Him and their stars

Tomitelli thought to herself that if it hadn't been for an extraordinary moment, if she hadn't been Khan, if she had been five years younger, she would have become enemies with this guy. However, after the blow just now, she now found that her self-cultivation and strength had improved qualitatively again, and she could even ask patiently and calmly: "Oh, let's tell you the good news first."

Miss Prophet said: "There is a weapon on this fortress that can interfere with gravity signals. It can be directly irradiated on the gravity well to cause gravitational chaos, which can interfere with the operation of the jump engine."

The part of the Great Khan's mind as the commander suddenly started to work: "Oh, is this the reason why the two imperial reconnaissance ships did not escape in time?"

The prophet nodded.

"In other words, all enemy fleets that want to enter this system will have a hard time getting out." The Great Khan pondered: "Is this the possibility of a divided encirclement?"

"I'm not good at military affairs, so I can't give you any advice in this regard," she said.

"So, what about time? The duration of this weapon. Also, after starting the irradiation, will it have any impact on the other side of the gravity well?"

"I'm not completely sure yet, but I will make sure as soon as possible." Miss Prophet said, "Please give me another forty-eight hours."

Khan said: "You have at most twenty-four hours, and I will give you three high-speed battleships to cooperate with your experiment."

"Understood." Miss Prophet was indeed a frank person. She was not prepared to bargain, but told the other party: "As for the bad news, although we quickly sank the other party, the empire base camp may have received the news."

The Great Khan frowned slightly and began to think. You know, this is a new continent, not the mainland of the Milky Way, and there is no means of instant communication. It stands to reason that after the two destroyers were sunk, it should take several days for the empire to receive news.

Miss Prophet sighed silently, played with the star cards acrobatically, and then opened a fan in front of Khan: "Draw one."

Tomitelli drew a card with the same expressionless expression, but when she opened it, she found a chessboard hanging in the starry sky. A giant hand that looked like a god stretched out from outside the starry sky and pressed down on a chess piece that was still burning.

"...Do you think I've never played Star Cards before? There is no such card in it. It's clearly your own." Khan said coldly.

"As long as your meaning is correct. The Apocalypse Eagle was manipulated. It may be some kind of symbiotic alchemical creation. Once it is sunk, the other side will react. Khan, we are on the chessboard now!"

At the same time, in the Iris Cross Galaxy, the inhabited galaxy closest to the border of the Empire's Gate of Glory colony, the flagship of the Imperial Expeditionary Force's forward fleet stationed here, the Titan ship "Angel of the Morning," was on board.

In an inconspicuous room inside the huge ship, an Imperial Army colonel wearing a silver-gray uniform held a pair of tweezers and picked up a fist-sized battleship model.

The battleship model looked like it was made of cardboard, and it didn't see any open flame or strong light, so it silently emitted a faint green fire and ignited spontaneously.

She just stared at this strange scene with an expressionless face. She waited until the paper model of the ship was burned out, then stood up, made a blessing gesture to the distant starry sky through the porthole, and then connected the phone. In-ship communications.

"Your Excellency, Punishment Warrior No. 171 is confirmed to have sunk, and Baishanren No. 44 operating with her is also in danger."

Ostana Barr's voice said: "I understand, thank you for your hard work."

The Commander of the Forward Fleet of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, His Royal Highness King Sulyuka Brynhilt, who is also the youngest Privy Councilor and the youngest Imperial Admiral in the Galactic Empire, received the news three minutes later.

At this time, she was not on the flagship "Angel of Dawn", but in a space city near the orbit of the asteroid in this system, presiding over the opening ceremony of the construction of an orbital fuel processing plant.

It is now May 13, 832 of the common calendar. The expeditionary vanguard fleet from the mainland, consisting of a Titan and eight new battle cruisers, has been arriving in this system for more than a week.

This Iris Cross system has a habitable star system, which is the gate to the colonial star area of ​​the empire and an important transfer station on the New World Highway. However, after all, the development time is too short. The main pillar industries are agriculture and food processing, and the population of the entire colony is also Not more than two million. After being devastated by looters less than half a year ago, there were hundreds of thousands more casualties and three times as many homeless people.

