Chapter 457: The war situation changes dramatically
The arrival of the Fury Legion is the savior that the star domain government has always longed for.
In their opinion, as long as a proper Space Marine regiment like the Legion of Fury arrives, all problems should be solved.
But in reality, this is not the case.
The Fury is a standard Space Marine Chapter - at least they appear to be very standard. They have a thousand genuine Furies, and they have a complete fleet of Space Marines. The mortal servants and mortal auxiliary troops in the fleet are also very normal.
Can such a battle group really turn the tide of the battle as soon as they arrive as they expect?
Indeed, it is possible.
At least, after they arrived and joined the battle, the situation on Jindi Star did not deteriorate further.
The Space Marines used their best tactic, which was also very effective against the green-skinned orcs - decapitation.
On the ground battlefield, the beheadings of several orc warlords who led the battle were successful.
The attack on those warlords directly caused serious chaos in the greenskins' ground offensive.
The human army also followed the leader of the Fury Legion, Becker Matsis, also known as the 'Fire Walker', who took over all command of the entire war zone and commanded the human army. He fought several beautiful battles, annihilated a large number of elite orcs, and even countered the greenskins' offensive for a while.
In space, the battle barge named 'Fiery Soul' that the Fury Regiment participated in also brought great pressure to the greenskins.
The Space Marine motherships are called Battle Barges, which are even larger and more powerful than the average Imperial battleship.
Its first attack caused damage to the Irontooth Clan's battle moon and even destroyed three greenskin cruisers.
However, the Battle Moon was still powerful, and together with the original Iron Tooth flagship - a powerful warship at least equal in level to a battlecruiser, it eventually drove away the 'Fiery Soul'.
But even so, the Space Marines of the Fury Chapter fired another back-and-forth attack when they were "forced" to retreat.
They launched a boarding raid on the greenskin flagship.
What they hoped most was to catch Titus there and behead the chieftain of the Orc Empire. As long as he was eliminated, the entire Greenskin Empire would fall into a long period of chaos and collapse, and a large-scale civil war would occur.
This is the experience summarized from the battles between the Empire and the Greenskins throughout the universe, with almost no exceptions.
And if they fail to capture Chief Titus on the ship, they can destroy the enemy ship from the inside by boarding it, which would be considered as the destruction of a core main battleship of the greenskins, and would definitely be of great help in future wars.
However, the plan of boarding the ship did not succeed. Titus was indeed there, and they did find him, but when the battle started, the Black Beast Guards around the great chieftain showed a fighting power that was no less powerful than that of the Space Marines.
Even if the Furies dragged the battle into close combat, which they are best at, would the most elite among the green-skinned orcs be afraid of close combat?
That obviously won't happen either.
In the brief and brutal confrontation, the Space Marines of the Fury Chapter soon realized that the capabilities of their boarding forces were not enough to destroy Titus.
At this time, their decision was decisive. They readily gave up their original plan and began to retreat.
Some people stayed behind, while others took the bombs that were supposed to be detonated in the core of the ship and exploded them at random places. Even if they couldn't destroy the ship, they could at least cause considerable damage to the greenskin flagship. Moreover, they could also create chaos on the warship, making it easier for them to evacuate.
They did fight their way out, boarded the receiving spaceship, and left the battleship.
However, they also paid a heavy price in the process. A regiment champion and a company commander were killed in the battle. Of the entire elite team that had been deployed to the battle, only one-third were able to withdraw.
But even so, after the Fury Legion joined the war, the greenskins suffered a heavy blow.
They had never been beaten this badly before.
The orcs, who had not gained any advantage on both the ground and space battlefields, were very angry, but the fact that Titus could become the great chief meant that he possessed not only bravery and domineering power, but also cunning and wisdom.
The green-skinned orcs, who suffered heavy losses, obviously became more cautious under his command.
On the surface, they contracted the battle line and no longer fought so aggressively; in space, they no longer expanded the battle line unnecessarily, but instead gathered the entire fleet more tightly together, with the inconvenient and slow battle moon as the core.
This also meant that the Fury Legion had no way of finding more opportunities.
The fighting style of the Fury Corps was actually clearly revealed in their series of actions, which focused on being violent and ferocious.
However, after a failure, they also realized that the enemy they faced this time was not like most of the enemies they encountered in the star wars, which could not be quickly defeated by them.
Both sides learned a lesson, and the situation on the battlefield calmed down a little.
But this calm did not last long. Soon, both sides began to show their skills and started a constant confrontation with the Jindi Star battlefield as the core and the surrounding galaxies as the expanded battlefield.
As the battle for Jindi Star becomes increasingly difficult, the greenskins will certainly think of ways to conquer it from other star systems, and may even try to invade the Yunluo Star District from the Lower Plateau Star in the Snow Eagle Star District to the southwest, trying to directly threaten the capital of the Dragon Eagle Star District.
But isn’t this a coincidence?
After realizing that the main force of the greenskins was on Jindi Star, there were not many ways to take the battle moon in space battle. Even with the existence of the battle barge "Fire Soul", it was not certain that they would be able to gain an advantage if they directly launched a fleet decisive battle. Therefore, Matsis also thought about whether he could open up a second battlefield and start from the Snow Eagle Star Region. If he could take down both the Upper and Lower Plateau Stars, and then attack from the Dragon Tamer Star Region and block the north side of the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region, it would be equivalent to locking the main force of the greenskins inside the Steel Fire Dragon.
The greenskins' reliance on logistics is relatively weak. With such a large fleet and so many greenskin troops gathered around Jindi Star, if there is really no support from the rear, and if there is no way to continuously plunder and transport new ships, troops, and supplies from the rear, then the orc army will be significantly affected and its combat capability will be greatly reduced.
