Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 444

Chapter 443: Annihilation War is More Effective

. The war on the other side of the river is progressing rapidly.

Although the scale of the orcs’ assembly is far beyond expectations, and the gap in the front line is larger than expected, so that the three divisions responsible for plugging the gap and the local defense army suffered huge casualties in less than a week of fighting.

But under the heroic and fearless perseverance of the human troops, Perbov still won the opportunity he wanted.

The troops he assembled, the Alliance Army alone, had four armies, reaching more than three million people; the local defense army also had the same scale of mobilization.

Some troops marched from the west side of the encirclement, some troops continued to resolutely penetrate to the south, and some troops reinforced the defense line on the north bank of the river, preparing to cross the river and pursue after the enemy’s entire line was shaken…

One of the decisive battles was commanded by Perbov himself.

Not only did he call on multiple skeleton divisions and elite armored divisions of the Alliance, but also the most important strategic force at his disposal-the “National Knights” called the Knights, but actually the Titan Cluster!

This unit is the most precious thing to Perbov. The total number of Titans that the Alliance has accumulated is not that large. Only 23 units have been produced in recent years. However, there are more Ranger Knight Mechs, about 300 units.

With such strength, the scale of the “National Knights” is not small. It is not an exaggeration to call it a pocket Titan Corps. Compared with the real Titan Corps, on the one hand, it lacks quantity, and on the other hand, it lacks some higher quality Titans.

What’s the point of having only War Dogs? If we can get some War Generals or even War Marshals as the core, then we can have a real Titan Corps!

Of course, it’s still a bit far to think about that.

At the moment, although the National Knights have not all gone to the battle and all belong to Perbov’s command, only half of them have come, but the role they can play on the battlefield is already very large.

From the west side of the river bank, three Titans launched a fierce attack, bringing more than 80 knight mechas, 70 lion tanks, 2,000 lion tanks, and more than 40,000 armored vehicles of various types, sweeping in!

What is the steel torrent?

This is the steel torrent!

At least 10,000 cannons, at a scale of 20,000 to 30,000 shells per minute, hit this battlefield of 100 kilometers wide and 60 kilometers deep, providing firepower support for the human army’s full-line attack in batches and distributions!

Under the baptism of heavy artillery and the impact of the steel torrent, the greenskin orcs, whose original military arrangements focused on attacking the river, could not withstand such a blow.

Their reserve team on the west side was the first to be defeated, and they were not able to play a role in blocking, delaying, and defending.

No matter how good those greenskin orcs were, they could not withstand such a rush.

Then, the greenskins’ attack on the river bank was forced to stop. Some troops were rushing to fight, while others were attacked from the side before they knew what was going on. The artillery guns were not even turned around when the mechanized infantry rushed into their faces.

The infantry fighting vehicles were sweeping wildly with their machine guns, and the infantry were attacking fiercely. The greenskins who were operating the artillery were still happily throwing firepower to the other side of the river a second ago, but now they were beaten to tears and screaming. Even the roar of the orc supervisors was useless, and they were scattered on the spot.

The greenskin artillery positions were quickly cleared one by one, and the armored vehicles and infantry rushed to the next place. Even if a car got stuck in the mud halfway, they would leave a few people to try to rescue it, or simply give up and go back to clean up, anyway, they had to ensure speed.

Once these mechanized infantry encountered the enemy, they would put down the infantry and fight together. If the orcs were just infantry, armed trucks, etc., they would just fight and destroy them; if the scale was large, or there were some powerful units among the enemy that were difficult to deal with, then they would call for support.

The best ones to call are the divisional artillery, followed by the artillery of the army group. Anyway, there are enough artillery for this attack, as long as they don’t run too far, they will come as soon as they are called.

The second is the aviation. There are 2,000 of them. Even if it is just the Wind Falcon, it can be helpful to fire a few missiles and machine guns. The aviation has to fight with the orcs’ air force in the sky, which is a little harder to call than artillery.

If the idea is too hard, then don’t fight, and call more people, or call the tanks or even Titans of the armored division. Such troops that are not in the main attack direction cannot be called, but generally it will not be to this extent.

