Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1681 - 952: No Better Than Toilet Paper (Part 2)

The final execution on the gallows is nothing but formalism.

But formalism itself is very important.

Isara’s own death is actually not that problematic. The loss of an individual combat power at the level of a Battle Group Champion, along with an excellent Commander, is regrettable, but among the Dark Spirit Race, there is no lack of replacements.

The Alliance wanted her manner of death to create a negative political impact on the Dark Spirit Race, digging a big pit for Victor.

Besides Isara, the other twenty-two hanged bodies were also all on the ‘war criminal’ list provided by the Alliance.

Anyway, with such a general sent off, the rest naturally followed suit by the Dark Spirit Race’s side.

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With the signing of the treaty, the war indeed came to a halt.

Both parties withdrew their troops along the current front lines. The Alliance Military received orders to retreat, handing over several districts in conflict. Even some districts completely occupied by the Alliance were also handed over.

These districts are meaningless to the Alliance—as long as there’s no state of war.

However, some districts were not handed over, with the Alliance maintaining garrisons.

This was part of the treaty content.

The Dark Spirit Race promised to provide eight ports as concessions and allowed the Alliance to connect these ports into one controlled area.

The areas retained or handed over from the Dark Spirit Race, linked the eight ports with Queen Rose Port.

Before the negotiations, the area occupied by humans in the Comoros region was about 4% of the entire Comoros. After the negotiations, following the territorial exchanges, the human-occupied area remained approximately at 4%.

However, the shape changed, from being centered around Queen Rose Port, extending to Bodhisattva Port, now resembling a chain linking a total of eleven ports aboveground.

This was meant for convenient transportation of materials, personnel, and communication on the ground.

If the war reignites, such control areas are actually fragile and easily cut off and encircled by the Dark Spirit Race.

Having such concerns is normal.

The treaty is signed, but can that piece of paper guarantee peace?

Far from it.

Under the current conditions, from a strategic standpoint, Gu Hang is just barely satisfied from the Alliance’s perspective.

The so-called satisfaction refers to achieving strategic goals; barely, because he still wants more.

However, the Alliance also needs to catch a breath.

The current Alliance is waging war on five fronts.

Despite pretty good internal management, military pressure brings internal pressure as well.

The Alliance needs to step up with a higher level of mobilization orders.

At the same time, the Alliance needs to find solutions to the two major problems that previously blocked their advance.

Fortunately, there seem to be some ideas.

In anticipation that the Dark Spirit Race will continue to stir trouble in the real universe, the ‘Hunting Fleet’ of the Alliance needs to continue expanding.

For this, the ship production lines within the Alliance will undergo some order adjustments. Various high-speed ship construction plans will be significantly increased within limits.

Besides the Western Front that has already fought into the other side of the Empire, other lines must increase efforts to deploy more high-speed ships.

The strategy of the ‘Hunting Fleet’ has shown it can significantly reduce the over-limit operations of the Dark Spirit Race, minimizing losses in the Alliance’s hinterlands.

Logically, as long as the ‘Hunting Fleet’ strategy is strengthened and enforced, the effectiveness will be higher.

Along with information on defenses being disseminated, strengthening military defenses throughout the Alliance territory.

This should be about enough.

Of course, this cannot completely resolve the Dark Spirit Race’s attacks on civilians and weak defense areas. After all, guarding for a thousand days against theft is unrealistic. Maintaining this current defense strategy means the Alliance is tied down with too many troops in the real universe and homeland for defense, leading to financial strain.

The only true solution is to find a way to thoroughly destroy the Dark Spirit Race and occupy the Comoros.

That requires solving the maze problem.

Humans believe the Blood Rose Maze is a super-giant living weapon, with specialized research groups developing counteractive devices and technology against this living weapon.

Simultaneously, the Alliance military and various battle groups have extensive experience fighting in the Blood Rose Maze. These valuable experiences will be distilled and summarized, some provided to technicians to develop weapons, while others for commanders and staff officers to think about optimizing combat strategies, coming up with suitable tactics to deal with this major problem before war begins anew.

In short, although the Alliance desires more from the Comoros, for now, being able to stop the war for a while and gain more preparation time is ultimately a good thing.

And for the Dark Spirit Race, they need even more time to lick their wounds.

This invasion of the Comoros was essentially their own initiative, but the result was overplayed. The Dark Spirit Race was quite unprepared for the current situation.

Facing the present circumstances is too passive, and the sudden losses are significant.

However, for the Dark Spirits, they are overwhelmed and pained by the beating.

But are they terrified? Perhaps a little, otherwise, they wouldn’t be so eager for an armistice and negotiations.

But to say they’re truly subdued? Far from it!

Not to mention accepting it deep down, even verbally they’re likely not quite convinced.

They too need time to breathe, heal, and solve internal issues, to regroup and devise feasible strategic plans.

From this perspective, the peace agreement is quite fragile.

The side that gained in the agreement thinks it’s not enough; the losing side is entirely unconvinced.

In such a scenario, under the guise of a peace treaty, it’s essentially a temporary truce whose effectiveness is about as useful as a piece of toilet paper.

Gu Hang is one hundred percent sure that the entirely unconvinced Dark Spirit Race will, once prepared, tear up the agreement without hesitation and restart the war.

And coincidentally, the Alliance is readying for the same.

With eight new leased ports in hand, and territory exchanges within the Comoros complete. Although the newly acquired areas are scattered, making defense difficult.

Nonetheless, there are advantages: the Alliance can exploit its manpower advantage to a greater extent.

As long as troops can quickly be reinforced from several ports, due to the expanded controlled areas, when the Alliance launches a full-scale attack next, they can strike more areas simultaneously.

Overall, risk and reward are intertwined.

For the current Dark Spirits and humans, this is a tacit temporary ceasefire.

Both sides are gearing up for war under the facade of peace.

And once either side is ready, they will undoubtedly tear up the agreement immediately.

The rekindled war will likely be more brutal than the past half-year of warfare!

And to prepare for the inevitable resurgence of war, the most critical task for the Alliance is to reinforce Comoros at once.

Preferably to utilize those eight newly acquired ‘leased ports’ as well.

But on this matter, the Alliance faces two major issues.

Treaty limitations, and Robert’s Terra Expeditionary Force’s impending departure.

Currently, both points are difficult to overcome.