Chapter 443: Annihilation War is More Effective
The war on the other side of the river was progressing rapidly.
Although the scale of the orc assembly was far beyond expectations and the gap in the front line was larger than imagined, the three divisions responsible for blocking the gap and the local defense force suffered huge casualties in less than a week of fighting.
But thanks to the human troops' heroic and fearless perseverance, Perbov finally got the opportunity he wanted.
The troops he assembled included four army groups in the Union Army alone, totaling more than three million people; the Home Defense Force was also mobilized on the same scale.
Some troops were advancing from the west side of the encirclement, some were continuing to move southwards, and some were reinforcing the defenses on the north bank of the river, preparing to cross the river and pursue the enemy once the enemy was shaken.
In one of the decisive battles, Perbov personally commanded and participated in it.
Not only did he call upon the Alliance's multiple Skeleton Divisions and Elite Armored Divisions, but he also called upon the most important strategic force at his disposal - the 'National Knights', which was called the Knights but was actually a cluster of Titans!
This unit was Perbov's favorite. The total number of Titans the Alliance had accumulated was not that large, with only 23 produced over the years; the number of Ranger Knight Mechs was a bit more, with a total of about 300.
With such strength, the scale of the 'National Knights' is not small. It is not an exaggeration to call it a pocket Titan Legion. Compared with the real Titan Legion, on the one hand, it lacks quantity, and on the other hand, it lacks some higher quality Titans.
What's the point of having only Warhounds? If we can have some Warlords or even Warmasters as the core, then we can have a proper Titan Legion!
Of course, that’s still a bit far off.
At this very moment, although not all of the National Knights have gone to battle and are not all under Perbov's command, only half of them have come, but the role they can play on the battlefield is already very significant.
From the west side of the river, three Titans launched a fierce attack, bringing with them more than eighty knight mechas, seventy Lion King tanks, two thousand Lion tanks, and more than forty thousand armored vehicles of various types, sweeping in!
What is the Iron Torrent?
This is the Iron Torrent!
At least ten thousand cannons, further away, were firing twenty to thirty thousand shells per minute onto the battlefield that was one hundred kilometers wide and sixty kilometers deep, providing firepower support for the human army's all-out offensive in batches and distributions!
Under the baptism of heavy artillery and the impact of the steel torrent, the green-skinned orcs, whose original military arrangements focused on attacking the river, could not withstand such a blow.
Their reserve team on the west side was the first to be defeated, and was unable to play any role in blocking, delaying, or defending.
No matter how strong those green-skinned orcs are at fighting, they can't withstand such a charge.
Then, the greenskins' attack on the riverbank was forced to stop. Some troops rushed to fight, while others were attacked from the side before they knew what was going on. The artillery guns were not even turned around before they were rushed into the face by the mechanized infantry.
The infantry fighting vehicles' machine guns swept wildly, the infantry attacked fiercely, and the greenskins who were operating the artillery were happily firing at the other side of the river a second ago, but now they were being beaten to the point of crying and screaming. Even the roar of the orc supervisory team was useless, and they collapsed on the spot.
The greenskin artillery positions were quickly cleared one by one, and the armored vehicles and infantry rushed to the next one. Even if a car got stuck in the mud halfway, they would only leave a few people to try to rescue it, or simply give up and go back to clean up. In any case, they had to ensure speed.
Once these mechanized infantry encounter the enemy, they will put down the infantry and fight together. If the orcs are just infantry, armed trucks, etc., they will just attack and destroy them; if the scale is large, or there are some powerful units among the enemy that are difficult to deal with, then call for support.
The best ones to call upon are the divisional artillery, followed by the artillery assembled by the army group. Anyway, there are enough artillery for this attack, as long as they don't run too far, they will come when called.
The second is the air force. We have 2,000 of them. Even if there is only a Wind Falcon, they can fire a few missiles and machine guns to attack the ground and can help. The only thing is that the air force has to fight with the orcs' air force in the sky, which is a little more difficult than artillery.
If the point is too hard, then don't fight, shake more people, or shake the tanks or even Titans of the armored division. Such troops that are not in the main attack direction cannot be called, but it usually doesn't come to this point.
