Chapter 416, Battle of Steel Wing Star
Gu Hang has always been paying close attention to the war on Steel Wing Star.
Tillemans' choice in the war at the war point was of course correct, and he fully supported it.
What he feared most was that the general of a certain front would have his own ideas and give him a big task.
It is absolutely unacceptable to risk the outcome of an entire battle for a 30% chance of winning.
Being safe is more reliable than anything else.
Afterwards, the green-skinned orcs who had suffered a loss were unwilling to give up. They chased the fleeing Pegasus fleet all the way to Steel Wing Star.
By that time, the main force of the Pegasus Fleet had already been deployed.
The greenskins didn't care about anything and launched a fierce and violent attack.
It’s true, this offensive posture really brought a lot of pressure.
Steel Wing Star has not experienced war for many years, and many war equipment have only been reactivated recently, so it was a bit chaotic for a while.
But after getting over the initial discomfort, they were able to take advantage of the planet's complete defense system, not only stubbornly blocking the attack of the greenskin fleet, but also causing considerable casualties.
During the month-long battle, the Greenskin Fleet lost 30 or 40 warships, but the only result was the destruction of some armed space stations and firepower platforms. The most important star fortresses and star ports were still standing. The main force of the Pegasus Fleet was also preserved, with only three ships consumed.
If we continue with this exchange ratio, this deal can be done a hundred times.
No matter how many greenskin fleets there are, they cannot withstand such an attack.
They quickly slowed down their attack.
However, during this process, the Irontooth Clan used another trick: a large number of green-skinned orcs landed on the surface with the help of landing capsules.
Forcibly landing on a well-defended planet like Steel Wing Star would cost a huge price. More than half of the landing capsules were intercepted and destroyed during the landing process.
However, the planet was so big after all, and even a starport like a space city was a small thing compared to the entire planet. The greenskin fleet could always attract attention by feinting in one place, and then other ships would go around to less heavily guarded places and drop landing troops.
Even if only half of them were taken down, there were still tens of millions of fearless orcs landing on the ground.
This is what Tillemans is most worried about.
If the Irontooth Orcs only have a lot of ships, that would be easy to deal with. They can just retreat a little and rely on the planet's defense system. Plus, the Pegasus fleet itself is no pushover, so who's afraid of who?
What they fear is a large-scale ground attack.
The Empire's regular Astra Militarum troops would have a very hard time fighting on the ground with the Irontooth Orcs, not to mention that at the moment, the main ground force of Steel Wing Star is the Planetary Defense Force.
Although there are a lot of them, reaching hundreds of millions, and their quality is also a gathering of elites within the Hippogriff sector, but overall, Tillemans does not dare to trust them completely.
The result of the battle on the ground is very important for the naval battle. Once a large area of the planetary surface falls, the anti-orbital guns deployed on the ground will be gone. Without the cover of the anti-orbital guns, the starports and star fortresses will be in danger. If these two big things are destroyed, the orbital defense system of the Steel Wing Star will be completely collapsed.
Then the Tianma fleet had to escape again.
And you may not be able to escape.
To some extent, they are now trapped on Steel Wing Star.
In order to prevent the worst situation from happening, Tillemans instead withdrew several ships from the confrontation with the greenskin fleet and turned to support the ground battle.
But the greenskins will also have a response. Their ships will also move to the corresponding positions and open fire on the surface when the key battle on the ground begins.
Although a large amount of firepower will be intercepted, it can still provide some support effect.
The Battle of Steel Wing Star began like this.
The fighting was still very brutal.
Now, Admiral Yuan Chengchuan is very grateful for the twenty ships of supplies that the Alliance had sent over earlier.
Although the Eagle Horse Star Region had been well prepared, with a large amount of supplies gathered on the Steel Wing Star during the previous war preparation period, when the war really started, he still found that there was really not enough ammunition and supplies.
In particular, everything the alliance sent over were good things.
There is no need to say much about the food supplies and conventional ammunition supplies. The key is that the many heavy bolters, plasma guns, and high-performance melta bombs are all quite reliable things.
With one, you can form a solid firepower position; a burst of bullets or two shots from the plasma gun can destroy a speeding Ork war truck or eliminate a killing canister.
