Starting from the Planetary Governor

Heavy artillery was the core of the infantry division, which gave the Green Skins a lot of trouble. A sizable number of high-level units were destroyed by heavy artillery in combat.

The terrifying Skugg Beasts, too, couldn't withstand too many heavy artillery strikes.

The Green Skins thought of many ways to deal with the besieged heavy artillery of the Alliance Army. Orc Air Squadron air raids, special ops airdrops and infiltration, heavy artillery duels, armored beast rushes...

They were effective, of course. But first, they couldn't completely wipe them out, and second, their own losses were also significant.

The infantry division of the Alliance also placed great emphasis on anti-air defense, with anti-aircraft guns equipped on vehicles featuring powerful servo skull locking systems, and they also carried anti-aircraft missiles; there were individual soldiers equipped with anti-aircraft missiles as well; the Alliance Army's own flying squadrons wouldn't just watch their comrades get encircled, as Wind Falcons and Kirins took off in succession, engaging in dogfights with the Orc air force.

The Green Skins' aerial forces suffered no small losses, and the special ops teams that infiltrated were met with fierce resistance from the Alliance Army's artillery array guards and were wiped out wave after wave.

The armored beast rush was indeed effective. The mobilization of Skugg Beasts often managed to take a position, but the retreating humans, even with severe losses, quickly rebuilt new positions further back. The beasts had to bite off one piece at a time while also risking being targeted by concentrated heavy fire.

And the heavy artillery duel was also useful, as the Green Skins managed to muster up quite a few cannons for a while.

But, such dueling takes a long time, and the problem is destined not to be solved immediately.

That Iron-toothed Boss awkwardly discovered that if he wanted to completely devour this group of besieged human troops, the Green Skins would also have to lose about twenty or thirty thousand of their own, the loss of various high-level units would not be small, and it would take at least six or seven days.

To reduce losses, adopting siege tactics was also an option, trapping the enemy until they ran out of ammunition and provisions. That way, not too many Green Skin boys would need to be sacrificed. But it would take at least two or three months.

Before he could decide exactly what to do, the humans' response came first.

The Skeleton Division of the Alliance Army, along with an Armored Brigade, arrived in position directly. Along with them, two hundred thousand of the Defense Army also assembled and came over.

What was originally just a predatory battle by the Green Skin Orcs, an annihilating fight by surrounding and aiming for reinforcements, quickly escalated into a main force battle.

That Green Skin boss was also ferocious. Seeing that things had reached this state, he too was continuously calling for reinforcements.

In a brutal month-long battle, both sides kept calling in troops, fueling the fire of war, making the battle fiercer and fiercer.

In the end, the total number of troops participating in this battle on both sides reached over one million.

The final result was a victory for the human side.

When one Skugg Beast after another perished under the humans' heavy artillery, fell in clashes with the Lion King; when one armored unit of the Green Skins after another was destroyed by various anti-armor weapons; when one Green Skin boy after another was brought down by various weapons...

That Green Skin boss also fell during a charge he personally led, taken down by a plasma gun shot, followed by a thermite bomb that obliterated him.

The Orc army collapsed thereafter.

About three hundred thousand Green Skins were wiped out in this one battle.

Although the Planetary Defense Force lost over three hundred thousand, and the Alliance Army paid the price of over seventy thousand lives, various armored units and artillery units also suffered heavy losses.

But the victory in this main force battle laid the foundation for the overall victory in the ground combat on Eagle Horse III.

Without their commander, the Green Skin Army became like a scattered herd of sheep. More importantly, they had almost completely lost their elite forces, leaving the five or six hundred thousand surviving Green Skins severely lacking in high-level units, with their overall combat effectiveness severely diminished.

For now, they could no longer pose any threat to Eagle Horse III. Apart from the war zones, Eagle Horse III was strenuously resuming production and restoring social order.

Within the war zone itself, these Green Skins would also be completely eradicated within at most half a year.

The Governor of Eagle Horse III was very pleased.

He personally visited the front line to console the Alliance Army and also paid a visit to his own Defense Army.

He lavished praise on the Colonel from the Skeleton Division. He was even prepared with medals and a promotion in rank. How could a colonel's rank do justice to his contribution? At least a full general's rank was in order!

But the Colonel of the Alliance refused and left behind a word:

"Perhaps, before long, all ranks will be united."

After hearing this, the Governor of Eagle Horse III didn't know whether he should be happy or not.

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The warfare on Eagle Horse III was a microcosm of the situation in the entire Star Sector.

When the edge of the Alliance's military entered the Eagle Horse Star Sector, many worlds here played out similar scenarios.

The pattern was much the same: as the Alliance Fleet entered the relevant Star System, driving away or eliminating Green Skin ships, they then provided orbital support to the respective planets, and then, depending on the state of the stars, deployed some troops.

Eagle Horse III was considered minor, and frankly speaking, the Green Skin threat wasn't that big, just about a million Orcs, taken care of by just eight divisions.

The bigger problem was on Eagle Horse II, which has three human worlds, one of which, the primary star, had a population of 4 billion, making it the most populous world in the Eagle Horse Star Sector.

The entire Eagle Horse Star Sector, with twelve worlds combined, had a population of only about 15 billion. The second and third planets of Eagle Horse II each had only a few tens of millions of people, purely mining planets.