Chapter 527, The general trend changes
Oceana and Thaddeus soon met at the starport of the Winged Star.
After completing some paperwork, the two chatted for a while.
What they were talking about was the war in front of them.
"The Governor has already set off from the Raging Owl Star?"
"Yeah." Oceana responded: "We'll be there in about two days."
"That should be about time."
Hearing this, Oceana still looked a little melancholy.
She sighed: "How wonderful it would be if we could avoid fighting?"
Thaddeus didn't answer.
He and Oceana have decades of experience working together, and even if they have not deliberately developed a personal relationship, they will not have any other communication except work contacts. But after all, they have a revolutionary friendship forged over decades, and they are comrades.
Because of this, Thaddeus understood that the reason why Oceana expressed such emotion was not because the Alliance Prime Minister was weak.
But more or less...I can't bear to part with it.
Over the years, the economic construction in the entire Dragon Eagle Star Territory has been vigorous and impressive. The development of various places has been good and bad, but generally speaking, we can adapt to local conditions and strive to move in a better direction as much as possible. Oceana has worked hard on this and has achieved good results so far.
Although most of the resources within the alliance have been tilted toward war in recent years. Although the war has not officially begun, everyone in the alliance understands that sooner or later they will have a battle with the "Iron Fury Stone" in the north. The strength gap between the two sides is not small. They have to squeeze resources, build armaments, and expand the army to be able to fight.
Even though the alliance has invested a large amount of financial investment in armaments, the main environment is still peaceful after all, and the mass production of armaments has also stimulated economic development in disguise. Although this kind of stimulation is somewhat unhealthy, the development is always real.
Once the war really starts, the situation will obviously be different.
Thinking of this, Thaddeus also sighed.
The next second, his heart hardened again.
He said to Oceana: "This is an unavoidable war. If we are not prepared, the iron armored front will come to us."
"Why did the Iron Armor Chapter's main goal after sweeping through the Spider Web Domain be to continue to expand to the north and west, instead of going south? Isn't that because we are always vigilant and ready for war? , we are a tough guy, that’s why the war didn’t come to us.”
"But this cannot go on forever."
"More than three years ago, on the northern battlefield, the three founding battle groups of Infinity, Blood Angels, and Bats all came, each sending a company. The Black Crusade Group even had a squadron in place, with thousands of The Black Crusade is commanded by a Fleet Admiral. He also assumes the command of the entire Western Front battlefield. It combines the strength of the seven surrounding battle groups, as well as a large number of Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy. The main force on the northern front battlefield;"
"On the battlefield on the Western Front, the Phoenix Chapter, the parent regiment of the Phoenix, sent a very large force. The current Phoenix Master: Su Lie personally led the team. There are also many battle groups gathered here, most of which are Phoenix Although there is no explicit banner, it generally means to avenge the two groups that were destroyed in the great rebellion a hundred years ago. In addition, heresy. The Tribunal was not willing to fail and swept in again. They invited the famous Death Legion and mobilized more than 4,000 Blood Rose Battle Sisters.”
"Calculated in this way, the combined force on the Western Front battlefield is even stronger than that on the Northern Front."
"That was probably the time when Iron Fury Stone was closest to failure. At that time, our military and political departments were also dragged into meeting day and night with the staff to discuss whether we should also participate in the war and join in the fun from the south. After all, let's not do it first. Speaking of the war situation, we have never had extensive mobilization, and large-scale participation in the war in the spider web region has brought us a lot of political pressure from the empire and the space government level. In this regard, Prime Minister Oceana. You should know better than me.”
Hearing this, Oceana couldn't help but nod.
Indeed, it was a difficult time for the Alliance, and she was the bearer of these political pressures.
From above, whether it is the central empire or the Eternal Territory Government, they have been urging the alliance to send troops as soon as possible. Even though Mr. Gu has talked through Gallardo and helped relieve some of the pressure on Holy Terra, the alliance is still not having a good time here.
