Chapter 470, Great Victory in Temir!
In addition to Kalduso who completed the backstab, another person who helped Chapter Master Martins kill King Saru was the Chapter's Chief Think Tank, Henrik Larsen.
At first, he led several psychics to fight against several orc shamans, and successfully suppressed them, preventing them from interfering with the human troops. Then, Karduso personally attacked these orc shamans, eliminated them, and freed his own psychics, which led to the joint attack on Saru.
After destroying this orc warrior, the situation on the Fire Nova was basically decided.
At this time, the situation of the entire naval battle was actually basically clear.
Gu Hang himself was on the Nova, but he actually didn't care about the orcs who boarded the ship.
On the one hand, he believed that the phoenixes led by Martins could solve this problem well. On the other hand, Gu Hang was busy with another thing.
He was assisting in the naval battle.
There was only about 40 to 50 minutes between Saru's successful boarding and his death. Not to mention that Saru had no chance of success, even if he really succeeded in destroying the "Nova" from the inside, it would not have been able to reverse the situation.
In this forty to fifty minute naval battle, the greenskin fleet suffered heavy losses.
Gu Hang didn't need to pay too much attention to the target of the Fire Nova. When the greenskins chose to rush to a very close distance to launch boarding torpedoes and boarding airships in order to gain a first-line victory rate, and to engage in close combat with the human fleet, the Fire Nova, a Retribution-class battleship, naturally ushered in the best performance stage.
It is not fast enough and not flexible enough, but it has strong firepower, thick shield and thick armor, making it a natural firepower core and the king of battleship bombardment.
The greenskinned warships targeted by its main guns have no chance of survival at this distance. Four main guns, one of which is an X-level "Sky Punishment" light spear array, and three X-level macro guns "Destruction Judgment". As long as they hit, most greenskinned warships will be destroyed along with their shields. Even the main battleships equivalent to human cruisers will have their shields shattered with one shot.
After the shield is broken, although the ship still has armor to withstand artillery fire, each shot will cause damage to the hull. Even if the shot hits a weak point in the armor, or penetrates the armor and damages the key parts of the ship, it will cause very terrible damage.
Not to mention, the Retribution class doesn't just have these four main guns. There are also twenty L-class heavy guns, almost equivalent to four cruisers. Often, after firing an X-spec cannon, five L-class cannons will follow at the same target.
As long as the first shot hits and breaks the shield, the following shots can create a huge threat.
The greenskins had several main battleships destroyed in this way.
Not to mention that occasionally some small boats are targeted.
The human side also has eleven cruisers, which are more in number than the greenskin battleships, and they are also terrifying things.
As for Gu Hang, since he didn't have to provide support to the battleships, he would provide support to the eleven cruisers.
He also cooperated very well with the fleet commander Ye Lixia.
Ye Lixia adjusted the formation of the entire fleet in the command channel, commanding the fleet's firepower to concentrate, disperse, and encircle. Once there was an opportunity to destroy an enemy ship, Gu Hang would use his alpha-level psychic power, which was enhanced by the Storm God Kingdom, to tear open the energy shield on the enemy ship.
A naval gun firing in would often lead to the destruction of an enemy ship.
The two of them can be said to have a tacit understanding in cooperation.
In this way, the human fleet has two ways to quickly destroy a greenskin battleship in this naval battle.
And how many main battleships do the greenskins have that are enough to fight?
The greenskin fleet, suffering huge losses, fought in vain with the human fleet, hoping that someone would board the ship, especially their own boss, King Saru, and destroy the enemy's flagship.
If it accomplishes the feat, then there is no doubt that the morale of the greenskin fleet will be boosted.
However, when this scene has not yet arrived, the orcs can't help but wonder in their hearts: What happened to King Saru?
They can't help but think so.
From their perspective, after King Saru called for a boarding battle, his flagship was blown up. Who knows if the ship that King Saru was on successfully landed? Did it explode in the void? Even if it succeeded in boarding, was it destroyed by the shrimp on the ship?
