Chapter 472, Victory Strategy
The Jinguan Star District is an important location. Not to mention the war with the Alliance, even the main force of the greenskins led by Titus, half of the reinforcements and supplies obtained from their own nest also came from the Jinguan Star District.
The other half will go through the Jiaoshou star area on the west side of the Jinguan star area.
The most important world in the Jinguan Star Region is Guangfu Star.
In fact, the main force of the greenskins led by Titus went from Guangfu Star to the Cursed Bone Star Region, and then to the Snow Eagle Star Region four years ago, bringing the war all the way to the heart of the star region.
After Gu Hang won the Battle of Temir and his entire army advanced into the Jinguan Star Region, Guangfu Star became an important strategic location and was the first to be captured by the Alliance.
Here, the Alliance even intercepted a greenskin transport fleet.
The greenskins actually don't have any purely civilian transport ships. Given their character, no matter what kind of ship it is, they have to equip it with some cannons.
However, for the greenskins, ships also need to be manufactured, and there is also the concept of "manufacturing cost". After all, as long as they need to be manufactured, they need raw materials and human resources.
For fighting, they should be made more sophisticated and have the best weapons and equipment possible; for transportation, the internal space must be as simple as possible, otherwise the combat effectiveness cannot be strong, and the few cannons that are barely installed are more of an obsession.
Anyway, when they encountered the Alliance Fleet, even though the two sides were of similar numbers, the result of the battle was almost one-sided. Those few naval guns, which were more decorative than practical, only caused a little trouble to the Alliance Fleet at most.
It's just trouble.
Thirty green-skinned transport ships were turned into space junk and could no longer be counted, so naturally there was no way of knowing how many greenskins and war supplies were inside.
However, looking at the size of these thirty green transport ships, you can tell that this wave is going to be a fierce one.
If it is fully loaded, hundreds of millions of greenskins and a large amount of supplies will be indispensable.
The loss of these thirty ships is not small, and will significantly reduce the greenskins' ability to operate and deploy troops and supplies.
Moreover, after Guangfu Star was blockaded by the Alliance fleet, the greenskin ships basically could not leave here.
Now that this road is blocked, all the greenskins' transportation can only go through the Prideful Hands star zone.
Of course, the orcs can still transport supplies and personnel from the Jiaoshou star zone. At most, the supplies to the Yinguan star zone will have to take a detour, which will have little impact on the flow of resources in the three greenskin lairs of Jiang Meiyu, Tieguan and Kuo Luo.
But the scary thing is that if you jump northwest from Guangfu Star, you can enter the Jiaoshou Star Area with just one jump!
If the Prideful Hands sector is blocked again, the greenskins' resources will have to go through a larger circle, from the northwest corner of the Dragon Eagle sector, to the front line, and the efficiency of the entire material flow will be fatally affected. The original one-way operation time of two or three months will be extended to about half a year.
Attacking the Jiaoshou star zone was originally part of Gu Hang's strategic plan.
The first step of his overall strategy, winning a key battle in the Temir system and annihilating a large number of manpower, had been accomplished brilliantly.
The second step of the strategy is to include the three star areas: Jinguan Star Area, Tongguan Star Area, and Jiaoshou Star Area.
There are seven galaxies in the Jinguan star zone, with a total of 12 worlds; there are six galaxies in the Tongguan star zone, with 11 worlds; there are nine galaxies in the Jiaoshou star zone, with 15 worlds.
Adding up the total, there are 38 worlds.
According to Gu Hang’s plan, he wants to take over all these worlds.
The way to win the game was actually clearly reflected in Temir's No. 4 and No. 5.
In fact, the situation of the more than 30 planets in the three star regions targeted by Gu Hang is basically similar to that of the three worlds in the Temir galaxy.
Some places, like Telmir 2, are the focus of development and invasion by the greenskins, and the planets themselves have serious defense problems, and are basically hopeless; some places, like Telmir 4, still have a lot of people alive, because the terrain, defense are reliable, and most importantly, the greenskins don't pay much attention to it, so the current human situation is relatively good. Other places are more like Telmir 5 and are in danger.
