Chapter 677: Encirclement and reinforcements
The Emperor-class battleship 'Golden Pass' is the flagship of the alliance fleet currently led by Gu Hang.
At this moment, Gu Hang was having a pleasant conversation with Marshal Xi Rui of the Black Cross Army.
"...The person responsible for solving those minor troubles is Judge Qin Zhiping and his Silver Watch and Storm Troopers. Please believe that he will give you a satisfactory explanation, Commander Gu."
Gu Hang smiled and nodded: "I believe him, Qin Zhiping is a reliable judge. Although the Foreign Tribunal targets alien enemies, that is their specialty. In essence, they are still judges, and they should You can definitely do your job well. They are just clowns, not critical.”
Xi Rui felt a little awe-struck when she heard Gu Hang's words as if he didn't care at all about this possible internal strife.
It's not like pretending.
But isn’t that the right thing to do?
It was consistent with his and Qin Zhiping's earlier judgment.
When all parties were working together to push him out and rebuild the Northern Front Army, Xi Rui realized that this was a big pit.
He also hated the performance of those guys in the First Battle of Rheaducches.
Two fully equipped Black Crusade fleets will go sideways wherever they go, as long as they don't encounter extreme circumstances. It happened that it was in this extremely intense war that affected several cosmic regions that it ended up like this.
It is undeniable that the biggest war criminal was the poor judgment of his friend Marshal Leroy himself. However, since we have already entered the Queen's Star Territory, there is no point in talking about decision-making. In the naval battle, the direct cause of the defeat of the human side was the wavering of those non-direct troops.
Now, he still wants to instigate internal strife for personal gain... Xi Rui never thought of agreeing.
Those people want meritorious service and an independent Northern Front Army as capital to strive for higher interests after the war, but Xi Rui wants nothing more than that.
Those mortals thought that his thoughts were also on things like 'status', 'merits', and 'command power', but they were totally wrong.
His first goal is to win, to defeat this great enemy for the sake of the empire, and everything else can be put aside later.
Do you really think that everyone lives just for the sake of that little thing?
Even if he talks about interests, his core interest is to fight with the alliance, break into Rheaducches, and wash away the shame of defeat on the war group. It would be even better if during this process we could see how many of the more than a thousand Black Cross soldiers who had been sent to fight on the surface of Rheaducus survived, and if they could be rescued as much as possible.
No matter how you look at it, Xi Rui's goals and interests are not consistent with those of the remnants of the northern front. On the contrary, they are highly consistent with Gu Hang.
In this case, how could he hang out with those people?
Fortunately, Qin Zhiping's attitude at the meeting was also relatively reliable.
After the meeting with many leaders of the remnant troops on the northern front, he immediately discussed with Qin Zhiping what to do next.
As for Qin Zhiping's slight misunderstanding, it was just a minor incident and harmless.
They quickly discussed how to lure the snake out of its hole, how to beat the snake seven inches away, how to deal with the aftermath and gather military power... In short, a series of plans were relatively mature.
Of course, relying solely on their strength is still a little difficult. After all, there are still more people in the remnant army on the northern front than they are. They are definitely far behind in terms of elite strength, which allows them to deal with those 'traitors', but they want to control the army after dealing with the people, so as not to cause trouble, and then allow these armies to be used in future wars. If Zhong Ye can be used, then Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping will not have enough manpower.
But it doesn't matter.
There weren't enough of them, and there was a lot of people next to them.
When Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping came to the Alliance Army, they both paid close attention to the situation of the Alliance Army. What they discovered was that in addition to the fact that the Alliance army was very capable, highly disciplined, highly organized, and had no signs of corruption, there was another point that they attached great importance to and were even surprised by: the Alliance's middle and lower-level officers were of comparable quality. is high, and the number and density of officers are also very high.
The alliance's military structure is different from that of the ordinary Astra Militarum. It does not have large regiments that can easily number thousands or even tens of thousands of people, nor does it have large companies that can number thousands of people. A company has hundreds of people, a regiment can support a thousand or two thousand people, some large-scale divisions have thirty or forty thousand people, but there are also some small and capable brigade-level units...
