Chapter 514, slow down

The reputation strategy adopted by Humphrey is actually very difficult. There are many levels to pass.

For example, Gu Hang heard Gallardo say that the Space Marine representative in the High Lords Council was already in contact with several powerful war groups.

Among them are powerful top battle groups like the Black Crusaders. They are also a very powerful battle group, but their situation is completely different from that of the Iron Armor.

The Black Crusaders are a sub-group of the Golden Knights Chapter, and they themselves have great influence and background. But they don’t occupy any land. They belong to a ship-based battle group. They don’t even have a home planet. They can recruit troops and obtain supplies from wherever they hit, and then rush to the next battlefield...

Moreover, they are quite 'obedient'.

This obedience does not mean that they will do whatever the empire tells them to do, nor does it mean that they will be obedient if the imperial government interferes in the internal affairs of their chapter. But at least, if the empire has a call, they will come in most cases. They are also very willing to accept requests for help from all over the empire and come whenever they can.

This has allowed them to accumulate a particularly large reputation and goodwill, and there are indeed many local forces who are willing to give them support, donations, and rewards as a thank you, or simply to get help from the Black Cross in the future after making good friends.

And usually, they do get what they want.

But it is precisely because of this that although the Black Crusaders are large in scale, they are also very 'busy'.

They did not have enough strength to go south, and they could not be strategically confused.

The father is going to punish his son.

This is also Gu Hang's judgment that when the craze set off by Iron Fury Stone on the western and northern fronts has taken shape, it is bound to invest most of its forces to maintain this offensive.

The Black Crusaders received the call from the empire, and they also expressed their willingness to participate in this counter-insurgency operation. However, unfortunately, many of their expedition fleets had their own missions. Although they have promised that they will try their best to mobilize a force as soon as possible to participate in the war, even they cannot promise a specific time.

The Alliance is a typical opponent that is not that famous, but is quite powerful. If you win, you won't necessarily get a big prestige bonus, and it's also difficult to defeat.

When these forces join the battle against Iron Armor one by one, the challenge Humphrey Paul faces will become even greater.

But if they really came, Gu Hang wouldn't mind giving Humphrey Paul a head-on blow in the south.

In addition to the Black Crusaders, there are also some famous war groups who have also received the call. Among them, there are also several start-up battle groups with great reputations. For example, the Blood Angels Chapter and the Bat Chapter operating in the northern frontier of the empire, such as the Infinite Chapter, which is also very famous in the eastern frontier, this war group is even the parent group of the Iron Armor Chapter.

Before that, he must choose his opponents carefully and choose his strategy carefully. He cannot encounter someone who is too tough too early, lest he suffers failure before he reaches that point, causing the wave he is looking forward to to end prematurely.

The defeated Inquisition is also furious. They are deploying more elite forces to cooperate with them, especially the Sisters of Battle, and are preparing to increase their efforts and continue to participate in the war...

Only after passing these levels one after another can the fame strategy that Paul imagined take shape.

The price given by the empire was enough to satisfy Gu Hang, and it was okay to join the war.

However, the fact is that Tiejai still mainly uses verbal attacks against the alliance, supplemented by some small actions. It is indeed as Gu Hang expected, and they do not dare to fully go south.

Their main 'little move' is to use the influence established by the Raging Flames Chapter's frequent activities in the Menghe Star Territory in the past few years to create obstacles for the alliance. They sent many 'military advisers' and 'independent advisers'. Most of these people come from the auxiliary military system of several battle groups such as Tiejai. Although they are not the most elite military force, as an auxiliary army called the 'Empress Legion' created by Humphrey Paul, their level is even better than the average strength of the Astra Militarum.

Of course, the Queen's Legion is not a large-scale organized force. In those worlds, a regiment can survive until death, or even only a few companies.

The officer leading the team serves as a military advisor and leads the local area to build a more powerful force based on the Imperial Queen's Legion as a template.

This is not all prepared for the alliance. In the past years, the establishment of the Home Defense Force, which was modeled after the Imperial Queen's Legion, was itself a way to exert influence on the local area.

Objectively speaking, this did have a lot of impact on the alliance's actions in Meng River.

It was originally hoped that the entire Menghe Star Region could be brought into an internal united front through diplomatic means alone. But later on, diplomacy and political means alone will no longer suffice.

Then resort to military means.

After the Alliance's advance fleet arrived, they launched a series of offensives.

In the beginning, there wasn't actually much fighting. The side of the Menghe Star Region close to Dragon Eagle is relatively close to the Alliance, so it is still relatively timid. As soon as the fleet arrived and the army moved down, the local forces basically stopped resisting and allowed Alliance officials to be sent in. Various materials began to be collected. The Alliance directly took over the Imperial Tax and Planetary Defense Force.

Once wealth and the army are in hand, the problem is basically not big.

After stabilizing one world, the advance fleet will move on to the next, leaving only part of the army in the previous world.

In most cases, this mode is not a big problem. The remaining officials of the Alliance, with the help of a small army, can basically control the world. The strength of the alliance and the righteousness they hold ensure that they can control the situation relatively stably.

But this is not always the case.

In some worlds, there are no problems when the alliance fleet and the main army are there; but after the main force leaves, problems begin.

The smaller problem is that local riots prevent the cooperative governments established by the Alliance from controlling the global situation.

In places where the problem was relatively large, local cooperative governments were overthrown, alliance troops were besieged, and alliance officials were killed.

Once this situation occurs, the alliance usually has to call back the main force of the advance force that has left in order to solve the local 'rebellion'.

But this has seriously slowed down the alliance's speed of action.

In the past few months, after the Alliance took control of approximately seven star sectors and 103 worlds in the early stages of its operations in the Meng River Star Region, its progress was significantly slowed down.

Gu Hang came here in person this time just to solve this problem.

(End of this chapter)