When the First Legion was in the process of selecting its commander, Russell, more than 10 light-years away, one of the three nodes on the border between the Oaks Empire and the Kabat Empire, was breaking out a multi-million warship-level warship.

In Felton, the last frontier legion of the Oaks Empire and two Praetorian Legions were stationed here.

Of course, they also learned of the fall of the capital and the fall of the empire, and like Wells, they used communication to send messages to various star systems to confirm the authenticity of the message.

Obviously, in the end, all these messages were sent to nothing, and there was no reply.

It can be said that the territory of the original Oaks Empire, except for Russell, has been divided up by the Io Federation, the Human Federation, and the Kabat Empire.

The Kabat Empire, in particular, ignored Russell and directly occupied all the surrounding areas.

Unbeknownst to Russell's defenders, they were surrounded by Kabat's army of millions, until this day, when the sirens sounded throughout the fortress and the warship.

Russell has four Star Paths, two of which are Felton on the way to the Kabat Empire and Werther the border node of the former Oaks Empire. The other two lead to the territory of the former Oaks Empire in its rear.

Werther was taken by the Kabat Empire a few years ago, and now even the two regions behind Russell have fallen into the hands of the Kabat Empire.

As it stands, Russell's defenders are surrounded on all sides by a fleet of more than 1 million Kabat Empire in every direction.

When the sirens sounded and the Kabat Imperial warships emerged at the same time at the exit of the 4 Star Paths, the end of Russell's defenders was doomed.

After all, with only 1.2 million troops, it is impossible to hold four lines of defense at the same time, not to mention that on the four fronts of the Kabat Empire, the strikers are all warships with energy shields.

Over the years, through transactions with the Human Federation, the Kabat Empire has also armed a full 80,000 warships with energy shields, and deployed 20,000 in each attack fleet!

In just half an hour, under the rush of 80,000 shield ships, the four fronts showed a trend of collapse.

The situation on the entire battlefield has been clear, and in an hour at most, the last fleet of the Oaks Empire will be wiped out!

However, the soldiers of the Oaks Empire are still the ones that Lin Fan is familiar with, and the statement that they will collapse if the casualty rate reaches a certain amount is completely inapplicable to them.

The warriors of this empire are the type who will shoot at you like crazy even if they hit the last man, and will not surrender.

For this reason, when an hour later, after the last warship of the Oaks Empire was destroyed, the Kabat Empire carried out a detailed unification of the battlefield casualties, but when the unified results came out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

With the absolute superiority of troops, coupled with the shield advantage of the vanguard fleets of all stripes, the Kabat Empire still paid the price of 800,000 warships to wipe out the warships of the Oaks Empire

As a result, there was no longer the fleet of the Oaks Empire in the entire area outside of Houghton, and the entire Oaks Empire officially perished.

Although after the destruction of the Oaks Empire, the Kabat Empire and the Human Federation used Horton as the border node, and the territory of the two sides was directly bordered, but Emperor Fahal and the Grand Commander of the Space Fleet, Hamid, did not dare to invade at will.

They know that the civilization that occupies the territory in front of them has an inexplicable relationship with that fourth-level civilization, and if they make a foolish mistake, I am afraid that in the near future, the Kabat Empire will not exist!

There is no need to anger a fourth-level civilization for those territories, and your empire is not only the Oaks Empire that can access the outside world, but also other directions!

Wouldn't it be nice to take a large number of quasi-fourth-tier warships and bully other first- to third-tier civilizations?

Wouldn't it be nice to acquire a large amount of territory, and then buy more shield devices from the human side to feed the war?

This is what Fahal and Hamid thought, if they knew that Lin Fan would be ready to destroy them in three years, and they didn't know what expressions would appear on their faces?

As a result, the Kabat Empire directly issued an order to the Human Federation for 50,000 energy shield activation devices, and the required resources were also prepared, and humans could come and pull them away at any time.

Seeing such a large order, the Federation itself is in a good mood, and a large number of resources have entered the pockets of the Federation!

Well, 50,000 units, don't worry, it will be delivered in three years!

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Half a month later, the star system Horton.

The fleet commander selection, the points qualifying competition has ended, the whole selection has come to an end, and finally seven commander candidates have been successfully born.

Fujiwara Ayako, age 28, formerly the rank of colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and is the commander of the Sixth Fleet of the First Army.

Carol Taylor, age 36, formerly with the rank of colonel, now awarded the rank of brigadier general, is the commander of the Seventh Fleet of the First Army.

Dennis Linden, age 38, formerly with the rank of colonel, now with the rank of brigadier general, is the commander of the Eighth Fleet of the First Army.

Elio Reed, age 38, formerly with the rank of lieutenant colonel, now with the rank of colonel, serves as acting commander of the Ninth Fleet of the First Legion.

Shangguan Yunting, age 32, formerly with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is now awarded the rank of colonel and serves as the acting commander of the 10th Fleet of the First Army Corps.

Xia Yu, age 29, former rank of major, now awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, serves as acting commander of the 11th Fleet of the First Army.

Qin Tian, aged 26, formerly with the rank of major, is now awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel and serves as the acting commander of the 12th Fleet of the First Army Corps.

According to the order of Starfleet headquarters, all of these seven people have been raised by one level.

Of course, four of them, who have been promoted to the rank of brigadier and still do not reach the rank of brigadier general, are to be preceded by the word "acting" in accordance with the usual practice.

Although you are an acting commander, you are actually no different from a full commander, as long as you do not make mistakes, you will not be deprived of your position, and when you reach the rank of brigadier general, you will be automatically regularized.

As for the 9 people who were defeated in the final points competition, Lin Fan also accepted them together.

In addition to these 9 people, there are also some people who lost in the knockout round in the early stage, but they are capable, Lin Fan also did not let go, just like the one who was defeated by Fujiwara Ayako in the first round of elimination.

These men will be added to the seven new fleets and will serve as adjutant and chief of staff.

Now that the people have done it, Lin Fan no longer has to worry about the situation that there will be no one or the other in the future, as for the ordinary crew, it is not a big problem at all.

After all, the new Killer Whale-class battleships only need half of the personnel of the current Snow Leopard-class battlecruisers, and the surplus personnel of the First to Fifth Fleets alone can meet more than half of the needs of these seven fleets.

Regarding the selection of the commander of the detachment and the bridge command group, Lin Fan said that there are many suitable talents in the Xingchen Military Academy.

The future commanders are still in a situation of waiting for the ship, and they can go to the academy to select them in person when they have a bus, and then report to the corps headquarters for approval after they are selected.