Chapter 518, Is It Adou?

Gu Hang didn't personally care about what would happen to Wanmengxing.

Just leave it to Martini. As a senior judge, his status in the sequence of the Tribunal is not low. He is a backbone. Gu Hang believes that he can do a good job.

This is indeed a test.

Since you have ambitions, you must have the ability to match your ambitions.

Cooperation? Of course. Gu Hang is still very interested in supporting a faction of the Tribunal that listens to him. Whether this faction is the Flash Tribunal or Martini pulls up a new one, it is a good thing.

For many forces, the Tribunal is a legal white glove that can do many things.

However, support is support, and Gu Hang does not want to support a fool. This time, let him fully mobilize resources to do one thing and see whether it is worth supporting.

In the end, Martini's performance... Gu Hang was not very satisfied.

The matter was not resolved very well.

As the capital of the universe, Wanmeng Star does not have any core advanced industries, but with a population of 30 billion and a decent level of productivity, this world can be ranked among the entire Menghe Star Region.

A considerable part of the main forces of the Menghe Star Region - half of the Menghe Fleet and most of the mobile Star Army, are deployed in Wanmeng Star and one or two surrounding star regions.

When Martini took Zhai Guangshan to Wanmeng Star, trying to force the place that had lost its leader to surrender and obey the arrangements, but something went wrong.

When Martini arrived, Wanmeng Star and several surrounding star regions raised a banner of rebellion.

At the same time, something happened in the northern part of the star region: Tiekai took action.

A fleet from the Qunlu Star Region bordering the Menghe Star Region suddenly went south.

This formed a response.

When Gu Hang heard the news, he was not too surprised.

It was basically expected.

After Zhai Guangshan was arrested, he was dejected and revealed a lot of information.

He went against the Alliance, Gu Hang, and even the Universe and the Empire Center, not simply because he considered the independence and interests of the Star Domain Government itself.

He did have in-depth communication and exchanges with Humphrey Paul in the north.

Although he had not yet made a clear choice, he felt very uneasy when Gu Hang extended his tentacles into Menghe.

Return to the Empire's embrace?

Then there were already quite a few traces left before, and even many public contacts with the Iron Fury Stone. Would this become evidence of his crimes in the future?

Are the conditions given by the Empire, or the Alliance, as good as the Iron Fury Stone?

Not even close.

Tie Kai promised a lot of benefits, and the Alliance was arrogant and wanted to be the master of Menghe, so of course he chose Tie Kai.

However, many things were not ready yet. This time he came to Granya without a large army. In addition to trying to save the Ship Industry Group, the more obscure but more important purpose was to paralyze Gu Hang through communication and exchanges, slow down the Alliance's action speed, and buy time.

Of course, he knew that this was a very risky thing, but the examples of Humphrey Paul persuading Admiral Melandelli to defect and Gu Hang's recent single-handed meeting to persuade the Ship Industry Group inspired Zhai Guangshan.

If others can do it with one mouth, I can do 30% of the effect, right?

He didn't want to persuade the Alliance to come under his own command, he just wanted to achieve the effect of paralysis and delay, which was much easier.

And the risk was actually relatively controllable.

He was a star field head recognized by the Empire and a senior official. Without clear evidence, the Alliance should not directly attack him, right?

That would be too shameless and too much!

He even thought about how to perform.

Unfortunately, Gu Hang did not give him any room to perform. Without saying a word, he cleared out all his guards and took him down as well.

In order to save his life, he showed his willingness to cooperate, help the alliance, and control the power of Wanmeng Star and the surrounding star regions.

Martini was quite hopeful about this, even optimistic.

But in fact, Gu Hang was not so optimistic.

In the government of Menghe Star Region, between the Empire and Iron Fury Stone, was there only Zhai Guangshan who chose Iron Fury Stone?

Gu Hang thought not.

It is very likely that a large number of interest groups and the ruling class have actually made a decision.

