Chapter 650: Waiting for the Right Time
What was it like to sign seven extermination orders in four days?
Gu Hang felt very heavy.
According to the standards for signing the extermination orders before, those worlds are not only difficult to resolve, the loyalists in them can no longer be contacted and can no longer provide assistance. Most importantly, these are core worlds with dense populations.
The smallest one had a population of over five billion before the war.
In addition to population, another dimension of evaluation is whether the orbital defense system of the world is strong enough. If the orbital defense system is average and has no defensive effect on the alliance's fleet, then Gu Hang will not easily sign an extermination order, but will be more inclined to send ground troops to attack the enemy on the surface with the orbital support of the fleet and try to search for survivors.
These participating troops do not necessarily have to be the Alliance's direct troops, but can be mobilized from local troops on some planets in the Alfonzo star field that are in better condition to fight.
For this purpose, the Alliance might only have to pay for the transportation capacity when deploying troops, and a few frigates or destroyers that can provide ground support. Even the ammunition can be requisitioned from those planets.
The fleet will attack areas with particularly stubborn defenses on the ground and cooperate with ground forces. In addition, virus bombs are constantly being produced. Now, almost every few are made and shipped to where they are needed, so that the infected bodies can play their role as much as possible before they have time to get information and evolve and transform their genes.
In this way, a planet with only 300 million to 500 million, or at most 10 to 20 billion infected people can be conquered slowly. And with the help of virus bombs and orbital support, the cost may not be particularly high.
But if the population of this planet is too large, exceeding five billion, and the orbital defense is relatively complete, the cost of a fleet breakthrough will be high, there will be huge losses in the process of troop deployment, and the ground war will be a huge quagmire that is difficult to solve even with viruses and bombs... This is the target of Gu Hang's extermination order.
Seven extermination orders, a total of 60 billion people will be exterminated.
Of course, what made Gu Hang feel heavy-hearted was not that he decided the fate of 60 billion people.
In fact, their fate had already been determined during the process of pest infection.
Gu Hang is not so naive as to think that these infected people are still alive.
What was heavy on his mind was that the loss of 60 billion people meant that seven worlds were completely destroyed.
And on these planets, according to data models, there may be 3 to 5 billion mentally stable loyal humans, and they are all gone.
It's all loss.
Of the remaining forty-three worlds that had previously lost contact, seventeen were eventually contacted, and with their help, the planets could be pacified; the other twenty-six were never contacted, but their problems could still be solved, with small populations or weak planetary defense systems, so they could be slowly dealt with.
If the situation in the Alfonzo star field had been stabilized since the victory of Alamita, then now the situation would not experience any more twists and turns.
As long as we proceed according to the established strategy, the outcome of battles involving tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people on the planet will not affect the overall situation at all.
And what is the general trend?
The general trend is that the Alliance will completely control the entire Alfonzo Star Region.
Including the fact that Martins, as the head coach, took over the Jingjie star field, the area currently under the actual control of the alliance has reached as many as five star fields.
Among them, Longying and Menghe can already be considered as the concept of "local". The government agencies of the alliance are distributed on almost every planet in these two star regions. The human and material resources on these planets can be used by the alliance.
The Aozhua Star Region is advancing this work at full speed.
In a state of war, the work of the coalition government is also very tiring.
It is not just about preparing for various wars, but there is also another task, which is to take over the various areas occupied by the alliance.
The focus is on the proud claw.
In many places in the Aozhua star region, military control and the delegation of local power groups have been ended, and an alliance system has been established instead.
This is the only way to digest the territory into the strength of the alliance itself.
Of course, construction is always more difficult than destruction.
It is not an easy task to transplant the alliance's political system and establish direct ruling relations on many planets.
But despite the difficulties, we must move forward step by step.
There are currently three modes of rule in the alliance.
The most important thing is to fully establish the political system of the alliance, including the rank system and a highly centralized government agency... Places that have completed these political constructions can be considered the core territory of the alliance. The alliance will develop the planet as much as possible according to local conditions, and can fully mobilize the planet's resources and adjust the planet's production model to help with war or development.
