Chapter 133, Global Strategy Timeline
As the commander, Perbov rode in the "Listener" command vehicle, not far from the front line of the battlefield.
The enemy doesn't have much long-range firepower capability, so we're not too afraid.
The progress of the war was not beyond his expectations. The lines formed by the looters were quickly destroyed by the coordination of infantry and artillery. The subsequent troops were also hit head-on by the coordination of infantry and tanks.
Although the number of enemies far exceeded that of his subordinates, at this point, the battle was no longer fought with manpower, but with firepower.
In terms of firepower, these looters were no match for his first heavily armed combined battalion. Only two motorized infantry companies that got off their vehicles, with the support of the artillery support company and the tank company, were able to defeat the looters head-on.
The defense line was penetrated by a single poke, and shattered by a single counterattack. This was the true portrayal of those plunderers.
There is no suspense about winning this battle.
All that remains to be done is to expand the results of the battle.
Perbov certainly did not forget that his mission was not just to defeat this group of enemy troops. He wanted to fight a beautiful annihilation war and wipe out these bandits who threatened the trade routes and the surrounding settlements.
Killing everyone or taking most of them captive are both options.
Of course there will be no thieves if they are dead; for those who are not dead, pick out some of those who have committed many crimes and kill them, and sentence the rest to five to ten years of hard labor, and send them to the abandoned cave community to work as coolies in the mines, or send them to the alien forest to cut trees for building materials and to make raw materials for synthetic starch. All of these are acceptable.
In order to effectively expand the results of the battle, the two mechanized infantry companies cruising in another direction also received orders and began to launch an attack.
In his combined battalion, the most powerful ones are actually the two mechanized infantry companies, not the tank company.
Those captured Challenger tanks were local products, imported from a heavy industry group in the west called Blackbird. It was said that Blackbird Heavy Industry was once a part of the Alliance, a heavy industry center established with the aid of the Empire during the reign of the Governor, and located further west than the Western Desert.
However, during the second governor's period, they basically withdrew from the alliance, and now apart from trade, there is no interaction between them, and the orders sent by the alliance are like farts.
It is also because of this that the seventy tanks in the old Alliance Legion were left over from a long time ago, and they are probably at least ten years old.
Compared to the 'Wanderer V', an infantry fighting vehicle widely equipped in the main Imperial Astra Militarum Army, it really has nothing but the tank gun.
In terms of armor, it is true that the infantry fighting vehicles are thin-skinned and the armor plates are much thinner than the Challenger tank armor, but it is also true that they can maintain better defensive performance while being thin. How can this make sense?
In terms of mobility, the excellent off-road performance allows the Ramblers V to climb hills or run on muddy ground, it's just a matter of speed. The Challenger tank must travel on flat terrain, and if the ground is too bad, it will break down in a matter of minutes.
When it comes to speed, tanks and armored vehicles are no match.
Even if we really talk about firepower, the 40mm twin-barreled machine gun is not as powerful as the 76mm smoothbore gun, but its rate of fire is much faster. As infantry support equipment, its performance is actually better.
After the two mechanized infantry companies launched the attack, the raiders had no chance to make a move.
The defensive positions they had set up were smashed to pieces by machine guns and explosive machine guns, and the infantry squads that followed them out of their vehicles easily captured one position after another.
Their attack was very fast. After piercing through Sanchi Town's butt, they also killed their way to the rear of the front battlefield.
Logically speaking, the situation shouldn't have gone this smoothly. We've fought a few battles with these looters, and they're not that bad. When they were attacked, they should have taken some countermeasures. Although the result was already determined, it would have been appropriate to at least cause some trouble to the two assaulting mechanized infantry companies.
But it didn’t.
The raiders seemed to have lost their command; they were dull, rigid and chaotic.
This made Pobov a little confused.
I don't have any elite special forces to carry out decapitation operations or cut off command communications? Why did these people do this?
But soon, he figured out the key.
I’m afraid the enemy leader has already run away?
It's really possible!
It's probably unrealistic to expect the leader of this gang of robbers to fight to the death.
Considering what Morgan's gang had said before, they pretended to surrender but then rebelled again, which was largely because the leader was coercing his followers with his own selfish desires. If those lower-level robbers were really given a chance to live a stable life, why would they refuse to do it?
After figuring this out, he came up with another idea.
Drive the battalion forward, including the communications vehicles.
Then, the army's loudspeakers began to sound:
"Your leader has fled!"
"Put down your weapons, surrender and you won't be killed!"
The two short sentences were continuously transmitted to the ears of the Anxi Raiders through the loudspeaker, interspersed with fierce artillery fire. What they saw before them were dozens of steel behemoths...
They really couldn't bear it any longer.
What's more, the previous statement that 'the leader fled' might be true.
Many mid-level leaders had indeed not received any orders from the chieftain of the rear for a long time, and even when they went back to ask, there was no news. Battlefield communications were blocked by the "listeners" who rushed forward, and the intercoms were full of noise; those who were sent back to interrogate people either never came back, and no one knew whether they died on the way or ran away, or they wandered around like headless flies and found nothing, and returned confused.
