"Fight! People oppressed by empires and foreign powers!"
Emilia's sonorous and powerful voice floated back and forth in the virtual space of the emergency meeting of the Sherman Empire's military headquarters.
The expressions of the two supreme commanders on the main seat and the several old men listening were as gloomy as water.
The more than thirty senior generals who attended the meeting were trying to remain as calm as possible at this moment.
"No one said anything?"
An old man said in a deep voice:
"Then let me tell you, just half an hour ago, the Luofeng Empire declared its independence.
"This is a long-planned political persecution against our Sherman Empire. Behind the Luofeng Empire there must be support from other powerful countries. The meaning of the Luofeng Alliance's existence is to target us!"
Admiral Thomas said solemnly: "Let's not rush to make a conclusion... Is it possible for Luofeng to win back? This is a country of heroes. They once had the courage to fire on the New Federation's voyage fleet, thus thwarting the New Federation's conspiracy."
"Thomas, didn't you watch those videos?"
"I'm on the front line," Admiral Thomas said sternly. "Before I was called in for a meeting, I was beating up those federal guys and maintaining an armed conflict on a scale of a thousand ships every week."
Someone said: "Play it all again, it only takes a few minutes anyway."
So three-dimensional projection screens appeared in the conference room.
"The Death of Edwan", "The Succession of Queen Luofeng", and "Luofeng Declaration of Independence", three videos were played in sequence.
Admiral Thomas's expression immediately darkened.
He leaned on his seat, lowered his head and sighed: "How much trouble has this bastard Foreign Affairs Bureau caused us?"
"Now is not the time to complain. Our border guards near the Luofeng Alliance have begun to assemble. It is expected that they will be able to gather initially in two galaxies."
Preliminary assembly refers to jumping to the designated airspace and entering the approximate attack direction.
If a rapid march is to be carried out, it is generally necessary to disperse and jump first, gather simultaneously, then establish a regional command network, and then coordinate the battle formation.
"Should we go to war directly with Luofeng?"
A general asked:
"The video of "The Death of Edwan" has spread throughout the entire online world, and people marching in the empire have begun to hold up portraits of Edwan!
"Now that we are directly going to war with Luofeng, how do we think about the impact on public opinion? How big is the political impact? Can our public opinion base still stand?
"Edwan was killed by the Foreign Affairs Bureau, including Princess Lorna. A monarch who sacrificed everything for his country died tragically at the hands of the Empire's Foreign Affairs Bureau. Shouldn't it be the Foreign Affairs Bureau that stands up and apologises? Why?
Are we asking our soldiers to bleed and die?"
"Shut up!"
The supreme commander frowned and scolded, and the general who spoke clenched his fists tightly.
"I suggest not to use force against Luo Feng for the time being... In fact, we don't have the extra strength to use force against Luo Feng now."
Several generals spoke one after another:
"I just ran a simulation of the supercomputing group. The known number of ships in the Luofeng Alliance is 9,210, of which more than 3,600 are retired imperial warships. Although the ships are older and exported
Certain firepower restrictions were imposed before, but its combat effectiveness is equal to 70% to 80% of our current main warships, which is more reasonable.
"And among these more than 9,000 ships, there are still more than 3,000 ships, which are locally produced ships of the member countries of the Fallen Alliance..."
"I would like to add that according to the information of the Military Intelligence Bureau, those imperial warships sold to the past have undergone certain upgrades.
"But one thing is that their ship production quantity is not comparable to what we can get from the medium and large military shipyards in the Luofeng Alliance. The Luofeng Empire's annual production limit of warships should be about 120 ships.
This is still the level after the Fallen Empire annexed most of the warship production lines of the Nornar United Kingdom.
"How long has it been since the Luofeng Alliance reached this scale? How can their industrial chain be unified and supported? Isn't it too late?"
"So, the other three powerful countries are actually trying their best to support this?"
"If you refer to the diplomatic alliance document issued by the Luofeng and Guel alliance, the answer is self-evident."
"This means that if we want to suppress the Luofeng Alliance, we must dispatch a cluster of ten thousand ships."
"Considering that the United States of Freedom and the Guel Alliance among the three major powers have made it clear that they will support the Luofeng Alliance, the total number of ships they may provide may be between 6,000 and 9,000."
"If we want to suppress them, we must dispatch two super large clusters of 10,000 ships? At least six dreadnoughts?"
The meeting fell silent instantly.
When the empire faced the great insect tide, it had already depleted a huge amount of its military reserves.
Moreover, the prerequisite for foreign conquests is to maintain sufficient military strength at home, so that all the empire's war potential cannot be used.
Now the empire is at war on two fronts.
In the new federal war situation, 60% of the empire's conventional military strength was involved. Including the reserves, more than 40,000 main ships could not be mobilized.
Otherwise, if the New Federation takes advantage of the situation and counterattacks, the problem will become even bigger.
