Chapter 4: The Three Admirals
Soon, the Praetorian Guards in the spaceport shouted a salute for the first time, and then a large group of soldiers on huge mechanical horses appeared.
As soon as they saw these soldiers on horseback, the people immediately cheered.
The idiots of the Night Empire know that only those who have the qualifications of a royal knight can ride a horse on the capital star, and those who can have the qualification of a knight are only the people of the royal legion.
Most of the knights in this group are dressed in uniform imperial [***] official uniforms, but the ranks are slightly different, but the lowest ones are all major generals.
At the head of the procession were three men in cloaks, the first of whom was a man wearing a tiger mask, with black hair and a black embroidered gold ribbon to accentuate his formidable body.
A strong fierce aura loomed a little as his body rose and fell. The epaulettes on his uniform and the embroidered pattern on his black cloak were the same, both of which were a golden tiger's head with a hideous mouth open and roaring.
He is the commander of the second army of the royal family, one of the three admirals, the tiger admiral.
On the left behind the Tiger Admiral is a man with blond hair, wearing a silver military uniform, wearing a cheetah mask, and a cheetah head embroidered on his cloak, this cheetah head is a bit obscure, if you don't pay attention, you can't see what it is.
As for the man, he didn't feel anything, like he didn't exist much. The only strange thing is that his body does not rise and fall with the undulations caused by the horse's walking, and the whole person seems to be still all the time.
This man is the commander of the Royal Third Legion, one of the three admirals, the leopard admiral. This leopard admiral is also the head of the Li family that Tang Long destroyed at the beginning of the chaos galaxy - Ainbut.
Next to the leopard admiral was a woman with blue hair, and although her appearance was obscured by a wolf mask, the woman's bumpy body, tightly wrapped in a blue military uniform, could be guessed to be at a young and beautiful age.
The woman in the blue cloak was not like a log like her two companions, but kept waving and throwing kisses to the cheering crowd around her, and the blue wolf head embroidered behind the cloak was as flamboyant as her actions.
But don't think that she is a very warm and easy person to get along with, and those who know her well are shy away from her. If it weren't for her, those pants brothers in the capital star wouldn't have to pretend to be good children during this time, and hide far away in the name of study tours. She is the commander of the Royal Fourth Legion, one of the three admirals, the wolf admiral.
In the main hall of the palace, the prime minister, who was standing with his hands bowed under the throne of the Emperor of the Night, quietly looked at the three admirals who were walking quickly outside the door of the main hall.
Not only the prime minister was looking at them, but also the prime ministers on the left and right who were present, and His Royal Highnesses, including the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, were also quietly watching.
You must know that these three admirals can be said to be the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, especially the people whom your highnesses want to deal with the most, but the least deal with.
I want to deal with it the most, because these three admirals control the three most powerful legions of the Night Empire, as long as any of His Highnesses wooes them, it can be said that the next candidate for the Night Emperor is already decided.
But they are the most difficult to deal with, because they are the emperor's henchmen, and they are more favored by the emperor than the most favored concubines in the harem, and no one dares to risk being suspicious of the emperor to win them over.
"Minister, Ao Han, Ainbut, and Shiris knock on my emperor, and may my emperor rule the world as soon as possible."
The three admirals knelt in front of the Night Emperor and said respectfully.
There are only three of them in the entire Night Empire, who can call the Night Emperor our Emperor, and the other ministers, including the favored Prime Minister, can only call the Night Emperor Your Majesty.
It is conceivable that this title alone can make most ministers jealous of the three of them.
"The three Aiqing are exempt, and the three Aiqing are summoned this time, because I have something that needs to be completed by the three Aiqing." The Night Emperor said kindly.
The tone of the Night Emperor made the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty staring at the three admirals with red eyes, including those highnesses, because they had never been treated by the Night Emperor to speak to themselves in such a kind tone!
The Night Emperor, who was aware of everyone's expressions, smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and the prime minister, who had been paying careful attention to his boss and colleagues, also saw the emperor's smile flashing when he saw the jealous expressions of his colleagues. The prime minister felt a chill in his heart, and he hurriedly lowered his eyes, when he didn't see anything.
