Chapter 152, it's so big and green
Roast Axe, together with the big iron tank of evil fear he was driving, was killed by fifty rounds of 155mm howitzers falling from the sky.
The dense artillery fire fell, and he had just recovered his power, and he had no time to leave the explosion range.
And his armor, no matter how strong it is, can't withstand such a baptism of artillery fire.
Of course, in this process, accidental injury is inevitable.
Within 2 minutes, there were still many soldiers of our own side, and it was too late to run to a safe place.Even if they found a bunker on the spot, if they were too close to the explosion area, they would still die.
But this is the necessary price.
Gu Hang's proactive attack only cut the price to the minimum.
It is of course valuable to save one or two hundred soldiers from dying.
The death of Roast Ax also marked the complete collapse of the front that led the orcs to confront the human army for more than a month.
Moreover, after the morale collapsed, the green skins had no way to escape.
The front, back, left, and right are surrounded by human armies. Even if they can fly into the sky and escape from the ground, they will not be able to escape.
And this is exactly Gu Hang's goal.
What he wants is not just a battle of defeat, but also an uncompromising battle of annihilation.
Although the casualties are generally not small, there may be more than 1000 casualties in the attack across the board.But the result in exchange was that at least four thousand green skins were wiped out.70% of the enemies died from the artillery cover that rained down in the early stage.
At this moment, Gu Hang saw a new change in his [Event] panel.
[Event: Green Skin Threat]
[The green-skinned orcs that inexplicably appeared on the planet have grown into a threat that cannot be ignored in a few years.But under your leadership, the heroic warriors not only defended against the infestation of the green-skinned orcs, but also wiped out their main force with orbital bombing, artillery coverage, and an army-wide attack.However, whether it's the intelligence detected ahead or your own feelings, these green-skinned orcs look very unusual. They don't look like wild orcs that developed independently on Star Fury, but they also don't look like wild orcs from the star. Invading space orcs. ]
[Phase 1 Objective: Completed]
[Phase 1 reward: T5-level additional unit training option - Beast Slaughter Regiment, obtained]
[Phase 2 goal: Find out the reason for the rise of the green skins. ]
[Stage 2 reward: an important piece of information]
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In the [Event] panel, the rewards for the first stage of [Green Threat] have been settled.
Gu Hang was able to see the training option of the new additional unit of 'Slaughtering Beast Regiment' in the [Soldier Card] interface.As long as it is a troop above T5, if you spend more gifts, you can give the troop a special attack effect against the green-skinned orcs.
As for the 'slaughter beast' feature that the third independent regiment directly gave for free, it can actually be included in the rewards of the first stage, saving him 3 gift points.
And the second stage was originally what Gu Hang was going to do.It's just that the so-called 'important information' reward made him a little concerned.
What will it be?
We will know when the time comes.
After looking at the updated event information for a while, Gu Hang stopped paying attention.
The situation on the battlefield is still the top priority.
After disintegrating the main resistance of the green-skinned orcs, the large army rested on the spot, and at 5:6 p.m., they ate the dinner delivered by the logistics team, rested for another hour and a half, and set off again at 30:[-] p.m. , to the depths of the ruins of the tower.
It's not radical either.
There should still be a small number of green skins surviving in this position, but it doesn't matter anymore.
It doesn't matter if you don't care about it at all. After all, the follow-up troops will continue to perform tasks in the depths of the ruins of the tower, and the logistics supplies will also need to pass through here before they can be transported up. The safety of this place still needs to be guarded.
Therefore, Gu Hang left behind the sixth and seventh garrison divisions, one north and one south, responsible for continuing to clear up the sporadic green skins that might still survive in this position, and as a backup force to ensure the safety of the logistics line.
Leaving aside the task of clearing and suppressing, there is no difficulty at all.
And the main force advancing to the depths also encountered no difficulties.
The previous orbital bombing was no joke. Under such a large-scale attack, very few green skins could survive.
Especially the most important target: the starting position of the green leather attacking force, as well as their base camp, have been hit hard.
The firepower received by other places is relatively light, but the number of green skins is also small.
When the army was advancing all the way, it was true that some sporadic green skins could still be seen occasionally, but they were not a threat at all.