As for the real main attack direction, there was no need to call for Titans, knight mecha clusters and tank clusters. Instead, various infantry units cooperated with them, like a gust of wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and they took down the unprepared heavy units of the green-skinned orcs one by one, and cleared out important strongholds and military camps.
The green-skinned orcs are not completely powerless to resist.
The orc commander was obviously unwilling to accept defeat.
While Perbov made a mistake, he also made a mistake. He overestimated the ability of his troops to attack and underestimated the defensive willfulness of those shrimps on the other side of the river. In his opinion, he had ten times the number of troops, so crossing the river should be smooth. Those shrimps should be defeated by him like before. Even if some places can gather troops to defend, cross the river from other directions, and launch an attack from the other side of the river, they can still win in one fell swoop.
But unexpectedly, the difficulty of crossing the river was greater than expected, and the losses were also great. Many of his men did cross the river, and even sent many heavy units across. However, the shrimps who were expected to be quickly defeated and killed once they were hit, actually stood firm at various points of the defense line.
At this point, the orc bosses of each unit had lost their temper and the warlord could no longer control them - in fact, he didn't care at all, he himself had lost his temper.
Fighting! How can we greenskins not like fighting?
He could also see that the shrimps on the other side of the river had been drained of blood, and with a little more effort, he would be able to get the victory he wanted.
As a result, at this moment, the human army attacked from the side, causing his offensive plan to fail.
This was also his second mistake: he once again underestimated the combat effectiveness of the human army.
His tribal prophet had warned him that the human army was rapidly gathering a large number of troops on the west side. Of course, he took this news to heart and arranged troops to defend.
But he really couldn't have imagined that the reserve troops would be instantly defeated by the iron torrent of the human army.
They had no ability to resist at all, and couldn't even block the defense. When he learned that those shrimps had broken through the western line of defense, their iron torrent had already hit him in the face.
After the reserve team collapsed, the remaining greenskin troops were almost all engaged in the river crossing attack, and were completely unable to resist the impact of humans, so the situation evolved into what it is now.
But he still didn't give up so easily.
He believed that he still had a large number of troops under his command and their quality was high. As long as he could withstand this wave of attacks, he would have the opportunity to regroup his troops.
An army of nearly two million orcs, equipped with a large number of elite units and heavy units, will have considerable combat effectiveness as long as they can be assembled and restored to organization, and will be qualified to compete with the main force assembled by humans.
To put it another way, we can also break out of the encirclement created by those shrimps.
Even in the worst case scenario, at least we can build an effective defensive position on the south bank of the river and hold on until help comes.
But the premise of all this is that he can contain the iron torrent of human forces and prevent the entire army of two million people from being exhausted by the sweep and unable to organize themselves.
Organization is the lifeblood of any army, even for the greenskins.
The solution that this orc commander thought of was a head-on confrontation.
He pulled out an elite force, consisting of tens of thousands of his own troops, including a considerable number of heavily-armored personal guards. Each of them had been transformed by the Orc Mad Doctor and the Tech Master, and had been integrated with steel, making them the Orc version of canned food.
Among them, there are more than a hundred super-heavy-armored orcs. In the starry battlefield, this green-skinned elite unit is famous.
Taking the Space Marines as the standard, looking at these two types of greenskin elites, the former heavy-armored orcs are inferior to the Space Marines in combat effectiveness, but they have a chance of winning if they are ganged up on, which is roughly the same level as the Alliance's special warfare elites equipped with feedback power armor; the latter, on the other hand, can directly confront genuine Space Marines, and even have a slightly higher chance of winning because of their racial characteristics!
In addition, this warlord has gathered as many armored units as possible from the surrounding area. Not to mention small gadgets like the killing can, which are at most slightly more powerful than the sentinel mecha, and the two are basically of the same positioning. The death can is much larger and has a similar positioning to the knight mecha, but in a fight, it will be defeated by the knight mecha in turn.
There are also quite a few armed trucks. The upper and lower limits of these things are quite different. A poorly modified one is just an armed personnel carrier; one with better technology can reach the level of human main tanks.
