Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 434

Chapter 433: War is a waste of money

“What do you mean?”

“Shangyuan Star is gone, the mechanical ark of the Mingyang Sect is no longer safe, the forging general Chen Haixu escaped with a small number of people to Jindi Star, and the 1.5 billion human army has fallen…”

“Don’t talk nonsense here!” Tan Jiuyi didn’t believe it at all.

But Gu Hang no longer had the heart to argue with him about the authenticity of this matter.

“Listen, Chief Tan, this kind of thing is not a joke to you, and I have no meaning to deceive you, and I don’t need to get anything more from you. I just want to know, in this case, what should I do to help the situation in the star field?”

“Wait a minute…”

Tan Jiuyi was completely confused.

He would rather think that Gu Hang had a conspiracy than believe that this was true.

How could he believe it? If the news is true, it would be like the sky falling.

“Don’t have any more illusions. The sky is falling.” Gu Hang said, “I know that you won’t believe it completely without verification, but I’m telling you this information in advance so that you can prepare as much as possible in advance. You can try every means to verify whether the matter is true, but please take it as true first and make the worst plan.”

Tan Jiuyi was holding on to the dignity of the head of the star domain, but his heart was actually in a mess.

“Okay, I know, that’s it.”

He took the initiative to hang up the call, and didn’t even give any instructions.

The virtual portrait disappeared, and Gu Hang sighed.

He didn’t have much hope for the star domain government, but he thought that he was a teammate after all, so he contacted him to ask about his plans. But he didn’t expect that the quality of this teammate was worse than he expected.

He still had to rely on himself.

He could only rely on himself.

Do your best and leave it to fate.

Gu Hang quickly figured out what he was going to do next.

There were only three aspects.

Internally, he called Osena and gave clear instructions.

Next, the Alliance’s productivity will be greatly tilted towards shipbuilding. We should squeeze as much production capacity as possible, and reduce the time-consuming processes of subsequent ships. This will affect the life and performance of the ships, but even if it means making a bunch of disposable products, it is worth it.

Anyway, let’s increase the number first.

For this reason, Wang Zhaoran, the technical director of the Feiyixing Shipyard, the ruling bishop, has to work overtime.

In the past, it was not realistic to command a ruling bishop to work overtime, and he could not be forced. He has a special status and great political power behind him. The governors of Feiyixing over the years not only could not command him, but also had to flatter him.

But at special moments, he can’t take care of it.

In fact, there is no need to force him.

As long as the news from the front line is told to Wang Zhaoran, he will know what to do if he is not stupid.

The premise is that this guy doesn’t have the idea of escaping.

The Alliance has just unearthed a group of special agents, so we have to keep an eye on this matter.

Externally, it is also divided into two aspects.

One is to the greenskins.

The Alliance must be more proactive.

If Gu Hang was a little worried before, what if he fought too hard and provoked the main force of the greenskins?

But now he doesn’t have to worry about it.

Although he was reluctant, Gu Hang found that he really needed to attract and involve some of the greenskins’ forces as much as possible, and it would be best for the other party to allocate some ships and troops to defend their home nest.

Gu Hang was not sure that this would work, but he had to do something, otherwise it would be equivalent to leaving his fate to the great chief Titus to kill the star domain government and the Mingyang Sect, and whether he would let him go – that obviously would not happen.

Gu Hang planned to let the joint fleet take the initiative to attack and enter the Jinguan star area, looking for the main force of the greenskin fleet that had collapsed before, and try to destroy it. The alliance’s army will also enter the ground combat of many worlds in the Jinguan star area to take back the Jinguan star area.

This will be able to slow down the greenskins’ plundering of resources and prevent their strength from further expanding. At the same time, it is also possible to attract some greenskin troops from the main battlefield to come back for support.

Will the main force of Titus come back? Gu Hang judged that it would not. Now, the two most beautiful results of the battle, Jindi Star and Yunluo Star, are nakedly placed in front of the Iron-toothed Chieftain. If he doesn’t take these two places, Titus will not come back.

And if he takes them, then no matter what Gu Hang does, he will still come back.

It makes no difference.

On the contrary, he can bear more pressure on the front battlefield here, and maybe the main battlefield can hold on for a little longer, and the time for Titus’s return will be delayed.

This can not only buy more development time for the alliance, but the ultimate goal is to prevent Titus from coming back: the Fury Flame Corps is coming, even if the Fury Flame can’t beat Titus, at least a strong army can hold on for a longer time, maybe when the Empire realizes that the problem in the Dragon Eagle Star Region has become bigger and even the Mechanicus and the Corps can’t handle it, it will send stronger reinforcements. Gu Hang needs

this balance.

