Chapter 537: A Colony in the Flames
As soon as Li Mingze, who had just driven back to his residence, he received a message from Tianyi.
In desperation, he could only take a month's long vacation for the counselor and the subject teachers overnight, and then flew towards Dun Shenghua in a small spaceship composed of ten Praetorian Guard robots.
Six days later, Li Mingze returned to the empire through the space-time channel.
As soon as he returned to the Empire, Li Mingze switched his consciousness back to his body in the palace.
"Your Majesty, you are back." Eva said as she wiped the dormant liquid on Li Mingze's body with a towel and helped Li Mingze up.
"Our empire has been attacked?" Li Mingze frowned and put on the clothes handed by Eva.
"Yes, an unknown civilization hidden in the galaxy has suddenly declared war on us."
"We are unprepared for this war, and now the first, second, and third fleets of the empire and the alien fleet have rushed to the battlefield."
"But even so, the situation on the battlefield is very unfavorable for us, we don't know where the opponent's base camp is, let alone how many fleets they have." Eva sighed and shook her head.
"Didn't we see any signs of this civilization before?" Li Mingze reached out and pinched his eyebrows.
"The appearance of this civilization is very sudden, we have not received any warning, and the various adventure teams have not discovered the existence of this civilization." Eva shook her head.
"Increase the military investment in the galaxy Immortal Arm, transfer all fleets except the guard fleet to the Immortal Arm, and the Star Fortress is ready to go out at any time!" Li Mingze snorted coldly and walked towards the office.
And at this time, an alarm suddenly sounded in the palace.
"What's going on?" Li Mingze asked as he quickened his pace.
"Report to Your Majesty, that unknown civilization has just launched a full-front attack on us, and the defense line we have built around the Colony Star by the Immortal Arm of the Galactic Immortal has all been attacked by the enemy!"
"The enemy's offensive is very rapid, the combat effectiveness of the enemy and us is basically equal, and now we are in a scorching battle." Tianyi's figure appeared beside Li Mingze.
"The Royal Praetorian Fleet that will ring the world will also be sent over! Continue to increase troops to the front line, and all construction ships will be transferred to build space fortresses and fortresses. Li Mingze waved his hand in the air, and a star map appeared in the air.
As he zoomed in on the star map, he saw that the Galactic Immortal arm was already full of tiny dots with flashes of red glitter, all of which were the Imperial forces under attack.
"Also, order all the member countries of the Galactic Alliance to enter a state of war and serve this war unconditionally!" Li Mingze looked at the star map and said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Tianyi's figure vanished.
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In the orbit of an Imperial colony located outside the Perseus Arm Spin, a thousand retro warships with a somewhat gothic shape appeared on the periphery of the orbit.
A terrible air raid siren sounded over the colony city, and one after another anti-aircraft batteries rose from the ground, their thick barrels swaying and pointing to the sky.
People in the colonial city scurried out of their homes and toward the shelter that led to the basement.
And the space station in the orbit of the colony star is enveloped in a cloud of death.
Of course, the staff inside the space station recognized the origin of these warships, and from their appearance, it could be seen that they were the fleets of unknown civilizations that were at war with the Empire.
It is unknown how this fleet made its way through the lines formed by the Imperial fleet, but there is no doubt that they did not come with good intentions.
Although the space station under their feet also has defensive weapons, it is definitely not enough compared to these thousands of warships of unknown civilization, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides is very different!
"All personnel evacuate immediately in escape boats, and from now on, abandon this space station!" The head of the space station commanded his subordinates.
"Sir, we have a million colonists behind us!" An employee suddenly stopped and shouted to the person in charge.
"What can we do, resistance will only bring unnecessary casualties, and the other side will not necessarily destroy the civilian facilities of the colony, if we provoke them the most terrible." The person in charge shook his head, turned and slipped into the escape boat.
Minutes later, ten escape ships flew out of the space station and leapt into hyperspace.
At this time, the ground command center realized that it could not contact the space station in orbit.
In an instant, the soldiers on the ground knew that they had been abandoned by the people in the space station of the first line of defense.
"This matter has been reported directly to the Imperial Military Department, these cowards have fled, but we will not run away, we will stay and fight the enemy until the last drop of blood is shed!" The commander of the ground forces shouted with his weapon in his hand raised.
"Fight to the end!" The soldiers also raised their weapons.
What the soldiers didn't know, however, was that the fleet in orbit was not intended for a ground battle at all.
After the fleet entered the orbit of the planet, the hatches at the bottom of the battleships suddenly opened, and heavy ground-penetrating projectiles flew out of the lower part of the battleships, flying towards the ground under the effect of gravity.
"Sir, the enemy has dropped a large number of weapons, and there are too many of them for us to intercept!" In the command center on the ground, many soldiers closed their eyes in despair as they looked at the dense red signs on the screen.
"Long live the Empire!" The commander also knew that he and the others would not be able to escape this fate, so he put the rifle in his hand on the ground and looked up at the starry sky overhead.
The ground-piercing bullets continued to rotate in the air, and the yellow light produced by the friction with the air illuminated the sky, and the originally dark world ushered in a ray of light, but this light brought the fire of destruction.
With a heavy slamming sound, tens of thousands of ground-drilling bombs burrowed into the ground beneath him.
In just a few seconds, huge "bubbles" of earth hundreds of meters high rose on the ground, and then the bubbles broke into pieces of rubble, from which boundless flames poured out, and the entire plain where the colonial city was located was wiped out by these bombs.
The boundless flames engulfed the building where the command center was located, and all the buildings in the city were wiped out in the flames, and millions of citizens of the empire disappeared from this world with the city without realizing it.
By the time the flames had dissipated, all that was left of the city was a deep pit and rubble, and all the plants on the plain had disappeared, and the whole world was dead silent.
Seeing that the plain had been completely wiped out, the fleet of the unknown civilization turned off the armor at the bottom and turned around and flew towards the next target.