There are also a number of Squigs, but only ten of them. Compared with the Lion tank, they are equally powerful, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
As for something that can match the Warhound Titan... the orcs have the God Statue King Kong, but he doesn't have it, and the entire Temir 5 doesn't have it. This top-level orc land battle ace is very precious even to the entire Irontooth Clan, and all of them were pulled to the front battlefield by Titus.
This is a big problem. There is nothing to contain the Titans, so we can only rely on small units to stack them.
He even planned to take part in the match himself.
He picked up the gun that took him thirty skill masters to make to his satisfaction, and the battle axe that accompanied him to fight his way up from the bottom. If necessary, he would deal with those Titans with his own hands.
Charge, slash limbs, cut off weapons, kill drivers... What if you have an energy shield? Can it stop my axe?
Then……
He died at the hands of the Titans.
This crucial battle took place on the fourth day of the human's all-out offensive. The troops led by the orc warlord personally confronted the main force of the advancing human armored group.
This was his choice. There was no point in attacking a small team. It would not reverse the situation at all. If you were to attack, you had to attack hard!
At the beginning of the battle, they had a good advantage and destroyed many Lion tanks and four Lion Kings. But when the main force of the Alliance armored forces arrived, they were still destroyed in a crushing manner.
In fact, the first to arrive at the battlefield were the Alliance's heavy artillery.
After noticing that the enemy had gathered its elite forces, the alliance's artillery units obtained the coordinates of the fire coverage and opened fire directly. Some artillery positions even wanted to get a piece of the pie, and would rather drive their self-propelled artillery forward a few kilometers to bring these enemies into the attack range.
These artillery pieces are actually the most threatening thing to the greenskins, and the greenskins can't even find a way to fight back and can only passively take the bombing.
155mm howitzer, as long as you are not far from the center of the explosion, everything except the Squig will be killed; even if it is at the edge of the explosion, killing cans and heavy-armored orcs cannot withstand it.
The continuous bombing caused serious casualties to this elite greenskin army. Although they were led by the orc warlord and forced to charge, they were very close to the armored cluster, so that the Alliance artillery could no longer bombard them recklessly, but the number of casualties was already high, not to mention that after entering, the tank guns had a higher hit rate, and the armor-piercing guns were enough to hit the target with one shot.
When the orc commander tried to approach a Titan, he was hit by an armor-piercing cannon from a Lion tank, which shattered his left leg and mecha parts. Then the Titan ruthlessly stepped on him and killed him.
His failed attempt not only cost him his own life, but also destroyed the last hope of the green orcs to reorganize their army.
This whole large-scale attack of the greenskins was called by him, and the racial characteristics of the greenskins are very dependent on the individual commander. Once the commander dies, the normal orc army is likely to be in strife, collapse, lose organization, and fight on its own, not to mention the current state of chaos.
Moreover, the elite troops he risked his life to gather were the cream of the crop among the two million greenskins. It would be very difficult to gather so many greenskin armor and greenskin elite troops in other places, or even almost impossible to find them.
With their retreat route blocked in the south, unable to get through the river in the north after receiving reinforcements, and being attacked fiercely by the main force of the human army in the west, they could only passively run eastward. In the process, a large number of orcs were caught up, divided and destroyed, and directly sent away by sharp artillery fire...
Then they ran all the way to the sea.
At this time, only about 60% of the two million orcs were left. They were forced into the angle between the coast and the river estuary, surrounded by approaching human troops, and they themselves had no supplies.
It’s okay for the greenskins not to eat, at worst they can just eat each other; however, bullets and artillery shells cannot be conjured out of thin air.
With their supplies depleted, a large number of orcs who can only fight with bare hands and have not yet re-established a unified command are nothing more than powerful beasts.
The devastating artillery bombardment and bombing killed all 1.2 million orcs on the coastline.
At this point, the battle that lasted for a month and a half came to an end.
Despite twists and turns and sacrifices, the campaign objectives set by Perbov were still achieved.
The main force of the orcs, numbering two million, was wiped out, and the human side suffered less than 400,000 casualties.
The damage ratio of 1:5 is much better than the normal 2:1!
It is better to fight a war of annihilation. In the end, the 1.2 million orcs were slaughtered, and our losses were almost negligible. We were stuck in a narrow place and relied entirely on artillery bombardment, which just consumed a lot of artillery shells.
(End of this chapter)
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