"Please give an order from my emperor, and the ministers will remove all obstacles for my emperor!" The three admirals knelt down again and said, although their tone was a little arrogant, everyone present looked like they were all taken for granted, if there were enemies that the three admirals couldn't handle, then it was time for the crisis of the Night Empire to come.
"I'm sure you've heard of it too! The original alliance of the Five Nations has disbanded and is attacking each other, and our country has also been attacked by the Wind Stripe Empire, with one legion completely wiped out and thousands of administrative stars falling into the hands of the enemy. The Night Emperor said.
At this moment, he was not as excited as when he heard the news, but relaxed as if he was saying something that was not a big deal.
Tiger Admiral Ao Han immediately stood up and gave a military salute, and said loudly: "The minister will go and recapture the territory, and immediately counterattack the Wind Pattern Empire." As he spoke, he wanted to leave.
The Night Emperor beckoned, and said with an annoyed face, "Come back to me, you guy, I haven't finished talking yet!" The matter of recovering the territory has been handed over to the twentieth, twenty-third, and thirty-fifth frontier regiments, don't run to join in the fun, beware of the border guards coming to sue you again! ”
Although the Night Emperor had an annoyed look on his face, listening to his tone, the idiot knew how much he favored the three admirals.
Originally, Admiral Tiger interrupted the emperor's words without authorization and got up without authorization, and he would definitely be charged with several crimes on the other courtiers, but on the three major admirals, this was nothing at all.
Tiger Admiral Ao Han didn't say anything, and when he heard the words of the Night Emperor, he just came back and stood up, while Wolf Admiral Sheris smiled coquettishly: "My Emperor, it's not that you don't know Brother Tiger's urgent surname, you can quickly give orders to your ministers!" ”
Shirlith's words once again attracted a large number of jealous eyes.
Because in the entire Night Empire, she is the only one who can urge the emperor, and that is the queen mother of the Muyi Empire, and she doesn't dare to do this.
You must know that many harem concubines have slandered and framed the wolf admiral because of this, but the result is definitely that those concubines who slandered were beaten into the cold palace.
The Night Emperor pretended to be helpless, sighed and said, "Alas! I don't know what to say about you, okay! I'll just say it.
"Admiral Tiger, your troops are attacking the Moon Curtain Empire; Leopard Admiral, your troops are attacking the Blue Ice Empire; Wolf Admiral, you are attacking the Wind Stripe Empire.
"I don't ask you to get many results in the space war, I just ask you to do your best to destroy the ground facilities on these three planets."
The three admirals didn't ask much, and directly gave a military salute and said, "Command!" He turned around and retreated, such a rude action, the Night Emperor didn't care at all.
And the ministers who have known for a long time that this is the case, of course, will not run out to accuse the three admirals of being rude at the risk of not pleasing both sides.
Although the ministers and His Highnesses did not believe it, the emperor had summoned the three admirals all the way back to say such a few words.
But this is about the emperor's secret, and no one dares to pursue it, even if they want to explore it, it is not now. Secretly, the three admirals have been closely watched for a long time.
"Please forgive your majesty for your ignorance, just now the old minister listened to the order given by your majesty to the three admirals, but the old minister just didn't understand, why didn't your majesty let the three admirals attack the country of Wulai?
"You must know that the Wulai Kingdom is deservedly the number one power in the universe and the biggest enemy of our country, so it can't be easily given time to improve its strength.
"Lao Chen believes that as long as the three admirals attack the Wulai Kingdom at the same time, the Wulai Kingdom will definitely not be pleased."
An old man dressed in a gorgeous costume with a duke's ribbon looked at the Night Emperor with a puzzled face, and anyone who looked at his expression could understand that he longed for the Night Emperor to answer his doubts.
