Chapter 539 06.0538: ‘Basol’s Embarrassing Situation’

After a while, the Imperial Navy's warships were parked in the planet's orbit.

"This is Basor, it looks peaceful."

"Everyone, you all know what your duties are. Let's move."

As the landing craft gradually approached the ground, people soon discovered that the planet was not as peaceful as they saw from orbit - there were continuous gunshots and explosions from a distance, but the noise was not loud enough to be seen in outer space.

Under the guidance of the ground troops, the landing craft landed in a relatively safe place.

When the springboard was lowered in the steam and landed heavily on the ground, Horatio walked out quickly with the armed forces.

There were Astartes monks holding bolters around the landing site to keep alert. Horatio was surprised to find that they were wearing two different painted armors. In addition to the Doomsday Eagle Regiment that was responsible for taking down the planet before, there was also a group of Space Marines wearing white armor.

Horatio took a few glances and felt that their color matching was very familiar.

[Ultramarines, White Archon Regiment? ]

"Welcome, Lieutenant Colonel. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with a decent welcome ceremony at present." Captain Zhao came over and saluted Horatio. His uniform was completely different from the straight uniform when he set sail. The fabric was now covered with dust and stains, but the spirit of this young man was not diminished at all.

The commandos around him were also covered in dust, showing the posture of veterans.

"It's nice to see you again, Captain Zhao. How is the situation on the planet now?"

"Open rebellions against the Empire are one after another."

"Is it because of the tough measures taken?

"No, Lieutenant Colonel. If we use the usual standards of the Empire, our occupation forces here are already very gentle. "

The captain corrected: "After occupying this planet, according to the provisions of the Holy Scripture, we must eliminate the blue-blooded aliens entrenched on this planet.

But as for how to deal with the humans on this planet, Macragge only gave us a vague principle of action: "Those who obey the Empire will live, and those who rebel against the Empire will die.

We chose a conciliatory policy. As long as they are not openly opposed to the Empire, we did not arrest or search them."

"Then, I guess you had a conflict with the local humans over the arrest of the Tau?"

"Yes, our radio broadcasts continuously repeated Macragge's orders, loudly declaring to the civilians that we only arrest aliens, and as long as the local human residents do not have any clear hostile behavior against the occupation forces, we will not disturb the lives of the locals, but the difficulty of controlling this planet still exceeded our and the Space Marines' expectations.

Many hostile elements secretly incited the masses, claiming that we arrested aliens today and human civilians tomorrow.

Under these public opinions and espionage sabotage, many people tried to prevent us from arresting aliens. When we acted against the resisting rebels according to the rules, then, guerrillas emerged from all over the place like newborn leeks, making us exhausted."

"So, what are your next plans?"

Boom! Boom!

As heavy footsteps came, an Astartes wearing white power armor came towards us. He took off his helmet, revealing a neat crew cut, a resolute and serious face, a horrifying scar on his right eye, and his eyeball was already white.

"This is the captain of the White Archon Company, Messinius, who was assigned here as the person in charge of planetary control."

"Nice to meet you, Lieutenant Colonel. What brought you to the ground so rarely?"

"To protect the armed preaching of the Holy Rose Sisters, sir. Therefore, I need to understand the current situation of the planet and discuss solutions with you."

"The colony ship from the Five Hundred Worlds will arrive soon to "re-imperialize" here."

Before that, we must ensure the stability of this planet as much as possible. Due to its special geographical location, Macragge is considering giving these humans a chance - if they convert to the faith of the Lord of Mankind, we can put aside the past grudges, treat them as part of the human empire, and protect their citizenship.

As for the aliens, they must die, this is the bottom line. The problem now is that at first, we remained restrained and did not attack the local human residents, and even turned a blind eye to minor rebellious behaviors, hoping that the situation would soon improve; but the cunning aliens with slick tongues and those spies who work for them do not want us to safely retake the planet.

They concocted a lot of false news that would cause panic, inciting the indigenous humans, the "Guvisa" they called them, and encouraged them to resist our "invasion" together with the remaining aliens! "

When talking about the word "invasion", Messinius squeezed his big white hand unhappily.

"We are not strong enough to maintain stability. Only two regiments and two interstellar warrior companies, and my 1,500-man navy are not enough to control the entire planet.

And time is running out. As far as the current situation is concerned, our fastest way is to clear all intelligent life on this planet and then re-colonize it." Horatio coldly said the most terrible and rational solution.

"If it is really necessary. "Captain Messinius said, "We will kill everyone on this planet. You are right, Lieutenant Colonel. According to our calculations, recolonizing after killing the entire population is indeed the fastest and most effective way to "re-imperialize." "

"It is also the method with the most bloodshed and the heaviest possible cost.

It would be better if we could leave some indigenous humans behind, because they have deeper insights into the technology for repurposing this planet and can directly help us harness the planet's war potential. "

Captain Zhao retains his own opinions on this final plan, because although the colonists from other planets in the empire are firm and fanatical believers, there is a big question mark as to how they will effectively utilize the value of this planet.

Not everyone in the world is like the people of Cathay, and the population of Cathay is not enough to colonize in large numbers.

"This is exactly why the Sisters of the Holy Rosary missionary group is here, and this is why we are here. Under the light of the Lord of Mankind, they will finally recognize the reality that they are human beings, not blue-blooded aliens." Huo Lei Xiao said: "It's best to be like this, don't be shameless."

"How long do we have before the final cleanup plan is implemented?" Horatio asked.

"It won't take long, and it will be adjusted according to the battle situation on the front line." Messinius opened the kraft paper scroll from Macragge: "Basol has an important strategic location and can send resources to Margaret and... Ometula and many other war zones.

As long as we can stabilize Bashor as a theater logistics base and activate the planet's production capacity, our army can further gain an advantage on the battlefield, and even once and for all curb the momentum of the blue-blooded aliens' invasion of the 500 worlds of Ultramar.

But under the harassment of these guerrillas, this was impossible.

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Bang! boom! !

As soon as he finished speaking, a violent explosion occurred in a factory in the distance. The fire that shot up into the sky was like a volcanic eruption. The steel structure and storage tanks that were blown away by the shock wave flew hundreds of meters into the sky. They were reminded by the belated explosion. Next, everyone who followed the sound only saw burning and smoking ruins, and the self-assessed distance was 30 kilometers.

Even from such a distance, when the slightly hot air waves blew on Horatio's face, he could feel the heat in it.

Everyone covered their eyes with their hands, and the blazing wind ruffled their uniforms.

"That's... the fuel warehouse we occupied..." Captain Zhao couldn't hide the fatigue and anger on his face.

"These damn heretics who can't tell what they are!" Mesinius gritted his teeth and buckled the helmet on his head. Without looking back, he strode forward to lead a white consul tactical team and catch up with them. The Thunderhawk gunboat on the shuttle pad headed to the scene of the accident.

Captain Zhao also immediately greeted the commando team and called the Valkyrie transport aircraft supported by the Imperial Navy in orbit. Before leaving, he hurriedly said to Horatio: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant Colonel, the stability maintenance mission on this planet is Leave it to us. One of the Inquisitors asked me to tell you that if you still have the strength to guard the armed sermon,

She was already investigating the resistance and spy connections on this planet in advance. "

"Judge? Is that a young-looking woman, or something else?"

"There was indeed a young-looking woman among them, but the person who told me this was a middle-aged male inquisitor, and he seemed to be able to read my mind."

As soon as these words were spoken, Horatio immediately knew that Clarence Ravenor had also arrived at this place.

This place doesn't look peaceful from the surface, but there's even more undercurrents surging behind the scenes.