While Sturm's battleship squad was in contact with the fleet headquarters and preparing for a "battlefield uprising", Bob and his think tanks began to engage with Jeff Shili in other ways. They first sent a request for negotiation to Jeff's Shili on the grounds that they wanted a peaceful resolution of the friction between the two sides, so as to delay as much time as possible and downplay Jeff's Zuihou ultimatum.

At the same time, the propaganda agency of the government of Tikru also used various well-known media and television stations to hype up the atrocities committed by Jeff's space fleet against Tico City. In less than half a day, groups of space battleships using nuclear energy guns to bomb Tico City began to spread quickly and frantically on the interstellar Internet in the St. Proli Star Sector.

As a result, almost all the people of St. Proli were ignited by these video images, and angry people poured into the streets to vent their discontent and anger with demonstrations. Among them, the protests of the people of the planet Tikru were particularly fierce. Because in their opinion, Jeff's space fleet can bomb the planet's capital city of Tico today, and tomorrow's terrifying nuclear cannons may fire at their city at any time.

The spontaneous demonstrations of the people, coupled with Bob Shili's covert facilitation, caused the monstrous public resentment triggered by the tragedy in Tico City, and almost instantly deprived the new government led by Jeff of its footing.

This unexpected everything made Jeff, who had never paid much attention to civil affairs, scramble. Finally, under the guidance and reminder of the old and spicy Copol, Jeff's think tank introduced some emergency measures one after another.

They first affirmed that the previous operation of the Space Fleet was an accident between the two sides, and that the cause of some unclear "misunderstanding" between the warships of the two sides led to the tragedy, and claimed that the new government of the Republic of Jeff was currently negotiating with the government of Tikru to deal with the aftermath.

Jeff then personally ordered the immediate mobilization of a large number of field army gendarmerie units into cities where riots had broken out, to assist the local police forces, and to do their best to maintain stability in various places. After deploying ground troops, Jeff had to temporarily cancel the space fleet's scheduled next move, and hold a press conference to reassure the general public that similar incidents would not happen again, and so on, and of course, Jeff's think tank did not blindly back down. After these emergency measures calmed down the surging public anger, they turned on the defensive, also using the media to publicize that the government of the planet Tikru was behind this unexpected incident, plotting to betray and divide the Republic, and preparing to deliberately provoke a civil war and draw innocent people into the flames of war.

Here, Jeff Shili's press conference has just ended, and Bob Shili, who is not to be outdone, also followed up and shouted grievances to the media. After coming and going, the battlefield between the two sides in the world of public opinion suddenly became full of wolf smoke. Of course, behind the scenes, the negotiations between the top leaders of the two sides also kicked off. For a time, the two shili frequently fought each other on these battlefields without gunpowder smoke in the open and in the dark, and it can be said that the killing was inextricable and in full swing.

At this moment, Sturm and six battleships finally returned to the Space Fleet headquarters according to Copol's orders, after regaining command and control of the battleship.

The Space Fleet of St. Prolis' Star Sector was based on a small fleet under the local garrison of the early Directory.

In the beginning, the small fleet consisted of only a dozen old and obsolete battleships that had been eliminated by the Union army, as well as a few auxiliary ships. Later, in order to let the nascent republic have a decent fleet of its own, Bertreum secretly acquired a large number of second-hand warships with the help of some arms smugglers. After that, a lot of money was spent to hire a group of Jishu personnel who worked for the federal military industrial enterprises to renovate and upgrade these warships, and it took a lot of hard work to form the current space fleet with nearly 200 battleships.

However, perhaps Bertreum never imagined that the fleet he had worked so hard to build would follow Jeff and betray the new republic that he had also devoted his life to establishing.

The space fleet's headquarters is built on the SP02 Ore Deposit, which is also based on the base of its predecessor, the Directory fleet.

SP02 is only about one-tenth the size of Tikru or Myrsa. The planet has almost no atmosphere, and the only extremely thin air it is, made up of a mixture of helium and methane, is impossible for humans to breathe.

And the only thing that can attract humans on such a harsh climate planet is the extremely rich and rare TR23 metal ore on it. This metal ore is the main ingredient used to make the steel armor of the latest generation of ships and combat vehicles, and the price on the market is almost equal to that of gold. The other two mineral deposits in the St. Proli Star Zone, SP01 and SP03, although they are also rich in minerals, are the only ones that do not have this type of metal ore.

Originally, with the abundant TR23 ore on the SP02 deposit, it was enough to make the entire St. Proli Star District rich. However, because the metal is extremely difficult to mine and the mining of St. Prolli's is quite backward, the production of TR23 is at a very low level all year round. In addition, the St. Prolius area is so remote that many large mining companies don't even know that there is such an abundance of TR23 rare ore on the planet SP02.

Despite this, the people of St. Proli still regarded the planet SP02 as a treasure trove.

