Chapter 784, Is the Empire willing?
The Battle of Le Quang Sing began.
The Battle of Li Guangxing was over.
The entire duration was less than a month, or to be more precise, 26 standard Terran days.
The actual fighting time was only 14 days. The rest of the time was spent on the march by the assembled troops.
The two regiments that Gu Hang had pointed out, plus a part of the Alliance Navy, participated in the operation. They were hired by the Eastern Space Region Provisional Government to carry out an extermination strike against the "traitor regiment" Li Guangzhijian.
The two chapter fleets, plus the Alliance Navy, had a total of eleven large warships above the battlecruiser level, including even an Emperor-class battleship.
The crushing naval force quickly destroyed Li Guangxing's outer protection in just five days.
Then the joint forces of Huangquangull and Blood Shark landed on the exposed star port, where they had a decisive battle with the Sword of Li Guang.
The Sword of Light's decision to not give up the Starport cost them blood. Four companies defended the Starport, but after two days of fighting, more than three hundred Sword of Light soldiers were massacred in the Starport.
The Blood Sharks and Yellow Spring Owls had deployed more than 600 soldiers. Not only did they have the advantage in numbers and combat effectiveness, they also had fighter planes and small warships sent by aircraft carriers to provide fire support at close range. The Blood Sharks and Yellow Spring Owls who killed these 300 people only had a total of more than 30 casualties, almost a 1:10 exchange.
After losing a wave of blood, Li Guangzhijian learned his lesson. This time, they chose a dispersed, guerrilla-style combat on the surface of the planet.
However, the Alliance's Storm Mage Corps and the newly established Spellweaver Corps of the Psionic Order jointly launched a large-scale psychic prophecy. The think tank team of the Sword of Light was completely suppressed.
While the enemy was about to disperse, the psychics used psychic teleportation to send more than a thousand Space Marines to the ground.
Aircraft carriers deployed fighter jets to assist; battleships, battlecruisers, and cruisers directly faced the ground's anti-orbital firepower, temporarily entered the planet's orbital area, and carried out covering bombing strikes on the ground.
Li Guangzhijian was caught off guard, and the last 500 soldiers were quickly wiped out before they had time to implement a dispersed guerrilla strategy under such an all-round attack from land, air and space.
The two regiments of the Alliance had only about sixty soldiers sacrificed.
All in all, there were less than a hundred casualties, and the entire Sword of Li Guang regiment was destroyed.
There may be thirty or fifty "traitor" space marines still on the surface of Li Guang Star, relying on the support of the people of their home planet, holding on. However, their monasteries, the planetary government of their home planet, the main hives and big cities, industrial bases, food production areas... almost all of them have been occupied by the mercenary corps of the Eastern Space Region.
This part of the troops fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains, swamps, and islands will no longer have any impact on the overall situation.
Blood Shark left behind a company to clear out the remnants, and the remaining main force of the Space Marines has been withdrawn.
The impact of this battle is enormous.
Let's not talk about how it will spread. At least, within the Eastern Universe, the deterrent effect is extremely strong.
All those planets that had signed the confirmation letter reluctantly and recognized the agency government of the universe were dumbfounded. The most powerful and tough one was easily destroyed in such a quick and destructive way. It was too scary.
Even a Space Marine regiment that was defending with all its might, recovering all its troops, and fighting at home to defend its home planet was beaten like this. What can be done about those ordinary planets?
The alliance does not need to mobilize a large number of troops and can easily destroy them head-on.
Not to mention, there are countless supporters of the alliance within their planet.
Just lower your head and it's done.
The ones who were most shocked were actually the other three war groups in the Eastern Universe.
They are the Crown of Light, a successor to the Saints Chapter, the Gnawers, a successor to the Blood Angels Chapter, and the Unforgotten Oath, a successor to the Death Angels Chapter.
Although the four warbands belonged to different mother groups and were often separated by two or three star regions, they were all in the same universe, so they had a lot of communication. Especially at certain times, when the universe government had something that it couldn't handle, it would often ask for help from the four warbands at the same time. They even had the experience of fighting side by side.
