Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1405: Chapter 799: Prelude to the Dark Side Expedition

Despite witnessing countless abominations in the Subspace, Gu Hang’s heart was filled with rage, wishing he could unleash thunderbolts immediately to incinerate all those damned things to ashes.

However, Gu Hang would not change the predetermined advance plan for the Dark Side Expedition because of this.

Everything would still proceed according to the original plan.

Urgency would not solve the problem.

Currently, the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition in the Magrey Cosmic Domain was going relatively smoothly.

In one month, the three expeditionary fleets liberated nine worlds by following three advance routes.

These nine worlds, being relatively close to the Alliance, encountered essentially no obstacles.

In eight of them, as soon as the Alliance Army arrived, they changed flags willingly. Under the pressure of the vast fleet, they had no thoughts of resistance. The Thunder Torch Towers were installed as needed, the temporary military control by the Control Committee was accepted, and the aristocrats and officials on the planets waited dutifully for new appointments like quails.

According to policy, the Control Committee would not make things difficult for them. After screening and review, necessary appointments and reassignments were made.

The administrative agencies of the Alliance also went in, and systematic reforms followed promptly.

However, the Alliance’s system would not be transplanted to every newly liberated world during the Dark Side Expedition.

The Alliance did not have so many administrative officials to manage.

The current plan was to implement this strategy only in places seized in the initial stages of the expedition that are relatively close to the Alliance.

Two fleets, equivalent to an armed parade, at most delivered hundreds of thousands of troops to the ground and a large amount of relief supplies, each divided into three as planned, continuing to advance toward the inner part of the Magrey Cosmic Domain.

As for the strongest among the three expeditionary fleets, it encountered one of the more troublesome places among the nine worlds.

In previous political confrontations between the Alliance and Holy Terra, it was regarded as the fortress core for border defense, with its overall political stance being very anti-Alliance. When it previously received the “Disaster Proclamation,” the reaction was relatively intense. More crucially, both the Empire and the local Star Domain Government had deployed a large amount of military force on this planet ahead of time.

When faced with the advancing expeditionary fleet, they resorted to armed resistance and attempted to negotiate conditions.

Strictly speaking, this world was not easy to conquer.

As the first line of defense constructed by the Empire when regarding the Alliance as a hypothetical enemy, significant resources were invested. The head of this Star Domain, before the disaster, had a heavy political task to defend the frontline in case of military conflicts with the Alliance. Thus, from the perspective of the Star Domain, they also channeled many resources to this planet.

This made the world have a high degree of fortification, with a permanent Star Realm Army garrison. The Star Realm Army here even had 20% of its troops directly coming from the Sun Corps of the Central Starfield.

In terms of the naval fleet, a flagship aircraft carrier and a battleship led a fleet of over a hundred warships. Combined with the planet’s fortified defense system, it would be a hard nut to crack in any part of the Empire. No matter what type of enemy, it would be quite difficult to take it down.

This was the reason they dared to negotiate with the Alliance under the current circumstances.

Unexpectedly, the Alliance utterly refused to negotiate.

The expedition had just begun, and it was precisely the time to establish its majesty, so where could there be any conditions for negotiation?

An eight-hour final ultimatum was given directly. As soon as the time was up, a ferocious assault followed.

At first, this Fortress Planet was not intimidated.

If they wanted to fight, let them fight.

By fighting, they would hurt the Alliance, which would allow for a decent negotiation.

Apart from those truly loyal to Holy Terra’s commands, idealistically resisting the Alliance at the cost of their lives, the rest who still wished to continue fighting essentially wanted to ’promote reconciliation through fighting’ in essence.

Surrendering everything, bowing servilely to the so-called Control Committee, what good outcome would there be? There had to be a show of valor and united resistance value, so that during negotiations, the external fleet, the Star Realm Army, and the entire planet could be sold at a good price.

Initially, this was indeed the case. With a decent fleet and comprehensive planetary defense systems, they engaged in a sound battle with the Alliance, accomplishing the task of denying them entry into the planetary orbital system.

But what followed was stricter and more intense assaults from the Alliance.

Additionally, there were plenty of bad news.

According to reports from the military commanders of the main war faction on the planet, they had consumed about 10% of their stored ammunition and high-level energy in these few days. Undoubtedly, all of these could not be produced domestically. Before the disaster, they entirely relied on supplies from the Star Domain Government.

Now, with the supplies cut off, they could only rely on storage for the fight.

Though storage would eventually run out, more critically, in previous combats, they could hardly inflict any damage on the Alliance’s expedition fleet. The Alliance’s fleet suffered almost no losses, at most some intentional minor damage to some ships.

The high-ranking officials on the planet were naturally unsatisfied. However, the leaders able to occupy positions here were knowledgeable military personnel. Upon scrutinizing the reports, they needed no explanation to see that this was due to the Alliance’s tactics.

This group of ’invaders’ from the east, with extraordinary strength, appeared harsh and explosive, with no room for negotiation, directly issuing an ultimatum with no compromises. Yet, in action, they weren’t rash at all, not launching direct attacks but clearly employing tactics to bait the defenders into expending ammunition.

However, this was an unbreakable open conspiracy.

There was no way around consuming resources; otherwise, they had the ability at any time to turn diversion and feigned attacks into a real offensive.

By then, it would be a fatal encounter.

Under such circumstances, what could be done?

On the planet, those who were already unsteady became even more shaken.

It’s just that it had only been a few days, and they were not ready to surrender yet.

They only continued to send negotiation terms to the Alliance, explicitly proposing some demands—not even their bottom line yet.

Meanwhile, they drafted new combat plans, asking the frontline to conserve ammunition.

But this conservation led directly to a problem.

The Zhugeli-class aircraft carrier among the Alliance fleet demonstrated its formidable delivery capability. An Interstellar Warrior Squad, along with several obviously single-use landing ships, was sent into the Starport. In a brief yet intense battle, the Blood Shark Soldiers executed a decapitation strike on the frontline commander within the Starport.

The most determined war faction was thus decapitated.

This battle sent a significant shock.

Although they still retained the fleet, and numerous orbital cannons on the planet’s surface, all war facilities required human operation to function.

If morale was shaken, how could the battle continue?