Realizing that the strategy needed to be revised, Soshyan reached out and drew a few dotted lines and arrows on the star chart.
"Then can the strategy be modified as follows? On the one hand, we continue to test Badab and create the illusion that we must occupy it. On the other hand, we secretly gather forces to prepare for a blitzkrieg operation against Angstrom and occupy it.
After forging the world, use it as a support point to fight the Red Pirates around the galaxy, attracting the main force of the Red Pirates here, and investing a large number of Astra Militarum troops to consume the main force of the enemy. At the same time, other theaters also start the second phase of the offensive plan, waiting for the enemy to weaken.
Then launch a full-scale occupation of Badab."
After hearing Soshyan's plan, the others thought for a while and nodded in agreement.
"feasible."
"Yes, if this plan is realized, then Badab's rebels will be dead fish on the chopping block. It is impossible for Huron not to save such a large group of enemies."
"The key point of this expedition is here. We must give them a little shock to the empire."
Soshyan stepped forward and pressed a button, and then dense lines appeared on the star map. Different colors represented different ones. Some were the logistics transportation lines of the expeditionary force, some were trade transportation lines, and the raw materials provided to the forging world.
transportation line, Soshyan pressed another button, and immediately only the red line of logistics transportation remained.
"...Last week I received reports from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th theaters. They were all asking for increased logistics and reinforcements, especially personnel supplements. However, in the past two months, the Ministry of Military Affairs has only provided additional
With 20 million scattered troops, most of them new recruits, including more than 4 million Cadian White Shields, the personnel losses in each theater have greatly exceeded previous expectations."
After listening to this, Laishander sighed softly and said:
"In fact, it is not just the losses of mortal troops. According to the latest statistics of the battle loss table, the space warriors of various battle groups also suffered considerable losses. The total number of battle brothers in several battle zones has been lost. 121 battle brothers, of which the Tianshi Chapter alone accounted for
A quarter.”
"I also read those battle reports."
Helbricht picked up the data pad nearby and after a few clicks, lines of text appeared on the star map.
"Some company-level commanders of some regiments have no experience in large-scale warfare or attacking fortresses. Facing the enemy's solid fortifications, they blindly attack and charge hard, resulting in many unnecessary sacrifices. Moreover, they are unable to effectively coordinate the use of firepower and waste ammunition.
, especially the situation with large-caliber artillery shells and rockets is very serious, but they cannot achieve very good results.”
After listening to the words of the two staff advisors, Soshyan nodded with a serious expression.
"These things must be sorted out to provide some guidance to those Astartes sergeants who have no war experience or attack experience. However, logistics capacity should also be improved."
With that said, he threw out the plan he had made with Reza before.
"I have already communicated with Reza. They will build a stable transportation line from the outside of the maelstrom, but they need to requisition some unmanned worlds and satellites."
Soshyan looked at Marcus.
"Judge Marcus, is there any problem with this?"
Marcus was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said:
"There are no problems, everything should be in service now for the expedition."
"That's good."
Nodding, Soshyan made the final decision.
"The first batch of recruited soldiers will soon be trained. Together with the new recruits provided by the Ministry of Military Affairs, they will be added to the four theaters, with the first and second theaters taking priority. This decision will be informed to the commanders of each theater.
"
At this time he took out a special report from Malarkin.
"The Fourth Theater also reported some special things. When they were encircling and suppressing the green-skinned pirates, they found that the aliens were equipped with a lot of imperial standard weapons, and the number was extremely abnormal. In addition, they uncharacteristically united to fight against the Empire, resulting in the Fourth Theater
The progress is not going well, and the Malakin brothers speculate that the Red Pirates may have provided support for the alien weapons and equipment, and even intelligence support."
Everyone looked through Malakin's report with the data pads in their hands. It not only contained explanations, but also a large amount of video and picture evidence.
Helbrecht was the first to express his opinion after reading it.
"The equipment of these alien pirates is indeed abnormal. If I were Huron, I would also consider joining forces with the aliens to contain the imperial forces."
Laishander nodded immediately.
"If the Red Pirates really give support to the aliens, then it may not be easy to complete the set tasks with the existing forces in the Fourth Theater alone. Although the Pale Star itself has two million Astra Militarum troops, the defense pressure is also great
, there are not many troops that can be mobilized to clean up the aliens, it seems that we need to strengthen our strength in that area."
"The archaeological fleet of the Griffin IV is operating nearby. I have already sent a call to them, asking them to assist the Malakin brothers in exterminating the greenskin pirates. In addition, a company of the Death Watch arrived at the Maelstrom two weeks ago.
After communicating with Captain Zaro, I sent them to the Pale Star to assist the Malakin brothers in eliminating the alien threat there and preventing it from adversely affecting the key first theater of operations."
Helbricht nodded after hearing this. A Death Watch company basically consists of four killing squads. Since the number of killing squads is uncertain, the number of people in each Death Watch company is usually no more than 50, although it is not as large as a Holy Code.
Company, but considering that they are all elites who are proficient in fighting against aliens, their role can often be greater than that of a company.
"So there should be no problem."
After that, several people discussed other matters, the more important one being the logistics personnel of the expeditionary force.
In addition to hundreds of millions of soldiers, the expeditionary force actually also includes almost the same number of non-combatants. After all, Soshyan has established a separate logistics system for efficiency, namely the Expeditionary Force Station Directorate, which naturally requires higher costs.
In terms of labor costs, although some staff were transferred from the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the vast majority were recruited directly from various hives. After all, these two departments themselves also need to operate.
Since they were separated from the imperial bureaucracy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not be responsible for the "salaries" of these people. Even the minister repeatedly emphasized to Soshyan that they did not have the authority to requisition more resources to pay the salaries of redundant staff.
This burden directly overwhelmed the expeditionary force, or Director Bornhard Morales.
At first Soshyan planned to transfer all this burden to the nobles of the nest, but he found that it was difficult to actually implement this matter. After all, he could not really forcefully levy "war tax" one by one, but just ordered it.
, the nobles have many means to escape, but of course they are still willing to bear part of it. After all, although Soshyan has no reason to confiscate their homes, he has the ability to drag them onto the battlefield.
However, the regular expenses of hundreds of millions of employees are quite high. After all, they are different from soldiers. According to the general treatment in the empire, the salary of mid-level employees is basically enough to support a family of five or six people. What’s more troublesome is that even in different galaxies,
Different planets pay different rewards, some are rations, some are local currencies, and some are certain currencies, which causes the non-combatants of the expeditionary force to also consume a lot of logistical capacity.