Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 423

Chapter 422, supreme command?

“When Gu Hang first proposed to take the initiative to attack, I actually disagreed.”

Tillemans’ voice sounded in Ye Lixia’s ears.

The naval battle that broke out in the void outside the Steel Wing Star has come to an end.

At this moment, the human joint fleet is attacking the fleeing greenskin ships, trying to expand the results as much as possible in the pursuit.

After the Greenskin Ship No. 1 was destroyed, the second ship followed.

The only two heavy cruisers were destroyed, causing a huge decline in the combat effectiveness of the Greenskin Fleet.

This is still a comparison of hard power.

Ship No. 1 is the flagship of the Greenskin Ship, and their pirate warlord is on that ship.

His death immediately made the huge Greenskin Fleet lose its backbone. Then

the demise of Ship No. 2, coupled with several other ships that were not at the cruiser level but were equally strong, were torn apart by Gu Hang in a similar way. The void shield, and after commanding the ships to annihilate with firepower, the Greenskin Fleet array collapsed.

They began to flee.

So far, the human fleet has won an unquestionable victory.

The remaining work is to pursue the victory and expand the results.

It was at this time that Tillemans finally had time to find someone to chat.

Ye Lishia smiled and said, “I didn’t expect him to be able to do this.”

“Then when you heard his order, you rushed forward without hesitation?”

“Because I trust him.” Ye Lishia said frankly, “Although I don’t know what he will do or to what extent he can do it, I believe he is not a stupid person. He made a decision, and he has his reasons. Facts have also proved that following his command has won us a brilliant victory.”

“Yes, a brilliant victory.”

Thinking of this, Tillemans was not as happy as he should be.

The victory itself is of course worth being excited about, but… Obviously, this victory is related to him, but it is by no means dominated by him.

The problem that I thought of before: the chaotic and inconsistent command of the human fleet seems to need to be solved.

If Gu Hang had clearly told him about his abilities before the battle, how could he be so indecisive and embarrassing when the whole army went out to attack?

He would definitely be able to lead the fleet to victory.

However, he did not say these words to Ye Lishia.

Seeing her like that, it was obvious that she would support Gu Hang.

Tillemans did not think that he was engaging in internal struggles. Unified command was very important. As the commander of the Pegasus Fleet and a serious vice admiral of the Imperial Navy, he should be the owner of the highest command of the navy.

…

The Concerto also appeared in the battle to chase the scattered greenskin fleet, but it had little to do with Gu Hang.

It tore open four greenskin ships in a row, including the energy shields of the No. 1 and No. 2 ships, and also supported the operations of hundreds of thousands of heroic spirits in various greenskin ships. This was also a great consumption for Gu Hang.

After all, he only tore a hole in the curtain of reality and borrowed part of the power of the Storm Kingdom, instead of being integrated with the essence of the subspace within the Kingdom.

The gap between the two is quite large.

The remaining spiritual power of Gu Hang is only one-tenth of that in his heyday.

With the overall situation determined and only conventional pursuit operations left, there is of course no need for him to intervene in the command of the ship.

Just leave it to those naval generals. He needs to close his eyes and rest.

In the process, he also considered the problem of chaotic command of the current joint fleet.

Tillemans is not suitable to be the commander-in-chief.

Gu Hang doesn’t think that even if he tells the other party in advance what his spiritual power can do, Lieutenant General Tillemans will be able to make a correct and decisive judgment.

It is likely that before witnessing it with his own eyes, he will still be skeptical about what Gu Hang said, and then think that safety is more important in action, thus missing the opportunity.

Safety is of course important. Before Gu Hang arrived, when Tillemans was defending Steel Wing Star, the more stable he was, the happier Gu Hang was.

Don’t make trouble, keep Steel Wing Star steadily, and wait for me.

That’s good.

However, Tillemans’s staged mission has been completed, and pure stability cannot solve all problems in the future.

The problem of no established supreme command must also be solved.

However, these things can be put aside, and the current things must be done first.

…

The so-called “current things” refer to the pursuit of the remnants of the greenskin fleet and the expansion of the results as much as possible.

