Chapter 1721 The stronghold is useless, but we still have to take the spaceship to collect food
The community also has a group of defense fleets with strong combat effectiveness in New Yumen. There are three to five light cruisers, more than ten destroyers and assault ships, more than ten gunboats in the system, and the particularly troublesome lightning strike ships. It is said that the number should be more than thirty. In addition, the outer ring fleet remaining at Nantianmen can also come to support at any time.
All the Imperial Army staff officers aboard the Vulcan Airan all agreed that the biggest obstacle they encountered should be the New Yumen.
However, when the Imperial Army's forward fleet composed of high-speed cruisers arrived at Xinyumen, they were surprised to find that the situation was very calm. Almost all the shipyards, space stations and power arrays in the orbit of the galaxy have been destroyed, leaving only a small number of automatic turrets, which are shelling the Imperial fleet in vain.
The Imperial fleet thought it was a trap, so they hesitated and waited in the outer orbit for at least six hours.
The Purple Lightning Dragon fighters escorted the reconnaissance aircraft and circled the galaxy several times cautiously - they were very afraid of being intercepted by the light-wing aircraft - but they still found no danger.
The imperial fleet knocked down the automatic turrets and swept away the mine groups step by step. They spent more than three times as long as before, but they still did not encounter any surprise attacks by the enemy fleet.
Later, after carefully inspecting the wreckage of the dock, the cautious Imperial reconnaissance aircraft identified the "bones" of the gunships in the system. Even the people on earth are not prepared to leave these old, bulky warships with almost nothing except firepower to the enemy.
It was only at this time that the newly arrived Empire's forward fleet realized belatedly that the Earthlings' New Yumen Fleet might really be gone.
However, the New World Fleet, which had suffered many losses and had already suffered ptsd, only cautiously surrounded the New Yumen Planet, but did not send the marines to land.
They even put a considerable distance away from the planet's atmosphere, probably to prevent a sudden burst of heart-stopping fireworks from the surface.
"Ha, what a smart man." Marshal Farrell smiled.
"Brigadier General Ivan is indeed a smart and prudent man." Chief of Staff General Thremmo said.
"No, I'm talking about the city defense commander of Xinyumen. I remember it was General James Carter, right?"
The newly appointed adjutant hurriedly reported: "Yes. This Admiral Carter has served as the Director of Division of Cantilever Theater and the Director of Logistics Audit of the Military Command Department. During the Condemnation War, he served as the Director of General Logistics of the Community Expeditionary Force. During the war After the outbreak, he was appointed as the commander of the New Continent Theater, but before that, he had no experience as an actual combat force officer.”
The adjutant was confident in his memory. He has memorized the names and general resumes of all the generals in the community, and even knows a lot about their family background and life hobbies.
It's a pity that the marshal didn't intend to ask further, but just sighed to himself:
"...Human beings, if they are not favored by fate, they will not know where their limits are."
There was a trace of respect in his words: "For example, if I hadn't had the opportunity to fight against Marshal Este during the Glory Mission military exercise, I would not have been recommended by His Highness Brunhilt, let alone join the army. Your Majesty’s discernment. I am just born into an ordinary citizen family, but I received the Marshal’s Scepter before I was sixty years old. Isn’t it a great blessing?”
Of course the adjutant didn't dare to talk. He was vaguely and keenly aware that the marshal seemed to put His Highness Brünnhilt on par with the emperor, but then he was startled by his own thoughts, and he suddenly wanted to turn himself into furniture.
The spirit of the universe is above, who can save me! Am I not born into an ordinary citizen family?
Chief of Staff Admiral Thelemo said: "Of course they are also smart people. The New Jade Gate Guard Fleet can indeed pose some threats to us, but it will not affect the overall situation. On the contrary, retreat to Nantianmen and cooperate with the Outer Rim Fleet and the Gibraltar Fortress Holding together to keep warm, they can give full play to their combat power. But in this way, they are equivalent to leaving the entire New Yumen to us.”
