Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1264: Chapter 688: Please Grant Authorization, Reiaductus Battle (4)_2

The makeshift Star Language Tower, over a hundred kilometers away, is equipment that the Northern Line remnants themselves possess. Once set up, it can significantly enhance communication strength among various units, eliminating the need for whispering like mice in the dark, with connections intermittently breaking.

In the past, this was because they truly were like mice. A louder sound would have resulted in being caught by a group of ’cats.’

But now, roles have reversed.

Although the ground is still dominated by the insect swarm, the human forces have already entered the phase of a major counterattack!

For the Northern Line remnants, this is the last chance after enduring for a year and a half.

There’s no need to hide anything, set up the dismantled and hidden Star Language Tower, as enhancing command is more vital.

Judging from the current received information, the results they have achieved are quite impressive.

Fourteen anti-air insect nests have been destroyed; over 150,000 of the landed alliance forces are converging, including Alliance Army and the Sun Legion; a preliminary base has been established, along with some airborne and anti-air firepower that the Northern Line remnants have, preventing easy bombardment by the insect swarm — if it’s a large-scale bombardment, this minimal anti-air firepower definitely wouldn’t intercept them, we would still rely on the Starship in the sky for help.

Overall, there are achievements, foundation, troop assembly, and base creation… so far, the battle situation is improving.

This is the outcome that the Northern Line remnants fought with all their might. They abandoned hiding, utilizing the precious resources accumulated over a long time, allowing the ground battle to perform so well.

Without them, solely relying on the alliance forces, what’s the use of landing fifteen thousand people? Even if including the four hundred interstellar warriors previously sent, such results wouldn’t be achieved in a short time.

After all, this time the Northern Line remnants gradually gathered have exceeded over 500,000; the number of interstellar warriors is over a thousand.

To achieve the same effect, the Human Alliance would need to deploy twenty times this number of forces to achieve such a substantial landing, resulting in significant losses.

After defeating fourteen anti-air insect nests, at least the airborne operations in this area have become much safer.

The success rate of deploying transport ships will rise sharply from less than 5% to 20%.

Though it seems like a low number, the key issue is the interception by the insect swarm fleet cannot be ignored; near-earth orbit sections can be locked by bigger angles and anti-air fire from other directions. Only when descending to a relatively close height to the ground can it be considered relatively safe.

Nevertheless, this is quite a good number. It means not having four entire army groups airborne, with only 200,000 landing, and then fighting against a massive insect swarm in precarious circumstances, losing 50,000.

Now, with four more army groups airborne, at least 800,000 could land.

As long as continuous support to the ground is provided, under Leroux’s command, he has full confidence in fulfilling Mr. Gu Hang’s demands!

But… here lies the question: is Mr. Gu willing to let him be the ground commander?

Does Mr. Gu trust him?

Whether regarding trust in his ability or trust in his stance.

It’s understandable if Mr. Gu doubts the former, after all, he is a failure.

Doubting the latter is even more justified. Previously, both sides were practically ’political enemies,’ having criticized and argued against each other.

Now, Leroux feels apologetic for past events.

After entering the Princess Star Domain, he realized something was wrong, until all of Mr. Gu Hang’s warnings were confirmed to be true, not merely seeking achievements, holding back progress, or displaying ’cowardice.’

But he was unable to turn back then.

After going through this year and a half of life and death hardships, his thoughts have changed further.

Back then, perhaps he could have turned back. Perhaps he and his Northern Line Army would have been trapped in the insect plague quagmire of Lefort and Sword Gate two star domains, but isn’t the Southern Line and Western Line the same situation? Once trapped, endure patiently, spend time solving it, even request help from Southern Line Mr. Gu Hang to cooperate and solve the problem, then eventually they could unite all lines to fight this Reiaductus campaign together.

If this were the case, the Human Alliance’s force would be much stronger now than it currently is.

At the very least, he wouldn’t have had to endure this year and a half of hardships with his battle brothers, countless human warriors who once trusted him and fought alongside him. Even more, his battle brothers, brave warriors, wouldn’t have perished in the first maritime battle of the Reiaductus campaign and been killed in the following hardships of ground combat.

This painful failure has made him reflect even more.

But does Mr. Gu Hang know his reflections, his apologies?

Even if he knows, would he accept them?

Would he let go of past grievances and confidently allow him to command ground battles?

He doesn’t know.

But he decides to ask directly.

Previously, it wasn’t possible to contact the sky from the ground, lacking the conditions.

But now, with the makeshift Star Language Tower set up, it’s possible. After all, the Mr. Gu Hang in the sky is a true Spiritual Master, capable of freely displaying spiritual power within the subspace shadow. As long as his Star Language Tower can send out even a tiny signal upward, even if it’s very weak, Mr. Gu can capture it to stabilize communications and establish a call.

It’s up to Mr. Gu Hang to decide.

After all, if Mr. Gu Hang didn’t want to respond, the easiest way would be not to answer the call. Later claiming signal issues, under the cover of the subspace shadow, no one could say anything.

But the communication connected smoothly.

“Mr. Gu Hang Commander?”

“It’s me, hello, Marshal Leroux.”

Leroux wasn’t surprised at all that Mr. Gu Hang knew it was him on the other end.

He originally intended to start by apologizing, but, as he opened his mouth, nothing came out.

That damned pride.

Ultimately, he forced himself to say: “Mr. Gu Commander, I request authorization to be the commander of surface battles in the Reiaductus campaign. I promise I will win for the Empire.”

“Alright, I grant authorization.”

Hearing Mr. Gu’s decisiveness, Leroux paused for a moment.

But immediately, he responded: “I won’t fail your trust. Actually, we can now start attempting to deploy Extinction Order weapons groundward, currently near-ground safety is ensured.”

His words made it clear, he wasn’t concerned about himself or the lives of his Northern Line remnants brothers.

One of his regrets over the past year and a half is not taking a gamble on deploying Extinction Order weapons groundward when conditions allowed. Although back then they had many warriors deployed, with low success rates, it was still worth a gamble. Even a failure would only result in a situation like now. If successful, the situation would have reversed.

Now, lessons must be learned, without mercy. Even with hundreds of thousands remaining on the ground, thousands of interstellar warriors, so what? If wars aren’t resolved quickly, future sacrifices will far exceed these numbers.

Mr. Gu Hang’s response was clear: “It’s not the time yet, wait a bit longer, just accomplish your tasks.”

Leroux didn’t say much more, simply responding: “Understood.”

…

The call between Leroux and Mr. Gu Hang was extremely brief.

In reality, if they were to talk, there were many things to discuss.

Operations plans, resource allocations…

But Mr. Gu Hang didn’t have time to personally discuss these matters with Leroux.

The purpose of the staff department is to handle this.

Mr. Gu Hang’s quick consent to Leroux was mainly due to his first sentence:

“Please authorize.”

That was enough.