Chapter 660, the linkage of general trends
The Battle of Wanzhouxing has begun.
This battle is considered the most important battle on the Western Front.
The total number of interstellar warriors invested by the three parties participating in the war exceeded ten thousand people. On the surface of Wanzhou Star, hundreds of millions of elite troops were fighting fiercely.
In the galaxy, the two sides combined to have more than twenty giant ships, with thousands of warships, attacking each other.
The fighting has been going on for two months.
And this is actually the seventh month that Martins led the army to the hinterland of the White Curtain Star Territory to support Salisius.
Solving the initial problem is only the first step. After the military meeting, Martins and Salius decided to make the main strategy of stabilizing the east and attacking the west.
On the eastern front, facing the swarm of insects swarming out from the Queen's Star Domain, the main task was to defend.
The basic strategy is to keep the current troop configuration unchanged. There will be approximately 1,500 Space Marines and a fleet guarding here.
Of course, the war resources must be fully allocated.
The core element of this strategy is to determine that there will be no insect swarm enemies of an order of magnitude emerging from the eastern front and the Queen's Star Territory.
The reason why such a judgment can be made is because Governor Gu also moved.
On the east side of the Princess Star Territory, the main force of the alliance led by Gu Hang moved from the Alfonzo Star Territory into the shadow of subspace that shrouded the entire Princess Star Territory.
Of course, after Gu Hang's large army entered the shadow of subspace, they were still able to maintain contact with Martins and Salius.
It's not that Gu Hang came up with any communication method that could penetrate the shadow of subspace. On the contrary, he just used some earthy methods.
Gu Hang would regularly dispatch some ships to leave the Queen's Star Territory and return to the Alfonzo Star Territory. If you have any news, just use the Astropathic Tower built in the Alfonzo Star Territory to communicate with the Western Front, two Star Territories away.
After Gu Hang entered the Queen's Star Territory, his actions could be described as steady and steady.
Moreover, his methods changed from his past softness and became fierce and cold.
In the galaxy, the battle between the human fleet and the Hive Fleet was basically a smooth one.
Is the Hive Fleet incapable of resistance? No one would dare to make such a judgment, and Gu Hang himself would not talk nonsense. But for now, at least the Hive Fleet has not shown any intention of gathering all its ship power to engage in a decisive battle in the interstellar sea with Gu Hang.
This also caused the swarm to give up control of the sea in many worlds.
In the face of these worlds, Gu Hang had three options: full capture, extermination order, and abandonment.
The quantities of the three situations decrease in order.
The number of planets that will be fully conquered is the least, or even only in single digits.
They were shot down and used as important bases.
The way of fighting is definitely not to send troops down and fight little by little.
Garrison is definitely needed, but Gu Hang asked the Alfonzo Sect to expand production capacity at full speed regardless of cost during this period. After several months of hoarding, there are already a lot of virus bombs.
It is a bit difficult to use it comprehensively, but when necessary, on a few planets, in key battles, being more willing and bombarding more downwards can not only greatly reduce one's own casualties, but more importantly, it can save combat time.
The person responsible for the delivery is also the most accurate delivery method on the starship: missiles.
It definitely cost a lot of money, but the effect is obvious.
After the bombing, it’s time to build.
The Alliance will mobilize itself and the construction capabilities of the Alaminta Sect (a considerable part of which is left by the Alfonzo Sect) to complete the deployment of rail guns, star forts and other things in a very short period of time. The former is easier to say, but the latter is definitely not made on site, but by dragging out star forts that have already been built or even existing on other planets, and then placing them in a new location.
After the defense forces are built, a large amount of materials and reserve soldiers will be transported and stockpiled to these planets to provide strong support for subsequent operations.
As for the second category, that is, the category subject to the extermination order, the number is very large.
They generally have two characteristics: they are on the way forward for the alliance, and there are a huge number of insect swarms or infected people inside the planet.
This kind of planet must be destroyed.
Regardless of the fact that there is nothing nearby for them to break through the atmosphere and enter space, threatening Gu Hang's power. However, after experiencing the previous riots, Gu Hang realized that things like insect swarms can at least gather in numbers to a certain extent. They digest themselves, reorganize their biomass, and evolve into biological starships.
This must be eliminated.
