STARTING FROM THE PLANETARY GOVERNOR

Chapter 800: Chapter 439, Temir No.5 Meat Grinder_3

This kind of large-scale decisive battle is something the Green Skin Orcs can’t afford.

After suffering losses a few times, they had grown smarter.

Rarely do they assemble large forces. When they encounter a large number of human troops gathering for an advance, they scatter, even at the expense of losing hard-won ecological circles and key sites such as garbage city armories.

And the dispersed Green Skin Orcs, relying on not needing food supplies, in addition to some garbage-built armed trucks, with Skugg Beasts for transport, and carrying extra ammo supplies, formed numerous armies ranging from a few hundred to just over ten thousand in size, poking into the depths of the human army’s frontline.

Often in the front, a considerable number of petty spirits formed fodder armies, drawing the attention of the human main forces, while the real Orc troops engaged in guerrilla warfare behind, fighting small-scale battles.

This halted the momentum of the human armies’ offenses.

It was very uncomfortable.

This bunch of Green Skins can truly fight without logistics—at least they rely on it far less than humans do.

Human armies can hardly fight without logistics. People need food, guns need bullets, shells, vehicles need energy… Without any one of these, their combat effectiveness plummets.

It’s different for the Green Skins, they don’t need to eat, or they can eat the petty spirits and Skugg Beasts accompanying them; they also need ammunition and energy, but the former can be hand-made, and the latter can be looted.

Turn to suppress banditry?

Fight small-scale battles with Green Skins?

That’s a real loss.

Actually, the land forces are still okay. Once they catch the Green Skins, one part holds them, and help comes from all sides. If the Green Skins also send reinforcements, that’s even better, a decisive battle would be most welcome.

But that often would not happen. They don’t send reinforcements. Instead, they look for ways to break through, or if they can’t, they defend stubbornly and fight hard.

The Green Skin youngsters had battles to fight, howling excitedly.

Calling in ship artillery for such small troop units is a loss-making affair.

The lofty attitudes of the Alliance Navy had improved a lot; they wouldn’t say not to disturb them unless you had a hole that could be filled with twenty thousand lives, but calling a ship over to rain down intense fire for a day, the cost of the ammunition and the firepower effectiveness ratio would become absurdly high.

So the Alliance Army had to rely on their own artillery for support.

That would result in significant casualties.

The Alliance Army was precious and elite, and the main combat power still had to depend on them, so they could only rely on the Native Defense Forces to fill the gaps, with the Alliance’s heavy artillery for fire support and the armored units for assaults, with the infantry cleaning up at the end.

But even so, the Native Defense Forces didn’t have much of a complaint.

Even though it sounded unpleasant, it was like being cannon fodder, but the casualty ratio, compared to when they fought independently before, was much lower.

Perbov didn’t want to be led by the nose by a bunch of Green Skin Orcs. While providing necessary support to the Planetary Defense Force, he still gathered as much of the Alliance Army as possible and selected many strategic targets.

Freeing captured cities, rescuing populations, destroying garbage cities, destroying the ecological circles of the Green Skins… If you dare not fight a decisive battle with me, I will dig up your roots.

As for the numerous scattered fronts, stretching thousands of kilometers across the globe, the endless intricate battle lines, those battles that could be called meat grinders had to continue.

With the Alliance Army as the core backbone of the various battlefields and fire support from the Space Fleet, those numerous meat grinders weren’t only grinding human flesh but also that of the Green Skins.

Before the Alliance arrived, the exchange ratio between humans and Green Skin Orcs was about 10:1; now it had been brought down to within 2:1—most of the human casualties were still from the Native Defense Forces.

If those petty spirits were included, the casualty ratio could be reversed to 1 human for 2 Green Skins.

The combat capability of the petty spirits was quite far behind that of the proper Orcs.

Cut off the Green Skins’ external reinforcements, destroy their ecological circles as much as possible, and reduce local production… If it came to attrition, the existing one and a half billion Green Skin creatures still couldn’t outlast humans.

But even so, the estimate for eradicating the Green Skins on Temir No.5 predicted that humans would likely suffer over five hundred million casualties.

This number, upon seeing the data provided by the staff department, made Perbov shudder.

Five hundred million… even on Temir II, where the native populace was burned by a Skyburn Torpedo, the number didn’t reach half this figure. But to clear Temir II through ground offensives, the losses wouldn’t be lower than this number, and might even be higher.

What was more frightening was that on Temir II, there weren’t as many Planetary Defense Forces—now called Pact Army—as allies for the Alliance like here on No.5. By then, most of the losses might have to be borne by the Alliance Army.

Who could withstand that?

In interstellar battlefields, where both sides span across Star Sectors, combining the forces of all races, the scale is so exaggerated that it’s unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Perbov no longer had any doubt about whether it was really right to deploy that World-ending Weapon.

All he had in his heart now was a profound hatred for the Alien Races.

Clenching his teeth, he ordered his troops to destroy another Orc garbage city and then received some terrible intelligence.

It came from above.

Commander Du Shiliang informed him that from this moment on, the firepower support that the Alliance Navy could provide would be greatly reduced.

Because the Green Skins’ Fleet was coming.

Although it had not arrived and was still shuttling through the Star Realm Tunnel, the Navy had to save their cannon reserves; otherwise, if a naval battle broke out and the rear artillery supplies hadn’t arrived, having no firepower for a naval battle would be ridiculous.

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