Verse 18: Heavy Death Jedi

Jiang Ziyue finally persuaded Zhang Qingliang, the director of the imperial urban management department, to lead his subordinate urban management troops to firmly implement the action plan codenamed "Chang Kaishen-Huayuankou".

As an extremely important supplementary operation to the anti-Japanese war to evacuate the destroyed planet of "New Byzantium", the entire content of the "Chang Kaishen-Huayuankou" is known only to Jiang Ziyue and Zhang Qingliang, as well as the patriarch Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz. But bin Abdulaziz only gave instructions, while Jiang Ziyue, the dictator, and Zhang Qingliang, the director of urban management, were fully committed to the action plan.

In particular, Jiang Ziyue personally led the border fleet not long ago, and with the help of civilian ships, raided the "Klaus Liszt" task force fleet of the Yingxian Interstellar Bundeswehr, which was an important beginning of this action plan. With the discovery of the Bundeswehr logistics fleet by the Reichswehr reconnaissance ships, the plan was brought to its most important stage.

Almost as soon as Jiang Ziyue ordered the fleet to sail to the "Heimdall" star, Zhang Qingliang also issued a special order on the armed merchant ship No. 110 of the "New Byzantine Administrative Law Enforcement Authority" under his command - "the flooding of the Yellow River".

More than 200,000 specially trained Imperial City Management personnel quickly took over the control rooms of the nearly 100,000 large and medium-sized interstellar ships where they were located, and drove these huge ships away from the bustling retreating ship group, while flying towards the boundary of the "Himalaya" stellar solar sheath, while gathering in formation. And some of these ships are full of civilians who have just flown away from the "neo-Byzantine" planet that is about to be destroyed.

An unmanned notification ship of the same type as the "Li Xia" No. 233, the "Qiyu" No. 7471, changed to the "Akuberi" to sail faster than the speed of light, quickly caught up with the huge civilian ship group, and sent a communication laser to the flagship "New Byzantine Administrative Law Enforcement " No. 110, conveying the latest instructions from the dictator.

Zhang Qingliang, who received the order, gently closed the protective helmet of the space suit on his seat in order to hide his uneasy expression.

In the stereoscopic image of the bridge, the beautiful planet "New Byzantium" and the busy ship masses around her are rapidly disappearing.

"Flag Language" No. 7471 brought back Zhang Qingliang's reply to the dictator Jiang Ziyue, and there was only one sentence:

"We will all be the sinners of history!"

The same words appeared in the mouths of their opponents, the Immortal Interstellar Bundeswehr "Saul" Super Battleship 7, Admiral Zhang Bingye, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shouted loudly in the fleet's communications, full of exasperation and helplessness.

After the Federation Expeditionary Fleet entered the stellar sheath of the Himalayas, it was confronted by the Imperial Civilian Fleet after learning of the destruction of the Klaus Liszt fleet. Faced with the new Roman ships that were heading straight for them despite the warnings, Manuel Velaskos was determined to attack.

Despite the moral and legal risks involved, Chang's staff team opposed the initiative and suggested that the already crowded interior of the sheath be withdrawn and that the offensive be organized after the enemy fleet had been identified. In his view, the civilian ships of the enemy country were responsible for the evacuation of the people, and they were on the main route from the stellar sheath of the "Himalayas".

But the chief officer and the other three heavily armed fleet commanders did not quite support his opinion.

Already concerned about the possible mobilization of civilian ships for defense in the new Roman Empire, the report that the "Klaus Liszt" fleet led by the pioneer Robb was severely damaged by a surprise attack aroused Manuel Velascos's fear and hostility towards the retreating Imperial civilian ships.

The efficiency and scale of the retreat created by the system of the new Roman Empire had already worried Velascos, fearing that his expeditionary fleet would be caught in the "sea of people's war" of the new Rome, which had launched a "total war" strategy. After Robb's fleet, which enjoyed the advantage of firepower, was destroyed by the "treacherous scheme" of the imperial military and civilian combination, he felt that the grass and trees were all soldiers and the wind was loud.

So, when the three fleets rushed into the sun sheath of the "Himalaya" star, he thought he was forced by the situation to order an artillery bombardment of the approaching civilian ships - despite the strong opposition of the staff officers.

