Chapter 1774 The headless leader
Soback looked at the colleague behind the video, always feeling that the other person's distracted eyes and devastated expression were very suitable for appearing in a horror movie.
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, he shuddered involuntarily.
In comparison, Lieutenant General Midbech was relatively calm. Although he was shocked, his speech was still clear: "Martyred for his country? The Grand Commander Werther has sunk?"
Grand Commander Werther is the flagship of Lieutenant General Klarman. It is a corona dreadnought. It is a bit old-fashioned, but the armor protection is quite strong, and it has also undergone advanced modifications this year, with new engines and
Energy core. If we only look at survivability, it should be better than the Flame Dragon level.
Major General Tuckers said nonchalantly: "...the big, grand trombone is pretty good."
"Then Karaman..."
"It's just that the bridge is gone."
Soback became a little irritated when he heard this. He felt that if His Highness Brunhilt were here, he would definitely order the major general to be shot and replaced with a normal person who could still speak.
Sure enough, even Lieutenant General Midbesh, a man of such a cultivated nature, couldn't help but roar: "What on earth is going on?"
At this time, Major General Tucker seemed to have finally recovered a little of his sanity and said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, I really don't know how to answer you. We still don't understand what happened."
Even though Soback is very confident in his good temper, he can't help but want to get angry now. However, this is not the time to dwell on this situation, and soon someone from his subordinates reported,
That was the announcement made by the forward reconnaissance ship: "The Earth Fleet has begun action!"
Thinking that they were protected by Earth fighter planes, the empire's reconnaissance ships certainly didn't dare to get close, but they finally hid at the edge of the galaxy and shivered to observe the opponent's general movements.
Now, they could clearly see that the Earth Fleet, which was stationed in a peaceful manner, began to move rapidly. Countless artificial lights flashed within their detection range, like a dark sky.
Suddenly, countless fireflies fluttered their wings and began to fly in the cold wind.
In just two minutes, the status of the Earth fleet changed from static to dynamic. It was as if the soldiers who had set up camp were singing and dancing around the campfire just a moment ago. The next second they rolled out of the tent and were already wearing armor.
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As a result, this scalp-numbing scene was transmitted to the Golden Skull and Royal Rabbit again.
Soback felt even more that this was a trap. He estimated that Lieutenant General Midbech on the opposite side also thought so. At least he remained silent and did not yell for everyone to take the initiative to attack.
After half a minute, the lieutenant general asked: "Major General Tuckers, do you need time to rectify your situation?" His voice was very calm. In other words, it seemed too calm.
Major General Tuckers naturally nodded with a heavy face: "It will take at least two hours."
Compared with the Honkai Robot face when he first appeared, he has finally regained some consciousness now and looks more lively. But because of this, the panic on his face suddenly becomes more obvious.
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"Very good, that's it." Lieutenant General Midbexi said.
Major General Tucker nodded and saluted, but before going offline, he hesitated and sent a document: "Sir, you need to read this. After reading it, you will understand that it is really not that our army is not working hard!"
This file was not small, and the transmission was affected by the interference environment on the far shore. It took a full hour to complete the transmission.
During this process, Lieutenant General Midbech not only did not mention the attack again, but also ordered the entire army to return to a defensive posture.
In just a few hours, the entire army will conduct two completely opposite full-scale fleet operations. If this were in the alliance, it would have caused a burst of complaints from the crew.
However, after all, the troops here are still Imperial troops, and at least they can be proud of the Galaxy in terms of obedience.
Everyone worked silently, retracting the converted half-stretched arrows, and the entire fleet formation spread out towards the two wings, once again transforming into the watertight and irregular crane-wing state.
Naturally, the Royal Rabbit where Yeager Soback was located slowly formed the protrusion of the left wing of the entire army. Of course, at this time, he was no longer too lazy to worry about the gains and losses because of this small situation.
He watched numbly as the entire army was reorganized, numbly listened to the conversations of various departments on the bridge, and numbly observed the movements of the Community fleet in the opposite galaxy. He felt a little tired for a while.
Of course, as a young man born in a colonial town, his greatest advantage may be his surging vitality. Decadent emotions cannot stay for too long.
When the data from Karaman's fleet was transmitted, he quickly regained his energy and sat upright, staring at the outline that appeared on the screen.
