Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1372: Chapter 518: Eternal Youth, One Man Army, Crushing All Opposition (Part 3)

Next, regardless of the outcome of Ren Zhong’s Earl review, this faction within the Shattered Star Ring can provide a continuous stream of talent and resources to the Red Blade Clan, greatly accelerating the development of the Red Blade Clan.

Other pirate factions within the Shattered Star Ring will also witness the demeanor of the Red Blade Expeditionary Army, realizing that the army under this emerging Earl is trustworthy and dependable, and knowing that only aligning with the Expeditionary Army represents a true future. For when the Expeditionary Army, clearly holding a mobile advantage, chooses to stand firm and engage in frontal combat, they have already demonstrated that they truly see the grassroots pirates as equals, not tools to be discarded at will.

Over the years, the Expeditionary Army’s accomplishments in their controlled zones, whether in economic development or in establishing emergency mechanisms to combat gravitational disasters, these positive realities will inevitably spread far and wide along with the news of their victory.

Zheng Tian has also grasped this core issue and shared her insights with the Expeditionary Army warriors who have settled down within the Shattered Star Ring and established families.

Now, the Expeditionary Army is united from top to bottom, preparing to resist the enemy with full strength.

One thousand of the most advanced headquarters warships have switched to stealth mode and quietly lurked out.

Three thousand secondary warships assembled from spare parts supplied by the Red Blade Star over decades have formed an array at the forefront of the battlefield.

More than a hundred thousand ragtag pirate faction-provided miscellaneous warship formations are lurking on various celestial bodies in the mid-defense line.

More large weapons are dispersed in space.

A massive array of multifunctional scanning radar devices has created an information wall, making enemy Alliance Army warships unable to hide and very difficult to penetrate.

Half a year later, the two sides had their first contact.

The Alliance Army secretly commanded by Nanxiang’s Earldom first dispatched a small-scale fleet to probe the firepower.

There was no suspense, this fleet was continuously shattered by the Energy Cannon from the Expeditionary Army’s front line, leaving none to escape.

The powerful firepower displayed by the Expeditionary Army’s defensive line had intimidated the incoming enemy.

Following this, the Alliance Army devised a new sinister strategy, continuously dispatching fast, small- to medium-sized warships to bypass the position centered on the Golden Dog Main Star, targeting planets inhabited by helpless grassroots pirate civilians, attempting to force the Expeditionary Army to split their forces by causing civilian casualties.

This phase was known as the Discreet Warfare.

In the Discreet Warfare, the grassroots pirate factions that should have been rabble showed astonishing combat skills.

Even though their equipment was outdated, they commanded with precision, acted with strategy, quickly dispersed and gathered, then fiercely attacked and retreated rapidly, not aiming for total annihilation but to create disturbances, constantly keeping the elite divisions of the Alliance Army on the run, without respite. This was guerilla tactics.

Furthermore, these planets where pirate civilians lived seemed innocuous, yet always managed to unexpectedly erect a synthesized energy cannon, hitting the Alliance warships with precision from afar.

When the outraged Alliance forces attacked and started landing operations, they found that these civilian planets were already deserted, leaving only a few Suicide Squad members to entice them, waiting for the elite of the Alliance Army to land before detonating the star for mutual destruction.

Eventually, the Alliance Army stopped landing, choosing instead to continuously use large-scale weapons to damage the planets. However, this tactic was highly energy-consuming, greatly exhausting military resources, significantly reducing the combat radius of these small and medium-sized warships, sometimes forcing them to return for supplies.

Yet, on their return journey, they would always be harassed by elite combat units such as Shuttle Ships and Eye Ships from the Expeditionary Army’s headquarters.

The Alliance Army suffered heavy losses during the three-year-long Discreet Warfare and had no choice but to adjust their strategy, regrouping their forces on the front lines for a full-scale assault to break through the Expeditionary Army’s tight defenses.

This phase of warfare came to be known as the Shattered Star Ring A Segment Battle.

Focusing on the supermassive celestial body used as a base by the Expeditionary Army’s three thousand secondary warships, both sides engaged in repeated tug-of-wars, each bringing out surprise tactics, launching multiple offensives.

Eventually, the supermassive celestial body was blasted into ashes, and more than half of the Expeditionary Army’s three thousand secondary warships were lost, leaving only about seven hundred.

However, the Alliance Army’s home hideout was raided by a thousand genuine main force warships used as surprise troops, and even the flagship of the Commander dispatched by Nanxiang’s Earldom was struck down, with over eight thousand large warships damaged in the front line and headquarters, and they retreated frantically over 30 billion kilometers, regrouping only when the Expeditionary Army was unwilling to venture too far from their base.

Before completing their regrouping, they were further pursued in chaos by various suicide assaults led by the grassroots pirate factions, resulting in heavy losses.

This left Nanxiang’s Earldom in a predicament.

They were defeated in both special warfare and the frontline battle.

They never expected that Earl Red Blade’s Expeditionary Army would transform the divided and disloyal pirate forces into an iron fist in just a few decades.