The Night Emperor raised his eyebrows, and scolded in his heart: "Old immortal guy, when did you take refuge in Lao Tzu's son?" Actually ran out for them to find out the news? It's better not to let me know who you're going to, you'll look good then! ”
The Night Emperor's action of raising his eyebrows made all the ministers see clearly, and several neutral ministers kept silent, while His Highnesses and their accomplices followed closely behind the minister to inquire about the solution to the Wulai Kingdom.
Most of the words were "If it is inconvenient for the three admirals to change their plans, then it is better for the ministers to be responsible for attacking the Wulai Kingdom!" And so on, and so on, and that meant that he wanted to gain military power.
Seeing the actions of his sons and ministers, the Night Emperor couldn't help but sneer in his heart: "Damn guys, when I don't know your intentions!" Hmph, let's let you die again! ”
Thinking of this, the Night Emperor said loudly: "Don't worry about the situation in the Wulai Kingdom, I have already handed over the strategy for the Wulai Kingdom to the First Imperial Legion to be responsible. ”
"Oh, I see, Lao Chen understands, it is indeed appropriate for Wulai Kingdom to be handed over to the First Royal Legion, but I don't know who is the leader of the First Royal Legion? Your Majesty, you are a golden man, but you can't command it yourself! ”
The old duke's head nodded in a sudden realization, and then he showed an expression of loyalty to the lord and persuaded him.
Other ministers also spoke one after another, and the most persuasive ones were those highnesses, who all said that they wanted to relieve their father's worries and vied for the position of the first royal commander.
The Night Emperor smiled coldly: "Don't argue, did I say that I am the commander of the first royal legion?" Hearing this, everyone froze with their mouths open.
The old duke was even more cautious and tentative: "Your Majesty said this, does you mean that someone has already served as the commander of the First Legion?" ”
"Of course! At the time of the formation of the First Royal Legion, there was a person who served as the commander of the legion. The Night Emperor laughed, but the smile was a mockery no matter how you looked at it.
The ministers were stunned, and His Royal Highness was dumbfounded, including the prime minister who knew many emperors' secrets, they never thought that the commander of the first imperial army would have been appointed a long time ago.
For a long time, they thought that this position was concurrently held by the emperor, because the strength of the first royal army was equal to the sum of the strength of the three admirals, which was said by the three admirals themselves, and it was impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to give this position to others.
This is also the reason why His Royal Highness and the ministers are staring at this position, but no one thought that such a big piece of fat would have belonged to someone else for a long time.
"Uh, Your Majesty, I wonder if the old minister will be lucky enough to know who the talented man who is the commander of the first royal legion?" After the old duke came to his senses, he said even more cautiously.
The people who came to their senses immediately pricked up their ears, and His Highness and some ministers had even made up their minds that as long as they knew who it was, they would immediately send someone to find an opportunity to assassinate this guy, so that the hot seat could be vacated.
"Admiral Long, Prince Longao."
The Night Emperor spit out these words very casually, and the first three words made everyone's hearts chill, because they thought of the three admirals, according to the customary surname of the language, this dragon admiral is the boss of the three admirals. The implicit meaning is that offending Admiral Long is equivalent to offending the three Admirals.
And the last four words make everyone scratch their heads, when did the title of prince appear in the empire?
His Majesty's brothers were fratricidal when they were fighting for the throne, and what happened in that dark age was clear to the older generation of ministers who survived, and it was absolutely certain that none of the emperor's brothers survived.
And His Majesty's sons of the Emperor were the most amazing and were crowned kings of the county, and none of them got the title of prince under one person and above ten thousand people.
But His Majesty the Emperor can't lie about this at all, because there is no need at all, is there really a prince?
The old duke didn't want to speak anymore, but when he saw that His Royal Highness, who had taken refuge in him, desperately glared at him, and after hesitating for a while, he could only say out loud: "Your Majesty, I don't know who this Prince Long Ao is?" The old minister has not heard of ......"