Smaller establishment, more levels, and more officers. The key is that the level of each officer is not bad.
The Alliance is fully capable. After taking control of the remnants of the northern armies, purging all unreliable officers and personnel in the middle and upper levels, and with the help of Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping, the Alliance can replace its own officer team. .
Perhaps there may be some problems in the long-term digestion in the future, and there are also some shortcomings in the command that the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers, but at least during this war, the entire unit can be put to use.
Not only has the risk of internal strife been eliminated, but the military strength has also been replenished.
But Gu Hang didn't particularly care about this.
In other words, it seemed that nothing was beyond his expectations.
This is also in line with Xi Rui's imagination.
Gu Hang probably has a plan for any outcome. Not to mention that he and Qin Zhiping had defected, it was estimated that even he and Qin Zhiping were on the side of the remaining troops on the northern front, and Gu Hang had a way to suppress them at the minimum cost.
This is the reason why internal strife cannot occur: there is no chance of winning.
Those whimsical people have never carefully observed the alliance.
After talking about the Northern Front Army, Xi Rui planned to leave.
But Gu Hang stopped him.
"There is one more thing, much more important than that."
"Huh?" Xi Rui sat back again, a little confused.
He thought there was some operational mission, and it was a bit important, otherwise there would be no need to tell him specifically at this time.
Sitting with a serious face, he was mentally prepared in this moment.
It is normal for space warriors to shoulder some important tasks.
I just hope that the number of casualties will be lighter in the final calculation.
However, what Gu Hang brought up made him stunned, no matter how much mental preparation he made.
"I hope you will take over the entire frontal offensive. I will leave with the alliance's main fleet for a while..."
Seeing that Xi Rui was dumbfounded and wanted to speak, Gu Hang waved his hand first: "Don't be impatient. Please listen to what I have to say first."
Next, Gu Hang explained to Xi Rui in detail the information recently confirmed by the alliance and Gu Hang's thoughts on it.
When the Western Front Army entered the Queen's Star Territory with overwhelming momentum, the insect swarm sent a large army to resist. With great difficulty, they managed to block the attack of Salisius and Martins, but immediately, Gu Hang did not hesitate to attack from the east side. The insect swarm also mobilized an army to block it, but unfortunately, it couldn't be stopped.
At this stage, the Insect Queen in Leyaduches has already exposed the problem of insufficient troops on hand.
Will the Void Zerg be short of troops?
It sounds ridiculous, but it's actually possible.
If we look at the Void Zerg as a whole, then of course there is no such problem. The human empire is already extremely large in terms of population. However, according to the estimates of relevant scholars, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the insect swarm.
Even if the main force of the Void Zerg never really reaches the territory of the Human Empire, and all that comes are the 'tentacles', or even a fleet belonging to the tentacles, they can always show a number far higher than that of humans on local battlefields.
Past war history shows that the way humans defeat insect swarms is always to decapitate node creatures, destroy the command system, and then eliminate a large number of insect swarms with extremely low losses.
Or use the scorched earth strategy to create an isolation zone at the star level or even the star field level, so that the insect swarm has nothing to eat or replenish, so that this battle can be fought.
Although he killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses, there was nothing he could do. Otherwise, you can only watch the swarm of insects snowballing and getting bigger and bigger, making it even more impossible to fight.
But this is a summary of data performance and cases. When it comes to each battle situation, it is natural to analyze specific issues in detail.
Does the insect queen in Leyaduches have such a huge insect swarm?
No.
Its situation is special. It was captured by the Iron Armor Chapter from a larval state, and then raised in a laboratory in an attempt to control it. During its long growth life, it must first cover itself up, slowly control the situation, quietly spread the infection, and then explode at the last moment.
However, before its fully prepared outbreak stage came, the Iron Armor War started first.
That was the combined effect of the imperial political situation and Humphrey Paul's ambitions, which were not yet completely under control at the time.
This forced the Queen of Insects to take out the outbreak stage that was not yet ready in advance. Otherwise, it would be useless to lose directly.
