Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 477

Chapter 476: Let’s get past Gu first

of Mr. Gu first. The atmosphere between Erso and Gu Hang suddenly fell silent because of this sentence.

After a few seconds, or maybe a few minutes, Erso spoke:

“What did you say?”

After saying this, he felt that he was not good enough.

No one would joke about this kind of thing, or say it was fake news.

Moreover, the possibility was very high. The main force of the Alliance was already making trouble in the nest of the greenskins. It was easy to understand that Titus ran to the nest of the iron teeth and was blocked by the Alliance.

But he still couldn’t help but make sure.

At the same time, he also had a huge sense of absurdity in his heart.

Titus died in the hands of the Alliance, so where was the benefit of the Fury of Flame’s struggle in the past few years?

Before, no matter how big the Alliance made a fuss on the Eastern Front, it was also a side battlefield. The main battlefield is still here, and the leader of the orcs, the great chieftain Titus, is right in front of him.

According to the history of the Empire’s tens of thousands of years of entanglement and fighting with the greenskins, everyone understands that the leader of the orcs is the most critical thing in a war against the orcs.

Only by destroying the supreme leader of the orcs can the victory of a war be declared.

As long as the Fury kills Titus, they will undoubtedly be the biggest contributors to the Iron Tooth War. No matter how great the contribution of others is, it is at most a foil, which brings help to the main battlefield and cannot take the lead.

But now, this greatest achievement has been taken by the Alliance.

The statement will be different immediately.

The Alliance is not a foil, not a supporting role.

Overall, the Fury Warband held back the main force of the greenskins in the front, and the Alliance attacked the dragon from the side, greatly destroying the war potential of the Iron Tooth Clan, forcing Titus to retreat and causing civil strife among the greenskins, and in the process of encirclement, annihilated a part of the main force of the greenskins, killed the orc chieftain Titus, and won the war.

In this version of the story, the Alliance is not a supporting role. On the contrary, the Fury Warband is the supporting role.

They attracted the attention of the greenskins in the front, creating an opportunity for the real hero and protagonist to attack the dragon and kill the greenskin chieftain.

Well, golden supporting role, golden supporting role.

However, this is totally unacceptable to Erso!

The Fury of Flames is not an ordinary chapter.

The logic of a normal Space Marine chapter is actually very simple.

They have their own home planet, and all the output of the home planet belongs to them. And the reward the Empire gets is that the Space Marines will accept the Empire’s call for action.

But there are relatively few direct orders from the Empire, and the Space Marines can even refuse to act – but they usually don’t do this – more often, the chapter receives a distress signal from a certain planet, and then dispatches a company, or sometimes even less than a company, to rescue, depending on what kind of trouble the planet has encountered.

They can also ignore these distress signals.

From these perspectives, the independence of the Space Marines is very strong.

Of course, most Space Marines will not ignore the call for help or refuse the Empire’s orders. This is their honor.

The Fury of Flames came to the Dragon Eagle Star Region to fight this battle, and they also followed this process.

But the difference is that the general chapters are satisfied after receiving the honor.

From this perspective, the supporting role is the supporting role. Although it is a bit regrettable, ordinary warbands really don’t have to fight for this.

But the Fury Flame Warband can’t. They value the actual meaning behind the glory more.

It would be fine if they were just a supporting role, but the key is that they paid such a high price to indirectly exert influence on the Dragon Eagle Star Region by spreading their reputation and winning the war, and developing this star region into a part of the outer circle of influence of the Iron Fury Stone.

Now, after they have paid a heavy price, the benefits they wanted were taken away by Gu Hang.

Even for a warband leader like Erso who has hundreds of years of life experience, it is still difficult to treat it calmly.

He tried to take a deep breath, but still couldn’t suppress the anger in his heart.

“Okay, very good, Governor Gu did a good job.”

“However, the war is not over yet, and our Fury Flame Warband will stay in the Dragon Eagle Star Region for a while. There is a long way to go.”

At this point, Erso hung up the communication.

…

Erso’s last sentence was obviously a threat.

