A few hours passed in a blink of an eye. Shortly after the People's Alliance Kraken fleet arrived in the Zorn galaxy, more than 500 warships in three strangulation fleets under Siligosa appeared almost in no particular order at the edge of the galaxy. Near the jump point, in addition to the different ship configurations, the mentality of the three fleet commanders is also different.
The commander-in-chief of the operation, Imperial Viscount and Royal Naval Advisor Irina Sirigosa, with infinite loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor himself, and the entire Sun Flame Review Fleet were caught up in the pursuit of glory and could not extricate themselves.
In the eyes of these proud and powerful generals from the inner ring, the outer ring fleet that has been defeated repeatedly is simply a shame to the empire. If the enemy this time was not very difficult, they would not join these "friendly forces" with low combat power. Combat.
The commander of the Great Drought Fleet, Kerry Luli, who was born into a noble family like General Arak, did not have such a good attitude - others did not know the reality of his fleet, but he, the commander, could not know. ?
Crews who drink and gamble all day long, ships that are seriously lacking in maintenance, and even battleships that lack firepower have reduced the combat effectiveness of the Great Drought Fleet to the lowest point since the designation was established. Some smugglers Phenomenon-ridden battleships can't even project half the firepower they could when new.
The most important weapons are like this, and the situation of armor, shields and some miscellaneous ship parts is even more conceivable. As the most upstream of the fleet smuggling chain, Luli, who is not sure how many imperial assets he has sold on the black market over the years, believes that among the more than 150 warships under his command, perhaps even thirty can display normal combat effectiveness. No.
Such a fleet can barely maintain itself as an escort force on the supply line, but now it has to engage in a close-range artillery battle with the most elite assault fleet of the People's Federation. No matter how confident Luli is, he will not think that the Great Drought Fleet can survive at this intensity. He won the battle with an extremely high level of face-to-face.
But he had no second choice. Facing the call from the royal family, he had no other choice but to accept it - unless he was willing to completely hand over the command to Sili who came from the inner ring across millions of light years. Gosar, this also means that the royal family will know everything he has done over the years.
After that, I'm afraid it won't be long before the minions of the Imperial Police Minister Hilizaga will arrest him and his family and send him to the palace in Chiennia to be tried by His Majesty the Emperor himself.
No, only the elders of the family were eligible to meet the emperor, and a principal criminal like him was lucky to get a secret execution.
Therefore, there is only one way left in front of Luli - to make up for his mistakes in the next battle, hoping that after the battle, Commander Siligosa will spare his life because he has no merit but hard work. Whether his title and position will be removed after that is not within the scope of consideration.
"Oh, if I had known this, why did I do it in the first place..."
Standing in the bridge, looking down at the three-tube, oh no, double-tube electromagnetic coil gun that was missing a track on the flagship deck, Luli sighed softly and shook his head helplessly, beginning to feel guilty for his crazy wealth accumulation over the years. Deep regret.
He is not regretting the hundreds of millions in savings in his secret account. He is just regretting why he did not see the outbreak of this war in time and used the reason for his fake death and fake identity he had prepared in advance to escape to the headquarters of the Hongshang Alliance. Galaxy, the legendary "Drow's Roulette" where you can have everything as long as you have money, enjoy your long second half of life.
For those super business groups that have been traveling around the galaxy to do business with civilized empires since unknown time, the psykers of the Numa Order and their belief in the goddess of wealth have made the order's caravans very popular among the major spiritual empires. like a fish in water in the market.
The prosperous military industry of the Fangli Group and the inexhaustible human resources of the Raki Industrial Group provide the most basic military support for the Hong Kong Trader Alliance. The huge Rong Merchant fleet and Raki rat mercenaries are enough to pay for the entire galaxy. Customers solve any "problem" they are temporarily unable to solve.
The long-term alliance based on the win-win cooperation of the three major trader forces has made the reputation of the Trader Alliance known to everyone in the galaxy. The "conditional neutrality" declared by the outside world has made them the preferred escape destination for countless people. and tax havens.
No matter what your identity was before arriving at "Drow's Roulette", as long as you come within the sphere of influence of the Merchant Alliance, these businessmen who like to be serious will never allow anyone to harm the personal safety of their customers in any way.
The same is naturally true for Guzhi, who has a huge deposit in the Merchant Bank and has a good cooperative relationship with the alliance. As long as he can go to the camp where the rat mercenaries are stationed on time, they will escort him at all costs. Go to "Drow's Wheel" and accept political asylum from the Trader Alliance.
Before he could recall the evacuation coordinates he obtained from the merchant representatives, Luli received an order from Commander-in-Chief Sirigosa. So he had no choice but to focus on the information shared by friendly forces while thinking about these personal matters related to his wealth and life.
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A few minutes ago, in the command room of the flagship "Eternal Corona" of the Kagero Review Fleet, Siligosa and his counselors, who had already entered combat mode, received a report from the gravity detector monitoring room.
"Reporting to your Excellency, Commander, the probe has just discovered a Human Alliance spaceport. The First Reconnaissance Fleet has approached the target, and long-range scanning shows that there is no energy reaction or life signature in the space station."
After glancing at the information in the report, Siligosa's eyes narrowed, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart - this kind of spaceport that can park a large number of capital ships cannot be built in a short time. It seems that the Human Federation is interested in this. This war must have been planned for a long time, otherwise it would never have consumed massive resources to build such a large-scale project inside the already harsh Nebula.
To be honest, he had always thought that even if the People's Alliance had supply points in the Nebula, they were small ground supply centers or deep space ports that were temporarily built after the war began. That's why he was confident in his delaying tactics.
In his opinion, if there was a competition for material consumption, it would be easy for the imperial fleet with its continuous supply from the outer ring to consume the surrounded human fleet, but now this space station with a length of more than ten kilometers has undoubtedly given him a warning. Take warning bells.
If there is one spaceport, there will be a second one. If the People's Alliance is really so determined to win the Cross Nebula, Sirigosa believes that there are at least four spaceports of the same size in the nebula to provide supplies to the People's Alliance fleet. .
"These difficult humans..."
Siligosa, who cursed secretly in his mind, quickly came to his senses and realized that if the space station in the Zorn system was abandoned by the enemy, then the opponent's assault fleet would most likely be planning a large-scale breakout operation. .
Because the People's Alliance fleet that retreated immediately after the battle with the Neverlasting Fleet definitely did not have time to resupply. If you want to completely abandon the space station, it means that before the battle, there was at least one enemy fleet in the Zorn system. Only by frantically moving materials and equipment in the space station can the detector be unable to detect any movement from the outside.
The abandoned space station of the People's Federation was just a steak with more bones than meat to him at this time. It was a pity to abandon it if it was tasteless. It would definitely not work for the fleet to just ignore it, but he was not sure whether cunning humans would be in the space station. There are other arrangements.
"It's better to let the Great Drought Fleet send marines to land on the space station when it gathers with us to search for information and items left behind by humans."
Seeing his master's embarrassment, a counselor who was deeply trusted by Siligosa promptly proposed the idea of sending friendly troops to attack the mines, which greatly satisfied Siligosa, who also had the same idea.
After nodding his head in agreement with the suggestion of his counselor, Siligosa raised his head and looked at the People's Alliance Space Station floating quietly in the distance in the projection, and frowned.
"Just do it, pick up Commander Luli for me."
