Chapter 516: The Trap (Part II)
The Emperor's meeting with the representatives of the various family forces was quite pleasant, and Yun Haoyu promised that as long as they sincerely supported the new regime, the empire would not pursue any inappropriate behaviors they had in the past or may have been, and would ensure that their existing interests would not be violated! And these people also promised that they would strictly abide by the laws of the empire and fully assist the imperial authorities in stabilizing the situation, restoring economic order, and pacifying the people of the empire!
After the audience, the emperor held a banquet to entertain these delegates, and as for the list of various gifts they presented, Yun Haoyu accepted them all in order to be relieved, and handed them over to Feng Lanxi to deal with.
In the evening, at the request of Tian Xuanhao, the Imperial Military Council was convened again.
At present, for the Starlight Empire, the most important task is to consolidate the existing battle results, and the main fleet is recuperating and preparing for the complete expulsion of the forces of the Shuofeng Empire from the Yunmeng Galaxy!
Since the start of the war, more than a month has passed, and the power of the general mobilization order has been gradually manifested! In the Tianhua Galaxy, the fleet of newly formed troops has reached more than four million, and it is still increasing rapidly! The number of Ability Legions has also been greatly expanded! Soon the kings of the Starlight Empire will find that they are facing more and more enemy forces!
Of course, for the current Starlight Empire, this is no longer an unbearable pressure! The empire that occupies at least half of the Yunmeng Galaxy, and with the full cooperation of those local forces, it already has enough capital to spend with the Shuofeng Empire!
"Your Majesty, after a few days of sorting and investigating, all the results have been counted!" Bernard said, "Since the beginning of the war, we have defeated more than 2.7 million enemy fleets, 37 mobile star fortresses, and hundreds of ability legions!" Nearly sixty percent of them were captured after surrendering! ”
"In addition, there are warship production lines, all kinds of advanced heavy industrial equipment, large industrial bases, energy reserve bases, mining and smelting centers, and so on! Now they have all been successfully received by the Imperial Government......"
Large-scale wars often bring rich rewards beyond people's imagination! The war dividends that the empire has obtained in just a little more than a month are already equivalent to the country's GDP for several years! What's more, the value of some things is not something that can be bought with Source Crystals at all!
Take Harros Province as an example, there are hundreds of large production lines of main warships, as well as tens of thousands of supporting military material production bases! It can provide 100,000 finished warships of various types every month, as well as supporting logistics supplies!
Sixteen large-scale strategic energy reserve bases, the number of finished energy crystals in them is enough to ensure the high-intensity combat needs of two million warships for a year! After the processing and refining of new technology, the combat capability of the Imperial fleet will be further enhanced!
There are also tens of thousands of large and small mines distributed on the resource planets of various star fields, and the rare mineral resources that can be mined and refined every day are an extremely staggering number! Moreover, there are many giant source crystal veins here, with an annual output of about two trillion!
These things used to be an effective guarantee for the powerful military power of the Shuofeng Empire, but now that they have been received by the Starlight Empire, they will soon become an important bargaining chip for the imperial monarchs and ministers to defeat the other party and then conquer the Star Sea!
In addition to the harvest from the Shuofeng Empire, those families and forces that were originally attached to the Six Great Families and Zhu Zhaoyuan were all included in the list of purges by the emperor! A large number of Praetorian Guard Corps were dispatched, cooperating with the men and horses of the Imperial Security Department, to dig out these silverfish of the country one by one and uproot them!
In just a few days, nearly a million people have been executed! In order to consolidate power, the young imperial monarch has always been afraid to use thunder methods!
Naturally, all the properties under their names will be taken into the treasury! The specific numbers have not even been fully counted yet! You can imagine how much wealth these guys have looted, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "rich and rivaling the country"!
After listening to his report, Yun Haoyu asked, "How is the situation in the east?" Cameron isn't in trouble, is he? ”
Tian Xuanhao said: "Your Majesty, according to the message just sent by General Cameron, the progress of the Eastern Route Army is going very well, much faster than imagined!" And ......"
"And what?" Yun Haoyu asked.
His face was a little strange: "According to the information secretly sent back by the intelligence officers of Solomon Province, about a few hours ago, all the garrisons of the Shuofeng Empire had been evacuated!" Not a single soldier was left behind, including those high-ranking administrative officials, who had run away! ”
"There are also neighboring provinces, and all the star fields controlled by the Shuofeng Empire have seen such a large-scale retreat! It seems that they don't plan to continue to resist and are going to throw the entire Yunmeng galaxy to us! ”
As soon as these words came out, all the ministers' faces suddenly became solemn.
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon! Although the fleet of the Shuofeng Empire was losing ground and its morale was low, its military strength was still strong, far from the point of complete collapse! There is no need to do this at all!
"What do you think about this?" Yun Haoyu pondered for a moment and asked Feng Lanxi.
