The entire Star Sector still had seven worlds, and he also needed to push them toward full transformation, so ships were needed to visit each planet to provide orbital firepower support and accelerate the pace of the war;
Continuous transport of troops from the Iron Tooth Orcs' nest to the twelve worlds of the Golden Pass Star Sector, especially the Temiral Tristar, also required the allocation of ships.
Though his fleet had more than two hundred vessels, which seed like a lot, they were needed here and there and couldn't easily be gathered together at once.
Then, unexpectedly, a huge mishap occurred.
The sudden action from humanity caught him utterly unprepared.
In fact, this was essentially because he had always looked down on these Shrimp from the bottom of his heart.
It was quite normal, ever since joining Chieftain Titus in raising arms and starting this grand waaagh, they had smashed through all opposition. Those Shrimp had caused them so trouble, but that was all it was - trouble. So places were indeed not so easy to conquer and required so effort, but those Shrimp never dared to take the offensive, only using various thods to stubbornly defend.
The human armies he encountered along the way were all like this, so how could he respect these Shrimp's combat abilities?
He did not take the initiative to seek out trouble with those Shrimp, proving himself to be much stronger than that waste Duguais, only because he was following Chieftain Titus's orders. How dare those Shrimp launch an attack?
Even if the Shrimp really did co, he was actually not afraid. The dozen or so ships left at Temir weren't great, but on planets no. 4 and no. 5, combined, there were over five billion Green Skins, a small part grown locally, but most had been brought over after his return from the Green Skin nest. Among them, one billion were proper Beastn!
This was an absolutely formidable fighting force! Aside from the troops sent to Chieftain Titus, this was the largest Beastman assembly point.
The humans thinking of taking the Temir Star System, how could it be easy?
Even with orbital support, it would be difficult!
As long as he held out for a while and regathered his dispersed fleet, he could quickly co to the rescue.
But when he arrived here, all that greeted him was a silent Temir II.
The surface was still hot, scalding, so areas already a grey-black; so spots on the ground were still glowing red.
The residual heat of the planet hadn't dissipated.
What was this?
In Saru's mind, he couldn't think of anything that could cause such extensive devastation.
In his life, he had never heard of or seen anything like it.
But he knew that a major problem had occurred.
On Temir II, two and a half billion Green Skins, including five hundred million Beastn, were his primary assets. Gone in one fire, the planet and everything on it burned away, this was not only a total loss of the previous investnt, but it was also a severe blow to the Iron-teeth Empire's power.
Even if he now went to the four conquered Star Sectors to conscript, he couldn't conscript so many Green Skins.
Especially couldn't conscript so many Beastman youngsters.
The total number of Green Skins of the Iron Tooth Ork Empire, only counting Beastn and Pixies, might be two hundred billion; of which, one hundred seventy billion had already left the four Star Sectors in the wake of this grand waaagh.
Of course, so many Beastn couldn't possibly all be aboard ships. All of the Iron Tooth Orc's vessels combined couldn't possibly have this kind of deploynt capability, no matter how crowded or pushed to the limit.
This vast number had actually been transported from the four Star Sectors in waves, distributed to the various planets encountered along the way.
On the one hand, there was war to be waged, on the other, it was to spread their offspring.
This is also why the Green Skin Orcs could spread the flas of war to half the Star Domain so quickly. The worlds invaded by them, numbering in the hundreds, so received tens of millions, while other worlds were flooded with hundreds of millions, or even billions.
As long as these Green Skin creatures weren't completely exterminated on a planet, their blood, their body parts, all beca carriers for new spores, taking root in the soil, sprouting, and forming Green Skin ecosystems, ceaselessly giving rise to more Green Skins.
They didn't need to imdiately annihilate all the humans on a planet, because that would make the expansion of the Beastman tribes too slow. They just needed to leave behind a sufficient fighting force to establish a foothold on a world, like infecting a planet with a tenacious fungus. In the fight, the Beastn would grow stronger and more nurous, until they occupied the entire world.
However, such aggressive expansion strategy also left their holand vulnerable.
Saru had no troops to summon.
In this situation, the nearly two billion Green Skins on Temir No.5, especially the nearly four hundred million Beastman youngsters, could not afford to be lost.
Otherwise, after a total loss of five billion in Temir, the remaining worlds in the Golden Pass Star Sector would only have about one billion Green Skins each. It wasn't until entering the Silver Pass Sector that each world would be guaranteed to have an average of seven or eight hundred million.
How could they fend off these Shrimp's attacks?
Perhaps they lacked sufficient strength to break through Silver Pass, but the Golden Pass Star Sector would definitely fall.
Then, his own head would definitely not be spared either.
Chieftain Titus would not tolerate such failure; he needed the Iron Tooth youngsters to thrive in Golden Pass as well, hoping that Golden Pass could produce many weapons and equipnt to support the consumption needed for this grand waaagh and sustain his expansion desires.
From this perspective, Saru felt that Temir must not be lost.
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