Chapter 542, Solve the Itchy Throat
Wang Ningyi finally chose to surrender.
No matter how tough your words are, they can't be tougher than reality.
Almost all the important strongholds of the star port were captured by the Star Warriors, and the soldiers of the Imperial Legion who came one after another had no way to recapture it; the firepower launched from the star port destroyed the outer star forts and armed space stations.
The entire planet's orbital defense system is almost in ruins.
And after the alliance's main fleet has cleared away the orbital threat, only the ground artillery group is left, which will inevitably be unable to fight against the alliance's main fleet.
If the Alliance were more ruthless and cleared the ground artillery fortress corresponding to a space field, and then launched the sky-burning torpedoes while ensuring that they would not be intercepted, they would be able to solve the problem once and for all.
In short, as far as he was concerned, the war was over. The subsequent battle is meaningless.
Then, as Hussepe said, it might be good to have fewer dead people.
What's more, although it was an unconditional surrender, Hussepe also hinted that they would not be too harsh on the surrendering rebels. You have to enter the prisoner-of-war camp, but the conditions in the alliance's prisoner-of-war camp are quite good, the standard of living is guaranteed, the discipline of the alliance army is also very strong, and there will be no abuse of prisoners of war.
Of course, there is some necessary labor, which is indispensable.
In the future, if the war is victorious, the prisoners of war may be returned to their hometowns; if the war continues, perhaps the two sides will have a prisoner exchange plan; otherwise, the prisoners can also join the alliance, and the alliance will always open the door to this.
As for Wang Ningyi personally, the conditions for surrender are not bad. Although he will definitely never become a general, and he can't even hope for a high-level position, the personal living standards promised by the alliance are quite good.
The combination of these factors made the captured Wang Ningyi finally agree to issue a declaration of surrender to the entire planet in the star port.
However, although he is the commander-in-chief of the Upper East Star garrison, surrender is not something that he just raises his arms to cause hundreds of millions of soldiers around the world to surrender.
impossible.
There are more than 200,000 soldiers stationed at the star port, but there are basically no big troubles. After Wang Ningyi announced his surrender, the defenders of the strategic points stationed by the Phoenix Space Marines who could not defeat them followed the general's orders in frustration. They allowed an Alliance ship to approach, and allowed Alliance soldiers to come up and disarm their weapons.
Feeling that they were being attacked from both sides, every armed space station, and even the last surviving star fort, turned off their lights and surrendered, allowing Alliance soldiers to come up and take over the facilities.
However, compared to the crispness of the defenders in orbit, the rebels on the ground were relatively hesitant.
After the initial chaos, some troops did not intend to resist as promised, but soon, local officials from Upper East Star and a general from the Imperial Army issued a statement declaring that Wang Ningyi was a so-called 'coward' and 'traitor'. Issue a statement to the entire military on the planet's surface, demanding that the war of resistance continue.
Moreover, they really gathered some of their strength and attacked a group of surface fortresses.
The surface firepower under their control began to fire into space orbit with all their strength, bombarding Alliance ships and landing craft.
Their actions still caused many casualties on the alliance side.
More than a dozen landing ships were knocked down, and three pioneer divisions that were about to land were crippled. Several infantry regiments that had already landed were besieged just after they took control of the fortress. The soldiers inside who originally surrendered were also ready to move. The situation suddenly turned bad.
General Wang Ningyi, who was still on the starport, felt sad in his heart.
He vaguely regretted it.
You have made so many mistakes before, should you just die at the critical moment? Originally, he used the lives of many soldiers as an excuse to comfort himself. But now it seems that everyone still wants to fight to the end.
However, overall he is still pessimistic about the struggle on the planet's surface.
Now that they were fighting happily, it only caught the Alliance fleet a little off guard for a moment. After the alliance's main force reacts and launches orbital bombing, it lacks orbital protection and is probably unable to resist with only the protection of the orbital gun group. Even if they can resist in the early stage, as the surface fortresses are destroyed one by one and more and more alliance armies land, these resistances will eventually be wiped out.
