Chapter 661, Battle of Wanzhou Star

The Battle of Wanzhou Star was a defensive battle, and the Iron Armor was the one who took the initiative to attack.

During the counterattack to the west, Salilius and Martins also observed a weakness of the Iron Armor - their supply was also problematic.

Although the Iron Armored Corps was fully infected and transformed into insects, the bodies of the Iron Armored soldiers killed on the battlefield were stripped of their armor, and there was no need for dissection. From the appearance, it can be seen that the flesh inside was like a combination of insects and humans. The deformed skull, the chitinous structure growing on the body... Further dissection can also find that the superhuman organs inside have also changed.

To be honest, these changes have made the Iron Armored Corps stronger in terms of physical strength, which can be regarded as a combination of the superhuman physique of the Space Marines and the advantages of the Zerg as a biochemical weapon.

After the transformation, their average strength is even stronger than that of some ordinary Corps soldiers.

But it is precisely because they are not completely transformed into insects that they cannot be like regular insects, almost independent of supplies.

Of course, the units of the Void Zerg will get tired, injured, hungry, and use up their "ammunition". However, when they are hungry, they can eat their own kind to replenish their energy, and their own kind will not resist. Everything is the order of the node organisms. The lower-level insects have no self-will, so they will naturally not object.

Their so-called ammunition is the super-hard chitin bullets differentiated from their bodies, which are fired by the "guns" that are essentially biological organs and symbiotic. All are biological products, and all can be provided by themselves. When they run out of ammunition and food, they can even self-digest unnecessary organs in their bodies. For example, if they are sure that they can't eat anything and just want to be cannon fodder to die, they can decompose the digestive system and differentiate into "bullets". Or they can evolve by eating their own kind, eating the corpses of the enemy, and eating the parts of nature that can be used.

Those soldier insects, gun insects and other things are not obvious yet. When it comes to units such as biological cannons and biochemical tanks, the same logic applies.

The Zerg also has a special "corpse collection team", a group of small insects with only digestive organs. At night and in the intervals between wars, they sneak onto the battlefield and the surrounding areas to eat corpses, whether their own or the enemy's, to recycle biomass and provide it to the hatching center in the rear.

In this way, even in the case of extreme lack of logistics, the combat effectiveness of the Zerg will not be greatly affected. In theory, the Zerg needs logistical biomass supplies when fighting, but in fact, it is basically impossible to beat them to the point of logistics being cut off.

The human army and the Zerg army are not at the same level in terms of logistics difficulty.

But the Iron Armored Warband's insectization has not reached such a thorough level.

Their combat mode still maintains the appearance of humans.

Basically, all the infected are like this. After all, they are just infected by parasites, their brains are replaced, and their bodies are transformed, but they are not biological weapons designed by the Queen of the Zerg from the beginning and born from the hatching nest.

Ironclad warriors still need power armor to provide space marine-level combat power; their bolters still need explosive shells to fire; their ships are still made of steel and require fuel, not like the Zerg biological ships that can fly by themselves.

This makes them need similar logistical supplies like the human army.

I don't know what Humphrey Paul's current condition is, but in terms of military affairs, his mind is probably still clear. Before launching the war, he not only hid his troops, but also must have stockpiled a lot of war supplies.

However, it has been so long since the war ended, and a lot of the war materials have been spent.

Especially after Martins and Salilius joined forces to launch a fierce counterattack to the west, the intensity of the war increased a lot.

Once the intensity rose, the consumption of various war materials of Ironclad also increased sharply.

Up to now, the Ironclad Corps has been in a difficult situation.

The number of Zergs in the Princess Star Region was less than expected, and they failed to put enough pressure on the Empire.

This was caused by Gu Hang's attack from the Alfonzo star field into the Princess Star Field.

The original attack from the west and east, which seemed to destroy the empire, was also disintegrated because of the northward movement of the Alliance Martins.

Now, it is their turn to face the most embarrassing situation.

