Chapter 542, Solving the Itch in the Throat

Wang Ningyi finally chose to surrender.

No matter how hard you talk, you can't be tougher than reality.

Almost all the important strongholds of the star port were conquered by the Space Marines, and the successive soldiers of the Royal Princess Legion had no way to recapture them; the firepower fired from the star port destroyed the external star fortresses and armed space stations.

The orbital defense system of the entire planet was almost collapsed.

After the main fleet of the Alliance cleared the orbital threats, only the ground artillery group was left, which must be unable to fight against the main fleet of the Alliance.

If the Alliance was more ruthless, cleared a piece of space field corresponding to the ground artillery group fortress, and launched the Burning Sky Torpedo when it was ensured that it would not be intercepted, it would be once and for all.

In short, in his opinion, the war was over. The subsequent battles were meaningless.

Then, as Huseppe said, it might be good to have fewer deaths.

What's more, although it was an unconditional surrender, Huseppe also hinted that they would not be too harsh on the surrendered rebels. The prisoners of war camps had to be entered, but the conditions in the Alliance's prisoner camps were quite good, with a guaranteed standard of living, and the Alliance's military discipline was strong, so there would be no abuse of prisoners of war.

Of course, there were some necessary labors, which were indispensable.

In the future, if the war was won, the prisoners of war might be released back home; if the war continued, perhaps the two sides would have a prisoner exchange plan; if that didn't work, the prisoners could also join the Alliance, and the Alliance would always keep its doors open to this.

As for Wang Ningyi personally, the conditions for surrender were not bad. Although he certainly couldn't become a general, and didn't expect to be in a high position, the level of personal living treatment promised by the Alliance was quite good.

These factors combined, and the captured Wang Ningyi finally agreed to issue a surrender declaration to the entire planet in the Starport.

However, although he was the commander-in-chief of the Upper East Star garrison, surrender was not something that he could do with a single call, and hundreds of millions of soldiers around the world would surrender.

Impossible.

The more than 200,000 soldiers stationed in the Starport basically didn't cause any major problems. After Wang Ningyi declared his surrender, the defenders of the strategic points where the Phoenix Space Marines were stationed, who could not be defeated, followed the general's orders in frustration. They allowed an Alliance ship to approach, and allowed the Alliance soldiers to come up and disarm their weapons.

Feeling attacked from all sides, the armed space stations, and even the last surviving star fortress, also turned off their fire and surrendered, allowing the Alliance soldiers to take over the facilities.

However, compared with the straightforwardness of the defenders in orbit, the rebels on the ground were relatively more hesitant.

After the initial chaos, some troops did not intend to resist as promised, but soon, an official from the Upper East Star and a general of the Royal Princess Corps jointly issued a statement, declaring Wang Ningyi a so-called "coward" and "traitor", and issued a statement to the entire surface army of the planet, demanding that the war of resistance continue.

Moreover, they actually gathered some forces and attacked a group of surface fortresses.

The surface firepower under their control began to fire at the space orbit with all their strength, bombarding the alliance's ships and landing ships.

Their actions still caused a lot of casualties on the alliance side.

More than a dozen landing ships were shot down, and three vanguard divisions that were about to land were crippled; several infantry regiments that had already landed were besieged just after controlling the fortress; the soldiers who had originally surrendered inside were also ready to move, and the situation became very bad for a while.

General Wang Ningyi, who was still in the star port, was sad from the heart.

He had some regrets.

He had made so many mistakes before, should he just die at the critical moment? He had originally used the lives of many soldiers as an excuse to comfort himself. But now it seems that everyone still wants to fight to the end.

However, in general, he was still pessimistic about the resistance on the surface of the planet.

Now they are fighting happily, but it only caught the alliance fleet a little off guard for a while. After the main force of the alliance reacted and launched orbital bombardment, they lacked orbital defense forces and were only protected by orbital artillery groups. They might not be able to resist. Even if they could resist in the early stage, as the surface fortresses were destroyed one by one and more and more alliance armies landed, these resistances would eventually be wiped out.

