Chapter 147, Do you know how expensive orbital strikes are?
"Greenskins are born for war. As long as the war continues, the greenskin spores of the same tribe will develop faster and more greenskin aliens will be generated. It is not just a matter of quantity, their technology will also Rapid growth in this process.”
Martins carefully supplemented Gu Hang's knowledge about the 'cancer of the universe'.
"Fortunately, you didn't lose. If they win a key battle, their growth rate will become faster. In fact, these guys in Garbage Town have already given those greenskins a victory. , which is equivalent to stepping on the accelerator of development for their clan.”
"Fortunately, this green-skin clan has not developed long enough, and the starting point of development is in the ruins of the city. It is said that there are often waste energy storms here... If it is in a warm forest area with more fertile land, If it’s a local area, maybe what we have to face is a tide of millions of greenskins.”
"Facing this kind of enemy, it is not a wise choice to continue to fight a war of attrition. It takes twenty years for a human soldier to become a qualified warrior from birth; those greenskins can fight when they grow out of the ground. ”
"If the problem is not solved as soon as possible, what we will face next may not be 20,000 green-skinned orcs, but double the number of green-skinned orcs, and ten times the number of low-level green-skinned creatures such as grats. Their technology will even advance further, the artillery may become more powerful and shoot farther, and the armed trucks will become larger and more ferocious, and they will not let anything that can be called a monster appear. It’s surprising. Among the green-skinned races, there are sometimes beings who can defeat a Space Marine simply by relying on physical strength.”
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After listening to a lot of information about the greenskins told by Martins, Gu Hang's face turned completely dark.
Some previous plans have to be overturned.
Just like the green skin characteristics mentioned by Martins, the best way to deal with this kind of enemy is to bulldoze him in one wave. Don't fight a war of attrition, and don't expect to reduce the number of enemies. Even if it is a wave of injustice, the number must be kept to a very low level.
Otherwise, the subsequent troubles will be endless.
"I understand what you mean, thank you for the information." After Gu Hang thanked Martins, he made a request, "I will contact the Quintet immediately, and Brigadier Yelicia will provide us with orbital strike support. . After the orbital strike firepower is covered, we will launch the attack immediately, and the time will be three days later.”
Martins nodded: "Three days, it won't be a big problem."
"Then it's settled, I'll still need your help when the time comes."
……
Three days was the time it took Gu Hang to distribute the equipment to those garrison divisions, spend the gift points, and train them to the T5 level.
This is necessary troop preparation.
At the same time, he also took advantage of this time to have an in-depth communication with Yelicia in the sky.
When Yelicia's holographic image appeared in front of him, he saw the blond female captain elegantly cutting a steak with a glass of red wine on her hand.
The corners of Gu Hang's mouth twitched slightly.
These things are all the supplies he sent to the Quintet.
The 'Quintet' has its own synthetic starch production capacity, as well as military logistics supplies that were replenished before setting off for the mission on the Raging Star. Even if no logistics were replenished during the two-year mission, it would not be hungry, just don't think about eating. How good it must be.
They helped a lot, so Gu Hang had to show some respect.
When he was very poor before, Gu Hang would remember to replenish the transport spaceship with some consumer goods for the return trip after taking advantage of Ye Lixia. This was even more the case now.
Of course, the Quintet will not send a special spacecraft to transport logistical supplies. Otherwise, if we just transport some food, it won’t be able to cover the cost of one takeoff and landing of the transport spacecraft...
The last time the transport ship came, it was on business.
A group of battle nuns from the Holy Mercy Lily disembarked from the spaceship, which was the support summoned by Mother Sister Gerrit. From the Sisters' headquarters on Koroga 3, twenty Sisters of Battle arrived on Raging Owl.
Counting the two who died in the previous battle, there were twenty-nine of them in total.
Gritte had come into conflict with the original Angry Owl Sect. They had completed an investigation into Fuxing City some time ago and had also caught some of the cultists who had been hiding deeply.
Some time ago, all twenty-nine battle nuns had left Fuxing City, following the clues they had obtained, and headed north.
