Chapter 117: Dark Yilando

The bridge of the cruiser Emig.

Yang Ming sat in front of the control console, while a group of officers, soldiers, and technicians stood behind him, watching the news footage playing on the projection screen in front of them.

The planet of Elandor has just been hit by a bomb.

Thick smoke was billowing from Gate No. 1 of the transportation hub in front of the palace. The rescue scenes from the scene were extremely tragic, and were constantly cut into scenes of people crying and shouting.

Many young officers and soldiers were filled with indignation, and many female technicians had red eyes.

Yang Ming frowned tightly.

What is the New Federation going to do?

What kind of freedom fighters are they if the CIA doesn't attack the ministers and royal family members but directly attacks the civilians?

A few hours later, Yang Ming suddenly discovered...

Compared to the New Federation, he is still too young after all.

The situation evolved very quickly.

After the first bomb attack, all news media in the Luofeng Empire received the "exact news" in the shortest possible time.

A well-known national criminal organization, the Shabun Liberal Alliance, claimed responsibility for the attack.

There is even a notice read out by a terrorist wearing a hood to all the people of the Luofeng Empire. The gist of the notice is:

'If the old emperor does not abdicate within three hours, there will be a continuous stream of attacks until the sacred fire engulfs the entire city of Yilando.'

There will be more bomb attacks to come!

Some residents in the central urban area of Yilandu fell into panic, and many hovercrafts fled frantically towards the outer urban areas, and the traffic systems everywhere were almost paralyzed.

In response, the Home Secretary held a press conference to strongly condemn the terrorist attack.

On the planet Yilando, the police have stopped taking vacations and are all on duty.

A large number of royal guards entered the city of Yilando and conducted a thorough search.

Gutonmaha received an order from the emperor and symbolically sent out a group of small airships to patrol the sky over the city of Yilando.

The Luofeng royal family immediately showed their firm determination to fight.

In response to the tough attitude of the royal family of Luofeng Empire, the second and third attacks broke out one after another, and they did not wait for the three-hour deadline.

The heavily guarded landmark buildings on the planet Ilando did not suffer any attacks.

Instead, fireballs appeared one after another in ordinary residential areas, hospitals, and transportation pipelines.

The number of civilian casualties in the attack rose sharply, and the entire city of Yilando was in panic.

When the lives and safety of residents are under the most direct threat, social order shows signs of rapidly collapsing.

It was less than three hours after the first attack.

The 4th Fleet's early warning system also issued a warning that a large number of ships were jumping towards them via space detection radar.

Chief of General Staff Gutonmaha immediately ordered the entire ship to enter combat readiness!

The fourth fleet group gathered in the upper left airspace of Yilandu Star, and each ship opened the energy shield!

Hundreds of silver-white warships suddenly [appeared] in the airspace ahead.

They have streamlined lines, maintaining powerful firepower while also pursuing the aesthetics of smoothness and symmetry.

After the jump was completed, these silver-white warships immediately formed an attack array; but their main guns were not charged, and they also deployed full energy shields and slowly approached the star Ilando.

Yang Ming looked through the porthole intently:

Those heavy battleships surrounded by frigates and shield ships looked like swans with folded wings, with graceful lines but making people's scalps tingle.

The flag of the New Federation appeared under the starry sky, a three-dimensional projection tens of thousands of meters high.

New Federation, the Seventh Long-distance Fleet!

…

Emig cruiser, bridge.

"captain!"

A technician shouted quickly:

"There's a broadcast call from the enemy fleet on the international public channel!"

"Put it in and hear what they say."

Yang Ming's calm voice calmed the officers and technicians in the bridge.

Yang Ming warned: "Don't take the initiative to answer, they are calling our flagship."

The technician pressed a few buttons.

Right in front of the bridge, the figure of a female general of the New Federation Empire appeared on the huge projection screen.

The female general had long, half-white hair and stood quietly on the bridge of a warship.

Behind her were the New Federation's national flag, military flag, and portraits of the successive commanders of the Seventh Far-Sail Fleet.

As soon as the New Federation female general opened her mouth, the Galactic Common Language with a strong New Federation accent filled the bridge.

“Now, our New Federation Galaxy Voyage Seventh Fleet has been ordered to come to your country to support and fight against the terrorist attacks of Shapeng Liberalism.

"The Shabon Liberal Organization has been listed as a terrorist organization by our country 17 years ago. Its extreme, terrorist and inhumane behavior has tarnished the sacred freedom and democracy. This is a criminal act that our country cannot tolerate!

“Based on the universal principles of combating international terrorist organizations and the provisions of the Galactic International Charter, your country should not refuse our assistance and must submit all the data on the attacked cities to us as soon as possible.

"We promise that after receiving your data, we will stabilize the local order, protect the local people, and provide humanitarian assistance to the people affected by the disaster in Luofeng Country in the shortest possible time."

call out!

