Chapter 438: Humanity will win
The Temir system is located in the southeast corner of the Golden Pass Star Region. It is the only way to connect Golden Pass and Eagle Horse, and it is also the main transportation route in the entire Golden Pass Star Region. In this system, there are five star tunnels, three of which are connected to the three system of the Golden Pass Star Region inwards, and the other are connected to the Bronze Pass Star Region and Eagle Horse Star Region outwards.
At the same time, the value of the Temir system itself is actually not low. In this star system, there are three habitable planets orbiting Temir, namely Planet 2, Planet 4 and Planet 5.
Before the Irontooth Orcs posed a threat, these three planets had a combined population of 20 billion. World 2 was a large agricultural world with 4 billion people, and the food it produced was enough to supply the entire star region with some left over.
Number 4 is a mining and industrial world, focusing on heavy industry and raw material exports. It originally had a population of about 4 billion.
Planet 5 is a civilized world with a population of 12 billion and numerous cities.
Not to mention how great they are, the three worlds in the star system each have their own advantages and can complement each other.
Coupled with its status as a major transportation hub, this place can be called a pearl of the land—only before the rise of the Iron-Tooth Greenskins.
When the orcs come, don't say anything.
After the fall of the Fourth District, the Jinguan Star Region became a battlefield. Although the Temir Galaxy was not in the main battlefield at the beginning, after all, it was located in the heart of the Jinguan Star Region at that time. However, it was precisely because it was close and had some foundation that the Star Region Government directly drew many forces from the Temir Galaxy when fighting against the Irontooth Orcs.
Blood was drawn like this for decades, and the green-skinned orcs invaded the south several times and reached Telmir, causing these three planets, which were originally quite good, to become dilapidated.
It sounds bad enough, but it's actually not fatal.
No matter how desolate it is, the planet's productivity and population are here anyway. At most, the potential for development will be hollowed out, the living standards of the population will be greatly reduced, famine will occur, and various comprehensive problems will cause the population to decline...
This was the worst that could happen. The few times the green-skinned orcs came to the Temir system, they only caused chaos for a short period of time, and their numbers were not large, so the human army would quickly drive them out. After all, the Temir system was one of the few bases in the territory after Jinguan became a war zone. Unless it was absolutely necessary, the human army would certainly not give up these three worlds.
However, the previous offensive that collapsed under Titus' counterattack brought devastating disaster to Temir.
The Northern Fleet was destroyed, and Yun Luo fled. After the loss of space power, a large number of elite human ground forces were trapped in the four star systems in the southern part of the Yinguan Star Region, and there was no news. The Jinguan Star Region, which had been pacified, suddenly opened its doors and orcs swarmed in.
Although the main force of the Iron Tooth Clan was divided into two at the Golden Pass, the army, led by Titus, marched westwards and brought the war to the heart of the star region; a strong detachment led by the One-Tooth Ghost marched eastwards to the Eagle Horse. However, the green-skinned orcs who remained in the Golden Pass star region still caused the collapse of this star region.
When Du Shiliang brought his fleet to the Temir galaxy, the first thing he did was to carefully collect intelligence on the entire galaxy.
When the One-Toothed Demon was destroyed and the greenskin fleet collapsed and escaped, it was from the jump point of Steel Wing Star that they fled to Temir.
Although most of the greenskins' main battleships were destroyed, there were still at least 200 ships left. And now, half of the combined fleet was taken away by Ye Lixia to patrol the Seven Horses, and the fleet strength in his hands was a little insufficient. If he was careless and was bitten by the greenskins, he might still be overturned.
He knew that the alliance could not afford a naval defeat, and although he had to take the initiative, he could not be too cautious.
After investigation, Du Shiliang initially confirmed that the main force of the green-skinned orc fleet was not in the Temir galaxy. The stargazers on the ship only found a dozen green-skinned ships here.
However, the situation on the surface is already very bad.
The environment belongs to the greenskins' favorite Temir 2, and there is almost no trace of human activity detected on the surface of the planet.
This made Du Shiliang very sad.
The world that was once the granary of Jinguan, with a population of four billion, beautiful scenery and pleasant environment, has become a place full of green-skinned spores and fireworks everywhere.
As for the green-skinned orcs, they obviously regarded Temir 2 as an important breeding base and invested a lot of effort here.
During the months of occupation, the Irontooth Orcs invested a considerable amount of manpower in Temir 2. Not only were the human residents on the ground slaughtered in just a few months, but they also took great pains to transform the local ecological environment and establish a large green-skinned ecosystem.
A new batch of green-skinned creatures were already thriving. Not only were there green spore plants everywhere, but little Squiggle beasts were running around everywhere, and fart sprites had already grown all over the ground.
The former can serve as food and animal power for the greenskins, and can even cooperate with the greenskin army in battle in a role similar to that of a military dog.
