Hammer 40k: Far East Storm

"How can everything go as planned?"

Li naturally understood what Vivien said. The world has never been perfect, and it is impossible for things to go as planned. Even the emperor who is more sacred than all the saints in history is now sitting on the golden throne, not to mention others. But no matter what, victory is almost in front of us, but we have no way to grasp it. We can only watch it slip through our fingers. This can't help but make Li feel annoyed and regretful.

But annoyance and regret can't solve the problem. Li can only grit his teeth and remember the lesson this time.

"Brother," Feiwen said, "The theater headquarters called. Do you want to answer it?"

Li sighed. He already knew what his general was going to say to him. "Please answer it."

A huge electronic screen emerged from the wall, and a one-eyed old general with a gloomy face appeared on the screen. "Your Excellency, Governor," the old general saluted in front of the screen, and then said, "Your Excellency, Governor, thank you very much for your timely support. If it weren't for you, the Autumn Star Theater would be in danger."

"You don't have to thank me, General Kluge. You know these are what I should do. Don't waste time on greetings," Li asked, "What is the current situation in the Autumn Star Theater?"

"It's terrible. The General Staff initially misjudged the situation. They overestimated the strength of our soldiers and formulated a strategy of layered resistance. Our military forces were dispersed among fifty cities for regional defense, which resulted in our repeated defeats. Now the regional defense has completely failed. I Our legions are fragmented, and now we can only passively concentrate our forces and retreat to several important cities with spaceports. But the process of retreat was not smooth. This time, the 29th Legion was almost lost. If you hadn't arrived in time, the outcome would have been almost unimaginable. "

"What about the Knights Templar? What are their results?"

"At the same time as you launched the attack, the Knights Templar were involved in the battle, and their results were unbelievable," General Kluge's gloomy face was slightly relieved when he talked about the Knights Templar. "They are simply legends on the battlefield. Your warriors attacked three orc camps in succession and single-handedly contained the orcs' offensive in the west. It was because of your warriors' excellent performance that the Third Army, the Ninth Army, and the 87th Army were able to withdraw from the battle safely. Now these three legions have gathered at the designated positions. And your Knights' offensive is still continuing, and our disadvantage has been greatly alleviated. "

"Very good." Li just nodded, without showing any special emotions. For General Kluge, a small team of less than a thousand people turning the tide of the war is like a legend, or a fairy tale. In short, it should be something used to coax children to sleep. This should not happen in the real world, but for the soldiers of the Star Wars, this is their daily life.

The soldiers of the Star Wars were born to forge legends, and their battle history is a legendary history. If the Knights Templar soldiers cannot achieve such a result under the cover of the Silver Wings, then Li will doubt whether there is a problem with his strategy of training soldiers.

What's more, behind the Star Wars members is the Silver Wing, a genuine Imperial Moon-class cruiser. Whether it is the size of the warship, the pressure it brings to the enemy due to its huge body, or the firepower and sustained combat capability of the warship itself, all of these Silver Wings are far superior to the Black Rose. Therefore, after Li defeated an orc army, he had to return to the planet orbit and wait for the supply ship. The Silver Wing can take the warriors to continue to attack the next target, allowing the knights of the war group to participate in multiple battles in succession and defeat multiple targets in a short period of time.

"General Kluge, the military forces on Reach have been adjusted and are entering a defensive posture. It seems to be going well. Is there anything else?"

"Yes, I do have some ideas," General Kluge asked doubtfully: "After seeing the military forces of His Excellency the Archon, I was thinking, why can't the navy be transferred to the battlefield of Autumn Star? If there are a few more ships, or even dozens of ships like the Black Rose or the Silver Wing, in the sky above Autumn Star, the battle situation will definitely be greatly improved. Not to mention the passive defensive situation, even if our army is in a full-scale offensive situation, it will not be difficult to completely annihilate the income on Autumn Star!"

I know this without you, a one-eyed old man, telling me! The warships in the sky suddenly descended from the orbit and bombarded the unprepared orcs, completely stunning them, and then the soldiers only needed one charge to easily kill all the orcs who were bombarded by heavy artillery and couldn't find their way around. Such a battle would be easy and smooth. If it were possible, Li would certainly not be stingy with the consumption of ammunition and fuel, but the biggest problem is that such a tactic is simply impossible to implement!

