Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 385

Chapter 384, No Choice

“…I understand what you said, Mr. Chief.”

“But what I don’t understand is, what does all this have to do with me?”

“I am the Governor-General of the Alliance. I only govern four worlds. The Fatsers Star System is not under my jurisdiction. What does the rebellion there have to do with the Alliance? I cannot overstep my authority.”

“Indeed, there are two Astra Militarum Legions under my command, but both the Dragon Eagle III Legion and the Angry Bear Legion are currently under the Koroja War Zone. It’s true that I am the commander of the war zone, but my war zone is only within Koroja. How can I have the power to dispatch troops under its jurisdiction to leave the war zone and fight in another galaxy?”

“Space Marines? You have to ask Chapter Master of the Phoenixes. What’s the use of asking me?”

“Can’t get in touch? I’m sorry, Mr. Chief, but I haven’t been able to get in touch with Chapter Master of the Martins recently. The Alliance has no right to govern a Space Marines Chapter. We only have a good cooperative relationship. I have no way of deciding whether they will respond to the call.”

“I know your concerns. Please believe me, I feel the same way as you do. The traitorous behavior of the Fachers family is outrageous. I never dared to imagine that someone would have the courage to do such a disloyal thing. They have stepped on the bottom line. Their rebellious behavior is an indisputable fact and a sin that must be washed away! The Alliance has also made serious condemnations for this. I also publicly called on Minnick to surrender unconditionally and accept the trial he deserves!” “

I am even willing to donate one million tax coins to the star zone as a token of my indignation!”

“I have tried my best, Mr. Leader, and I hope you can solve the incident as soon as possible and wash away the shame!”

After listening to what Gu Hang said, Martinelli’s face was solemn.

He was thinking about the wording and how to pull Gu Hang to this front.

But the little Pedes beside him couldn’t hold back at this moment.

“Gu Hang, Governor Gu, Commander Gu, just tell me straight, what do you want that will make you willing to come and quell the rebellion?”

“I’ve said it so clearly, don’t you understand? It’s not that I don’t want to, but I can’t. It’s not in accordance with the law and regulations.”

“Stop making such hypocritical remarks here!” Little Pedes said anxiously: “Just tell me what you want? We will each have half of the three stars in Fachers. You take one and we take…”

“Enough!” Gu Hang scolded, “What kind of arrogant words are these? How can the territory of the empire be distributed at will like private property in your mouth? Clerk, write down what little Pedes said clearly for me, without any difference in the word.”

Little Pedes was obviously stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage, and opened his mouth to curse, but before he could even say anything, he was stopped by Martinelli.

“Sorry, Governor Gu, please wait a moment.”

After saying this, Martinelli temporarily changed the communication to silent mode, then turned his head and glared at Little Pedes: “Do you know how much trouble your words just now will cause us?”

Little Pedes said disdainfully: “What kind of trouble can it be?”

Martinelli was really in a headache. The situation was already so difficult and troublesome, and he ended up having to bring a pig teammate. Everyone said that the Pedes brothers in the Tianma Star Region complemented each other. After experiencing it personally, Martinelli realized that Pedes had at least three times the power to offset the negative influence of Little Pedes!

He really regretted that he shouldn’t have come to the Tianma Star Region.

But since he had come, what else could he do?

He took a deep breath and said, “You, get out.”

“What?”

“Get out! From now on, when I’m talking about business, you are not allowed to interrupt me at all!” Martinelli didn’t want to tolerate it anymore.

“Why do you talk to me like that!?”

“Because of your stupidity!”

“You were the one who proposed the plan to oppress Faches. Now that something has gone wrong, what’s the point of getting angry at me?”

“Yes, it is, so now I am trying to make amends. Please, if you can’t help, at least don’t make things worse, okay?”

“…Okay, okay, I won’t talk anymore. I’ll just listen here, okay?”

“…”

Martinelli finally didn’t expand the conflict further and tolerated little Pedes to stay here, just with an ear.

After reconnecting the communication, he apologized first, and then continued to negotiate with Gu Hang.

Gu Hang teased and asked if little Pedes was kicked out, which made the Governor of Feiyixing, who was sitting next to him, clench his fists.

But at least, this guy still remembered the agreement with Martinelli just now and kept his mouth shut.

Martinelli was still very proficient in political negotiations, but he couldn’t stand the fact that he met Gu Hang, who was stubborn.

