Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 287

287. Chapter 286, Must deliver a heavy blow

. Blackbird Heavy Industries has lost its ability to launch intercontinental missiles.

Not only were five missile silos destroyed, but many intercontinental missiles around the silos were also destroyed.

It is not easy for them to rebuild this capability in the short term, and they don’t have to worry about this problem for at least a few months. Whether it is to rebuild the missile silos or replenish the number of missiles, it is not a task that can be completed overnight.

Before the Space Marines destroyed those missile silos, according to statistics, at least 500 intercontinental missiles had been launched to various parts of the alliance. Among them, most of the missiles were still aimed at Fuxing City, Weixing City, and the front-line troops; in addition, there were a total of 80 missiles that fell on Beigu City, Gaota City, and Beigong City (renamed from the Extreme North Industrial City).

Other places did not encounter missiles.

It is estimated that the areas further east, such as Skarlo City and Xiongya City, are beyond the strike range of Blackbird’s cruise missiles. As for other places in the Beiqing Valley area, the land is vast and sparsely populated, so people would not use missiles to bomb farmland; some other areas in the Central Bank Province, the Tower Province, and the Central North Province, although they also have some industrial value and no air defense force at all, the industrial distribution is very scattered after all, and the intelligence is unclear, so it is not cost-effective to bomb them, so they were not hit.

Weixing City and Fuxing City were attacked the most frequently, but most of the missiles fired at them were intercepted, especially Weixing City, which was not hit once afterwards. That was because Gu Hang went there in person and helped intercept the missiles that were not blocked by the “Reflector” air defense system.

However, when he went to Weixing City, Fuxing City was unlucky. After several waves of attacks, a small number of missiles still fell and bombed the streets, residential areas and factories.

But all in all, the losses were relatively controllable. The air defense alarm sounded early in the sky above the two cities, and those who should evacuate evacuated, and those who should stay at home stayed at home. Even though some residential areas suffered damage from the war and two buildings were destroyed, the number of casualties was controlled within 50 people.

The worst situation was in Beigu City, Gaota City, and Beigong City.

Although Beigong City had some air defense systems left by the former Extreme North Industrial Group, they were definitely not comparable to the “Reflector” in terms of level, and the interception efficiency was not very good.

As for Beigu and Gaota, there was no air defense system at all, and they were just bombed.

According to subsequent statistics, these three cities suffered more than 5,000 casualties from the bombardment of dozens of missiles!

This was after the first wave of missiles. All cities that sounded the alarm evacuated the crowds, stopped work and production, and hid in air-raid shelters if they could, and went home to tremble if they couldn’t.

But even so, the casualties of the alliance were still heavy.

At present, according to preliminary and rough statistics, from population to buildings to industries to goods… the total loss is millions of tax coins.

Gu Hang was very distressed.

The most distressing thing was the loss of population. Among the 5,000 casualties, even if more than 3,000 of them were only injured, at least half of them could eventually recover their productive labor capacity after a period of medical assistance, but this was still a huge loss.

But he still had to be thankful that the Space Marines did an outstanding job. They eliminated the threat of the Blackbird’s intercontinental missiles to the Alliance in the shortest possible time.

The bombing of 500 missiles brought a loss of 1 million tax coins, and the Blackbird’s ammunition reserves were of course far more than that. If this number was really multiplied by 10, the loss would definitely be 10 million.

Beigu City is the capital of Beiqinggu Province and the most important food processing center and food transportation hub of the Alliance; Gaota City is an important resource collection and primary processing base and energy base of the Alliance. The devastating blow to these two places alone would cost more than 10 million, not to mention that Beigong City, after inheriting the legacy of the Far North Industry, can almost be regarded as the second largest industrial center of the Alliance.

It can be said that the Space Marines’ attack this time saved the Alliance at least 20 million tax coins and saved countless lives.

This incident also gave Gu Hang a reminder and taught the Alliance a profound lesson.

Under his instructions, Wei Xingcheng has begun to focus on expanding the production line of the “Reflector”.

Four models, vehicle type, air defense type, naval gun type, orbital type… all have to be put on the production schedule.

