to a certain extent. Joining the Alliance, the governors would not consider it now.

The Seven Horses Pact was still a military agreement plus a trade agreement. As for the imperial tax, whoever collected it would collect it anyway. The governors could ignore it. If there was any problem, the Empire would go to the Alliance

. But if they wanted to join the Alliance… they had also heard about the Pegasus Star Region. Under the Alliance, although there were still planetary governors, after all, this was a position under the Empire, and the Alliance could not cancel it. However, the planetary governors of the Alliance were either the leader of the Alliance, Gu Hang, or a senior leader of the Alliance, or the original ruler. It was a symbolic position anyway.

In the Alliance, the planetary governor had evolved into an honorary position, which did not involve the management of any planet. Even the governor himself might not stay on his nominally own planet for a long time.

For example, the two governors named Fachers were now happy every day on the beautiful Feiyi Star.

Not only the governors of Mist Horse, but also the governors of Hippogriff, have not thought about giving up their own worlds.

The Alliance will not force them.

No rush, take your time.

There will be plenty of opportunities for them to choose freely in the future.

…

There are many worlds in the Mist Horse sector that have joined the Seven Horses Pact, but as the diplomats of the Alliance said very frankly, the main force of the Alliance cannot come for the time being.

In fact, even if the problem of the Hippogriff sector is solved, it is just along the way.

The main force of the Alliance is still rushing to Steel Wing Star. They passed by Hippogriff III, Hippogriff VI, Hippogriff II, and Brokk II along the way. Since they passed by, they naturally solved the problem. For

those that are not on the way, they can only send a small branch fleet to go, and they have to be careful, especially when there are soldiers in the transport ship. Losing a ship will cause huge losses. For

worlds that are not on the way and are very marginal, such as Hippogriff IV, Hippogriff V, and Fire Feather Star, forget it, they can’t go for the time being. However, the problems of these worlds are not particularly serious. There are not many greenskins, and the defense forces can still withstand it.

The main reason is that the situation on the Steel Wing Star battlefield has deteriorated. Tillemans has been somewhat dissatisfied with Gu Hang’s slow march and his time-wasting march on the road, and he has repeatedly sent letters to urge him.

The so-called deterioration of the war situation is not that there has been any major change in the battlefield situation. The most important thing is that Yuan Chengchuan can’t stand it on the ground battlefield.

The main force in his hands is the planetary defense force of Steel Wing Star, and the planetary defense force mobilized from all over the Eagle Horse Star Region during the war preparation period. The total number is about 50 million.

The green-skinned orcs are constantly deploying troops to the surface.

The number of crew members of the green-skinned warships is much higher than that of humans.

In fact, generally, so many are not needed. After all, the number of people needed to drive the ship, operate the guns, and run all the work on the ship smoothly is so large. However, the greenskins often like to stuff three or four times the number of human navy into the ships, and the extra part is used as the “Marine Corps” to engage in boarding battles.

The greenskin transport ships are more like human transport ships. Small transport ships like the Flying Dolphin class can transport 100,000 people at a time; Whale class transport ships can transport 2-3 million people; large transport ships like the Giant Belly class are nearly 30 kilometers long, and 15 million people can be carried on board.

This is still the conventional transport capacity. If it is a little more crowded, a little more extreme, and the journey is shorter, so there is no need to carry so many life-sustaining supplies, it is possible to triple or quadruple this transport capacity.

No one knows how many greenskin boys are stuffed into the main fleet of the greenskins that invaded the Eagle Horse Star Region.

For the ground offensive on Steel Wing Star, they threw 20 million of them in the first large-scale landing. Tens of thousands of airdrop capsules were continuously released. Even if more than half of them did not land in the end, there were still tens of millions of them that landed, dragging the entire northern continent of Steel Wing Star into the war.

After that, not counting the small-scale delivery of a few or a dozen rock airdrop capsules, there were two more large-scale landings similar to the first one.

At present, the total number of Iron-toothed Orcs who are constantly waaagh on Steel Wing Star is estimated to have exceeded 35 million.

