Chapter 949: Who wouldn’t want to fight to the death?
The Dark Witch King made up his mind.
But at this stage, the negotiations between the Dark Eldar and the Alliance made rapid progress.
In fact, the "peace talks" between the two sides have never stopped.
In fact, this is quite normal - the soldiers of both sides fight to the death on the front line, and the diplomats in the rear, according to the situation of the front line, exchange words, test the mentality...
However, the peace talks have not made any substantial progress so far. The two sides have irreconcilable conflicts on their core interests and core clauses.
But the reason why the current negotiations have made rapid progress is mainly because the Dark Eldar diplomat has been replaced. After the new ambassador, Ms. Veselani, began to lead the negotiations, she swept away the past situation where the two sides could not reach an agreement on their conditions and compromised on many key issues.
This requires us to mention the core interests of both parties.
For the Dark Eldar, their core interests lie in two areas.
The first thing is that humans withdraw and leave Comoros, and the second is to obtain Robert and Gu Jing.
For humans, the core interests can be divided into two items. The most important is the capture of Comoros, and the second is the rapid deployment of the Terra Expeditionary Force to Holy Terra.
Obviously, the core interests of both parties are not aligned and the basis for negotiations is very weak.
And after Veselani compromised on some core interests, the basis for negotiations suddenly emerged.
First of all, the Dark Eldar completely gave up on Robert and Gu Jing's conditions. They no longer proposed such wishful conditions as asking Robert and Gu Jing to cooperate with them in their operations.
As for the human side's demand to occupy and manage the entire Comoros and for Comoros to surrender unconditionally, this is definitely something that Veselani would never compromise on - wouldn't that be tantamount to giving away her own life?
However, specific problems can still be analyzed specifically.
The alliance demands the capture of the entire Comoros. What is its biggest goal?
It's definitely not about resources. In this regard, Comoros is too barren a place, with no resource value at all.
To make the Dark Eldar surrender, do we need their manpower? That's a little more reliable than resources. After all, if the Dark Eldars come to fight as mercenaries, they can form a legion and they are quite capable. Although their population is small and they can't fight a war of attrition, they can be used as elite troops.
However, the combat power of these dark elves is nothing more than icing on the cake and is not crucial.
Moreover, even if the Dark Eldar surrendered, who would dare to use them?
Stabbing someone in the back at the critical moment is something that these treacherous guys are capable of doing.
But compared to these two items, the other two things in Comoros are very valuable.
First of all, of course, it is the characteristic of Comoros as the City of Veil. Through it, one can quickly and conveniently travel to various places in the real universe.
Secondly, there is the technology that the Dark Eldar inherited from their magnificent Eldar Empire.
This is the concession that Veselani made.
She proposed a concept, which is to make several ports in Comoros as ports jointly managed by both parties. Humans can use these ports as long as they provide the energy required for the operation of the ports and pay a fee. The Eldar will also open some of the coordinates they have established in the real universe, including the coordinates in the Solar Star Region.
This will enable Robert's Terra expeditionary force to quickly reach their destination. Moreover, in the future, through the veil of Comoros, it may take Gu Hang less than a day to visit Holy Terra, instead of having to take a long interstellar journey of more than a year to reach the destination as in the past.
As for the various magical technologies that the Dark Eldar have inherited over the long years, they can also share some of them and pass them on to humans.
And despite all these efforts, Ambassador Texas, who was in charge of the negotiations on the human side, was not moved.
He just said:
"After we defeat you, destroy you, and occupy the entire Comoros, these things will also be ours. So why should we accept peace talks?"
It’s very impolite, but it’s also the reality, and it’s also the requirement made by Gu Hang: We only accept unconditional surrender.
Diplomacy is not achieved at the negotiation table, but by the soldiers on the front line. The current human forces deployed in Comoros are already able to compete with the Dark Eldar, changing their past strategic defensive stance and even starting a strategic offensive.
And as time goes by, more and more human troops will enter Comoros.
The balance of power between the two sides will shift more and more towards humans.
This is why Gu Hang has the confidence to demand "unconditional surrender".
Veselani was not angry.
This statement was completely within her expectations, and she was prepared, raising several counter-arguments.
First of all, Viselani did not deny that humans had the upper hand in the current situation, but she emphasized that even if the situation continued in this way, the price humans would have to pay to achieve the final victory, completely capture Comoros, and thoroughly defeat the Eldar’s regime and organizational structure would be unprecedented.
Perhaps, humans will have to continue to invest a force equivalent to two coalition fronts here, and the final loss of troops and various weapons and equipment in Comoros may exceed 30%.
From battleships to tanks; from space marines to ordinary soldiers' lives, this is true.
Texas did not comment on this.
In fact, what Veselani said was right. Even though she might have exaggerated the loss figures of Human Party B, the loss was not small anyway.
Not to mention, if the Dark Eldar are determined to fight to the end, then even if their regime and organization collapse, they can still fight guerrilla warfare for many, many years inside the fully three-dimensional Comoros, which is much larger than a planet. Perhaps, in the next hundreds or thousands of years, while humans use the City of Veil in Comoros, they will also have to constantly entangle with the surviving Dark Eldar who are full of vengeance.
A lot of people will die.
Even though Gu Hang, as a leader, can accept these losses after weighing the benefits and costs, it would certainly be better to reduce the amount of loss if it is possible.
After saying this, Viselani raised her second finger and raised a second, even more fatal point.
If it really comes to a point where both sides are desperate, the Dark Eldar can ensure that humans gain nothing.
Who wouldn't want to fight to the death?
(End of this chapter)
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