Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 196

196. Chapter 196, a big wave!

Gu Hang still cares about the first battle after the establishment of the special operations brigade.

He read the battle report in full and was quite emotional.

The combat team of 30 people lost six people, but they completed the mission and suspected that they eliminated high-value enemy targets.

What else is there to blame?

Especially Lacrosha and Kuchi, Gu Hang personally issued a commendation.

Needless to say, the former is a “hero” that Gu Hang activated with grace points. He is the only character who specializes in combat under the current system interface. Now, the problem of equipment is to check and balance his combat effectiveness.

If he is given some better equipment, such as upgrading the LR5 laser rifle to a hell gun, a bolt gun, a plasma or a hot melt weapon… He may be able to fight a Space Marine.

Still comparing with the Space Marines, if the mission was not dispatched by the special operations brigade, but the Phoenix warriors, it would indeed be easier to complete.

However, there are only four Space Marines left, and they are still “non-renewable resources.” As for the soldiers of the special operations brigade… although it sounds a bit harsh, they are indeed high-end consumables.

Although there are sacrifices, although there are soldiers like Lacrosha leading the team, and although the completion is quite reluctant… but as long as they can complete similar special tasks, it is already very good.

How much is a space warrior worth, and how much is a special forces soldier worth?

Gu Hang doesn’t like to measure the lives of soldiers as cold numbers. But as a leader and a ruler, he sometimes has to make cold calculations like this.

Of course, the pensions for the six sacrificed soldiers will not be less; those who complete the mission alive should also receive sufficiently high combat allowances and bonuses, as well as honors.

These things will be handled by the military and political department of Thadius, so Gu Hang doesn’t have to worry too much.

His attention was on the report submitted by researcher Hu Ke.

The engine prophet went to check the spoils brought back by Feng Falcon and submitted a report.

He said that the things he picked up this time were of high value, and he had the opportunity to crack some important information from them.

For example, to verify whether his previous guess that the Natural Salvation Society had found a complete and undamaged spiritual gas field was true; to verify what they were doing with the spiritual gas field; to try to deduce the location of the spiritual gas field…

Hearing this, Gu Hang felt a great sense of anticipation.

Gu Hang cared a lot about this group of brain-damaged cultists, and also cared about the spiritual gas field.

Dealing with the cultists is closely related to dealing with the problems in the Qinggu area. But unfortunately, it is difficult to do this by relying solely on the army.

The group of people from the Natural Salvation Society hid in the jungle, how could the army do anything to them? The Central Army Group said that there were 50,000 to 60,000 people, and there were more than 100,000 militiamen to be deployed, but this number of people could not even make a wave in the jungle.

It still depends on accurate intelligence, special forces to strike accurately, guide the orbital firepower in the sky to cover the bombing, or at worst, send the wind falcon that can be deployed globally to bomb.

Of course, this does not mean that the current Qinggu strategy should be abandoned.

Gu Hang had made up his mind to eradicate the jungle.

However, he did not intend to trap his main force there for a long time.

It was not impossible to eradicate it completely, but it would take too long.

The order he gave to the Central Army Group was to let them completely stabilize the situation in the Beiqing Valley area, and then go south along the existing roads, try to meet all the survivors in the Nanqing Valley area to go north, and establish a defense line between Beiqing Valley and Nanqing Valley, and their mission would be completed.

During this period, the militia will receive more effective training and more powerful equipment. Later, the task of maintaining the defense line in the North and South Qing Valley areas will be handed over to the local militia, and the main force will withdraw.

That’s right, according to Gu Hang’s strategy, he is going to give up the land of Nanqing Valley.

There is no need, and there are not enough population for development. As long as the several million people in the direction of Nanqing Valley can be brought back, it will be fine. The total area of the Northern Qinggu region is estimated to be two to three million square kilometers, most of which are relatively fertile and arable land. Not to mention feeding 10 million people, the grain output here alone is enough to feed the entire population of the Angry Owl Star, and there is also grain export.

To be honest, it is difficult for these 10 million people to develop the Northern Qinggu region.