This pursuit battle lasted for more than three days.

In the end, nearly two hundred greenskin ships escaped.

The human fleet actually has a chance to chase again, isn’t it just running away from the star tunnel? Human ships can also pass through.

However, most of the escaped greenskin ships ran through the tunnel from the Steel Wing Star to the Temir Galaxy. Temir already belongs to the Golden Pass Star Region.

No one knows what the current situation of the Golden Pass is. It is still too risky to chase rashly.

Forget it.

In fact, this battle could not have been a war of annihilation. It is already very good for the human navy to be able to defeat the enemy. It is not capable of encirclement and annihilation.

The scattered greenskin ships are running around, and the human side cannot split so many branch teams to continue chasing.

Again, don’t force them to death if you are not sure to completely annihilate the greenskins. If you really split the fleet to chase the greenskins no matter how they split the teams, the greenskins may find that the pursuers behind them are not so powerful, and turn around to knock you down. It is

already quite good to get the current results.

Moreover, although the greenskins have lost half of their ships, the loss of combat effectiveness is far more than this ratio.

In the process of pursuit, since it has been thought that it is impossible to completely destroy all the greenskins’ ships, it is natural to focus on the most valuable ones.

The two heavy cruisers of the greenskins were destroyed in the previous fleet decisive battle. Of the remaining five greenskin ships, which were equivalent to the level of human light cruisers, only one escaped in the end. The remaining four were all destroyed!

The loss of most of the main battleships meant that although the remaining greenskin ships were still two hundred in number, they were actually completely powerless. If there was another fleet decisive battle, and Gu Hang did not take action, the human fleet would be able to wipe them out easily.

The Battle of Steel Wing Star was a sign that the Eagle Horse Star Region was fully invaded by the greenskins. At that time, the total number of greenskin ships entering the Eagle Horse Star Region was about four hundred, and the total number of greenskin legions loaded in them was about 150 million to 300 million.

And now, only two hundred ships have escaped back. Conservative estimates show that the greenskins’ military losses will reach about 60 million.

If we add the 35 million greenskins that have been abandoned on the surface of Steel Wing Star, and the more than 20 million greenskins that are still resisting but will undoubtedly be wiped out in the end, the Iron Tooth Clan has lost at least hundreds of millions of troops in the Eagle Horse Star Region.

This is an undoubted victory!

Ever since the great chief “Titus” appeared, with the family assets that the Iron Tooth Clan had accumulated for decades, and swarmed out from the four fallen star regions, the Iron Tooth Orcs have defeated the human army from space to the ground. Starting from the Jinguan Star Region, all the way to Yunluo, their front was unstoppable and they could only retreat all the way.

And now, the front of the Iron Tooth Clan has finally been blocked for the first time.

Although this is only a branch fleet, the real main force of the Iron Tooth Clan is the legion led by the great chief Titus himself. However, the branch consisting of 400 greenskin ships is by no means a force that can be underestimated.

The loss of two hundred ships, including most of the main battleships, and the loss of over 100 million troops, even for the Iron Tooth Clan as a whole, this loss cannot be ignored.

It is foreseeable that if there is no major change in the future, the disaster of the greenskin invasion of Qimadi can be regarded as alleviated.

But although the disaster is lifted, the threat still exists.

I don’t know when the enemy will come back again.

After suffering this failure, if the greenskins invade again on a large scale, the power will be even greater than this time.

At that time, can the alliance still resist?

This depends on how strong the alliance can be next.

In Gu Hang’s view, the victory of this battle on Steel Wing Star is the most essential thing, which is to win a relatively long time for the development of the alliance.

Although he can’t say how long this time will be, it’s good to have time.

The alliance is getting stronger every minute and every second.

…

After the pursuit was completed, the main force of the human fleet returned to Steel Wing Star.

The battle on the ground is still going on.

Many orcs died in the orbital bombardment, but it is obviously impossible that all of them died.

In fact, most of the green-skinned orcs are actually alive. They

are basically lingering on. In the previous large-scale orbital bombardment, many of their clusters were blown up and exploded. The loss of a large number of heavy equipment means that even if many of these greenskins are still alive, they are unable to launch any large-scale attacks.

