Chapter 677, Besiege and Attack Reinforcements

The Emperor-class battleship 'Golden Pass' is the flagship of the alliance fleet currently led by Gu Hang.

At this moment, Gu Hang was having a good chat with Marshal Xi Rui of the Black Crusaders.

"... The people responsible for solving those minor troubles are Chief Judge Qin Zhiping and his Silver Watch and Stormtroopers. Please believe him, he will give you, Commander Gu, a satisfactory explanation."

Gu Hang smiled and nodded: "I believe him, Qin Zhiping is a reliable judge. Although the Anti-foreign Tribunal is targeting the alien enemy, that is their specialty. In essence, they are still judges, and they can definitely do their job well. They are just some jumping clowns, not critical."

Xi Rui heard Gu Hang's words about the possible internal conflict, as if he didn't care at all, and his heart was slightly awed.

It doesn't seem to be pretending.

But isn't this right?

It is in line with his and Qin Zhiping's earlier judgment.

When all parties were in cahoots and were trying to push him out to rebuild the northern legion, Xi Rui realized that this was a big pit.

He also hated those guys for their performance in the first Battle of Reyaduches.

Two fully staffed Black Crusaders fleets, as long as they don't encounter extreme situations, can walk sideways everywhere. But in this extremely intense war that affected several universes, it became like this.

It is undeniable that the biggest war criminal was his friend Marshal Leroy's own wrong judgment. However, since we have already entered the Princess Star Domain, it is meaningless to talk more about decision-making. In the naval battle, the direct cause of the human defeat was the vacillation of those non-direct troops.

Now, they still want to stir up internal strife for personal gain... Xi Rui never thought of agreeing.

Those people want merits, and an independent northern line legion as capital to strive for higher interests after the war, but Xi Rui doesn't want these.

Those mortals thought that his thinking was also on "status", "merit", "command", etc., but they were wrong.

His first goal is victory, for the empire, to solve this great enemy, and everything else can be put aside.

Do you really think that everyone lives for those little petty gains?

Even if it comes to interests, his most core interest is to fight with the alliance, enter Reyaduches, and wash away the shame of defeat on the regiment. If he can see how many of the more than 1,000 Black Crusaders who were previously sent to fight on the surface of Reyaduches survived in the process, and if he can rescue them as much as possible, it will be even better.

No matter from what aspect, Xi Rui's goals and interests will not be consistent with those of the remnants of the northern line, on the contrary, they are highly consistent with Gu Hang.

In this case, how could he mix with those people?

Coincidentally, Qin Zhiping's attitude at the meeting was also more reliable.

After the meeting with many leaders of the remnants of the northern line, he immediately discussed with Qin Zhiping what to do next.

As for Qin Zhiping's slight misunderstanding in the middle, it was just a small episode and harmless.

They quickly discussed how to lure the snake out of its hole, how to hit the snake at its weakest point, how to deal with the aftermath and take back the military power... In short, a series of plans have been relatively mature.

Of course, relying solely on their strength is still a little difficult. After all, the remnant army on the northern front has more people than them. The elite force is definitely far behind, which allows them to deal with those "traitors", but if they want to control the army after dealing with the people, so that there will be no chaos, and then these troops can also be used in future wars, then Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping will not have enough manpower.

But it doesn't matter.

They don't have enough people, but there are more people next to them.

During the time Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping came to the Alliance Army, they paid less attention to the situation of the Alliance Army. What they found, in addition to the Alliance Army's ability to fight, strong discipline, high degree of organization, and no signs of corruption, there is another point that they attach great importance to and are even surprised: the quality of the middle and lower-level officers of the Alliance is quite high, and the number and density of officers are also high.

The military system of the Alliance is different from that of the general Star Army. It will not have large regiments of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, nor will it have large companies of thousands of people. A company has a hundred people, a regiment has at most a thousand or two thousand people, and some large divisions have 30,000 to 40,000 people, but there are also some small and powerful brigade-level units...