The latter, of course, can also be considered greenskinned.
Farts are usually the lowest level members of the greenskin society, and are the assistants and servants of the orcs. They are smart, cunning, and vicious, but also mean and cowardly. They are not qualified soldiers. Under normal circumstances, if an army is composed of farts alone, the morale is extremely worrying.
When the wind is in their favor, they are fine, and they may even be more vicious than their orc masters; but once the wind is slightly against them, those damn troops will collapse in a minute.
Their nature made them stay at the bottom of the greenskin society all their lives. They were willing to accept this and took on all the responsibilities that the orcs were unwilling to take on in the orc society - in fact, all the work except fighting.
Sometimes, when the orc master is unhappy, he will catch a few fart spirits to eat to relieve his boredom.
Fart spirits are not particularly good industrial workers or farmers. They are cunning and like to be sneaky at work. But this problem is relatively easy to solve. The orcs will personally take the whip to supervise, or appoint a favored fart spirit as the supervisor. The latter will even be more cruel to their own kind than the orc masters.
By these means, Greenskin society will be able to maintain at least a minimum level of production capacity.
As for the upper limit, it is unfathomable.
Waagh is a very outrageous thing. It was originally just a meaningless roar made by the greenskins, but in their language environment, it also represents an adjective, describing everything positive for the greenskins; it can also be used as a noun, representing a great war; even the so-called waagh energy is a kind of psychic power unique to the greenskins.
In short, if they believe something can happen, it will come true.
This is what’s so shocking about the greenskin technology. The outrageous garbage can be piled up and fly into space to fight against human giant warships. It’s simply outrageous.
Fart spirits also have this ability, and their sneaky and slippery nature is of course a minus point for productivity in most cases. However, once a fart spirit cuts corners and comes up with some magical stuff, it represents a huge boost in productivity.
Add to that their huge numbers and their bodies that can mature in a few months...Now, Temir 2 has been transformed into a huge green factory.
The main product of this factory is the greenskins themselves; it also produces some weapons and equipment, and the resources are plundered from the other two planets of Temir.
Compared to Temir 2, where signs of human activity are almost undetectable, the situation of Temir 4 and 5 is better.
It's pretty bad though.
Among them, the situation of Temir 4 is relatively better. The large and small mines, mines and complex industrial facilities in the mining world allow the humans in it to hold on firmly. With limited manpower invested by the greenskins, they have to gnaw on the mines one by one. It has been occupied for several months, but it has not been completely eaten up yet.
However, the problem with Temir 4 is that the planet itself is short of supplies, and in the past it relied on Temir 2 for food. Now that interstellar transportation has been cut off, when the planet's supplies are gone, and even the production line of synthetic starch can no longer hold up, the many bases on Temir 4 that rely on mining will suffer a devastating disaster.
Be saved.
The situation of Temir 5 was worse, but not as bad as Temir 2. After all, unlike Temir 2, most of the land was fertile plains, which was good for farming in peacetime, but in war, there was no defense and people were slaughtered quickly.
On Temir 5, at least humans can still maintain resistance in some mountainous areas and inside megacities.
After carefully analyzing the situation of the three planets of Temir, Du Shiliang came up with a response plan.
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On board the Temir 2.
In this world where no signs of large-scale human activity can be detected, not everyone has been killed.
That's impossible.
Human beings are a resilient race and will not die out so easily.
Even in this case, even if more than 90% of the humans on the planet were slaughtered - this is already a terrifying number, which shows the killing efficiency of the greenskins - but the remaining less than 10%, that also means that there may still be 200 to 300 million, or even more people, alive in every corner of the planet.
Zhu Zhengbao is one of them, and he is now seventy years old.
He is a veteran of the Temir II Homeland Defense Force. He was once recruited by the Empire and led tens of millions of Temir II defense forces to fight on the front line against the greenskins.
He was resourceful, resolute and brave, and he led the defense forces to achieve remarkable results.
Later, when he was old, he retired and returned to his hometown, where he was given a high status and was called "Marshal".
He had no interest in politics and just wanted to spend his old age in peace, but when the greenskins invaded, he once again stood up and called on the Temiers to fight against these invaders.
The power gap between the two sides was too great, and when the war started, the orbit was full of greenskin ships, so the human army was easily defeated and the Temir people were slaughtered crazily on the undefended plains.
But despite this, the old coach still did not lose his tenacious will.
Given Temier's situation, it was impossible to confront the greenskins head-on, so he decisively led his troops, protected the people, and moved them elsewhere.
A planet is so big that it is impossible for the orcs to travel every corner in a short period of time.
They went through untold hardships to find a place where the orcs had not set foot, and survived in hardship. They established a base, attacked cautiously, and eliminated small groups of greenskins who might discover their location.