Of course, in order to ensure stability and the later stage, Gu Hanghai society will leave a garrison division on each road of nearly [-] kilometers.
While ensuring the logistics access, it is also responsible for eliminating the local green-skinned orcs.
Soon at around 12 o'clock that night, the troops arrived at the gathering place of the green-skinned orcs that the space fighters had notified before.
According to the latest information before the most orbital bombing, there should have been more than 4000 green-skinned orcs and three times the number of fart cannon fodder gathered here, as well as a considerable number of heavy equipment that is more sophisticated than the ones encountered before. .
However, now there is only a huge crater and a large piece of wreckage.
In the center of the greenskin staging area, there is a huge crater with nothing in it.On this huge crater, it is reasonable to unite thousands of people, but at this moment, they are all gone.
There are no bones left in the true sense.
On the periphery of the crater, some suspicious wreckage began to appear.
Looking at the appearance of the wreckage, one can roughly guess that it should belong to some green skin corpses or fragments of equipment.
But it's just speculation.
Fragments that don't form a shape at all, things that melt and then cool, can only be guesswork.
If it is further away, there will be some parts that can be identified before being destroyed, such as fingers, half thighs, etc. Here, the corpses will appear denser.
And farther away, you can see some complete wreckage of equipment, such as overturned, scorched and tattered trucks, unmovable killing tanks, and relatively complete charred corpses.
The green-skinned orcs who gathered here valiantly and vigorously, who were about to set out to destroy everything, suffered a devastating blow here.
It is not known if any green-skinned orcs survived the bombing, but even if there were, there must not be many alive, and they must have run away long ago.
Gu Hang is still very satisfied with such a blow effect.
But the only thing that makes him feel a little uneasy is why the space fighters didn't send him the information of the strike effect before?
It shouldn't be.
The special operations team left the area that may be affected by orbital strikes after finishing marking the targets more than ten hours ago. They have more than ten hours to evacuate, so the problem should not be serious.
Even, there is no need to retreat so far, as long as you maintain a certain distance, and then make sure that you are not marked by orbital strikes, there will be no artillery fire from space, and you will naturally be in safety.
After the orbital strike was over and the magnetic field of the wireless communication stabilized, they also had a phone call with Gu Hang, which was regarded as a report of safety, indicating that they were not affected by the orbital strike, and at the same time accepted Gu Hang's request to go to the Go to the two most important strike targets, which are the gathering place and the base camp of the greenskin army, to investigate the effect of the orbital strike.
It stands to reason that with their distance, they must be able to find out the situation very quickly.
But the actual situation is that the large army led by Gu Hang has already seen the situation of the green-skinned orc assembly area with his own eyes, but the special operations team, which should have reported the information long ago, has not received any news.
It's twelve o'clock at night, it's getting late.All the officers and soldiers went through a battle starting at eleven o'clock in the morning, and then continued to advance among the ruins and wipe out the green skins. When they got here, they had no time to rest except for a lunch break in the thirteen hours. Tired now.
It is also not good to let the large troops move.
He called up the radioman and sent a radio request to the Phoenix Chapter.
No echo.
He felt even more wrong.
He called Perbov and arranged for his troops. After a rest, he will head towards the green-skinned orc base camp mentioned in the previous intelligence early tomorrow morning to conduct a sudden investigation. The most important task of the special campaign is to find traces of the special operations team.
Gu Hang was quite worried.
Although there are five interstellar warriors in the action team, theoretically there will be no major problems, but...
He could sacrifice a single Space Marine against the Primordial Owl Cult, let alone against the Greenskins.
In particular, these greenskins look slightly different from wild greenskins that develop independently from spores.
Wild greenskins and space greenskins are both greenskins. There is no difference in body structure and social form. It is nothing more than that the latter has developed stronger and has a higher level of technology. There are powerful orc warriors and even orcs. Warlord rule.
The most terrifying orc disaster in the legend happened 7000 years ago, and that disaster almost destroyed the entire human empire.
But before the powerful space orc clans are eliminated, the orcs that have grown up independently on certain planets and have not yet become a threat to the galaxy will be called wild orcs.
