Somewhere in space outside the St. Proli Star Sector, the fleet's flagship battleship SP01001 was quietly suspended in the starry sky under the arch of eleven escort battleships. Suddenly, not far from this small fleet, two huge energy fluctuations faintly appeared. Those who are familiar with the battleship space folding jishu can tell at a glance that it is two battlecruisers preparing to leap out of the void.

For a moment, the battleships defending the flagship moved their positions nervously, turned the direction of their guns one after another, and aimed at the void where energy fluctuations appeared. Once it is not a friendly warship that leaps out of the void, these escort battleships will not hesitate to tear them apart and throw them into another dimension.

In just a few seconds, the two improved Behemoth-class battleships suddenly flashed out as if they had torn apart the cosmic canopy. Almost at the same time, the muzzles of the battleships of the escort battleships glowed with bursts of yellow light, which was the main guns of all sizes gathering energy and preparing for the launch.

However, it was only after seeing the hull markings of the two battleships that they had turned out that the frigates breathed a sigh of relief. It was the battleship of the New Army, numbered SP010201 and SP010301, the flagships of the 2nd and 3rd Fleets, respectively.

After the two flagships flashed out, two small landing ships were ejected from the carrier-based aircraft hatch in the middle of the hull, and they roared towards SP01001 the fleet flagship. After confirming that the enemy's friend or foe identification code was correct, the frigates guarding the flagship moved out of the way and sent two teams of ghost escort fighters to carefully escort the two landing ships to the location of the flagship.

"Aha, General Sturm, you're coming pretty fast!" In the flagship hangar, Vice Admiral Sturm, commander of the Third Fleet, had just stepped down the gangway when he heard another short, stocky, fair-skinned vice admiral not far away, greeting him in a loud voice.

After experiencing the fleet uprising known as the "Celestial Deterrence", Senior Colonel Sturm, who was also stained with Hao Yiguang, was directly appointed by Bob's Prime Minister's Office as the commander of the First Squadron of the New Army. Bob's original intention was to use this to balance the power in the hands of the "demoted" Pei Zhimao and ensure the absolute control of the Prime Minister's Office over the space fleet.

However, Pei Zhimao, who was good at playing tricks, took advantage of the counterinsurgency war launched against Jeff Shili to find all kinds of exploits, and transferred Sturm to the Third Fleet in three or two clicks. Although Sturm's rank was clearly promoted to vice admiral, the strength of the Third Squadron was far inferior, and the First Squadron, as the main force of the fleet, was even inferior to the Second Squadron. In other words, Sturm has been played by Pei Zhimao once in a trick of rising and descending.

But for the purpose of stabilizing the space fleet, even though he was very aware of Pei Zhimao's tricks, Bob Shili still reluctantly accepted this fact. However, it was also a mistake, and Sturm picked up a small life because of it. In the first wave of the offensive launched by the mysterious Fifth Theater Fleet, Pei Zhimao's love for the commander of the First Fleet, Admiral San Anton, was torn to pieces by the enemy's powerful firepower.

"You're not slow to come, General Jiang Chao!" Hearing the short and fat lieutenant general's greeting, a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of Sturm's mouth, and he snorted coldly in response. This lieutenant general named Jiang Chao is also Pei Zhimao's descendant. After Pei Zhimao took power, he changed almost all the officers above the rank of colonel in the fleet, except for the third fleet, the first and second fleets almost became Pei Zhimao's personal guards.

"Hehe, I said General Sturm, this time the marshal summoned us all the way, are you going to fight with that ghost fleet that came out of nowhere?" Jiang Chao, who is Pei Zhimao's confidant, is a guy who can only shoot horses and whiskers in Sturm's eyes. However, in front of others, the short and fair-skinned Jiang Chao seemed to have a kind smile on his face all the time.

"I was just about to ask you, honorable General Jiang Chao, you are the marshal's favorite general!" Sturm sneered again, with a distinctly sarcastic sneer, and asked lukewarmly.

"Hehe, the conscience of heaven and earth, I really don't know!" Jiang Chao strode over, raised his fat palm, and said in a thoughtful manner: "I'm also wondering, no matter how big things are, Lord Marshal can directly give us orders through holographic video conferences." It's really strange this time, it actually made us come all the way to the fart, is there an important opportunity, and the marshal wants to teach us in person? ”

While the two were talking, a bunch of senior officers at the rank of colonel came down from the landing ship behind them, all of whom were commanders of their respective detachments at the level of squad leader or above. As Jiang Chao said, this time it was also strange, Pei Zhimao suddenly issued an urgent order to their two detachments half an hour ago, asking them to throw away all the work they were doing and immediately rush to the flagship to participate in the desperate military meeting.

Pei Zhimao's argument is that there is also a danger of leakage of the holographic video conference, and the commanders of the two detachments at all levels must personally rush to the flagship to attend the meeting, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law. Due to Pei Zhimao's strict order, Sturm had no choice but to hand over the task of arranging the second line of defense to his staff officers to continue to carry out, and he hurried over with commanders at all levels.

"Oh? Don't even you know? Hearing Jiang Chao's words, looking at the sincere expression on his fair and fat face, Sturm was a little surprised. What is the matter, Pei Zhimao actually hid it from his confidant, and question marks of all sizes suddenly appeared in Sturm's heart.