The empire has used more than 8,000 main battleships to conquer several tributary countries that had previously declared independence.
Currently, the military reserve has only more than 22,000 main ships that can be directly mobilized, but half of the more than 20,000 ships are responsible for the protection of the Imperial Star Circle.
Conquer the Fallen Alliance, face the possible emergence of the United States of Free America, support the Guel Alliance, and the Empire...
You may not win.
General Thomas frowned and looked at the four military veterans sitting next to him, with doubts rising in his heart.
Thomas asked: "Is the Imperial Guard system still unable to start?"
"I can't find the reason, I keep trying."
"Well, that's the problem. If the Imperial Guard system can be activated, not to mention activating the Levi fleet, our own military strength can also exert stronger combat effectiveness."
"So, it's best not to start a war with Luofeng now."
An old general said solemnly:
"We can clean up Luofeng at any time, the initiative is actually in our hands.
"Now it is not just one of the vassal countries that has betrayed us. Suppressing Luofeng and suppressing other traitors have the same meaning, and there is no order of precedence."
"Has the order been given from above?"
"Not yet. The higher-ups will make decisions based on our feedback. Whether or not this battle can be fought and how it will be fought cannot be determined at all right now."
"I suggest," Admiral Thomas said solemnly, "temporarily use diplomatic and political means to appease the Luofeng Alliance, and focus on the battlefields of other client countries at this stage. We are generals, not politicians. We cannot act on impulse and seek truth from facts."
"I agree with Thomas. The strength of the Sherman Empire does not need to be supported by one or two battles."
"Yes, starting a war against Luofeng now will put the empire into great passivity. The people are obviously more sympathetic to Luofeng."
"Kill a few bastards from the Foreign Affairs Bureau to appease Luofeng."
"Well, something happened at the Foreign Affairs Bureau before. Almost all the senior officials, including Princess Lorna, were wiped out... Our news is lagging behind now, because there are different news all the time."
The nominal supreme commander of the empire on the main seat, and Artero of the Military Intelligence Bureau sitting in the corner, both looked attentively and listened.
This was obviously someone beside him reporting.
The expressions of the two people were also a little playful. The old face of the supreme commander was obviously a little surprised, and his eyes, which were originally only a slit, tried to open wide;
Artero's expression from the Military Intelligence Bureau stayed there, and then he looked aside in disbelief.
"real or fake?"
According to the conference room rules, the person reporting the voice also entered the virtual conference room:
"Really! The battle is still going on! Our main force that was ambushed suffered heavy losses and is already trying to get away from the battlefield."
"what's the situation?"
Artero's Adam's apple trembled up and down.
He turned to look at the conference table and found that all the generals were looking over. His lips trembled and he said directly:
"We entered the New Ori Empire's Sixth Expeditionary Fleet to suppress the rebellion. They were suddenly attacked a few minutes ago. Without their knowledge, the main fleet tried to approach a star supply point, but ended up very close to the star.
In the area, the star was suddenly detonated... There was a strong flare locally. When they retreated in a hurry, countless enemy troops suddenly appeared nearby... According to the intelligence, they were countless.
"Now the Sixth Expeditionary Fleet has lost more than 600 ships.
"They haven't been able to break out of the encirclement yet.
"Wait a minute...the latest information...is Luofeng? Luofeng Alliance's fleet! They sniped at our expedition fleet!"
"What!"
The entire virtual meeting room was blown away.
"Luofeng is sniping us?"
"Are they looking for death?"
"These Luofeng people are simply crazy!"
"Do they still want to protect all the vassal countries? Aren't they afraid of us!"
Admiral Thomas frowned tightly.
A possibility suddenly occurred to him.
Is Luofeng so well prepared?
Are all these turmoils within the empire related to this Luofeng?
"Everyone! Gather all the forces we can mobilize and issue a rally order against the nobles! Report this to Your Majesty immediately!"
"Commander, Your Majesty will give a national speech in two minutes."
"Damn it!"
The supreme commander uttered a curse word. Seeing many people looking at him, he immediately changed his tone:
"Damn Luofeng!"
…
The airspace near the first star of the New Ori Empire.
The Dongfeng accumulated energy and fired. An elliptical ion beam with a diameter of several hundred meters illuminated half of the sky, and a series of explosions appeared in front of it.
In the direction from which the Dongfeng fired, thousands of ships with imperial markings were trapped near a dreadnought.
The dreadnought had fired three times, but because the fleet that attacked them was scattered on a sphere, the results of the three firings were very limited.
The fleets around them have already displayed their fallen flags.
Under the mobilization of Lu, one ship after another is carrying out almost perfect tactical equipment.
Ships that have run out of energy and suffered serious damage can always retreat from the line of fire, and there can always be ships in good condition behind to make up for it.
The fleet that Luofeng appeared here did not have Dark Star ships, and was purely the regular force of the Luofeng Alliance.