Yuan Chengchuan’s defense army was able to rely on the advantage of numbers and the defense facilities scattered on the planet to hold on at the beginning. But as the numbers of both sides were greatly narrowed, the problems of insufficient quality of the planetary defense army and the old and dilapidated fortresses on Steel Wing Star were exposed one by one.

The strategies he originally insisted on failed one by one and could not be realized.

Wanting to annihilate the green-skinned orcs in an organized manner, this was no longer a consideration after the second large-scale landing.

And after a large number of areas were lost, it was basically left to chance to prevent the greenskins from establishing an ecosystem. If the Pegasus fleet in space has time to help with a few shots, then so be it, anyway, the ground forces can’t cooperate at all.

After the third large-scale landing, even Yuan Chengchuan’s strategic bottom line, that is, the task of holding those precious anti-orbital gun fortresses, has become very difficult to accomplish.

Often when a railgun fortress is invaded by greenskins, the surrounding human armies try their best to send troops and generals to defend it. After a bloody battle and heavy casualties, the fortress is finally conquered.

Before retreating, the human army will not destroy the railguns at first, thinking that they can take them back and use them later if there is a chance.

However, after a period of development, they found that the greenskin orcs inexplicably mastered the ability to transform human railguns, and then the few railguns taken away by the orcs became the firepower to shoot the Pegasus fleet into the sky.

That’s really uncomfortable.

So far, the number of such cases has not been large, and it can still be withstood. The Pegasus fleet can just blow up the few captured railguns.

But this situation cannot happen too often.

If most of the railguns are occupied and used by the greenskins, then Steel Wing Star may not be a defensive stronghold, and the Pegasus fleet will be caught in the middle and beaten from both sides.

Later, if the human army on the ground is really forced to defend the orbital gun fortress, they will often choose to destroy the orbital gun before retreating.

That is a very reluctant choice, but it can only be done with pain.

But even if it is destroyed, the situation will be bad, at most it will not be as bad as being occupied and counter-used.

In short, if this situation continues, the Pegasus fleet will really not be able to bear it.

No wonder Tillemans is anxious.

He also heard the news that the Alliance army has been advancing all the way after entering the Eagle Horse Star Region. The combat effectiveness shown by the Alliance Army surprised him. At the beginning, when he just left the Pegasus Star Region to go out to fight, he didn’t know that the Alliance was so good at fighting.

In the years since the expedition, a lot of things have changed.

This is certainly a good thing. The more powerful the alliance is, the better. But… Boss Gu Hang, stop kidding. If you want to come, come quickly! We can’t hold on here!

After Gu Hang led the main force to arrive, he quickly deployed the fleet to a position close to Steel Wing Star.

During this process, the fleets of both sides also made contact, and at one point they wanted to complete a pincer attack on the greenskin fleet in the orbit of Steel Wing Star.

If they could clamp the greenskin ships in orbit, with the support of the orbital defense system, they would even have the confidence that they could turn all these greenskin ships into space junk in one wave.

It’s a pity that it didn’t work.

The greenskin fleet commander is not stupid. No matter how reckless he is, he will not put himself in such a dangerous position to fight a strong enemy.

When Gu Hang’s fleet passed through the star tunnel and entered the star system, the greenskin fleet naturally observed it.

In fact, the Alliance Fleet made a lot of moves along the way, and when they beat up many of their detachments, they actually knew where the Alliance Fleet was.

However, during that process, the Greenskin Fleet Commander, who was also the commander of the main force of the Greenskins – Du Yagui, decided to try to take down the Steel Wing Star before the main force of the Alliance arrived.

It was also under this decision that they successfully deployed 35 million greenskins to the surface of the Steel Wing Star, but 30 million also died in the process of deployment.

This was a reckless and irrational decision, but very green.

Obviously, humans are holding up now.

At this stage, no matter how irrational he is, he has to let go.

His ships withdrew from the orbit of the Steel Wing Star.

He even tried to find the main force of Gu Hang’s fleet coming to the Steel Wing Star after leaving the orbit of the Steel Wing Star to fight a decisive battle. First eliminate Gu Hang, and then go back to continue besieging Steel Wing Star.