In fact, Manuel Velascos has every reason to trust his own judgment. After they entered the sun sheath, a large number of Imperial civilian ships flew towards them with impunity, ignoring the warnings of the Federation warships and speeding closer.

His commanders, Vice Admiral René Martin of the Ninth Fleet, were the first to propose a first-strike attack on civilian ships, as he had insisted at the pre-war meeting; Although Vice Admiral Henry Highfield, commander of the Sixth Fleet, was at odds with René Martin during the controversy at the war conference, he supported Martin's proposal at this time; Although Vice Admiral Zhou Jiande, commander of the Eighth Fleet, did not explicitly second, he also said that he would resolutely carry out every order of the defense minister.

The three fleets of the Federation soon formed three huge umbrella formations that were connected to each other. In order to prevent the enemy from launching a "space storm" tactic at any time, the distance between the ships was widened, so that the spatial distribution of the three ship formations became extremely broad, but the well-trained elite democratic soldiers still maintained a regular formation.

Almost everyone tensed their nerves, and the fiasco of the vanguard fleet and the uncertainty of the enemy's situation made the fleet from the Minister of Defense to the crew and private feel unprecedented pressure.

At around 1 a.m. EST on December 7, 2920, less than forty-eight hours after the heavy damage to the Klaus Liszt fleet, the Leap 59, a 25-kilometer-long passenger and cargo carrier belonging to the New Rome Interstellar Mining Company, quickly burst into range of the Federation ship group, despite warnings.

Its thick orange tail flame was like a matchstick slicing through the gray-black phosphorus surface of the box, igniting a new round of war in an instant. Behind them was a huge group of more than 10,000 ships, suspiciously moving, and farther away, countless passenger ships and cargo ships were gathering at high speed.

Manuel Velascos, the Minister of Defense of the Federation of Democracies and Freedoms, personally gave the order for a frenzied attack, and the sixth, eighth, and ninth, three integrated fleets, arranged on the ecliptic surface of the inner space of the heliosheath edge of the main star of "New Byzantium" "Himalaya", launched a volley of fire without mercy on the approaching civilian ships of the New Roman Empire.

Hundreds of billions of light, hundreds of billions of deaths, erupted from the olive-green hull sprayed with a symbol of democracy and freedom.

Many Union soldiers questioned their commander in their hearts, but they resolutely carried out the order, after all, they had a good reason - the enemy national ships did not cooperate.

The Immortal Interstellar Bundeswehr fleet launched a massive array of artillery bombardments, not against enemies armed to the teeth, but against unarmed civilian ships.

The dense interweaving of directional energy weapons covered the new Roman Empire ship group led by the "Leap Forward" 59, provoking dazzling explosions and fires.

At the last moment, the chengguan team piloting the spaceship launched all the lifeboats that were already full of civilians, and they themselves were engulfed by the explosion of the enemy's military directional energy weapons along with the huge amount of state-owned property.

The Imperial Civilian Boat Regiment was completely unfazed by the enemy's fire net, and was undaunted, bathed in powerful firepower, while releasing countless pure white lifeboats, while exploding forward.

The battle-hardened Federation soldiers were quickly shocked by the scene in front of them.

The New Roman Empire mobilized nearly 100,000 large and medium-sized civilian ships to send them to their deaths!

The huge passenger and cargo ships, arranged in loose but huge formations, erupted dazzling tail flames, strictly followed the instructions given by their dictators of national salvation and war, did not fire a single shot, ignored the warnings, and withstood the fire, followed a random spiral trajectory set by the computer at high speed, rushed to the Union ship formation, and resolutely went to the death.

No ceasefire was ordered, and every Federation battleship could only fire with all its might. The dark cannon doors on the olive-green hull continue to spew lasers and high-energy particles, pouring precious energy into the opponent's huge hull.

The "flames of war" burned several astronomical units of space, and countless dead lights, countless debris, and countless lifeboats intertwined in front of the Bundeswehr ships, forming a terrifying scene like purgatory.

More than 4,000 battleships and a similar number of cruisers, in the face of more than ten times the number of civilian ships, frantically poured firepower, but it was still difficult to destroy them quickly.

