Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 442

Chapter 441: I don’t want casualties, I just want Gaomenling

to be the orc warlord who really brings together the greenskin army. When the greenskins’ firepower and armored forces are not shackled and can be used, they also show the powerful combat effectiveness of this race that can traverse the star sea.

This battle line of more than 100 kilometers was strongly broken by the greenskin army. A large number of human troops were caught off guard and were directly washed away by the orcs’ torrent.

Of course, the human troops here are still mainly the planetary defense forces.

The enemy’s large-scale assembly attack is the result that Perbov himself wants to see. It is normal that the defense army can’t stand it.

However, the defense army’s poor performance was a bit beyond his expectations, or the orcs’ offensive power exceeded his expectations.

How could a single assault allow people to break through the defense line and create a large gap of 150 kilometers wide and nearly 300 kilometers deep?

Perbov’s main force has not yet completed the dispatch!

This gap is a bit too big. Even if he has dispatched the troops and won the decisive battle, it is still difficult to encircle and annihilate them.

If they cannot form a siege, the defeated greenskins can regroup and restore their organization and fight again. Only by encircling can we fight a proper annihilation war.

The greenskins are still gathering step by step, and now it is time to close the net.

Perbov is no longer considering how big the results of the battle are. What he has to consider is whether he can have enough appetite to eat.

At the same time, he can’t let his action cause too bad consequences.

There is a large city with a population of tens of millions on the native planet, which is right in front of the orcs.

Tactically, the greenskins cannot be allowed to expand the gap further, and strategically, such a large city with a population of tens of millions cannot be lost. Therefore, Perbov issued orders to the three divisions blocking the front of the greenskin army, requiring them to defend the periphery of the city.

And he himself began to mobilize the main force of the Alliance Army on a large scale to prepare to participate in the war.

Before that, the three infantry divisions of the Alliance Army had to build defense lines on mountains, rivers, and multiple bridges to prevent the greenskins from advancing further and tearing the front line before Perbov’s main force arrived.

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“I don’t want casualties, I just want Gaomenling!”

This was the last order from the division commander that Zhang Zhikai heard on the phone.

He is the major commander of the 7th Regiment of the 326th Infantry Division of the 7th Army Group of the Alliance Army. Four hours ago, he and his men received an order to support “Gaomengling”.

At present, the main offensive direction of the greenskin orcs is to try to cross the river; the human army is guarding along the river to prevent the enemy from crossing the river.

The core of the initial battle was at the bridge, but the bridge was soon blown up. The two sides began to repeatedly fight, rebuild, and destroy the damaged bridge, and countless humans and greenskins died in the process.

After that, the greenskins tried to open up other crossing routes. Those orcs brought a large number of fart assistants and servants to build pontoon bridges and simple bridges from all over the river and tried to cross the river.

There were failures, but there were also successes. But even if they succeeded, the crossing bridgeheads built by the greenskins would be met with the most resolute counterattacks from humans. Often, a cluster of heavy artillery would be mobilized to bombard, followed by a resolute counterattack by the infantry company.

Later, the annoyed greenskins would even find a short river and directly swim across with the armed Squigs.

Of course, this was courting death. Once a large-scale swimming was discovered, it would be a gift. The greenskin orcs in the turbulent water could not even fight back and could only passively take the beating.

Even if a small-scale swimming was successful, it would not be of much significance. It is difficult for a small number of troops to play any role in this situation where both sides have hundreds of thousands of troops.

Originally, the mission of Zhang Zhikai’s 7th Regiment was to garrison along the river. In the area they were responsible for, there were no bridges or pontoon bridges, so the greenskins swam across directly and were severely punished by them.

But soon, this kind of fighting that beat the drowned could not last too long.

His defense area was taken over by two infantry regiments of the defense army. Those two regiments were the teams that had their organization broken down in the front and retreated to reorganize. Don’t count too much on their combat effectiveness, but there is no other way now.

Their defense line has been stretched to its limits under the fierce attack of the orcs, and they have to use all the forces that can be used.

As a standard infantry regiment with relatively complete combat effectiveness, Zhang Zhikai’s 7th Regiment received a new task: to reinforce Gaomenling.

This is a river bend highland, and the altitude is not particularly high, but the location is still very important. It is surrounded by water on three sides. Setting up artillery arrays and stationing troops here can guard a large area of the river. Looking down from a high ground, the greenskins have no way to break through here.

But precisely because of the importance of this place, the greenskins’ rocket launchers and heavy artillery are always taking care of this place; those greenskins who crossed the river from other locations went around to the north of the only land on the high ground and launched a fierce attack on the high ground.

Originally stationed here was another infantry regiment of the 326th Division. They have been resisting here for two days, and it is said that they have suffered heavy casualties and can’t stand it anymore.

The 7th Regiment was ordered to support.

As soon as it entered the battle, the 7th Regiment fought a good record. At that time, the greenskins who were attacking the high ground were suddenly attacked from the rear and were bombed by artillery. The battalions and companies that went up also eliminated a lot of greenskins.

In particular, the anti-armor company directly under the regiment used portable armor-piercing rocket launchers and plasma guns to eliminate seven or eight killing canisters and killed two Squig monsters.