It was still a dynamic video picture, but it was much higher definition than the instant message just now, but I don’t know if some rendering was done before sending it.
In the center of the screen, the figure wearing the blue community coat of arms stands on the back of an ancient flame pterosaur that looks like a giant firebird, overlooking the outside of the screen. The owner of the coat of arms is wrapped in a slightly bulky coat.
The mecha covered his head and face, making it impossible to see his face clearly. But Soback felt that he could feel the other person's eyes.
It's that person!
However, the man's eyes seemed calm and his posture was very comfortable. He stood in the starry sky, as if he was admiring the simulated galaxy, rather than hunting something with ferocity and hostility.
Well, it is indeed the dignity that that person should show. If he is really murderous or domineering, it will suddenly become vulgar.
Miss Serlu reminded: "This is a reconnaissance image from the bridge equipment of Vice Admiral Klarman's flagship, the Grand Commander."
It turned out to be a video? Sobek suddenly realized it. He quickly glanced at the jumping numbers in the lower right corner of the screen and determined that this scene should have happened three hours ago.
Having said that, since it is being recorded, why can I feel the other person’s eyes and emotions?
Jaeger Soback shuddered.
He didn't think it was because he had made any progress in mysticism and perception, but he just felt that he was starting to have random thoughts again.
...Of course, it was more likely that it was that person's method, but Soback felt that just thinking about it was terrifying, so he decided not to think in that direction.
While he was worrying about gains and losses, the man in the picture had already raised his hand, and a golden energy blade bloomed. It expanded from a long "sword blade" to a huge light pillar, and then from the rhythmic energy
It condensed into a clear crystal form. At that moment, the figure of the man could no longer be seen clearly, but only a huge gem seemed to be made of fragments of the sun.
Soback was so shocked that he was almost speechless. Of course he could recognize the shooting technique that traveled across the galaxy, but he couldn't understand for a while what it meant when the blazing energy turned into static crystals.
Or in other words, is what the Karaman fleet's reconnaissance telescope captured a real image?
But at this time, the gem that seemed to be made of sun fragments was already like a cannonball, rushing directly out of the side of the screen, fiercely. The clear crystal flashed with bright light, covering the
All other light sources.
This is the last scene of the picture.
Yeager Soback now knows why the Grand Commander's bridge is missing.
Speaking of which, this scene seems to have been staged during the "Conviction War". The Imperial Army even used this scene in a promotional video.
After all, the person involved used the "Long Night Meteor", which was really a spiritual martial skill using the Emperor's Qi. What's more, this kind of operation of using the atomic light spear as a gun thrower to blast out the naval cannon is also extremely effective.
In line with the aesthetics of Tirello nobles.
But now, the person involved is still the same person, and the target of the attack has changed from predators to the empire. This is really embarrassing.
Soback fell into silence. He himself did not know how long he had been silent. The reconnaissance ship that had been waiting in the galaxy ahead came with a new report: the new Earth fleet had arrived and had jumped from the direction of Nebula Cross Road No. 1.
Needless to say, this new fleet is the Athena formation.
Nebula Trail No. 1 is indeed not easy to walk. It took the Earth fleet another full hour to leave the gravity well. If during this process, the Galactic Empire suddenly launched a surprise attack, maybe the Earth fleet could be
If people fall into complete chaos, if everything goes well, they should be able to win.
If that person was commanding the army, he would definitely be so decisive, right? Sobaik statue.
However, although he could think this way, it was almost impossible for him to do the same thing.
In this way, the remaining main force of the Yulian fleet, including 624 battleships including the two Lord God-class dreadnoughts, completed the meeting in front of the Imperial Army.
"Their strength is twice that of ours again," Captain Pegasy reminded Sobek.
"I know. And the number of single-wheel ships is actually two and a half times." Major General Soback said angrily.
At this time, Lieutenant General Midbexi also called. This fierce general who was thinking about attacking two hours ago has once again lost the high-spirited courage and domineering attitude just now.
"Brother Yeager, we can retreat one star system and wait for the friendly forces behind us."
Soback agreed. After all, he is a believer who puts safety first, and he very much agrees with this approach in his heart. However, after struggling for a few seconds, he still hesitated and said: "If we retreat again, we will really have no way to challenge the marshal and the sand king.
His Highness has given an explanation."
