Chapter 447, Renegade Space Marines
Gu Hang's idea was very reasonable: he knew that a group of greenskin reinforcements would arrive, so of course he had to try to defeat the enemy in front of him before the reinforcements arrived.
Even if it costs something to do so.
If we don't do it now, it will be even more difficult after they meet up.
It was unrealistic to expect a quick victory or defeat on the ground battlefield of Temir 5. Billions of greenskins couldn't be killed that quickly, even if they were pigs.
The previous battle that Perbov won had successfully disrupted the greenskins' defense in one direction, causing the greenskins on the entire planet to fall into chaos due to the loss of their supreme commander. Taking this opportunity, he commanded his troops well and fought several annihilation and destruction battles.
Moreover, the human army launched a wave of offensive climaxes across the entire planet and continent. On the battle line spanning thousands of miles, with the Alliance Army as the core and the Allied Army as the auxiliary, they attacked on all fronts. Often, a breakthrough point was made, which led to the Greenskins' counterattack, and then the two sides were empty and surrounded by humans after being broken through, and they were defeated.
Or maybe a garbage city was attacked by elite soldiers of the human alliance, and the orcs were not subordinate to each other, the command was chaotic, and they could not provide support in time, resulting in a bunch of orcs in the garbage city. Then they could not get any advantage from the human elites and were quickly wiped out. The loss of a large number of personnel was secondary, and the main thing was the loss of the garbage city's production capacity and a considerable amount of greenskin weapons that had not yet been shipped out.
Similar situations occur over and over again across the planet.
In total, more than 200 million greenskins were killed in the two months after the battle, and at least 50 million of them were real greenskin orcs.
The number of greenskin forces on the surface of Temir 5 has shrunk significantly.
In order to kill these 200 million greenskins, humans suffered losses of more than 30 million - most of them were Allied forces, and the Union Army suffered losses of over 10 million.
The damage ratio is still pretty good. Even if we remove the fart spirits and exclude them as humans, it's still 3:5, which is pretty good.
What's more, the fart spirits are not really inhuman. The logistical support they provide to the greenskin army is an important guarantee for the greenskin army to continue the war, and they are also the controllers of suitable long-range fire strikes.
However, Temir No. 5's performance has slowed down a bit recently.
After two months of fierce attacks, the human army was a little exhausted. Soldiers who needed to rest had to take turns to rest, supplies had to be delivered, and the occupied areas had to be "sterilized", otherwise new green skins would grow back and more manpower would be needed to guard them.
In addition, the orc leader Saru also sent a new commander to land on the surface. The greenskins' command system began to recover and was no longer so chaotic. It became less easy to harvest the lives of greenskins as easily as before.
Both sides are licking their wounds.
In the battle in space, both sides are still pulling. No one wants to fight a decisive battle, and no one wants the other side to easily support the ground. Isn't that the case?
Gu Hang would not let Du Shiliang go and fight with those green-skinned fleets now.
The winning rate is not big enough.
It's a 50-50 battle, what's the point of fighting?
Coincidentally, Ye Licia's tour mission in the Seven Horses has ended, and all the worlds have signed the Seven Horses Agreement.
Although it would be better to allow half of the combined fleet to continue patrolling and deterring for a while, after all, some of the "vassals" still have a strong tendency to secede.
But looking at the situation now, it’s not quite appropriate.
Ye Licia had to take half of the joint fleet to the Temir galaxy as soon as possible, pick up Gu Hang halfway, and meet up with Du Shiliang, and try to destroy or at least severely damage the greenskin fleet before the greenskin reinforcements arrived.
However, when Gu Hang was about to give Ye Licia an order to let her take the fleet into action, the female general took the lead and sent a message.
Something happened in the Iron Horse Star Region.
Xiaxing I is a star system with three habitable planets in the Iron Horse Star Region. When paying imperial taxes before, there were no problems with the other two, but there was a problem on Xiaxing I3.
