Chapter 389, War Begins
This public declaration by Petters, addressed to the entire population of Facheras, caused a huge response.
Objectively speaking, he could not take over the power of the coalition government. Although he was a member of the family cabinet, his rank was not high enough, and his reputation was not high enough to achieve the effect of one person commanding a hundred people to respond. He could not command the coalition government, let alone really make all the Fachs Defense Forces lay down their arms on their own.
No matter what he said in his declaration, whether people actually listened to him or not is another matter entirely.
However, the declaration still caused great chaos in the Facheras regime.
On Facts 1, tens of millions of planetary defense forces fell into a strange silence.
Of course, the Grand Marshal of the Defense Force at the star port immediately took the orbital elevator back to the surface and declared Petters a traitor to the entire military system, but he was unable to completely end the chaos.
The reason is simple: Peters' words touched the hearts of the Facheras.
We pay taxes every year, we serve the Emperor's idol, we send our most valiant sons to the Astra Militarum to fight for the Empire, and we can proudly call ourselves citizens of the Empire from every angle and have done everything we should.
Why should we be unlucky?
Minnick has used this sentiment in the past to incite rebellion, and has directed the so-called "why" towards fines and targeted abuses by the sector government.
He was indeed successful, and the Fachers were indeed angry about it. Being raised to a higher level of development out of nowhere meant that everyone had to pay an increase in imperial taxes by more than 10% of their total income, which was fine, but they also had to go without food or drink for five years to save up all the income, who could stand this?
However, when the other side of the scale is clearly labeled as "Imperial traitor" and the Imperial army actually appears outside the planet's orbit, how long can this anger last?
The education they received and the stories they heard since childhood told of the fate of countless traitors, and now it was all reflected in the mind of every Facherian.
We are angry, but do we really want to go to war with the empire?
It's a question that requires careful consideration, especially when they are putting everything they have on the table.
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But Gu Hang did not give the Fachers any more time to figure out the problem.
This coup d'état that took place in the planet's capital has achieved the effect that Gu Hang expected.
The information from the ground was transmitted to the sky as soon as possible and was learned by Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the rebellion suppression.
At this moment, he was on the cruiser "Concerto", which was the current flagship of the Tianma Fleet. As the commander-in-chief, Gu Hang also set up his headquarters here.
He does not completely expect a coup to solve all problems.
The current situation is enough.
The imperial army, under his command, began to move.
The first to take action, of course, was the Pegasus Fleet.
Two cruisers, twenty-seven destroyers, and more than fifty other ships in total began to fiercely attack the planetary defense system of Facts 1.
The firepower from the ground, from the many star fortresses orbiting in orbit, from armed space stations, from star ports...all this firepower added together is not much weaker than that of the Pegasus fleet.
The firepower is similar, but that is only one aspect; in terms of anti-attack capability, these planetary defense facilities that do not require power are much stronger than starships.
The scale of the starport is much larger than that of the ship; the ground-based anti-orbital guns are simply protected by solid fortresses and even more solid ground; not to mention, they are also covered with energy shields or void shields.
Even those armed space stations, although relatively fragile, some of them don’t even have energy shields and can be destroyed by two or three shots, but they are low-cost and numerous.
This is the strength of a planet with complete orbital defense when facing naval attacks.
If the entire Facts 1 is viewed as a whole, it is not too far behind in the battle with the Pegasus fleet.
In theory, this should be the case.
However, after the battle began, things were slightly different.
The fortified starport's will to fight was quite strong, but some of the orbiting armed space stations and ground-based anti-orbital firepower did not open fire.
Fleet commander Du Shiliang was a little nervous. Before the war officially started, he was quite worried that his fleet would have to bear too high a price when clearing the planet's anti-orbital firepower.
But now it seems that the situation is much better than expected.
From those space stations that did not dare to open fire, communication requests were even sent to naval ships, which probably meant that they had heard orders from the United Government, and they guaranteed their loyalty to the Empire, so they would not open fire, and invited the Imperial Army to take over these space stations.
Du Shiliang was a little cautious at first and only sent out a very small number of marines on landing spacecraft.
When they approached, they were not attacked by the armed space station. Instead, the space station took the initiative to open the channel to contact the spacecraft. Often, a small team of marines can take over an armed space station with hundreds of people stationed.
The occurrence of these situations greatly reduced the intensity of naval battles faced by the Tianma Fleet.
Although several small warships, such as frigates or patrol ships, were damaged after intensive attacks and had to withdraw from the battle sequence, overall, the damage suffered by the Tianma fleet was much better than expected.
This is also the advantage of the navy fleet when fighting against planets - the initiative is in my hands. I can fight when I want to fight, and I can retreat when I want to retreat. Those surface orbital guns and orbital fortresses cannot be moved anyway, and I cannot pursue them.
A more conservative way of playing is to retreat as long as the energy shield is overloaded, and come back again after the overload is over. Be steady and don't be too unlucky to be blown up instantly, because the probability of direct combat damage is still very low.
The Pegasus fleet stayed in orbit around Fats 1 for about four hours.
At this moment, it was already evening on the surface. Everyone on Farches could see the brilliant lights in the sky by looking up.
It looks more vast and brilliant than a meteor shower.
But no one will be happy.
They all knew what it was, and each ray of light represented death and destruction.
They can only pray that all this glory will not really fall on their world.
(End of this chapter)
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