Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 252

252. Chapter 252, Across the Night Sky

After Pei Desi hung up the interstellar communication with Gu Hang, there was another one next to him.

This was a connection with his younger brother, Little Pei Desi. And just now, his brother heard clearly the conversations he had with a pair of uncles and nephews from the Gu family.

“The Gu family, which has always been known for its ‘unity’, also has a day of internal strife. It makes me laugh to death!”

His frivolous brother was quite presumptuous and gloating in his words.

However, this time Pei Desi did not scold him, but could not help but smile.

Yes, the unity of the Gu family has collapsed. Does he still need to worry about the Gu family leaving the ‘iron triangle’ and leaving the alliance with their brothers and the Fofana family?

No need at all.

Gu Ming has expressed his loyalty to him and reiterated the friendship between the two sides many times.

And that stubborn Wang Qi, her son, was even helped to the position of Governor of the Angry Owl Star by himself. Now, the little guy has also made a clear promise that he will stand firmly on his side in the future.

What he needs to do now is to choose the one who suits his heart better between the two of them.

“I suggest choosing Gu Ming.” Little Peides said, “Wang Qi is not easy to deal with. Even if her son agrees to all our conditions, it is likely that Wang Qi will still be in power in the Gu family in the end. She may not be so honest to fulfill the conditions agreed with us.”

Mr. Peides himself disagreed with this.

He asked back, “Do you think Gu Ming is honest? A person who launched a violent coup in the ‘United Gu Family’, will he listen to our arrangements after he has power?”

“Uh…” Little Peides thought about it and it was true.

Mr. Pedes said earnestly: “Don’t treat others as fools or tools. Generally speaking, we don’t have any way to check and balance the Gu family. We can’t treat the Gu family, including Fofana, as pawns. We are supported by them, and they are helped by us to develop better. Mutual benefit can make things last long.”

Little Pedes rolled his eyes: “It’s the same again…”

Although he looked disdainful and even thought that his brother would appear pedantic at some moments, Little Pedes had to admit that at least one point was right: they really didn’t have the ability to check and balance the Gu family.

No matter who they support and who wins in the end, as long as the Gu family does not completely fall apart and leaves half of its power, it will still be the largest cross-star chamber of commerce in the recent star regions. They don’t have to pay taxes to the star region government, nor do they need any support from the star region government. What else can they do?

Completely cut off, Gu’s will be uncomfortable, they will be inconvenient to do anything in Tianma Star Region, after all, their headquarters is on Feiyi Star; but at the same time, without the support of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce and financial support, the star region government will also be uncomfortable.

Unity is good for both sides, separation is bad for both sides, what else can we do? Just make do with it.

Although he was unhappy with Gu’s, little Pei Desi still understood this truth.

He listened quietly to his brother continue to talk.

What Pei Desi said to his brother was essentially his thought process: “Gu Hang can agree to any conditions that Gu Ming can agree to; Gu Hang can also do one more thing. We asked Gu’s and Fachers to draw a clear line between them, and he has a definite action to take: abolish Blackbird Heavy Industries on Angry Owl. This will inevitably greatly deteriorate the relationship between Gu and Fachers.”

“Moreover, we also have to consider the cost of making a choice. If we help Gu Ming, Wang Qi will die without support, but is there any way we can deal with Gu Hang? The eight Chamber of Commerce fleets that used to stand on the side of Wang Qi can be pushed to Angry Owl, and they can still make Wang Qi’s son the head of the family. Do we have to send the Imperial Navy to help Gu Ming control the Chamber of Commerce fleet? Do we have to send the Army to Angry Owl to eliminate Gu Hang? That’s impossible. The Imperial Navy and the Army are not completely under our command, and we can’t find a suitable reason to attack the Imperial Chamber of Commerce and a planetary governor.”

“By helping Gu Ming, we can indeed achieve the goal of splitting the Gu family, but we can only gain the friendship of half of the Gu family at most, and will turn the other half, plus a governor in the star zone, into enemies. It is impossible to form the most ideal situation where both sides have to befriend us.”

“What’s more, the cost of helping him is so high.”

“On the contrary, if we help Gu Hang and Wang Qi, we will have very little to do. Although these two will be more difficult to control, and the power of the Gu family will not be weakened too much, but the mother and son, to fulfill their promise, will inevitably stand on the opposite side of the Fachers family, and our goal can be achieved. What’s more, for a good cooperation, shouldn’t they be grateful? This lays more foundations for future cooperation.”