Let’s leave the Southern Qinggu region alone. In the future, when the population of the Angry Owl Star has grown significantly and there is more demand for land and food, we can talk about it.

Gu Hang now realizes more deeply that the Angry Owl Star is not short of land, but of people; his pace to unify the planet is not to unify those many rotten lands, which is meaningless; expanding the population under his rule is the core priority.

If the 10 million people in the Qinggu region are all included in his rule, then he will achieve the Qinggu strategy he expected.

Gu Hang gave Yan Fangxu half a year for this process.

As for the Natural Salvation Society, Gu Hang needs to treat it as another independent issue.

He hoped that Hu Ke could crack more things; he hoped that Feng Falcon would patrol and strike in the air regularly; he hoped that the special operations brigade would carry out special operations in the south.

Capture live people and find clues.

Search, discover, and eliminate.

Continue this process until the cultists are completely annihilated.

If the clues and information that Hu Ke cracked are sufficient to help him complete a fatal blow and eliminate the cultists in one go, it would be the best; if not, Gu Hang is not afraid to turn this matter into a long-term operation.

The only thing to worry about is the complete spiritual gas field discovered by the cultists.

It is a very advanced source of energy, and Gu Hang is not sure what they will do with it. But thinking about the history of the Angry Owl Star, the source of the demon disaster here is the over-exploitation of the spiritual gas field, which has weakened the curtain between reality and the abyss. Add some human factors and cult infection factors, and the demon invasion will eventually occur.

Now there is a complete spiritual gas field in the hands of the cultists, and they themselves want to summon demons and call on evil gods. It is very worrying to see these things combined.

However, on the bright side, when Fengshuan’s patrols in the south became a regular occurrence, Gu Hang was able to detect some situations in advance.

If the worst case scenario really happened and those cultists tore open a new crack in the abyss, the movement would definitely be huge. Early detection would give Gu Hang a chance to solve the problem before it expanded to a point where it could not be solved.

Of course, it would be best if it could be done earlier.

It was also for this reason that he was very much looking forward to Hu Ke’s work results.

However, he waited for more than a month but got no results.

To be honest, Gu Hang was in a hurry

because something very important was going to happen this month: the Beautiful Girls Caravan and the Quintet would both leave at this time.

They had to go and repair the ship.

Gu Hang’s cousin left, but Ye Lishia would stay. A frigate named ‘Sharp Blade Tiger’ came here.

The captain of the Sharp Blade Tiger, named Du Zhicheng, was a lieutenant commander of the Imperial Navy.

His rank was much lower than Ye Lishia’s.

Although his people were all over the ship, he was still the captain and commander in theory. But with Ye Lishia here, the command would fall into the hands of the female brigadier general without any surprise.

Du Zhicheng should have expected this a long time ago, and it was even estimated that he had communicated with the Fofana family, which was deeply rooted in the naval system of the Tianma Star Region. He was fully aware of his mission for this year and should be more cooperative.

But in any case, a main strike cruiser was replaced by a frigate… a cannon for a musket.

Gu Hang had wanted Hu Ke to complete the information cracking and deduction of the spoils within this month, and it would be best to find the location of the spiritual gas field, and then quickly send people to investigate the situation. If necessary, he could directly call for orbital strikes to come up with a fierce wave.

No matter how many schemes those Chaos Cultists have, they can’t resist the justice of the “Wrath of the Loyal Heir” macrocannon.

As a result, now… oh no, the Wrath of the Loyal Heir is gone, do you want the “Scalpel” missile?

Ye Lixia explained to Gu Hang the weapon configuration on the “Sharp Tiger”, which is simply shabby compared to the “Quinte”: only thirty S-type weapons, no more.

Ten “Reflector” interception laser cannons, ten “Defender” rapid-fire cannons, and ten “Scalpel” missile launch platforms.

No more.

The reflectors can’t hit the ground. If they have to hit, after passing through the atmosphere, the reflectors with insufficient power will lose a large part of their energy and cannot perform orbital strike missions.

The defender rapid-fire cannons can barely do it, and the scalpel missiles can also do it.