After knowing that Zhai Guangshan was arrested and even brought here by a senior judge to persuade him to surrender, these interest groups did not care about Zhai Guangshan's life or death at all. They directly killed the Chief of Law and the Chief of Taxation who had been circumventing and disagreed to completely turn to Iron Fury Stone, and then pushed the Chief of Government Affairs to be the leader, claiming that the alliance's behavior in Menghe Star Region was illegal, and that the alliance's use of force to hold Zhai Guangshan hostage was also illegal. They then declared the Alliance traitors and claimed to have received help from the Ironclad.

They also copied the Iron Armored Corps' explanation and declaration, saying that the Iron Armored Corps was the true loyalist of the Empire.

This was a clear sign of raising the banner of rebellion.

At the same time, the rebels who entered the northern part of Menghe from the Qunlu Star Region were also responding to their actions.

The situation in the Menghe Star Region became tense in an instant.

Gu Hang had to guard against one thing:

Will the war come earlier than he expected?

Will the Alliance's entry into the Menghe Star Region stimulate the Iron Fury Stone much more than he expected at the beginning?

Will the two sides accelerate the progress of the war because of the escalation of the uncontrolled situation in the Menghe Star Region?

These situations are indeed not what Gu Hang wants to see.

But he does not regret making the decision to enter Menghe at all.

Then will the war have to wait until the entire Menghe is invested in the Iron Fury Stone?

Will it have to wait until the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the Alliance's base camp, is used as a battlefield?

How can the political pressure from the Empire be relieved?

Entering the Menghe Star Region in advance is the only option for the Alliance.

Moreover, as far as we can see now, the situation is not as bad as it could be.

Because Martini showed some abilities that finally satisfied Gu Hang.

This senior judge was indeed a little careless and unprepared at the beginning, and made wrong judgments, so that he was humiliated in the Wanmeng Star Region. His vehicle, a black ship from the Flash Tribunal, which was equivalent to a fast cruiser, was almost destroyed in Wanmeng.

After escaping, he contacted Gu Hang and swore to ask Gu Hang to give him another chance.

Gu Hang had no objection.

Anyway, the Wanmeng Star Region must be taken down. He has made the decision to send reinforcements from the mainland to Menghe. At the same time, the Alliance's vanguard troops that are already in the Menghe Star Region have also completed their assembly and are heading towards the Wanmeng Star Region.

Let's give Martini another chance.

But at the same time, Gu Hang also made it clear to the general leader of the vanguard, Lieutenant General Perbov of the Alliance, that the Alliance troops were only cooperating with Martini, not in a superior-subordinate relationship. Perbov had to weigh Martini's action request, if it was reliable, he would do it, if it was not reliable, he would refuse it.

Perbov's mission was to take over the entire Wanmeng Star Region, whether it was to cooperate with Martini or to take it on his own, as long as the final mission was completed, it would be fine.

Then, Martini finally showed his ability as an inquisitor.

It was not simply limited to fighting and war.

If the problem of the Wanmeng Star Region was finally solved purely by force, Gu Hang would certainly accept it, but he would be very disappointed with Martini.

If it was just a pure war, Perbov would be enough, why would he need you, Martini?

What Martini did was to persuade and persuade the local forces of several planets to return to the alliance through the military support provided by Perbov behind him; to assassinate and overthrow several military leaders through the infiltration of the team; to accurately judge that the other side was not a monolithic entity, and to analyze some of the forces in the other side that were not so determined to be traitors, and to persuade them with emotion and reason, and to turn against them in the battle...

These practices are of course valuable.

According to Perbov's report, if it is purely based on military operations, the alliance's vanguard troops are more or less insufficient. It is estimated that it will take more than two months to take over the entire Wanmeng Star Region. In addition, there will be a lot of losses, especially in the navy. Half of the Menghe Fleet is quite difficult to deal with. Once a major failure occurs, it may not be solved in two months, and it will have to wait for the reinforcements from the mainland to arrive.

