Chapter 292: Visitors from Outer Space
The victory of Operation Flash Tail and the entire end of the Western Desert Campaign gave Gu Hang more than 12,000 points of grace.
This number is actually a bit small compared to the number of enemy mechanical units destroyed.
However, Gu Hang accepted this easily.
Firstly, the growth of war scale and reward points were not linear in nature, which was something he had verified in his previous experience; secondly, these mechanical units seemed to be not very "valuable" in the system's judgment.
At this point, Gu Hang now has a total of more than 16,000 gift points on hand - the extra 3,000 points come from the payment of fixed income this month.
However, Gu Hang did not use these grace points.
He has to keep something in reserve.
Mainly for subsequent worsening of the situation, he must have enough grace points to train the army.
One point of grace was enough to train a hundred-man team, which seemed cheap in the past. But now, the number of troops can easily reach hundreds of thousands, and the grace points needed for training each time start from several thousand.
This is not a small amount and cannot be ignored.
But if you are determined to rely on your own strength to flatten Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west of the continent, you will have to spend this level of money.
Does the Alliance have the ability to defeat Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west of the continent?
Yes.
After the second-level mobilization order was issued, the alliance's manpower pool already had 700,000. This was the number of soldiers that could be recruited. In addition to the 450,000 people who had already enlisted, there were more than 200,000 people left.
This was not a potential manpower inventory. All of these more than 200,000 people had been registered. Their addresses, occupations, places of work, names, family situations... the military recruitment office knew all of this.
The centralized and planned political system of the alliance showed its great superiority here. Whenever necessary, more than 200,000 notices would be sent to the homes of these people, and they would all appear in the recruit camp within a week.
The alliance's military production was also fully utilized under the mobilization order, and the corresponding equipment was working overtime; Gu Hang had the monthly gift point income from the latest month, which was nearly 4,000 points, and he also had more than 10,000 gift points that he had just received, and he had not wasted any of them.
When necessary, you can explode your troops.
Not only these 200,000 people, if necessary, a level one mobilization order can be issued and the reserve forces can directly reach the level of 500,000.
Without mentioning the mobilization order at a higher level, just by deploying these 200,000 troops to the front line, and then having a month or so to produce logistics supplies, the Alliance can launch another large-scale campaign - a larger scale than Operation Flash Tail, and push into the heart of Blackbird in one fell swoop.
But... in this case, the losses will definitely not be small.
If we go deep into the enemy's controlled area, the alliance's supply lines will be stretched very long; on the contrary, if the enemy fights on the spot, it will be much easier to supply them. It is impossible to seize the good opportunity of Operation Flash Tail and form a large-scale annihilation war.
Even if we really have to wait a month to launch such a large-scale attack, the number of enemy troops will probably recover a lot.
Fortunately, the Sharp Blade Tiger in the sky has been conducting orbital bombardment on the western part of the continent.
Although the core area of Blackbird City was covered by an energy shield and could not be destroyed, the outer city area was almost flattened.
Afterwards, through the starport, the Blade Tiger replenished its ammunition from the surface and started bombing again. This time, they circled in orbit above Blackbird City, dropped a few rounds, and found that there was nothing to bomb outside, so they changed their target and bombed some possible high-value targets that the Alliance intelligence officers found during their activities in Daluxi.
They even found time during and after the Flash Tail operation to find some retreating or gathered enemies and launch a wave of bombings.
However, the firepower of the Sharp Tiger was still a little insufficient, and the results of the explosion were... just so-so.
Objectively speaking, it is still a great help. Because we can't just look at their kill record, we have to consider, for example, the bombing of Blackbird City caused huge damage to the productivity of Blackbird Heavy Industry;
The supply to Blackbird Heavy Industries was also a huge threat, so their supply convoys did not dare to move troops and materials in a large and concentrated manner, otherwise they might be bombed;
It is also a great threat to the frontline troops of Blackbird. Once the troops of Blackbird gather in the wilderness with good visibility and are detected by the Alliance Air Force, they will be attacked by sharp blades and fierce tigers as soon as the coordinates are uploaded. This makes the mechanical army of Blackbird dare not to gather troops in large numbers in advance. Even if they gather, they dare not be too dense. They have to camouflage to avoid detection and reduce losses even if they are bombed...