After years of latent infection, the insect swarm has a good foundation. If it suddenly breaks out at a critical moment, combined with the two infected armies of Iron Armor and Alfonzo Sect, it stands to reason that it can put the Empire into trouble and buy the Queen of Insects more time to develop.
On the northern and western fronts, its strategy was indeed successful. But on the southern route, which was originally expected to be the least problematic, the biggest problems arose instead.
The infection was contained, Alfonzo was eliminated... and the outbreak of the Alliance force, which the Queen of Insects could not foresee in advance, resulted in the Western Front being saved. In its planning, the Alfonzo Sect and the Iron Armor Chapter, which played a very important role in its development and outbreak periods, have now been destroyed due to the direct participation of the Alliance.
When the western and southern fronts entered the Queen's Star Territory, the Insect Queen had not even completed the biomass concentration and incubation of the entire Queen's Star Territory.
A large amount of biomass is still on various planets, so much so that when humans attack, every extermination weapon dropped on those planets with particularly rich insect swarms makes it painful.
Under such circumstances, the troops used to resist the two lines of attack were naturally lacking.
If the fight continues like this, humans will really break into Leyaduches and threaten its life safety.
But fortunately, among the many previous plans, at least one of the northern routes was successful.
Mobilizing troops from the northern front to defend itself became the only option for the Insect Queen.
Along with the assembled insect nest army going south to defend the insect queen, there was also a large amount of biomass collected from the two star regions of Lofo and Jianmen in the north.
Although the collection work has not been completed as perfectly as it is here in the Queen's Star Territory, at least the total amount is not a small number.
With this insect nest army and more biomass added, it will be enough for the insect queen to continue this war until victory.
But unfortunately, the Hive Fleet heading south from the northern line was detected by the Alliance.
When hearing this, Xi Rui was a little emotional.
The alliance's intelligence organization has arrangements on the northern front, which is in such a mess?
Gu Hang could see what he was thinking - he didn't want to hide it - but he didn't explain much.
On the one hand, the Alliance indeed sent many people to the Western and Northern Fronts in the early stages of the war to pass on information; on the other hand, it was Gu Hang who considered the swarm's strategy and always used the star language system. , observing the movement in the north. Although the distance was far away, he could still vaguely feel the movement of an insect hive army moving through the astral tunnels that humans made good use of.
Only through the combination of multiple parties can a more accurate judgment be made.
After coming to this conclusion, Gu Hang immediately decided not to allow this insect nest force to join up with the Insect Queen. In particular, the biomass of the two star regions on the northern line cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of the Insect Queen.
In that case, I don’t know how many powerful Zerg ships and extremely powerful individual creatures will be produced.
Surrounding the spot for reinforcements is an option that needs to be considered.
Although, strictly speaking, they certainly did not have the Insect Queen surrounded to death, but the current situation was quite a bit like that.
However, Gu Hang didn't want to directly take his troops to the north to attack the Zerg reinforcements.
The Insect Queen is not stupid. If she notices it, she may send a large force to the north to respond; or she may ask most of the Insect Hive's reinforcements from the south to change their route and follow Gu Hang's main force in a circle.
In that case, we still don’t know how the battle will turn out.
Therefore, Gu Hang hoped that Xi Rui could take on the important task of taking the remaining troops on the northern front and the small number of troops left by Gu Hang to maintain the current offensive posture and still attract the attention of the insect swarm here.
And he will lead the main force of the alliance to annihilate the enemies who come to help.
After Xi Rui listened, he didn't speak for a long time.
He could realize that Gu Hang's strategy was correct. It is indeed very important to eliminate the supporting army and prevent the insect queen from joining up with it.
The Hive force heading south is indeed very powerful. Only the main force of the Alliance can attack it before they can have any hope of achieving a decisive victory.
However... it is too difficult for him to stay here and maintain the offensive.
How many people are going to die?
Even if so many people die, can they sustain the offensive?
What if the offensive fails and the insect queen finds out?
Problems popped into his mind one after another, making him unable to agree to Gu Hang's request all at once.
(End of chapter)