Chapter 23
Tens of millions of light from the border of the Federal Bone Dragon Cloud galaxy, Major General Kester of the Silver Eagle Empire sat upright in the fleet commander's room and raised his glass to Major General Darens in the virtual image. Kester drank a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Wait a little longer, and the warship we have been here for a few months can move."
Darrens smiled and said, "You can bear it for so long." After saying that, he took a sip of wine, and continued, "I don't understand the intentions of the two lords, the Earl and the Duke. He rushed us to the border galaxy for several months without giving any orders, as if he had forgotten us. He finally came the order not long ago, but he moved to a certain place in the death zone and carried out a saturation and cold laser attack on the coordinates given. Although he knew it was to sweep the passage, why was it limited to that coordinate and it was also stipulated that it was necessary to shoot at a specific time?"
"Haha, this is the strategy of the two adults." Kester smiled, but when he saw Darrens appearing inquiring, he hurriedly said, "As for what strategy it is, don't ask me, I don't know."
Kester saw Darrens's silence and smiled. He shook his glass and said, "Haha, speaking of it, although we were good friends before, we often competed because of different parties of loyalty. But who would have thought that the Earl, the Earl who led the military and the Duke who controlled politics, the two well-known mortal enemies of the government and the People's Republic of China, were actually a pair of close comrades."
Darens nodded and said, "Yes, if the two adults hadn't appeared in front of us at the same time and ordered us to leave the imperial capital for a mission, I wouldn't have expected that the two adults would be on the same front."
"By the way, what will the people in the imperial capital think after you two adults transfer the most powerful troops of our two imperial guards to the border?" Kester said with a strange smile.
Darren glared at Kester and said, "I understand very well, what else should I ask." Although he said this, he still expressed his thoughts: "The imperial capital suddenly lost the only two powerful fleets that remained neutral. Of course, those princes who were ready to move would not miss such an opportunity. But don't you find it strange? After several months, the imperial capital was calm. According to my housekeeper, the imperial capital was extremely safe during this period, and even small things like robbery were not born."
Kester smiled and said, "Of course the sign of the storm is calm. Haha, I wonder how the two adults will deal with those who are offended? I think this is the most convenient way." As he said, a neck-slashing action. Darren nodded speechlessly. After guessing that his direct superior was also loyal to others, both of them knew what the two adults would deal with those who were plotting against the throne.
At this time, the sound of b came from the two commanders' podiums. Kester hurriedly threw away the wine glass and shouted excitedly: "It's finally here." While pressing the button. Darens, who saw his old friend's appearance, just smiled and pressed the button on the podium.
A virtual screen appeared in front of both of them. They looked at the text displayed on the screen, and their faces became more and more surprised. When the screen disappeared, Kester said to Darrens, who had recovered from his calm face in disbelief, "No way, this is the task of leaving our two powerful fleets here for a few months?"
Darrens frowned and said, "Although it looks incredible and even seems a bit ridiculous, the two adults will not do meaningless things. Execute the order, maybe this task is done for the mysterious loyalty partner."
Kester sighed, "I said, but I really couldn't get excited. I thought there would be a fierce battle, but I didn't expect it to be the result." Speaking of this, I saluted Darrens and closed the communication.
Darrens shook his head helplessly and said, "What a militant." He turned off the screen, left the room and came to the flagship command tower. After sitting in the commander's seat, he glanced at his adjutant. The adjutant immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, the passage has been opened." He pointed his hand at the screen.
Darens saw a circular safety passage with a diameter of nearly one light on the death zone on the screen, and nodded and said, "Appoint Colonel Sly to lead his troops as the vanguard, so that he could pay attention to the cooperation with the vanguard of friendly forces and not rush forward." The adjutant hurriedly took the order and retreated.
At this time, on the screen showing the location of the Imperial Battleship Group, you can see two triangular battleship groups, starting to separate two small pieces of warships with a number of one thousand each. These warships first slowly left the main force, and after they arrived at the entrance of the passage, the hulls of these warships began to be distorted. You can tell at a glance that the warships were leaping in space.
Darrens, who had been watching, smiled and said to himself: "As soon as these guys saw the security passage open, they immediately jumped with space, as if they were eager to appear on the federal defense line immediately. However, they should all know that this passage was not very deep, and they wouldn't be so idiotic that they set the location outside the end of the passage, right?"
