Chapter 583, The fruits of victory are so sweet
Jumping into a gang and fighting is never easy.
At least that's what Martins thought before he got involved with Gu Hang.
In his combat experience, whether in the heyday of the Phoenix or later in the Atonement Crusade, he participated in many gang-hopping operations.
Every time, it was quite dangerous.
The reason is also very simple. On the road to gang-hopping, no matter how strong the individual combat effectiveness of the Space Marines is, they cannot avoid the risks of gang-hopping. Whether the psychic transmission is interfered with and then fails, or the boarding torpedo or boarding spacecraft is shot down halfway, as long as it happens, the soldiers who engage in gang-hopping operations will have no choice but to die helplessly.
And even if you jump up, the danger is very high. The number of fighters who can survive the dangerous process of gang-hopping, especially those who are at the forefront, must be small. Generally speaking, today's starships will be equipped with a large number of well-equipped Marine Corps and Army elites. The troops who jumped over can only fight the enemy desperately with limited equipment and limited numbers.
To stand firm, complete tasks such as shutting down enemy ships' interception systems and artillery, creating landing sites, and wait for additional troops to follow.
The arrival of follow-up troops is often not large enough, and they do not arrive in one wave, so they are quite scattered.
When the enemy occupies the home field and often has advantages in equipment and numbers, the difficulty of boarding operations can be imagined. It is often turned into a meat grinder-style battlefield. The boarding party bears huge losses to deploy troops, and then bears huge losses to fight under unfavorable conditions. Only by overcoming various crises can a successful boarding operation be completed.
However, after he started working for Gu Hang, he discovered that boarding a ship and fighting was so easy.
It's not that it's really easy. After all, since the battle with Alfonzo's fleet in the Bowang galaxy, the Phoenix has lost more than four hundred warriors in successive battles. This loss of nearly half of the personnel is very heavy no matter what.
However, compared to the results they achieved, capturing giant ships one after another, and wiping out countless elite skitarii and renegade Space Marines, this loss was simply 'too cost-effective'.
Without Governor Gu's nearly uninterrupted and 100% successful psychic transmission, countless people would have died during the many gang-hopping attempts, and many actions would not have been possible at all; if there were not those magical heroic spirits taking the lead, just a few A hundred phoenixes were thrown into a sea of elite enemy troops. It would be impossible to complete the mission.
These two items make the Phoenix's gang-hopping battles so invincible that it looks like a miracle to the Blood Shark next door.
In the conquest of the few remaining ships of the Raging Flame Fleet, Phoenix clearly knew that Governor Gu played the greatest role in this matter.
At the beginning, Gu Hang was not on the Ronglin that was being targeted, but on the Eagle Horse.
The Alliance arranged the main force of Phoenix, a total of 600 warriors, on four ships: Hippogriff, Rong Lin, Nu Xiao, and Yun Luo. In addition to Hippogriff, which had 300 men, the other three ships each had only 300 men. One hundred people.
When the news came that Ronglin was under siege, Gu Hang set off and took two hundred phoenixes with him to teleport to the Ronglin.
This is actually another thing that is beyond Martins' knowledge.
How far is the distance between the Eagle Horse and the Ronglin?
That's not the scope of normal space naval battles!
Even if there is no interference and there are coordinates, this thing is too incredible.
But Martins was numb.
I’ve seen too much, so it doesn’t matter.
After the naval battle, the Ronglin was seriously injured, and the damage control troops tried their best, but they could only barely restore the battle cruiser's ability to move. The situation would not continue to worsen. Fighting was impossible, and the only way to go up was to be a fool. Fixed target will not produce any effect.
But the attack on Huan Yuexing still started as scheduled. The absence of a battle cruiser does not hinder the alliance's offensive.
In fact, this is a relatively traditional fight for the orbital defense system. At the same time, after clearing a relatively safe airspace, troops are dispatched to land on the surface on a large scale to fight for ground seedlings.
During this process, the Alliance even brought the two captured ships, 'Wings of Spark' and 'Fire of Triumph', into the orbit of the Moon Star.
These two warships have not yet completed their overhaul, and there may even be surviving original crew members living in a remote corner of the ship. After all, these two ships are giant ships that can attack hundreds of thousands of people. There is no problem in treating them as a city in space.
