Chapter 661, Battle of Wanzhou Star
The Battle of Wanzhouxing was a defensive battle, and Tiejai was the one taking the initiative to attack.
While counterattacking westward, Salius and Martins also observed a weakness of Iron Armor - there was also a problem with their supplies.
Although the Iron Armor Legion was fully infected and turned into insects, the bodies of the Iron Armor warriors killed on the battlefield were stripped of their armor without dissection. From the appearance, it could be seen that the flesh inside looked like a bug. A combination of people. The deformed skull, the chitin structures growing on the body... further dissection revealed that the superhuman organs inside had also changed.
To be honest, these changes have made the iron armor even higher in physical strength, which can be regarded as a combination of the superhuman physique of the Space Marines and the advantages of the Zerg as a biochemical weapon.
After transforming into insects, their average strength is even stronger than some ordinary battle group warriors.
But precisely because they have not completely transformed into insects, it is impossible for them to be almost independent of supplies like serious insects.
Of course, the Void Zerg units will also be tired, injured, hungry, and will run out of ammunition. However, when they are hungry, they can eat their own kind to replenish energy, and their kind will not resist. Everything is the order of the node creature. The lower-level bugs have no self-will, so they will naturally not object.
Their so-called ammunition is the super-hard chitin bullets differentiated from the body, which are fired by the 'guns' that are symbionts and are essentially biological organs. All are biologics, all available on their own. After being beaten until they run out of ammunition and food, they can even self-digest unnecessary organs in the body. For example, when they are sure that they can't eat anything and just want to die as cannon fodder, they can break down the digestive system and break it down into 'bullets' . Or it can evolve by eating its own kind, eating the corpses of its enemies, or eating parts of nature that can be used.
Those things like soldier bugs and gun bugs are not obvious yet. When it comes to units such as biological cannons and biochemical tanks, the same logic applies.
The insect swarm also has a special "corpse gathering team", a group of small insects with only digestive organs. At night and between wars, they secretly run to the battlefield and surrounding areas, and are responsible for devouring corpses, whether their own or the opponent's. It is used to recycle biomass and provide it to the incubation center behind.
In this way, even if there is an extreme lack of logistics, the combat effectiveness of the insect swarm will not be greatly affected. Theoretically, the Zerg need logistical biomass supplies during a war, but in reality it is basically impossible to defeat them to the point where their logistics are cut off.
The human army and the insect swarm army are not at the same level in terms of logistical difficulty.
But the transformation of the Iron Armor Chapter into insects was not so complete.
Their fighting mode still looks like humans.
Basically all infected people are like this. After all, they were just infected by parasites, had their brains replaced, and their bodies modified, but they were not biological weapons designed by the queen from the beginning and born from the hatching nest.
Iron-armored warriors still need power armor to provide Space Marine-level combat effectiveness; the bolt guns in their hands still need bolt bombs to fire; their ships are still made of steel and require fuel, not fuel. Like the Zerg biological ship, it can fly by itself.
This means that they need similar logistical supplies as the human army.
I don’t know what Humphrey Paul’s current condition is, but in terms of military matters, his mind is probably clear. Before launching the attack, he not only hid his troops, but also must have accumulated a considerable amount of war supplies.
However, after fighting for so long, a lot of what should have been spent has been spent.
Especially after Martins and Sallis joined forces to launch a fierce counterattack to the west, the intensity of the war suddenly increased a lot.
As the intensity increased, the consumption of various war materials for Iron Armor also increased sharply.
Up to now, the Iron Armor Chapter has been unable to dismount.
The number of Zerg that emerged from the Queen's Star Territory was less than expected and failed to put enough pressure on the Empire.
This was caused by Gu Hang entering the Princess Star Territory from the Alfonzo Star Territory.
The original east-west pincer attack, which was supposed to destroy the empire's Western Front Army, was also disrupted because of the alliance's Martins heading north.
Now, it was their turn to face the most embarrassing situation.
The war supplies previously stored were greatly consumed due to the fierce war that lasted for half a year.