Different from the Empire's combat system that focuses on shield ships-dreadnoughts-firepower supplementary ships, the fleets of the Fallen Alliance handed over part of the firepower supplementation task to the drone combat group.
At this moment, millions of drones are conducting an all-round attack on the imperial fleet.
These drones themselves are missiles carrying super warheads. As long as they are brought close to the ship, they can effectively damage the ship's shield.
The empire's long-distance fleet is now unable to support itself.
In fact, Law has even begun to mobilize some ships to jump back one after another to prepare for the next attack.
The bridge of Dongfeng.
Yang Ming sat in the huge three-dimensional sand table, watching the firepower of his own fleet eating away at the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet bit by bit, feeling inexplicably complicated.
After being in the Sherman Empire for so long, Boss Yang has no feelings for other people, but he does like the soldiers of the Sherman Empire.
In this battle, their goal is to capture the 6th Expeditionary Fleet battle group composed of 2,500 ships of the Sherman Empire;
Based on the fact that each main battleship requires 1,600 soldiers to reach its full combat effectiveness (there are a considerable number of semi-automatic and auxiliary intelligent machines on the ship), in this battle alone, four million imperial soldiers will have to suffer.
——Twenty-five hundred ships, this can already be regarded as a country-destroying fleet for small and medium-sized countries.
But now, Yang Ming couldn't have any sympathy.
His current position is Luofeng-Dark Star.
"Is there any sign of law and order being activated?"
"Not yet," Lu said softly, "but it is very likely to be launched in the future. Our time window is very narrow."
Yang Ming scattered the sand table in front of him, stood up and walked to the corner.
026, who has been busy at Dark Star and has not shown up for a long time, has already arranged the venue for the next live broadcast and is standing there happily, waiting for Boss Yang to arrive.
Not only 026, but also the realistic projections of Wusha and Molly are here.
Luofeng entered a state of war, and they all rushed to Yang Ming's side to help.
"Boss!" 026 shouted emotionally, "The emperor of the Sherman Empire has started live broadcast on all channels throughout the empire."
Yang Ming nodded, put on the iconic helmet of White Ghost, and with the help of 026, put on the combat uniform, and connected the combat uniform to the transparent cans.
Healing Limited Edition White Ghost.
Yang Ming lay on the experimental table and said slowly: "Our mission is to compete with him for traffic. We will watch your performance later."
"Okay! No problem!"
026The fabric on the chest is in danger of stretching.
For today's live broadcast, she specially dressed up and put on tight clothes for mechas. How can she be described as "eye-catching".
She asked in a low voice: "But boss, if the barrage asks about His Majesty Edwan, how should we answer? What is our position?"
Yang Ming thought about it carefully.
The White Ghost is still a hero of the Empire.
"Just say that it's not convenient to comment on this matter, and you can help the imperial officials draw the fire to the Foreign Affairs Bureau, and let the Foreign Affairs Bureau take the blame.
"We have started a war now, so there is no need to be merciful. The standard for everything is to defeat the empire."
Yang Ming paused for a moment. Lying on the hospital bed, his eyes flickered slightly:
"If we can defeat the Levi Fleet head-on, then why worry about whether Levi Sherman wakes up? Of course, it's not feasible yet. Let's see how far we can go this time. We will always have a way out."
"clear!"
026 nodded politely, then sat on the chair next to the hospital bed and lowered the helmet's baffle.
Wusuo, who was wearing a pink princess dress, sat next to 026 and also looked at the screen.
"I'm ready!"
Several photography balls around him flashed brightly at the same time.
The live broadcast of the White Ghost appeared simultaneously on the entire network of the empire, including the surface networks of the administrative stars in the Emperor Star Circle that have not yet restored inter-star network connections.
at the same time;
Emperor Star Circle Yaha Star.
Several scientific research ships with exaggerated shapes were parked above the planet Yaha.
In the giant scientific research ship in the center, busy people were running back and forth, and precision instruments were lit up one after another.
Labrador's figure floats on the experimental platform in the center of the scientific research ship.
The person in charge of the plan had his hands sweating at this moment.
Labdo is now capable of auxiliary command work for tens of thousands of ships, but the information that a single ship needs to process is far from the same magnitude as the information on an entire crowded planet.
Admittedly, it is a very risky move for the current Emperor Guard 2.0 Labrador to try to take over the entire network of the Emperor Star Circle.
But at this moment, the empire has reached a critical juncture.
I can't care so much, I have to take risks.
"I will bear all the consequences...yes," the gray-haired old man took a breath, his eyes becoming extremely firm, "I will bear all the consequences and start taking over!"
The surrounding staff glanced at the director and pressed the button at hand.
In the middle of the bridge, Labrador opened his eyes, and then his shadow passed through the ship, like an angel falling from the sky, passing through the outer ring of Yaha and flying towards the planet.