This public declaration made by Petus to the entire population of Falchers caused a huge response.

Objectively speaking, he will not be able to take over the power of the coalition government at all. Although he is a member of the family cabinet, his rank is not high enough, and his reputation and status are not high enough to have the effect of responding to every call. He couldn't order the coalition government, let alone really get the entire Faches defense force to lay down their arms on their own.

Whatever he says in the manifesto, whether people actually listen to him or not is another matter entirely.

However, this manifesto still caused great confusion in the Fachers regime.

On the Falchers 1, tens of millions of planetary defense forces fell into an eerie silence.

It is true that the generalissimo of the defense force in Starport immediately returned to the surface on the rail elevator and declared that Peters was a traitor within the entire military system, but it could not completely end this chaos.

The reason is simple: Petus has a remark that speaks to the hearts of the people of Fatchers.

We pay taxes every year next year, we serve the emperor's gods, we send our most heroic heirs to fight for the Empire in the Astral Army, and we can proudly claim to be citizens of the Empire from every angle, and do everything we need to do.

Why should we be unlucky?

Minnick has taken advantage of this sentiment in the past, instigated a rebellion, and directed the so-called 'why' to fines and the targeted egregious behavior of the star district government.

He was indeed a success, and the Fatcers were outraged. Being adjusted up to a level of development out of thin air, which means that the imperial tax that everyone has to bear has increased by more than 10% of their total income, and then there is all the income that can only be saved without eating or drinking for five years, who can withstand this?

However, on the other side of the scale, after the name of 'Imperial Traitor' is clearly put on the table, and then the Imperial army really appears outside the orbit of the planet, how long can this anger last?

The stories he received and the stories he had heard since he was a child told the fate of countless betrayers were all reflected in the minds of every Fachest.

Anger is anger, do you really want to fight the empire?

It's a question to ponder, especially when they're putting everything they have on the table.

……

But Gu Hang didn't give the Facher people any more time to figure it out.

This coup d'état that took place in the capital of the planet has already achieved the effect that Gu Hang expected.

The information on the ground was transmitted to the sky as soon as possible, and was learned by Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the counterinsurgency.

At this moment, he is on the cruiser 'Concerto', which is the current flagship of the Pegasus fleet, and Gu Hang, as the commander-in-chief, has also set up his general command post here.

He doesn't expect a coup d'état to solve all problems.

The current situation is enough.

The army of the Reich, under his orders, went into action.

The first to do it, of course, was the Pegasus fleet.

Two cruisers, twenty-seven destroyers, and more than fifty other ships combined, began a ferocious assault on the Fastces 1's planetary defenses.

From the ground, from the many star forts orbiting around the orbit, from the armed space station, from the starport...... Combined, these firepower are not much weaker than the Pegasus fleet.

The firepower is about the same, and it's just one aspect; In terms of attack resistance, these planetary defenses that do not require power can be much stronger than starships.

The starport was much larger than the ships; The anti-railguns on the ground simply had a solid fortress and a more solid ground as cover; Not to mention, they are also shrouded in energy shields or void shields.

Even those armed space stations, although they are relatively crispy, and some don't even have energy shields, which can be shattered by two or three cannons, they are inexpensive and numerous.

This is the strength of a planet with complete orbital defenses in the face of naval strikes.

If the entire Fastces 1 is considered as a whole, the confrontation between it and the Pegasus fleet is not too far behind.

In theory, it should be.

However, after the start of the battle, the situation was slightly different.

The fortress-like starport has a fairly strong will to fight, but some of the armed space stations that orbit around and the anti-orbital firepower on the ground have not fired.

Fleet Commander Du Shiliang was really nervous. Before the war began, he had been quite worried that his fleet would have to pay too much if it cleared the planetary anti-orbit firepower.

But now it seems that the situation is much better than expected.

There were even communication requests sent to the ships of the Navy that did not dare to open fire, presumably because they had heard an order from the coalition government that they had pledged their loyalty to the Empire and therefore not to fire, and invited the Imperial army to take over the stations.

Du Shiliang was a little cautious at first, but only sent a very small number of marines to set off on the landing spacecraft.

And when they approached, they were indeed not attacked by the armed space station, but the space station also took the initiative to open the channel to contact the spacecraft. Often, a small squad of Marines is able to take over an armed space station with hundreds of people stationed.

The occurrence of these situations has greatly reduced the intensity of naval battles faced by the Pegasus fleet.

Although several small ships, such as frigates or patrol ships, were damaged after intensive attacks and had to withdraw from the battle sequence, in general, the damage suffered by the Pegasus fleet was much better than expected.

This is also where the advantage of the naval fleet in the fight against the planet is in me the initiative. Fight if you want, withdraw if you want, those surface railguns and orbital fortresses can't move anyway, and they can't be pursued.

A conservative way of playing, as long as the energy shield is overloaded, retreat, and then come up when the overload situation is over, be steady, don't be too unlucky to be blown up instantly, then the probability of direct battle damage is still very low.

In this way, the Pegasus fleet was in orbit on Fastces 1, grinding for about four hours.

At this moment, it was evening on the surface. Everyone on Falces, looking up, can see the brilliant splendor of the heavens.

It's even bigger and more brilliant than a meteor shower.

But no one will be happy.

They all knew what it was, and every ray of light represented death and destruction.

They can only pray that this brilliance does not really fall on the heads of their world.

(End of chapter)