"I don't have that qualification..."
After hearing Gu Hang's words, Yan Fangxu repeated them silently in his mind and felt sowhat exhilarated!
Recalling the ti when he was left by Yelisia, from a 'promising' mber of the Imperial Naval Marine Corps to becoming a military advisor for Gu Hang, who at that ti only had a group of chanic servants as his capital, he never imagined that just seventeen years later, he would have already attained the rank of a general.
This year, he had just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday.
In many military families with traditions, the most outstanding young mbers might beco generals in their forties, but a general? That was already the maximum for many top military aristocrats!
Previously, people might talk about the generals of the Planetary Defense Force alliance, but could they compare with the generals of the Star Realm Army?
Now, nobody talked about that anymore.
It's hard to say out there, but at least within the territory of the alliance, in the eighty-eight worlds of the Seven Horse Territory, the words of a Star Realm Army General certainly carry less weight than those of an alliance general.
He had long stopped doubting whether his initial decision was correct. It's just that so concepts that had been in his mind since his growth period were deeply ingrained.
But today, Mr. Gu's words had a clarifying effect.
The alliance nowadays is no longer what it was years ago.
"I understand," said Yan Fangxu, "Please instruct , Governor, what should we do next?"
"Do what needs to be done, follow our own pace. As for that small ship in orbit, let Matins take people to board and take control of it. I suspect their identities; the alliance only recently suffered from the chaos of the Mutinous Star Warriors two years ago, I have reason to believe that these people's identities are fake."
"Yes!"
...
In the orbit of Flying Wing Star, Javier Codoba had been very silent for the past couple of days.
He wasn't blind; he could see what the alliance had beco.
Before coming here, he had heard from Battle Group Leader Erso that the alliance hadn't given their all in this war.
But at that ti, both he and the battle group leader knew well in their hearts: it was a spur, an excuse. Perhaps the alliance hadn't really given their all, their tactics were more conservative, but after all, they were facing the Iron-Tooth Clan.
In the two years of this war, the Fury Fla Battle Group had personally experienced the strength of the Green Skin Tribe. For the alliance to be able to maintain a balance, even slightly advancing on the Eastern Front Battlefields, was already very difficult.
Even if the alliance hadn't given their all, it was almost there.
They didn't really expect a Star Region level force, along with a group like Phoenix, which had nearly been wiped out a decade ago, to truly achieve the war goals set by Erso.
Phoenix had recovered to a size of five hundred people, which seed like a not insignificant number, but that was probably all the genetic bloodline reserves they had left from the past, right? And all fresh recruits, what kind of combat capability could they have? The fleet's ships and the auxiliary troops weren't well established yet; they were all from the alliance.
Such a battle group with just five hundred people was like an Interstellar Warrior without armor.
You say he's an Interstellar Warrior, he indeed is; but when it really cos to fighting, without anything substantive, he can easily be killed, unable to exert his proper combat power.
What they wanted was just to force the alliance to attack with full force, holding more Green Skin forces on the Eastern Front to create opportunities for the main battlefield.
Now, to be honest, the alliance had already done well, given how fiercely both sides had been fighting in the main battlefield. The reinforcents mobilized from the ho base of the Green Skins had always been lower than the strategic estimates on the human side. The lacking part, of course, went into the Eastern Front.
But Erso felt it still wasn't enough.
As for how much it cost the alliance for their orders, they didn't care, the most they would do was a perfunctory comndation afterward.
However, when Javier Codoba really arrived in alliance territory, he discovered that sothing seed off.
The alliance not having given their all? They damn hadn't used any effort at all!
Though he hadn't descended to Flying Wing Star to see the capital city of Tianma Star Sector, the heartland of the alliance, on his way from the Border Horse Sector into the Seven Horse Territory, he and his warriors had still taken the ti to land on the ground.
One look was enough to amaze them.
Not to ntion prosperity, but that vitality.
Construction was everywhere, newly expanded factories, infrastructures invested in for economic growth...
If the forr could still be understood, the front line was at war, and expanding capabilities was certainly necessary; even if not military factories, but so basic or civilian factories, that also makes sense as the interstellar society naturally has different divisions of labor based on different planetary environnts. So planets focus fully on industrial production, others provide civilian goods and necessities, supporting the workers of the military worlds...
If so, it could barely be explained.
But investing in infrastructure?
What are you doing building these large-investnt, long-term vision projects at this ti?
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