Section 32 The Princess and the Sea Monster
The blue and white planet is unusually beautiful under the light of the two suns, and the planet in front of her, just like her name, is displayed in the eyes of the world with its nobility and elegance.
Although this time it was finally reached Gus? Whitehead's goal last year was to attack the planet "Andromeda" in a roundabout way, but Jiang Ziyue, who was suspended in front of the observation window, had no intention of enjoying the beauty of the universe, his best friend Gus was no longer there, his beloved wife Lota was gone, and the once invincible iron triangle had long been shattered, leaving only his lonely figure projected on the beautiful planet.
This man of great honor in the New Roman Empire is now known to the people of the capital of the Perseus Interstellar Federation as "Ceto" (the sea monster in Greek mythology who tried to harm Princess Andromeda).
In fact, in a military sense, the planet "Andromeda" was not occupied by Jiang Ziyue and his "Zheng He" fleet.
After attacking and harassing the planet "Midgard", Jiang Ziyue led the "Zheng He" fleet to fly to the outer space below the Milky Way disk (Earth perspective), they flew along a high parabola, evaded the Federation's reconnaissance activities, and finally successfully flew into the "Machu Picchu" binary star system when the supplies were about to run out, defeated some scattered star cruisers of the Federation, controlled the airspace around the planet "Andromeda", and captured the fortress satellite "Pelion" and a large number of supplies.
Jiang Ziyue's original plan was to attack the sun sheath of "Machu Picchu" before the main fleet of the Bundeswehr arrived at the planet "Aegis", forcing the Wehrmacht fleet to return to defense, so that Field Marshal Badenbrock and the Imperial Central Fleet would calmly capture the planet "Aegis" with absolute superiority, but the unmanned reconnaissance ship responsible for monitoring the vicinity of the planet "Andromeda" was attacked by the Federation, and the information about the departure of the Wehrmacht fleet was greatly delayed in his hands, and because the distance was too far away, and it was in the hinterland of the enemy country, The hundreds of briefing ships he sent were also unable to contact Field Marshal Badenbrock, and as a result, they were unable to cooperate with the actions of the Central Fleet in a timely and effective manner.
Until this time, Jiang Ziyue still didn't know that the Central Fleet had been defeated, and he couldn't even determine whether the notification ship sent to contact him, but he still carried out the operation according to the established plan, blocked the area around the planet "Andromeda", and used the enemy's clever "empty city plan", he successfully entered the "Machu Picchu" star field, causing a huge shock to the Perseus Federation, and had achieved his intended goal, so he did not plan to capture the capital of the enemy country, and actually lacked this strength.
In fact, his heart was full of worries, in addition to the fact that the result of the Central Fleet's attack on the planet "Aegis" was unknown, and for the more distant interstellar planet "Yi" star field, he was even more worried, due to the Imperial Marshal Badenbrock's concentrated forces to attack: the defensive force of the "Yi" planet became extremely empty, as long as the Bundeswehr divided about a thousand warships, it could be easily taken, in that case, the scientific expedition team of the new Roman Empire was very likely to become a prisoner of the Federation again.
But next, what to do Jiang Ziyue is also very clear, if he can fight, he will fight, and if he can't fight, he will flee, he once sent a notification ship to the 135 border space to find the "Charlemagne" detachment to come to reinforce, but he did not get a response, so he is now alone in depth, with the strength of the "Zheng He" fleet, it is absolutely impossible to hold this most populous planet in the human world.
"Sir, we capture a civilian ship that is trying to escape!" Captain Rudiger of the "Siegfried"? Captain Natzmer came with a report in an agitated tone: "We have found a federal dignitary on board!" ”
"Important people!"
"Yes, the daughter of Federal President Song Tingrong, that ship is a cruiser-converted hospital ship, pretending to be the International Red Cross, with good performance, and almost let it escape!"
Jiang Ziyue pondered and asked, "Is the president's daughter the one named Song Xiaoyu?" ”
"Yes, sir!"
He immediately gave instructions: "Take her to the 'Lin Kesheng' immediately, I will interrogate her personally, and also, give me the communication on the bridge of the 'Lin Kesheng', and I will have an encrypted call with Captain Schwartz!" ”
The voice of the command was full of excitement and confidence.
