"Ship Leader's Notice: Thirty minutes countdown to fleet jump. Standard time approval: 19:00. ”

This is a very common fleet jump announcement, with the slight difference that there is no destination in the announcement. Although the golden fleet already knew that the Yanhuang were nearby, they were also well aware that the Source Domain was far away from here, and the Firion were very close to them.

In order to prevent Firien's silver-white fleet from catching their whereabouts, the Emma people were forced to make a random jump. It was not impossible for a battleship to open enough air ducts for this fleet to cross. It's just that there is no energy-saving advantage like the natural stargate.

Each jump means up to six hours of jump cooldown, and these six hours are the most dangerous times.

Over the past few months, the Firion have mastered this flaw in the Emma Starship. They are well aware that the enemy's starships are not capable of making continuous jumps.

However, for the Philians, it became clearer that their fleet was powerless against the unscrupulous invaders. They understood that among the golden enemy ships, those behemoths of a hundred kilometers long, with heavy armor and unrivaled firepower, made the border patrol force consisting of only cruisers and destroyers formidable.

"All ships: Jump Preparations."

With Wu Xiaoyu's order, the Blue Bird was on duty in the cab, and the four clones immediately began to get busy.

The "Communication System Inspection ......" ensures smooth communication between the ship and the fleet, and more importantly, whether the starship's own sending system is intact.

"Self-test passed."

"Powertrain Inspection ......"

"The main machinery is in good condition."

"Hull Scan ......"

"The airtightness is good."

……

After a few minutes of routine inspection, Zhao Xinxing reported to Wu Xiaoyu very solemnly: "Captain, the whole system has passed the inspection and is in good condition." ”

Wu Xiaoyu took a deep breath, opened the protective cover on the left hand side, and pressed the green start button: "The auxiliary thruster is activated, adjust to the accompanying attitude." The jump engine starts on three stages, counting twenty minutes. ”

The Jadebird's internal jump engines began to work, and a slight tremor spread from the core throughout the ship as the bow of the starship began to align with the Emma's calibrated position. More than twenty minutes later, at 19:00 in standard time, the place where the coordinates are located will become the location where the air duct is opened.

When the scheduled time arrived, the wind ducts peaked in an instant, and thousands of starships disappeared in an instant. Exactly ten hours later, when another fleet of Firion arrived in the system, they were left with nothing but meaningless wreckage.

At this moment, all the huge silver-white fleet could do was to track the spatial fluctuations left over from the jump and prepare for the next spatial jump.

*

Emma Starship? The bridge of the Calamity-class paladin's improved version of the Dhirendal

Pull? Raphael? Coezo elegantly held up the teacup in his hand, the teacup was a masterpiece from the third galaxy in the central region of the Coezzo star field. And the teacup for the Keezo family, outlined with gold and red lines, contained tea brewed with top-grade black tea from the lapis lazuli galaxy of the Yanhuang Federation.

For the great nobles of the Emma Empire, this kind of behavior was not a luxury, but only a manifestation of their status as a great noble. Although for the neighbors of the Emma Empire, the manifestation of privilege is simply to hoist the flag representing the family and themselves on the bridge.

A Navy Lieutenant Emma walked up to Raphael and saluted respectfully: "Your Highness the Marquis, the amount of materials obtained in this supply operation is thirty-two percent less than expected. ”

The woman who was sipping tea was unmoved by the bad news, so the colonel, who had been standing behind the left of His Royal Highness the Marquis, raised his hand and motioned for the major to step down.

"This is bad news, Your Highness." Balranta? Colonel Dole, the captain of the starship, the Dirandal, collapsed his shoulders helplessly at the moment. He was a member of the Coezzo family before he became Emma Navy. He may be the person in the entire fleet who most hopes that His Highness Raphael will be safe.

"Well, after all, there is a considerable extent." The young woman's heart was filled with peace as the great nobleman realized the pain that Ferrion's fleet had inflicted on the Emma people over the past few months.

Isn't that a matter of course? On the journey of the Emma Empire, there can be no only backward and stupid natives. The Emma recognized the Galactic Empire, as well as the Yanhuang Federation, and even established a commercial buffer zone called the Orion Freedom Alliance in order to ease relations with those two neighbors. (Although the Liberal Alliance has just provoked his third largest shareholder, the Yanhuang Federation.) ）

"A space jump for their main fleet requires seventy-two hours of preparation time, which is one of the few buffers we can get." Feeling aggrieved Balanta? Colonel Dole's hanging hands clenched, he really wanted to fight the Fillion to the death.