Then, from the observation window of the Star Port Tower, he really saw the main force of the alliance arriving in the orbit of the Upper East Star.
First a battlecruiser, then another battlecruiser, and then... none.
Is this gone?
Wang Ningyi was stunned for a moment, turned his head suddenly, and looked at Hu Sepei standing next to him, with a ferocious expression: "You lied to me!?"
Previously, Hussepe said that the main force of the Alliance fleet was outside the orbit!
That should be a huge fleet of eight giant ships, dozens of cruisers, and a total of more than 500 people!
But right now, the Alliance ships he saw with his own eyes not only had two battlecruisers present, but the overall number of warships had also shrunk by more than ten times!
It would be great to have fifty Alliance ships participating in the war!
At this point, how could he still not understand that he had been deceived before?
He feels regret now, extremely regretful.
If we had known earlier, the alliance's main fleet was not here at all. There were only a few ships, especially two battle cruisers. In positional battles, the most threatening Retribution-class battleships and All the Zhuge-class aircraft carriers are gone... With such fleet strength, they have no ability to conquer the Upper East Star!
Even if space warriors break through the defenses, capture the starport, and even control the starport's firepower to attack one's own orbital defense facilities from behind, as long as they continue to resist and the orbital gun groups on the ground are activated quickly, the combined firepower will be Able to withstand alliance attacks.
As long as you are bolder and the orbital gun group on the surface fiercely destroys the star port, then without the star port's firepower attacking from behind, the surviving orbital defense facilities on the Upper East Star combined with the surface firepower can still deny the alliance. This is not powerful. fleet!
However, Wang Ningyi's surrender almost destroyed this possibility.
The self-destruction system of the starport is also controlled by the Space Marines, but what if the remaining soldiers dare to place bombs everywhere and directly self-destruct?
Without his surrender order, wouldn't the railgun group on the surface have fallen into chaos in the first place?
But no matter what, he seemed to be dead.
Thinking of this, he was actually not that angry.
But on the surface, he still had to maintain an angry attitude.
Hussepe did not expose it either.
He said with a smile: "You are so loyal and brave, I can only publish this volume. But you don't have to be too angry, Upper East Star will eventually be captured by the Alliance. You are wise The decision has saved the lives of millions of people who are responsible for defending in space; the stubborn resisters on the surface are the stupidest ones. They will drag countless people into the war, but in the end nothing can be changed."
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The resistance on the surface of Upper Eastern Star did cause a lot of waves, but its significance was actually not that great.
Without the cooperation of starports and starforts, ground orbital firepower alone is not enough.
After all, the ground artillery group has no way to move, and the space area it can cover is relatively limited.
The alliance fleet just needs to avoid the strong area.
Alliance ships can use the power of two battle cruisers to clear a small, relatively safe space in areas where ground firepower is not very strong.
Then, drop the army and start attacking from the ground.
The loss of orbit and the surrender of the supreme commander will bring a huge morale blow to the ground defenders. Their will to resist will not be that strong.
Those direct rebel legions from the Queen's Star Territory may be quite fierce. However, it is said that there are hundreds of millions of defenders on the Upper East Star, and the total number of direct rebels is only 10 to 20 million. A considerable number of the elites are still stationed in orbit and surrendered. The majority of the remaining defenders are still the Planetary Defense Force clusters recruited from the Upper Eastern Star and even the surrounding areas of the Upper Eastern Star by the Raging Flames before the Upper Eastern Star was besieged.
Their fighting power and fighting will are even more worrying.
Under this circumstance, the alliance's land attack soon became overwhelming after overcoming initial difficulties.
This is especially true when the alliance's two ace troops join the ground battle.
Those were three hundred Space Marines led by Calduso.
The simple defense on the star port does not require them. Only in battles on the ground can their effectiveness be brought into full play.
In addition to Calduso's Space Marines, another ace is the Alliance National Knights.
It's called the Knights, but it's actually the Titan Legion.
With a Warlord-class Titan as the core, more than twenty Warhound-class and Predator-class Titans as the main force, and more than seventy Knight mechas of various types, they formed the Iron Giant Legion.
