Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1369: Chapter 517: Fifty Years Like a Song, the Liao Yuan Inferno (Part 3)

The generous and benevolent Golden Dog Pirate Group is willing to provide food and industrial finished products in exchange for raw materials, even offering prices slightly higher than the black market.

Liu Jin, the director of the Nanxiang’s Earldom Special Service Bureau, once contacted Beverly to ask what he was planning.

Beverly outlined his career plan to Liu Jin, vowing to organize a fleet comparable to the power of veteran viscounts. Once Earl Red Blade passed the earl’s review, he would deploy all his forces to support the Nanxiang Marquis and resolve his troubles.

Liu Jin acknowledged Beverly’s ambition and had nothing more to say.

Another thirty years passed unconsciously, and the area under the control of the Golden Dog Pirate Group finally reached a quarter of the Shattered Star Ring, with a fleet size far exceeding the Planet Level, officially reaching the standard of a top viscount.

Three of the Seven Seas Under the Earl were annexed and exterminated, leaving only the Four Seas Under the Earl.

During this period, transport ships continued to quietly travel between Red Blade Star and the Observatory Space Station, ensuring the supply of materials to Red Blade Star.

However, in the end, there are no secrets under the sun.

Seeing the rapid development of the Golden Dog, Liu Jin secretly sent scouts to try to uncover the truth.

Although the scout failed to land on the headquarters planet of the Golden Dog and was shot down early, it still exposed a lot of information.

Liu Jin then ordered the Nanxiang’s Earldom Special Service Bureau to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the Shattered Star Ring.

The investigation lasted eight years, and after analyzing a massive amount of information, Liu Jin concluded that the Golden Dog Pirate Group had long been usurped.

The solid evidence was when Grune arrested Di Baolun and used information flow-level technology to deeply read the neuronal cells in Di Baolun’s brain one by one, and then intercepted a disguised Red Blade Star transport team outside the entrance of the Fold Jump Subspace Channel in the Southern Nine Star System.

Grune dared not launch a direct attack on Earl Red Blade’s fleet and just turned the fleet back.

But in any case, the truth was completely exposed.

Fortunately, when Di Baolun disappeared, his family had already been sent to Red Blade Star for protection by pro-Earl Red Blade factions on South Nine D Star.

Grune came to Red Blade Star to demand people, but was driven away by the temporarily awakened Ren Zhong using his noble status as leverage.

On the other hand, Liu Jin also awakened Liu An, who personally directed and coordinated the integration of the forces under the three other families, and consolidated thousands of pirate forces of various sizes, forming a massive fleet comparable to the official army under the Military and Political Center of the Nanxiang Star Cluster, assembling near the Golden Dog’s stronghold.

To help these pirate forces assemble quickly, Liu An used his authority as the head of the Military and Political Center to leverage the Fold Jump Subspace Channel, which pirates ordinarily could never access.

The opponent’s force assembly took four months, and then they dispersed again, grandly rushing to the Golden Dog Main Star.

Everyone thought it would be an overwhelming battle with a disparity in forces, but no one expected that Zheng Tian would rise up and officially unfurl Ren Zhong’s banner as Earl Red Blade, revealing the true identity of the Golden Dog Pirate Group as the Red Blade Expeditionary Army, and calling upon the lower-level pirate civilians who had benefited from the Expeditionary Army and received support and rescue from the Teaching Corps over the years to stand up.

Overnight, one medium-sized and small ship after another flew out from the numerous stars within the quarter of the Shattered Star Ring occupied by the Red Blade Expeditionary Army, converging towards the Golden Dog Main Star like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and eventually forming a super-large army of unprecedented size, possessing millions of warships and nearly ten billion personnel.

At this point, the technological levels within the Shattered Star Ring were roughly divided into three tiers.

The strongest was the thousand super warships belonging to the Red Blade Expeditionary Army. After decades of continuous modification, these warships and the medium and small combat vehicles they carried had reached the level of the Nanxiang Star Cluster’s regular army, even excelling in some areas.

The second tier was made up of warships held by the other three Nanxiang Marquis-supported forces and the many pirate groups above a certain scale that responded to the Nanxiang Marquis’ dispatch.

The third tier consisted of the medium and small ships cobbled together by the lower-level pirate civilians who once struggled to survive and didn’t even have registration within the Empire.

As both sides began to assemble, Zheng Tian contacted Ren Zhong again.

Having never commanded such a large-scale battle before, plus with the opponent backed by Nanxiang’s Earldom, she understandably felt a bit uneasy.

Looking at the now white-haired Zheng Tian, Ren Zhong said, "In any era, the deciding factor of war is always people, not pure technological superiority. If results were solely determined by technology, there would be no need for war, just a technological race between both sides. You should also believe in the determination of those lower-level people who pursue a better life. Behind you is a blazing wildfire, the accumulated discontent of a million years among the pirate civilians within the Shattered Star Ring. I have already seen your victory."