Chapter 658, Urgent

"Thank you for coming!"

During the call, Salilius was very polite.

Martins's reply was also very polite: "We are friendly forces, so we should be polite."

But the politeness was limited to this.

The battle situation was critical, and there was really not much time for greetings.

Afterwards, Salilius introduced the situation on the Western Front to Martins in detail.

After receiving Gu Hang's last very severe warning, Salilius's own sense of uneasiness also rose to the maximum.

At that time, he did have the idea of ​​competing with Leroy to see who could enter Readuches first.

It's normal. As a commander, he participated in this mighty war. Who doesn't want to take the final honor?

But in the end, his reason still prevailed.

For the sake of honor, he was unwilling to risk the destruction of the entire army.

Combined with Gu Hang's warning, if everything is true, then Readuches is obviously not the end of this war. Taking it down is not a victory.

What's more, Le Luwa had already seized the opportunity before him. If the Princess Star Region was easy to fight, then he would definitely not run as fast as Le Luwa; if the Princess Star Region was really like what Gu Hang said, it had become a nest of insects and was extremely dangerous, then stepping into it would be a pure death.

After a whole day of consideration, he figured out a lot, and finally let go of the idea in his mind, and went against all odds. According to Gu Hang's suggestion, he stopped the troops, established a defense line on the spot, cleaned up the local infected people, and tried to establish a stable base to ensure that there was no worry at the moment, and then looked at the situation and made the next plan.

Then, he waited for the full outbreak of insect pests, waited for Iron Armor to attack from behind, and Le Luwa on the north line had no news since then.

At that time, he was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

If he really led the army like Le Luwa, and rashly entered the Princess Star Region, then the end would probably be no different from Le Luwa, whose situation is unclear now.

But even the current situation has made him anxious.

The Zerg army that escaped from the Empress Star Region was actually relatively better. Although there were many of them, they did not step into the Empress Star Region and kept the defense line.

More than a dozen worlds were at war at the same time, and the fleets provided support everywhere, using the planets as fortresses, and they were still able to stabilize the front line.

Although the war was very intense and the sacrifices were great, they were able to hold the front line and consume each other, and they were still greatly superior in terms of the battle loss ratio.

Of course, the battle loss ratio is not easy to talk about. After all, if the battle loss ratio of the Zerg swarm is not wide, then there is no need to fight, and they will be consumed to death. After all, although human lives are not valuable in the interstellar war, the lives of the opposite Zerg are even less valuable.

In the current consumption, being able to have an advantage is at least not that bad.

As long as the number of Zerg swarms is consumed to a certain scale, and then certain strategies are adopted, or a decisive battle, or a life-threatening assault, to destroy the core Zerg hive fleet of the Zerg swarm, the war can be won.

This is also the way that humans and the Void Zerg often win in the battle for supremacy in this star sea in the past six months.

But the bigger problem lies in the main force of the Iron Armored Corps that is attacking from the west to the east.

That's life-threatening.

The Iron Armored Corps has been missing for a long time. During the eastward advance, Salilius's troops occasionally encountered them and achieved some results, but the two sides did not launch a substantial full-scale confrontation. The Iron Armored Corps seemed to break at the first touch, and was beaten back in the war spanning hundreds and thousands of worlds.

According to the battle report, Salilius's offensive was too fierce. The full-scale offensive made the Iron Armored Corps unable to resist, and there was no time to assemble, so they were beaten back, so that they suffered great losses in a series of small-scale battlefields, which can basically be considered as destruction.

But Gu Hang thought this was wrong at the beginning.

Iron Armored Corps could not be so easy to deal with.

Did Salilius lie about military intelligence and exaggerate his military exploits from the beginning? He didn't think so at first. He thought he had really defeated the Iron Armor. But now, with the facts in front of him, he had to admit that he was careless. Before, the battle reports he received claimed that he encountered the Iron Armor team in one battle after another, which might be true; but the cumulative number of casualties exceeded 4,000, and this number seemed really unreliable.

Perhaps in a battle, he encountered ten Iron Armor teams, and the artillery covered them, but he didn't see any of them, so he thought they were all wiped out, and then reported it.

This is probably the case.

The error that occurs once may not seem high, but accumulated in countless battles, it is not a small number.

And these problems, accumulated to the present, have exploded a big thunder for him.

The Iron Armor regiment that came out from behind has at least eleven main battleships. The strength of the Space Marines is still unknown, but the planets they focus on attacking are all reporting that they have been attacked by thousands of Space Marines and quickly fell. At the same time, deeper into the battlefield, Iron Armor ships and tactical teams can often be seen coming to harass.

Just like the Changqi Star before.

Once the defense power is insufficient, it will be conquered and cause great trouble.

The gain or loss of a planet may not be critical; the risk of the Iron Armor rushing directly to the defense line and attacking from both sides, which will threaten the main force of Salilius, is much greater, but it is not impossible to solve. After all, Salilius still has a lot of troops, and can still withdraw some troops to arrange defenses facing the west.

But the biggest threat comes from the interruption of the logistics line, which will be the end.

The entire Solar Expeditionary Force, such a huge fleet, the Solar Legion's Star Army, and the Star Army and defense forces recruited from the local Magre Universe, add up to hundreds of millions or even billions of troops, and the daily consumption is huge.

If the basic food and ammunition consumption can still be provided on the spot through the many planets currently occupied, then it would be too difficult to replenish the same large amount of advanced shells, high-compression energy crystals required by ships, naval gun shells, and lost high-tech weapons and equipment, such as tanks and fighters.

The Baimu Star Region is not a place with developed productivity. Providing some primary assets was barely enough, and not enough, after all, production and transportation capacity were a problem. As for advanced war resources, they were even more helpless, unable to produce them at all, not to mention that the productivity of these worlds that had suffered from the war was also a problem.

In this situation, Martins' arrival solved the urgent problem.