Chapter 658: Urgent
“Thank you for coming!”
During the call, Salilius seemed very polite.
Martins's reply was also quite polite: "We are friendly forces, and we should be treated with respect."
But that was the extent of the politeness.
The war situation was critical and there was not much time for greetings.
Afterwards, Salilius introduced the war situation on the Western Front to Martins in detail.
After receiving Gu Hang's final very stern warning, Salilus's own sense of uneasiness reached its peak.
At that time, he did have the idea of competing with Le Roux to see who could reach Rheaduches first.
It's normal. As a commander, you have participated in this huge war. Who doesn't want to take the final honor?
But in the end, his reason prevailed.
He was unwilling to risk the destruction of his entire army for the sake of honor.
Combined with Gu Hang's warning, if everything is true, then Readuches is obviously not the end of this war. Taking it down does not count as a victory.
Moreover, Le Luwa had already seized the opportunity before him. If the Princess Star Domain was easy to fight, then he would definitely not be able to run as fast as Le Luwa; if the Princess Star Domain was really like what Gu Hang said, it had become a worm nest and was extremely dangerous, then stepping into it would be pure death.
After a whole day of consideration and figuring out a lot, he finally let go of the idea in his mind, and against all odds, followed Gu Hang's advice, stopped the troops, set up a defense line on the spot, cleared out the local infected people, and tried to establish a stable base to ensure that there would be no worries for the time being, and then look at the situation and make plans for the next step.
Then, he waited for the full-scale outbreak of insect pests, waited for the Iron Armor to attack from behind, and there was no news from Le Roy on the northern front anymore.
At that time, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
If he really led the army like Le Luwa and rashly entered the Princess Star Region, his fate would probably be no different from that of Le Luwa, whose situation is unclear now.
But even the current situation has made him extremely anxious.
The Zerg army that escaped from the Princess Star Region was actually relatively better. Although they were numerous, they did not step into the Princess Star Region and maintained their defense line.
War broke out on more than a dozen worlds at the same time. The fleet provided support everywhere and used planets as fortresses, thus stabilizing the front line.
Although the war was very intense and the casualties were great, they were able to hold the front line and consume each other, and in terms of the casualty ratio, they still had a huge advantage.
Of course, it is not easy to talk about the battle loss ratio. After all, if the battle loss ratio of the Zerg cannot be improved, then there is no need to fight, as you will be exhausted to death. After all, although human lives are worthless in the interstellar war, the lives of the Zerg on the other side are even less valuable.
In the current consumption situation, being able to gain an advantage is at least not that bad.
As long as the number of the Zerg is reduced to below a certain size, and then certain strategies are adopted, either a decisive battle or a life-threatening assault, to destroy the Zerg's core hive fleet, the war can be won.
This is also the method by which humans and the Void Zerg have often won in their battle for supremacy in this sea of stars over the past six months.
But the bigger problem lies with the main force of the Iron Armored Regiment that was attacking from west to east.
That would be life-threatening.
The Iron Armor had been missing for a long time. During their eastward advance, Salilius's troops occasionally encountered them and achieved some results, but the two sides did not engage in a substantial full-scale confrontation. The Iron Armor seemed to break at the slightest touch, and was beaten back in the war that spanned hundreds and thousands of worlds.
According to the battle report, Salilius's offensive was too fierce. The all-out attack made the Iron Armor unable to resist, and they had no time to assemble. They were beaten back step by step, and suffered heavy losses in a series of small-scale battlefields. They can basically be considered to be destroyed.
But Gu Hang thought this matter was wrong from the beginning.
Iron armor can't be that easy to deal with.
Did Salilius lie about military intelligence and exaggerate his military achievements from the beginning? He didn't think so at first. He thought he had really defeated Tiekai. But now, with the facts in front of him, he had to admit that he was careless. In the battle reports he received before, it was claimed that he encountered Tiekai's team in battle after battle. It might be true; but the cumulative number of casualties exceeded 4,000, and this number seemed really unreliable.
Perhaps in a battle, you encounter ten armored soldiers, and when you cover them with artillery fire, you don’t see any of them anymore, so you think they are all wiped out and report it.
That's about it.
A single error may not seem high, but when accumulated over countless battles, it becomes a significant number.
And these problems, accumulated until now, finally gave him a big blow.
The Ironclad Regiment that rushed out from behind had at least eleven main battleships. The strength of the Space Marines was still unknown, but every planet they focused on attacking reported that they were attacked by thousands of Space Marines and quickly fell. At the same time, deeper into the battlefield, Ironclad ships and tactical teams could often be seen coming to harass.
Just like the long gas star before.
Once the defense is insufficient, it will be conquered and cause great trouble.
The gain or loss of a planet might not be critical; the risk of Iron Armor attacking the defense line from both sides, which would threaten the main force of Salilius, was much greater, but it was not unsolvable. After all, Salilius still had a lot of troops, and could still withdraw some troops to deploy defenses facing the west.
But the biggest threat comes from the logistical lines being cut off, which would then be the end of us.
The entire Solar Expeditionary Force, such a huge fleet, the Solar Legion's Astra Militarum, and the Astra Militarum and defense forces recruited from the local Magre Universe, add up to hundreds of millions, or even billions of troops, and the daily consumption is astronomical.
If basic food and ammunition consumption can be provided locally through the many planets currently occupied, then it would be too difficult to replenish the equally large amount of advanced shells, the high-compression energy crystals required for ships, the naval gun shell reserves, and the lost high-tech weapons and equipment, such as tanks and fighter jets.
The White Curtain Star Region was not a place with developed productivity. Providing some primary assets was barely enough, and it was not enough, after all, production and transportation were problems. As for advanced war resources, it was even more helpless, and it could not even produce them, not to mention that the productivity of these worlds that had suffered from the war was also a problem.
In this situation, Martins' arrival solved the urgent problem.
(End of this chapter)
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