Chapter 257, You guessed it, right?
Gu Hang was sitting in the suburban town, in the headquarters of the Alliance Expeditionary Force, listening to the battle reports of the Phoenix Regiment and the Alliance Air Force.
To be honest, Gu Hang was the first person in the entire army to provide support to the suburban town.
He was among the first to land on the spacecraft.
The commander of the army strongly opposed the governor's decision - it was too dangerous. According to their thinking, the governor should not have come at all, and should just stay on the Angry Owl Star safely.
If he must lead the army in person, he should stay on the relatively safe starship and make plans. Why would he go to the front line in person?
However, in response to these persuasions, Gu Hang only gave some comforting words and did not listen.
It's certainly not that he doesn't take his life seriously, it's just that he has strong self-confidence.
On the one hand, he was certain that since his cousin did not dare to fight in the starry sky when the Blade Tiger approached, and did not dare to force the army of the Luman Kingdom to use orbital strike force to bombard the warships that had already arrived in the planet's orbit, then they would most likely not dare to attack the landing ship that had landed.
What's more, the location chosen by the landing ship also avoids the air defense fire circle near the capital, which further ensures safety during landing.
Another source of his self-confidence is his own strength.
Not only has he already been upgraded to a Level 7 psychic, which has greatly improved his strength compared to the past, but more importantly, he has gained talents and characteristics after defeating the evil god. With all these bonuses taken into account, even if the landing ship he is on really encounters an accident and is blown up in mid-air, he will still be able to land safely.
He left all the work of assembling the troops after landing on the landing ship to the four division commanders. He himself mobilized his psychic power and quickly flew to the suburban town.
It arrived faster than the Feng Falcon that had to be pulled out of the landing ship!
It can be seen from this that although Gu Hang appears calm on the surface, he is actually still somewhat anxious in his heart.
His arrival is of considerable practical significance.
With his current psychic power strength, it might be a bit difficult to tear the Knight Titan apart alive from a distance - unless he tore open the rift in the Kingdom of God to strengthen his own psychic power.
But if the Knight Titan dared to expose himself in front of him a little longer, or if Gu Hang took a little risk, got closer, and crossed the energy shield, then he would be able to do it.
As for ordinary sentinel mechas, that was even easier. Gu Hang estimated that if he struck them with a lightning beam, he would definitely kill one of them. And if the enemy launched a concentrated charge, he could also use a chain lightning or a thunderstorm formed by psychic energy to baptize them.
After obtaining the [Storm Master], his psychic energy can be transformed into lightning. In terms of pure destructive power, it is much more powerful than the telekinesis he used in the past.
With Gu Hang in charge, the alliance had an extra "artillery battalion". Moreover, not only was the firepower fierce, but the key was also extremely accurate.
This is the direct help that Gu Hang can provide to the battle situation.
And if the war really gets tense, he can still use his ultimate move - tearing open a rift in God's kingdom!
In that case, not only will his own spiritual power strength be greatly enhanced, but there will also be thousands of heroic warriors in the kingdom of God.
If that doesn't work... the incarnation of the lesser god can be created. It still looks like a thunderstorm giant bear. Its strength is not as good as that of the great demon, but it has at least 30% of its ability. It can tear a knight titan apart with its bare hands like tearing a toy.
However, the noises from these moves were too loud. He was a legitimate psychic, but being able to tear open cracks in the real world and summon heroic spirits from the real world to fight was too shocking, and it was not something that a regular psychic could do. If it got out, it would definitely attract an investigation from the Imperial Inquisition.
For the Imperial Inquisition, the identity of the planetary governor and the claim of being a legal psychic cannot be preserved. If they go crazy and insist on sending Gu Hang to the Eastern Universe's General Inquisition for investigation, then...
Gu Hang had no choice but to kill them and turned against the court.
Otherwise, are you really going?
Of course, if this situation can be avoided, then try not to happen. Unless it is absolutely necessary, he will definitely not show a series of abilities to open the cracks in the Kingdom of God.
In fact, the battle situation did not reach that level at all.