Although the current "battle" can be described as a one-sided slaughter, it is impossible for a group of ferocious sharks to eat a larger group of whales in a short period of time. Many of the larger and larger new Roman passenger liners and cargo ships were able to maintain their hulls intact and speed after withstanding multiple rounds of fire from the Bundeswehr, and rushed towards the federal fleet.

The entire Union army was engaged in a one-sided battle of physical and mental exhaustion, with the machinery running at full strength and the personnel mobilizing in full force to take out all the civilian ships that "did not accept warnings" and "appeared hostile". However, they are also under much more psychological pressure than ordinary combat.

The open radio calls for help from the Imperial civilian ships were noisy and sharp, irritating the eardrums of countless Perseus Federation soldiers. Many commanders ordered the radio reception system to be turned off, but many officers and soldiers were still affected.

"The civilian ships of New Rome did not open fire......"

"It seems that the boat is full of ordinary people......"

"It's like we're in their way......"

"Request for a ceasefire ......"

Doubts and protests within the fleet rang out, but they were all drowned in a powerful and relentless billions of light.

Conscience and morality, along with countless men, women, and children who have just fled their homes, have been dragged into the flames and death of hell by conspiracy and poisonous schemes, and have died tragically in the cold and dark space.

The carnage continued, and soon resumed in another dimension.

In the outer space of the Perseus spiral arm, far away from the star "Heimdall", a large fleet is sailing towards the star "Himalayas" while doing reaction and maintenance.

The incomparably large logistical supply ships were arranged in a loose oversized formation, while the smaller cruisers cruised around them in a tight formation.

This is the logistical supply fleet of the Perseus Star Federation expedition "New Byzantium". In order to avoid premature detection by the adversary, and in order not to be a drag on the expeditionary fleet, this fleet broke through behind enemy lines along the remote route on the outside of the spiral arm.

Almost everyone thought that their actions were perfect and hidden, the remnants of the Central Fleet of the New Roman Empire were out of reach, and the main cruisers of the Frontier Fleet were concentrated near the planet "New Byzantium" to defend and relieve the disaster.

Manuel Beraskos, the head of Operation Genghis Khan, did not care at all about the strong internal mobile combat capability that a weak enemy might still have.

Burning the flames of war into the hinterland of the enemy country can certainly cause more serious damage, but it also gives the enemy more initiative and even the right time and place and people.

Everything went according to plan, and the number of unmanned reconnaissance ships and notification ships sent out to guard and search was too small to detect the traces of the cunning Imperial Army.

Suddenly, the alarm sounded, the space around the fleet fluctuated sharply, and the gravitational wave sensing system showed that the cruisers of the new Roman Empire pounced like wolves.

The main force of the Imperial Army's border fleet under Jiang Ziyue's personal command, a fleet of more than 5,000 cruisers, after a short but efficient replenishment, rushed straight to the logistics supply fleet of the Bundeswehr that had exposed its whereabouts.

The Senate and the Roman Dictator of National Salvation and War, after sending nearly 100 million civilians and nearly 100,000 civilian ships to the enemy front to be used as cannon fodder and slaughtered, also personally wielded butcher's knives and slashed at the federal logistics ships laden with supplies.

At around 9:30 a.m. EST on December 8, 2920, the first cruiser of the New Roman Empire suddenly appeared, and the battle began.

Jiang Ziyue and his loyal and brave subordinates once again used the daring surprise attack tactics of the artist - changing the speed of light from all directions and at an ultra-close distance to attack faster. Through precise calculations and ingenious coordination, about every one to three Imperial cruisers directly changed the speed of light in the space of about 300,000 kilometers of the intended target federal logistics supply ship, and quickly launched a salvo of artillery fire.

As for the 1,000 Wehrmacht cruisers that served as escorts, in Jiang Ziyue's eyes, they were not qualified to act as opponents of the Imperial fleet, and he concentrated his forces on the huge supply ships with weak protection. Of course, with the firepower and limited numerical superiority of the cruiser, it is difficult to swallow the federal logistics supply ship that is often more than ten or even tens of kilometers long in one gulp. Therefore, Jiang Ziyue's instructions to his subordinates were simple and concise: destroy the power! The Imperial's intentions were clear, to de-impower most of the Union logistics supply ships in order to delay the adversary.

