Chapter 955, Active Offensive
The departure of Robert and his expeditionary force was something that had been agreed upon long ago, and Gu Hang didn't mind their leaving.
After all, there has been a truce in Comoros. Although the war will surely break out again in the future, it will no longer have anything to do with the Terra Expeditionary Force.
Robert and his army have their own challenges to deal with, and they are expected to be no easier than the war in Comoros.
However, objectively speaking, the departure of the Terra Expeditionary Force caused losses to human forces in Comoros.
It wasn't just the expeditionary force that left. In order to ensure that Robert's mission to suppress Holy Terra could be more successful, the Alliance provided full support to Robert's expeditionary force.
Originally, Robert hoped to get sufficient logistical supplies and help to make up for the personnel losses of his troops. But Gu Hang waved his hand and directly transferred the organized troops to his command.
It was not like handing the troops over to Robert. These alliance armies all maintained their own organization, had their own overall command system, and had their own commander-in-chief - an admiral of the alliance navy. Hundreds of millions of alliance land forces, three hundred alliance warships, and two fully staffed regiments were all under his command.
And he will be under the command of Robert.
Of course, this was only in theory. In reality, Robert could also directly issue orders to any of the troops assigned to the expeditionary force—using the alliance's command system.
However, he could only command operations and could not disband, change or disrupt the system of the alliance army itself.
Overall, this force seemed like an allied force under Robert's command.
Robert didn't have any offensive attitude. As long as the troops could obey orders, act like an arm, and fight well, that was good enough.
He had no intention of turning any unit into his own private army, so the allied forces just had to obey his orders, and he would not make any changes to the nature of the troops if he did not want to.
That was originally the army of the Alliance.
The departure of the expeditionary force caused losses not only to the Alliance forces themselves; nor was it just the loss that the Alliance had to bear because it had crammed hundreds of millions of troops and 300 warships into the expedition to reinforce them.
More importantly, they occupied the precious shipping capacity of the two ports that humans fully controlled in the Comoros.
In order to transport troops from the Curtain Gate to Comoros, it is necessary to occupy the Curtain Gate and have ships line up one after another to come in without stopping.
Some large ships, such as those larger than battleships, or giant-bellied transport ships, may even take more than an hour, or nearly two hours, to completely pass through a medium-sized spiritual gate; using a large spiritual gate, it would take at least fifteen minutes.
Even if the entire Queen Rose Port and Bodhisattva Port were to operate at full capacity, it would take about six days to transport the Terra Expeditionary Force from Comoros to Taiwei V.
This also means that the current human military strength in Comoros will be reduced by one third, and will not be replenished for six days.
It would take another six days to make up for these shortfalls; and it would take even longer to continue to send in more troops.
Of course, the Alliance's military strength is not unlimited. When almost half of the Central Front Army is fully deployed in Comoros, it will be about five times the size of Robert's Terra Expeditionary Force.
It would take about three months to six months in total - mainly because the logistics requirements would be higher as the army size increased. The alliance had to stockpile enough supplies to support a large-scale battle.
After a large transport ship comes in with a shipload of people and supplies, it takes time for it to leave Comoros.
This is why Gu Hang continues to be greedy for Comoros. The throughput is simply not enough.
Even when a daring staff officer from the Alliance's General Staff proposed a crazy combat plan, even though many people opposed it and many people thought it was very risky, it was still sent to Gu Hang's desk with the support of some equally crazy people.
And Gu Hang actually approved it directly!
The whole plan was somewhat complicated in terms of execution. It required the mobilization of many troops and a lot of advance preparation. But in the final analysis, the core was just one thing - to launch the most sudden attack when the Dark Eldar were least prepared and least expected.
Whether it's humans or black people, they all know that peace is just an illusion and there will be a war in the future. And, the black people will definitely not watch humans continue to increase their troops.
They don't have much time left. It is estimated that the war may break out again in two to three months at the shortest, or half a year at the longest.
The specific time depends on how well the dark-skinned people prepare themselves.
Ideally, they would naturally want to choose a critical point before the gap between the two sides widens.
That is, when human troops have not arrived in large numbers and their own preparations have been basically completed.
As for the alliance, the best course of action is to delay the war for a few years. Not only should the alliance's troops be sufficient, but also the accumulated weapons, ammunition, energy, food and other war reserves should be sufficient before the war can begin.
What accounts for the largest transportation throughput of an artillery unit? It is not the personnel and artillery, but the huge shells!
The same goes for other troops, even the light infantry. A 90-kilogram elite soldier, with weapons, ammunition, food, and a set of ceramic steel armor, weighs a total of 50 kilograms.
This is just a one-time mission, so please bring basic equipment and supplies.
If they have to go out for a few more times, or hold a fixed position for a few days, they will have to rely on logistical supplies to deliver a steady supply of bullets and food to the front line in order to maintain their combat effectiveness. The total weight can easily become larger than the soldiers themselves.
All have to be transported to Comoros.
But anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Dark Eldar would not just sit there and watch humans do this.
So will the human side just wait for the other side to be ready, and then pick an attack opportunity that is most suitable for the dark skins themselves, and launch an attack, while they themselves will simply consolidate their defense and wait for others to attack?
That machine was passive. Relying on the defense line that was connected in all directions but also leaky everywhere, it was easy to be broken and shredded.
Since the war is bound to break out eventually, we might as well take the initiative into our own hands.
The dark-skinned people would never have imagined that the Terra Expeditionary Force had just left, and the number of human troops in Comoros was the smallest for some time to come, but humans actually dared to launch a full-scale proactive attack at this time!
(End of this chapter)
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