Chapter 673, Danger
Chapter 673, Danger
The Western Front Legion's advance into the Princess Star Region can be considered a landmark event.
This means that Gu Hang no longer needs to continue squatting on the southeast side of the Princess Star Region.
He can let go and take the initiative in attacking.
They can either support the offensive on the Western Front or rely on the support from the Western Front while they take the lead in the attack.
According to the information provided by Qin Zhiping, the most important target of this war, the Queen of Insects, is in Reyaduches.
Although more than half a year has passed since this information was discovered, the Queen of Insects should not have escaped.
In terms of location, Reyaduches is the most suitable center to collect biomass from all over the Princess Star Region. At the same time, the "Void Black Hole" that initially threatened the Princess Star Region and even the entire Spider Star Region is located in Reyaduches.
The so-called "void black hole" is not a real black hole celestial body. It refers to a place where void insect swarms always emerge.
The Hive Fleet has the ability to travel through the Astral Tunnel, and they also like this method of interstellar travel. Speed is one aspect, but more importantly, it uses the Astral Tunnel that humans are used to. When you go to the other side, it is easy to find a densely populated world nearby, and then you can feast on it.
However, using astral tunnels for space travel is not the most commonly used method by the Void Zerg.
Their longer journeys are through space, using conventional power to sail for decades or even hundreds of years until they find the next target to devour.
Why is it that attacking the human empire is such a great pleasure for the Zerg? Once they come in, they not only have a delicious meal to eat, but they can also use the human astral tunnels to travel at high speeds, greatly reducing the time it takes to reach the next table. They don't have to go through many years of torment and hunger every time they eat an isolated planet.
However, the main force of the Zerg is not in the galaxy where the Human Empire is located. Their real main force may still be far, far away, so far that it will never reach the territory of the Human Empire.
However, it only takes one invading Zerg Hive Fleet to make a galaxy or even an entire star region struggle to cope; and if it is an entire 'tentacle', then when they finish their long conventional voyage and arrive at the territory of the Human Empire, they will be able to start a terrible war that affects the entire star field and even the universe.
There are examples of these in imperial history.
The place where the swarm of insects arrives and is constantly arriving is called the 'void black hole'. It is the vanguard or main force of the void insect swarm, and the area that is constantly arriving through normal navigation.
This "black hole of void" in Readuches is not that scary in general. Although there might be a whole "tentacle" behind it, at least it is still very far away, so far that it cannot be detected by technical means; and the Hive Fleet that arrives every once in a while is not large in scale. After Iron Armor settled down in Readuches, an ordinary world, and built a fortress world, there will be no problem.
At least there was no problem until the main force of the swarm's tentacles arrived.
As for their consumption, the solution is for the Empire to indulge their expansion.
Unfortunately, Humphrey Paul's greed destroyed everything. He intended to control the Queen of Insects and solve the problem once and for all. At the same time, he could save his huge military expenditure and take this opportunity to continue to demand privileges from the central government of the empire, thus developing the entire Iron Armored Corps into a behemoth.
But it also buried a huge thunder. According to Gu Hang's current analysis of the known intelligence, the queen of insects has never been disconnected from the entire insect swarm's "network" since its birth, and has been in contact with the upper level. Moreover, as the queen of insects, its authority is very high. When it is not disconnected from the network, it has a very high intelligence, which is enough to conceal itself when it is still in the larval stage, cooperate with the experiments of Iron Armor and Alfonzo Sect, and spread the infection and control the insect swarm. When everything develops later, it is irreversible, and it eventually erupts into the current situation.
From these perspectives, the Queen should still be sitting firmly in Reyaduches, which has become her base camp. She won't run away. Nowhere is as safe as Reyaduches, which is so convenient for her to gather forces from all sides and build her own army.
But at the same time, this also gives the human army an attack target.
From this perspective, Marshal Luwa of the Northern Front Legion was right in his initial judgment. As long as they could defeat Readuches, take down the planet, and destroy the Zerg Queen entrenched in it, this Zerg disaster that evolved from the rebellion of the Space Marines would be over.
Although the cost is high, it is still within the range that the empire can afford.
As for the attack directed towards Rheaduces, at the current stage, it seems to be going quite smoothly overall.
Salilius and Martins, who had just won a great victory, had a relatively long period of rest. A lot of war supplies, some new warships, and even some company reinforcements from the regiments arrived from the rear. Some were sent from Holy Terra, and some were in response to the call of the central government of the empire and came from other universes and star regions to support.
These supplies and reinforcements greatly increased the strength of the Western Front Legion, allowing them to enter the Princess Star Region in a more majestic manner.
It can be said that they made rapid progress. In just one month, they broke through two lines of defense, and the fleet once approached Rheaduches.
But this also irritated the Queen of Insects.
A large army blocked the Western Front Army, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle. Salisius' offensive momentum was finally stopped.
However, if we can block the western front, what about the eastern front?
Under Gu Hang's command, the alliance's army launched a comprehensive and resolute counterattack in the Nocras galaxy.
Before this, the Zerg that was originally suppressing the Alliance was instantly pushed back.
The alliance fleet set sail and advanced rapidly towards the direction of Rheaduches.
After advancing three star sectors, the Alliance's army even accidentally discovered and rescued the remnants of a northern legion, among whom was Marshal Xi Rui, who was accompanied by a battle barge and more than 300 Space Marines of the Black Crusade.
Another supplement.
For a moment, Rheaduches was in danger.
(End of this chapter)
