Chapter 529, Alliance Northern Expedition

The political pressure on the Alliance has always existed.

It was strong at first, then weak, and then suddenly strengthened, until the Alliance had to compromise to a certain extent. Until the last year, it was almost strong enough to have a lot of attacks on the Alliance's policies.

Some of the most severe criticisms even began to think that the Alliance was another small-sized "Iron Fury Stone". The same country within a country, the same disobedience to orders. In the past, taxes were paid, but now after Gallardo overcame all objections and gave the Alliance the title of the so-called commander-in-chief of the southern war zone, the taxes were also retained. It was said that they were preparing for war against Iron Fury Stone, but there has been no major movement for several years.

This has led to a series of major changes.

Four years ago, the Eastern Universe still allocated tens of billions of dollars a year to the Alliance as war aid, but this money was completely stopped two years ago.

Several judges from the Inquisition came and claimed to investigate the Alliance's misconduct, believing that there was an illegal connection between the Alliance and Iron Fury Stone. Although the final result was inconclusive, and the Inquisition did not really want to do anything to the Alliance, since such a gesture was made, it was a warning.

The Star Army Headquarters rejected the expansion plan of the Angry Bear Legion twice in succession, which resulted in the 200 million army troops that were originally to be incorporated into the Star Army having to continue to maintain the identity of the Alliance Army, making it impossible for the Alliance to account for the consumption of the Empire's taxes and only count it as the Alliance's fiscal expenditure.

The Alliance also submitted a written explanation to Holy Terra through the mouth of Gallardo.

There was no overly intense tone, but the Alliance also made it clear that now the entire so-called southern war zone actually only has the Alliance, without any other reinforcements, and the strength is not enough.

Mr. Gu's requirements are not many. If the Empire can allocate two to three war groups and more than five battleship-level giant ships, then the Alliance will have the ability to launch a large-scale active attack.

Once these supports are in place, the Alliance will launch an offensive without saying a word.

When Gallardo said this, it is said that people outside the Military Affairs Department jumped up and accused Gallardo, saying why not allocate enough troops to the southern war zone so that Gu Hang can advance earlier?

Faced with such accusations, there was no need for Gallardo to speak, and the people in the military affairs department began to talk about other things.

To put it simply, where are the troops?

The empire is a mess with a lot of holes! Every moment, countless wars are always happening in the empire.

It is true that the most eye-catching thing in the entire empire is the turmoil in the Spider Web Universe. But it does not mean that the wars in other places are not important.

Take the Eastern Universe as an example. Except for the Dragon Eagle Star Region and the Menghe Star Region, which of the remaining places does not have its own troubles?

All of them have!

In fact, most of them have a degree of crisis similar to that of the Dragon Eagle Star Region a few years ago before the Iron Teeth Green Tide broke out, which means that each star region actually needs a certain degree of war preparedness to solve, or at least deal with the crisis in the star region.

The same is true for the Universe Government. In the capital of the Eastern Universe, the biggest problem facing the Wuji Star Region is the frequent appearance of pirates.

Those are not ordinary pirates, but there are many dark elves among them.

These tall, thin, pointed-eared space aliens, with gray-black, gray-white, and purple-white skin, act bloody and cruel. They are not very interested in occupying specific planetary territories, and their nests have always been a mystery. But what we know is that they are not only interested in looting supplies and people as slaves, but also very interested in it.

In the Wuji star field, and even in many surrounding star fields, reports of the activities of the Dark Eldar have always been common. These hateful aliens have strange whereabouts and often attack human ships. They rarely attack large-scale human military fleets in groups, but if they encounter weakly defended transport ships or even warships on a single mission, they will not be polite at all.

After they succeed, most of the time they take away both the people and the ships; sometimes they can't take away the ships, or the ships are damaged in the battle, so they only take the goods and people.