The key is that there is still no place to make up for it.
In the past, iron armor had to support such a large-scale war. Who relied on the huge amount of logistical supplies?
First, rely on the Alfonzo sect. This ally is a powerful Adeptus Mechanicus, which not only owns an entire star field as a resource extraction site, but also has three forging worlds. Once productivity is activated, there is no problem in arming a large army.
Secondly, relying on core areas such as the Queen's Star Domain provides a large amount of war supplies. After all, before the Princess Star Territory rotted, it was their core home base, and the resources that hundreds of worlds could provide were still abundant. After the war expanded, the Iron Armor occupied almost the entire spider web domain at its peak, and resources were mobilized everywhere to supply the needs of the army.
Now, these two most important sources of war resources are all gone.
The war supplies they had saved during the previous dormant stage were all their last resort.
Now, even if they have gathered and reappeared again, they have reoccupied many worlds in the process of attacking the Western Front Army in Salisuus. However, the supplies they were able to obtain from it were insufficient.
There are some resources, but not many.
Pest infestations have spread repeatedly over the past few years, causing huge damage to productivity. What's more, Salisu's troops also need supplies. During the previous wars, they also scraped oil from local places.
After several attempts, there was not enough oil and water left to scrape.
They still have another way, which is to continue to evacuate westward, withdraw to the Maigret space area, and collect resources on the spot.
But in that case, how could they create pressure on the imperial army on the west side? When the time comes when the Western Front Army stops pursuing them and joins forces with Martins to advance into the Imperial Universe and follow Gu Hang to the east and west for a decisive battle with the main force of the Zerg army, then Humphrey Paul will be dumbfounded. .
What's more, is it really that easy to retreat to the west?
Not necessarily.
When they appeared more than half a year ago and the Western Front Army was in crisis, Holy Terra reacted like its butt was on fire.
Over there, new troops are already being formed.
For the imperial center, it must be prepared for the situation in Eastern Xinjiang to further deteriorate.
Later, when the Alliance took action to stabilize the situation, these formed troops were not disbanded, but were sent to the Maigret Domain. On the one hand, they strengthened the defense of the central territory of the empire, and on the other hand, they also served as drivers to the west. Line Corps provides support.
Although the size of this army is not too large or too strong, when Iron Armor retreats to the west, it will inevitably get entangled with them.
It’s hard to choose no matter what.
It was like a noose that had been inserted into the iron armor's neck. The current task is to slowly tighten the rope, and finally strangle this powerful army of infected people at the junction of the Spider Web Universe and the Maigret Universe.
This will be a long process, but it is also the strategy with the highest winning rate and the most stability.
Although Gu Hang was still waiting for the Western Front to be liberated and join him in attacking the Queen's Star Territory, Martins and Salilius decided to take it slow after discussing it.
They had fully communicated this idea with Gu Hang, and Gu Hang also said that there was no problem.
Victory is the most important thing. If you insist on pursuing and winning, and if you can win quickly, then if you don't do it well, you will lose everything. At worst, Gu Hang's actions in the Queen's Star Territory should be slowed down as much as possible.
It just so happened that he also needed to spend time to steadily clear his path during the march and ensure a stable route.
In this way, the two sides reached an agreement, and the overall situation was also developing in this direction - that is, the rope around the iron armor's neck was getting tighter and tighter.
At this time, Humphrey Paul made an astonishing move: he assembled a powerful force and suddenly launched a fierce attack on Wanzhou Star.
Wanzhouxing was the logistics supply center for the coalition forces of Salisius and Martins when they attacked Iron Armor, and a large amount of supplies were stored here.
He fought beautifully in this battle.
The troop mobilization before the war was particularly exquisite, and the empire was almost unaware of it; when it started, it was even more thunderous, breaking through at a single point, and when they came in, the empire's troop mobilization had not yet had time to form.
This immediately put Wanzhouxing into a huge crisis.