These really caused trouble for the blackbird, and a lot of it.
But it's just trouble.
It does not constitute a fatal advantage that directly affects the balance of victory.
In the final analysis, Blade Tiger is not strong enough and the help it provides is relatively limited. The main battles still need to rely on the warriors of the alliance to win.
Gu Hang has made the worst-case scenario plan. If it doesn't work, then the alliance will go all out and pay even more price to win the final victory.
However, before that, Gu Hang still needs to make one final effort in other aspects.
When will the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion arrive?
Gu Hang called his mother.
Without even the mood to exchange pleasantries, Gu Hang asked directly, "What did the Fats family say? Today is the time for the ultimatum. Two days ago, I asked you to convey my attitude to them. This is the last time I will ask this question. I must know what their answer is now."
Gu Hang expressed his dissatisfaction strongly.
Ms. Wang Qi seemed a little helpless: "Their answer this time is a little different from the last time. Before, they said that the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion was only stationed on three planets in Fache, and the Fache family had no power to mobilize this star army in the star field. They just said that they would try their best to coordinate and lobby to get the troops to be dispatched. Now, at least they no longer make those excuses, but actually promised that they would definitely dispatch troops, and the number would not be less than one million..."
"What is this?! Where's the time?" Gu Hang immediately interrupted his mother. Although it was not very polite, he really couldn't help it.
"No, my people are still talking to them."
"This is ridiculous!" Gu Hang angrily put forward his final request: "If the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion has not set out from the planet of Fachs within ten hours, I will regard it as the Fachs family rejecting our good intentions. I swear, in the next battle with Blackbird Heavy Industries, I will find solid evidence that the Fachs family is completely related to the Iron Man Rebellion!"
"Uh..." Wang Qi's expression was a little ugly. She whispered, "Isn't this too strong?"
"I've had enough of their evasion and delays. We are not allies, but we still told them the information about Blackbird and the Iron Man Rebellion as soon as possible to prevent them from being passive. For this, we may even offend Chief Pedes. This is the goodwill of me and the Gu family, but is this how they repay us?"
Wang Qi sighed and said seriously, "I understand."
After finishing the call with his mother, Gu Hang called the Chief of Military and Political Affairs, Taddius, and the Prime Minister of the Alliance, Ossena, respectively, and told them to make contingency plans.
Ten hours, this is not Gu Hang talking nonsense or bragging, he issued a warning, so of course he has the ability to turn this warning into fact.
Blackbird is the property of the Fachers family. They are full of shit, and it is very difficult to clean up. Gu Hang must cooperate with them. If Gu Hang does not cooperate, or even makes trouble for them, and "discovers" some special evidence, their troubles will become very big. Especially since the Gu family has its own political capital, and Pedes will be very happy to help.
In addition, even without the help of the Star Army, Gu Hang could still destroy the Black Bird despite the casualties.
It was nothing more than raising the mobilization order to level one and increasing the number of troops by more than 400,000. Gu Hang had to pay 4,000 points of grace to train all 400,000 people into qualified soldiers.
In addition to training, equipping them with sufficient weapons requires the alliance's industrial capabilities and a comprehensive transition from civilian industry to military industry.
This was the contingency plan he asked Ossena and Thadius to make.
In this way, combined with the existing army, it is estimated that the Blackbird can be defeated within half a year.
This will result in huge casualties, not only to the military but also to the civilian population in the west of the continent. After the industry shifts drastically to military industry, it will also have an impact on the industrial development of the alliance.
But if this price must be paid, then pay it. Gu Hang will make the Fachers family pay ten times, a hundred times the price.
Fortunately, this did not happen.
Three hours later, Ms. Wang Qi gave him the latest news.
Wang Qi personally had a conversation with Ivan Facheras, the leader of the Facheras family. In addition to fully conveying Gu Hang's attitude, she also clearly expressed her own opinions as the person in charge of the Gu family.
To put it bluntly, it is a severe threat and some exchange of interests.
At this point, the Fats family had no room for delay.
They promised that they would deliver the first batch of Star Army troops to the Gu merchant ship already docked in the starport of Fats 2 within ten hours - now seven hours - as requested by Gu Hang.