The previously stored war materials have consumed a lot due to the fierce war that lasted for half a year.

The key is that there is no place to replenish them.

In the past, Iron Armor had to support such a large-scale war. Who could it rely on for huge logistical supplies?

First, it relied on the Alfonzo sect. This ally is a powerful mechanical order. It not only owns an entire star field as a resource mining site, but also has three forging worlds. With the productivity started, it is of course no problem to arm a large army.

Second, relying on the core areas such as the Princess Star Field to provide a large amount of war supplies. After all, before the Princess Star Field rotted, it was their core nest, and the resources that hundreds of worlds can provide are still abundant. When the war expanded, Iron Armor almost occupied the entire Spider Web Universe at its peak, and resources were put into operation everywhere to supply the army.

Now, these two most important sources of war resources are gone.

The war supplies they had accumulated during the previous dormant stage were their last resort.

Now, even if they have gathered and reappeared again, they have reoccupied many worlds in the process of attacking the Western Front Army in Salisuus. However, the supplies they were able to obtain from it were insufficient.

There are some resources, but not many.

Pest infestations have spread repeatedly over the past few years, causing huge damage to productivity. What's more, Salisu's troops also need supplies. During the previous wars, they also scraped oil from local places.

After several attempts, there was not enough oil and water left to scrape.

They still have another way, which is to continue to evacuate westward, withdraw to the Maigret space area, and collect resources on the spot.

But in that case, how could they create pressure on the imperial army on the west side? When the time comes when the Western Front Army stops pursuing them and joins forces with Martins to advance into the Imperial Universe and follow Gu Hang to the east and west for a decisive battle with the main force of the Zerg army, then Humphrey Paul will be dumbfounded. .

What's more, is it really that easy to retreat to the west?

Not necessarily.

When they appeared more than half a year ago and the Western Front Army was in crisis, Holy Terra reacted like its butt was on fire.

Over there, new troops are already being formed.

For the imperial center, it must be prepared for the situation in Eastern Xinjiang to further deteriorate.

Later, when the Alliance took action to stabilize the situation, these formed troops were not disbanded, but were sent to the Maigret Domain. On the one hand, they strengthened the defense of the central territory of the empire, and on the other hand, they also served as drivers to the west. Line Corps provides support.

Although the size of this army is not too large or too strong, when Iron Armor retreats to the west, it will inevitably get entangled with them.

It’s hard to choose no matter what.

It was like a noose that had been inserted into the iron armor's neck. The current task is to slowly tighten the rope, and finally strangle this powerful army of infected people at the junction of the Spider Web Universe and the Maigret Universe.

This will be a long process, but it is also the strategy with the highest winning rate and the most stability.

Although Gu Hang was still waiting for the Western Front to be liberated and join him in attacking the Queen's Star Territory, Martins and Salilius decided to take it slow after discussing it.

They had fully communicated this idea with Gu Hang, and Gu Hang also said that there was no problem.

Victory is the most important thing. If you insist on pursuing and winning, and if you can win quickly, then if you don't do it well, you will lose everything.

At worst, Gu Hang's actions in the Queen's Star Territory should be slowed down as much as possible.

It just so happened that he also needed to take time to steadily clear his path during the march and ensure a stable route.

In this way, the two sides reached an agreement, and the overall situation was also developing in this direction - that is, the rope around the iron armor's neck was getting tighter and tighter.

At this time, Humphrey Paul made an astonishing move: he assembled a powerful force and suddenly launched a fierce attack on Wanzhou Star.

Wanzhouxing was the logistics supply center for the coalition forces of Salisius and Martins when they attacked Iron Armor, and a large amount of supplies were stored here.

He fought beautifully in this battle.

The troop mobilization before the war was particularly exquisite, and the empire was almost unaware of it; when it started, it was even more thunderous, breaking through at a single point, and when they came in, the empire's troop mobilization had not yet had time to form.

This immediately put Wanzhouxing into a huge crisis.