The other is that the political system is not fully established. Ranks are only used for some people, and a considerable part of the population is outside the rank system. Government agencies are also directly managed by the top government of the alliance, but there are quite a few people in them who have traces of the old forces and have not been able to be completely reformed.
Places like this are currently included in the territories of the alliance. In Gu Hang's system interface, he can clearly see that these territories are providing him with gift points, and the alliance can also call on the manpower and material resources in them. As for the difference, there are quite a lot of negative conditions in these included territories, such as unstable rule, vacillating classes, conspiracy groups... and so on. Specifically, there are many constraints and it is not so smooth. The people below will pretend to obey but secretly disobey, and will try to corrupt the officials of the alliance. Some of them are really corrupted and collude with local interest groups...
These things, if found out, will be included in the government report and integrated for Gu Hang to see. Of course, there are still many things hidden underwater that have not been found out yet.
But now Gu Hang no longer has the possibility to pay attention to the conditions of every planet.
He could only fully believe that the many officials he had trained could complete their work on these planets in accordance with the grand strategy formulated by the alliance.
The third type is that the alliance system has not yet been completed, and the local ruling structure and government agencies still retain the appearance of the original planet. The alliance controls the planet through special envoys, military occupation, etc.
Reflected in the system, it is a vassal.
Generally speaking, all the territories of the alliance have roughly three layers of structure from the inside out.
Moreover, the alliance is constantly transforming directly ruled areas into core territories, and vassal states into directly ruled areas.
In this regard, Gu Hang had two huge advantages that other rulers might not have.
First, in terms of talent.
With the help of the system, Gu Hang invested a considerable amount of gift points in this area.
A large number of them have been trained in Zhongsi College, and even trained by the [Political Commissar], and have been inspired by the [Hero] interface. They all have different but absolutely outstanding levels in government affairs and economic construction.
These [heroes] are the driving force behind the Alliance’s booming development.
Another thing is that Gu Hang can clearly see on the monthly income interface whether a planet has been recognized by the system and counted as the alliance's territory.
This is very important.
Among the rulers of the real world, who can really know whether every territory and every planet under their command truly obeys their orders and is truly reliable enough?
The people below will pretend to obey but actually disobey, will deceive, and will create information cocoons and false images...
However, what Gu Hang saw in the system interface was the actual situation.
This reduced the huge uncertainty. Although Gu Hang didn't know what happened on those planets, as long as he saw that the loyalty level of a planet dropped, such as a negative status, or even separated from the alliance territory and became a vassal territory, or even rebelled, he would know directly that there was a problem on the planet and sent people to investigate and solve it.
As the loyalty level of a planet rises, Gu Hang will know that the officials of that planet, whether it is the planetary governor or the government agency, have done a good job, and he can easily reward them according to their merits.
Although it is a bit result-oriented, it is an objective fact anyway. It is better than being fooled by the fancy articles below and thinking that the situation is very good, but in fact the situation is rotten and the supreme ruler knows nothing about it.
Now Gu Hang basically won’t be fooled.
Whenever a government department praises someone for doing a good job, or criticizes someone else for doing a bad job, Gu Hang can tell whether it is praise or criticism or just discussing the facts by just glancing at the system to see the results.
Flattery, whitewashing, fraud... these things have no effect on Gu Hang. After several severe punishments, the coalition government has been able to maintain a relatively pragmatic, efficiency-oriented and results-oriented atmosphere from top to bottom.
As the scale of rule grows, problems such as bloat and reduced efficiency are inevitable. But the alliance has also implemented many strategies, such as delegating more power to local officials, allowing them to act at their convenience.
Ordinary governments can't do this. Well, actually, that's what the Empire does. After all, it's too big, so it can only delegate as much power as possible and let the planetary governors do things on their own.