Then, he saw the main force of the alliance from the observation window of the starport tower, and they came to the orbit of the Upper East Star.

First there was a battlecruiser, then another battlecruiser, and then... it was gone.

That's it?

Wang Ningyi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly turned his head and looked at Huseppe standing beside him, with a ferocious expression: "You lied to me!?"

Earlier, Huseppe said that the main force of the alliance fleet was outside the orbit!

That should be a huge fleet of eight giant ships, dozens of cruisers, and more than 500 in total!

But now, the alliance ships he saw with his own eyes, not only were there only two battlecruisers, but the number of warships as a whole had shrunk by more than ten times!

It would be great if there were fifty allied ships participating in the war!

At this point, how could he not understand that he had been deceived before?

He was now regretting, extremely regretful.

If we had known earlier, the alliance's main fleet was not here at all. There were only a few ships, especially the two battle cruisers. In positional battles, the most threatening Retribution-class battleships and All the Zhuge-class aircraft carriers are gone... With such fleet strength, they have no ability to conquer the Upper East Star!

Even if some space warriors break through the defenses, capture the starport, and even control the starport's firepower to attack one's own orbital defense facilities from behind, as long as they continue to resist and the orbital gun groups on the ground are activated quickly, the combined firepower will be Able to withstand alliance attacks.

As long as you are bolder and the orbital gun group on the surface ferociously destroys the star port, then without the star port's firepower attacking from behind, the surviving orbital defense facilities on the Upper East Star combined with the surface firepower can still deny the alliance. This is not powerful. fleet!

However, Wang Ningyi's surrender almost destroyed this possibility.

The self-destruction system of the starport is also controlled by the Space Marines, but what if the remaining soldiers dare to place bombs everywhere and directly self-destruct?

Without his surrender order, wouldn't the railgun group on the surface have fallen into chaos in the first place?

But no matter what, he seemed to be dead.

Thinking of this, he was actually not that angry.

But on the surface, he still had to maintain an angry attitude.

Hussepe did not expose it either.

He said with a smile: "You are so loyal and brave, I can only publish this volume. But you don't have to be too angry, Upper East Star will eventually be captured by the Alliance. You are wise The decision has saved the lives of millions of people who are responsible for defending in space; the stubborn resisters on the surface are the stupidest ones. They will drag countless people into the war, but in the end nothing can be changed. "

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The resistance on the surface of Upper Eastern Star did cause a lot of waves, but its significance was actually not that great.

Without the cooperation of starports and starforts, ground orbital firepower alone is not enough.

After all, the ground artillery group has no way to move, and the space area it can cover is relatively limited.

The alliance fleet just needs to avoid the strong area.

Alliance ships can use the power of two battle cruisers to clear a small, relatively safe space in areas where ground firepower is not very strong.

Then, drop the army and start attacking from the ground.

The loss of orbit and the surrender of the supreme commander will bring a huge morale blow to the ground defenders. Their will to resist will not be that strong.

Those direct rebel legions from the Queen's Star Territory may be quite fierce. However, it is said that there are hundreds of millions of defenders on the Upper East Star, and the total number of direct rebels is only 10 to 20 million. A considerable number of the elites are still stationed in orbit and surrendered.

The majority of the remaining defenders are still the Planetary Defense Force clusters recruited from the Upper Eastern Star and even the surrounding areas of the Upper Eastern Star by the Raging Flames before the Upper Eastern Star was besieged.

Their fighting power and fighting will are even more worrying.

Under this circumstance, the alliance's land attack soon became overwhelming after overcoming initial difficulties.

This is especially true when the alliance's two ace troops join the ground battle.

Those were three hundred Space Marines led by Calduso.

The simple defense on the star port does not require them. Only in battles on the ground can their effectiveness be brought into full play.

In addition to Calduso's Space Marines, another ace is the Alliance National Knights.

It's called the Knights, but it's actually the Titan Legion.

With a Warlord-class Titan as the core, more than twenty Warhound-class and Predator-class Titans as the main force, and more than seventy Knight mechas of various types, they formed the Iron Giant Legion.