They knew the combat power of the Sword of Light, and it was not a fragile regiment. In fact, as a sub-regiment of the Infinite Regiment, and inheriting the tradition of the Infinite Regiment, the Sword of Light was in the best operating condition among the four regiments, and it was able to keep its troops at the peak condition, and it was a fully staffed regiment. Except for the company of 100 people that was lost on Wuji Star, all the rest returned to defend, and there were still more than 800 people.
This too was quickly destroyed.
And what about them?
Apart from the fact that the Radiant Coronet Chapter was not too worried about the issue of offspring and had relatively sufficient manpower, the gene seeds of the Gnawers and the Unforgotten, two angel chapters from different chapters, were relatively less stable.
Especially the nibblers.
Their military strength has always hovered around five to six hundred people.
Although they thought their individual combat power was not weak, they did not have the strict tactical organization of the Sword of Li Guang. If a real fight broke out, they would probably be inferior to the others.
What's more, the construction of their fleet and mother planet cannot be compared with that of Li Guangxing.
What if the alliance targets them?
There is no need to fight!
Up to this point, they are now deeply grateful that in the previous struggle between Yinbasim and the Alliance, they either continued to maintain friendly relations with the Alliance or remained neutral, so as not to get into trouble.
Otherwise, since the Alliance is determined to destroy the Sword of Li Guang, then destroying them as well would be a simple matter.
It's nothing more than a dispatched battle group or fleet, and a stop by their home planet.
It won't cost anything extra.
The three regiments shrank back like quails.
No one dared to breathe under the Alliance's tiger beard, let alone stand up for the Sword of Li Guang.
Never mind, I’m not familiar with it.
Even the Gnawers have strengthened their cooperation with the Alliance.
They were the group with the best relationship with the Alliance. Fifteen years ago, their situation was very bad, with less than 300 members. They had some serious problems with their gene seeds, and were affected by the traditional gene diseases of the Blood Angels. The two problems of "blood rage" and "black rage" made them extremely powerful after they went berserk, but at the same time, they always suffered greater casualties and reductions in personnel due to irreversible gene diseases.
The economic assistance provided by the Alliance is very great. In recent years, they have even begun to break the chapter tradition and accept new recruits sent by the Alliance's New Blood Base.
It was with the help of these means that their number gradually recovered from less than three hundred to about six hundred within fifteen years.
Now that the alliance had shown greater strength and determination, they also made a decision. Not only did they increase their cooperation, but they also boldly signed the declaration of the Eastern Universe Provisional Government and sent people to watch Cui Ru's inauguration ceremony.
It’s a big statement. If it’s not handled properly, there will be consequences in the future.
In return, the Alliance expressed its willingness to send more new blood to them and dispatch professional Mechanicus Archbishops to help them control genetic diseases.
Win-win!
Everyone was having a great time.
…
The deep love between Gu Hang and his daughter is always interrupted.
Even though he had a perfect coalition government to work for him, many important matters still had to be dealt with on his desk in the end.
The relevant report came again soon.
Business is more important, so I'll leave my daughter to my wife and medical staff.
What I am reporting this time is the notification letter that the interim government of the Eastern Universe will send to Holy Terra.
The alliance supports the uprising in the Eastern Universe in order to show its strength, determination and deterrence. The alliance is not afraid of actually starting a war with the empire, although it is judged that if a war breaks out, the alliance will certainly feel bad. However, without such determination, how can it scare the central government of the empire?
Moreover, according to the alliance's assessment, the probability of a war is actually quite low. The bottom line of the central government of the empire should not be to accept the alliance's continued expansion in public. If this red line is crossed, then war is inevitable no matter what.
But isn't it okay for the alliance to tread on the edge of this red line and not cross it?
The Alliance has never considered directly taking over the Eastern Universe and bringing it into the Alliance's system for unified management. The Eastern Universe will still be an independent political entity and will still retain the Empire's system. There will be no changes from the chairman of the Universe to the planetary governor.
The taxes that the Eastern Universe has to pay to the central empire are also paid in the traditional way, with 10% of the total output value as the target - of course, the alliance will not care about the normal losses in the middle.
The central government of the empire can even continue to send officials to the Eastern Universe.
There is no problem with any of these.
However, the central government of the empire cannot interfere with the alliance's business with other places, cannot impose blockades, and cannot engage in hostile behavior. Those planets do business with the alliance, introduce the alliance's industries and management models, and even entrust the planets to officials hired from the alliance for management, while they themselves reside in the alliance and enjoy a good life. These are their own choices, which are obtained by the spillover of the alliance's economic and cultural strength.
