Chapter 152, it’s so big and green
Roast Ax, along with the sinful Terror Tank he was driving, were killed by fifty rounds of 155 howitzers falling from the sky.
The intensive artillery fire came down, and he, who had just regained his power, had no time to leave the explosion range.
And his armor, no matter how powerful it is, can't withstand such a baptism of gunfire.
Of course, accidental injuries are inevitable during this process.
Within two minutes, there were still many soldiers on our side who had no time to run to safety. Even if you find a bunker on the spot, if you are too close to the explosion area, you will still die.
But this is the necessary price.
Gu Hang's proactive attack only minimized the cost.
Of course, one or two hundred fewer soldiers would be valuable.
The death of Roasting Ax also marked the complete collapse of the front that led the orcs to confront the human army in this area for more than a month.
Moreover, after their morale collapsed, the greenskins had no way to even escape.
There are human armies surrounding them on both sides. Even if they can fly to the sky and escape, they still can't escape.
And this is exactly Gu Hang's goal.
What he wants is not just a defeat, but also an uncompromising battle of annihilation.
Although the casualties were not many in general, more than a thousand soldiers were probably killed or wounded during the full-line attack. But the result was that at least four thousand greenskins were wiped out. 70% of the enemies died from the rain of artillery in the early stage.
At this moment, Gu Hang saw new changes taking place in his [Event] panel.
【Event: Green Skin Threat】
[The green-skinned orcs that appeared inexplicably on the planet have grown into a threat that cannot be ignored in the past few years. But under your leadership, the heroic warriors not only defended the intrusion of the green-skinned orcs, but also annihilated their main force through orbital bombing, artillery coverage, and full-scale force attacks. However, whether it is the intelligence from the front or your own feeling, these green-skinned orcs look very unusual. They do not look like wild orcs that developed independently on the Raging Star, but they also do not look like the wild orcs from the planet. Invading space beasts. 】
[Phase 1 Goal: Completed]
[Phase 1 reward: T5 level additional unit training option-Beast Slaughter Group, obtained]
[Phase 2 Objective: Find out the reason for the rise of green skins. 】
[Phase 2 reward: an important piece of information]
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In the [Event] panel, the first phase reward of [Green Skin Threat] has been settled.
Gu Hang could already see the training options for the new additional unit of the 'Beast Slayer Group' in the [Weapons Card] interface. As long as it is a T5 or above unit, if you spend more gifts, you can add part of the special attack effect on the green-skinned orcs to the unit.
As for the ‘beast-slaying’ trait that the 3rd Independent Group gave him directly for free, it could actually be included in the first-stage rewards, saving him 60 points of gifts.
And that second stage was originally what Gu Hang wanted to do. It was just the reward of the so-called 'important information' that made him a little concerned.
What could it be?
We'll know then.
After briefly looking at the updated event information, Gu Hang stopped paying attention.
The situation on the battlefield is still the top priority.
After dismantling the main resistance of the green-skinned orcs, the large army rested on the spot. At 5 p.m., they all had dinner delivered by the logistics. After another hour and a half of rest, they set off again at 6:30 p.m. , heading towards the depths of the tower ruins.
This isn't radical either.
There should still be a small number of greenskins surviving in this position, but it doesn't matter anymore.
It's not okay to ignore it at all. After all, the follow-up troops will continue to perform tasks deep in the ruins of the tower, and logistical supplies also need to be transported through here. The safety of this place still needs to be protected.
Therefore, Gu Hang left the 6th and 7th garrison divisions, one in the north and one in the south, responsible for continuing to clear out the scattered greenskins that might still be alive in this position, and as a reserve force to ensure the safety of the logistics line.
Let’s not list the cleanup mission for now, it’s not difficult at all.
The main force advanced into the depths without encountering any difficulties.
The previous orbital bombing was no joke. Under such a large-scale attack, very few greenskins could survive.
Especially the most important targets: the starting position of the green-skin offensive troops and their base camp, were hit hard.
Other places received relatively light firepower, but the number of green skins themselves was also small.
As the troops advanced along the way, they could still occasionally see some sporadic green skins popping up, but they were not a threat at all.
Of course, in order to ensure stability and the later stage, a garrison division will still be left behind for every twenty kilometers traveled.