The second thing to the outside world is that the expansion of the Seven Horses Agreement can’t wait any longer, and Gu Hang must integrate as much human and material resources as possible in the Seven Horses.

There are indeed no particularly awesome worlds in the other six of the Seven Horses, but that doesn’t mean their output is unimportant.

Among the six horses, there are 78 human worlds with a total population of 100 billion.

Even if their productivity is poor, they can’t be counted on to manufacture starships, Titans, and high-level equipment for the Alliance, but they can always lay out some production tasks for artillery shells and logistical supplies; such a large population is also a good place to draw troops.

The former is especially important. The materials consumed in war are simply astronomical.

In a battle on the Steel Wing Star, the consumption of various artillery shells is simply outrageous. Take Ye Lishia’s cruiser Quintet as an example. When it fires at full power, hundreds of surgical knife missiles, twenty hot hammer macro cannons, and two loyal wrath macro cannons, the total cost of artillery shells alone is 210,000 tax coins.

Other cruisers are almost the same price.

After the battle of Steel Wing Star, the shells, lances, and missiles fired by the seven cruisers alone cost more than 20 million tax coins; the other ships combined probably cost 30 to 40 million.

This does not include the ground forces. An army group fired 10,000 cannons at once, and fired rapidly for two minutes. After ten rounds, 100,000 shells were used up, which would cost tens of thousands of tax coins.

There were 50 army groups participating in the ground battle of Steel Wing Star!

In fact, the current Alliance is maintaining a low-intensity war in the Mist Horse and Eagle Horse sectors. The 200 million troops, logistics supplies, including food, medicine, equipment loss, ammunition replenishment… every month, they have to spend 60 to 70 million in supplies. If you take into account the arming of the planetary defense forces in those places, this number will rise.

This is still a low-intensity war, and it is only logistics supply, not counting the cost of replenishing war units such as tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, and infantry after they are destroyed.

Once the intensity of the war goes up significantly, the consumption of war costs will increase sharply, and there is no cap.

Take the Battle of Steel Wing Star as an example. With the logistics costs, the loss of ships and ground units, the Alliance lost 5 billion tax coins in one battle!

Fighting a war is a waste of money, which makes people panic.

Fortunately, now that the communication with the star region government is cut off, there is no need to bear the imperial tax, otherwise the Alliance can’t bear such a waste.

If we don’t integrate all the seven horse lands and get their imperial taxes into our own hands, how can we fight this war?

Not to mention that Gu Hang wanted to take the initiative to attack and share the pressure on the main battlefield. Without extra money, the alliance could only maintain the current intensity of the war.

If they fought a few more battles on the Steel Wing Star, the alliance’s own economy would collapse. At least the third-level mobilization order would not be able to withstand it. At least it would have to be upgraded to the second level, or even the first level.

The other planets were watching from behind, and they shouted “Come on”, but how could that work? Everyone

had to get on the chariot!

Even if it was really a backward world like Jue Saturn, providing some agricultural products, doing some preliminary food processing, textile industry, or providing some minerals, and transporting them to several core worlds in the Tianma Star Region, so that the alliance could reduce the pressure on daily necessities and raw materials, and put more workers and productivity on expanding the docks and producing more military equipment, that would also be a help.

Moreover, not only integration is needed, but also speed.

Before, Gu Hang thought that after winning the Steel Wing Star Battle, he still had time. He could use gentler means and slowly plot.

But now the overall war situation has undergone major changes, and Gu Hang no longer has time to dawdle.

For this reason, some special means that were supposed to be used cautiously must be used now.

After thinking about it, Gu Hang sent a directive to Ossena, Lambert, and Thadius respectively.

…

Feiyi Star, the official residence of Chief Justice Lambert.

This is not only the residence of Lambert Hodgson, but also the office of the Alliance Legal Center, located on Feiyi Star.

At this moment, Chief Justice Lambert, who had just received the order from Governor Gu, was having a headache.

The man sitting in front of him with a righteous face was the current director of the Alliance Legal Center-Central Investigation Bureau, named Gustav Isaacson.

“Arno Chenko, you should know who he is? Although his confidentiality level is high, it can be seen.”

“Yes. In fact, without looking at the information, his last name is also very sensitive.”

“Since you know who he is, why did you send him to Baishuo Star?”

“You said.

“What?”

“You asked me to send my best agent to the Zima Star District to be responsible for special activities, so I sent Arno there. “

“You…ah, do you really have no one else?”

