Chapter 505: A War Begins
[The Sixth Expeditionary Fleet temporarily formed by the Sherman Empire was ambushed by the Fallen Wind Alliance Fleet in the territory of the New Orui Empire.
After a fierce battle lasting one and a half galaxies, the Sixth Expeditionary Fleet was completely wiped out, and one dreadnought and thirty-two large battleships were captured by the Falling Wind Alliance fleet.
The fast support fleets sent by the Sherman Empire were sniped by the joint fleet of the Fallen Wind Alliance and the New Orei Empire, suffering heavy damage.
The Luofeng Alliance fleet has now evacuated the New Orui Empire. The New Orui Empire officially announced its unconditional surrender to the Sherman Empire, but the New Orui Empire fleet has retreated to the border of the New Orui Empire and headed for the other two former Sherman Empire vassal states that have declared independence and are suffering from the invasion of the Sherman Empire.
How the Falling Wind Alliance fleet captured the dreadnought remains to be determined.
Currently, the Sherman Empire and the Falling Wind Alliance have not released any official news related to this. 】
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Allison was somewhat confused as he looked at the battle report in front of him.
What's going on?
Just when the live broadcasts and speeches of White Ghost and Emperor Sherman Empire attracted the attention of human civilization in the galaxy, the Fallen Wind Alliance took the initiative and made a big move?
How dare they?
Do you really think that the Sherman Empire has completely weakened?
Although the Sherman Empire is in internal chaos, its army is not in chaos. Their New Federation has the most say in this regard. Now the war launched by the Sherman Empire against their New Federation is still making them unable to raise their heads.
But Allison personally feels that under the current circumstances, this New Orei ambush can definitely be regarded as a great victory for the anti-imperial camp!
This is really a shot in the arm!
Allison felt excited!
But soon, the closed-door meeting of bipartisan lawmakers he was attending poured a bucket of cold water on his decision.
"The military adventure of the Falling Wind Alliance cannot bring us any substantial help. On the contrary, they will attract the Levi Fleet."
An old congressman said in a deep voice:
"The Luofeng Alliance is still too immature.
“This emerging political system likes to take this wrong path. They like to simplify extremely complex issues and ignore the real problems.
“The Sherman Empire went to war with us and has been controlling the scale of the war, in fact, trying to portray us as the villains that the people think we are.
"Now, the situation is at risk of getting out of control, and we will also be implicated by the Falling Wind Alliance."
"Edwan's story is very moving," another old councillor said solemnly, "but he can only move those political systems that are not in direct conflict with the empire and those citizens who are full of sympathy. This will not change anything. At most, it will only give Luo Feng a legitimate reason to act."
"How much military power can the Falling Wind Alliance withstand from the Sherman Empire?"
"Two battle groups, probably. If we only consider the strength on paper and ignore the Sherman Empire's strong combat quality, the fleets used by the Falling Wind Alliance are made in various countries and are of unknown brands."
The old man who presided over the meeting said in a deep voice: "The purpose of our meeting today is to discuss this matter. The Falling Wind Alliance took the initiative to attack the Sherman Empire and achieved a great victory in a very short period of time, completely annihilating the Sherman Empire's Sixth Expeditionary Fleet and severely damaging the Sherman Empire's military strength. How should we express our attitude?"
The meeting place fell silent.
The well-mannered old people sat on comfortable sofas, some smoking, some frowning in deep thought.
Some people ask: "How do they do that?"
The member in charge of military intelligence said slowly:
"According to the intelligence we currently have, they are colluding with the New Orui Empire's army.
“The New Ori Fleet pretended to be defeated and left, giving up the star field near the First Star. Their officials took the initiative to surrender to the Sherman Empire, which reduced the Sherman side’s vigilance.
"The Sherman Empire's fleet was reorganized temporarily, and many of its ships were transferred from the battle group that originally threatened the Falling Wind Alliance. Therefore, they were not well-prepared. They took this opportunity to prepare in the star system where the First Star is located.
“Then, the explosion matrix that New Ori had buried ahead of time caused violent turbulence in the star’s magnetic field, resulting in strong flare activity , which damaged sensitive components on some of the Sherman Empire’s ships.
"The fleet of the Falling Wind Alliance suddenly appeared near the Sherman Empire fleet. According to the intelligence we received, after the Sherman Empire fleet's detectors failed, they accurately jumped to 64 points around the Sherman Empire fleet, surrounded the Sherman Empire in a sphere, and launched an ambush in the chaos.
“What needs to be noted here is that the Luofeng Alliance and the New Orui Empire Army seem to have been secretly communicating with each other for a long time, and their cooperation is very tacit.
"Another point is... our technical team analyzed many possibilities, but could not determine what method the Falling Wind Alliance used to capture the Sherman Empire's dreadnought."
Allison said:
“I would also like to say this, there is no video circulating from the scene, and the information we have is all from the early stages of the war.
