Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 467

Chapter 466, The Alliance goes to the battlefield!

After washing the boat, Gu Hang, who was a little tired, was not ready to rest yet.

He still had a lot of work to do.

The Alliance was preparing for war.

In fact, Cordoba had a glimpse of the Alliance’s situation before, and his mentality was reversed. From thinking that the Alliance had tried its best, to the idea that the Alliance had not tried at all, these thoughts were all wrong.

At least one-sided.

Of course, the Alliance did not try its best, otherwise the army troops fighting on the front line would not be allowed to take turns to rest according to the situation, and the new troops would be sent to the Temir galaxy to fight.

The Alliance Headquarters called this the “Temir Rotation War”. To put it bluntly, it was to train by fighting, so that the soldiers could directly feel the atmosphere of the battlefield and fight in person.

This would of course cause more casualties than using veterans, but it was a necessary path.

After the rotation war, the combat effectiveness of the Alliance’s armies was clearly improved. Even for some newly formed troops, the proportion of soldiers trained by the [Soldier Card] system was actually not high. But after the “round war”, under the baptism of the battlefield, the proportion of T5 soldiers is rising rapidly.

Another manifestation is just as Cordoba thought. If the alliance fights with all its strength, it will be impossible for the people on the edge of the power to live a good life.

Although, in many places like the Bianma Star Region, the annual consumption of the people is only about 0.6 tax coins, which is not high. But this is a worse universe. Compared with the core area of the alliance, it is indeed not high; but from the macro level of the entire empire, a citizen of the empire, energy, food, industrial products, housing… All kinds of materials are added together, and can consume 0.6 tax coins a year, which is already quite good.

There are many worlds in the empire, and the lower-class people are living in dire straits.

The alliance is still investing resources to make basic investments and developments on various planets, seeking greater returns in the future.

If the war situation is really very tight, the alliance will sound the second-level mobilization order, or even the first-level mobilization order, and the people’s living standards will definitely not be guaranteed. But at the same time, the alliance that squeezes its potential to the limit will burst out with a much more terrifying war potential than it is now.

The number of soldiers and the production capacity of military products will be multiplied or even multiplied.

However, the Alliance is not really useless. From some perspectives, the Alliance is actually doing its best.

After all, the Level 3 Mobilization Order has always been online.

The difference is that under the Level 3 Mobilization Order, the Alliance is not lacking soldiers or conventional resources. The Alliance even has a surplus of these things on the Eastern Front battlefield against the Iron Tooth Clan.

What does the Alliance lack?

It is high-tech equipment.

For example, the Army’s tanks, mechas, and even Titans, such as warships.

And these cannot be obtained by exploiting the people and workers.

How does the Alliance obtain these high-tech equipment?

It is a black box.

Of course, for each technology, in addition to the black box that directly produces finished products/finished product parts, there is also a mother machine black box that can produce the production line/key parts of the production line for manufacturing the product.

However, this also means that if there is a technology that the Alliance does not fully understand, then without the mother machine black box, the Alliance will no longer be able to expand the production capacity of the product.

Just like many of the lost technologies in the empire now, they are all like this: there are only so many production lines that can be produced, and they cannot be expanded.

Of course, the black box cannot be lost. But even if the black box exists, the expansion of most high-tech production lines can only rely on the mother machine black box to generate them bit by bit, and the alliance cannot build this production line by itself.

This means that the speed at which the alliance expands those high-tech equipment is limited by the production capacity of the mother machine black box. It is useless for Gu Hang to exploit civilians. The Titan factories and starship docks that have been put into production have been fully utilized and cannot accommodate more workers; new factories and docks need to wait for the black box to be produced, and workers can’t help.

This is the most important reason why Gu Hang did not exploit. No

matter how much blood and sweat Gu Hang squeezes out of civilians, he can squeeze out soldiers, food, and primary industrial products. But the advanced equipment that the alliance lacks most will not increase at all. But the alliance does not lack the former, but the latter.

It is better to use these resources in the construction of local planets and in improving the living standards of civilians. The former is an investment for higher income in the future, and the latter is a necessary investment to stabilize the local society and gain broad support from the people.

Of course, not every technology extracted from the system has this problem.

The Alliance has already mastered some low-tech, basic technologies. Even if the black box disappears, it will not have any impact on these technologies, and the Alliance can still produce and expand production capacity.

For example, the G series rifles, LR series laser guns, and Walker tanks… Even recently, the Alliance has mastered the technologies of Lion tanks, Falcon fighters, Sentinel mechas, power exoskeletons, and Flying Pig transport ships.

