Chapter 790, Three Wars
In fact, the Empire always thinks that the Alliance is expanding, which is actually a bit unfair to the Alliance.
The current territorial scope of the alliance is actually enough for them to cause trouble.
As long as the external environment is good, Gu Hang and many alliance executives agree that they are willing to stay at home and farm peacefully. Even if the economic growth rate slows down, it is still 6-8% per year.
This economic growth rate is very rare in the entire empire, and it can even be said to be unique.
It doubles almost every ten years!
If you just farm and do business honestly, you can get rich. Why fight a war?
It’s not like the time when we were poor and our territory was small.
But there is no way.
The external environment will never improve on its own; it all depends on your own efforts.
Moreover, a man is innocent if he possesses a treasure. Now that the alliance has money, the eyes of the poor empire will naturally come to it.
In addition, since the alliance has money, many people naturally believe that the alliance will be ambitious and expand.
No matter what Gu Hang did, he seemed like an ambitious man who wanted to expand, subvert the existing order, and move into Holy Terra.
The Solaria War, in which the Alliance participated, is a typical example.
The Alliance Army participated in the Battle of Solaria in accordance with the Empire's request, under the name of the Astra Militarum Corps "Angry Bear" and in the same way as other Astra Militarum Corps participated in the war.
Under such circumstances, the central government of the empire should naturally be responsible for logistical supplies.
But in reality, the dispatch of all kinds of materials is often withheld by bureaucrats at various levels.
The 'Angry Bear' Legion's superior headquarters repeatedly pushed the Alliance forces to the front lines with the heaviest casualties.
They have their reasons. Aren't you Alliance soldiers good at fighting? The more capable you are, the more work you will do. The hard battle will be handed over to you.
The alliance was not unacceptable to fight a tough battle. The headquarters' statement could also be agreed upon.
But you treat me as a sharp knife in your hand, why do you still withhold supplies?
Why is there multiple instances of friendly support being unfavorable?
Why do they force the alliance's army to fight to the death in battles that are clearly hopeless?
These are the elite troops in our hands. Is this the treatment they deserve?
Obviously not.
So what should the Union Army do?
You don't deserve to be cheated to death.
In order to maintain combat effectiveness, the Alliance Expeditionary Force Command was forced to activate the "War Zone Self-sustaining Plan" in the name of "temporary military control" to take over several key hub planets and establish a complete closed-loop system from conscription, production to taxation.
It's no wonder that this area under the Alliance Army's "martial control" has become a very beautiful landscape in the Solarian War.
Solaria's corruption went far beyond expectations.
After the end of the Solar Crusade, the Human Empire stopped expanding outward, and its overall goal turned to stabilizing Solaria and preserving the results of the Solar Crusade.
Although, in the imperial political arena, the Solar Expedition was considered to be an action that did more harm than good, but the Solar Expedition lasted for more than sixty years, cost so much money, and caused so many deaths, the benefits gained must be preserved.
However, the sudden death of the Sun Lord instantly made the Sun Expeditionary Army lose control. The Solaria universe has tens of thousands of worlds, divided into 17 star regions, which is at least twice the number of ordinary universes. The Sun Expeditionary Army, which lost its leader, was directly shattered by the division of many war apostles and local forces.
In name, they are all forces under the empire.
But in reality... they are just a group of separatist warlords.
What they did was much more excessive than the alliance.
The Alliance nominally follows the Empire, believes in the state religion, the Mechanicus, pays taxes, and is now almost one of the most important sources of financial revenue for the Empire. The Alliance will go to war if asked to.
Those who criticize the Alliance for being disloyal every day may not know who has made greater contributions to the Empire.
As for the separatist warlords in Solaria, they were truly separatist. They were very active in asking the empire for money, and would cause chaos if the empire did not give them money.
Pay taxes? Pay nothing. All the money is used to suppress the riots. If you have the guts, just send tax collectors or a court to investigate.
When we checked, no one said a word.