Four years have passed since the Green Tide swarmed out and the war began. The thirty-eight worlds in the three star regions of Golden Pass, Bronze Pass, and Prideful Hand were the first to fall.
Even before the Green Tide broke out, these three star regions were the battle zones where humans fought against the Orcs. Either they were battlefields themselves, enduring constant invasions by the Greenskins, or they were supply bases that provided resources for the battlefields.
Among these more than thirty worlds, the economic situation is not good in any place.
And after the fall, it goes without saying.
These thirty-plus worlds have been occupied for four years, but it must be emphasized again and again that humans are a tenacious race. No matter how harsh the environment, there are always people who can find a way to survive. Even some heroes, big and small, have emerged. Some can lead dozens of people to survive hard, while others can lead the entire world to form a resistance organization and fight against the greenskins in different environments such as city ruins, in the countryside, and in tunnels.
Of course, these are all human factors, subjective factors. The real reason why they have been able to persist for four years and not be exterminated by the greenskins is that the greenskins' strategy is not like this.
The greenskins certainly have no need to rule over humans. They do capture and enslave humans, but these are occasional situations. In most cases, they choose to massacre. However, the power invested by the greenskins on various planets is actually insufficient.
Four years ago, the green tide led by Titus spread the war to hundreds of worlds in most of the Dragon Eagle Star Region in just a few months. His approach was certainly not to bite off each planet one by one, because that would be too slow.
Anyway, the human fleet had been defeated by him, and they were just running. The huge star field was open, so he naturally led the fleet to chase and chase. In the many star systems he passed by, he could just drop hundreds of thousands, millions, or tens of millions of guys and farts. The specific number depended on the value of the planet.
In some important places, such as Guangfu Star, the number of active greenskins may have reached 1.5 billion. Although a large part of them grew on the planet in the past few years, the fact that they grew so fast and in such large numbers must be related to the fact that a lot of greenskins were thrown in at the beginning.
In some places, such as the Shui Wuhen Galaxy next to the Temir Galaxy, there are two ocean worlds. The natural environment is basically dominated by scattered islands and floating continents, and the main means of survival are fishing and seabed resource collection.
This galaxy is not on the main route, and the natural environment is not suitable for the growth of greenskins - in fact, it is not suitable for human survival. The original population of the two planets was only about 200 to 300 million. The invasion of the orcs only reduced the population to a few hundred thousand. After the establishment of the ecosystem on some islands, the large ocean environment is difficult to expand, there are frequent sea storms, and there are powerful sea monsters in the ocean, so the expansion of the greenskins is quite limited.
Up to now, the Shui Wuhen Galaxy has been invaded by the greenskins for four years, but the situation has not actually deteriorated too seriously.
After the arrival of the human fleet, it carried out orbital bombardment on the islands occupied by the greenskins, and then deployed about one million Allied troops and a considerable amount of weapons and equipment to arm the local planetary defense forces to retake the islands.
With this step, the problems of the two human colonization planets, Shui Wuhen No. 3 and No. 7, can actually be basically solved.
Of course, they also signed the Seven Horses Agreement and included it in this framework. The two planets can also provide 50 million tax coins of imperial tax revenue a year.
Gu Hang extended similar processing methods to the Jinguan, Bronzeguan and Jiaoshou star areas.
The overall idea and means is that the fleet will visit and blow up the main enemy strongholds; deploy a part of the Alliance Army and the Allied Forces as the main force to maintain order; deliver supplies, provide relief and resettle the local people, and arm the local troops, join the Allied Forces, and clean up the local greenskins.
The arrival of the fleet is a temporary solution, a rough sweep and suppression; the Alliance Army is to give local planets confidence; the last resort is to unify the planets and solve the problem fundamentally.
Of course, this is how it will be handled for a world that can still be saved.
