Chapter 527, Major Changes

Oceana and Thaddeus soon met at the starport of the Winged Star.

After completing some paperwork, the two chatted for a while.

What they were talking about was the war in front of them.

"The Governor has already set off from the Raging Owl Star?"

"Yeah." Oceana responded: "We'll be there in about two days."

"That should be about time."

Hearing this, Oceana still looked a little melancholy.

She lamented: "How great would it be if we could stop fighting?"

Thaddeus didn't answer.

He and Oceana have decades of experience working together, and even if they have not deliberately developed a personal relationship, they will not have any other communication except work contacts. But after all, they have a revolutionary friendship forged over decades, and they are comrades.

Because of this, Thaddeus understood that the reason why Oceana expressed such emotion was not because the Alliance Prime Minister was weak.

But more or less...I can't bear to part with it.

Over the years, the economic construction in the entire Dragon Eagle Star Territory has been vigorous and impressive. The development of various places has been good and bad, but generally speaking, we can adapt to local conditions and strive to move in a better direction as much as possible. Oceana has worked hard on this and has achieved good results so far.

Although most of the resources within the alliance have been tilted toward war in recent years. Although the war has not officially begun, everyone in the alliance understands that sooner or later they will have a battle with the "Iron Fury Stone" in the north. The gap in strength between the two sides is not small. They have to squeeze resources, build armaments, and expand the army in order to be able to fight.

Even though the alliance has invested a large amount of financial investment in armaments, the main environment is still peaceful after all, and the mass production of armaments has also stimulated economic development in disguise. Although this kind of stimulation is somewhat unhealthy, the development is always real.

Once the war really starts, the situation will obviously be different.

Thinking of this, Thaddeus also sighed.

The next second, his heart hardened again.

He said to Oceana: "This is an unavoidable war. If we are not prepared, the iron armored front will fall on us."

"Why, after the Iron Armor Chapter swept through the Spider Web Domain, its main goal was to continue to expand to the north and west, but not to the south? Isn't it because we are always vigilant and ready for war? , we are a tough guy, that’s why the war didn’t come to us.”

"But this cannot continue forever."

"More than three years ago, on the northern battlefield, the three founding war groups of Infinity, Blood Angels, and Bats all came, each sending a company. The Black Crusade Chapter even had a squadron in place, with thousands of The Black Crusade is commanded by a Fleet Admiral. He also assumes command of the entire Western Front battlefield. It combines the strength of the seven surrounding battle groups, as well as a large number of Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy. The main force on the northern front battlefield;"

"On the Western Front battlefield, the Phoenix Chapter, the parent regiment of the Phoenix, sent a very large force. The current Phoenix Master: Su Lie, personally led the team. There are also multiple battle groups gathered here, most of which are Phoenix Although there is no explicit banner, it generally means to avenge the two groups that were destroyed in the great rebellion a hundred years ago. In addition, heresy. The Tribunal was not willing to fail and swept in again. They invited the famous Death Legion and mobilized more than 4,000 Blood Rose Battle Sisters. "

"Calculated in this way, the combined force on the Western Front battlefield is even stronger than that on the Northern Front."

"That was probably the time when Iron Fury Stone was closest to failure. At that time, our military and political departments were also dragged into meeting day and night with the staff to discuss whether we should also participate in the war and join in the fun from the south. After all, let's not do it first. Speaking of the war situation, we have never had extensive mobilization, and large-scale participation in the war in the Spider Space Region has brought us a lot of political pressure from the imperial and space government levels. In this regard, Prime Minister Oceana. You should know better than me."

Hearing this, Oceana couldn't help but nod.

Indeed, it was a difficult time for the Alliance, and she was the bearer of these political pressures.

From above, whether it is the central empire or the Eternal Territory Government, they have been urging the alliance to send troops as soon as possible. Even though Mr. Gu has talked through Gallardo and helped relieve some of the pressure on Holy Terra, the alliance is still not having a good time here.

Gallardo is even having a hard time. Not to mention that he has not been able to get a seat in the Supreme Council for the past four years. His position as Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs is somewhat precarious. There are also many cliques and forces within the Imperial Military Affairs Department. They will also question, why does Gallardo block all these pressures on the league?

However, this pressure soon disappeared.

It is not that the behavior of the alliance has changed, but that the situation on the two main battlefields of the Northern Front and the Western Front has undergone drastic changes.

On the two-front battlefield, each had the participation of very legendary military groups, and in the following year, the war situation was completely stabilized. No matter how powerful the Iron Armor Chapter is, there is no way they can continue to maintain two fronts blooming at the same time.

The scope of their military activities was squeezed, and they even launched a massive counterattack on the two fronts of the battlefield, pushing the power of Iron Fury Stone back to the Spider Web Domain in one fell swoop.

At this time, the alliance was not under much pressure. Mainstream public opinion believed that the Empire had gathered such a powerful force, and the current war situation was also favorable to the Empire. The Iron Fury Stone, who dared to rebel, had entered the countdown to its demise.

It was no longer important whether the alliance participated in the war. Not participating in the war would reduce the power to share the fruits of victory. Moreover, this point could be used to attack Prime Minister Gallardo... Why not?

The "constant meetings" mentioned by Thadius was this stage.

The alliance would also be anxious and worried that it would not have time to rush up to eat the cake; Gallardo in Holy Terra would also feel anxious and contact the alliance several times to ask if it needed to change its strategy.

And it was at this stage that Gu Hang, as the supreme leader, made a decision: continue to maintain the previous strategy.

Under his leadership, the alliance maintained strategic determination.

Then, the changes in the overall situation began to make people confused.

In the first few months, the Empire's momentum on both the north and south lines was so strong that Humphrey Paul had to temporarily avoid the edge.