…

Listening to his brother rambling on and on, little Peddes curled his lips and concluded: “So, you finally made a decision to help that kid Gu Hang, right?”

Peddes smiled slightly and said, “Probably.”

“Okay, then do it.” Little Pedes yawned and stood up. “I’ll go first.”

Watching his younger brother leave, Mr. Pedes showed a helpless smile.

He didn’t even say anything about his younger brother.

In the past, he didn’t know how many times he had said it, but it was useless. He always looked so careless. Alcohol, various kinds of s*x, various exciting entertainments…

It’s useless to say too much. The younger brother is no longer a child. Now he is the governor of Feiyi Star. How can he keep talking?

Gradually, he stopped talking.

Most of the planetary affairs are done by him as the head of the star region.

He didn’t want to seize power. His younger brother was originally pushed up by him to take this position instead of himself. On the contrary, he often thought that if Little Pedes could take on more responsibilities and help him more, he would be much more relaxed. However

… in the end, I took it all on my own!

The younger brother went to spend money and drink, and he still had to work.

Sighing, he thought about the wording and made an interstellar communication to the Fofana family and General Tillemans respectively.

…

Seven standard Terra days later, on the Black Arrow Planet, in the suburban town of Pinser, the capital of the Luman Kingdom, the Alliance Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

Although it is called a headquarters, in fact, it has long been in tatters. For practicality, nothing else can be taken care of.

Originally, this was just a basement, and then the engineers reinforced the structure to prevent it from being blown down. These reinforced structures seemed very rough, and the brothers of the engineering company had a heavy task. They had no time to do any design, just to avoid being blown down.

It was here that Perbov and Leroy commanded their troops to withstand the joint attack of the Luman Kingdom Army and part of the Gu security force led by Gu Ming.

They blocked it for seven full days.

At this moment, neither of them had any manners to talk about. Dried sweat was stained with mud and blood on their faces and clothes; they had no conditions to take a shower or change clothes, and they were still sweating, and they stunk all over.

But no one disliked it.

Everyone was like this.

Messy hair, unshaven beards, dusty faces, sweaty and bloody… This was the appearance of every Angry Owl Star who stayed here.

The two of them were just a little heavier, and they also had dark circles and red eyes.

In recent days, the two of them may have slept only about two hours a day. They

were definitely tired, but they still tried to persevere.

They knew that this war was very difficult. They had no support or supplies, and they had to rely on their existing strength to hold on for eight days.

During this time, the two partners had some judgment about the number of enemies.

King Ness Luman assembled an army of more than 100,000 people on the battlefield; two Ranger Knight Titans; and more than 300 Sentinel mechas.

In these seven days, he estimated that his troops had wiped out at least 30,000 enemy troops, but the number of enemies seemed to have never decreased.

Those enemies had been attacking almost all the time in the past seven days, whether it was day or night, sunny or rainy.

Perbov always used a very contemptuous tone to belittle the soldiers of the Luman Kingdom when he was boosting the morale of the army.

What “holding scrap copper and rotten iron”, what “cannon fodder that is not treated as human”, “purely coming to die”, “no discipline, weak fighting will, poor fighting level”…

but what he said was also true.

The conscripts of the Luman Kingdom were at this level.

Especially the continuous attacks and the large number of casualties made those conscripts feel that going to attack the fortified town was purely to die. The morale was so low that when they attacked, as long as there was no knight to hold the line, they would collapse as long as they suffered a little casualties.

But the problem was… there were a lot of knights.

If it was just the 100,000 Luman cannon fodder, Perbov would not take it seriously at all. However, Luman’s Royal Knights brought them a lot of pressure.

Especially the two Knight Titans.

When the two Knight Titans were bombing from a distance, the Alliance Army’s countermeasures were very limited, and they could only passively withstand the bombing.

And when the two Titans personally led the team into the front-line battle, it was even more of a nightmare.

