Chapter 690, Battle of Rheaducches (5)
If Leroy still regards himself as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front who is on an equal footing with Gu Hang, then what authority does he have to authorize him?
There is no need to be a ground combat commander. I can directly command the imperial forces of all parties. Isn’t that the end of it?
He didn't do that.
When he wanted to be the conductor, his first reaction was to ask Gu Hang for authorization. This gesture made Gu Hang very satisfied.
Relatively low, and fully recognized Gu Hang's leadership position.
Gu Hang is satisfied with this gesture.
As for apologies and the like, Gu Hang actually doesn’t particularly care.
Apologizing is more of a personal bow. If there is no apology, there will be no one. Gu Hang will not force or be arrogant.
Since he had no intention of pitting Leroy to death on the surface, and Leroy's attitude was pretty good, there was no need to offend anyone. As long as he survives until the end of the war, he will still be a big figure in the Black Cross after he returns. In terms of ranking, he can rank third in this powerful war group.
Coupled with the fact that Xi Rui can be ranked in the top five, Gu Hang will also have some "connections" in the Black Cross Army.
There is no fundamental conflict of interest between the two parties. In this case, it is better to have more friends than one more enemy.
As for whether Leroy is suitable to be the ground commander, Gu Hang thinks there is no problem.
The identity is suitable. After all, the majority of the troops on the ground are actually the remnants of the northern front who survived the first battle, and were originally under the leadership of Leroy.
He is also experienced enough and should have no problem with his ability.
Although he had experienced a tragic defeat before, he was still able to act independently as the commander-in-chief of the front army. Just as a ground combat commander, he is definitely qualified.
What's more, without Leroy, Gu Hang would have no one to use him. Although he also has some people he trusts, such as Martins and others. But...the risk of fighting on the ground is too high, and there is no telling when the extermination weapons on the ground will take effect. No matter who is directing the battle on the surface, they may die without being able to withdraw.
Teleport Martins, or some other key figure, despite the risk, and let him lead the troops that are not subordinate to him. There is also a high-level figure like Leroy, and then not I will definitely be able to withdraw...
It is neither appropriate nor Gu Hang himself is willing to part with it.
It’s good to let Leroy continue to lead.
As for the risks of the extermination order... Actually, Gu Hang lied.
He said that he would talk to Leroy later when the time was right, but in fact, he wished he could use his spiritual energy to directly send the sky-burning torpedo to the surface of the planet.
Isn’t that impossible?
Psionic teleportation requires not only an excellent psionicist, but also requirements for the target being teleported. The person being transported must at least be a living being that can be accepted by the subspace. This also means that the so-called "soulless" and "untouchables" without a "soul" cannot be the target of teleportation; neither can dead objects without a "soul".
There is no problem with weapons, equipment, and even power armor that follow the teleported target. But the core reason is that these equipment are relatively small and entrust the owner's will. They can also be recognized by the subspace as part of this 'soul', or an extension.
A Burning Sky torpedo is as big as a small starship and does not meet the conditions for teleportation at all.
But even though teleportation is not a convenient and fast method, the battle on the surface has cleared 14 air defense nests in the airborne area, and the probability of the transport ship landing has increased from less than 5% to 100%. At around 20 minutes, he had already given the order to release the sky-burning torpedoes.
The human fleet was close to orbit and had to withstand the attacks of both ground rail guns and the Hive Fleet. They resolutely approached at the cost of losing a Moon-class cruiser. , launching eight sky-burning torpedoes.
All intercepted.
This is completely different from the proportions of transport ships.
According to the proportion of a transport ship, one of the eight rounds has to land.
Simple bad luck?
No.
Gu Hang noticed that every time an extermination weapon was launched, the various interception methods of the Zerg became more active.
They should have some ability to quickly distinguish whether what the alliance ship threw down was an ordinary transport ship or an extermination order.
Moreover, they should have a margin for orbital interception. If all these margins are activated and used to destroy transport ships, complete interception may not be possible, and the interception efficiency cannot be raised to a particularly high level.
Also, the insect queen may not think it necessary.
Even if some army soldiers fall down, the numerical advantage of the ground insect swarms cannot be wiped out. Even if some air defense insect nests are destroyed, which is really troublesome, most of them will still remain, and the insect queen can reuse its reserve of biomass, or simply digest some of the soldier insects, hatch and generate more Many air-raid insect holes.
But intercepting the extermination order is something that must be done. If one of them explodes, it's a big deal.
On this basis, the insect queen has a large number of backup options, allowing orbital air defense and the interception methods of the insect nest fleet to be reserved. Moreover, at the moment when the Extermination Order is identified, all the reserved means are used, and the Extermination Order weapon is focused on intercepting, the success rate will be greatly improved.
Later, Gu Hang also tried using a transport ship to transport the Extermination Order weapons to the ground.
But after trying three times, the result is the same.
Gu Hang did not waste any more sky-burning torpedoes.
No need.
Observing the interception of the Fentian torpedo, you can know that the problem does not lie in the delivery method. The Zerg do not use the method of dropping to distinguish whether the extermination order thrown by humans is an ordinary troop transport or material ship. They should have a more efficient resolution method.
I have to think of other ways.
First of all, we still cannot relax about the deployment of troops on the ground.
The ground is now showing some results.
Not only must we preserve it, but we must also expand and strengthen the results as much as possible.
We must be prepared for the worst. Even if we fight the Zerg to the bitter end and fight the Queen until the biomass cannot keep up with the consumption, we must still win this war.
Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.
Actually, if you don’t get to this step, you won’t get there.
Gu Hang is still thinking of some other ideas.
Following up, the human coalition tried again to launch an extermination order. This time, a frigate was directly replaced, modified with a void shield, and rushed to the ground.
