Chapter 581, After the War

To put it bluntly, the Alliance's subsequent main force is actually only the two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers, Ronglin and Yunluo.

Among the six battlecruisers of the Alliance, the Flying Wing is under repair, and the Steel Wing and Koroga were lost in the Battle of Bowang. Now the fast ships that can be mobilized are only these two Dragon Snakes, plus the Angry Owl that has already arrived, a total of three ships.

With such combat power alone, it is not capable of confronting the opponent's fleet head-on.

Even with Gu Hang, it is no exception.

An Emperor with three Dragon Snakes can already blow up three battlecruisers without shields.

Only with the addition of Blood Shark's "Ghost Shark", the head-on combat capability can be considered to be barely able to compete.

Moreover, this battle also has key points.

First of all, the Alliance fleet, which is rushing forward with all its strength, will not actually pull the distance to a very close point to fight against the opponent's fleet.

Fighting at a relatively long distance can give full play to the advantages of the faster flexibility of its own ships, and try to rely on maneuverability to avoid damage.

Of course, it is not easy to be hit, and it is not easy to hit the enemy.

But it doesn't matter.

The fire of the fleet is not the key to the victory of the alliance.

During the battle, two enemy warships suddenly lost fire.

One of them was the Emperor-class battleship; the other was a Dragon Snake.

These two ships were attacked fiercely by boarding almost at the same time.

Or to be more precise, the Dragon Snake was the main target of the boarding attack. The blood sharks and some phoenixes broke through the enemy's transmission interference through psychic transmission and started killing.

Three hundred soldiers entered the blood sharks and two hundred entered the phoenixes.

It is still difficult to capture the entire battleship with only five hundred soldiers.

However, it is enough to turn the interior of a Dragon Snake-class battleship upside down.

This is why it lost fire.

On the other side, on the Emperor-class battleship, Gu Hang nominally ordered 400 Phoenixes to board the ship under the leadership of Martins.

But in fact, they did not board the ship immediately.

It was the Heroic Spirits who messed up the Emperor-class battleship.

The reason for covering it up is that if the Heroic Spirits were shown to the eyes of thousands of people, it would be a bit unreasonable, too much like alien and heretical behavior.

In fact, up to now, the only ones who have really fought side by side with these Heroic Spirits in the alliance are the Phoenixes.

The risks of the Heroic Spirits being shown in front of them are relatively controllable. After all, the Phoenixes and Gu Hang share weal and woe, and every member has been trained as a "political commissar", and their loyalty and will are trustworthy.

Gu Hang will definitely not let those blood sharks see the Heroic Spirits with their own eyes.

As for the Blood Sharks, they would find it incredible when they knew that only 400 Phoenixes could suppress the internal fire of the Emperor-class battleship, which was much larger than the battlecruiser, by attacking it...then let them think whatever they want.

When the enemy's two main battleships, especially the Emperor-class, were silenced, Gu Hang gave an order, and the three battlecruisers and the Blood Shark's battle barge all pulled their engines to full speed and attacked at full speed.

The distance that was shortened in an instant made the firepower between the two sides more threatening.

When the Alfonzo fleet had strong firepower, it cruised on the periphery and fought guerrilla warfare; now that the two main forces were silenced, the Alliance Fleet began to become fierce. The remaining two battlecruisers of Alfonzo not only did not get support from the side for a while, but one of them had its void shield torn and disappeared after a flash. It is natural that it is also the main attack target of the Alliance Fleet.

Under the concentrated fire of three battlecruisers and a ghost shark, the dragon snake-class battlecruiser was almost struggling. The maneuverability was maximized, the fire interception system was fully activated, and it tried its best to survive.

However, all these efforts only slightly extended the survival time and could not play a key role. It was finally completely destroyed under the fierce concentrated fire.

Next, the only remaining battlecruiser followed suit soon after.

Then, the alliance fleet began to clean up the other small and medium-sized ships.

A random cruiser or large destroyer will be hit by luck, and then the void shield will be gone. Immediately afterwards, at least two or three X-level heavy artillery will be aimed at them and blasted hard. One or two shots are not a big problem. As long as one is hit, they will be directly blown up in the air without the protection of the void shield.