“Yes, but none of them are as good as him.”

“You’re quite capable.” Lambert was speechless. “Okay, now the Governor wants us to launch special operations in advance. The first place to start is the capital of Zi Ma, Bai Shuo Star. Things are going to change there.”

“Arno will complete his mission. I believe in him.”

“Then have you ever thought about failure? What if something happens to him?”

“That’s our responsibility. I am willing to bear all the consequences for not being able to complete the mission entrusted to us by the Governor and the people. As for Arno, if something really happens, we will lose a reliable and loyal comrade. I will be very sad about this, but this is our duty.” “

Then Ossena will peel off your skin!”

“No, I believe in Prime Minister Ossena’s awareness.”

“You are talking about me with a sarcasm, right? Don’t believe in my awareness?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“You, you…” Lambert really had no way to deal with Isaacson in front of him.

This guy has a bad temper and is stubborn, but he is indeed a rare talent under his command. He is loyal and capable, otherwise he would not have been promoted to the position of the head of the Investigation Bureau.

However, this overly upright and indifferent character can really cause trouble.

Arno Chenko, this is Ossena’s younger brother.

When Ossena came to Governor Gu’s camp as a refugee on the Angry Owl Star, she did not come alone, but brought her younger brother with her.

When the two were fleeing from the disasters brought by the abscess monster and famine in their hometown, Ossena really suffered a lot of hardships along the way, and only then did she save Arno Chenko’s life.

Fourteen years have passed since then.

The little boy who was only eleven years old at the time has now become a good young man.

After Ossena took a high position, the boy’s living conditions not only became very good, but he also received the best education in the alliance.

He was also very competitive and his grades were very good all the way.

He graduated two years ago.

According to his grades, he would have a bright future; coupled with the identity of Ossena’s younger brother, it would be easy for him to hold a high position.

However, on the one hand, Ossena herself would be a little worried about this. As the prime minister, she was walking on thin ice and was under great pressure every day. If her younger brother was arranged to come in, it might cause criticism. On the other hand, Arno himself had no interest in being a civil servant in politics.

He once wanted to join the army, but in the end, Ossena asked Lambert to do it.

Although he still used some connections, the legal center here at

Lambert was an institution parallel to the Union government. Then, the young man forced himself into the most unsafe one of the many institutions under Lambert: the Union Central Investigation Bureau.

This is one of the three major foreign intelligence agencies of the Union.

He performed well in the two-year training; especially some time ago, he suddenly showed a performance that seemed to be enlightened, and he became one of the best newcomers in the Central Investigation Bureau.

Of course, this was only known to Lambert after Director Isaacson reported to him.

Lambert himself was busy every day and had no time to personally see the training performance of a young agent.

To be honest, he felt a little skeptical at first.

Maybe Arno’s boy did perform well, but to say he was the “best” was probably an exaggeration because of his status.

But he still told Ossena the news to make his sister happy.

At that time, he was still thinking that Isaacson had “improved”, knew how to say something flattering, and knew how to slightly exaggerate the performance of someone with a special status like Arno.

He didn’t know whether to be happy or worried.

But now it seems that the facts may not be like this.

Isaacson is still Isaacson, and Arno is probably the best agent, so important that he has to be sent to such a mission.

Moreover, Isaacson really didn’t consider the issue of his status at all, and just insisted on sending the most suitable person to the most suitable place.

Lambert knew that this was right, and it should be so.

But…

could it be that he had forgotten his original intention?

Was it really as Isaacson said, that his awareness began to have problems?

He couldn’t help but start to reflect on himself.

During this process, Isaacson always sat upright in front of him.

“Okay, go back. Pay attention to this mission. It has nothing to do with the identity of that kid. This is an important mission of the alliance and we must not make any mistakes!”

“Yes!” Isaacson stood up. He hesitated for a moment and asked, “What about Prime Minister Ossena?”

“I’ll go talk to her.”

“Yes!”

After watching Isaacson leave, Lambert called Ossena and told her the situation.

Ossena didn’t respond for a long time.

Just when Lambert was a little nervous and worried that the Prime Minister of the Alliance was very angry and was about to lose his temper, Ossena’s voice came over:

“I know.”

…

Zima Star Region, Baishuo Star.

This is the capital planet of the Zima Star Region. It is a civilized world in type, with a population of 9 billion and a development level of 2.

Although there are no outstanding specialties, as a civilized world, the overall productivity is not too bad. The people here live a good life. The small shipyard on the star port can even build some civilian ships.

