Chapter 431: There is no hope, just wait to die
Wu Jiarong did not believe that Shuangyuan IV could stop the green-skinned army.
Although this seemed to be the most reasonable explanation, Wu Jiarong still felt that those greenskins were holding back their ultimate move.
But she didn't tell anyone else.
Firstly, there is no evidence, and secondly, it is useless to talk about it.
Could it be that knowing that the greenskins were holding back their ultimate move, they stopped guarding when they reached Plateau Star?
That's obviously impossible.
The Star Territory Government and the Mingyang Sect have tried their best to arm the Plateau Planet.
The Astral Army of the Dragon Eagle Legion gathered here, with 4 branch legions, totaling more than million troops; the Skitarii of the Mingyang Sect came with more than million troops. Defense forces from multiple surrounding planets were mobilized in large numbers, totaling over a billion. It's not that more can't be mobilized, but the plateau planet's supply capabilities and troop delivery capabilities must be considered. Otherwise, I wish I could bring in more troops.
The five hundred warships could not even be arranged in orbit, and were divided into two parts. One part was led by the immobile Mechanical Ark, and relied on the fortress-like star port to form an orbital defense system. If the greenskins come to attack, they will definitely hit their heads and bleed.
However, if the orbit cannot be accommodated or forced into the orbit, it will be too crowded. The flagship of the Yunluo fleet, the Dragon Eagle, takes another part of the high-speed ships to cruise in the void, focusing on retreating when the enemy comes, and harassing the enemy when retreating. If the enemy dares to attack the defenders of the Mechanical Ark and the Fortress Starport, then the fleet cruising outside will attack the green fleet; if they chase them out, the squadron composed of all high-speed ships will run away.
Mainly a pull.
At this point, the clarion call of war officially sounded.
It was a bit unexpected for the green skin to do this, but it was also reasonable.
Another month and a half passed in this intense preparation.
The huge fleet even made humans give up their plans to cause trouble at the jump point. They only placed some void mines there, which are similar to landmines and sea mines and can be deployed in space areas. When a ship passes through the airspace, these void mine explosions will be triggered.
Even though she has undergone quite advanced body modifications, in a war of this scale, the strength of an individual is very little, and whether she can survive depends mainly on her fate.
The main force of the Iron-toothed Orcs is gathering.
There is no doubt that the greenskin fleet passed through the astral tunnel without any damage and appeared in the Upper Plateau Galaxy. Titus's orc flagship stood out, surging towards the planet in a majestic manner.
It's just that the universe is too big and the explosion range is too small. The range of transition points is as large as a dozen stars combined. It is impossible to cover them all. Otherwise, how many would have to be built?
In doing so, the main thing is to do everything in human affairs and obey fate.
The human side has made so many pre-war preparations. Relying on the orbital defense system and the existence of the backbone of Mechanical Ark, the entire Upper Plateau Planet has been built into a solid fortress. Of course, a strong attack will have to pay a huge price.
Their ferocious and brutal offensive made it difficult for the human fleet to withstand it. From the very beginning of the battle, both sides suffered huge casualties from each other.
The star observatory has detected the information that a large number of ships passed through the astral tunnel from Frostfield IV to the Upper Plateau Star.
What's more, if you give up, what will you do next?
Behind is the Steel Fire Dragon Star Area, and after two more jumps, you will reach the Jindi Star.
In short, all preparations have been made and pre-war mobilization has been completed. It is absolutely impossible to give up because of a conjecture without evidence.
There is no doubt that the greenskin side suffered more casualties.
The greenskin fleet launched a fierce attack on the plateau star without any buffer.
Wu Jiarong could only do her best to continue working for the war.
After all, she herself was here and needed to face the greenskins. If she really loses the fight, her life will be seriously threatened.
Generally, they will be placed at transition points and around the orbit. These are considered to be the only way for ships to pass through, so that they can be effective.
so be it.
Let the war start on Jindi Star?
The defensive facilities there are stronger, but once there, there is really no defensive flexibility and no retreat, and I am afraid that winning will be the same as losing - if Jindi Star is reduced to a wasteland, then winning will be the same as not winning. .
The greenskins are finally here.
This is the style of the orcs.
Unreasonable, but fierce enough.
However, humans were also relieved.