"Yes, yes, New Yumen and New Lushun, we occupied all the colonies of the Community in the New World in one day. It's really a good military achievement, isn't it? Bobby." Marshal Farrell said.
I always feel like the way you call me is like barking a dog. The adjutant was thinking carefully, but he could only reply cautiously: "Uh... yes, that's it, right?"
"Idiot, isn't Yaochi still in the hands of the people on earth?" Marshal Farrell said loudly.
The adjutant quickly bowed and apologized. Even so, deep down he still felt that Marshal Farrell was a little crazy.
After the war began, the Community had a total of eight strongholds in the Dawn Star Territory, but they were all eliminated by Marshal Farrell's men. Even the main force of the Earth Marines who resisted in the Ring of Miracles was almost completely wiped out. .
In comparison, a small Yaochi cannot affect the overall situation of the war at all.
Although the planet is indeed like a copper pea, it cannot be bitten, boiled or crushed, and the empire has indeed lost troops and generals there, but this can only be said that "it is not that our army does not work hard, but that the enemy is too cunning."
In fact, when he suffered a small loss in the early stages of the war, Marshal Farrell proposed a strategy of encircling Yaochi without attacking, but he did not receive approval from the Grand Marshal's Palace and the Privy Council.
The subsequent repeated failures certainly proved the wisdom of the frontline marshal, but cruelly speaking, the empire could still afford this price.
As for the Yang fleet... that's a big trouble, but since they can't get supplies, they should only fight less and less, and become weaker and weaker. They have disappeared recently, which should be the biggest proof.
Overall, the war situation in the Dawn Star Territory should have stabilized, probably...
Admiral Ta Yin, who is currently responsible for taking over the battle situation in the Dawn Star Territory, is also a master-level military engineer. He has already gone to Dawn Pass to take up his post.
The new war zone commander is preparing to use Dawn Pass as his headquarters, and also proposed that in order to revitalize the war situation in the entire Dawn Star Territory, the first task is to rebuild the Unity Fortress. At the same time, another large fortress should be built in Onotia and the Queen's Galaxy respectively, so that the Yang Fleet's activity space can be completely blocked.
I don’t know what the big guys in the Privy Council think of it, but it sounds like it’s indeed a huge effort. No wonder Commander Farrell is so angry. the adjutant thought.
Fortunately, although the Marshal has been holding back a lot of anger recently, he will not really vent his anger on a young adjutant. He immediately ordered the forward fleet to blockade Xinyumen, and at the same time, warships should be dispatched to continue their investigation.
"It will be ten hours before they receive this order from me. If Ivan in front was smarter, he should have taken action in advance." The marshal said.
"Brigadier General Ivan is a smart and cautious man." Chief of Staff General Thelemo repeated again, obviously very confident in his old subordinates.
However, he paused and then said: "It's just that the Privy Council has ordered that we must completely occupy the New Jade Gate and at the same time conduct an all-round exploration of the ruins of the Enlightened Ones exposed during the Judgment War."
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The marshal nodded lukewarmly: "Let's wait for the exploration information ahead."
In this way, a Titan, two Dreadnoughts, and more than two hundred Imperial warships, large and small, continued to be on standby in New Port Arthur, staring at a planet that had completely lost its defense capabilities.
Fortunately, the ensuing battle was relatively calm.
Four hours later, the landing operation on the New Lushun planet was basically declared over. All the community military strongholds and residential settlements that the imperial intelligence department could control were occupied.
There may still be a small number of troops or secret bases lurking in the deep sea waiting for opportunities to resist, but they can no longer cause any big disturbance.
Then, there is the one-stop process of setting up a security station, conducting officers, posting notices to calm the people, etc.
In addition, several small arsenals and machinery parts factories on the island were blown up by the defenders, but at least the imperial army also safely captured the two huge tidal power stations.