But this would lead to too much independence, which would make it difficult to use human and material resources as they please. The mobilization of human and material resources would rely mainly on political inertia, military oppression, and the loyalty of local people. The main source of income would be imperial taxes, and additional resource support would be difficult to come by.
But Gu Hang is not afraid that the local officials will have too much independence. This is still the benefit from the loyalty of the personnel and the system interface that Gu Hang can use to monitor the situation in the area in real time. It doesn't matter if the independence is high, officials are less likely to have dissent. Of course, the Zhongsi Academy and the political commissar training are not completely 100% mind-locked, but they strengthen education, and those who are loyal enough are not likely to rebel. There are also some who have a rebellious mind, but Gu Hang can immediately see it from the state of the planet.
Negative states such as [separatist tendencies], [lip service], [unruly rulers], etc., can be easily understood at a glance and can be eliminated as soon as any sign of the problem emerges.
Being able to directly see "loyalty" is the biggest golden finger for rulers.
Gu Hang felt very satisfied as he watched the core territory and directly-affiliated territory continue to expand with the passage of time.
In a sense, he even hoped that this war to suppress the rebellion could last longer. Even if he didn't seek to capture more territory, at least it would give Gu Hang more time to digest the occupied areas, which would be good.
If it ended early, it would be difficult for the alliance to manage.
When the time comes, once Gu Hang removes his position as the commander-in-chief of the southern front, what will happen to the territories he occupies?
The central government of the empire will certainly reward people based on their merits, but no matter what, it is impossible to give all four star regions of Menghe, Aozhua, Jingjie, and Alfonzo to the alliance.
Spanning two universes, a total of five star regions, a total of more than three thousand worlds... Too exaggerated. Some small universes with a small number of colonized planets only have this many worlds.
If we give everything to the Alliance, wouldn't the Alliance instantly become a more terrifying local force than Tiekai? Speaking of loyalty, what if Gu Hang rebels one day? The commotion he causes is likely to be even bigger than Tiekai!
Gentlemen on Holy Terra, aren't you afraid that just after you defeat Iron Armor, you will give rise to a separatist force with greater potential for future development than Iron Armor?
There is no way they are not considering this.
By then, there will still be a lot of room for negotiation at the political level.
How much the Alliance will eventually be able to take away, how it will be taken away, and what kind of relationship the Alliance and the Empire will have in the future all seem to be unknown.
In general, Gu Hang didn't want to vomit out too much of what he had eaten, nor did he want to fall out with the empire, be labeled a traitor, and then be constantly besieged by all parties in the empire.
Did Iron Armor fail militarily? Of course not. They started from the Princess Star Region and quickly swept across the entire universe. On the battlefield, the Western Front, which had the presence of the Initial Warband and the full support of the Inquisition, was beaten back by them and eventually collapsed; at the beginning of the Northern Front, Leluwa was also blocked by the Zerg and could not be bitten. Gu Hang had always been quite cautious on the Southern Front, advancing step by step. Although he had won a series of victories, to put it bluntly, they were all fighting against Fury and Alfonzo, not Iron Armor's main force.
But so what? With victory after victory, the Empire lost one army after another, but in the end, it kept losing. If the Empire lost one legion, it could send two more; if it lost a Phoenix Regiment, it could immediately pull out an Ortopis. If the Black Crusaders couldn't handle one fleet, they would send another one. The Silver Watch, the Faithful Stormtroopers, and other elite troops could provide continuous support from different places.
What if I win one game, ten games, or a hundred games? Won't there be losses?
If you lose a big one, you lose everything.
Gu Hang saw all of this and took it as a warning.
Even if Gu Hang was confident that he could withstand it even if the two armies on the western and northern fronts moved south to deal with him after defeating Iron Armor.
But that doesn't make sense.
Even if they win, they will just be like Tiekai, being completely overwhelmed by the endless stream of imperial armies, wave after wave.
The best situation is to hide under the banner of the empire, develop gradually, and wait for the right time.
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This chapter makes up for yesterday.
There is another chapter in the second half of the night.
(End of this chapter)
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