Chapter 544, the direction with the most results
Wu Jiarong on Raging Owl received the message from President Gu with surprise, and while gearing up to prepare for the construction of the Retribution-class battleship, the alliance's military operations also began to advance to the next stage.
The two star districts south of the Proud Claw Star Territory captured by the Alliance have not been completely digested.
In fact, it can't be that easy. After all, time is still short, the place is still on the front line of war, and it was once enemy territory. The acceptance of the alliance's rule in these two star regions cannot be very high.
Those local forces will not easily accept full alliance.
This is different from being in the league itself.
In the Alliance itself, local forces on various planets have no conditions to resist. The Alliance has many ways to suppress them through various gentle or tough methods.
But here, the usefulness of many mild and political methods has been greatly reduced.
These local forces may have had a deep connection with Iron Fury Stone in the past; now, even if they temporarily succumb to military pressure, they still inevitably hold the thought in their hearts that your alliance will one day be kicked out. 'Endure the humiliation'.
Under such an external environment and internal contradictions, it is unlikely that the alliance will complete internal integration in a few months.
But...it's enough.
A certain amount of industrial power can be tapped and used by the alliance;
Several planets with key transportation locations have completed preliminary fortification construction;
On most planets, relying on soldiers recruited from the planet, plus some "Allied Forces" troops from the mainland, they can complete the suppression of the planet's interior and blockade the opposition forces.
To this extent, it's OK.
The main army of the alliance attacked and began to continue fighting north.
The target at this stage is still two star regions, with a total of twenty-nine worlds.
The Raging Flame Fleet was still elusive. They slightly harassed the main force of the alliance, but always avoided a direct decisive battle.
This allowed the Alliance to take over twenty-nine worlds again relatively smoothly.
The alliance once again adopted the same steady and steady attitude as before, stopping the offensive situation and starting to digest it on the spot.
But this time, the Raging Flames did not sit idly by.
They were not anxious, but when the Alliance controlled four star regions in the Proud Claw Star Territory, reaching a total of fifty worlds, they began to have more paths to harass the Alliance's occupied areas.
After all, within the star field, the various star areas are not like the two star fields of Meng He and Proud Claw. There are only two worlds connected by a star tunnel.
There are at least a dozen roads that can enter these four star regions, and it is impossible for the alliance to guard all of them.
This led to several battles that caused the alliance to suffer losses.
The Raging Flame Fleet raided the orbit of the planet with a shipyard that was previously occupied by the Alliance, destroying several warships that were being repaired;
They attacked a transport fleet, not only wiping out the escorting ships, destroying half of the transport ships, causing the death of tens of millions of Alliance soldiers waiting for transport, but also ran away before the angry Alliance fleet arrived.
They even carried out reinforcements to Guangfeng Star, trying to send a squadron into the orbital defense line of Guangfeng Star. On the one hand, it can increase the defense of Guangfeng Star and provide the ability to take the initiative. On the other hand, it can also convey some information and intelligence to ensure that the besieged planet can continue to hold on and avoid the situation of the Eastern Star.
Fortunately, they failed at this point and were forced back by the alliance's fleet that besieged Guangfeng.
But despite this, the impact is still very bad.
The space battle that takes place in this star system can be observed by the observatory on Guangfeng Star. Even though Raging Flame's ship failed to successfully enter the planet's orbit and join up with the local defenders, even its attempts to obtain communications were intercepted by the Alliance. However, their appearance inside the galaxy can bring a huge morale-boosting effect to the local defenders of Guangfeng Star.
The most direct manifestation is that the local defenders, who had already loosened their attitude and were not so firm in their refusal to send diplomats from the alliance to communicate, suddenly became closed and stopped communicating with the alliance at all. It was even possible to observe from outer space that a city on the surface was still holding some kind of celebration, and the Alliance Navy was so angry that it fired a cannon at it - but of course it was intercepted, and by the way, it helped others set off fireworks in the night sky. Add to the fun.