The way the greenskin infection spread to another planet is difficult to trace.During an interstellar voyage, some cargo carried green spores invisible to the naked eye and boarded the interstellar spacecraft.When unloading, it falls to the ground, or is blown somewhere by the wind. When it meets the right environment, it begins to take root and sprout, and grows the first Squig.This aggressive and ferocious little beast secreted and split many spores when hunting, fighting, wounding, excreting, and dying, and began to produce more Squigs, Grits, Even the orc kid.
Generally speaking, when the green skin ecology of the wild orcs on the planet has not yet fully developed, the green skins are in the state of a primitive tribe.There is neither technology nor organizational structure, just a group of beasts with relatively high intelligence.
They will fight each other and fight each other constantly.After all, fighting is the nature of the green-skinned orcs. As for whether the target of the battle is the same race or a foreign race, they don't really care much.
During the fight, they will select a green-skinned boss to be the leader of the tribe.The green skins that make up the tribe will fight with everything around them under the leadership of the boss.If they can't find it, they will split themselves, and then fight against themselves.
During this process, their numbers will gradually spiral up, and a large number of greenskins will die due to internal friction. Although the number fluctuates, the overall increase is still there.At the same time, with more battles and more greenskins, their so-called 'waaagh' force field gets stronger.
This kind of supernatural power that is inextricably related to psychic energy but not psychic energy is similar to some kind of "spiritual technology", which will make their group more and more powerful, and technology will also progress inexplicably. The 'I'm thinking' weapons and equipment that only greenskins can use will allow them to travel to the stars one day.
Of course, if there is no external force, this process will be very long.
But if there is an external force, for example, they have eaten the brains of enough foreigners, for example, they have seen enough war technology of humans or other intelligent races, then the orc technical boys, goblin technicians, and technical masters who have received "enlightenment"... A series of technical green skins will speed up this process rapidly.
Judging by this standard, in the ruins of the high tower, the orc tribe, which is only counted in the scale of [-] people, should not have such things as killing pots and large iron pots of fear.They have guns, they have thermal weapons, and it can only be said that they have developed fast enough.
Similarly, in the past reports about Garbage Town, it has never been mentioned that there are large-scale greenskins waging war with each other.
This doesn't quite match up with wild greenskins.
But it's even more different from the space greenskins.
If there is a green-skinned clan that can cross the star sea and stare at Fu Xiaoxing, then go to sleep, it is impossible to resist.
The green-skinned orcs that appeared here in the ruins of the high tower on the Fury owl star are indeed an exceptional case.
But it may also be that human beings haven't done enough research on the ecology of green-skinned orcs, and it's hard to mention this part of Gu Hang's recent crazy knowledge.
That's why he was worried about the current situation of the special operations unit.
This green-skinned orc clan is so special, who knows if there will be something that even the space warriors can't handle?
The emperor's angel of death, in many cases, is just like its demigod name; but in the universe, in the confrontation between ghosts and monsters, sometimes it dies piece by piece.
The green skin is just one of the many 'ghosts and snake gods'.
...
It can't be said that Gu Hang has a crow's mouth, but the special operations team is indeed in big trouble now.
Time went back to eleven o'clock at noon, and when the orbital strike fell, they were indeed unharmed.
They waited patiently for a period of time. After the residual heat from the bombing dissipated and the radio communication resumed, they reported to the governor that they were safe, and then they followed the governor's orders and headed for the location of the orbital bombing.
The main attack location that needs to be investigated is actually the gathering place and base camp of the green-skinned orcs.
The base camp they went to first.
Here, the scene is almost the same as the starting point. It is also a huge crater, and the surrounding buildings are all razed to the ground.The difference is that among the damage here, there are a lot more farts and craftsmen, and there are a lot more wrecks of green leather buildings.
Nothing more than that.
They wandered around the place where they were hit for a while, evaluating the effect of the blow, and checking to see if there were any survivors nearby.
The green leather military factory is confirmed to be destroyed;
Greenskin camp confirmed destroyed;
Three greenskin hatch farms were confirmed destroyed;
And I have to say that things like green skins are really terribly tenacious.Even a destructive bombing strike of this level is stronger than a nuclear bomb falling, but the place farther from the center of the explosion, especially when the attack comes, happens to be in some strong bunkers. It's really nothing.
Fortunately, the number is not large, and the distribution is scattered.