However, Gu Hang didn’t care.

He didn’t actively pursue the killing of Titus.

However, he also realized that he couldn’t let Titus escape back to the greenskin’s lair alive, otherwise the subsequent eradication operation would become very difficult.

The appeal of an orc chieftain is too strong. If he comes back alive, it means that when the alliance clears the four major star regions of the greenskins, it will not face a fragmented and loose greenskin world. They will unite and act together.

At that time, even if the alliance can complete the clearing operation, the cost will be completely different.

So, after learning about the greenskin civil strife, Gu Hang then judged that the intention of Chief Tiechi should be to detour back to the Jiangmeiyu star region. He led the main force of the fleet to the star region in advance and blocked Titus’s returning fleet.

The returning Titus, with one-third of the main force of the greenskins, is still a large scale. However, in the sudden attack, Gu Hang spared all other fleets, but not the greenskin flagship that Titus personally rode.

After realizing that he could not escape the pursuit and could not win the star war, Titus wanted to land on the surface of the nearest planet and make a final resistance.

But this plan was also discovered by Gu Hang.

The psychic power captured his warship, tore the void shield, and the Fire Nova brought several human cruisers to fire together. Titus’s vehicle was no longer the greenskin battleship that was blown up by the Fury Corps, nor was it the Battle Moon, which was destroyed in the Greenskin Civil War. What he was riding now was just an ordinary greenskin cruiser, which could not withstand such a blow.

After his warship was destroyed, in order to ensure his death, Gu Hang sent people to board the several large pieces of the ship that were blown up to find his body.

This was quite a matter of luck. Even with a strong physique like the orc chieftain, it was impossible for him to survive after the ship was destroyed. Whether there was an intact body or not depended on the specific situation.

But Gu Hang was lucky. Among the many ruins of ships floating in space, the phoenixes who went there actually found his body.

He was seriously injured because a steel column that broke during the explosion penetrated his chest. There were also signs at the scene that he broke and pulled out the steel column and struggled to survive. Even his chest that was penetrated showed signs of wound repair due to his strong physique.

However, due to the destruction of the life support facilities, the extremely cold environment made it impossible for his destroyed armor to provide him with life support.

But even with the serious injury and direct exposure to space, he survived for at least thirty-nine hours. When the Phoenixes found him, he was still alive and able to move.

This is an extremely dangerous individual. After consulting Gu Hang, in order to eliminate future troubles, they did not consider the issue of imprisonment after capture, but directly executed him and brought back the body.

With the assistance of the regiment pharmacist, Titus’s body was made into a specimen.

Then, there was this interstellar phone call between Gu Hang and Erso.

In fact, at the beginning, Gu Hang considered whether to completely break up with Erso and the Fury of Flame, and even considered whether he could use Titus’s body to exchange for some benefits.

However, Erso’s attitude at the beginning was a bit excessive.

Gu Hang has a mature mentality, but he will not shrink when it is time to take revenge.

What’s more, can the relationship between the two sides be really eased by selling Titus’s body?

After carefully analyzing the overall situation, Gu Hang thought it was impossible.

The relief is also temporary. There are fundamental and irreconcilable contradictions between the two sides.

After the Iron Tooth War, will Gu Hang retreat to the Pegasus Star Region with all his honors, be satisfied with the current nine planets of the alliance, and abandon and abolish the political framework brought by the Seven Horses Agreement?

Obviously not.

The alliance has already demonstrated its strength. In the future, it will be impossible for him to make a fortune quietly.

He must expand the alliance’s base, from the Pegasus Star Region to the Seven Horses Land is the minimum. At the same time, using political alliances, joint defense, economic alliances and other means, all the many star systems that the alliance has circled now will be included, so as to live up to this opportunity.

And to get so many places, many conditions are required. Military and economic capabilities are the most basic. Gu Hang must be able to pacify these planets and restore their economic conditions.

But at the same time, great reputation and political legitimacy are absolutely not to be ignored.