In the conversation, no matter what Martinelli said, whether it was to provide convenience or political support to relieve Gu Hang’s worries, Gu Hang kept repeating the two points that the war zone was not covered and the alliance was not covered.

Martinelli certainly understood what this meant.

In fact, what Xiao Pedes said was not wrong at all. Gu Hang’s intention to want the Fache Three Stars was clearly laid on the table. Either find a way to let the Korojia War Zone include the Fache Three Stars, or let the Fache Three Stars be planned into the alliance.

In fact, the final results of these two conditions are no different. Even if the former is just a war zone, when Gu Hang actually controls the Fache Three Stars through military force, it is only a matter of time before they join the alliance.

However, although he knew it, he could not promise these two conditions so easily. If

the Fache Three Stars were given to Gu Hang, what had he been doing for the past two years?

There was no benefit at all, and he got into trouble.

But other than that, he didn’t have many chips left.

Otherwise, he would give away the Wing Star?

After hanging up the phone, Martinelli drank the wine in his hand in one breath, and then sat there with a sad face.

“Can I talk now?”

“Of course.” Martinelli hesitated for a moment, and felt that he still had to ease the relationship with little Pedes. “I’m sorry for what happened just now. I’m just a little anxious. I hope you don’t take it to heart.”

Little Pedes still looked unhappy, but he still restrained his temper.

He said seriously: “I think we can give it to him.”

“What?”

“If he wants Fats, give it all to him.”

Martinelli stared at little Pedes, and instinctively felt that this guy was talking nonsense again.

But little Pedes was very serious and added: “We have no choice, right?”

“You can’t give him all three. If you give him all three, what’s the point?”

“I can hear it all. He must have all three. Not one less.”

“In that case, why don’t I talk to the Fachers? The final result will be…”

“You know that’s impossible.”

Martinelli stopped talking. He did know.

Little Pedes continued: “Besides, it’s not that there is no chance. Even if the Fachers three stars are given to him, it’s not that easy to take them. The Fachers family has been running their nest for countless generations. With a population of tens of billions and a well-developed industrial base, they can mobilize hundreds of millions of troops at critical moments. The anti-orbital strike system, star fortresses, and planetary active defense mechanisms built around the three planets…”

Martinelli seemed to be thinking about something.

And then, what little Pedes said made him feel that his evaluation of this guy just now was a bit too harsh:

“It’s not easy for Gu Hang to take down Fachers. It will inevitably lead to bloodshed. Our chance lies in letting them collide, collide until there are corpses everywhere, and collide until both sides are injured!”

…

“Rivers of blood? What corpses everywhere? Who do you want to be injured?”

Gu Hang looked at his military chief adviser, Major General Yan Fangxu, in disbelief.

Yan Fangxu was also a little confused.

Just now, he reported to the Governor the war plan made by the Alliance General Staff.

This strategy, in general, is based on the power of the Pegasus Fleet still staying in the star zone to participate in this war.

But despite this, they still cannot control the orbit of any planet, but if all the power is concentrated around a planet, it can be suppressed. If it is required to destroy all the orbital forces of a planet, it may cost a cruiser and multiple destroyers, and the Pegasus Fleet will definitely not agree.

However, the Pegasus Fleet can completely blockade a single planet. Although the Fachers have some troop transport ships, it is obviously impossible to break through the navy’s blockade, and they cannot provide support between planets.

On this basis, Yan Fangxu will focus on breaking through a single planet. The primary target is Fachers 1, the most important planet. With the navy suppressing the star fortress and ground anti-orbital firepower, the elite forces of the alliance will force a landing operation in the Arctic Circle, the planet with the weakest orbital defense of Fachers 1.

The goal of the first stage is to destroy the surrounding orbital defense facilities, establish a safe landing site and guard it, and strive to attract as many enemies as possible.

The goal of the second stage is to do the same, open up a second landing site behind the enemy, and stand firm, and strive to fight a two-sided, encirclement and annihilation war to eliminate the Fachers’ living forces as much as possible.

After the first and second stages are all successful, the best result is that they have eliminated enough enemies and temporarily destroyed the Fachers’ living forces in the northern continent. Under the premise that the enemy cannot gather temporarily, the entire army will march south to directly capture the planetary capital of Fachers 1 and strive to make Fachers 1 surrender completely.