Otherwise, how come after so long, the largest and most powerful battleship among all the monsters is still firing one shot after another, turning our battleship into space junk?
The flagship was destroyed, and there was no news for a long time from the highly anticipated boarding ship. The warships of our side were being destroyed at an extremely fast speed...
The morale of the greenskin fleet inevitably began to decline rapidly.
At this time, a worse situation occurred: since there was no news from their leader Saru, the greenskin fleet command system was completely paralyzed.
Although they did not know about Saru's death, under the heavy pressure and without a person of sufficient prestige to maintain order, the bosses of the greenskin ships began to have their own ideas.
Some people want to retreat, it's obvious that they can't win, so every ship they retreat is a ship away. Everyone needs to keep their lives so that they can fight a stronger fight later. If they die now, there will be no fight to fight.
Some people were so desperate that they were determined to fight to the end. They were determined to carry out the last order left by Salu and continue to carry out boarding operations in order to turn defeat into victory.
In the communication channel, the greenskin bosses were arguing fiercely.
It is normal to have differences in battle plans and ideas, but the big taboo is not to argue when the war is still going on or when one's side is under great pressure; it is even more unacceptable to have an argument in which no one can convince anyone else, and then everyone goes their own way, causing the entire army to become extremely chaotic.
The greenskin fleet has now effectively collapsed.
If they wanted to continue fighting, they would continue to deploy troops to board the ships. Most of these boarding torpedoes were blown up in mid-air, and the few that successfully landed were killed inside the ships. The green ships that deployed the boarding troops were also blown up one by one in the battle;
Those fleeing ships were also bitten hard on the buttocks by the pursuit forces sent out by the human fleet during their escape. In the following hours or even days of pursuit and escape, they were blown up one by one.
Anyway, no matter whether you choose to fight to the death or choose to escape, the outcome will be the same.
Gu Hang spent so much time and effort preparing for two and a half years to fight this decisive battle of Temir, and his goal was to completely defeat the greenskin army on the eastern front in this battle. The greenskin fleet was the top priority, and if possible, Gu Hang would not let go of any enemy ship.
The Temir Galaxy is a hub for routes. From this galaxy, there are five jump points leading to five different star tunnels, which can go to Jinguan I, Jinguan II, Shui Wuhen Galaxy in the Jinguan Star District, Tongguan II in the Tongguan Star District, and Steel Wing Star in the Eagle Horse Star District.
After the naval battle outside the orbit of Temir 5, there were actually dozens of greenskin ships that fled in all directions. Some warships of the combined fleet were chasing these greenskins in space for several days or even dozens of days; at the same time, at the five jump points of Temir 5, human fleets arrived first to guard them. Once the greenskin fleet arrived, they would attack from both sides together with the pursuers and probably be able to destroy them.
In addition, the human fleet also deployed many warships on Temir 5 - especially the Nova, which was not good at pursuit battles, to provide orbital support for the ground battles on Temir 5.
This is truly a dimensionality-reduction attack, and this time, the greenskins cannot wait for their own ships to appear in space to blast away the human fleet.
Led by the Nova and accompanied by three cruisers, a total of one hundred warships participated in the ground orbital support. The firepower was terrifyingly fierce!
This scale is enough to execute an extermination order.
The most tacky, but also the most commonly used, way to issue an extermination order is actually this simple warship orbital bombing of the ground. The fleet uses powerful firepower to bombard the entire surface of the planet in detail, leaving no place untouched. This is the simplest extermination order.
The cost would not be small, after all, naval guns are very expensive, and if you really bomb every inch of land on a planet, the cost might be even more expensive than firing a Burning Sky torpedo; and, it might not be as effective as a Burning Sky torpedo.
More importantly, the execution of this extermination order requires an entire fleet to stay in the planet's orbit for a long time.
The cost-effectiveness is not good.