This can often save a position or dozens of lives.
The land area of Steel Wing Star accounts for 43% of the global area, and there is only one complete continent, which is basically located in the Eastern Hemisphere. The ground part of the battle soon reached almost the entire Northern Hemisphere.
But the human military cannot completely ignore the Southern Hemisphere.
The greenskins flew down from the airdrop pods. A "meteorite" made of rock and metal often contained thousands or even tens of thousands of greenskins. As long as one of them landed, the alarm would sound for a large area around it.
In this case, human forces must be equipped with defenses in all land areas of the entire planet.
Even those seemingly worthless wildernesses cannot be relaxed. If a group of greenskins really fall into the wilderness, plant those greenskin spore fungi, and develop, then the subsequent greenskins will not even need to bear the huge loss rate, transport troops from the Jinguan star area, and then carry out airborne operations.
They will quickly build a unique ecological system like the Greenskins in the wilderness, from basic fungal plants, to various Squiggles, to Fart Spirits, and even Greenskin Boys... They will soon grow out of the ground and become a disaster.
If the enemy is still invading at the moment, then if it comes to that, human forces will have to fight against "planet cancer".
It is best not to let this happen, but even if that is not possible, delay it as much as possible.
In fact, the green-skinned orcs actually made a similar attempt.
They tentatively dropped some airdrop pods onto the southern continent.
This also shows the importance of always being on guard across the entire planet.
It was impossible to expect to kill all the green-skinned orcs. There were hundreds of ships full of orc boys and monsters. Some green-skinned ships even went back to the Jinguan star area to pick up a few ships of people after they were halfway through the battle.
The most important goal that Yuan Chengchuan has to achieve is: not to lose anti-orbital capability;
The second goal: to prevent the enemy from establishing a stable ecological cycle system. As long as this sign is discovered, we must resolutely eliminate it even if it means paying a heavy price or calling for support from the Pegasus Fleet.
The third goal is to destroy the enemy's manpower as much as possible.
Under this guiding ideology, the entire Steel Wing Star finally stabilized after going through the chaos at the beginning of the war.
The green-skinned orcs were also very devoted to such an "interesting" war. They continued to invest forces on the surface and continued to put pressure on the human orbital defense system in space.
The war began to become stalemate.
And this is also the result that Gu Hang hopes to see.
The Steel Wing Star turns into a huge magnet, which can firmly attract the enemy's attention and also be able to hold on. That is the best.
It now appears that if the greenskins do not further increase their troops on a large scale, Steel Wing Star will have a good chance of holding out for half a year or even a year, let alone two months.
But soon, these greenskins also took some measures that Gu Hang did not want to see.
While their main force was blocking the Steel Wing Star, they also separated a part of their strength and headed towards the interior of the Eagle Horse Star Region in the form of a dozen or twenty small garbage ships.
This cannot be stopped.
If the enemy splits up their forces on a large scale, the Pegasus Fleet is not immune and they can just chase after them and concentrate their forces to destroy the divided enemies; but if it is just a small-scale separation like this and the main force is still gathered on Steel Wing Star, the Pegasus Fleet will start a decisive battle right away and leave the cover of Steel Wing Star's orbital system, then their chance of winning will still be very low.
They still have to retreat and cannot control those small-scale troop divisions.
However, this small-scale division of troops is not that significant.
A dozen small green garbage ships may have combat capabilities that are not as good as ordinary human frigates. In addition, their skins are thin, so it is unlikely that they can destroy a planet's orbital defense system independently.
However, the orbital defense systems of many planets in the Eagle Horse sector are mediocre to begin with, and they can't do much about these junk ships.
These garbage ships just run around, bombing the planet a few times, dropping a bunch of airdrop pods, and then moving on to another galaxy.
Soon, the entire Hippogriff Sector was engulfed in war. Almost every one of the twelve worlds in the sector was invaded by greenskins, some severely, some lightly.
Even the Wuma star region to the north was affected.
The greenskin ships that sneaked from Steel Wing Star to Cuiquan II Star System in Wuma Star Region, and the greenskins that invaded Cuiquan I Star from Tongguan Star Region which was already in a war zone, caused the situation in Wuma Star Region to deteriorate rapidly.