The greenskins didn’t send many heavy units across the river!

The severely damaged greenskins were repelled just like that.

Then, Zhang Zhikai sent out a liaison soldier to communicate with the 11th Regiment on the high ground.

According to his plan, defending the high ground was the top priority, but they could not just stay there. The two regiments could support each other. The 11th Regiment would continue to stay on the high ground, and he would lead the 7th Regiment on the side below the high ground.

Once the greenskins continued to attack Gaomenling, the 7th Regiment could attack from the side, just like the previous battle; and if the greenskins chose to deal with the 7th Regiment, the 11th Regiment could be high above, provide fire support from a high place, and even counterattack.

The number of greenskins crossing the river is always limited – otherwise they would not be so anxious to take down Gaomenling, that is to ensure that the subsequent crossing operation can be smoother. In this case, the greenskins should not have enough troops to attack two regiments and two positions at the same time.

However, when the liaison soldier sent back the news from the high ground, Zhang Zhikai’s heart sank to the bottom of the lake:

Where is the 11th regiment? After

guarding Gaomenling for a day, the 11th regiment, which should have a full strength of 3,000 people, now has only 300 people left.

That is not that there are only 200 people left in the front-line combat troops, but that there are only so many left in the entire regiment.

The artillery position has been destroyed by the heavy firepower of the orcs across the river, and countless soldiers died in the artillery fire. Even so, they are bearing huge casualties. If the front-line troops are exhausted, then the logistics battalion and the guard company will push up; the artillery without artillery operators must also pick up their guns and enter the front-line trenches and anti-artillery holes.

The regiment commander died, and the political commissar and deputy regiment commander took over; when they all died, the battalion commander took over, and the battalion instructor took over…

Now, the person in charge of Gaomenling is a lieutenant officer, whose main job is to be an instructor of a company.

And this is already the highest-ranking officer left in the 11th Regiment.

Zhang Zhikai was silent.

On the one hand, he was shocked and lamented at the great sacrifices made by the friendly forces, and on the other hand, he was also afraid of the entire mission.

Of course he would be afraid.

Is there any essential difference between the 7th Regiment and the 11th Regiment?

Now that the 11th Regiment has been defeated and no one is fighting him, what should he do?

According to the division commander’s task, he must take over himself.

Then, will he watch his regiment being beaten like the 11th Regiment?

He is really afraid.

However, the task is here, and he can only let the signalman find a way to get in touch with the division headquarters, report the situation of the 11th Regiment, and express his concerns.

The casualties will be very large.

Then, the division commander gave him the sentence “Don’t worry about the casualties, just Gaomenling.”

What else can he do?

No matter how scared they were, they had to go for it.

However, the 11th Regiment had to learn the lessons they should learn from the way it had fought.

If they defended a deadly position, they would only die. He decided to defend both the foot of the mountain and the high ground.

The artillery company’s position was placed at the foot of the mountain to ensure that it could bombard the greenskin attacking forces coming from the north, but at the same time, the high ground would also provide cover, making it difficult for the greenskin artillery on the south bank of the river to directly hit here.

The artillery must be preserved, otherwise it would be impossible to fight.

The 1st Battalion of the regiment, along with his own guard company, was sent to the high ground to replace the brothers of the 11th Regiment. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions, along with the regimental headquarters, were set up at the foot of the mountain.

Both sides were guaranteed to be connected and able to take care of each other.

Before the relevant strategic deployment was completed, the greenskins came and attacked his headquarters at the foot of the mountain.

Since the position had not been set up in a hurry, his troops could only use environmental objects such as artillery pits, fallen trees, and boulders on small slopes as cover to fight the attacking orcs.

The casualties were not small.

On average, it takes more than 10 to 20 times of firearms to kill an orc; while the shotguns and large-caliber rifles that are generally equipped by the orcs can kill them with one shot, and the bulletproof armor on the individual soldiers is as thin as paper.

Even though the artillery array has been set up, the foot of the mountain position of the 7th Regiment was almost directly broken through under the impact of thousands of green-skinned orcs .

Zhang Zhikai even doubted whether his strategy of dividing troops was correct.

But fortunately, at the last moment, the facts proved that the troops assigned to the mountain were still useful.

The 1st Battalion’s indirect fire mortars fell from the sky, and several heavy explosive machine guns, separated by 1,500 meters on the high ground, fired wildly downwards.

In addition, the division commander did not really let him fill it with his life. Under the call of the signalman, the division’s aviation formation squeezed out three Fengshen, came in formation, broke through the blockade of the orc air force, and fired six missiles.

With all kinds of help, Zhang Zhikai paid more than 200 casualties and repelled the greenskins’ attack.

But there was no time to catch his breath. He had to reinforce his position immediately. He had to dig foxholes, anti-gun holes, and trenches.

The greenskins would not give him too much time. It would not take long at all. The next round of orcs’ attack would arrive soon.

The scouts on the high ground, looking through the telescope, could already see several more Squig war beasts breaking through the river blockade and swimming over. Judging from the path they were moving, they were coming to take Gaomenling.

(End of this chapter)