Smaller organization, more levels, more officers, and the key is that the level of each officer is not bad.

The Alliance is fully capable of replacing its own officer team with the help of Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping after controlling the remnants of the northern legions and cleaning up all unreliable officers and personnel in the middle and upper levels.

Perhaps there may be some problems in the long-term digestion in the future, and there are some shortcomings in the command that the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers, but at least, during this war, the entire army can be used.

Not only did it eliminate the risk of internal strife, but the troops were also replenished.

But Gu Hang didn't care about it very much.

Or it seemed that everything was not beyond his expectations.

This also met Xi Rui's imagination.

Gu Hang probably has a plan for any outcome. Not to mention that he and Qin Zhiping have surrendered, even if he and Qin Zhiping stand on the side of the remaining troops on the northern front, Gu Hang has a way to suppress them at the lowest cost.

This is even more the reason why internal strife cannot be carried out: there is no chance of winning at all.

Those whimsical people have never carefully observed the alliance.

After talking about the Northern Front Army, Xi Rui planned to leave.

But Gu Hang stopped him.

"There is one more thing, much more important than that."

"Huh?" Xi Rui sat back again, a little confused.

He thought there was some operational mission, and it was a bit important, otherwise there would be no need to tell him specifically at this time.

Sitting with a serious face, he was mentally prepared in this moment.

It is normal for space warriors to shoulder some important tasks.

I just hope that the number of casualties will be lighter in the final calculation.

However, what Gu Hang brought up made him stunned, no matter how much mental preparation he made.

"I hope you will take over the entire frontal offensive. I will leave with the alliance's main fleet for a while..."

Seeing that Xi Rui was dumbfounded and wanted to speak, Gu Hang waved his hand first: "Don't be impatient. Please listen to what I have to say first."

Next, Gu Hang explained to Xi Rui in detail the information recently confirmed by the alliance and Gu Hang's thoughts on it.

When the Western Front Army entered the Queen's Star Territory with overwhelming momentum, the insect swarm sent a large army to resist. With great difficulty, they managed to block the attack of Salisius and Martins, but immediately, Gu Hang did not hesitate to attack from the east side.

The insect swarm also mobilized an army to block it, but unfortunately, it couldn't be stopped.

At this stage, the Insect Queen in Leyaduches has already exposed the problem of insufficient troops on hand.

Will the Void Zerg be short of troops?

It sounds ridiculous, but it's actually possible.

If we look at the Void Zerg as a whole, then of course there is no such problem. The human empire is already extremely large in terms of population. However, according to the estimates of relevant scholars, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the insect swarm.

Even if the main force of the Void Zerg never really reaches the territory of the Human Empire, and only comes with the 'tentacles', or even a fleet belonging to the tentacles, it can always show a number far higher than that of humans on local battlefields.

Past war history shows that the method for humans to defeat insect swarms is always to decapitate node creatures, destroy the command system, and then eliminate a large number of insect swarms with extremely low losses.

Or use the scorched earth strategy to create an isolation zone at the star level or even the star field level, so that the insect swarm has nothing to eat or replenish, so that this battle can be fought.

Although he killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses, there was nothing he could do. Otherwise, you can only watch the swarm of insects snowballing and getting bigger and bigger, making it even more impossible to fight.

But this is a summary of data performance and cases. When it comes to each battle situation, it is natural to analyze specific issues in detail.

Does the insect queen in Leyaduches have such a huge insect swarm?

No.

Its situation is special. It was captured by the Iron Armor Chapter from a larval state, and then raised in a laboratory in an attempt to control it. During its long growth life, it must first cover itself up, slowly control the situation, quietly spread the infection, and then explode at the last moment.

However, before its fully prepared outbreak stage came, the Iron Armor War started first.

That was the combined effect of the imperial political situation and Humphrey Paul's ambitions, which were not yet completely under control at the time.

This forced the Queen of Insects to take out the outbreak stage that was not yet ready in advance. Otherwise, it would be useless to lose directly.

