Chapter 583, The Fruit of Victory Is So Sweet

Boarding operations are never easy.

At least Martins thought so before he got involved with Gu Hang.

In his combat experience, whether in the heyday of the Phoenix or in the later Atonement Expedition, he participated in many boarding operations.

Each time, it was quite dangerous.

The reason is also very simple. On the way to boarding, no matter how strong the individual combat power of the Space Marines is, they cannot avoid the risk of boarding. Whether it is the failure of psychic transmission due to interference, or the boarding torpedo or boarding spacecraft being shot down halfway, as long as it happens, the soldiers who are boarding can only die helplessly.

Even if they jump on, the danger is very great. The number of soldiers who can survive the dangerous boarding process, especially the first ones, must be small. Generally speaking, the current starships are equipped with a large number of Marines and Army elites who are not well-equipped. The troops who board can only fight with the enemy under the premise of limited equipment and limited number of people.

To stand firm, we need to complete some tasks such as shutting down the enemy ship's interception system, artillery, creating landing sites, and waiting for the follow-up troops to reinforce.

The number of follow-up troops is often not enough, and they are not in a wave, and they are quite scattered.

When the enemy occupies the home field, the equipment and number are often superior, the difficulty of boarding operations can be imagined. Often it will be turned into a meat grinder-like battlefield. The boarding party bears huge losses to deploy troops, and then bears huge losses to fight under unfavorable conditions. Only by overcoming various crises can a successful boarding operation be completed.

However, after starting to work for Gu Hang, he found that boarding and fighting, is it so easy?

It's not that it's really easy. After all, since the battle with the Alfonzo fleet in the Bowang galaxy, the successive battles have caused the Phoenix to lose more than 400 soldiers. This loss of nearly half of the personnel is very heavy in any case.

However, compared to the results they achieved, capturing one giant ship after another, and destroying countless elite Skitarii and rebellious Space Marines, this loss was simply "too worthwhile".

If it weren't for Governor Gu's almost undisturbed and 100% successful psychic teleportation, it would be hard to tell how many people would die during the boarding trips, and many operations would not even be possible; if it weren't for those magical heroes leading the charge, relying on only a few hundred phoenixes, they would be trapped in the vast ocean of elite enemy forces, and it would be a fantasy to complete the mission.

It was these two factors that made the phoenixes' boarding battles so successful that they looked like a miracle to the blood sharks next door.

In the capture of the few remaining ships of the Fury Fleet, the phoenixes knew clearly that Governor Gu played the greatest role in this matter.

At the beginning, Gu Hang was not on the Ronglin ship that was targeted, but on the Eagle Horse.

The Alliance deployed the main force of the Phoenix, a total of 600 fighters, on four ships, namely, the Eagle Horse, Ronglin, Angry Owl, and Yunluo. In addition to the Eagle Horse with 300 people, the other three ships each had only 100 people.

When the news of Ronglin being besieged came, Gu Hang set off and teleported to the Ronglin with 200 Phoenixes.

This was actually another thing beyond Martins's cognition.

How far is the distance between the Eagle Horse and the Ronglin?

That is not the scope of normal space naval battles!

Even if there is no interference and there are coordinates, this matter is too incredible.

But Martins is numb.

I have seen it a lot, so it doesn't matter.

After the naval battle, the Ronglin was seriously injured. The damage control unit tried its best, but it could only allow the battle cruiser to barely restore its ability to move, so that the situation would not continue to deteriorate. Fighting was impossible. Going up could only be a fixed target for people, and it would not be effective.

But the attack on Huanyuexing still started as scheduled. The loss of a battlecruiser did not hinder the alliance's offensive.

In fact, this was a relatively traditional fight for the orbital defense system. After clearing a relatively safe airspace, troops were dispatched to land on the surface on a large scale to fight for the seedlings.

During this process, the alliance even drove the two captured ships, "Wings of Spark" and "Fire of Triumph", to the orbit of the Phantom Moon Star.

These two warships have not yet completed their overhaul, and there may even be surviving original crew members living in a remote corner of the ship. After all, these two ships are giant ships that can fight hundreds of thousands of people, and there is no problem in treating them as a city in space.

