Chapter 196, a big wave!
Gu Hang still cares about the first battle after the special operations brigade was established.
He read the battle report in its entirety and was quite moved.
Six members of the thirty-man combat team were killed, but they completed their mission and are suspected to have eliminated a high-value enemy target.
What is there to blame?
Especially for Lacroxia and Kuchi, Gu Hang personally issued commendations.
Needless to say, the former was the 'hero' that Gu Hang had activated with his gift points. He was the only character in the current system interface that specialized in combat. Now, the issue of his combat effectiveness was limited by his equipment.
If he were given some better equipment, such as upgrading the LR5 laser rifle to a hellgun, bolter, plasma or melta weapon... he might be able to fight a Space Marine.
Still comparing it to the Space Marines, if the mission was sent out by the Phoenix warriors instead of the Special Operations Brigade, it would indeed be easier to accomplish.
However, there are only four Space Marines left, and they are still a "non-renewable resource". As for the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade... although it sounds a bit harsh, they are indeed high-level consumables.
Although there were sacrifices, although there was a soldier king like Lacrosha leading the team, and although the completion was quite reluctant... but as long as similar special missions can be completed, it is already very good.
How much is a Space Marine worth? How much is a special forces soldier worth?
Gu Hang didn't like to measure the lives of soldiers as cold numbers. But as a leader and a ruler, he sometimes had to make such cold calculations.
Of course, the pensions for the six fallen soldiers will not be reduced; those who survived and completed the mission should also receive sufficiently high combat allowances and bonuses, as well as honors.
These matters will be handled by Thadius's Military and Political Department, so Gu Hang doesn't have to worry too much.
His attention was focused again on the report submitted by researcher Hu Ke.
The Engine Prophet checked the spoils brought back by the Wind Falcon and submitted a report.
He said that the things he picked up this time were of high value and he had a chance to decipher some important information from them.
For example, to verify whether his previous conjecture that the Natural Salvation Society had found a complete, undamaged spiritual gas field was true; to verify what they were doing with the spiritual gas field; to try to deduce the location of the spiritual gas field...
Hearing this, Gu Hang felt a great sense of anticipation.
Gu Hang cares a lot about this group of brain-damaged cultists, and also cares a lot about the spiritual energy field.
Dealing with the cultists is closely related to solving the problems in Qinggu. However, it seems that it is difficult to achieve this by relying solely on the army.
The people of the Natural Salvation Society hid in the jungle, so how could the army do anything to them? The Central Army Group said that it had 50,000 to 60,000 people, and there were more than 100,000 militiamen that could be deployed, but this number of people could not even make a wave in the jungle.
It still depends on accurate intelligence, special forces to carry out precise strikes, and guide orbital firepower in the sky to cover the bombing, or if all else fails, send out the Wind Falcons that can be deployed globally to carry out bombing.
Of course, this does not mean that the current Qinggu strategy should be abandoned.
Gu Hang has made up his mind to eradicate the jungle.
However, he had no intention of trapping his main force there for a long time.
It is not impossible to eradicate it completely, but it will take too long.
The order he gave to the Central Army Group was to have them completely stabilize the situation in the Beiqing Valley area, then move south along the existing road, try to pick up all the survivors in the Nanqing Valley area and move north, and establish a defense line between the Beiqing Valley and the Nanqing Valley. Their mission would then be accomplished.
During this period, the militia will receive more effective training and more powerful equipment. Subsequently, the task of maintaining the defense line in the North and South Qinggu areas will be handed over to the local militia, and the main force will withdraw.
That’s right, according to Gu Hang’s strategy, he would have to give up the land of Nanqing Valley.
There is no need. There are not enough people to develop it. As long as the few million people in the South Qing Valley can be brought back, it will be fine. The North Qing Valley area is estimated to have a total of two to three million square kilometers of land, most of which is relatively fertile and fertile land. Not to mention feeding 10 million people, the grain output here alone is enough to feed the entire population of the Angry Owl Star, and there is also enough grain for export.
To be honest, it would be difficult for these 10 million people to develop the Beiqinggu area well.