However, the Alliance is still a little weak in terms of advanced technology.

For example, Lion King tanks, Knight mechas, Titans, and various warships have not been mastered.

However, there are two sides to the story.

It is very difficult to master these high-level technologies and it takes a long time. After all, the black box only gives the Alliance such technology, but it cannot fully supplement all the industrial bases needed by the Alliance.

However, the good news is that after having the black box and its products, the Alliance’s scientific research team will eventually digest all these technologies.

This is actually very rare.

Most worlds don’t even have this opportunity.

…

During the past two years, the black box factory in the Kingdom of Storm God has been producing various advanced equipment day and night.

Every time a production line is assembled, the production capacity of the equipment will increase.

In the past two years, the Alliance has accumulated a lot of assets.

Starships, dreadnoughts, knight mechas, lion tanks…

Even the Alliance has set up a production line for the “Burning Sky Torpedo” in the past two years.

The Burning Sky Torpedo on Temir 2, plus the inventory produced by the black box before… Now, the Alliance can execute more than ten extermination orders.

For some worlds with no or very few signs of human activities, and a large number of greenskins, and completely transformed ecology, the “Burning Sky Torpedo” is the most useful thing.

Although it will cause the entire surface of the planet to be burned, the ecosystem will completely collapse, and it will no longer have colonization value. However, compared to filling in endless troops on planets one by one and fighting with the greenskins for every inch of land, the Burning Sky Torpedo is more cost-effective.

After all, if we take a planet back, the cost of the combination of the Burning Sky Torpedo and the planetary climate reorganization is high, but sending the army to seize such a planet is not cheap either.

Moreover, in a state of war, the value of the planet itself is secondary, and it is more important to directly and quickly strike the war potential of the greenskins.

The destroyed world is not completely worthless. After all, it is not the “Earth-Exploding Planet Destroyer”. Humans can still go to that planet and establish mining development.

Colonization is not possible, and the mineral resources will not be burned by the Burning Sky Torpedo.

In addition, during this period, Gu Hang also spent all the grace points accumulated in the past two years.

There was no lottery, no other messy places, but all spent on military expansion.

Soldier card training, political commissar training, space warrior training, gene seed exchange…

an average of 39,000 monthly grace points, plus an average of 8,000 points provided by vassals per month, a total of more than 1.1 million grace points were harvested, all spent on these aspects.

Saving up assets, improving war potential, raising troops… There is no doubt that Gu Hang is preparing for a large-scale war.

In fact, without Kazimierz Erso saying it, Gu Hang had originally decided to invest enough power to completely win the Temir battle. His current preparations are all for this goal.

However, this war must not be a gamble, and it cannot be a battle where the alliance gambles on the fate of the country. Gu Hang can’t fight this war with a force that is about the same size as the greenskin orcs, or even just slightly superior. If possible, Gu Hang will use five or ten times the power to crush the greenskins in the Temir galaxy, ensuring that they can be killed and collapsed in one wave, so that this main force of greenskins can no longer pose any threat to the alliance.

As for what to do next, Gu Hang will also have two choices, either rush into the greenskins’ lair, take advantage of its emptiness, burn, kill and loot – oh, without the latter two, the greenskins have nothing to plunder.

Alternatively, you can choose to go down from the southwest and join the main legion of the human empire to attack the main force of the greenskins led by Titus.

This will depend on the war situation at that time.

But for now, the first step of the alliance’s war goal, which is also the most important goal, is only the Jinguan Star Region, in Temir.

But although Gu Hang has long been prepared to fight this decisive battle, the alliance has its own rhythm and it is absolutely impossible to follow the requirements of Erso, the ‘Wrath of Flame’, for two or four months.

Forget it.

…

Erso already knows what happened in the Pegasus Star Region.

Captain Cordoba does not have the ability to contact the Jindi Star directly, and Erso cannot contact Cordoba directly.

However, Erso can contact the Wing Star.

When the time is about right, he asked the chief think tank of the regiment, a psychic equivalent to a mortal A+ level, to open the communication with the Wing Star.

He asked Cordoba whether the team had arrived, and whether the alliance had launched a full-scale attack according to his requirements and arrangements.

The alliance responded that they did welcome a group of people who claimed to be the ‘Wrath of Flame’ regiment, but they could not confirm the identities of these people and were now verifying them.

Erso was furious and asked Gu Hang to come and talk to him in person.

Gu Hang was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he sent Salihovic to pretend to be friendly with Erso.