In conjunction with multiple Alliance armored divisions that have gathered together, the Lion Tank and the Lion Tank, as well as thousands of armored vehicles, are constantly patrolling the sky with hundreds of fighter planes affiliated with the Army Aviation.

The powerful torrent of steel wiped out the railgun fortresses on the surface one after another.

Under tremendous military pressure, the alliance's psychological tactics never stopped.

In the past few months, the various 'lies' that have been propagated that the Iron Fury Stone is finished and that the Alliance has entered the core of the Spider Web Domain are still being broadcast; under Hussepe's persuasion , General Wang Ningyi, who had figured it out again, also worked for his old subordinates on the ground again and again, persuading them to surrender.

Often, the main force of the Queen's Legion on the surface, with a large number of Planetary Defense Forces, guards a key fortress, making it more difficult for the Alliance to crack down. At this time, Wang Ningyi's call will go directly to the channel of the fortress garrison commander and have a good chat with him.

If you chat a few more times, sometimes you can directly persuade someone to surrender.

Even if they fail to directly persuade them to surrender, they can at least shake the opponent's military morale.

This is also a good harvest.

From this perspective, Wang Ningyi is quite useful.

Husseppe couldn't help but boast that one man could be like a thousand soldiers!

He also said that he must report his merits to him.

While having a bad face, Wang Ningyi sometimes has some expectations in his heart.

What if... what if the alliance really wants to give me a high-ranking official and a generous salary so that I can work well in the alliance?

So should I agree? Or agree? Or agree?

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It will obviously take time to completely conquer Upper East Star.

But this result is already doomed.

Even after the overall situation was decided, the two battlecruisers, ‘Flying Wing’ and ‘Koroga’, left.

The army can already handle the rest of the things, and there is no need to let the two giant ships continue to stay in Shangdongxing.

The next target is Guangfengxing.

The alliance hopes to do the same.

Guangfengxing was also completely blocked from external communications by the alliance. They didn’t know what happened on Shangdongxing, so they didn’t have any advance defense against this method.

However, Wang Ningyi accepted the communication with the alliance and finally chose to surrender after being captured. To be honest, these are all unexpected events, and the replicability is not that high.

The rebel commander of Guangfengxing has always refused to communicate with the alliance, and did not allow any alliance ships, even non-combat ships, to approach.

There is no way.

But despite this, the alliance still found an opportunity.

In the third week after the arrival of the Flying Wing and Koroga, they seized an opportunity.

They found ships on Guangfeng Star, operating in low-altitude orbit.

It seemed that they were carrying out large-scale material transportation and deployment at the planetary level.

After a brief discussion, two battlecruisers led a wave of assaults.

Facing the threat of the orbital defense system and ground artillery groups, the battlecruisers destroyed the fleet of starships operating in the near-Earth orbit of Guangfeng Star.

That was not a big ship or a strong ship.

However, it was a very rare active force inside Guangfeng Star.

Before that, when the main ships of the Alliance were operating in the Aozhua Star Region and could not take care of Guangfeng Star and Shangdong Star, the small fleet hidden in the orbital defense system of these two planets sneaked out and attacked the logistics fleet of the Alliance, and there were some results.

Now, this small fleet has been destroyed, which means that Guangfeng Star has lost all its ability to take the initiative.

Then leaving them there is not a big problem.

After all, Shangdong on the other side has been taken down.

While the war on Shangdong Star continued, the Alliance's engineering team had actually landed on the surface at the same time to carry out storage construction.

Later, Shangdong will become the logistics base of the alliance when attacking the Aozhua star field.

Many new recruits who have completed training in the alliance will also be transported here in batches.

On the one hand, they can participate in the war on the ground of Shangdong Star by fighting instead of training. On the other hand, they can also replenish the losses of the front-line combat troops at any time.

In this way, it doesn't matter whether Guangfeng Star, which has completely lost its ability to take the initiative, is taken down or not.

The two throat itches have been solved here.