As for the real main attack direction, Titans, knight mecha clusters and tank clusters do not need to be called. Instead, various infantry will cooperate with them to act, like a gust of wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and gnaw down the heavy units that the green-skinned orcs are not prepared one by one, and clear out important strongholds and military camps.

The green-skinned orcs are not completely defenseless.

The orc warlord was obviously unwilling to accept failure.

When Perbov made a mistake, he also made a mistake. He overestimated the offensive capability of his troops and underestimated the defensive willfulness of those shrimps on the other side of the river. In his opinion, he had ten times the number of troops, and crossing the river should be smooth. Those shrimps should be defeated by him as before. Even if some places can gather troops to defend, cross the river from other directions, and launch an attack from the other side of the river, they can win in one fell swoop.

But unexpectedly, the difficulty of crossing the river is greater than expected, and the losses are also great. Many of his guys did cross the river, and even sent many heavy units over. However, the shrimps, who were expected to be quickly defeated and killed once they were beaten, stood firm in various places on the defense line.

At this point, the orc bosses of each unit were also fighting, and the warlord couldn’t control them-in fact, he didn’t care at all, he was also in a state of excitement.

Fighting! Can we greenskins not like fighting?

He could also see that the shrimps on the other side of the river had been drained of blood. If he put in a little more effort, he would be able to achieve the victory he wanted.

As a result, at this moment, the human army on the side came over, causing his offensive plan to fail.

This was also the second mistake he made: he once again misjudged the combat effectiveness of the human army.

His tribal prophet warned him that the human army was rapidly gathering a large number of troops on the west side. Of course, he took this news to heart and arranged troops to defend.

But he really didn’t expect that the reserve troops would be instantly washed away by the steel torrent of the human army.

There was no resistance at all, and even the blocking effect was not completed. When he learned that the shrimps had broken through the western defense line, their steel torrent had already hit him in the face. After

the reserve team collapsed, the remaining greenskin army was almost all in the attack of crossing the river, and could not resist the impact of humans at all, so that the situation evolved into what it is now.

But he still didn’t give up so easily.

He believed that he still had a lot of troops under his command, and their quality was also high. As long as he could withstand this wave of attacks, he would have a chance to regroup his troops.

With nearly two million orcs, and a large number of elite units and heavy units, as long as they could gather together and restore their organization, they would have a very strong combat capability and be qualified to compete with the main force assembled by humans.

To put it another way, we can also break out of the encirclement created by those shrimps.

Worst case scenario, at least he could build an effective defensive position on the south bank of the river and hold on for help.

But the premise of all this is that he can contain the steel torrent of the human army, and not let the entire army of two million people run around in the sweep and be unable to organize at all.

Organization is the lifeblood of any army, even the greenskins.

And the way this orc warlord thought of was to fight hard.

He pulled out an elite force, consisting of tens of thousands of his own troops, including a large number of heavy-armored guards, each of whom was transformed by the orc mad doctor and the technical master, and integrated with steel, which can be called the orc version of canned food.

Among them, there are more than a hundred super-heavy-armored orcs. On the starry battlefield, this kind of green-skinned elite unit is famous.

Taking the Space Marines as the standard, the combat effectiveness of these two types of greenskin elites is inferior to that of the Space Marines, but they have a chance to win if they are surrounded and beaten, which is about the same level as the special warfare elites of the Alliance equipped with feedback power armor; the latter can directly fight against the genuine Space Marines, and even because of their racial characteristics, the winning rate will be slightly higher!

In addition, this warlord has assembled all the armored units that can be shaken over from the surrounding area as much as possible. Let’s not talk about small things like killing cans. At best, they are only slightly more powerful than sentinel mechas. The two are basically the same in positioning; the death can is much larger and has a similar positioning to the knight mecha, but if they fight, they will be beaten by the knight mecha in turn.

There are also many armed trucks. The upper and lower limits of this thing are a bit different. The modified ones are just an armed personnel carrier; the ones with better technology can reach the level of human main tanks.

