Chapter 528, Political Pressure

The Void Zerg that emerged from the northern battlefield of the Spider Web Universe is definitely related to the Iron Armored Corps.

Otherwise, how did they grasp the time so cleverly?

The Zerg just happened to appear on the northern front, and Iron Armored Corps could arrange a huge offensive on the western front in an instant?

Combined with the fact that Iron Armored Corps made its fortune by resisting the Void Zerg from the Imperial Star Region, they used this excuse to ask the Empire for money in the past hundred years. Moreover, if they were given money, the Void Zerg would be suppressed; if they were not given money, the situation in the Imperial Star Region and the surrounding areas would soon be "corrupted". Once they were given money, Iron Armored Corps would immediately stand up and beat back the Void Zerg.

It was as if the Void Zerg were raised by them.

Of course, this was impossible.

At least that's what people thought in the past.

That's the Void Zerg! It's a powerful alien that has destroyed countless worlds and sacrificed countless soldiers since humans discovered this alien! They devour everything, they have no possibility of negotiation, they are tireless and don't care about life and death.

A single void worm beast does not have self-awareness, but it has instincts similar to intelligence. Under the command of the so-called mother of the hive, and under the unified deployment of the creatures at each node, they can completely ignore the life and death and interests of a single individual or even a large group of people, and their combat execution is full, without problems such as the collapse of the entire army and inadequate execution. Morale, discipline, and organization, these issues that must be considered and headaches for the human army, do not exist at all.

They can fight to the death in one place, or they can evacuate decisively, without any nostalgia, and turn around like the wind.

These characteristics are simply the nightmare of all opponents in war.

In the past, people just thought that Humphrey Paul was using these bugs. When the empire did not meet his requirements and conditions, he deliberately released these bugs and waited until the conditions were met before fighting back.

But now it seems that things may not be that simple.

Some speculations that were previously considered nonsense were brought to the table:

Is it really possible that Iron Armor can collude with the void zerg?

But how is this possible!

Those bugs can't communicate!

But if that's not the case, why is the Ironclad campaign design so synchronized with the Void Zerg and so well coordinated?

There's no way to explain it.

Because of this, the second of the three major courts was also attracted by this strange phenomenon that made them very interested.

That's the Inquisition.

Unlike the Inquisition, the Inquisition generally doesn't care about the affairs within the empire. They focus on fighting all kinds of alien enemies, especially against the infiltration of alien enemies into human society.

The Ironclad may have some degree of communication with the Void Zerg, or even conspiracy, which has aroused great interest in the Inquisition.

They are also professional counterparts.

Not only did a large number of elite Inquisitors come with a fleet and a group of troops, they also brought a group of Space Marines with whom they cooperated most closely: the Silver Watch.

The Silver Watch is called a chapter, but in fact its structure is completely different from that of ordinary Space Marine chapters. This is a group that specializes in attacking all kinds of alien enemies. Its members are not trained by themselves, but veterans drawn from various warbands who have special experience and outstanding results against certain types of aliens. They constitute the entire group.

They will temporarily erase the identity of the previous warband and work for the Anti-foreign Inquisition for a period of time under the name of Silver Watch. They may leave Silver Watch after performing missions for a few years and bring the experience and technology learned here back to their own warband; they may also continue to work in Silver Watch; of course, a considerable number of them will die in the most dangerous battlefield against aliens.

But in any case, Silver Watch is not only the elite drawn from various warbands, but also the experts in the empire against various aliens.

As soon as the inquisitors of Silver Watch and Anti-foreign Order arrived, they carried out several very targeted actions according to local conditions, attacking and destroying the node creatures of several planets, which caused fundamental changes in the battle situation of these planets.

In this way, the situation on the northern battlefield has eased.

It's just an ease.

Several worlds that have been fully invaded by the Void Zerg have already had large areas covered with digestion tanks, hatching towers, and proliferating meat blankets by the Zerg Hive. The population of a hive city and almost all the materials that can be used by the Void Zerg have been put into these things and hatched into groups of Zerg war beasts.