Although, many orbital space stations are destroyed every day, fortress rail guns on the ground are blown up, and small ships are destroyed. But the greenskins also suffered considerable casualties.
The greenskins dropped a group of ground troops with an interception rate of 80%, but they got nothing back at such a high price. One billion defense troops plus million Astra Militarum plus million Skitarii. The ground defense capabilities of the Upper Plateau Planet are quite strong. The millions of green skins that came down were of no use at all. They barely occupied a small corner, and it was estimated that It won't be long before they are annihilated.
Even the orcs have no way to continue sending reinforcements.
The interception rate of 80% is so terrible that not even the greenskins can withstand this kind of loss.
If this exchange ratio continues, even if the human fleet is completely lost, the orcs will definitely lose 90% of their combat effectiveness.
By then, even if the Upper Plateau Star is lost, the orcs will not have the strength to continue pushing down.
When the Raging Flames and their fleet arrive, it will be time for humanity to sound the clarion call for counterattack.
However, just when the human soldiers and members of the Mechanicus on the plateau planet were enduring Titus' onslaught and gritting their teeth in anticipation of victory, the turning point of the war happened at a moment that no one expected. .
The Dragon Eagle of the Yunluo Fleet sent an alarm. They observed a huge object arriving in the Upper Plateau Galaxy, and when it was discovered, it was already not far from the planet's orbit.
This is really surprising.
The stargazers missed it completely!
Logically speaking, such a big thing should have been noticed when it passed through the astral tunnel, not to mention that after entering the void of the galaxy, it should be as bright as a star in the eyes of stargazers!
How could it appear so unexpectedly?
What is even more frightening is the next news from the Dragon Eagle: they call this unknown green-skinned creature the 'Battle Moon'.
This is an ancient term that once appeared in the historical records of the empire.
At present, green-skinned orcs are a nasty threat throughout the empire, known as the 'cancer of the universe'. The small one makes a planet miserable; the big one, like the Iron-toothed Orc Empire, puts the entire star field in danger of extinction; the largest one is located in the southeastern territory of the empire, which is a 'blood axe' spanning three or four star fields. "The Clan" is a huge and stubborn disease that has lasted for more than three hundred years. The entire universe has turned into a war zone, and we have to fight against it.
However, these are not as good as the real 'Beast Green Tide' six thousand years ago. The six orc kings, contrary to their nature, united together, united almost all the orcs in the universe, and launched a mighty waaagh. They even hit Holy Terra, which was a huge crisis that could destroy the human empire.
The final result ended with these six orc kings being eliminated one by one, and mankind once again passed the crisis of genocide. The historical records of the human empire also left a strong mark on this.
These records mention the ultimate war weapon of the Orc Empire: the Battle Moon.
The name "Moon" shows how huge it is, really like a small planet. It is the 'home' of the orcs, with a built-in efficient orc ecological system that can continuously give birth to new green-skinned boys;
It is the arsenal of the orcs, which can produce all the technological products and war equipment that the green skins can produce;
It is the core of the Orc fleet. It can store an entire green-skinned space fleet inside, and its own industrial facilities can even build new fleets;
It is an invincible space war machine. On offense, its ruthless firepower can destroy an entire human fleet in a short time. On defense, even a few sky-burning torpedoes or even extermination weapons such as Earth-blasting Star Destroyers can explode on it. Nor can it be destroyed. The super structural strength and special built-in defense structure make the Extinction Order weapons powerless.
In addition, the battle moon can tear apart the planet, absorb the available materials inside, and then use the internal industrial facilities to create new weapons, fleets, and repair its own damage. Therefore, in theory, if the defensive limit of Battle Moon is not overwhelmed, he will be able to fight without limit.
A dozen battle moons were the most powerful and despairing weapon of the orcs in the "green tide of beasts" that almost destroyed the human empire.
One can imagine how desperate the human side was when the Dragon Eagle said that a battle moon appeared in the Upper Plateau Galaxy.
What else to fight?
There is no hope, just wait for death.
But soon, after the initial shock, people had doubts:
According to historical records, the green wave that swept the entire empire only had a dozen battle moons; the Blood Ax clan, the largest orc empire in the universe, only had one battle moon, which was enough to make the human empire helpless, and more than a dozen Chapters, countless Imperial Marines and Astra Militarum gathered there, and they could only manage to reach a stalemate.
