Chapter 743: Chapter 415, Steel Wing Star Battle_2 Chapter 743: Chapter 415, Steel Wing Star Battle_2 Under such circumstances, human troops must be deployed for defense in all terrestrial regions of the entire planet.
Even those desolate wildernesses that seem to hold no value mustn’t be neglected.
If a batch of Green Skins were to land in the wilderness and plant those Green Skin spores, and if they were to proliferate, the Green Skins wouldn’t even need to bear the heavy casualties of transporting troops from the Golden Pass Star Sector; they wouldn’t need to bother with airdrops anymore.
They would quickly build their unique ecological system in the wilderness, starting with basic fungal plants, through all sorts of Skugg Beasts, to fart spirits, and even Green Skin youngsters…
They would keep emerging from the ground and soon become a calamity.
If at present we are facing an enemy invasion, then if that step is reached, human troops will have to contend with a ‘planetary cancer’.
It is best not to let this situation occur, or at the very least, to delay it as much as possible.
In fact, the Green Skin Orcs really did make such an attempt.
They dropped some airdrop pods onto the southern continent experimentally.
This highlights the importance of maintaining vigilance across the entire planet.
It is impossible to completely obliterate the Green Skin Orcs.
On those hundreds of ships, there are plenty of Orc youngsters and fart spirits.
Sometimes, halfway through a battle, a few Green Skin Ships would return to the Golden Pass Star Sector to bring back more troops.
The most important objective for Yuan Chengchuan was to not lose anti-orbital capabilities;
The second objective was to prevent the enemy from establishing a stable ecological cycle.
If this trend was detected, even if it meant paying a not insignificant cost, or even calling for support from the busy Tianma Fleet, it was imperative to eradicate them resolutely.
The third objective was to eliminate as much of the enemy’s living force as possible.
With this guiding principle, Steel Wing Star eventually stabilized after the initial chaos at the start of the war.
The Green Skin Orcs were also quite committed to this ‘interesting’ war.
They continued to exert force on the planet’s surface, constantly pressuring the human orbital defense systems in space.
The war began to reach a stalemate.
And this was precisely the outcome Gu Hang had hoped to see.
If Steel Wing Star could become a giant magnet that firmly captivated the enemy’s attention and could also hold its ground, that would be for the best.
At the moment, it seems that if the Green Skins don’t send in large-scale reinforcements, it’s not just about holding Steel Wing Star for two months; holding it for half a year, a year, is very hopeful indeed.
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But soon, the Green Skins took some measures Gu Hang did not wish to see.
While their main force was blocking Steel Wing Star, they split off a portion of their force.
Arranged in groups of ten or twenty small junk ships, they moved towards the interior of the Eagle Horse Star Sector.
This was unstoppable.
If the enemy diverted a large force, then the Tianma Fleet was not dead; they could easily follow and concentrate their forces to eliminate the divided enemies.
However, if it was merely a small-scale diversion like this, with the main force still converging on Steel Wing Star, then if the Tianma Fleet initiated a decisive battle now and left the cover of Steel Wing Star’s orbital system, the chances of victory would still be low.
They still had to hunker down and disregard those small-scale diversions.
However, the significance of such small-scale diversions was not that great.
A dozen small Green Skin junk ships might not even have the combat capability of an average human Escort Ship.
Plus, with their thin hulls, they were unlikely to independently destroy a planet’s Orbital Defense system.
However, many worlds in the Eagle Horse Star Sector had Orbital Defense systems that were also average at best; there was little that could be done against these junk ships.
These junk ships roamed around freely, bombing a planet here and dropping a bunch of airdrop pods, then moving to another Star System.
Soon, the entire Eagle Horse Star Sector was engulfed in war.
Within the Star Sector, twelve worlds, nearly every one of them, suffered Green Skin invasions to a varying degree of severity.
Even the neighboring Mist Horse Star District to the north suffered.
The Green Skin ships that slipped from Steel Wing Star into the Mist Horse Star Sector’s Emerald Spring II Star System, as well as the Green Skins that invaded Emerald Spring I from the already war-torn Copper Barrier Star District, rapidly worsened the situation in the Mist Horse Star Sector.
And this behavior of the Green Skins significantly disrupted the support level for the war effort among the various human worlds.