Once Tiejai takes down Wanzhou Star, not only will they be able to get a precious wave of supplies, but furthermore, the empire will be temporarily short of supplies. Although there will be supplies from the alliance, which will be continuously replenished from the rear, resources require money, and the alliance is not that wealthy. At the same time, operation also takes time.
Not to mention the possibility of the army being defeated by then, at the very least, it will have to restrain its strength and temporarily suppress a large-scale attack.
The war, which was originally expected to take a long time to win, may become even longer.
Under the circumstances, the situation was reversed, which Salisius and Martins would definitely not be able to accept.
At this time, the latest news came.
Wanzhouxing was not conquered.
Although the main force of the iron armor surrounded the entire galaxy, an Otaupis company stationed on Wanzhou Star, plus half of the Dragon King's Spear Chapter, resisted desperately during the battle.
Coupled with the cooperation of the heroic mortal soldiers of the Sun Legion on the ground, they have been controlling the locations of many key areas on the planet.
Under such circumstances, the coalition forces, which had been gathering troops and prepared for the worst to retake Wanzhou Star, had to step up their actions.
The first reinforcements arrived soon.
But it failed in the naval battle and suffered heavy losses.
It doesn't matter, the second batch, the third batch...the assembled army will arrive soon after.
The fleets of both sides were entangled in the star sea; the armies that had been deployed on the ground attacked each other with all their strength; the empire's reinforcements also sent reinforcements to the ground.
Iron Armor's offensive against Wanzhou Star was, to put it bluntly, just short of its last breath.
They were not willing to fail and increased their troops more and more.
The number of troops invested on both sides increased in a short period of time.
This raid on the Wanzhou Star Logistics Hub launched by Iron Armor was heading towards a decisive battle between the two armies.
It's normal that the empire doesn't want to give up its logistics center; on the other hand, Iron Armor has no intention of stopping even though the raid has actually been considered a failure.
The imperial staff analyzed that Iron Armor was making a desperate move.
Of course they also knew that if they continued to fight like this, they would be rushing to fight to the death on Wanzhou Star. However, since it was obvious that the fight would become more difficult the further back, Tie Kai actually didn't mind fighting such a decisive battle while his combat effectiveness was still at its peak and all the war supplies could still sustain it.
And the Empire will not back down.
Not to mention anything else, after successively investing a considerable amount of reinforcements, it was impossible for them to retreat.
Unless they are not only willing to hand over a large amount of logistical supply resources to others, but also abandon the many troops that have been invested on the surface of Wanzhou Star.
That is of course unacceptable.
Although the empire was not mentally prepared for this before the Battle of Wanzhouxing began, by now, they had unified their thinking.
In Martins' words, "We will give the traitors the most painful defeat on behalf of the Emperor in Wanzhou!"
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The Battle of Wanzhou Star reached its peak when the two top commanders, Martins and Salisius, arrived together with their most direct troops.
The fleets of both sides are still entangled in space, and it seems that no one can win quickly.
The battle on the surface was even more brutal.
More than 7,000 iron-armored warriors have fallen to the ground.
Many railgun systems have been conquered, and starports have fallen into enemy hands. This makes it impossible for the empire's ships to easily enter the planet's orbital system. A lot of strategic materials have been shipped out and given to Iron Armor as supplies.
In this case, both Martins and Salius personally led their troops to the ground.
The fleet withstood the attack of the small number of captured rail guns, circled to the other side of the occupied star port, and released the main ground forces.
Since then, the number of Imperial Space Marines on the ground has exceeded 3,500.
In a large plain, the two sides launched a fierce battle.
On a front approximately 300 kilometers long, both sides gathered tens of millions of troops together, forming a confrontation battlefield with great width and depth.
The empire, on the other hand, took the initiative to launch a single-point assault.
As an assault arrow, the most eye-catching unit is not the Space Marines, but the 'Alliance National Knights' from the Alliance!
This army with a large number of Titans, coordinated by a large number of infantry and armored troops, launched a fierce attack on a defensive position of Iron Armor.
(End of chapter)