Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 518
The second day after the Jupiter Expeditionary Force arrived in Jupiter's outer orbit, the main force of the Jupiter United Fleet came to meet up.

Paul and other commanders of the Jupiter United Fleet came to the command center of the Xuanyuan Qinglong aircraft carrier to report to Zhong Cheng.

A year ago, when everyone bid farewell to the space port of Yinghuo City on Mars, no one thought that the war would be so tragic and mankind would face such a dangerous situation.

Although Paul and the others are far away on Jupiter, they are also worried about the war on the earth and have trouble sleeping and eating.

Fortunately, now that the dust has settled, Zhong Cheng wiped out the demons on the earth as promised, and commanded the army to Jupiter.

Paul and others expressed their most sincere thanks to Zhong Cheng for saving the Federation and mankind.

But Zhong Cheng couldn't accept it openly. All the soldiers and civilians of the Federation, including all the officers and soldiers of the Jupiter United Fleet, had contributed to the eradication of the demons on the earth.

Of course, the support of the Forsaken clan is indispensable!

The Jupiter United Fleet could not complete the task of conquering Jupiter independently, but it occupied Saturn and successfully blocked Jupiter, completely preventing the Jupiter demons from supporting the earth war.

The same is indispensable!
After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Zhong Cheng asked Paul for his views on the Jupiter campaign. Among the senior leaders of the coalition forces, only Paul could be regarded as a "Jupiter expert".

After a few words of humility, Paul first reported the strength and distribution of the demon army on Jupiter.

Since the mutiny of the officers and soldiers of the former empire, the Demons no longer used human soldiers, and replaced them with the army of Warcraft led by the Xel'Naga Demons.

But with the very limited biological resources of the Jupiter system, the Jupiter demon army is much smaller than the tens of millions of monsters on the earth.

Paul judged through the exchange of fire between the two sides that the total number of the Jupiter demon army will not exceed 1000 million, and the Xel'Naga demon warriors will be less than 200 million.

This also includes the Xel'Naga demon warriors who fled back from Earth more than two months ago.

The Jupiter demon army can only rely on the strict defense system of the Jupiter system to block the Jupiter United Fleet in the outer orbit.

They are distributed in more than 200 satellites and space station military bases, using nearly a thousand remaining and newly built space battleships to form a solid line of defense for Ganymede.

Now that the strength of the coalition forces has greatly increased, Paul believes that by virtue of the superiority of the force, he will attack all the strongholds of the Mozu Jupiter defense line at the same time, and this originally extremely strong defense line will be vulnerable to a single blow.

Paul then also asked Zhong Cheng for punishment, but he failed to prevent Sargeras from fleeing back to Ganymede.

Zhong Cheng did not punish Paul, but instead praised the contribution of the Jupiter fleet he led.

He knew that the outer space of Jupiter was too large, far from comparable to the outer space of the Earth, and the strength of the Jupiter United Fleet could not stop dozens of small space vehicles from entering the inner space of Jupiter.

At that time, he ordered Paul to intercept it only with a tentative attitude, and he didn't expect Paul to be able to stop the old fox, Sargeras.

Regarding Paul's proposal for the attack plan of the Jupiter campaign, the high-level coalition forces agreed unanimously after discussion.

However, Zhong Cheng proposed to launch a full-scale attack after laying a net in the outer space of Jupiter.

This time, Sargeras must not be allowed to escape again!
The coalition forces came prepared this time. From November 11th, the Jupiter Expeditionary Fleet, which integrated the Jupiter United Fleet, began to deploy defenses in the outer space of Jupiter.

The Jupiter Expeditionary Force fleet has a total of 24 space fleets with nearly 2500 space warships of various types, and six space fleet segments are responsible for the outer space of Jupiter.

And from this airspace, 36 military reconnaissance satellites were deployed to ensure that there is no dead angle to monitor any movement in Jupiter's inner space.

Once any demon fleet wants to escape, the early warning mechanism will be triggered millions of kilometers away, even a mosquito does not want to fly out of the outer space of Jupiter.

In order to prevent Sargeras from using the method of escaping from the earth again, in the past two months, commissioned by Zhong Cheng, the Kunlun Research Institute has researched and produced weapons against small high-speed space vehicles.

It is to install a weapon called "fishing net gun" on the space battleship of the federal army, launch the fishing net made of Taiyi alloy, catch the demon space shuttle, and then pull it with a high-strength net rope.

A single net can cover several square kilometers, and the demon fleet has no way to escape.

Although Zhong Cheng knew that it was very unlikely that Sargeras would use this method again, he still had to be sure.

11 month 18 day.

The Jupiter blockade network was completed, and the senior executives of the Jupiter Expeditionary Force held the last combat meeting before the war.

The staff of the expeditionary force formulated a plan for the Jupiter attack plan, which divided the Jupiter campaign into two stages.

In the first stage, the coalition forces cleared all small and medium satellites and space station military bases of the Demon Race except the four large satellites of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and at the same time wiped out the Demon Race's space fleet.

To achieve the division and encirclement of four large satellites within one month is the stage strategic goal, to cut off all the possibility of the demons escaping.

In the second stage, the coalition launched a landing operation on four large satellites at the same time, annihilating all the living forces of the demons in one fell swoop.

Aim for an end to the war in May 2049.

Deng Jinhai, Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Army Staff Department, explained why the combat plan was formulated for half a year.

Because the human colonies on Jupiter are different from the cities on Earth, almost all of them are built deep underground.

In particular, Ganymede's underground city has been built to a depth of more than 30 kilometers underground, which is as intricate as a spider's web.

Such a narrow space battlefield is very unfavorable for the Zerg army to fight with a numerical advantage. In addition, it is even more difficult to preserve the people of the original empire in the underground city, so we can only reserve more attack time.

Dongfang Bubai pointed out that the Zerg army has a strong underground digging ability, which can completely avoid the underground passages of the original underground cities and dig out new passages to attack the defenders.

Deng Jinhai explained that such means should not be used lightly, and accurate geological survey results must be obtained before use.

Because digging new passages at will in the underground city is likely to cause large-scale collapse, which will not only cause military and civilian casualties on one's own side, but may also block the offensive route of the coalition forces.

Combat in the underground city environment is a mystery to the high-level coalition forces, but fortunately, Paul and other former imperial generals can provide the layout of various underground cities on Jupiter.

Although it is a layout plan two or three years ago, it is better than a completely unknown situation. The specific situation can only be adjusted after the war.

Deng Jinhai then pointed out that in the first phase of operations, the coalition forces will also face new difficulties.

The Zerg does not rely on air to survive. Although it can survive in space, it has not evolved the ability to fly in space.

They are fighting in the space environment of the first stage, and it is also difficult to display their combat capabilities. The main force of the battle depends on human fighters, and huge casualties are unavoidable.

Forsaken executives such as Dongfang Invincible have no experience in space warfare, so they are helpless.

In the end, Zhong Yi proposed that the Zerg army could be transferred to the high-speed maneuvering Chongmingbird-class space frigate, and the space frigate's own high speed could be used to launch the Zerg army out to attack ground targets or space warships.

Although some troops will be lost due to the inability to accurately project them onto ground and space targets, the numerical advantage of the Zerg army can make up for it.

(End of this chapter)