"How?"

Liang Xingchen looked at Lin Fan suspiciously.

Millions of troops, and Horton is an important target in the middle of the war!

How the hell did they give up?

"I didn't do anything, I just continued to fool them, telling them that we need to build a stronghold on the arm, encircle the 15 galaxies of the Oaks Empire, and as compensation to allow them to buy energy shields and even nuclear fusion devices from us in the future!"

"Is that okay?"

"No wonder..."

After listening to Lin Fan's words, one showed the same expression, and the other had a shocked face.

The shocked face was naturally Jiang Hai, but he didn't know about the secret mission that Lin Fan had carried out last time he went to Kabat, so he was surprised!

Why do you say that, Kabat has done it? And when did you get in touch with the Kabat Empire?

Seeing Jiang Hai's bewildered expression, Liang Xingchen had no choice but to turn his head and briefly explain Lin Fan's previous task to him.

"I see, so that means I will lie to them again?"

After listening to Liang Xingchen's explanation, Jiang Hai showed a look of understanding.

"What nonsense! How can it be called a deception, the Federation is really ready to sell to them. ”

"Can't it, how can such a powerful thing be sold to other civilizations casually?"

Jiang Hai was taken aback by Lin Fan's words, if this is sold to the Kabat Empire in large quantities, in the future, there will be more warships than us, and the battleships will not be worse than ours, so how can we play?

Isn't the federation just for some money and ignores the overall situation?

Speaking of which, Jiang Hai has followed Liang Xingchen for more than ten years, although he is the number one in the war, but on the other hand, to be honest, Lin Fan can only think that he is naturally dull!

"Commander Jiang, the one we sold to them naturally has a back door, if they use these things to attack us in turn, we only need to give an order, and they will all be finished! Why not get a lot of resources from the Kabat and gradually take control of their warships? ”

"What else can you do?"

Jiang Hai's eyes widened, so vicious?

Liang Xingchen looked at Jiang Hai and smiled bitterly, this adjutant who has been with him for more than ten years is good at everything, but he is too decent, but he doesn't understand conspiracies and tricks at all.

It can't be said that I don't understand it at all, if it's all kinds of cunning methods in war, Jiang Hai is still very good at it, but outside the war...

"Alright, let's go on, is the time for the arrival of the Fourth Legion of the Oaks Praetorian Guard in Houghton confirmed?"

Liang Xingchen directly interrupted the topic and continued to ask.

"Well, the speed of travel within the path of the stars is a fixed speed of 3 times the speed of light.

Previously, he obtained the position of the Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard from Lancer, and then based on the time of the fall of Werther and strategic inference, it can be judged that more than 90% of it may turn around and go to Houghton.

The premise is that the people of the Oaks Empire are not stupid, of course, even if he doesn't turn around, it doesn't matter to us, after all, he is still several years away from Tianyuan IV.

Based on all the intellect, we set out in a week's time, and we could take Horton before it arrived.

The time error will not exceed three months, which means that after we take Horton, as long as everything is not predicted, then within 1-3 months, the Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard will appear in Horton through the Way of the Stars. ”

"Okay, I'm fine!"

"I'm okay too!"

"Okay, let's talk about Horton's strategy and tactics in detail..."

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A week later, the newly reorganized Third Fleet of the Federation arrived at Tianyuan IV.

Lin Fan also met his new commander Quet Klein for the first time, and the two sides did not have too much politeness, and quickly completed the procedures for the handover of the defense line and went back to make arrangements.

By three hours, the First, Second, and Fourth Fleets had completely withdrawn from the line and were arrayed behind it.

"Commander, all fleets are ready to go!"

"Okay, set a one-minute countdown and distribute it to all ships."

"Understood!"

A minute later, the void shrank suddenly, and the 60,000 warships of the three fleets disappeared in an instant.

Located 21 light-years away from Houghton, the Celestial Garden 4 is about 13 days to reach by jumping through the curvature engine.

And at this moment, the Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard of the Oaks Empire has also approached Horton.

"Commander Issa, there's an urgent battle report from ahead!"

Inside Isa's flagship, the adjutant ran to Isaac with a copy of the latest newsletter with a panicked face!

"Hurry up!"

"Two months ago, Leo was attacked from both sides by Sicilil and Werther, and the Kabat Empire dispatched a total of 3 million warships and more than 8,000 warships with shields, and Leo fell under the attack."

"At the same time, according to the information sent by the commander of Leo at the last moment, the 1.6 million warships of the Leo defenders, all the soldiers fought until the last moment, and the Kabat army also suffered heavy losses, with an estimated number of 1.5 million to 1.6 million casualties, while 7,800 of the 8,200 ships with shields were destroyed by the Leo defenders."

When Isa heard the news, he was stunned for a moment.

Even Leo was lost, and the original 8 Praetorian Legions, now only his Fourth Legion and Russell's Seventh and Eighth Legions remained, and a touch of sadness surged into Isa's heart.

"Adjutant, how far are we from Houghton?"

"There are still 30 days to go, Commander Issa!"

"Okay, when you get to Horton, you will first pack up the raiding fleet of Kabat and avenge the front-line soldiers!"

"Yes!"

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More than ten days later, the Oaks Empire, the star system Horton.

It is the gateway to the inner circle of the Oaks Empire, one of three star systems that connect the outer sphere.

In Houghton, there are a total of five star paths, one of which is to connect the outer territory of the Oaks Empire, and the other four are to connect the four star systems of the inner realm, which can be said to be accessible in all directions.

And Holden is known as the first hero of the Oaks Empire, because its external star path is narrower than Videley, and it can only pass through 200 warships at the same time.

It can be said that as long as there are tens of thousands of warships guarding in front of this star road, even if a million fleets may not be able to enter, it is simply a one-man pass, and ten thousand people are not open!

Moreover, Holden is most famous for its many resource stars, with a total of 1 natural life planet and a full 42 resource stars!

Not only that, but there are also three large asteroid belts in Houghton, which are at least 30 times larger than the Milky Way asteroid belt.

Therefore, one of the largest shipbuilding bases in the Oaks Empire is built here, with an annual output of 50,000 warships, and there is no need to transport raw materials from other star systems, everything needs can be solved by themselves in Houghton, and its abundant resources can be seen.

However, the combat readiness alarm, which had not sounded for hundreds of years, suddenly sounded on this day!

"Wooh. Woo... Woo......"