The Alliance also thought of ways to deal with the Raging Flame Fleet.
However, many attempts to ambush and induce him failed to have much effect in the end.
In one of the ambush battles, the Alliance fleet took quite risky actions. After the ambush failed, six giant ships assembled to pursue the Furious Flame Fleet.
In the Raging Flame Fleet, the Retribution-class battleship does not move very fast, but on the Alliance side, there is also a Retribution-class battleship that is holding back.
Between the chase and the escape, both parties ran away several star systems.
To this extent, the alliance fleet's formation was somewhat stretched. The Yu Huo Nova fell behind and struggled to move forward; the Hippogriff could barely keep up, but if they don't fight you, there would be little chance of participating in the battle; the four battlecruisers could catch up, but they couldn't defeat it.
If this kind of pursuit continues, there should be gains. The battle patrols that can catch up don't have to fight hard, they only need to cut their flesh with blunt knives, hit the small boats in the fleet, and occasionally overtake and hunt and delay them.
Highlight a strategy of retreating the enemy and disturbing us.
And once the main ship on the opposite side goes crazy and wants to come up to fight, the battle cruiser can also choose to retreat, so that the opponent cannot catch up.
Even if you don't want to retreat, if you pull and fight for a while, the relatively faster Hippogriff will be able to arrive at the battlefield quickly; if you hold on a little longer, the Yuhuo Nova will also arrive.
As long as we chase a little longer, this will definitely happen.
However, in the end, the commander-in-chief of the alliance's main fleet, Admiral Yelicia, gave the order to stop the pursuit.
It has been chased too far, and it is no longer within the alliance's control area and has chased out several galaxies.
In these strange galaxies, every interstellar jump is a huge adventure.
Even if there are astropaths, they can investigate the situation on the other side before crossing the astral realm, but there are also ways to deceive the investigation.
Risks are definitely there.
Who knows whether the next jump will be a hearty pursuit or whether eight battleships will be ambushed opposite the jump point?
The navy's main fleet cannot afford to gamble.
If the army suffers heavy losses, it can still recruit more people from the rear. Even if the training level cannot be improved, firing a gun can eventually hold back the size of the army, but the casualties will be even worse. But warships are so precious. The construction cycle can take several years. It also takes time to lay dumplings. If they are destroyed, they will be useless at the moment.
At this stage, the alliance's main fleet still retreated conservatively.
From these situations, many senior generals in the alliance smelled danger.
The stalls are getting bigger and bigger, going deeper and deeper into the enemy camp, and the risks are getting higher and higher.
Now to put it bluntly, the Raging Flame Fleet is still not strong enough, but their strategy of trading space for time and space for opportunity has indeed worked.
In this case, the alliance held several military meetings.
In the end, it was Gu Hang who made the decision.
"At present, we cannot say that the second phase of the war is over. Although we have gained control of twenty-nine worlds in two sectors as expected, once again consolidating our position in the Proud Talon Star Territory Influence. However, the expanded scale of the battle has also exposed our slightly fragile belly. This second stage of the battle requires everyone to continue to work hard until we can definitely win."
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"In view of this situation, we need to change our thinking. From the past comprehensive control and comprehensive defense, to the control of key areas. For many planets, just leave them under ground control. Will Paulitos come and take back these planets? Then It’s meaningless, it will only be taken back by us, and there is a risk of being caught by us during the operation.”
"He wouldn't do such a thing. If he is really stupid, that would be a good thing."
"On the contrary, some key worlds, such as key transportation arteries, such as the worlds we have won with relatively large industrial output and even shipbuilding capabilities, adopt focused defense and strengthen the fortressization of these worlds. Ensure that these worlds are not attacked. When the time comes, we will not fall immediately, and we can wait until the reinforcements of our cruising fleet are in place; our fleet will also escort our key transport teams through the star regions. After reducing the number of key worlds that need to be built and defended, the transport ships will be able to wait. There is no need to take so many risks to go to different places, and it is also convenient for the main fleet to escort when patrolling. ”
After talking about the defense layout, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The Alliance currently occupies nearly fifty worlds in the Proud Talon Star Territory. According to Zhao Hang, they will abandon about thirty of them and focus on defending less than twenty.
