The Federation continued to mobilize troops to N77. Within two days, two Marine Corps with a total of 300,000 people arrived in orbit. One of the Corps even skipped rest and directly landed and deployed.
Against this background, the second armistice negotiations between the Federation and Lightyear began.
According to Crassus, there is no necessary connection between the increase in troops and armistice negotiations. If there is any connection, it is that the increase in troops will help the armistice.
Chu Jungui was convinced, so the day before the armistice negotiations, he sent two more underworld queens to visit the federal fleet's base.
This time, the Sword of Dawn hid in outer space early, not even staying in the high orbit, leaving neither its head nor its butt behind. So the two queens, who were so fat that they were about to turn into a regular hexahedron, had no choice but to trouble the orbital base. They worked together to open a large transparent hole with a diameter of 15 meters in the orbital base, and almost killed Crassula before he could escape. Tag of.
The brush with death did not make Crassus flinch. His response was to throw several anti-matter bombs directly. This time Crassus did not use an expensive landing ship, but first used two more expensive anti-matter bombs to detonate in the storm clouds, directly opened a channel, and then dropped several anti-matter bombs along the channel, hitting Chu Jungui. main base.
Chu Jungui originally deployed ten underworld princesses at the main base, but they were still sparse and an anti-matter bomb exploded at an altitude of a thousand meters. The horrific explosion directly wiped two-thirds of the base off the map, along with 15 Arks, more than 5,000 tanks, 11,000 engineering vehicles and 9.64% of the Dao brothers. As a side result of this anti-material bomb, there were 12,000 federal prisoners.
Chu Jungui immediately made public the list of federal prisoners who died this time and sent it to major federal media. Although the immediate response from many media outlets was mostly to accuse Chu Jungui of tying prisoners of war to military targets, after all, there were still some voices blaming Crassus, believing that he knew there were federal prisoners there and still negotiated within 24 hours. Insisting on bombing when there are only a few hours, it is an out-and-out massacre.
Chu Jungui didn't expect to get much positive feedback from the federation. Anyway, just keep this matter out of the question and continue to deploy troops. With 12 hours left before negotiations, an armored force appeared around the federal forward base. The size of this force is not large, but now the Federation no longer dares to engage in mobile warfare with Light Year. All troops are sticking to the forward base and dare not go out. In this way, a total of 80,000 garrison troops were pinned in the fortress by less than 2,000 light-year chariots.
With 4 hours left before the negotiation, a light-year force appeared on the horizon of the federal planet's surface base camp: the landing base. The landing base was busy at this moment, and several large landing ships were slowly descending to the designated location. More landing craft have landed and are slowly being deployed to become a base. Now, including the original defenders, more than 300,000 federal troops have been assembled in the landing base. But the problem is that the newly reinforced legions have just landed, and while the base barracks are being expanded, a large amount of main battle equipment is still in the warehouse, separated from the ammunition.
The original hundreds of thousands of troops were either logistical support or disabled and were being reorganized. Many troops in the last round of the war suffered more than half their casualties, and they will definitely have to be canceled and reorganized. The merger and reorganization of troops has always been the most troublesome task. If you want to restore a certain combat effectiveness to the reorganized troops, even in the 35th century, you can't even think about it for ten days and a half. This has to be elite. .
Even Crassus didn't expect that Chu Jungui would actually cross thousands of kilometers, directly cross the forward base, and deliver his troops to the federal base camp!
There were still 2 hours left before the negotiation. Lightyear troops also appeared on the east and west sides of the landing base. It was visually estimated that there were more than 40,000 combat vehicles and nearly 200 support arks.
There was still one hour left before the negotiation, and it took only one hour for the Lightyear army to complete the transition from marching to attacking formation. These are tens of thousands of tanks!
The federal landing base was already in chaos, and many landing ships had to be retracted as soon as they were deployed. A large number of factories that had started production were shut down urgently, resulting in several explosions. The massive amounts of materials piled in the open air, especially ammunition, had become a reminder at this moment, and many officers and soldiers immediately moved desperately to transport them to the warehouse.
After switching to the attack formation, Lightyear did not hesitate and actually made preparations for the attack. Then 10 minutes before the negotiation started, the first artillery shell roared towards the landing base.
The location of this armistice negotiation is 410 kilometers away from the federal forward base and 4,700 kilometers away from the energy base in Chu Jungui that was wiped out by two-thirds. Different from the first negotiation, this round of negotiations directly entered the substantive content negotiation under the strong request of the Federation. Therefore, all senior officials from both sides were present, and both Crassus and Chu Jungui were present in person.
There are still 5 minutes left before the negotiation, and both parties enter the room. Fortunately, the construction of the negotiation hall went very smoothly this time, and there were no more dangerous buildings that were taller and shorter on one side.
From the moment Crassus entered the door, his eyes fell on Chu Jungui. Chu Jungui took off his helmet, walked to the long negotiation table, and shook hands with Crassus across the long table.
