Chapter 605, take the initiative
When time entered the eighth standard month of Terra in 10328, the situation of the 'Iron Armor War' suddenly became turbulent.
In fact, there has been a lot of movement throughout the year.
In February, the Western Front collapsed, the Phoenix Lord disappeared, and the Phoenix Chapter suffered heavy losses. This was a rare time in the history of the empire for a start-up Chapter to suffer such a heavy loss. But the number of remaining phoenixes is not that large anymore. The acting chapter leader has just been selected. It is very difficult to take revenge. We can only rely on the sub-groups to think of ways to help. However, the number of Phoenix's descendants is not large.
Half a year after the collapse of the Western Front, the Maigret universe was in chaos, and the Iron Armor was expanding crazily, not even caring about how strong their control over the world they occupied was.
Even the word ‘occupation’ is debatable. Often for some less important planets, an iron-armored ship arrives, announcing that the world has been 'liberated'. The people and rulers of this world are still confused. Maybe they are still considering whether to resist the Iron Armor occupation and serve the empire, or whether to give in temporarily?
As a result, Tie Kai left.
What kind of occupation is this?
But often from then on, a cult sect develops rapidly, and strange things happen one after another.
Fortunately, the Imperial Central Army led by Salisius arrived, and there was hope for stability on the Western Front.
While striving to restore stability to more worlds in the Maigret Domain, Salithus is always looking for the main force of the Iron Armor Chapter. Whether we want to seek a decisive battle is another matter, but we must at least find out where the main force of the iron armor is now after defeating Phoenix? What are you doing? What's the status?
The northern front also received strong support from the Foreign Order and began to speed up the cleanup of the insect swarm. Several worlds have been successful in fighting against the swarms, and the situation is getting better.
There was even a company of Infinite Warriors on the northern front that broke through all the obstacles and pushed the front to the Sword Gate Star Territory.
This place is already close to the Queen's Star Territory.
On the southern front, Gu Hang also took action.
Although the current shipbuilding cycle has not been completed, if we wait another half a year, six giant ships can join the alliance fleet. But even in the past six months, Gu Hang couldn't wait any longer.
Fortunately, the ships that were snatched previously have been renovated.
The alliance's offensive targets also selected the two star regions of Nepeta and Alfonzo.
Gu Hang's strategy has a huge jump span. At first, he fought to the end, but now he decided to fight, but he did not hesitate to attack from both sides.
Of course, the forces are not completely divided equally.
At least, the Alliance fully assembled the fleet when they started, and took the lead in conquering the other side of the astral tunnel leading to the Nepeta Star Territory.
This place was not taken down before not because it could not be conquered, but purely to avoid irritating the opponent too much.
But now, why worry about excitement?
The battle for the astral tunnel was relatively smooth.
When Gu Hang arrives in person and when the Alliance fleet comes out in full force, it makes little sense to simply rely on a complete and strong planetary defense system. Without the strong garrison of troops, the flexible protection of the fleet, and more importantly, the psychic power to resist the Storm Mage Group led by Gu Hang, their persistence would be meaningless, and it would not even have much effect in delaying time.
After successfully capturing the Astral Tunnel, the strategy adopted by the Alliance was basically the same as what Salius did in the Maigret Universe. However, the situation encountered was somewhat different.
The Maigret universe was a place newly occupied by Iron Armor, and many planets could not even be considered 'occupied'. Even if they spread the insect swarm corruption, the degree of corruption is just that. To uproot it, they only need to mobilize the local government and make the local people pay attention, and they can solve the problem by themselves.
However, the situation in the Nepeta Star Territory, which is next to the Princess Star Territory, is completely different.
The Nepeta Star Territory has been directly occupied and ruled by Tie Kai. It has been eight years since the Tie Kai War began. Since Tie Kai's power has grown stronger and stronger, they have used the Princess Star Territory as their base at least two hundred years ago. center, spreading its influence widely to the surrounding star fields.
After Iron Armor occupied Nepeta, the resistance in the Star Territory was relatively low, completely unlike in the Maigret Space Territory.
There are hundreds of worlds under the Nepeta Star Territory, and their respective local governments have a high degree of cooperation with Iron Armor.
Then, Iron Armor's chances of spreading the Zerg corruption to the Nepeta Star Territory are probably very high, and the history of the spread is estimated to be quite long.
Even before the rebellion started, or even in the early stages of the rebellion, Tie Kai did not dare to blatantly spread corruption. However, in the past six months, after the bottom line was lifted, the scruples have been greatly reduced, and the degree of corruption is unimaginable.
In fact, the alliance's intelligence department has already seen clues to this situation.
Although the Alliance has not taken the initiative in the past period of time, the intelligence collection work for the Nepeta Star Territory, which is obviously the next strategic target, has definitely started long ago.
When they had no information about the connection between Iron Armor and the insect swarm, they had already discovered that the situation of cults and rebels on the planets in the Nepeta star field was relatively serious.
I didn’t take it seriously before. In which imperial world doesn’t such things as cults and rebels exist?
Even within the Alliance, core worlds such as Koroga have undergone institutional transformation by the Alliance and power has been delegated to the grassroots. However, until now, there are still reports of local legal agencies and local garrisons destroying small cult organizations from time to time. came. After all, it has a population of 40 billion and dozens of hive cities. No matter what it is, it is impossible to completely ban it.
This is true even for Koroga, not to mention the vast other imperial worlds.
Although there are quite a few cult organizations in various worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory, and there are still quite a few that show signs of collusion with the local ruling class, or even overt cooperation, they are generally still in a 'heresy' situation.
Among these cults, very few are connected to the Chaos Abyss, and Alliance intelligence agents have found no serious signs of this. Many cults mostly distort and randomly interpret the teachings of the imperial state religion, which are relatively more acceptable.
The overall assessment earlier was that the risk of cults was relatively high, but still within an acceptable range.
It now appears that there were some problems with the direction of the previous investigation.
The Alliance still has relatively few dealings with disasters like the insect swarm. When it comes to cults, they think of it from the perspective of chaos and corruption.
And if combined with the parasitic infection of worms, the severity will soar!
Let alone the Nepeta Star Territory, even within the Proud Talon Star Territory, such problems will become more prominent.
(End of chapter)