Chapter 202, Relics at Sea
The previous chapter has been revised, and the arrangement of the last paragraph is indeed a bit inappropriate.
The comments were not deleted, but after the content was changed, all the comments were swallowed...
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Another month passed, and all the gift points that Gu Hang received this month were invested in the construction of Space Marines.
This time, out of the two hundred people selected, five new members of the regiment were created.
When the Phoenix Space Marines saw this, they no longer said a word to the Governor.
There are eight new bloods waiting to grow. When they grow up, the number of warbands will be larger than when they first landed!
The battle brother who was previously mumbling about why things weren't going so smoothly before, now muttered:
"Why don't we swear allegiance to the Governor when we land? That way we don't have to waste the three gene seeds left by Schneider and his men..."
"What a waste of half a year! If we had cooperated directly from the beginning, our new blood might have been able to wear power armor and fight alongside us now..."
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Gu Hang couldn't hear the private conversations of the Space Marines.
Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care too much.
He is now only concerned about the heartache.
Building the Phoenix Corps is an investment in the future for Gu Hang.
For example, this time, with more than 1,400 points of gifts invested, Gu Hang gained three new Space Marines. But if they want to be really useful, it will take at least half a year.
It takes time to grow superhuman organs after the gene seeds are implanted.
In other words, in the past two months, three thousand blessings have resulted in eight more Space Marines, but it will take at least half a year to a year to take effect.
To be honest, it hurts a bit.
But that's how it is, it always takes time to grow. The earlier you invest, the earlier you can enjoy it. If you wait a little longer, it will take longer for the Space Marines to mature.
What's more, the 3,000 points of grace spent in these two months not only brought in eight new blood to the regiments that were not needed for the time being, but also brought more than 330 elite special forces soldiers.
Although they are generally younger, their fighting ability is not weak at all.
Building a special operations brigade is also something he has to do, and they will be put to use immediately.
Since Hu Ke has already calculated how the Natural Salvation Society can find the address of the spiritual energy field, he must go and solve the problem.
The reason why we didn't take action last month was because the war in the northern Qinggu region was raging and the air force couldn't be withdrawn. In addition, the main force of the Central Army Group has always been located in a relatively northern area. If we really send special forces to the southernmost part of the Qinggu subcontinent, it would be difficult to get support if something happened.
But now, the situation has become much clearer.
The Central Army Group almost wiped out the last batch of 500,000 deformed monsters gathered in the Northern Qinggu area. Then they rushed south along the original main road of the Qinggu area, "liberated" many settlements, and carried out population migration.
In the Nanqing Valley area, the alliance's army did not go into the jungle, but only "liberated" many plantations and settlements along the way. In a month, they almost completed the migration of about three million people.
This is quite a feat.
It is not an easy task to migrate all the scattered population in the Nanqing Valley area to the north in such a short time.
But despite the migration of three million people, the total population of the entire Qinggu area under the rule of the alliance is only about seven million.
According to the last global population statistics compiled by the Alliance, the population of the Qinggu region should be a total of 12 million.
Although this statistics is quite old, dating back to the period of the second governor, there is no way around it, as this is the last valid statistical data.
Judging from this data, there should be about five million people scattered around Nanqing Valley.
Of course, in reality this is not very realistic.
Given the current situation in the Nanqing Lake area, it is very difficult for humans to survive if they are separated from large gathering places. On the one hand, they have to suffer the threat of deformed monsters, and on the other hand, it is difficult to find a stable source of food.
Of course, there were some hidden small settlements that were not discovered by the Central Army Group, which was normal, but the total number of survivors in those places should not be as high as five million.
From this perspective, from the time of the second governor to the present, especially since the recent huge wave of monster disasters, the total population loss in the entire Qinggu region is probably in the millions. Those killed by monsters are still secondary, and more people probably died in the turmoil and famine caused by them.
Very sad.
Of course, the Central Army Group's one-month operation in the Nanqing Valley area could not really relocate all the people. The army really did not have the time to search for the remaining hidden settlements, refugees, or people scattered for various reasons.
They could only put up a lot of road signs in conspicuous places. They simply wrote some of the alliance's policies and directed them to flee north. In order to avoid illiterate people, they were also accompanied by simple pictures.
Along the way, there will be some alliance military stations, patrol stations and the like. In the future, some militia or patrol teams will be stationed there to help those who may still be alive.
Gu Hang hopes to use this method to preserve more people and return to the north.
During this period, in addition to doing its own work, the Central Army Group also sent out a team to advance southward.
This team is the First Wind-extinguishing Brigade, which has made outstanding achievements.
Their goal was to head towards the southernmost tip of the continent, heading towards the direction of the spiritual gas field calculated by Hu Ke.
Of course, their speed was not particularly fast, and Gu Hang did not want to alert the enemy too early.
Up to now, the location of the First Brigade is more than 100 kilometers away from the southernmost tip of the continent.
This has already crossed a sensitive line.
At this time, more than 40 Fengshen speedboats also took off from the airport in Fuxing City.
They were more than 4,000 kilometers away from their target location, but with the speed of the Falcon, they could reach it in less than four hours.
At the same time, Gu Hang had also made contact with the Sharp Claw Tiger in the sky.
After discussing with Brigadier General Ye Licia for a while, he determined that the frigates staying in the orbit of the Wrath Star could provide orbital strike support.
The Claw Tiger will be ready for support shortly afterwards. As long as Gu Xing provides the coordinates, the corresponding attack will be carried out.