Darrens and Kester were both major generals. Originally, they could only lead 5,000 warships in the imperial military system, but their two men were powerful figures. They could lead a fleet of their own just by just promoting their lieutenant generals. However, they also understood that this was to make other generals jealous of themselves and not to gather other fronts to make themselves a major general admiral. Of course, since they were major general admirals, their officers also increased the number of warships they led accordingly, and like a colonel could command warships. There were a lot more than two or three hundred warships that a colonel could command in the Federation.
In the death zone of the Federation, more than a thousand surviving federal troops' self-propelled gunboats have gathered together. However, more than a thousand were second lieutenants not long ago, but now the captains who have become lieutenants are using joint communications to argue there. What are they making noise? Of course, they are competing for the command of more than a thousand warships.
Tang Long's warship was not as lively as other warships. Not only did Tang Long say nothing, but Tang Long's subordinates didn't say anything either. Everyone stared blankly at the main screen, and the owners with more than a thousand avatars were there shouting excitedly. They were sad for the idiots who were still fighting for command before they died.
Chen Yi opened her mouth, she wanted to tell the lieutenants that the enemy was two reinforced fleets so that the uninformed people could stop quarreling. But she did not say it, because she did not truthfully execute Tang Long's order last time, so that none of the nearly 9,000 warships had opened the protective cover. Now that her commander has not spoken, she dared not talk too much, so as not to do something wrong again.
Everyone looked at Tang Long quietly, and they all hoped that Tang Long would make a decision. The originally worried Mary suddenly realized that Tang Long was not dejected, but sat on the command chair with her hands in her chest, with her crossed legs on the podium, and her eyes closed and didn't know what to think.
When Mary remembered that Tang Long would encounter something doomed to fail, she showed a despairy expression and couldn't help but surge in hope. She glanced at Tang Long, turned around to check the system she was responsible for. This action made everyone stunned, but they quickly remembered something and were busy going back to their own positions to work.
At this time, Tang Long was talking to Xingling with his throat: "Sister, can you ask you something? If these guys continue to argue like this, they are just waiting for others to kill him."
Xing Ling smiled and said, "What, do you want to obtain command? Of course there is no problem with this. Tell me, how can I help you?" Tang Long rumbling for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes and yelled at the screen: "Shut up!"
This roar made Liu Sihao and the others stop and look back at Tang Long in surprise. They didn't know that the personnel of other warships were almost deaf when they were shocked by these words. They didn't know that the dense group of avatars of other warships had just disappeared, and the entire screen was occupied by Tang Long's huge image.
Tang Long pointed to the screen and cursed: "***! Why are you fighting for command if I am there? Am I a fake? You idiots! The enemy has opened a safe passage and will immediately use space jump to appear in front of us. They are still in the mood to compete for command here? All radar officers obey orders and calculate the possible locations of enemy space jumps!"
Tang Long said that the pair of Gina who was staring at him blankly shouted: "Adminton, pass the detected channel image data and the location data where the enemy was when the laser light was fired to all warships." Gina was shocked, responded quickly and began to carry out the mission. Elhua had already begun to calculate the location where the enemy jumped.
After saying that, Tang Long shouted fiercely at the screen: "Hurry up and calculate the calculations, report the calculation results to me as soon as possible. The guy who wants to die will take a look!" As he waved his hand, the captain images on the screen disappeared and replaced with the image of the channel image.
Gina, who was responsible for managing the computer and just completed the task, was stunned when she saw this scene. She didn't press the button to change the screen, nor did she see the commander pressing the button on the podium. What's going on? The computer must not break down at this time. Thinking of this, Gina, who was sweating in cold sweat, immediately detected the computer system, of course she was in vain.
Of course, the captains knew that Tang Long, the boss who had no real power, but they agreed to Tang Long's command when they did not accept others as commanders. This is human nature. When the dragons all know the goal and even argued that they should go there. When everyone was not convinced by each other, a person who knew everyone and knew his strong deeds came out and said I would take you away. In this way, no matter whether everyone was willing or not, they would subconsciously follow him.
Another reason why they agree with Tang Long's command is that Tang Long said that the enemy will appear. Of course, they know that the safe passage means that the enemy can make space jumps within the passage. When the enemy is about to appear, although they don't know how powerful they are, these people who have not experienced war will always be afraid.
