The Empire suffered heavy losses, and the Red Pirates must have had a hard time. According to preliminary statistics, at least 32 of their main battleships were sunk, 8 were captured, and 3 were abandoned. More than 200 were sunk in small and medium-sized ships. Some were too small to confirm, and 41 were captured. More than 1,200 of them were shot down by various flying demon engines and chaos fighters. As for the Space Marines, there were more than 2,800 corpses that could be confirmed on the Brutal Crucible and the Moon of Destruction. The actual number of kills is likely to exceed 4,000! Based on the corpses found on other battlefields, the number of people who were annihilated in this battle is very likely to reach more than 10,000!
It took three months to clear the battlefield alone, and the Mechanical and Navy alone dispatched more than 600 tugboats and barges of all sizes to work day and night.
After the battle, Soshyan summoned all the senior commanders and commanders to confess to everyone his mistakes, and admitted that he was indeed fooled by Huron's last hat trick, because he was a little arrogant when he was sure to win. However, everyone thought there was nothing worth apologizing for. Hulbletcht said very bluntly that people who have never made any decisions on the battlefield cannot deny the other 99% of their achievements because of 1%.
Although the Mantis Warriors did not sack Huron in the end, they also believed that this was not all Soshiyang's fault. The battlefield was unpredictable, especially in naval battles. When there was no absolute strength gap between the two sides, it was usually difficult to stop one side's determination to run, and he had done his best.
Laisand told Soshiyan not to take this matter too seriously. He has created the most brilliant victory of the empire in thousands of years, but in general it is still a flaw that does not hide the merits.
With everyone's support, Soshiyang packed up his mood and immediately directed the army to sweep away the remaining areas of the Red Pirates. As he expected, the Red Pirates had basically withdrawn. In this way, a month later, the entire vortex completely returned to the control of the empire, and the Red Pirates completely retreated back to the depths of the vortex.
Just as Soshiyan planned to concentrate his strength and launch a quick raid on New Badab deep in the vortex, an accident happened.
A sub-space storm suddenly descended on the whirlpool.
Although the Great Whirlpool itself is a subspace rift, there are not many storms. Just as Soshiyan was planning an attack, a storm enveloped the area around the center of the Great Whirlpool, making all military operations a dream. Without Okam's intelligence support, Soshiyan could not know whether the storm was Huron's trick or something else.
However, when the Man-Eatering Shark fleet rushed out from the depths of the vortex and combined with some of the "deployments" mentioned by Okam, Soshiyan finally knew what was happening inside.
It was quite complicated to say. After losing the Black Stone Fortress, Valtex led his men back to Xinbadab, he found a secret army of more than a thousand people arranged by Judas in advance. However, before he could fully rectify the planetary defense, some of the Red Pirates who stayed in Xinbadab suddenly made trouble. Then, Garmozej joined forces with the blood snake demon and several war gangs who did not intend to obey Huron and launched a joint attack. The fleet crossed the unactivated orbital defense facilities and rushed to Xinbadab's core Thorn Palace.
Both sides fought around the Palace of Thorns, and Galmozeger even used the banner that Huron was dead, Valtex wanted to take the opportunity to seize the throne, but he came to clean up the situation in the name of Abaddon.
His slogan is very smart, and it really scared some of the Red Pirate Remnants on New Badab, causing some people to watch from the wall.
Just as the victory scale tilted towards Garmozej, the man-eating shark fleet suddenly emerged, first paralyzed the orbital defense station, and then bombarded the Thorn Palace around the New Badab. Then Taberus led the team to land, but the target was the Red Pirates' arsenal. Both sides who were still fighting were caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the third party. There were even rumors that the empire's army had arrived, and the entire planet was in chaos and could not organize effective defense at all.
After robbing the man-eating shark, he planned to drop whirlpools to the planet and take it all in one go. As a result, a fleet of Word Bearers suddenly arrived, and Taberus had to lead the team to retreat, but he still did not give up destroying New Badab until Huron returned.
Taberus thought that the verbal bearer would occupy Xinbadab, but it did not happen. Instead, Garmozejie and others hurriedly evacuated, and Huron returned to the Thorn Palace safely, followed by a sub-space storm.
The Man-Eating Shark Fleet also fought with the fleeing Garmozejie and others for a while, killing each other. As for what happened to the WordPress and the Red Pirates, they don’t know, but the Pale Wanderer believes that this storm was caused by the WordPress, because it is not easy to set off an Asian space storm. This often requires "leverage", that is, relying on the power of the evil gods. According to Okam’s past statement, there are many wizards among the Red Pirates, but not many are proficient in demonic knowledge.
Although the Red Pirates also surrounded Angustorm with a subspace storm, the scale is very small, so it can basically be judged that this huge storm comes from the hands of the Word Bearer.
As for whether the person who bears the word wants to help Huron or harm Huron, it is hard to say.
This news made Soshiyang happy and annoyed. What was happy was that after this round, Huron would undoubtedly be seriously injured. It would not be difficult to recover from the grand occasion for decades. What was annoyed was that now was the best time to destroy the other party, but the damn sub-space storm did not dissipate at all.
After briefly informing Soshiyan of the situation, the Man-Eating Shark Fleet left, as inexplicably when they came.
Seeing that he would not be able to rush into the vortex for a while, Soshiyang could only arrange the mantis warriors, the White Holy Church, the Crying One, and the Flesh Tearing One to defend the front line of Lamptan, closely monitor the depths of the vortex to prevent enemies from escaping from inside, and report immediately once the storm dissipates.
Afterwards, he led the main force back to the Sagan Galaxy. After all, the war was over in a sense, but there were still many things to deal with after the war.
After returning to the main star of Sagan, various praises and praises came in succession, but Soshyan is not in so much mood to argue with the nobles and imperial bureaucrats. Now, except for Huron, his second concern is Veronica's situation.
But Veronica didn't hear any news, so Soshiyan could only conduct preliminary post-war disposal first, such as specific statistics and pensions for the dead, as well as the delivery and distribution of the newly recaptured world, as well as the customization of the Expedition Medal, etc.
Fortunately, Sagan Main Star already has a very complete logistics and administrative system, and most of the specific content does not require Soshiyan to personally inquire about it. After refusing all banquets and invitations, he returned to the temporary residence of Sagan Main Star, because he could boldly use the psychic props given to him by Veronica to contact the other party.
However, as soon as he walked into the gate of Shouyan Pavilion in Qingpeng Manor, Soshiyang, wearing a robe, felt a breeze blowing on his face, and then a delicate body pounced on his arms.
"Hehe, was it an accident?"
Looking down at Veronica, who was wearing long hair in a regular dress and smiling face, Soshiyang was silent for a moment, then picked up the other person and hugged him tightly in his arms.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Veronica realized that Soshiyan was in a bad mood, and then reached out and touched his face.
Chapter completed!