Isherlen Fortress - the most important military stronghold of the Galaxy Empire, located 6,200 light years from the empire's capital Odin, there is a star in his prime, Yartina, which was originally a lonely star without planets. Thirty years ago, an artificial planet with a diameter of 60 kilometers was built here, which is the Isherlen Fortress. As the base of the Galaxy Empire, it is mainly based on its geographical importance.

If you look down at the Milky Way from the zenith direction, Isherlen's position is near the circumference of the triangle zone formed by the edge of the Galactic Empire's sphere of influence extending towards the Free Planet Alliance. This area is the "devil triangle" on space navigation, and it is the "cosmic cemetery" that once caused the founders of the Free Planet Alliance to lose many comrades. This fact also satisfies the power of the empire, and makes the intention of building a military stronghold that threatens the alliance in this universe more firmly. So Isherlen Fortress came into being. [..com]

The light-changing star, the red giant, the abnormal gravity field... In the dense areas of these stars, there is a small safety zone, and Isherlen is sitting in the center. The entire corridor is like an hourglass, and there is the Isherlen Fortress in the middle. If you want to go from the alliance to the empire without going through this place, you can only go from another route through the Dominion of Feisha. Of course, that route cannot be carried out for military operations. These two routes are also called the "Isherlen Corridor" and the "Fisherlen Corridor".

Isherlen Corridor and Feisha Corridor. Apart from these two, can’t we find other routes connecting the alliance and the empire? The ruling and military sectarians of the alliance have tried their best to do so, but their intentions have been frustrated due to the incompleteness of the star map and the tangible and intangible obstacles of the empire and Feisha. In terms of Feisha, since it has the value of the relay transaction place, of course, it does not want the alliance to discover the "third corridor".

Under various factors, the alliance's intention to invade the imperial domain evolved into the Isherlen Fortress strategy battle. During four and a half centuries, six large-scale strategic battles were carried out, and they were repelled again and again, leaving the Emperor behind "the Isherlen Corridor paved with the dead bodies of rebel soldiers."

In the 487th year of the Empire calendar and 796th year of the Universe calendar, the "Seventh Isherlen Strategic Battle" will be staged again. This time, only half of the Allied Fleet appeared - the 13th Fleet, the commander was also a new major general, the one named Yang Willie.

At the same time, the capital of the Empire, Odin. "I finally made up the troops! Wait! What's going on with this list? Why are there some second-rate and thorny, waste troops? Ah! Do your military affairs bastards treat my fleet as trash cans?!" Admiral Rudolph von Favneil shouted in the commander's room as a screen in front of him.

At this moment, his fleet had just been supplemented according to the number of the Imperial Fleet, but more than half of the fleets of more than 12,000 were composed of the former defeated soldiers, local garrison troops and some other problematic troops in the fleet. It was obvious that the Ministry of Military Affairs was thinking of "putting garbage together and then throwing it to a distant place to fend for itself!", but this proposal was unanimously approved by several marshals, including Marshal Luo Yankram, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Space Fleet. So after that, the "trash" was constantly thrown into his fleet organization. Today, the 17th Fleet of the Empire, which was originally full of 12,300, was finally organized into a reinforced fleet of 14,700...

As for the classification of the ships, there are quite unified, and there are not many old ships - this is entirely to prevent this guy from clamoring to Odin's star. The main force of the entire fleet is three thousand 480-year standard warships, four thousand five hundred cruise ships, five thousand destroyers and two thousand two hundred motherships, and the rest are 1,500 work ships and 1,500 supply ships that do not include combat ships, as well as one thousand raid landing ships and two hundred medical ships. In terms of quantity alone, it is the largest of the eighteen regular fleets of the Empire, but its combat effectiveness is not favorable - there are no high-speed battleships, and there are not many new ships, commanders and soldiers at all levels are not capable of anything, and most of the personnel are waste and scum.

Now, the order Favnier got was to reside in the Xiaheng Star Domain, "Fuck! One order kicked us into this bullshit galaxy that was completely birdless!"

The Xiaheng Galaxy is a galaxy that is about the same distance from the Isherlen, Valhalla, and Ekinhez galaxies. It is a famous countryside place... The commander threw this fleet there and had the idea of ​​being purified. Anyway, at least there is no problem with that galaxy having enough food.........

The Isherlen Fortress, located between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planet Alliance, is a place where two major forces compete.