The enemy did intensify their offensive against the suburban town because of the arrival of the Angry Owl Star Army. They urgently replenished their forces and, at the request of the commander, began a fierce attack.
The troops under Perbov in the suburban town were not out of food but were running out of ammunition. Although Gu Hang's arrival and public appearance boosted the morale of the allied troops stationed in the suburban town, the objective conditions were not subject to human will.
Gu Hang himself was also ready to take action, at least to use conventional psychic power to form a storm to supplement the firepower of the alliance army.
But it didn't work.
The enemy's offensive was interrupted by the landing Space Marines as soon as it started.
The artillery positions were wiped out by the Phoenixes, so the attacking Luhman soldiers naturally could not continue fighting and retreated in panic to prepare for rescue.
Then, the Knight Titan that had lost its shield generator and was used as a rocket turret from a distance was also killed. The Space Marines retreated calmly under the cover of the Wind Falcon, and after getting far away from the enemy, they boarded their fighter planes and flew into the suburban town.
When Gu Hang received the battle report first, he knew that he didn't need to worry about what was happening on the battlefield.
He said to his mother, who looked a little haggard and embarrassed, "My army has fulfilled its mission, right?"
Ms. Wang Qi no longer had the high attitude she had often shown when she met Gu Hang in the past. She sighed, "Thanks to General Perbov and the Wrathful Star warriors he led, without their desperate fight and the great sacrifice they made, I would definitely die here. If I was caught by Gu Ming, he would not let me go."
Gu Hang sighed, “I never expected that the Gu family, which has always been known for its unity, would end up like this.”
"Didn't you expect this?"
"It's one thing to take precautions, and it's another to prevent it from happening. As for Gu Ming, what are you going to do with him after you catch him?"
"We haven't caught him yet. Are you so sure he can't escape?"
It is normal for Wang Qi to ask this question.
The starship belonging to her could not send a spacecraft to land in the suburban town to pick her up, but Gu Ming could.
Although Gu Ming's fleet was small and at a disadvantage in space, there was no orbital air defense system on the ground to attack his spacecraft. He had a good chance of evacuating by spacecraft.
Gu Hang didn't think so: "He can't run away. The orbital anti-aircraft guns on the ground don't belong to him."
Wang Qi immediately understood what her son was referring to.
The orbital air defense system is essentially controlled by Ness Luhman. It is true that he is an ally of Gu Ming and will help him intercept Wang Qi's spacecraft and prevent her from evacuating. But if Gu Ming wants to escape, Ness Luhman will probably not agree.
It's like abandoning him.
If this situation happened, Gu Hang judged that the two would most likely fall out.
Wang Qi also agreed with his son's judgment.
As for the ground part...
Gu Hang also showed great confidence in front of his mother: "In two days at most, the capital will be captured. As long as Gu Ming doesn't escape on the spaceship, my army will definitely catch him."
Wang Qi had no doubt about it.
The 30,000 troops led by Perbov were able to hold out here for eight days.
During these eight days, the opposing army did not stop at all and kept attacking. But he not only managed to hold on, but also destroyed two Knight Titans of the Luman Kingdom in the previous battle.
Now, Gu Hang personally led his troops to support. Not only did they have another 35,000 people, which was more than Perbov's team, but the number of Lion tanks was three times the original number of the expeditionary force, directly over a hundred. In addition, there were a hundred Wind Falcons as the air force.
The Luman Kingdom has nothing to offer against such military strength. They might have been able to do so in their heyday, but in the past eight days of fighting, the Lumans have suffered heavy losses. Ness has lost almost half of his royal legion.
Even if he could convince the two so-called marquises to help him with all their strength, it would only restore his previous combat power.
But under Gu Hang's command, there is something even more exaggerated: fifteen space warriors.
Speaking of which, Wang Qi was also in complete disbelief when he first heard the news.
She once dealt with a chapter called "Exterminators", which was a ship-based chapter without a home planet and mainly relied on a fleet.
When she was personally leading the team to replenish supplies for the 'Exterminators', people were a little unable to pay, so she asked her caravan to wait and the money would be there soon.
