Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 390

Chapter 389, War Begins

Petters’s public declaration against all the people of Fachers caused a huge response.

Objectively speaking, he could not take over the power of the coalition government at all. Although he was a member of the family cabinet, his rank was not high enough, and his reputation was not high enough, so he could not achieve the effect of one call and a hundred responses. He could not command the coalition government, let alone really let all the Fachers defense forces lay down their arms on their own.

No matter what he said in the declaration, whether people actually listened to him or not was another matter.

However, this declaration still caused great chaos in the Fachers regime.

On Fachers 1, tens of millions of planetary defense forces fell into a strange silence.

Of course, the Grand Marshal of the Defense Force in the star port took the orbital elevator back to the surface as soon as possible, and declared Petters a traitor in the entire military system, but he could not completely end this chaos.

The reason is simple: Petters’ words touched the hearts of the Fachers.

We pay taxes every year, we serve the Emperor’s idol, we send our most heroic sons to the Astra Militarum to fight for the Empire, we can proudly call ourselves citizens of the Empire from every angle, and we have done everything we should do.

Why should we be unlucky?

Minnick used this sentiment in the past to incite rebellion, and directed the so-called “why” to fines and targeted bad behavior by the sector government.

He was indeed successful, and the Fachers were indeed angry about this. Being promoted to a higher level of development out of thin air means that the imperial tax that everyone has to bear has increased by more than 10% of their total income. That’s fine, but then there is also the entire income that can only be saved up by not eating or drinking for five years. Who can bear this?

However, when the other side of the scale is clearly labeled as “Imperial traitors”, and the Imperial army actually appears outside the planet’s orbit, how long can this anger last?

The education they received and the stories they heard from childhood told of the fate of countless betrayers, and now all of them were reflected in the minds of every Fachers.

Angry as they were, did they really have to go to war with the Empire?

This was a question that needed to be pondered, especially when they were going to put everything they had on the table.

…

But Gu Hang did not give the Fachers time to figure this out.

The coup that took place in the capital of the planet had achieved the effect that Gu Hang expected.

The information on the ground was transmitted to the sky at the first time and was learned by Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the rebellion.

At this moment, he was on the cruiser “Concerto”, which was the current flagship of the Pegasus Fleet. As the commander-in-chief, Gu Hang also set up his headquarters here.

He did not completely expect a coup to solve all the problems.

The current situation was enough.

Under his command, the Empire’s army began to act.

Of course, the first to act was the Pegasus Fleet.

Two cruisers, twenty-seven destroyers, and more than fifty other ships in total began to fiercely attack the planetary defense system of Farchus 1.

From the ground, from the many star fortresses orbiting in orbit, from the armed space station, from the starport… all these firepowers added together were not much weaker than the Pegasus fleet.

The firepower was similar, but that was only one aspect; in terms of anti-strike capability, these planetary defense facilities that did not require power were much stronger than starships.

The scale of the starport is much larger than that of the ship; the anti-orbital guns on the ground are simply protected by solid fortresses and even more solid ground; not to mention, they are also covered with energy shields or void shields.

Even those armed space stations, although relatively fragile, some even have no energy shields and can be destroyed by two or three shots, but they are low-cost and numerous.

This is the strength of a planet with complete orbital defense when facing naval attacks.

If the entire Fache 1 is regarded as a whole, it is not too inferior to the Pegasus Fleet in the bombardment.

In theory, it should be so.

However, after the battle began, the situation was slightly different.

The fortified starport has a very strong will to fight, but some of the orbiting armed space stations and ground anti-orbital firepower did not open fire.

Fleet commander Du Shiliang was really a little nervous. Before the official battle, he was quite worried that his fleet would have to bear too much cost when clearing the planet’s anti-orbital firepower.

But now it seems that the situation is much better than expected.

In those space stations that dared not open fire, there were even communication requests sent to the navy ships, which meant that they had heard the order from the coalition government, and they promised that they were loyal to the empire, so they would not open fire, and invited the imperial army to take over these space stations.

Du Shiliang was a little cautious at first, and only sent a very small number of marines to set off on landing ships.

When they approached, they were indeed not hit by the armed space station, but the space station took the initiative to open the channel to contact the spacecraft. Often a small team of marines can take over an armed space station with hundreds of people stationed.

The occurrence of these situations has greatly reduced the intensity of the naval battle faced by the Tianma Fleet.

Although several small warships, such as frigates or patrol ships, were damaged after being intensively attacked and had to withdraw from the battle sequence, in general, the damage suffered by the Tianma Fleet was much better than expected.

This is also the advantage of the navy fleet when fighting against the planet – the initiative is in my hands. Fight when you want to fight, retreat when you want to retreat, those orbital guns and orbital fortresses on the surface cannot be moved anyway, and there is no way to pursue.

A more conservative way of fighting is to retreat as long as the energy shield is overloaded, and come up again after the overload condition is over. Be steady and don’t be too unlucky to be blown up instantly, then the probability of direct combat damage is still very low.

The Pegasus fleet stayed in the orbit of Fachs 1 for about four hours.

At this moment, it was already evening on the surface. Everyone on Fachs, looking up, could see the gorgeous lights in the sky.

It looked more vast and brilliant than a meteor shower.

But no one would be happy.

They all knew what it was, and each ray of light represented death and destruction.

They could only pray that these lights would not really fall on their world.

(End of this chapter)