Chapter 1622 The Weakness of the Red Pirate
Hearing Soshiyang’s answer, the great sage’s eyes flashed for a moment, and then he said warmly:
“It can be seen that the Red Pirate is huge. The troops and fleet put a lot of pressure on you, but I don’t think your biggest problem is the red pirates.”
“Oh?”
“Huron seems to have ten. There are tens of thousands of Chaos Space Marines, but why is he still huddled in the depths of the Maelstrom for so many years? Even a nest like the Badab Star Fan only controls it indirectly."
Soshiyang thought for a moment and said:
"At present, he is still unable to fight against the huge army of the empire, and his traitors are not really determined to fight to the end for him, at least most of them are not. "
"In fact, in my opinion, although Huron has plundered countless wealth over the years and even worked hard to build his small kingdom, his domain still does not have the ability to maintain a legion. Why does the Black Legion Terrifying? Because there are more than ten technological heretical worlds serving him in the Eye of Terror. The continuous equipment and materials provided by those worlds can support a true legion. Even if the predator does not plunder, he can still launch his army. war plan, but Huron can't. He seems to be very rich and powerful now, which is based on constant plunder. Once this process is forced to be interrupted, or is strictly guarded, his warehouse will soon be exhausted. Maybe his reserves can supply him with a hundred battles, or even a thousand battles, but what about ten thousand battles? Once there is no sufficient supplies, the warband under his command will fall apart and leave him, and the Chaos Heresy will never be able to do so. If they don’t have patience, they will not serve a lord on an empty stomach.”
Soshyang did feel a little enlightened by Ultramok’s point. He had been staring at the huge strength and power of the red pirates. The fleet indeed ignored the red pirate's fragile self-sustainability.
With so many people and fleets, Huron must consume a huge amount of supplies every day. In a non-war state, he can replenish them through frequent plunder, but once it enters a full-scale war state and all fleets are engaged in battle, With his existing territory alone, it is simply impossible to sustain the consumption of such a huge army.
And this, as Ultramok said, is the biggest Achilles heel of the Red Pirates - they actually cannot fight a protracted war and a war of attrition!
If the battlefield between the two sides changes from a competition of guns and blades to a competition of logistics, then Huron will undoubtedly lose. This is why he has not made any big moves for so many years. He himself should be very good. Know this.
Without those wealth and supplies, his allies, mercenaries and even his subordinates will leave. After all, everyone is rebelling against the empire, but not to the point of fighting with all their lives and for free.
Soshiyang smiled slightly and praised:
"I didn't expect you, great sage, to be a master of war. I even want to ask you to be my staff."
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"Everyone in Riza must be a master of war, because we have too little time for peace, and various alien and heretic invasions have never stopped for ten thousand years."
"Then you said my biggest trouble is What?”
“So in my opinion, Commander Soshyan, the focus of your war is not how to attack, but how to defend, how to drag Huron’s fleet on the battle line, how to let his The plunder has become futile, how can he invest precious resources into continuous and meaningless battles? If he can do this, even if the expeditionary force does not have any decisive victory, I believe that in a few years, the Red Pirates will naturally disappear. That’s why I said that your biggest trouble is not the Red Pirates, because to do this, you will definitely need the cooperation of all local institutions and forces, because the wealth plundered by the Red Pirates will not be turned into logistics and equipment out of thin air, and their route of selling stolen goods is basically the same as that of the big pirates. The rampant smuggling routes in the Whirlpool area overlap. If the Red Pirates are to be blocked, the first step is to cut off smuggling, which will affect the interests of many, many people."
After listening, Soshiyang was silent for a long time, with only a light finger. A light tap on the railing made a sound.
When the outline of Endeavor City appeared on the horizon, he suddenly said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that although you are not in the maelstrom area, you still know it very well. I have also heard about such evil things, and it seems that you are still there. Some hive ruling families and trade lords are involved. Don’t those people know that trading and smuggling with heretics is a capital crime?”
“With enough profit, they will even sell the rope to hang themselves. Their backgrounds are far from simple as you think. For example, some families have actually been serving the Tribunal, and some organizations have Behind them are the powerful families from Terra, and some people are simply white gloves in certain departments.”
“Many things in the empire are in the hands of these silverfish, and they really deserve to be killed.”
< br>Just when Soshyan was filled with anger because of the intricate situation of the maelstrom, they were gradually approaching Endeavor City.
Viewed from a high altitude, Endeavor City is a towering and extremely dense hive-like building complex with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and has a large number of metal "tentacles" extending in all directions, covering more vast area.
The essence of these "tentacles" is the tracks and related facilities of super-giant trains, which pass through various cities and production complexes across the continent, connecting the entire continent of Boshi together. In this network, the farthest node is Located in the westernmost forge group of the mainland, there are hundreds of large and small foundries concentrated here, all of which are high-quality forges that produce various types of war machines. There are even dozens of them that are specialized in producing the famous Storm. Manufacturer of the Blade.
Endeavor City, as the core of the Boshi Continent, is also the core of Reza's manufacturing industry. It continues to produce huge amounts of war machines every day, from the internal key equipment for assembling imperial warships to various heavy tanks. , and these equipment and machines produced from the Forge Temple are loaded onto super giant trains at large stations, and then transported to the east of the northern continent via the Isthmus of Atonement, which is the transfer station Omega 9.
In addition to the complex and magnificent above-ground facilities, the underground of Endeavor City is also grand. It has established the largest data crypt in Ryza. Its size and completeness cover all the knowledge known to Ryza. And deeper in the crypt, in an even more unknown place, Ryza's underground war facility was established, and legend has it that various technologies and items banned by the Emperor were sealed.
However, the full picture of the Reza Crypt and even what it contains was not known until after the Horus Heresy. The only information that can be said to be known is that this is probably the secret Knight Reza who became a blockbuster later. The Starflash Family - They were unknown until their appearance, and had been fighting endless simulated battles underground. Their existence was not known until Ryza was invaded by the rebels and they were summoned.
“It is certainly a very simple and straightforward solution to just wave the butcher knife, but the reality is that many things can be solved not just by killing. The Great Rebellion has already illustrated this.”
"It sounds like, Great Sage, you are not optimistic about this expedition?"
"If I use data to simulate the situation of your expedition, my logical processor comes to the conclusion that you will win. The probability is only 13.4%.”
As the airship slowly descends, the towering alloy walls of the magnificent Endeavor City are getting closer and closer.
“It’s so bad, do you think there is no hope?”
(End of this chapter)