Chapter 24, War
“The issue is not that important.”
On the way back, Gu Hang answered Yan Fangxu's questions.
The captain found him and asked the question in his mind, and Gu Hang gave an answer:
"So what if it's fake? The Navy needs merits, and I need targets. A cult organization that doesn't believe in the God-Emperor is one of the main reasons why Wrathful Owl Star has been unable to recover for a long time. This merit can satisfy Commodore Yelicia, and it can also bring me enough benefits and unite the people of this world. Then, this cult should be real, and that Wohan should be a real cultist."
After a pause, Gu Hang saw that Yan Fangxu still had some hesitation on his face. He smiled and patted the captain on the shoulder: "What's more, it's true. The Primordial Owl Beast Sect is a cult, and the man named Wohan is indeed connected to the Primordial Owl Beast."
"How did you determine that he was a heretic and not an ordinary psyker?"
Gu Hang pointed to his head and explained, "The power of psychics comes from ourselves, from our spirit. We have enough talent and spirituality to borrow psychic energy from the omnipresent but imperceptible spiritual world to form psychic spells. The power of heretics comes from the dirty evil gods they believe in, not from themselves. These two powers are completely different, and I can tell the difference clearly."
At this point, Gu Hang silently added in his mind that the divine arts mastered by the priests of the Empire's state religion also follow almost the same principle, but he did not say it out loud.
Hearing this, Yan Fangxu touched his head and said, "I have never understood these things before. But since he is indeed a heretic, then there is no problem."
"Don't worry." Gu Hang said, "We are on the right track."
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Gu Hang was quite serious about comforting the Captain.
This person is one of the few capable people under his command.
He came to Angry Owl Star alone, without taking over the power of the Alliance government, and had no team to speak of. The only person he could use was Captain Yan.
The people of Feidong Society seem to have changed their minds for the time being, but they are a bunch of illiterate people and cannot be relied upon to accomplish great things; his little follower Zhang Chao is trustworthy enough, but he doesn't have much knowledge. Maybe he can become a talent after being trained for a long time in the future, but he is far from being one now.
The only one left is Yan Fangxu.
After all, he is a naval captain and a legitimate Imperial Navy officer.
He didn't care that Yan Fangxu still belonged to the navy and was not his man. He obeyed his command only because of Ye Lisia's order.
It doesn't make any difference, as long as he is currently working for you, is capable and trustworthy, that's enough.
Gu Hang turned his head, looked past Yan Fangxu, and looked at the entire army.
The entire team had nearly three hundred people, and they were pulling ox carts along the road back to the governor's camp.
This time the harvest was fruitful.
He left 20 soldiers from the Feidong Company stationed at the Mantan Valley Manor to protect the safety of the manor and to ensure that the hired farmers worked well. A man named Salamu was selected from among the hired farmers as the manager.
The rest of the soldiers, about 200 in total, and about 100 hired farmhands, set out on their return journey. The hired farmhands were responsible for transporting the reloaded supplies to the Governor's camp.
The so-called "cart" is an oxcart, a car pulled by a kind of livestock called "barbarian bull".
This kind of wild bull should not be a native creature of the Angry Owl Star, but a species introduced from an alien planet a long time ago. After experiencing a world-destroying war, this creature did not become extinct, but instead had further mutations, while still retaining the characteristics of being able to be domesticated.
In today's wasteland world, wild bulls are an important source of animal power.
This batch of supplies transported from Fuxing City was originally pulled by ox carts, and now all fell into Gu Hang's hands.
After counting, the supplies were found to be the same as what Gu Hang had requested from Fuxing City.
These things have been returned to their original owners.
In addition, Gu Hang also seized nearly two hundred sets of individual weapons and equipment, mainly rifles.
These rifles have a variety of models, and the overall production level is not comparable to the "Shock Wave" rifle. The latter is at least the standard rifle of the Imperial Army and Marine Corps. Although it is used as cannon fodder, its production level and technical level are at least online.
As for the firearms used by these mercenaries, which were produced in the native land of Angry Owl Star, it is hard to say. Not only is the quality uneven, but the best ones are not as good as the "Assaulter".
But at least it is much more reliable than the iron barrel rifles in the hands of the bandits of "Prisoners of the Dead", which Gu Hang was too lazy to treat as scrap metal. It can be considered a military product after all.
Gu Hang plans to make use of this batch of equipment as well.
Including this batch, he had about 100 sets of Raiders and 200 sets of domestically made equipment, which could arm another 300 soldiers.
Now that we have weapons and equipment, there is no big problem with the source of manpower.
The Feidong Society can send out more people, and some of the three thousand slaves he brought down from the starship can also be withdrawn.
Those slaves were not qualified soldiers, their physical fitness was not even as good as the mechanical servants. However, they were definitely better than those hungry people in the Feidong Society. Under Gu Hang's system, the Feidong people could be turned into qualified soldiers, not to mention the former slaves.
The low quality of soldiers will at most limit their further upgrading, but with the system's capabilities, it will not be a problem to train them to T5 level and reach the capabilities of regular troops.
In addition to the supplies that he deserved, as well as the captured weapons, equipment and ammunition, the greater gain was the gift he received after winning the battle.
[Win a great victory and get 33 points of gift]
[20 lost, 116 killed, 42 captured]
[1st Mecha Servant Light Infantry Battalion (part): 16 lost, 43 destroyed]
[Abandoned Cave Company: Lost 4, eliminated 21]
[Marine Corps (partial): 0 losses, 52 destroyed]
In this battle, a total of 158 people were killed and captured, with a total loss of 20 people.
The combined combat power of a T5-level army and thirty T4-level marines was much stronger than those inferior mercenaries. Even though the defenders had an advantage and the soldiers adopted a strong attack under Gu Hang's command, the exchange ratio in the end was still an exaggerated 1:8.
Of course, without the Marines driving the walkers and without the psychic Gu Hang participating in the battle, the exchange ratio would be a little ugly.
Most of the casualties among our soldiers were caused by machine guns and rocket launchers. Heavy machine gun fire hit the femoral artery, causing heavy bleeding, or rockets exploded at close range and killed them directly. In addition to a small number of direct deaths, many of the 20 casualties were seriously injured and could not return to the battlefield.
This kind of loss is still within the acceptable range for Gu Hang. One cannot expect a war without casualties.
However, Gu Hang also has to consider the replenishment of the troops.
The losses in Feidong Company are not a big problem. We can directly recruit new members from Feidong Society. It won’t be a problem to extract four more people.
As for the mecha soldiers, there is really no place to fill them.
In the future, the main force of Gu Hang's army cannot rely on the machine servants for a long time. In the future, they will have to recruit soldiers from the mainland.
We’ll talk about this later.
What he needs to think about further now is how to use the 33 new gifts he has acquired.
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I posted the chapters in the wrong order yesterday, 23 was posted first and then 22, and those two chapters were actually supposed to be posted today, but I set the wrong date when I scheduled it...
Just consider it as yesterday’s update!
Comrades who only watched 23 yesterday and didn’t see 22, you can go back and watch it.
(End of this chapter)
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