Volume I] Chapter 274 Space Strategy (II) -

Chapter 274: Space Strategy (II)

Since March 17, 2090, when Emperor Robin officially promulgated this long-term strategy called 'Sweep', the entire combat strategy of the military department has undergone tremendous changes, and, unexpectedly, the livelihood industry in the empire, which was not originally promoted by the policy, has also grown rapidly in the process. And this was definitely a surprise that Robin didn't anticipate at the beginning of the plan.

The most critical point that prompted this change was the space material collection project promoted by Robin.

In the empire, due to the abundance of planetary resources and the use of feudal autonomy by nobles at all levels, the empire may have unique features in mining and smelting, but in terms of mining and mining, it is not much better than other countries.

For example, if a person lives by a river, he will never have to spend time and effort learning how to dig a well. Therefore, even if all the people in the empire knew that there were a large number of rare substances hidden in the dust belt of the universe, and their types of matter were far more than those available on the planets, if the simple method of ground mining on the planets could meet their needs, then why bother to dig up the resources in the asteroid belt.

However, this notion is not true in other human kingdoms in the galaxy, after all, not all human kingdoms have as rich and huge land resources as the Hoffman Empire. Taking the Nine-Star Republic as an example, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Republic was unable to develop rapidly due to its poor land resources. Therefore, since the founding of the Republic, the Kuiper Ring on the outer part of the solar system has been regarded as the most important mining area in the country, and the collection of rare substances in the Kuiper Ring through self-propelled dust collectors is the main way for the Republic to obtain material resources, dating back to the past, and even Robin himself carried out similar collection missions during his service in the TR-735 fleet.

Through decades of development and innovation, the Republic has developed a very mature set of experience and equipment in dust collection. And this set of equipment and experience suddenly became useless after the Republic was incorporated into the Empire, after all, the land resources of the Empire are too rich, and its planetary resources have even been rich to the point that they can be described as inexhaustible, therefore, under normal conditions, the Empire does not need this set of technologies of the Republic at all.

But now, after Robin formulated this set of combat strategies called 'Sweep', in the enemy-occupied area occupied by the Insats, the Empire will no longer counterattack the planet, but choose to directly destroy the planet and accelerate its death rate, so as to prevent the Insats from cultivating dragon chrysalis biological warships. In this way, if the empire wants to continue to fight a long-term war of attrition against the Insats entrenched in the system, it must use large space fortresses as a base after no planet as a base camp. In addition, in order to solve the problem of logistical attrition, the fortress must have the production capacity of weapons and ammunition in addition to the ecological recycling ability.

In other words, in the enemy-occupied zone, the space fortress will replace the strategic position of the planet and become a space city that can be moved, detached, and recycled. Then, on the premise of this goal, the republic's already mature space material acquisition technology will once again be used.

In addition, the various livelihood industries necessary in a city have also inevitably stimulated the industrial boom in the empire, so that ordinary imperial citizens who originally lacked a sense of existence under the imperial system have once again found their purpose in life and enthusiasm for struggle.

Under the current imperial system, Robin's political reforms weakened the privileges of the aristocracy to a certain extent and elevated the status of rights of ordinary citizens. But in essence, the empire is still a social system built with a small number of elites and a large number of replicants. Under this system, ordinary civilians who lack natural and technical abilities cannot participate in any of the development plans of the empire at all, and even in a sense, ordinary civilians in their current state are actually outside the imperial system, and they obviously lack a sense of existence and recognition in the empire.

Now, when Robin's plan was launched, the Empire needed a lot of labor to meet the needs of the industry. In addition, similar to the collection of space materials and the production of a large number of daily necessities, a large number of private business groups have also begun to be invested, which has led to the inadequacy of the leaders of the consortium that began to be unknown after the national merger to invest large sums of money to support this long-term national strategic plan.

Opening up some non-lifeline industries to private foundations was one of Robin's national policies. However, his original intention was just to create an industry for ordinary civilians to rely on for their livelihood, and he did not expect that in the near future, these ordinary civilians who were once ignored by the empire would burst out with such a huge amount of energy, causing a large number of space fortresses to spring up in the vast starry sky of the galaxy beyond the river. In addition to the mobile fleet, which currently maintains a regular establishment, more than 80 percent of the fleet has been assigned to the core of the enemy-occupied area to be responsible for the defense of space fortresses. As far as the military department is concerned, although this is also a huge capital expenditure, it no longer needs to rely on a huge transport fleet to meet the logistics support as before, which makes the army achieve a huge breakthrough in flexibility, mobility and long-lasting combat capability.

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Fast forward to July 2091.

It has been a year and five months since Robin swore to expedition to the extragalactic system, and during this time, the Quinnir system, which Robin regarded as the frontline bridgehead, has been built under Robin's management. In addition to personally leading the army to annihilate the Insats entrenched on the planet Hayden in February 2090, at the end of 2090, the fighter formation that was ordered to search for the Insats dragon chrysalis battleship in the asteroid belt finally discovered the hidden location of the enemy's main force. Immediately, under the rapid launch of the five Titan aircraft carriers, a huge space shuttle formation composed of 16,000 space shuttles rushed into the asteroid belt like a group of ferocious piranhas, completely smashing the Insatr dragon chrysalis battleship dormant here.

Everything that happens in the Quinnir system can actually be seen as a microcosm of the Empire's entire strategic actions in the extragalactic system.

And Robin's 'sweeping' strategy also happened to grasp the key points of the Insat, so that the Insats began to retreat in all battlefields.

In fact, if we trace the history of mankind, there are long cases of the victory of agrarian peoples over nomads. In the Han Dynasty, when the Chinese civilization was at its most powerful, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used this strategic plan to gradually build forts and erode the steppes to defeat the powerful Xiongnu, and even directly expelled the Xiongnu from the grassland in the end.

Now, Robin's strategic plan, in essence, actually has the same effect. After all, without taking into account the ecology of the planet without having to take into account the ecology of the planet, the human army that has fully unleashed its amazing destructive power can easily destroy the planets and asteroid belts inhabited by the Insats. And this step-by-step strategy greatly compressed the activity space of the Insats, forcing the Insats to show up and fight head-on with the emperor's ** team. The result is naturally conceivable.

So far, in terms of the current war situation, the Empire's territory in the Great Magellanic system is still only a small percentage, but in terms of development prospects, it is far superior to the Insats. There is no doubt that as long as this kind of war ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］