Chapter 24, Winning in Battle
"This question is not that important."
On the way back, Gu Hang answered Yan Fangxu's question.
Mr. Captain found him and asked him the questions in his heart, and Gu Hang responded:
"So what if it's fake? The Navy needs meritorious service, and I need a target. A cult organization that does not believe in the God-Emperor is one of the main culprits for the long-term failure of the Raging Owl Star to recover. This meritorious service can satisfy Commodore Yelicia, It will also allow me to gain enough income, and it will also allow me to unite the people of this world. Then, this cult should be real, and that Wohan should be a real cultist.”
After a pause, Gu Hang saw that Yan Fangxu still had some hesitation on his face. He smiled and patted the captain on the shoulder: "What's more, it's true. The original Owl Beast Sect was a cult, and the one named Wo The people of the Han Dynasty are indeed related to the original owl beast.”
"How did you tell that he was a heretic and not an ordinary psyker?"
Gu Hang pointed at his head and explained: "The power of psychics comes from ourselves, from our spirit. We have enough talent and spirituality to draw from the spiritual energy that is everywhere but cannot be noticed. In the world, spiritual energy is borrowed to form psychic spells, and the power of the heretics comes from the dirty evil gods they believe in. These two powers are completely different, and they are clearly different in my perception."
Having said this, Gu Hang silently added in his mind that the divine arts mastered by the priests of the Empire's state religion were almost the same, but he did not say it out loud.
Hearing this, Yan Fangxu rubbed his head: "I really haven't understood these things before. But since he is indeed a heresy, then there is no problem."
"Don't worry." Gu Hang said, "We are on the right track."
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To appease Mr. Captain, Gu Hang was quite serious.
This person is one of the few capable people under his command.
He came to the Raging Owl Star alone, without taking over the power of the alliance government, and had no team to speak of. The only person who can be used by his subordinates is Captain Yan.
The people in the Feidong Society seem to have gained their hearts at the moment, but they are a bunch of illiterate people and can't be expected to do big things. His little follower Zhang Chao is trustworthy enough, but he doesn't have much knowledge. Maybe he can become a talent after being trained for a long time in the future. , but it is far from being counted now.
The only one left is Yan Fangxu.
After all, he was a naval captain, a serious Imperial Navy officer.
He didn't care that Yan Fangxu still belonged to the navy and was not one of his. He only followed his orders because of Ye Lixia's orders.
It makes no difference, as long as he is currently working for himself, capable and trustworthy, that is enough.
Gu Hang turned his head and looked past Yan Fangxu at the entire army.
There were nearly three hundred people in the entire team, and they were pulling an ox cart back along the road to the governor's camp.
This time it was fruitful.
He left twenty soldiers from the Wasted Cave Company stationed at the Manor in the Floodplain Valley. While protecting the safety of the manor, he also wanted the farmhands to work well. A man named Slam was selected from among the farm laborers as the manager.
Other soldiers, about two hundred in total, and about a hundred farmhands, set out on their way back together. Those farm laborers were responsible for transporting the reloaded materials to the governor's camp.
The so-called ‘cart’ is an ox cart, a cart pulled by animals called ‘barbarian oxen’.
This kind of wild bull should not be a native creature of the Raging Owl Planet, but a species introduced from an alien planet a long time ago. After experiencing a world-destroying war, this creature has not become extinct. Instead, it has further variants, but it is still Retains the ability to be domesticated.
In today's wasteland world, wild cattle are important livestock power.
The supplies transported from Fuxing City were originally pulled by oxcarts, but now they all fell into Gu Hang's hands.
After inventory, the supplies were consistent with what Gu Hang wanted from Fuxing City.
These things have been returned to their original owners.
In addition, Gu Hang also seized nearly two hundred sets of individual weapons and equipment, mainly rifles.
The models of these rifles are a bit varied, and the overall production level is not comparable to the 'Assault' rifles. The latter is at least the standard rifle of the Imperial Army and Marine Corps. Although it is used as cannon fodder, its minimum production level and technical level are online. As for the firearms used by these mercenaries and produced in the local land of Raging Owl, it is hard to say. The quality varies, and the best among them is not as good as the 'Raider'.
But at least it was much more reliable than the iron tube rifle held by the bandits of the 'Prisoners', which Gu Hang was too lazy to use as scrap metal. It could be regarded as a military product after all.
Gu Hang planned to make use of this batch of equipment.
Counting this batch, he has about a hundred sets of 'Raiders' and two hundred sets of locally made equipment on hand. Three hundred more soldiers could be armed.
Now that we have weapons and equipment, there is no big problem with the supply of troops.
The Wasted Cave Society can add some more people, and some of the three thousand slaves he brought down from the starship can also be taken out.
Those slaves were not qualified soldiers to begin with, and their physical fitness was not even comparable to that of machine servants. However, it will never be better than those people in the Feidong Society who don’t have enough to eat. Under Gu Hang's system, even the useless cave dwellers can be turned into gold and become well-trained soldiers, let alone those former slaves.
The quality of the soldiers is not high enough, which at most restricts their ability to continue to upgrade. However, with the system's capabilities, it is not a problem to train to the T5 level and reach the capabilities of a regular army.
In addition to the materials that he originally deserved, as well as the weapons, equipment and ammunition that he captured, an even bigger gain was the gift he received after winning the battle.
[Victory, get 33 points of gifts]
[Loss 20, 116 destroyed, 42 captured]
[1st Servitor Light Infantry Battalion (Part): 16 losses, 43 destroyed]
[Waste Cave Company: 4 losses, 21 destroyed]
[Marine Corps (Part): 0 losses, 52 destroyed]
In this battle, a total of 158 people were killed and captured, and a total of 20 people were lost.
The combined combat effectiveness of a T5-level army and thirty T4-level marines is much stronger than those low-level mercenaries. Even if the defenders had the advantage, and even if the soldiers adopted a forceful attack under Gu Hang's order, the final exchange ratio was still exaggerated to almost 1:8.
Of course, if there were no ramblers driven by marines and no psyker like Gu Hang participating in the battle, the exchange ratio would be a bit uglier.
Most of the casualties among our own soldiers were caused by machine guns and rocket launchers. The heavy machine gun fire hit the femoral artery, causing massive bleeding, or the rocket exploded directly at close range. Among the 20 losses, in addition to a small number of direct deaths, many were seriously injured and unable to return to the battlefield.
This kind of loss is still within the range that Gu Hang can accept. He can't expect to fight without killing anyone.
However, Gu Hang also had to consider replenishing his troops.
The loss of the Wasted Dong Company is not a big problem. They can directly recruit members from the Wasted Dong Club. It is not a problem to draw four more people.
As for the servitor soldiers, there really is no place to make up for them.
In the future, the main force of Gu Hang's army cannot be expected to rely on servitors for a long time. Looking back, we still have to recruit soldiers from the mainland.
We’ll talk about this later.
What he now wants to think about further is how to use the 33 newly obtained gifts.
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Yesterday, the order of the chapters was posted in the wrong order. 23 was posted first and 22 was posted later. Moreover, those two chapters should actually be from today. When I set the time, I set the wrong date...
Just pretend it was updated yesterday!
Comrades who only watched 23 but not 22 yesterday, you can go back and take a look.
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