Gu Hang wished them good luck.
If they could single-handedly solve the cult problem on Raging Owl, that would be the best thing. And if they need any help, Gu Hang will not be stingy.
To put it bluntly, they are doing work for themselves.
And the spaceship that transported twenty battle nuns also brought something that Brigadier General Yelicia valued most when it returned: a letter of commendation.
The letter of commendation was handwritten by Gu Hang, and the main content was that he, in the name of the Governor of the Raging Owl Star, thanked Brigadier General Yelicia for his outstanding contribution in fighting and eliminating the evil god believers and evil god projections who did not worship the emperor.
Of course, if this letter was just written by Gu Hang himself, it would not be of much use.
Letters of commendation from planetary governors can indeed be used as a reference for military generals to obtain meritorious service after actions. In other words, if Yelicia takes this letter of commendation and reports it, the imperial military will recognize it.
But the degree of recognition is not necessarily certain.
It goes without saying that a strong governor, or even a foundry general in some forging worlds, a letter is enough for promotion; someone like Gu Hang... is not very popular, and does not contain enough gold.
But if this letter of commendation is also accompanied by the signature and seal of a Space Marine Chapter Master and a Sister of the Sisters, it will be different.
Gu Hang wasn't sure how valuable such a letter of commendation was, but at least looking at Ye Lixia's smiling face, he knew it should be good.
Of course, when the transport spaceship returned that time, it was impossible to bring only a letter aboard. Although the letter of commendation is the most important thing, the cabin cannot always be empty, so just transport some rare logistics supplies.
Please a little bit to please this rich woman in the sky.
It included some red wine, which was taken out when the houses of powerful people were raided in Fuxing City. It was said to be a local craft product in the Qinggu area.
As for the steak, it comes from the bull beast. After Weixingcheng's truck production increased to almost 200 trucks per month, the demand for animal power dropped significantly.
Not only the large number of wild cattle used by merchants in Fuxing City's caravans have lost their value as draft animals, they have returned to livestock farms and are used to breed beef and dairy cattle.
And this is how the steak that Ye Lixia is eating now comes from.
"Ms. Brigadier General, you seem to be in a good mood."
"It's indeed not bad." Ye Lixia slowly swallowed the beef, took another sip of red wine, and commented: "However, the quality of your beef is not good, the meat is too rough; the taste of the red wine is also a bit inferior." "You And picked it up.”
"Just sighing." The waiter next to her took away the tableware, and Yelicia continued, "This has been the most difficult period of my life. In fact, I still thank you for sending these supplies, otherwise I would have brought them Those collections won’t last two years.”
"..."
Gu Hang coughed twice, not wanting to talk any more about these corrupt lives with Ye Lixia, and turned to business: "I hope to get support from an orbital strike."
"What specifications?" Ye Lixia was still speaking slowly.
"With all my strength."
"What?" Yelicia was no longer calm now. "What kind of enemy are you going to encounter on the surface? Do you need me to launch a full-power orbital strike?"
"Greenskin."
Gu Hang spoke concisely and to the point, while Ye Lixia frowned deeply.
"Are they still those greenskins? Has there been any particularly major change?"
Yelicia asked this question because she had paid attention to the green-skinned threat on Raging Owl before. As the war progresses, relevant information will be compiled every once in a while and sent to the starship.
She knew what was going on on the ground. It was precisely because of this that she had questions.
According to the latest situation she had seen before, the fight was relatively stalemate, but it was far from serious.
Gu Hang coughed slightly and said, "We can't keep fighting a war of attrition with those green skins here. If we don't solve the problem completely, after a while, when these green skins grow again, we will have to face it again. A war that will be larger in scale and the enemy will become more difficult, we may not be able to win by then. ”
"I understand this, but... do you know how much it costs to fire the Quintet in full specifications?"
Gu Hang didn't expect Ye Lixia to ask this question.
He remained silent and waited for Yelicia to continue speaking. Obviously, this is not really a question to him, but a self-question and answer sentence.
