Chapter 685, the strategy of placing an extermination order
Salidius's change of mentality is interesting.
Although his expression had basically not changed since he entered the door and sat down, and he had always had the most common poker face among Space Marines, Gu Hang could still detect the slight fluctuations in his spirit and soul, as well as the look in his eyes. The changes when he strafed the two seats roughly guessed the change in Salisius' mentality.
He chuckled inwardly.
In fact, no matter which position Salius chooses, no matter what mentality he faces this battle, it will not have any impact on the outcome. Gu Hang doesn't particularly care.
It just decided what kind of attitude Gu Hang would have when facing him.
Now, it can be considered a good result.
Putting these thoughts aside, Gu Hang coughed lightly and said, "Everyone is here, let's get started."
"First of all, I want to inform you of a piece of news: Our time for the Battle of Leyaduchese is very limited. A hive fleet is rapidly approaching Leyaduchese in the real universe at a regular sub-light speed. . It is certain that the reinforcements called by the Insect Queen will arrive in a year. Once the fleet arrives, there will be great changes in the battle situation. Before that, deal with the insect queen.”
"The fastest way to deal with her is obviously not to engage in conventional war, which will take a long time and take an unknown number of years to win;"
"It cannot be a decapitation tactic. Although we have the most elite warriors, the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and orbital biological fleet are huge, and the specific location of the insect queen cannot be searched. The loss of decapitation is very high. We cannot waste these most precious resources. The life of an elite warrior.”
"I am determined to use the Extermination Order to completely destroy this world that is already full of corruption and depravity."
"Who is for and who is against this matter?"
No one raised any objections.
Very good, it eliminated Gu Hang's idea of having fun and causing trouble together.
It's actually quite normal.
Gu Hang's prestige is so unparalleled that even when Salisuus came, he had to sit down and accept that the leader and commander-in-chief of this battle was Gu Hang, a mortal. So when he proposed an idea , as long as it’s not too outrageous, who can object?
What's more, if you object, you must have a reason to oppose it.
What Gu Hang said is right.
As long as the order of extermination can be used to attack Leyaduches successfully, it must be the method with the least cost, the most thorough effect, and the fastest effect.
And the human army does have this ability.
After the southern and western fronts merge, all Extermination Order weapons can be used together. After entering the Queen's Star Territory, the two front-line legions used a lot of Extinction Order weapons. Many worlds were completely infected and had no saving value. However, places where there were still a lot of bugs should be baptized with Extinction Orders.
But no matter how much you use it, both parties will still have some inventory more or less.
Moreover, due to the special battle situation in the Princess Star Territory, the Extermination Order weapons were not enough, so a lot of them were urgently transferred from the surrounding universe.
Almost all of them are sky-burning torpedoes, which are the most common.
One round after another, they were loaded into transport ships and delivered to the southern and western front armies, waiting for use.
Now, adding both sides together, there must be thirty sky-burning torpedoes. If necessary, it would be no problem to recruit another 30 troops within the next year.
If the problem can be solved with dozens of sky-burning torpedoes, that would undoubtedly be the best.
Although, the value of one Burning Sky torpedo is worth half a cruiser. Thirty rounds, the value is almost hundreds of billions of tax dollars. However, compared with the results achieved and the costs avoided, it is still a business that definitely pays for itself.
But that's easy to say, but the only problem is how to release the weapons of the Extermination Order on Leyaduches?
Across the orbit, when confronting the Hive Fleet, it is not advisable to launch forcefully onto the surface. Doing this, let alone thirty Burning Sky torpedoes, even three hundred or three thousand rounds, will be useless as all of them will be intercepted midway. But no one asked this question.
All the big shots sitting here focused their attention on Gu Hang.
They believed that since Gu Hang proposed this idea, he must have something to say and a solution.
Facing these looks, Gu Hang smiled.
He said: "Why are you looking at me like this? I want to hear what you think."
All the big guys present, this time no longer looked at Gu Hang, but you looked at me, and I looked at you, but no one said anything.
In fact, everyone has a bottom line in their hearts.
To be more realistic, if you want to execute an extermination order on Rhea Douches, the most practical way is to take it one step at a time. First, in the orbit of the planet, suppress the biological fleet of the insect swarm and strive to create a space for the troops to land.
Then, withstand the firepower of the enemy fleet and the firepower of the ground, clear the rail gun group on the ground. It doesn’t require a comprehensive cleanup, but at least establish safety over an area.
Immediately afterwards, they had to bear considerable losses and invest troops on the ground.
Maybe ten transport ships can get off one. This requires investment at all costs until the ground forces can temporarily gain a foothold and compete for and destroy the biological cannon nests to further clear the anti-orbital firepower.
When it is cleared to a certain extent, you can release the Extermination Order weapon.
It is never possible to increase the delivery success rate to 100%. After all, there will be other anti-aircraft guns in the distance, and the insect swarm will have flying demon insect swarms to attack the dropped bombs; the attack of the biological ship has not been eliminated in orbit, but can only be expelled at best.
If there is only one or several rounds of the Extinction Order weapon, it cannot be released under low probability conditions. After all, once intercepted, it's gone.
But humans now have thirty in their hands.
If the probability of successful placement can be higher than 3%, it seems that it can be tried.
This can be calculated based on the degree of wear and tear on the transport ship when troops were deployed on the ground.
However, there are two problems with doing this:
1. How much price will humans have to pay before the delivery success rate reaches 3%? Withstand the ground firepower to drive away the insect swarm fleet; withstand the insect swarm fleet and clear the ground firepower... In these two steps, no one knows how many warships will be lost.
If it's just a loss, that's it. This is the final battle. No matter what the loss is, as long as the final victory can be achieved, it is acceptable.
But the problem is that there is a huge risk. Under such extremely unfavorable circumstances, the human fleet will be defeated in a devastating battle by an enemy that is clearly inferior to itself.
Then everything is over.
Compared to this question, the second point, that is, the success rate of 3% is not necessarily true. Facing the transport ships that project troops to the ground, the insect swarm's interception is one strength; facing the Extermination Order weapons, their interception must be another strength.
After all thirty Burning Sky torpedoes were put down, it would be embarrassing if the last one failed.
These are all things that the people here can imagine, and they are also the reasons why they are reluctant to speak.
Having said that, it is nothing more than a set of things. It can't be used to play tricks, but it can hardly be called a wonderful tactic.
(End of chapter)