Of course, the strategy submitted by Yan Fangxu is not simply a method and a goal, but also includes many details such as the manpower, materials, tactical plans, etc. that need to be invested in each stage.

Every step in this plan is full of difficulties, but there is hope that it can be achieved. Yan Fangxu’s overall goal is to be able to take down Fachs quickly and steadily, rather than falling into a long-term tug-of-war and stalemate. In that case, they are sitting on their homeland, with the four billion people on the planet as their backing, but the alliance’s supplies and reinforcements must all be transported by sea, crossing two interstellar tunnels to the Fachs galaxy, and the cost is much higher than that of the other side.

But no matter what, no matter what kind of plan they made, Yan Fangxu and the officers of the staff he led came to the same conclusion: this will be a bloody battle.

Although what they have to face is not some dangerous demon, but only the planetary defense army. However, the number of enemies will be a very big problem, and the cruelty brought to the attacker by the landing operation is another big problem.

No matter how this battle is fought, the losses are inevitable and will be extremely huge.

It is for this reason that when Yan Fangxu reported to the governor, he couldn’t help but use words like blood flowing into rivers and corpses everywhere.

But obviously, this caused the dissatisfaction of Governor Gu.

“Obviously, if this battle is to be fought to this extent, it proves that we have failed.”

“Sacrificing tens of millions of warriors, paying countless money, and harvesting three worlds that need to be rebuilt after the war… I dare not imagine that picture, old Yan, do you dare to think about it?”

“…”

Yan Fangxu didn’t know how to answer this question.

“We need a smarter way, and I’m prepared.”

“So… Governor, are we going to give up this plan?”

“No, if it really comes to this, there must be a backup plan. However, the next job for you and your staff is to come up with a strategy to take over the three planets of Faches.”

“Take over?” Yan Fangxu carefully confirmed the words he heard.

“Yes, take over.”

Gu Hang stood up and looked into the distance.

“As your plan said, Faches is three well-defended civilized worlds. But what is the best way to conquer a solid fortress? Of course, it is to break it from the inside. As it happens, we have been preparing for this for a year, and the Faches people are not as united as they claim. This is our chance.” “

Now, we just have to wait for our beloved star zone leader to figure it out. And I have no doubt about this.”

Gu Hang said this with confidence, because he has seen through Martinelli’s current predicament.

Under the current situation, Martinelli has four main requirements to solve the Faches rebellion, and their importance is in order.

Don’t let the star field take action = guarantee the imperial tax of the Fachers system > destroy the Fachers family, severely punish rebellion > fine.

The first two are equally important, this is the inside. The star field is not incapable of solving the problem, but if the star field government wants to solve it, it will have to withdraw fleets and star army from the front line of the Iron Tooth War. This will cost a lot of money, not to mention that it will cause defense loopholes on the front line, and if the greenskins take down several worlds, it will lose more.

The same is true for the imperial tax. The three Fachers add up to 6 billion tax coins a year, and they can’t lose it.

These two things must be kept. If they can’t be handled, Martinelli will be buried with Fachers – maybe he will die earlier than Fachers.

Destroying the Fachers family and severely punishing rebellion is face. The dignity of the empire must be guaranteed, and the rebels who dare to trample on the bottom line must be eliminated.

If you only keep the “inside”, it won’t work. The chaos was caused by Martinelli. If they only quelled the chaos while Fachers was still at large and even continued to control the planet, it would be a loss of face for the Star Region Government. By then, Martinelli would not die, but his future would be ruined.

The fine is an additional benefit. If he can get the inside and the outside, Martinelli can probably keep his position. If he can’t get the fine, that’s fine.

On this basis, Martinelli has no basis to negotiate with the Fachers family.

The Fachers family will not talk to Martinelli. They are also aware of the priority issue above. The goal they want to achieve is to keep the inside for the empire. Martinelli will bear the loss of face. By then, the statement issued by Minnick will not be a fart, but the truth. Martinelli will be the rebel who forces the loyal ministers of the empire to make up for the face of the empire.

On this basis, Gu Hang had no doubt that Martinelli would eventually compromise with him and use his own connections, relationships, and means to help the alliance gain control over the three Fache stars.

The star district leader had no other choice.

…

Although he was sure of it, everything happened faster than Gu Hang had imagined.

