Chapter 650: Waiting for the right time
How does it feel to sign seven extermination orders in four days?
Gu Hang felt very heavy.
According to the standards for the previous extermination orders signed, those worlds are not only difficult to solve, but the loyalists inside are no longer able to contact and provide assistance. The most important thing is that these are core worlds with rich populations.
The smallest one had a population of more than 5 billion before the war.
In addition to population, another dimension of evaluation is whether the world's orbital defense system is strong enough. If the orbital defense system is relatively average and has no defensive effect on the alliance fleet, then Gu Hang will not easily sign an extermination order, but will prefer to send ground troops to attack with the orbital support of the fleet. Enemies on the surface try to search for survivors.
These troops participating in the war do not necessarily have to be direct armies of the alliance. Instead, local troops can be mobilized from some planets with better conditions in the Alfonzo star field to fight.
For this reason, all the alliance has to pay may be just the transportation capacity when deploying troops, and a few frigates or destroyers that can provide ground support. Even ammunition can be requisitioned from those planets for use.
The fleet will strike at particularly stubbornly defended areas on the ground, cooperating with ground forces. In addition, virus bombs are constantly being produced. Nowadays, almost a few bombs are made and transported to where they are needed. Before the infected bodies have time to obtain information and evolve and modify their own genes, they can use them as much as possible. effect.
In this way, a planet with only 3.5 billion people and at most 10.2 billion infected people will be defeated slowly and eventually. And thanks to the help of virus bombs and orbital support, the price may not be particularly high.
But if the population of this planet is too large, more than 5 billion, and the orbital defense is relatively complete, the cost of fleet breakthrough is high, and the process of deploying troops will cause huge losses, and the ground war will be difficult to solve even with virus bombs. The huge quagmire... this kind was the target of Gu Hang's extermination order.
Seven extermination orders, in total, 60 billion people will be exterminated.
Of course, what makes Gu Hang feel heavy is not that he has decided the fate of 60 billion people.
In fact, their fate has already been decided during the pest infection process.
Gu Hang would not be so naive as to think that these infected people were still alive.
What weighs heavily on him is that the loss of 60 billion people means that the seven worlds have been completely destroyed.
And on these planets, according to data model estimates, there may be between 30 and 5 billion loyal humans with normal minds, and they are all gone.
It's all a loss.
Of the remaining forty-three previously lost worlds, seventeen were eventually contacted and could use their help to pacify the planet; the other twenty-six were never contacted, but they were all problems. Within the scope of solution, the population is not large, or the planetary defense system is too tight, so you can eat it slowly.
If the situation in the Alfonzo Star Territory has been settled since the victory at Alamita, then there will be no more twists and turns in the situation now.
As long as we proceed in accordance with the established strategy, the winning or losing of battles involving tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people on the planet will not affect the overall situation at all.
And what is the general trend?
The general trend is that the Alliance will completely control the entire Alfonzo Star Territory.
In addition to the fact that Martins, as the coach, won the Nepeta Star Territory, the area currently controlled by the alliance has reached as many as five star territories.
Among them, Longying and Menghe can already be regarded as "local" concepts. The alliance's government agencies are distributed on almost every planet in these two star fields. The human and material resources on these planets can all be used by the alliance.
The Proud Talons are moving forward with this work at full speed.
In a state of war, the work of the alliance government is also very tiring.
Not only preparations for various wars, but also another task, which is to take over various areas occupied by the alliance.
The focus is on Proud Claw.
In many places in the Proud Talon Star Territory, military control has ended, and the delegation of local power groups has ended, and an alliance system has been established instead.
This is the only way to digest territory into the strength of the alliance itself.
Of course, building is always harder than destroying.
It is not an easy task to transplant the political system of the Alliance and establish direct governance relationships on many planets.
But even though it’s difficult, we have to move forward step by step.
Currently, there are three governance modes in the alliance.