The image on the screen disappeared.

A group of officers and technicians who had never experienced such a thing looked at each other in bewilderment.

Yang Ming was also stunned.

He was a little shocked.

Shocked by the shamelessness and lack of bottom line of the New Federation.

What's this?

You have terrorists here, so we are here to help you fight the terrorists. According to the international laws we have formulated, you cannot refuse our military landing and you must provide us with city data.

The problem is…

These terrorists are the new federal agents!

Good guy , Yang Ming exclaimed. Good guy.

Yang Ming originally thought that his battle of wits and courage with the warlords of the Luofeng Empire, which had affected many innocent soldiers, was already a rather selfish act.

Compared with the operation of the New Federation...

He is simply a saint!

A female officer whispered, "Captain, are they really going to catch terrorists?"

Yang Ming and a group of officers turned their heads at the same time and looked at them as if they were idiots.

An officer nearby quickly reminded: "The terrorists are themselves, and Shapeng liberalism is funded by the New Federal CIA!"

"Aren't they just the thief crying thief?"

"This is shameless robbery!"

"Damn! This old bitch is so shameless."

Some officers cursed in a low voice, and more officers couldn't help but speak out:

"Although we are not strong, we cannot be bullied by them like this. If their warships enter our First Star's airspace, our country will no longer have any dignity!"

"If they enter the airspace and bomb the surface directly, that would be a real disaster."

"Yilando has a population of hundreds of millions. It is the heart of our country!"

"We can't let them pass!"

Yang Ming frowned and said, "Be quiet."

His voice was not loud, but it quickly became audible throughout the bridge.

"Remember," Yang Ming whispered, "you are soldiers. Soldiers should not participate in political games. What we need to do now is to wait for the command center's order."

After that, Yang Ming said, "Be prepared to retreat. You know the situation of the Luofeng military leaders better than a newcomer like me."

The officers were silent.

Some people wanted to say something but were stopped by their companions' eyes.

Many officers smiled bitterly, then tried to adjust their mindset and told the people around them to go back to work.

In the Luofeng Empire, the longer one serves in the army, the weaker the fire in one's heart will be.

They are a country without sovereignty.

A vassal state of Sherman's empire.

That's all.

…

A few minutes later, the 4th Regiment Command sent a mobilization order.

All the ships of the Fourth Fleet retreated, giving up half of the airspace of the planet Ilando in order to occupy a more advantageous attack position.

Yang Ming could feel that the young men and women of the Luofeng Empire inside and outside the bridge were holding back their anger.

He was sitting in front of the command console on the bridge at this moment, calmly giving orders, asking the cruiser to slowly retreat along with the surrounding warships.

For no reason, Yang Ming also felt a sense of suffocation.

'This has nothing to do with me,' Yang Ming reminded himself, so as not to make any impulsive moves.

He now wanted to directly order Gutonmaha to fire and have a fierce fight.

But reason told him...

I really can't beat him.

The New Federation's powerful Seventh Long-distance Fleet advanced forward.

These graceful spaceships with smooth lines appeared in the sky above the city of Yilando. Citizens only needed to use a simple telescope or the shooting function of the networked terminal to see the outlines of the huge ships.

The powerful battleship did not charge its main guns, nor did its secondary guns lock onto the ground.

Three large ships shaped like comprehensive supply ships entered the first attack sequence.

Space carrier!

Densely packed hatches appeared on both sides of the mothership's hull. When the hatches opened, hundreds of ground attack boats and troop transports flew out of the ship, assembled under the fleet, and formed an array of the New Federation's national emblem.

On the first star of a country, promote the martial virtues of the New Federation.

This is undoubtedly the greatest insult to the country.

In comparison, the counterattack of the Luofeng Empire seemed pale and powerless.

Three-dimensional projections of the old emperor appeared on the roofs of various palaces in the imperial palace, but the content of the projection was obviously recorded in advance, and the old emperor in the projection looked obviously much younger.

The old emperor shouted to the sky:

This is the capital star of the Luofeng Empire, a vassal state of the Sherman Empire. Any attack here will be regarded as a direct attack on the Sherman Empire.

The New Federation remained indifferent to this, and the attack boat formation took the initiative to begin descending and entered the atmosphere.

At the same time, the New Federation Fleet demonstrated their strong technical capabilities and intelligence information coordination capabilities.

All television stations and major online portals on Yilando Star showed the speeches of the female generals that Yang Ming and his team had seen.

The residents’ network terminals continuously received promotional videos of the New Federation.

The theme of the video is to preach this kind of content:

'We are here to help the residents here. The New Federation loves peace and freedom. We will fight terrorism, rescue the oppressed people, and provide humanitarian aid.'

Yang Ming had no intention of getting involved in such matters.

This had clearly risen to the level of direct confrontation between the two great powers in the Milky Way, and he couldn't do anything about it.