While these peripheral threats were being quickly dealt with by the fleet's gunfire, landing ships on three battlecruisers and several moon-class cruisers left the starship and flew towards the Mechanicus battlecruisers attacked by the blood sharks and phoenixes.

This is a very rough way to board a ship, purely by force.

The starships that launched the landing ships are quite far away from the target, which means that the landing ships need to be exposed in space for a long time before they can reach the destination.

Under normal circumstances, this is tantamount to murdering lives. The landing ships will be continuously intercepted during the flight. If one explodes, it is not just as simple as losing a landing ship, but also the thousands of soldiers and war equipment on board will all become victims.

However, the Alliance is quite helpless to do this.

If the ‘Hippogriff’ was here, with the capabilities of the Zhuge-class aircraft carrier, on the one hand, the internal loading space is large, and there is no need to disperse the boarding troops to so many different starships; on the other hand, the catapult technology can also send these landing ships to the enemy ships more safely and quickly, greatly reducing the time that the landing ships full of soldiers are exposed in space.

Unfortunately, the Hippogriff ran too slowly and could not catch up with this battle.

Then we can only use this rough method.

However, the actual situation is not that dangerous.

The main reason is that the enemy’s ships have been invaded by the Space Marines, and the interception system is not working well. And those cruisers, destroyers, and frigates that should have provided cover for it when it was in trouble were also cleaned up.

The number of artillery interceptions suffered by the Alliance landing forces during the long flight was really small.

Although about 10% of the Alliance ships were intercepted halfway through the flight, that meant that more than 5,000 elite soldiers were killed. But in general, the loss is still within an acceptable range.

The remaining more than 50,000 elite Alliance troops landed on the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser.

The Blood Shark and Phoenix had already established a landing site in advance. The Skitarii in the ship worked hard for several hours, but failed to recapture these places.

Now, landing ships arrived one after another, "rammed" into the gap, put down the soldiers, and then quickly evacuated, making way for the next ship to release people.

With a large number of conventional troops, the Space Marines no longer needed to use a small number of inferior troops to fight against the Skitarii on the ship. After the two regiments sacrificed a total of about 70 people, their first stage of the mission was completed.

The second stage of the mission was relatively much easier. As long as they accompanied the Alliance's conventional troops to launch a full-scale attack on the entire Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser and prevent the enemy from destroying the ship.

As for the capture of the entire ship, the Alliance troops, which gradually increased to more than 100,000 people, were carried out.

When the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser was controlled by the Alliance, there was only one Alfonzo ship floating in space.

The half-paralyzed Emperor-class.

The rest of the warships have been destroyed.

And this Emperor-class was badly beaten by the Heroic Spirits.

The four hundred Phoenixes led by Martins boarded the ship at this time.

The Phoenix war captain personally led the team and raided the main business sage according to the clues found by the Heroic Spirits in the previous battle.

Martins killed him personally.

Then, the landing ships of the Alliance Army and Marine Corps began to fly to this Emperor-class.

In fact, the most important work of seizing the ship has been done by the Heroic Spirits and Phoenixes. The Army came here just to do the final occupation work.

Before the Army and Marine Corps boarded the ship, the Heroic Spirits withdrew first.

Gu Hang did not let the Blood Shark board the Emperor-class.

Although the captain of the Ewing war team came and volunteered, he was rejected by Gu Hang.

What he said to Ewing in a joking way was actually the truth:

"If the task of seizing this Emperor-class battleship is also given to you, then I will have a hard time paying you later."

Ewing was embarrassed.

...

So far, the Battle of Bowen has finally come to an end.

In this battle, the Alliance lost more than 200 small and medium-sized ships of all kinds; while losing two battlecruisers, all ships of all levels participating in the battle also suffered varying degrees of damage. Especially as the main force in the array battle line, the "Fire Star" was still seriously damaged despite the blessing of various aspects, and had to enter the shipyard for repair.

The Phoenix Regiment, with a full strength of 1,000 people, made great contributions in the various battles of seizing ships, boarding, and teleporting in the naval battle. But at the same time, their manpower losses were also not small.