Many planets, with their productive capacities destroyed and facing invasions, were forced to deal with immediate problems, reducing their contribution to the broader war effort.
At the same time, the Iron-Tooth Clan’s approach of scattering warfires everywhere also plunged multiple Star Sector borders into panic.
These were certainly detrimental effects, but from another angle, as panic was exacerbated, a plan that Gu Hang was advancing became easier to push forward.
With the entire alliance initiating a wartime regimen and racing against the clock to assemble forces in preparation for war, the alliance was also making extensive political efforts.
The location of the Tianma Star Sector lies in the southeastern corner of the entire Dragonhawk Star Domain.
This place also has another name, known as ‘Seven Horse Territory’.
The reason for such a name is that this corner is surrounded by six other star sectors centered around Tianma: Eagle Horse, Mist Horse, Purple Horse, Border Horse, Cultivating Horse, and Iron Horse.
Put together, they are known as the Seven Horse Territory.
And Gu Hang was promoting the establishment of the ‘Seven Horse Pact’, a military defense alliance.
In the face of the threat from the Green Skin Orcs, he hoped to establish a wartime mechanism that could integrate the powers of the other six star sectors.
The pact should stipulate that each star sector would establish a unified military command system and a unified resource allocation mechanism under the Seven Horse Pact.
Of course, the leader of the Seven Horse Pact would naturally be the Tianma Star Sector, that is, the alliance itself.
The alliance would guarantee the military security of every covenant world.
Gu Hang’s envoy, having boarded accelerated voyagers, went to various places, carrying his letters, to discuss with the leaders and planetary governors of the major star sectors.
The negotiation process for the Seven Horse Pact was not very smooth.
Mr.
Gu, aren’t you just taking advantage of the war to expand that so-called alliance of yours?
What’s the real difference between signing this Seven Horse Pact and joining the alliance?
Although, after signing the pact, the alliance will not continue to expand its system outward.
However, the military would have to listen to the command of the Seven Horse Pact, the Planetary Defense Army would no longer be their own, and additionally, there is a financial expense to fully support the ‘Pact Army’.
Providing personnel, providing resources…
Each of the planets naturally had significant doubts about this.
The Imperial Tax is already a huge burden for each planet, and now you want us to pay a ‘protection fee’ to your alliance?
Why should we?
Because you cannot withstand the Green Skins’ attacks by yourselves.
Another important factor was the overall situation in the entire star domain.
Not to mention the situation in the eastern part of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, it was the central and even the western parts where the Green Skin onslaught was truly raging.
The pivotal battle at the Steel Wing Star would not account for the real main force of the Iron-Tooth Clan.
In fact, the main force led by the Orc chieftain named ‘Titus’ followed the remnants of the Yunluo Fleet, bringing the battlefire deep into the core area of the Dragonhawk Star Domain.
From the Golden Pass Star Sector to the Curse Bone Star District, and onto the Snow Eagle Star Sector and Rapid Eagle Star Sector, they were all fully swept by the Green Skin tide.
The Yunluo Sector, where the capital of the Star Domain resides, and the Steel Fire Dragon Star Sector wherein lies the only Foundry World – Jindi Star – of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, are likely the next targets of the Green Skin Orcs.
In fact, the difficulty of interstellar communication with the capital of the star domain from the Seven Horse Territory has become exceedingly challenging due to the Green Skin tide.
The Imperial Tax collection that was supposed to start has been forced to a halt—the Tax Fleet can’t get through, the path is blocked by the Green Skins.
In such a situation, Mr.
Gu, the Planetary Governor, declared that he had been authorized by the Star Domain Government to take extraordinary measures in extraordinary times, even possessing the power to allocate this period’s Imperial Tax.
Many people were skeptical about this, unsure if it was true or false.
But in times of uncertainty, there were those who made a bold decision.
Ren Wanxia, the leader of the Eagle Horse Star Sector, announced first that he and all the planetary governors within his star sector would sign the ‘Seven Horse Pact’.
This set a good leading example.
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I slept all day yesterday, felt a bit better after taking antipyretics at night, and barely finished this chapter.
I’ll see if I have the energy to write another chapter tonight.
Going back to sleep now.
Below is a star map of the war zone.