Chapter 974: Chapter 526, Major Changes in the Situation

Osenia and Tadeusz quickly met at the starport of Flying Wing Star.

After completing some clerical handover tasks, the two also chatted a bit.

They discussed the war at hand.

“Has the Governor already departed from Rage Owl Star?”

“Yes.” Osenia replied, “He should arrive in about two days.”

“Then it will be time.”

Upon hearing this, Osenia’s expression was still somewhat melancholic.

She lamented, “If only we could avoid war, that would be great.”

Tadeusz did not respond.

He had worked with Osenia for decades. Even though they had never deliberately cultivated a personal relationship, aside from work interactions, they had no other exchanges. Nevertheless, they shared a revolutionary camaraderie built over decades, and they were comrades.

Precisely because of this, Tadeusz understood that Osenia’s lamentation was not a sign of weakness from the Alliance Premier.

But there was a little… reluctance.

Over the years, within the entire Dragonhawk Star Domain, economic development had been lively, with varying degrees of progress in different areas. Still, overall, efforts were made to localize solutions and improve things as much as possible. Osenia had worked tirelessly for this, and there had been considerable achievement.

Although most of the Alliance’s resources were still tilted towards war these years, the war had not officially begun, but everyone in the Alliance understood that sooner or later, they would have to battle the ‘Iron Fury Stone’ to the north. The strength gap between the two sides was not small; they had to squeeze resources, build military equipment, expand the military to have the strength to fight.

Even though a vast amount of fiscal investment from the Alliance was poured into military equipment, the main environment was still peaceful, and the mass production of arms paradoxically stimulated economic development. Although this stimulus was somewhat unhealthy, the development was indeed concrete.

Once the war truly started, the situation would obviously be different.

Thinking of this, Tadeusz sighed.

The next moment, his heart hardened again.

He said to Osenia, “This is a war that cannot be avoided. If we do not prepare, the Iron Armor’s forces will be upon us.”

“Why is it that after the Iron Armor Battle Group swept through the Spiderweb Domain, its main targets were to expand north and west, but it did not make a grand move south? Is it not because we have always remained vigilant, always prepared for war, and we are a tough nut to crack, so war did not come to us?”

“But this situation cannot last forever.”

“More than three years ago, on the North Line battlefield, the three major founding battle groups of Infinite, Blood Angels, and Bats all arrived, each sending a company. The Black Cross Legion even deployed a detachment, with over a thousand Black Cross Army members, commanded by a Fleet Marshal. He also assumed command of the entire western frontline, leading a combined force of seven nearby battle groups and a large number of the Star Realm Army and Imperial Navy, forming the main force of the North Line battlefield.”

“On the western frontline, the mother group of the Phoenix, the Phoenix Legion, dispatched a very large force, led personally by the current Lord of the Phoenix: Su Lie. Here, many battle groups were also gathered, most of which were sub-groups of the Phoenix. Although they did not explicitly fly a flag, there was generally an intent to avenge the ‘Lilac’ and ‘Starbreaker Blade,’ the groups extinct in the great rebellion a century ago. In addition, the Heretic Tribunal was unwilling to accept defeat and returned once more. They recruited the notorious Legion of Death and drew over four thousand fighting nuns of the Blood Rose.”

“Counting it all up, the forces amassed on the western frontline were even stronger than those on the North Line.”

“That should also have been when Iron Fury Stone was closest to failure. At that time, our Military Affairs Department was also dragged into, and alongside the Staff Department, we held continuous meetings day and night to discuss whether we should also join the fray from the south. After all, setting aside the state of the war, we had never broadly mobilized to participate on a large scale in the war within the Spiderweb Domain, imposing significant political pressure on us from both the Empire and the Space Domain Government. Prime Minister Oseina, you should be more aware of this than I am.”

Hearing this, Osenia nodded repeatedly.

Indeed, during that period, the Alliance was also struggling, and she bore the brunt of that political pressure.

Above, whether it was the Central Empire or the Space Domain Government, they were incessantly urging the Alliance to dispatch troops quickly and early. Despite Mr. Gu having already convinced Galaraldo to alleviate some of the pressure in Holy Terra, the Alliance was still having a tough time.

Galaraldo himself was having a tough time; he hadn’t managed to secure a seat in the Supreme Council for four years, and even his position as Military Affairs Department Premier seemed precarious. There were many factions and forces within the Imperial Military Department. They would also question why Galaraldo was shielding the Alliance from all this pressure?

However, that pressure soon faded.

It wasn’t due to any change in the Alliance’s actions, but because dramatic shifts occurred on the two major frontlines in the North and West.

In the dual battlefields, each featured legendary military groups, and within a year, they completely stabilized the war situation. No matter how formidable the Iron Armor Battle Group was, it could no longer maintain simultaneous advances on two fronts.

Their military activities were constrained, and even on those two battlefields, a grand counteroffensive took place, compressing Iron Fury Stone’s forces back into the Spiderweb Domain.