The greenskins' behavior has greatly interfered with the support of various human worlds for the war.
The productivity of many planets was destroyed, and due to the invasion, they were forced to find ways to deal with the problems at hand, which slowed down their contribution to the overall war situation.
At the same time, the Iron Tooth Clan's act of spreading war across the board has also caused panic in many star regions.
These are of course disadvantages, but from another perspective, while catalyzing the panic, a plan that Gu Hang was promoting became smooth.
While the entire alliance activated the wartime system and raced against time to gather forces and prepare for war, the alliance was also carrying out multi-faceted political efforts.
The location of the Tianma Star Region is in the southeast corner of the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region. This place is also called "Qima Land".
The reason for this name is that in this corner, with the Pegasus star region as the center, there are six other star regions surrounding it: Eagle Horse, Mist Horse, Purple Horse, Bian Horse, Reclamation Horse, and Iron Horse.
Putting them together, they are called the Seven Horselands.
Gu Hang is promoting the establishment of the 'Seven Horses Agreement', a military joint defense agreement.
In order to face the attack of the green-skinned orcs, he hopes to establish a wartime mechanism to integrate the forces of the other six star regions. This agreement should stipulate that each star region should establish a unified military command system and a unified resource allocation mechanism under the Seven Horses Agreement.
Of course, the leader of the Seven Horses Pact is naturally the Pegasus Star Region, that is, the Alliance.
The Alliance will ensure the military security of each Entente world.
Gu Hang's envoys have already traveled to various places on fast travelers, carrying his letters to discuss with the heads of major star regions and planetary governors.
The process of negotiating the Seven Horse Agreement was not smooth.
Chief Gu, aren't you taking advantage of the war to expand your so-called alliance?
How big is the difference between signing the Seven Horse Pact and joining the Alliance?
Although, after signing the agreement, the Alliance will not continue to expand its own system. However, in terms of military, it will listen to the deployment of the Seven Horses Agreement. The Planetary Defense Force is no longer its own. In addition, there is a financial expenditure to fully support the "Entente Legion". Provide soldiers and resources...
Of course, each planet will have great doubts about this.
Imperial taxes are already a huge burden on every planet, and now we have to make your alliance pay a "protection fee"?
Why?
You can't stop the greenskins' attack by yourselves.
Another important factor is the situation in the entire star field.
Not to mention the battle situation in the eastern part of the Dragonhawk star field, in the central and even western parts of the star field, that is where the greenskin frenzy is even more turbulent.
The focal battle on Steel Wing Star could not be considered the real main force of Iron Teeth.
In fact, the main force led by the orc chieftain named Titus chased the remnants of the Yunluo fleet and brought the war all the way to the core area of the Dragon Eagle star field.
From the Jinguan Star Region to the Curse Bone Star Region, and then to the Snow Eagle Star Region and the Speed Eagle Star Region, they have all been swept by the greenskin wave. The Yunluo Star Region where the capital of the star region is located, and the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region where the only forging world in the Dragon Eagle Star Region, Jindi Star, is located, are probably the next stage of the greenskin orcs' targets.
In fact, the difficulty of astropathic communication from Qimadi to the star region capital has become extremely difficult due to the greenskin wave. The imperial tax collection work that should have started this period was forced to stop because the tax fleet could not pass and the road in the middle had been cut off by the greenskins.
Under such circumstances, Governor Gu declared that he had been authorized by the star domain government to take extraordinary measures in extraordinary times, and even had the power to allocate the current imperial taxes.
Many people are skeptical about this and don't know whether it is true or not.
But in the midst of confusion, some people made decisive choices.
The head of the Eagle Horse Sector, Ren Wanxia, took the lead in announcing that he and all the planetary governors in his sector would sign the 'Seven Horse Agreement'.
This is a good leading example.
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I slept all day yesterday, and after taking antipyretics at night I felt a little better, and managed to finish this chapter.
Let’s see if I have the energy to write another chapter tonight.
Continue to sleep.
There is also a war zone star map at the back.
(End of this chapter)
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