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 previous standards for signing extermination orders, those worlds are not only difficult to solve, but the loyalists in them can no longer be contacted and provide no help. The most important thing is that these are core worlds with abundant 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 orbital defense system of the world is strong enough. If the orbital defense system is relatively ordinary and has no defensive effect on the alliance's fleet, then Gu Hang will not easily sign an extermination order, but will be more inclined to send ground troops to attack the enemy on the surface with the orbital support of the fleet and try to search for survivors.

These participating troops do not necessarily have to be the alliance's direct troops, but can be mobilized from some planets in the Alfonzo star field that are in better condition to fight.

For this reason, the alliance may only have to pay for 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 attack areas on the ground where defenses are particularly stubborn, and cooperate with ground forces. In addition, the virus bombs that are constantly being produced are now transported to where they are needed almost as soon as they are made, and they can play their role as much as possible while the infected bodies have not had time to get information and evolve and transform their genes.

In this way, a planet with only 300 million to 500 million infected people, or at most 10 to 20 billion infected people, can be conquered slowly. And with the help of virus bombs and orbital support, the price paid may not be particularly high.

But if the population of this planet is too large, exceeding 5 billion, and the orbital defense is relatively complete, the cost of the fleet's breakthrough is high, and there will be huge losses in the process of deploying troops. The ground war is a huge quagmire that is difficult to solve even with virus bombs... This is the goal of Gu Hang's extermination order.

Seven extermination orders, in total, 60 billion people will be exterminated.

Of course, the reason why Gu Hang is in a heavy mood is not that he has decided the fate of 60 billion people.

In fact, their fate has long been determined during the process of insect infection.

Gu Hang would not be so naive as to think that these infected people were still alive.

What weighed heavy on him was that the loss of 60 billion people meant that seven worlds were completely destroyed.

And on these planets, according to the data model, there were probably 3 to 5 billion loyalists with normal minds, but they were all gone.

They were all losses.

Of the remaining 43 worlds that had lost contact before, 17 were finally contacted, and with their help, the planets could be pacified; the other 26 were never contacted, but they were all in the category of problems that could still be solved, with a small population or a relatively weak planetary defense system, so they could be slowly gnawed.

If it was said that the situation in the Alfonzo star field had been settled since the victory of Aramita, then now, the situation would not have any more twists and turns.

As long as the established strategy was followed, the wins and losses of the battles of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people on the planets would not affect the general trend at all.

And what is the general trend?

The general trend is that the alliance will definitely completely control the entire Alfonzo star field.

Including Martins as the head coach, who took over the Jingjie star field, the area currently controlled by the alliance has reached as many as five star fields.

Among them, Dragon Eagle and Menghe can already be regarded as the concept of "homeland". The government agencies of the alliance are distributed on almost every planet in these two star fields. The human and material resources on these planets can be called by the alliance.

The Aozhua star field is advancing this work at full speed.

In a state of war, the work of the alliance government is also very tiring.

Not only is it preparing for various wars, but there is also another task, which is to receive the various areas occupied by the alliance.

The focus is on Aozhua.

Many places in the Aozhua star field have ended military control and the appointment of local power groups, and have established an alliance system instead.

This is the only way to digest the territory into the power of the alliance itself.

Of course, construction is always more difficult than destruction.

It is not an easy task to transplant the political system of the alliance and establish direct ruling relations on many planets.

But despite the difficulties, it must be advanced step by step.

At present, the alliance has three ruling modes.

The most important thing is to fully establish the political system of the alliance, including the job grade system and highly centralized government agencies... The places where these political constructions are completed can be regarded as the core territory of the alliance. The alliance will develop the planet as much as possible according to local conditions, and can fully mobilize the planet's resources and adjust the planet's production model to help war or development.

Another is that the political system is not fully established. Job grades are only used on some people, and a considerable part of the population is outside the job grade system. Government agencies are also directly managed by the top government of the alliance, but there are quite a few traces of the old forces in the personnel, and they have not been completely transformed.