Once Tiejai takes down Wanzhou Star, not only will they be able to get a precious wave of supplies, but furthermore, the empire's supplies will be temporarily short of supplies. Although there will be supplies from the alliance, which will be continuously replenished from the rear, resources require money, and the alliance is not that wealthy. At the same time, operation also takes time.

Not to mention the possibility of the army being defeated by then, at the very least, it will have to restrain its strength and temporarily suppress a large-scale attack.

The war, which was originally expected to take a long time to win, may become even longer.

Under the circumstances, the situation was reversed, which Salisius and Martins would definitely not be able to accept.

At this time, the latest news came.

Wanzhouxing was not conquered.

Although the main force of the iron armor surrounded the entire galaxy, an Otaupis company stationed on Wanzhou Star, plus half of the Dragon King's Spear Chapter, fought tooth and nail to resist during the battle.

Coupled with the cooperation of the heroic mortal soldiers of the Sun Legion on the ground, they have been controlling the locations of many key areas on the planet.

Under such circumstances, the coalition forces, which had been gathering troops and prepared for the worst to retake Wanzhou Star, had to step up their actions.

The first reinforcements arrived soon.

But it failed in the naval battle and suffered heavy losses.

It doesn't matter, the second batch, the third batch...the assembled army will arrive soon after.

The fleets of both sides were entangled in the star sea; the armies that had been deployed on the ground attacked each other with all their strength; the empire's reinforcements also sent reinforcements to the ground.

Iron Armor's offensive against Wanzhou Star was, to put it bluntly, just short of its last breath.

They were not willing to fail and increased their troops more and more.

The number of troops invested on both sides increased in a short period of time.

This raid on the Wanzhou Star Logistics Hub launched by Iron Armor was heading towards a decisive battle between the two armies.

It is normal that the Empire does not want to give up the logistics center; on the other hand, although the surprise attack has been considered a failure, Tiekai has no intention of stopping.

The Empire's staff analyzed that Tiekai is risking everything.

They also know that if they continue to fight like this, they will fight to the death on Wanzhou Star. However, when it is obvious that the battle will become more and more difficult as time goes by, Tiekai does not mind fighting such a decisive battle while his combat effectiveness is still at its peak and all the war materials can still support it.

And the Empire will not retreat.

Apart from other things, after a considerable number of reinforcements have been invested, they will not retreat.

Unless they are not only willing to hand over a large amount of logistical supply resources, but also abandon the many troops that have been deployed on the surface of Wanzhou Star.

That is of course unacceptable.

Although the Empire was not mentally prepared before the Wanzhou Star Campaign began, they have now unified their thoughts.

In Martins' words, "We will give the traitors the most painful defeat on behalf of the Emperor in Wanzhou!"

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The Wanzhou Star Battle reached its peak when the two supreme commanders, Martins and Salilius, arrived with their most direct troops.

The fleets of both sides were still entangled in space, and it seemed that no one could win quickly.

The battle on the surface was even more tragic.

More than 7,000 Iron Armor warriors have landed on the ground.

Many orbital gun systems have been captured, and the starport has fallen into the hands of the enemy. This made it difficult for the Empire's ships to enter the orbital system of the planet. Many strategic materials have been transported out and given to Iron Armor as supplies.

In this case, Martins and Salilius both led their troops to the ground in person.

The fleet withstood the attack of a small number of captured orbital guns, went around to the other side of the occupied starport, and released the main ground forces.

Since then, the number of Space Marines on the ground of the Empire has exceeded 3,500.

On a large plain, the two sides launched a fierce battle.

On a battle line of about 300 kilometers, the two sides gathered tens of millions of troops, forming a wide and deep confrontation battlefield.

The Empire took the initiative to launch a single-point assault.

As the spearhead of the assault, the most eye-catching unit was not the Space Marines, but the "Alliance National Knights" from the Alliance!

This army with a large number of Titans, in coordination with a large number of infantry and armored units, launched a fierce attack on a defensive position of the Iron Armor.