But then his choice failed.

Gu Hang would not fight him.

It is true that he has 200 warships, and the greenskins probably have only 350. But most of the 200 ships in Gu Hang’s hands are on armed merchant ships, and the chances of winning a bloody battle with the greenskins are low.

Even if Gu Hang’s fleet joins the Pegasus fleet and goes to war with the main force of the greenskins, even so, the chances of winning are only 50-50.

Even if there is a 50% chance of winning, Gu Hang still doesn’t want to fight.

The probability is still low.

He is unwilling to use all his belongings to bet on a 50% chance of winning.

There is a more reliable way, and that must be used.

Gu Hang avoided the main fleet of the greenskins, and the Pegasus fleet also chased out. The two sides exchanged a few shots in the void of space at a very long distance. They chased each other for two days, and the final result was that both sides lost two small boats, and the human fleet returned to the orbital defense system of Steel Wing Star.

Then, the nightmare of the greenskin ground forces came.

First, there was a dense and fierce orbital bombardment.

When the greenskin fleet temporarily stopped suppressing the human fleet, they took half a day to launch a fierce fire bombardment on the greenskin ground forces.

The greenskins’ anti-orbital firepower and means were pitifully few, and they were originally the attacking party.

In the fierce bombardment, all the greenskins’ offensive actions were stagnant. By the way, the ecosystem that the greenskins had finally built was also devastated.

A large number of greenskin orcs died in this wave of bombing.

It was also thanks to their previous scattered attacks that more than 30 million were distributed throughout the northern hemisphere of the planet. After being bombed, the survivors learned to disperse their scale as much as possible and flee everywhere. In addition, during the orbital bombing, it was not easy for the ground forces to encircle and suppress, which made the number of greenskins who were actually killed not so many.

However, there is no doubt that all their offensive postures were completely disintegrated in this half-day bombing. A large number of heavy equipment that was difficult to transfer and disperse was eventually destroyed in the bombing.

This was a very serious blow.

The orbital bombardment of the human fleet was not over until the fleet led by the One-Tooth Ghost hurriedly returned and launched a repressive attack on the human ships again.

But in this process, tens of millions of Star Army troops had been deployed to the surface.

The Angry Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle Legion were all deployed, and the Alliance Army of about 20 million people also went down.

When the Orc army was dizzy and suffered heavy casualties due to the orbital bombardment, the nearly 50 million elite human army would be an opponent that the greenskins could not resist. In

addition, the situation of the space war has also changed.

The greenskin fleet can no longer suppress the human naval force.

After the two human fleets merged, the winning rate of both sides in the naval battle in the void was only 50-50, not to mention that the battlefield is now around the orbit of Steel Wing Star.

Although one-third of the orbital guns on the ground were dead, the remaining two-thirds, combined with star fortresses, star ports, and armed space stations, can still provide great help to human ships.

The greenskin fleet, which took the initiative to attack and try to suppress human ships, was soon bruised and battered.

Several attacks were repelled, and more than 20 ships were lost in total.

Even if they were just small boats, it was still painful.

The key is that there are so many losses, but there is no result.

The human side has at most four or five ordinary warships, and the damage has reached the point where they can’t fight. The key is that they can hide in the starport, maybe they can repair it and sail it out again; if they can’t repair it, they can dismantle the usable parts and put them on other ships, which

is also a means of emergency recovery of combat effectiveness during wartime. The greenskin ship exploded, and it really exploded.

Although they did prevent human ships from continuing to provide fire support to the ground, the price they paid for it was too high.

However, don’t care?

What about the ground battle?

There are at least more than 20 million greenskin guys who are still alive, and they can’t withdraw.

Including the guys who were lost in the previous airdrop, he has thrown more than 70 million troops in. Even for the greenskin orcs, this is a number that cannot be ignored.

If Chief Titus knew that he had paid such a high price but achieved nothing, it would be very bad.

The one-toothed ghost was in a dilemma.

But Gu Hang was so considerate that he didn’t let him be in a dilemma for too long.

The human fleet seized the opportunity and launched a counterattack.

(End of this chapter)