Chapter 422, the highest command authority?
"When Gu Hang first proposed taking the initiative to attack, I actually disagreed."
Tilemance's voice rang in Yelicia's ears.
The naval battle that broke out in the void outside the Steel Wing Star has come to an end.
At this moment, the human combined fleet is fiercely attacking the fleeing green-skinned ships, trying to gain as much victory as possible in the pursuit.
After the green-skinned No. 1 ship was destroyed, the No. 2 ship was immediately followed.
The only two heavy cruisers were destroyed, causing a huge decline in the greenskin fleet's combat effectiveness.
This is still based on the comparison of hard power.
Ship No. 1 is the flagship of the green-skinned ship, and their pirate overseer is on that ship.
His death immediately left the huge green-skinned fleet without its backbone.
He can definitely lead the fleet to this victory.
The problem of not having an established supreme command authority must also be resolved.
Tielemans is not fit to be that commander-in-chief.
Just leave it to the naval generals to do it. He needs to close his eyes and rest.
The so-called 'current matter', of course, refers to hunting down the remnants of the Greenskin Fleet and maximizing the results of the battle.
Gu Hang didn't think that Lieutenant General Tilemance would be able to make a correct and decisive judgment even if he told the other party in advance the extent of his psychic power.
That's good.
...
Thinking of this, Tilemance was not as happy as he should have been.
Tielemans did not feel that he was engaging in internal struggle and unified command. This matter was very important. As the commander of the Pegasus Fleet and a serious Imperial Navy Vice Admiral, he should be the owner of the highest command authority of the navy.
The problem that came to mind before: the chaotic and inconsistent command of the human fleet seems to need to be resolved.
The Concerto also appeared in the battle to chase down the green-skinned fleet, but it had little to do with Gu Hang.
The gap between the two is quite big.
This pursuit battle lasted for more than three days.
After all, he just tore a hole in the curtain of reality and used part of the power of the Kingdom of Storms, rather than integrating with the essence of subspace within the Kingdom of God.
Gu Hang's remaining spirituality was only one-tenth of what it was at its peak.
After the destruction of the second ship, and several other ships that were not at the cruiser level but were equally strong, Gu Hang tore apart the void shield in a similar way and directed the ships to annihilate them with firepower. The green-skinned fleet The array collapsed.
The victory itself is certainly worth being excited about, but...it's obvious that this victory is related to him, but it is by no means led by him.
If Gu Hang had clearly told him about his abilities before the war started, how could he appear so hesitant and embarrassing when the whole army attacked?
"Yeah, a brilliant victory."
Of course stability is important. Before Gu Hang arrived, when Tilemance was clinging to the Steel Wing Star, the more stable he was, the happier Gu Hang would be.
There is a high probability that before witnessing it with his own eyes, he would still have doubts about what Gu Hang said, and then he would think that it was more important to be safe during his actions, thus missing the opportunity.
Now that the overall situation has been decided and only conventional pursuit operations are left, there is certainly no need for him to intervene in the command of the ship.
If the human fleet actually had a chance to pursue it again, wouldn't it just run away from the astral tunnel? Human ships can also pass through.
They started to run away.
Don't cause trouble, hold the Steel Wing Star firmly and wait for me to come.
"Because I trust him." Yelicia said calmly, "Although I don't know what he will do or to what extent he can do it, I believe he is not a stupid person. He naturally has his reasons for making decisions. Facts It also proved that following his command gave us a brilliant victory."
Looking at her like that, it was obvious that she would support Gu Hang.
"Then you heard his order and rushed forward without hesitation?"
However, Tilemance's phased mission has been completed. In the future, pure stability cannot solve all problems.
In the process, he also considered the current problem of chaotic command of the combined fleet.
However, most of the green-skinned ships that escaped ran through the tunnel from the Steel Wing Star to the Temir system, and Temir already belonged to the Golden Pass star region.
However, these things can be put aside later, and the current things must be finished first.
It tore apart the energy shields of four green-skin ships in succession, including the No. 1 and No. 2 ships, and also supported hundreds of thousands of heroic spirit legions fighting in each green-skin ship. This was very difficult for Gu Hang. , which is also quite expensive.
