Chapter 593, Surrendering the Battle Group
After ending the call with Gallardo, Gu Hang basically confirmed the next policy.
If Tie Kai continues to attack, just let them attack.
No matter where he went, as long as he didn't come to the south, Gu Hang made up his mind to wait for another year and a half until the ship was built.
Oh, even if he goes south, the alliance's strategy will be the same, still waiting for the ship.
Of course, there are actually risks here.
As time goes by, he will become stronger, won't the iron armor also?
The Alfonzo Sect was only destroyed by a main fleet, but it was not dead. As a branch of the Mechanicus, their strongest point will never be their combat ability, but their manufacturing ability.
After waiting for a year and a half, the alliance will certainly be able to add six giant ships, and Iron Armor or Alfonzo will most likely become stronger and be supplemented by new ships.
However, after thinking about it for a while, Gu Hang decided to do this.
He didn't believe that the Iron Armor-Alfonzo combination could become stronger faster than himself.
The alliance's shipbuilding industry has such a tight shipbuilding cycle. In addition to the various shipbuilding industry-related raw materials specifically requested by Gu Hang with the military assistance of the empire, there is also a core element, which is the black box system.
Not only are there black boxes that can directly pull out some core components that have a long construction period and are technically difficult, but there are also alliance shipyards, which are also mother machine black boxes with relevant technologies and produce some key equipment for the production of ships. Ship parts.
Whether it is direct output from the black box or a production line with black box output, it means fast, high quality and stable output.
These points are not found in the worlds directly controlled by the Alfonzo Sect and the Iron Armor Chapter.
Under the same objective conditions, the ships built by Iron Armor Alfonzo will only be slower than those of the Alliance.
What's more, the conditions are not equal now. The Alliance's territory is not as large as Iron Armor-Alfonzo's, but it is not like Iron Armor's going to war on three sides, and a large amount of territory is threatened by war.
Moreover, Iron Armor Alfonzo's war potential is purely based on his own health bar, and he relies on the family wealth accumulated over the past many years to carry out rebellion. The alliance not only has its own basic base, but also has the powerful blood transfusion of the empire.
These conditions are unmatched by Iron Armor Alfonzo.
In terms of war potential, they cannot be greater than the Alliance.
In other words, their war potential has almost been tapped, and the alliance still has a lot of room to realize it.
There is another point that cannot be ignored, that is, the southern front is not the only front in the Iron Armor War.
The northern front is entangled by the Zerg, but it is also the two founding groups of the Black Crusaders, Infinite and Bats, plus the top combat power of Silver Watch, which brings together veterans of various battle groups. It is impossible for Iron Armor not to be on guard;
The Western Front collapsed, but the empire obviously couldn't ignore it. The fleet that was originally going to be sent out to serve as reinforcements for the Phoenix was definitely going to speed up even more after Gallard made a fuss and captured an Ou Curen. The fleet commander was quickly selected, led by a marshal of the navy; efforts were made to mobilize some local defense forces from various space regions in the central territory to form an expeditionary force.
It is worth mentioning that the expeditionary force has a full complement of war groups, the most famous of which is the Otaupis Chapter.
This is the direct lineage of the high lords of Holy Terra. It can be said to be the private soldiers of the high lords. It completely obeys the orders of the lords of the Supreme Council, or to be more precise, it obeys the orders of Prime Minister Qi Bodu, even if it is a few Ten years ago, when the Sun King was in power, Otaupis only listened to the Prime Minister, and was one of the core forces that enabled Qi Bodu to make a comeback.
All information about this battle group is kept confidential, from what gene seeds are used, where the soldiers come from, where weapons and equipment are supplied, to the deployment of the battle group... everything is highly confidential, even the Ministry of Military Affairs does not know.
They will not be easily used. They are the sweethearts of Prime Minister Qi Bodu and his family. And when they are all transferred out, it can be seen that the gentlemen on Holy Terra are indeed anxious.
In addition to Otaupis, there were 8 other battle groups that sent more or less troops.
Among them, Phoenix's sub-group is the main one.
Gotta get the parent group!
Plus Revenge
The relationship between the phoenix lineage and the iron armor is getting stronger and stronger.
Taking into account the remaining soldiers after the collapse of the Western Front, it is not a big problem to gather 2,500 Space Marines together.