Under such circumstances, it was natural for the robbers and leaders at all levels to surrender on a large scale.
The war should be almost over at this point.
However, a piece of news soon made Pobov no longer able to laugh.
He received intelligence from the front line that the soldiers saw dozens of green-skinned orcs on the battlefield.
He immediately thought of the tribe of marauders called 'Prisoners of the Dead' that had surrounded the Broken Cave Society and nearly wiped them out.
When that battle was fought, he had not yet joined the army and had not seen it with his own eyes. However, relevant information was compiled and he had studied it; he had also heard some of it when he communicated with Captain Yan Fangxu, now a colonel.
If green-skinned orcs of that level really appeared, or there were dozens of them, we would be in big trouble.
A monster like that could hardly be effectively killed by rifles or even machine guns in the hands of ordinary soldiers. The one outside the Broken Cave Society was said to have been shot dead by the Governor's personal guards, who used a more powerful electromagnetic rifle, and the Governor himself even helped.
The soldiers under his command do not have such powerful individual weapons to use.
Judging from the firepower in the soldiers' hands, I'm afraid only rocket launchers, machine guns on armored vehicles and grenade launchers can achieve effective killing.
But those monsters have strong destructive power, enough to tear a human body apart with bare hands. Not to mention, they may have some powerful individual firearms in their hands.
Perbov immediately prepared to give orders, telling the frontline soldiers not to force their way in when they encounter this kind of enemy, but to look for nearby "Wanderer" infantry fighting vehicles and rely on vehicle-mounted firepower to fight. If there are really no nearby, they will also rely on the firepower team and use individual rocket launchers to eliminate the enemy.
At the same time, he was mentally prepared that his troops would suffer a lot of casualties.
"It was such a great victory, but it had to encounter such an accident!"
He cursed in his heart.
If there was intelligence and preparation in advance, it might be okay. When troops were pursuing a victory, expanding their gains, or even trying to persuade the enemy to surrender, they suddenly encountered this kind of enemy, and casualties were almost inevitable.
However, just as he was worried, new front-line battle reports arrived.
After listening to the report, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It's good news.
On the one hand, the enemy's preparations seemed hasty. When the green-skinned orcs appeared, they were mainly in the ranks of the raiders. Moreover, they did not seem to have good control over those monsters. After the orcs appeared, they attacked all the surrounding humans indiscriminately. This meant that the majority of casualties were borne by the raiders themselves.
Another piece of good news is that those green-skinned orcs are not as strong as Perbov imagined.
Their ability to withstand damage is indeed very exaggerated, but it is not to the point where ordinary firearms cannot kill them. They can still be killed after being hit by dozens of bullets. The most important thing is that they don't have much brains and often rush out recklessly. The thermal weapons they use are also those that the looters have, and their power is average.
During this period of time, there were indeed many reports of casualties, and even entire squads were wiped out. But at the same time, a large number of green-skinned orcs were also killed.
Especially after the infantry fighting vehicles entered the scene and carried out special cleaning tasks, the situation stabilized again.
After more than half an hour, the fighting on the main battlefield had completely subsided.
The green-skinned orcs were killed, and most of the remaining looters surrendered, with only a few escaping. The "Hunter" motorcycles and some infantry fighting vehicles had already driven out and started the pursuit in the plain area.
It is estimated that the pursuit mission will last for one or two days, and it would be considered good if there are more than a hundred robbers who can finally escape.
After the basic battle was over, Perbov went to the front line of the battle and saw the corpses of those green-skinned orcs.
No more, no less, a total of eighty. Their appearance caused about twenty-seven casualties among the soldiers.
Pobov sighed deeply. He felt sorry for the casualties of his soldiers, but he also understood that a kind person cannot command an army.
In the end, he could only give the order:
"Burn the bodies of these green-skinned monsters. Make sure to burn them completely."
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[Slightly in the upper hand, gain 347 points of gift]
[154 lost, 2772 eliminated, 2468 captured]
[1st Xifeng Brigade (1st Combined Battalion): 154 lost, 2772 destroyed]
After the pursuit was over, Gu Hang received the belated statistics of the results in the system.
But before that, Perbov's battle report arrived first.
The casualties, losses, and prisoners were consistent, but the number of annihilations was a little different. After all, Perbov had to clean up the battlefield, and the specific results of the battle were determined by questioning the prisoners and cleaning up the bodies. Some were missing, could not be found, their bodies could not be put together after being bombarded by artillery, and were buried under the ruins and could not be dug out for the time being...
Under various circumstances, it is normal for the numbers to be different from those given by the system.
The benefits of this wave of gifts are not bad, but relatively speaking, Gu Hang cares more about the green-skinned orcs mentioned in the intelligence.
If this group of "cosmic cancers" were allowed to develop on the Wrathful Owl Star, it would be a disaster. This is a race that can start a war that will sweep across multiple galaxies.
In fact, when Gu Hang encountered a human who drank a drug that turned him into a green-skinned person outside the abandoned cave community earlier, he had already raised his vigilance. However, before that, with only a few hundred guns and a weak base under his command, he really didn't have the energy to solve that problem first.
