Chapter 473: Go Straight to Huanglong
Titus was the chieftain who united the Irontooth clan and launched a world-shaking 'waaagh'.
With the character of the greenskins, participating in this grand expedition is the dream of all the iron-toothed greenskins.
What's the point of staying in your own lair? The greenskins are tired of fighting each other, how can it be more interesting to go out and fight with shrimps?
This is what most of the greenskins thought. If it weren’t for Titus’ fleet, which couldn’t accommodate so many people, the greenskins in Irontooth’s lair would have wanted to follow him away.
It is still necessary to explain here what the greenskin ecology is like on these planets that are almost completely occupied by the greenskins.
Garbage cities of all sizes, as well as the ecosystem surrounding them, are the core environment of the greenskin society.
Garbage City is their camp and their factory, and the surrounding ecosystem is the birthplace of the greenskins.
Greenskins are neither male nor female, and they have a kind of spore in their bodies. When the concentration of spores reaches a certain level, the host's consciousness will become confused, and they will stay away from their tribe and wander alone in the wild.
At this time, the spores will be released from the body and lodge in the soil. Afterwards, the greenskins will return to their own clans, and even they themselves will not know what happened at that time.
In addition to natural reproduction, greenskins can also reproduce in another situation, that is, when a greenskin is forced to release spores in his body-injured or dead. The spores carried in their blood and flesh will fly into the air, drift to certain lands with the wind, and can also take root and sprout.
Also, because the greenskins will directly carry on the work of reproducing when the host dies, this nature that exists in the body causes the greenskins to have only two thoughts in their minds: beating others and being beaten. This nature also explains the phenomenon that the greenskin tribes are keen on fighting.
The spores that are spilled are very tenacious. In unsuitable environments, they can remain dormant for decades until the wind or other organisms carry them to a suitable place for growth, and then they will begin to grow.
The spores in the soil slowly germinate and spread underground, forming countless plant ovaries. This process takes about a year.
As long as there are sufficient nutrients and water, the first batch of green-skinned creatures, Squigs, will begin to grow in the ovary of the plant.
It only takes about three to six months of growth before the Squigomons will land in large numbers.
Of course, the Squigs at this stage were not giant beasts, but were at most the size of wolfhounds. They were food and a source of animal power for the greenskins, and at certain times they were also used in war, such as releasing dogs to bite people on the battlefield, or carrying explosive packs for suicide attacks.
The main purpose is food. Greenskins don't really need to eat, but it's obviously better to have something to eat, which will significantly increase their physical strength and further growth.
The entire ecosystem does not require any external nutrients, ensuring that the orcs will never lack manpower and food resources no matter where they march.
By the second year, the plant's ovary could begin to give birth to larger Squigglemon.
In the third year, the cultivation of fart spirits begins. The cultivation time of a fart spirit is also about half a year.
In the fourth year, you can breed real green-skinned orcs. But overall, the number of green-skinned orcs bred is much less than the first two: Squigs and Farts. In addition, the development time of orc boys in the ovary is as long as three to five years, mainly depending on whether the environment is suitable.
Although three to five years seems a bit long, it is already a very terrifying speed. Greenskins are born in adulthood, at least 1.8 or 1.9 meters tall, which is considered short and weak. They are bullied by the orc boys. Normal people are more than two meters tall and have a sturdy and strong body.
Compared to humans, they need to combine the two sexes, take up a mother's ten-month pregnancy, and grow for more than ten years to reach adulthood. Half of the grown ones are female, so they are not a very suitable source of soldiers...
What about the greenskins? Regardless of gender, once they are spread, the land is covered with greenskin plants. They are adults at birth, and have a growth period of three to five years. When they grow up, they are much stronger than normal humans... In terms of the war potential brought by racial characteristics, greenskin orcs are far superior to humans.
In the four star regions that the greenskins have occupied for a long time, they have developed a population of over 100 billion in just a few decades. This is unimaginable for humans.
Moreover, the greenskin technology is shocking. Those great masters can even use their imaginations to create starships with their bare hands, which is simply outrageous.
This is a race born for war.
But they also have some problems. Their belligerent blood makes the internal fighting among them completely unstoppable. When an entire area is full of greenskin ecosystems and there is nothing else to fight them, they will fight each other.
A very brutal and bloody beating.
If there is no leader, fierce fighting will break out between tribes; and even if they are united under the banner of one leader, it can only curb the internal strife in the overall situation and let the greenskins try their best to fight towards the same war goal, but it cannot end the individual fights.
A greenskin can't live for long, and there is no birth, aging, illness, and death. They will fight each other to become a team leader, and the team leader will fight with other team leaders to become a squadron leader... and so on.
A green-skinned guy will either climb higher and higher in this endless battle, or die somewhere on the road in the middle.
This means that when an area is full of greenskins, their number will actually reach an upper limit. The carrying capacity of the land and nutrients, as well as the infighting among the greenskins, will curb their number and achieve a dynamic balance.
According to the estimates of scholars who study greenskins in the star field, the total number of greenskin creatures in the four star regions - only greenskin boys and fart spirits, not counting squiggles - is estimated to be around 150 billion. According to the general ratio of orcs to fart spirits of about 1:10, the number of real orcs can also reach 15 billion.
Before the Third Iron Teeth War, this number was probably only 30 to 40 billion. In the past 26 years, their number has skyrocketed four or five times, and everyone has become a soldier.
After the rise of Titus, the expedition he launched triggered a fierce pursuit by the Iron-toothed Orcs. During the war, the greenskin transport ships kept transporting the greenskins from the four major star regions. The greenskins were also continuously spread to various worlds with the expedition.
During this process, the total number of greenskins transported out from the four major star regions may have exceeded 70 billion.