Let's just leave the Nanqing Valley area alone until the future, when the population of Angry Owl Star has grown substantially and there will be more demand for land and food.
Gu Hang is now more deeply aware of one thing, that the Angry Owl Star is not short of land, but of population; his pace to unify the planet is not to unify those many rotten lands, which is meaningless; expanding the ruled population is the core priority.
If the 10 million people in the Qinggu area were all brought under his rule, he would have achieved the Qinggu strategy he desired.
Gu Hang gave Yan Fangxu half a year to complete this process.
As for the Natural Salvation Society, Gu Hang needs to treat it as another independent issue.
He hoped that Hu Ke could crack more things; he hoped that Feng Falcon would carry out regular patrols and air strikes; he hoped that the special operations brigade would carry out special operations in the south.
Capture the living person and find clues.
Seek, discover, destroy.
Continue this process until the cultists are completely wiped out.
If the clues and information that Hu Ke cracked were sufficient to help him deliver a fatal blow and wipe out those cultists in one fell swoop, that would of course be the best; if not, Gu Hang was not afraid of turning this matter into a long-term operation.
The only thing to worry about is the intact spiritualized gas field that the cultists discovered.
That was a very high-level energy source, and Gu Hang was not sure what they would do with it. But considering the history of Angry Owl Star, the source of the demon disaster here was the over-exploitation of the spiritual gas field, which caused the curtain between reality and the abyss to become weak. Add in some human factors and cult infection factors, and eventually led to the demon invasion.
Now, a complete spiritual energy field has fallen into the hands of the cultists, and they themselves want to summon demons and call upon evil gods. These things combined are very worrying.
However, looking at the bright side, when Fengxuan's patrols in the south become regular, Gu Hang will be able to detect some situations in advance.
If the worst happens and the cultists tear open a new crack in the abyss, it will definitely cause a lot of noise. If Gu Hang discovers it early, he still has a chance to solve the problem before it expands to a point where it cannot be solved.
Of course, it would be best if it could be done earlier.
It is for this reason that he is very much looking forward to Hu Ke’s work results.
However, after waiting for more than a month, there was still no result.
To be honest, Gu Hang was very anxious.
Because something very important will happen this month: the Beautiful Girls Caravan and the Quintet will both leave at this time.
They have to repair the boat.
Cousin Gu Hang left, but Ye Licia would stay. A frigate named "Blade Tiger" came here.
The captain of the Sharp Blade Tiger is named Du Zhicheng, a major in the Imperial Navy.
His military rank is much lower than Ye Lishiya's.
Although he was the captain and commander of the ship, he had his men on board. But with Ye Licia, the command would fall into the hands of the female commodore without any surprise.
Du Zhicheng should have anticipated this, and he probably even had communication with the Fofana family, who were deeply rooted in the Tianma Star Region's naval system. They were fully aware of his mission for this year and should have been more cooperative.
But no matter what, a main strike cruiser was replaced by a frigate... a gun was replaced by a musket.
Gu Hang had really wanted Hu Ke to complete the information decoding and deduction of the spoils within a month. It would be best if he could find the location of the spiritual gas field, and then quickly send people to investigate the situation. If necessary, he could directly call for an orbital strike for a fierce attack.
No matter how many schemes those Chaos Cultists have, they cannot withstand the justice that comes from the 'Wrath of the Loyal Heir' macro cannon.
But now... oh no, Tadashi's Fury is gone, do you want the 'Scalpel' missile?
Ye Licia explained to Gu Hang the weapon configuration on the 'Blade Tiger'. Compared with the 'Quinte', it was simply shabby: there were only thirty S-type weapons, and that was it.
Ten 'Reflector' interception laser cannons, ten 'Defender' rapid-fire cannons, and ten 'Scalpel' missile launch platforms.
That’s all.
The reflector cannot hit the ground. If it has to hit, after passing through the atmosphere, the reflector, which is not high enough in power, will lose a large part of its energy and will not be able to carry out the orbital strike mission.
