Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 449

Chapter 448, Iron Horse Sea Battle

The naval battle on Xiaxing I-3 did not actually break out.

The commander of the combined fleet knew that they could not fight, so they would definitely not force it. They broke away from the orbit of the planet and ran away with their tails between their legs.

And the devil-like Retribution-class battleship did not come to chase them.

It just approached Xiaxing I-3, fired a few shots at the surface, and then dropped the transport spacecraft and landed on the ground.

Soon, these transport spacecraft returned to it. Then, the battleship left the planetary orbit and sailed away.

The Alliance Navy ships, which were still in shock, also came to their senses at this time.

This battleship should belong to the rebel warband that appeared on the ground. It appeared and went to the planetary orbit, probably just to pick up the warband.

This rebel warband did not seem to want to occupy this planet.

They should be able to clearly realize that with their strength, even if they had a battleship in hand, they could not compete head-on with the Alliance, especially it was impossible to win on the ground.

What was their purpose in causing trouble?

Considering what happened before, they probably wanted to lure the genuine Phoenix to come.

And they did succeed.

They tricked two Phoenix teams to land on the ground and fell into their clutches.

And what did they want the genuine Phoenix for?

Probably for the gene seeds.

After receiving the intelligence from the front line, Gu Hang made such a judgment.

Even their identities, Gu Hang had guessed, and he felt that there was a high probability that he would not be wrong: the stain of the Phoenix, the rebellious warband called “Ashes of the Dead”.

After learning about the existence of this warband from the Phoenix deserters of Sidney Blevins, Gu Hang felt that this group of guys would sooner or later come to trouble the Alliance.

The reputation of the Alliance was getting bigger and bigger, and the news of the Phoenix’s revival through the Alliance was becoming more and more well-known.

The traitor leader named Zhong Jihua had an extraordinary pursuit of the Phoenix bloodline. It was almost inevitable that he would come to cause trouble.

But he came at the wrong time. Most of the Alliance’s energy is now still involved in the front-line battlefield with the greenskins. If there is a fire in the backyard suddenly, it will definitely be in a mess.

Perhaps, Zhong Jihua deliberately chose to take action at this time.

But Gu Hang is not without any precautions.

Since the war with the greenskins, Gu Hang has been very cautious in using space warriors. He did not blindly throw the most elite forces at hand into the battlefield because of the fierce fighting on the front line.

On the one hand, it is not yet time.

On the other hand, Gu Hang has to use the Phoenix to make some necessary preparations.

Instead of letting elite warriors like the Phoenix consume on the front battlefield, it is better to retain their strength for the necessary attack at the critical moment.

However, the opportunity for the necessary attack has not come yet, and the thing that Gu Hang has been guarding against has happened first.

It seems that Ye Lixia can’t come to pick him up, nor can he go north to participate in the Temir battle immediately.

Even Gu Hang himself has to go to the Iron Horse in person.

The matter of the Iron Horse star region must be resolved.

The relationship between this rebellious warband and the Phoenix was something that Gu Hang could not ignore;

at the same time, Gu Hang could not let the rebellious warband suspected to be the “Ashes of the Dead” to mess around in his rear.

They had about two or three hundred rebellious space marines, they believed in the evil god, and they also had a battleship. Being able to operate this battleship meant that they had to have at least 100 or 200 thousand people on board…

In a head-on battle, apart from the battleship, this rebellious warband was not qualified; but taking into account the battleship and the risk that they might cooperate with separatist forces on many planets, if they were not dealt with, Gu Hang’s rear would be turned upside down.

Of course, he would not go alone.

A message was sent to Martins.

…

One month later, in the Tiema Star Region, Tiedong II Galaxy.

There are three star tunnels connecting this galaxy, leading to Tiedong III, Tiedong I, and Bianma IV in the Bianma Star Region.

The battleship “Revenge Spike” is heading towards the jump point to Bianma IV.