Places like this are currently included in the territory of the alliance. In Gu Hang's system interface, it can be clearly seen that these territories are providing him with gift points, and the alliance can also call on the manpower and material resources in them. As for the difference, there are quite a lot of negative conditions in these included territories, such as unstable rule, vacillating classes, conspiracy groups... and so on. Specifically, there are many constraints and it is not so smooth. The people below will pretend to obey but secretly try to corrupt the officials of the alliance. Some are really corrupted and collude with local interest groups...

These things, when found out, will fall into the government report and be integrated for Gu Hang to see. Of course, there are still many hidden underwater that have not been found.

But now Gu Hang has no possibility 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 is that the alliance's system has not been completed, and the local ruling structure and government agencies still retain the appearance of the original planet. The alliance controls the planet through special envoys, military occupation, etc.

In the system, it is vassal.

In general, all the territories of the alliance are roughly three layers from the inside out.

In addition, the alliance is constantly turning the 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.

First, in terms of talent.

Through the system, Gu Hang has invested a lot of gift points in this aspect.

A large number of people have been trained by Zhongsi College, even trained by [Political Commissars], and have been enlightened by the [Hero] interface. They all have different but absolutely excellent levels in government affairs and economic construction.

These [Heroes] are the driving force for the booming development of the alliance.

Another thing is that Gu Hang can intuitively see on the monthly income interface whether a planet is recognized by the system and counted as the alliance's territory.

This is very important.

Who of the rulers in the real world can really know whether every piece of territory and every planet under their command really obeys their orders and is really reliable enough?

The people below will pretend to obey, deceive, create information cocoons and illusions...

However, what Gu Hang sees in the system interface is the real actual situation.

This reduces huge uncertainty. Although Gu Hang does not know what happened on those planets, as long as he sees that the loyalty level of a planet has dropped, such as a negative state, or even separation from the alliance territory, becoming a vassal territory, or even rebellion, he can directly know that there is a problem with the planet and send people to investigate and solve it.

And if the loyalty level of a planet rises, Gu Hang will know that the officials of the planet, whether it is the planetary governor or the government agency, have done a good job, and he can easily reward them according to their merits.

Although it is a bit result-oriented, it is an objective fact anyway, which is better than being fooled by the colorful articles below, thinking that the situation is good, but in fact, the situation below is rotten and the supreme ruler still knows nothing.

Gu Hang will basically not be fooled now.

When the government departments praise someone for doing a good job, or criticize someone for doing a bad job, Gu Hang can tell whether it is exaggeration, slander or just the facts by scanning the system to see the results.

Flattery, whitewashing, fraud... these things have no effect on Gu Hang. After several severe punishments, the Alliance government can generally maintain a relatively pragmatic, efficiency-oriented and results-oriented atmosphere from top to bottom.

As the scale of rule increases, the problems of bloatedness 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 do things at their convenience.

Ordinary regimes cannot do this. Oh, in fact, this is what the Empire does. After all, it is too big, so it can only delegate power as much as possible and let the planetary governor do things by himself.

But this will lead to too high independence, which will not be able to be used as one's arm. The mobilization of human and material resources mainly depends on political inertia, military oppression, and the loyalty of local people. It mainly relies on imperial taxes, and it is difficult to say whether there will be additional resource support.

But Gu Hang is not afraid that the local officials will have too high independence. This is still the benefit from the loyalty of the personnel and the system interface that Gu Hang can use to monitor the situation in the area in real time. It doesn't matter if the independence is high, and officials are not likely to have dissent. Of course, the Zhongsi Academy and the political commissar training are not completely 100% mind-locked, but they have strengthened education, and those who are loyal enough are not likely to rebel. There are also people who have a rebellious mind, but Gu Hang can see it from the state of the planet immediately.

Negative states such as [separatist tendency], [pretentious disobedience], and [the ruler is unruly] can be seen at a glance, and they can be completely eliminated when the problem just shows a sign.

Being able to directly see the "loyalty" is the biggest golden finger for the ruler.

Gu Hang felt very satisfied as he watched the core territory and directly-affiliated territory continue to expand with the passage of time.

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 be able to eat in the end, 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 constantly surrounded and suppressed by all parties in the empire.

Is iron armor a military failure? Of course not. They set off 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.