While ensuring logistics access, they are also responsible for clearing out the local green-skinned orcs.
Soon at nearly 12 o'clock that night, the troops arrived at the gathering place of green-skinned orcs that the Space Marines had previously reported.
According to the latest information before the orbital bombing, there should have been more than 4,000 green-skinned orcs and three times the amount of grot cannon fodder gathered here, as well as a considerable amount of heavy equipment that was more sophisticated than those encountered before. .
However, now there is only a huge crater and large areas of debris.
In the center of the greenskin assembly area was a huge crater with nothing in it. In theory, thousands of people could be united in this huge crater, but now they are all gone.
Literally no bones left.
On the periphery of the crater, some suspicious wreckage began to appear.
Judging from the appearance of the wreckage, you can probably guess that these should be the corpses or pieces of equipment belonging to some greenskins.
But that's just speculation.
Shapeless fragments, things that melted and then cooled, I can only guess.
Further away, there will be some parts that can be identified as belonging to something before they were destroyed, such as fingers, half-legs and the like. The corpses will appear denser here.
Further away, you can see individual complete equipment wrecks, such as overturned, charred tattered trucks, immovable murder cans, and relatively complete charred corpses.
The green-skinned orcs who gathered here bravely and high-spirited, ready to set out to destroy everything, suffered a devastating blow here.
I don’t know if any green-skinned orcs survived the bombing, but even if there were, there must not be many alive, and they must have run away long ago.
Gu Hang was still very satisfied with the impact of this attack.
But the only thing that made him feel slightly uneasy was why the Space Marines had not sent him any information about the impact of the strike before?
This is not how it should be.
After the special operations team completed the marking of each strike target more than ten hours ago, they left the area that may be affected by the orbital strike. They have about ten hours to evacuate, so the problem should not be big.
There is no need to retreat that far. As long as you maintain a certain distance and ensure that your area is not marked by orbital strikes, there will be no artillery fire from space, and you will naturally be safe.
After the orbital strike was over and the magnetic field of the wireless communication stabilized, they also had a call with Gu Hang, which was considered safe and showed that they had not been affected by the orbital strike. At the same time, they also accepted Gu Hang's request to go Go to the two most important targets, the greenskin army's assembly area and base camp, to explore the effect of orbital strikes.
Logically speaking, given their distance, they would be able to find out the situation quickly.
But the actual situation is that the large troops led by Gu Hang have seen with their own eyes the situation of the green-skinned orc assembly area, but no news has been received from the special operations team that should have reported the information long ago.
It's twelve o'clock at night, already very late. All the officers and soldiers experienced a battle starting at 11 o'clock in the morning, and continued to advance among the ruins to clear out the greenskins. After arriving here, except for a short break for lunch, all the officers and soldiers had no time to rest. Very tired now.
It is not easy to let the large troops move again.
He found the communications soldier and sent a radio communication request to the Phoenix Chapter.
No reply.
He felt even more wrong.
He called Perbov and arranged his troops. After resting, he would make a forward reconnaissance in the direction of the green-skinned orc base camp mentioned in the previous intelligence early tomorrow morning. If he encountered the green-skinned orcs in the process, there was no need to proceed. The most important task of special clearing is to find traces of the special operations team.
Gu Hang was quite worried.
Although there are five space warriors in the action team, theoretically there won't be any big problems, but...
When fighting against the original Angry Owl Cult, they could sacrifice a Space Marine, let alone against the Greenskins.
In particular, these greenskins look slightly different from wild greenskins that develop independently from spores.
Wild green skins and space green skins are both green skins. There is no difference in body structure and social form. It is just that the latter has developed more powerfully and has a higher level of technology. There are powerful orc generals and even orcs. Warlords rule.
The most terrifying orc disaster in the legend happened seven thousand years ago, and that disaster almost destroyed the entire human empire.
But before the powerful space orc clans are eliminated, the orcs that have grown independently on certain planets and have not yet become a great threat to the galaxy will be called wild orcs.
