Chapter 605, Taking the Initiative

When the time entered the eighth standard Terra month of 10328, the situation of the "Iron Armor War" suddenly became turbulent.

In fact, there was a lot of movement throughout the year.

In February, the Western Front collapsed, the Phoenix Lord disappeared, and the Phoenix Regiment suffered heavy losses. This was a rare time in the history of the Empire when a newly founded regiment suffered such a big loss. But the remaining phoenixes are not so many, and the acting regiment leader has just been selected. It is difficult to take revenge, and the only way is to rely on the sub-regiments to think of ways to help. Unfortunately, the number of Phoenix descendants is not large.

Half a year after the collapse of the Western Front, the Magre Universe was in chaos, and the Iron Armor was expanding crazily, and they didn't even care how strong their control over the occupied world was.

Even the word "occupation" is worth discussing. Often for some unimportant planets, an Iron Armor ship arrived, announcing that the world was "liberated". The people and rulers of this world are still confused. They might still be considering whether to resist the occupation of Iron Armor, be loyal to the Empire, or just surrender temporarily?

As a result, Iron Armor left.

What kind of occupation is this?

But from then on, cults developed rapidly and strange things happened one after another.

Fortunately, the Central Army of the Empire led by Salilius came, and there was hope for stability on the Western Front.

While striving to stabilize more worlds in the Magre Universe, Salilius was still looking for the main force of the Iron Armor Legion. Whether to seek a decisive battle is another matter, but at least we have to figure out where the main force of Iron Armor is now after defeating Phoenix? What are they doing? What is their status?

With the strong support of the Anti-foreign Order, the Northern Front began to speed up the cleanup of the Zerg. Many worlds have successfully fought against the Zerg, and the situation is improving.

Even, there was an Infinite Warrior Company on the northern front that broke through layers of obstacles and pushed the front line to the Jianmen Star Region.

This place is close to the Huangnu Star Region.

And on the southern front, Gu Hang also went out.

Although the current shipbuilding cycle has not been completed, if it waits for another half a year, there will be six giant ships that can join the alliance fleet. But even in this half year, Gu Hang can't wait any longer.

Fortunately, the ships that were snatched before have been repaired.

The alliance's offensive targets are both Jingjie and Alfonzo Star Regions.

Gu Hang's strategy has a large jump span. At the beginning, he was turtle to the end, and now he decided to fight, but he didn't hesitate to attack from both sides.

Of course, it's not that the troops are completely divided equally.

At least, at the beginning, the alliance still fully assembled the fleet and took the lead in conquering the other side of the star tunnel leading to the Jingjie Star Region.

This place was not taken down before not because it couldn't be attacked, but purely to avoid stimulating the opponent too much.

But now, who cares about whether it is exciting or not?

The battle for the Star Tunnel was relatively smooth.

When Gu Hang arrived in person and the Alliance Fleet came out in full force, it was meaningless to rely solely on a complete and tough planetary defense system. Without a strong garrison, without the flexible protection of the fleet, and more importantly, without the psychic power of the Storm Mage Corps led by Gu Hang, their defense would be meaningless, and even the effect of delaying time would not be much.

After successfully taking the Star Tunnel, the strategy adopted by the Alliance was basically the same as what Salilius did in the Magre Universe.

However, the situation encountered was somewhat different.

Magre Universe, that is the place where Iron Armor has just occupied, and many planets are not even considered "occupied". Even if they spread the Zerg Corruption, the degree of corruption is just like that. To eradicate it, they only need to mobilize the local government and let the locals pay attention, and they can solve the problem themselves.

However, the situation in the Nepeta Star Region, which is next to the Princess Star Region, is completely different.

The Nepeta star field has been directly occupied and ruled by Iron Armor. It has been eight years since the beginning of the Iron Armor War. Since the power of Iron Armor has grown, they have been spreading their influence to the surrounding star fields with the Princess Star Field as the center for at least two hundred years.

After Iron Armor occupied Nepeta, the resistance in the star field was relatively low, which was completely different from the Magre Universe.

The Nepeta star field has hundreds of worlds under its jurisdiction, and the cooperation between their local governments and Iron Armor is very high.

Then, the opportunity for Iron Armor to spread the corruption of the Zerg to the Nepeta star field is probably great, and the history of the spread is estimated to be quite long.

Even before the rebellion began, or even in the early stage of the rebellion, Iron Armor did not dare to spread corruption blatantly, but in the past six months, after the bottom line was lifted, the scruples were greatly reduced, and the degree of corruption was unimaginable.

In fact, the intelligence department of the alliance has seen the clues of these situations.

Although the Alliance did not take the initiative to attack in the past period of time, it must have started to collect intelligence on the Jingjie Star Region, which is obviously the next strategic target.

When they did not have any intelligence about the connection between Iron Armor and the Zerg, they had already discovered that the situation of cults and rebels inside the planets in the Jingjie Star Region was quite serious.

In the past, they did not take it seriously. Cults and rebels are not found in any imperial world.

Even in the Alliance, core worlds like Koroja have undergone institutional reforms by the Alliance, with power being transferred to the grassroots level. However, reports of local legal institutions and local garrisons destroying small cult organizations are still coming in from time to time. After all, it is a country with a population of 40 billion and dozens of nest cities. No matter what it is, it is impossible to completely ban it.

Even Koroja is like this, let alone the vast other worlds of the Empire.

Although there are quite a few cult organizations in the various worlds of the Nepeta Star Region, and there are still many that have colluded with the local ruling class and even cooperated openly, they are generally still in the state of "heresy".

Among these cults, there are still very few that are connected with the Chaos Abyss, and the Alliance intelligence officers have not found any serious signs in this regard. Many cults are more of a distortion and random interpretation of the doctrines of the Empire's state religion, which are relatively more acceptable.

The overall assessment earlier was that the risk of cults was relatively high, but still within the acceptable range.

Now it seems that the previous investigation was mainly due to some problems in direction.

The Alliance has had relatively little experience with disasters like the Zerg. When it comes to cults, they tend to think of chaos corruption.

And if we consider the Zerg parasitic infection, the severity of the situation soars!

Even within the Pride Claws, let alone the Nepeta Star Region, such problems will be more prominent.