Among them are warriors, heroes, women and children. Zhu Zhengbao always tells everyone that they must have faith, the emperor will not abandon us, as long as they persevere, one day we will be redeemed, the empire's army will eventually arrive, and we will definitely be the winner in the end.
Long live humanity!
This isn't just propaganda, he believes it so strongly.
Without this kind of belief, how could a veteran in his seventies with many injuries have persisted until now?
Under his leadership, people's hearts have been at peace over the past few months.
With nothing left, they built a stronghold. Although it was not big, and the number of people was only a few hundred thousand, if a large number of greenskins came, they would still have to run...
But at least they sowed the seeds, and over the past few months, wheat seedlings have broken through the soil, and it is almost time for harvest.
Looking at these scenes, many people can feel the hope and faith that Marshal Zhu talked about.
At the same time, they also contacted several other strongholds, each of which was large or small. They agreed with each other to support each other. If they encountered a greenskin they could fight against, they would fight against it. If they couldn't fight against it, they would run away. The other strongholds at least provided a retreat.
Just hold on like this, as long as you work hard and persevere, you will surely see the day that Marshal Zhu said: The empire's army will surely arrive, and mankind will win!
And this day came even earlier than expected.
That day, early in the morning, Zhu Zhengbao was called up.
The visitor said to him excitedly: "It's coming! It's coming! It's really coming! The Empire's fleet is coming!"
"What did you say?"
"You go and have a look!"
Zhu Zhengbao put on his clothes and walked outside the simple house.
He looked up. The weather was very good today. He could see a few shadows in the blue sky.
At this distance, the shadow doesn't actually look very big or clear, but considering the distance, it is a huge monster.
The old marshal's eyesight was not very good anymore, so he urged people to take out the telescope, and then they saw: that was indeed a ship belonging to humans!
With the old marshal's experience, he could even tell that they were human cruisers, and there were about three or four of them!
This is definitely the main force!
The army is coming! We are saved!
"Pass the message on! There is hope for our persistence!" said Zhu Zhengbao.
"Okay!" The others were also very happy, "Actually there's no need to spread it, everyone can see it!"
"We also need to publicize it. This is a good time to maintain morale." Zhu Zhengbao smiled, excited but calm: "Although the army is coming and we have hope, there is still danger before the ground troops land and join us. In this last moment of success, we must not fall before dawn, understand?"
"Understood! I'll find someone to write an article to boost morale! Marshal, don't worry, we will do a good job and hold on as long as possible."
"Well, go ahead."
After sending the adjutant away, Zhu Zhengbao continued to look at the sky with a smile on his face through the telescope.
Our human ships are so beautiful!
At this moment, he saw a small black dot falling from the ship, and soon it ignited fire when it came into contact with the atmosphere.
"Hmm? Is that a landing capsule or a landing ship? It seems a little too big, the size is wrong... Are we going to land in such a hurry? Without orbital bombardment first?"
The old marshal had some doubts in his mind.
And then he saw that small fireball exploded in the atmosphere.
Shot down by the greenskins?
It seems not.
He saw the rolling waves of fire. Not only did they not disappear like other spaceships when they were destroyed, but they continued to expand as if gasoline was ignited.
In a very short time, the small fireball turned into a big fireball, and then turned into a fire cloud filling the sky!
But even at this point, the flames showed no signs of shrinking or extinguishing. Instead, they accelerated their expansion until the sky, wherever you looked, changed from azure blue to a sea of fire!
The sea of fire was still extending and spreading downwards and in all directions.
All this happened in just a few tens of seconds.
The entire stronghold fell silent, and the cheers that had just risen also died down.
Everyone stared blankly at the sky which had turned into a sea of fire.
All this was done silently; Zhu Zhengbao could even hear the chirping of insects and birds, and the breeze.
But all his expressions were frozen.
At this rate, in one or two minutes at most, the sea of fire will extend to where he is; in less than an hour at most, the sea of fire will spread throughout the entire planet's atmosphere and burn every inch of the land on Temir 2.
At that time, the entire planet will become a "fireball" burning violently in the universe. The fierce flames covering the surface will continue to burn for more than ten days to a month, burning up the atmosphere and oceans of the entire planet and killing every living thing on the planet.
Even if there were lucky enough to hide underground, in the mountains, or in sturdy buildings and avoid being burned to death, the completely destroyed ecosystem would make it impossible for the survivors to continue surviving on a planet that had become a dead land.
Temir 2 will change from a rich and beautiful agricultural world to a dead world.
The dead world is a place that is absolutely unsuitable for human survival according to records. Untransformed primitive planets or destroyed planets are all classified as dead worlds.
In his seventy years of life, he had never imagined that the things he had only heard of and recorded in rumors would one day come to his beautiful hometown.
Now, he knew what it was.
That was the extermination order from the empire, that was the Burning Sky Torpedo.
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