Ten minutes later, Jiang Ziyue met Song Xiaoyu, the daughter of the president of the Perseus Federation, in the cabin of the hospital ship "Lin Kesheng".
"Miss Song, hello, I am Colonel Jiang Ziyue, the commander of the 'Zheng He' fleet under the Senate and the Roman people!"
"I've seen you on TV!" Song Xiaoyu stared at him and said calmly: "You killed many of our compatriots!" ”
Hearing the accusation against herself, Jiang Ziyue smiled with a complicated expression, then looked at the beautiful and elegant girl in front of her with interest, and said: "Many of my compatriots have also been killed by you, but you have no right to accuse me of my crimes, you are now my prisoner, my prisoner!" ”
Song Xiaoyu immediately argued: "I am a civilian, not a combatant, you can't take me as a prisoner, you must release me immediately!" ”
"I'm honored to have captured such a noble civilian as you, so rest assured, we'll release you, but not now, you have to know that your body is worth more than any combatant!"
The bald man in front of him seemed to be quite obscene, and Song Xiaoyu asked angrily and ruthlessly, "What do you want!" ”
"I want to know if your attempt to escape was your own idea or Ling Zun's idea!"
"I refuse to answer!"
"Oh well! I went to broadcast to the 2.5 billion people of 'Andromeda' that His Excellency Ting Rong, President of Song, used his power to try to escort his daughter to a safe planet when the capital was besieged, and the result was discovered by my heroic Senate and the people of Rome. How will your people turn against your father! ”
Song Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "No matter what I say, you will go and broadcast to the entire planet that it was my father who arranged for me to escape, misleading our people into having a sense of distrust of the president and the military!" ”
"You're smart, Miss Song!" Jiang Ziyue said with an appreciative look at her.
"Then why are you talking so much nonsense?" Song Xiaoyu's face was righteous and awe-inspiring: "If you want to kill, you have to chop, listen to it!" ”
Jiang Ziyue smiled slightly, and then said in a tone of admiration: "What a chaste martyr!" After saying that, he turned around and quickly flew out of the cabin with the help of the grip on the bulkhead.
Captain Walter of the USS Lin Kesheng? Second Class Medical Officer Schwartz was greeted very quickly.
"Ziyue, it's all ready!"
Jiang Ziyue immediately gave instructions: "Very good, Walter, as planned, it will be transmitted to the notification ship to broadcast to the whole territory of Andromeda, and then you will immediately set off and go to the rubble base!" ”
"Okay, Colonel!"
According to the imperial military system, the hospital ship is mainly used for humanitarian medical rescue when accompanying the fleet to fight, and strictly abides by the Geneva Convention, and has no obligation to directly cooperate with the battle, so Jiang Ziyue directly commanded the medical ship to carry out the escort mission this time, which is suspected of violating the military system, however, as a medical captain, the Schwartz medical officer, who has a good relationship with Jiang Ziyue, is willing to obey his command, and from the actual operation, only the hospital ship with super self-sustaining power can be supported without the support of the logistics supply ship. A solo flight of more than 15,000 light-years from Planet Andromeda to the rubble of a remote asteroid, combined with the tradition of not attacking hospital ships, will make the escort mission much smoother.
"Walter, please!" Jiang Ziyue said gratefully.
"Ziyue, you're polite!" Schwartz said and raised his right hand Because he was in completely weightless space, he could only gently place it on Jiang Ziyue's left shoulder to show his trust, and then he asked: "It's just that I don't understand a little, why did you escort such an important person to the rubble asteroid that has been abandoned!" ”
Jiang Ziyue didn't answer immediately, after a little thought, he smiled slightly, and said: "The rubble base has been restarted, and it is now a special service base of the border fleet, as for the reason why I asked to send Miss Song to the rubble, I can't make it clear to you for the time being, but one thing I can assure you for sure is that it is safer to do this than sending her to the planet Iselon or the new Byzantine planet, please tell the captain on my behalf, just say that Miss Song Xiaoyu is my very important friend, please take good care of him, As long as this battle is over, I will rush to pick up Miss Song! ”
Hearing him say this, Dr. Schwartz seemed to have an understanding and said, "I understand, Ziyue! ”
"Thank you, Walter!" Jiang Ziyue was grateful.