In this post-colonial planet with a population of 800 million, the separatist forces are quite aggressive. They have launched a clear rebellion and plundered the imperial taxes prepared by the planet.
The entire planet collected only 80 million in taxes, and they only looted about 20 million in supplies.
But the nature of this matter is very bad, so it must be resolved.
The local troops reorganized into the Allied Forces are already suppressing the rebellion, but it would be bad for the Alliance to just do nothing. The Seven Horsemen's Agreement has already been signed, so how can you just take the money and do nothing?
Coincidentally, Ye Licia was also nearby.
The alliance's agents first went down to investigate the situation, and then they called for reinforcements, saying that they had found the location of the rebel leader and requested to directly eliminate him by force.
The way to destroy it was for Ye Lishia to send several frigates to fire a few missiles at the reported coordinates. Then, the Marines, led by a team of Phoenixes, landed on the ground.
They had to eliminate the enemy's leader, destroy the command center, and then evacuate.
These tasks should be familiar to the Phoenix.
Logically speaking, such physical specifications would definitely solve the problem, but an accident happened.
The Phoenixes and the Marines they led were all functioning normally after landing, but suddenly at some point they all lost contact.
Very unusual.
It would be fine if there were only Marines, but there is also a whole squad of Phoenixes leading the team.
Even if the battle is intense and the mission is difficult, they are Space Marines. How could they lose contact without saying a word?
Then, the commander on the starship received information from the landed agent.
They said that the Phoenix and the Marines had an accident, and the rebels had the ability to interfere with information, which made it impossible for the task force trapped in the enemy camp to contact the upper level. The task force was now surrounded by the superior forces of the rebels and needed to send more reinforcements to the ground.
The commander on the starship had some concerns, but after careful consideration he sent out new reinforcements.
Another round of missiles was fired at the enemy's assembly location, and then a new team of Phoenixes, carrying the elite Marines, went to the ground.
This time their goal was not even to eliminate the enemy leader or attack the rebel center, but merely to cover the troops that had gone down earlier and evacuate via transport planes.
However, the result of this support was still not ideal, and the team that went down soon lost contact.
This time, things got serious.
The ground agent reported the situation on the ground again and requested reinforcements. However, the commander, who had already had doubts in the last round, would not be fooled for the third time.
On the one hand, he stabilized the agents on the ground, and on the other hand, he contacted the superior unit of that group of agents and reported the situation.
Then, a new group of agents went down and quickly came to a conclusion: the previous group had betrayed. The two waves of elite troops that went down earlier were probably in danger now.
The commander on the starship was furious.
But at the same time, I also have some doubts.
Agents defected... Is it that easy? How could a group of local rebels on a planet make agents trained by the three major intelligence agencies of the alliance defect?
Even if they rebelled and lured the Alliance's elite troops to land, two waves of twenty or thirty Phoenixes and thousands of Marines would not be easily eliminated.
Even if our side was outnumbered, lacked heavy equipment, could not win the battle, and would be surrounded, how could they be wiped out so quickly?
The commanders above no longer considered the possibility that the troops who had gone down were still alive but their communications had simply been disrupted.
Very low.
Those rebellious agents continued to spread false intelligence, with the goal of deceiving more Phoenixes and more human troops. They were not worried about making things worse, and their attitude was more like "I'll take as much as you want."
Are these rebels so strong?
But in any case, it's time to abandon the idea of quick solutions with surgical strikes.
The commander called for more reinforcements, and soon there were more than just a few frigates in the Xiaxing I system.
More ships arrived and dropped off a large number of troops.
The Alliance Army's 17th Army Group, the 3rd Army, was dropped onto the surface of Planet Xiaxing I-3.
The separatists on Xiaxing I-3 launched a rebellion of considerable scale. Five provinces on the planet were swept into it, the population in the actual controlled area reached 50 million, and the number of rebels was about 3 million.
