Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1244: Chapter 676: Encircle and Rescue

The Emperor-class battleship ’Golden Pass’ currently serves as the flagship of the Alliance Fleet led by Gu Hang.

At this moment, Gu Hang is having a pleasant conversation with Marshal Xi Rui of the Black Cross Army.

“…The ones responsible for handling those minor troubles are Judgment Chief Qin Zhiping and his Silver Watch, the Stormtroopers. Please trust that he will provide you, Commander Gu, with a satisfactory account.”

Gu Hang nodded with a smile: “I trust him. Qin Zhiping is a reliable judge. Although the Extraplanar Tribunal is aimed at the alien threat, that is their specialty. Essentially, they are still judges, and they will certainly perform their duties well. Those clowns are not critical.”

Listening to Gu Hang’s words, Xi Rui sensed that Gu Hang seemed completely unconcerned about the potential internal conflict.

It didn’t seem to be an act.

But isn’t that exactly how it should be?

It aligns with the earlier assessment he and Qin Zhiping made.

When various factions began to subtly push him to reestablish the Northern Line Army, Xi Rui realized it was a trap.

He had also been extremely displeased with those people’s performance in the first battle of Reyadoces.

With two fully equipped Black Cross Army fleets, unless facing extreme circumstances, they could dominate anywhere. Yet, in this high-intensity war affecting multiple Cosmos Domains, things ended up like this.

Undeniably, the biggest culprit was his friend Marshal Leroux’s own misjudgment. But once already in the Princess Star Domain, discussing decision-making was pointless. In the naval battle, the direct cause of human defeat lay in the wavering of the non-mainstream troops.

Now, attempting to incite internal conflicts for personal gain… Xi Rui never intended to agree.

Those people wanted achievements and an independent Northern Line Army as capital, striving for higher post-war benefits, but Xi Rui was not interested in those.

The common folk thought he was focused on ’status’, ’achievements’, and ’command rights’, but they were gravely mistaken.

His primary goal was victory, resolving this great enemy for the Empire; everything else could be postponed.

Do they truly believe everyone lives for trivial gains?

Even when discussing interests, his core interest was to fight alongside the Alliance, advance into Reyadoces, and cleanse the shame of defeat from the Battle Group. Ideally, in the process, he could also check how many of the over a thousand Black Cross Army warriors deployed to Reyadoces’s surface survived and rescue as many as possible.

From any perspective, Xi Rui’s goals and interests did not align with those of the Northern Line remnants; instead, they were highly consistent with Gu Hang’s.

Under such circumstances, how could he possibly associate with those people?

Conveniently, Qin Zhiping’s attitude at the meeting was also quite reliable.

After the meeting ended with the leaders of the Northern Line remnants, he immediately discussed with Qin Zhiping about the next steps.

The minor misunderstanding Qin Zhiping had in the middle was just a small episode, inconsequential.

They quickly devised plans on how to lure the enemy, hit them at their weak spots, and manage post-event military control… In short, a series of plans were relatively mature.

Of course, only relying on their strength made things a bit difficult. After all, the members of the Northern Line remnants were more numerous than them. Although in terms of elite forces, they had the advantage which allowed them to deal with the ’traitors’, taking control of the army afterward, preventing chaos, and deploying them effectively in future battles was beyond Xi Rui’s and Qin Zhiping’s manpower.

But that’s alright.

They might be short-handed, but there’s a larger force beside them.

During their time with the Alliance Army, Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping paid a lot of attention to the Alliance Army’s situation. They discovered, aside from the Alliance Army being formidable, having strong discipline and high organization, with no signs of corruption, one aspect surprised them and grabbed their attention: the high quality and density of the Alliance’s middle and lower-level officers.

The Alliance’s military structure, unlike usual Star Realm Armies, avoided forming large groups of several thousand or tens of thousands, or massive battalions of a thousand. A company had a hundred men, a regiment at most a couple of thousand, with some large division structures housing thirty to forty thousand but also smaller, elite brigade units…

Smaller structures, more levels, more officers, with each officer being competent.

The Alliance was fully capable, after securing those Northern Line Army remnants, of cleansing all unreliable mid-upper level officers and personnel and, with the support of Xi Rui and Qin Zhiping, replacing them with their officer cadre.

Perhaps there may be some long-term digestion issues in the future; there could be a disconnect between commanders and soldiers. But at least, during this war, the entire force can be effectively utilized.

Not only would it eliminate the risk of this internal conflict, but it also bolstered the military strength.

However, Gu Hang doesn’t seem particularly concerned about this.

Or rather, it seems like everything is within his expectations.

This aligns with Xi Rui’s imagination.

Gu Hang likely has contingency plans for any outcome. Even if he and Qin Zhiping stood with the Northern Line remnants, Gu Hang probably has methods ready to suppress them at minimal cost.

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