So they have no time to care whether they can be commanders. They are now anxiously asking the radar to calculate the jump points that the enemy appears based on the data they received. Although they don’t know what it is to calculate, they don’t know what to do to be good for themselves. Finally, they have a job to stabilize their anxiety.
Tang Long frowned and looked at Elhua's fingers desperately knocking, and he couldn't help asking Chen Yi: "Has no warship ever reported the calculation results?"
Chen Yi shook her head and said without saying a word, while Liu Sihao said, "Sir, the job of calculating jump positions in this way will require a long time to calculate even the entire fleet. We have few people, and this kind of self-propelled gunboat with not very advanced computer systems, so the calculation time will be more."
When Tang Long opened his mouth and was about to say something, Tang Long suddenly laughed in his ears, and then he heard Elhua jump up and cheering: "It's calculated!" When Liu Sihao looked at Elhua in surprise, Chen Yi stood up happily and shouted: "Sir, the warships have also sent information, and the position has been calculated."
Tang Long immediately understood what was going on. His throat trembled, and Xingling's laughter came from his ears: "No need to thank you, hurry up and think about what you should do after you get the location where they appeared."
Tang Long nodded slightly and said to Chen Yi: "Click on all warship communications, the adjutant, and the computer will be handed over to **." The woman hurriedly handled her tasks after saluting.
Tang Long pressed on the computer on the podium, and the calculated enemy jumping location appeared on the screen. He saw that this location was at a distance from him, and a jumping point appeared every few kilometers. One longitudinal here is equal to one million kilometers. In cosmic warfare, the longitudinal is used to calculate the effective shooting distance.
With Tang Long's control, the jump points on the screen became a highlight display. After the data automatically marked out by the computer, there were actually two thousand jump points outside the display!
"It's actually a two thousand troops!" All the officers and soldiers who saw this took a breath. The number of enemies was twice as many as themselves, and it was very likely that it was a vanguard. But even if the number of soldiers appeared was the soldiers, they were very clear that Emperor* would not have cannon fodder warships such as self-propelled gunboats. Even if the opponent's two thousand warships were the lowest level of the enemy, their strength would be dozens of times stronger than themselves. The hope of the officers and soldiers who originally wanted to establish military achievements began to be shattered. If the general had not ordered the escapees to be killed, anyone would have run away long ago!
Liu Sihao said to Tang Long with concern: "Sir, the enemy's strength is too strong, we..." Tang Long turned around and smiled at Liu Sihao and said: "Don't worry, we can resist these two thousand enemy ships for a while. If we are lucky, we can wait until the fleet arrives."
When Liu Sihao was stunned, the commander said that he didn't have to worry, he could withstand it for a while? Could it be that his head was burned out, right? The enemy was two thousand regular warships, not such cannon fodder self-propelled gunboats. When Liu Sihao didn't know what to say, Li Lijun asked foolishly: "Sir, what should I do if I don't have good luck?"
Tang Long curled his lips and glanced at Li Lijun and said, "I can't imagine this? If you don't have good luck, you will surrender." Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Chen Yi was stunned for a moment before immediately reacting to turn off the communication connecting to other warships. She looked at Tang Long with a pale face. Forget it, just say these words in her ship, and her subordinates would not go out to talk nonsense. But now more than 10,000 warships and more than 10,000 people have heard it. It is hard to guarantee that no one in it will report to the military court. Saying surrender before the war can be regarded as a crime of treason.
Although Chen Yi's movements were fast, everyone from other warships heard Tang Long's words. They all moved in their hearts. They would be executed if they escaped, and fighting would definitely be killed in battle. Then surrender would be a good decision. But I heard that the Silver Eagle Empire still has slavery, so these surrendered soldiers would not be demoted to slaves, right?
Tang Longxian's communicator was turned off and turned on in dissatisfaction. At this time, Li Lijun asked the question that the officers and soldiers were worried about.
After hearing Li Lijun's question, Tang Long couldn't help but laugh: "Will you be demoted to slaves after surrender? Hoho, don't worry, in order to show your demeanor, the empire will not only not turn surrendered into slaves, but will instead treat them well and allow them to enjoy high-level treatment. Because they want to use it for publicity and seek to recruit more surrendered soldiers. Just look at our federal documentary, how well the prisoners were treated at that time."