"Your Majesty, this is not difficult to understand!" She smiled and analyzed:
"The Shuofeng Empire's army is disheartened, the fleet has surrendered in formation, and the phenomenon of fleeing has not stopped! Coupled with the fall of Harros Province, it has triggered a series of negative reactions! If these forces still stick to their own defense areas, by the time our fleet strikes over, the result is basically no longer in suspense! At most, it will take us a few more days! ”
"That Zhu Zhaoyuan probably understood this, and in order to avoid greater losses, he ordered all the fleets to retreat and concentrate their forces to hold the Tianhua Galaxy! As long as it drags on for a while, her military superiority will become more and more obvious! When the time comes, we will start fighting back, and we will have any hope of defeating us! ”
Gurlons said: "Having said that, after the Yunmeng Galaxy falls into our hands, the entire galaxy's industrial system and various strategic resources will become part of our strength!" As long as those production lines don't stop, our expansion speed is not much slower than theirs! If this continues, it seems that the result is the same! She wouldn't fail to see that, would she? ”
The Starlight Empire, which has obtained the entire Yunmeng Galaxy, is not as strong as the Shuofeng Empire, and the gap is extremely limited! If this stalemate continues, the final result will not change in the slightest!
"Zhu Zhaoyuan's approach, in addition to the possibility of extending her rule for a longer period of time, cannot solve the fundamental problem! Unless she still has some hole cards to play! Crassus pondered for a moment, then slowly analyzed.
"Hole cards?" Tian Xuanhao frowned and said, "What hole cards does she have now, which can pose a fatal threat to us?" ”
Crassus shook his head: "I don't know, but one thing is certain: this woman will never admit defeat easily!" Unless our army is in the Tianhua Star Domain, don't want her to bow her head! ”
The ministers thought about it for a while, but they didn't know why, and finally Yun Haoyu said: "Now I can only be sure that she must have a trick!" As for what exactly, it can crush our fleet in one fell swoop, it is not known yet! It seems that the only way to get our intelligence organizations to step up their activities and see if we can learn of their plans! ”
"In addition, we have to step up our preparations, and we can modify as many warships as we can! All the technology I can use, I can use it! Our time is pressing, and we must take this empire as soon as possible at all costs, so as to face the next changes in the star sea! ”
Two days later, Cameron's fleet successfully arrived in Solomon Province, and the surrounding star fields fell in the wind!
Fifteen days later, all the remaining star fields in this galaxy were successfully received by the Starlight fleet! At this point, the Yunmeng Galaxy of the Shuofeng Empire, a total of four hundred and sixty-three star fields, has all been planted with the banner of the Starlight Empire!
With this complete galaxy, the empire has a territory of nearly 1,200 star fields, and its strength has also risen to a large level, and it has ranked among the top ten great powers in the entire Star Sea world!
For a while, the big forces at home and abroad who have been paying attention to the evolution of the situation in the starry sky have started their own small calculations at this moment.
Previously, they were not optimistic about the Starlight Empire, although the other party had simply defeated the alliance of the six great families, making them no longer dare to doubt the powerful strength of this emerging empire! But an all-out war with an old superpower like the Shuofeng Empire is another matter!
At the beginning of the war between the two powers, they mostly thought that although the Starlight Empire had adopted lightning tactics and made a lot of progress in the short term, the Shuofeng Empire only needed to come back to its senses and accumulate enough strength to fight back! The outcome of this new empire is already sealed! At the worst, it will cede the land and pay compensation, and the worst will be the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species!
Now, however, they had to start thinking about another possibility of the outcome of the war! The Starlight Empire, which successfully won the Yunmeng Galaxy, already has the qualifications to sit on an equal footing with the Shuofeng Empire!
The next direction of the battle is really a bit difficult to judge, the history of the Shuofeng Empire may not end, but its influence must be greatly weakened! It is already a definite fact that the Starlight Empire has become the overlord force in the northern part of the Star Sea World!
So, should you do something about it, contact this empire as soon as possible, explore the possibility of cooperation between the two sides, and win as many benefits as possible for the forces behind you! It became their unanimous idea at the moment! ――
The Lonnie Star Field is the place where the two major galaxies of Tianhua and Yunmeng meet.
As the main fleet of the Starlight Empire approached step by step, Zhu Xinlong's fleet had already withdrawn here a few days ago, and with the help of the complete star defense system, it blocked the footsteps of the Starlight fleet.
In a secret room in the "Tianzhu" fortress, the Minister of Military Affairs was discussing in a low voice with the cronies sent by Zhu Zhaoyuan.
"All the arrangements are in place, right?" The messenger looked like a beautiful young woman, but as soon as she glanced down, she could see a colorful python tail several meters long revealing under the gorgeous skirt!
She's a Yanwei person!
Zhu Xinlong seemed to be accustomed to this, and said respectfully: "Please tell the Queen Mother that everything has been prepared according to the instructions!" Just wait for the other party to attack, it is their death time! It's just that the emperor is not easy to deal with, I don't know ......"
"It's none of your business!" The woman said arrogantly, "There are many strong men of our clan participating in the war, a humble human emperor, it is easy to kill him!" ”