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"The main guns of the whole ship are aimed at the 3 o'clock position, and immediately after the attack, they will be moved to the 6 o'clock position, attack!" With a wave of his hand, the main guns of hundreds of Imperial warships roared at the same time, and countless huge laser beams swooped down at the 3 o'clock position. As soon as these hundreds of battleships finished shooting, they immediately moved according to the order, because they all knew that if they did not move, they would definitely be flanked by the enemy.

"The radarman debriefs!" Darrens's adjutant, a middle-aged man with short brown hair and the rank of lieutenant colonel, with a resolute face, immediately gave orders to the lieutenant on the surveillance radar before Darrens could speak.

"Report to the chief, 30 enemy ships have been routed!" The lieutenant replied with a salute.

"Enemy attack! At 5 o'clock, get ready to take the attack! The sound suddenly came from the battleship's computer, and the ship's personnel returned to their posts to fasten their seatbelts or grab nearby objects. The warships outside immediately moved to the flagship, ready to block the attack for the flagship.

With a flash of light on the screen, the hull of Darrens' flagship shook and it was fine, but everyone knew that in the moment just now, more than a dozen of their own warships had disappeared.

Darrens, who was sitting in the command chair, said coldly: "Map! As his words fell, a holographic map of galaxies immediately appeared in front of him. Several staff officers with the rank of colonel immediately took out electronic pens and ran over.

"This is our position, here, here, here have found traces of the enemy, here, here the number of enemy fleets have been identified, 2,000 and 3,000 troops respectively." A colonel skillfully used an electronic pen to point out the place he had just said on the galaxy map.

I saw a small blue triangle on the galaxy map, surrounded by five or six red triangles. Darrens didn't speak, but quietly listened to the staff officer's analysis of the situation on both sides. Others thought he was thinking about the war, but in fact he was thinking about what happened during this period:

"The command of the Silver Eagle Empire ordered Vice Admiral Viscount Darrens to lead 3,000 warships to the M'ou system to eliminate the pirates who disturbed the balance of the galaxy. February 3, 3434 in the cosmic calendar. A young officer read the order and looked at Darrens with a look of envy and jealousy.

Envoys from other empires would have been very surprised to hear this command, for it is common practice that any order of the empire must be preceded by the words 'in accordance with the will of His Majesty the Most Sovereign Emperor.' However, due to the existence of dukes and counts in the Empire, all military orders start with the 'Silver Eagle Empire Commander's Order', while the political axe orders start with the 'Silver Eagle Empire Prime Minister's Order'.

Darrens saluted and took the order with a blank face. He had known this order for a long time, and he also knew that he had been named by the Third Prince himself to be the commander. Although he is not familiar with the Three Princes, everyone in the empire knows that the Three Princes are arrogant and murderous.

Besides, the Mu'ou system is basically the territory of the Three Princes, and it can be said that since the Mu'ou System became the territory of the Three Princes, the population has been decreasing. In a place controlled by such a terrifying guy, there must be a gang or two of pirates who can't stand the oppression, but there is absolutely no way that these pirates can still wander around after gathering 5,000 troops. Could it be that the strength of the third prince's private fleet of more than 100,000 is good-looking?

So needless to say, there is definitely a conspiracy in this matter. Although Darrens did not understand why the Earl would agree to the request of the third prince, he still obeyed orders. But he was more troubled that the Count actually gave his daughter to his flagship. The empire is different from the federation, and there is no female surname in the combat post of the emperor [***], so the appearance of the count's daughter made the soldiers of the flagship cheer loudly. But soon they began to sigh, and they also learned what kind of person the count's daughter was.

The earl's daughter first asked questions curiously when she saw anything, and then began to control these instruments, and what made people wonder what to do was that she was actually very interested in fighter jets, and even took out the identity of the earl's daughter to force those pilots to teach her to fly fighter jets.

When she got tired of those small arms, she began to hit the idea on the battleship, not only forcibly snatching the right to drive the battleship, but also driving the battleship and rampage through the troops, fortunately she did not learn how to control the artillery system, otherwise I am afraid that the fleet would have been destroyed by her before she found the pirate.

When the Earl's daughter finally lost interest in them, she began to pestering Darrens again. Asking Darrens to chat with her, to play with her, and even to make nonsense and stalk during the military meeting, if it doesn't go well, it will make the flagship uneasy. Darrens scolded her a few words and even made him cry, make trouble, and hang him, and finally made Darrens only confined her, otherwise this battle would not have to be fought.

After dealing with the affairs of the earl's daughter, as soon as it was quieter, the radar found the traces of pirates, and the soldiers, who had long been annoyed by the earl's daughter, immediately prepared for battle with excitement. According to the investigation, the pirates, like the information given by the high command, were indeed 5,000 warships converted from merchant ships.

