Hearing Soshiyang's answer, the great sage's eyes flashed for a moment, and then said warmly:
"It can be seen that the Red Pirates' huge forces and fleet put a lot of pressure on you, but I don't think your biggest trouble is the Red Pirates."
"Oh? How do you say it?"
"Huron seems to have tens of thousands of Chaos Space Marines, but why has he been curled up in the depths of the vortex for so many years? Even the old nests like Badabu Star Fan are only indirectly controlled."
Soshyan thought for a moment and said:
"At present, he is unable to fight against the empire's huge military force, and his traitors do not really have the determination to fight to the end for him, at least most of them are not."
"In fact, in my opinion, although Huron has plundered countless wealth over the years and has even worked hard to build his small kingdom, his field still does not have the ability to maintain a legion. Why is the Black Legion terrible? Because there are more than ten technical heretics in the Eye of Fear to serve him, and the continuous equipment and materials provided by those worlds can support a legion in the true sense. Even if the Great Plunderers do not plunder, they can still launch his war plan, but Huron cannot do it.
He seems very rich and powerful now, and it is based on constant plunder. Once the process is forced to be interrupted or is strictly guarded, his warehouse will be exhausted soon... Perhaps his reserves can provide him with a hundred battles, or even a thousand battles, but what about ten thousand? Once there is no sufficient supplies, his war gang will fall apart and leave him. Chaos heresy has never endured it. They will not serve a lord hungry."
At Ultramok, Soshiyan did feel a little enlightened. He had been staring at the Red Pirates' huge forces and fleet before, and indeed ignored the Red Pirates' fragile self-sustaining ability.
Huron has raised so many people and fleets, and the materials consumed every day must be huge. In the non-war state, he can supplement it through frequent plunder, but once he enters a state of full-scale war and all fleets are put into war, it is impossible to maintain the consumption of such a huge army based on his existing territory alone.
And this, as Ultramok said, is the biggest fatal point of the Red Pirates - they actually cannot fight a protracted war and a war of attrition!
If the battlefield between the two sides is transformed from the field of gun competition and blade competition into the field of logistics competition, then Huron will undoubtedly lose. This is also the reason why he has not made any big moves for so many years. He himself should be very clear about this.
Without those wealth and materials, his allies, mercenaries and even subordinates would leave. After all, everyone will rebel against the empire, but they are not as hard as they fight to the death and free of charge.
Soshiyang smiled slightly and praised:
"I didn't expect that Great Sage, you are also a war master. I want to ask you to be my aide."
"Everyone in Riza must be a war master, because we have too little time to peace, and all kinds of aliens and heresy invasions have never stopped for ten thousand years."
"Then what's my biggest trouble?"
"So in my opinion, the focus of your war is not how to attack, but how to defend, how to drag Huron's fleet on the front line, how to make his plunder futile, how to make him invest his precious resources into a continuous and meaningless battle. If you can do this, even if the Expeditionary Force does not have any decisive victory, I believe that the Red Pirates will naturally disappear in a few years... This is why I say that your biggest trouble is not the Red Pirates, because to do this, it is necessary to cooperate with all local institutions and forces, because the wealth plundered by the Red Pirates will not become logistics and equipment out of thin air. Their stolen route basically overlaps with the rampant smuggling route in the Great Vortex Area. If you want to block the Red Pirates, the first step is to cut off smuggling, which will touch the interests of many, many people."
After hearing this, Soshiyang was silent for a long time, and only his fingers gently tapped the railing and made a sound.
When the outline of Fenjin City appeared on the horizon, he suddenly said in a deep voice:
"I didn't expect that although you are not in the Great Whirlpool area, you are very insightful about it... I have heard of such evil things. It seems that some nests are still in power and trade lords involved. Do those people know that trading and smuggling with heresy is a death sentence?"
"There is enough interests that they will even sell ropes to hang themselves, and their background is far less simple than you think. For example, some families have been serving the court, some organizations are powerful families from Terra, and some people are just white gloves from certain departments."
"Many things in the empire are broken in the hands of these worms, so it is really worth killing!"
Just as Soshiyang was indignant because of the whirlpool, they were gradually approaching Fenjin City.
From a high altitude, Fenjin City is a towering and extremely dense nest-like building complex with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and a large number of metal "tensteles" extending out in all directions, covering a wider area.
The essence of these "tenishes" is the tracks and related facilities of super giant trains. They pass through various cities and production complexes throughout the continent, connecting the entire Boshi Continent. In this network, the furthest node is in the forging group located in the westernmost part of the continent. There are hundreds of large and small casting sources here, all of which are high-quality casting furnaces for producing various types of war machines. Among them, there are even several manufacturers that specialize in the production of the famous Storm Blade.
As the core of Boshi Continent, Fenjin City is also the core of Rizha's manufacturing industry. It continuously produces a huge number of war machines every day, from the assembly of internal key equipment for the Imperial warships to various heavy tanks. These equipment and machines produced from the casting temples are loaded onto super giant trains at large stations, and then transported to the east of the northern continent via the Isthmus of Atonement, which is the transfer station Omega No. 9.
In addition to the complex and magnificent ground facilities, the underground of Fenjin City is also grand. It has established the largest data crypt in Alliza, covering all the knowledge known to Reza. In the deeper and more unknown places of the crypt, it has also established a war underground facility with Reza. Legend also seals various technologies and items prohibited by the emperor.
But the whole picture of the Riza Cave and even what is there, and it is even more impossible to know until after the Horus Rebellion. The only information that can be said to be known is probably the only one that is the secret Riza Knights, the Xingshan Family, who made a stunning appearance. They were unknown before they appeared, and they were engaged in endless simulated battles underground. Until Riza was invaded by rebels and they were summoned, people learned that they existed.
"While wielding the butcher's knife is a very simple and straightforward solution, but the reality is that many things can be solved not only by killing, and the great rebellion has already shown this."
"It sounds like, Great Sage, you don't seem to be optimistic about this expedition?"
"If you use data to simulate your expedition, my logic processor concluded that your probability of victory is only 13.4%.
As the airship slowly descended, the towering alloy walls of the magnificent Fenjin City were getting closer and closer.
Chapter completed!