Both sides had similar ideas, so naturally, the intensity of the war evolved from being focused around the Jindi star to the four or five surrounding star regions where fierce fighting began.
If we only look at Jin Dixing, perhaps the intensity of the war has dropped a level; but judging from the entire course of the war, it is obvious that both sides fought more brutally.
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When this series of information was delivered to Gu Hang, he felt much more relieved.
At least, looking at the current situation, the war situation has changed from the previous situation where the army was almost defeated and the orcs were crushing the whole way to a situation where both sides are fighting back and forth.
Gu Hang no longer has to worry that the star domain government will collapse quickly, and then the main force of the orcs will turn around and cause trouble for him.
However, Gu Hang soon had a new worry.
The situation that occurred on the planet Jindi began to appear in the Temir galaxy.
When Ye Licia led her fleet and arrived at the Temir galaxy, her speed was still slightly faster than the orc reinforcements.
She took over Zhao Shiliang's command, assembled the Alliance fleet, and launched a fierce attack on the green-skinned orcs.
But Gu Hang already knew that the orc commander named Saru was obviously not a fool with only reckless thoughts in his mind. He knew how to temporarily avoid the sharp edge and even pull on a wider battlefield.
He refused to engage in a decisive battle with the human fleet, and instead expanded the scope of the battlefield.
After paying a certain amount of losses, he escaped the pursuit of the human fleet. But he did not completely withdraw from the entire galaxy, and was still eyeing it. Once the human fleet made a strong large-scale orbital support to the surface of the planet Temir 5, his ships would appear, threatening the human fleet to be unable to devote itself to supporting the ground.
Of course, such threats are not enough. If the human fleet continues to fight regardless of the consequences, such as dividing the team into two parts, one part to fight the greenskins, and the other part to continue to provide ground support, what can Saru do?
In order to solve this problem, part of Saru's ships headed north into the Bronze Pass star zone, and from Bronze Pass I, entered Green Spring I in the Mist Horse star zone.
This clearly means that if the Alliance really attacks the Temir galaxy with all its might, then it will be given to you.
However, don't think of getting it too easily, the price to pay will not be small; at the same time, the orc fleet that cannot be taken care of for the time being will march straight into the Misty Horse star region and turn the world upside down.
This is something Gu Hang can't accept.
The Mist Horse Sector signed the Seven Horses Agreement very early, only slightly later than the Eagle Horse Sector. If there is a huge turmoil here and the Alliance is unable to quickly quell it, the credibility of the Seven Horses Agreement will be greatly reduced. Even the Purple Horses, Border Horses, and Iron Horses in the rear will be shaken and begin to doubt whether the Alliance is really capable of guaranteeing their safety as they say.
After all, the premise for these star regions and planets to give up power, or even be willing to be drained, is the security guarantee provided by the alliance.
When the orcs really wanted to expand the scope of the war, the Alliance had no choice but to follow suit.
Going to rescue the Wuma star region means dividing our forces.
After the division of forces, the greenskins were quickly driven out of Cuiquan I. The human fleet also went north along the Wuma star region, and further spread the war into the Tongguan star region, and even fought back Tongguan I and the Bronze Galaxy.
There is only one industrial world in Bronze Level I, but there are three human worlds in the Bronze Galaxy. These two galaxies and four planets have a total human population of six billion. Due to years of war, the population has been severely damaged, and the industrial base has also been severely damaged, but at least two billion people are left.
The Alliance simply set up observation groups in these four worlds, supported acting governors, and had them all join the Seven Horse Pact.
All operating methods are similar to those on Temir 4.
On the one hand, we should migrate as many survivors as possible, leaving the war zone and sending them back to the Tianma Star Region to fill the core population of the alliance;
On the other hand, we should mobilize the local population as much as possible, deliver weapons and equipment to them, arm them, and let them deal with the remaining greenskins on the planet by themselves as much as possible.
The Alliance will provide military assistance and orbital fire support.
On top of these, they also have to restore production as much as possible, and strive to fortify the entire planet and build more orbital artillery.
But the greenskins obviously won't give up so easily. Their ships that just ran away but were not destroyed also transported troops from other places and sent them to the surface when they saw the opportunity. They would attack human transport ships in a mysterious way and even fire a few shots at the surface.
During this back and forth tug-of-war, the greenskin support fleet also arrived.
Overall, the Alliance Fleet still had the upper hand in terms of naval power, but the extent of the advantage was no longer enough to crush the enemy.
Moreover, the fleets of both sides no longer limited the battlefield to one galaxy, but expanded the entire battlefield to the two star regions of Jinguan and Tongguan.
The main army of both sides was still fighting a meat grinder-like battle on Temir 5, but the fleet was running around. The orcs would attack the human supply lines, and of course the humans would defend them; the human fleet would also fight back, and the farthest place was even as far as Guangfu Star.
Guangfu Star is the Greenskin Empire's only way from the Jinguan Star Region to the main battlefield on the western front. A large number of resources transported from the core area of the Greenskins to the main battlefield all pass through here.
A team consisting of one Crazy Shark and two Silver Swords intercepted and killed two waves of greenskin transport ships here, turning at least more than 200 million greenskins, their transport ships, and a large amount of war materials into space junk.
Such a heavy loss caused Saru to be scolded again. The orc army on the main battlefield of the West was already not doing well, and now the supplies were also damaged. Who else would he scold?
Saru was also forced to do the same as the human fleet and send troops to the main traffic routes in the rear to drive away the human attack ships and protect the safety of the transport ships carrying supplies to the front line.
In general, the entire battlefield situation has become bigger and wider for both sides.
And it becomes more inclined to compete in "internal strength". The victory or defeat of a single battle or two is not enough to change too much. It depends on the overall foundation of both sides and who can withstand more losses.
This also puts greater economic pressure on the alliance.
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