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Chapter 585: The Alliance is So Good

The alliance has achieved brilliant results recently, but there are also people who are carrying the heavy burden.

Not to mention Gu Hang himself, he was almost drained of energy in the battle of Bowang, but he ate a neurotoxin, which was a great tonic.

The Space Marines are another unit that carries a heavy load.

In the battle to seize a ship, the Phoenix always relies on taking down the key parts. Without these top space warriors, many victories would be impossible.

After such continuous fighting, including those who had to be stuffed into the Dreadnought, the Phoenix lost nearly five hundred people.

Half the regiment was wiped out.

For ordinary Chapters, they would definitely not be so ruthless. Unless it was a battle of great significance, such as destroying the ship instead of taking the lives of Space Marines to seize the ship, the Chapter would definitely not do it.

Even if there are orders behind the scenes, it won’t work.

The Phoenix obeyed the order and did it. On the one hand, Gu Hang had a great influence on them. On the other hand, Martins knew that his losses would be made up soon.

Unlike a normal regiment, if half of the combat brothers are lost, it will take many years to select talents, implant surgery, and wait for growth... Not to mention, it will take decades for the new recruits to become veterans or even backbones again.

Some unlucky regiments may not be able to fully recover after fighting such a battle for hundreds of years.

The Phoenix is ​​different.

Martins knew that after he lost 500 men, within a few months, Gu Hang would be able to produce new recruits who had received gene seeds implants and report to him.

Now, even the gene seed transplantation operation does not need to be performed by the pharmacist of the regiment. The source of new soldiers is also from many different planets in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Then, these new recruits will quickly become brave and skilled in fighting, and will be as good as the veterans.

So what else does Martins have to say?
In this case, the choices that the Chapter can make are very different from those of ordinary Chapters: Phoenix is ​​now strong in individual combat and well-equipped, and even equipped with things like phase swords in batches, not to mention that almost all of them are now using "Great" power armor, which is better than ordinary power armor. The Iron Cavalry Terminator is also better than the ordinary Indomitable Terminator...

In addition to these two points, there is also the characteristic of not fearing death, not fearing consumption, and super fast replenishment...

Martins felt that his regiment was invincible.

An ordinary warband? No, he felt that even if they fought with their own mother group, the Phoenix Warband, there would be no problem. The Phoenix did have more champion swordsmen, and the entire warband's tactics, especially in close combat, were still stronger than the Phoenix's in terms of inherited swordsmanship. At the same time, as a newly established warband, the Phoenix's individual combat power would probably be a little stronger than the Phoenix's, or at the same level.

The inheritance of swordsmanship, more advanced combat power, and more technical equipment inherited from the era when mankind established greater empires... The founding regiment is the combat power ceiling from the regiment level.

The Phoenix is ​​the best among them. Perhaps the adaptability of their gene seed is a little poor, which makes it difficult to recruit new soldiers, and the number of sub-groups is small, which leads to a lack of population, and thus leads to political influence on the entire empire, which is slightly less than those of the larger groups. However, the pursuit of perfection and superb swordsmanship inherited from their gene seed make their combat capabilities second to none among all the founding groups.

However, with all these advantages, what can the Phoenix do if it faces the Phoenix, when the Phoenix is ​​not afraid of sacrifice and replenishes its members at an extremely fast speed?

Sooner or later he will be exhausted to death.

With Gu Hang's blessing, the Phoenix really became as its name suggests, 'immortal'.

Of course, the premise is that they always maintain this state of integration with the alliance.

In fact, this will not be cancelled. As the head of the regiment, Martins is fully aware of this. If he said today that he wanted to rebel against the alliance, I am afraid that the whole regiment would immediately regard him as crazy and tie him up and send him to the governor.

The only ones who would join him in the rebellion would probably be the other three veterans who survived the Atonement Crusade.

Oh, they may not, at least Pastor Rizzo certainly won't follow suit.

Besides, Martins himself had no such idea.