"Very good, at least we don't have to transport batteries for heating and lighting for half a million people from the Gate of Glory." Marshal Farrell said.
"However, we have to send over rations for another half a million people." Admiral Thelemo sighed: "Just now, a group of mothers holding their children came to the door crying and saying they were hungry. I can only get rations from the army. Died part of it.”
"They should resume production." Farrell Yunshuai said. "But, that will have to wait until next year. The Community soldiers destroyed the algae fields and the hydroponic farms in the bay, and sent away all the food and military supplies. This is actually a conspiracy of the people on earth." Admiral Thelemmer sighed .
"It's a conspiracy. My friend. I guessed that they would do this, and they knew that I would guess that they would do this, but it cannot be solved."
After the war broke out, many immigrants from the New World ran back to their homeland. However, there are always ordinary people who have moved their families and resettled and established a new life in the colonies, but they really cannot leave their homes.
New Port Arthur is an ocean planet, with a land area of less than ten percent of the surface. There are more than half a million residents on the major islands and surrendered and captured soldiers.
What's more, almost all of them are human. Even the brutal and abstract Imperial Army would not be able to massacre hundreds of thousands of people just to save some food.
Moreover, for the Galactic Empire, this kind of colony with a large human population is very good. They are also quite confident in their own system and ability to assimilate. They firmly believe that as long as they are human beings, as long as they can bask in the glory of the emperor, they will soon become the loyal sons (cows) and people (horses) of the empire again, and they will be properly good family sons.
"We are responsible for the survival of the more than 500,000 citizens of New Port Arthur. This is also the obligation of a qualified conqueror." Marshal Farrell said.
The chief of staff said: "However, there are still two million human immigrants in New Yumen. In addition, there are more than 100,000 Rumina immigrants, and at least 300 million sand people."
"I have said before that we should not carry out landing operations on New Lushun and New Yumen. As long as all the fleets and space stations of the Earthlings on the New World Highway are cleared. The march route from the Gate of Glory to Nantianmen is smooth. Unimpeded. As for those two planets, it never matters."
"Like Yaochi?"
"It's like Yaochi, it has the same nature."
"But, you just said that the conquerors have obligations to the citizens?"
"We do have an obligation. But as long as we don't land, don't we not have to be bound by the false name of conqueror?" Marshal Farrell sighed.
"Is this your "theory of the uselessness of strongholds"? However, in the eyes of most senior generals and the adults in the Privy Council, your strategic theory is still a bit too radical." Admiral Thelemo said.
"It doesn't matter. Some people agree and are ready to execute it personally." Marshal Farrell said.
The staff officers and adjutants present were all elites of the Imperial Army, and naturally they all knew who the marshal was talking about, but it was really difficult for them to answer the question, so they could only remain silent with awkward yet polite smiles.
A silent bitter smile flashed across the face of the chief of staff, and he comforted in a low voice: "After all, the Dragon King and a mortal are different."
The implication is that the election emperor is still qualified to take responsibility if he messes up, but ordinary people cannot bear such a big blame. In front of the Chenxi royal family, even the marshal of the empire, how could he not be a "mortal"?
Although you have the Marshal's Scepter, you are, after all, the youngest (excluding the Electoral Emperor), the least qualified, and the only one who was not born into a noble family. It is better not to act too high and too showy on the battlefield.
Farrell Yun Shuai showed a knowing smile: "I understand. Old guy, of course I understand. Moreover, it is said that the ruins of the Enlightened One in New Yumen were even given instructions by His Majesty himself. At this moment, Maybe the investigating judge and the Star Viewer have already left the Gate of Glory. How dare I leave it alone?”
He paused and then said: "It's just that I am a soldier and I don't want to do anything unprofessional. Bobby, Bobby?"
He started calling loudly to his lieutenant again.
"Send a message to the Gate of Glory and ask for the follow-up supply fleet to follow as soon as possible. Also, tell them that it is time to prepare a group of professional governor-general bureaucrats."