The result of this war was the same as the soldiers thought, those pirates had no formation, no matching, 5,000 warships rushed over in this way, and the emperor [***] who was waiting for him was beaten to pieces at once. However, when everyone lost their vigilance, countless mysterious warships with powerful firepower suddenly appeared, and the emperor [***] who was intoxicated with victory was dizzy, and the 3,000 troops lost one-third of their strength at this moment. If it weren't for Darrens and the other captains struggling to shift their positions, I am afraid that the entire army would have been wiped out long ago.

Finally, he transferred the remnants of his forces to a meteorite belt and began to use meteorites as cover to wage guerrilla warfare, but he was surrounded by these mysterious fleets. Although the guerrilla warfare was effective in destroying those enemies, due to the disparity in strength, there were only about 500 ships left of the 3,000 troops.

Darrens sighed as he looked at the staff officers who were concentrating on tactics, and the officers and men who were concentrating on controlling the battleship. Although no one said it, everyone knew that these mysterious fleets were the private fleets of the Three Princes.

Although Darrens had long expected that the third prince would come to murder his rival, he could not imagine that the third prince would launch such a fierce attack knowing that the earl's daughter was on the ship. There can be no survivors under this fierce attack, if he kills the earl's daughter, he and the earl will be mortal enemies, don't the three princes no longer need to win over the earl?

Thinking of this, Darrens's brows jumped suddenly, because he remembered why the three princes who had always been in the earl dared to fight openly, there was only one reason, the emperor began to attack the earl! Otherwise, the third prince, who cherished his own strength very much, would not have risked huge losses to attack him. In just a few days of guerrilla warfare, he has eliminated tens of thousands of troops of the three princes, which is equal to one-tenth of the strength of the three princes.

If the emperor didn't speak, it would be impossible for the three princes to throw the chips for the throne here, and the emperor's order must be: whoever gets the earl and the duke will be the crown prince. In this case, those princes are willing to pay for anything.

"Well, if the emperor starts to make a move, the situation in Yanjing now will definitely be more dangerous than here. Alas, good friend, you must protect yourself. Darrens sighed in his heart.

Darrens had little affection for the Earl other than loyalty, and he cared more about his only friend than his boss. On more than one occasion he said in front of Kester that the Earl and the Duke were not, because he thought that these two powerful lords had no bearing to achieve great things. According to their power, if they pull the emperor down and do it themselves, there will be no objections. But they just don't do it, but are at ease with the status of the ministers.

Since they are bent on being a powerful minister, they should be subtle, but no matter what they do, they don't take the emperor in their eyes, and they don't even cover up the hypocrisy. Ordinary ministers still coerce the Son of Heaven to order the world, and do everything in the name of the emperor. But they threw the Emperor aside and acted on their own, as if to show the whole world that they did not need to obey the Emperor's orders. Maybe Kester was right, they were doing this to show their loyalty to some mysterious person.

Knowing this secret, Darrens once revealed to Kester that his allegiance was to the Count of the Empire, not the mysterious man who didn't know who it was. Kester, on the other hand, is a bit cryptic in saying that he is loyal to the empire as a whole, not to a single person. Darrens knew what Kester's words meant, and he was loyal to the country, not to the duke, not to the emperor, and not to the mysterious man.

In fact, there were some things that Darrens did not say, and he did not dare to say these words, because it would be a great rebellion to say them. In Darrens's mind, the object of true allegiance is himself. He was willing to be loyal to the Earl, firstly, because the Earl had discovered his talents, and secondly, the Earl was very powerful. If the Count was willing to be Emperor, Darrens was willing to eliminate all opponents for the Count. But the Count had no such ambition, and instead faithfully waited for a mysterious man to ascend to the throne.

Since the Count has no ambition, and he is not willing to give his loyalty to the mysterious man, it is better to keep his loyalty to himself. Darrens, who made up his mind on the battlefield, didn't know where his decision would take him, but he didn't regret it, and there was nothing he didn't regret working hard for himself.

"Sir! The enemy ships suddenly withdrew! The radarman's shouting cleared Darrens from his thoughts. Darrens looked up at the galaxy map, and the red squares began to quickly withdraw from the battlefield, and after a while, they completely left the radar's detection range and disappeared completely.

Just as Darrens was about to ask what was going on, the radarman's exclamation rang out again: "Report! A mysterious fleet of 20,000 is in the radar's range! The soldiers, who had been cheering for the departure of the enemy ship, immediately closed their mouths when they heard this, and all looked nervously at the large yellow square displayed on the screen.

