Chapter 859: The Universe is Burning (VI)

The surface of Ankachi VIII has been turned into a meat grinder.

In accordance with Gu Hang's strategic requirements, the human forces set up six airdrop sites based on the throne of the war fortress where Broken Bone was located.

Airdrop Zone No. 1, led by the Phoenix Regiment and the Iron Fist Ambassador Regiment, has basically stabilized its position.

The other airdrop sites No. 2 to No. 5 were also gradually established during the subsequent battles.

These landing sites follow a similar strategy to Landing Site No. 1, but success is not certain.

The worst was the landing site No. 4, where 300 Space Marines went down to cooperate with the orbital airdrop of the Marines, but the result was almost annihilation. The airborne troops suffered too much loss when they landed and assembled. After finally gathering together, the Space Marine leader went to attack the air defense positions near the landing site, but due to insufficient manpower, he failed to destroy the earth shield and could only withdraw reluctantly, relying on a nearby Zerg nest ruin to hold on.

The headquarters had to send down another batch of paratroopers despite the casualties, as well as two thousand combat nuns from Holy Mercy Lily in airdrop capsules, before the situation was stabilized.

They held out for eight Terra days, and during that time they tried to attack the air defense fortress twice, but failed again. It was not until the fifth day, when the total casualties exceeded 70%, that troops from the No. 3 and No. 5 landing sites next door came to their rescue and destroyed the air defense fortress.

Up to this point, no matter how many sacrifices the human side had endured and how much they had paid, after less than half a month of ground offensive, they had already surrounded the war fortress throne where the Bonebreaker King himself was located.

During this period, the Bone Crusher King did not move.

Originally, Gu Hang had a set of methods to deal with Broken Bone. As long as he attacked personally, he could use all the necessary methods.

But unfortunately, the broken bones did not move.

This orc king was surprisingly able to keep his composure, unlike the impulsive and irritable greenskins in the conventional concept. He also had a deep understanding that strategic time was on his side. As long as he could hold on, victory would be on his side.

This is actually true.

It has been more than twenty days since the Battle of Ankachi began.

The greenskin army of loyalists from the entire star field is rushing towards the Ankachi star region like a huge wave.

The human army fighting on Ankachi VIII at the moment, including the navy, army and various elite troops, actually only accounted for a little more than half of the total number. Except for the two Queen of Glory and Gu Hang, the three most important strategic weapons that came to Ankachi VIII, the rest of the troops were basically divided in half.

The other half is now on the outskirts of Ankachi VIII, blocking the greenskin army layer by layer.

They were like a dam on the shore, holding back the surging greenskin army.

During these twenty days, battle reports came in from all fronts, saying that the pressure from the orcs was becoming increasingly greater.

So far, the dam remains as solid as a rock.

But no one knows how long the heavy rain will last.

New orc boys are born who are getting stronger and stronger under the Waagh force field. Greenskin technology becomes more powerful, and the tech tyrants have more ideas and think of some greenskin-style technologies. Maybe just welding a rocket engine to the tail of a warship will make it work; changing the pattern and color of the cannon muzzle will make the cannon more powerful...

In just twenty days, there has been an increase in combat intensity that is noticeable to the human army. What about if it lasts longer?

At this rate of improvement, in three months, the outer defense line's pressure bearing capacity will reach its limit, and then it will be inevitable that there will be greenskin troops that can penetrate the outer blockade and come to support Ankachi VIII;

After five months, the human army's outer defense line may collapse completely.

In fact, the greenskin army has already interfered with human supply lines.

This time humans are coming with an expeditionary force, with billions of troops and thousands of warships. The amount of energy, food, weapons and war preparations needed every day...that is definitely an astronomical figure.

Even if the five surrounding star regions provide supplies, it is not enough.

Humans are not greenskins or Zerg. As long as the latter two capture a planet, digestion pools/hatching pools, greenskin ecosystems/garbage city industrial zones and the like will be quickly generated. Fighting on the spot and supplying on the spot is really a war to support war.

But humans are much slower in utilizing the resources of a planet that has just been through a war, or is currently at war. They have to settle down, or at least settle down a region, and carry out post-war construction before they can truly be controlled.

The logistical constraints meant that many army units could not be sent into the Ohmjilia star field immediately, and they were still guarding the outer star field. If billions of people were to come in all at once, they would go bankrupt.

The overall war mode, on the human side, requires the alliance to store huge amounts of supplies from the Magre universe. During the nearly one-year preparation period before the war, the Western Expeditionary Force stored a huge amount of supplies in several important hub worlds on the edge of the universe. These supplies will be transported in batches to the many exits of the five major star regions to Omgeria, and then transported in batches into the star region to be delivered to various combat units.

At the same time, within the five major star regions, each world is constantly collecting war resources, from food to military products, and continuously transporting them to Ohm and Lia.

When the front-line combat troops need reinforcements and supplies, they will be transported from the five major star regions.

While thousands of warships were fighting on the front lines, there were more than half a million transport ships working day and night in the entire transportation chain.

But now the greenskins have begun to try to threaten the human logistics supply transportation chain.

The previous three-month and five-month estimates were based on pure frontline combat considerations. If the overall strategy is taken into consideration, if the transportation chain is cut off, then both the outer blockade and the attack on Ankachi VIII will be affected.

Even though all troops have now stockpiled ample combat supplies to prepare for any eventuality, if the worst-case scenario really happens, the strategic time estimate of three or five months may have to be calculated forward.

Broken bones are waiting.

Even though humans had a huge advantage, it took them more than twenty days just to take over the outer orbit and deploy troops to the ground.

Afterwards, the area surrounding the war fortress throne, which was under his real core control, had been managed by him like an iron barrel.

Come and gnaw on these shrimps. See how long it will take to gnaw on them!

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There's one more chapter before dawn

(End of this chapter)