Of course Lieutenant General Midbexi also knew this truth, and his face flashed with distress and struggle.
"Relax, don't worry. Your Excellency, based on my understanding of that person, he is actually the type to give up when things get good and will not kill them all."
"..." Lieutenant General Midbexi looked unbelieving, as if he had heard that dragons should eat dumplings instead of meat, and they were stuffed with leeks.
"Especially when the strength is insufficient. In fact, although they have reconciled, their strength is still insufficient." Soback said.
This is a fact. They have all witnessed the two-week-long forced march of the remaining fleet, as well as the Third Battle of Said that was specially launched before the march. They saw the other side's magical move of attacking instead of defending, and saw the brave advancement of the Tiruero people.
The flames that ignited on the ship also looked at the fall of the Pilgrim.
From a common sense point of view, the Earthlings on the opposite side should have been exhausted long ago. Even if they completed the meeting, they would not be able to capture Midbexi's fleet so quickly.
What's more, there are reinforcements behind us, which will arrive in just three or four hours.
The prerequisite for each defeat is to be able to complete a crushing attack on a certain enemy within the time difference.
However, the above is all common sense.
"Brother Yeager, using common sense to predict the actions of that demonic dragon is the least common sense approach." Lieutenant General Midbexi said: "Until now, what happened to Karaman, we
I still haven’t figured it out yet. Just thinking about it, don’t you feel chills running down your spine?”
"... I'm still shaking even now."
Lieutenant General Midbexi was not sure whether the other party was joking, so he laughed twice:
"However, if Brother Yeager is your judge, I am willing to accept it."
Facts have proved that the opposite Community fleet did not attack. They spent a while to reorganize, and then set off in a swaggering way, heading straight for the exit of Earl I Star Gap. From beginning to end, they did not even look back.
Take a look at the Imperial fleet here.
It wasn't until the people on Earth were completely gone that the Midberg fleet cautiously entered the Earl I-4 system.
Even at this time, they were still worried that the Earthlings in front of them would suddenly turn around and attack again, so they still set up a defensive formation, but separated a light cruiser and took the Nebula branch to find out what was going on.
They waited until the fleet led by Lieutenant General Laken arrived at the scene before relaxing a little. Immediately afterwards, in the direction of Nebula Branch, the Klarman fleet, which was said to have been beaten up, finally, under the guidance of its own light cruiser,
Arriving slowly - of course, considering that Lieutenant General Klarman has died in the battle, the formal name of the formation has to be modified, but this is not the point.
The generals originally expected to see such a miserable friendly army:
The fleet suffered heavy losses, and at least a quarter of the warships were missing. Everyone on the warships that arrived at the scene was injured, and some were even missing arms and legs. The alloy shells were twisted and deformed in the fierce battle, or were scattered with burning fragments.
Traces. The deformed imperial military emblem is full of scars, and it no longer has the majesty of the past.
Even ships that are cruising normally will suddenly emit light while moving, like a group of wounded soldiers oozing blood.
Even within those giant ships that could barely move, those airtight cabins that had to be sealed off and abandoned due to fierce battles were probably filled with the remains of crew members, stormtroopers, and combat robots.
They floated quietly in the vacuum compartment inside the battleship, still holding their weapons tightly and maintaining their posture in front of them, just like a group of white blood cells that had died in the line of duty.
Vice Admiral Middlebech originally thought this was the case. But in fact, the state of the Klarman fleet is actually quite neat, and most of the warships are in good condition. At most, they were damaged by various things during a long cruise in narrow lanes.
It's just a little scratch caused by the unfriendly space radiation.
However, these are completely bearable losses and are almost impossible to affect the ship's cruising and combat capabilities.
Obvious battle damage is certainly present.
For example, on the sides of two Silver Knight-class battlecruisers, a shocking scar appeared on each side. If it weren't for the obvious burning of dissolving and deformation around them, it would probably have been as if they had been struck by something in the void.
The beast Leviathan probably pulled it out with its claws.
However, what kind of Leviathan beast can tear apart the strong shields and five layers of outer armor of a battlecruiser like cardboard?
Immediately afterwards, under everyone's astonished gaze, Lieutenant General Klarman's flagship, the dreadnought Grand Commander Werther, sailed clumsily into the local system.
Chapter completed!