Bertrane, who has a strategic vision, sees the important strategic role that the SP02 deposit star will play in the future of the new republic. Therefore, as the Prime Minister of the Republic, he ordered the deployment of the only space fleet in the entire star sector on this planet. The reason for this is that the SP02 planet is located in the middle of the star sector, no matter which direction the enemy attacks the star zone, even if it does not use space to jump jishu, the fleet can rush to the war zone in the most time. Second, the fleet can be used to protect this extremely important mineral deposit star and maintain the most important mineral lifeline for the long-term development of the Republic.

Despite his foresight, Bertreum has no sight of the future of the SP02 Deposit.

In addition to dozens of large and small civilian starports used for take-off and landing and transportation of metal mine ships, SP02 has established ten large military starports in outer space orbit, which are specially used to park or maintain hundreds of large and small warships belonging to the space fleet. The fleet's headquarters base was built on the North Pole, which is closest to the starport.

When Sturm appeared in the star field of about 10,000 kilometers of SP02's outer space with his six Behemoth-class battlecruisers, a fleet of twenty heavily armed battleships immediately drove over and surrounded them without saying a word.

After a brief exchange of words, the other party figured out their identities, and the six battleships of Sturm were "escorted" by these battleships and stopped on the No. 2 military starport.

Sturm had expected that Copol would personally bring someone to meet him. However, what he didn't expect was that just when the battleship had just stopped on the starport, a major of the military police brigade directly under the fleet headquarters rushed onto the battleship with a large number of men and horses, saying that he had been ordered by Copolo to take all the "uprising" officers and men of the Sturm fleet back to the base for review.

Looking at these arrogant gendarmes, Sturm's heart was on fire, and he wanted to ask to meet Copolo in person to ask for an explanation, but after thinking about it, he still focused on the overall situation, and he had to enter the ABP left and right anyway. So, while speaking out to appease the indignant subordinates, Sturm asked Guo Linghao Yi and the others who were hiding in the chaotic crowd with his eyes. Seeing that Guo Ling nodded slightly to himself, Sturm put on an unwilling expression and ordered all the officers and men of the fleet to follow the gendarmes and take the Haode landing craft prepared in advance.

However, after arriving at the polar region of SP02, Sturm and his officers and men were not brought into the ABP, but were taken by the gendarmerie to a nearby unused mining camp on the grounds that the base did not have extra barracks.

The mining camp on the SP02 deposit star is usually built on the mountain, and the buildings in the camp are completely isolated from the outside atmosphere with huge tempered glass covers that are several centimeters thick. The air-making machine is then used to produce enough oxygen for the miners living in the glass enclosure to breathe. Between the glass covers, there are also passages that allow people to move between the various buildings in the camp.

This somewhat desolate camp has apparently only recently been restored. The air inside the shield still smelled of muddy, damp and unpleasant, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the ground paved with steel armor, and the buildings were empty, with no figure in sight.

It wasn't until they were driven into the mining camp that Sturm and his men came to their senses. It is clear that the headquarters of the fleet did not treat them as officers and soldiers of the uprising, but as prisoners of war. For the disarmed officers and soldiers, being thrown into this abandoned camp is equivalent to entering a prisoner of war camp.

"I must see the Supreme Commander of the Fleet at once, Admiral Copol! Otherwise, it's hard for me to control, these emotional soldiers! Sturm pointed to the crowd behind him and roared at the gendarmerie major.

"Well, Colonel! However, I can only help you communicate your request to Fleet Headquarters. As for whether General Copolo is willing to see you or not, that's not up to me, I hope you can understand! The gendarmerie major did not seem to be intimidated by Sturm, sneered and left the next sentence, and went straight away with his men.

As the triple valve of the barracks was re-closed, hundreds of heavily armed gendarmerie members immediately surrounded the entire barracks.

"Colonel, what's going on?" Looking at the Gendarmerie Marines wearing heavy CMC armor outside the protective shield, Guo Ling took Haoyi, who was dressed as a one-eyed dragon, through the chaotic crowd, squeezed to Sturm's side, and asked anxiously with a calm face.

"I don't know what the fuck is going on!" Sturm shook his head in frustration and replied.

"I don't know?" Guo Ling couldn't help frowning his delicate brows when he heard this, and asked with a deep sigh: "Colonel, did we show some flaws that made Ke Poluo smell something?" According to our current treatment, it is obviously not what the officers and soldiers of the battlefield uprising should have. I think it's like we're going to put us under house arrest! ”

"Probably not! Wasn't Copolo a good haode that he had already promised? Even an hour ago, he personally promised to give us the officers and soldiers who revolted on the battlefield a proper reward! Hearing this, Sturm's brows furrowed, and he pondered for a moment, and said, "Besides, the reason for the uprising I told him also completely stood up to scrutiny, and there was hardly any flaw!" What do you say, Colonel? ”

"Hey, hey, I said you guys don't just chat, look, what's that?" As he was talking, Hao Yi suddenly ripped off the black blindfold, patted Guo Ling's shoulder and pointed to the distant horizon outside the shield, and shouted.

When Guo Ling, Sturm and the others looked in the direction of Haoyi's finger, Dengshi's face changed in shock......