The specifications of these four models are arranged from small to large. The vehicle type is already in large-scale production, and it can be used on the Lion tank and the Wind Falcon; the air defense type was only produced on a small scale before, and now the production must be increased; the naval gun type will also be produced, and it will be used on the subsequent “Traveler” spacecraft of the Alliance. Although this thing is not even the specification of a patrol ship, it can at least be equipped with a naval gun type reflector.

As for the orbital type, it can be used for ground anti-orbital warfare, and the laser cannon can be directly fired from the ground into space, so that the Alliance can fight back when it encounters an orbital attack in the future, and it can also be built on a star port, turning the star port into an armed star fortress.

Even Taddius has received Gu Hang’s task to start preparing to cover the entire Alliance orbital air defense system, and the main equipment to rely on is the “Reflector”.

At the moment, the Alliance did not just take a beating against the Blackbird, they also made a reciprocal counterattack.

The Blade Tiger was in orbit and carried out orbital bombing on Blackbird City for a whole day until the ammunition in stock was used up.

Blackbird is not like the missile silos that the Alliance used to deal with them. They have no countermeasures against orbital bombing. They have neither anti-orbital firepower to fight against the Blade Tiger, nor the ability to send a team of elite army to land on the starship.

Then they can only be bombed.

It’s a pity that this is the Blade Tiger, not the Quintet. Otherwise, Blackbird City will definitely not lose the outer city, but the entire core city will be blown up, and the energy shield will not work.

However, it doesn’t matter if it can’t be blown up for a while, you can just replenish ammunition and continue bombing in a few days.

The Alliance cannot produce some large shells, such as the “Wrath of the Loyal Heir” and even the “Hot Hammer” on the Quintet. But there is no problem with the “Reflector” and “Defender”.

Especially the “Reflector”. The “Reflector” on the Blade Tiger is a naval gun type, but the technical specifications are universal. The Alliance is fully capable of providing the Blade Tiger with high-quality energy batteries, allowing them to continue bombing without restraint.

So what if the core area is saved? There is a Blade Tiger flying in orbit. If there are large-scale supplies being transported out, then blow it up; if a large-scale assembly of front-line troops is detected, then blow it up. The orbital advantage is mine, and this battle will be many times easier to fight.

In fact, the war on the front line has officially begun.

The Alliance’s army has already encountered the enemy’s vanguard in the desert.

However, so far, the scale of the battle is not large.

The 250,000 troops of the alliance have established a long defense line from south to north in the desert.

The entire Western Desert area is connected to the sea west of Beiqing Valley in the south and the North Sea in the north, and the span is very large. Only 250,000 people are not enough to cover such a large defense line. If you really do that, the huge span of the defense line will spread the troops very thinly, and the bad roads will bring catastrophic difficulties to the alliance’s logistics supply line.

Under this premise, Major General Yan Fangxu, the highest commander of the front line, still adopted the strategy of “comprehensive defense and key defense”.

The so-called “comprehensive defense” refers to the arrangement of a large number of scattered small troops, driving on patrol, and setting up numerous sentinel points. This coverage area is not bad, plus the air force brothers, driving the wind falcon to conduct cruise reconnaissance around the clock. I hope to prevent the enemy from crossing the defense line in this way.

The so-called “key defense” refers to the deployment of troops on the desert highway, in batches, hierarchical, with multiple divisions as a part, to build a three-dimensional multi-layer defense line, and control the surface with points.

In this way, Yan Fangxu controlled the 3,000-kilometer defense line from north to south with 26 divisions and brigades, totaling 250,000 people. The “key points” are on the main artery of the desert highway and several oases in the north-south direction; as for the end of the 3,000-kilometer north-south longitudinal direction and the vast desert area, it can only be seen by the air force and patrol teams.

The control of this is of course very weak, but Yan Fangxu has no other way.

Compared with the area he wants to control, the troops he has on hand are still too few.