The Imperial cruisers repeated their old tactics of attacking the Klaus Liszt fleet near the planet "Neo-Byzantium". They concentrate on the reaction propulsion system at the rear of a Federation supply ship, like tiny hornets biting clumsy brown bears.

Jiang Ziyue's flagship, the Siegfried, under the command of the captain, Captain Rudiger Natzmer, demonstrated superb combat skills.

The cruiser, which is more than 300 meters long, deftly circles the tail of the 20-kilometer-long olive-shaped "Gambia Bay" No. 13 at high speed, and the wedge-shaped bow is always aimed at the big ship and constantly sprays the entire ship's firepower, which makes it difficult for the opponent to use all the hull firepower to counterattack, and can also make its own firepower output reach the maximum efficiency.

I saw that the lasers and particle beams continued to penetrate the shell of the "Gambia Bay" No. 13, provoking a series of explosive flashes. Although the overly large hull did not cause fatal damage due to the sustained attack, the cluster of ion thrusters that had been spewing a bright tail flame in the rear quickly extinguished, losing its main reaction propulsion power.

Seeing that the attack had achieved initial results, the "Siegfried" immediately expanded the scope of the attack, kept the bow facing the enemy, and the longitudinal axis of the hull was perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the "Gambia Bay" No. 13, and advanced around the target.

Under the swift surprise attack of the cruiser fleet of the New Roman Empire, the logistics fleet of the Perseus Star Bundeswehr was dealt a heavy blow. More than ten minutes later, when the escorting Federation cruiser fleet reacted, split the ship formation, and came to expel the Imperial Army, the power of most of the logistics ships had been seriously damaged.

At this time, the Imperial Army, which had the advantage in strength, did not fall in love with the battle, but accelerated its retreat, and soon dissipated into the lonely deep space.

However, the Imperial Army did not divert its goals. Jiang Ziyue once again showed his opponent his cunning and cruel side.

In less than half an hour, before the rescue and repair work of the Immortal Star Federation fleet could be fully launched, the New Roman Empire cruiser fleet returned from the void and launched a reckless attack on those behemoths that were already faltering. The first round of sneak attacks cut off the opponent's ability to maneuver, and now you can slash and slash with joy. It was only a quick evacuation of the enemy cruiser when it was desperately responding.

This kind of large-scale hit-and-run attack tactics seemed to be somewhat redundant to the Imperial Army, which was superior in strength and firepower. However, the effect was very obvious, and the successive blows caused great physical and psychological damage to the logistics supply fleet of the Federation Army, while the losses of the Imperial Army itself were minimal. When the Imperial Army completed the third round of attacks, more than half of the supply ships destroyed by the Federal Army were accumulated, nearly thirty percent of the cruisers were also disabled, and the Imperial Army itself had less than 100 cruisers that lost their combat effectiveness.

In the next four hours, Jiang Ziyue launched four waves of attacks at intervals of about half an hour, successfully destroying the entire Federation supply fleet, and paying only the cost of destroying more than 200 cruisers.

However, the tide of the war was not reversed, and the three Federation fleets that broke into the "Himalayas" stellar sun sheath still maintained their integrity and combat effectiveness after completing an unprecedented massacre of the new Roman civilian ships, and the only thing that changed was that they urgently needed a new round of supplies - destroying more than 90,000 large and medium-sized civilian ships and tens of millions of people on them, consuming a lot of their energy.

At 1:10 a.m. ED on December 9, 2920, Zeus 3 and Saul 7, the Federation's flagship ships, received a distress call from the logistics supply fleet.

Defense Minister Manuel Velaskos was ready to immediately order the entire group to turn around and go to the rescue. However, based on the distance between the two fleets and the speed of the unmanned notification ship, Admiral Zhang Bingye believed that it was too late to rescue at this time.

"It is clear that we have fallen for the enemy's trick to divert the tiger from the mountain, and now that the ammunition and energy are too high, the enemy is likely to be waiting for us to go and wait for us." Zhang Bingye said worriedly.

"What then!?" Suddenly realized, Velascos had to ask angrily.