Chapter 446: Even the Mechanicus Can’t Stand It
Although the monthly income accumulated was not small, it was still too slow.
Half a year had passed since the end of the Steel Wing Star Battle, and the number of grace points that Gu Hang had accumulated was only about 200,000.
Not much.
War is still the fastest source of boon points.
The Battle of Steel Wing Star gave him 930,000 Boons, and the Battle of Temir would give him even more.
Although the naval battle was not as fierce as the Battle of Steel Wing Star, and there has not been much casualties so far, the scale of the land war between the two planets is even greater than that of Steel Wing Star.
There are also more than 2 billion greenskins who were burned to death by the Burning Sky torpedoes on the Temir 2... Well, I don't know how the system calculates this.
But in general, if the battle of Temir is won, it should be a considerable gain in grace points, no less than one million.
And it is possible that as the war continues, the number will increase.
But Gu Hang actually felt a little bit upset about this matter.
Until now, the Temir Campaign has not ended, and as expected, this meat grinder battlefield will last for a long time. However, the war rewards will not be settled until the end of the campaign.
What if I lose?
There is no settlement for defeat.
It’s not like Gu Hang hasn’t lost a battle before - especially now, there are alliance soldiers fighting on countless planets including Mist Horse and Eagle Horse.
Although the scale is small, the winner will be given some grace points, while the loser will not get a single cent.
The Battle of Temir involved such a huge investment and lasted for a long time. What if we lose the battle and have to withdraw?
The large bounty that was expected to come was all gone.
That made Gu Hang very uncomfortable.
But then he immediately warned himself.
Don't be blinded by these things.
Is a million gifts a lot? Of course, a lot.
But is the million-dollar boon something earth-shattering? No.
Military actions must be judged based on military situations. If the situation really changes, we must let go of what needs to be done. We cannot turn a local battlefield into a life-and-death war. That would be a real loss. The key is that it is unnecessary.
We must not take unnecessary military risks just to settle the grace points early.
Gu Hang understood all these principles.
But we haven't reached that stage yet.
Who says the Battle of Temir cannot be won?
As far as Gu Hang is concerned, the alliance has all the advantages!
…
"Gu Hang, you have to be careful. Things might change for Temir."
The person who spoke was the Star Domain Leader, Tan Jiuyi.
On this day, Gu Hang received a communication invitation from him.
Under normal circumstances, Yunluo's Star Language Hall cannot contact Gu Hang because the star language users are not good enough.
However, there was no other way this time, so they deployed an old acquaintance of Gu Hang: the A-level psychic and star domain master wizard Zhang Guangen, to operate the Star Language Tower personally.
It took a lot of effort to get the astronomical information through in the subspace filled with green waves.
When Tan Jiuyi came to have this call with Gu Hang, he first expressed his gratitude.
Thanks to Gu Hang for informing him of the results of the battle in Frostfield IV.
At that time, he didn't dare to believe it and didn't want to believe it, but after all, this matter was too serious. If it was true, then it would be over.
Therefore, on the one hand, he stepped up his investigation into the latest battle situation of Frostfield IV, and on the other hand, he activated the corresponding contingency plan, taking the loss of Frostfield IV and the destruction of the main force as the worst outcome.
These strategies included requisitioning a large number of merchant ships from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, gathering more defense forces and interstellar forces, seeking assistance from other star regions, transforming planets into military industries, and deploying defenses on many worlds outside Yunluo Star...
And it turned out that Gu Hang certainly did not deceive him.
By the time the battle situation in Frostfield IV was confirmed, it had actually been almost a month since the end of the war.
Of course, during that month, Tan Jiuyi had been constantly trying to find out information, and actually had a lot of information that proved this point. But the real and official information came from the contact with him after the Mechanicus Casting General Chen Haixu fled back to Jindi Star with a group of people, and he really knew the details of the war.
This was undoubtedly an extremely heavy blow, but there was at least one thing to be thankful for, that is, he knew about it a month in advance and prepared for a month in advance, so he was not overwhelmed by the news.
In fact, these preparations have all paid off.
The outer galaxies of Yunluo Star, which were deployed in advance, blocked and eliminated some of the invading small groups of greenskins, preventing the greenskin forces from directly landing in the core area of the Yunluo Star Region.