More importantly, according to the information sent back by the personnel collecting intelligence behind the enemy, combined with the cross-border reconnaissance of the air force, Yan Fangxu found that the enemy did not seem to adopt the tactics of heavy troops and key breakthroughs. The enemy army was dispersed into many small forces, and it seemed that they were trying to infiltrate and intersperse on the 3,000-kilometer longitudinal defense line.

Regardless of whether the Blackbird mechanical army wanted to penetrate directly into the heart of the alliance or to use the tactic of encirclement and annihilation in the environment of the Western Desert, they could not succeed.

For this reason, Yan Fangxu had to adopt this strategy to deal with it, and the two sides gradually began to fall into the quagmire of small-scale wars.

From a single point of view, the scale of the battle was not large, mainly fighting at the squad level, and the highest level was only the company level. But the frequency of the battle was very high, and the number of casualties in personnel and equipment was not small.

And Yan Fangxu couldn’t stand this situation.

He was planning a big operation.

…

Mikel Nelson, the Political Commissar of the Central Army Group and a Brigadier General, asked Yan Fangxu worriedly, “Isn’t this a bit too radical? The Governor-General gave us a clear order that we should try to take a defensive posture as long as the war does not spread to the Alliance’s homeland? As a result, you are now going to order our army to launch a full-scale attack to the west, and let the Xifeng Brigade form an armored cluster and advance 300 kilometers in two days?”

While Nelson was questioning, his eyes never left the battle sand table placed in front of him and Yan Fangxu.

This virtual sand table is also a high-end product, which was imported by the Governor-General through Gu’s Trading Company. After the parameters are entered, multiple servo skulls calculate together, and through special imaging technology, three-dimensional image battle maps of different scales can be displayed, supporting zooming in and out.

The virtual sand table almost covers the entire Western Desert region and the western part of the northern border, from the bay in the south to the cliff strait in the north. The information of the alliance’s army is also reflected here, in the form of models of small people, small cars, and tanks, with the unit’s number flag inserted on them.

At the same time, opposite the legion, there are red flags one after another, representing the enemy’s army.

Of course, this information is not updated in real time, but relies on the staff team to summarize the data sent back from various fronts according to specific technical rules and input them into the form. Intelligence about the enemy must be collected by various reconnaissance methods. Since it is not authentic and we don’t know the specific number of the enemy, we can only make up a code name ourselves, marking the enemy’s approximate strength and troop composition.

At present, on this chapter of the virtual sand table, there are already densely packed offensive arrows that have been drawn.

These arrows represent Yan Fangxu’s plan.

Almost all division-level and brigade-level units have the requirement to attack forward. The most exaggerated of them are the 1st Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the 46th and 47th Brigades, which have assembled into an armored cluster on the West Desert Avenue. They will advance 300 kilometers westward along the avenue, passing through countless red flags and signs, and finally arrive at an oasis called “Scorpion”.

There, it is said to be a key logistics supply center of the Blackbird Army.

Blackbird’s modified humans, mechanical dogs, drones, unmanned combat vehicles, unmanned self-propelled artillery… These things don’t need to eat, but ammunition supply is still necessary. Moreover, their demand for fuel, electricity and other energy logistics supplies is much higher than that of human armies.

Destroying the enemy’s reserves in this regard can indeed greatly reduce the difficulty of the battle, which can be regarded as a brilliant victory.

But…

the difficulty is too high.

Nelson hesitated.

But Yan Fangxu has his own set of views on this.

“You are right. The Governor’s order is indeed to defend. However, Nelson, we must see the essence through the phenomenon. What is the purpose of the Governor asking us to take a defensive position? He hopes that before the arrival of the Star Army, we must control the losses in our independent battle with the Blackbird, and then let the Star Army take over to solve the problem. It does not mean that we can just defend forever.” “

But the current situation obviously does not support us to do so.”

“Those iron monsters dare not fight a decisive battle with us in a cluster, and even let go of the control of the desert avenue, and instead infiltrate and intersperse in small groups. In order to stop them, our soldiers also divided into small groups and fought bloody battles with them in the desert.”

“This is not our advantage at all. In the past half month, we have lost more than 4,000 people. We can’t continue to bleed like this.”

“We must deliver a heavy blow before we can defend.”

(End of this chapter)