Ambitious people are carving out their own territory, the remnants of Chaos faith are rekindling like wildfire, Zerg parasitic sects are entrenched in the lower levels of the hive, orcs are rioting... There are many factors that contribute to Solaria's corrupt situation.
In response to this situation, the empire will naturally strike back hard.
Fifty years have passed since the death of the Sun Lord, and the Empire has never stopped its efforts to suppress the rebellion in Solaria.
The war situation there is different from the all-out war on a cosmic scale that once took place in the Spider Web Universe, which consisted of multiple battles and large-scale battles. It is more like a security war that has lasted for fifty years without interruption.
It was a sick piece of flesh growing on the body of the empire, which was hard to bear to cut off. It could still play some role to some extent; but it required a lot of resources to maintain and it would bleed continuously.
Although not many resources were directly spent on suppressing the rebellion each year, and in some years it was even enough to offset the amount of taxes collected, but after fifty years, the total cost was even greater than fighting a war of attrition.
The key point is that after the Iron Armor War, although the Spider Web Universe was given to the Alliance, the return to the Empire Central was also very high. The imperial tax alone was almost ten times higher than before. But Solaria, which invested so many resources, is still bleeding.
Not only are those separatist forces, chaos beliefs, and alien enemies difficult to defeat, on the contrary, if the Empire is willing to spend money, these things cannot stop the Imperial Army.
But the problem is the management after the victory.
We can't issue an extermination order for all of them at once, so why fight back?
A large number of imperial troops were thus entangled in the security war, which cost a lot of money.
What was even more frightening was that there seemed to be a special atmosphere in this area. Many of the troops that had suppressed the rebellion had a tendency to turn into separatist forces after suppressing them for several years.
The troops sent from the center of the empire might be a little better, but the star army that is not directly under the central government is not that reliable.
As for the most problematic ones, they are actually the anti-rebellion troops that are not even the Star Army, but are recruited from other star regions and universes. They are the ones who can easily become new separatist regimes after they have finished suppressing the rebellion.
At present, Solaria's situation is naturally better than the worst period, but the problem is still serious.
In this context, the order level of the planet under the military control of the Alliance Army has been greatly improved, regardless of anything else.
In this situation, the planetary governors who were originally appointed here were forced to accept the military control of the "Angry Bear" Legion, but later on, their attitude turned to acquiescence, and they even took the initiative to invite the political commissars of the alliance legions to participate in local government affairs.
With the presence of the Angry Bear Legion, a considerable part of the troops were invested in maintaining the law and order of the planet, which was a great help. At the beginning, the Inquisition was quite unhappy with the behavior of the Angry Bear Legion. A faction of the Inquisition active in the Solaria space even accused the Angry Bear Legion of "separatism in the name of suppressing bandits".
It's just like the anti-rebellion troops from other places who eventually turned into new traitors.
This faction of the Inquisition, which has been stationed in Solaria for decades, has seen too many similar situations.
But soon they discovered that the situation was different.
The planetary governors no longer criticized the Alliance, but instead spoke well of it.
At first, the people of the Inquisition thought that it was because the planetary governor was also corrupted or controlled by the Alliance.
However, when the Inquisition came, they found no signs of corruption. Not only did the Alliance not commit any heresy, but it also cooperated with the investigation.
More importantly, the imperial taxes of these planets are still paid normally - before the Alliance military control, the imperial taxes of these planets were often in arrears or even not paid. When they were paid, the amount of money they paid for the imperial taxes was often less than the resources spent by the Empire to help them quell the problems on the planets.
The situation became more stable after the alliance military took control and stationed there permanently.
Although there was still a risk of rebellion from the alliance's army, at least there was no such risk now.
In fact, after learning about Solaria's affairs, the Alliance officials also gave a special explanation to the Empire on this matter.
If you don't want me to occupy it, I won't. The alliance didn't intend to make any money from this, or have any extra bad intentions. This matter was purely because the conventional model was too ineffective. After the alliance implemented military control, although there were no professional civilian officials, the military and political commissars of the alliance were able to establish order well one by one.
