Chapter 605, Taking the Initiative
When the time entered the eighth standard Terra month of 10328, the situation of the "Iron Armor War" suddenly became turbulent.
In fact, there has been quite a lot of activity throughout the year.
In February, the Western Front collapsed, the Phoenix Master disappeared, and the Phoenix Regiment suffered heavy losses. This was a rare time in the history of the Empire when a newly founded regiment suffered such a heavy loss. However, the remaining Phoenixes were not so many in number, and the acting regiment leader had just been selected. It was difficult to seek revenge, and the only way was to rely on the descendants to think of ways to help. Unfortunately, the number of Phoenix descendants was not large.
Half a year after the collapse of the Western Front, the Magre Universe was in chaos, and the Iron Armor was expanding madly, not even caring about how much control they had over the world they occupied.
Even the word "occupy" is debatable. Often for some unimportant planets, an Ironclad ship arrives and announces that the world has been "liberated". The people and rulers of this world are even still confused. They may still be considering whether to resist the occupation of the Ironclad, be loyal to the empire, or just surrender for the time being?
As a result, Tiekai left.
What kind of occupation is this?
But often from this point on, cults begin to develop rapidly and strange things begin to happen one after another.
Fortunately, the Imperial Central Army led by Salilius arrived, and there was hope of stabilizing the Western Front.
While trying to stabilize more worlds in the Magre Universe, Salilius was also looking for the main force of the Iron Armored Corps. Whether to seek a decisive battle was another matter, but at least he had to find out where the main force of the Iron Armored Corps was now after defeating the Phoenix, what they were doing, and how they were doing.
With the strong support of the Anti-foreign Order, the northern front began to speed up the cleanup of the Zerg. Several worlds have successfully fought against the Zerg, and the situation is improving.
There was even a company of infinite warriors on the northern front that broke through layers of obstacles and pushed the front line to the Jianmen star field.
This place is very close to the Princess Star Region.
On the southern front, Gu Hang also set out.
Although the current shipbuilding cycle has not been completed, if we wait another half year, six giant ships can join the alliance fleet. But even in this half year, Gu Hang can't wait any longer.
Fortunately, the ships that were previously seized have been repaired.
The alliance's offensive targets were both the Nepeta and Alfonzo star regions.
Gu Hang's strategy involves a huge leap. He was playing it safe at the beginning, but now he has decided to fight, and he is not afraid to attack from two fronts.
Of course, it doesn't mean that the forces should be divided equally.
At least, at the beginning, the Alliance assembled its fleet in full force and took the lead in conquering the other side of the star tunnel leading to the Nepeta star field.
This place was not taken before not because it was impossible to attack, but purely to avoid provoking the opponent too much.
But now, who cares about whether it is exciting or not?
The battle for the Star Tunnel went relatively smoothly.
When Gu Hang arrived in person and the Alliance Fleet came out in full force, simply relying on a complete and strong planetary defense system was meaningless. Without a strong garrison, without the flexible protection of the fleet, and more importantly, without the psychic power to resist the Storm Mage Corps led by Gu Hang, their defense was meaningless and could not even delay the time.
After successfully taking over the Star Tunnel, the strategy adopted by the Alliance was basically the same as what Salilius did in the Magre Universe.
However, the situation encountered was somewhat different.
The Magre Universe was a new place occupied by Iron Armor, and many planets were not even considered "occupied". Even if they spread the Zerg corruption, the extent of the corruption was just that, and to eradicate it, they only needed to mobilize the local government and let the locals pay attention, and they could solve the problem themselves.
However, in the Jingjie Star Region, which is adjacent to the Princess Star Region, the situation is completely different.
The Jingjie Star Region has been directly occupied and ruled by Iron Armor for eight years since the Iron Armor War began. Since the Iron Armor's power has grown, they have been spreading their influence to the surrounding star regions with the Princess Star Region as the center for at least two hundred years.
After Iron Armor occupied Jingjie, the resistance sentiment in the star field was relatively low, which was completely different from that in the Magre universe.
There are hundreds of worlds under the jurisdiction of the Jingjie Star Region, and the respective local governments have a high degree of cooperation with Iron Armor.
Well, the chances of Iron Armor spreading Zerg corruption to the Nepeta star field are probably very high, and the history of the spread is probably quite long.
Even before the rebellion began, or even in the early stages of the rebellion, Tiekai did not dare to spread corruption openly. But in the past six months, after the bottom line was lifted, his scruples were greatly reduced, and the degree of corruption was unimaginable.
In fact, the alliance's intelligence agencies have already seen clues of these situations.
Although the Alliance has not taken the initiative to attack in the past period of time, it must have started collecting intelligence on the Jingjie star field, which is obviously the next strategic target.
When they had no intelligence about the connection between Iron Armor and the Zerg, they had already discovered that the situation of cults and rebellions inside the planets in the Nepeta star field was quite serious.
I didn’t take it seriously before. Cults and rebels exist in every imperial world.
Even in the Alliance, core worlds like Koroja have undergone institutional reforms by the Alliance, with power being transferred to the grassroots level. However, even now, reports of local legal institutions and local garrisons destroying small cult organizations are still coming in from time to time. After all, it is a world with a population of 40 billion and dozens of hives. No matter what it is, it is impossible to completely ban it.
Even Koroja is like this, not to mention the vast other imperial worlds.
Although there are quite a lot of cult organizations in the various worlds of the Jingjie Star Domain, and many of them are colluding with the local ruling class or even showing signs of open cooperation, they are generally still in a "heresy" situation.
Among these cults, there are still very few that are connected to the Chaos Abyss, and the Alliance intelligence officers have not found any serious signs of this. Many cults are more of a distortion and random interpretation of the doctrines of the Empire's state religion, which is relatively more acceptable.
The early overall assessment was that the risk of cults was relatively high, but still within an acceptable range.
It now appears that the previous investigation had some problems mainly in its direction.
The Alliance has had relatively little dealings with disasters like the Zerg, so when they mention cults, they tend to think of chaos and corruption.
And if we combine it with parasitic infection by insect swarms, the severity will skyrocket!
Not to mention the Jingjie Star Domain, even within the Aozhua Star Domain, such problems will be more prominent.
(End of this chapter)
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