Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1247: Chapter 677: Sacrifice is the Foundation of the Empire_2

A small Titan Legion conscripted from the Alamita Casting World, along with over two thousand Holy Compassionate Lily Battle Nuns.

Overall, he holds significant military strength, including elite forces.

In ground battles, they can indeed put some pressure on the swarm.

Absent naval warfare, with possibilities in ground warfare, the strategy is to: select a planet crucial to the Void Insect Species, endure the most arduous deployment process, and then use the limited and insufficient fleet to provide orbital coverage.

Gu Hang agreed to his plan and offered some assistance when the main fleet had not yet departed. Alliance heavy ships launched an attack, temporarily driving away the swarm’s biological ships, aiding Xi Rui’s subordinates in completing the most challenging troop deployment phase.

A large number of troops finally entered Santao Star safely.

Santao, the chosen battlefield.

This location was selected because it was originally a populous planet within the Princess Star Domain, once home to nine hundred billion people, a Nest Capital World. Currently, it has become a massive digestion site for the swarm.

Within Santao, many of the population survive as infected individuals. They lack the ability and awareness to resist, yet even so, they haven’t been entirely processed.

Let alone transported away.

It isn’t necessary; the Queen seemingly uses it as a hatchery. Large amounts of the swarm are born here and directly sent to the frontline, replenishing losses nearby.

The swarm absolutely refuses to lose this place.

The Alliance attempted to drop an Extinction Order weapon here before, but the deployment failed. Though the swarm’s ships were driven off, theoretically clearing a region for attack, innumerable Flying Demon Worms swarmed into the stratosphere, destroying the Skyburn Torpedo before it exploded.

Although those Flying Demon Worms eventually died, it mattered little to the swarm.

And losing a Skyburn Torpedo is quite a loss for the human forces.

This time, targeting Santao with its vast biomass, there’s no worry the swarm won’t care, ensuring their attention is drawn.

By this stage, the rest is entirely up to the ground forces themselves.

The fleet remnants of the Northern Line Army are truly diminished. After the Alliance’s main fleet departs, the remaining ships are unlikely to offer much help.

But they don’t expect significant assistance for the ground forces, nor do they dare hope to fully drive away the swarm’s ships, preventing the swarm from providing orbital support to ground forces. They merely aim to avoid the swarm’s uninhibited and costless support.

Most battles still rely on the ground forces themselves.

This fight lasted half a month.

Everything was within plan.

The swarm indeed won’t abandon the immense biomass within Santao, converting it into assets for the swarm army, while more biological swarm ships, carrying additional swarm forces, land on the surface, engaging human troops in a bloody war.

The war situation undeniably worsens for humanity as time progresses.

The swarm within Santao is already vast; now there’s additional swarm reinforcements, not to mention, as time passes, more hatcheries emerge within Santao. The enormous Nest Capital World, home to nine hundred billion people, provides ample biomass to be transformed into various Insect Nest Monsters.

However, from the same perspective, Xi Rui feels fortunate: the task Gu Hang assigned has been relatively smoothly accomplished so far.

The battle is so arduous, indicating the swarm’s attention is indeed heavily attracted to Santao.

In fact, the effectiveness of this strategy might be a bit too successful.

The swarm on Santao nearly overwhelms the ground forces.

At this point, is there still a need to maintain offense?

Focusing on defense is enough.

But ironically, sustaining defense requires offense: ammunition, personnel losses, far exceed expectations. New reinforcements need ground deployment; supply materials need orbital transport. Transport ships require a clear, threat-free space.

The fleet remnants of the Northern Line Army distract the swarm’s biological ships, with remaining ships escorting transport vessels in sudden approach. Still, ground-based biological cannons evolved from the swarm and numerous Flying Demon Worms pose significant threats to descending transport ships.

Ground forces must launch offensives when transport ships arrive, destroying hatcheries and biological cannon nests of Flying Demon Worms, to smoothly allow transport ships to land.

Yet, the ground forces already face major personnel, equipment losses, significant ammunition consumption, awaiting aerial supplies, but now must fiercely attack?

No choice but to fight this way.

Often, after huge sacrifices, supplementing ammunition, equipment, personnel can slightly offset losses, but the swarm’s biological fleet returns, forcing human transport ships to escape immediately, or face greater losses when intercepted.

This warfare continued for eighteen days.