Chapter 555: Can the blood shark be collected?
The Blood Shark Chapter suddenly appeared at the rear of the Proud Claw Star Territory and saved three Alliance battlecruisers in critical moments. This was not an accident or coincidence, but was expected by Gu Hang.
Just as the Blood Shark Chapter emerged from the darkness one hundred and thirty years ago when the Great Purple Flower Rebellion occurred, so they are here this time.
I heard that there was a rebellion in a familiar place, and the participants were familiar people. How could the blood shark not come to join in the fun?
After all, they still have a debt to settle with the Iron Armor Battle Group. It just so happens that the Iron Armor Chapter has rebelled, so they must be loyal to the Empire. While fighting for the Emperor, they can also eliminate old grudges. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?
They emerged from the dark outer realm and appeared in the Menghe Star Region in the Eastern Universe.
According to their original intention, they planned to directly enter the core control area of Iron Fury Stone to fight. They have no idea of a head-on battle with the Iron Armor Chapter. They knew what the Iron Armor Chapter was like more than a hundred years ago.
In a frontal battle, the blood shark, which is so poor that it doesn't even have enough supplies, is not very able to withstand the consumption of a protracted battle.
When it comes to the frontal battlefield, they can provide little help, and they can't make full use of their strengths.
On the contrary, if they can directly enter the core control area of the Iron Armor Chapter, then they can use the excellent mobility of their own fleet and their best fighting style of rapid raids to rob and attack the enemy's rear bases. Turning Tie Jia's lair upside down.
In this way, the help they can provide to the main battlefield may be much greater than if they directly enter the front battlefield to fill in the lines.
However, navigation in the dark outer realm is not simple. Most human ships dare not enter the boundless space where unknown wealth is buried. Although it is possible to find precious treasures, it is more likely that you will never get them back.
Only a few people who are proficient in external exploration, such as some rogue traders with an exploration order, can confidently carry out risky voyages to foreign lands.
The Blood Shark Chapter is a typical group with very rich experience in sailing in foreign lands. After all, they have been doing this for thousands of years.
However, no matter how rich your experience is, the risks of sailing in foreign lands are always real. With their rich experience, they also deviated from several star regions and ended up in the Menghe star region.
Of course, generally speaking, this isn't a big deal.
They can completely operate covertly, using the lost technology they acquired from exploring the outer world, keeping the fleet invisible, and driving north along the star map until they reach the spider web domain, and then they can start working.
And that's exactly what they did.
However, in the Menghe Star Territory, their Astrology Tower captured some war information about the frontline battlefield.
The alliance military's encrypted star language communication is not that easy to hear, but some exchanges between merchant ships and civilian ships can still be captured in fragments.
They have some interest in this alliance.
Can the blood shark fight independently without interacting with anyone else?
Of course, they can even say that they are quite good at fighting like this.
After all, in the dark outer realm where the astral tunnels are not connected, where can they find friendly forces? Aren't you always fighting alone?
However, in an external environment, what they have to deal with is often an isolated enemy.
Running back to the territory of the empire and facing such a behemoth as the Iron Armor Chapter, it was best not to do this.
The blood shark chapter leader thought about it and decided to gain some tacit understanding and contact with this alliance.
At least, can you give us some supplies and support?
After all, what we are trying to achieve is a goal.
As soon as the information was connected, units at all levels of the alliance clearly understood the importance of this matter. They may not know the value of the Blood Shark Chapter, but it involves Space Marines after all.
The level of information decision-making quickly rose, and he soon reached Gu Hang.
At that moment, they happened to encounter three battle cruisers, the Flying Wing, the Furious Owl, and the Koruga, being ambushed, attacked, and pursued.
Gu Hang directly agreed to Blood Shark's supply and resource requirements, and very generously allocated a batch of quite generous assets to Blood Shark.
On this basis, he directly issued a request, hoping that Blood Shark could help solve the problem of the next three battle cruisers being hunted down.
Without the blood shark, Gu Hang was actually prepared to suffer heavy losses. The order he gave Bai Qifan was to take the ship back to a heavily defended planet like Upper East Star as much as possible, and to hold it there for as long as he could, until he could lead the team back.
But the emergence of blood shark solved this problem.
The Blood Shark Chapter did not refuse Gu Hang's request and did a pretty good job.
In the entire southern front, what the Alliance has to deal with is, to put it bluntly, the combination of the Raging Flame Chapter and the New Age Torch Chapter.
In the previous battle, the Blood Shark Chapter that was accidentally killed was basically equivalent to destroying the New Age Torch Chapter.
The loss of a battle barge like the Torchlight was of course the heaviest; in addition, the destroyed cruiser-level ships would also be equipped with dozens or dozens of Space Marines. The total losses of this part, as well as the Space Marines who died in the Torch Light, Gu Hang did not get specific statistics here, but it is estimated that it will not be less than three hundred.
This number is actually not much different from the real situation.
Gu Hang was very satisfied with this.
Of course, he had also heard about the Blood Shark Chapter's past misdeeds. They did not regard mortals as human beings, which was actually something that the Alliance was not quite able to accept. After all, the Alliance is a political force in which mortals are the masters.
Gu Hang himself is also a mortal!
At the same time, Gu Hang will also be scrupulous and worried about Blood Shark’s tradition of ‘blood tax’ and ‘gray tax’.
I am very grateful that you came to help me fight the war; I understand that you need payment, and I am willing to pay it. But the tradition of blood sharks is that this amount is set by them and is non-negotiable, and they have the final say on how to collect it.
However, with the goal of rescuing three battle cruisers, Gu Hang really didn't have that much to worry about at that time.
But after the incident, the blood sharks were surprisingly talkative.
When Gu Hang communicated with the chapter leader named Alma Ewing, although he could feel that the other person cherished his words like gold, they were not unable to communicate.
Gu Hang tried to discuss it. Although the 'blood tax' and 'gray tax' that the alliance has to pay have not been reached yet, at least the other party is not completely resistant to discussing it.
That's a good start.
Gu Hang would even think further: Can the blood shark be...accepted?
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There will be another chapter later
(End of chapter)