Or rather, fleeing.

Behind them, the human joint fleet is chasing.

Although the battleship is powerful, the “Retribution-class” has a flaw that cannot be compensated: it is slow and not flexible enough.

Although it has strong firepower, thick armor, and a very high energy level void shield, this main battleship with the largest number of serving in the empire is enough to serve as the absolute offensive and defensive core in large-scale fleet decisive battles, but it also needs a large number of coordinated frigates to escort it.

And now, there is no such formation next to the “Revenge Spike”.

As a result, they dare not confront the joint fleet directly.

In the past month, there have always been some small boats following behind them, monitoring their actions. Whenever they want to turn around to fight, these small boats rely on their advantages of running fast and turning flexibly to run away directly; and when they turn their heads, the small boats will catch up again.

The leader of the Ashes of the Dead, Zhong Jihua, was annoyed.

He even ordered the ships to stop at the other jump point after a star jump, preparing to ambush the small boat that followed them to complete the jump.

However, this plan also failed.

The small boat that had been following them did not jump at all; instead, there was another small boat on this side of the star tunnel, staring at them from a distance. It doesn’t matter if

our boat is small, as long as there are more. If we can’t

catch up, can’t hit, and can’t get rid of it, then this is the only way.

At first, Zhong Jihua was just annoyed, not dangerous.

Just stare at me.

What else can you do to me?

It’s nothing more than fear, just monitoring him. And when he really wants to do something, these small boats can’t do anything to him.

However, now, he already feels a little bad.

Long-term monitoring is fine, the wizard on his ship has given him intelligence many times, telling him that there are a large number of ships shuttling in the star tunnels around Tiedong II.

What do you want to do?

To surround me?

It seems that it is true.

If a battle is fought, a fleet with three cruisers as the main force and a total of hundreds of ships, and a lone Retribution-class battleship, who will win?

It is hard to say, the latter’s chance of winning may be less than 20%.

Before, he thought that the so-called “alliance” would not really fight him to the death.

Even if we defeat him, what will happen? The combined fleet will have to pay the price of at least half of its ships, including two cruisers.

Is it worth paying such a high price?

You are still fighting with the greenskins.

Yes, Zhong Jihua certainly knows this information.

Otherwise, he would not have come.

It is precisely because the alliance is in a state of war, and the war seems to be very fierce, that he came here.

What he wants is indeed as Gu Hang guessed: the gene seed of the Phoenix.

The Ash Dead Warband was born after a group of Phoenix deserters surrendered to the Chaos Evil God. At that time, Zhong Jihua and his people felt that the Phoenix would surely perish, and it was meaningless to stay, and they would only die with the warband.

This was all the fault of the Empire. Obviously, the Phoenix was fighting for the Empire, and Iron Armor was the traitor. But they were eventually betrayed by the Empire and sentenced to the Expedition of Atonement, which made them bear the fate of dying in the expedition.

So, they rebelled, they turned to the evil god, and named themselves the “Ashes of the Dead”.

In the ashes after the phoenix burned out, the dead returned from hell with the rage of revenge.

This is the meaning of the new name.

But who would have thought that the Phoenix was not dead at all?

Not only did they not die, but in the past few years, with the support of the “Alliance” that came out of nowhere, they became stronger and stronger, and even had a tendency to recover their former appearance.

How could people like Zhong Jihua accept this?

Was our choice wrong back then?

That’s impossible!

In order to prove that they were not the wrong party, Zhong Jihua brought his war gang to the Eastern Universe and Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Here, it is time to expand the scale of the war gang. Here are the gene seeds that they dream of most and are connected by blood; at the same time, they are also looking for opportunities and ways to destroy this human force that spans nearly a hundred worlds.

It is certainly not possible to rely on their own strength.

But don’t we have greenskins?

As long as enough damage is caused in the rear, it can be done.

So, there was the incident on Xiaxing I-3.