However, lingering on does not mean that the remaining orcs are easy to deal with.

On the contrary, according to the estimation of the Alliance Army Staff, if Steel Wing Star wants to completely eliminate the threat of green-skinned orcs, it will be a war lasting five to ten years.

The orcs who have no offensive capabilities have turned into a dispersed and completely defensive posture. They dug holes and mixed spore organisms with native vegetation to form one stronghold after another.

These strongholds will be attacked if they are discovered. The human army will quickly mobilize heavy artillery to encircle and bomb, and then the armored forces will rush in with infantry to eliminate the living orcs and eradicate the green-skinned plants.

If some strongholds are particularly well-defended or large in scale, the human army will not bother with them for too long and will directly call for orbital bombing, and then enter after the ground troops have been bombed.

But the problem is that there are too many strongholds.

Tens of millions of orcs and fart spirits are scattered across the tens of millions of square kilometers of land in the northern continent of the entire planet. Some small strongholds may only have dozens or hundreds of greenskins.

It is not difficult to eliminate them, but it is quite difficult to find them, and find them without leaving any.

Orbital bombing also has similar problems. It is impossible to bomb every stronghold when attacking. Strongholds that are too small may not be as valuable as artillery shells and missiles, and are not worth bombing. Fleet firepower cannot be consumed in this way. Even if the cost issue is not considered, the inventory and productivity are not enough for such waste.

In the end, those strongholds can only be found one by one, and the army can only gnaw them one by one.

Even Gu Hang cannot keep tens of millions of alliance armies on Steel Wing Star for a long time to “suppress bandits”. Many other planets still need the alliance army to rescue.

In fact, he planned to withdraw the entire Alliance Army in half a year, leaving only the 30 million people of the Dragon Eagle Legion and the Angry Bear Legion.

I believe that in half a year, even if the greenskins are not completely eliminated, the remaining number will definitely be less than 10 million, and they will not be able to form an aggregation. The two Star Army Legions will slowly strangle here, and strive to clean up the Steel Wing Star within three to five years. By the way, it is also necessary to serve as a guard force to prepare for the next possible greenskin invasion.

…

After arranging the work of the army, Gu Hang held a naval meeting without stopping.

In the star port of Steel Wing Star, except for a few who were still on duty on their own ships, most of the captains participated in this meeting.

Especially the captains of the seven cruisers of the Pegasus Fleet, each of whom is an imperial general, at least with the rank of brigadier general, they all arrived.

Everyone’s face was filled with smiles.

In the previous victory, the price paid by the human side was very low. Only less than 40 warships were destroyed, and the only ones that were really heartbreaking were three destroyers and eleven frigates. The remaining twenty-six patrol ships or armed merchant ships were not worth much.

So what reason is there to be unhappy?

At the dinner before the meeting, everyone was in a good mood.

There was a meeting coming up, so it was not easy to drink; and since the war had just ended, the dinner scene could not be luxurious.

But no matter what, it could not stop the warm atmosphere on the scene.

However, among these smiles, some were not so pure.

Tillemans and the captains of the three cruisers were talking together.

Their discussion ended quickly, and it seemed that they had reached a certain degree of consensus.

The dinner was over and the meeting began.

There was nothing special about the first half. At the meeting, Gu Hang and Tillemans stood together and happily announced the results of the battle in front of many officers, commemorating their fallen comrades, and announced that everyone’s merits and achievements would be recorded. Soldiers would receive due honors and rewards, and the captains of Gu’s Trading Company who were recruited would also receive compensation and war bonuses from the empire.

The second half was the key.

After most people left, only the seven cruiser captains of the Tianma Fleet and Gu Hang remained.

At this time, Tillemans no longer smiled, but raised the first topic in a serious manner:

“All the ships of the Tianma Fleet are currently here. Next, we need to clarify the command. With the current war situation, the Tianma Fleet no longer needs to be split into two parts. Major General Du Shiliang, the formation you lead will return to the team immediately and will be under my command.”

(End of this chapter)