Letting my chief diplomat communicate with you is already a big deal for you!

Erso certainly wouldn’t think so. He threatened several times to declare the Alliance and Gu Hang as traitors. Salihovic smiled and explained to him the difficulties of the Alliance and what support it needed. He also secretly questioned that Erso’s identity as the commander-in-chief had never been recognized by the Alliance, and the effectiveness of the appointment signed by the head of the star field was questionable…

In short, from all angles, Salihovic, a reliable person with a good mouth, talked a lot, but he didn’t say a word about the actual things.

Erso was not someone who could be fooled. After many exchanges, he certainly knew that Cordoba and the others were safe, but their situation might not be very good. He was also angry that the Alliance dared to really ignore and delay his orders.

However, some of the current situation of the Alliance “revealed” in Salihovic’s words also made him secretly frightened. No matter how angry he was, he had to consider whether it was feasible to declare the Alliance a traitor.

It was not difficult for him to do so. The Fury of Flame has been involved in the Eastern Universe for quite some time. Although the overall influence is not very good, at least it has a good relationship with the Grand Inquisition of the Eastern Universe.

Moreover, the current “current management”, the entire star region government of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, now relies entirely on the Fury of Flame, and has almost become an administrative logistics group, doing its best to plunder resources from various star regions and planets that can still be controlled to supply the war. The group of people led by the star region leader Tan Jiuyi can almost be said to have taken the shape of Fury of Flame.

On the other hand, the Mingyang Sect of Jindi Star is tougher – they also have the capital to be tough. Space Marines must guarantee a certain respect for the Mechanicus, even if it is just a branch sect. Not to mention the future, in this war, although the Mingyang Sect lost their main fleet, their Crusaders and their Titan Legion are still a very important force. Sometimes Erso has to beg these oil guys.

In general, if Erso wanted to, he could really sentence Gu Hang to treason as the head of the chapter, as the commander-in-chief appointed by the star domain government, and because he had a good relationship with the Inquisition, and the star domain government dared not disobey him.

But he also had concerns.

First, it was a question of effectiveness. The effectiveness of this kind of treason issued by the star domain government and given by several middle-level inquisitors was a bit questionable. But if it was just questionable legality, it would be fine. The key is that the sentence could not be enforced.

You sentenced someone to treason, and then what?

Put down the rebellion? Obviously there is no strength, and we are still fighting the greenskins here.

Find foreign aid, such as the imperial troops from other star domains to put down the rebellion? Then why not directly join the front battlefield?

To fight the greenskins, a serious enemy of the empire, with clear merits, they still have to look at the situation, cherish their strength, or because they have troubles at home and can’t come, let alone fight the alliance.

You haven’t figured out the things in your star domain, it’s a mess, how can foreign troops intervene without clear interests?

In addition to the problem of effectiveness, a bigger problem is that Erso is also worried that the battlefield on the Eastern Front can still be stalemate. If some tricks are done to collapse the Eastern Front, that would be really fun.

Because of these considerations, Erso could only keep threatening in his many communications with Salihovic, but he never dared to make any particularly clear moves.

However, his patience was gradually worn out during this period.

The battle was not going well, and he was still being bullied every day.

That Governor Gu is really a big card!

Up to now, Erso has not heard Gu Hang say a word in person.

When these angers accumulated due to various reasons became more and more serious, Erso even couldn’t control his mentality in the end.

He once again took out the idea of declaring the alliance treason from the bottom of his heart, which he had previously restrained with reason.

If Gu Hang continues to provoke like this, he might really do it.

I take the overall situation into consideration, but you don’t, right?

Then don’t blame me for being rude!

However, when he was about to lose his temper, a communication from Wuji Star, the capital of the Eastern Universe, woke him up.

Zuo Zhaofeng, the chairman of the Universe, made this call in person and paid attention to the war situation in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

After thanking the Fury Flame Corps for responding to the call and praising the Fury Flame Corps’ achievements in the Dragon Eagle Star Region, Chairman Zuo specifically mentioned the battlefield on the eastern front of the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

He seemed to have a good understanding of the situation on the eastern front, and he praised it in his words.

In his words, Gu Hang and his alliance were exemplary in what they did on the eastern front of the Dragon Eagle Star Region. Not only did they withstand the pressure of the battlefield, but they also defended the flame of human civilization in the war, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the whole society was united.

These compliments themselves were nothing. However, the political significance revealed in them made Kazimierz Erso sensitive.

