Chapter 612, Picking up a Regiment for Free
Amanda's eloquence is naturally good.
However, it was not eloquence that played a key role in persuading Dragon King's Spear to surrender. It's about Amanda's many preparations before and her precise grasp of the Dragon King's Spears' ideas.
After doing this, the next thing is to express clearly what the dragon spears are thinking, but cannot express themselves, or even don't understand.
Tai Shichen did not express his position.
Then, Amanda told some of the conditions that the alliance could provide.
Although the Spear of the Dragon King is not the main core of the rebellion like the three "Iron Fury Stones"; nor is it like the Torch of the New Age, which has a bad behavior of stabbing friendly troops in the back and causing heavy losses to the empire. But they rebelled after all. This is an indisputable fact, and it is impossible to do nothing about it.
But Amanda conveyed Gu Hang's opinion to Dragon King's Spear: The atonement expedition is indispensable, and the confiscation of the home planet is also indispensable.
But it is guaranteed: 1. The time of the Atonement Expedition will be within fifteen years;
2. The process of the Atonement Expedition can be carried out within the territory of the Alliance and obey the command of the Alliance;
3. During the Atonement Expedition, the Alliance guarantees continuous support to the Spear of the Dragon King, from weapons and equipment, to coordination with the mortal legions, to fleet support, and even to recruiting new recruits, everything can be solved by the Alliance.
With these three things in mind, the Dragon King's Spear's Atonement Expedition is completely different from the other war groups that are usually sentenced to this punishment.
Apart from confiscating the home planet, there is almost nothing wrong with it.
Moreover, the Space Marine Chapter needs a home planet. To put it bluntly, it is the birthplace of the Chapter, the home base, the place where the Chapter rests, and an important place that provides resources for the Chapter's development. In terms of resources, the alliance has everything covered, so there is no need to worry at all.
As for defending their home planet... to be honest, if they don't surrender, can their home planet be saved?
On the contrary, if they surrender, they still have a chance to follow the Alliance and fight back to their home planet.
After listening to these conditions silently, Tai Shichen still did not make a clear stance.
However, Amanda knew that the Chapter Leader of Dragon Spear must be moved.
Thinking about it calmly, this is almost the most generous treatment that Dragon King's Spear can receive.
The reason why Amanda knew that Tai Shichen was moved was because after hearing the conditions, he asked Ricardo Lazio to take him down and imprison him.
In fact, the attitude is very obvious.
It was said before that execution was going to happen, but it didn't happen, and Amanda was asked to finish her words; after she finished speaking, execution was not mentioned anymore, it was just detention, and Ricardo, who was obviously a young man and stood in the alliance, Someone with a tendency over there will be responsible for imprisoning Amanda...
What else is there to say?
It's just that Tai Shichen still needs some time to convince himself.
Ricardo was relieved.
He nodded and 'escorted' Amanda out of Tai Shichen's office, accompanying her to meet many people in the battle group.
After waiting for two days, there was still no movement from Tai Shichen.
He did not make a clear statement, but regarding Amanda, who should have been imprisoned and restricted in movement, he and Ricardo have been discussing it privately with various company commanders, sergeants, chaplains, and technical sergeants of the battle group. Even in connection with and lobbying, they just turned a blind eye.
Later, Amanda thought that she could be a little bolder.
She simply contacted Martins and informed him of the situation, hoping that Martins could quickly dispatch a force to occupy the planet where the Dragon King's Spear was currently stationed.
When Martins received the news, he was still a little confused.
He was preparing for the attack, thinking about how to deal with the attack of the renegade war group coming to the Nepeta Star Territory.
As he expected, it was likely to be a fierce battle. Although he has more troops on hand than his opponent, they are too seriously involved. A large number of armies are scattered in more than 200 worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory that the Alliance has occupied, fighting to suppress the local situation; a large number of ships need to be allocated to these planets to provide ground support for the army. The Space Marines also disperse their forces and station them on the worlds where the situation is most critical. Even if there are only one or two squads stationed on a planet, and they can only guard places where the situation is critical and there are problems that cannot be solved by mortal troops, it will still occupy more than 1,500 space warriors.
