Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 753 - 419 Turning the Tide of Battle_2

Chapter 753: Chapter 419: Turning the Tide of Battle_2 Chapter 753: Chapter 419: Turning the Tide of Battle_2 Before the retreat, the human army wouldn’t initially destroy the orbital cannons, thinking that if they had the chance later, they could retake them and use them again.

However, over time, they realized that the Green Skin Orcs had inexplicably mastered the ability to modify human orbital cannons.

Then, the few cannons that had been captured by the orcs turned into firepower used to attack the Tianma Fleet from the sky.

That was truly a painful experience.

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So far, the number of such incidents hasn’t been high; the Tianma Fleet was able to withstand it.

The few captured orbital cannons were destroyed in the counter-attacks by the Tianma Fleet, which settled the matter.

But this could not happen too often.

If the majority of the orbital cannons were occupied and utilized by the Green Skins, Steel Wing Star might no longer be a defensive stronghold, and the Tianma Fleet would instead be caught in the middle, getting hit from both sides.

Therefore, if the human army on the ground was truly forced into a corner and couldn’t hold the Orbital Cannon Fortress, they would often choose to destroy the orbital cannons before retreating.

It was a reluctant decision, but it had to be made despite the pain.

But even destroying them was a bad situation; it just wasn’t as bad as if they were captured and turned against them.

In any case, if this situation continued, the Tianma Fleet truly wouldn’t be able to hold on anymore.

No wonder Tilermungs was so anxious and frustrated.

He had also heard of the Alliance Army’s triumphant advance upon entering the Eagle Horse Star Sector.

The combat prowess displayed by the Alliance Army caught him by surprise.

Initially, when he first left for battle outside the Tianma Star Sector, he had no idea that the Alliance was so capable.

The years spent campaigning had changed quite a lot.

This was, of course, a good thing.

The stronger the Alliance, the better.

But…

come on, Gu Hang, stop messing around.

If you’re coming, come quickly!

We’re about to be overwhelmed here!

After Gu Hang led the main force and arrived, he quickly deployed the Fleet near Steel Wing Star.

During this process, the two fleets succeeded in establishing contact, and at one point intended to encircle the Green Skin Fleet in the orbit of Steel Wing Star.

If they could trap the Green Skin ships in orbit and fight with the support of the Orbital Defense system, they were even confident that they could turn the Green Skin Ships into space debris in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, it didn’t happen.

The Military Governor of the Green Skin Fleet wasn’t stupid; no matter how headstrong, he wouldn’t let his forces be placed in such a precarious position against a formidable enemy.

When Gu Hang’s Fleet went through the Star Realm Tunnel and entered the Star System, the Green Skin Fleet naturally observed it.

In fact, with all the movements of the Alliance Fleet along the way—having severely beaten many of their task forces—the Green Skins could have been tracking the Alliance Fleet’s location all this time.

However, during that process, the Military Governor of the Green Skin Fleet and commander of their main force, the Lone Fang Ghoul, decided to try to take Steel Wing Star before the Alliance’s main forces could arrive.

It was under such a resolution that they successfully deployed thirty-five million Green Skins to the surface of Steel Wing Star, but at the same time, thirty million died during the deployment process.

It was a rash and irrational decision, but it was very characteristic of the Green Skins.

Clearly, the humans managed to hold their ground.

At this stage, no matter how irrational, he had to let go.

His ships withdrew from the orbit of Steel Wing Star.

He even attempted, after leaving the orbit of Steel Wing Star, to seek a decisive battle with Gu Hang’s Fleet main force, which was on its way.

To eliminate Gu Hang first, then turn back to continue the siege on Steel Wing Star.

But soon this choice fell apart.

Gu Hang had no interest in fighting him.

True, he had two hundred warships, while the Green Skins likely had three hundred fifty.

But the bulk of Gu Hang’s two hundred warships were armed merchant ships, making the odds of winning a head-on clash with the Green Skins low.

Even if Gu Hang’s Fleet joined forces with the Tianma Fleet and engaged the Green Skin main force in battle, the odds of victory were no better than fifty-fifty.

