Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1003: Chapter 541

Wang Ningyi ultimately chose to surrender.

No matter how stubborn, reality is harsher.

The Starport had been conquered by the Interstellar Warriors at almost all critical points. The Princess Legion soldiers had no way of reclaiming it; the firepower launched from the Starport destroyed the external Star Fortress and Armed Space Station.

The orbital defense system of the entire planet was virtually in ruins.

Once the main fleet of the Alliance cleared the orbital threats, the remaining ground cannon batteries would undoubtedly be unable to confront the main fleet of the Alliance.

If the Alliance were more ruthless, they could clear ground cannon battery fortresses corresponding to a sector of space, ensure no interception, and deploy Skyburn Torpedoes, achieving a one-time solution.

In his view, the war was already over. The subsequent battles were meaningless.

As Hussepe said, fewer casualties might be a good thing.

Moreover, although the surrender was unconditional, Hussepe also hinted that they would not be overly harsh on surrendering traitors. They would still enter POW camps, but the conditions in the Alliance’s POW camps were quite good, living standards were guaranteed, and the Alliance Army was highly disciplined, without mistreatment of prisoners.

Of course, some necessary labor was unavoidable.

In the future, if the war was won, the prisoners might be released back to their homelands; if the war continued, there might be a prisoner exchange plan; if all else failed, the captives could join the Alliance, which was always open to them.

As for Wang Ningyi personally, the terms of surrender weren’t bad. Although he couldn’t continue being a general or hold high position and authority, the personal living conditions promised by the Alliance were quite good.

All these factors combined led the captured Wang Ningyi to finally agree and issue a surrender declaration for the entire planet from within the Starport.

However, even though he was the overall commander of Shangdong Star’s defense forces, surrender wasn’t something that would simply happen because he called for it, leading billions of warriors worldwide to surrender.

Impossible.

The 200,000 soldiers stationed at the Starport mostly didn’t cause any major trouble. After Wang Ningyi declared surrender, the defensive forces at strategic points guarded stubbornly by the Phoenix Interstellar Warriors unwillingly followed the general’s command. They allowed an Alliance ship to approach, letting the Alliance soldiers disarm them.

Various Armed Space Stations and even the last surviving Star Fortress, feeling besieged from all sides, also turned off defenses and surrendered, allowing the Alliance soldiers to take over facilities.

However, compared to the straightforwardness of the defense forces in orbit, the traitors on the ground were more hesitant.

After initial chaos subsided, some units decided not to resist as instructed, but soon, local officials of Shangdong Star and a general of the Princess Legion made a joint statement, declaring Wang Ningyi a ’coward’, a ’traitor’, and issued a statement to the entire planetary military, demanding the continuation of the resistance.

Moreover, they indeed mustered part of their forces to attack a surface fortress group.

The forces under their control started firing fully into space, bombarding Alliance ships and landing craft.

Their actions did cause significant casualties on the Alliance’s side.

A dozen landing crafts were shot down, leaving three vanguard divisions intended to land heavily damaged; several infantry regiments that had just taken control of fortresses faced siege; the soldiers who had initially surrendered within also started stirring, and the situation turned dire for a moment.

General Wang Ningyi, still in the Starport, felt his heart heavy with sorrow.

He faintly regretted.

Having already made so many mistakes, should he end it all at the critical moment? Originally using the lives of many soldiers as an excuse to comfort himself. But now, it seemed everyone was determined to resist to the end, after all.

However, on the whole, he still held a pessimistic view of the resistance on the planet’s surface.

Now they might fight fiercely, but that only caught the Alliance Fleet slightly off guard. Once the Alliance’s main force recovered and began orbital bombardment, lacking orbital defensive forces, with only orbital cannon battery protection, would probably not withstand. Even if at first they could hold back, as more ground fortresses were destroyed and more Alliance Army soldiers landed, the resistance would eventually be wiped out.

And then, from the observation window of the high tower at the Starport, he clearly saw the main force of the Alliance arriving at the orbit of Shangdong Star.

First, a battlecruiser, then another battlecruiser, and then… nothing more.

Was that it?

A stunned Wang Ningyi suddenly turned his head, looking at Hussepe standing beside him, face twisted: “You deceived me?!”

Earlier, Hussepe had said the main force of the Alliance fleet was just outside the orbit!

That should have been eight giant ships, dozens of cruisers, a massive fleet totaling over five hundred!

But now, as he saw it with his own eyes, there were only two battlecruisers on site, and the total number of vessels had shrunk tenfold!

Having fifty Alliance ships participating would be impressive!

At this point, how could he not realize he had been deceived earlier?

Now he only felt regret, immense regret.

If only he’d known earlier, the Alliance’s main fleet wasn’t here at all, merely this handful of ships, especially just two battlecruisers, the most threatening Retribution-class Battleships and Zhuge-class Aircraft Carriers among them weren’t here… With this fleet capability, they had no ability to conquer Shangdong Star!

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