In the end, nearly two hundred greenskin ships escaped.
It was at this time that Tilemance finally had time to find someone to chat with.
However, he did not say these words to Yelicia.
The remaining work is to pursue the victory and expand the results.
...
Yelicia smiled slightly and said, "I didn't expect him to be able to do this."
So far, the human fleet has achieved an unquestionable victory.
No one knows what the current situation of Jinguan is. The risk is still too high if you rush after him rashly.
forget about it.
In fact, this battle could never have been a battle of annihilation. If the human navy can defeat the enemy, it is already very good. It has no ability to engage in encirclement or annihilation wars.
The disintegrated green-skinned ships fled in all directions, and it was impossible for the human side to separate so many branch teams to continue the pursuit.
Still the same sentence: If you are not sure of completely annihilating the greenskins, don't push them to death. If you really have to split up your fleet to pursue them no matter how the greenskins split up your team, you might as well chase the greenskins and see that the pursuers behind you are not that powerful, and turn around and kill you.
It is already quite good to get the current results.
Moreover, despite the fact that the greenskins ran away with half of the ships, the loss of combat effectiveness was far more than this proportion.
During the pursuit, since it was already thought that it was impossible to wipe out all the green-skinned ships, it was natural to focus on the ones with the highest value. The two green-skinned heavy cruisers were destroyed in the previous fleet battle. Of the remaining five greenskin ships, which were equivalent to human light cruisers, only one escaped in the end. The remaining four ships were all destroyed!
The loss of most of the main ships left the remaining green-skinned ships, although there were still two hundred in number, with virtually no combat effectiveness. If there was another fleet battle, the human fleet could easily wipe them out without Gu Hang taking action.
The start of the Battle of Steel Wing Star was a sign that the Hippogriff sector was fully invaded by green skins. At that time, the total number of greenskin ships entering the Hippogriff Sector was about 1.5, and the total number of greenskin legions carried inside them was between 3 million and million.
But now, only two hundred ships have escaped. A conservative estimate is that the greenskin's troop losses will reach about 6000 million.
If the greenskin fleet is dropped on the surface of the Steel Wing Star, the 3500 million that have been essentially abandoned, as well as those in the Hippogriff sector that are still resisting, but their final fate will undoubtedly be wiped out. Counting tens of millions of greenskins, the Iron Teeth clan has lost at least hundreds of millions of troops in the Hippogriff sector.
This is a big win without a doubt!
Ever since the great chief 'Titus' was born, and with the wealth that the Irontooth clan had accumulated over the past few decades, he swarmed out of the four occupied star regions, the Irontooth Orcs had brought the human army from space to the The ground was shaken. Starting from the Jinguan Star Area and going all the way to Yunluo, their troops were unstoppable and could only retreat all the way.
But now, the Iron Teeth Clan's military front was finally blocked for the first time.
Although this is just a branch fleet, the real main force of the Iron Teeth Clan is the legion personally commanded by Chief Titus. However, a division composed of four hundred green-skinned ships is by no means a force that can be underestimated.
Two hundred ships were lost, including most of the main ships, and more than 100 million troops were lost. Even for the Iron Teeth clan as a whole, this loss cannot be ignored.
It is foreseeable that if no major changes occur in the future, the disaster of the greenskin invasion in Qima Land can be regarded as alleviated.
But although the disaster has been resolved, the threat still exists.
I don't know when the enemy will come back again.
After suffering this failure, if the greenskins launch another large-scale invasion, their force will definitely be even greater than this time.
By then, will the alliance be able to fight against it?
This depends on how far the alliance can grow.
In Gu Hang's view, the most essential aspect of the victory in the Steel Wing Star battle was that it bought a relatively long period of time for the development of the alliance.
Although he couldn't tell how long this time would last, it was good to have time.
The alliance is becoming stronger every minute and every second.
...
After the pursuit was completed, the main force of the human fleet returned to the Steel Wing Star.
The battle on the ground is still going on.
Many orks died in the orbital bombardment, but obviously it couldn't be all of them.
In fact, most of the green-skinned orcs actually survived.