They basically cannot be used in alliance battles, and the systems in many ships still need to be cracked or simply replaced.
But it does not prevent the Alliance from activating them first, and then placing them in the orbit of the Moon Star to show off to the enemy.
This is a kind of show of force. While boosting one's own morale, it will also significantly damage the enemy's morale. It is equivalent to telling the defenders of the planet clearly that you have no hope and surrender is the only way out.
The effect is also surprisingly good.
Multiple orbiting space stations sent surrender signals to the Alliance. They let the Alliance's boats land without any resistance, then put down their weapons and were taken away by the Alliance. The space station did not need to be blown up, it only needed to be temporarily abandoned and could be reused later.
While the orbital defense system was quickly dismantled, the ground attack was becoming increasingly smooth.
Without the interference of the orbital defense system, the Alliance fleet began to be able to support surface attacks more smoothly.
The railguns on the surface are still resisting in vain, but when faced with attacks from above and below at the same time, defense becomes difficult.
Even in the Alliance's attack on the surface, Space Marines were not sent down.
The main force this time is the battle nuns of Holy Mercy Lily. Sister Sorita is the highest person in charge. Although the battle sisters she leads do not have the individual combat strength of the Space Marines, with the help of a thousand battle sisters and more than 6,000 Glory Guards, During the surface combat, you can ensure that you will not be broken through by the Raging Flame and the New Age Torch.
At the same time, the enemy did not dare to assemble the Space Marines on a large scale.
In a battle that took place in an important hub city on the surface, the enemy showed up with a hundred gathered Space Marines, disrupting the Alliance Army's attack on the city.
Immediately, the Alliance did not interfere, but surrounded the city, opened a humanitarian channel, and gave the residents inside three days to evacuate.
The Space Marines certainly couldn't escape, they were too conspicuous to blend in with the people on foot.
They tried to break through several times, but in the battle on the Great Plains, what they had to face was not as simple as the Battle Sisters and Glory Guards. There were a large number of tanks and heavy artillery, and it was impossible to break through in a frontal attack.
Only a few people successfully broke through, while the rest were still forced back to the city.
Afterwards, the Alliance could no longer control how many civilians were still in the city who had not yet evacuated, and the orbital bombing began.
After three days and three nights of bombing, the entire city was physically leveled to the ground. According to subsequent estimates, there should be no life forms left inside.
After this battle, the Raging Flames and New Age Torches almost no longer gather in large-scale gatherings - unless they make a surprise attack at night or in a complex environment, but they often have to quickly evacuate after a quick victory to engage in guerrilla warfare, and they do not dare to try to expand. Results.
At the same time, they also abandoned almost all important strongholds and fortresses, thus shifting the battle line into the city's underground passages, the bunkers they had previously excavated, and complex areas such as low mountains and mountains.
This place is not suitable for large-scale military operations, and the scattered layout also makes it difficult for orbital bombing to be effective.
This certainly allowed them to almost completely give up control of Huanyue Star.
Space Marines are really hard to kill if they only want to survive and defend.
Even the Burning Sky Torpedoes may not be able to completely destroy them. If they prepare enough supplies and oxygen, and hide in excavated mountains, underground and other places, it may be possible to survive the scorching period for several years and re-emerge after cooling down - as for how to escape from a dead star planet, that’s another topic. But at least, he can survive.
Unless you use a higher-level extinction order weapon such as Earth Blast Destroyer, which will directly explode the planet into countless space fragments. Maybe they will reunite due to gravity after thousands of years, or maybe they will form countless asteroids and meteors. But after all, this is the only way to truly exterminate a planet and all life on it without missing a beat.
Not that much, not yet.
But in this case, the war situation is still quite embarrassing.
It is true that the alliance basically controls the entire Huanyue. However, their military advantage is mainly based on the strength of the Holy Mercy Lily and the Glory Guards, which add up to thousands of top elites, plus at least two battle cruisers and ten moon ships in the sky. level in cruise support.
In this case, the Raging Flame and the New Age Torch really didn't dare to show up, and could only hide in the gutter like mice.