One of the reasons for the demise of the Northern Front Army was that they did not expect this. There was no similar report in the empire's previous war reports about the Zerg. When the swarm builds their hive fleet, it is often in the rear that is stable for them, or simply on the hive mothership after absorbing enough biomass.
The insect swarm that 'cooperated' with the Iron Armor Chapter and the Alfonzo Sect showed a brand new ability. At present, it is unknown whether this ability is something that the swarm already possesses, but has not been used or observed in past wars, or whether it is a new method that has evolved.
But since Gu Hang knew it now, he couldn't leave such a big hidden danger on his marching route.
Extermination orders are used at such times.
As for whether there will be any remaining loyalists on the planet... it is not within the scope of consideration.
But this kind of action is a huge challenge to the Alliance's Extinction Order weapons inventory.
Gu Hangxin only has one of the 'Ground Explosive Star Destroyers' he got so far, and it has not been used yet.
This one was pulled out of the black box.
All used were ‘Sky Burning Torpedoes’.
The production line for this thing has never been fully operational. After Gu Hang obtained this technology, he felt that its use was relatively narrow, so he did not vigorously produce it.
In most cases, of course, that's true.
But isn’t this just a handful of situations?
The places where extermination orders need to be used are so densely packed.
Back then, when Gu Hang broke into the hinterland of the Iron-toothed Orc Empire and wiped out the greenskins, he didn't use so many of them.
Of course, situations are different and cannot be generalized.
But then again, even so, Gu Hang did not regret not mass-producing the sky-burning torpedoes back then. He only built a production line and used the black box of the mother machine to slowly produce them.
That's correct.
The cost of building a sky-burning torpedo is nearly 2 billion tax coins - not counting the ones pulled out of the black box, the cost is very low.
It's very expensive to expand its production line, and it's very expensive to manufacture it. For the price of one Burning Sky torpedo, five can be used to build a Moon-class cruiser.
The Burning Sky Torpedo can only destroy, but has no ability to occupy. What's more, it's easy to intercept. There is no use in making too many of these things.
So far, the alliance still has less than twenty Sky-burning torpedoes on hand. But if used properly, this is a weapon that can completely destroy two star regions!
Of course, this number is still very different from the overall scale of the hundreds of worlds in the Queen's Star Territory.
But Gu Hang had never thought about using Extinction Order weapons to plant mushrooms on every planet in the Queen's Star Territory.
That would be too expensive and unrealistic.
What's more, the conditions of many planets make it impossible to use sky-burning torpedoes.
This is Gu Hang's third approach: if there are some planets that are not on his marching route, are not blocking the way, and the number of insect swarms or infected people in them is not large after a rough calculation, then just ignore them. he.
It doesn't mean that you don't care at all, just arrange an observation post to watch.
Just look at one point: Don't suddenly fly out of a huge Zerg fleet on this planet.
This probability is actually not high. If the Zerg race wants to evolve a large-scale biological ship, it will require a huge amount of biomass. On planets with relatively few infected people and insect swarms, the natural environment is often quite harsh. It is unrealistic for the Zerg to save so much biomass. At best, some small ships flew out, but the threat was very low.
If all dangers could be eliminated, that would definitely be the best. However, the time cost and troop cost are very high. If we really want to clean up planets one by one, no matter how strong the foundation of the alliance is, there is no way to support such a large investment.
Comparing consumption with the insect swarm is simply the stupidest decision that a commander can make.
From this point, it is also necessary to have a certain degree of understanding of Marshal Leroy, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front. When he was thinking about ending the war as soon as possible, he had no way to manage the ruined worlds on the rear like the Alliance.
The situation in the Schizonepeta and Alfonzo star regions, which were much better than those in the northern Lefu and Jianmen star regions, took Gu Hang more than two years to slowly put things in order.
And how long will it take for Leroy to clean up Lefo and Jianmen?
Four years? Six years?
He couldn't wait any longer.
Then he was finished.
But Gu Hang actually didn’t quite believe that the Northern Army, which had a huge fleet, more than 4,000 interstellar warriors, and strong support from the Tribunal, was completely wiped out like that?
There are hundreds of millions of troops, including many elites. As long as everyone else is still on the ship and it is directly destroyed and all of them are killed in space, then it is actually normal for a considerable number of them to be able to persist until now.