He lived a very comfortable life under the alliance system, and he was so crazy that he wanted to leave.

For Gu Hang, replenishing 500 new blood for the Phoenix mainly consumes grace points.

To train an elite veteran, that is, in his warband interface, it costs about 1000 points of grace per person. This is when seed exchange, personnel training, and personnel screening are all taken into account.

But in this wave, you actually don’t spend that much.

When the additional 16 Glory Guards were trained, the screening task was actually completed. The 1 Glory Guards were carefully selected using the training mechanism of the [Soldier Card]. The best of them, those who were around years old and could reach the T training level, could be considered to have the potential to become Space Marines, and the success rate of the implantation surgery would be quite high.

In addition, many members of the Phoenix Regiment have spent five years fighting until now, which means that they can also produce a batch of gene seeds themselves; most of the gene seeds from the 400 people who died in the battle were successfully recovered by the regiment's pharmacists.

Here, Gu Hang can reduce the cost of replenishing new blood for the regiment by 300 to 400 points of grace.

Quite a bargain.

On the surface, the number of Space Marines that Gu Hang brought out this time was only 1800, but in fact, there were as many as of them.

Five hundred of them were added to the Phoenix.

Another three hundred were added to the blood sharks.

The Blood Sharks helped the Alliance and saved three battlecruisers, but in a series of subsequent battles, they also lost two of their strike cruisers. The Blood Sharks that came back with Ewing this time had a total of more than 700 people, and they have lost more than 200 of them so far.

This loss is huge and quite unbearable for the blood shark.

They are not like the Phoenix, who knows that they have an invincible and tough backing.

Gu Hang also could not show these things without reservation to the Blood Shark Regiment, with whom he did not trust or become close enough.

But this does not mean that Gu Hang cannot do this.

The blood shark's gene seed does not need to be exchanged by Gu Hang.

Although it is estimated that he can be exchanged in the near future.

In his [Event] interface, an event related to Blood Shark popped up. [Event Activated: Blood Shark Group]

[A Space Marine Chapter returned from the dark outer realms. They have decided to end their long wandering and return to the Empire. They are eager to establish their own reputation and power in the Empire and gain a brighter future in the Empire. The Alliance is their first stop, but can it be their last stop? ]

[Please decide your actions carefully. Your behavior determines the next development of the incident. ]

[Event Reward: When the blood shark is determined to pledge allegiance to you, you can unlock and exchange the blood shark gene seed. ]

Gu Hang didn’t care much about the reward for this event before, but a recent discovery made him care about it.

He discovered a limitation in the [War Group] interface: the number of gene seeds that the Phoenix can exchange is actually limited!

The number of Phoenix gene seeds that exist at the same time, whether in a person or as a spare, cannot exceed 2000. When the upper limit is reached, unless the seeds are out of the control of the alliance, such as being unable to be recovered, inactivated and damaged, or paying gene seed taxes to the empire... otherwise Gu Hang cannot exchange for new seeds.

I didn't notice it before because he wouldn't be so idle as to exchange and hoard so many seeds when he couldn't afford to keep them.

But this time, when he wanted to break through the lower limit a little bit and produce more Space Marines, he encountered this upper limit and was stuck.

After Gu Hang's idea of ​​using the Phoenix seeds to recruit hundreds of thousands of Space Marines and establish a 'Phoenix Legion' was shattered, it seems that he has to collect different warbands and expand the number of redeemable seeds.

Under such circumstances, the gene seeds from the blood shark, which Gu Hang originally didn't care much about, became popular.

How to achieve this goal?
The blood shark is not like the phoenix of the past, which looks half-dead and can be manipulated at will.

On the contrary, the blood shark is very powerful.

That will take more thought.

The move Gu Hang intends to take is to change the cage and replace the bird.

Blood Sharks have a tradition of collecting blood tax, and Gu Hang has agreed to it.