But obviously, compared with the Quintet’s previous round of fighting, two hundred scalpel missiles, twenty hot hammer macrocannons, and two Wrath of the Loyal Heir macrocannons are no match.

It can only be said that it is better than nothing.

If the Alliance Air Force grows stronger, with hundreds of planes, all equipped with missiles, the power of an air strike will be about the same as ten surgical knives.

Gu Hang could only sigh.

But there was nothing he could do about it.

Hu Ke even came to the Governor-General with uneasiness to apologize, but what else could he do?

He was probably the only one on the entire planet who could do this, so there was no point in being anxious.

Gu Hang could only accept reality.

After sending the Quintet away in tears, Gu Hang could only return to his office and figure out how to use the grace points on hand.

The fixed income for the new month has arrived.

This month’s grace points are as high as 1,307 points.

Compared with 1,022 last month, there has been another significant increase.

This increase mainly came from the Beiqing Valley area. After the Mutual Aid Association was essentially incorporated into the rule of the Alliance, the population increased by four million.

Although the productivity of the Beiqinggu area is now in a mess, and a considerable part of the population is “refugees” and a pure burden, after all, there are four million people here, and the grace points have increased a lot.

As for some other increases, they come from the fact that the twin cities have absorbed more people and the productivity has further increased; the order of the three central provinces has been restored, and their monthly income has also increased slightly.

After receiving this grace point, Gu Hang now has 1708 grace points.

He thought about it and planned 700 grace points for training soldiers.

He plans to recruit 70,000 soldiers from the Beiqinggu area, with numbers 15-25, to establish 11 garrison divisions, all of which will be under the command of the Central Army Group. At that time, with the existing militia regiments in the Qinggu area, plus the 13th Mechanized Brigade and the 14th Motorized Infantry Division that have just been reorganized and sent to the south, the available troops in the hands of Commander Yan Fangxu will exceed 200,000.

With this scale, the problem of troops should be roughly solved.

The source of these 70,000 soldiers is not a big problem, they can be recruited from refugees; the training is not a big problem, the [Soldier Card] system can solve it; the problem of weapons and equipment is a bit big, 70,000 sets of individual equipment, corresponding artillery and trucks, I am afraid it will take two to three months to complete the production.

But Gu Hang has time to wait.

There are still 1,000 points of grace. Gu Hang thought about it and decided to build a comprehensive college.

In this way, he has built all three types of college buildings that have been opened to him by the building system so far.

The earlier you invest in education, the higher the return.

Comprehensive colleges will produce students in a series of majors such as business, literature, administration, and art. Compared with technical colleges, comprehensive colleges should be regarded as social science colleges.

It is true that science and technology are the primary productive forces, but as the land governed by Gu Hang becomes more and more vast and the population becomes larger and larger, the overall scale will expand by millions or tens of millions of people in a few months. He just needs enough management talents as bureaucrats to manage the entire planet for him.

This is inevitable.

This is especially true for the highly centralized political system he adopts.

The Technical College provides scientific and technological talents, the Comprehensive College provides high-quality social science talents, and the Zhongsi College ensures the loyalty of the first two… This is the overall education system of the alliance planned by Gu Hang.

And further down, it is to establish a complete compulsory education stage, which requires a longer-term investment, but Gu Hang will not do it personally. The Ministry of Culture and Education under the Alliance Government will be responsible for this work.

So far, 1,700 points of grace have been spent, and there are only a pitiful 8 points left.

To be honest, now you can get a fixed income of about 1,000 points of grace every month, which seems to be quite a lot, but if you want to spend it, it is really not worth spending.

Gu Hang is now waiting for the Qinggu Campaign to be settled.

According to the system’s virtue, this will have to wait until the situation in the entire Qinggu area comes to an end and the situation stabilizes before it will be settled. It’s just that I don’t know at what point this judgment will be made.

He is now in urgent need of a big wave to fill the dry gift point pool.

However, before the big wave that Gu Hang was expecting came, the Phoenix War Group gave him a big wave first.

(End of this chapter)