They can basically not be used for alliance battles, and many systems in the ships still need to be cracked or simply replaced.

But it does not prevent the alliance from starting them first, and then putting them on the orbit of the Phantom Moon Star to show them to the enemy.

This is a kind of show of force. While boosting the morale of one's own side, it will also greatly undermine the morale of the enemy. It is equivalent to telling the defenders of the planet clearly that you have no hope and surrender is the only way out.

The effect is also surprisingly good.

Multiple orbital space stations sent signals of surrender to the alliance. They let the alliance's boats land without resistance, then laid down their weapons and were taken away by the alliance. The space station does not need to be blown up, but only needs to be temporarily abandoned, and it can be reused later.

While the orbital defense system was rapidly disintegrating, the ground attack was becoming more and more smooth.

Without the interference of the orbital defense system, the Alliance fleet began to support the surface attack more smoothly.

Those orbital guns on the surface were still resisting in vain, but when facing attacks from the sky and the ground at the same time, defense became difficult.

Even the Alliance did not send Space Marines to attack the surface.

The main force this time was the battle sisters of the Holy Lily of Mercy. Sister Grit was the highest person in charge. The battle sisters she led did not have the individual combat strength of the Space Marines, but with the assistance of one thousand battle sisters and more than six thousand Glory Guards, they could ensure that they would not be broken through by the Fury and the New World Torch in one fell swoop during the surface battle.

At the same time, the enemy did not dare to gather Space Marines on a large scale.

In a battle for an important hub city on the surface, the enemy had a hundred Space Marines gathered and hit the Alliance Army's attack on the city.

Then, the Alliance did not act rashly, but surrounded the city, opened a humanitarian channel, and gave the residents inside three days to evacuate.

The Space Marines definitely couldn't get out. They were too conspicuous to escape among the people walking on foot.

They tried to break out several times, but in the battle on the Great Plains, they had to face more than just the Sisters of Battle and the Guards of Glory. There were a large number of tanks and heavy artillery, and they couldn't break through head-on.

Only a few people succeeded in breaking out, and the rest were still forced back to the city.

Afterwards, the Alliance couldn't care how many civilians were still in the city that had not been evacuated, and the orbital bombing began.

After three days and three nights of bombing, the entire city was physically razed to the ground. According to subsequent estimates, there should be no living organisms alive in it.

After this battle, the Fury and the New World Torch almost no longer gathered on a large scale - unless they raided at night or in a complex environment, but they often had to evacuate quickly after a quick success, fighting guerrilla warfare, and did not dare to try to expand the results.

At the same time, they also abandoned almost all important strongholds and fortresses, and shifted the battle line to the city's underground passages, the bunkers they had previously excavated, and complex areas such as lowlands and mountains.

This place is not suitable for large-scale military operations, and the scattered layout also makes it difficult for orbital bombing to be effective.

This certainly made them almost completely give up control of the Fantasy Moon Star.

If the Space Marines are determined to live and want to defend to the death, it is really difficult to kill them.

Even the Burning Sky Torpedo may not be able to kill them completely. If they prepare enough supplies and oxygen, hide in the excavated mountains, underground and other places, they may really be able to survive the hot period for several years and reappear after cooling down - as for how to escape from a dead planet, that is another topic.

But at least, they can survive.

Unless they use a higher-level extinction weapon such as the Earth-Exploding Star Destroyer, which directly explodes the planet into countless space fragments. Perhaps they will regroup due to the effect of gravity after thousands of years, or perhaps they will form countless asteroids and meteors. But after all, this is the way to truly exterminate a planet and all life on it without omission.

Not really, not really.

But in this case, the war situation is still quite embarrassing.

It is true that the Alliance basically controls the entire Fantasy Moon. However, their military advantage is mainly based on the thousands of top elites of the Holy Mercy Lily and the Glory Guards, plus at least two battle cruisers in the sky and ten moon-class ships in cruise support.

In this case, Fury and New World Torch really dare not show their heads, and can only hide in the gutter like rats.