At the moment of the radarman's report, the computer also listed the distribution of the fleet's warship data. Seeing the above data, everyone took a breath of cold air, because this fleet actually does not have warships below level 3, all of them are level 1 or 2 warships. No wonder the warships that attacked him just now fled immediately, in the face of such a high-level powerful fleet, who would stay here and wait for death?

The distribution of the ranks of the Imperial fleet is not as cumbersome as that of the Federation, and the Empire simply refers to all warships with more than 100 main guns as Class 1 warships, 80 to 100 ships as Class 2 warships, 60 to 80 ships as Class 4 warships, 60 to 40 ships as Class 5 warships, and those with less than 40 guns as Class 6 warships.

"20,000 ships of all rank 1 and 2?" Darrens muttered thoughtfully at the sight of the number. And the communication soldier also turned to Darrens at this moment and said, "Report, the other party has sent a contact communication, is it connected?" ”

Everyone looked at Darrens, and everyone thought that Darrens should think about it before making a decision, but Darrens let them down. Almost at the same time as the communications corps reported, Darrens said, "Take it in." words.

Everyone closed their breath and nervously looked at the slowly unfolding screen, the screen unfolded, a young man with a shawl blonde hair, handsome appearance, but his demeanor seemed to be a little flowing, with the rank of general in the empire on his shoulders. He smiled and beckoned to Darrens, and said happily, "Yo ho! Brother, how are you doing these days? Seeing this person, everyone sat down in their seats with a sigh of relief. This is a good friend of his own commander, and Lieutenant General Kester, who is tied with the chief of the empire.

Darrens shook the corners of his mouth and smiled in a flat tone: "It's not bad, there are less than 500 of the 3,000 troops left." ”

Kester made a surprised expression and shouted, "Not bad? 3,000 troops were surrounded by 30,000 regular troops for four days, and after destroying nearly 10,000 enemies, they still had 500 troops left, which is not bad? I was killed by them earlier! You guys are really too modest, you must know that being too modest is pride! That's a big deal. Kester said, holding out his finger and shaking it.

"Help me with supplies, repairs and navigation, these brothers haven't had a break for a few days." Darrens looked at his men who were already asleep on the ground, and sighed to Kester.

Keskey nodded: "No problem, come over to me, I got a good bottle of wine." Darrens nodded wordlessly.

In Kester's flagship commander's room, Darrens just took the wine glass from Kester and asked, "How is Yanjing?" ”

Kester smiled, "I thought you could endure until you asked." He took a sip of wine and continued: "One word: chaos! Two words: chaos! Three words: it's chaotic! Four words: very chaotic! Five words......"

Seeing that Kester still wanted to continue, Darrens hurriedly interrupted: "Okay, I know Yanjing is very messy, let's talk about how it is." ”

Kester took another sip of wine before saying, "On the first day after you left, the slaves in the major estates in Yanjing rioted, and nearly 10 million people rioted!" The police and intelligence services did not even notice the slightest warning, so after the riot, the heads of the two departments were replaced. ”

"Substitutions? Who's changed? Darrens immediately looked up and asked. Because the Yanjing Police Department and the Yanjing Intelligence Department control the security and intelligence of the entire Yanjing, if the candidate is not selected well, it will cause chaos.

"Duke Pat Orms as the new Yenching Police Director, and Duke Jaerson Orms as the new Yenching Intelligence Director." Kester said as he grabbed a piece of beef and chewed it.

"Two brothers of the Orms family? They are relatives of the emperor, and the earls and dukes have no objections? Darrens asked, surprised. The emperor's relatives held these two sensitive positions, which meant that these two departments were controlled by the emperor.

Kester shook his head and said, "There is no objection, because their minds are all on the expedition to the Wanluo Federation." Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed and said: "When they took office, they looked so spirited, as if as soon as they came out, the slave rebellion would immediately subside." Hee-hee, it's a pity that the slave rebellion has spread to other planets, and the entire capital area is in chaos. There weren't enough policemen, and in the end they had to come and beg me. ”

"Please? Why? Darrens pinched a piece of beef and ate it.

"Hehe, only my Praetorian Guard's Third Fleet is in the entire capital area, and of course your Fourth Fleet is also there, but you, the commander, are not there, so who don't ask me to beg." Kester smirked.

Darrens asked puzzledly, "There are only the third and fourth fleets left in the seven fleets of the Yanjing Praetorian Guard?" Where did the others go? ”

"They were all transferred to other places to fight pirates, they all went with the whole fleet, you are more special, only led 3,000 troops to fight pirates."

"All to fight pirates? Why don't you have a share? ”

"Hehe, when the command issued the order, I happened to be playing with Meimei in the suburbs, so I didn't receive the order. Originally, the headquarters wanted to punish me, but when the slaves revolted, they had to come and deal with me. ”

"The High Command wants to punish you? Neither the earl nor the duke are in Yanjing? ”

"Of course not, they are secretly forming troops on the front line." Kester pouted.

