Chapter 324: Refuse to fight back, quick attack strategy
When she was young, Ispsi was famous for her beauty. Now she is 35 years old, and although she is no longer young, her many years as a queen have added a special charm. She has lost her girlishness, and now has a graceful demeanor and the majesty of a king.
She put on her most gorgeous and solemn dress, put on her crown, and dressed magnificently, just as she always did for the greatest ceremony in the kingdom.
She walked slowly in the exotic palace of Pinser City, with her head held high and her chest puffed out, exuding the grace of a queen.
Seeing her like this, many servants in the Pincel Palace couldn't help but gather together and whisper. After being surprised by her demeanor at first, these ordinary people's thoughts were surprisingly consistent.
"Does the king of a fallen country regard this place as her palace?"
"Haha, that's ridiculous."
"Governor Gu will teach her a profound lesson."
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The servants spoke in low voices. They were just ordinary people. Even if they were facing a king of a fallen country, they instinctively did not dare to offend him. Even if the other party was about to die, he was still a great man they could only look up to before he died. They could chat with each other in private, but they dared not let anyone hear them.
But even if Espsi didn't hear it, she knew what those talkative people were saying.
It doesn't matter.
In a sense, they were not wrong.
Ispsi behaved like this because she was waiting for Gu Hang to teach her a lesson.
The more she behaved like a proud queen at this moment, the louder her voice would be when she prostrated herself in front of Gu Hang and smashed all her pride, dignity, and prestige.
She used to hate these things the most, but now she has to pick up the things she hates as her last weapon.
She was led to a small side hall by the waiter walking in front of her.
The wooden door opened, and a bright but not very large office appeared before her.
The sunlight poured in through the window. A handsome man who looked young was sitting behind a wooden table, writing or drawing something.
He raised his head and glanced at the Iron Curtain Queen, his eyes moving slightly. The Queen's outfit still surprised him a little.
The main reason is that it is indeed rarely seen.
In the Alliance, this kind of thing is not popular. All members, from top to bottom, even when there is an important ceremony, only wear formal clothes, and are generally very simple. In Koroja No. 3, the clothes are much more exquisite, but the style is more modern, even... a bit abstract post-modern in Gu Hang's opinion.
But Ispsy's style is different. The traditional, gorgeous and complex aesthetics of feudal monarchs is a bit backward in many worlds, but Gu Hang unexpectedly likes it very much.
Of course, he would not be happy to wear it, and he would not promote it under his own government or economic system.
But that doesn't stop him from appreciating it when it really appears in front of him.
Ispsi was keenly aware of Gu Hang's gaze.
She straightened her already full chest and made it even more solid.
But at this time, Gu Hang withdrew his gaze.
He just said gently: "Ispsi, right? You came a little earlier than the scheduled time, but please sit for a while, I have something else to do."
What could Ispsi say?
She did have some small thoughts, but she did not dare to really disobey the governor.
She could only restrain herself and sit quietly beside him.
This sitting lasted for a long time.
Although her clothes looked good, they were not very comfortable to wear. However, she could only maintain a strict posture to prevent her clothes from getting wrinkled.
At least she can't do it herself now.
During this time, she secretly glanced at Governor Gu many times. She even wanted to see what the documents on the Governor's desk were about, which were obviously very important.
But she didn't dare to do anything beyond the limit.
"Please relax a little." Gu Hang's gentle voice sounded again, "You don't need to be so nervous, and you don't need to be so serious. You may have to wait for a long time."
"It's okay." The queen responded subconsciously.
Gu Hang didn't bother her any more.
In fact, Gu Hang knew exactly what Ispsi was thinking.
But he had no interest.
He didn't have the hobby of tearing apart other people's dignity, and he didn't even enjoy the feeling of conquering. He just coldly calculated the pros and cons and pursued the goal in his heart.
He didn't mean to leave Ispsi alone; he actually had some more important things to deal with.
Regarding the strategy of Black Arrow Star, Gu Hang's ideas are being steadily advanced.
Attacking the Kingdom of Stefano is an important part.
His troops were brave and well-equipped, but numbers were a big problem. No matter how good the soldiers of the Alliance were, they should not go head-to-head with an enemy that was ten times their number.
If it really turns into a long and drawn-out war, it will be a nightmare. With a population of 400 million and the strategic depth of an entire planet, it is impossible for Gu Hang to win with only 350,000 troops. If the battle turns into this state, Gu Hang will have to activate his backup plan and give up swallowing up Black Arrow Star in one go, and choose to absorb the local population.
But there is no need to go that far for now, he can still follow the preferred plan - a blitzkrieg on the entire planet.
What he needed was a quick, decisive battle, and through such a victory, to destroy the entire planet as quickly as possible.
The attack on the Kingdom of Stefano was an action guided by this idea.
Conventional troops used blitzkrieg tactics, concentrated their firepower, and used the armored brigades as the core spearheads to continuously break through the enemy's defenses, followed by large forces, and then formed a breakthrough...
If there is a chance, we will make dumplings and annihilate the enemy completely. If there is no chance, we will fight a comprehensive defeat. Pursue speed above all else and march towards the royal city.
When the large army advanced to a certain extent, Gu Hang also used his special move.
His 'Storm Mage Group'.
According to the general experience of the Imperial Psychic Order, they are able to discover, on average, one person with psychic talent in every ten million people.
But this is not the limit. Based on the judgment of the Psychic Order, they believe that among humans, in the normal world, there is about one person with a legitimate psychic talent in every million people. However, due to various reasons, such as local government policies, customs, and traditions, many imperial worlds have the habit of hunting witches, which means that many people with psychic talents will be dealt with as long as they show the slightest sign of it.
