The five hundred million people on Temir No.4 can all be integrated into the frawork of the Pact Army.
At the sa ti, the mineral resources of Temir No.4, raw material processing, and the military industries under developnt can all contribute to the Alliance's endeavors.
Temir No.4 no longer has a governor; they abandoned their post in the face of disaster, only to be apprehended and executed by the angry military and populace of Temir No.4 before they could take flight.
Now, an officer from the Native Defense Forces is in charge of the planet.
After consulting with Supre Commander Gu, the execution of the governor of Temir No.4 was deed a 'purge of a traitor' and certainly not a rebellion.
The defense army officer was temporarily appointed by Gu Hang as the Acting Governor of Temir No.4 and brought the planet into the Seven Horse Pact.
Nobody stipulated that only a star sector bearing the word 'Horse' in its na could join the Seven Horse Pact, right?
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Compared to the fourth, the situation on the fifth planet is sowhat more difficult.
It lacks the complex terrain that is conducive to defense found on the fourth planet; it's a fairly standard civilized world.
Yet the number of Green Skins here is close to that on Temir II.
There are four hundred million Green Skin Orcs and slightly fewer leprechauns, but still around one billion of them.
The defense organization on planet No.5 is not as reliable as No.4's. Not just because of terrain, but also governntal organization strengths vary.
The fourth planet lost about five hundred million people at the onset of the war, but still managed to mobilize a military force of five hundred million from a population of thirty-five billion — an mobilization rate of over 14%; virtually all other citizens were also working for the war effort.
However, starting with a population of twelve billion, planet No.5, despite already having lost over two billion, still had a substantial remainder of ten billion people. Yet the defense forces they managed to raise amounted only to the sa as No.4's five hundred million, barely reaching a 5% mobilization rate.
Moreover, as a civilized world, Temir No.5's production capacity should be far more developed than No.4's. But this capacity was not effectively organized for warti service.
With only five hundred million in their Defense Army, facing an equally numbered Green Skin force and a leprechaun force two to three tis their size, they were certainly at a trendous disadvantage.
One after another, cities were captured and burned, Green Skin enclaves were established.
Clearly, the Iron-Tooth Clan treated Temir No.5 as they did Temir II.
Even the conditions here were more favorable, especially considering the developed industrial base, which the Green Skins could convert into their scrap factories and junk cities.
The human Defense Army could only maintain a force of around five hundred million. The Planetary Governnt behind the lines had been 'desperately' recruiting, but by the ti they assembled an army corps of tens of millions to send to various frontlines, the battle lines had already retreated significantly, costing tens of millions of lives.
This is how human resources were frantically consud.
Even then, they couldn't maintain control over the entire planetary frontline. Just as one barely managed to plug a hole, sowhere else, the Green Skins would suddenly make a vicious breakthrough. Often this would result in the fall of a highly populated city, followed by an even greater depletion of the already stretched human resources due to the deficient organizational abilities of the administration...
This world, in particular, is in dire need of substantial Alliance intervention.
The Extinction Order is not an option; the only recourse is Fleet support, orbital bombardnt plus ground troops.
Fifty million troops from the Alliance Army were deployed to the surface.
The already brutal ground battles on Temir No.5 escalated in intensity to a new level.
The Alliance was extrely dissatisfied with the pre-existing battle command system on planet No.5. The commanding general of the deployed Alliance troops, Major General Perbov of the First Alliance Army Group, demanded full command over the Planetary Defense Forces.
Under the leadership of the Alliance Army, within a week, human forces waged three impressive campaigns in three different directions.
Such a short period was not even enough for starships to deploy troops and gather them for battle. A significant portion of the forces were directly dropped close to the frontline, then imdiately engaged in combat.
It was precisely this sudden and direct engagent that shocked the Native Defense Forces, which considerably smoothed Perbov's take over of the command.
What followed was routine combat operations.
Using armored forces and artillery, they sought out the main body of Green Skin forces for decisive battles.
And these decisive battles were invariably won by the human side.
The high quality of the Alliance Army was one factor, but not the key one; although the Green Skins' tactical awareness was deficient, their individual quality was so high that sotis tactics alone were not enough to handle them.
The key lay in the support from orbital firepower.
As soon as human forces located a main Green Skin force, whether it was a battle of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even several hundred thousand, once the battle comnced, the Green Skin Orcs were virtually transparent under orbital surveillance. They would be bombarded while gathering, their logistics and munition depots would be obliterated, and their transport units ambushed and destroyed by infiltrating human infantry squads...
Even when both sides did manage to set up formations for a battle, often before infantry could even engage each other, the Green Skins had to contend not only with heavy artillery bombardnt and air attacks from each division and brigade, but also suffer the devastating impact of orbital strikes.
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