Although no key battles have been launched, the Empire has made great strides in recovering some rebellious planets, which has boosted morale.

The Iron Armored Corps avoided the Empire's front, which certainly preserved its precious manpower, but it also somewhat undermined the "prestige strategy" they had adopted in the past.

People couldn't help but start to murmur that although the Iron Fury Stone had made a great momentum, compared with the huge size of the Empire, they were still only a local force in a corner. Now it's not that the Empire has fully started the war machine. If necessary, the Empire can send more forces. But right now, you Iron Fury Stones are already looking like you can't stop them, so how can people believe it?

The situation in the past when the Iron Armored Corps arrived and the locals surrendered at the sight of the wind disappeared.

On the contrary, in the northern front war zone, there was a star zone with more than a dozen worlds, which were connected to each other and simply raised the banner of rectifying the chaos. The local forces began to resist the officials and garrisons sent by the Iron Armored Corps and actively contacted the Imperial Army.

The commander of the northern line, Marshal Arma Ewing of the Black Crusaders, agreed to the request and asked the company of the Infinite Regiment participating in the operation in the northern line to take charge of this matter.

When the team of blue armored warriors arrived at the target star zone, the situation was relatively smooth at first. The elite warriors of the 100 initial battle groups were quite powerful. With the fleet and the Star Army troops under their command, they reversed the situation in which the local "anti-forces" were violently suppressed by the Iron Armor forces.

It is estimated that it will not take long for the entire star zone to be taken back.

Just when everything was going smoothly, a fierce riot suddenly broke out at the bottom of one of the hive worlds in the star zone.

There was a cult that jumped out to make trouble at this time.

At first, the Infinite Warriors did not pay enough attention to this. The Iron Armor forces have not been eliminated yet, which must be the highest priority issue. The cult riot at the bottom of a planet's hive... To be honest, in the entire universe, similar rebellions are happening all the time.

This is a problem, but it is obviously not very important.

However, the development of the matter soon exceeded people's expectations.

Subsequent intelligence showed that most of these rebellious thugs were humans, but the local planetary defense force also reported some abnormal situations, indicating that there were some non-human beings among the thugs.

They looked like a combination of humans and some insects, with purple, blue or green skin, anyway, they did not look like normal humans.

These guys usually play the role of the backbone and command layer in the organizational structure of the cultists.

This point makes people have to care.

But before the Infinite Warriors escaped from the suppression operation on another planet, the situation suddenly became irreversible.

A large number of void Zergs began to appear among the cultists, and the whole world lost contact in a very short time.

Then, when the Infinite Warriors determined the seriousness of the matter and took a ship to the galaxy in an emergency, they encountered a hive fleet at the jump point of the galaxy.

This was an ambush that they could not foresee at all. The Infinite Warriors were defeated and no one survived.

Then, this hive fleet launched a fierce attack, quickly wreaking havoc in the entire star zone, and began to launch an offensive towards the surrounding star zones.

Coincidentally, the area where the Void Zerg's hive fleet was wreaking havoc was blocking the defense line of the northern imperial army.

Coincidence?

No one would think so.

The battle on the northern front instantly became fierce.

The scale of this hive fleet is actually not large, at least compared to the several particularly large hive invasions that occurred in the history of the empire.

However, this is enough to bring the northern battlefield led by Marshal Ewing into a stalemate.

The cruel war broke out on dozens of planets in an instant. From the star map, it seems that an irregular line with jagged teeth was drawn in the north of the spider web universe.

The Void Zerg is not reasonable with people. They are also a threat that cannot be ignored. They are constantly attacking the north with their fangs and claws. It is impossible for humans to ignore the threat of these mindless insect beasts, otherwise they will eat everything they see on their way and destroy every planet they pass through.

Originally, they were here to fight the rebellion, but from that moment on, the battlefield on the northern front inexplicably turned into a desperate battle with the Void Zerg.

And almost at the same time, the Iron Armored Regiment accumulated strength and launched a series of counterattacks on the western front.

The Iron Armored Regiment was almost fully deployed.

On the western front, not only can we see the figures of defected Space Marines from three different regiments, but most importantly, according to the reports on the battlefield, the Iron Armored Regiment itself has at least invested tens of thousands of Space Marines on the western front!

This is compared to the forces of ten regiments under normal circumstances!

These defectors wearing black and gray armor have repeatedly used superior forces to repel and even destroy multiple Phoenix sub-regiments.

In a battle to siege a point and attack reinforcements, they even annihilated a company of the Phoenix Regiment!

The originally triumphant western front battlefield not only failed to continue to fight in the heart of the Spider Web Universe, but was beaten out instead.

Su Lie, the commander of the battle group, is not just a name. He quickly gathered the troops and found the right opportunity to hit the Iron Armor several times, curbing the retreat of the entire battle line.

But he is not a god. There is still a big difference in the strength of the Space Marines between the two sides.

Although the Space Marines under the Phoenix Lord have six different battle groups, no one wants to go out to fight with their whole family. Each battle group has only one or two companies, and the most is only five or six companies. Adding them all up, the number of Space Marines is only over 2,000 at most.

In the previous battle, there were more than 800 casualties.

Although about a thousand Space Marines on the Iron Armor side were killed and injured, the strength comparison between the two sides was still nearly ten times.

Su Lie could only be thankful that although the difference in the number of Space Marines was large, the navy, the Astra Militarum, and the opponent's large-scale mortal troops were not much different. Otherwise, he would not be able to stabilize the front line and maintain the stalemate, and he would probably be beaten out of the Spider Web Universe.

But despite this, he could not care about his face and kept asking for more reinforcements from the rear, from the surrounding universes, and from Holy Terra.

Without enough reinforcements, he would be beaten out sooner or later.