Yelicia continued: "Last time you asked me to help with a precision strike, it was the least powerful and cheapest strike method on the 'Quintet': the 'Scalpel' ship-based missile. The price of such a missile is three One hundred tax coins, a round of full-scale bombardment, is like hundreds of 'scalpels';"
"The next level up is the 'Hot Hammer' macro cannon. This is a small macro cannon. The price of one shell is four thousand tax coins, and there are twenty shells in one round."
"The highest level is the 'Wrath of the Loyal Si' macro cannon. The price of a cannon shell is 50,000 tax coins. I only have two on my ship."
"Do you know how expensive it is now?"
The more he listened, the uglier Gu Hang's face became.
He knew it was expensive, but he didn't know it was so expensive.
The so-called ‘tax currency’ is not a currency concept in the conventional sense. It was a tool used by the imperial tax department to measure the value of the materials provided by the planet when collecting taxes on each planet. One tax coin is roughly equivalent to what the empire considers to be the minimum standard output value for a year for the population of an ordinary world.
A healthy adult population is worth five tax coins; a well-trained soldier with a full set of individual equipment is worth ten tax coins.
According to the empire's registration records, Raging Owl pays taxes at the lowest level - 10 million tax coins for two years. Moreover, the preferential treatment Gu Hang received meant that for the first time, he only had to pay a quarter, which was 2.5 million tax coins.
According to Ye Lixia, the total consumption after such a round of bombardment was 210,000 tax coins.
After fifty rounds, the ammunition alone would be enough for the Furious Star to pay the full imperial tax; after twelve rounds, it would be enough for Gu Hang to pay his first tax; after four rounds, it would be enough to pay Gu Hang's first tax. All the soldiers in the nine divisions and brigade-level units created by Hang's command were killed.
He understood the implication of Brigadier General Yelicia: Orbital strikes can be carried out, but after the attack, are the few soldiers you lost worth my shells?
This is the 'spirituality' of a first-class naval officer: people calculate the price of artillery shells based on human lives.
One round of artillery fire is worth the lives of 20,000 well-trained soldiers. If you want to take a hole that can be filled with 20,000 lives, don't ask the distinguished navy master to blow it up for you.
But...
Gu Hang suddenly smiled, and he understood something deeply in his heart: the navy's money is not my money, and the dead soldiers are really my soldiers!
So he said: "It's still going to explode."
Yelicia shook her head helplessly: "I knew you would say that. If you insist, then I will help you."
Anyway, the navy's money is not my mother's money.
Of course, don't go too far.
So Yelicia added: "But... you have to do two things. The first is to determine the target. I saw your original plan. I can't let the expensive artillery fire be aimed at the entire ruins of the city. To carry out a strike, the cost ratio is too high. You need to give me an accurate target to improve the strike efficiency. This is for your own good. Facing a target of this level, a full-scale strike can only be carried out once at most. You have to. Cherish this opportunity and strive for the best results.”
"In addition, you need to give me a copy of the post-war effect statistics. Afterwards, the Ministry of Military Affairs will review these things, and the results and costs need to be reported in a decent way. If the results are too outrageous, the Ministry of Military Affairs will find you in trouble. Related The shell consumption may cost you. There is a precedent for this kind of thing, and I will also take responsibility. Don’t make it difficult for me.”
"I understand. Thank you, Yelicia."
This time to thank Gu Hang, he removed his honorific and appeared closer to him.
He knew that Yelicia still helped.
Otherwise, if Yelicia really cares about her own life, is unwilling to take too much responsibility, and insists on doing things according to the rules, she really won't be able to apply for this round of orbital strikes. I'm afraid that at most she will be able to do something small.
Since she helped, Gu Hang would not trick her on purpose.
Isn't it just about finding the target accurately?
Brothers of the Phoenix Chapter, please help me.
Space warriors, who are more special forces than special forces, sneak behind enemy lines and mark important strategic targets to facilitate orbital strikes. Isn't this a common practice?
(End of chapter)