"Nope." As if you sense something? Raphael? Coezo put the teacup down and spoke softly, but firmly in denial. "That's exactly what the people of Firion want. In war, the more the enemy wants, the more we cannot do it. ”

Pull? Raphael, the legendary lady who is not good at military affairs, is more calm at this time. Maybe that's also a kind of irony. The young woman lowered her head and looked at her slender white hand, "Now, Dore. Have you ever been in a vicious battle before? ”

In fact, what Raphael wanted to ask the colonel at this moment was: Is it a war to suppress those who don't even have slaves on starships?

Pull? Raphael? Coezo didn't expect Colonel Dore's answer, as one of the top nobles of the empire, she could certainly see the empire clearly. At one point, she thought that the Emma Empire was powerful because it had an incomparably powerful Emma navy.

When she actually joined Emma's navy, she found that most of the soldiers seemed to be lost in the glory of the past and became a little unenterprising. Perhaps, it's not that you don't want to make progress, but you understand that even if you strive for it, you can't compare to the background.

Raphael knows that this is the most obvious example, having graduated from the Imperial Naval Academy only ten years ago. According to the normal promotion rate, a rookie who has graduated for ten years, without military exploits, is at most the captain of the border training fleet. But ten years later, she has obtained the rank of major general, and she is the commander of the elite combat squadron.

"If you don't count the last six months, I haven't actually been on a single battlefield." Pull? Raphael? Coezzo smiled softly, her gaze focused on her palm. "The squadron carried out pioneering missions because I did not want to participate in domestic repression. The endless bombardment of the ground made me feel no sense of honor. Do you understand? ”

Many of the nobles of the Emma Empire were quite disgusted with the task of suppression, mostly because they did not want their hands to be stained with blood. However, enjoying the benefits of slavery, they were unwilling to give up slavery and chose an enlightened policy. As the army became more ruthless, the chaos within the empire intensified.

But, pull? Raphael? Coezzo wasn't one of the majority of the aristocracy, she just couldn't change the status quo, so she chose to compromise. She can't stop the Emma Navy from joining the suppression mission, and she can't stop the empire from choosing a high-pressure policy. Therefore, she chose to stay away from the empire itself and open up new territories for the empire.

"This is your noble conduct, Your Highness." If this was half a year ago, Barranta? Colonel Dole won't understand La? Raphael? The meaning of Coezzo's words is also sarcastic about the words of young women. However, the colonel, who had been pursued by Ferrion's fleet for several months, had a vague understanding at this moment.

Balranta? Colonel Dole knew that for this noble Highness, only equal opponents could satisfy her arrogance. In the colonel's opinion, this arrogance that no one in his eyes should be the demeanor of the imperial aristocracy. In other words, the real nobles in the Emma Empire will show such a dazzling brilliance of human nature.

However, the two truly battle-hardened officers on the Bluebird probably wanted to shout "stupid" and slap Miss Coezo in the face. At the very least, Captain Wu Xiaoyu wanted to slap the commander of the Emma people to death right now, even though she had never seen the other party.

Thanks to the noble lady of the Coezzo family, the Bluebird had been forced to voluntarily go into exile for three full days. Although they occasionally got the opportunity to contact their hometown, this intermittent contact made their colleagues in the distance more concerned about their safety.

Ever since he met the fleet of the Emma, Wu Xiaoyu found himself encountering a "nemesis". Being "protected" by thousands of Emma starships in the center of the formation, it is of course the most "safe" on the battlefield. Not only will the fleet of the Ferrion be happy to aim at the Blue Bird, but even the secondary guns of the surrounding battleships of Emma will also be aimed in their own direction, intentionally or unintentionally.

As for the evidence that this is the Emma did it? The warning that the radar system on the Jade Bird was locked by the fire control radar never ended. The reason why it is described as the end is because Wu Xiaoyu disliked that the warning sound was too harsh, and was ordered to turn off the sound.

Therefore, dozens of disaster-class battleships led the team to watch a Helios-class, and this kind of "battle" was because the Helios-class belonged to the Federal Navy, so the eldest lady of the Coezzo family would feel honored and satisfied?

But Wu Xiaoyu's thoughts won't affect La? Raphael? Coezzo's will, she may have listened demurely to the opinion of the officers of the Federal Navy, but that does not mean that she will accept it. What's more, for pulling? Raphael? For a man of high power like Coezzo, death is not so unacceptable.

Those nobles who occupy ninety percent of the interests of the empire, before becoming the nobles of the empire, shed blood and paid for this powerful empire as Emma Navy. Just as she believed that Emma's empire was still strong, because she knew better than the middle and lower echelons of the empire. The big aristocratic families who represent the interests of the ruling class of the empire, and countless people like her, are still giving their lives for this empire at this moment. 21010