Chapter 801: Dark Side Expedition Prologue (Part 2)
When the starport commander's body solidified into a repentant ice sculpture in the vacuum, the hearts of people on the ground were inevitably shaken.
When the disaster struck, there was panic across the planet.
Everyone knows the purpose of their existence here, which is to stop the alliance. But after such a catastrophe, is this mission still meaningful?
They had had similar arguments among themselves before Gu Hang's notice was delivered.
They have lost contact with Holy Terra for a long time. Who knows what Holy Terra’s attitude is now?
From the perspective of the entire empire, the Alliance, which obviously has the ability to reconnect countless worlds, is the one that should be helped more. Standing on the opposite side of the Alliance and obstructing the Dark Side Expedition is what traitors do.
If we fight to the death here and actually die in battle, it will not only be harmful to the great cause of mankind, but we will also be widely despised after our death and will not be regarded as a hero.
Except for a few die-hard war advocates, most people can understand this truth.
The previous toughness was nothing more than bureaucratic inertia, an attempt to negotiate terms.
But seeing the alliance's tough attitude, coupled with the major changes in the war situation, the mentality of those who were already murmuring in their hearts has become even more wavering.
Two weeks later, when the situation was getting worse and worse and the Alliance Expeditionary Fleet was ready to fight to the last minute without unconditional surrender and execute all the "war criminals" to put them on the pillar of shame, changes finally took place on the planet.
When the nerve agent knocked down the last pro-war lieutenant general, when the poison gas purification system was activated, and when the emblem of the Sun Corps formed from the central territory of the empire rusted into residue while twitching, everything was over.
In the notice of unconditional surrender, soldiers from the entire planet laid down their weapons.
There were soldiers and officers who felt humiliated and betrayed.
But more people still feel a sense of relief.
This war, whose meaning they had no idea was finally coming to an end.
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The expedition fleet that was blocked for a month actually had the fastest subsequent progress among the three fleets.
Because the planet they conquered has been actively saving itself over the past few months, opening up navigation with two worlds and communicating with eleven worlds.
And their surrender led these eleven worlds to surrender together - no, to accept liberation.
The relevant documents have been sent via communication information. There are no particularly big problems on these planets. As long as the supplies are in place and the planet's own forces are organized, they can be stabilized.
The Alliance doesn't even need to send warships over. All it needs is one or two transport ships to deliver the officials of the Control Committee, their letters of appointment, and some relief supplies.
This is why, in an expedition, a planet can be captured in two or three days on average: as long as a crucial battle is fought, it is not just a planet that is conquered, but many worlds as well.
Like this time, they conquered 12 worlds in a month, an average of one world in less than three days.
Then, this fleet, like the other two fleets, was divided into several routes and advanced separately.
Everything went well for them, but the other two fleets started to run into some trouble.
There is no fortress world like the one that was conquered before, with a large-scale rebel army; nor are there multiple worlds uniting to form a unified force to fight against the alliance on the basis of mutual protection.
However, both of their fleets generally encountered worlds with serious internal problems on many planets.
There is a large-scale rebel army on the planet.
The rulers of these worlds have completely turned to the Alliance and obeyed its orders - they themselves are no longer able to solve their own internal problems, so they count on the Alliance for help.
When you encounter such a situation, you still have to help if you can.
Brute force is not an option, so the only option is to send millions of army troops to the ground, and then leave a few starships to provide fire support in the planet's orbit. Then the officers and political commissars in the army can enter the planetary defense force of the planet itself and reorganize the planetary defense force.
In this way, a path can be formed with the Allied Army as the backbone, the Navy as the support, and the construction of a local defense force as the development direction.
This whole set of methods basically ensures that the problems on the planet can be solved. Whether it is a simple rebel or a chaos rebel, it can always be dealt with.
But the problem is that it will take a long time.
That would be fine, but the key is that it requires a relatively large number of manpower and ships.
The combination of these two problems will slow down the expedition progress of the entire fleet.
If there were only one or two such worlds, it would be fine. The forces divided out were not too much, and the remaining large forces could continue their expedition.
However, the two fleets encountered a total of thirty worlds that required them to divide their forces.
This is troublesome.
The two fleets seemed to be stuck in a quagmire as they divided their forces again.
Given the conditions in these worlds, it would be impossible to leave without spending a year.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
The expedition headquarters gave clear instructions that in such a situation, we should proceed steadily and not rush for success, otherwise some problems that have not been properly resolved will recur. When the time comes, the Thunder Torch Tower that has been built will be destroyed and we will have to go back to deal with it. In addition, it will also be a loss to the prestige of the alliance on the planet.
I would rather go slower and more steadily.
Fortunately, the progress of the Third Fleet can be guaranteed.
Of course, the three fleets that are setting out now are just the vanguard of the Alliance’s dark expedition.
After three months and after controlling a total of sixty-nine worlds, the second expeditionary force also arrived in the Magre universe.
This expeditionary force had more ships and more land forces than the first one, even five times more.
Thirty percent of them were incorporated into the three previous expedition fleets, which directly brought the two fleets that were stuck in the quagmire back to life. They began to actively study which planets could be used to increase the number of troops, so that the mission could be quickly resolved and the trapped troops could be quickly released; some places really needed longer time to slowly solve the problems, so they would be solved slowly. The remaining forces still had to be clenched into a fist, and the expedition would continue, and other worlds would be included in the target.
At the same time, another 70% of the second batch of troops formed four new expeditionary fleets and continued to operate in the Magre space domain from different directions.
(End of this chapter)
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