It is not so easy to transport a million troops. The first batch of troops is expected to arrive with more than 20 divisions, no less than 300,000 people. They will board the Gu's Trading Company's "Big Belly" transport ship, accompanied by armed merchant ships, and head to the Angry Owl Star.
Hearing the news, Gu Hang breathed a sigh of relief.
Very good, it seems that the alliance does not need to issue a level one mobilization order.
Of course, he did not cancel the plan immediately.
The Fatsos have a criminal record.
Gu Hang needed his mother to give him accurate information. Seven hours later, would the Astra Militarum begin boarding the ship?
If Facheras had deceived him and things were still dragging on, then everything would be suspended and Gu Hang would no longer expect additional reinforcements.
This time, the Fats had been warned enough that they didn't dare to play any tricks.
In fact, eight hours after the last warning was issued, soldiers of the Astra Militarum had already landed at the star port and boarded the transport ship that had been waiting there.
Boarding the ship will take some time, and sailing from the Faches system to the Wrathful Owl system will also take time.
In general, this first batch of Astra Militarum support troops will arrive at the Angry Owl Star in twenty-two days.
That's very comfortable.
Gu Hang could finally breathe a sigh of relief and informed Yan Fangxu, who was commanding operations in the Western Theater Command, of this information.
Yan Fangxu was also overjoyed.
Of course, it would be great if reinforcements could arrive. If possible, he didn't want his own soldiers to go up and fight.
He made up his mind that for the next twenty days or so, he would focus on stability and reduce losses as much as possible, and then march westward after the Star Army arrived.
Before the arrival of the Star Army, the Angry Owl Star will first have to welcome a group of other alien visitors.
Imperial Tax Fleet.
It's time for Angry Owl Star to pay taxes.
But the embarrassing thing is that the imperial taxes that Angry Owl Star has to pay this year are still on the Western Front.
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The War Herald of the Sun Lord, Bojoa Gallardo, was on his way to the Wrathful Owl Galaxy on a destroyer with a 'Giant Belly'.
He stood in front of the window, and the gorgeous light left by the star tunnel he had just crossed seemed to still linger in his eyes, but in fact, the sky outside the window had turned into an endless starry sky.
Now that we have passed through the star tunnels, we will reach the Angry Owl Star in a day or two.
"I heard that this Angry Owl Planet was once a very rich resource-rich garden planet?"
"Yes." Standing next to him was a serious lady.
Her name is Neil Laois. She is the highest person in charge of this tax fleet and a senior official of the Imperial Taxation Department. She oversees the tax work of the entire Dragon Eagle star field.
Her work mode is to lead a huge tax fleet, under the escort of the Dragon Eagle Fleet, to sail through the 37 star regions of the Dragon Eagle Star Region for many years. Each round of sailing, including collecting taxes, takes about one and a half years. She needs to calculate the time interval for tax collection in each star region, some are two years, some are five years, and even ten years.
Then, it would take another four months of sailing to bring the imperial taxes collected in the Dragon Eagle Star Region to the higher-level administrative unit, which was the distribution center designated by the Eastern Space Region government.
These taxes will be sent to wherever they are needed under the orders of the government of Holy Terra, the capital of the empire, the home planet of humanity.
After delivering the taxes, Laois had to return to the Dragon Eagle Star Region immediately, and then cruise in the 37 star regions to collect taxes... and repeat the cycle over and over again.
Facing the question from the war apostle, Lao Yisi recalled some scenes and said, "Indeed, when I first started to work as the tax director of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, I came here to collect taxes. This is indeed a rare and high-quality planet. It's a pity that the war more than a hundred years ago completely destroyed the Wrathful Owl Star."
She has the right to say that.
She has been doing this work for one hundred and fifty years.
She is two hundred years old this year, but she still looks like a middle-aged woman.
She has already undergone three life-extending surgeries and is about to undergo a fourth.
When she first started working in the tax field, she had indeed seen the Angry Owl Star at its most prosperous time.
She had also seen the worst of Angry Owl Star. Even in recent decades, several governors who were executed on Angry Owl Star were ordered by her personally.
(End of this chapter)
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