"The spherical encirclement is an idealized fleet tactic. This tactic has a fatal flaw, which is the difficulty in dispatching. The ranges of the main battleships and the firepower replenishment ships are inconsistent. The spherical encirclement tactic is simply impossible to achieve the longest-range concentrated firepower attack, and it is also impossible to play the role of shield ships. This is an extremely serious flaw in ship-to-ship bombardment.
"I personally think that since the Falling Wind Alliance dared to go to war with the Sherman Empire and won such a huge victory at the first attempt, they must have made some preparations and hidden their trump cards ."
The old councillors thought for a while.
An old man asked: "Allison, in your opinion, what happened to the Falling Wind Alliance?"
Allison's heart nearly skipped a beat.
Yes, he is still maintaining his prophet persona, which is his greatest value to these old men in front of him.
Although he had made some wrong predictions before, fortunately, he made the right bet on the White Ghost betraying the empire, which allowed him to regain the trust of these old people.
Now he predicts…what can he predict?
In the Abyss he knew, the Empire was declining due to continuous "exclusive" insect plagues, and the New Federation rose rapidly and was able to deal with the Empire with ease.
The current Milky Way has been turned into a mess by that bastard White Ghost!
Allison thought quickly in his mind. He now had to figure out his position and what these old congressmen were thinking. Facing the Sherman Empire and the powerful Levi Fleet, the Fallen Wind Alliance had no chance of winning... right.
"Luo Feng will fail. I personally think that Luo Feng will fail."
Allison said in a deep voice:
"But the Sherman Empire will suffer a huge blow and there will be violent turmoil within it. The White Ghost will return like a king and set off a huge revolution within the Sherman Empire."
The old men fell silent again.
"Since they will fail, we don't need to care too much about some verbal support."
"We will let Luo Feng off the hook, and it will also demonstrate our tolerance. This will be a good publicity opportunity."
"Luo Feng's great victory is a sign that the democratic camp has once again defeated the evil empire. Justice will prevail, democracy will prevail... Is that what the press release says?"
"Very good. Find a few more people to show up and publicize this great victory throughout the country. Let the CIA decide on it."
"Supporting Luo Feng is not our goal. Our goal is to consume the Sherman Empire's military reserves."
“Does the war need to be expanded on the front line?”
"Will this force the Levi Fleet out?"
The old man in the middle sighed and began to summarize this brief meeting:
“Whether we expand should not be determined by us and the Empire, but by the Free United States and the Güell Alliance.
"If one of them sends a fleet to support the Falling Wind Alliance, we will double the scale of the war and involve the Imperial Expeditionary Force.
"If both of them send fleets to support Luo Feng, then we will completely expand the scale of the war and make a full-scale counterattack, making it impossible for this imperial expeditionary force to escape. This is a major counterattack by the democratic camp.
"Of course, we don't really want to engage in a fierce exchange of fire with them, it is enough to just posturing and maintain local conflicts.
"If the two families only verbally support Luo Feng, then we will withdraw some of our troops from the front line. These are just three marginal planets, and they are not worth getting hurt. The flame of democracy will not be extinguished because of a temporary failure.
"As for Luo Feng, we would like to fully express our regret and sympathy."
Many members of parliament nodded slowly and raised their hands to show their agreement.
Allison sighed in his heart, but a gentle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
This is the New Federation, it is impossible to take risks.
He likes this model.
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at the same time.
Near the first star of the Guell Alliance.
Duoduo Moduo, who was having breakfast, almost popped his eyes out after seeing the first-hand information about the "New Orui Victory".
"Oh, Goddess, are my dear friends crazy?"
Duoduo Moduo looked at his subordinates beside him, put down his knife and fork, untied his scarf, and read the battle report again, with a look of great confusion on his wrinkled face.
"Are you sure this isn't a Gu Yu Festival joke?"
"No, General. In fact, we have verified it. An insider in the Imperial Military Department told us that the top brass of the Imperial Military Department are almost crazy. They can't believe that the weak Luofeng Alliance dared to provoke the powerful Sherman Empire and wiped out their well-equipped conventional combat group in such a short time.
"There are reasons that cleverly utilize stellar activity, but there are also many factors that we have not been able to analyze so far."
"Oh my god! Damn it!"
Duoduo Moduo burst out with a swear word:
"Yang Ming told me before that as long as the Empire's fleet rushes towards Luofeng, Luofeng will definitely launch a counterattack against them, and then we can rush to support them.
"We have prepared the fleet.
"The story he created about the death of Edwan has made our people sympathize with Luo Feng 10,000 percent. If we support Luo Feng, it will comply with public opinion and gain the support of the people!
"He didn't tell me that they were actually going to attack the Empire's fleet and swallow up an entire battle group... How did they do it?"
"I don't know, General... They even captured a dreadnought from the Sherman Empire."
"What?!"
Duoduo Moduo had a face full of question marks.
"Call General Yang Ming for me...be polite. I want to ask when is the best time for our fleet to enter the battlefield."
"Yes, General."
"They are simply a miracle team, and it's really scary to be their enemy."
Dodomodo muttered to himself.
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The first star of the Free United States.
Pioneer No. 4 was swimming happily in the swimming pool. His subordinates hurried over, knelt on one knee by the pool, and quickly reported the great victory of Xin'ori.
