"Why didn't anyone stop them?"
Mondoc, who was in the outer city, guarding the gate and sitting in the army, had just been woken up. When he learned the news, he was already very panicked.
After the governor's army arrived yesterday, although the nephew he sent failed to come back, the governor's army actually stopped outside and did not move. This made him quite satisfied. His tough attitude had achieved results. The next thing to do was to consider how to talk to the governor.
But who would have thought that early this morning, he would hear the shocking news!
The Governor, escorted by seven Space Marines and eleven Battle Sisters, swaggered through his army and was walking on the road, heading towards the inner city.
During the whole process, it seemed very 'peaceful' between his army and the governor's guards.
It is said that an officer who blocked the road was killed and his head was deflated with a punch.
But other than that, not a shot was fired, not a shot was fired.
His soldiers left the 'enemy' alone and walked over.
why is that?
Have all my troops rebelled?
This was the source of Mondoc's trepidation.
Because it's not impossible.
He is a general and a commander, but nominally he is a subordinate of the governor, who is the highest commander in chief. Ordinary soldiers don't know that much about the twists and turns above, and they won't easily position the governor as an enemy.
To a certain extent, if the soldiers really rebelled, what could he do?
Mondoc couldn't even hold back and looked around, fearing that the next moment, before the governor's people arrived, his own soldiers would tie him up and shout something like 'borrow the general's head' Something like that.
But fortunately, this did not happen. His personal guard camp was still loyally guarding the outside.
The adjutant who came to report the news answered his previous question: "It is true that no one stopped me. I inquired about it and said that you may have allowed the governor's team to pass, so the soldiers did not dare to block or fire..."
Not to mention others, even he himself thought so.
"Fart!" Mondoc was furious!
"Uh...you've never given such an order?"
Faced with this problem, Mondoc calmed down.
He calmed down and quickly analyzed the current situation in his mind.
The situation shouldn't be as bad as he thought just now.
The soldiers are just confused, confused, and at a loss now, but they have no intention of rebelling.
The prestige that Mondoc established among the troops still exists, and the soldiers will still regard him as the supreme commander of the troops.
The more important point is that the propaganda they have been doing for a long time among the alliance authorities, among the troops, and even in the entire city is still effective.
Only six years have passed since the brutal rule of the second generation of governors, and people's memories are still fresh, and no one wants to go back to that time. It is precisely with the help of this public opinion that in the past six years, they have on the one hand puppetized the governor so that his decrees cannot leave the office, let alone affect the wider land outside Fuxing City; on the other hand , they also secretly blamed the governor for many of the bad things they had done.
In Raging Star and Time City, after the baptism of the past twelve years, although there are still people who remember the revival of the generation of governors, people now do not have much favorable impressions of the governors sent by the empire.
Hatred is not something to be reckoned with. After all, he is a newcomer and has not had time to do bad things. But there is not a lot of fear and resentment left behind.
After Gu Hang arrived, he actually jumped out of Fuxing City and went outside to mess around. This was something that the alliance's senior officials did not expect, but they were happy to see.
If you want to play any construction game, go and play it yourself. No one believed that he could survive the imperial tax in two years just by building things from scratch outside. Two years later, the governor was executed. The top leaders of the alliance introduced some scapegoats, saying they were members of the governor's government. They were finished together, and then they just waited for the next governor to come, and survived another two years.
It is precisely because of this that they have recently relaxed their smear campaign against the new governor.
Not to mention, among them, there was a traitor like old Hodgson!
Inadvertently or unintentionally, the news that the new governor was making a big splash outside was spreading among the poor outside Fuxing City.
It was not until recently that they realized that the problem was huge. Even though they killed Hodgson, they also made it clear to the Governor that they wanted to confront him. Under this situation, they started a new round of urgent propaganda work, trying to make Gu Hang a new 'second-generation governor', saying that he would come back to seize power and capture half of the people in Fuxing City to become an empire. Pay the tax, how miserable it will be if you pay it as an adult tax...
But in fact, if the poor are really treated as human taxes... it might not be a good thing. It might be better to live as a slave on a starship than as a pauper on the planet Raging Owl.
Of course, there is also a chance of being sent to the Astra Militarum as slave labor, cannon fodder, or a frontline logistics transport team... That may be a little bit worse. Although they are still well fed, the average life span is a bit lower, measured in hours.
But when they publicize, they don't talk about the issues of having enough to eat, glory, and honor. They only talk about how long they will live.
Their propaganda still has a certain effect.
Gu Hang had been doing great work outside in the past, and had attracted many refugees. Henry and Hodgson had done a lot of publicity, which gave him a good reputation.
But now, if they say bad things about Gu Hang, the effect will be limited. But at least it diluted the previous good reputation a lot, reminding people of the fear of being ruled by the governor, and the attitude that had already been inclined became hesitant again.
Thinking back to this, Mondoc had to be thankful that it was a good move. Otherwise, he might really face a situation where the governor would cheer up and the soldiers would defect.
After analyzing these situations clearly, Mondoc roughly knew what he should do.
He needs to come forward in person and use 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-in-chief.
Even at the critical moment, he needed to further insist on his tough stance and let the Guards Battalion, inspired by him, clearly stop Gu Hang from moving forward, thereby mobilizing the entire army.
But thinking of this, he hesitated.
Intellectually, this is no problem; but do you really have to go out in person and face the Space Marines?
If the governor really ignores it and orders an assault, can only a few hundred people from his own guard camp be able to stop it?
I am afraid that my head will be removed before the army has time to react and the heavy artillery has not had time to mobilize.
Mondoc was in a dilemma.