They will even attack some planets that are not well-defended, not for occupation, but just for looting. The most exaggerated thing is that they can completely empty a nest city from the beginning of the attack to the end of the operation in a month. And this period of time is not even enough for reinforcements to arrive.

The Wuji Star Region and the Eastern Space Region Government must maintain a sufficiently strong and fast-reacting force to deal with the threat of the Dark Eldar.

The same is true for other star regions and even the entire empire.

The types of threats vary, but they are definitely there.

Although the empire is large, the mobile forces that can be mobilized are actually very limited.

How to allocate them to the alliance?

A step back, even if there are abundant troops, they will be sent to the west and north.

Give you a Gu Hang who doesn't work?

In this report, the alliance also clearly mentioned a timetable, saying that the alliance's ships are being built, and he still needs a certain amount of time to prepare for war.

The alliance originally didn't want to reveal this statement so bluntly.

Keeping a low profile is a better choice. Even if you want to fight, it's better to have some surprise.

But there is no way. The political pressure is here, and Gu Hang has to make a choice.

This part mentioned in his written report is barely acceptable. Although there will still be a lot of criticism from the public and urging from all sides, it is better than before.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages on the other hand.

The Alliance's statement could not be hidden from its good neighbor in the north.

The intelligence capabilities of the Iron Armored Corps could not possibly be unaware of such things.

The clear timetable means that at that time, it is the time for the Alliance to take action against the Iron Fury Stone.

Then, can Humphrey Paul tolerate the Alliance to accumulate strength so quickly, and then launch an attack on himself after being fully prepared as planned?

That is obviously impossible.

Even though the main force of the Iron Fury Stone is still placed on the western battlefield, chasing the Phoenix Corps, they have also significantly increased the importance of the southern battlefield.

First of all, Perbov felt that the Iron Fury Stone had obviously sent a large number of troops to the southernmost star field of the Spider Web Universe, that is, the Proud Claw Star Field. Immediately afterwards, an army led by the old enemy of the Alliance, the Fury Flame Corps, fiercely rushed into the Menghe Star Field.

The leader was Adler Paulitos, the current commander of the Fury. He was originally the captain of the Third Company of the Fury. After the bloody duel, the former commander Erso died, and a large number of backbone forces also died in that duel. Only he, the captain of the Third Company, could take over.

There was originally a small area in the north of the Menghe Star Region that was occupied by the rebels. Before, under the order of the Alliance Headquarters, Perbov led the advance troops to speed up the attack on this occupied area. Due to the lack of troops and the alliance strategy, his actions in the north of Menghe were not fierce. The main purpose was to say to the outside world that the alliance was actively attacking.

In this case, the fierce attack of the Fury caught the alliance off guard.

Perbov was the first to be beaten.

He made a very cautious judgment of the situation and avoided a decisive battle with his old rival, the Fury, in the north of the Menghe Star Region.

Although according to the intelligence analysis department of the Alliance, they believe that the forces that Iron Fury Stone can mobilize are definitely not enough, and the Fury Flame Regiment has at least a thousand people who have appeared on the battlefield on the Western Front. No matter how much Fury Flame is reborn, it will not be as reborn as Iron Armor, right? They lost at least 400 to 500 Space Marines in the war in the Dragon Eagle Star Region a few years ago, and some of them were backbones killed by the Phoenix in that bloody battle, including their former regiment leader.

In this case, how many troops can they take out for the active attack on the Alliance?

But unfortunately, Perbov’s troops are not sufficient.

It’s better not to fight this battle rashly.

After retreating, Perbov carefully guarded the entire circle of defense formed by fortifying the worlds along the northern part of the Menghe Star Region in the past few years, and began to fight a simple but solid defensive battle with the Fury Flame Regiment heading south.

To be honest, when the Alliance learned that the Fury Corps was heading south and Perbov had given up the territory they had conquered and retreated to the defense line, the Alliance was actually very nervous.