The core is the complete establishment of the political system of the alliance, including the rank system and highly centralized government agencies... The place where these political constructions are completed can be regarded as the core territory of the alliance. The alliance will try its best to develop the planet according to local conditions, and can fully mobilize the planet's resources, adjust the planet's production model, and assist war or development.
The other is that the political system is not completely established. Ranks are only used by some people, and a considerable part of the population is outside the rank system. Government agencies are also directly managed by the high-level governments of the alliance, but the personnel inside have quite a few traces of the old forces and have not been completely transformed.
Places like this are currently classified as territories by the alliance. In Gu Hang's system interface, he can clearly see that these territories are providing him with gift points, and the alliance can also use the manpower and material resources. As for the differences, among these classified territories, there are quite a lot of negative states, such as unstable governance, shaky classes, cabal groups... and so on. The specific manifestation is that there are many constraints and it is not so smooth. The people below will work against the will and try to corrupt the officials of the alliance. Some are actually corrupted and collude with local interest groups...
If these things are found out, they will be included in the government report and put together for Gu Hang to read together. Of course, there are still many that are hidden underwater and have not yet been discovered.
But now it is no longer possible for Gu Hang to pay attention to the situation of every planet.
He can only fully believe that the many officials he has trained can complete their work on these planets according to the general strategy formulated by the alliance.
The third type is that the alliance system has not yet been completed, and the local governance structure and government agencies still retain the appearance of the original planet. The Alliance controls the planet through special agents, military occupation, etc.
Reflected in the system, it is a vassal.
In general, all the territories of the alliance have a roughly three-layer structure from the inside out.
Moreover, the alliance is constantly turning directly ruled areas into core territories; turning vassals into directly ruled areas.
In this regard, Gu Hang has two huge advantages that other rulers cannot have. One is in terms of talent.
Through the system, Gu Hang invested quite a lot of gift points in this area.
A large number of them have been trained by Zhongsi Academy, even trained by the [Political Commissar], and experienced the enlightenment of the [Hero] interface. They all have different, but absolutely outstanding, levels in government affairs and economic construction.
These [heroes] are the source of power for the alliance to thrive.
The other is that Gu Hang can intuitively see on the monthly income interface whether a planet is recognized by the system and counts as the territory of the alliance.
This is important.
Among the rulers of the real world, who can really know whether every territory and every planet under their command really follows their orders and is it really reliable enough?
The people below will be submissive, deceptive, and create information cocoons and illusions...
However, what Gu Hang saw in the system interface was the actual situation.
This reduces a huge amount of uncertainty. Although Gu Hang didn't know what happened on those planets, as soon as he saw that the loyalty level of a certain planet dropped, such as a negative state, or even separated from the alliance territory, turned into a vassal territory, or even rebelled , then you can directly know that there is a problem on the planet, and just send people to investigate and solve it.
As the loyalty level of a planet increases, Gu Hang will know the officials of that planet, whether it is a planetary governor or a government agency. If things are done well, he can easily reward them based on their merits.
Although it is a bit result-oriented, it is an objective fact in any case. It is better than being fooled by the colorful articles below and thinking that the situation is great, but in fact, the situation below is in ruins and the supreme ruler does not know anything.
Now Gu Hang will basically not be fooled.
When government departments criticize someone for doing something well, or criticize someone for doing something poorly, Gu Hang glances at the system to see the results and knows whether he is bragging or criticizing the matter.
Flattery, whitewashing of articles, falsification... these things have no effect on Gu Hang. After several severe reforms, the coalition government has generally been able to maintain a relatively pragmatic ethos that focuses on efficiency and results from top to bottom.
As the scale of governance increases, problems of bloat and reduced efficiency are inevitable. But the alliance has also implemented many strategies, such as delegating more power to local officials so that they can act more conveniently.
Ordinary political powers are unlikely to do this. Oh, actually, that's what the Empire does. After all, it is too big, so we can only delegate power as much as possible and let the planetary governor handle things by himself.