Having learned the lesson from the destruction of the two Knight Titans before, the Luman military will never let the Knight Titans be separated again. Ordinary Luman infantry is not trustworthy, but those sentinel knights still have enough fighting spirit. They will guard the feet of the Knight Titans and not give the Alliance soldiers a chance to take advantage of them. In

this way, every attack led by the Knight Titans is a nightmare, and the Alliance Expeditionary Force will pay a heavy price. It is necessary to concentrate heavy artillery to bombard, and the soldiers need to risk firepower to strike. After paying a lot of ammunition consumption, and even a large number of soldiers’ lives, they can temporarily overload the opponent’s energy shield.

However, at this time, the enemy will often retreat, not giving any chance to take advantage of. Two days later, after the shield system is fully charged, they will return to the front line.

The Luman military fought more patiently.

They knew that the group of people who were defending the town could fight, but they had no reinforcements or backup. If they kept fighting, they would definitely be the winners with the support of an entire country.

However, despite such a bad situation, Perbov did not defend passively. He still insisted on the so-called “elastic defense” strategy.

During an all-out attack by the enemy three days ago, he took the risk of letting the armored forces disguised behind some dilapidated buildings suddenly attack, with artillery cooperation and Lacrosha’s special forces. They successfully destroyed the shield generator of a Knight Titan, but at the cost of six Lion tanks, thirty infantry fighting vehicles, and more than two hundred soldiers.

Moreover, due to the high losses, although they had created an opportunity, they were unable to make the final blow, and still let the Knight Titan without the shield generator successfully withdraw.

But despite this, the results were still acceptable.

The Knight Titan was damaged, and later it dared not appear in the front line, and could only fire missiles from the rear.

The front only had to face the impact of one Knight Titan, which reduced a lot of pressure.

However, after seven days of fighting, they were still at the end of their rope.

“Report to the commander, the enemy’s attack has been repelled.”

“Report the casualties.”

“Yes! The 37.5.2 company in the south is gone. When the 3rd company went up to support, no one was seen alive… There are only 17 people left in the 3rd company… According to the previous request of the political commissar, the number has been retained, and the command has been merged into the battalion headquarters. At present, the 37th Brigade no longer has a company-level unit, and all are under the command of the battalion level. The engineering battalion and the logistics support battalion are all on duty…” “

The main force of the 34th Division guarding the east and north was severely damaged. The acting division commander Major Gale was killed. At present, Major Meyev has taken over the command. This is the third acting division commander of the 34th Division…”

Perbov listened with a blank expression.

Apart from the enemy being repelled, there was no good news.

But his heart was already somewhat numb.

This was the news all along, especially in the past two days.

They fought off the enemy’s attacks again and again, fighting with the enemy for house after house, and even piece after piece of ruins. Now, they are really at the end of their rope.

Of the 30,000 troops he brought with him, less than 13,000 are still alive, and most of them are injured.

Although the loss of personnel is heavy, other aspects are even worse.

The two combined brigades have a total of 36 Lion tanks, and only the last one is still able to move; a total of 400 artillery pieces, 320 of which have been destroyed. Even with the remaining 80, with the existing artillery shells, they can only fire six rounds at most.

There are less than a thousand shells.

All the rocket launchers have been used up, and there are not many mortar shells left. Even for bullets, they now need to carefully collect the ammunition from the dead soldiers, otherwise they will not be able to hold on.

It can be said that except for the food reserves, which are still sufficient for the time being because the residents of the suburban town were driven away and all the food was left, all other war materials have reached the final limit.

However, it was only the seventh day.

There was still one day left before the eight days required by the Governor.

What to do?

Perbov didn’t know.

Taking advantage of the lull in the fighting, he left the command post.

Leroy didn’t persuade him, as the political commissar had already fallen asleep. He was deaf in one ear, and he hadn’t slept for 23 hours, so he needed to rest for a while.

After coming out, Perbov looked at the night sky, feeling guilty.

He couldn’t help but reflect on whether his tactics in the past seven days were not well played in many places? Was it his own mistakes in command that led to the current situation?

“Did I… betray the Governor’s trust?”

“But no matter what, on the last day, I will personally take a gun and go to the front line of the battlefield. Even if we can’t hold on for the eighth day, even if the Lumans occupy our positions, it must be after we are all dead!”

He swore with gritted teeth.

But at this moment, he saw dozens of long tail flames streaking across the night sky in the sky.

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The political struggle part… I still have to write it, I can’t not write it. But I try to shorten and speed up the pace.

(End of this chapter)