It stands to reason that such a "remote city" that has suffered heavy losses and is still under reconstruction should not be able to afford the manpower needed to station a large army. Of course, the empire was not prepared to allow the colonies to support the frontline troops, and still sent a steady stream of military supplies from the mainland. From another perspective, speaking from a positive perspective, millions of officers and soldiers stationed locally will also consume locally. In a sense, doesn't it promote commercial circulation?

In addition, if these troops stationed here also provide valuable engineering teams to support local construction, it will be a rare development opportunity in a thousand years.

For example, the orbital refining factory to be built can collect minerals from the nearby asteroid belt and provide refined high-energy fuel and alloy consumables to the frontline troops nearby. It can also alleviate some pressure on domestic supplies. This was the consensus reached by Miss Brunhilt and the Privy Council before leading the army into the Gate of Glory.

"Until now, we still don't know where the predators are hiding. We might have to fight them in a protracted and terrible battle here." Miss Suliuka Wang said: "Because That’s why we need to prepare for a rainy day.”

The Privy Council ministers all felt that what the girl said was reasonable, but they also expressed a certain degree of doubt. You must know that although the empire has a tradition of planting wherever the army sets foot, this was the horse racing era in the early interstellar age of exploration. Now, the empire has long begun to play the trick of strong branches and weak branches. Outside of the homeland, even the many tributary countries that are about to consider His Majesty the Emperor as their father cannot receive technology transfer, and even their industrial levels have been limited.

As for the colonies, although they are administrative divisions directly managed by the central government, all officials, big and small, are selected and appointed by the Prime Minister's Office system. Through the Gate of Glory, their "physical" distance is not necessarily further than the most remote provinces in the mainland, but after all, Being far away from the mainland of the galaxy and unable to communicate instantly, it always feels like a lawless place.

If a colony develops, will it become a habitat for rebels? At that moment, another Privy Council Minister vaguely raised such doubts.

"I think we don't reject the use of fire because of the possibility of fire. Even if the colony is really unstable in the future, it will take at least two or three centuries of development. By then, everyone who is doing it will Already dead. Even the youngest me is the same." King Suliuka smiled and shrugged: "Moreover, with the development of the colony to this day, most of the immigrants are still loyal to the nation. If they all betray the empire, it will only It shows that the Dragon of Dawn’s fate has come to an end.”

This was really a bit treasonous, and even the highest-ranking bosses in the empire who were present didn't know how to answer it.

"I have also drawn up a construction plan and submitted it to the Prime Minister's Office. They have agreed to allocate funds." Miss Suliuka Wang said matter-of-factly. She completely acted like "I am still a child and I know nothing about the discord between the Privy Council and the Prime Minister's Office" and "everything I do is with a public heart".

It has been less than a year since she officially became the Minister of the Privy Council, and she has not been in the imperial capital for more than half the year. She is the only young person with a second prefix in the Privy Council. She is the only one who can rely on small things to do this.

Therefore, no matter how hard the Privy Council bosses refused to accept it, they could only hold their noses and agree.

However, when the meeting was about to end, Archduke Inota, the chief of the Privy Council, asked one more question: "Your Highness Brunhilt, what do you call a rainy day? Is it just because of the plunderers?"

"Who knows what will happen in the future? However, the greatness of the empire is not just that, no matter whether it is an idle chess game or a good chess game, you can just make your move. Anyway, we have enough resources."

Grand Duke Inota was startled for a moment, then laughed loudly: "Your Highness, your words sound like a real Dragon of Dawn! Then, just do it."

Although she has the approval of the highest authority in the empire (when His Majesty the Emperor was a otaku), Miss Brunhilt's primary identity is still the commander of the forward fleet of the army.

The order she received was to arrive at Iris Cross, the border system of the colony, before May 10th and establish an outpost command post nearby. As long as it can arrive at this time, it can form a deterrent to the entire New World Highway, form a solid strategic support for the "Allied" joint fleets that are confronting the Earthlings in the front, ah, no, unite, and also gain a certain degree of strategic precedence. machine.

Under Brunhild's command, the entire fleet arrived at its destination five days in advance. The so-called early bird catches the worm. Once it arrives early, it will have more time to deal with other things. On the one hand, the latest destroyer was assigned to join the exploration work, and on the other hand, construction work began.