Gallardo is even having a hard time. Not to mention that he has not been able to get a seat in the Supreme Council for the past four years. His position as Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs is somewhat precarious. There are also many cliques and forces within the Imperial Military Affairs Department. They will also question, why does Gallardo block all these pressures on the league?
However, this pressure soon disappeared.
It is not that the behavior of the alliance has changed, but that the situation on the two main battlefields of the Northern Front and the Western Front has undergone drastic changes.
On the two-front battlefield, each had the participation of very legendary military groups, and in the following year, the war situation was completely stabilized. No matter how powerful the Iron Armor Chapter is, there is no way they can continue to maintain two fronts blooming at the same time.
The scope of their military activities was squeezed, and they even launched a massive counterattack on the two fronts of the battlefield, pushing the power of Iron Fury Stone back to the spider web domain in one fell swoop.
At this time, there is no pressure on the alliance. Mainstream public opinion believes that the empire has gathered such a powerful force, and the current war situation is also beneficial to the empire. Iron Fury Stone, which dares to rebel, has entered a countdown to its demise.
It no longer matters whether the alliance participates in the war. If it does not participate in the war, there will be one less force to share the fruits of victory. Moreover, you can also use this to criticize Prime Minister Gallardo... Why not?
This is the stage that Thaddeus refers to as 'constant meetings'.
The alliance will also be anxious, worried that it will be too late to rush to eat the cake; Gallardo in Holy Terra will also feel anxious and has contacted the alliance several times to ask if it needs to change its strategy.
It was at this stage that Gu Hang, as the supreme leader, made a decision: continue to maintain the previous strategy.
Under his leadership, the alliance maintained its strategic focus.
Then, the changes in the overall situation began to be confusing.
In the first few months, the imperial side on both the northern and southern fronts was so powerful that Humphrey Paul had to stay away from the limelight.
Although no key battles have been fought, the empire has made great strides in regaining some rebel planets, which has already boosted morale.
The Iron Armor Chapter avoided the imperial front, which certainly preserved valuable vitality, but it also somewhat undermined the 'prestige strategy' they had adopted in the past.
People couldn't help but began to mutter that although Iron Fury Stone had created a great momentum, compared to the huge size of the empire, they were still only a local force in a corner. The empire is not yet fully activating its war machine. If necessary, the empire can deploy more forces. But right now, you Iron Fury Stones already look like they are almost unstoppable, so how can you make people believe it?
The situation in the past where once the iron-armored soldiers arrived, the place was left waiting for the wind to fall. On the contrary, in the Northern Front Theater, there were more than a dozen worlds in one star sector, and in tandem with each other, they simply raised the banner of bringing order to chaos. Local forces began to resist the officials and garrisons sent by Tiejai, and actively contacted the imperial army.
The commander of the Northern Front, Marshal Almar Ewing of the Black Crusade, agreed to the request and asked the company of the Infinite Chapter that participated in the operation in the Northern Front Theater to be responsible for this matter.
When this team of blue-armored warriors arrived at the target star area, things went relatively smoothly at first. The hundreds of elite warriors of the founding chapter were quite powerful. In conjunction with the fleet and the Astra Militarum troops they commanded, they instantly reversed the situation in which the local 'revolutionary forces' were violently suppressed by the iron-armored forces.
It is estimated that it won't take long for the entire sector to be taken back.
Just when everything was going smoothly, a ferocious riot suddenly broke out at the bottom of one of the hive worlds in the star region.
There is a cult that jumps out to cause trouble at times like this.
At first, Infinity Warriors didn't take this seriously enough. The forces of Iron Armor have not been eliminated yet. That must be the highest priority issue. A cult riots at the bottom of a planet's hive... To be honest, rebellions like this are happening all the time in the entire universe. .
It's a problem, but it's obviously not important.
However, the evolution of things soon exceeded people's expectations.
Subsequent intelligence showed that most of these rebel thugs were humans, but the local Planetary Defense Force also reported some anomalies, indicating that there were some inhuman beings among the thugs.