Although giving up does not mean that they will be taken back by the angry flames, it is essentially giving up the thirty worlds. Even though this is a quite correct decision, since Mr. Gu is here in person, only Governor Gu has the authority to make this decision. , no one else is worthy.
However, how to defend is a matter of now, but it is not really critical.
The alliance is always the party with the advantage, and it can definitely defend itself.
The most critical issue is the next third phase of the war.
The Alliance must continue to fight forward, otherwise it would gather such a large wave of troops just to conquer fifty worlds in the Proud Claw Star Territory?
Apparently not.
As the alliance's war progress slowed down and its retreat was steady, the political pressure that had gradually subsided due to the alliance's dispatch of troops has returned again.
It's not as severe as before, but it's gradually getting stronger.
Under such circumstances, the alliance's pace of war cannot be stopped.
But the bigger the deal, the higher the risk. This is an indisputable fact.
What to do next?
Do you want to continue fighting like this?
It’s already been done steadily enough, what else is there to do? But the more we fight, the war situation becomes more and more dangerous.
This still requires Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief, to make a decision.
Gu Hang obviously has thoughts about this:
"First, we have to steadily defeat the second phase and stabilize the defense and fortification of key worlds. In the third phase, we will change our thinking. After two phases of offensive, we have established a firm foothold in the Proud Claw Star Territory and have a stable In this position, there is room to move, so we can take some risks.”
"We no longer have to pursue control of the entire star sector as we did before, but adopt a focused offensive approach. The staff set up the next three key goals in the entire Proud Talon Star Territory, He Yang VIII, Mentus II, Proud Star”
Everyone was a little surprised.
There is no problem in the latter two worlds, but Heyang VIII will become one of the three major targets?
A little strange.
The Proud Talon Star is the capital world of the Proud Talon Star Territory. It is very reasonable to be the key target of the attack;
Mentus II is located in the center of the Proud Talon Star Domain, a key hub world in the Mentus Star Region. It not only has a large star port, but most importantly, it has very rare eleven astral tunnels that connect to other worlds. , which makes its position in the star map very important, and capturing it is of great significance.
As for Heyang VIII...it's a bit strange.
This is a feudal world, and is deeply controlled by Alfonzo Mechanicus. There are hundreds of small feudal principalities and counties scattered on it, and the entire planet is quite inconsistent. These small countries are controlled by small knight families. Almost all of them own various types of knight mechas and are ready to be called upon by the church.
When they gather together, they are the ‘Third Knights of Alfonzo’.
The star's natural conditions are superior and it has very good agricultural planting conditions. Serfs under the feudal system not only supported the knight families above them, but also had the ability to conduct large-scale grain trade.
The main trading object, or tribute object, is the Alfonzo sect.
In addition, there are good mineral resources on the planet, and there are even three fine gold veins. Protected by the Knights and sent directly by the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Skitarii have been stationed in these three mining areas for a long time.
Such a resource world that integrates the "Knight World", "Mineral World" and "Agricultural World" is the core interest of the Alfonzo Sect.
The Alfonzo sect has always claimed that they are from the empire. No matter how ambiguous their attitude is, at least they have not raised their flag openly.
It stands to reason that Heyang VIII, as Alfonzo's core interest, can be ignored.
Make this one of the three key offensive targets?
Governor Gu's trip has some profound meaning.
Gu Hang did not explain the reason for this, but continued: "We do not pursue control of every planet on the offensive route, as long as the planet does not have the conditions for enemy ships to hide. Just skip these worlds and attack Once we complete the three key objectives we have planned, we can immediately claim that we have captured the Proud Claw Star Territory. From this perspective, we have achieved the most results among the three theaters in the south, west and north. One direction! ”
(End of chapter)