Chapter 690, Battle of Rheaduches (V)

If Leroy still thinks of himself as the commander-in-chief of the northern line who can sit on an equal footing with Gu Hang, then what is the authorization or not?

There is no need to be a ground combat commander, just command the imperial forces on all sides, isn't it?

He didn't do that.

He wanted to be the commander, and his first reaction was to ask Gu Hang for authorization, and this gesture made Gu Hang very satisfied.

He was relatively low, and fully recognized Gu Hang's leadership.

Gu Hang was satisfied with this gesture.

As for apologies, Gu Hang didn't really care.

Apologies are more like personal bowing, and if there is no apology, there is no apology, and Gu Hang will not force it, let alone be arrogant.

Since he has no intention of pitting Leroy to death on the surface, and Leroy's attitude is not bad, there is no need to offend him. As long as he survives until the end of the war, he will still be a big figure in the Black Crusaders after returning. In terms of ranking, he can rank third in this powerful war group.

In addition, Xi Rui, who can be ranked in the top five, will make Gu Hang have some "connections" in the Black Crusaders.

There is no fundamental conflict of interest between the two sides. In this case, it is better to have more friends than more enemies.

As for whether Leroy is suitable to be the ground commander, Gu Hang thinks there is no problem.

In terms of identity, after all, the majority of the troops on the ground are actually the remnants of the northern line who survived the first battle, and they were originally under the leadership of Leroy.

He is also rich in experience and should have no problem in ability.

Although he had experienced a tragic defeat before, he was able to stand alone and be the commander-in-chief of the front. As a commander of the ground battle, he is definitely qualified.

What's more, if Leroy is not used, Gu Hang will have no one to use. Although he also has some people he trusts, such as Martins. But... the ground battle is too risky, and it is hard to say when the extinction order weapon against the ground will take effect. At that time, no matter who is commanding the battle on the surface, they may die before they can withdraw.

Sending Martins or other key figures to the battlefield at risk, and letting them lead a force that is not subordinate to him, with a high-ranking figure like Leluwa in the team, and they may not be able to withdraw...

It is not suitable, and Gu Hang himself is reluctant to do so.

Let Leluwa continue to lead, that's fine.

As for the risk of the extermination order... Actually, Gu Hang lied.

He told Leluwa that he would talk about it when the time is right, but in fact, he wished he could use psychic power to directly send the Burning Sky Torpedo to the surface of the planet.

Isn't that impossible?

Psychic teleportation not only requires an excellent psychic master, but also has requirements for the target to be teleported. The teleported person must at least be a living being that can be accepted by the subspace. This means that the so-called "soulless" and "untouchable" without "souls" cannot be the target of teleportation; dead objects without "souls" are also not allowed.

There is no problem with weapons, equipment, and even power armor that go with the teleported target. But the core reason is that these equipments are relatively small and carry the will of the owner. They can also be recognized by the subspace as part of this "soul", or an extension.

A Burning Sky torpedo is as big as a small starship, which does not meet the conditions for teleportation at all.

But even though he could not use such a convenient and fast means of teleportation, the battle on the surface had cleared fourteen air defense nests in the airborne area. When the probability of the transport ship landing increased from less than 5% to about 20%, he had already ordered the release of the Burning Sky torpedo.

The human fleet was close to the orbit, and it had to withstand the attack of the ground orbital guns and the attack of the Zerg Hive Fleet. It resolutely approached and released eight Burning Sky torpedoes at the cost of a moon-class cruiser.

All were intercepted.

This is completely different from the proportion of transport ships.

According to the proportion of transport ships, at least one of the eight torpedoes must land.

Just bad luck?

Not really.

Gu Hang noticed that every time an extinction order weapon was launched, the various interception methods of the Zerg would become more active.

They should have some ability to quickly distinguish whether the Alliance ship dropped an ordinary transport ship or an extermination order.

Moreover, they should have retained the margin for orbital interception. If all these margins are activated to destroy the transport ship, it may not be possible to completely intercept it, and it is impossible to further increase the interception efficiency to a particularly high level.

Moreover, the Queen of the Worm may think it is unnecessary.

Even if some army soldiers fall down, the numerical advantage of the ground swarm cannot be wiped out. Even if some air defense worm holes are destroyed, it is indeed troublesome, but most of them are still left, and the Queen of the Worm can reuse its stored biomass, or simply digest some soldier worms, hatch and generate more air defense worm holes.

But intercepting the extermination order is a must. If one explodes, it will be a big egg.

On this basis, the Queen of the Worm has a lot of back-up plans, which allows the interception methods of orbital air defense and hive fleets to be reserved. Moreover, at the moment of identifying the release of the Extinction Order, all these reserved means should be used to specifically intercept the Extinction Order weapons, and the success rate will be greatly improved.

Later, Gu Hang also tried to use transport ships to transport the extinction order weapon to the ground.

But after three attempts, the results were the same.

Gu Hang did not waste any more Burning Sky torpedoes.

There was no need.

Observing the situation of the Burning Sky torpedo being intercepted, it can be seen that the problem is not the delivery method. The Zerg does not distinguish whether the human beings dropped the extinction order or ordinary troop transport ships or material ships by the delivery method. They should have a more efficient way to distinguish.

We have to think of other ways.

First of all, we still cannot relax on the deployment of troops on the ground.

The ground has achieved some results now.

Not only must we keep them, but we must also expand the results and strengthen them as much as possible.

We must prepare for the worst. Even if we fight the Zerg to the end of our rope and the queen's biomass cannot keep up with the consumption, we must win this war.

Of course, this is the worst plan.

In fact, we should not reach this step if we can.

Gu Hang is still thinking of some other ways.

Later, the human coalition tried to deliver the extinction order again. This time, they directly replaced a frigate, modified it with a void shield, and rushed to the ground.