It's basically just hanging on for a while. In the previous large-scale orbital bombing, many of their clusters were blown apart and exploded. The loss of a large amount of heavy equipment left these greenskins unable to launch any large-scale attacks even if they were still alive.
However, just surviving does not mean that the remaining orcs can be easily solved.
On the contrary, according to the estimates of the Alliance Army Staff, if the Steel Wing Star is to completely eliminate the threat of green-skinned orcs, it will be a war lasting five to ten years.
The orcs, who had no offensive capabilities, shifted into a dispersed and completely defensive posture. They dug burrows and mixed spore-forming organisms with native vegetation to form one stronghold after another.
When these strongholds are discovered, they will be attacked. The human army will quickly mobilize heavy artillery to encircle, suppress and bomb. Then the armored troops will rush in with infantry to eliminate the living orcs and eradicate the green-skinned plants.
And if some strongholds are particularly well-defended or large-scale, the human army will not tangle with them, and will directly call for orbital bombing, and wait until the ground troops are bombed before entering.
But the problem is that there are too many of these strongholds.
Tens of millions of orcs and goblins are scattered across tens of millions of square kilometers of land in the northern continent of the entire planet. Some small strongholds may only have dozens or hundreds of greenskins.
It is not difficult to eliminate them, but it is quite difficult to find them, and to find them all.
Orbital bombing also has a similar problem. It is impossible to bomb every stronghold when attacking. If a stronghold is too small, it may not be worth the artillery shells and missiles, so it is not worth bombing. The fleet's firepower cannot be consumed like this, even if cost is not considered, the inventory and productivity are not enough to be so wasteful.
In the end, those strongholds can only be found one by one and the army gnaws them one by one.
Even Gu Hang couldn't keep tens of millions of Alliance troops on the Steel Wing Star to suppress bandits for a long time. Many other planets still need to be rescued by the alliance's troops.
In fact, he planned to withdraw all the Alliance Army in half a year, leaving only the 30 million people of the Dragon Eagle Legion and the Raging Bear Legion.
I believe that after half a year, even if the green skins have not been cleared away, the remaining number will definitely be less than 10 million, and they will not be able to form aggregation. The two Astra Militarum legions are slowly strangulating here, striving to clean up the Steel Winged Star within three to five years. By the way, it also serves as a guard force to prepare for the next possible greenskin invasion.
...
After arranging the army's work, Gu Hang convened a naval meeting without stopping.
In the starport of Steel Wing Star, most of the captains participated in this meeting, except for a few who were still on duty on their own ships.
Especially the captains of the seven cruisers of the Pegasus fleet, each of whom is an imperial general, at least with the rank of brigadier general, they all arrived.
Everyone's faces were filled with smiles.
In the previous great victory, the price paid by the human side was very low. Less than forty warships were destroyed, of which only three destroyers and eleven frigates were truly heartbreaking. The remaining twenty-six patrol ships or armed merchant ships were worthless.
So what reason is there to be unhappy?
At the dinner before the meeting, everyone was having a good time.
There will be a meeting afterwards, so it is not easy to drink; as the war has just ended, the dinner party cannot be luxurious.
But no matter what, it can't stop the enthusiasm of the atmosphere.
However, among these smiles, some are not so pure.
Tielemans, and the three cruiser captains, were talking together.
Their discussion ended quickly, with what appeared to be some degree of agreement.
The dinner ended and the meeting began.
The first half was nothing special. At the meeting, Gu Hang and Tilemance stood together. In front of many officers, they happily announced the results of the battle, commemorated the fallen comrades, and announced that everyone's meritorious deeds would be recorded. , as a result of the battle, the soldiers will receive the glory and rewards they deserve, and the captains of Gu's Trading Company who were recruited will also receive compensation and war bonuses from the empire.
The second half is the key.
After most of the people left, the only ones left were the seven cruise captains of the Pegasus fleet and Gu Hang.
At this time, Tilemance no longer kept smiling, but raised the first issue in a serious manner:
"All the ships of the Tianma Fleet are currently here. Next, we need to clarify the command authority. With the current war situation, the Tianma Fleet no longer needs to be split into two parts. Major General Du Shiliang, the formation led by you will start immediately. Return to the team and belong to my command together."
(End of this chapter)