Some worlds are beyond salvation, such as Guangfu Star, which is an important transit center for the greenskins during the expedition. There are very few signs of human activity there. The greenskins have invested a large number of manpower here from the very beginning and massacred almost the entire planet.
But the Alliance did not launch another Burning Sky torpedo at Guangfu Star.
No need.
Lock onto the galaxy and bomb the surface for a few rounds.
Anyway, after bombing the important greenskin garbage city, not to mention the heavy casualties suffered by the greenskins on Guangfu Star, their main production capacity was also lost, and they did not have the ability to build starships to leave the surface - at least not for the time being.
Then, the alliance began to continuously deploy troops to the surface.
Although this place is hopeless, its importance as a transportation hub still exists. The human army that is deployed here will build some strongholds, or repair some of the fortresses that already exist on the planet, and place some of the transported orbital cannons on this planet.
Of course, Gu Hang still had to guard against the main greenskin troops coming back for reinforcements.
However, the Alliance's military strength and its delivery capabilities are always limited, and they cannot adopt a strategy of retaking every planet. Things have to be prioritized. Although Guangfu Star is beyond saving, its hub attribute of transportation routes has high value, so the Alliance must invest troops to try to retake it. The core goal is to build enough fortresses and anti-orbital guns on the planet to deal with possible subsequent wars.
However, some planets are beyond salvation and have no value.
For example, Lengfeng Star and Talullah 3 Star in the Jiaoshou Star Zone, and the Bronze Galaxy and Dato Galaxy in the Tongguan Star Zone are all such cases.
It is similar to Temir 2, with a large number of greenskin activities and almost no traces of humans; but it is not like Guangfu Star, which is in a battleground.
For these galaxies, it depends on the situation.
If the number of greenskins there is relatively small, only about a few billion or two billion, then just bomb them once to destroy the larger garbage cities, and then patrol and check from time to time to make sure there are no large-scale greenskin factories that may be able to build starships.
If there are a lot of greenskins on the planet, such as on Jinguan III, it is estimated that there are more than 5 billion greenskins on it. The greenskins gathered here are probably the reserve forces that Saru placed here in preparation for the battle of Telmir. The reason why they were not all transported to Telmir 5 is because of the limited delivery capacity. However, on this planet, these billions of greenskins are not idle. Humans even saw an open-air greenskin factory from orbital reconnaissance, which was assembling something that looked like a ship.
For a planet like this, there would be no need to say anything and just launch a Burning Sky Torpedo at it.
Five billion greenskins were burned to ashes.
But instead, the entire planet was basically declared scrapped. It was even difficult to build a fortress on the planet. It would take at least a few years for the geological conditions to be relatively stable. If they wanted to recolonize and use the planet, they would have to use climate reconstruction technology. The Alliance did not yet have this technology.
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In addition to the recapture and cleanup of the three major star regions, the Alliance Army has two equally important tasks.
First of all, we will build an orbital defense system in the Guangfu Galaxy, Thumb Star and Du Star in the Jiaoshou Star Zone, and build these three planets as fortress worlds. This is to prevent the main force of the greenskins from returning to defend, so that we can have a reliable stronghold for fighting.
This task actually took up a considerable part of the alliance's energy. Half of the 1.2 billion troops were deployed in these places. Moreover, more troops and workers were being mobilized to fill these three key locations.
If these three planets are blocked, especially Guangfu Star, the Alliance will have a barrier in the west, and the greenskins' throat will be strangled.
Another task is to march into the greenskin lair.
This mission seemed very risky, but when Gu Hang arrived at the Yinguan star zone with the Nova and one-third of the alliance fleet, he found that it was not difficult at all.
Every planet here may have been occupied for decades, and humans are basically nowhere to be seen.
However, the number of greenskins is actually not as large as imagined.
The reason is very simple, a large number of greenskins were pulled out by Titus!
His expedition was a full effort of the Iron Tooth Clan!
(End of this chapter)
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