In fact, just a few hundred thousand people eating and drinking would not really bankrupt the empire. Even if we really raise all the two million people in Xinyumen, it will not be painful or itchy.
But the problem now is that if the empire is planning to attack Nantianmen from the direction of the New World, it can only transport them from the Glory Colonial Star along the New World Highway to the front line.
In addition, the special consumables and replacement parts required by large capital ships such as Titans and Dreadnoughts even require a trip to the Gate of Glory from the Empire itself. The supply line was suddenly stretched to nearly half again.
What is conceivable is that once the imperial fleet launches an attack on Nantianmen, the loss of various materials will increase geometrically. It will also be a big test for the empire's transportation capacity.
In fact, the reason why a certain "Dragon of Dawn" ventured into the Kingdom of Cathay after taking down the Blood Gate and burned a large area of its territory to ashes was because he forced the empire to give up attacking Nantianmen from the Blood Gate. possibility.
As for the route from the Empire's Gate of Glory to the New World Highway, after all, it is only a New World colony that has been developed for less than half a century. The population and infrastructure are far from developed
Although it is not like the Cathay Kingdom, which was burned to the ground by some evil star. The wells have to be filled with cement, the fish ponds have to be poured with sulfuric acid, the earthworms have to be dug out and cut vertically, and even the ships have to be waxed. Coin-operated maintenance drones have to be dismantled into atoms, but if you want to pile up six Titans and three to four thousand country-destroying fleets in a galaxy like Said in the mainland, it is of course impossible. Impossible.
In the entire year after the war began, the Galactic Empire did carry out large-scale construction projects on the Gate of Glory and even the New World Highway. However, even with the empire's financial, material and engineering capabilities, it was impossible to really build the New World Highway into the mainland during this period of time. .
In short, according to the inference of the Grand Marshal's Office, there is only one Titan, two Dreadnoughts and 500 large and small battleships that can be used to fight at Nantianmen.
As for the Community Outer Ring Fleet on the opposite side, although a large number of elite soldiers and generals have been transferred to the front line of Sede, they still play the role of the general reserve team. After all, Marshal Joseph Bonaparte still had four Independence-class ships and 600 battleships.
Judging from the combat power on paper, the two sides are actually balanced.
In this case, any additional supply burden may cause a series of negative chain reactions.
In this regard, Marshal Farrell said sincerely: "Actually, I really have no interest in the ruins of the Enlightened Ones, and it is not my turn to have anything to do with it. I just heard that Xinyumen's agriculture has developed very well in recent years. It would be an absolute surprise if they could supply food to the Nantianmen army.”
"So we are really going to drive the interstellar battleship to New Yumen to collect food..." The adjutant sighed in astonishment, even a little bit like wailing.
As long as he thought of the glorious imperial army riding a warship across the sea of stars and landing in front of a small earthen kiln in a certain mountain valley, ordering the trembling old farmers to hand over the sprouted potatoes they used for winter, he felt that the scene was so beautiful.
If this continues, the imperial army's flag will be defiled by the dung of old farmers in the countryside.
Marshal Farrell was unmoved: "It depends on whether the people of that planet are willing to cooperate. If they are willing to contribute, it is no big deal to get a medal or even a knighthood for their representative."
His attention seems to have been focused on other important areas: "Is that thing possible to use?"
There was a brief silence from Admiral Seremer: "It is indeed feasible to a certain extent. The report from Lieutenant General Marvell of Tiangongyuan who is still in Dawn Pass has come over, saying that it can be cut again."
"Very good!" A very obvious joy flashed across Marshal Farrell's face. This may be the most satisfying time he has felt since leaving the Dawn Star Territory.
"It's just that the situation now is different from that of Yang Xiyi."
"I understand, I don't expect to be able to attack with one attack, but even if it only serves as a cover, there is a need to give it a try."