The number of the entire Iron Tooth Clan must have increased in the past four years of war. Even though they were constantly at war and losing people in brutal battles, Gu Hang had killed billions of them on the Eastern Front alone. The losses of the greenskins on other battlefields and on the main fronts would not be small.
However, after a large amount of living space was freed up within the four major star regions of the clan's home base, their population began to grow explosively; after they took root on various planets, their population also increased.
Of course, the growth contributed by the latter is actually not that large, after all, it has only been four years; but in their old nest, where the ecosystem has long been mature, the number of greenskins has increased rapidly.
However, during this process, because the battle line was too large, the greenskins' transport ships never stopped and were constantly transporting people, resulting in a downward trend in the population in the four star regions within the greenskins' lair.
But in comparison, the most empty space within the Iron Tooth Empire is the naval warships.
Titus was under great pressure from the war on the front lines, with a large demand for ground troops and naval ships. As soon as the ships were completed in the giant garbage city in the old nest, they would load a full ship of greenskins and rush to the battlefield.
Now, there are not many green ships in the four star regions.
This is indeed the case.
When Gu Hang led one-third of the alliance fleet and entered the Yinguan star zone with a very cautious attitude, the strong confrontation he expected to encounter did not occur.
There were hardly any green ships in sight.
There was even an unexpected gain, blowing up several green-skinned transport ships.
Moreover, on White Mist Star, information was received from the ground: there were still survivors of the expeditionary force four years ago.
At the beginning, when the star domain government gathered its forces and prepared to solve the troubles of the Iron Tooth Clan, in addition to mobilizing the three major fleets in the star domain, it also mobilized a large number of star realm troops and a lot of human taxes collected from all over the star domain.
Part of the population collected through human taxes was sent to various worlds in the Jinguan Star Region to fill the population losses in the war and serve as laborers; another considerable number was sent with the army to Baiwu Star, Shuiwu Star, Yinguan II and Yinguan III which were then recaptured by the human army.
They built many ground fortresses and strongholds. According to the star domain government's plan, these four planets were originally intended to be used as bridgeheads for attacking the greenskin heartland.
However, the green tide caused by Titus destroyed the star domain government's plan.
But after all, the fortresses and strongholds built, as well as the population and star army deployed on the ground, are real investments.
The war was indeed beyond everyone's expectations. The Northern Fleet was destroyed and all the personnel deployed to the four planets lost contact.
But they had to stay alive, so they could only hold on where they were without any reinforcements from space or external supplies.
This persistence lasted for four years.
During the four years, they were unable to obtain any news from the outside world. On the same planet, they could only hear every day that this fortress had been breached and that settlement had been massacred.
More and more places were lost and the casualties were increasing.
In other words, the greenskins were in a hurry to rush out to fight, and they did not deploy too many troops to these four planets, otherwise, no one would have survived.
And now, on these four planets, the smallest has one or two million troops and thirty to fifty million people; on the White Mist Star, the largest, there are two hundred million people and more than ten million human troops.
It is worth mentioning that a considerable proportion of these "populations" are Koroja people. Before the Alliance took over, Koroja had to contribute 400 million people as human taxes every two years, and many of them naturally filled in here.
Gu Hang happily accepted all these legacies left behind by the star domain government for the expedition.
He sent an acting governor to each of the four planets, and as the commander-in-chief, he incorporated all the population and troops there and brought them under the Eastern Theater.
Then, according to the template of the Seven Horsemen's Agreement, orbital bombardment was used to destroy the greenskins' core garbage cities and ecosystems. The alliance's troops were then deployed to strengthen the defenses of those fortresses and bastions, and the greenskins outside were cleared out in large numbers.
After spending about a week to tidy up these four planets, Gu Hang continued to lead the fleet forward.
If you go deeper, there will be no trace of human beings.
But it also means that Gu Hang can be more unscrupulous.
He had no intention of deploying a single soldier to these planets that were completely occupied by greenskins.
no need.
These planets are completely impossible to occupy. Each of them has at least 2 billion, and at most several billion or even tens of billions of greenskins. How can we occupy them?
Even with the power of the Alliance, even if the entire Seven Horsemen's Alliance was thrown to the ground, they still couldn't afford to fight the greenskins.
What Gu Hang has to do is to try to destroy the greenskins' war potential to the greatest extent possible.
Population, industry and resources.
Gu Hang would bomb every green planet. He didn't have time to arrange a fleet to bomb the entire planet. Even if he had time, he didn't have so many shells. All he had was money.
However, he can find the largest garbage city and ecosystem on the planet and then blow it up.
With the greenskins' ability to turn waste into treasure, it won't take them long to rebuild the garbage city after it is blown up; those ecosystems are destroyed, but once the spores are released, they will be able to grow again quickly.
However, these also take time.
It will take at least three to five years for the redeveloped ovary of the green-skinned plant to start growing orc boys; those large-scale garbage cities that can even build starships will take years to rebuild to their original scale after being destroyed.
These are all major losses for the greenskins.
On this basis, the Alliance also launched four "Burning Sky Torpedoes".
The four places where the extinction order weapons were dropped are Qianyuan Star and Yinguan I in the Yinguan Star Zone, and Exon 5 and Tieguan V in the Tieguan Star Zone.
These four planets were chosen because their environmental conditions are quite suitable for the growth and development of greenskins, and it is estimated that there are indeed nearly 10 billion greenskins on them.
After four Sky-burning torpedoes were fired, the Iron-Tooth Greenskins lost more than 30 billion people!
Even on Exon 5, the Alliance observed that in the largest garbage city on the planet, there was a green-skinned ship that was about to be completed and was similar in size to a human battlecruiser!
This is a major surprise and must be eliminated!
(End of this chapter)
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