Without being discovered, they didn't take the time to eliminate them.Of course, if it is particularly convenient, it will be slaughtered if it is slaughtered.
With the characteristics of creatures like green-skinned orcs, as long as their boss is killed in the bombing, and there is no leader among the remaining green-skinned orcs, they will become "wild beasts with intelligence" .Acting purely on instinct, fighting each other until one of them comes out as the boss.
And this time is when they are at their weakest.As long as human beings seize this opportunity, they can be wiped out completely.
Then, carefully clean up every inch of the land that the orcs have experienced, and the orc crisis will probably be resolved.
Of course, with their tenacious nature, and the way their spore form develops, the orc crisis should never let our guard down.For a long period of time in the future, this planet must always monitor and investigate places where greenskin disasters once occurred, and regularly kill suspicious plants.
But as long as you don't relax your vigilance and follow the relevant rules and regulations of the empire, the problems are generally small, and most of them can be stifled at the stage of just emerging, so that no major crisis will erupt again.
But just when their mentality gradually relaxed, a roar came from somewhere far away.
They were taken aback, but quickly realized that their whereabouts should not have been discovered.
It was more like a green-skinned orc, howling and using sound to gather his subordinates.
The communication basically relies on yelling, which is a bit funny, but now no one can laugh out loud.
The emergence of this situation means that there is still an orc leader with appeal, and not a small appeal, in this place.
And it is unlikely that it was chosen just after a fight.On the one hand, it's not that fast, on the other hand, the freshman boss who just came out is unlikely to have such a temperament.
Then the answer is ready to come out: Under the previous tyrannical orbital bombardment, there was a powerful leader among the green-skinned orcs, and he did not die.
I don't know if it was luck, not being in the core area of the bombing, or some other reason, but this is obviously not good news.
They decided to check the situation.
If there are already a large number of green-skinned orcs gathered under his call, then forget it, just pass the news to the Governor, and then assign people to monitor it.
But if there are not many green skins gathered, Martins and the other five space fighters plan to kill the green skin boss.
The beheading tactic is one of the best tactics for the green-skinned orcs.
A huge 'waaagh', even an expedition across the star sea, needs a powerful orc warlord to organize and initiate it.Only a strong enough leader can hold the Greenskins together.
But at the same time, as long as the boss dies, the remaining green skins will immediately become a mess, and usually more than half of the people will be killed first for internal fighting.
They don't have the idea of exterminating their species and defending against foreign enemies first.
And even in a specific battle, the death of the leader of a team will greatly shake the greenskin team; the death of the leader of a battle will cause the entire battle to collapse...
When dealing with green skins, the best way is to find the biggest, greenest, and strongest one at the moment, and then slaughter it.
So on the battlefield, who is best suited to do this kind of thing?
Of course the Space Marines.
In past wars, as long as Phoenix was fighting green skins, they would have to perform similar tasks five, six, seven or eight times in one battle.
Right now, it's just a return to old business.
Even the Space Marines miss it a bit.
However, when they quietly went to the place and saw the green skins gathered there, they gave up the idea of raiding.
The number is more than they expected.
There are more than a thousand orc boys there.It's not even just light infantry, there are some combat trucks and killing tanks. Roughly counting, there are no less than [-] pieces of heavy equipment of all kinds.
Moreover, there are still sporadic green skins gathering here.
Martins was shocked by this amount.
Why are there so many?
During the discussion, they came up with an explainable guess:
It is estimated that this orc leader was leading the troops he gathered to the assembly point.Halfway, orbital bombing came.
The most important targets of the bombing were the base camp and the assembly area, and those two places suffered the most violent and inescapable blows; but they happened to be on the way, in the middle of the two places, and they were lucky to escape unharmed.
There must still be a lot of green skins who died. Just what Martins and the others saw, there were many orcs with wounds on their bodies.After all, in this wave of orbital bombing, there are not only two large macro cannons, but also twenty small macro cannons and hundreds of orbital missiles, which are scattered everywhere, and those things are very powerful and powerful.
But in general, thousands of greenskins survived.
The beheading tactic is difficult to implement.
Not only is there a large number of enemies, but the green-skinned orc leader is also worthy of attention:
It's so big and green.
(End of this chapter)