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Chapter 798: Chapter 439, Temir No.5 Meat Grinder

The war situation on Temir No.4 was progressing basically as planned by the war staff department.

Although there were some unexpected elements, such as after the land forces actually landed and met with the Planetary Defense Force, the Fleet also provided support from orbit, and after a more detailed reconnaissance of the enemy, they discovered an error in the initial estimate of the number of Green Skins.

There were not one hundred million Green Skins on Temir No.4, but close to three hundred million. Of these, there were seventy to eighty million actual Orcs, and not fifty million Pixies but over two hundred and thirty million.

The enemy situation had a fairly large deviation from the estimates, but it did not affect the implementation of the specific strategic plan.

The battle would be fought as it was meant to be fought.

For the few Green Skin gatherings and ecosystems that were detected, orbital bombardment was used for direct destruction. The number of ground troops deployed remained at eight million, only now their subsequent battles would be a bit tougher.

On Temir No.4, armored units had some difficulty in maneuvering. Just as the Orcs were hampered by various mining areas and pits in their attempts to wipe out the human troops on Temir No.4, after humans switched from defense to offense, they also struggled to chew through the Green Skin-held directions. The Aliens could also hide in those pits.

Those pits, unless they were of some particularly large size, were not accessible to normal defense outposts or tanks.

For this reason, the several armored divisions that went down, after some consideration, exchanged some equipment with other brother units, greatly reducing the number of Lion Tanks and Lion King Tanks deployed, and even the number of artillery was reduced.

What replaced the heavy tanks was a large number of Sentry Mechas.

These were definitely not as effective as heavy tanks on the front lines; their armor could not withstand even machine gun fire for long before breaking; and they could not, like tanks, directly equip a large-caliber tank cannon, at most carrying some machine guns, rocket nests, and the like.

However, they still counted as armored units and were flexible. They were roughly humanoid in shape, although much taller than normal human soldiers, but basically, if infantry could get into a place, so could they.

This kind of convenience was something that tanks could not replace. In an environment like Temir No.4, filled with pits and interior building combat, they could play a surprisingly large role.

Their natural enemies on the battlefield—artillery and heavy tanks—were either nowhere to be seen or could not perform effectively in tight and complex environments, making it the perfect stage for the Sentry Mechas to show their prowess, right?

Also, artillery was not easy to deploy in this kind of war environment. It was alright during defense, but during offense, the caverns were too winding and undestroyable by cannon fire to be of any use, not to mention that artillery couldn’t get inside.

Replacing artillery was enhanced individual firepower. Equipped with more offensive grenades, bombs, rocket launchers.

As for grenades, no need to explain; bombs were used after entering the caves to locate key positions, then blowing up the caves and calling it a day. Once the key passages collapsed, regardless of whether the Green Skins inside were dead or alive, they would eventually perish. Green Skins indeed didn’t need to eat and could “photosynthesize,” but there was no sunlight in the underground caverns for that.

Rocket launchers were suitable for direct bombardment into the cave openings during the attack. No matter if there were people inside or not, first launching three to five rockets inside, then the infantry could advance.

In summary, if tanks were not usable, find another armored alternative; if artillery wasn’t efficient, find another firepower replacement.

Thanks to the mobilization order sounded by the Alliance rear, the billions of skilled workers worked overtime to produce all kinds of war materials and equipment, so the Alliance Land Forces still had plenty, and a wide variety, of stuff to fight those Green Skins with.

Of course, eliminating all the Green Skins on Temir No.4 wasn’t something that could be done quickly. The Alliance sent down eight million men, but in the end, it still relied on several hundred million troops from the home front to serve as the main force. Even though those Green Skins had lost their reinforcements and had to fear orbital attacks forcing them to shrink back, precisely because of this, by leveraging the terrain for pure defense, the human side looking to completely annihilate the opponent might need eight to ten years to accomplish it.

But it didn’t matter.

As long as the overall situation was determined, that was enough.

Although Temir No.4 was still in a state of war, all production activities within the human-controlled areas could fully recover. They no longer had to fear like before that starting production would attract Orcs and lead to annihilation; now they craved for Orcs to come out, then with the reinforced Planetary Defense Force serving as the main force, and the Alliance Land Forces as the decider in a fatal blow, they could systematically eliminate the enemy’s living forces.

If the Orcs didn’t come out, then they’d continue mining; the minerals extracted would be processed into steel alloys on-site, turned into raw materials in chemical plants, and then sent to newly established munitions factories to be made into weapons or bombs, supplying the front-line troops, innovating equipment, and strengthening firepower.

The local Defense Army, with increasing war experience and upgraded equipment, would become stronger and stronger!

As long as the space above could prevent these Orcs from being resupplied, cleaning up the Orcs from the planet was just a matter of time.

Even more so, as the battlefront became increasingly stable, these Defense Armies who had come through the flames of war could be conscripted to other battlefields.

Actually, under the direction of Gu Hang, the Alliance Military and Political Department was already in the process of assembling troops under the Septem Pact framework. This would be the third force under Gu Hang’s control, apart from the Alliance Land Forces and the Star Realm Army—the Pact Army.

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