It is not easy to completely eliminate the Zerg invasion of these worlds.

What's more, the Zerg Hive Fleet in space is still constantly increasing its troops, and the number will soon reach a level that the human fleet cannot suppress.

It is not easy to break the blocking line formed by these Void Zerg on the northern front.

The situation on the western front is even worse.

Tens of thousands of Space Marines on the Iron Armor side pushed the Phoenix Legion's line back step by step in the battle. The land that was taken in the previous offensive phase was taken back step by step by the Iron Armor Legion, and even two key hub worlds were captured.

The Phoenix Regiment has urgently mobilized more troops from other battlefields, and there is a trend of assembling the entire army; in addition, several Phoenix sub-regiments have responded to the call of the parent group and are on their way. At the same time, Su Lie also asked the empire for more reinforcements.

However, before these reinforcements arrived, even with the presence of Phoenix Lord Su Lie, the battlefield situation was still inevitably heading for a worsening situation.

And that period of time was also the time when the Alliance was under the greatest political pressure.

The voice of the Empire demanding the Alliance to take the initiative to attack was unprecedentedly loud, so much so that Gallardo could not stand it. According to him, a deputy minister had already made an impeachment proposal against him.

Although this proposal was suppressed by him, and the deputy minister who came forward was also removed by him. But this was a trend, or even a warning from some political factions in the central government, which made it impossible for him to continue to "protect" the Alliance.

In addition to the pressure of sending troops from the central government of the Empire and the government of the universe, there was an additional pressure from the battle group.

The Phoenix Battle Group issued a call to many Phoenix sub-groups, and one of the call messages would naturally be sent to the Phoenix Battle Group in the current Alliance.

It was a call, not a strong order.

However, in the message, Phoenix Lord Su Lie was actually quite confused.

In the Bauhinia Rebellion, the Phoenix Chapter was the ‘party’. Among the three chapters that were convicted, only one Phoenix survived.

All three chapters were Phoenix sub-chambers, and because of this, after the Bauhinia Rebellion, the relationship between the Phoenix and the Iron Armor was very bad. However, the verdict of the central government of the empire had already been issued at that time, and even though Su Lie had strongly raised objections at that time, the final result could not be changed.

And... to be honest, the Phoenix Chapter and its sub-chambers, the influence is not very good.

It is definitely big, anyway, this is a start-up chapter with a history of ten thousand years. However, the ‘fertility’ of the Phoenix Chapter... is not very good.

Space Marines have two gene seeds in their lifetime, and every chapter is like this, there is no difference in this regard. However, the adaptability and characteristics of the gene seeds of each chapter are quite different.

For example, the gene seeds of the Infinite Chapter are typical with excellent adaptability. Ten thousand years ago, in the Legion Era, the Infinite Legion was the largest Space Marine Legion at the time; and then, when it was split into regiments, the regiments that were split from the Infinite Legion were naturally the largest; in the ten thousand years that followed, due to the large number of people, good adaptability, and high success rate of gene seed implantation surgery, the number of Infinite Warriors increased further, which brought them more gene seeds... In this way, a positive cycle was formed.

Today, the number of regiments from the Infinite system is the largest in the entire universe.

The descendants of the Punisher Legion and the Golden Knight Legion are also very adaptable.

There is strength in numbers, an eternal truth.

The gene seeds of the Phoenix Legion are not the last in terms of adaptability, but at best they can only be regarded as a medium-to-low level.

The descendants of the Phoenix pursue perfection, are polite, and have a very high level of swordsmanship. Whether it is combat skills or tactical strategies, they are gorgeous and even fancy.

This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Sometimes, they can achieve jaw-dropping and earth-shattering victories, but they often drag down their efficiency due to overly complicated strategies and techniques.

In short, Phoenix does not have enough descendants and people, so its influence is naturally not enough.