In conjunction with multiple Alliance armored divisions that have gathered together, the Lion Tank and the Lion Tank, as well as thousands of armored vehicles, are constantly patrolling the sky with hundreds of fighter planes affiliated with the Army Aviation.
The powerful torrent of steel wiped out the railgun fortresses on the surface one after another.
Under tremendous military pressure, the alliance's psychological tactics never stopped.
In the past few months, the various 'lies' that have been propagated that the Iron Fury Stone is finished and that the Alliance has entered the core of the Spider Web Domain are still being broadcast; under Hussepe's persuasion , General Wang Ningyi, who had figured it out again, also worked for his old subordinates on the ground again and again, persuading them to surrender.
Often, the main force of the Queen's Legion on the surface, with a large number of Planetary Defense Forces, guards a key fortress, making it more difficult for the Alliance to crack down. At this time, Wang Ningyi's call will go directly to the channel of the fortress garrison commander and have a good chat with him.
If you chat a few more times, sometimes you can directly persuade someone to surrender.
Even if they fail to directly persuade them to surrender, they can at least shake the opponent's military morale.
This is also a good harvest.
From this perspective, Wang Ningyi is quite useful.
Husseppe couldn't help but boast that one man could be like a thousand soldiers!
He also said that he must report his merits to him.
While having a bad face, Wang Ningyi sometimes has some expectations in his heart.
What if... what if the alliance really wants to give me a high-ranking official and a generous salary so that I can work well in the alliance?
So should I agree? Or agree? Or agree?
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It will obviously take time to completely conquer Upper East Star.
But this result is already determined.
Even after the overall situation was decided, the two battlecruisers "Flying Wing" and "Koroga" left.
The Army can already take care of the rest, and there is no need for the two giant ships to continue to stay on the Upper East Star.
The next target is Guangfeng Star.
The Alliance hopes to follow suit.
Guangfeng Star was also completely blocked from external communications by the alliance. They did not know what happened on the Upper East Star, so they would not have any advance precautions against this method.
However, Wang Ningyi accepted the communication with the alliance and was finally captured and chose to surrender. To be honest, these were accidental events and their replicability was not that high.
The rebel commander of Guangfeng Star has always refused to communicate with the Alliance, and will not let any Alliance ships, even non-combat ships, approach.
There's no way around it.
But despite this, the league found an opportunity.
In the third week after the arrival of the Wings and Koroga, an opportunity was seized.
They discovered that there were ships on Guangfeng Star, operating in low-altitude orbits.
It seems to be carrying out large-scale material transportation and deployment at the planet level.
After a brief discussion, two battle cruisers led a wave of assaults.
Facing the threats from the orbital defense system and ground artillery groups, the battle cruiser destroyed the starship group operating in the low-Earth orbit of Guangfeng Star.
It was not a big or powerful ship.
However, that is a very rare active force within Guangfeng Star.
Prior to this, the Alliance's main ships were operating in the Proud Claw Starfield, and when Guangfeng Star and Upper East Star were ignored, the small fleets hidden in the orbital defense systems of these two planets sneaked out and attacked the Alliance. The logistics fleet also has some results.
Now, this small fleet has been destroyed, which means that Guangfengxing has lost all its ability to take the initiative.
It wouldn't be a big problem if they just existed.
After all, Shangdong on the other side has been taken.
While the war on the Eastern Star continued, the alliance's engineering team had actually landed on the surface at the same time to carry out warehouse construction.
In the future, Upper East will become the alliance's logistics base when it launches an attack on the Proud Claw Star Territory.
Including many recruits who have been trained locally in the alliance, they will also be transported here in batches.
On the one hand, you can use combat as a substitute for training and participate in the war on the surface of the Upper East Star. On the other hand, the losses of frontline combat troops can be replenished at any time.
In this way, Guangfengxing, which has completely lost its ability to take the initiative, has little meaning if it cannot be defeated.
The sore throats were finally resolved.
(End of chapter)