With Martini's operation, the time was reduced from two months to forty days; at the same time, the war losses and costs were far less than expected at the beginning. Not only did they solve the problem in the Wanmeng Star Region without more reinforcements, but the advance fleet even had time to go north to meet the rebels heading south.

To this extent, Martini has basically passed the test here with Gu Hang.

He has made mistakes and merits. Overall, he is not the best or the most outstanding, but he should not be a useless person.

Gu Hang decided to support the Flash Tribunal in the future, or support the new Tribunal faction created by Martini.

Of course, that is a later story.

At present, in the Menghe Star Region, the Alliance should always pay attention to the rebels heading south.

Speaking of them, it is actually quite interesting.

The initial goal of this rebel force was to go south from Qunlu and head directly to the core area of ​​the Menghe Star Region, that is, the Wanmeng Star Region.

The original journey was about one and a half months.

In fact, it should be considered that they were just in time to rescue the rebels in Wanmeng.

However, they encountered some "trouble" on the way.

This is why Zhai Guangshan and others have never rebelled in the past, and their current rebellion is more passive than active.

They were not well prepared.

The northern part of Menghe should be the area that has been infiltrated the most, but here, there are still quite a few places that are loyal to the empire.

When the rebels went south, some people surrendered, but there were also these loyal empires who directly fought against them.

Although this group of rebels was in a hurry to rescue people, they ignored the surface conditions along the way. However, some caravans or star-level ships harassed them.

They were all small boats and rotten ships, not only of poor quality, but also not in sufficient quantity.

However, these annoying harassments still slowed down their journey to a certain extent.

It was precisely because of the delay in the arrival of reinforcements that many people in the Menghe rebel forces who could have persisted became more shaken, and more people turned against their own side in the battle.

When Martini and Perbov cooperated to wipe out the Wanmeng Star District, the rebels were still at least twenty days away from Wanmeng Star.

After learning that Wanmeng Star was beyond rescue, they immediately stopped their steps and stopped going to Wanmeng Star. Instead, they divided their troops to expand their control area.

From the looks of it, Gu Hang judged that the second phase of the rebels' mission was not to fight a war with the Alliance, but to seize the territory of Menghe Star Region.

This was a move to prepare for future wars.

They obviously had similar ideas to the Alliance: no one wanted to let a tragic war be fought in their own home. Naturally, they would also try to bring the war to Menghe, a star region that nominally still belonged to the Empire.

This rebel force was about the same size as the Alliance's vanguard. The two sides started to race around the Menghe Star Region as if they had started a competition.

In about two months, the two sides basically divided up the Menghe Star Region.

The Alliance occupied about 80% of the territory, that is, the central and southern parts of Menghe. In addition, the two main essences of the Menghe Star Region, Granya Star with its precious shipbuilding industry, and Wanmeng Star, the capital of the star region, were in the hands of the Alliance.

The princess rebels occupied 20% of the territory, concentrated in the northern part of the star field.

Across the border area, the two sides launched a military confrontation.

There were some military frictions between the two sides, but they were not intense. Basically, they were concentrated on the execution of military reconnaissance missions. They were discovered by the other side, and then the small patrol ships chased each other for a while; or secretly took a small spacecraft of the level of the Traveler, sneaked over and hid on the back of the planet to deploy special forces to lurk on the planet controlled by the other side.

But in the large-scale war, both sides tacitly did not start a war.

On the contrary, what both sides did more diligently and diligently was to build a large number of defense facilities along the border area.

That is, to fortify the planet.

One by one, rail guns were set up, and one by one, armed space stations were built from the ground and then launched into space...

The small frictions that were not intense at the moment were more like the calm before the storm.

When both sides have accumulated enough strength, the scale of the war that broke out here will probably be unprecedented.

At this time, Gu Hang returned to the Tianma Star Region with the people of Granya Shipping Group.

The people of these shipping groups were handed over to the corresponding personnel of the alliance for reception, and Gu Hang immersed himself in his work.