There are also a number of Squig monsters, but there are only ten of them. This thing is comparable to the Lion King tank, and its strength is about the same, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

As for something that can match the Warhound Titan… the Orcs have the God Statue King Kong, but he doesn’t have one, and the entire Temir 5 doesn’t have one. This top-level Ork land combat ace is precious even to the entire Irontooth Clan, and all of them were pulled to the front battlefield by Titus.

This is a big problem. There is nothing to contain the Titans, so they can only rely on small units.

He even made plans to go on the battlefield himself.

Picking up his gun that he killed thirty technical masters to make to his satisfaction, and the battle axe that accompanied him from the bottom, if necessary, he would personally deal with those Titans.

Charge, cut off limbs, cut off weapons, kill drivers… What if there is an energy shield? Can it stop my axe!

Then…

he died at the hands of the Titan.

This crucial battle took place on the fourth day of the human general offensive. The troops led by the Orc Warlord himself faced the main force of the advancing human armored cluster.

This is what he chose. There is no point in attacking a small team. It can’t turn the tide of the war. If you want to fight, you have to fight hard!

At the beginning of the battle, they gained a good advantage and destroyed many Lion tanks and four Lion Kings. But when the main force of the Alliance armored forces really arrived, they were still destroyed.

In fact, the first to arrive at the battlefield were the Alliance’s heavy artillery.

After noticing that the enemy had assembled elite troops, the Alliance’s artillery units obtained the coordinates of the fire coverage and opened fire directly. Even some artillery positions insisted on getting a share of the spoils. They would rather drive their self-propelled artillery forward a few kilometers to include these enemies in the strike range.

These artillery are actually the most threatening thing for the greenskins, and the greenskins can’t even find a way to fight back and can only passively take the bombing.

155 howitzers, as long as they are not far from the center of the explosion, except for the Squig monster, everything will be blown to death; even if it is at the edge of the explosion, the killing tank and the heavy orcs can’t stand it.

The continuous bombing caused serious casualties in this elite greenskin. Although they were led by the orc warlords, they charged forward and pulled the distance to a very close position with the armored cluster, so that the alliance artillery could no longer bombard them recklessly, but the number of casualties was already very large, not to mention that after entering, the hit rate of the tank guns was higher, and the armor-piercing guns were enough to hit the soul with one shot

. When the orc warlord tried to approach a Titan, he was hit by an armor-piercing gun from a lion tank, and his left leg and armor parts were shattered together. Then the Titan stepped on him mercilessly and killed him.

His failed attempt not only ruined his life, but also annihilated the last hope of the greenskin orcs to reorganize the army.

This entire large-scale attack of the greenskins was called by him, and the racial characteristics of the greenskins are very dependent on the individual commander. Once the commander died, the normal orc troops would be likely to have internal strife, collapse, lose organization, and fight on their own, not to mention the current very chaotic state.

What’s more, the elite troops he risked to gather were also the essence of the two million greenskins. It would be very difficult to gather so many greenskin armor and greenskin elites in other places, or even almost gone.

With their retreat blocked in the south, unable to get through the river in the north after receiving reinforcements, and being attacked by the main force of the human army in the west, they could only keep running eastward passively. In the process, a large number of orcs were caught up, divided and destroyed, and sent away directly by sharp artillery fire…

Then, they ran all the way to the sea.

At this time, only about 60% of the two million orcs were left. They were forced into the angle between the coast and the river estuary, surrounded by the approaching human troops, and they themselves had no supplies.

It’s okay for the greenskins not to eat, at most they can eat each other; but bullets and shells can’t be conjured out of thin air.

With the supply exhausted, a large number of orcs who can only fight with bare hands and have not yet re-established a unified command are just powerful beasts.

The sweeping artillery and bombing killed all 1.2 million orcs on the coastline.

At this point, the battle that lasted for a month and a half ended.

Despite the twists and turns and sacrifices, the battle goal set by Perbov was still achieved.

The two million orc main force was destroyed, and the price paid by the human side was less than 400,000 casualties.

The 1:5 casualty ratio is much better than the normal 2:1!

It is still better to fight an annihilation war. In the end, the 1.2 million orcs were slaughtered, and the losses on our side were almost negligible. The narrow place was blocked by artillery bombardment, which just consumed a lot of shells.

(End of this chapter)