Although the firepower of the Claw Tiger cannot be compared with that of the Quintet, when it comes to instantaneous firepower delivery, Gu Hang’s army is still no match for a proper starship.
As long as the coordinates provided are accurate, a round of firepower from the Claw Tiger will be enough to destroy all ground targets.
In fact, the more than 40 Fengshen fighters that took off earlier were to confirm whether the coordinates calculated by Hu Ke were really correct, to avoid calculation errors or any special transfer actions by the enemy during this period.
Gu Hang waited in the command center in Fuxing City for about three or four hours and finally received a report from the front-line pilots.
They did find a large offshore building near the coordinates calculated by Hu Ke.
In fact, they had already arrived above the target location half an hour ago, but they spent some time searching the surrounding waters.
After all, the location calculated by Hooke would not be completely correct, and manual field correction would still be required.
Gu Hang thought about it and decided not to directly request an orbital strike.
The price of an orbital strike is very high. Although Gu Hang does not need to pay for it, if he requests an orbital strike and the results are not outstanding, it will be very difficult for him to report to Ye Lishiya. If he wants to apply for orbital support again in the future, there may be a lot of wrangling in the middle.
Gu Hang didn't really want that kind of situation to happen, so even though he knew there were some risks, he still ordered the Fengshun fighter jets to descend in altitude and investigate whether the place they had discovered, which was suspected to be the offshore extraction factory of the Linghua gas field, was their target.
It would be bad if there was a mistake and it turned out to be just a relic left over from the pre-war era.
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Of course it is impossible for all the Fengxuan speed attack boats to fall down from thousands of meters in the sky.
In the previous operation, the servoskull, the core of the Wind Falcon fighter, was controlled by the enemy, which made the Alliance Air Force learn a lesson. When the pilots' general level is not enough to support their independent control and use of the Wind Falcon, they must do their best to avoid similar situations from happening again.
Under this premise, keeping distance is the best way.
In fact, only three Fengshuns were descending in altitude. The rest of the fighters were still hovering in the sky, keeping a close eye on the ground below. As soon as there was any movement, they would immediately open fire and carry out the attack to save their comrades.
However, the three fighters did not encounter any danger during their descent, and the rusty-looking offshore building was calm.
It seems as if this is a pre-war relic.
But they still did not let their guard down.
Then, three fighters landed on a relatively flat area in the sea. The hatch opened and half of the special forces came out.
The three fighter planes carried a total of 45 special elites. All of them wore exoskeleton armor and full-coverage tactical helmets, and were at least T3, with many of them being T2 elite soldiers.
On a battlefield with the same level of weapons, facing ordinary troops, each of them is confident that they can kill dozens of people in one battle.
According to the order, they will conduct a detailed search of the building and keep in touch with the command center at all times.
The individual communication equipment they carried was certainly not enough to directly contact the headquarters 4,000 kilometers away, but they could contact the Falcon fighter jets in the sky.
The supreme commander of this operation is currently on a fighter plane high in the sky.
That's Martins.
Captain Martins is on another mission, and his four battle brothers have also arrived. However, this time they don't have to fight directly on the front line, or in other words, they don't have to fight immediately. It's up to him to decide whether to fight or not.
He was in charge of the front-line command of more than 40 Falcons from the First Aviation Squadron of the Alliance Air Force and more than 200 soldiers from the 10th Special Forces Brigade who came to participate in the battle.
At the moment, it does look like this is just an ordinary pre-war marine building ruins. Maybe it was an offshore drilling platform in the past?
Whatever effect it had in the past, it probably no longer has any effect now.
At least so far, they haven't found anything unusual.
However, just when I thought of this, something strange happened below!
Fierce firepower suddenly came from all directions, and all kinds of biochemical monsters rushed out and launched a fierce attack on the three ships that had not yet unloaded the soldiers, had no time to ascend, and the special forces soldiers who were leaving the cabin!
Martins looked calm.
The enemy obviously had some kind of biological hiding technology, and the low-altitude scan they just did failed to detect any traces of the enemy.
Obviously, the enemy had originally decided to hide and create the illusion that no one was here; but when the ground troops went down, they knew they could no longer hide, so they simply showed their fangs.
This was a very dangerous situation for the landing soldiers and the three Falcons.
For the overall situation, this was not a big deal. Even if all three planes were destroyed and all 45 soldiers died, it did not prevent them from correctly detecting that this was indeed an important enemy base.
If he had considered it purely in a cold-blooded way, based on his past combat experience, he might have abandoned the soldiers and planes below, directly passed the information back, and called in an orbital strike.
However, now she may need to change her mindset.
He couldn't treat these mortal troops as just "friendly forces" or cannon fodder for the Astra Militarum as he had in previous wars. Now, they were all in the same group, belonging to the same alliance regime on the Wrathful Owl Star.
Moreover, those soldiers were all elite, and many of them were close to entering the Phoenix and becoming new blood. He couldn't waste the lives of these soldiers too much.
Not to mention the three Wind Falcons.
He knew that although their governor's power was rapidly increasing, his family was not rich enough. If three planes were lost, it would still be painful for the governor.
So he issued an order for support.
The Fengshun speed attack boat, which was still in the sky, fired a round of missiles as ordered, lowered its altitude appropriately, and used its machine guns to rapidly fire at the besieged friendly forces.
However, their support was ineffective.
When the fire fell, a huge curtain of light covered the entire offshore construction platform.
Void Shield?!
(End of this chapter)
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