Even with a fifty percent chance of winning, Gu Hang was still not keen on fighting.

The probability was too low.

He was not willing to gamble all he had on a fifty percent chance of victory.

If there was a safer method, it definitely had to be used.

Gu Hang avoided the main fleet of the Green Skins, and the Tianma Fleet also pursued, and the two sides exchanged a few shots across the vast emptiness of space, a very long distance apart.

After cat-and-mouse games lasting for two days, the end result was each side losing two small ships, and the Human Fleet returned within the orbit defense system of Steel Wing Star.

Then, the nightmare for the Green Skin’s ground forces began.

It started with intensive and ferocious orbital bombardment.

With the Green Skin Fleet temporarily not pressing the Human Fleet, they took half a day to conduct a fierce artillery bombardment on the Green Skins’ ground troops.

The Green Skins’ anti-orbital firepower was pitifully inadequate, as they were originally the attackers.

In the midst of the fierce bombardment, all of the Green Skins’ offensive operations came to a halt.

Additionally, the ecological system that the Green Skins had managed to establish also suffered a devastating blow.

A large number of Green Skin Orcs perished in this wave of bombardment.

It also helped that their previous attacks had been quite scattered, over thirty million in number, spread across the entire northern hemisphere of the planet.

After the bombardment, those that survived learned to disperse as much as possible and fled in all directions.

Furthermore, during the orbital bombardment, the ground forces were also not in a good position to encircle and suppress them, which meant that not as many Green Skins were killed as one might have thought.

However, without a doubt, any offensive momentum they had was completely shattered during the half-day bombardment.

A large amount of heavy equipment that was difficult to move and spread out was also destroyed in the bombardment.

This was a severe blow indeed.

The orbital bombardment by the Human Fleet only ended when the fleet led by the Duguai Ghost hurriedly returned and resumed the oppressive attack on the Human ships.

But in the meantime, tens of millions of Star Realm Army troops had already been deployed to the surface.

The Rage Bear Legion and the Dragonhawk Legion had all descended, along with about twenty million of the Alliance Army.

Facing the disoriented and heavily damaged Green Skin army, nearly fifty million elite Human Land Forces would be an opponent the Green Skins could not possibly resist.

Moreover, the situation in the space warfare had also changed.

The Green Skin Fleet could no longer keep the Human navy under fire.

After the confluence of the two Human fleets, the naval battle in the void of space would have equal chances of victory for both sides, not to mention that the battlefield was now around the orbit of Steel Wing Star.

Even though a third of the ground-based orbital cannons were out of commission, the remaining two-thirds, combined with the Star Fortress, Starport, and Armed Space Stations, still offered substantial support to the Human ships.

The Green Skin Fleet, attempting proactive attacks to suppress the Human ships, soon found themselves battered and bruised.

After several attacks were repelled and having accumulated losses of over twenty ships,

Even if they were just small ships, it still hurt.

The key issue was that despite these many losses, there was a lack of substantial results.

At most, four or five ordinary Human warships were damaged to the point of being unfit for battle.

The key was that they could just duck into a Starport, and it was possible they could be repaired and sent back out; even if not, the usable parts could be salvaged and placed on other ships as a means of quickly restoring combat capability during wartime.

When a Green Skins’ ship blew up, it was truly done for.

Although they did indeed prevent the Human ships from continuing to provide fire support to the ground, the cost was too steep.

But what if they did not interfere?

What about the ground combat?

At least twenty million Green Skins who were still alive could not be evacuated.

Along with the loss of troops from the earlier airdrop, he had thrown in upwards of seventy million soldiers.

Even for the Green Skin Orcs, that was a number that couldn’t be ignored.

If Chieftain Titus found out that he had paid such a high price for no results, that would be quite bad.

Duguai Ghost was caught in a strategic dilemma.

But Gu Hang ‘considerately’ didn’t let him struggle for too long.

The Human Fleet seized an opportunity and launched a counterattack.