The Isherlen Fortress has a diameter of 60 kilometers and is a thick layer of fluid metal on the surface. It is a huge artificial celestial body with a mass of more than 100 megatons. Moreover, there is also a giant cannon known as the "Harves of Thor". As long as this fortress exists, it is impossible for the Allies to enter the Galaxy Empire.

There are two emperors in the Isheren Fortress. One is General Thomas von Soutekhaujan, commander of the fortress, and the other is General Hans Dietrich von Jacket, commander of the fortress. Both are in their fifties and have tall figures, but Soutekhaujan is a little smaller than Jacket.

The relationship between the two is not close, which is more of a tradition than a personal factor. There are two commanders of the same level in the same position. It would be strange if there is no conflict.

The emotional opposition of course also affected their soldiers. In the eyes of the fortress garrison, the fleet was a shameless diner. When there was danger in fighting outside, it fled back to this safe place, like a prodigal son.

For fleet officers and soldiers, the fortress garrisons are just cosmic moles hiding in a safe nest and playing war games.

Supporting the pride of the warrior of the Isherlen Fortress, which is difficult to conquer, and the fighting spirit of sharing the same hatred of the "rebel army" have barely built a bridge between the two. In fact, although they contempt and scold each other, whenever the Allies attack, they fight for each other and often achieve great results.

The military and political authorities have also proposed organizational reform plans several times, with the same person serving as the commander of the fortress and the commander of the garrison fleet in order to integrate the command system, but the proposal was rejected every time. Because the reduction of one commander position is a major problem for senior officers; on the other hand, it is also because the opposition between the two has not yet led to any fatal cases.

May 14th.

The two commanders, Shuttkehaojian and Jacket, were in the meeting room. Originally, this was a salon used by senior officers, but because they were just around the same distance from the offices of the two, they could be used for meetings, they were completely soundproofed. This was because neither liked to go to each other's room, and in the same fortress, they could not rely solely on TV communication, so they were dealt with.

In the past two days, communications around the fortress were disturbed, and there was no doubt that the rebels were approaching. However, there was no attack. The meeting between the two today was to discuss the response method of this situation, but the conversation between them was not constructive.

"You said that if an enemy comes, you want to attack, but you don't know the enemy's position. Then you can't fight! It's a waste of effort to attack."

When Shuttkehaojian said this, Jacket put forward an opposition.

"So I have to go out and see where the enemy is lurking. If the rebels attack this time, then more troops should be mobilized, right?"

To what Jack Hokkien said, Seutkhauer nodded confidently.

"Then they will still be repelled this time. The rebels attacked six times, and all six times were repelled. If they come again this time, they will only turn six times into seven times."

"This fortress is so great."

The fleet commander had something in his words, implying: "This is not because you have the ability!"

"Anyway, is it a fact that the enemy is approaching. Should we send a fleet to investigate and take a look."

"But since I don't know where it is, I have no way to check it out. Let's wait and see!"

Just as their conversation gradually turned into circles, a communication room came from the communication room. In the loop, a strange communication was received. The interference was very fierce, and the communication was intermittent. It was difficult to determine the following situation.

"...In order to convey the important liaison matters from the capital of the empire, a Bremen light cruiser was sent to Isherlen, but was attacked by enemies in the corridor and was escaping and asking for Isherlen's rescue..."

The two commanders looked at each other face to face.

"Although I don't know where it is in the corridor, I can't do it without attacking." Jacket spitted these sounds from his fat throat.

"But is this OK?"

"What does it mean? My subordinates are different from the cosmic mole that cares about safety."

"What does this mean?"

Both appeared in the common combat conference room with unpleasant expressions. Jacket issued an order to attack the fleet to his staff. While explaining the reasons, Shuttkehaojian took a look at the general situation.

When Jacket's speech ended, one of his staff stood up from his seat.

"Please wait, yourselves."

"Is it Colonel Obestan..."

Admiral Jacket said, but there was no trace of good feelings in his voice. He hated the new staff member. His half-white hair and a blood-deficient face, occasionally emitting strange and radiant false eyes. All of this made him dislike him, as if he was a man depicted by evil spirits.

"Do you have any comments?"

Colonel Obestan didn't mind the disdainful tone of the commander, at least on the surface.

"Yes."

"Okay! Let's hear it."

Jacket urged him in an impatient tone.

"Then I said that, I think it's a trap."

"trap?"

"Yes, the enemy's purpose is to lead the fleet out of Isherlen. We should not go out for the time being, let's see the situation first."

Jacket sneered unhappily. "If you say something, you will be ambushed by the enemy, and as long as the war begins, we will lose?"

"I don't mean that..."