When everyone heard Tang Long's words, they relaxed. They watched the war documentaries released by the Federation when they were children. At that time, they saw that the prisoners were treated better than those of the federal citizens, and they were even more angry. Now these federal soldiers are no longer worried about anything, and some guys even began to consider how they would surrender when the enemy came.
But Tang Long suddenly shouted and woke everyone up: "Listen! Don't think that the enemy will accept it as soon as it comes. Even if they accept it, they will treat you as ordinary soldiers and lock them up! So we must scare them so that they think we are very outstanding, so that we will treat us as special soldiers!"
When the officers and soldiers heard this, they nodded involuntarily. Yes, if they surrendered like this, the enemy would think they were believing surrender. Moreover, Tang Long did not say that he wanted to attack the enemy, but just said that he was scaring him and it was a joke. The enemy would not be angry.
Without waiting for their letter to ask how to scare, Tang Long stood up and pointed to the jump point that showed the enemy ships and ordered: "All warships obey the orders, each warship is responsible for two jump points, and the torpedo coordinates are set according to the jump points, and two different types of torpedoes are set for each jump point. After preparation, report the flagship and follow my order to shoot." After saying this, Tang Long's cold face immediately turned into a happy smile: "Haha, don't worry, the worst destroyer on the other side can also withstand the attack of two torpedoes."
Of course, everyone knows how much damage the two torpedoes can damage the destroyer, so they also think that what Tang Long said is a joke to scare the enemy. If this is not the case, then all the torpedoes should be gathered to attack several jump points, so that it is possible to destroy the enemy ship. So everyone easily began to set coordinates for the torpedoes, and now they wait to scare the enemy, and then raise their hands to surrender.
The people on the Tanglong battleship were not as relaxed as others, because when they saw Tang Long say the last sentence, they showed a grin that made them feel evil. Although it felt inappropriate, they couldn't tell where it was wrong. They knew that even if the destroyer stopped there and closed the protective cover, two torpedoes could destroy him. However, when jumping, the protective cover would automatically open. Besides, it is the battle stage, and the enemy will not close the protective cover after the jump is completed. But why did the commander smile so evilly? It was like a conspiracy hidden under his smile.
Sergeant Liu Sihao, who has just been promoted to sergeant, why are you still doing stupidly? Why don’t you go and set the torpedo coordinates?" Tang Long looked at Liu Sihao with a smile. Liu Sihao shivered in disbelief when he saw Tang Long’s appearance, and hurriedly saluted and ran back to his post.
Tang Long ignored Xingling's words in his ears and kept asking him what he wanted to do, but instead kept his smile, looked at Chen Yi and said, "Hehe, Mr. Chen Yi, can you contact the country?"
Chen Yi shook her head and said, "Report to the chief, the domestic lines seem to have been cut off and can't be contacted."
Cut off?" Tang Long's face that was pretending to be revealed immediately disappeared and he changed into a surprised expression. It would be reasonable to have the signal cut off in the fierce battle, but the general and the lieutenant colonel had communicated with him just now, and the enemy had not arrived yet, so it was impossible to say that the signal was controlled by the enemy. Then there was only one result...
Tang Long thought of the chill in his heart getting stronger and stronger. Then he shook his throat and asked Xingling: "Sister, do you know why you can't connect to China? Could it be..."
Xing Ling snorted coldly at first, and she was dissatisfied with Tang Long's failure to leave him just now. However, after she finished humming, she still told Tang Long what he had just known: "That's right, it's the same as you thought. It was the country that cut off contact with you. The military conference had decided to put the battlefield on Shi Kexing, and you were regarded as abandoned soldiers who confuse the enemy."
"..." Tang Long was stunned. According to this meaning, the fleet, which was originally going to come to support, wouldn't come. Tang Long jumped up angrily and cursed: "Damn it, I'm actually here. Don't dare to tell the truth because I'm afraid we will escape in the battle and disrupt the deployment?" Tang Long's expression made everyone stare at him blankly, not knowing what the chief's nerves were. However, Liu Sihao, who had already set the coordinates, shook when he heard Tang Long's words, and his eyes showed a helpless and desperate look. It seemed that he had understood what Tang Long said.
