Chapter 514, Slow Down
The reputation strategy adopted by Humphrey is actually very difficult. There are many hurdles to overcome.
For example, Gu Hang heard Gallardo say that the Space Marine representative in the High Lords' Council was already contacting several powerful chapters.
Among them is the powerful top-level regiment like the Black Crusaders. They are also a regiment with great overgrowth, but their situation is completely different from that of the Iron Armor.
The Black Crusaders are a sub-group of the Golden Knights, and they have a great influence and background. But they do not occupy land, they are a ship-based group, they do not even have a home planet, they recruit soldiers and get supplies from wherever they fight, and then rush to the next battlefield...
Moreover, they are quite obedient.
This obedience does not mean that they will do whatever the Empire asks them to do, nor does it mean that they will obey the Empire government's interference in their internal affairs. But at least, if the Empire calls, they will come in most cases. They are also very happy to accept requests for help from all over the Empire, and they will come as long as they are free.
This has allowed them to accumulate a particularly large amount of reputation and goodwill, and there are indeed many local forces willing to give them support, donations, and rewards as a thank you, or simply to make friends with them in the hope of obtaining help from the Black Crusaders in the future.
And usually, they do get what they want.
But it is also because of this that although the Black Crusaders are large in scale, they are also very "busy".
The Black Crusaders received the call from the Empire and expressed their willingness to participate in the rebellion, but unfortunately, their many expeditionary fleets were all busy with their own missions. Although they had promised to try their best to dispatch a force as soon as possible to join the war, they could not promise a specific time.
In addition to the Black Crusaders, some famous warbands also received the call. Among them, there are several well-known new warbands. For example, the Blood Angels and Bats warbands in the northern border of the empire, and the Infinite Warband in the eastern border, which is also very famous. This warband is even the parent group of the Iron Armor Warband.
Dad is going to punish his son.
The heretic tribunal was also furious after suffering a setback. They were drawing more elite forces from their cooperation, especially the Sisters of Battle, to prepare to continue to participate in the war...
When these forces join the battle against Iron Armor one by one, the challenges Humphrey Paul faces will become greater.
Only by passing one level after another can the prestige strategy envisioned by Paul take shape.
Before that, he must carefully choose his opponents and strategies. He must not encounter a tough opponent too early, lest he suffer defeat before the time comes, causing the wave he is looking forward to to end prematurely.
This is exactly what Gu Hang judged. Now that the frenzy created by Iron Fury Stone on the western and northern fronts has already taken shape, it is imperative to invest most of the force to maintain this offensive.
They did not have enough strength to move south, nor could they be strategically confused.
The Alliance is a typical opponent that is not that famous, but is quite powerful. If you win, you may not get a big reputation bonus, and it is also difficult to beat.
But if they really came, Gu Hang wouldn't mind giving Humphrey Paul a head-on blow in the south.
The price offered by the empire was enough to satisfy Gu Hang, so he was willing to join the war.
However, the fact is that Tie Kai's attack on the alliance was mainly verbal attacks, supplemented by some small actions. Just as Gu Hang had expected, he did not dare to move south in an all-out manner.
Their main "little trick" is to use the influence built up by the Fury Corps' frequent activities in the Menghe Star Region in the past years to cause trouble for the Alliance.
They sent many "military advisers" and "independent advisers". Most of these people came from the auxiliary military systems of several regiments such as Iron Armor. Although they were not the most elite military force, as an auxiliary army called "Princess Legion" created by Humphrey Paul, their level was better than the average strength of the Star Army.
Of course, the Princess Royal Legion was not a large-scale organized force. In those worlds, at most it was a regiment, or even just a few companies.
The leading officer serves as a military advisor, leading the local people to build a more powerful force modeled after the Imperial Princess Corps.
This was not entirely for the sake of the alliance. In the past few years, the establishment of a local defense force based on the template of the Imperial Princess Army was itself a way to exert influence on the local area.
Objectively speaking, this did have a lot of impact on the alliance's actions in Menghe.
Originally, they hoped that they could use diplomatic means alone to pull the entire Menghe Star Region into an internal united front. But later on, relying solely on diplomacy and political means was no longer enough.
Then use military means.
After the alliance's advance fleet arrived, it launched a series of offensives.
At the beginning, there weren't many battles. The Menghe Star Region, which was close to the Dragon Eagle, was relatively close to the Alliance and was relatively timid. Once the fleet arrived and the army was sent down, the local forces basically stopped resisting and allowed the Alliance officials to be sent in. Various materials began to be collected, and the Alliance directly took over the Imperial Tax and Planetary Defense Force.
Once you have wealth and the army in your hands, there will be basically no problems.
After stabilizing a world, the advance fleet would move on to the next one, leaving only a portion of the army in the previous world.
This model is not a big problem in most cases. The officials left by the alliance, with the assistance of a small number of land forces, can basically control the world. The strength of the alliance and the righteousness they grasp ensure that they can control the situation relatively stably.
But this is not always the case.
In some worlds, there are no problems when the alliance's fleet and main force are present; problems begin to arise after the main force leaves.
A minor problem is local riots, which make it impossible for the cooperative government established by the alliance to control the global situation.
In places where the problems were more serious, there were even cases where the local cooperative government was overthrown, the alliance army was besieged, and alliance officials were killed.
Once this situation occurs, the Alliance usually has to call back the main force of the advance troops that have already left in order to resolve the local "rebellion".
But this seriously slowed down the alliance's actions.
In the early months of the Alliance's operations in the Menghe Star Field, after it had taken control of approximately seven star regions and 103 worlds, progress was drastically slowed down.
Gu Hang came here in person this time just to solve this problem.
(End of this chapter)
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