As long as it rushes into the atmosphere and releases the sky-burning torpedo, the mission will be considered a success. As for the tens of millions of people on the ship... let's take them down. We don't even care about the millions of people and thousands of space warriors fighting on the ground. How can we care about anything else?
But this time too it failed. The frigates were all blown up.
Want to go one step further and give away a cruiser or even a higher-level warship?
Free.
Gu Hang doesn’t think that he can succeed in that way.
We need to think of another way.
However, no new method has been thought of yet, and the fighting situation on the ground has gradually improved as time goes by.
During the battle, Leroy finally showed his abilities as the Marshal of the Black Cross.
The base area controlled by human forces continues to expand.
They cleared out all the Zerg in a certain area.
Currently, Leroy has about two million troops on hand, and controls an area of more than 50,000 square kilometers.
A more direct manifestation is that in this area designated as a large-scale airdrop area, the success probability of a transport plane landing has risen sharply to 60%.
Although the Extinction Order weapon still cannot be dropped, with this landing ratio, it is actually quite ideal.
However, at this level, it is actually on the verge of reaching its current limit.
The main reason is that the remnants of the northern front troops left over from the first battle have almost been gathered together. Those who have not yet gathered the rest are either too far away to break through the many obstacles of the Zerg independently and cannot come, or they have been completely wiped out and cannot be counted on.
In addition, the insect swarm was also extremely vigilant against these survivors and began to increase their hunting efforts everywhere.
This makes it no longer possible to directly gather troops from the ground by gathering remaining troops.
At the same time, airdrops with a greatly improved success rate, after dropping many war supplies and armored vehicles, also restored the combat effectiveness of the remaining troops on the northern front.
The improvement of this part has reached the upper limit.
As the scale increased, especially after establishing a solid base, the insect swarm no longer needed to disperse a large number of troops to prepare for airborne landings. The insect swarm troops on standby have recently completed their assembly and began to launch a ferocious siege on the base built by humans on the surface of Leyaduches.
With the heroic sacrifice of the human soldiers and the airborne reinforcements regardless of cost, Leroy withstood wave after wave of attacks and secured the base.
However, being able to do this is already the limit of the current situation.
The number of surrounding insect swarms is becoming more and more.
Not only are the Zerg armies from the entire planet gathering here, but at the same time, all the hatching nests controlled by the queen are operating at full capacity. Piles after piles of biomass were transformed into various types of Zerg troops.
Their number increases faster and more directly than when the human army continues to drop from the sky with 40% casualties.
The base area covers hundreds of kilometers of borders, and there are wars and wars everywhere. Inside the base area, they are also constantly suffering from various types of bombings.
The situation has now reached a stalemate.
Leroy has already tried his best to keep the base, and he really can't ask for more.
If you want the battle to progress further, you must put more power into the ground.
Gu Hang’s answer is of course yes.
The largest airborne attack on the ground since the Second Battle of Rheaducches began.
Not only did a large number of transport ships fall down, but there were also various types of fighter planes that covered the sky.
Wind Falcon, Qilin, Dragon Elephant... these three incremental level fighters are also divided into space version and planet version, but in general, even the latter can persist in the space environment. Fight for a while. The aerial knights who drive them do not need to follow the transport aircraft to risk their lives. Instead, they can use a more flexible attitude and even use cannons and high-performance servo skulls to assist in fire control and break through the incoming interceptor fire.
Thousands of fighter planes successfully entered the atmosphere, then quickly dropped in altitude, and then lifted up when approaching the ground. The missiles all hit the heads of the insect swarms that were charging towards the human base. The most ruthless ones are the dozen precious Dragon Elephant fighter planes, each of which also carries a Dongfeng Fen missile.
If this type of L-class missile is fired, not to mention the insect swarm, even an entire medium-to-large insect nest will be destroyed.
The rest can also be licked crazily through the cannon.
Thousands of fighter planes caused huge casualties to the insect swarm. It wasn't until flying insects that were covering the sky and covering dozens or even hundreds of times the number of human fighter planes swarmed in that they were driven away.
Of course, the fighter plane that has entered the atmosphere cannot return to orbit or return to the warship. But within the base area, airports and hangars have been established.
While fighting, they retreated to the base area. The human anti-aircraft guns that had been placed sprayed out tongues of flame one after another, knocking down the flying insects and preventing the pursuit of the Zerg air force.
This wave of attacks has greatly boosted the morale of the human side!
Not only did we see the brilliant fireworks show, the insect swarm also suffered heavy losses, and we also clearly received a lot of support.
During the landing of the transport ship, due to the escort of thousands of fighter planes, the success rate of the airborne landing was greatly improved, reaching an unprecedented 75%.
Not only did over a million army troops arrive, they also brought a lot of heavy weapons - armor and artillery.
There are more than 400 Lion tanks alone!
This thing is much larger and more powerful than the Lion tank.
In addition, what is even more cruel is that half of the Titan Legion has landed.
Half of the Titan Legion came from Mars, brought by Salisius from the Sun Star Domain; the other half came from the Alliance National Knights.
In addition, Gu Hang also endured the powerful subspace shadow of the Insect Queen and teleported 500 space warriors from various battle groups.
So far, Leroy has nearly two thousand Space Marines in his hands.
Gu Hang is quite satisfied with the delivery of support on the ground this time.
Really speaking, even though the two Sky-burning torpedoes were secretly hidden in the transport ship and disguised as ordinary troop carriers, they still failed to be transported to the ground. They were accurately identified and intercepted.
What a pity.
But no matter what, there is now a quite powerful force on the ground.
Although the number of people was only two million due to the brutal losses in the front, one million people were replaced, but the elite troops were enough.
Gu Hang hopes that Leroy will be able to achieve some satisfactory results after receiving large-scale reinforcements.
(End of this chapter)