The Fifth Fleet, on the orders of the Emperor, has been on an expedition for twenty years, except for the first ten years in the empire, and the last ten years even chased beyond the borders of the frontier.

With the second threat and the scale of the army, Ekstrov did not agree with the act of sending the main fleet to encircle and suppress it for 20 years, which is not rational at all, and does not conform to the principle of proportionality in terms of cost or results.

Of course, Ekstrov definitely did not dare to speak his mind, because the decision of His Majesty the Emperor was beyond doubt.

As Chief of Staff, his essential job is to formulate strategies and tactics, analyze the benefits and disadvantages, and present them to the decision-makers of the Empire, but Ekstrov knows which are off-limits, and he doesn't want to anger His Majesty the Emperor - there are enough people on the Ice Queen.

In fact, at the beginning, Ekstrov didn't take the second sex to heart, although those women were also excellent, even unexpectedly excellent, Valkyrie's military literacy was enough to be qualified for the position of general even by the standards of the Empire, but since the Fifth Fleet was dispatched, it was tantamount to announcing their demise in advance, and the remaining question was nothing more than how much military spending was wasted.

Turus is Ekstrov's friend, the two graduated from the Imperial Military Academy together, and both served in the Imperial Navy, for his old friend, Ekstrov thinks he knows very well, although it is not as Trus himself thinks, it is enough to be compared with the four pillars of the Imperial Navy, but in addition to the commander of the four fleets, Trus is indeed the strongest admiral in the Empire.

Coupled with the absolute superiority of the Fifth Fleet, Ekstrov never doubted the arrival of victory, although later facts proved that the Second Sex was much more difficult to deal with than imagined, and Varvara dragged on for a full twenty years with a dilapidated fleet of mixed military and civilian forces, but the news that came not long ago proved that everything was coming to an end, and the end of those women who dared to anger His Majesty the Emperor was at hand.

The subsequent news from the Fifth Fleet further confirmed this, the Valkyrie Guard of the Second Sex, including their leader, was completely annihilated, although the Feminist escaped, but it was also the end of the crossbow, destroying a bulky civilian space city that had lost the protection of the armed forces, even a graduate who had just left the military academy could easily complete the task.

But that's where the change began.

The march log from the fleet shows that the Feminist once crashed on an unknown planet, which is an extremely superior planet of life, about the latter, Trus did not submit a detailed report, Ekstrov understood the careful thinking of his old classmates, he would never dare to deceive His Majesty the Emperor, he should use this as a plus, to fight for the last promotion before retirement.

This is tolerable, or, for the sake of old classmates and old friends, Ekstrov didn't think much about it.

But what happened next began to go off the expected track, and it was still in an extremely violent manner.

First of all, the engine of the Feminist was unexpectedly repaired, and on a planet where there was no maintenance line or even intelligent life at all, the engine of an ocean-going space city was unbelievably repaired, and then, these women unexpectedly returned to the last battlefield, regardless of the damage to the engine of the space city by long-range jumping.

There are only two explanations for the completely illogical behavior, either the women are completely insane, or there is an unknown conspiracy behind this strange action.

Ekstrof's judgment was the former, and in his childhood education, women were synonymous with irrationality, and women like Valvara were an example, like mutants in a race, and it was not unacceptable for these women to completely lose their minds when she was killed in battle.

"Destruction in madness is the best footnote to the demise of those women. This was Eckstrov's judgment at the time, and in his opinion, Truss should have held the same view.

In fact, Ekstrov believed that even the four admirals of the Reich must have judged the situation the same as he did - this had nothing to do with military literacy, this was a scientific conclusion about the flawed personality of women. (Note)

This is also the unanimous judgment of the entire Imperial General Staff, and because of this, the next development has made the entire Imperial Staff a little confused.

Because just as the Fifth Fleet launched its last pursuit, the quantum beacon that marked the existence of the Fifth Fleet disappeared.

The territory of the Gurbatov Empire is very vast, roughly an irregular sphere with a diameter of 1200×500 light years, the first administrative star is located on the side of this sphere that is biased towards the silver center, and the direction of the Fifth Fleet expedition is the opposite, and it is far beyond the borders of the empire, entering the border area, and the straight-line distance from the capital star is more than 2000 light years, which makes conventional communication extremely unsmooth, and the task of maintaining communication is only based on ship-based quantum observers.

Each of the Empire's standard warships will be equipped with a quantum observer to communicate, using the characteristics of quantum entanglement, even if the distance is great, the Empire can instantly know its location and communicate at low bit rates such as text.

However, this kind of observation is not carried out all the time, on the contrary, such communication will not be turned on once unless it encounters a major mission node, and the rest of the time is turned off, which is often called quantum silence in the military.

This is because the fleet and the planet need to guard against malicious quantum teleportation and observation, just like Gao Shuai once did on the Blue Star, let Huang Tianran directly observe the general of the Yan Kingdom, causing his death, this attack method is simply insoluble for opponents who have no defense ability, and this is also the crushing lead of high-level civilization over low-level civilization in science and technology and military.

However, the battle between civilizations of the same level can prevent this from happening in advance, as long as the fleet and the planet turn on the quantum interference, which is the norm for the entire galaxy.

Interference is always on, and only at certain moments will some specific channels be opened for contact. Because turning on its own quantum interference will also affect itself, any regular fleet will only turn on quantum communication when necessary.

For example, the most common march log uploads, as well as some attack orders that must be approved by superiors, are inherently risky, and once the enemy has a window of time to open communications, they are likely to be called in immediately.

Therefore, due to the quantum silence, the Fifth Fleet encountered an enemy in its last pursuit, the Empire did not know, but the Empire knew that the Fifth Fleet had encountered a large-scale battle and was completely destroyed in a short time.

The principle is simple, all the quantum observers paired with the ships of the Fifth Fleet located in the Imperial Military Monitoring Center have failed, which proves the fact that the ships that are paired with them have been wiped out.

And according to the order before and after the failure of these observers, the staff restored the whole process of the destruction of the Fifth Fleet on the spot: it was attracted by the enemy's frontal firepower, and then it was attacked from behind, and the sneak attackers used ultra-high-level weapons to directly destroy the Loyalty, which was more powerful than the ordinary Throne class battleship.

As a result of the Emperor's order, the defeat of the flagship also meant the beginning of the self-destruction of the entire fleet, and the Fifth Fleet disappeared from the naval sequence of the Empire.

Ekstrov didn't know why Trus was defeated by such a shoddy ambush, maybe there were some details that he didn't know, maybe it was related to the strange and unreasonable performance of the feminist, but none of this mattered, the important thing was that the fifth fleet of the four major fleets of the empire was completely wiped out, and it is conceivable that His Majesty the Emperor would be extremely angry.

Menister Palace was extremely cold, and Extrof's head was still oozing with large areas of cold sweat. Although theoretically the fall of the Fifth Fleet was not Ekstrov's business, His Majesty's anger would never be justified.

Ekstrov didn't dare to raise his head, but he still felt that cold and terrifying "gaze" lingering on him.

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Note: All current examples of prejudiced perceptions of women in empires are derived from the various discriminatory views on women in Europe before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These ideas seem ridiculous now, but at the time they were serious "scientific research conclusions".