In Solaria, order alone is a very useful thing.
In consideration of the imperial taxes and the fact that the Angry Bear Legion did not really interfere with local construction and continued to follow the orders of the superior headquarters, going wherever they were told to fight, the empire eventually acquiesced to all this.
They did not give explicit authorization to the Angry Bear Legion or the Alliance Army to manage these worlds, but chose to default.
It is assumed that they can obtain supplies from these planets. If there are not enough physical materials to replenish the army, at least after collecting the funds, they can find the imperial merchants to exchange the money for various war materials needed by the army.
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Such was the case during the Alliance's war in Solaria.
For the alliance, the last of the three wars in the past decade is actually the most important one for the alliance itself.
The Solarian War was fought for the Empire; the Orc War threatened the Eastern Space, but not the Alliance's homeland.
And only this war against the Dark Eldar was fought within the Alliance, in the northern part of the Spider Web Realm.
Moreover, the form of warfare was one that the Alliance was not very familiar with.
In the past, most of the battles the Alliance encountered were battles where both sides squared off and fought to the death.
However, this is not the case when fighting against the Dark Eldar.
Those Eldar pirates move secretly among the stars, and it is very difficult to catch them.
They rely on a special stargate system to sail across star regions, and are quite elusive. They specifically select newly opened trade routes of the Alliance to launch lightning raids. Their tactics are extremely sinister: they use poison crystal cannons to paralyze the engines of merchant ships, kidnap the entire ship's population to make living sculptures, and finally leave a twisted subspace beacon to lure the rescue fleet into a trap.
The Alliance suffered heavy losses in its early battles against these Eldar pirates.
However, in a "Black Abyss Sea Battle", Gu Hang took action personally.
He also couldn't stand these pirates who were increasingly fond of invading the alliance and causing trouble.
He called his son over, and borrowed the remaining abilities of the Lord of Change. He deduced and calculated the wave patterns of the Eldar pirates using the star gate to travel through. Then he set up a triple gravitational trap in the Black Abyss Galaxy, and used a caravan carrying supplies and people as bait. As if ignorant, he broke into the enemy's 'trap'.
The subsequent things went smoothly.
The pirates that appeared were caught in the gravity trap, and their speed was greatly reduced. The merchant ship took the opportunity to escape, and at the same time, the main fleet of the alliance ambush jumped to the Black Abyss Galaxy through the star tunnel and rushed over at high speed.
In this battle, the alliance's most powerful warship, the 'Orient' Queen of Glory, showed her strength in her first battle!
More than 67 Dark Eldar pirate ships were turned into waste in the universe.
The treasures accumulated from the looting fell into the hands of the alliance.
The biggest benefit, or a lesson for the Dark Eldar, was that the Alliance also captured the huge star gate set up by the Dark Eldar in the "Black Abyss Galaxy".
In order to prevent it from being used by humans, the star gate was quickly closed from the inside.
But before the door closed, the Alliance Fleet, especially the 'Orient', fired several heavy artillery shells into it.
These attacks would probably cause enormous damage to the city of 'Comoros' opposite the star gate.
It would be really hard to vent my anger if I don't teach these dark elves a lesson.
Another point is that, taking advantage of the momentary chaos when the star gate was opened and the inside was bombed, Gu Hang stuffed 10,000 heroic spirits in.
Those dark elves might discover these heroes and make every effort to wipe them out, but as long as these heroes exist, Gu Hang can find a way to fully calculate the specific location of Commorros, the 'Curtain City' that is located between the subspace and the real universe.
If Gu Hang can really calculate the exact location of Comoros and think of a way to enter Comoros, then it means that when facing those Eldar pirates, humans will no longer be in a passive situation of being beaten, but will also have the opportunity and ability to actively threaten the Dark Eldar's nest!
(End of this chapter)
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