This number is less than at the peak of the Western Front. Not only the Space Marines, but also the other main force on the battlefield, the Inquisition, was severely damaged after the collapse of the Western Front. They rushed in 30,000 battle nuns one after another, and the Order of the Blood Rose was almost wiped out!
Of course, not all of these troops were lost. There are many more, scattered on some planets in the east of Maigret and the west of the spider web space. They are all troops who fled to the surface of various planets to resist stubbornly after the battle line collapsed.
If the subsequent war goes relatively smoothly, these forces can be reunited.
Now, this elite force with ships, soldiers, and soldiers is gathering in the Tianwang universe. Give them a little more time and they can regroup.
Regardless of whether the Iron Armor wants to attack the Tianwang Eternal Domain, or turn around and wait for the troops to gather before taking the initiative to attack, the Iron Armor battle group will have to deal with it anyway.
Overall, the Alliance never had to face Armor alone.
And if the strength invested by the three fronts and the entire empire is taken into account, there is no need to compare with the iron armor.
The empire is just slow, but there is a lot of pressure to use troops in various places, not really weak.
If it really drags on, the empire's sluggish nerves are aroused, and the empire pays attention to threats from other places, and has to mobilize troops from all over to solve them, then Iron Armor will compete with the empire on its war potential.
The size is crushing to death.
The eager attack only satisfies some political interests. But from a military perspective, delaying and waiting for your own strength to become stronger and stronger, so that you can achieve a more undisputed victory, is the most critical.
Real political interests must still be achieved by winning wars, and everything else is in vain.
It is precisely because he has considered many factors that Gu Hang is never in a hurry.
Not only is he not in a hurry, he also wants to solve some minor problems within his own territory first.
On Huan Yue Star, the alliance's efforts to eliminate the remnants of the two battle groups, Raging Flame and New Age Torch, have come to fruition.
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Ever since she came to Huanyue Star and started to exterminate the Raging Flame and the New Age Torch, Gerrit rarely smiled.
As the head nun of Holy Mercy Lily, she has now become the supreme commander of the entire Holy Mercy Lily Sisters in terms of war.
I don’t deny that a very important factor was Gu Hang’s support. After all, she and Gu Hang were old acquaintances, and she had provided help to Gu Hang when he was still young. After the Alliance became the major sponsor of Holy Mercy Lily and Holy Mercy Lily essentially became a part of the Alliance, her status naturally increased. It was inevitable and natural for Lily of Mercy to become part of the Alliance.
They are just a small branch of the Sisters, and they only have their own organization in Koruga. After nearly losing their homeland after experiencing the plague war, and being saved by Gu Hang, the power of Koroga, the Star Region, the Star Region...the alliance has expanded countless times in just a few decades.
In the beginning, the relationship between Holy Mercy Lily and the Alliance was just cooperation, but later on, there was less and less room for bargaining.
No need to haggle.
What's there to say? The Alliance respects first the ecclesiastical beliefs, and secondly the sectarian beliefs of the Sisters. Then, more importantly, the Alliance has made substantial financial allocations to support the development of the Sisters. The Battle Sisters provide equipment to people, and other Sisters, such as faith, missionary work, and medical care, provide full support in all aspects. .
The entire order fell quickly.
A large number of new nuns have even studied at the Alliance's Zhongsi College.
This is not surprising. In many nuns, girls who graduated from Zhongsi Academy have always been a very good place to recruit soldiers.
It's just that the alliance's Zhongsi Academy is a little different from the most common Zhongsi Academy in the empire, but it's not a big deal.
Today, the entire scale of Holy Mercy Lily has expanded to more than 500,000 people. Most of them are still civilian nuns, but the number of fighting nuns also exceeds 3,000.
This time, there are a thousand battle sisters fighting in Huanyue; there are also 6,000 Glory Guards who are also under her command. At the same time, the alliance's army troops in Huanyue have two army groups with 40 million people. Together with the newly recruited and newly built local defense forces, the total force is nearly 200 million. In the sky, there is also a squadron, led by a moon-class ship and composed of multiple destroyers and frigates to cooperate with ground operations.
Of course, the fleet is commanded by a rear admiral, and the alliance army is also managed by a lieutenant general, who is not under her direct command.