Before the old duke's words could be finished, he was interrupted by the Night Emperor, who snorted coldly and said in an arrogant and contemptuous tone: "Stand down, you are just a duke!" ”
The old duke immediately broke out in a cold sweat, didn't even dare to say a word of guilt, trembled and retreated to his position, and everyone present heard the meaning of the emperor's words: "You people are just courtiers, and you are not qualified to know the internal affairs of the imperial family at all!" ”
None of the civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty were stupid, so they all shut up, and no matter how their masters looked, they didn't dare to come out and cause trouble again.
You must know that these masters can only bear the glory behind themselves, but the master in front of him can immediately let himself be finished, and he can definitely let himself fall into the abyss, so don't join in the fun.
His Royal Highness originally wanted to personally go out to inquire about the situation of this Long Ao, but when they saw the cold face of their father, they only swallowed their saliva and shrank their necks, lowered their heads and remained silent.
Seeing the performance of his sons, the Night Emperor couldn't help but roar in his heart: "A group of gutless rats who only have vigorous ambitions, but do not have the same courage and knowledge!
"How did Lao Tzu raise so many litters! If I really rely on these bastards, wouldn't Lao Tzu's empire be finished in my generation? Fortunately, Lao Tzu was prescient! ”
Thinking of this, the Night Emperor's anger disappeared, and instead he looked at his sons with a pitiful look.
His son didn't notice his father's expression at all, and he didn't expect that his father was sighing at the moment: "Alas! Don't blame me, who is mean, and don't blame your brother for being cruel and ruthless, there is no way to do it.
"In order to ensure the longevity of our Night Empire, our Night Royalty can only choose such rules."
Late at night, the Night Palace had become silent.
Maintaining the ancient tradition, the palace guards began to patrol the palace with a laser knife in the shape of a large sword, a portable laser cannon, and a cloak that resisted the beam.
Outside the door of the emperor's dormitory in the harem, dozens of expressionless senior guards guarded around the dormitory like pillars, and without orders, these guards without their own surnames would destroy anything that appeared in front of them at the first time.
In addition to the Night Emperor and the three major admirals in the dormitory, there was also a man wearing a green dragon mask.
Comparing the three admirals according to the shape of the mask, this man is obviously the dragon admiral in the mouth of the Night Emperor - Long Ao.
"Admiral Tiger, Admiral Leopard, Admiral Wolf, the mission you issued at the Council in front of the palace just now is invalid." The Night Emperor said nonchalantly.
Hearing this, the three admirals did not react to these words that went back on their word and damaged the majesty of the emperor, but instead looked like they had known it for a long time, and kept their heads down.
The Night Emperor continued, "Admiral Dragon, you take over the task of the three of them, and the task of attacking the Four Great Powers is entrusted to you. ”
For this impossible task, Admiral Long nodded in agreement without any hesitation. As for Admiral Long's very obvious rude behavior, none of the people present cared.
"As for the three of you, you are sailing in secret, and the target of the attack is the Tang Kingdom, you must destroy the Tang Dynasty in the shortest possible time, even if you can't destroy the Tang Dynasty, you have to kill the Tang Emperor Tang Long!" The Night Emperor said through a bit of gritted teeth.
Although the three admirals did not understand why they had traveled thousands of miles to attack a small country, they immediately knelt down and saluted, and said respectfully: "The ministers will be as you wish, my emperor." ”
"Well, let's rest in the capital for seven days first, and then you can set off after the equipment and materials are replenished, and you don't need to enter the palace to resign." The Night Emperor waved his hand and motioned for the three admirals to leave.
When the three admirals left, the three admirals first bowed to the Night Emperor, and then bowed to the Dragon Admiral, if other people saw it, they would definitely guess. Because of the privileges that the three admirals have, but except for the Night Emperor, even when they see the prince, they don't have to salute.
After the three admirals stepped back, Admiral Long poured a drink for the Night Emperor, and said loudly: "Father, why do you want to mobilize the people to deal with that Tang Long? ”
After the Night Emperor drank all the wine in one go, he said, "Huh, Ao'er, I suspect that the reason why the four great powers attacked each other this time is probably because they received orders from Tang Long.
"Last time we had so many things, seeing their civil strife, at first I thought our plan was successful, but think about it carefully, if they betrayed Tang Long, they would definitely not attack their allies with all their might, how could they preserve their strength.