The war supplies prepared in advance can also play a certain role.
The orc army was heading towards Jindi Star.
The group of greenskins obviously set their primary target on the forge world of the Mechanicus.
Tan Jiuyi was indeed relieved that the main force did not come to attack Yunluo, but he also realized that the fate of Yunluo and Jindi was now more firmly tied together.
Without Jin Di, Yunluo will surely perish.
And it’s a quick death.
The prepared military supplies and assembled soldiers boarded as many transport ships as possible and sent them to Jindi Star as much as possible before the greenskins had time to block the route between the Steel Fire Dragon Star Area and the Yunluo Star Area.
At the same time, the remnants of the Yunluo Fleet that escaped from Frostfield IV—yes, the Yunluo Fleet successfully escaped again. When Frostfield IV was hit and the Mechanical Ark fell, the Yunluo Fleet was still outside the planet's orbit. After they discovered the battle moon and found that the Mechanical Ark was bound to be blown up, they didn't have any illusions at all and just ran away.
This sounds unfair, but in fact, preserving a fleet of hundreds of warships and several main cruisers is of great significance for the upcoming defense battle of Jindi Star.
The battle to defend Jindi Star has begun.
This time, Chen Haixu and a group of great sages of the Mechanicus did not run away again.
There's nowhere to run.
What's more, Jin Dixing is not incapable of defense.
That was the base camp of the Ming Yang Sect, a legitimate forge world. Although the Ming Yang Sect sent a large number of crusaders to Frost Plain IV, that was not all they had. On Jindi Star, there were still a large number of crusaders, and even half of the Titan Legion.
Moreover, Jindi Star has a total population of 30 billion and sufficient military resources; around Jindi Star, there are also several feudal worlds, or knight worlds, guarding it.
These knight worlds are very similar to the original Black Arrow Star, with the king removed. Each knight family is granted a piece of land, and a group of old farmers cultivate the land for them to support their lives, just like a pastoral scene in the Middle Ages.
Then, you saw a certain model of mecha parked in the Knight's house.
These knights are all "vassals" of the Emperor - in name only. In reality, they are knights who are completely supported by the Mechanicus and are loyal to the Mechanicus.
The knight families from several knight worlds gathered together, and they are a force that cannot be underestimated.
Of course, before this, they had gathered once at the call of the Mingyang Sect and went to Frostfield IV. Needless to say, what the result was.
And this time, they still accepted the call-up.
The knight mechas of these knight families gathered together form an important part of the Mingyang Sect's Titan Legion.
In addition, there are at least 400 to 500 million crusader troops on Jindi Star, plus twice that number of fighter servants.
The Skitarii's combat power was no weaker than that of the Astra Militarum, with artillery and armor of all kinds, as well as a large number of combat soldiers.
These things are the solid foundation for Jin Dixing to fight against the enemy.
Of course, if the greenskin fleet is allowed to bombard the surface at will in orbit, then no matter how elite the ground troops are, the battle will be almost impossible to win.
But what makes Jindi Star different is that this forging world has a very complete orbital defense system.
The scattered space stations, star fortresses, and dense surface orbital cannons are not easy to deal with.
Not to mention, the Yunluo Fleet was not destroyed, which was great news. Although they could not compete with the main greenskin fleet, they could at least serve as a diversion.
It is true that the Greenskins' fleet is huge in number, but under such defense, even with the Battle Moon, they can only gain the upper hand and cannot completely suppress the activities of all human armies on the ground.
There is still a fight to be had.
This kind of defense cannot last long on other planets and will even be broken quickly.
When the space stations and star fortresses are destroyed, and enough orbital guns on the surface are removed, it will be a matter of time before the system is doomed.
But the difference of the forge world is that the productivity is fierce. When the greenskin army cannot capture most of the foundries, they can produce a lot of rail guns and deploy them on the planet.
The prerequisite is that the Crusader Army and the Mecha Servant Army can hold on.
From this perspective, Jindi is of course a much more suitable battlefield than Frostfield IV, which is advantageous to humans. If the situation in Frostfield IV was transplanted to Jindi, the greenskins would not have it so easy. With the mechanical ark and orbital defense system, the crippled pseudo-battle moon would be useless. They could not even get the orbital advantage, and at most they would be in a balance.