To put it bluntly, economic and cultural means are acceptable, but tough administrative orders or even military threats are not acceptable.
The Alliance did not use force to coerce the governments of any size in the Eastern Universe, so why would the Empire use harsh policy directives and kill people to stop all this?
The notification letter sent by the acting government to the central government is quite long and contains a lot of content, but the general meaning is also very clear.
The first few bits of content talk about the evil deeds done by Yinbashim, so we will quickly skip over them. A little bit is enough. After all, this article is not really about provoking the empire.
However, as the reason why things happen, a villain must always be created.
Then, Cui Ru, the temporary chairman of the acting government, said that their goals were for the "well-being of all citizens of the Eastern Universe Empire", "to be loyal to the empire", and "to shoulder the responsibilities as citizens of the empire".
Things like taxation and official appointments are mentioned here.
Finally, it wrote about the relationship between the Eastern Universe and the Alliance, emphasizing that the two are different and that the central government of the empire absolutely does not need to worry that the Eastern Universe will enter the alliance system.
But at the same time, they also emphasized that for the future development of the Eastern Universe, trade and investment exchanges with the Alliance are the lifeline and the key, and this must be maintained continuously.
In the end, Cui Ru requested the Imperial Central Government to recognize her identity as the acting chairman and to become the official chairman of the Universe.
You killed the senior official I sent to supervise you, and then told me you wanted to be in power and get my approval?
This is something that is absolutely unacceptable in any unified dynasty. Even if one is unable to suppress the rebellion, it is difficult to just swallow one's anger.
But the empire...all we can say is that it has its own national conditions.
The Empire is different and cannot be viewed as a nation with a unified will.
In the empire's ten thousand years of history, all kinds of strange things have happened.
Situations like this are very common.
To put it simply, there were rebellions on many planets, and the planetary governors reported and requested reinforcements. The higher-level government considered for a long time and found that the cost of suppressing the rebellion was relatively high. It took a lot of time to organize the troops, and when they arrived at the place, they found that the original governor had been overthrown.
Let's wipe out all the rebels, it costs money and many people die. Then the rebel leader said that we still pay taxes normally, the higher-level government made some calculations, so let's do it, collect some taxes and go home.
The above process is quite normal and has happened in many places.
At the star domain level, a similar situation also occurs. The star domain head originally has the power to retain a portion of the imperial tax from the local machine, and although the autonomy within the star domain is not as high as that of the planetary governor, it is much higher than the star zone level, like a prince. Once the internal political strife and struggle become fierce, the star domain head will be overthrown.
In this case, it depends on how the Universe Government and the Imperial Central Government handle it, but the probability of choosing to quell the rebellion is higher than the probability of just holding their noses and giving up.
Because the position of the head of the star field is already considered a powerful high-ranking official, a lucrative position that many people are eyeing, who among the local lords does not want to be one? With an excuse, the rebellion was quelled, and those who contributed, connected, and gave orders could all share a lot of benefits.
But there are also those who rise to power through rebellion. They are already in a high position, and some of their rebellions are even instigated by external high-ranking officials, the Chairman of the Universe, or even Holy Terra - as long as the cost of rebellion to overthrow the head of state is lower than the cost of finding conventional ways to get rid of him in the political arena.
Such a situation would most likely be accepted by the empire.
But if it gets higher, to the level of the Chairman of the Universe, the probability of the Empire bowing is even lower - but it's not impossible, it's just that the circumstances of each case are different, it will be very complicated, and require specific analysis.
Specifically speaking of the matter of the Eastern Universe, no matter how Cui Ru, the acting chairman, removed the alliance from the content of the declaration letter, in fact, everyone knew that there could be no alliance in this matter.
Without the support of the alliance, Cui Ru would not be able to gather the military strength to overthrow Yinbashim; without the support of the alliance, it would be even more impossible to quickly and ruthlessly exterminate a war group.
The route taken here is actually that the alliance is dissatisfied, so they killed Yin Bashim and supported a newcomer to take the position. But at the same time, they are willing to maintain the status quo. As long as the central government of the empire does not cause trouble, we will not push any further.
I would like to ask the Imperial Center, are you willing?
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