But now, he feels that this matter can no longer be delayed.
What's more, judging from recent developments, this group of greenskins seems to be growing stronger.
This is supported by two pieces of information.
First, there is the situation that Perbov encountered.
The second one came from Garbage Town.
Gu Hang had already made arrangements in Garbage Town, an important source of raw materials. Denison Henry then imported a large amount of high-quality arms and bulletproof vests from the Abandoned Cave Area to Garbage Town, and operated a trade route that sold alloy plastic steel to Fuxing City and then purchased grain from Fuxing City to Garbage Town. He really made a lot of money in the past one or two months.
Although the latter trade route was suspended for a few days due to war and disaster, it quickly recovered after the war. He even took a consultant position in the New Alliance Commerce Department, specializing in the import of raw materials and the sale of finished products.
He has recently increased his purchase of arms. The weapons left by the old alliance legion that are about to be eliminated have not been sent to Qinggu area according to Ossena's idea of arms sales. Many of them have been sold to Garbage Town.
Why does Garbage Town suddenly need so many weapons and excellent bulletproof vests?
They even wanted to further strengthen and thicken the plastic-steel bulletproof plates, which were already very strong and could not be penetrated by many ordinary bullets!
That was to fight against the greenskins.
The number of greenskins in the ruins of the tower is much greater this year than in previous years, which has seriously threatened the survival of the garbage town that collects waste from the ruins of the tower.
We can't just ignore this matter.
Tomorrow, Henry Dennison will come to Fuxing City, and Gu Hang will meet with him in person to decide what to do about the issues in Garbage Town.
That was actually the largest settlement in the direction swept by Perbov's battalion.
There are three continents in total on the Angry Owl Star. Not to mention the other two continents that once had rich psychic energy fields. They were the main battlefields of the apocalyptic war a hundred years ago and were also the most thoroughly destroyed places. They can basically be regarded as a wasteland with no one living in it, and waste energy storms shroud it all day long.
The main continent where they are currently located can be roughly divided into six regions.
With Fuxing City as the center, this area, which is a total of one thousand kilometers long and wide from north to south and from east to west, is conventionally designated as the central region, which was the area directly governed by the alliance government during its heyday.
There are about five million people living here, one million of whom are in Fuxing City.
Nearly 2,000 kilometers east of the eastern border of the central region is an area known as the Tower Region, which was the location of the most prosperous urban cluster in the pre-war era. A large number of supercities are scattered around, and a well-developed road network connects many cities.
Of course, what remains of the pagoda area now are just large-scale urban ruins.
There are probably about five million people making a living in those ruined cities - just a fictitious number.
Five or six hundred kilometers south of the central region, or one thousand kilometers south of the Taqun region along the eastern coastline, is a concave peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides, known as the Qinggu region. This name has been passed down since before the war, and it is also the place on the entire continent that was least devastated by the war. It was originally a grain-producing area with a population of about 15 million.
Six hundred kilometers north of the central region is the cold region, which used to be a heavy industrial center but is now a mixture of ruins and wilderness. It has the smallest population, about three million people.
Going west from the central region, about the same distance of five or six hundred kilometers, you will enter the two thousand kilometers long Western Desert region. The people there survive on scattered oases and pre-war three-dimensional planting bases under the oases. The population is about five million, but the grain output is large and the export volume is huge.
Further west, past the Western Desert, is the Heavy Industry Region, which was also once an industrial center, or simply said that the heavy industry in the cold regions spread northward from the Heavy Industry Region. There is a big force there - the Blackbird Heavy Industry Group, which was fully supported by the first generation of governors, but quickly became alienated from the alliance during the second generation of governors, and even fought a war across the Western Desert Region.
Most of the grain exported from the Western Desert is sent westward to the heavy industrial areas.
This is the overall structure of the entire main continent of Angry Owl Star.
Gu Hang's current plan is to take Fuxing City as the center and completely control the entire central area of the main continent, take care of these five million people, and then wait for an opportunity to advance to the east and south, especially the Qinggu area with the largest population, which is the most important.
He set the time for controlling the central region at half a year; advancing into the Qinggu area and the Pagoda Group area must be completed within half a year.
In this way, he will have a population of more than 20 million under his command, and control important grain production bases and industrial raw material bases. Combined with the black box technology of the system from Fuxing City and Weixing City, he will be able to develop for a year and pay taxes.
After all, the benefit he received was only a quarter of the standard amount he had to pay for the first tax payment.
Of course, this is a guaranteed minimum. In fact, according to past practice, people in the Western Desert, heavy industrial areas, and cold regions will also pay their due taxes when the deadline arrives - although it is far from the full amount.
But if they pay some, Gu Hang's production pressure will be less, and he can keep more on hand.
And after getting through the first tax problem, after another two years, he can plan for another two years to control the world, and then he can deal with the first complete taxation four years later.
According to this schedule, his expansion plan cannot be stopped. Garbage Town is also a place that needs to be taken down in the near future and cannot be delayed.
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