"General Kluge? Didn't the naval commander tell you?"

"What did he say?"

"You really don't know anymore," Li made a gesture. A noisy electronic sound sounded in the communication channel, and the screen blurred for a while. After a while, it returned to normal. "You don't need to panic. It was just an ordinary electronic encryption, because our next conversation will inevitably involve some important secrets. I originally thought that a general of your level would get some information from the Navy, but I really didn't expect it. They do such a good job of keeping things confidential.”

Of course, the distance between the army and the navy is measured in light years. General Kluge thought to himself that there had never been any foreign wars in the years before the orc invasion. The biggest enemy of the army was the navy. Every year, in order to compete with them for budget, I don’t know how many tricks both sides have to think of. No matter how dirty methods are used, spies and other things are just childish. Under such circumstances, the Navy naturally does a good job in keeping the Army secret. They do it so well that up to now, General Kluge even has the Navy Headquarters Building under his control. It’s not clear anywhere, maybe it’s no longer on the planet.

"I won't say much about the navy before Reach. In the more than ten years since I arrived, although there has been a lot of investment in military construction, I must admit that most of the investment has been invested in the navy. Yes, because our enemies should not come from the planet, but from the universe, so I have invested a lot of energy in the space station and space defense system, in addition to these cosmic strategic platforms and static defense systems , I also used my rights to invest most of my resources in the construction of warships. The navy has been substantially strengthened in the past ten years, but there is one thing that is not much different from before, that is, the navy still lacks The power of fighting in the atmosphere." Li Frank said: "To put it simply, today's naval warships simply cannot enter the atmosphere to support combat."

"Ah? How could this happen?"

There is nothing that cannot be said. Although it is confidential, it depends on the target. Especially when the other party is the army's theater commander or the army's general, Li will naturally explain it clearly to him, "Because the original intention of designing naval warships is space warfare in the galaxy. To put it simply, all of our navy's warships at present The only battlefield that battleships are capable of is the cosmic war in the sky, within the Zhiyuan galaxy. These battleships cannot make star-crossing jumps, nor can they penetrate into the planet's atmosphere to carry out close support strikes. , they will burn out due to the high temperature on the way into the atmosphere, just like falling meteors, or simply cannot withstand the gravity of the warship itself and the keel will break and crash. In short, from the beginning of the navy's construction, it has not been considered until now. These warships engage in intra-atmospheric combat."

"No, it's impossible, right? What about the Black Rose and Silver Wings?"

"Yes, the Black Rose and the Silver Wings can suddenly descend from orbit and enter the atmosphere to participate in battles. They can even perform combat missions at low altitudes without any problems. This is because they are inter-galactic battleships themselves. Their hulls In order to be able to withstand the momentum of crossing different spaces, there are requirements for the toughness that far exceeds that of ordinary space battleships. The cost of building such a battleship is ten times that of ordinary space battleships in the galaxy. In other words, I build a silver The cost of a battleship like the Wings is enough for me to build ten cruisers with similar size and firepower. The only difference between these cruisers and the Silver Wings is that they are more fragile. Not only can they not enter different spaces, but they can also not enter other spaces. Descending into the atmosphere, but we already have space stations and space strategic platforms. The construction process of naval warships, the service process, and their final combat processes do not require entering the atmosphere, nor do they require them to engage in cross-system operations. ability, so in order to form considerable combat effectiveness as soon as possible, I chose the most cost-effective method. "

Oh, so that’s it. General Kluge nodded. What Li said was a bit complicated, but to put it bluntly, this matter is very simple. It was the consul who was greedy for cheap, and most of the warships in the current navy can only stop in orbit. The decorations in the sky and the transport ships that can only carry out the task of transporting soldiers from Reach. There are currently only two warships that can actually descend into orbit to support operations, namely the Black Rose and the Silver Wings.

But even so, it doesn't mean that the Navy can't contribute. Those Navy bastards occupy most of the budget and such a terrible war machine. In the end, when the war actually started, they watched the show leisurely at high altitude. This kind of thing is no matter what. Can't let it happen.