Chapter 585: The Alliance Is so Good

The alliance has achieved brilliant results recently, but there are still people who are carrying a heavy burden to move forward.

Gu Hang himself wouldn’t say it. He was almost drained in a battle with Bowang, but he took a Neuroprotozoa and it was a great supplement.

The Space Marines are also another unit that carries a heavy burden forward.

The battle to seize the ship always relies on the phoenix to chew off the key parts. Without these top space warriors, many victories will not be established.

And after such continuous attacks, including those who had to be stuffed into the Fearless, the Phoenix had lost nearly 500 people.

Half the regiment was lost.

For an ordinary battle group, it would definitely not be so cruel. Unless it is a battle of particularly great significance, such as destroying a ship but refusing to do so, and having to risk the lives of Space Marines to seize the ship, the chapter will definitely not do it.

Even if there is an order behind it.

Phoenix obeyed the order and did it. On the one hand, Gu Hang had a particularly strong influence on them. On the other hand, Martins knew that his losses could be made up for soon.

Unlike an ordinary battle group, if half of the battle brothers are lost, then the subsequent selection of talents, implantation surgery, waiting for growth... I don't know how many years it will take to recover. Not to mention, it will take decades for the new recruits to become veterans or even the backbone again.

The unluckier war groups may not be able to fully recover for hundreds of years after such a battle.

Phoenix is ​​different.

Martins knew that if he lost 500 men, within a few months, Gu Hang would be able to get 500 recruits who had received gene seed implants to report to him.

Nowadays, even the gene-seed transplantation operation does not need to be performed by the Chapter's Apothecary. The sources of recruits are also from many different planets in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Then, these new recruits will soon become brave and good at fighting, no weaker than the veterans.

So what else does Martins have to say?

In this case, the choices that the war group can make are very different from ordinary war groups: Phoenix now has strong individual soldiers and good equipment, and even things like phase swords are available in batches. They are equipped, not to mention that almost all of them are now using the 'Standing Type' power armor, which is better than ordinary power armor. The cavalry type terminator is also better than the general unyielding type terminator...

In addition to these two points, add the characteristics of not being afraid of death, not afraid of consumption, and super fast recruitment...

Martins felt that his battle group was invincible.

Ordinary battle group? No, he felt that there would be no problem even if he fought with his own parent group, the 'Phoenix Chapter'. The Phoenix does have more champion swordsmen. In terms of tactics, especially in close combat, the inherited swordsmanship level of the entire battle group is still stronger than that of the Phoenix. At the same time, as a start-up battle group, the Phoenix's individual combat effectiveness may still be a little more powerful than the cheating Phoenix, or at the same level.

The inheritance of swordsmanship, stronger cutting-edge combat power, and more technical equipment inherited from the era of the establishment of greater human empires... The founding battle group is the ceiling of combat power from the battle group level.

And Phoenix is ​​one of the best. Perhaps their genetic seeds are poorly adapted, which makes it difficult to recruit new soldiers. The number of sub-regiments is also small, and the number of people is not strong. This in turn triggers political influence on the entire empire, which is slightly less than those of larger war groups. insufficient. However, they inherited the characteristics of pursuing perfection and superb swordsmanship from their genetic seeds, making their combat capabilities second to none among all the start-up war groups.

However, with all these advantages, if it comes to facing the Phoenix, what can the Phoenix do if the Phoenix is ​​not afraid of sacrifice and can quickly replenish its personnel?

Sooner or later he will be consumed to death.

With Gu Hang's blessing, the Phoenix is ​​truly 'immortal' as its name suggests.

Of course, the premise is that they always maintain a state of integration with the alliance.

This won't actually be cancelled. As the leader of the Chapter, Martins also has full understanding of this. If he had said that he was going to rebel against the alliance today, I am afraid that the whole group would have immediately thought that he was crazy and tied him up and sent him to the governor.

The only ones who will follow him in rebellion are probably the other three veterans who survived the Atonement Expedition until now.

