Before the Commons' fleet could jump into orbit, the Marquis of Odegar led his only warship into the asteroid belt.

It was a world of endless frozen meteorites, emitting a hazy halo reflected by the dim halo of those two twin brown dwarfs. At first glance, it is like entering a crystal maze in a fairy tale.

It's a dreamlike sight, but most of the crew on board don't have the heart to appreciate it.

The Clearsky-class heavy cruiser, nominally part of the Navy of the Republic of Buckville, has been in the water for less than two months and still uses the Imperial number "Test 24". In the sequence of the Imperial Royal Navy, this means to represent the test.

Because it was a test, the Empire would provide such an advanced weapon of the so-called perfect cruiser to the loyal core allies. Because of the test, plus what secret mission to perform, so except for important command and technical positions, most of the crew members are Buckville Birdmen.

There were even a couple of Buckville officers on board, who could "fulfill" the duties of the captain if necessary.

The birdmen crew on board were fairly well-trained and were soon in place. However, the tension inside the ship was still intense, as if it had condensed into an indissolvable haze.

Although the Bhakvi Republic is an ally of an empire full of martial virtues, we also know that within an international alliance, it cannot be all martial arts factions with muscles in their heads. Relatively speaking, the Bakvi Birdmen are relatively stable pacifists, and they are good at voyage trade, hyperspace exploration, etc., and their combat capabilities have been unsatisfactory.

When it comes to the frontal battlefield, the empire is even more willing to trust the cats who always love to go violent.

The main fleet of the Bakvi has been on the other side of the Far Shore Nebula, cooperating with two small states that are also part of the Imperial Vassalage, and facing off against the Far Shore Defense Fleet across the Earl I Star Gap and the Lucknar Corridor. But the confrontation lasted for half a century, not to mention a war, and there was not even a small-scale misfire.

Aside from beating pirates and smugglers, the last time the Bakvi fleet fought was in the Community War of Independence forty years ago and the Galactic War afterward. Moreover, even in a war of that magnitude, their performance was not very good.

For these birdmen who are full of martial arts and virtues, this is really a very long memory.

This means that the crew here lacks actual combat experience.

It's so uninspiring! The Imperial officers on the bridge were blinded.

"It doesn't matter, the earthlings on the other side won't have any actual combat experience! This is clearly a small security fleet! The loud "genuine" deputy captain Rhea boosted the morale of the whole ship. His voice was indeed very loud, and it felt as if it could spread throughout the ship without going through the communicator.

The Bakvi crew felt a little relieved, not because of the prestige of the co-captain, but because of his notoriety. After all, this is a Wolfganger, one of the ethnic minorities in the Empire, and at first glance it looks like a huge black wolf walking upright, and it is also the fury kind.

He is really like a hungry lone wolf, if he finds undisciplined soldiers who do not obey orders, he will eat people.

Let your soldiers fear the officers more than the enemy, this is also the common sense of the art of war!

As a result, the nervous emotions seemed to be gnawed by two rows of blade-like teeth, and suddenly dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye. The Buckvi Birdman shivered and began the battleship with near-numb and mechanical movements, but the efficiency was also increased at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

Soon, the test No. 24 battleship did enter a state of electromagnetic silence. The Kinetic main gun has also been reloaded.

The reason why the energy main gun is not used is, of course, to allow the battleship to hide itself as much as possible. In addition, the Clear Sky Class uses the Empire's most advanced energy center, as well as a redesigned conduction system, and its own energy reserves and energy conduction efficiency are the best ever. As a result, the heavy cruiser with a total mass of 570,000 tons was equipped with those Longxi 7 kinetic energy main guns of more than one million tons.

Once fired, the shells will instantly cross hundreds of thousands of kilometers at sub-light speeds, penetrating the enemy.

During the test, the Weathersky-class kinetic main gun was very powerful enough to penetrate asteroids, and even the four layers of armor of the Imperial capital ship would also be pierced.

