Chapter 514, Slow Down

Humphrey's reputation strategy 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 has already contacted several powerful warbands.

Among them is a powerful top warband such as the Black Crusaders. They are also a warband with great overgrowth, but their situation is completely different from that of the Iron Armor.

The Black Crusaders are a sub-group of the Golden Knights, and they themselves have a very large influence and background. But they do not occupy land, they are a ship-based warband, and they don't even have a mother planet. They recruit soldiers and get supplies from wherever they fight, and then rush to the next battlefield...

Moreover, they are quite "obedient".

This obedience does not mean that they will do whatever the empire asks them to do, nor does it mean that they will be obedient if the imperial government interferes with the internal affairs of their warbands. But at least, if the empire calls, they will come in most cases. They are also very happy to accept requests for help from all parts of the empire, and they will come as long as they are free.

This has accumulated a lot of reputation and goodwill for them, and there are indeed many local forces willing to support, donate, and reward them as a thank you, or simply make friends with them in the future to get help from the Black Crusaders.

And usually, they can indeed get what they want.

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

The Black Crusaders received the call from the Empire, and they also expressed their willingness to participate in this rebellion, but unfortunately, many of their expeditionary fleets almost all have their own tasks. Although they have promised to try their best to draw a force as soon as possible to participate in the war, even they cannot promise a specific time.

In addition to the Black Crusaders, some famous war groups have also received the call. Among them, there are also several famous start-up war groups. For example, the Blood Angel War Group and the Bat War Group active in the northern border of the empire, such as the Infinite War Group, which is also very famous in the eastern border. This war group is even the mother group of the Iron Armor War Group.

Dad is going to punish his son.

The heretic tribunal, which had suffered a great setback, was also furious. They were drawing more elite forces that cooperated with them, especially the Sisters of Battle, to prepare to continue to participate in the war...

When these forces joined the battle sequence against Iron Armor one by one, the challenges that Humphrey Paul would face would become greater.

Only after passing one level after another, the reputation strategy that Paul envisioned could be more and more formed.

Before that, he must carefully choose his opponents and strategies. He must not encounter too tough too early, so as not to suffer a defeat before that point, causing the wave he expected to end in advance.

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

They do not have enough strength to go south, and it is impossible for them to be confused in strategy.

The Alliance is a typical opponent with a small reputation but quite strong strength. Winning the battle does not necessarily have a big reputation bonus, and it is still difficult to fight.

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

The price given by the Empire has already satisfied Gu Hang, and it is okay to join the war.

However, the fact is that Iron Armor still mainly talks nonsense to the Alliance, supplemented by some small actions. As Gu Hang expected, they dare not go south in an all-round way.

Their main "small action" is to use the influence established by the frequent activities of the Fury Flame War Group in the Menghe Star Region in the past years to make trouble for the Alliance.

They sent many "military advisers" and "independent advisers". Most of these people came from the auxiliary army system of several war groups such as Iron Armor. They are certainly not the most elite military force, but as an auxiliary army called "Imperial Princess Legion" created by Humphrey Paul, their level is even better than the average strength of the Star Army.

Of course, the Imperial Princess Legion is not a large-scale organized force. In those worlds, at most it is a regiment, or even only a few companies.

The leading officer, as a military advisor, led the local people to build a stronger force based on the model of the Princess Corps.

This was not entirely prepared for the alliance. In the past years, the establishment of a local defense force based on the model of the Princess Corps 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 Menghe.

Originally, it was hoped that only diplomatic means could be used to pull the entire Menghe star field into an internal united front. But later, relying solely on diplomacy and political means was no longer enough.

Then use military means.

After the advance fleet of the alliance arrived, it launched a series of offensives.

At the beginning, there weren't many battles. The side of the Menghe star field close to the Dragon Eagle was relatively close to the Alliance and was still relatively timid. Once the fleet arrived and the army was sent down, the local forces basically stopped resisting and allowed the Alliance officials to be sent in. Various materials began to be collected, and the Alliance directly took over the imperial taxes and the planetary defense forces.

Once the wealth and the army were in hand, there were basically no major problems.

After stabilizing a world, the advance fleet would go to the next one, leaving only a part of the army in the previous world.

In most cases, this model was not a big problem. The officials left by the Alliance could basically control the world with the assistance of a small number of armies. The strength of the Alliance and the righteousness they grasped ensured that they could control the situation relatively stably.

But it was not always the case.

In some worlds, there were no problems when the Alliance's fleet and the main army were there; after the main force left, problems began to arise.

The minor problems were local riots, which caused the cooperative government established by the Alliance in the local area to be unable to control the global situation.

In places with more serious problems, there have even been cases where the local cooperative government has been overthrown, the Alliance's army has been besieged, and Alliance officials have been killed.

Once this happens, the Alliance usually has to call back the main force of the advance troops that have left in order to resolve the local "rebellion".

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

In the past few months, after the Alliance took control of about seven star regions and 103 worlds in the early stages of its operations in the Menghe Star Region, its progress was greatly slowed down.

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