Chapter 825: Reinforcements

After arranging all these things, Gu Hang still didn't have time to deal with the two fallen angels.

The main reason is that the Dark Expedition has encountered two relatively big problems in recent times.

First, it comes from chaos.

On the northern front, more and more Chaos enemies are emerging from the Scarlet Scar.

Unlike the large-scale Khorne army they encountered before, the enemy this time did not gather a large army to confront the Alliance army head-on. They were divided into small units, and even the Alliance's reconnaissance fleet observed conflicts between them.

Chaos itself is not a monolithic entity.

These small warbands and small legions did not have any unified goals. They seemed to be simply because the Scarlet Scar's warp waves were becoming more and more turbulent, and the reality veil was becoming more and more fragile and thin. More evil beings in the warp were released and began to do evil in the real universe without restraint.

In a way, these guys are unlucky. The universe is so big that there are plenty of places for them to make trouble. Some of them are like heroes, and they may have the potential to do great things. But now, as soon as they go out, they run into the iron wall of the alliance and die with hatred.

But the Alliance was not lucky. The northern line of the Dark Side Expedition could basically be considered a pure defensive line. It was too close to the Scarlet Scar, which was impenetrable. The Alliance could not gain any benefit from it, but a large number of troops and strategic resources were consumed on this line of defense.

If it were just that, it would be fine. The more critical thing is that the scarlet scars that have been encountered recently surged. Although the enemies that rushed out did not have a unified goal or a unified plan, their numbers were too large. The entire "Northern Great Wall" of the alliance was almost ablaze with beacons everywhere, and faced severe challenges everywhere.

This forced the alliance to increase its support for the northern line.

This, in turn, caused some political turmoil.

The main reason is that several waves of troops were originally going to the western or southern fronts, but now they are going to the northern front.

The treatment in these three places is very different.

In the Alliance military, it was privately said that the northern front was not a good place to go. As for the other two fronts of the Dark Side Expedition, they were both good places to go, with more casualties and losses under control.

But the situation on the northern front was different. The conditions were harsh, the fighting was bloody, and each unit often suffered heavy losses.

Moreover, on the southern and western fronts, when the fighting reached a certain level, the troops always had the opportunity to rest. When the troops fought more, they would sometimes have the opportunity to rest in the rear; when the soldiers fought to a certain level, they would have the opportunity to retire and return home.

Even if there are no such opportunities, when the troops conquer a planet and need to maintain the occupation for a period of time, it is an opportunity to rest and regroup.

During this phase of occupation, the pressure on the troops is definitely much lower than during the fierce war period.

However, these situations are very rare on the northern front. Rest? Every day, new troops are needed here, and there is an attack by a Chaos war gang... The opportunity to rest is really hard to get.

There is no chance of occupying a planet.

Retire? You can retire if you have a broken leg or arm, but that depends on whether there is a ship carrying war supplies. If you want to apply for retirement after a certain number of years of normal service, then the service period is often 20 years. Can you survive on the front line of the northern front, facing Chaos traitors and demons?

It's okay to have difficulty coming back alive, but it's also okay to make achievements. In the north, if you want to be promoted, it's very fast. After a brutal war, first a platoon leader dies, then a company commander dies, then a battalion commander dies... If more people die, you may get a high-ranking military position that you can never see in peacetime.

But to get a promotion like this, one really has to walk through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Under normal circumstances, how many people would be willing to accept it?
Often the defense line was breached, troops were lost and territory was lost. Even if efforts were made to fight back afterwards, the front line was only restored to its previous state.

Achievements? How should I put it... it's hard.

On the western and southern fronts, there were clearly worlds and planets as medals of honor. On the northern front, there was only endless iron and blood.

I don't want to go to the North Line, and that's as it should be.

People certainly know the importance of the northern battlefield. If the northern battlefield cannot hold out, the swarming demons will enter the Alliance from the northern part of the Spider Web Universe. At that time, what's the point of the dark expedition? Just come back and fight the demons and defend the homeland.

However, the Alliance is so large, and no matter how strong the pressure on the northern front is, it only accounts for 15%-20% of the total force of the Dark Side Expedition. If you don't go and I don't go, there will always be someone who will go.

The latest wave of expeditionary forces was originally organized according to this ratio and was expected to be sent to three fronts.

Regardless of whether the reinforcements on the northern front had sad faces, at least they knew where they were going and what they were going to do, and they had psychological expectations.

The key problem was the troops that were to be dispatched to the western and southern fronts. They were originally very happy, looking forward to going to the sea of stars and fighting for their own glory. As a result, a notice suddenly came down that half of the troops from each of these two directions should be sent to the northern front.

If he is incompetent and heartless, that's fine.

However, there are still quite a few people who show their talents in this process.

Those who have backgrounds can use them to avoid being selected;
Those who have no background but really don't want to go will make a fuss and try hard to see if they can be allocated according to their fuss and get a chance not to go.

And when some people who didn't have to go were forced into the list of people going to the North Line because of the trouble caused by the first two, they would make even more trouble.

At first, there were only some undercurrents, but they soon turned into a big storm.

After the incident became a big deal, Marshal Taddius, as the chief of the alliance's military and political departments, took notice of the situation and directly suppressed it with force, dealing with it in a one-size-fits-all manner - according to the original list.

Then some people who have paid a political price, an economic price, and a price in interests will naturally be even more dissatisfied.

Some small-scale mutinies occurred, and discussions within the alliance's political system intensified and became more intense.

And all of this inevitably reached Gu Hang's ears.

He could even see in the system interface that the stability of the alliance's rule had declined.

(End of this chapter)