The Defender rapid-fire cannon is barely okay, and the Scalpel missile is also okay.
But obviously, after a round of fighting with the Quintet, two hundred surgical knife missiles, twenty hot hammer macrocannons, and two Chuji's wrath macrocannons were no match.
All I can say is that it’s better than nothing.
If the Alliance Air Force grows stronger, with hundreds of planes, all equipped with missiles, the power of an air strike would be about the same as that of ten surgical knives.
Gu Hang could only sigh.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
Hu Ke even came to the Governor to apologize with a feeling of uneasiness, but what else could he do?
He's probably the only one on the entire planet who can do this, so there's no point in being anxious.
Gu Hang could only accept the reality.
After tearfully seeing off the Quintet, Gu Hang could only return to his office and figure out how to use the gift points he had.
The fixed income for the new month has arrived.
The total number of grace points for this month is 1,307.
Compared with 1022 last month, there has been another significant increase.
This increase mainly came from the Beiqing Valley area. After the Mutual Aid Association was essentially incorporated into the rule of the Alliance, the population increased by four million.
Although the productivity of the Beiqing Valley area is now extremely poor, and a considerable part of the population are "refugees" and are a pure burden, there are still four million people here, and the grace points have increased a lot.
As for the other increases, they came from the fact that the two cities absorbed more population and productivity increased further; order in the three central provinces was restored and their monthly income also increased slightly.
After receiving these grace points, Gu Hang now has 1708 grace points in his hand.
He thought about it and planned to use 700 points of gifts to train soldiers.
He planned to recruit 70,000 soldiers from the northern Qinggu area, establish 11 garrison divisions with numbers 15-25, and put them all under the command of the Central Army Group. By then, with the existing militia regiments in the Qinggu area, plus the 13th Mechanized Brigade and the 14th Motorized Infantry Division that had just been reorganized and sent to the south, Commander Yan Fangxu would have more than 200,000 troops available.
With this scale, the problem of manpower should be largely solved.
As for these 70,000 soldiers, the problem of manpower source is not big, as they can be recruited from refugees; the problem of training is not big, as it can be solved by the [Soldier Badge] system; the problem of weapons and equipment is a bit big, as 70,000 sets of individual equipment, corresponding artillery and trucks, will probably take two to three months to produce.
But Gu Hang has time to wait.
There were still a thousand points of grace left, so Gu Hang thought about it and decided to build a comprehensive college.
In this way, he has built all three types of college buildings that have been open to him in the building system so far.
When it comes to education, the earlier you invest, the greater the returns.
Comprehensive colleges will produce students in a range of majors such as business, liberal arts, administration, and art. Compared with technical colleges, comprehensive colleges should be considered social science colleges.
It is true that technology is the primary productive force, but as the land governed by Gu Hang becomes more and more vast and the population becomes larger and larger, the overall scale expands by millions or tens of millions of people in a few months. He needs enough management talents as bureaucrats to manage the entire planet for him.
This is inevitable.
This is especially true of the highly centralized political system he adopted.
The Technical College provides scientific and technological talents, the comprehensive college provides high-quality social science talents, and the Zhongsi College ensures the loyalty of the former two... This is the overall education system of the alliance planned by Gu Hang.
The next step is to establish a complete compulsory education stage, which requires a longer-term investment, but Gu Hang will not do it himself. The Ministry of Culture and Education under the Alliance Government will be responsible for this work.
At this point, all 1,700 points of grace had been spent, and only a pitiful 8 points were left.
To be honest, I can get a fixed income of about one thousand yuan every month. It seems like a lot, but when it comes to spending it, it is really not enough.
Gu Hang is now waiting to see when the Qinggu battle will be resolved.
According to the system's behavior, this will have to wait until the situation in the entire Qinggu area has come to an end and the situation has stabilized before settlement can be made. I just don't know at what point this judgment will be made.
He is in urgent need of a big wave to fill the dried-up pool of grace points.
However, before the big wave that Gu Hang was expecting came, the Phoenix Regiment gave him a big wave first.
(End of this chapter)
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