But he just didn't like these bastards, so he decided to... let Lu do some small moves.

A series of videos and pictures soon appeared on the Internet.

The content is very simple, which is to clarify the relationship between the New Federal CIA and the Shapen Liberal Organization and to produce some hard evidence of the funding relationship.

The way videos and pictures are spread is still a familiar formula - first spread virally through social software to disperse the source of information, and then simultaneously occupy the headlines of major networks.

Although the people of Ilando learned of this in front of the New Federation's invincible fleet, they could do nothing.

But Yang Ming felt that at least they should know the truth.

On the other hand, the royal family...

Armored vehicles and attack airships appeared at the military base below the royal family. Tens of thousands of royal guards were mobilized and quickly deployed outside the palace.

All levels of government in Yilando City received orders to evacuate the people;

But the New Federation's fleet arrived too quickly, and the people could only take shelter nearby, and several underground urban areas became extremely congested.

Only four hours after the terrorist attack on Ilando City, a large number of New Federation warships had completed the blockade of Ilando City, and hundreds of attack ships engaged in a close confrontation with the Royal Guards.

Dozens of New Federation transport ships slowly landed on the terrain around the palace, and a group of mobile infantry wearing exoskeletons and carrying flying backpacks quickly deployed on the ground.

They surrounded the palace building from a distance.

The intention of the New Federation has become very clear. This action is based on a terrorist attack and directly targets the palace of the Luofeng Empire.

At this moment, the royal family has not shown any signs of activating the hidden anti-ship system.

…

The cruiser Emig.

Yang Ming couldn't stand the depressing atmosphere on the bridge, so he handed over the command to several officers and returned to the captain's lounge.

"Lv, report the movements of the Luofeng fleet."

Lu's projection immediately appeared on Yang Ming's wrist.

"They are all on standby, ignoring the royal emergency order."

"Sherman's side?"

“Boss, the Valkyrie is still struggling.

"Edwan urgently requested to see the powerful prince of the Sherman Empire, and he agreed. The Sherman Empire fleet is being mobilized and is expected to appear in the airspace near Yilando in an hour."

Yang Ming frowned and said, "One hour. Can the palace's protective shield last for one hour?"

"Yes, it should be possible," Lu said softly, "The New Federation has not launched a direct attack at this moment. They should also have concerns. If they attack the Luofeng Palace directly, the Sherman Empire's fleet may directly attack the New Federation fleet."

Yang Ming asked knowingly, "Will there be a war?"

"In local wars, the two sides have confronted each other too many times. Both sides need a local victory to boost their morale and establish their position."

Yang Ming frowned and thought.

He was extremely disappointed with the old emperor's performance.

From the beginning to now, Luo Feng's only counterattack was the counterattack through public opinion, which he asked Lu to help do.

In front of the New Federation, the Luofeng royal family was like a bunch of trash. Apart from sending guards to defend, they had no means of counterattack at all.

The eldest prince escaped to the second administrative planet one step ahead.

If the royal family had been tougher, stood up to protect their people at this moment, and used the bloodshed of the royal family to awaken the soul of this country, Luofeng might have prospered again in the future...

"Forget it, I'm here to work on the planet, why should I worry about this?"

"boss!"

Lu suddenly spoke up: "There is a live broadcast on the entire Luofeng network. The source of the live broadcast comes from the palace. The new federal agents and the technical team hidden inside the palace are competing!"

Yang Ming perked up: "Give me the live broadcast screen."

Lu's figure disappeared, replaced by the scene outside the main hall of the imperial palace.

The old emperor was dressed in his best attire, wearing a crown and holding a scepter. Followed by many ministers, he walked up the steps step by step and slowly reached the highest viewing platform at the palace.

The guards looked solemn.

The old emperor looked majestic without being angry.

Yang Ming narrowed his eyes slightly: "What does this old intelligent machine want to do?"

"Uh," Lu whispered, "the palace's live broadcast signal has been largely blocked."

"Help him," Yang Ming whispered, "Don't expose ourselves. Spread his live broadcast as much as possible, and don't limit it to Yilanduo Star."

Lu smiled and said, "Okay, boss... I used the name of Molly Miss Group to get more than 600 sets of high-performance servers in the Luofeng Empire, and they just came in handy today."

"Uh, how much did it cost?"

"Well, didn't you say that if we don't occupy the high ground of public opinion, it will be occupied by the enemy?"

"Just tell me how much it cost."

"It's only a few hundred million... New Federation dollars... Most of it is rented."

Yang Ming: …

This prodigal secretary!

"Go to work," he said unhappily, and Lu quickly slipped away.

Then, Yang Ming's expression continued to become gloomy.

Although Lu tried to ease the depressing atmosphere, Yang Ming was not in a very good mood.

He seemed to hear the low sigh coming from the planet below and the civilization on this planet.

It's obvious.

This is the darkest hour for this country.