Oh, they may not, at least Pastor Rizzo will definitely not follow suit.

Besides, Martins himself has absolutely no such idea.

He was living a comfortable life under the alliance's system, and it was only when he was frustrated that he thought about leaving.

As for Gu Hang, replenishing the Phoenix with 500 new blood mainly consumes gift points.

Training an elite veteran, that is, in his group interface, will cost a total of 1,000 points of gifts per person. This is when seed exchange, personnel training, and personnel screening are all taken into account.

But in this wave, it actually doesn’t cost that much.

When training the additional 40,000 Glory Guards, the screening task has actually been completed. The 40,000 Glory Guards were carefully selected using the training mechanism of [Weapon Card]. Among them, the best ones, who are mainly around 16 years old and can reach the T1 training level, can be regarded as having the potential to become space warriors, and the success rate of implant surgery is quite high.

In addition, many of the Phoenix Fighters have spent five years fighting until now, which means that they themselves can also produce a batch of gene seeds; most of the gene seeds of the 400 people who died in the battle have also been Successfully recovered by Chapter Apothecary.

Here, Gu Hang's cost of replenishing new blood for the battle group can be reduced by 300 to 400 points of gifts.

Quite a bargain.

Gu Hang only had 500 Space Marines in this wave, but in fact, there were 1,800 of them.

500 of them were added to the Phoenix.

The other 300 were added to the Blood Shark.

The Blood Shark Regiment helped the Alliance and saved three battle cruisers. In the subsequent series of battles, they also lost two of their strike cruisers. The Blood Shark Regiment that came back with Ewing this time had a total of more than 700 people, and they had lost more than 200 so far.

This loss was huge for the Blood Shark and was quite unbearable.

They were not like the Phoenix, who knew that they had an invincible and tough backing.

Gu Hang could not show these things to the Blood Shark Regiment, which was not trusted enough and not close enough.

But this did not mean that Gu Hang could not do so.

Gu Hang did not need to redeem the gene seeds of the Blood Shark.

Although it was estimated that he could redeem them in the near future.

In his [Event] interface, an event related to the Blood Shark had popped up.

[Event activated: Blood Shark Chapter]

[A Space Marine Chapter that returned from the dark outer domain has decided to end their long wandering and return to the Empire. They are eager to establish their own reputation and power in the Empire and gain a brighter future in the Empire. The Alliance is their first stop, but can it be their last stop? ]

[Please decide your actions carefully. Your behavior determines the next development of the event. ]

[Event reward: When the blood shark is determined to be loyal to you, unlock the exchange of blood shark gene seeds. ]

Gu Hang used to not care much about the reward of this event, but a recent discovery made him care about it.

He discovered a limitation problem in the [Chapter] interface: the number of gene seeds that the Phoenix can exchange is actually limited!

The number of Phoenix gene seeds that exist at the same time, whether in a person or as a spare, cannot exceed 2000. When the upper limit is reached, unless the seeds are out of the control of the Alliance, such as failure to recover, inactivation and damage, and gene seed tax paid to the Empire... otherwise Gu Hang cannot exchange new seeds.

I didn't notice it before because he wouldn't be so idle as to exchange so many seeds for storage when he couldn't afford to raise them.

But this time, when he wanted to break through the lower limit a little and produce more space warriors, he encountered this upper limit and was stuck.

After Gu Hang's idea of ​​using the phoenix seeds to get hundreds of thousands of space warriors and establish a "Phoenix Legion" was shattered, it seems that he still has to go on the road of collecting different war groups and expanding the number of seeds that can be exchanged.

In this case, the gene seeds from the blood shark, which Gu Hang didn't care much about, became popular.

How to achieve this goal?

The blood shark is not like the phoenix back then, which is half-dead and can be manipulated at will.

On the contrary, the blood shark is very strong.

That requires more thought.

The move Gu Hang intends to take is to change the cage for the bird.

The blood shark has a tradition of collecting blood taxes, and Gu Hang has agreed to it.

