Chapter 1774 The Headless Leader
Soback looked at the colleague behind the video, always feeling that his distracted eyes and broken expression were very suitable for appearing in a horror movie.
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, he shuddered involuntarily.
In comparison, Lieutenant General Midbech was relatively calm. Although he was shocked, his speech was still clear: "Martyred for his country? Has the Grand Trooper Werther sunk?"
Grand Commander Witte is the flagship of Vice Admiral Klarman, a corona dreadnought. It's a bit old-fashioned, but the armor protection is quite strong, and it has also undergone advanced modifications this year, with a new engine and energy core. If we only talk about survivability, it should be better than the Flame Dragon level.
Rear Admiral Tuckers said nonchalantly: "...Big, the Grand Commander is fine."
"Then Karaman..."
"It's just that the bridge is gone."
Soback felt a little irritated after hearing this. He felt that if His Highness Brunhilt were here, he would definitely order the major general to be shot and replaced with a normal person who could still speak.
Sure enough, even Lieutenant General Midbesh, a man of such a cultivated nature, couldn't help but roar: "What on earth is going on?"
At this time, Major General Tucker seemed to have finally recovered a little bit of his sanity and said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, I really don't know how to answer you. We still haven't figured out what happened."
< br>Even though Soback is particularly confident in his good temper, he can't help but want to get angry now. However, this is not the time to dwell on this situation. Soon someone reported it,
It was the report from the forward reconnaissance ship: "The Earth Fleet has begun to take action!"
Thinking that they were protected by Earth fighter planes, the empire's reconnaissance ships certainly didn't dare to get close, but they finally hid at the edge of the galaxy and shivered to observe the opponent's general movements.
Now, they could clearly see that the Earth Fleet, which was stationed in a peaceful manner, began to move rapidly, and countless artificial lights flashed within their detection range. It was as if countless fireflies suddenly fluttered their wings in the dark sky and began to fly in the cold wind.
In just two minutes, the status of the Earth fleet changed from static to dynamic. It was like soldiers setting up camp. They were singing and dancing around the campfire just a moment ago. The next second they rolled out of the tent and were already wearing armor. .
So, this nerve-wracking scene was transmitted to the Golden Skull and the Royal Rabbit again.
Sobek even felt that this was a trap. He estimated that Lieutenant General Midbexi on the opposite side also thought so. At least he remained silent and didn't yell for everyone to take the initiative to attack.
After half a minute, the Lieutenant General asked: "Major General Tuckers, do you need time to rectify?" His voice was very calm. In other words, it seemed too calm.
Major General Tuckers naturally nodded with a heavy face: "It will take at least two hours."
Compared with the face of a Honkai robot when he first appeared, he has finally regained a certain amount of consciousness now, and he finally looks more lively. But because of this, the panic on his face suddenly became more obvious.
"Very good, let's do that." Lieutenant General Midbexi said.
Major General Tucker nodded and saluted, but before logging off, he hesitated and sent a document: "Your Excellency, you need to read this. After reading it, you will understand that it is really not me. You are not working hard!”
This file is not small, and after all, the transmission was affected by the interference environment on the far shore, and it took a full hour to complete the transmission.
During this process, Lieutenant General Midbech not only did not mention the attack again, but also ordered the entire army to return to a defensive posture.
In just a few hours, the entire army will conduct two completely opposite full-scale fleet operations. If this were done in the Alliance, it would have caused a burst of complaints from the crew.
However, the troops here are still the Imperial Army after all, and at least they can be proud of the Galaxy in terms of obedience.
Everyone worked silently, retracting the half-stretched arrows that had been transformed, and the entire fleet formation spread out towards the two wings, once again transforming into the watertight and irregular crane-wing state.
Naturally, the Royal Rabbit where Yeager Soback was located slowly formed the protrusion of the left wing of the entire army. Of course, at this time, he was no longer too lazy to worry about gains and losses because of this small situation.
He watched numbly as the entire army was reorganized, numbly listened to the conversations of various departments on the bridge, and numbly observed the movements of the Community fleet in the opposite galaxy. He felt a little tired for a while.
Of course, as a young man from a small town born in a colony, perhaps his greatest advantage is his surging vitality. A decadent mood cannot stay for too long.
