Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1004: Chapter 541_2

Even if the interstellar warriors breached the defenses, captured the Starport, and even used its firepower to attack our orbital defense facilities from behind, as long as resistance continued, and the ground-based orbital cannon groups were promptly activated, the combined firepower could still resist the Alliance’s attack.

As long as there was decisiveness, if the ground-based orbital cannon groups fiercely destroyed the Starport, then without the Starport’s firepower attacking from behind, Shangdong Star’s remaining orbital defense facilities, in coordination with ground firepower, could still repel the Alliance’s not so powerful fleet!

However, the surrender of Wang Ningyi almost destroyed this possibility.

The self-destruct system of the Starport was also controlled by the interstellar warriors, but what if the remaining soldiers dared to place bombs everywhere and directly self-destruct?

If they didn’t have his headshot order, wouldn’t the ground-based orbital cannon groups fall into chaos immediately?

But in any case, it seemed he was doomed.

Thinking of this, he wasn’t actually so angry inside.

But on the surface, he still had to maintain an angry demeanor.

Hussepe did not expose him either.

He said with a gracious smile, “You are so loyal and brave; I can only resort to this lower plan. But you need not be too angry, Shangdong Star will inevitably be conquered by the Alliance in the end. Your wise decision has already preserved the lives of millions responsible for defending the space orbit; those who stubbornly resist on the ground are the most foolish, as they will drag countless people into the flames of war, but will ultimately change nothing.”

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The resistance on the ground of Shangdong Star did indeed stir up quite a few waves, but the significance was actually not too great.

Without the coordination of the Starport and Star Fortress, relying solely on ground-based orbital firepower is insufficient.

After all, ground cannon groups cannot be moved, and the space area they can cover is relatively limited.

The Alliance fleet just needs to avoid the strong areas.

The Alliance ships can easily clear a relatively safe space using the power of two battlecruisers in an area where ground firepower is not that strong.

Then, land troops and start a ground assault.

With orbital control lost and the highest commander surrendered, these would deliver a substantial morale blow to the ground defenders. Their will to resist wouldn’t be that strong.

The core loyalist forces from the Princess Star Domain’s rebels might still be relatively fierce. However, Shangdong Star was said to have hundreds of millions of defense troops, but the core loyalist rebel forces total only about ten to twenty million, a considerable part of the elite still stationed in the orbit, have surrendered.

The bulk of the remaining defense forces was conscripted from Shangdong Star and even from surrounding areas by the Fury Flame Battle Group before Shangdong Star was besieged.

Their combat power and combat will are even more concerning.

In this situation, the Alliance’s offensive on land quickly gained ground after overcoming the initial difficulties.

Especially when the two main elite units of the Alliance joined the ground battle, it was even more so.

This was the three hundred interstellar warriors led by Kalduce.

The simple defense of the Starport did not require them. The ground battle could better utilize their capabilities.

Besides Kalduce’s interstellar warriors, another elite was the Alliance National Knights.

Named the Knight Order, but in truth, it’s the Titan Legion.

Centered around one Warlord-Class Titan, with over twenty Warhound-Class and Predator-Class Titans as the main force, plus more than seventy various Knight Mechas, forming the Iron Giant Legion.

In conjunction with the Alliance Armored Divisions gathered over, with Lion King Tanks and Lion Tanks leading the charge, and an occasional few thousand armored vehicles, with a few hundred air force combat aircraft constantly patrolling above.

The powerful iron torrent crushed one ground-based orbital cannon fortress after another.

Under tremendous military pressure, the Alliance’s psychological warfare never ceased.

For the past few months, they’ve been continuously broadcasting various lies such as Furyflame is already finished, and the Alliance has penetrated the core area of the Spiderweb Domain; even under Hussepe’s persuasion, General Wang Ningyi, who understood again, also repeatedly worked on the ground with his old subordinates, persuading them to surrender.

Often, the main force of the Princess Legion on the ground, accompanied by a large contingent of the Planetary Defense Force, would guard a key fortress which the Alliance found difficult to tackle. At times like this, Wang Ningyi would directly call the fortress garrison commander’s channel to have a sincere talk with him.

Talking several times might sometimes directly persuade a surrender.

Even if not directly persuaded to surrender, it could at least sway the opposing forces’ morale.

This is considered a good achievement.

From this perspective, Wang Ningyi was quite useful.

Hussepe couldn’t help but praise him, saying one person can match a thousand troops!

He also said he must report his merits.

While keeping a sullen face, Wang Ningyi sometimes had a little bit of anticipation in his heart.

What if… what if the Alliance really offered me a high rank and rich rewards, letting me work smoothly within the Alliance?

Should I agree? Or agree? Or agree?

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Completely conquering Shangdong Star obviously still requires time.

But this result is already determined.

In fact, after the overall situation was decided, the two battlecruisers ’Flying Wing’ and ’Korolya’ withdrew.

The remaining matters the army could handle; there was no need for the two giant ships to continue staying on Shangdong Star.

The next target is Guangfeng Star.

The Alliance hopes to replicate the strategy.

Guangfeng Star is also completely cut off from external communications by the Alliance; they don’t know what happened at Shangdong Star, so they won’t have any prior defenses against such tactics.

However, like Wang Ningyi communicating with the Alliance and eventually getting captured to choose surrender, these are honestly unexpected events with low replicability.

The rebel commander of Guangfeng Star has consistently refused to communicate with the Alliance, nor allowed any ships, even non-combat ones, to approach.

This makes it difficult.

But despite this, the Alliance still found an opportunity.

The third week after Flying Wing and Korolya’s arrival, they seized a chance.

They discovered ships from Guangfeng Star were operating in low orbit.

It seemed to involve large-scale planetary level material transfer and allocation.

After a brief discussion, the two battlecruisers spearheaded an assault.

Facing threats from the orbital defense system and ground cannon groups, the battlecruisers destroyed the starfleet operating in low orbit over Guangfeng Star.

Those weren’t any large or strong ships.

However, it was one of the rare main forces within Guangfeng Star.

Previously, when the Alliance’s main ships were operating in the Proudclaw Cosmos and could not attend to Guangfeng Star and Shangdong Star, small fleets hidden within the orbital defense systems of these two planets conducted stealthy sorties, ambushing the Alliance’s logistic fleets, achieving some results.

Now, having eliminated this small fleet meant Guangfeng Star lost all abilities for proactive strikes.

Leaving them be wasn’t a big problem either.

After all, the other side, Shangdong, had already been taken.

While the war raged on Shangdong Star, the Alliance’s engineering teams had actually also landed on the ground to start storage construction simultaneously.

In the future, Shangdong would become the logistical base for the Alliance’s offensive into the Proudclaw Cosmos.

Including many newly trained troops from Alliance’s homeland, who will also be transported here in large batches.

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