But on the entire Huanyue Star, the most important task is to eliminate the remnants of the Raging Flame and the New Age Torch.
This group of interstellar warriors who took some die-hard rebels and hid in mountains, city ruins, secret bunkers and other places together were very difficult to deal with.
The main difficulty is that firstly it is difficult to find, and secondly it is difficult to attack once found. It has to be surrounded by heavy troops.
Orbital bombing can't help much. People will break out and want to bomb down from space orbital ships after passing the ground mark. Then the Space Marines on the opposite side have already moved, and the bombing effect is very poor.
After a few attempts with poor results, the rear admiral expressed a very polite and cryptic meaning: Auntie, stop doing it. A round of bombing costs a lot of money. I really can’t stand it. The naval audit department is going to give me trouble. of...
Gerrit was a little embarrassed and quite annoyed.
It wasn't that she was angry with the navy, she understood what the navy meant, and she also knew that those few calls she made were a complete waste. In fact, if she could trap the enemy and accurately mark the enemy, she would not actually need to call for orbital bombing; the times she called were actually used as a doctor when the intelligence was uncertain and the enemy could not be trapped. Try your luck with coverage bombing.
The 'bandit suppression' campaign lasted for more than half a year, but achieved very little.
The resistance organizations led by the two battle groups are still continuously attacking various places on Huanyue Star, obstructing the ongoing alliance construction.
The probability of them succeeding is still quite high.
Many of the rebels are members of the original Planetary Defense Force, or soldiers of the Royal Legion stationed locally. They know the local situation better and can choose targets reasonably.
Coupled with the addition of Space Marines, the success rate of the operation is naturally quite high.
Moreover, they came and went like the wind, and immediately escaped as soon as they succeeded in striking.
The number of Battle Sisters or Glory Guards who have arrived in a hurry is small, and if you pursue them rashly, you will suffer big losses; when the number of gathered is large, the enemy will no longer know where to go.
There were times when Gritte and the others took the initiative to obtain information and then attack.
However, the reliability of the intelligence is very problematic. It is easy to defeat them; if they are caught, they are easy to break through. If they are really annihilated, the combat power of the Space Marines has left a deep impression on them, and the price to eliminate them is also very high. of.
For more than half a year, Garrett counted that they had fought thousands of battles at different places and times around the world, and had eliminated 217 Raging Flames and New Age Torches. Among them, she personally killed five people.
Ordinary battle sisters are certainly no match for space warriors, and there is even a huge gap. But she is different. She is a blessed nun with extraordinary strength. Garrett wearing the 'Valkyrie' Terminator, and Terminator veterans who can kill each other are no problem.
However, despite the victory of more than two hundred people, the price paid was not small.
After all, Gerrit has no skills at all. She wished she could fly to every battlefield at any time to join the battle, but it was obviously impossible.
Almost 50,000 Home Defense Forces and 20,000 Union Army troops died on battlefields everywhere. In addition, there were losses of more than 200 Battle Sisters and 500 Glory Guards.
On Huanyue Star, it is conservatively estimated that there are still thousands of space warriors active.
If they continue fighting at this efficiency, they will have to fight for at least three years before they can completely eliminate the bandits. At the same time, human losses were estimated at 4 to 50,000 people.
Forget the losses of the Defense Forces and the Alliance Army, they can still afford it.
But the loss of the nuns and the Glory Guards was a bit hard to bear.
When the time comes, a thousand nuns will die, and three thousand Glory Guards will die...
Gritte felt that if this situation really happened, she would not have the face to face Governor Gu and report to him that this was a victory.
We have the support of a large army, the support of the air and space, and the support of an entire world that is already considered occupied... It is really ugly to have a comprehensive advantage and still fight like this.
Something has to change.
And the opportunity for this change came quickly.
Someone came with a message saying that he represented the New Age Torch Chapter and hoped to talk to the Alliance.
After the matter was classified as highly confidential, Gerrit confirmed on the one hand whether it was true and whether it was a trap, and on the other hand, she also reported the news.
Afterwards, she received authorization, and an alliance diplomat came to take charge of the specific negotiations.
In a secret place, she met Wang Mengsong, the leader of the New Age Torch Chapter.
"If you agree to my terms, then the New Age Torch is willing to surrender."
(End of chapter)