Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 866 - 472 Straight to the Heart _2

Chapter 866: Chapter 472, Straight to the Heart _2

Chapter 866: Chapter 472, Straight to the Heart _2

A Green Skin youngster could either climb higher in this endless battle or die somewhere along the way.

This also led to a situation where once an area became completely Green Skin, their numbers would actually reach a certain limit. The carrying capacity of the land and nutrition, as well as internal strife among the Green Skins, would curb their numbers, achieving a dynamic equilibrium.

According to scholars in the Star Domain who studied Green Skins, an alien species, the total number of Green Skin life forms within the four star sectors—only counting the youngsters and pests, not the Skugg Beasts—is estimated to be around 150 billion. Based on the usual ratio of one Beastman to ten pests, the number of proper Beastmen could reach 15 billion.

Before the third Iron Teeth War, this number might have been only three or four hundred billion. In twenty-six years, their numbers had surged four or five times, and they had all become warriors.

After Titus rose to power, the expeditions that unfolded led to a fierce craze among the Iron Tooth Orcs. In the wars, Green Skin Transport Ships were constantly moving Green Skins away from the four major star sectors without a moment’s rest. The Green Skin Orcs were also scattered across various worlds along with the expedition.

In this process, the total number of Green Skins moved out of the four major star sectors might have already exceeded seventy billion.

The total population of the Iron-Tooth Clan had definitely increased during the last four years of warfare, even as they were constantly involved in war and continuously losing people in the brutal battles. In the Eastern War Zone alone, Gu Hang was wiping them out by the billions. The Green Skins’ losses on other battlefields, especially the main frontal ones, were estimated to be immense.

However, with vast living spaces freed up within their homelands in the four major star sectors, their population began to explode; after taking root on various planets, their populations also started to grow.

Of course, the latter’s contribution to growth was actually not that significant after only four years; but in their homelands, where ecosystems had long been established, the numbers of Green Skins were rising fiercely.

Yet in this process, due to overextension of their battle lines and the continuous transport ship movements without pause, the population of the Green Skin homelands within the four star sectors was in a downtrend.

But even more so, the emptiest area within the Iron-teeth Empire was its navy warships.

Titus also faced immense pressures at the frontlines; there was a high demand for ground troops and likewise, navy ships. The ships produced from the massive Trash City within their homeland were almost immediately filled with Green Skins and sent off to battlefields as soon as they were completed.

Now, within the four star sectors, there were hardly any Green Skin Ships to be seen.

And this was indeed the case.

When Gu Hang led a third of the Alliance Fleet with a very cautious attitude into the Silver Pass Star Sector, the intense opposition he had expected did not occur.

Hardly any Green Skin ships were sighted.

There was even an unexpected gain, as they destroyed several Green Skin Transport Ships.

Moreover, on White Fog Star, they received information from the ground: there were still survivors from the Expeditionary Force of four years ago.

Initially, when the Star Domain Government mobilized forces to deal with the problem of the Iron-Tooth Clan, they conscripted three major fleets from within the Star Domain and numerous Star Realm Armies, as well as a lot of personnel levied from across the Star Domain.

A portion of the population conscripted through these levies was deployed to various worlds in the Golden Pass Star Sector to replenish lost wartime population and to serve as laborers; a considerable part was sent alongside the military to the then-reclaimed human-controlled planets such as White Fog Star, Water Fog Star, Silver Pass II, and Silver Pass III.

They established many ground fortresses and strongholds; the original plan of the Star Domain Government was for these four planets to serve as bridgeheads for the offensive into Green Skin territory.

However, the Green Tide instigated by Titus demolished the Star Domain Government’s plan.

Nonetheless, the fortresses and strongholds, along with the personnel and Star Realm Army deployed on the ground, were solid investments.

The war truly defied all expectations, the Northern Fleet was destroyed, and all personnel deployed to the four planets were lost contact with.

The only choice was to hold their ground locally without space reinforcements or external supplies.

This resistance lasted four years.

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During these four years, they were unable to receive any external messages. On the same planet, they could only hear daily about one fortress being breached, another settlement being massacred.

The number of losses grew, as did the casualties.

The Green Skin Orcs were so eager to rush out to war that they didn’t deploy many troops to these four planets, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible for anyone to survive.

Now, on these four planets, the smaller ones have an army of one to two million, and a population of thirty-five to fifty million; the most populated, White Fog Star, has a population of two hundred million and over ten million human troops.

It’s worth mentioning that among these ‘populations,’ a significant proportion are Korolya people. Before the Alliance took over, Korolya had to contribute four hundred million people every two years as an alien population tax, many of whom naturally ended up here.

Gu Hang gladly accepted these legacies left behind by the Star Domain Government for the Expeditionary Force.

He sent a proxy governor to each of the four planets and, as the Supreme Commander, took command of all the populations and armies there, integrating them into the Eastern War Zone.

Following the template of the Treaty of Seven Horses, he carried out orbital bombings to destroy the Green Skins’ core Trash Cities and ecosystems, then deployed Alliance troops to reinforce the fortresses and ramparts, and proactively started to clear out the Green Skins in large swaths.

Taking about a week to tidy up these four planets a bit, Gu Hang continued to lead his fleet forward.

Deeper in, there were truly no traces of human presence.

But that also meant that Gu Hang could be more unrestrained.

He didn’t plan to deploy a single soldier to these planets completely occupied by Green Skins.

There was no need.

These planets were completely hopeless for occupation, each with at least two billion Green Skins, often many tens of billions or even over a hundred billion—how could they be occupied?

Even with the Alliance’s power, or even the entire power of the Treaty of Seven Horses thrown onto the ground, they couldn’t outlast the Green Skins.

What Gu Hang needed to do was to destroy the Green Skins’ war potential to the greatest extent possible.

Population, industry, and resources.

He would bomb every Green Skin planet he came across. He didn’t have time to have his fleet baptize an entire planet, and even if there was time, there weren’t enough shells—all costing money.

But he could find the largest Trash City and ecosystem on the planet and then bomb them specifically.

With the Green Skins’ ability to turn waste into treasure, a Trash City wouldn’t take long to rebuild after being bombed; and once those ecosystems were destroyed, the spores would spread and soon grow again.

However, these all required time.

The developing Green Skin plant ovules would take at least three to five years before they could start producing Beastman offspring; and those massive Trash Cities, even capable of constructing starships, would take years to rebuild to their original size after being destroyed.

For the Green Skins, these were all major losses.

On top of this, the Alliance deployed four ‘Skyburn Torpedoes.’

These four Extinction Order Weapons were deployed in places such as the Silver Pass Star Sector’s Thousand Yuan Star and Silver Pass I, as well as the Iron Pass Star Sector’s Exon 5 and Iron Pass V.

Choosing these four planets because their environmental conditions are quite suitable for Green Skin growth, and it is estimated that there are indeed nearly one hundred billion Green Skins on them.

Four Skyburn Torpedoes later, the Iron-teeth Greenskins lost over three billion of their population!

Even on Exon 5, the Alliance observed the largest Trash City on the planet, which contained a Green Skin Ship nearing completion, similar in scale to a human Battleship Cruiser!

This was a significant surprise and definitely needed to be eliminated!