At that time, the Exterminators were participating in a war to suppress a rebellion. Wang Qi saw with his own eyes that after the Exterminators joined the war, they defeated the imperial traitors on that planet like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. The fighting style of that regiment was cruel, and they did not take the lives of mortals seriously. After the victory, the killing and looting were done very cleanly, which was very suitable for their name.
But that’s secondary.
After the victory of the war, the governor of that planet held a banquet to thank the Space Marines, but the Exterminators who attended the banquet were all in armor and were completely rude, demanding that the governor pay for "supplies".
The battle is over, and we need supplies.
According to the exterminators, this is for the subsequent wars. They will set out on the journey again and head for the next war, which of course requires supplies.
They also need population and weapons to replenish the fleet's sailors and mortal auxiliary forces; they need to conduct a conscription on the planet and need a large number of young men to screen new recruits through brutal escape and extremely high mortality trials.
The exterminators had listed quotas for these things and asked the governor to provide them in full within a limited time. If they were not enough, they would come and get them themselves. Anyone who dared to block them would be considered a rebel.
The planetary governor was unable to gather enough and hoped that the Space Marines would give him more time, but the Exterminators took action without saying anything, just as they said, they could take it themselves.
Wang Qi saw all of this.
Some of the blood-stained spoils and 'taxes' were what the exterminators used to pay for supplies.
That contact left Wang Qi with a very deep impression of the Space Marines. She thought that the subsequent exterminators would at least be reprimanded by the Empire, after all, they attacked and plundered an Imperial planet.
But in fact, it didn't. The Exterminator left and went to the next war, while the planetary governor was punished by the Empire.
Space Marines are angels, yes, but don't forget the prefix of the name "angel", which is "death". They bring the Emperor's mercy, usually by sending those who need mercy to the Emperor's side to experience it personally.
The time when she visited the Angry Owl Star, she did not see the Phoenix.
At first, she thought they were friendly forces, external reinforcements that her son had invited from somewhere.
But later, it was discovered that those Space Marines were actually obeying Gu Hang's orders!
Wang Qi, who had been instilled with a fear of Space Marines and deeply felt that the Emperor's Angels were absolutely not to be offended and even better not to have any dealings with, now saw fifteen Space Marines fighting for her son. One can imagine how great the shock she felt in her heart was.
She was vaguely uneasy about this, but at least she highly recognized the fighting power of the Space Marines.
With the assistance of these fifteen angels of death, victory in the war should be as the son said, without a doubt.
Thinking of this, she looked at Gu Hang's face deeply.
Being able to make the Space Marines obey his orders... She didn't understand it. She had her worries in her heart, but she had to admit that her son was really capable.
Then, the mother and son returned to the main topic.
How to deal with Gu Ming after he is arrested or confirmed dead is essentially a question of how to reintegrate family power.
Wang Qi didn't want Gu Ming to live, but if there was a choice, it would be best to capture him alive. It would be best to take him to Feiyi Star, publicly try him, and execute him.
However, this matter cannot be forced. On the one hand, the guns and cannons on the battlefield are blind, and there is nothing that can be done even if you die; on the other hand, as long as Gu Ming is alive, there will be variables.
If they were to go to Feiyi Star, Gu Ming still had a foundation, so there was no telling what might happen. Arrest, detention, trial, execution... There were still too many things that could be manipulated in this whole process. Once they entered the formal process, some things would become difficult to do.
Rather than waiting until the situation changes and being forced to kill him in prison or under house arrest and bearing the infamy, it is better to end it directly on the battlefield.
Anyway, it was you, Gu Ming, who started it first. Now that he's dead, no one can say that Gu Hang and his mother were cruel and ruthless.
As long as Gu Ming dies, and considering the fact that he took the initiative to instigate armed riots and family coup, and Wang Qi himself is the party with more support from the Gu Chamber of Commerce, it should not be difficult for him to completely grasp the power of the entire Gu family in the future.
After Wang Qi finished speaking about his thoughts, he asked his son, "What about you? What do you think of Black Arrow Star?"
Gu Hang showed a very sunny smile: "Mother, didn't you see it too?"
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