After the transmission of the information from Karaman's fleet was completed, he quickly regained his energy and sat upright, staring at the outline that appeared on the screen.
It was still a dynamic video screen, but it was much higher definition than the instant message just now, but I don’t know if there was any rendering done before transmitting it.
In the center of the screen, the figure wearing the blue coat of arms of the community stands on the back of an ancient flame pterosaur that looks like a giant firebird, overlooking the outside of the screen. The owner of the heraldry machine was wrapped in a slightly bulky mecha, covering his head and face, making his face completely unclear. But Soback just felt that he could feel the other person's eyes.
It’s that person!
However, the man's eyes seemed calm and his posture was very comfortable. He stood in the starry sky, as if he was admiring the simulated galaxy, rather than hunting something with ferocity and hostility.
Well, it is indeed the decency that person should show. If it is really murderous or domineering, it will suddenly look vulgar.
Miss Serlu reminded: "This is a reconnaissance image from the bridge equipment of Vice Admiral Klarman's flagship, the Grand Commander."
It turned out to be a video? Sobek suddenly understood. He quickly glanced at the dancing numbers in the lower right corner of the screen and determined that this scene should have happened three hours ago.
Speaking of which, since we are recording, why can I feel the other person’s eyes and emotions?
Jaeger Soback shuddered.
He didn't think it was because he had made any progress in mysticism and perception, but he just felt that he was starting to have random thoughts again.
... Of course, it was more likely to be that person's method, but Soback felt that just thinking about it was terrifying, so he decided not to think in that direction.
While he was worrying about gains and losses, the man in the picture had raised his hand, and a golden energy blade bloomed. It expanded from a long "sword blade" into a huge light pillar, and then condensed from the rhythmic energy into a clear crystal form. At that moment, the figure of the man was no longer clearly visible, but only a huge gem that seemed to be made of fragments of the sun remained.
Sobek was so shocked that he was almost speechless. Of course he could recognize the spear technique that traveled across the galaxy, but he couldn't understand what it meant when the fiery energy turned into static crystals.
Or in other words, is the image captured by the reconnaissance telescope of the Karaman fleet a real image?
At this time, the gem that seemed to be made of sun fragments was already like a cannonball, rushing towards the side of the screen directly and fiercely. The clear crystal shimmered with bright light, blocking all other light sources.
This is the last scene of the picture. Yeager Soback now knows why the Grand Commander's bridge is missing.
Speaking of which, this scene seems to have been staged during the "Conviction War". The Imperial Army even used this scene in a promotional video.
After all, the person involved used the "Long Night Meteor", which was really a spiritual martial skill using the Emperor's Qi. What's more, this kind of operation of using the atomic light spear as a gun thrower to blast out the naval gun effect is also in line with the aesthetics of the Tirello nobles.
But now, the person involved is still the same person, and the target of the attack has changed from predators to the empire. This is really embarrassing.
Soback fell into silence. He himself didn't know how long he had been silent. A new report came from the reconnaissance ship that had been on standby in the galaxy ahead: the new Earth fleet had arrived, jumping from the direction of Nebula Crossing No. 1.
Needless to say, this new fleet is the Athena formation.
Nebula Trail No. 1 is really not easy to walk. It took a full hour for this Earth fleet to leave the gravity well. If during this process, the Galactic Empire suddenly launches a surprise attack, it may plunge the people on earth into complete chaos. If everything goes well, they should be able to win.
If that person was commanding the troops, he would definitely be so decisive, right? Statue of Sobek.
However, although he can think this way, it is almost absolutely impossible for him to do the same thing.
In this way, the remaining main force of the Yulian fleet, including 624 battleships including the two Lord God-class dreadnoughts, completed the meeting in front of the Imperial Army.
"Their strength is twice ours again." Captain Peggese reminded Sobek.
"I know. And the number of single-wheel ships is actually two and a half times." Major General Soback said angrily.
At this time, Lieutenant General Midbexi also called. The fierce general brother who was thinking about attacking two hours ago has once again lost the high-spirited courage and domineering attitude just now.
"Brother Yeager, we can retreat a galaxy back and wait for the friendly forces behind."
Soback agreed. After all, he is a believer who puts safety first and deeply agrees with this approach. However, after struggling for a few seconds, he still hesitated and said: "If we retreat again, we will really have no way to explain to the marshal and His Highness the Sand King."