As long as they rushed into the atmosphere, they would release the Burning Sky torpedo, and the mission would be considered a success. As for the tens of millions of people on the ship... forget it, they didn't even care about the millions of people and thousands of space warriors fighting on the ground, so how could they care about anything else?

But this time it also failed.     The frigate was blown up.

To go a step further and send away a cruiser or even a higher-level warship?

Forget it.

Gu Hang didn't think that would be successful.

Another method needs to be thought of.

However, the new method has not been thought of yet, and the situation on the ground has gradually improved with the passage of time.

In the battle, Leluwa finally showed his ability as the marshal of the Black Crusade.

The base area controlled by the human forces is constantly expanding.

They cleared all the Zerg in a certain area.

Now, Leluwa has about two million troops at hand, and the area controlled exceeds 50,000 square kilometers.

A more direct manifestation is that the success rate of transport planes landing in this area designated as a large-scale airdrop area has risen sharply to 60%.

Although the weapons of the Extinction Order still cannot be dropped, this landing ratio is actually quite ideal.

However, at this level, it is actually close to the current limit.

The main reason is that the remnants of the northern line left over from the first battle have almost been gathered. The remaining ones that have not yet gathered are either too far away to break through the Zerg's many obstacles independently and cannot come, or they have been annihilated and cannot be counted on.

In addition, the Zerg has also raised a hundred thousand vigilance against these survivors and began to increase the intensity of hunting everywhere.

This has made it impossible to obtain troops directly from the ground by gathering the remnants.

At the same time, the airdrops with a greatly improved success rate have also restored the combat effectiveness of the remnants of the northern line after dropping a lot of war supplies and armored vehicles.

This part of the improvement has reached the upper limit.

After the scale has increased, especially with a stable base, the Zerg no longer needs to disperse a large number of troops to prepare for airdrops like before. Those Zerg troops on standby have recently completed their assembly and began to launch a fierce siege on the base built by humans on the surface of Reyaduches.

Under the heroic sacrifice of human soldiers and the airborne reinforcements at all costs, Leluwa withstood wave after wave of attacks and saved the base.

However, being able to do this is already the limit of the current situation.

The number of Zergs surrounding the surrounding area is increasing.

Not only are the Zerg armies of the entire planet gathering here, but all the hatching nests controlled by the Queen are also working at full capacity. Piles of biomass have been transformed into various types of Zerg troops.

The speed at which their numbers increase is faster and more direct than that of the human army, which is constantly airdropping from the sky with 40% casualties.

The bases add up to hundreds of kilometers of borders, and smoke is everywhere, and there are wars everywhere. The base was also constantly subjected to various types of bombing.

The situation had reached a stalemate.

Leroy had done his best to keep the base, and he really couldn't ask for more.

If the war situation was to develop further, more forces had to be invested on the ground.

Gu Hang's answer was of course affirmative.

Since the second battle of Reyaduches, the largest airborne attack on the ground had begun.

Not only a large number of transport ships were dropped, but also various fighters that covered the sky and the sun.

Feng Hun, Qilin, Long Xiang... Although these three fighters of increasing levels were also divided into space version and planet version, in general, even the latter could persist in fighting in the space environment for a period of time. The air knights driving them did not need to follow the transport planes to gamble their lives, but could use a more flexible posture, and even use machine guns and high-performance servo skulls to assist in fire control, to break the interception artillery fire.

Thousands of fighters successfully entered the atmosphere, then quickly descended, and pulled up when close to the ground, and missiles were all thrown at the heads of the Zerg that were charging towards the human base. The most ruthless ones were the dozen precious Dragon Elephant fighters, each of which carried a Dongfeng Fen missile.

Once this L-class missile was fired, not to mention the Zerg, even a whole medium-sized Zerg nest would be destroyed.

The rest could also be licked crazily by machine guns.

Thousands of fighters caused huge casualties to the Zerg. They were not driven away until the flying insects that covered the sky and the sun, dozens or even hundreds of times the number of human fighters, swarmed in.

Of course, the fighters that had entered the atmosphere could not return to orbit or to the warships. But inside the base, airports and hangars had been built.

While fighting and retreating to the base, the anti-aircraft guns of the human side sprayed out one after another of flames, shooting down the flying insects in groups and preventing the pursuit of these Zerg air forces.

This wave of attack boosted the morale of the human side!

Not only did they see the brilliant fireworks show, the Zerg swarm also suffered heavy damage, and at the same time, they also clearly received a lot of support.

During the landing of the transport ship, due to the escort of thousands of fighters, the success rate of airborne landing increased significantly, reaching an unprecedented 75%.

Not only did more than one million army troops descend, they also brought a lot of heavy weapons-armor and artillery.

There were more than 400 Lion King tanks alone!

This thing is much larger and more powerful than the Lion tank.

In addition, what's more fierce is that half of the Titan Legion has landed.

Half of the half Titan Legion came from Mars, brought by Salilius from the Solar Star Region; the other half came from the Alliance National Knights.

In addition, Gu Hang also sent down 500 Space Marines from various regiments despite the powerful warp shadow of the Queen of the Bugs.

So far, Le Luwa has nearly 2,000 Space Marines.

Gu Hang was quite satisfied with the support and delivery to the ground this time.

To be honest, the two Sky Burning torpedoes that were secretly hidden in the transport ship and disguised as ordinary troop transports still failed to be transported to the ground. They were accurately identified and intercepted.

It's a pity.

But in any case, there is now a very powerful force on the ground.

Although the number of people is only 2 million due to the cruel losses in the previous one million, there are enough elite troops.

Gu Hang expects Le Luwa to achieve some satisfactory results after receiving large-scale reinforcements.