"Heh," Forerunner No. 4 sneered, "Luo Feng is really brave. This victory is also based on the Empire's underestimation of the enemy. What will they do next? Rely on the indignation of the people to drown the Empire's invincible fleet with saliva? The most terrifying thing about the Empire is its size. It uses its own size to support the largest fleet in the Milky Way."
Another subordinate came running over, knelt on one knee, and whispered:
"Brother, the dedicated communicator numbered 001 is ringing!"
Pioneer No. 4 was stunned for a moment, then he jumped out of the swimming pool and ran barefoot to his own little space.
A few minutes later.
Pioneer No. 4 scratched his head and walked out of the room, calling over a few of his younger brothers.
“Please help me contact some ministers.
"The righteous Falling Wind Alliance has launched a full-scale counterattack against the Sherman Empire. As the spiritual leader of the free camp in the Milky Way, how can we, the United States of Freedom, watch this great country being defeated by the Sherman Empire?
"The Sherman Empire is just a paper tiger now.
"Well, the premise is that the high-dimensional civilization really wants to wipe out the Sherman Empire."
Several younger brothers looked at each other in bewilderment.
…
"Okay, that's it. The people of Luofeng will never forget the friendship of the Guel Alliance."
Yang Ming hung up the call with Duoduo Moduo impatiently, then turned and ran to the particle transmitter nearby.
A strong light flashed, and Yang Ming's figure appeared at the open outer door of the dreadnought.
They are currently at the border of the Luofeng Empire, near the Dark Star Base No. 3.
The captured Sherman Empire dreadnought, along with more than 30 heavy battleships, are now hovering near a meteorite belt, surrounded by hundreds of high-performance Dark Star battleships.
When Yang Ming entered the outer cabin, the first thing he saw was the body bags and corpses.
A dreadnought is like a small city, with over ten thousand soldiers inside.
In the previous battle, in order to ensure that their drone swarm combat methods would not be exposed so early, and to improve the efficiency of taking over the dreadnought, 60% of the soldiers in the dreadnought had been cleared, and the remaining surrendered soldiers were deeply anesthetized and transferred to several transport ships as bargaining chips for the next negotiation with the Empire.
According to interstellar convention, this meteorite belt is the burial place of these imperial soldiers.
Let their bodies become the dust of the universe.
This instantly killed most of Yang Ming's interest in admiring his first dreadnought.
With his hands behind his back, wearing the uniform of the Fallen Wind Alliance, he walked past the piles of body bags, watching the mechanical guards moving the bodies to the hatch and throwing them out of the hatch's particle protective film as if they were moving cargo or clearing garbage, and his heart was filled with infinite emotion.
This is fucking war.
"Boss," Lu's voice sounded beside him, "Is that too rude?"
"Nothing," Yang Ming said, "Pay attention to efficiency. We will soon use this ship on the battlefield... Is it OK?"
Lu explained: "It will take about thirty-six galactic hours to prepare, and it should be ready before the Empire officially dispatches its troops."
Yang Ming asked: "Is the second ambush point going well?"
"It didn't go well. The Imperial fleet reacted quickly. They began to flee at high speed."
The simulated image of Lu gradually took shape. He was also wearing an imperial military uniform and following Yang Ming with his hands behind his back.
"Our goal is to annihilate part of the Empire's conventional military forces and achieve a series of political goals. We have now achieved our expected goals.
“In the next half hour, three dependent states will declare independence and apply for political asylum from the new federation.
"The New Federation will give us verbal support. The Guel Alliance will have two battle groups leap to the border of the Falling Wind Empire. The Free United States is not so sure, but at least there will be one battle group to create momentum. If we want them to join the war, we will have to pay a little price."
“In the end, it still depends on us.”
Yang Ming sighed, walked to the porthole and looked at the meteorite belt.
"The Falling Wind Alliance must act as a reef to break the huge waves coming from the Sherman Empire, and that will become the real turning point for the Sherman Empire to decline.
“But this will cost blood.
"Lü, I have some self-doubt... Is it really meaningful to let so many people die for my idea?"
Lu said softly, “Boss, when cancer appears in the body, only by destroying the cancerous cells can the body survive.”
"But I don't have much regard for the development of human civilization in the Milky Way. I'm not a noble person."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows:
"This is ultimately my own selfish interest. What I want is for Luo Feng to rise and be controlled by me, so that I can give my hometown super-standard treatment, and then use my true strength to threaten other forerunners, so that they will notify their home planets not to compete with my hometown... Yes, this is my goal.
"I am a despicable war instigator.
“There’s nothing wrong with that, and I don’t need anyone to agree with me.
"I can also calmly accept the backlash of failure in this operation. I must fight hard, otherwise my hometown will have no chance of success."
After saying this, Yang Ming turned his head and looked at Lu, his eyes were firm and his face was calm, without any wavering:
"The entire Falling Wind Alliance spread the news of the great victory of New Ori, eliminated all discordant voices, and allowed the people to start moving into the shelters built during the Zerg Tide."
"yes!"
