Just when Ye Wenqin had just eliminated the two enemies who had blended into the Marine Corps, more than 10,000 meters below them, the entire knight assault fleet maintained a six-pointed star lineup, maintaining the same course and speed as the Elk above, and the empty gun barrels in the fleet were all pointing straight in the direction where the Elk was located, if it weren't for the fact that the maximum firing distance had been exceeded here, maybe they would have used these anti-aircraft guns to say hello to the Elk.

At the very center of the fleet, a battleship painted differently from other airships stands out, with its hull depicting a knight's spear in exaggerated strokes.

This is the flagship of the Knight's Charge, the Heavy Captain, the fourth boat of the Prince Eugen-class airship. As the latest airship that was finalized just three years ago, the Prince Eugen class is currently the proudest achievement of the Duchy of Cleveland, and in their opinion, this airship is far more powerful than the Federation's Dusk class, even if it is comparable to the current Dusk modification.

The length of the entire airship has reached one hundred and eighty-six meters, that is, it is slightly smaller than the Dusk modification, and the biggest difference between it and the Dusk change in appearance is that five batteries are arranged on the entire hull, different from the Federation's triple guns, the Prinz Eugen uses two guns, but the caliber is larger,

As soon as the airship of this level came out, the entire research team won the Silver Fir Tree Badge, the highest honor of the Principality, and the first three searches were equipped with the Grand Duke's Guards Legion, and the next six ships produced were assigned to the Principality's Frontman Charge Fleet for the first time, so you can imagine how well this fleet is treated in the Principality.

As the flagship of this fleet, the Heavy Knights have been added with a lot of new equipment, so that its combat ability and command ability have been guaranteed to the greatest extent.

At this time, in the huge command room of the heavy captain, an old man with a white beard was sitting in the command seat with a golden sword. He was the commander of the Knight's Charge, the chief general of the Duchy's Air Force, Admiral Francis Drake.

Unlike the tense atmosphere in the Elk's command room, the officers and soldiers here are doing what they are doing with their faces relaxed, but they know Drake's usual hobby of being quiet, and most of them are light-hearted. The entire command room was fairly quiet most of the time.

"I don't know what happened to the Lille fleet, those few sub-ships shouldn't be a problem for them. ”

Drake seemed to be talking to himself.

Obviously, this time the Cleveland people not only sent a fleet of knights to charge, but also arranged a corresponding blocking team for those airships that were ordered by Wesley to escape.

"General Lille has high-speed airships under his command, and he's always good at this kind of Ouroboros pursuit, and I think I'll get good news from there soon. Besides, we have also set up a disturbance storm on the periphery, and they will not spread the news. ”

Chief of Staff Lexa said with a smile.

"How's the Spiritual Disturbance Storm handled?"

Drake closed his eyes and said calmly.

"General, the disturbance storm interference distance is decreasing, and it is expected that there will be fifteen minutes to reach the target range. Do we need to release some headroom bombs?"

Lexa, the chief of staff of the knight charge on the side, replied personally.

"No, we can't let the people of the Silver Eagle Republic notice that something is wrong. ”

Drake said.

"It's a pity that our maximum flight altitude can't reach the altitude of Vikramaditya, otherwise it wouldn't have been so troublesome. ”

Lexa complained.

"No way, as one of the two poles of the world, the Silver Eagle people still have something. However, I trust that the lads of the Grand Duke's Einsatzgruppen will let them land obediently. You're right, Director Rivera. ”

Drake said to a man in regular clothes on the other side, who would glance at the spiritual communication device in his hand from time to time, but each time he showed a disappointed look, and he was the only person in the entire command room who was not wearing a military uniform.

Paris Rivera, the captain of the entire operation, is also the planner of this operation that cost the Principality of Cleveland huge manpower and material resources, and is the deputy director of the Blackbird Office, the intelligence agency directly under the Grand Duke, in terms of rank, he can be said to be on a par with Francesc Drake.

"The Commander is right, and I'm sure our boys will do a good job with this mission. ”

Rivera replied proudly, in fact, his heart is still very nervous now, because for this operation, he can be said to have gambled all his net worth.

A few years ago, when the Chuck Federation Dusk class was just born, it caused a sensation in the entire Firmament World with its near-perfect combat ability at that time, and the Buck family, who was eager to get a piece of the airship market, entered the eyes of Rivera, who was not yet the deputy director, at that time, Rivera was only a middle-level and high-ranking official in charge of the intelligence of the Free and Radiant National Intelligence in the eastern part of the Firmament World. The ambition in Buck's heart, under his auspices, the Blackbird Office began to contact the Buck family, and after repeated temptations, it successfully aroused Buck's ambition to go further, and he was already the Speaker at that time, and if he went further, he would be king.

Next, Buck and Rivera took what they needed through various transactions, exchanged a lot of information in the glory of freedom through some useless technology in Cleveland, and even possibly pulled the entire Miramar and Vihandi into the arms of the Holy Alliance, Rivera also became the deputy director of the office by virtue of this merit, and even if Miramar and Vihandi could really be allowed to do it anyway, the position of the chief of staff would be at your fingertips.

Just a while ago, Rivera learned through an extremely covert channel that the Silver Eagle Republic and the Federation had reached a deal that involved intelligence and equipment that could revolutionize the Silver Eagles' intelligence-gathering capabilities. Rivera, who had always been sensitive to this kind of information, immediately began to rack her brains to find an opportunity to intercept the shipment.