At the very least, it is certain that the small ships of the Community will never be able to withstand an attack of this magnitude.

"Enemy fleet...... The jump is complete! "The radar officer fed back the latest intelligence to the bridge. He probably already knew the Marquis's intentions, and automatically began to call the Community fleet an "enemy".

The Empire had already roughly understood the location of the gravity well, and placed probes smaller than drones nearby. In this way, when you find the enemy, the other party may not be aware of your existence.

The Marquis de Odegar opened his silver pocket watch encrusted with a ruby at 18:21 on November 12, 830 CE. He was once again full of admiration for his wisdom and foresight. Two hours earlier, when he had learned that the pirate fleet had been ambushed, he had ordered the crew to have dinner early.

The Marquis took a deep look at the silver pocket watch, a gift given to him by his own goddess, the singer lady, before parting. That girl is not a celebrity, she is only a third-tier back-up in the opera house where geniuses gather, which must have cost her several months of income.

Marquis Odegar took a deep breath and put these distractions behind him, returning himself to the captain's position: "Lennon, start charging that one!" ”

Knight Kiyeyang's eyes shrank, and his topaz-colored vertical pupils easily reminded him of a poisonous snake that was about to attack. He did not question it and quickly conveyed the captain's order.

"Seidel torpedo! Start charging! ”

This is exactly one of the experimental weapons carried by the Weatherlight-class battleships, an antimatter bomb that has matured.

Countries with a slight technological reserve are now developing anti-matter weapons, but the Reich is once again ahead of all countries and has entered the final testing phase.

However, the Seidel torpedo is not just an antimatter weapon. In fact, its official name in the Imperial Academy of Celestial Engineering is "hyperspace maneuvering torpedo". It is not so much a torpedo as a small unmanned spacecraft equipped with a dimensional bubble generator.

Seidel is the god of the sky and the god of space in classical mythology of the Empire, so the Imperial military called this new weapon. Of course, it can also be intuitively called a "space torpedo".

Dimensional bubble generator, which is also a new technology that all major technological countries want to develop. According to scientists' inference, if it is fully mature, perhaps the spacecraft will not need a gravity well to complete the hyperspace jump. At that time, the development of shipping in the entire universe will enter a new era, a great era that is unimaginable to everyone.

But after so many years, the dimensional bubble has never been able to achieve the hyperspace jump of matter. The scale of the generator has not been high, and it can neither be miniaturized nor expanded, creating a large space bubble that can wrap around the ship.

So, some Imperial scientists had a slap in their brains and thought of weaponization.

The dimensional bubble generator, since it is not small, is it just right to wrap the powerful explosives?

When the weapon wrapped in the dimensional bubble roars forward, all obstacles along the way are physically non-existent until it hits the enemy.

Theoretically, you could even attack the enemy on the opposite side from a single star - of course this is impossible, not even on a larger planet. Whether it is a star or the core of a planet, the energy changes inside it are quite complex and will inevitably have an immeasurable impact on the occurrence of space.

But in any case, this is still a new weapon that achieves the ultimate in concealment, suddenness, and "armor-piercing".

The size and mass of this thing was much larger than that of the average fighter jet, and even a heavy cruiser like the Clear Sky class carried only twenty of them in total, and five of them had been used up in previous tests. However, the feedback on the results of the experiment was really good. The Marquis of Odegar can be sure that a casual shot will be enough to kill the enemy's largest ship with a single blow.

Of course, Imperial scientists believe that keeping dangerous antimatter fuel inside a relatively weak torpedo poses a considerable safety hazard to the entire battleship. According to the safety management norms for weapons management, the torpedo warhead should be refueled half an hour before use.

Does this mean, in the opinion of the Marquis, that the battle should begin within half an hour?

The Imperial officers were eager to try, and the Buckvi Birdman crew could only hide their fear in their hearts again as they looked at the Imperial officers whose beast blood was boiling.

"Your Excellency, you can already determine the type of enemy fleet!" Captain Balupek, director of the bridge's intelligence technology, began to report.