But the reason why this method is the most common is because the Burning Sky Torpedo and the higher-level extinction weapons are too rare? This thing is difficult to manufacture and has a long manufacturing cycle. It is actually quite rare on the market.
Otherwise, who would use this method of naval gunfire to burn glass when there are better and more thorough extermination weapons to be used?
Even though the Alliance had the ability to manufacture the Burning Sky Torpedo, they only had about ten of them. If they were used too much later, they might not be enough.
Of course, there is no need for an extermination order on Temir 5 at this moment, and they are not working with the goal of exterminating the entire planet.
The existing lineup is more than enough to provide fire support on the ground.
The effect of their orbital support firepower is also very impressive.
In the first half month, the number of greenskins on the ground dropped sharply by two billion!
The primary target of the human fleet is the major garbage cities where greenskins gather in large numbers.
Those garbage cities are generally built around the greenskin ecosystem. Once they are destroyed, not only will the large number of greenskins gathered in them be eliminated, but the greenskins will also not be able to regenerate on a large scale. At the same time, these garbage cities are also war factories that manufacture weapons, equipment, and ammunition for the greenskin army. After being destroyed, these functions will of course not be able to be exerted.
But this was a blow to the Greenskins' war capabilities, and the level of population loss was actually quite moderate.
The greatest casualties were not entirely due to fleet bombing, but still required the cooperation of ground forces.
The ground forces launched an all-out attack without restraint, and as long as the greenskins showed any intention of resisting, it would be equivalent to being detected by the human forces and the fleet would be called in for bombing.
This resulted in a large number of casualties.
In addition, when formulating the combat plan, Perbov, the commander-in-chief in charge of the ground battle, also consciously commanded his troops to encircle the greenskins from various angles and routes, trying to drive them to one place.
His battle plan was an unprecedented success - it was impossible for it not to be successful. The greenskins had no way to resist or fight back. Their scattered forces would be outflanked and driven away until they were locked in an area and unable to move. Then the fleet bombing would come, and every inch of land in the encirclement would be bombed. The ground troops would follow up and sweep the battlefield and kill any survivors.
And if the greenskins gather their strength to resist, just blow them up directly, kill them or blow them apart, and then repeat the previous action.
These scenes were constantly played out across the planet. The human army, totaling more than two billion, was divided into more than one hundred army groups, executing similar plans on the battlefields of the entire planet. And more than one hundred warships, including battleships, were floating in orbit, ready to respond at any time.
This is why the greenskins paid 2 billion lives in just half a month.
It is true that there are still two billion greenskins alive on Temir 5, but failure is already inevitable.
The number of serious green-skinned orcs with decent combat capabilities may be less than 100 million. After all, in battle, these orc troops are the main force in frontal combat and are the targets of special care. The remaining 1.9 billion or so are basically all fart spirits, and their combat capabilities are very poor.
Moreover, the orc commander on the ground was also dead. After his location was discovered, he was killed along with his personal guards by a "Destruction Judgment" from the battleship.
Furthermore, after the garbage city and major ecosystems were destroyed, the greenskins also essentially lost their war potential. If it were a normal war situation, they might be able to directly pick up garbage from the battlefield and have those farts produce equipment, ammunition, and supplies on the spot, but in the current situation, they obviously don't have this opportunity.
If the war continues, the greenskins will probably just have to fight with machetes.
Real green-skinned orcs holding machetes might still pose a certain threat, after all, their biological strength is very great; if those fart spirits could only hold machetes, they would have been cannon fodder, and now they are even worse than cannon fodder and have almost no combat capability.
The main force has been destroyed, the leader has died, and the war potential has been exhausted. What chance do the greenskins have of winning?
The Battle of Temir has come to this point, and from any perspective, it can be called a "great victory"!
Even the system acknowledges this.
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I'll see if I can finish another chapter later (before dawn).
Brothers, go to bed early and see if there are any surprises tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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