"Low-level civilians have not received higher education and can only engage in low-end jobs. They are all unstable elements, and most of them are supporters of the traitor Shepard. We must control them before the wedding is over to prevent them from inside. To cause destruction.”
"The population of all 28 secondary colonial satellites is around 20 million. It is impossible for so many people to be concentrated in the capital. That would be even more dangerous!"
The members of the parliament of the "Mycenae Colonial Satellite" were noisy, spitting, and the situation was almost out of control. At this time, after hearing two loud bangs of a wooden hammer, everyone controlled their emotions and calmed down, focusing their attention on Speaker Wang in the center of the parliament hall.
"Members of Congress, please don't argue. We don't need to arrest all 20 million low-level people in the capital. Now we have taken care of the low-level people on the three secondary satellites closest to the capital, and then we will move the remaining two closest to the capital. Just evacuate the satellites. The number of these people can be accommodated by several airports in the capital, ensuring that they cannot come to the city."
"President Wang, where are the remaining 23 peripheral satellites? What if Shepard instigates rebellion against them?"
"It doesn't matter! If they dare to rebel, they will be treated as enemies! In special times, in order to protect our people, sacrifice is necessary!"
The MPs were silent, their quarrel just now was meaningless. Speaker Wang has already discussed with HER what to do, and this meeting is just to give everyone a notice. The fate of the more than 20 peripheral satellites is self-evident. It's just that the congressmen have more or less assets on those satellites, and they can't help but feel sorry for their possible financial losses.
"Don't worry, everyone. The Star Alliance is in name only. Shepard can't do anything alone. We have a strong HER as our backer, so we can rest easy! You just need to go home and wait for the wedding of my son and the eldest princess of HER, Elizabeth, in one month!"
All the members stood up and applauded for several minutes before leaving. Speaker Wang was also about to leave. Her secretary leaned in her ear and said: "Speaker, the allies have observed the movements of the Osiris. They have left the territory of the Moore Chamber of Commerce and are heading towards us. It’s here, it will arrive in 5 days at the earliest.”
"Is it the L35 route?"
"That's right."
Chairman Wang sneered: "As expected, Shepard can't even reach the range of the outer satellites."
As the war situation changed, many colonial satellites left the Covenant and joined HER. Originally, there may have been neutral satellites between these colonial satellites, but HER sent troops to occupy those neutral satellites out of strategic considerations, so that the satellites it occupied and the satellites that surrendered to itself were connected to the sphere of influence of the satellites that surrendered to it, and a certain area was divided in the earth's circle. Conducive to their territory of power.
The Osiris could avoid this area when traveling from Shang to Mycenae, but that would take at least 20 days. By then the wedding was taking place and Frederick the Great was stationed at Mycenae with his fleet, so the Osiris had no hope at all. Therefore, Shepard wanted to take back Mycenae before the wedding, so he had no choice but to take a desperate risk and enter HER's sphere of influence. Fortunately, HER's troops are not strong enough to completely control such a large area. There is an unimpeded path to Mycenae, and that is the L35 route. This route to Mycenae happens to be far away from the colonial satellites controlled by HER, so the risk is minimal.
"The fastest routes from Shang to Mycenae are only L35 and L33, but there is our ally satellite 'Corinth' halfway on L33. Moreover, a large amount of cosmic debris has entered L33 recently. A battleship like the Osiris dares Walking here is tantamount to suicide!”
Just as Chairman Wang thought, the Osiris continued to sail on the L35 channel for the next two days.
On the third day, her secretary ran to her office nervously.
"The Speaker is in trouble! The Osiris suddenly turned around from the L35 channel and captured our ally 'Corinth'!"
"What? Impossible, when did you turn around? Corinth was occupied so quickly?"
"Corinth and the others surrendered on their own initiative, and now the Osiris has entered their port."
"Damn it... Shepard actually did something like this at this time. I'm afraid he has already conspired with the people in Corinth... It doesn't matter, they are just wasting their time. In the past two days, L33 has been covered with cosmic rubble, and small spacecraft have been Without navigation, they still have to take the L35 route from Corinth to Mycenae, and eventually enter our encirclement network!"
Just as Chairman Wang thought, the nearby ally colonial satellite observed that the Osiris still took the route L35 after leaving Corinth.
…
"In 40 minutes, the Osiris will appear in the 12 o'clock direction. The 'Leon' is ready to fire the overload laser cannon. All combat units should pay attention to avoid the shooting path."
"receive."
Li Youde put down the communicator. He thought that his mentor's battleship would appear in less than an hour, and HER's battleship would bombard it with overloaded laser cannons at super range. If the Osiris was not destroyed, he would have to lead his cannon fodder troops forward to meet the enemy and give the HER battleship, which was temporarily paralyzed after firing an overloaded laser cannon, time to recover.
His subordinate Matthew asked: "Second Lieutenant, our fighter pilots have only been training for a short time, and the plane has not even been filled with fuel. This..."
Li Youde rubbed his fingers with his fingers and said anxiously:
"None of them are soldiers. Except for a few idiots who were fooled, they are all people who have criticized HER. They were kidnapped hostages and forced to serve as cannon fodder on the battlefield. We can't do anything..."
Matthew said:
"Damn it, although this is unreasonable, please let the Osiris be killed by the laser cannon! I don't want to die..."