Tang Long, who had originally cursed, suddenly patted his head and sighed and said: There is nothing we can do about Shengli giving up some people, and we can't blame them all."
But Xing Ling heard this and told Tang Long a shocking news: "Tang Long, I always thought it was strange, how could the Federation create such self-propelled gunboats that were killed in one shot? Even if it is cheap and good, it has no effect on the Federal combat power. So I curiously checked. Because we were too far from the central government, we did not get the news until the signal was cut off. That is, only 10,000 of these gunboats were produced and stopped production, and the Federation purchased them at a price of 200 million per ship, which means that the price of purchasing A-class patrol boats was used to buy such self-propelled gunboats."
Everyone saw Tang Long suddenly stop cursing, opened his mouth in shock, staring at the bulkhead in shock. Although everyone didn't know why Tang Long looked like this, Tang Long used to show all kinds of strange behaviors, so everyone didn't take it to heart. Liu Sihao might be the only one who noticed Tang Long.
"Buy this kind of self-propelled cannon at the price of patrol boats... How could the government do such a loss-making business?" Tang Long shook his throat with difficulty.
Xing Ling said in a disdainful tone: "It's the country that loses, this is a typical collusion between officials and businessmen. The cost of such self-propelled gunboats can be saved to death as long as the manufacturer and responsible officials."
Although Tang Long had heard of these dark stories before, he did not expect that he would stay in the dark products. Tang Long had no time to be angry now. He was concerned about the situation of this warship, so he hurriedly asked: "Sister, this warship is not a bad product, right? I heard that the products made in this situation are shoddy, and I don't want to die at the hands of my own people!"
Xing Ling smiled and said, "Don't worry, your warship is still a qualified product. Maybe the unscrupulous merchants have earned too much, and I'm embarrassed to even deduct the cost." Tang Long couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this. He forgot to ask if other warships were also qualified. But even if he asked, Xing Ling couldn't answer. She checked Tang Long's warship, but after she had no problems, she didn't waste time checking the other warships.
At this time, Elhua, who had been monitoring the radar, shouted to Tang Long: "Sir, energy fluctuations appear at the jumping point, and the enemy ship is about to appear."
Tang Long immediately regained his cold face, pressed the button to face the screen and said, "All battleship torpedomens are ready!" When Liu Sihao heard this, he hurriedly put away his mind, quickly determined the coordinates set by the torpedo, and sat upright waiting for Tang Long's shooting order.
At this time, Xingling said dissatisfiedly: You will be asked questions and answers to you, but how did you treat me? Since I asked you what you were going to do with these torpedoes, you didn’t answer me.”
Tang Long showed a smile on his lips, and he shook his throat and said, "Haha, sister, some things are tasteless when they say them. For example, when you are told in advance when you are watching a movie, you can't watch the movie anymore, so you can enjoy it slowly." Xing Ling curled his lips and said nothing. Although she could use the computer to calculate the result of Tang Long doing this, just as Tang Long said, things would lose the feeling of expectation.
Tang Long saw the target of his battleship torpedo, and the dark universe that was expanded on the screen began to slowly appear. He raised his hand and shouted loudly: "A directed torpedo explodes with each coordinate. After the torpedo reaches the predetermined coordinate, it will explode immediately. The torpedo will set to 5. Preparation..."
Tang Long's words spread throughout all the battleships and the two torpedomen of the battleship immediately selected the torpedo and set it up. Since the coordinates of the four torpedoes had been set long ago, the work was completed by just pressing a few buttons. The torpedoes on the self-propelled gunboat are divided into two types. One is the directional explosion torpedo, and the other is the penetrating explosion torpedo, each equipped with two.
Directional explosion torpedo is used to explode inside an enemy ship or at a designated location, thereby generating flames to burn or burn down the crew and electronic instruments inside the enemy ship. Of course, for sealed warships, its power is very low. Therefore, if you want to achieve the expected effect, you need to help with the penetrating torpedo. Because penetrating torpedoes are torpedoes specially used to penetrate the hard bodies of enemy ships, as long as it is hit, it can definitely blow a big hole in the ship. In other words, in combat, penetrating torpedoes are first used to explode the ship, and then pointing torpedoes are used to destroy the inside of the warship. Federal soldiers who understand this truth very much think that this is a joke with the enemy.