In addition, because of these problems, many people with psychic gifts will try to hide their peculiarities. When they get older and their talents fade or become controllable, they will become just like everyone else - or they may be unable to hide it and go completely crazy, becoming dangerous beings. In that case, they are hopeless and must be dealt with.
Even in places without these customs and traditions, it is not easy to identify psychic talents among ordinary people. The circulation of information is a big problem. Without a developed media industry, it will be extremely difficult to spread the news to millions of people. It is impossible for the psychic order to find a needle in a haystack.
Especially those who have ordinary talents, no special performance, but sometimes see some special hallucinations, are even harder to find.
Even if they find one, the Order of Psionics sometimes has to face some competition. For example, the Inquisition likes to compete with them. A considerable number of members of the Inquisition insist that psykers are very harmful; they also like to capture some psykers and train them as witch hunters and inquisitors.
A combination of various reasons has turned the theoretical situation of one psychic gifted person out of a million people into a reality where the psychic order can only find one talent among tens of millions of people.
In fact, half of the psychics trained by the Psychic Order come from those who have psychic talents, and the other half are cultivated artificially through some extremely costly secret methods.
But this is totally not cost-effective, and only certain powerful people can afford it. The main goal is to give themselves, or their descendants and relatives, a little more special power.
Anyway, it is the wealthy and powerful who spend the money themselves, and the Psychic Order provides the methods and then recruits people. This not only helps to develop members but also build relationships. Why not do it?
This is how Gu Hang's predecessor acquired his psychic talent.
According to the normal proportion, the theoretical limit of the Angry Owl Star's population of 55 million is only to find about 50 psychics.
But obviously, this problem does not apply to Gu Hang.
In fact, he had not yet resorted to the means of bringing people to the Kingdom of God for forced marrow cleansing and bone strengthening. He simply used the training function provided by the soldier card system to select from a large number of candidates, and he had selected hundreds of people, which was more than twice the theoretical ratio.
This may be due to two reasons.
First of all, the initial theoretical research of the Psychic Order was itself imperfect, and this number is also a probabilistic event with a large sample size. In specific circumstances, everyone may have psychic talents.
Secondly, due to the special environment of the Angry Owl Star, the veil of reality is naturally thin, resulting in more people with psychic talents than normal.
But overall, it's a good thing.
Gu Hang did not choose to train these one hundred people with psychic talents.
It takes 100 points of grace to train a psychic, and 100 full training points would cost 10,000 points, which is too expensive. Even though Gu Hang had earned 26,000 points in the past six months thanks to the continuous fighting in Koroja and the monthly bonus of grace points, he was reluctant to spend it all at once.
Except for twenty or thirty who were not suitable due to age or physical problems, he only trained fifty; the remaining twenty could be placed in the Mage Academy to learn, there was no rush.
He needs to first see the actual effect that the Psychic Group can produce, and then decide whether to leave it as it is or expand it in the future.
Speaking of the Psychic Order, the combination of these two things gave Gu Hang another surprise.
He was now a formal member of the Psychic Order, and his status was not bad. Therefore, among the materials within his authority, he found something that interested him very much: Psychic Teleportation.
This is a "spell", or a training method, which allows psychics to master this ability and teleport themselves or others to an indefinite distance and with indefinite accuracy. In addition, the corresponding formation can be carved to combine the power of multiple psychics for collective teleportation.
Generally speaking, it takes a lot of time to train a psychic to master this move.
But among the group of psychic talents found on the Angry Owl Star, there are two people with space-related psychic talents.
They naturally meet the requirements for using this ability, and Gu Hang chose Dani Deris, who has better talent. After completing the training, there are only three psychics who directly have C-level abilities, and the rest are all D-level, and Deris is one of them.
The former is equivalent to Gu Hang's psychic power strength at level 3, while the latter is only as strong as he was at level 1.
It is worth mentioning that Gu Hang also found a person with psychic talent among the Phoenix, that is Henrik Larsen. His talent is actually average, but becoming a Space Marine seems to have stimulated his talent, making him one of the three people with C-level psychic strength, and enabling the Phoenix Regiment to have the ability to establish a "think tank".
Some Space Marine Chapters have a Librarian position, which specifically represents the psychic power within the Chapter. Phoenix also had one in the past, but it was not taken seriously and was not strong.
Not to mention the chapter think tank with only one member, at least Gu Hang’s Storm Mage Corps was established in this way.
At this moment, they used the psychic teleportation array to achieve a crucial effect.
The air defense system of Stefano Royal City is not easy to break through directly by the Wind Falcon, and airborne operations are unreliable, but teleportation is no problem.
Feng Falcon brought them to land dozens of kilometers away from the capital of Stefano. They then approached the city on foot, and then cast a teleportation spell to send the Space Marines and psychics into the fortress castle. What happened next was just a massacre.
The entire kingdom was beheaded, which greatly accelerated the progress of the war.
Not only did the other Black Arrow Star kingdoms around it fail to react, but even the Stefano Kingdom itself failed to react.
While the King's Council was still discussing how many reinforcements to gather and the "contribution ratio" of each family, and the Kingdom of Stefano itself still had millions of troops that had not yet completed mobilization and assembly, the war was essentially over.
The League's forces did not attempt to conquer all of Stefano's kingdom.
This place is too big and has a large population, so it is impossible for the Alliance to disperse its precious military forces for deployment.
It only took them about half a month to attack everywhere and eliminate some stubborn resistance forces.
All we have to do is to make Stefano's Kingdom leaderless.
The Alliance is not seeking to establish reliable rule here for the time being, it only needs that there is no other ruling force here.
This is actually difficult to maintain in the long run, as there will always be something that takes advantage of the power vacuum.
But it only needs to be temporary.
As for the remaining one million troops of the Kingdom of Stefano, they have collapsed.
(End of this chapter)
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