The entire Zima Star Region has a population of 38 billion and 17 worlds. Excluding the capital, Baishuo, many other worlds are pretty good, nothing is particularly bad, and there are even multiple places with a development degree of level 2.

Apart from the Pegasus sector, the Seven Horses are the best developed in the Purple Horses.

The Purple Horses leader, Ms. Esquiel Zelos, has a good control over the entire sector and has the support of the governors in the sector.

With high support and good strength, she is the one who has the toughest attitude towards the Seven Horses Agreement among the surrounding sectors.

From her perspective, it is natural to support the Alliance in the Greenskin War, but it is unnecessary to sign the Seven Horses Agreement.

The former is the responsibility of the head of the Imperial sector, while the latter is a change of nature.

Isn’t that equivalent to bringing the Purple Horses sector under the control of the Alliance? It

is not a formal joining of the Alliance, but it is just short of changing all officials and the political systems of all planets to the shape of the Alliance.

For the rest, all human and material resources must be dispatched by others, and they have to do whatever they are told to do. Where is the administrative, military, and economic independence?

This point was also supported by many governors in the Purple Horse Star Region.

They heard that the planetary governors in the Tianma Star Region were all honorary positions, either held concurrently by the famous Governor Gu, or remotely by high-ranking officials of the Alliance, with no real power.

And they were the real governors, the local emperors of their respective planets.

Although they did not join the Alliance, but only entered the framework of the Seven Horses Agreement, many conditions in that framework would still impose considerable restrictions on them.

Moreover, who knows what will happen in the future?

The bottom line is broken step by step.

However, when the Iron Tooth Orcs spread the flames of war to Beiyuan Star and the governors of Wuma sent letters for help one after another, and signed the Seven Horses Agreement one after another, waiting for the Alliance’s heavenly soldiers to come and save the world, the mentality of the governors of Purple Horse changed subtly.

On the one hand, they rejected the requests for help from the governors of Wuma, saying that they were also in a poor and rotten place and could not spare any troops to help; even if they had the intention, they lacked the ability to deploy troops and could not help.

On the other hand, they saw the Wuma people trapped in the flames of war and suffering, and they felt sympathetic.

Beiyuan Star is the world closest to Zima in the Wuma Star Region. The governors of Zima, especially the governors of Dongyuan I, II, and III, can feel the temperature of the war there.

They also murmured in their hearts.

What should they do if the greenskins really come to their door?

Just like they did not save and could not save Beiyuan Star, other worlds in the Zima Star Region would probably have the same attitude towards them.

This is a matter of life and death.

Under this pressure, the Seven Horses Agreement seemed to become a very good thing.

This mentality reached its peak after the Alliance won the Battle of Steel Wing Star and then quickly pulled the Wuma Star Region out of the war.

The reason why it was the peak was of course because they soon changed their mentality again.

The Alliance is so powerful, we definitely don’t need to do anything, right?

In the area bordering the Purple Horse, the Pegasus is the Alliance’s headquarters. The Mist Horse has joined the Pact and is protected by the Alliance. Doesn’t that mean that the Alliance will definitely stand in front and stop the greenskins?

Then whether I sign the Alliance or not, won’t they have to stand in front of me?

As for the Alliance’s implicit meaning of “the greenskins can’t beat you, but I can beat you”, they understood it, but

pretended not to hear it. There is still a little deterrence, but overall, they still don’t believe it.

We are all part of the Empire, how dare you openly attack me?

It was with this mentality that they began to become shy again and united around the leader Zelos.

They didn’t dare to offend the diplomats of the Alliance too much.

The Alliance has already demonstrated their terrifying strength.

But in addition to tearing their faces apart, they still have many options.

For example, push it to Zelos.

“It’s not that we don’t want to sign, it’s that we can’t. In our Purple Horse sector, it has always been the head of the Zelos who has the final say. She has a great influence. We can’t bypass her and sign the agreement on our own. If we do that, I won’t be able to explain to the sector government.”

This is the unified excuse of the governors of Purple Horse.

The officials of the Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of course, know that these are just excuses, but if they stick to this statement, it will be really difficult to deal with.

However, since your excuse is the head of the sector, then go find this head.

Hardliners?

Very good.

On the capital planet of the Purple Horse sector, Baishuo, a storm is about to come.

Arno Chenko, dressed in the traditional local costume of Baishuo, walked into a tavern in the lower city of Shuoguo City, the capital of the planet.

He saw the mark on the door of the tavern, and also saw that the safety mark was still there, confirming that there was no problem here.

He lowered his hat and went to the bottom floor of the tavern.

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