Gina, who looked at the computer, nodded to Tang Long, indicating that all the warships were ready. After seeing this, Tang Long asked Elhua: "How long will it take for the enemy ship to complete the jump?"
Elva looked at the radar and said nervously: "There are 20 seconds left."
When Tang Long heard this, his hand stopped in the air for a few seconds before he waved his hands down and shouted: "Cum!"
With the issuance of Tang Long's order, each warship fired two fast-moving torpedoes at the same time. These more than two thousand torpedoes flew to the space where the enemy had not yet appeared.
The torpedo hand's hand had just left the shooting button for a few seconds, and Tang Long's second order came: "A per coordinator with a penetrating explosion torpedo, and the torpedo is 3. Preparation..."
When the torpedoist heard this command, he easily pressed a button and sent a prepared signal to the flagship. Because there are only two penetrating torpedoes left now, and there is no special explanation for where to explode. He just chose to shoot, which is much simpler than the command just now.
With Tang Long's order, these more than 2,000 torpedoes chased their brothers. Of course, because they shot slowly, they were thrown away from behind by the brothers who went out first.
When Tang Long saw that all the torpedoes were fired, he ordered again: "All warships followed the orders and began to fill the main gun energy. The shooting coordinates were the main gunners who had nothing to do. He was stunned when he heard this, but he quickly excitedly executed the order. Since they knew that they were going to surrender early in the morning, they were all very relaxed and had no psychological burden. In addition, they had not really used the main gun to shoot, so they started to fill the main gun energy and set the coordinates with interest, ready to set this might be the only shot in their military career.
Although the captains of each ship didn't know what to do for filling the main gun, they didn't think much about it. Anyway, he had nothing to do now, just wait for surrender quietly. Besides, he didn't know where the coordinates were. Isn't it that his subordinates thought he was incompetent?
At this time, more than two thousand directional explosion torpedoes had reached their coordinate positions and began to execute the set self-destruction program. There was no sound in the warship, and only thousands of bright flowers appeared on the screen. The federal officers and soldiers who saw this scene couldn't help but whistle and call happily, but the next scene made them stunned.
From the screen, you can see that there are thousands of warships in the fire. These warships just jumped out while the torpedo exploded. These warships did not think of the appearance and movement of gathering teams immediately moving forward intact. Instead, they stopped there and let the fire surround them. What's even more strange is that the hulls of these warships actually maintained the distortion caused when the jump was completed.
It can be seen that these warships have been distorted by space and have not recovered. But this is impossible. This problem was solved a long time ago. Is it because of the fire?
While the federal officers and soldiers were staying for this strange scene, the second round of penetrating torpedo finally caught up with the brothers. They did not have any self-destruction procedures, so they got into the warship that was blocking themselves. The program they set when they left the factory and exploded immediately after breaking through the armor began to start. So the bright flowers became brighter and more huge.
Some smart captains already understood what Tang Long wanted to do, so they opened their mouths and wanted to shout. However, they were still one step slower, because Tang Long's order came to everyone's ears when the penetrating torpedo penetrated into the enemy ship's body: "Main gun fire!"
The captain who was fast-moving had just shouted the word "No", while the slow-moving one was open his mouth blankly. When the main gunner with a holographic helmet heard the order to shoot, he pressed the firing button conditionally. As a result, more than a thousand huge energy shot towards the established coordinates like light.
When everyone saw this scene, they all knew where the coordinates were. The energy emitted by more than a thousand main guns was all concentrated in the central area of the enemy ship group. Although these energy was scattered, since the destination was the same place, it had already condensed into a huge energy when it approached.
After this energy reached its destination, the federal soldiers in the self-propelled gunboat only saw that the screen suddenly became extremely bright and their eyes could not be opened. Fortunately, the computer would automatically weaken the brightness of the light, otherwise everyone would have to blind them.
The light quickly disappeared, and the federal soldiers could only describe it as stunned when they saw the screen. At that jumping point, the two thousand enemy ships that had just jumped out and had not yet wielded their strength, there was no object called a warship. The safe passage that had no foreign objects and was cleaned very cleanly had been floating again. It can be said that the passage entrance was blocked.
Chapter completed!