If it had been a larger regiment, the turmoil back then might have been even bigger.

The failure to get things done back then was the hatred in the hearts of Phoenix and a series of sub-regiments.

If not, now that there is an opportunity to come and fight Iron Armor, Su Lie would not have responded so quickly, and even led the team himself.

As the victim and the person involved back then, shouldn't the Phoenix be more indignant and more direct?

Su Lie was really curious and disappointed, why did the Phoenix remain silent?

Facing the questioning from the mother regiment, the commander of the Martins regiment was also quite anxious.

Even the Phoenix regiment was so upset about the Bauhinia incident that year, how could the Phoenix, which was almost wiped out, not hate it?

Hate it to the point of gritting your teeth!

If Martins could make the decision, he would have participated in the Iron Armor War as soon as possible.

However, he had to consider Gu Hang's opinion.

He did not forget that the current Phoenix Regiment was part of the alliance. Their actions had to be carried out within the framework of the entire alliance.

However, the pressure from the parent group, as well as the roles of the regiment leaders and priests of many Phoenix sub-groups, also sent him messages to ask about this matter. We, the Phoenix family, have all stood shoulder to shoulder to avenge the grievances you suffered a hundred years ago. Why have you, the person involved, been shrinking behind?

Martins really felt very sorry.

When the war situation on the western and northern fronts was in big trouble, Su Lie contacted Martins again, hoping that the Phoenix could go north to join the war as soon as possible.

He even had a conversation with Gu Hang as the commander-in-chief of the western front.

Gu Hang also had the identity of the commander-in-chief of the southern front.

Although the southern front did not start fighting at all.

Gu Hang fooled Su Lie, but it was a bit difficult to fool his own people.

On the premise of following the overall strategy of the alliance, Martins also asked Gu Hang for battle many times.

Multi-level, multi-faceted, internal and external... Under the pressure of various levels, Gu Hang had to make some moves while adhering to strategic determination.

The strength of the alliance's advance troops has been strengthened.

At the same time, Gu Hang also announced that the Southern Theater will launch an offensive against the Iron Armored Corps.

As the commander-in-chief of the advance corps, General Perbov led the entire army and began to launch an attack.

But... this offensive under pressure was not fierce.

It was fought, and the alliance invested more troops, but it still failed to reach the scale of a separate theater.

The Iron Armored Corps was deployed on the southern line, and the troops to defend the alliance were actually very scarce. When they were fully responding to the northern and southern lines, it was indeed difficult for them to prepare a lot of forces on the southern line.

In this way, the alliance's not-so-strong offensive actually had some effects.

The war lasted for two years, and the battlefield was basically maintained in the Menghe star field.

Although the battlefield was "small raindrops", in terms of propaganda, the alliance still achieved "loud thunder".

The battles on each planet may not be very large, but in the records reported by the Alliance, they are often exaggerated as if they were apocalyptic wars, and they are fought quite tragically.

The Phoenix Regiment and the Sisters of the Holy Lily, who are with the Alliance, have also been put into the front-line battles - at least that's what the Alliance claims to the outside world.

Of course, this is actually true.

However, the Phoenix only sent out two companies; the Sisters of the Holy Lily only fought with a scale of 500 to 600 people.

Such a tepid but fierce battle situation did scare some people at the beginning, reducing the political pressure on the Alliance a lot.

But soon, this kind of thing was exposed.

Various parties began to say that the Alliance did not use all its strength at all.

There is no need for any special whole game. Just look at the most important weapon in the hands of the Alliance, the Alliance's flagship "Burning Star", which has never been sent to the front line, and you will know whether the Alliance has really used its strength.

What's more, no matter how fierce you are, the battle line will not lie.

The Alliance's advance on the southern front was as slow as a snail.

If Iron Fury had deployed heavy troops in the south, you would be fine, but that was not the case.

The political pressure was relieved, but it was soon gradually pushed back.