Of course Lieutenant General Midbexi also knows this truth. Anguish and struggle flashed across his face.
"Don't worry. Your Excellency, based on my understanding of that person. He is actually a kind of person who just accepts the situation and will not kill everyone."
"..." Lieutenant General Midbexi looked disbelieving, as if he had heard that dragons should eat dumplings instead of meat, and they were stuffed with leeks.
"Especially when the strength is insufficient. In fact, although they have reconciled, their strength is still insufficient." Soback said.
This is a fact. They had all witnessed the two-week-long forced march of the remaining fleet, as well as the Third Battle of Said that was specially launched before the march. They saw the other side's miraculous move in substituting offense for defense, saw the flames igniting on the Tirello Intrepid, and of course saw the fall of the Pilgrim.
From a common sense point of view, the people on the opposite side of the earth should be exhausted long ago. Even if they complete the meeting, it is impossible to capture Midbexi's fleet so quickly.
What's more, there are reinforcements behind us, which will arrive in just three or four hours.
The prerequisite for each defeat is to be able to complete a crushing attack on a certain enemy within the time difference.
However, the above is all common sense.
“Brother Yeager, using common sense to predict the actions of that dragon is the least common sense approach.” Lieutenant General Midbexi said: “Until now, Karamanna What happened on the other side, we still haven’t figured out yet. At this point, don’t you feel chills running down your spine?”
“…Xiaguan is still trembling now.”
Lieutenant General Midbexi is not sure who the other party is. I wasn’t joking, so I laughed twice:
"However, if Brother Yeager is your judgement, I am willing to accept it."
Facts have proved that the opposite Community fleet did not attack. It took them a while to regroup, and then they set off boldly, heading straight for the exit of Earl Star Gap. From beginning to end, they didn't even look back at the imperial fleet here.
It wasn't until the people on earth were completely gone that the Midberg fleet cautiously entered the Earl I-4 system.
Even at this time, they were still worried that the Earthlings in front of them would suddenly turn around and attack again, so they still set up a defensive formation, but separated a light cruiser and took the Nebula branch to explore. after all.
They waited until the fleet led by Vice Admiral Laken arrived at the scene before relaxing a little. Immediately afterwards, in the direction of the Nebula branch, the Karaman fleet, which was said to have been beaten badly, finally arrived slowly under the guidance of its own light cruiser - of course, considering that Vice Admiral Karaman had already died in the battle, The formal name of the formation also needs to be revised, but that is not the point.
The generals originally expected to see such a miserable friendly force:
The fleet suffered heavy losses, and at least a quarter of the battleships were missing. Everyone on the warships arriving at the scene was injured, and some were even missing arms and legs. The alloy shell was twisted and deformed in the fierce battle, or was scattered with traces of burns. The deformed imperial military emblem is full of scars and no longer has the majesty of the past.
Even ships that are cruising normally will suddenly emit light while moving, like a group of wounded soldiers oozing blood.
Even in those giant ships that can barely move, those sealed cabins that had to be sealed and abandoned due to fierce battles are probably filled with the remains of crew members, stormtroopers and combat robots. .
They floated quietly in the vacuum compartment inside the battleship, still holding their weapons tightly and maintaining their posture in front of them, just like a group of white blood cells that died on duty.
Lieutenant General Midbexi originally thought this was the case. But in fact, the state of Karaman's fleet is actually quite neat, and most of the warships are in good condition. At most, it was just a few scratches caused by various unfriendly space radiation during the long cruising in narrow lanes.
However, these are completely bearable losses and are almost impossible to affect the ship's cruising and combat capabilities.
Of course obvious battle damage also exists.
For example, on the sides of two Silver Knight-class battlecruisers, there was a shocking scar on each side. If there were not obvious melting and deforming burns around it, it would probably look like It must have been pulled out by some Leviathan beast in the void with its claws.
However, what kind of Leviathan beast can tear apart the strong shield and five layers of outer armor of a battlecruiser like it is cardboard?
Immediately afterwards, under everyone's astonished eyes, Lieutenant General Klarman's flagship, the Dreadnought Grand Commander Werther, sailed clumsily into the local system.
...It's a pity that he is a headless leader.