"Now that intelligence shows that the four great powers have thrown almost all their forces into battle, anyone with a modicum of wisdom will find it abnormal.
"If they are asked to do this, it must be that Tang Long suspects that some of his five subordinates have betrayed, but he can't tell the difference, so he simply orders them to kill each other."
"Probably impossible, right? If they received Tang Long's order, then why didn't you receive the order? Admiral Long looked puzzled.
"Alas, I'm not Tang Long's real subordinate, and I'm not a cyborg transformed by robots, who knows if Tang Long has installed any predetermined programs in the brains of these robots!"
The Night Emperor said helplessly: "So this time you are asked to attack the four great powers, that is, to make a sign that we have dispatched all our forces, so as not to let the guys of those big countries detect something and besiege us."
"At this time, we can't afford the siege of the four major powers."
"I understand, father, son-in-law will definitely fight the majesty of our Night Empire." Admiral Long nodded.
"It doesn't have to be majestic, but it must be the maximum damage to Shikoku's ground facilities with minimal damage. You must know that in a war with a big country like ours, it is logistics, as long as the logistics of the four countries are destroyed, the victory must belong to our Night Empire! The Night Emperor said excitedly.
"Yes, my son obeys." When Admiral Long said this, he made a little hesitant look and said: "It's just that Father Emperor, Erchen will go on this expedition, and several imperial brothers will definitely find out the identity of Erchen, and then Erchen will be their younger brother's ......."
"Ao'er, since I handed over the First Royal Legion to you, I have already made my intentions clear, anyway, if you want to appear in the eyes of the world, it will be useless to hide your identity.
"Don't you look forward to what kind of expressions everyone will have when they find out that the first royal legion commander is the idiot Thirteenth Prince?" The Night Emperor laughed.
"Yes, Erchen is really looking forward to that moment coming soon." Admiral Long also smiled, but his smile made people feel a little cold.
"Haha, it's worthy of being my son, as long as you have the ability, you can take your position at any time, and your brother will also be at your disposal." The Night Emperor patted Admiral Long on the shoulder and laughed.
Hearing this, Admiral Long's whole body trembled, and he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Erchen doesn't dare, Erchen begs to retreat so that he can prepare for war." ”
After the Night Emperor waved his hand in agreement, Admiral Long immediately fled from the room that had made him break out in a cold sweat.
Looking at Admiral Long's distant back, the Night Emperor smiled slightly, poured himself a glass of wine, and muttered: "I hope you don't be too anxious, you must know that you can't eat hot tofu if you are in a hurry, if I didn't abide by this rule at the beginning, then I wouldn't be sitting here now."
"This is a lesson that has been passed down from generation to generation by our Night Royals!" And he drank it all in one gulp.
In the presidential palace of Wulai country, the guards guarding the door saluted today, but their hands were sour, because all the soldiers who entered the presidential palace today were soldiers, and all of them were figures above the rank of general, and the personal guards they brought alone could form a division.
"Your Excellency, I beg you to withdraw your order. Although our army is strong, it cannot wage war against the four major powers at the same time, so please limit your goal to one country. The middle-aged soldier with the rank of marshal said to Tang Jinjin.
And a general next to the marshal, seeing that Tang Jin's face was not very good-looking, hurriedly added: "Your Excellency, it's not that we soldiers are afraid of the enemy's strength. According to the current strength of our country, there is really no enemy in the entire universe that can be put in our eyes.
"It's just that now the war against the four countries at the same time is really not something that our army can afford, if there is only one goal, our army will definitely destroy the enemy without saying a word, and I beg His Excellency the President to change the order."
The generals who filled the presidential palace pandered to him, hoping that Donkin would change the target of the attack to another.
When Tang Jin saw these subordinates, he was both proud and emotional.
Ever since he ordered war against his allies, the vast majority of the people have condemned him for his treachery and recklessness.
But no matter what the outside says, his subordinates are all on his side, and it seems that he is not a failure.