For the mayors and celebrities of the local colony, they have no control over such important world affairs that are related to the fate of the universe. They only know that King Brunhilt and her subordinates have painted a fascinating picture for the local area. An incomparable development blueprint.

If all the factories located in space orbit are built, they will provide direct jobs for at least 200,000 people and at the same time stimulate the surrounding industries. They will shine with radiant light, just like the jewelry necklaces worn by this Leki planet, which makes people feel relaxed and happy just looking at them.

As local officials and celebrities watched the factory on the track start to operate, their smiles were as bright as the flesh of a watermelon blooming in midsummer.

King Brünnhilt rarely saw such sincere smiles on these bureaucrats and local gentry, and he felt very good. Even when Major General Ostana Barr arrived and whispered a few words beside her, he was still in a good mood. It didn't affect her mood at all, or even her expression management.

With an elegant and dignified smile, the young feudal lord attended the entire groundbreaking ceremony and gave a short five-minute speech, which moved local dignitaries and construction team members to great joy. Then, amid the cheers of everyone, he returned to the transportation boat and returned to the Dawn Angel.

As soon as the luxurious royal shuttle boat left the space port, Brynhilt retracted his smile: "Tell me more about it."

Ostana quickly opened the star map and marked four symbols on an airspace.

"According to the original reconnaissance plan, the joint formation of the Punishment Warrior and the Baishanren should be possible in these galaxies within this time." Ostana said.

Brynhilt glanced at the star map. Three of them were in the star field that was turned into red and marked with question marks, and one was on a proven route.

The young Emperor Xuan understood that the hide-and-seek game that had lasted for more than three months had finally come to an end.

However, the more you are at this juncture, the more you should calm down. She adjusted her breathing, and then showed a malicious smile: "Is it possible that they were attacked by the Community's reconnaissance fleet?"

Ostana Barr blinked her crimson eyes, stared at her master, and said with an unwavering graceful smile: "This is indeed a possibility, so I have already informed the puller who has arrived at the G7 galaxy on the mainland highway. Count Mutter sent a star message, asking her to be ready to launch a counterattack against the Earth fleet in the same galaxy at any time."

Countess Lamut is the Knight Lady Giafel who has not yet received the nickname "Scarlet Comet". As Miss Brynhilt's chief thug and best friend, she took three battle cruisers and three aircraft carriers to take the lead and had already joined the combined fleet of birdmen and catmen.

As a result, the empire's military strength in the New World has completely overwhelmed the Thirteenth Fleet of the Blue Star Community on the opposite side.

In more than a week, the other party has not even sent a reconnaissance ship there.

Ostana looked at the timetable on the terminal again: "Nearly an hour has passed since I gave the order. Count Lamut should have gotten the news. She is a famous general who acts decisively. Maybe she has ordered all the battleships to be opened. It’s time to open the cannon gate.”

Brünnhilt sighed, and before he spoke, he heard the other party say: "In addition, the commander of the Community's Thirteenth Fleet, Commodore Eleanor Bonaparte, is a difficult lady, maybe she will Becoming a threat to your... empire. I have given orders that if the time is right, her ship can be sunk."

King Suliuka said angrily: "Gili won't do this. Maybe she is very close to Miss Bonaparte opposite, and the two armies are having a party. In addition, I have received all your taunts. . However, I must explain that the reason why I asked about Yu Lian's whereabouts was out of tactical and strategic considerations. He disappeared, but Duke Sartolan and his disciple Colonel Sobek also suddenly left with their troops. . In addition, it can be proved that Lan Jiufeng has appeared in the New World. Don’t I need to consider the situation behind this in detail? "

"Yes, so I am just stating a fact, and there is absolutely no intention of ridicule. Commodore Eleanor Bonaparte is indeed a very typical young officer, full of hostility to the empire. If we will Killing him will do no harm to you... and to the future of the empire."

"You..." Brynhilt said helplessly: "Today is May 13th. The previous investigation of the mobilization of predators was almost saturated, but nothing was found. However, it happened that Yu Lian and Duke Sartolan were missing. After joining forces, we found traces of the enemy, don’t you think there is any connection here?”

"There is such a possibility." Major General Barr nodded candidly: "But, my subordinates think, why do you put Colonel Yu Lian and Duke Sadolan together? Shouldn't it be Lan Jiufeng?"