However, they are equivalent to less than 2,000 Space Marines, and they have tied up a considerable part of the alliance's strength, and they are determined to stay in Huanyue.
If the starships are withdrawn, even the big ones, and there are fewer starships left and it is difficult to achieve global coverage, then I am afraid that the Furious Flames will increase the number of times they are active; and once the nuns and the Glory Guards also If they withdraw, then they can establish a base more unscrupulously, and even regain control of the planet.
But if they don't retreat, they won't be able to wipe out these two battle groups quickly.
What a headache.
……
Gu Hang knew about Huanyue, but he didn't put much thought into it.
Nothing to worry about.
Perhaps, the war there was quite brutal, and the guerrilla warfare of the two remaining war groups gave Gerrit a headache.
However, in general, Huanyue's production value in all aspects is undergoing reconstruction. Under the current global military control situation, 20% of the output is captured by the alliance, and then Garrett serves as the army and obtains about 10% of the output from the local area as army supplies, mainly food and other basic supplies, as well as equipment maintenance. class.
The remainder will be distributed among the interest groups within the original planet.
That's it.
As for the wrathful flames in the mountains and the ground, and the torches of the New Age, leave them to Gritte to continue dealing with them.
Some of the starships above Huanyue should be withdrawn and some should be left. Three cruisers are enough.
It can't cover the whole world, but it can provide fire support at any time when Garrett orders the detection and encirclement of the renegade Space Marines.
As for some production areas in Huanyue's homeland that are frequently attacked, let's just attack them.
That output is not important.
Just take your time in cleaning up the two battle groups.
Anyway, now Gu Hang is no longer rushing for time.
As for himself, he had more important matters to deal with.
In the Battle of Bowang and the derivative battle of this war, the Battle of Huanyue, the alliance achieved unprecedented victory and unprecedented results.
After counting, the two battle cruisers were replaced by one Emperor-class, two Retribution-class, one battle barge, and one Dragon-Snake-class.
Good guy, after one battle, it's like having an extra alliance fleet!
Just by grabbing the boat, you’ve already made a lot of money!
There have also been major changes in the war situation.
The main force of Alfonzo's sect's expedition collapsed, and the Raging Flame and the New Age Torch collapsed. Once these two major problems are resolved, it means that the two threats that the Alliance may encounter in the Proud Talon Star Territory have been eliminated.
Over in the Queen's Star Territory, the main force of the Iron Armor Chapter is fighting to the death with the Phoenix Lord in the west. The scale of the battle there is even greater than that here in the Alliance. Humphrey Paul can muster more power to expedition against the Proud Claws. ?
I'm afraid not.
The Alfonzo sect has lost a war ark and an emperor. Can it still organize a fleet to go south?
I'm afraid it won't work either.
The alliance will indeed be weak for a period of time after the Battle of Bowang, and it will take at least half a year to a year to repair all its ships.
But in fact, Gu Hang was not too worried about any military threats he would encounter during this period of weakness.
Rather, it was his enemies who had to fear his military threat.
It is true that he is in the weak stage, but it is estimated that whether he is going from the Proud Claw to the Nepeta Star Territory or from the Proud Claw to the Alfonzo Star Territory, it will be unobstructed and the defense will be empty.
Could it be that he, the victor of the war, would suffer more than those who lost the war?
It doesn't make sense.
Even if the iron-armored Paul or Alfonzo's great sage Martin Varuc insisted on causing trouble for Gu Hang, even at the risk of shaking the foundation, it would not be a simple matter to mobilize strength.
Across several star fields, the gathering, dispatching, and marching of light troops took no one knows how long.
Even based on the most conservative estimate, Gu Hang felt that there would be two years of breathing room.
Oh, it wasn't him who was panting, it was Paul and Varuk who were panting.
"It's still too weak. If the fleet's strength is intact, they won't even be able to breathe!"
Gu Hang sighed, turned around and began to do something to digest the results of the victory.
The fruits of victory are so sweet.
The victory in the Proud Claw Battle, in addition to grabbing a batch of ships, 'eating' a Neuroprotozoa, and gaining an advantage in the overall strategy, there is another result that cannot be ignored: Gift Points.
(End of chapter)