It was normal for Zuo Zhaofeng to pay attention to the situation in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

This was not the first call, after all, this was an important war that took place in his ruling area. In fact, the Cosmic Government also provided very important support. Now 40% of the resources consumed by the Dragon Eagle Star Region on the battlefield came from the support of the Cosmic Government. Moreover, the wave of reinforcements that Erso was waiting for, in addition to the reinforcements of his own regiment, was mobilized from the Cosmic Government.

However, he specifically mentioned Gu Hang, which seemed to express a certain meaning.

Erso had to think deeply again about what Gu Hang and the Alliance meant.

After Gu Hang irritated him, he certainly investigated some of Gu Hang’s details.

He knew that Gu Hang seemed to have a good relationship with the current Executive Minister of the Central Military Affairs Department of the Empire, former War Apostle, Borgia Gallardo.

But in his original judgment, one was a senior official of the Empire, and the other was a leader at the level of a star region. How good could the relationship be?

What’s more, the three major regiments of Iron Armor, Fury Flame, and Rock Shield also have people in the center of the Empire.

Their faction is not the same as Borgia Gallardo.

We are not from the same faction, so why should I give you face?

But now it seems that he can’t think like that.

Erso is not afraid of offending Gallardo, as the emperor is far away; however, Zuo Zhaofeng is the current manager.

They were going to expand their influence in the Eastern Universe, and Zuo Zhaofeng, the chairman of the Universe, is a key figure.

Moreover, he also knows that Zuo Zhaofeng is in the same group with Gallardo. When Zuo Zhaofeng spoke up and strongly supported Gu Hang, does that mean that Gu Hang’s status in Gallardo’s political faction is not low?

Erso must re-evaluate the impact of this matter.

What’s more, even if he offends a lot of people and does it by force, the power of a chairman of the Universe is obviously not to be underestimated. If Chairman Zuo takes it on, I’m afraid this “treason” will not be approved!

Kazimierz Erso felt that he was about to get internal injuries.

At this moment, half a year had passed since he sent people to the Pegasus region. He had decided not to see it, and he was too lazy to call the Eastern Front.

Gu Hang, return my people quickly, and I will pretend that the battlefield does not exist!

I can fight my own battles, right?

But at this moment, he received a call from the Alliance. The person

who talked to him was no longer Salihovic, but a man who claimed to be the chief political commissar of the Alliance’s military and political department, Admiral Taddius.

Taddius’ style was completely different from Salihovic. He informed him of something in a very serious manner:

“In the name of the chief political commissar of the Alliance, I fulfill my obligation to inform friendly forces of our military actions: the Alliance decided that after three days, the entire army will march to the Temir galaxy, and General Gu Hang will go out in person to take a general view of the overall situation.”

Just such a short sentence made Erso angry again.

Half a year ago, I asked you to attack on all fronts, but you didn’t care. Now, I don’t count on you, and you want to fight?

Why didn’t you

tell me earlier? What would have happened if you told me earlier

? Is it because of the battle time plan?

It’s not impossible to discuss it! Let’s talk about it!

…

Gu Hang never cared about what Kazimierz Erso was thinking.

When he asked Salihovich to deal with it, he told the diplomat that he could handle all matters on his own and didn’t need to come to tell him. He

didn’t bother to care at all.

And now, asking Thadius to tell Erso about his march was just to fulfill his obligation to inform friendly forces in the literal sense.

He didn’t need or expect Erso to cooperate.

Of course, he didn’t underestimate Erso’s ability. As long as the war captain was not stupid, he actually had only one choice: to cooperate and support the alliance’s offensive.

It’s up to you to decide what to do.

For Gu Hang, all his energy at the moment was already on the current war.

Winning the war was the key to everything.

Gu Hang boarded the flagship of the Alliance Navy Fleet, the ‘Nova on Fire’.

This Retribution-class battleship has completely changed its appearance after two years of full-scale repair, transformation, and purification.

From the original black mixed with blood red, full of dilapidated and crazy appearance, it has now been painted with blue and white.

It has ushered in a new life.

According to the chief technical consultant of the Feiyi Star Shipyard, the ruling bishop Wang Zhaoran, the machine soul of this battleship is now calm and stable, ready to go, and is ready to fight for the empire again!

Under the leadership of the ‘Nova on Fire’, dozens of newly built warships, and twice the number of civilian ships as transport ships, set out from the Feiyi Star Port and rushed from the Angry Owl Galaxy.

This new fleet with a total of over a hundred set out from the Feiyi Galaxy and headed for the battlefield!

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Although it is late, there are 6k!

Still owe 54k

(End of this chapter)