Relying solely on the so-called “interstellar political entity”, that is, the license of the alliance, it is definitely not enough to support such a large area. Although, his alliance license actually did not limit the number of governors who joined. But if there were really hundreds of worlds in one breath, it would definitely cause an uproar.

The impact of this matter is not just at the regional level, but will directly attract the attention of the central political arena of the empire.

Gallardo can’t hold it.

Gu Hang must obtain this legitimacy from other aspects.

The most direct route is to seek the position of the head of the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

With the identity of the first leader of the star region government, the strength of the alliance can be transformed into a serious political influence, making his position more stable than anyone else; at the same time, the identity of the head of the star region will in turn provide shelter for the alliance, allowing the alliance to develop with confidence within the scope of the entire star region.

The next level plan is that if he cannot become the head of the star domain, he must make the head of the star domain his own person, which can also achieve a similar effect, but there will be some hidden dangers and problems.

Even worse, the head of the star domain stands on the opposite side of Gu Hang, then he can only take conventional means such as interstellar trade, military exchanges, and political alliances. It’s not impossible, no one stipulates that several planets cannot help each other. But if the scale is large and there is no proper political name, it is very easy for people to trip and cause trouble.

Gu Hang does not want to fall into the third situation, so he can only seek one and two.

This is an absolutely irreconcilable contradiction with the Fury Flame Corps.

The so-called “Iron Fury Stone” refers to a huge political entity headed by the Iron Armor Corps, plus two iron-clad allies, the Fury Flame Corps and the Stone Shield Corps, with the Princess Star Domain as the core, radiating to multiple surrounding star domains.

They can almost be regarded as separatist forces within the empire, which is much more excessive than Gu Hang’s alliance.

Although the three chapters have done some cover-ups, anyone with a discerning eye knows that their numbers and chapter specifications far exceed the regulations of the Space Marine Code.

Generally speaking, it is normal for a normal chapter to exceed a little bit, or to act differently from the regulations. After all, they have special identities and their respective cultural histories are different. As long as they are loyal to the Empire, the Empire will usually turn a blind eye.

But if the scale exceeds ten or twenty times, what kind of chapter are you? You might as well return to the Legion era.

Moreover, it is not just the Space Marines who violate the rules. The Imperial Tax of the Princess Star Region is now almost as much as they want to pay.

Giving some Imperial Tax is giving you face; when you don’t give face, the Void Zerg has invaded more fiercely recently, and it costs too much, so the Empire will give me money.

Don’t approve? Then the neighboring star regions sympathize with us and give donations, please ask the Empire to exempt their Imperial Tax.

No?

Who will accept it and let me see.

This is the attitude of Li Guoshi, the leader of the Iron Armored Regiment, the “husband of the princess”, the “tyrant of the spider web”, and the “shield of the eye of the void”. It

is much more excessive than the Alliance, which has never defaulted on the imperial tax. Every account of the imperial tax collected recently, how much money was collected, where it was used, and what results were achieved, are all clear and clear. In the future, when the war is over, Gu Hang has no intention of refusing to pay the imperial tax. At most… ahem, he will pay it more flexibly.

In Gu Hang’s view – and not just Gu Hang, in the view of many senior officials in the central empire, the “Iron Fury Stone” has become a de facto separatist regime, and it is unscrupulous.

Gallardo once talked to Gu Hang about this.

From this perspective, the Fury Flame Regiment came to the Dragon Eagle Star Region with the mission of expanding the territory.

What should Gu Hang do?

Bow down and give in, and from then on, like many imperial forces in the Princess Star Region and several star regions around the Princess, become a dog of the “Iron Fury Stone”?

That is obviously impossible.

Political conflict is inevitable.

Gu Hang gave up the idea of appeasement.

With the military exploits, the strength of the alliance, and the relationship with the upper echelons, Gu Hang has a chance to get what he wants.

In addition, Gu Hang also plans to find common interests with some people in the upper echelons of the empire to support the alliance.

If the Iron Fury Stone wants to get the Dragon Eagle Star Region, it has to get past me first.

(End of this chapter)