The path by which the greenskin infection spread to another planet is difficult to trace. During an interstellar voyage, a certain cargo carried green-skinned spores invisible to the naked eye and boarded the interstellar spacecraft. If it falls to the ground when unloading, or is blown somewhere by the wind, and encounters a suitable environment, it will begin to take root and sprout, and the first Skogomon will grow. This aggressive and ferocious little beast secretes and divides many spores when hunting, fighting, injured, excreting, and dying... and begins to give birth to more squig beasts, grunts, Even Orc Boy. Generally speaking, when the green-skin ecology of wild orcs on the planet has not yet fully developed, the green-skin is in a primitive tribal state. There is no technology at all, and no organizational structure. They are just a group of wild beasts with relatively high intelligence.
They will fight each other and fight among themselves. After all, fighting is the nature of the green-skinned orcs. As for whether the target of the battle is a fellow race or a foreign race, they actually don't care much.
During the fighting, they will select a green-skinned boss as the leader of the tribe. The greenskins who make up the tribe will start to fight with everything around them under the leadership of the boss. If they cannot find it, they will divide themselves and then fight with themselves.
In this process, their number will gradually spiral upward, and a large number of greenskins will die from internal friction. However, although the number fluctuates, it is still rising overall. At the same time, as more battles occur and the Greenskins become more numerous, their so-called 'waaagh' force field becomes thicker.
This kind of supernatural power, which is inextricably related to spiritual energy but not spiritual energy, is similar to some kind of "spiritual technology". It will make their tribe stronger and stronger, and their technology will also advance inexplicably. All kinds of The weapons and equipment developed by 'I Xunsi' that can only be used by green skins will allow them to embark on a journey to the stars one day.
Of course, if there is no external force, this process will be very long.
But if there are external forces, for example, they have eaten enough brains of foreigners, for example, they have seen enough war technologies of humans or other intelligent races, then the orc technical boys, goblin technicians, technical masters who have received the 'enlightenment'... The technical greenskins of the series will quickly speed up this process.
Judging from this standard, here in the ruins of the high tower, the orc tribe, whose size is only measured in ten thousand people, logically should not have such things as murder cans and big iron cans of fear. They have guns and thermal weapons, and it can only be said that they are developing fast enough.
Similarly, in the past reports on Garbage Town, there was never any mention of large-scale greenskins waging war against each other.
This is not consistent with the situation of wild greenskins.
But it's even more different from the space greenskins.
If there really is a green-skinned clan that can cross the star sea and set its sights on the Raging Owl Star, then just go to sleep, there is no way they can resist it.
The green-skinned orcs who appeared in the ruins of the Angry Owl Star Tower are indeed a very exceptional case.
But it may be that humans haven't done enough research on the ecology of the green-skinned orcs, and Gu Hang's recent craziness in supplementing his knowledge is hard to mention.
Because of this, he is worried about the current situation of the special operations team.
This green-skinned orc clan is so special, who knows if something will happen that even the Space Marines can't figure out?
The emperor's angel of death lives up to his name as a demigod in many cases; but in the universe, among the many demons and monsters fighting against each other, sometimes they die piece by piece.
Green-skinned people are just one of those many ‘cow ghosts and snake gods’.
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You can't say that Gu Hang is a cuckold, but the special operations team is indeed in big trouble now.
The time went back to eleven o'clock at noon. When the orbital strike fell, they were indeed not harmed.
They waited patiently for a while. After the residual heat of the bombing dissipated and the radio communication was restored, they reported to the Governor that they were safe. Then they followed the Governor's instructions and headed for the location of the orbital bombing.
The main strike location that needs to be explored is actually the gathering place and base camp of the green-skinned orcs.
The base camp they went to first.
Here, the scene is almost the same as the situation at the starting point. It is also a huge crater and all the surrounding buildings have been razed to the ground. The difference is that among the destruction here, there are a lot more grunts and craftsmen, and there are a lot more remains of green-skinned buildings.
Nothing more than that.
They wandered around the area where they were hit for a while, assessing the effects of the attack and checking to see if there were any survivors nearby.
The Greenskin Military Factory is confirmed to have been destroyed;
Greenskin camp confirmed destroyed;
Three greenskin hatchery farms confirmed destroyed;
And I have to say that green-skinned things are really terrifyingly tenacious. Even a destructive bombing strike of this level is more powerful than a nuclear bomb falling, but it can be far away from the center of the explosion, especially when the attack comes, and the green skin who happens to be in a certain solid bunker, It's really nothing.