There were also voices in the Alliance, complaining that they should not have been unable to withstand the pressure at the beginning, and clearly mentioned their military plan in the explanation submitted to the Central Empire.

Iron Fury Stone may have believed that there was no room for maneuver between the two sides because of this explanation, extinguished the last bit of fantasy, and decided to strike first.

But now that things have come to this, nothing can be said.

The Alliance began to further increase its troops and mobilized more Phoenix Space Warriors to the battlefield in the northern part of the Menghe Star Region.

However, the overall strategy is still defense.

The Alliance General Staff gave Perbov a very clear instruction: prohibit active cross-line attacks, avoid fleet decisive battles, and use fortified planets, star forts and combat space stations arranged at various star tunnel jump nodes to block the enemy's fleet outside the defense line and try to drag them into the quagmire of ground war.

When necessary, the strategy of exchanging space for time can be adopted. As long as the enemy is not allowed to advance straight into the battlefield and push forward in one wave, and as long as the enemy can be dragged to the fortified defense line, then Perbov will have done a great job.

Perbov executed the strategy of dragging the battle into the quagmire with surprising success. Like an experienced chess player, he carefully laid out the plan and calculated every step accurately. The artillery fire of the planetary fortress and the interception system of the battle station formed a dense network, locking the fleet of the Fury Corps firmly on the periphery.

The ground war also fell into a stalemate. The two sides fought one tug-of-war after another in the rugged terrain of each planet and in the fortified cities.

Two years may be just a blink of an eye for interstellar war, but during this time, Perbov was like a stubborn stone, indestructible.

His persistence and wisdom stabilized the rear of the alliance and provided precious time for the construction of the alliance fleet and the preparation of the army.

Now, outside the Winged Star, the assembled alliance fleet is unprecedentedly powerful.

Countless ships stretched across the starry sky, like silver-blue waves.

The Alliance Army was also ready to go. They entered one warship and transport ship after another in the form of army groups and army groups, and were now in this star field.

Although, for the alliance, the horn of war has not yet sounded, the flag of the alliance has already fluttered in the vast starry sky.

Just waiting for the last order.

And the only one who can issue this order is Gu Hang.

After completing the last stop of the planned tour inspection, Gu Hang returned to Feiyi Star from Nuxiao Star with the "Alliance National Knights" that had just completed the new equipment on this planet where the alliance started, that is, the Titan Legion of the alliance.

He held a military meeting at the star port of Feiyi Star.

Many senior officials of the alliance government and senior generals of the alliance military mostly participated in this military meeting.

At the meeting, Gu Hang did not talk too much about specific strategies and tactics.

These things have been discussed many times in countless work meetings in the past to decide the details.

And this meeting is more like the last mobilization meeting before the war.

At this meeting, Gu Hang did not say too many long speeches.

The first half of the content briefly talked about how hateful traitors like Tie Nushi are. We stand on the side of the Empire and will fight to the end with these traitors of the Empire.

After saying this, the second half is more important:

"The Alliance needs to develop. We are bringing a better life to the people of Longying Star Region and Menghe Star Region."

"We have gathered a huge force, and we are also practicing our ideals."

"We don't welcome war so much."

"But if we want to develop, we need a stable external environment."

"Whoever doesn't give us this environment, we will hit him hard!"

"Win this war in exchange for a hundred years of peace!"

"Everyone, please join me and fight for the Alliance!"

As Gu Hang raised his arms and shouted, all the generals and senior officials in the audience stood up and followed the leader, shouting together:

"Fight for the Alliance!"

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After the meeting, all the senior officials and generals left one after another.

Before setting off, they still have a lot of work to do.

Involving hundreds or thousands of warships, even more transport ships, and the deployment of more than one billion army forces, this is an extremely huge project.

But to be honest, the Alliance has been preparing for this for several years.

In the 235th year of the tenth millennium, the Alliance army set out from the Flying Wing Galaxy.

The Alliance's Northern Expedition began.