Chapter 585, the alliance is too good
The alliance has achieved brilliant results recently, but there are still people who are carrying a heavy burden to move forward.
Gu Hang himself wouldn’t say it. He was almost drained in a battle with Bowang, but he took a Neuroprotozoa and it was a great supplement.
The Space Marines are also another unit that carries a heavy burden forward.
The battle to seize the ship always relies on the phoenix to chew off the key parts. Without these top space warriors, many victories will not be established.
And after such continuous attacks, including those who had to be stuffed into the Fearless, the Phoenix had lost nearly 500 people.
Half the regiment was lost.
For an ordinary battle group, it would definitely not be so cruel. Unless it is a battle of particularly great significance, such as destroying a ship but refusing to do so, and having to risk the lives of Space Marines to seize the ship, the chapter will definitely not do it.
Even if there is an order behind it.
The Phoenix obeyed the order. On the one hand, Gu Hang had a particularly strong influence on them. On the other hand, Martins knew that his losses could be made up for soon.
Unlike an ordinary battle group, if half of the battle brothers are lost, then the subsequent selection of talents, implantation surgery, waiting for growth... I don't know how many years it will take to recover. Not to mention, it will take decades for the new recruits to become veterans or even the backbone again.
The unluckier war groups may not be able to fully recover for hundreds of years after such a battle.
Phoenix is different.
Martins knew that if he lost 500 men, within a few months, Gu Hang would be able to get 500 recruits who had received gene seed implants to report to him.
Nowadays, even the gene-seed transplantation operation does not need to be performed by the Chapter's Apothecary. The sources of recruits are also from many different planets in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.
Then, these new recruits will soon become brave and good at fighting, no weaker than the veterans.
So what else does Martins have to say?
In this case, the choices that the war group can make are very different from ordinary war groups: Phoenix now has strong individual soldiers and good equipment, and even things like phase swords are available in batches. They are equipped, not to mention that almost all of them are now using the 'Standing Type' power armor, which is better than ordinary power armor. The cavalry type terminator is also better than the general unyielding type terminator...
In addition to these two points, add the characteristics of not being afraid of death, not afraid of consumption, and super fast recruitment...
Martins felt that his battle group was invincible.
An ordinary battle group? No, he felt that there would be no problem even if he fought with his own parent group, the 'Phoenix Chapter'. The Phoenix does have more champion swordsmen. In terms of tactics, especially in close combat, the inherited swordsmanship level of the entire battle group is still stronger than that of the Phoenix. At the same time, as a start-up battle group, the Phoenix's individual combat effectiveness may still be a little more powerful than the cheating Phoenix, or at the same level.
The inheritance of swordsmanship, stronger cutting-edge combat power, and more technical equipment inherited from the era of the establishment of greater human empires... The founding battle group is the ceiling of combat power from the battle group level.
And Phoenix is one of the best. Perhaps their genetic seeds are poorly adapted, which makes it difficult to recruit new soldiers. The number of sub-regiments is also small, and the number of people is not strong. This in turn triggers political influence on the entire empire, which is slightly less than those of larger war groups. insufficient. However, they inherited the characteristics of pursuing perfection and superb swordsmanship from their genetic seeds, making their combat capabilities second to none among all the start-up war groups.
However, with all these advantages, if it comes to facing the Phoenix, what can the Phoenix do if the Phoenix is not afraid of sacrifice and can quickly replenish its personnel?
Sooner or later he will be consumed to death.
With Gu Hang's blessing, the Phoenix is truly 'immortal' as its name suggests.
Of course, the premise is that they always maintain a state of integration with the alliance.
This won't actually be cancelled. As the leader of the Chapter, Martins also has full understanding of this. If he had said that he was going to rebel against the alliance today, I am afraid that the whole group would have immediately thought that he was crazy and tied him up and sent him to the governor.
The only ones who will follow him in rebellion are probably the other three veterans who survived the Atonement Expedition until now.
Oh, they may not, at least Pastor Rizzo will definitely not follow suit.