Everyone thought that Song Xiaoyu had great political value and should be immediately escorted to the planet "New Byzantium" and disposed of by the Senate, but Jiang Ziyue sent her to the asteroid "Rubble", which was controlled by a special service team of the Border Fleet.
The Senate and the Central Fleet launched this so-called "three-headed dog" operation, which was suspected by Jiang Ziyue from the beginning, not only to recapture the interstellar planet "Yi", but also to annihilate the main fleet of the Bundeschester of the Immortals, and to capture its national defense town planet "Eiques", the three goals are too big and too big, and if you are not careful, it is very likely that one of the goals will not be achieved, but will suffer heavy losses, and the imperial consul Wang Zeren, who is also well aware of the risk, sent him Jiang Ziyue to lead the "Zheng He" fleet to expedition to the hinterland of the Federation, which is to give the "three-headed dog" Combat on an insurance.
And now, the capture of the daughter of the federal president has made Jiang Ziyue see another insurance, whether it is political or personal significance, especially for the worries that have sprouted after he led his troops deep into the hinterland of the federation, and the worry about the distant "Yi" star field, so he has done everything possible to send Song Xiaoyu to the "rubble" asteroid that he can control.
The hospital ship "Lin Kesheng" set off very quickly, and according to the plan, she chose a very normal route and sailed in the direction of the Empire, and after flying through the desolate 135 border space, she would fly along the border line in the space on the side of the Empire to the asteroid "rubble".
But at the same time there was another hospital ship, the Hippocrates, which, unlike the Lin Kesheng, took a remote route and flew to the Milky Way Astrolabe (Earth perspective) with the intention of making a detour through inaccessible extraterrestrial space, escorted by as many as thirteen cruisers, and accompanied by a logistics supply ship to provide support.
After seeing the two medical ships disappear into the void of the universe, Jiang Ziyue immediately gave an order to the communication sergeant:
"Send a notification ship to the planet Iserlon, and report that we have captured Song Xiaoyu, the daughter of Federal President Song Tingrong, and is being escorted to Iserlohn by the 'Hippocrates'!"
Due to the high degree of secrecy, few people know the true location of Song Xiaoyu, so Jiang Ziyue is convinced that his strategy will be able to successfully send Song Xiaoyu, the daughter of the federal president, to the asteroid "rubble".
At the same time, Jiang Ziyue's strategy against the enemy was successful, and through the global video and audio broadcast, the people of the Federation knew very well that the president's daughter was arrested by the Imperial Army in a camouflage ship for trying to escape from the planet Andromeda, and the whole country was in an uproar, and the whole country asked the president to come forward to explain.
Although the current military situation is not desperate, and it is unlikely that the size and strength of the imperial army will launch a landing invasion, the propaganda and use of Song Xiaoyu's arrest still makes Song Tingrong, who is hiding in the underground secret command post, feel unprecedented pressure.
"Who the hell took my daughter out of the capital without my instructions!" Song Tingrong anxiously and angrily questioned his staff.
The people under him all knew that because the invasion of the imperial army was too sudden, Song Xiaoyu, who was on vacation on the other side of the planet, did not have time to rush back to Pangu City, and lost contact with the presidential palace very much, but he didn't expect that Song Xiaoyu disappeared for two days and fell into the clutches of the imperial army, and no one believed it at first, but the experts of the security committee studied the images broadcast by the imperial army and confirmed the facts.
"Our investigators reported that a group of people claiming to be agents of the National Security Council dragged the bodyguards and took Miss Song away in the chaotic airport," Dai Yunong, the director of the Security Committee, reported to the president that the old woman was not as anxious and nervous as her current boss, on the contrary, she continued with a calm expression and a calm tone: "Without the order of the superiors, our people will never act on their own, even if the situation is urgent, it is impossible for the people who temporarily protect Miss Song to take her away from the planet, so that group must have ulterior motives!" ”
"Can't you, the chairman of the Security Committee, find out who these bastards are?" Song Tingrong asked dissatisfiedly.