But this will bring about too much independence and cannot be used as an arm. The mobilization of manpower and material resources mainly relies on political inertia, force oppression, and the loyalty of local people. It mainly relies on imperial taxes. Additional resource support is not good. Speak.
But Gu Hang is not afraid that he will have too much independence if given to local officials. This is also a benefit derived from the loyalty of the personnel and the system interface that Gu Hang can monitor the situation in the area in real time. It doesn't matter if you have high independence, officials are less likely to have different intentions. Of course, the Zhongsi Academy and political commissar training are not completely mentally locked. They only strengthen education and make people loyal enough not to rebel easily. It's not uncommon for people to have a bone on the back of their head, but Gu Hang could tell it right away from the state of the planet.
Negative states such as [separatist tendencies], [violating the situation], and [the rulers being unruly] can be easily understood at a glance and can be eliminated as soon as the problem emerges.
Being able to directly see 'loyalty' is the biggest golden finger for rulers.
Seeing the core territory and directly-administered territory expanding over time, Gu Hang felt very satisfied.
In a sense, he even expected this counter-insurgency war to last longer. It's not just about conquering more territory, but it's also good to at least buy Gu Hang more time to digest the occupied areas.
If it ends early, the alliance will be difficult to manage.
When the time comes, once Gu Hang's identity as Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Front is removed, what will happen to the territory he occupies?
The Empire Central Committee will definitely reward people based on their merits, but no matter what, it is impossible to give all the four star regions of Meng He, Proud Claw, Nepeta, and Alfonzo to the Alliance.
Spanning two universes, a total of five star fields, a total of more than three thousand worlds... It's too exaggerated. There are only so many worlds in some small space regions with a small number of colonized planets.
If it all goes to the Alliance, wouldn't the Alliance instantly become a local force more terrifying than Iron Armor? Talking about loyalty, what if one day Gu Hang also rebels? The noise caused by it is likely to be even bigger than the iron armor!
Aren’t the gentlemen on Holy Terra afraid that just after the Iron Armor was leveled, a separatist force with greater future development potential than the Iron Armor would be raised?
It's impossible for them not to consider this.
At that time, at the political level, there will still be games to be played.
How much the Alliance will eventually be able to eat, and how it will eat it, and what kind of relationship the Alliance will have with the Empire in the future, seems to be unknown now.
All in all, Gu Hang didn't want to spit out too much of what he had eaten, nor did he want to fall out with the empire, be labeled a traitor, and then be surrounded and suppressed by all parties in the empire.
Is iron armor a military failure? Of course not. They set out from the Queen's Star Domain and quickly swept across the entire universe. On the battlefield, there were founding war groups present, and the Western Front, with the strong support of the Inquisition, was defeated by them and finally collapsed; at the beginning of the Northern Front, Leroy was blocked by the swarm of insects and could not chew it. Gu Hang had always been very cautious on the southern front, advancing step by step. Although he had achieved a series of victories, to put it bluntly, he was fighting against Fury Flame and Alfonzo, not the main force of Iron Armor.
But so what? Victory after victory, the empire lost one army after another, only to retreat further and further. If the empire loses one legion, it can send two more; if it loses a Phoenix Chapter, it can immediately bring out an Otaupis. If the Black Crusaders can't take advantage of one fleet, then they will bring in another fleet. The Silver Watch, the Loyal Stormtroopers, and various elite troops can provide continuous support from different places.
Winning one game, ten games, a hundred games, so what? Will there be no loss?
If you lose a big one, you lose everything.
Gu Hang saw all this and took it as a warning.
Even if Gu Hang is confident, even if the two armies on the Western Front and the Northern Front move south to deal with him after defeating the iron armor, he can still withstand it.
But that doesn't make sense.
If they win, they will just be like Tie Jiai, being completely overwhelmed by the continuous arrival of the imperial army one after another.
The best situation is to hide under the banner of the empire, gradually develop, and wait for the right time.
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This chapter makes up for yesterday.
There is another chapter in the second half of the night.
(End of chapter)