Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1212: Chapter 656, Breakthrough

With a whole squad of the Dragon King’s Spear Chapter, accompanied by their Auxiliary Army and the participation of the Alliance Army, the situation on Long Qi Star quickly turned around.

Of course, the main reason is that this is not the main battlefield; the Iron Armor Battle Group actually did not invest much power here. They also did not predict that the Alliance Army would suddenly arrive, leading them to immediately fall into a dangerous situation of being attacked from both sides.

After stabilizing the situation at Longqi Star Port, Lazio’s fleet and the planetary orbital forces simultaneously attacked the invading enemies on both fronts. The Iron Armor’s most crucial cruiser was heavily damaged and fled, later being pursued and destroyed in space by the Strike Cruiser commanded by Lazio.

The remaining ground issues should be resolved by the existing forces on the planet.

However, Lazio stayed a bit longer to ensure the stability of the planet. Additionally, he left some troops behind before departing.

According to the plan, Long Qi Star is on the path of the main reinforcements of the Alliance heading to the Western Front. Stabilizing the situation here will help ensure the smooth passage of the Alliance’s massive western reinforcements.

After completing these tasks, he continued to lead his fleet to the next battle.

Honestly, can just one Star Warrior Trooper Squad alongside a fleet primarily consisting of a Strike Cruiser change the entire Western Front situation?

That is obviously impossible. Although their fighting power is not weak, the scale difference is too large. Compared to the scale of a war spanning hundreds of worlds, it is merely a drop in the ocean. Moreover, when both sides concentrate their main forces in a direct confrontation, the role that a single Strike Cruiser and a hundred Interstellar Warriors can play becomes minuscule.

However, their mission was never to comprehensively change the situation.

When the news of the Insect Swarm uprising, the Northern Line Army losing contact, and the Western Front Army being besieged front and back came, Matins immediately proposed to Gu Hang to initiate an operation to rescue the Western Front Army.

Gu Hang was certainly immobilized and it was too late, from the Alfonso Star Domain to the besieged White Curtain Star Domain in Salius, separated by two star domains in distance. Plus, the deployment needed to gather forces and prepare logistics. Furthermore, since Alfonso borders with the Princess, the army also had to be arranged at the border… when all of these are completed, and setting off, adding the travel time, it might be way too late.

On the contrary, it’s different for another Alliance force stationing most of their power in the Thistle Muster Star Field. Matins could complete preparation, departure, and arrival fast in two months.

Actually, this is not even at maximum speed.

The two-month period refers to his main force fully reaching the core battle zone of the White Curtain Star Domain. In fact, if pursuing speed fully, dispatching a Vanguard Army that runs the fastest, they could reach in a month — after all, skipping the gathering and preparation time. Also, the Vanguard could be the fastest ship.

The unit commanded by Ricardo Lazio is such a team.

The Dragon King’s Spear hasn’t been with the Alliance for too long, it was peacefully assimilated, and many internal mechanisms haven’t yet been reformed, maintaining significant independence.

This is certainly an issue, but at the moment it has turned into an advantage. High independence and intact internal mechanisms mean the Dragon King’s Spear doesn’t need much support from the Alliance, they can quickly mobilize forces and carry out tasks on their own.

Therefore, under Matins’ request, Gu Hang deliberated several times and decided not to let the Western Front truly fall.

Otherwise, with no news from the Northern Line, most likely ending direly, allowing the West to collapse would leave Gu Hang alone facing immense pressure.

Iron Armor and Insect Swarm are two opponents destined to clash, with no room for negotiation between them, resulting ultimately in a battle to the death.

And since a fight is inevitable, it is certainly much better to fight with allies on others’ turf than to wait until later when isolated, under active assault, entering one’s own controlled territory.

He cannot go, but Matins can, so Gu Hang would not stop him.

Of course, there are still some worries.

With Gu Hang’s presence here, it is a gigantic reassurance. At the same time, he himself is a formidable strategic weapon.

Without him, however, despite Matins having three Chapters with altogether three thousand troops, three combat barges, one battleship, two battle cruisers — obviously forming a very powerful force — Gu Hang still felt some concern.

Even though this force is strong, if it were to suffer losses, it would cause Gu Hang considerable headaches.

It would be the greatest loss suffered by the Alliance since its establishment.

But upon later reflection, he decided to let Matins operate independently.

Gu Hang couldn’t reach there in time.

Moreover, given the immense scale the Alliance has reached currently, he can’t possibly participate personally in every conflict.

Situations like this will inevitably arise.

So just let others handle it.

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After receiving Gu Hang’s approval, Matins started preparing for the advance.

The Dragon King’s Spear was the vanguard, Lazio was the vanguard among vanguards.

On Long Qi Star, one week after Lazio’s departure, a larger fleet arrived.

That was the main force of the Dragon King’s Spear.

More Alliance Army, warriors of the Dragon King’s Spear arrived on the surface to handle the remaining enemies and ensure planetary security, and additionally, more personnel for construction came in.

They unloaded more anti-aircraft and orbital firepower from the transport ships, setting them on the planet, constructing orbital cannon positions, and even rebuilding orbital cannon fortresses.

More so, there were star fortresses and armed space stations brought in by tugboats set up in the planet’s orbit.

All of these will greatly strengthen Long Qi Star’s defense capabilities.

According to Matins’ orders, Long Qi Star would be built into a pivotal forward base. Subsequently, a large volume of war supplies would converge at Long Qi Star and additional reinforcements would first arrive at Long Qi Star.

It will become a stronghold.

The main force of the Dragon King’s Spear didn’t stay long on Long Qi Star. After unloading the various supplies and construction personnel, they quickly set out again, following the path cleared by Lazio, advancing into the depths of the White Curtain Star Domain, which is also the deeper area of this war.

The vanguard mission shouldered by the entire Dragon King’s Spear Chapter is to ensure a thoroughfare from Thistle Muster Star Field to the depths of the White Curtain Star Domain before the main force of the army arrives.

Following this, they performed this task quite well.

Here evidently wasn’t the direction where Iron Armor Battle Group and the Insect Race swarmed from the Princess Star Domain would launch their main attack; with the forces of an entire Chapter, the task wouldn’t be difficult to fulfill.

When the main force led by Matins constituted by Phoenix and Blood Shark reached Long Qi Star, the fastest-moving Ricardo Lazio had already met up with the Solar Expedition Army in Salius.

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There’s another Chapter tonight.

Hopefully, more can be written during the National Day holiday… perhaps?

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