Chapter 670, Collapse and Breakout

The army group on the northern front is different from the western and southern fronts.

The western front has an absolute main body: the Ortopis Regiment, the Solar Fleet, and the Solar Legion.

Although these are three, they are all direct troops working for Holy Terra, and they have been cooperating with each other for a long time. Salilius has full leadership authority over the Solar Fleet and the Solar Legion. Whether it is the fleet commander or the head of the Astra Militarum, there is no resistance to obeying Salilius' orders, and he can fully mobilize the troops of the Western Front Legion.

Not to mention the southern front, just the alliance itself.

Of course, both the western and southern fronts have some additional forces. For example, there are some remnant troops on the West Front that were left behind when they obeyed the orders of the Phoenix Legion during the first Western Front attack; there are other legions that joined and recruited on the road, and even ships and Star Army troops; there are local troops recruited from the Magre Universe...

The same is true for the South Front. There are some troops deployed from the Eastern Universe, and even the Yunmengze Universe to the west of the Eastern Universe, who obey Gu Hang's command.

However, these "foreign troops" are only subordinate to the South Front and the West Front, not the core force, and are icing on the cake.

Gu Hang or Salilius have strong enough control over their core troops, which in turn enables them to control the entire army.

But the North Front is not like this. The North Front is a real coalition.

Although there is also a core like the Black Crusaders, to be honest, the proportion of the entire North Front cannot be compared with the West Front, let alone the Alliance on the South Front.

There are also twice as many people from other legions; in terms of the fleet, it is also a fleet put together. In addition to the Black Crusaders, the Devouring Star Universe has given great support. The ships from the Devouring Stars are of the same nature as the Northern Fleet and Yunluo Fleet of the Dragon Eagle Stars.

The fleets under these star domain governments have no subordinate relationship and are forced together. Maybe when they left their hometown and joined the expeditionary force, they were also told by the boss of their own government to try to bring the fleet back. After all, for a star domain, the value of the fleet is very great. If it is really destroyed by the empire, it will take many years to rebuild it relying on the financial capacity of the star domain government.

Especially some poorer star domains.

When the North Line Legion and the Zerg were pulling the fleet in the Reyaduches galaxy, the first to collapse were these star domain fleets.

They just slipped away and ran away.

The smart thing about the Zerg Hive Fleet is that they did not hunt down the escaping human ships, but focused on putting more pressure on the human fleet.

Seeing that the battle was becoming more and more difficult to hold on, and seeing that the ships that were fleeing actually ran away, the remaining ships of the human side, which were already in a state of turmoil, fled even more.

At this point, the overall loss of the human side's fleet was not particularly serious. After all, the most important ships had not run away.

The biggest impact was on morale.

The biggest impact on the war situation was that there was a gap in the formation of the entire fleet. The Hive Fleet could take advantage of the lack of firepower of the human ships and attack from it. Not only was it easy for other ships of the human side to be hit by side fire, but some core ships inside were also exposed.

In a swift assault, the most important ship in the North Line Corps Fleet, the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Black Crusaders, which was the flagship of the entire fleet personally commanded by Leroy, was destroyed after being hit by concentrated fire.

Before and after the ship exploded, there were single ships that escaped from the battle barge that was about to be destroyed. Perhaps Leroy himself and some important figures still on board have escaped. However, under the poor communication environment, no one could contact Leroy, and he could no longer effectively command the entire fleet.

Immediately, Marshal Xi Rui of the Fourth Fleet of the Black Crusaders took over the command. The battle barge he was on was indeed the second flagship arranged in the entire fleet sequence.

Marshal Xi Rui's handling after taking over was definitely not wrong. Tactically, he tried his best to make up for the tactical formation of the entire fleet after a battle barge was destroyed; strategically, he was also trying his best to appease people's hearts and avoid the total collapse of the fleet.

However, no matter how hard he tried, the total collapse still came.

With the disappearance of Leroy, the flagship was destroyed, and more ships began to withdraw from the battle.

The order was passed, but there was no response.

It is not known whether it was really intercepted by the omnipresent and very powerful communication interference ability of the Zerg, or whether it was clearly heard but deliberately did not respond.

The Inquisition warship where Qin Zhiping was located was actually the longest-lasting.

But it was meaningless.

Seeing that defeat was inevitable and realizing that the situation was hopeless, Qin Zhiping had to order the ships to evacuate.

Or, it would be better to call it "breaking out".

He successfully broke out, although the ship suffered heavy losses and he could no longer contact the main force after a star shuttle after the breakout, but he and his crew survived.

But just when they breathed a sigh of relief, bad news came one after another.

The damage management department of the ship reported that the damage to the ship was serious and there was no way to repair it under the existing conditions. They could only force the seams and patch it up to try to keep the ship running. But they had no way to guarantee how long the ship could run. Perhaps, it would be damaged suddenly at a certain point.

Qin Zhiping could only take his ship and run as far east as possible.

He knew that running north would be a death sentence, and that was also the territory of the Zerg. It would be better to run east to the Alfonzo star field occupied by the Alliance, which was closer. If they really ran over, there might be a glimmer of hope.

Then, they were attacked by the hunting ships of the Void Zerg.

Obviously, in the previous war, the Zerg ignored the escaping human ships, which was just a combat strategy at the time. When they won the fleet decisive battle, these escaping ships were all spoils of war, and they must find a way to get them back.

Dragging the broken ships, they certainly couldn't escape the pursuit.

The last bit of motivation could only allow his Tribunal ship to make an emergency landing on the world called ‘Taiyuan Star’.

20% of the crew on the ship died in this forced landing.

But at least 80% of them survived.

The feeling of surviving a disaster did not stay in their hearts for a second, and what came immediately was the endless pursuit of the Zerg!