Li Youde was in great pain. When Shepard left Mycenae, he was on a mission. When he returned to his hometown, he also received the news that his hometown had surrendered to HER and that the Osiris was independent on Earth. He and other people related to Shepard were placed under house arrest. Now he finally returned to the battlefield. Not only did he have to fight his mentor, but he also had to use his compatriots as cannon fodder. Looking at the entire battlefield, there are many people in a similar situation to myself.
"Everyone, the fighter transport ship we are traveling on is very old. Please fasten your seat belts and wear helmets." Li Youde warned.
"The Osiris has appeared! It is entering the range of the Leon! Counting down 10, 9, 8..."
Li Youde closed his eyes. He hoped in his heart that the Osiris could survive this blow. Although some innocent people would be sacrificed, it would be a relief for him who became HER's lackey to die at the hands of his mentor.
"Launch! Hit the target and the Osiris disappears!"
The cheers from the Leon came from the other end of the communicator. Everyone on Li Youde's small fighter transport was secretly relieved, but no one cheered.
Li Youde's heart felt like a knife being cut, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. He observed silence for a few seconds, opened his eyes and saw the empty universe on the screen. He suddenly stood up and shouted:
"No! There's nothing wrong with the Osiris! It's impossible for such a big ship to be destroyed without any big wreckage!"
Major Vega, the captain of the "Leon" who was staying behind, also noticed something strange, but due to the unstable overload laser cannon, all systems in the ship were temporarily paralyzed. She only passed the camera that restored function a few minutes after Li Youde noticed this. Confirming her worries, she thought:
"If that's not the Osiris, what is it that the allies are monitoring along the way? Where is the real Osiris?"
Suddenly, Vega thought of something and ordered the battleship to quickly turn around and return to the outskirts of Mycenae. At the same time, he asked the cannon fodder troops to send fighter jets to confirm the area where the "Osiris" appeared just now.
Her unauthorized U-turn was suspected of fleeing the battle, and Lieutenant Colonel Talion's adjutant immediately contacted her to question her.
"Major Vega, don't you know what the imperial military law punishes those who escape from battle?!"
"I'm not running away, but rushing to the real battlefield!"
"What?"
The adjutant didn't understand. At this time, Vega's men sent her some photos, which were taken by the fighter jets that had just gone for reconnaissance. Vega only glanced at it before showing the photo to the adjutant.
"What do these pictures mean?"
"Please tell Lieutenant Colonel Talion that we have been deceived by the Osiris all along. The balloon we just destroyed was said to be a balloon!"
"balloon!?"
"Yes, those are the fragments in the photo, if I guess correctly. The Osiris, which we thought left Corinth at first, was actually disguised with a large number of balloons and transported here using an autonomous unmanned transport aircraft. Fake goods. The L35 channel is far away from other colonial satellites. When those colonial satellites informed us, they did not dare to send troops to get close to investigate, so their long-distance observation could not see through the fake warships made by balloons. Please inform us. The school will prepare a response immediately!"
"I know, I know! I'll notify the Lieutenant Colonel right now!"
Sergeant Singh next to Vega asked:
"Balloon camouflage? Is that really possible?"
"It's feasible. During World War II, the Allies used balloons to fake tanks and planes to deceive German spy planes. The space environment is dark, so relying solely on cameras to take pictures at long distances is naturally unreliable."
"If the Osiris doesn't go this way, then..."
"They must have a way to approach Mycenae from L33, so we have to go back immediately!"
…
Li Youde breathed a sigh of relief and secretly admired his mentor. At this moment, a group of vicious soldiers rushed into the cockpit.
"Second Lieutenant Li Youde, we are members of the Council. Your personal terminal found a lot of information about your contact with Shepard. Please come with us."
"What? My personal terminal was confiscated by you a few months ago, and I can't contact my teacher at all!"
Matthew also said: "That's right! Your council is too quick to kill the donkey. The battle is not over yet!"
"Shut up! Now you can't be used as cannon fodder. Keeping those of you who are disloyal to the parliament is also a source of instability. Come with me!"
"Impossible...Does it mean that this ship doesn't even have enough fuel to return to Mycenae?!"
Seeing that Matthew was disobedient, a parliamentary soldier raised his gun and was about to shoot him. Matthew's comrade-in-arms Xia Lan blocked it regardless of his own safety.
"boom!"
"Xia Lan!!!"
Matthew stepped forward and hugged Xia Lan's body floating in the air. Seeing this, Li Youde pressed the button in his hand. A "window" suddenly appeared at the bottom of the cockpit, and several parliamentary soldiers were swept out by the airflow in a daze. Outside the boat, Li Youde and others were already on guard and were fixed on the chairs with seat belts, so they were not swept away by the airflow. Matthew, the only one who left the seat, also escaped thanks to Xia Lan's body blocking the "window".
"This...this is..."
Matthew was in shock. After Li Youde closed the window, he didn't bother to explain and said to everyone: "Quick! Let the pilots take out the fuel from the fighter jets and concentrate it on this ship. We have to get out of the battlefield!"
The rest of the people obeyed the order and ran out of the cockpit. Li Youde knelt next to Xia Lan's body, closed Xia Lan's eyes, and said painfully: "This old model of transport ship has this kind of escape passage, using the instantaneous air pressure to escape. The crew members were sucked out of the ship to escape, but because of the accident, this setting can no longer be seen. I kept this hand and wanted to escape with everyone, but I didn’t expect..."
"Ensign, let's go find the Osiris so that we can beat up the Council and avenge Xia Lan!"
"Ah, that's what I think," I can no longer remain silent, I want to fight HER to the end! "
Li Youde made up his mind.
