Chapter 389, war begins

This public declaration by Petters, directed at the entire population of Faches, caused a huge response.

Objectively speaking, he cannot take over the power of the coalition government at all. Although he is a member of the family cabinet, his ranking is not high enough, and his reputation and status are not high enough to achieve the same effect. He couldn't order the coalition government, let alone get the entire Faches Defense Force to actually lay down their weapons on their own.

No matter what he said in his declaration, whether people would actually listen to him is another matter entirely.

However, this declaration still caused great chaos in the Faqesi regime.

On Faches 1, tens of millions of Planetary Defense Forces fell into an eerie silence.

Of course, the Generalissimo of the Defense Force who was in the star port immediately took the orbital elevator back to the surface and declared that Pettus was a traitor throughout the military system, but he could not completely end this chaos.

The reason is simple: what Petters said touched the hearts of the people of Fachus.

We pay taxes every year, we serve the Emperor's statue, we send our most heroic heirs to the Astra Militarum to fight for the Empire, we can proudly call ourselves ourselves from any angle. He was a citizen of the empire and did everything he was supposed to do.

Why should we be unlucky?

Minnick took advantage of this sentiment in the past, instigating rebellions, leading the so-called 'why' to fines, and leading to targeted bad behavior by the sector government.

He did count as a success, and the Fachus were really angry about it. Being raised to the first level of development out of thin air means that the imperial tax that everyone has to bear has increased by more than 10% of their total income. Forget it, there are still five years of no food or drink to save everything. Income, who can handle it?

However, when the other side of the scale is clearly labeled as an 'Imperial traitor', and then the Imperial army actually appears outside the orbit of the planet, how long can this anger last?

The education they had received since childhood and the stories they had heard told the fate of countless betrayers, and now it was all reflected in the minds of every Faches.

Angry as hell, do you really want to go to war with the empire?

This is a question to ponder, especially when they are putting everything they have on the table.

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But Gu Hang didn't give the Fachus any more time to figure this issue out.

This coup that took place in the planet's capital has achieved the results Gu Hang expected.

The information on the ground was immediately transmitted to the sky and was learned by Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the counter-insurgency.

At this moment, he was on the cruiser 'Concerto', which was the current flagship of the Pegasus fleet. As the commander-in-chief, Gu Hang also set up his general command post here.

He does not fully expect a coup to solve all problems.

The current situation is enough.

The Imperial troops, at his command, moved into action.

The first to take action was, of course, the Pegasus fleet.

Two cruisers, twenty-seven destroyers, and other ships totaled more than fifty, and they began to fiercely attack the planetary defense system of Fachus 1.

Firepower coming from the ground, from many star forts orbiting in orbit, from armed space stations, from star ports... the sum of these firepowers is not much weaker than the Pegasus fleet.

The firepower is almost the same, but that's just one aspect; in terms of anti-strike capabilities, these planetary defense facilities that don't require power are much stronger than starships. The scale of the star port is much larger than that of the ship; the anti-orbital guns on the ground are simply covered by solid fortresses and more solid earth; not to mention, they are also covered with energy shields or void shields.

Even those armed space stations are relatively fragile, and some even don't have energy shields and can be destroyed by two or three cannons, but they are low-cost and plentiful.

This is the strength of a planet with complete orbital defense when facing a naval attack.

If the entire Falches 1 is considered as a whole, it will not be too far behind in the confrontation with the Pegasus fleet.

In theory it should be so.

However, once the battle begins, things are slightly different.

The fortress-like star port had a strong will to fight, but some of the orbiting armed space stations and anti-orbital firepower on the ground did not fire.

Fleet Commander Du Shiliang was really nervous at first. Before the official start of the war, he was quite worried that his fleet would suffer excessive costs when clearing planetary anti-orbital firepower.

But now it seems that the situation is much better than imagined.

Among those space stations that dared not fire, there were even communication requests sent to the navy ships. The meaning was probably that they had heard the order from the coalition government. They guaranteed that they were loyal to the empire, so they did not fire, and Imperial troops are invited to take over these stations.

Du Shiliang was a little cautious at first, and only sent a very small number of marines to set off on the landing spacecraft.

When they approached, they were not attacked by the armed space station. Instead, the space station took the initiative to open a channel to contact the spacecraft. Often a small team of Marines can take over an armed space station with hundreds of people stationed there.

The occurrence of these situations has greatly reduced the intensity of the naval battle faced by the Tianma Fleet.

Although several small warships, such as frigates or patrol ships, were damaged after being intensively attacked and had to withdraw from the battle sequence, in general, the damage suffered by the Pegasus fleet was greater than expected. Much better.

This is also the advantage of the naval fleet when fighting against the planet - the initiative lies with me. Fight if you want, retreat if you want. Those surface rail guns and orbital fortresses cannot move anyway and cannot be pursued.

A more conservative style of play, as long as the energy shield is overloaded, retreat, wait until the overload situation is over, and then come up. Be more steady and don't be too unlucky to be blown up instantly. The probability of direct battle damage is still very low.

The Pegasus fleet spent about four hours in the orbit of Faches 1.

At this moment, it was already evening on the surface. Everyone on Faches can see the gorgeous brilliance in the sky when they raise their heads.

That makes people feel more vast and brilliant than looking at the meteor shower.

But no one will be happy.

They all knew what it was, and every ray of light represented death and destruction.

They can only pray that these brilliance will not really fall on their world.

(End of this chapter)