However, they are equivalent to less than two thousand Space Marines, which have tied up a considerable part of the Alliance's forces and fixed them in Fantasy Moon.

If the starships withdraw, even if only the big ones are withdrawn, there will be fewer starships left, and it will be difficult to achieve global coverage. Then I am afraid that Fury and others will increase their active times; and once the nuns and the Glory Guards also withdraw, they can establish bases more unscrupulously and even regain control of the planet.

But if they don't withdraw, they can't quickly wipe out these two war groups.

It's really a headache.

...

Gu Hang knew about Huanyue's affairs, but he didn't spend too much time on it.

There was nothing to worry about.

Perhaps the war there was quite tragic, and the guerrilla warfare of the two remaining regiments gave Grit a headache.

However, in general, the output value of Huanyue in all aspects is being rebuilt. Under the current global military control, the output is taken by the Alliance 20%, and Grit, as an army, obtains about 10% of the output from the local area as military supplies, mainly food and other basic supplies, as well as equipment maintenance.

The rest is distributed by the original interest groups on the planet.

That's it.

As for the Fury Flame and the New World Torch in the mountains and the ground, it will be left to Grit to deal with.

Some of the starships above Huanyue will be withdrawn and some will be left. Three cruisers are enough.

It can't cover the whole world, but it can ensure that when Grit orders to detect and encircle the rebellious space warriors, there will be firepower support at any time.

As for the frequent attacks on some production sites in Huanyue, just attack them.

That little output is not important.

The cleanup of the two regiments will be done slowly.

Anyway, Gu Hang is no longer in a hurry.

As for himself, there are more important things to deal with.

In the Battle of Bowen and the derivative battle of this war, the Battle of Fantasy Moon, the Alliance won unprecedented victory and achieved unprecedented results.

After counting, two battle cruisers were exchanged for an Emperor-class, two Retribution-class, a battle barge, and a Dragon Snake-class.

Wow, after one battle, it is equivalent to having an additional Alliance fleet!

Just robbing ships has made a fortune!

And there have been major changes in the war situation.

The main force of the Alfonzo Sect collapsed, and the Fury Flame and the New World Torch collapsed. Once these two major problems are solved, it means that the two threats that the Alliance may suffer in the Proud Claw Star Domain are all lifted.

In the Princess Star Domain, the main force of the Iron Armored Corps is fighting a desperate battle with the Phoenix Lord in the west. The scale of the battle there is even larger than that of the Alliance here. Can Humphrey Paul spare more power to expedition to the Proud Claw?

I'm afraid not.

The Alfonzo Sect lost a War Ark and an Emperor. Does it have the ability to organize another fleet to go south?

I'm afraid not.

The alliance will indeed be weak for a period of time after the Battle of Bowang, and it will take at least half a year to a year to repair all its ships.

But in fact, Gu Hang is not too worried about any military threats he will encounter during this period of weakness.

On the contrary, it is his enemies who should be afraid of his military threats.

It is true that he is in a weak period, but it is estimated that whether it is from Aozhua to Jingjie Star Region or from Aozhua to Alfonzo Star Region, it is unobstructed and the defense is empty.

As the winner of the war, is it possible that he will feel more uncomfortable than those who lost the war?

It doesn't make sense.

Even if Paul of Iron Armor or Martin Varuk, the great sage of Alfonzo, insists on making trouble for Gu Hang, even at the cost of shaking the foundation, it is not a simple matter to withdraw forces.

Across several star regions, it is unknown how long it will take for the troops to assemble, dispatch, and march.

Even with the most conservative estimate, Gu Hang thinks there will be two years or more of breathing time.

Oh, it's not him who's breathing, it's Paul and Varuk who need to breathe.

"They're still too weak. If the fleet's strength is intact, they won't even have a chance to breathe!"

Gu Hang sighed, turned around and started to digest the results of the battle.

The fruits of victory are so sweet.

The victory of the Proud Claw Battle, in addition to seizing a batch of ships and "eating" a neurozoan, gained an advantage in the overall strategy, there is another result that cannot be ignored: the gift points.