Besides, Martins himself has absolutely no such idea.
He was living a comfortable life under the alliance's system, and it was only when he was frustrated that he thought about leaving.
As for Gu Hang, replenishing the Phoenix with 500 new blood mainly consumes gift points.
Training an elite veteran, that is, in his war group interface, will probably cost a total of 1,000 points of gifts per person. This is when seed exchange, personnel training, and personnel screening are all taken into account.
But in this wave, it actually doesn’t cost that much.
When training the additional 40,000 Glory Guards, the screening task has actually been completed. The 40,000 Glory Guards were carefully selected using the training mechanism of [Weapon Card]. Among them, the best ones, who are mainly around 16 years old and can reach the T1 training level, can be regarded as having the potential to become space warriors, and the success rate of implant surgery is quite high.
In addition, many of the Phoenix Fighters have spent five years fighting until now, which means that they themselves can also produce a batch of gene seeds; most of the gene seeds of the 400 people who died in the battle have also been Successfully recovered by Chapter Apothecary.
Here, Gu Hang's cost of replenishing new blood for the battle group can be reduced by 300 to 400 points of gifts.
Quite a bargain.
As for the Space Marines that Gu Hang created in this wave, there were only 500 Space Marines on the surface, but in fact, there were a full 1,800 people.
Five hundred of them were added to the Phoenix.
There are still three hundred, which are added to the blood shark.
The Blood Shark Chapter helped the Alliance and saved three battle cruisers. In the subsequent series of battles, they also lost two of their strike cruisers. This time, the Blood Shark Chapter who followed Ewing back had a total number of seven hundred. There were many people, and more than two hundred people had been lost so far.
This loss is huge for the blood shark and quite unbearable.
They are not like the phoenix, knowing that they have an invincible and tough backing.
Gu Hang was not able to show these things unreservedly to the Blood Shark Chapter, which was not trusting and close enough.
But that doesn't mean that Gu Hang can't do this.
There is no need for Gu Hang to redeem the blood shark's gene seeds.
Although it is estimated that he can redeem it in the near future.
In his [Event] interface, an event related to blood sharks has popped up. [Event activated: Blood Shark Chapter]
[A Space Marine Chapter returned from the dark outer realm. They have decided to end their long wandering and return to the Empire's territory. They are eager to establish their prestige and power within the empire and gain a brighter future in the empire. The Alliance is their first stop, but can it be their last? 】
[Please decide your actions carefully. Your behavior determines the next development of the incident. 】
[Event reward: When the blood shark is determined to be loyal to you, unlock and exchange the blood shark gene seed. 】
Gu Hang didn't care much about the reward for this event in the past, but a recent discovery made him care about it.
He discovered a limitation issue in the [Chapter] interface: the number of gene seeds that Phoenix can redeem is actually limited!
The number of phoenix gene seeds that exist at the same time, whether in humans or as spares, cannot exceed 2,000. When the upper limit is reached, unless the seeds are out of the control of the alliance, such as failing to recover, inactivating and destroying, or paying gene seed tax to the empire... Gu Hang cannot exchange for new seeds.
I didn't notice it before, because he wouldn't be so busy planting so many seeds when he couldn't afford to raise them.
But this time, when he wanted to break through the lower limit a little and create more Space Marines, he hit the upper limit and got stuck.
After Gu Hang's idea of using phoenix seeds to recruit hundreds of thousands of space warriors and establish a 'Phoenix Legion' was shattered, it seems that he still has to embark on the road of collecting different battle groups to expand the number of redeemable seeds. .
Under such circumstances, the gene seeds from blood sharks that Gu Hang didn't care about at first became very popular.
How to achieve this goal?
The blood shark is not half-dead like the Phoenix back then, and can be manipulated at will.
On the contrary, the blood shark is very powerful.
Then it will take more effort.
The move Gu Hang planned to take was to vacate the cage and change the bird.
Blood Shark has a tradition of collecting blood tax, and Gu Hang also agreed.