Blood Shark followed the Alliance to fight this time, and it did not involve much ground combat, so it did not consume a lot of cannon fodder, and the number of war group servants that needed to be supplemented was not large.

The blood tax they proposed to the Alliance this time required "very strong, determined, devout in faith, and outstanding military skills".

This is actually the core of the blood tax: to select enough new seedlings that can satisfy Blood Shark and become the new blood of the war group.

In theory, this is a very demanding requirement. Just being strong, having outstanding military skills, devout in faith, and having a firm will are actually easy to say, but the key is to limit it to "youth", which is quite troublesome.

How can a boy of about sixteen years old meet all these conditions at the same time?

According to Blood Shark's past experience, it is necessary to find thousands of people and screen them in rounds of bloody and cruel selection and battle baptism.

This is like raising a Gu, and those who survive are always the best of this batch. Whether they are excellent in themselves or grow to excellence in this process, as long as they achieve the goal, it will be fine.

But for Gu Hang, it is not difficult to select qualified new blood.

After filling the Phoenix with personnel, he still has a lot of young men trained.

Three hundred young men were sent to the Blood Sharks. Before that, Gu Hang not only trained them to the T1 level, which can greatly improve the success rate of gene seed implantation surgery, but also all of them have undergone the gift point training of "Political Commissar".

The Blood Sharks will certainly not accept it all, but soon, Captain Ewing will find that the three hundred people sent by the Alliance will perfectly meet their requirements. Even the reserve candidates selected by their previous extremely cruel screening mechanism are difficult to compare with these three hundred.

As for their loyalty to the Alliance?

Not to mention whether there is this item in the Blood Shark's assessment, for normal war groups, they have rarely considered such things.

The life span of Space Marines is almost eternal. Compared with the time of living and fighting in the war group for decades or hundreds of years in the future, the mortal experience of the sixteen-year-old boy is not worth mentioning. It is normal for them to have some attachment to their hometown, but it will surely be gradually forgotten soon under the cultural influence of the regiment.

This is just the effect of time change and the war group culture, not to mention that after the gene seeds are implanted, the body structure of the teenagers will undergo a particularly large change in a short period of time, evolving from mortals to supermen. This process is also accompanied by great physical pain and temperament changes caused by hormone secretion.

In short, almost no war group will worry about this kind of thing.

Could Ewing foresee that after the training of the Alliance's "Political Commissar", the boys' loyalty to the Governor will last for a very long time?

That is probably unthinkable.

What's more, Gu Hang doesn't plan to let these teenagers do anything.

Just be a blood shark.

The cultivation of these "new blood sharks" does not even require Gu Hang to pay for the gene seeds. Moreover, after they are implanted with the gene seeds, Gu Hang can still see that they still belong to the Alliance in the system identification.

This further reassures him about the loyalty of the "new blood sharks", and also allows him to proceed to the next step.

He generously used the training function exclusive to the Space Marines to train these ‘new blood sharks’ to the highest level. Not everyone is qualified to be trained to the company champion. Only eighteen people out of three hundred can reach this level. But everyone can be trained to be a veteran, and even half of them can be trained to the level of non-commissioned officers.

In Ewing's view, this is all a surprise: these seedlings sent by the Alliance not only have a very high success rate of implantation surgery, which greatly reduces the loss of the war group's gene seed bank, but also after passing the superhuman organ growth period, their performance in training is also extremely outstanding, and they grow very quickly to the level that blood sharks should have!

This is quite rare!

The excellent combat effectiveness of the old blood sharks was cultivated by wandering in the darkness of the outer domain and in countless cruel battles. And these new seedlings can reach the same level, or even slightly higher, which is really exciting!

The strength of the war group, which was originally expected to take many years to recover, was made up in a very short time.

Originally, Ewing wanted to adjust the strategy of continuing to fight with the alliance, and maybe not send too many people to some battles.

But now, it still needs to be adjusted, but the direction of the adjustment is to send more people to fight!

The blood tax given by the alliance is too good.