"Two generals, the marshal is waiting for you in the secret conference room!" At this time, Pei Zhimao's colonel's adjutant hurriedly walked over, saluted the two, and said with a straight face.

"Colonel Lu, what is the matter that the marshal wants us to rush over in such a hurry?" Jiang Chao frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, as if he was a little unhappy that the colonel had interrupted the "pleasant" conversation between him and Sturm.

"I'm sorry general, it's a matter of confidentiality, and my subordinates don't know!" Colonel Lu replied with neither humility nor arrogance.

"You!" touched a soft nail, and Jiang Chao's little eyes widened. Although this Colonel Lu is not of high rank, he is a popular person by Pei Zhimao's side. For such a role, Jiang Chao was somewhat "unhappy" in his heart. Now that he had eaten a soft nail, Jiang Chao's heart unconsciously ignited a fire of five karma, and he was about to point at Colonel Lu's nose and scold at the tip of his nose.

"Oh, why should General Jiang embarrass Colonel Lu!" At this time, Sturm played the role of a good person, stretched out his hand to stop Jiang Chao, and said with a smile and comforted: "He is only acting on orders, the marshal is far-sighted, how can we easily guess his deep meaning?" Okay, okay, let's go, don't keep the marshal waiting! ”

"Humph!" Sturm's words gave Jiang Chao a step, and the short and fat fair-skinned lieutenant general snorted coldly, and with a flick of his fat hand, he walked away bypassing Colonel Lu.

"Colonel Lu, please lead the way!" Sturm turned around and smiled at Colonel Lou.

"The general is gracious! Please come with me! Seeing Sturm speaking for himself with a pleasant face, Colonel Lu's originally stiff face also eased, and he smiled at Sturm kindly, and then turned to lead the way in front.

※※※ In a secret conference room of the flagship, Pei Zhimao was standing in front of the holographic floor-to-ceiling window, stunned by the starry sky of the universe outside the window.

"As long as you want, you can not only remain the supreme commander of the space fleet, but also become the supreme marshal of the entire new army!" Pei Zhimao's mind at this time kept repeating what Jeff said to him, which was very tempting.

Just after he was reprimanded by Bob, Adjutant Colonel Lu told him that from the unidentified enemy fleet, a set of communication requests had been sent to Pei Zhimao by name.

After connecting the communication with a full stomach of questions, Pei Zhimao thought that he would be a general of the Fifth War Zone of the Federation to give himself an "Zuihou ultimatum". However, the truth is much more than he expected, and what he sees is actually Jeff, who Bob Shili believes has been "dead" under the bombardment of the battleship's powerful main guns.

That's right, not only did Jeff not die, but he actually "miraculously" escaped from St. Prolis's Star Zone and connected with the Fifth War Zone of the Federation. What's even more surprising is that the mysterious Supreme Commander of the Fifth Theater Fleet is actually Jeff. According to Jeff's statement to Pei Zhimao, he has reached a secret agreement with the Fifth War Zone, and the Fifth War Zone will send troops to help him return to St. Proli.

After just a few words of conversation, Jeff threw an "olive branch" to Pei Zhimao, expressing his hope that Pei Zhimao could "abandon the darkness and turn to the light" again, and even offered a rather attractive price as mentioned above. However, the premise of this attractive price is that Pei Zhimao must turn his gun and lead the remaining forces of the new space fleet to help Jeff "exterminate" Bob and all Shili who dare to resist Jeff.

Considering that Bob had already become suspicious of himself, and the remnants of the New Army fleet were simply unable to fight against the powerful Fifth Theater Fleet, Pei Zhimao finally gritted his teeth and agreed to the "deal" proposed by Jeff after thinking about it repeatedly. And the rest of the thing is how to make those subordinates follow themselves with all their hearts to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light".

For the second squadron under Jiang Chao's command, Pei Zhimao is completely sure. In addition to the commander Jiang Chao is his own confidant and favorite general, most of the middle and senior officers in the detachment are also his descendants. The only thing that worried him was the Third Squadron under Sturm.

Not to mention that Sturm himself was a close confidant of Bob Shili who had been inserted into the fleet, among the remaining officers of the Third Fleet, except for Sturm's sworn friends, most of them were officers of other factions who were originally excluded by Pei Zhimao Shili. After Pei Zhimao successfully became the supreme marshal of the fleet, he used his authority to transfer all these officers who could not be of the same mind as himself to Sturm.

And because of this, Pei Zhimao gradually lost actual control of the Third Squadron. However, in his opinion, this is also a matter that has nothing to do with the overall situation. All the elite warships in the fleet were transferred by him to the first and second fleets, and the third fleet was actually left with less than fifty old warships, and the combat effectiveness was even far inferior to that of the second fleet.

Pei Zhimao's main consideration now is how to "settle" these senior commanders of the Third Squadron such as Sturm. As long as these hidden dangers are eliminated, he can safely and boldly "cooperate" with Jeff.

"Marshal, several generals have arrived!" Just as Pei Zhimao's brows were furrowed, the communicator in his hand suddenly rang, and the voice of Adjutant Colonel Lu came out.

"Let them in!" Pei Zhimao's eyes flashed, and he got up and commanded the adjutant.