After receiving the exact information from the Joint Star Command Center, Army Lieutenant General Wolfgang, the commander of the Eighth Theater of the Federal Sunset Star, who was sitting on the sofa in his office and having a remote meeting with the commanders of various theaters, clicked After holding up the pipe in his mouth, he looked at each other and smiled with the other commanders in the projection who had also received the latest information.
"This old boy, he really guessed it..."
After first nodding in recognition of Shestakov's brilliant record, Wolfgang then shook his head, with a hint of helplessness in the smile on his lips.
"Since the Navy has overfulfilled the tasks assigned to them by the Generalissimo, our Army must also take action."
Not long ago, the lieutenant general, who seemed to be at ease in front of all the commanders, raised his hand to take off his pipe, put the bowl close to the ashtray and tapped it a few times. After cleaning the accumulated ash for a while, he stood up from the leather sofa and Buttoned the first button on the collar of the military uniform.
The remaining army generals who had not left the remote meeting stared at this - most of them were of the same generation as Wolfgang, and they had worked with him in the federal army for more than ten years at least, so they were interested in this. A veteran on the battlefield knows a lot about his little habits.
Among them, buttoning the first button of the general's uniform is a very representative little habit - for this tough general, this action means that he devotes all his attention to commanding operations. best performance. At least the commanders present had seen Wolfgang tidying up his uniforms with such a serious face for the first time since arriving at Tianxi Star.
"Your Majesty Cagat, the Eighth War Zone you command is the most comprehensive among the twelve war zones, so we have no objection to the counterattack being sounded by your soldiers. But before launching the offensive, we still You need to confirm your plan to avoid letting those navy laugh in vain."
When Wolfgang returned to his desk and started sorting out the documents of the battle plan, a federal army major general wearing a white military uniform and in charge of the Tianxi Star Jishi Theater joked: "If there is a need for military strength, I can Support the troops and corresponding weapons and equipment of the two assault corps to the Eighth War Zone. My boys here have no battle to fight at all, and their body bones are getting rusty every day!"
"Don't take it lightly, Lord Canaan Duer. I just received news this morning that the Qien Empire seems to have deployed an additional 300 to 400,000 troops in the Jishi area, and is equipped with a large number of heavy weapons. I believe that in the near future, Your troops will be as busy as the rest of the theater."
Wolfgang stood up the folder filled with top-secret plans in his hand and tapped it on the table, recalling in his mind the instructions given by Generalissimo Beauclair to himself and several senior generals before the legion set off.
"What the Federation needs is an intact planet. No matter what happens, the ecological environment of Tianxi Star cannot be seriously damaged. Otherwise, it will be a small matter not to be able to mine the Bessarian veins normally. The substantial increase in the cost of colonization is unacceptable to the Federation. result."
Wolfgang, who was carrying a heavy responsibility, certainly kept the Grand Marshal's instructions in mind, and easily judged Beauclair's future plans for the planet beneath his feet.
If the huge reserve of Besserian Stone is the finishing touch of Tianxi Star, then the planet itself is the base of this magnificent masterpiece. The absence of the finishing touch will not affect the true value of this masterpiece handed down from generation to generation. But if the base All have been completely destroyed, so no matter how huge the reserves of Bessarian stone veins are, the high mining costs will make Tianxi Star a real piece of useless material.
The space wars in the interstellar era are indeed extremely cruel, often involving collisions between tens of millions of tons of alloys and steel. Every navy warship with a size that covers the sky is a nightmare for ground troops.
Especially for a planet like Tianxi Star that does not have a complete anti-orbital bombing defense system, as long as there is enough time and ammunition, even a frigate can collapse the entire planet's ecosystem and turn it from a vibrant planet to a planet. The tropical planet turned into a lifeless and barren planet, or even a dead rocky planet.
But this does not mean that a ground war that breaks out on the surface of the planet cannot cause enough damage to the planet itself. If the command levels of both sides do not need to consider the impact of the ecological environment on their own troops and the public opinion guidance of the Star Ocean Community, then it may only take one By firing a proton shell, tens of thousands of troops can be reduced to ashes, along with permanent changes to the surrounding landforms and environment of hundreds or thousands of square kilometers.
This also means that if the Federation gains a decisive advantage on the ground battlefield of Tianxi Star, the Qian Empire army, realizing that the situation is over, is very likely to choose to die with the Federation and use heavy weapons that can change the ecological environment of the planet to attack the entire planet. Indiscriminate bombing of the planet's surface.