They look like a combination of humans and certain insects. Their skin is either purple, blue, or green. Anyway, they don't look like normal humans can have.
These guys usually still play the role of backbone and command layer in the organizational structure of cultists.
This is something people have to care about.
But before the Infinity Soldiers could escape from the suppression operation on another planet, the situation suddenly deteriorated to an irreparable level.
A large number of Void Zerg began to appear among the cultists, and the entire world lost contact in a short period of time.
Then, when the Infinity Warriors determined the seriousness of the matter and rushed to the galaxy on a ship, they encountered a hive fleet at the jump point of the galaxy.
This was an ambush that they could not foresee at all. The Infinity Soldiers were defeated miserably, and no one survived.
Immediately afterwards, the Hive Fleet launched a ferocious attack, quickly wreaking havoc across the entire star region, and began to launch an offensive into the surrounding star regions as well.
By coincidence, the area where the Hive Fleet of the Void Zerg was raging was blocking the offensive defense line of the Empire's army on the northern front.
coincide?
No one would think so.
The battle on the northern front became intense instantly.
The scale of this hive fleet is actually not that big, at least compared to several particularly large hive invasions that have occurred in the history of the empire.
However, this was completely enough to bring the northern battlefield led by Marshal Ewing into a deadlock.
Brutal wars broke out on dozens of planets in an instant. Judging from the star map, it seems that an intersecting irregular line is drawn in the northern part of the spider web domain.
The Void Zerg don't want to be reasoned with. They are a threat that cannot be ignored, and they are constantly attacking the north with all their teeth and claws. It is impossible for humans to ignore the threat of these brainless insect beasts, otherwise they will eat everything they see on the road and destroy every planet they pass by.
They were originally here to fight a counter-insurgency war, but from that moment on, the northern battlefield inexplicably transformed into a desperate fight against the Void Zerg.
At almost the same time, the Iron Armor Chapter gathered strength and launched a series of counterattacks on the Western Front battlefield.
The Iron Armor Chapter was almost at full strength.
On the Western Front battlefield, not only can we see the figures of renegade Space Marines from three different Chapters, but most importantly, judging from the reports on the battlefield, the Iron Armor Chapter itself has invested at least tens of thousands of Space Marines on the Western Front. warrior!
This is compared to the strength of ten battle groups under normal conditions!
These traitors, wearing black and gray battle armor, have repeatedly used their superior strength to repel or even defeat multiple Phoenix Regiments.
In a battle to encircle a point for reinforcements, a company of the Phoenix Regiment was even annihilated in an organic manner!
The Western Front battlefield, which was originally advancing vigorously, was not only unable to continue fighting into the hinterland of the Spider Space Domain, but was instead beaten out.
The leader of the Su Lie battle was not in vain. The troops he gathered quickly also found the opportunity to deal a few hard blows to the iron armor, preventing the entire front from retreating.
But he is not a god either. In terms of the strength of the Space Marines, there is still a big difference between the two sides.
Although there are six different war groups among the Space Marines under the Phoenix Lord, whoever comes out to fight has no intention of going out as a whole family. From each battle group, as few as one or two companies came, while as many as five or six companies came. Adding them all together, the number of Space Marines at their peak was only over two thousand.
In the previous battle, there were more than 800 casualties.
Although approximately a thousand Space Marines from the Iron Armor side were killed or wounded, the strength comparison between the two sides was still nearly ten times greater.
Su Lie could only be thankful that although the gap in the number of Space Marines was large, there was not much difference between the Navy, the Astra Militarum and the opponent's large-scale mortal troops. Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to stabilize the front and maintain a stalemate, and he might be knocked out of the Spider Web Domain with a stick.
But despite this, he could not worry too much about his face, and kept asking for more reinforcements from the rear, from the surrounding cosmic realms, and from Holy Terra.
If there are not enough reinforcements, he will be beaten out sooner or later.
(End of chapter)