The two sword-like gazes collided fiercely, and they both understood the other party's "sincerity" towards this negotiation.
Crassus kept looking into Chu Jungui's eyes. As for Chu Jungui's hand, it was warm and strong. Other than that, there was nothing special about it. It was just an ordinary person's hand. Crassus wanted to increase his strength, but gave up the idea. He had already tested Chu Jungui, but the result was very unsatisfactory. If you try it again now, you will probably only bring humiliation to yourself.
There was a little princess in the federal delegation, but not Kun. Chu Jungui was surrounded by Lin Xi and Li Xinyi, plus Li Xuancheng and Wilson.
After taking his seat, Chu Jungui looked at the time and said, "There are still 2 minutes until the negotiation starts. Let's take a rest first."
Crassus said: "Okay, let me make a few digressions. Your troops are right next to our landing base. Are they here for tourism?"
Chu Jungui smiled slightly and said: "Of course it's a war, otherwise why would we send people there? Oh, if I remember the time correctly, the fighting should have started by now. Why, didn't you receive the news?"
Of course, Crassus had received the news a long time ago and said: "We are still talking about a truce, and there is another war over there. Isn't this not good?"
"Have we not reached an agreement yet? So we are still in a state of war. Once an agreement is reached, there will be a ceasefire." Chu Jungui looked at the time again and said nonchalantly: "Maybe we have to speed up the pace and see the current progress. , in another 3 hours, I will have more chips in my hand."
Crassus said calmly: "More or less chips of this kind will not affect the overall situation. But I heard that there was an accident in your base recently. How is it? Is it important?"
Chu Jungui sighed and said: "Most of the base is gone, but unfortunately there are still more than 10,000 of your prisoners inside."
The expressions of several representatives of the federal delegation changed a bit. They already knew about this, and they were more or less stressed.
Li Xinyi next to her continued: "What we call a base is actually just a larger handicraft workshop, not worth much. To be honest, the biggest loss is the antimatter that caused this accident. The leakage is much more valuable than the entire base. .”
Crassus' smile remained unchanged, but several officers in the delegation also had expressionless faces, which seemed a bit pretentious.
Li Xinyi's words may be exaggerated. Lightyear's base is not that cheap, but she is right about one thing, that is, antimatter bombs are more expensive, very expensive, very expensive. An antimatter bomb costs at least tens of billions, and advanced models will cost several times or even ten times more. Crassus dropped six or seven anti-matter bombs in one breath, which was much harder than hitting a landing ship.
In comparison, the loss of light years seems to be a lot, but in fact it is not much at all when calculated in terms of cost. Most of the factories and energy stations are basic materials, and the large double-leaf woods are worthless, so the manufacturing machine is worth a little money. , the overall loss is roughly equivalent to half an antimatter bomb. In terms of value, the most valuable ones were the 12,000 federal prisoners.
Crassus smiled and said: "Antimatter leakage? That is a big deal. Did you lose a lot of antimatter this time? How about I give you some more? Don't worry, the Federation is very big and has plenty of antimatter stocks. Use it as you like."
At this time, Lin Xi smiled slightly and said: "No matter how much antimatter the Federation has, it is not used to smash garbage. And now, you don't have much antimatter left, right? A first-level general is not a marshal after all."
Crassus glanced at Lin Xi and said: "This kind of knowledge is not something that a lieutenant colonel can have. The Lin family is very ambitious, and today's ending seems to be well deserved."
Lin Xi looked slightly cold and said, "Is this considered part of the bargain?"
Crassus stroked his beard and smiled: "No, no, no, I just knew some news in advance. This news is not worth anything, it is completely free. The Lin family has some good news and some bad news recently, which one do you want to hear first? "
"It will be all right."
"Then let's talk about the good news first. I heard that some members of your Lin family are going to be promoted to important positions, and their positions are quite important."
Chu Jungui's heart moved slightly. This was indeed good news, indicating that the Lin family was no longer in a situation of being fully suppressed. However, Lin Xi frowned slightly. She had not heard from her family for a while and could not tell who had been promoted.
"The bad news is that Lin Xuanshang has been dismissed from his post for investigation. I heard that he will not be able to pass this test."
Lin Xi, who had always been calm, changed his expression, and then slowly returned to normal and stopped talking.
Chu Jungui asked: "Where did this news come from?"
Crassus said: "Of course I have my own channels. It doesn't matter if you don't believe it. Anyway, you will know it in a short time."
Chu Jungui pondered for a moment, knowing that Crassus was unlikely to lie about this matter, after all, it was in front of so many people. And there's no point in lying, it won't take long for it to be verified naturally. This was just a small trick of Crassus. Even if Lin Xi was upset, it would not have much impact on the negotiation process.
But Chu Jungui didn't want to swallow this breath, so he said: "In return, I will also tell you some news. The batch of children of hell you sent is very good. We have already researched a lot of results, but there is something hidden inside." The big secret will take some time, and I will let you know when there is good news."