Although I really want to agree to the proposals of these subordinates, I also know that it is very difficult to challenge the four major countries at the same time, even if I am the number one in the universe.
But he could never agree to them, because he could not discern who was a traitor, so he could only use this method. Since he can no longer use the abilities of the five major countries in the universe to help the boss, he will make this universe a mess, so that the five major powers will attack each other and launch a war of external attacks.
Using the means of war to weaken the strength of all powerful countries, including himself, so that even without the help of his five brothers, the boss can rely on the strength of Datang to unify the universe, which is much better than electing the boss to become the leader of the alliance.
And in doing so, not only can it help the boss weaken the strength of the future enemy, but also weaken the strength of the traitor, which will definitely involve the traitor in the abyss of war.
Seeing the noisy appearance of his subordinates, Tang Jin got up and waved his hand and shouted: "Needless to say, I want to ascend the throne as emperor!" ”
Don Jin, who was reluctant to explain, could only use this method to distract his subordinates. It is only after he becomes emperor that he can [***] carry out a plan to weaken the strength of all countries.
"Ahh When the generals heard this, they were stunned for a moment and then all cheered, and some of the generals immediately informed their friends of the news.
And the civil officials who rushed to get the news began to discuss the enthronement ceremony and, more importantly, how to confer official titles.
They have been waiting for this day for a long time, and as for those officials who oppose the study of talent and the imperial system, they will either become the shouts of the people to stay at the bottom and do useless work, or they will disappear into the world long ago.
At this time, none of Tang Jin's subordinates would oppose Tang Jin's accession to the throne.
At a time when the whole universe was watching the excitement of the Five Great Powers Alliance, he suddenly indirectly received the news that the real power figures of the other four countries except for the Dark Night Empire announced their ascension to the throne as emperor almost at the same time.
Among the four kingdoms, the Moon Curtain Kingdom and the Wind Pattern Kingdom are both imperial countries, and the new emperor is the prime minister or general who has long held the real power of the country, which will not make people wonder, and it is not surprising that there will definitely be courtiers usurping the throne next to the imperial power.
But Wulai and Lan Bing are the banner countries of the Mingzhu system countries, and they are the example of all the Mingzhu countries, and they can't accept that the flag countries actually switched to the camp, and for a while, the condemnation of the Mingzhu countries immediately poured into the entire universe, but the same imperial countries did not support, because the imperial countries were deeply wary of these top five new empires in the universe.
However, no matter how many other countries instigated the people of Wulai and Blue Ice to rise up and overthrow the scholars, Tang Jin and Tang Shui, who firmly controlled all the power of the country's military and political affairs, economy, and intelligence, became His Majesty the Emperor like his other two brothers.
Soon after these four new emperors ascended the throne, an all-out war began, and the original alliance of the five nations attacked each other like enemies.
If they are only caught up in the so-called civil strife, the countries of the universe are very happy to stand aside and watch the excitement, but they don't know what the five most powerful countries in the universe have taken the wrong medicine, and while fighting each other, they also send troops to attack other countries, so that the center of the universe is completely plunged into war.
On an unknown planet, in a large hall, there are dozens of large stereoscopic screens, and the characters on the screen, as long as people who are a little familiar with the political affairs of the universe can see their identities, these dozens of people are all big people, although the country they are in cannot be compared with the five major countries in the universe, but it is also a middle-level country in the universe countries.
These people all have one thing in common, that is, the countries they live in are all countries of open politics.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I believe you are all aware that the power of the Ming Cook has weakened to an incredible extent, and the Wu Lai Kingdom and the Blue Ice Country, which represent the banner of our Ming Cook system, have become imperial countries ruled by scholars and completely contrary to the direction of human progress.
"If they are allowed to develop, our Mingshu system will eventually be annihilated in this universe, and everyone here will become historical sinners! We must not allow the imperial system, which is backward, talented, and contrary to the will of history, to befall our kingdom!
"If we can't resist, it will be a shame for all of our Mingchu countries!" An old man with gray hair stood in the middle of the field, shouting hoarsely.
(To be continued)