After years of latent infection, the insect swarm has a good foundation. If it suddenly breaks out at a critical moment, combined with the two infected armies of Iron Armor and Alfonzo Sect, it stands to reason that it can put the Empire into trouble and buy the Queen of Insects more time to develop.

On the northern and western fronts, its strategy was indeed successful. But on the southern route, which was originally expected to be the least problematic, the biggest problems arose instead.

The infection was contained, Alfonzo was eliminated... and the outbreak of the Alliance force, which the Queen of Insects could not foresee in advance, resulted in the Western Front being saved. In its planning, the Alfonzo Sect and the Iron Armor Chapter, which played a very important role in its development and outbreak periods, have now been destroyed due to the direct participation of the Alliance.

When the western and southern fronts entered the Queen's Star Territory, the Insect Queen had not even completed the biomass concentration and incubation of the entire Queen's Star Territory.

A large amount of biomass is still on various planets, so much so that when humans attack, every extermination weapon dropped on those planets with particularly rich insect swarms makes it painful.

Under this circumstance, the troops used to resist the two lines of attack were naturally lacking.

If the fight continues like this, humans will really break into Leyaduches and threaten its life safety.

But fortunately, among the many previous plans, at least one of the northern routes was successful.

Mobilizing troops from the northern front to defend itself became the only option for the Insect Queen.

Along with the assembled insect nest army going south to defend the insect queen, there was also a large amount of biomass collected from the two star regions of Lofo and Jianmen in the north.

Although the collection work has not been completed as perfectly as it is here in the Queen's Star Territory, at least the total amount is not a small number.

With this insect nest army and more biomass added, it will be enough for the insect queen to continue this war until victory.

But unfortunately, the Hive Fleet heading south from the north line was detected by the Alliance.

When Xi Rui heard this, he was a little emotional.

The Alliance's intelligence organization has arrangements on the North Line, which is so messed up?

Gu Hang could see what he was thinking - he didn't want to hide it - but he didn't explain much.

On the one hand, the Alliance did arrange a lot of people to the west and north lines in the early stages of the war as intelligence transmission; on the other hand, Gu Hang also considered the strategy of the Zerg and always used the astropathic system to observe the movements in the north. Although the distance is far, he can still vaguely feel the movements of a Zerg Hive army passing through the astral tunnels that humans are good at using.

Only after combining many factors can a more accurate judgment be made.

After making this judgment, Gu Hang immediately decided not to let this Zerg Hive army join the Queen. In particular, the biomass of the two star fields on the north line must not fall into the hands of the Queen.

In that case, who knows how many powerful Zerg ships and extremely powerful individual creatures will be bred.

Encircling a point and attacking the reinforcements is an option to consider.

Although, strictly speaking, they certainly cannot be said to have surrounded the Queen of Zerg to death, but the current situation is a bit like that.

However, Gu Hang does not want to take the troops directly to the north to attack the Zerg reinforcements.

The Queen of Zerg is not stupid. If it notices it, it may send a large force to the north to support; or let most of the Zerg nest reinforcements heading south change their routes and circle around Gu Hang's main force.

In that case, it is unknown how the battle will drag on.

Therefore, Gu Hang hopes that Xi Rui can take on the important task: take the remaining troops on the northern line and the small number of troops left by Gu Hang to maintain the current offensive posture and still attract the attention of the Zerg here.

And he will lead the main force of the alliance to annihilate the enemy reinforcements.

After listening to this, Xi Rui did not speak for a long time.

He was able to realize that Gu Hang's strategy was correct. It is indeed very important to destroy the reinforcements and prevent the Queen from joining them.

The Hive troops heading south are indeed very powerful. The main force of the alliance must go to meet them in order to have hope of achieving a decisive victory.

However... it is too difficult for him to stay here and maintain the offensive.

How many people will die?

Even if so many people die, can the offensive be maintained?

What if the offensive fails and the Queen finds out?

One by one, the problems jumped into his mind, making it impossible for him to agree to Gu Hang's request all at once.