Chapter Seventy-Four, A Dilemma
"Why didn't anyone stop them?"
Men in the outer city, guarding the gates, and sitting in the army, had just been woken up, and when he heard the news, he was already terrified.
When the Governor's army arrived yesterday, although the nephew who had been sent out did not return, the Governor's army was literally stopped outside, and honestly did not move. This made him quite satisfied, his tough attitude paid off, and the next thing to do was to consider how to talk to the governor.
But who would have thought that early this morning, he heard the shocking news!
The Governor, escorted by seven Space Marines and eleven Battle Nuns, swaggered through his army and was walking down the main road towards the inner city.
And during the whole process, there was a very 'peace' between his army and the governor's bodyguard.
It is said that an officer who stood in the way died and was smashed in the head with a punch.
But other than that, not a single shot was fired, not a single shot was fired.
His soldiers, just leaving the 'enemy' behind, came over.
Why is that?
Have all my troops rebelled?
That's where Mondalk's fear comes from.
Because it's not impossible.
He was a general, a commander, but nominally he was a subordinate of the governor, and the governor was the supreme commander-in-chief. Ordinary big-headed soldiers don't know that much about the curves above, and they won't easily position the governor as an enemy.
To some extent, if the soldiers really 'rebelled', what could he do?
Mondoch could not even hold back, looking from side to side, lest the next moment, before the governor's men could arrive, his own soldiers would tie him up, shouting something like 'borrow the general's head'.
But fortunately, this did not happen. His personal guard battalion is still loyally guarding the outside.
The adjutant who came to report the news answered the question he had asked earlier: "There is indeed no one to stop it, I inquired, and said that you may have allowed the governor's team to pass, so the soldiers did not dare to stop or open fire......"
Don't talk about others, even he thinks so.
"Fart!" Mondoch was furious!
"Uh...... You haven't given such an order, have you? ”
Faced with this question, Mondoch calmed down.
He calmed down, and his mind quickly analyzed the current situation.
The situation should not be as bad as he had just thought.
The soldiers were now only confused, confused, and overwhelmed, but they had no intention of mutiny.
The prestige that Mondalk had built up in the army still existed, and the soldiers would still regard him as the supreme commander of the troops.
And more importantly, the propaganda they have been doing for a long time in the troops and even in the city as a whole has been effective.
Only six years have passed since the brutal reign of the second Governor, and the memory is still fresh in people's minds, and no one wants to go back to that time. And it is with the help of this public opinion that they have been puppetizing the governor for the past six years, so that his decrees cannot be left in the office, let alone affect the wider land beyond the city of revival; On the other hand, they also secretly blamed the governor for many of the bad things they had done.
In the Angry Owl Star and in Times City, after the baptism of the last twelve years, although there are still people who remember the revival of a generation of governors, the current people do not have much good impression of the governors sent by the empire.
Hatred, not even counting, after all, is a newcomer, and he hasn't had time to do anything bad. But there is no shortage of fear and resentment left behind.
After Gu Hang came, he actually jumped out of Fuxing City and ran outside to toss around, which was something that the high-level leaders of the alliance did not expect, but they were happy to see.
If you want to play any construction game, then play it yourself. No one believed that he would be able to survive the imperial tax two years later just by starting construction from scratch outside in two years. Two years later, the Governor was executed, and the top of the coalition introduced some more scapegoats, saying that they were members of the Governor's government, and they were all done together, and then they just waited for the next Governor to come, and they survived another two years.
It is precisely because of this that they have recently somewhat relaxed their smear propaganda against the new Governor.
Not to mention, among them, there is such a traitor as Old Hodgson!
Intentionally or unintentionally, the news that the new governor had made a fuss outside the city was not less than a small among the poor people outside the city of Fuxing.
It wasn't until recently that they realized the problem was so big that they killed Hodgson, and they made it clear to the Governor that they wanted to fight it. In this case, they started a new round of urgent propaganda work, trying to make Gu Hang a new 'second-generation governor', saying that he was going to come back to seize power, and that he would arrest half of the people in Fuxing City and pay them as imperial taxes, and how miserable it would be to be treated as a human tax......
But in fact, if the poor are really taxed...... It's not a good thing. It's probably better to be a slave on a starship than a pauper on a wrath.
Of course, there is also a chance that he will be sent to the Astral Army as slave labor, cannon fodder, or a front-line logistics transport team...... That might be a little bit worse, and while it's just as well fed, the average life expectancy is a bit low, measured in hours.
However, when they publicize, they will not talk about having enough to eat, will not talk about glory and honor, and will only publicize that they will live for a short time.
Their propaganda still has a certain effect.
Gu Hang was doing construction outside before, and he also absorbed a lot of homeless people, and Henry and Hodgson also publicized it, which made his reputation very good.
And now, if they say bad things about Gu Hang, the effect is relatively limited. But at least it has also diluted the good name of the past, and reminded people of the fear of being ruled by the governor, and the attitude that had already developed a tendency became hesitant again.
Looking back, Mondoch had to rejoice that it was a good move. Otherwise, he might really face a situation where the Governor raised his arms and the soldiers turned against him.
After analyzing these situations clearly, Mondok also roughly knew what to do.
He needs to come forward in person, with his own prestige, to strengthen the will of the soldiers, so that they can clearly distinguish the situation, who is the 'enemy' and who is the commander.
Even, at the critical moment, he needed to further insist on his tough posture, so that the personal guard battalion, with his encouragement, clearly blocked Gu Hang from continuing to advance, so as to lead the entire army.
But thinking of this, he hesitated again.
Intellectually, that's fine; But do you really want to come forward in person, face the Space Marines?
If the governor really ignored it and ordered a surprise attack, would he be able to stop the hundreds of people in his own battalion?
I'm afraid that before the army has time to react and the heavy artillery has not had time to move, his head will be taken off.
Mondok was caught in a dilemma.