As for whether the enemy would send a fleet over for orbital bombing, Wolfgang might have been worried about this when the war had just begun or a month ago, but after the intelligence agency confirmed Admiral Shestakov's hunting mission, After the success of the killing operation, he was sure that the severely damaged outer ring fleet would never devote its remaining strength to such a desperate operation.
Therefore, as long as Gu Quan grasps the rhythm of the ground battlefield and gradually encroaches on the enemy's occupied areas, he always makes the opponent think that there is still a chance to win. In the end, like Shestakov, he will seize the fleeting opportunity to win. The more than 20 million troops deployed by the Qien Empire on Tianxi Star were defeated in one fell swoop.
However, this battle plan is difficult to say and even harder to implement.
The navy repeatedly lured the enemy and finally used the loopholes to gather and annihilate the enemy fleet. There is not much to learn from the army, because the fault tolerance rate of ground warfare is much higher than that of fleet artillery battles, and the transportation routes are not cut off. Under such circumstances, both sides can easily make up for their losses on the battlefield, whether it is one million or ten million.
And this is also the reason why Wolfgang did not choose to continue the attack after encircling and annihilating millions of Qian Empire troops a month ago - the heavy armored troops that were the spearhead of the offensive needed time to recuperate, and the navy allocated them to the army. The gunboats and heavy fighters used to assist attack and reconnaissance have also suffered serious losses. The Joint Star Base Camp needs to coordinate to help the army "grab" a batch of gunboats from the navy.
In this kind of confrontation where neither side can be called exhausted, the side that takes the initiative to attack will never end well. This is the lesson Wolfgang learned from countless simulation exercises and actual combat, and it is also the lesson that allowed him to become an Army Lieutenant General. , an important factor in commanding millions of elite troops in the Federation.
But after a month-long rest, almost all battle losses in the Eighth Theater were quickly and effectively replenished. Amidst the roar of the federal war machine, the enemy's continuous attacks not only failed to weaken the Eighth Theater's Strength, on the contrary, makes the soldiers on the front line more united and more experienced.
Of course, it is also more deadly.
However, this time Wolfgang did not intend to use the precious lives of human soldiers as a bargaining chip to open the way, and he did not intend to use the increasing number of combat robots in the strategic reserve.
After the Qin Empire has deployed more elite troops in the inner ring and a large number of slaves and servants, the Human Federation's army will also demonstrate their outstanding achievements in military construction in the flames of war - the mutant troops, which can also be called aliens. force.
Morphogenesis, which was originally a branch of pharmacology, eventually took the road of military use in the military-first federation. Various special drugs that can improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers and provide first aid on the battlefield have sprung up in the hands of experts, among which the most fascinating What attracts people's attention is the alien army with strong combat effectiveness.
Thousands of hungry beasts carefully designed by bioengineers are sleeping quietly in the cryogenic chamber of a specially designed troop carrier. Their fangs and claws that can easily penetrate steel and their thirst for killing are tailor-made for them by engineers. Excellent weapon.
After watching the alien troop drills on the experimental planet, even the old-school army generals marveled at it. They bluntly said that any configuration other than melee equipment questioned the engineers' continuous improvement of the mutant troops and increased mutations. The intelligence and weapon configuration of the monsters cannot bring any significant effect except destroying the cost-effectiveness of the alien troops.
In order to better command these beasts that will tear apart everything in their way, a team of scientists from the United Stars has settled in a solid bunker that is still quite far away from the front line, using biological signal generators and neural implants to drive away the angry groups. The ferocious beasts swarmed towards the enemy's position.
Any creature that attempts to stop the torrent of flesh and blood will eventually become food for the alien troops, become the food in their bellies, and turn into nutrients that nourish their fangs and claws, helping the raging beasts to fight until the enemy is completely destroyed or their own side is completely destroyed. .
Whether the scales and armor covering Qien's human body are stronger or whether the flesh of the mutants is more powerful, Wolfgang is looking forward to it.
"Notify the scientists in bunkers one to three to immediately unfreeze half of the alien troops in the warehouse. I don't want casualty figures, I just want the enemy's forward positions!"
As Wolfgang punched the cover of the action plan book hard, a brutal ground battle began that was far less gorgeous than a fleet artillery battle, but far more bloody than a space battle.
