Chapter Fifty-Eight: Shaking in the Rear
The First Fleet of the Empire is defeated! The entire First Fleet line of defense retreated! The First Fleet loses an important strategic system!
Overwhelming reports followed.
The glorious First Fleet fell from the clouds, and it seemed that the moment the First Fleet was defeated, the Empire forgot that this heroic fleet had been on the frontier of the Empire, at the forefront of the war with the Phosyken aliens, for decades.
"Extra, extra! The First Fleet suffered a crushing defeat, and the Imperial Fleet retreated to the Second Line of Defense. ”
"Big news! Big news! General Nakach was held accountable by the Imperial War Department and could be removed from his post as commander of the First Fleet. ”
"It's really gossip." Lin Fan said with a sigh.
"I just want to know the real situation now, how the hell could the First Fleet have suddenly retreated." Qiao Yu wondered.
"This kind of thing is something that we students can know, Joe. The causes and consequences of such a thing must be high-level military secrets. ”
"That's right, but my reserve knight friend Joestar is also in the First Fleet, so I don't know what happened to him."
"Oh? Is that the Ready Star Knight who fought alongside you at Celence? He's part of the First Fleet, huh? That's not good. I've heard that the 1st Brigade of the Star Knights under the First Fleet has been wiped out. ”
Qiao Yu's gaze darkened, "Is the whole army annihilated?" Is your message reliable Lin Fan? ”
"I'll tell you the truth, this is the news I learned from home, you know, my old man still has some news channels." Lin Fan continued. "I heard that the empire is going to rebuild the first brigade of star knights, and for this matter, Principal Aaron also went to the imperial capital for a meeting."
"Rebuild the First Brigade? Shouldn't the total annihilation of the army be canceled? ”
"It is said that the First Brigade made great contributions in the process of the retreat of the First Fleet, and it was only because of the delay of the First Brigade that most of the ships of the First Fleet were able to jump away safely."
"Alas, let's go to class first, the news of this defeat is coming, and the academy is very lively."
"Not to mention the academy, since it was raided by the Forsyken alien race 50 years ago, although the empire was defeated at the beginning, it has completely gained a foothold in the past 20 years, and the two sides have started a confrontation and tug-of-war near the territory of the empire, and no one expected such a defeat to suddenly appear."
Qiao Yu and Lin Fan looked at each other, shook their heads together, and walked towards the teaching building.
Star of the Imperial Capital of Mankind. The stately Imperial Palace is located in the largest city of the capital star. Aaron had just gotten out of the hovercar and arrived at the gates of the palace. There were many familiar faces standing in front of the door, including important ministers of the empire, military bigwigs, and a few of them were his old acquaintances - the presidents of the major military academies of the empire.
"Old Aaron, you're here." An old man who seemed to be in good spirits noticed Aaron who had just gotten out of the car and walked up to say hello.
Principal Aaron looked up and saw that it was none other than his old acquaintance, the headmaster of the Imperial Central Military Academy, Barr.
"Yo, old man Barr, you were called too? It seems that this time it is indeed a big deal. What the hell is going on, you, the headmaster of the Imperial Central Academy, have you heard any news? Aaron smiled as he smiled at his old rival's words.
"Old Aaron, don't take my words, in fact, there is nothing to hide, and when you go to the palace for a meeting, you will know immediately. I guess the news I got was about the defeat of the First Fleet. ”
"The First Fleet is defeated, just gather the people in the military department, why are you calling us old guys? Is it possible to let us all old guys who are about to go to the battlefield for them? Aaron said with a slight mockery.
"Eh, who will let you go to war, you old guy who can't even move. However, if you are not allowed to go to war, you will always have students, right? ”
Aaron nodded, "Sure enough, this is to get troops from our side." ”
"I knew you should have seen that you were still playing stupid with me. The first brigade of the Star Knight was basically wiped out, only two boys survived, and if they want to keep the number and rebuild the first brigade, how can they not replenish the source of troops from everywhere? Even if the other brigades send some backbones to help the first brigade rebuild, there can't be too many people to go, and the other starry sky knight brigades must always keep the guys who eat. Then where did this large number of soldiers come from, not the reserve knights from all over the country, and the students of our military academy. ”
Before the two old men finished speaking, the gate of the palace opened, and a middle-aged man walked out of it, "Your Excellency, Your Majesty has an invitation." ”
Aaron and Barr glanced at each other, walked to the middle of a group of principals, followed the large procession, and entered the palace inside.
Everyone followed the attendants and came to a conference room in the palace, where His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire, Lin Tiantian, was already sitting in the center of the conference room, waiting.
Lin Tiantian saw everyone entering, raised his hand and motioned for everyone to find a seat to sit down, and the crowd that came in was seated into several parts according to their different positions. The ministers of the empire occupied the right hand side of His Majesty the Emperor, and the generals of the military department occupied the left hand side of His Majesty the Emperor. And the few principals of institutions of higher learning were facing His Majesty Lin Tiantian and sat by the door.
When the emperor saw everyone seated, he coughed and said, "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen." ”
Everyone bowed slightly and greeted His Majesty.
"I'm sure you've all heard the news of the defeat of the Empire's First Fleet. However, because of the principle of secrecy, I think that except for everyone in the military department, other people are not very clear about the reason for the defeat of the First Fleet, so I will ask the general of the military department to give you a brief introduction. Lin Tiantian nodded.
In the lineup of the military department, a young major general stood up, he bowed slightly to Lin Tiantian, and then looked around at the people present, "Your Majesty, Excellencies, good afternoon." Let me now briefly describe the specifics of the First Fleet's campaign. ”
"Three days ago, in the galaxy where the First Fleet of the Empire was stationed, a new type of enemy ship suddenly appeared, and the First Fleet sent the First Brigade of Star Knights to complete the mission in order to capture this ship. In the course of the mission, the 1st Brigade was ambushed by the enemy, which led to a situation of encirclement by the enemy and interference in communications. After the on-the-spot decision of the captain of the First Brigade, the First Brigade changed the task to first break through the encirclement, and then to seize a new type of equipment of the enemy, and it was this equipment that made one of the enemy's flagships appear directly in the rear of our defense line without passing through the stargate by means of jumping, so that the First Fleet had to finally retreat. During the retreat, the 1st Star Knight Brigade successfully captured the enemy's secret device and brought it back to the fleet, but in order to achieve this goal, and to cover the evacuation of the fleet, most of the First Fleet was killed. Only one ordinary knight and a squad leader survived. That's the general picture of the previous battle. ”
It was the first time for the ministers and headmasters of the empire to hear such an accurate battle report, and they couldn't help but whisper about it.
Lin Tiantian knocked on the table, "Everyone, if you want to discuss it, you don't need to discuss it in private, you can talk about it openly at the meeting, there are so many problems we are facing now, I will put them out, everyone will discuss them." ”