It is not easy to kill all the hundreds of millions of pigs.
Go grab some and see how much of the Northern Front Army is left. This is one of Gu Hang's secondary goals for this advance.
His main goal is definitely to find the main force of the insect swarm, especially the Queen of the Void Insect that was once sent to the Alfonzo Sect, nurtured, and then put back.
Only when the pests are eliminated can the harm be considered ended.
Of course, this does not prevent the complete destruction of the Queen's Star Territory.
This is already an established fact.
Judging from the dozens of worlds that Gu Hang has passed through, perhaps there are indeed living, uninfected humans on the planet, struggling to survive. But the number is very small, probably less than one percent of the total population.
The entire Princess Star Territory is probably like this.
Even if Gu Hang finally wins the war and eliminates the insect queen, all these planets will eventually be eaten up by the insect race. However, after the insect queen is gone, a large number of 'hub creatures' will lose their command and even die directly; without the biotin stimulation of the insect queen, the hatching pools will also stop evolving and will only follow the current mechanism. The machine operates until all the biomass is consumed and then collapses.
At that time, although the remaining aftermath work will still be very arduous, it will only be the aftermath work after all.
The war is already considered a victory.
However, this main goal is not easy to achieve.
Therefore, there is a secondary goal of finding the possible remaining Northern Front Legion, in order to strengthen one's own strength.
Another secondary goal also serves this purpose: to attract the attention of the Void Insect Swarm as much as possible in the Queen's Star Territory and create conditions for a counterattack on the Western Front.
The general trend is thus linked.
Gu Hang has penetrated directly into the hinterland of the Queen's Star Territory. Although a particularly large-scale war has not yet broken out, the large amount of Zerg power will definitely be attracted, and a big fight will be a matter of time. Otherwise, the planets that have not been 'eaten' will be 'burned' by the alliance one by one, which will also be a blood loss for the Void Zerg.
This ensures that on the Western Front battlefield, there will not be an order of magnitude more insect swarms pouring out of the Queen's Star Domain and attacking the defense line deployed by Salisius.
It was precisely because of Gu Hang's containment in the enemy's core area that Martins and Salisius were finally able to retain relatively small defensive forces in the east, assemble heavy troops, and counterattack westward.
On the one hand, completely defeating and wiping out the main force of the infected Iron Armored Corps and opening up the Western Front Army's logistical supply channels; on the other hand, it can also liberate the Western Front Army's combat effectiveness while completely resolving its worries, allowing They can enter the Queen's Star Territory from the west relatively smoothly, and cooperate with Gu Hang's actions to find the core power of the insect swarm and eliminate the insect queen.
The Insect Queen is not a unit that just stays in one place without the ability to fight back. After being threatened, the largest number of Zerg forces will surely gather around it.
A decisive battle is inevitable.
When the time comes, the stronger one's own side is, the better naturally.
Martins and Salisius completely understood Gu Hang’s thoughts.
Their counterattack against Tiejai to the west was also resolute.
After several months of fighting, the results are not small.
The number of the Iron Armored Regiment is indeed huge, judging from their scale of ten thousand people. However, the troops in the hands of Martins and Salisius are definitely quite large.
The main force that Martins brought from the Nepeta Star Territory alone already numbered more than 3,000 space warriors. Salius himself had more than 4,000 men. In addition to his own Otaupis Chapter, there were also three thousand Space Marine Chapters from all sides when he formed the expeditionary force from the Sun Sector, as well as reinforcements that he received one after another during the war.
The total number of seven thousand space warriors is not much less than that of Iron Armor.
Even if they leave 1,500 to block the swarm of insects coming out of the Queen's Starfield in the east, they still have at least 5,000 space warriors in their hands.
Moreover, in terms of elite level, it must surpass Iron Armor.
Martins has confidence in his war group; the Blood Sharks are also a powerful war group; the Spear of the Dragon King is quite ordinary.
On the other side, the Otaupis Chapter is the darling of the high lords, and its elite level is extremely exaggerated. It is definitely the first line among all the war groups.
Quality more than makes up for the difference in quantity.
The Battle of Wanzhouxing was the most important battle in this great counterattack.
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