His intelligence source is very capable, and even got the transportation route and escort force ratio of the entire transaction, so in the initial plan of Rivera, they have to face a powerful battleship composed of a full seven search dusk modifications, which is also the reason why he added the knight charge to the mission, in his mind, if he can really get this kind of equipment, it will be worth the cost.

And before his proposal was submitted, he also found Francis Derek and explained his idea to him, and Derek, who had always wanted to do it again before retiring, agreed to his idea, and then wrote his name on the plan, which made the Grand Duke of the Duchy agree to this seemingly crazy plan.

He also had the implication of persecuting Miramar and the government of the Uyhand, after all, the ambush location he chose was in the territory of these two countries, and as long as something happened to the Wesleyan fleet here, the Silver Eagle would definitely find trouble with Buck and them, and it would be easier to change the flag of these two countries soon.

Rivera, who was very gambling, didn't even think about what kind of retaliation the Duchy would suffer from the Silver Eagle Republic if it failed this time, but in this situation where no country was ready for all-out war, even if the Silver Eagle people really knew that they did it, it was nothing more than fighting on the secret front, and there were fewer such fights over the years?

This is also the real reason why the Cleveland top brass was able to agree to his plan in the end, for the Silver Eagle Republic, this Wesleyan fleet is really nothing, even if the capital ships are outdated, in the end, it is at best not good-looking.

Later, by chance, Miramar and Vihandi actually staged a military exercise, which almost disrupted Rivera's entire plan, but his intelligence sources in the Republic were once again very good at updating him with the latest changes in the Republic's escort team, and even the list of personnel for the fleet commanded by Wesley. This gave Rivera, who was already about to give up, the dawn of victory again, and it was much easier to deal with one Vicramatia than it was to deal with seven Evening modifications, and the only obstacle in front of them was the maximum ceiling of Vicramatia.

Just like Ye Wenqin thought, Rivera relied on their deep cultivation in Mirama and Weihan in the past few years, and successfully mixed three of his subordinates into the Elk that landed and replenished, in his opinion, his serial plan was already very perfect, plus the deformed skin obtained from the Astor Empire, at most, he could sacrifice two subordinates to successfully achieve his goal.

Of course, anything can happen before all actions reach their goals, so Rivera, who went into battle in person this time, is still a little apprehensive.

"Since our Director Rivera is so confident, then I wish you here..."

Francis Derek was also in a good mood at this time, although this time there was no opportunity for him to educate Halsey, who was a rising star in the Republic, but it was not impossible to complete such a task easily. Hearing Rivera's answer, Derek raised the red wine glass in his hand and greeted Rivera, but before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a discordant voice.

"Commander, the level of the spiritual power disturbance storm has been strengthened. ”

A lieutenant communications staff officer sitting on the monitoring platform suddenly stood up and shouted, he was in charge of the part that interfered with spiritual communication, and the ten minutes reported by Lexa before were calculated by him.

Originally, even if there was an emergency, he should have notified Lexa first, but what he found just now really made him a little uneasy, so he unconsciously shouted out.

"What? What did you say?"

Before Derek could say anything, Rivera, who was staying on the side, rushed over and grabbed the lieutenant by the collar with some gaffe.

The lieutenant glanced at Francis Derek with a somewhat ugly face, and saw that the old man, who was also light and breezy just now, was also surprised, and then swallowed his saliva and said, "Commander, Chief of Staff, and Director Rivera, the level of spiritual power disturbance storm has begun to strengthen. ”

"Impossible, isn't our spiritual power disturbance equipment already down?"

Rivera continued.

"Yes, Director, but the instruments do show that it is strengthening, and I doubt that the enemy is interfering with itself. ”

The communications lieutenant said helplessly, he was now hanging in the air, but apparently several officers had no time to pay attention to his feelings now.

"USS Memphis, USS Richard, USS Warhammer, USS Karania, report your psionic disturbance storm parameters, immediately, immediately. ”

Chief of Staff Lexa said into the communicator, and the communication of the entire fleet is still unimpeded.

"Memphis reports, disturbance parameter 387, plus or minus 10. ”

"Warhammer report, disturbance parameter 390, plus or minus 6.5."

......

Report after report came from the communicator, which made the faces of the officers look very ugly, and it was clear that the equipment on the heavy knight had not failed as they had hoped.

"Sir, the disturbance parameters are still rising, it's already 410. ”

Some helpless lieutenants still dutifully tilted their heads to stare at the observation device on his position, even though he knew that this was not good news for several commanders, but where the duty was, he had to say.

"Did they perceive something?"

Rivera said with an ugly face, at this time he no longer had the confidence he had before.

"Look again, look again. ”

Derek was also very depressed, seeing that the duck in his hand was about to fall into the bag, who would have thought that this kind of thing would happen again.

"Director Rivera, do your people have a contingency plan? I think you must have considered this when you made your plan. ”

Lexa whispered to Rivera that he and Derek were the only ones in the entire Knightly Charge Fleet who knew all the details of the plan, and also knew the importance of this operation, Derek was about to retire, and as Chief of Staff, he was still waiting for the merits of this operation to ensure that he was the commander of this fleet.

"Yes, yes, we have a backup plan, if the Elk hasn't been notified by me for three hours, they'll start sabotage on their own, and there's still a chance. ”

Rivera began to comfort herself.

"Alas, I don't know how these people from the Silver Eagle Republic noticed it. ”

Lexa hammered the workbench in front of him with some annoyance, this feeling was really unpleasant.

"Let's wait and see, how long is it until three hours?"

Drake knew that now was not the time to be upset, and he sat back in the commander's chair again, even if the mission failed, the responsibility was not on their fleet, and Rivera would be responsible for it then.