But the decision-makers of the human side believed that they had enough strength to resist the invasion of the orcs. Under this premise, the war should not be fought in a core world like Jindi Star. The Mingyang Sect certainly did not want its old nest to be destroyed by the battlefield.
The appearance of the battle moon caught everyone off guard.
As for now, there is nothing I can do. Just fight hard.
The defense of Jindi Star has been going on for three months so far, and it started even later than the Alliance's battle for Temir.
It was a hard fight.
In fact, Gu Hang already knew this information without Tan Jiuyi telling him.
Even as for the specific battle situation of Jin Dixing, Gu Hang knew it better than Tan Jiuyi because of the presence of Wu Jiarong, the commanding bishop who was on the front line and sent him a "text message" from time to time.
That was a battlefield that was even more brutal than the ground war on Termir 5. First of all, the scale was much larger, with the number of troops on both sides being three times more than that of the Termir Battle, and the quality of the troops was much higher.
The equipment level of the Crusaders is even better than that of the Alliance Army; on the other hand, the number of various powerful units and elite greenskins of the greenskin main force is also far greater than that of Tmir.
After reading the information about the battle of Jindi Star, Gu Hang was silent for a moment.
He had calculated that even if the alliance issued a level one mobilization order, it would not be able to fight such a war.
The productivity cannot keep up, not to mention that they have to fight on their own land, which will also be subjected to orbital bombardment... There is no way to fight.
All I can say is that the revolution has not yet succeeded and comrades still need to work hard.
But soon Gu Hang also became excited.
How many years has it taken to build Jindi Star? Moreover, the Mechanicus's forge world does not have to pay imperial taxes - although it has to accept orders from the empire.
It has only been almost five years since he fully controlled the Tianma star region; only his old nest, the Angry Owl Star, has been under his control for a little longer, about ten years.
Gu Hang believed that if he was given some more time, even if he continued to bear the imperial taxes, he would soon reach Jin Dixing's level.
After sharing the intelligence about the battle on Jindi Star, and Gu Hang talking about his initiative to attack the Temir Galaxy and open up a second battlefield, Tan Jiuyi suddenly realized a problem and issued a warning to Gu Hang.
"We detected that one hundred greenskin warships left the battle sequence of the Jindi Star Battle and even left the Steel Fire Dragon Star Zone. We don't know where they are going. We thought that the greenskins were dividing their forces and planning to attack other places, so we were very nervous. But considering the time when you started the Temir Campaign, these one hundred ships and the soldiers on board may be the alien troops returning for defense."
Gu Hang touched his chin.
He was not able to obtain this information in advance.
But at the same time, he believed that Tan Jiuyi would not speak nonsense on this matter.
One hundred green-skinned warships, if pushed to the limit, could probably carry 100 or 200 million green-skinned troops.
This is a bit tricky.
Seeing Gu Hang looking thoughtful, Tan Jiuyi couldn't help but say, "You must be careful, don't let anything happen."
Gu Hang smiled: "Captain Tan is concerned about me now? One hundred warships and possibly hundreds of millions of green-skinned aliens leaving the Jindi Star battlefield, isn't that a good thing for the main battlefield?"
Tan Jiuyi sighed, "It's a good thing indeed. If possible, I hope the main force of the greenskins will turn to the eastern part of the star field, so that you can delay as long as possible. After the reinforcements from the Cosmic Domain and the 'Raging Flame' regiment arrive, we can start to counterattack. But... I know that's impossible. In this case, it's better to hope that you can fight well in the eastern part of the star field and make a bigger name for yourself, and it would be best if you can get into the lair of these damn aliens. If you are finished, it will allow these greenskins to concentrate their forces to attack Jindi Star."
"Well, I'll be careful."
Gu Hang responded.
This batch of greenskin reinforcements should not be underestimated. It's just the land army, but there are a hundred ships, and there may be several greenskin main forces among them. Their arrival will bring about great changes to the Battle of Temir.
With the combined efforts of the two navies, Du Shiliang was afraid that he would not be able to withstand it.
After hanging up the phone, he thought for a moment and made a decision.
(End of this chapter)
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