They fought against the Allied forces of five million people and the battle was fought back and forth.
Under such circumstances, an alliance army of one million in size, coupled with super-standard orbital fire support, is definitely not something the rebels can resist.
If there is anything beyond the standard among the rebels, it can naturally be forced out.
This is indeed the case.
Under high pressure, the core force of the Separatists emerged: groups of Space Marines.
Space Marines?!
When the alliance commander in orbit received this information uploaded by the ground forces, his eyes almost popped out!
How is that possible?
Why would Space Marines appear among a group of separatist forces from an indigenous planet? How could they possibly get help from Space Marines?!
Could it be that everyone is Governor Gu?
In previous wars, the Alliance relied on the Phoenix to leave others stunned, at a loss, and completely at a loss as to what to do.
And now, the same situation is happening to the alliance itself.
But then, they soon realized that the Space Marines who helped the separation forces on the planet Xiaxing I-3 were by no means normal Space Marines.
They had no Imperial Sky Eagle emblems or medals of honor.
Is this a traitor among the Space Marines?
Things are serious.
The relevant information was quickly transmitted back. At the same time, the warships in the planetary orbit were also preparing to step up their firepower support.
So what if they are space marines? Without orbital control, even the most powerful space marines have to take the bombs on the surface.
However, the commander of the combined fleet was soon slapped in the face.
Do those renegade Space Marines really have no means of threatening orbit?
Indeed, there is none. The starport of Xiaxing I-3 is an old and dilapidated place, with only a few anti-orbital guns on the ground, no star fortresses in orbit, and only a few armed space stations, which can at best defend against small pirates.
There are currently more than ten frigates and destroyers in orbit, and at least twenty patrol ships in the navy, which simply has no ability to cope with.
But... who says that this group of rebellious Space Marines who appeared out of nowhere can only exert their power from the surface?
While the ships of the Combined Fleet were happily exploding in orbit, the stargazers on the ships soon made a horrifying discovery: they noticed that a huge, unidentified starship had suddenly appeared in the galaxy!
This starship seemed to have been hiding behind a star in the past, using this huge star to block many conventional monitoring methods.
And now, this battleship suddenly appeared, which was unexpected.
But if it was just a warship, there would be nothing to be afraid of.
There are more than 30 warships on the track of Xiaxing I-3.
But soon, when this behemoth got closer and closer and could be observed more closely by the stargazers, and the relevant information was transmitted back, it was so terrifying!
This ship is so big!
It looks to be 28 kilometers long! From the perspective of shape, although it is very gloomy, and although there are many disgusting goat-horned demon heads hanging on it, and many chaotic eight-pointed star patterns that are clearly defined as taboos and not allowed to appear in human society, from the overall shape, some naval veterans can still recognize that it is a ship that is very similar to the "Retribution-class" battleship in the human navy.
The 'Retribution Class' is a serious main battleship! It is also the most common battleship in the Imperial Navy!
Obviously, these are definitely not friendly forces.
It is most likely the vehicle used by those rebellious Space Marines on the ground.
No one could have imagined that this group of space marines actually had a battleship in service.
Although, this Retribution-class battleship is just a single ship and does not have a large number of non-main ships to cooperate in combat, this will reduce its combat effectiveness to a certain extent and make it much more vulnerable.
However, no matter how fragile it is or how its combat effectiveness is compromised, it is still a real battleship.
At the moment, the ships of the Combined Fleet surrounding the Xiaxing I-3 were all children to this battleship. The X-spec main gun on it could easily kill one child with one shot.
No matter what level of energy shield or armor it has, it is just a small ship of frigate or destroyer level. No matter how high the power of the energy shield is, it is just that.
One shot will surely explode the ship and the shield together.
On the contrary, these small firepower of the Combined Fleet posed much less threat to the battleship.
I'm afraid that we can't even break the enemy's void shield, and our thirty ships will be targeted one by one and destroyed.
(End of this chapter)
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