"What does that mean! As soldiers, fighting is our duty! Before we ask for safety, shouldn't we go forward and attack the enemy, right? What's more, what's the point of ignoring friendly troops in danger?"

On the one hand, he refuted Obestan, and on the other hand, he deliberately acted to watch Shuttekhaojian, who was watching the fire from the other side with a sarcastic expression. Moreover, Jacket was originally a fierce general soldier who had to fight when he saw the enemy. It was not his personality to ask him to stay in the fortress and wait for the enemy. Moreover, in his thoughts, this practice itself lost its value as a warship general.

"How? Admiral Jacket, your staff's words make some sense. Whether it is an enemy or a friend, you don't know the exact location, the danger is quite great. Wait a little longer to see how?"

Fortunately, the opinions put forward by Shuttkehaojian beside him determined the situation, and Jacket's determination to attack became even stronger. "No, lead the entire fleet to attack in one hour!"

Jacket gave the order.

Soon after, the Isherlen Fleet, composed of 15,000 warships of all sizes, began to leave the port.

Shuttekhaujian looked at this situation from the screen of the port control display of the fortress command room. The scene of setting off to the universe in an orderly manner is really spectacular.

"Hmph! It's better to suffer some trouble and come back."

Shuttkehaojian cursed in his mouth, like "Go to die!" and "Go to lose!" He would not say such words even when he was joking. In his opinion, there was still some restraint in this regard.

Six hours later, another correspondence came from the Bremen light cruiser, saying that they had finally arrived near the fortress but were still pursued by the rebels, asking for artillery cover - they heard the above content from the noise.

While asking the gunner to prepare for protection, he felt unhappy in his heart. Where is Jacket, a low-powered guy, still wandering? It is okay to speak loudly, but can't even do small things like rescuing lonely friendly forces?

"There is a ship shadow on the screen!"

The troops came down to report. As the commander, Shuttkehaojian ordered the image to be enlarged.

I saw the Bremen light cruiser approaching the fortress as if drunk. There were many light spots behind it, of course, that should be the enemy.

"Prepare for shelling!"

Shuttkehaojian gave the order.

However, when it was about to enter the range of the main gun of the fortress, the Allied ships stopped and floated timidly on the invisible realm line. When it was confirmed that the Bremen light cruiser had received the induce signal from the fortress control room and gradually entered the port, he gave up and began to turn around and leave.

"What a smart guy, I know I can't beat us!"

The soldiers of the Empire burst into laughter. The sense of inseparable unity between the power of the fortress and their own power constitutes their psychological fulfillment.

After entering the port, the Bremen light cruiser parked in mid-air by a magnetic field, which looked quite miserable.

From the outside, you can see more than a dozen broken places. The white buffer materials in the cracks in the shell are exposed like the stomachs of animals, and the number of tiny cracks seems to be endless even if they are calculated based on the hands and toes of a hundred soldiers.

Nuclear-powered vehicles loaded with soldiers were approaching. They were not fortress soldiers, but commanders of the garrison fleet, so they felt sympathy when they saw this tragic situation.

The cabin door of the light cruiser opened, and a young officer with a white strap on his head appeared. Although he was a handsome man, his blue face was stained with dry red and black blood stains.

"I am Captain Major von Laken. I want to meet the Fortress Commander Palace."

This is an obvious empire common term.

"I understand. But what happened outside the fortress?"

One of the officers in the preparations asked this question of concern to everyone, and Major Laken breathed in grief.

"We are not sure, because we are from Odin. However, it seems that your fleet has been completely wiped out."

Major Laken shouted almost to the people who swallowed their saliva and were as if they were scattered.

"It seems that the rebels have thought of some unimaginable way to pass through the corridor. This is not only about the Fortress of Isherlen, but also about the survival of the empire. Take me to see the commander!"

This request was accepted immediately.

General Shuttekhaojian, who was waiting in the commander's room, stood up straight when he saw five light cruiser officers surrounded by guards entering the room.

"I am General von Sootkehaojian, the commander-in-chief of the fortress. Explain the situation quickly. What's going on?"

As he walked up, the fortress commander said in an even greater volume. If the rebel army came up with a way to pass the corridor as the newspaper just said, the significance of the existence of the Isherlen Fortress would be questionable. In fact, it is necessary to come up with a countermeasure to the rebel army's actions.

Just because the Isherlen Fortress cannot be moved, it is necessary to stay in the fleet. But Jacket, the brave and unscrupulous guy!... When he thought of this, Shuttke Haojian could no longer calm down.
To be continued...