The blood shark and phoenix are only two thousand in total.
This left Martins with very few troops on hand to deal with the rebel attack.
Asking him to give up suppressing the many worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory, he was a little unable to do it. Especially in those worlds in crisis, once the power is taken away, all the previous investment will be wasted.
For example, he personally led a team to fight and killed Tingzhen IV, a planet-level node creature. The situation has indeed greatly improved, but if one or two of the several army groups left there are removed, and the fifty Phoenixes left behind are removed, the remaining strength may not be able to suppress the insect swarms and cults. Maybe after a while, the insect swarm will quietly give birth to a node creature that rules the world, and all the previous work will be in vain.
Martins' original plan was to set up checkpoints layer by layer, use a small number of troops to hold on, delay and extend the battle line as much as possible, and look for opportunities. Once the enemy really comes in and exposes a flaw in the long battle line, he will make up his mind, suddenly mobilize troops from various planets, and carry out a quick and decisive assault, striving to cause devastating damage to the opponent with one blow; Even if you can't, the next best thing is to beat it painfully, scare it, and make it lose its ability to attack.
But no matter what, we must act quickly. The troops that have been mobilized must return to the original battlefield as soon as possible to fulfill their unfulfilled duties.
In this plan, the delay in the front and the rapid assault in the back are all places where it is estimated that a hard battle will be fought.
I don’t know how many people will be sacrificed, how much price will be paid, and how many worlds occupied by the enemy during the delay will be worsened by the Zerg disaster due to lack of suppression.
As a result, now tell him that there is no need to worry about these. He surrendered before the battle was fought?
I can occupy it as long as I go?
The Spear of the Dragon King will not resist?
That Alliance agent named Amanda... is so powerful?
One person is worth a thousand troops, right?
If this is true, it is of course worth celebrating.
But as the commander-in-chief of the Nepeta Star Region and the general entrusted by Gu Hang, Martins dare not be careless.
What if Amanda was deceived?
What if Amanda was turned against?
What if the Spear of the Dragon King regrets it?
...
There will be many possible situations.
Martins didn't dare to take a big gamble.
But he wouldn't let the opportunity slip away because of his over-caution.
He formulated a thorough 'occupation plan'.
First, the mobile main force assembled, 500 Space Marines, and the flagships of the Phoenix and Blood Shark regiments arrived. They will drive all the way to the target galaxy, but the speed will not be too fast. Instead, they will check the conditions of each galaxy along the way, and even leave observation stations and cruise fleets to ensure safety along the way and avoid enemy ambushes.
The main force of the entire fleet will act in a group to avoid being defeated one by one.
Before entering the target galaxy, Martins put the Blood Sharks behind. This group of killers is not very good at communication, and the political and diplomatic aspects have little to do with the Blood Sharks. Two hundred Blood Sharks and the Blood Shark's flagship 'Ghost Evil Shark' will stay outside a galaxy under the leadership of the Ewing regiment commander.
If nothing happened, they would do what they should do; if something happened, they would immediately, with the speed advantage of the Blood Shark Fleet, quickly enter the battlefield and pick up Martins.
Martins himself would contact the Dragon King's Spear as the commander of the front, the commander of the regiment, and the representative of Gu Hang. Occupy the target galaxy and disarm the Dragon King's Spear. The rest would be subject to further orders from Governor Gu.
In the process of occupying and receiving this planet, Martins was also very cautious.
The 'Burning Feather' approached the periphery of the planet carefully. They observed that none of the Dragon King's Spear's regiment fleets ran out, including their flagship and a battle barge, all of which were parked in the star port.
An Alliance destroyer leaned forward and approached the star port carefully.
No attack.
Fifty Phoenixes and more than a thousand Marines boarded the boarding ship and entered the star port.
No interception.
They encountered the Space Marines of the Dragon King's Spear, but they did not attack them, and did not even raise their weapons.
This was the first time for the Phoenixes to face this situation, and they were also very good-in fact, they were surrounded by Dragon Spear warriors with a complete advantage in numbers. Just because they did not attack did not mean that they could not win.