Just eight days later, Gu Hang, who was in the Governor’s Mansion No. 3 in Korojia, met Martinelli.

The star district leader came to Korojia in person, met with Gu Hang, and announced the latest order from the higher government. The

Korojia War Zone has since expanded to the ‘Pegasus War Zone’.

Commander Gu Hang can dispatch military forces in the star zone, including the Dragon Eagle 3 Corps – but this is actually not much of an expansion, and essentially it is still the forces in Gu Hang’s hands that are being called upon. What was added was the remaining part of the Pegasus Fleet, and they were again under the command of the war zone commander.

But in fact, Gu Hang never expected any additional military help.

The Pegasus Star Zone can no longer provide anything extra.

And what Gu Hang valued the most, he had actually already obtained.

After the war zone included the three stars of Fachs, Gu Hang had the full power to deal with the three stars of Fachs.

This was clearly shown in the document brought by Martinelli.

After saying this, and handing the authorization document signed by the star domain government and the star district government to Gu Hang, Martinelli left, without any intention of communicating with Gu Hang.

Gu Hang did not keep him.

For Gu Hang, he had already got what he wanted.

From this moment on, the war machine of the alliance started blatantly.

The first to be started was Gu’s Trading Company.

They received a large number of war orders again – the money was paid by the Imperial Military Affairs Department – and several merchant fleets were mobilized. These merchant ships and transport ships will take on the task of transporting the army and strategic materials of the alliance.

The Pegasus Fleet has also been dispatched to the Fachs Star District. After the navy passes through the interstellar tunnel from Feiyi Star to the Fache Star System, it will block the three Fache Star Stars. They will not rashly attack planets with complete defense facilities, but they will surround the three planets from a distance and completely isolate them.

The small sampans of the Fache Family can only stay in the star port honestly and have no way to come out.

Half a month later, the alliance’s war preparations have been completed.

As the main force, the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion has almost all boarded the ship.

After eight years away from home, they are about to return to their hometown.

Many of them have mixed feelings.

Eight years!

Although, from the moment they became the Star Army, they were told that their future journey would be to the stars and the sea. However, almost all of them, especially the new recruits who had just joined the army for a few years, had never left their home planet.

When they came to Korojia to fight, they thought it was just a war that would not last too long, but who would have thought that they would stay there for eight years.

There is not much to say about the dead. Many of those who are still alive have grown from youth to middle age, married and had children.

Marriage and having children, this seems a bit strange for the soldiers who were called to join the Star Army, but it is indeed a fact that happened to them.

This originated from a strategy of Gu Hang.

After discussing with Hans, he allowed the Star Army soldiers of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion to take a certain degree of rotation during the period of martial law in Korojia.

During the rotation, the soldiers met local women, developed feelings, or made monetary transactions, which was originally allowed. When the Star Army was deployed outside, it always left some ways for the soldiers to relieve stress, especially since most of the Star Army would be soldiers for life.

Discipline is discipline, but human nature cannot be erased. Alcohol, cigarettes, s*x… are inevitable. The first two can be classified as normal military supplies. As for the third, the soldiers come by themselves, but the premise is legal. The army has discipline.

However, this is the normal situation. And what Gu Hang did was just to go a step further on this basis and give those Farchers Star Army who left their hometown a more stable environment-family.

Have a wedding that is not luxurious but full of rituals; have your own children; spend time with your family during the rest period…

Although the Dragon Eagle Corps does not belong to the sequence of the Alliance Army, under Gu Hang’s instructions, their partners and children can still enjoy the treatment of Alliance military dependents. It means extra allowances, and it means that you can join the Alliance system as soon as possible to get a rating, and it is a higher rating than ordinary people.

This also makes the soldiers a very ideal partner for the local women in Korojia.

Now, these soldiers of the Dragon Eagle Legion are indeed Fachers, but their families, wives, and children are all in Koroja, which accounts for 30% of the entire army; in the legion, 15% of the newly added soldiers are simply Koroja themselves.

They are the Astra Militarum, fighting against rebellion in the name of the Empire, even if the rebellion is their hometown.

With several factors combined, how can these Fachers not feel complicated?

They can’t help but complain, damn Fachers family, why did they rebel?

They really deserve to die.

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This chapter is 6k to make up for

yesterday, and add more by the way.

There is more today, but in the second half of the night…

I still owe 11k

(this chapter is finished)