Fortunately, there are not many and they are scattered.
Without being discovered, they didn't waste time cleaning it up. Of course, if it's particularly smooth, I'll kill it.
Based on the characteristics of green-skinned orcs, as long as their boss is killed in the bombing and there is no leader among the remaining green-skinned orcs, they will become "intelligent beasts". . They act completely on instinct and fight against each other until a boss emerges among them.
During this period, they are at their weakest. As long as humans seize this opportunity, they can be completely exterminated.
Then, if we carefully clean up every inch of the land that the orcs have experienced, the orc crisis will probably be resolved.
Of course, with their tenacious characteristics and the way their spore forms develop, the orcs can never let their guard down in case of crisis. For a long period of time in the future, this planet must always monitor and explore places where green-skin disasters have occurred, and regularly kill suspicious plants.
But as long as you don't relax your vigilance and follow the relevant regulations and ethics of the empire, problems that arise are usually minor ones, and most of them can be stifled at the nascent stage, preventing another major crisis from erupting.
But just when their mentality gradually relaxed, a roar came from somewhere in the distance.
They were startled, but quickly realized that it was not their whereabouts that had been discovered.
It was more like a green-skinned orc, howling and using sound to gather his subordinates.
Communication basically relies on yelling, which is kind of funny, but no one can laugh now.
The emergence of this situation means that there is still an orc leader with charisma in this area, and it is not a small charisma.
And it's unlikely that it was just decided in a fight. On the one hand, it is not that fast, and on the other hand, the new boss who has just been killed is unlikely to have such a temperament.
Then the answer is readily apparent: Under the previous tyrannical orbital bombardment, a powerful leader among the green-skinned orcs did not die.
I don’t know if it was luck, not being in the core area of the bombing, or some other reason, but this is obviously not good news.
They decided to check out the situation.
If a large number of green-skinned orcs have already gathered under his call, forget it, just pass the news to the Governor and then assign people to monitor them.
But if the number of greenskins gathered is not large, Martins and other five space warriors plan to kill the greenskin boss.
The beheading tactic is one of the best tactics for green-skinned orcs.
A huge 'waaagh', even an expedition across the star sea, requires a powerful orc warlord to organize and launch it. Only a strong enough leader can unite the greenskins.
But similarly, as long as the boss dies, the remaining greenskins will immediately become a mess. Usually, more than half of them will be killed first in internal fighting.
They have no intention of annihilating their race and fending off foreign enemies first.
And even in a specific battle, the death of a team leader will greatly shake the entire greenskin team; the death of the leader of a battle will make the entire battle collapse...
When dealing with greenskins, the best way is to find the biggest, greenest, and strongest one at the moment, and then kill it.
So who is best suited to do this kind of thing on the battlefield?
Of course it's the Space Marines.
In Phoenix's past wars, as long as they fought against the greenskins, they would inevitably have to perform similar tasks five, six, seven or eight times in a single battle.
For now, it's just a matter of getting back to the old business.
Even the Space Marines still miss it a little bit.
However, when they arrived quietly and saw the greenskins gathered there, they gave up the idea of raiding.
There were more than they expected.
There were more than a thousand orc boys there. It's not just light infantry, there are also combat trucks and murder tanks. Roughly counting, there are no less than fifty units of various types of heavy equipment.
Moreover, sporadic green skins are constantly gathering here.
This amount shocked Martins.
Why so many?
During the discussion, they came up with a guess that could explain it:
It is estimated that this orc leader was leading his assembled troops to the assembly area. Halfway through, the orbital bombardment came.
The most important targets of the bombing were the base camp and the assembly area. Those two places suffered the most violent and unavoidable blows; but they happened to be on the road, in the middle of the two places, but they were lucky enough to escape.
There must still be many dead greenskins. What Martins and the others saw alone were many orcs with injuries. After all, this wave of orbital bombardment not only had two large macro cannons, but also twenty small macro cannons and hundreds of orbital missiles, which were scattered everywhere. Those things were very powerful and fierce.
But overall, thousands of greenskins survived.
The beheading tactic is difficult to implement.
Not only are there many enemies, but the green-skinned orc leader is also worth paying attention to:
It's so big and green.
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