Darrens nodded, "No wonder. He finally knew why the emperor dared to make a move, in the past, no matter what happened to the earl and the duke, one person stayed in Yanjing, but now that both of them are gone, when encountering such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it is strange that the emperor does not start. In this way, the earl sent his daughter to him, not because he wanted the third prince to take care of his daughter and not dare to let go of his attack, but because he knew that Yanjing was full of turmoil, and he wanted to protect his daughter. Thinking of this, Darrens suddenly realized that he had forgotten something very important, what was it? It's a pity that he is used to not thinking about it for the time being if he can't think of it, so he let go of this thought.

"Hehe, do you know how much time it took me to quell the slave rebellion? Let me tell you, in just one day, I will put down the slave rebellion in the capital area in one day! Kester held out a finger and shook it, and he continued without waiting for Darrens to speak, "Any idea how I started?" I, at the beginning, used heavy troops, found a planet with the most violent riots except for Yanjing, surrounded those slaves, and gave them a super massacre. Hehe, the massacre broadcast live, it was really a river of blood, and when you look at it from space, you can see a large area of red. Hee-hee, in order to add to the shocking scene, I ordered that no laser weapons be used, only laser knives could be used to slash and kill. Haha, and after the soldiers finished the massacre, I specially invited them to eat bloody raw beef, hehe, isn't my surname very bad? After saying that, he looked at Darrens smugly.

"You just killed the slaves of a planet, and then broadcast the killing scene to the rioting slaves, and then solved the riot?" Darrens asked.

Kester laughed, "yes, that's what I did. When the rioting slaves saw the stereoscopic images, they were all so frightened that they hid back in the manor. Hehe, you see how easy my method is. ”

Darrens frowned and said, "You can only suppress the riot temporarily, the next slave riot will be more intense, you should put all the slaves who participated in the riot to death." ”

Kester smiled and said: "I'm afraid of trouble, if you kill them all, it will take ten days, anyway, if they dare to riot, they can't kill them again." ”

Darrens shook his head and sighed, "Alas, you're soft-hearted. ”

"By the way, why don't you ask me why I'm here?" Kester leaned forward and Darrens asked with interest.

Darrens smiled and said, "I don't ask you, I'm waiting for you to say it yourself." ”

"Hi, I was deceived by you again. After I quelled the riot, I realized that something was wrong when I found that you had been gone for days and had not heard from you, so I came to you with the Third and Fourth Fleets. ”

"The Fourth Fleet is also here? Why didn't you see it? Darrens asked, surprised. In fact, what surprised him was not that the Fourth Fleet was also coming, but how could Kester mobilize his own fleet? The Fourth Fleet could not be mobilized by anyone but itself, could it be that those officers began to waver when they saw that the situation was wrong? It seems that we need to train them well when we go back!

"Hey, don't say it, I wanted to bring the Fourth Fleet, but they said they didn't listen to anyone except your orders, and now they are still staying on the outskirts of the capital area." Speaking of this, Kester leaned forward and whispered: "Brother has a set, I'm afraid the earl can't command the Fourth Fleet, right?" ”

Darrens smiled slightly, and also replied quietly: "You are not bad, can the Duke command the Third Fleet?" ”

The two closed their mouths and looked at each other, and suddenly clinked glasses with laughter. They all knew that the other party had completely turned their fleet into their own personal belongings.

"Yes, when I first arrived in the M'o system, I received orders from the Earl and Duke, they ordered us to rush to the front line as soon as possible, saying that we need to do our part in the great cause, what do you say should be done?" Kester said with a solemn face.

Darrens pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that the two lords don't even want the forces within the empire in order to attack the Wanluo Federation. Seeing that they are so anxious, they dare to love that this war is to welcome back that mysterious man. They told us to go, first, to increase our combat effectiveness, and secondly, to make us loyal to that person. ”

"Shall we go, then?" Kester was a little anxious.

Darrens smiled: "Go, of course we have to go, if we want to climb up, we must have military exploits, how can we not go to such a good opportunity for meritorious service, as for the matter of allegiance, we will see when the time comes." ”

Kester nodded, silently sipping his wine, and Darrens was the same. After a while, Kester suddenly smiled and said, "By the way, you went with the earl's daughter this time, lived and ate together for these days, did you give her to that?" ”

Darrens's face turned pale, he finally remembered what he had forgotten, he actually forgot to release the imprisoned earl's daughter, thinking of the current appearance of the earl's daughter, Darrens couldn't help but shudder, immediately got up and turned around and ran. And Kester, who vaguely knew what was going on, of course hurriedly followed behind, ready to watch the excitement.

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