Nearly 300 soldiers closed their eyes forever; another 100 people were lingering in the life support cabin, waiting for the arrival of the dreadnought mecha. In the future, they can only live in the dreadnought iron coffin for the rest of their lives.

The loss of 400 people has caused heavy damage to the Phoenix Regiment.

The brilliant results of the battle were achieved with great sacrifices.

It is worth emphasizing that these 400 casualties are not ordinary Space Marines, but all Space Marine veterans, sergeants, and even company champions trained by Gu Hang at a great cost.

Gu Hang remembers the sacrifice and dedication of the Phoenix.

If a normal regiment comes, let alone 400 deaths, even if the entire regiment is destroyed, it will not be able to achieve the effect of the Phoenix.

In the final analysis, the gap in strength between the Alliance Fleet and the Alfonzo Ark Fleet is still too large. Moreover, there is an unexpected existence of neurozoa among the opponents, which limits Gu Hang's psychic power to a certain extent at the beginning of the battle.

If you want to make up for all these gaps, you must sacrifice the powerful Phoenixes.

Without them, victory would probably be difficult to come like this.

From the perspective of losses, the Alliance won this victory only with Gu Hang's cheating and Phoenix's great sacrifice.

It was probably just a tragic victory.

However, from the perspective of benefits, the value of this tragic victory was also extremely great.

The Alliance lost two battlecruisers, but got back two battleships and a battlecruiser!

Let’s put aside the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser for now. The Retribution-class battleship is of extraordinary value. The most important thing is the Emperor-class battleship that Gu Hang has named “Pegasus”.

With their joining, the Alliance Navy’s frontal combat capability can actually be considered to have been completely upgraded to a higher level.

So far, the main fleet of the Alliance Navy has become 3 battleships, 1 aircraft carrier, and 5 battlecruisers.

Moreover, as time goes by, in the rear of the Alliance, the Feiyi Star-Angry Owl Star Shipbuilding Center and the Jindi Star Casting World, two places with the ability to manufacture giant ships, will send a new batch of ships.

In another year or two, there will be two Holy Grail-class and two Dragon Snake-class ships joining; if this time is extended a little longer, the first product of the Retribution-class battleship technology that Gu Hang had drawn before, which was built by building the main body in the dock and pulling the core components in the black box, can also be sent to the front line.

If we work harder, we can also build another Zhuge-class ship.

In the next three years, the Alliance will add six more giant ships!

However, before that, the Alliance is in the weakest state.

After the Battle of Bowen, a large number of warships, including the main battleships, suffered varying degrees of damage, but all needed repairs.

In the military meeting of the Alliance, some people mentioned whether to pursue the victory. After the destruction of the Alfonzo Ark Fleet, the enemy base camp was empty, so they simply rushed into the Alfonzo star field in one fell swoop and entered the base camp of the oil men who had been jointly declared as the "fallen sect" by the Imperial Central and the Mechanicus Mars Headquarters.

However, this proposal was rejected by Gu Hang.

The current situation of the Alliance Fleet does not have the ability to take the initiative to attack.

The rest time will take at least half a year.

If a strong enemy appears at this time, it may be a big trouble.

How to spend this most dangerous time is actually something that needs to be considered carefully.

First of all, the problem to be solved is the Fantasy Moon Galaxy.

The two war groups, Fury Flame and New World Torch, are still hiding in Fantasy Moon.

They must have received the news about the Battle of Bowen, and they also knew that the Alfonzo Fleet, which they had expected to be the biggest savior, had been destroyed. The only surviving battlecruiser in the Alfonzo Fleet also went to Huanyue and joined the two regiments.

If they set off to escape, that was what Gu Hang expected.

Although the Alliance Fleet was in poor condition, Nuyan and his men were in even worse condition. They had to get rid of them with their last bit of strength.

At that point, the Aozhua Star Region would basically be calm, and the Alliance Fleet could really repair without worrying too much.

However, their choice disappointed Gu Hang a little.

They stayed in the Huanyue Galaxy and did not move.