The blood sharks fought with the alliance this time, and it did not involve much ground combat, so they did not consume a particularly large amount of cannon fodder, and the number of battle group servants that needed to be supplemented was not large.
The blood tax they proposed to the alliance this time required 'very strong, determined, devout young men with outstanding military skills'.
This is actually the core of the blood tax: to select new seedlings that can satisfy the blood sharks and become the new blood of the battle group.
Logically speaking, this is a very demanding requirement. Just being physically strong, having outstanding military skills, being devout in faith, and having a strong will are all easy to say, but the key is to limit the qualification to a 'youngster', which is quite troublesome.
How can a boy of about sixteen years old meet these conditions at the same time?
According to Blood Shark's past experience, thousands of people would have to be found, and they would be screened round after round in a bloody and cruel selection and battle baptism.
It's like raising gu, the one who survives is always the best in the batch. Regardless of whether you are excellent in yourself or have grown to be excellent in the process, as long as you achieve the goal.
But here in Gu Hang, it is not difficult to choose qualified new blood pressure.
After replenishing Phoenix's staff, the young men he trained were still very wealthy.
Three hundred teenagers were sent into the blood shark. Before that, Gu Hang not only trained them to the T1 level, which could greatly improve the success rate of gene seed implantation surgery, but also all of them had gone through the gift point training of 'political commissar'.
Of course, the Blood Sharks will not accept everything like this, but soon, Chapter Leader Ewing will find that the three hundred people sent by the Alliance will perfectly meet their requirements. Even their previous extremely cruel screening mechanism and the candidates selected could not compare with these three hundred.
As for their loyalty to the Alliance?
Not to mention whether there is such an item in the blood shark assessment, for normal war groups, they rarely consider this kind of thing.
The lifespan of a Space Marine is nearly eternity. Compared to the decades and hundreds of years that he will continue to live and fight in the war group, the mere mortal experience of a sixteen-year-old boy is not worth mentioning. It is normal for them to be a little nostalgic for their hometown, but they will probably soon be gradually forgotten by the cultural influence of the war group.
This is just the effect of time changes and the culture of the war group, not to mention that after the gene seeds are implanted, the body structure of the teenagers will undergo extremely large changes in a short period of time, evolving from mortals to supermen. . This process is also accompanied by tremendous physical pain and changes in temperament due to hormone secretion.
All in all, few warbands have anything to worry about.
Could Ewing have foreseen that after the training of the alliance's "political commissar", the loyalty of the young people to the governor would remain for a very long time?
That's probably unexpected.
What's more, Gu Hang didn't intend to let these teenagers do anything.
Just be a blood shark.
The cultivation of these 'new blood sharks' did not even require Gu Hang to pay for their gene seeds. Moreover, after they were implanted with gene seeds, Gu Hang could still see that they still belonged to the alliance when recognized by the system.
This further reassured him about the loyalty of the 'New Blood Sharks', and also allowed him to take the next step.
He did not hesitate to use the special training functions of these "new blood sharks" to reach the highest level. Not everyone is qualified and can be trained to become a company champion. Only 18 out of 300 people can reach this level. But everyone can be trained to become a veteran, and even half of them can be trained to the level of noncommissioned officers.
In Ewing's view, this is all a surprise: the seedlings sent by the alliance not only have a very high success rate in implantation operations, but also greatly reduce the loss of the group's gene seed bank. After the period, their performance in training was also extremely good, and they quickly grew to the level expected of a blood shark!
This is quite rare!
The outstanding fighting power of the old blood sharks was gained by wandering in the darkness of the outer realm and practicing in countless cruel battles. And if these new seedlings can reach the same or even slightly higher level, that is really exciting!
The team's strength, which was originally expected to take many years to recover, was restored in a short period of time.
Originally, Ewing wanted to adjust his strategy for continuing to fight with the alliance. He might not send too many people to some battles.
But now, we still need to adjust, but the direction of adjustment is to send more people to fight!
The blood tax given by the alliance is so delicious.
(End of chapter)