Through the wizard, they corrupted the captured Alliance agents, passed on false information, and sent down two teams of Phoenix.

The two teams of Phoenix, a total of 20 people, certainly did not end well.

The combat power of the Phoenix is certainly not weak, but the Ash Dead are all veterans. It is normal that they beat the new Phoenix with ten times the force and couldn’t even spread the news. It’s a

pity that the so-called Alliance reacted very quickly.

They could only run away.

I thought they could easily run away with the big ship, but it seems that it won’t work.

But now, Zhong Jihua still doesn’t dare to believe that the Alliance actually dares to take out their precious fleet to encircle him.

However, he is not unprepared for this.

The corresponding order was issued, and the “Soul Spike” was still heading towards Bianma IV.

If the Alliance fleet doesn’t dare to start a war, then go away in a swagger; and once the war starts… then come.

First of all, the “Wraith Spike” will be able to blow up almost half of the Alliance fleet;

of course, the “Wraith Spike” will also be destroyed.

But so what?

They are Space Marines!

In battle, they can let the “Wraith Spike” rush and hit hard, close to the cluster of Alliance fleets. If you ask what the most powerful weapon on the Retribution-class battleship is, it is probably not the light spear array, nor the super-standard macro cannon, but the ancient “ram” installed on the bow of the ship.

Relying on its huge size, the Retribution-class battleship will smash any ship smaller than it when it rushes; and it itself, under the protection of the ram, will not be damaged.

Of course, this is not a conventional weapon. When it comes to a real naval battle, no one uses this thing as a decisive weapon. The so-called “ram” is the most decorative.

However, if a real fight breaks out later, Zhong Jihua does not intend to use the ram as a pure decoration.

Heavy artillery and rams can all play a role.

After the ships of both sides approached, the “Ashes of the Dead” warband could use its greatest means: boarding tactics!

Whether it was through boarding ships after getting close, or simply through the warband wizards, the former think tanks in the warband, directly teleporting in the subspace.

After arriving at the other side’s ship, they could seize control of the warship, and through the warband wizards, summon the power of chaos to quickly corrupt the crew.

It only took a short time for them to “snatch” the warship.

Then they could continue to fight.

They could use such means many times in a row.

How many ships did the alliance have that they could snatch?

Every time they succeeded, the alliance would have one less ship, and they would have one more. Wouldn’t the frigate that the “Revenant Spike” lacked come?

If they shot down the main cruiser in the combined fleet, the situation would be even worse.

In short, for Zhong Jihua, if you want to fight, then come on!

And the whole situation really developed as he thought.

When the ‘Soul Spike’ approached the astral tunnel jump point leading to Bianma IV, a fleet jumped out from there.

At the same time, behind them, a group of alliance ships also appeared from the jump point of Iron Horse I.

They belonged to the same team, and the two-sided attack strategy was also formulated by the fleet commander, Major General Ye Lixia.

The two sides kept their distance and prepared to launch an encirclement offensive while avoiding the concentrated attack of the ‘Soul Spike’ on one side.

At this point, Zhong Jihua had completely stopped considering other things.

He gave orders again and notified all members of the warband:

“Get ready for the battle, let’s kill happily!”

And his brothers also gave him clear feedback: “Roar!”

He shouted again: “Blood sacrifice to the Blood God!”

The communication channel immediately responded: “Skull sacrifice to the Skull Seat!”

Under the high morale and bloody shouts of the Ash Dead, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.

The ‘Ghost Spike’ opened fire first.

Its range was longer than any other ship in the Alliance.

This caught the Alliance fleet off guard. A ‘Silver Sword’ frigate was hit.

The X-class light spear array instantly melted the energy shield outside the Silver Sword, and opened a large hole in the ship with the same power.

The Silver Sword immediately lost power and spun in space; then half a minute later, a more violent explosion occurred inside the Silver Sword, and it became a huge fireball in the air.

(End of this chapter)