At the Ethereal's command, the T'au stopped hiding and launched a full-scale offensive. Their army of 150 million advanced on Hive City 2 from multiple directions!
Across every city, village, and vast plain, regiments were racing forward.
Large numbers of armed personnel who had defected to the T'au painted T'au insignias on their bodies and blue war paint on their faces as they attacked Hive City 2.
They were determined to bring the entire planet under the rule of the Greater Good and execute the entire interest group led by Grand Duke Yot!
Grand Duke Yot reacted quickly as well, immediately dispatching his own forces for defensive operations.
They had long been wary of the T'au tearing off the mask, so they had established a great number of bunker defense lines near Hive City 2 in advance.
With these pre-dug bunker lines, they had been confident that they could withstand the T'au forces' assault.
But what Grand Duke Yot had not expected was that after his regiments entered the bunker lines, many entire units mutinied and defected to the T'au forces!
Grand Duke Yot and the interest group were horrified. Nearly 20% of their regiments had switched sides—had the T'au infiltration really become this severe? They could not hold the line now, so they immediately asked Li Qinwu for help!
As for Li Qinwu, after his previous investigation and giving those people a vicious whipping with the Copper-Headed Belt, he had directly decided he was done playing with them.
He knew perfectly well that they had squeezed the Imperium's citizens far too hard, and every Imperial citizen hated them.
Normally, things were manageable while Grand Duke Yot's armed forces kept everyone suppressed. But once war came, wherever the T'au attacked, the whole area rebelled!
How could anything great possibly be