"Your Excellency, the most important thing at the moment is how to explain to the people that Miss Song has left the capital!" Secretary of State Thomas? Parker quickly shifted the subject.
"I can't tell the public that my daughter has been kidnapped by unknown militants!" Song Tingrong said embarrassedly.
"It doesn't matter who kidnaps you!" Parker explained: "As Miss Song, the Imperial Army will guarantee her safety, but they advertise Miss Song's departure from the capital as an abuse of your power and prioritize arranging for your daughter to break through and escape at the critical moment when the capital is besieged. ”
After listening to the staff's words, Song Tingrong thought so, nodded and said, "Okay! Thomas, you prepare to broadcast immediately, Director Dai, you must find out who kidnapped Xiaoyu is! ”
"They will be dug up and brought to justice!" Dai Yunong replied humbly and without losing confidence.
At this time, Song Tingrong's face became grim, and he said in a deep voice: "Dai Gong, I have never doubted your loyalty and ability, I hope this matter can be satisfactorily resolved!" ”
"Please rest assured, Your Excellency!" Dai Yunong said calmly.
"Go back! Leave me alone! As soon as he finished speaking, he sat down on the couch.
It was only at this time that Song Tingrong's resolute expression collapsed, and he fell into a state of hysteria, first Bloomberg actually concealed from him, the president and supreme commander of the armed forces, and transferred all the fleets defending the capital planet to the planet "Aegis", and the outcome was unknown, and then the imperial fleet entered for a long time and surrounded the capital, and now it is the baby daughter who has fallen into the hands of the enemy, one after another "catastrophic" blows, which made Song Tingrong, who grew up in the entertainment industry, feel broken, But he still tried his best to maintain his nerves and braced a strong appearance in front of his subordinates.
Dai Yunong left the president's office with a little greeting, the old woman was expressionless, and went straight back to her office, in this secret command post five thousand meters underground, only she knew why Song Xiaoyu fell into the hands of the imperial army, she could have explained it to the president and her staff, but she still decided to hide the truth for the time being, because she knew very well what it meant to lure a wolf into the house, and in her philosophy, a traitor is always a traitor.
Henchman Potter? Woods sent a report: "Director, we only caught a woman named Cui Yingzi, who confessed that she was the liaison for this operation, responsible for conveying the orders issued by Wu Danqing and Chai Sangling!" ”
"I want that dog man and a woman!" Dai Yunong shouted.
The kidnapping of Song Xiaoyu, the president's daughter, in the heavily secured capital and falling into the hands of the Imperial Army was a great shame for the director of the National Security Council, who had served for nearly 20 years, and it was even more difficult for her to accept that the person who planned and carried out this criminal operation was actually the person she had cultivated and trained to carry out.
Before the anger ignited by the boss, Woods on the stereoscopic image still said calmly: "According to Cui Yingzi's confession, Wu and Chai have left the planet 'Andromda' before the arrival of the imperial army, and their whereabouts are unknown, and the person in charge of the kidnapping operation is the imperial soldier who fled here with Wu and Chai after the turmoil on the planet 'African' last year, and their plan is to kidnap Miss Song Xiaoyu and send her to the planet 'Taiji', we suspect that Cui Yingzi's real identity is an official of the 'Taiji' Planetary Security Bureau, and she is in the cover as a food buyer." 'Andromeda' is free to move, but the Liaison Office of the 'Tai Chi' Planetary Mayors Alliance in China firmly denies it, and says that the Public Security Bureau has never sent officials to the outside world! ”
With his explanation, the stereoscopic images in front of Dai Yunong were correspondingly transformed into various video materials of Cui Yingzi.
"Moreover, although this Cui Yingzi has no more confessions, there are indications that she is related to the 'Dragon Slayer Society'!"
"'Dragon Slayer',!" Dai Yunong was surprised.
"Yes, we found the email she stored in the Internet cloud storage, and it contained a secret message from someone codenamed 'Mason'!"
"'Stonemason' is a common code name commonly used by the grassroots personnel of the 'Dragon Slayer Society'!" Dai Yunong said with a stern expression: "It seems that this world is getting more and more complicated! ”