Amanda came forward at this time. She and several Dragon Spear captains came forward together to let the Dragon Spears put down their weapons and stay safely in various areas without doing anything. The Phoenixes and the Marines went to control the firepower system of the starport and the ships docked at the starport respectively.
At the same time, they immediately asked Martins for reinforcements.
It was definitely not enough to rely on this amount of troops to control those strategic points.
Martins was also very decisive.
At this point, the possibility of a trap was very small. He was more cautious and only invested a hundred more Space Marines. However, the elite Marines and the large army forces invested more.
Not only 10,000 elite marines were sent in, but also more than 200,000 ground forces. The first batch boarded the landing spacecraft and entered the star port; there were also second and third batches later...
To ensure that the key points of the star port and several starships were controlled, the more troops were invested, the better.
And it was less likely to be overturned.
Until the end, the entire star port was basically controlled. There were 900 Dragon King Spear warriors who were completely disarmed in the star port.
To show respect, they were not allowed to take off their armor.
After a risk investigation, there were no self-destructive explosives in the star port, eliminating the relevant risks.
Martins then personally led the remaining space warriors to station in it. He was going to have an unusually cordial meeting with the captains of the Dragon King Spear as soon as possible. But before that, he met Amanda first.
Amanda led him to meet someone, and on the way, she quickly explained some situations to him.
When they met, Martins probably knew what to say.
He did not mention surrender, betrayal, or anything like that that might irritate the Dragon King's Spear. He only emphasized that they were loyal to the Empire and the Emperor, and that their actions indirectly saved countless people. The entire Nepeta Star Region, with perhaps hundreds of billions of people, would indirectly benefit from this.
These words made the Dragon King's Spear warriors feel much more comfortable.
No matter how many reasons they had before, they could not cover up the fact that they surrendered without fighting. This is a shame for the Space Marines. They have always respected honor. Shameless people like the old New World Torch are a minority.
Emphasizing their loyalty to the Empire and to humanity is a greater honor, which will effectively reduce their resentment.
After appeasing these Dragon Spear warriors, Martins learned that the Dragon Spear's war captain, Tai Shichen, was still on the surface of the planet. There were two hundred Dragon Spears around him.
The total number of Dragon King Spears was only 1,100.
In fact, their total number at the peak before the war was 1,400. They did not think they had violated the regulations of the Imperial Code, because 400 of them were reserve recruits, and this was normal behavior in order to replenish the losses of the war group at any time.
And in the years of the war, they lost 300 warriors, and now there are only 1,100.
When Martins landed on the ground and found Tai Shichen on the surface of the planet, they were fighting.
It was a pretty good surprise attack on the insect cult.
The insect corruption problem on this planet was not too serious. There was no large-scale insect swarm. It was mainly the parasite infected people in the downtown area.
Tai Shichen led the team to suddenly attack the leader of the local forces who colluded with the cult, eliminated the infected ruler, and then quickly destroyed the cult headquarters and rescued a large number of people.
Martins thought for a while and led the team to join the battle.
Although the Dragon Spears did not need help, Martins regarded it as a good action to bring the two sides closer.
According to Amanda's suggestion, Martins generally regarded the Dragon King Spear as a friendly force, not a surrendered enemy.
In fact, if it was just surrender, then Martins would only solve an external threat that the Nepeta Star Region might encounter.
Moreover, these 1,100 captives are a full complement of Space Marines! Even if their weapons are removed and the power armor is unloaded, it is still a huge unstable factor, and many people must be assigned to watch.
And if they can be smoothly treated as friendly forces, even if they are unwilling to turn around and become enemies of Iron Armor, and become defectors or backstabbers, just in the Nepeta star field, dealing with the pest crisis on various planets, it will be a great help, and it can directly free up the manpower of the Phoenix and Blood Shark warbands.
Martins is working in this direction.
And Taishichen's action to combat parasitic corruption on the planet is also a statement in a sense.
...
When Gu Hang, who was far away in two star fields, received the news, he could not hide his joy.
Another warband was harvested, and it was picked up for free!