It had only taken five minutes since the Community fleet had jumped into the system, and he had completed a comprehensive analysis of the enemy's fleet.

"There are ten assault ships, Warhammer 6 Type 8, Warhammer Type 3 2; five destroyers, four Fletcher Type 4 and one Yang Yan Type 2; Four light cruisers, type ......"

Captain Balupek hesitated for a moment, much to the surprise of the Marquis of Odegarh.

"There is no such ship type in the database! Eighty percent of the time it is likely to be modified. ”

"Retrofit? Naval fleet? Lennon was shocked. Pirates, smugglers, and other lesser-than-the-table powers often carry out frenzied manipulations of ships, but they have never heard of such a thing as a serious navy.

Anyway, your Blue Star Community is also a member of the Council of Galactic Civilizations, is it so undignified?

The Marquis of Odegarh fell into a brief contemplation. Converted warships are either raw, full of wasteland that could be finished at any moment, or they are often sharp beyond the imagination of common sense. Of course, he hoped for the latter, but as a good imperial military nobleman, he must not think so.

"Can you determine the original ship type?"

"Please give Xia Guan another five minutes."

"Don't worry, I'll give you ten minutes."

"Your Excellency, they're starting to broadcast to the entire galaxy." The Communications Officer interjected.

“…… Pick it up. "The Marquis of Odegarh didn't hesitate much. Then, a baritone sounded in his ears.

"The Blue Star Community cruising strike fleet, telling all XXXX in the Far Shore Nebula ultimatum! You space rats gnawing on nebulae, Daddy Earth is here to teach you how to be human! If Danfan has a little blood, just give me an honest lift XX out and wait for X, do you hear? I don't care if you're a XX chick from Buckville or an XX mouse from the Imperial genus! Give me a little spirit! If you don't have the guts, run away and show your XX to Daddy Earth! Don't worry, we earthlings are all noble gentlemen, and unlike you selfish XX, we won't shoot in the back! So, how exactly? Give me a good word! ”

The muffled vocabulary is unpleasant, and the whole passage is spoken in elegant imperial court language. For the citizens of the Empire present, the taunt effect was simply superb.

Marquis Odegar sneered, thinking that this kind of rogue tactic would only be useful to pirates! How could I, a high-achieving student of the Imperial Royal Knight Academy, be provoked so easily.

Most of the Imperial officers on the ship are also Imperial elites who graduated from the Royal Naval University and the Aerospace Academy, and they are professionally trained, no matter how angry they are, they will not lose their minds.

"Your Excellency! Do you want to fire a gun? Major Ragduro, the gunner's chief, sent a request to fire, as if anger was suppressed between his teeth.

“…… Not then! ”

“…… Clear, understood. ”

They did not disobey orders, which means that they have not lost their minds. The Marquis of Odegarh said to himself.

At this time, the bridge suddenly resounded with a ridiculous singing, still in the elegant imperial court language.

"Odegar is going to invade, beat!"

"His Majesty the Emperor is a hooligan, run away!"

"When you meet a group of earthlings, beat him to death, die!"

"One, two, three, Marquis O, hand in hand, go play with cannonballs! Let's go hand in hand and play with cannonballs! ”

"One drove half of the boat, and was stopped by a cannonball~~~~"

"The two of them hid and didn't see anyone, and they were steamed in the Dao beam pot~~~~"

"The three are still in the newlywed period, and the arsenal is pulling a big saw, oh oh

"The new marquis is coming to succeed to the throne and comforting the bride day and night~~~~"

"Odegar is a basket, and everything is stuffed into it~~~~"

"Fill it in~~~~~"

"How many Odehou are left? How many blue eagle feathers are left? Why don't you go home and sleep and comfort the bride for the future? ”

The entire bridge fell into an awkward silence for nearly a minute. Everyone was completely shocked by this gameplay and was speechless.

After a long time, the Marquis of Odegar spat out a solemn breath from between his teeth: "Isn't the space torpedo ready?" ”