Attacking Iserras from the midline were the Berwick 2nd, 3rd and 9th fleets.

For the past two days, the fleet has advanced extremely slowly.

This was a plan developed by the Berwick military command. Douglas wanted to lure the enemy deeper, and after his plan to form a strong defensive front with his capital star and various bases was dismantled, his main fleet was divided into several parts against Berwick's fleet. According to the information and intelligence received, the three fleets of the central line will face the 12th, 13th, 18th and 21st fleets of Iseras, in addition to these four fleets, the third fleet under the personal command of Douglas is also on their way forward, and it should be in the center, convenient for command and ready to support the battlefield of the central line. In addition, there is an enemy military base between the central and northern fronts, where the 19th Fleet of Isseras and the 7th Fleet, which was attacked by robots on the planet Ulontar, can support the northern or central front within five hours; Between the central and southern fronts, the 22nd Fleet of Isseras is stationed, which can support the central battlefield in three hours or the southern front in six hours.

Since the command could not determine the specific location of the enemy's four fleets on the center line, they could only move slowly and send reconnaissance warships far away, especially when passing through some complex areas such as asteroid belts and nebulae.

Behind the three fleets, about ten hours away, a large number of Berwick transport fleets and temporarily requisitioned armed merchant group security fleets were also deepening. Their main role is not to fight, nor to provide logistical support to the fleet, but to take on those planets along the way.

Douglas's strategy caused the Iserras side to lose about a quarter of the planet before the war began. Most of these habitable planets of about 200 belong to the former Lekima Federation and the Republic of Tercy, and they were predatory and destroyed by Isseras in the flagship of the Erie War, and they are extremely backward in terms of economy and people's livelihood, and many planets have even declined to primitive farming, animal husbandry and fishing societies, and the total economic output of these two hundred planets together is not as good as Berwick's star, including Tianxun Group.

However, on these two hundred planets, there are more than 50 billion people living together. With these populations, Iserras could ignore them, but Berwick could not.

These transport fleets are loaded with large quantities of food and household supplies, as well as Berwick's trained officers, police and armed ground troops, as well as civilian relief organizations and observers from other countries. With each planet they liberated, they unloaded supplies, sent officials and ground troops, took over government departments, liquidated the aristocratic and unscrupulous landlord class under the former rule of Iseras, and gradually restored order to the planet.

Such an approach would greatly increase Berwick's financial expenditure, but it was unavoidable. In the future, these planets will all become members of the Zhao Song Empire, and if they can't provide supplies when they need them most, I'm afraid it will be too late to make up for it later. Moreover, by putting materials at this time, it can also get the support of the people on these planets in the shortest possible time, and lay a good foundation for the peace and stability of the Zhao and Song empires in the future.

The Star of Lawrence was once a jewel on the western border of the Kingdom of Tercy. This planet is located at the junction of the Tersi Kingdom, the Zhao Song Empire and the Lekima Federation, and the large amount of economic income brought by the annual trilateral trade and the existence of many multinational enterprises located on the planet make this planet the existence of the Tersi Kingdom second only to the capital star in terms of economic strength. But after the fall of the Zhao and Song Empires and the rise of the Iselas Empire, the economic situation on this planet deteriorated day by day. It wasn't until Yseras's fleet appeared in the planet's outer space that the planets completely collapsed.

Many people living on Lawrence have a firm memory of that day.

Countless Iseras soldiers landed in various cities on the planet in large numbers of troop hovercars.

This planet is the first foreign planet captured by Iserras after the rise.

Zagu, who was Emperor Iserras at the time, only said one sentence: "If you want to ensure the blood and combat effectiveness of the soldiers, you must release their most primitive desires!" On the planet Lawrence, in addition to protecting the materials needed for the construction of the empire, let the meritorious soldiers go crazy. Soldiers, there is no need to curb their desires with harsh laws! ”

With Zagu's indulgence, countless soldiers poured into the planet like a tide, without the constraints of the law, those soldiers seemed to be devils who came out of hell, they wantonly killed, robbed, raped, destroyed, and completely destroyed the originally peaceful and peaceful planet. According to incomplete statistics, in just three days, the death toll of Lawrence Star exceeded 120 million, countless cities were destroyed, countless valuable materials were looted, countless families were forced to dissolve, almost no family was left without dead people, and even everyone on the street was killed by crazy soldiers.

In the wars that followed, although the soldiers of Iserras did not have much effort to land on the surface of the planet, every once in a while, especially before the arrival of a major war, the soldiers would be collectively cast on a specific selected planet, allowing them to kill for pleasure, in order to stimulate their blood.

Large corporations, consortia, and government departments were plundered by the Iserras military, and countless supplies and equipment were sent back to Iserras by large sums of money. After the small companies and people were killed and robbed by the soldiers, the entire Lawrence Star immediately became one of the most backward planets in the Southern Universe. The government officials of Yseras, who took over the planet, had no intention of building it, they only knew about greedy exploitation, and built gorgeous mansions and villas for themselves, regardless of the lives of the people.

That happened in the year 5244 of the cosmic calendar.

Now, eight years have passed.

