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Chapter 979: Chapter 528_2

But there was no way around it; under political pressure, Gu Hang had to make a decision.

The part ntioned in his written report barely sufficed. Although there would still be a lot of public criticism and urging from various sides, it was sowhat better than before.

However, with benefits on one hand, there would naturally be disadvantages on the other.

Such rhetoric from the Alliance was not sothing that could be concealed from their good neighbor to the north.

The intelligence capabilities of the Iron Armor Battle Group could not be so lacking as to be unaware of such matters.

A clearly stated tiline indicated the mont when the Alliance would act against the Iron Wrath.

Could Humphrey Paolo tolerate the Alliance rapidly accumulating power like this and then, after thoroughly preparing, launch an attack according to their schedule?

That was clearly impossible.

Even though the main forces of the Iron Wrath were still concentrated on the western front, fiercely pursuing the Phoenix Legion, they have significantly increased their focus on the southern battlefield.

Firstly, Perbov noticed that Iron Wrath had clearly dispatched large forces to the southernmost domain of the Spiderweb Domain, which is the Proudclaw Cosmos. Soon after, a massive army, led by the Fury Fla Battle Group, an old adversary of the Alliance, aggressively charged into the nghe Star Domain.

The leader was the current Battle Group Leader of the Fury Fla Battle Group, Adler Politos. He was originally the captain of Fury Fla’s third company. After the bloody duel to the death, where the forr leader, Erso, died along with many core mbers in that duel, he was the only company commander who could take over.

The northern part of the nghe Star Domain originally had a small portion occupied by the rebels. Previously, under orders from the Alliance Headquarters, Perbov led the advance units to hasten the attacks on these occupied regions. Due to insufficient forces and strategic reasons of the Alliance, his actions in the northern nghe were not aggressive, mainly to show that the Alliance was taking proactive attacks.

Under such circumstances, the fierce assault by the Fury Fla Battle Group caught the Alliance completely off guard.

Perbov was the first to bear the brunt of the attack.

He made a very cautious judgnt on the situation, avoiding a decisive battle with the old adversary, the Fury Fla Battle Group, in the northern nghe Star Domain.

Despite the Alliance’s intelligence analysis departnt believing that the forces Iron Wrath could muster wouldn’t be significant, and knowing that the Fury Fla Battle Group had at least a thousand people appear on the western front, no matter how much reinforcents Fury Fla could have, they shouldn’t surpass the Iron Armor’s level, right? A few years ago, they lost at least four to five hundred Interstellar Warriors in the Dragonhawk Star Domain war, and so core mbers, including their forr battle group leader, were killed by the Phoenix in that fatal duel.

Under such circumstances, how many forces could they commit to the Alliance’s proactive offense?

But regrettably, Perbov also lacked sufficient forces.

He decided against rashly engaging in this battle.

Having retreated, Perbov diligently defended the complete ring of fortifications established through fortifying several worlds along the northern nghe Star Domain over the past few years, as he engaged in a plain yet solid defensive warfare against the southward-advancing Fury Fla Battle Group.

Truth be told, when it was learned that the Fury Fla Battle Group was making a clear move south, and Perbov was abandoning previously captured territories to fall back to the defensive line, everyone in the Alliance was quite tense.

There were voices within the Alliance lanting that they shouldn’t have caved under pressure to explicitly ntion their military plans in the statent to the Central Empire.

To a large extent, Iron Wrath might have interpreted this statent as eliminating any room for maneuver between the two sides, extinguishing the last shred of hope, and deciding to strike first.

However, at this point, there’s no point in discussing it further.

The Alliance began deploying more forces and mobilized additional Phoenix Interstellar Warriors to invest into the northern nghe Star Domain battlefield.

However, the overall strategy remained defensive.

The Alliance General Staff Departnt gave Perbov very clear instructions: prohibit proactive cross-line attacks, avoid fleet battles, and use the fortressized planets and star fortresses and combat space stations positioned at various Star Realm Tunnel jump nodes to blockade the enemy fleet outside the defensive lines, aiming to drag them into ground warfare’s quagmire.

At critical monts, they could adopt a spatial-for-ti strategy, as long as they prevent the enemy from achieving an all-out advance and flat-out push. If the enemy is stuck firmly on the fortressed defensive lines, Perbov would then have achieved a significant accomplishnt.

Perbov executed the strategy of dragging the battle into a quagmire with astonishing success. Like a seasoned chess player, he ticulously arranged his pieces, calculating each step with precision. The firepower of the planetary fortresses and the intercept systems of the combat space stations ford a dense net, locking the Fury Fla Battle Group’s fleet firmly on the periter.

The ground war also reached a stalemate, with both sides engaging in brutal tug-of-war battles across the rugged terrains of various planets and within fortress-like cities.

Two years might be a re blink in the context of interstellar warfare, but during this ti, Perbov stood like an unyielding rock, indestructible.

His perseverance and wisdom allowed the Alliance’s rear to stabilize, providing precious ti for the fleet’s construction and the Army’s preparations.

Now, beyond the Flying Wing Star, the amassed Alliance Fleet was unprecedentedly powerful.

Countless ships stretched across the starry sky, like waves of silver and blue.

The Alliance Army was also ready to be deployed. Organizing in armies and army groups, they boarded warships and transport ships, presently within this star domain.

Although the war horn for the Alliance had yet to sound, the flag of the Alliance was already flying in the vast starry skies.

Only awaiting the final command.

And the only one capable of issuing that order was Gu Hang.

After completing the last stop of the scheduled circuit inspections, Gu Hang returned to Flying Wing Star from Rage Owl Star, bringing with him the newly equipped ‘Alliance National Knights,’ or the Alliance’s Titan Legion, which were just established on the planet where the Alliance first rose.

He held a military eting at the starport on Flying Wing Star.

Many high officials from the Alliance Governnt and senior generals from the Alliance Military participated in this military eting.

In the eting, Gu Hang didn’t discuss too much about concrete strategies or tactics.

These matters were already deliberated countless tis in previous detail-oriented work etings.

At present, this eting resembled more of the final mobilization rally before the war.

In this eting, Gu Hang refrained from verbose speeches.

He briefly discussed how despicable Iron Wrath, as traitors, were, and affird the stance to stand with the Empire to fight these Empire traitors to the end.

After conveying this, the subsequent points were of greater importance:

“The Alliance requires developnt, bringing a better life to the vast populace of the Dragonhawk Star Domain and the nghe Star Domain.”

“We have amassed great power, and we are also practicing our ideals.”

“We are not so welcoming of war.”

“However, for developnt, we need a stable external environnt.”

“Anyone who denies us such an environnt, we will strike hard and teach them a lesson!”

“Win this war to secure a century of peace!”

“Gentlen, please join in fighting for the Alliance!”

Under Gu Hang’s vigorous rallying cry, all the generals and high officials present stood up, following their leader, shouting together:

“Fight for the Alliance!”

…

After the eting adjourned, the high-ranking officials and generals all departed promptly.

They still had a lot of work to do before embarking.