This time, Blood Shark followed the Alliance to fight, which did not involve much ground combat, so it did not consume a lot of cannon fodder, and the number of regiment servants that needed to be replenished was not large.

The blood tax they proposed to the alliance this time required "a very strong, determined, devout young man with outstanding military skills."

This is actually the core of the blood tax: selecting enough new seedlings to satisfy the blood sharks and become the new blood of the regiment.

In theory, this is a very demanding requirement. If it were just a strong body, outstanding military skills, devout faith, and a strong will, these conditions would actually be easy to meet, but the key is to limit it to "young people", which is quite troublesome.

How can a boy of around sixteen possess all these qualities at the same time?
According to Blood Shark's past experience, it would be necessary to find thousands of people and screen them through rounds of bloody and cruel selection and battle baptism.

This is like raising a Gu, the ones that survive are always the best of the lot. No matter if they are excellent in themselves or grow to be excellent in the process, as long as they achieve the goal, it's fine.

But for Gu Hang, selecting qualified new blood donors is not a difficult task.

After replenishing the Phoenix's personnel, he still had plenty of young men he trained.

Three hundred teenagers were sent into the blood shark. Before that, Gu Hang not only trained them to the T1 level, which could greatly increase the success rate of the gene seed implantation surgery, but also all of them had undergone the gift point training of the "Political Commissar".

Of course, the Blood Sharks would not accept everything, but soon, Captain Ewing would find that the 300 people sent by the Alliance would perfectly meet their requirements. Even the candidates selected by their previous extremely cruel screening mechanism could not be compared with these 300.

As for their loyalty to the Alliance?

Regardless of whether there is this item in the Blood Shark's assessment, for a normal battle group, they rarely consider such things.

The life span of a Space Marine is almost eternal. Compared with the decades or even hundreds of years of continuous life and fighting in the Chapter, the mortal experience of a sixteen-year-old boy is not worth mentioning. It is normal for them to have some attachment to their hometown, but it will soon be gradually forgotten under the influence of the Chapter's culture.

This is just the effect of time change and the culture of the war group, not to mention that after the gene seed is implanted, the body structure of the teenagers will undergo a particularly large change in a short period of time, evolving from mortals to supermen. This process is also accompanied by great physical pain and temperament changes caused by hormone secretion.

All in all, few chapters worry about such things.

Could Ewing have foreseen that after the alliance's "political commissar" training, the young men would remain loyal to the Governor for a very long time?

That's probably unexpected.

What's more, Gu Hang didn't intend to let these teenagers do anything.

Just be a blood shark.

Gu Hang didn't even have to spend any gene seeds to cultivate these 'new blood sharks'. Moreover, after they were implanted with gene seeds, Gu Hang could still see that they still belonged to the alliance in the system's recognition.

This further reassured him about the loyalty of the 'New Blood Sharks', while also allowing him to proceed to the next step.

He generously trained these "new blood sharks" to the highest level using the Space Marines' exclusive training function. Not everyone has the qualifications to be trained to the level of company champion. Only eighteen out of three hundred people can reach this level. But everyone can be trained to become a veteran, and even half of them can be trained to the level of non-commissioned officers.

In Ewing's opinion, this was all a surprise: these seedlings sent by the Alliance not only had a very high success rate in implantation surgery, greatly reducing the loss of the regiment's gene seed bank, but also after passing the superhuman organ growth period, they performed extremely well in training and grew extremely quickly to the level that a blood shark should have!

This is quite rare!

The old blood sharks' outstanding fighting ability was acquired through wandering in the darkness of the outer realm and countless brutal battles. It was extremely exciting that these new seedlings could reach the same level or even slightly higher!

The strength of the regiment, which was originally expected to take many years to recover, was restored in a very short time.

Originally, Ewing wanted to adjust the strategy of continuing to fight with the alliance, and perhaps not send too many people to some battles.

But now, adjustments still need to be made, but the direction of the adjustments is to send more people to fight!

The blood tax given by the alliance is so tempting.

(End of this chapter)