Eight years have not only not healed the wounds in the hearts of Lawrence people, but have made their lives more miserable. Every year, many people die of starvation, freezing or disease. Some people may think that it is a strange thing to be starved to death in today's food making machine, after all, as long as organic matter can be found, whether it is directly usable food, wild animals and insects, weeds in the wild, and seaweed in the water, it can be directly put into the food making machine to make edible food, although the taste is not satisfactory, but it is definitely guaranteed to let a person live.

Moreover, the price of a food making machine is not expensive, like an ordinary migrant worker in the Republic of Berwick, you can buy one for two or three months' salary.

The people on Lawrence don't lack food machines, what they lack is high-energy blocks that can make food machines work.

Energy blocks, this kind of clean energy that has long been popularized in all countries of the universe and penetrated into thousands of households, can be easily purchased in other countries. But in Isselas, the energy blocks have become controlled by the military. Every year, the hundreds of energy block manufacturing companies in the empire must first supply the military's huge fleet, followed by nobles and officials, and finally ordinary citizens. In peacetime, when the fleet is not often used, it is better to say that it can be bought more or less; But in the event of a war, the military will reserve a large number of high-energy blocks for warfare, so that the supply is less, and after the nobles and officials divide up, there are almost no pieces left for the common people.

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Lawrence Star in the northern part of the Western Hemisphere, on a wide grassland.

"Ah...... Oooooooo......oo Oh......"

The little girl's crisp voice floated across the grassland, and she was humming the same song over and over again. The melody of the song is extremely beautiful and moving, even if there are no lyrics, when the little girl sings in her clear voice, like a little yellow bird singing, it is particularly beautiful.

If Yun Yi or Zhao Xiyue were here, they would definitely be able to hear that the song she was humming was one of Zhao Xiyue's first albums.

She sang and waved the small leather whip in her hand, and in front of her, dozens of gentle sheep were munching on the tender grass with their heads down. Yes, the little girl, who looked less than ten years old, was a shepherd, thin in a dirty tattered coat, and her skinny body was deliberately visible through the holes that leaked from time to time.

For a long time, she stopped singing, looked up at the sky, and after watching for a while, her face showed a heavy look that was extremely inconsistent with her youth.

"Sheep, let's go back."

She drove the flock towards the sunset.

"Sheep, today is the day when Lord Marbury pays his salary, with this money, plus what Grandpa has saved in the past few months, you can almost buy an energy block."

"Unfortunately, I don't know if it's available on the market. Since a few months ago, the price of energy blocks has risen a lot, and now I am afraid that it will take twenty imperial gold dollars to buy them. ”

"What if I can't buy it, the energy block at home has less than three percent of the energy left, and even if I save it, it's only enough to use it for a week."

"If we can't get energy blocks in a week, my grandfather and I will go hungry. I'm fine, but my grandfather is already sick, and if I starve again, I'm afraid I'll ......."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but shed tears.

She suddenly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said resolutely: "I won't cry, after I buy the energy block, I can save some money to buy a martial arts cheats, if I can have the talent to practice martial arts, I can join the army, if it is worse, I can also be a guard for Master Marbury's family." If you can succeed, you will be able to earn money for your grandfather's treatment, and your grandfather will no longer have to sleep in pain every day. ”

Thinking of the bright future, she smiled happily on her dirty little face, and continued to walk forward while singing the song that she didn't even know the lyrics of.

This song was heard by the window of Marbury's Manor Villa once, and she was stunned at the time, although she only listened to it once, she firmly remembered the tune. The motivation that can make this little girl persist until now, apart from her grandfather, I am afraid that the credit for this song is the greatest.

About two hours later, she drove the sheep back to the village.

Marbury's manor is located at the western end of this humble village, and compared to the low, dilapidated houses in the village, the three-storey manor is the most beautiful building in the village. In fact, Marbury was not a master, he was just the steward of the manor, serving Viscount Billima, who lived in the city of Kirk, more than 300 kilometers away.

When she approached the manor, which filled the little girl with yearning and fear, she suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Loud shouts were heard from time to time in the village, and there was chaos in the manor, and before she could walk in, a hovercar took off into the air and flew away from the manor.

She knew the hovercar, the only one on the estate.

Lord Marbury left?

She suddenly came to her senses, and hurried towards the manor on her lower legs. Today is the day of pay, and if Master Marbury is not there, who will pay her?

Before she could enter the manor, she saw an old man running towards her with a wooden stick.

"Xiao Li, hide with grandpa."

"What's wrong grandpa...... Wait, flock. ”

"Leave the flock alone, I heard that the army is coming, didn't you see that Lord Marbury has run away......"

Pulled by her grandfather, who was thin and suffering from illness, Millie's little face suddenly lost its blood.

Army......

She was only two years old when the last time the army came, and she didn't know much. But she knew that her parents, brother and grandmother were all killed by the army at that time. In normal times, I also learned from other villagers what happened when the army came.

For Millie, the most terrifying thing is not the wolves in the wild, not the Viscount Billema with the ruthless triangular eyes, nor the smiling but cannibalistic Marbury who eats people without spitting out bones, but ...... Army!

The army is coming sooner than Millie and her grandfather imagined.

Before they could enter the village, the sky darkened, and the sunlight seemed to be blocked by something. Millie and Grandpa couldn't help but look up, and a huge black spaceship was spraying light blue light, slowly landing on the ground......