In a 'small' place like the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, how could the Iron Teeth Clan, which had not unified the Star Territory yet and only had a few star districts even a year ago, come up with something like the Battle Moon?
This is impossible!
Did Dragon Eagle get it wrong?
The captain of the Dragon Eagle, who was also the commander of the detachment, actually doubted what he saw before him.
He could understand why its presence had not been detected previously. There are also some so-called 'psychic boys' among the greenskins. The leaders of these greenskins are called shamans and prophets. They also have many magical abilities. Perhaps they or the orcs' special skills have developed abilities that can cover up the observations of stargazers and applied them.
However, he doubted the thing itself.
In fact, if you calm down and take a look, although it looks like the battle moon in the records, it is much smaller. Although it is still many times larger than an ordinary battleship, it is still different from the legendary thing that is really as big as a 'moon'.
Could it be a fake?
He was determined to try it out, but he didn't dare. He was afraid that if it didn't work out, his entire fleet would be trapped inside.
Hesitating and tangled, he could only keep sending back warnings, and then watched helplessly as the 'Battle Moon' came outside the orbit of the Upper Plateau Star.
The green-skin fleet, following the new arrival, began to once again launch a fierce attack on the human orbital defense system.
This time, the results were very different.
The human side is already very wary of the Battle Moon, but while its naval guns are powerful, they also have an accuracy that is completely different from ordinary green-skinned ships, and their range is also quite outrageous.
With two rounds of artillery fire, a cruiser-class main ship belonging to the Mingyang Sect suffered a fatal blow.
The destroyed wreckage was affected by gravity and fell into the planet's atmosphere. The crash may cause considerable ground disasters. But at this moment, no one cares about this anymore.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that going to Plateau Star is over.
Indeed, this battle moon is far less powerful than the legendary one. I don't know if it has any of the characteristics of the Battle Moon. It hasn't been displayed yet, but purely in terms of combat effectiveness, it's still far from enough.
But with this intensity, it is enough.
Coupled with the huge number of greenskin fleets and the original flagship, in the coming battle, human space power will be completely unable to compete with it.
When in the next two hours, one human ship after another was torn into pieces, and one space station after another was easily destroyed, this view almost became a reality.
So what to do next?
Wu Jiarong, who was inside the Mechanical Ark, was at a loss.
Then, she saw Chen Haixu.
The foundry general of Jindi Star was in a hurry with a few followers.
Wu Jiarong was about to go up and ask what to do next, but before she could speak, Chen Haixu had already spoken: "There is no time to delay, follow me."
Wu Jiarong just followed Chen Haixu in a daze and boarded a small fast ship.
The ship left the Mechanical Ark, and amid the bombardment of naval guns all over the space, it first narrowly escaped into the planet's atmosphere, and then orbited to the other side of the planet, where the situation was much more stable.
Then, the ship emerged from the atmosphere and ran at full speed away from the Upper Plateau Star.
Wu Jiarong, who was on the boat, was stunned for a while. She originally thought that Chen Haixu had some great plan. Only now did she realize that the foundry general wanted to run away.
Immediately afterwards, she felt a sense of fear:
She realized it later, but she was really lucky just now.
There were twenty or thirty ruling bishops on the Ark, but here, she only saw eight, but the three main business sages who were with the ship were all there.
The rest, both in the ark and on the surface of the Upper Plateau, appear to have been abandoned.
She neither has a high status nor is she a confidant. If it hadn't happened to happen, Chen Haixu would have no reason to take her with him.
When the war is bound to be lost and Mechanical Ark is likely to be destroyed, the difference in that moment is the difference between life and death.
She escaped from hell once.
Some time ago, she was lamenting the changes in her life, thinking that success was enough, but now she almost died on the ark.
Things are changing so fast it's scary.
Wu Jiarong, who was covered in cold sweat, came to her senses and thought of another point.
The main force of the human fleet is not preserved and is about to be destroyed. The plateau planet has fallen, the door to the Steel Fire Dragon sector is wide open, and the Jindi star will face the green skin attack without the protection of the main fleet...
The overall situation of this orc war has undergone major changes.
She must convey the news to Gu Hang immediately.
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(End of this chapter)