Dussaint was going crazy.

On the way to the car factory, Duchamp finally told him who he was going to see under his repeated questioning.

General Horn is a completely disobedient fellow, as can be seen from the fact that he went straight to the front line posing as a captain, wearing the armor of the Steam Knight and losing an arm.

Not only did he refuse to accept old age, but he was also brave enough to the point of being reckless. If it weren't for the defensive battle of Funn County, General Horn showed his "tactical literacy" with the insidious trick of two minefield blockades, Dussander would have directly regarded General Horn as a brave and reckless man.

Now, General Horn is a coarse and cunning old fox in Dussand's eyes.

When he heard that he was going to meet the old fox, Dussaint himself was actually a little happy. After all, the two are comrades-in-arms who have fought together, and the naval commando represented by Horn is now the largest purchaser of the entire Belford automatic car manufacturing plant. Both public and private, and reasonable, Dussaint welcomed the arrival of General Horn very much.

Outcome...... When Dussand's and Duchamp's vehicles arrived at the depot, they didn't find any trace of General Horn.

According to the captain who had brought General Horn over, after his Excellency had disembarked outside the depot gate, he had let him drive back to Upper Albin.

The doorman at the gate said that, according to the registration materials, General Horn did not enter the inside of the depot. He did remember an old white-bearded man with a missing arm dangling twice in the doorway, but the other party did not offer to enter the garage. Instead, he walked slowly to other places.

Dussart and Duchamp looked at each other, not knowing where Horn had gone—a big living man, a vice admiral, he wouldn't be so unreliable and disappear by himself, right?

Dussant and Duchamp's guards suddenly became nervous, and a dozen or so good boys began to trot all the way around the walls of the depot to find people.

It is said that Horn, such a distinctive vice admiral, may not look ordinarily conspicuous, but the final result of the search is still "not found". This really made Dussander very puzzled and anxious.

That's a rear admiral, chief of staff of the Imperial Navy Commando!

As a result, the Newsar Garrison Navy joined the search, and brought with them the red-clad postmen from the Heraldic Administration.

Since the guards had ruled out the possibility of His Excellency General being in the factory area in advance, everyone began to turn their eyes to a broader area.

Dussand, for their part, was anxiously awaiting news, while the Navy and the Newsar Heraldic Administration expanded their search for three consecutive times. All takeoffs and landings at Upper Albin Starlanding were halted, and all four railway lines leading from Upper Albin to other cities were terminated.

Every starshuttle ship that is about to leave Newsar, and every train car that is about to leave Upper Albin, must be checked by both the Heraldic Administration and the Navy. And the long-standing departmental "hostility" played a huge role at this time. The Navy felt that the Heraldic Management Office was too close to the Army, and there would certainly be intentional or unintentional omissions in its work. Therefore, the inspection is carried out with great care.

The heraldic management office feels that the navy is a group of "old soldiers" composed of old men from top to bottom, and it is possible for them to make mistakes if they sit in the office and press the button, not to mention check whether there are any rear admirals who have been coerced by civilian clothes. As a result, the work is more serious and careful than usual, I don't know how many times.

As a result, the heraldic management office and the navy arrested 742 people in half a day. Fifty-six coerced persons were rescued and a batch of unlicensed arms and smuggled goods was seized. and arrested 31 allied spies who could not produce legal and reasonable documents.

The Heraldic Management Service and the Navy have gained a lot, and everyone in the Upper Albin Police Department has been disgraced.

But His Excellency the Major General is still nowhere to be found.

After a day's search, His Excellency the Major General has still not been found. Dusand was so mad that he drove to the factory overnight, ready to devote the last of his strength to the search for Major General Horn.

Rosen's men are very familiar with the streets of Upper Albin, and they are the best choice for finding people on the streets.

Then, in Rosen's office, Dusson saw a very hearty dinner. and Major General Horn, who ate with a beard soaked in oil and beer.

A quarter of an hour later, after shooting the floor with a pistol bullet and kicking over the table and scolding Lawson to vent his worries, fears, stress, and many other negative psychological effects, Dusson gasped and kicked open the door behind him.

"I told you, you're going to have trouble leaving me here." Major General Horn wiped his mouth with his sleeve with a smile, and then stood up unhurriedly. He said to Rosen, "Mr. Lord thinks very highly of you—the six shots were all on the ground and not on your head. ”

Rosen's face was bloodless, and it took him a long time to react and ask, "You...... Didn't you say you're a veteran? ”

"I just haven't retired from active duty yet." Horn smiled, crouched down next to Rosen and asked, "Are you interested in joining the army?" I think you're a good seedling, and you can at least bring out a group. Come to the Navy Commando. In five years, I will give you the rank of major. ”

Lawson shook his head without hesitation, he looked at the bullet holes in the ground and said, "Follow Mr. Lord, even if I get into trouble, it will only be a few holes in the floor." Rosen looked at Horn, and then said cautiously, "If I get into trouble in the Navy, I'm afraid these holes will open in my head." ”

Horn was a little surprised by Rosen's answer, and then laughed with satisfaction.

"Mr. Lord has a good eye for people." Horn stood up and said to Rosen, "I'm going to talk to Mr. Lord—I think we'll meet often for a while." ”

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Major General Horn had been on the training ground for almost two days, and he was interested in the "little invention" that Dussand was working on.

Duchamp didn't talk nonsense, Dussander did come up with a very interesting set. Based on his own personal experience, Major General Horn judged that if such a weapon was put into use on a large scale, it could achieve excellent results in ground operations on at least two or three colony stars.

If he can use assault ships to deliver on a large scale, with 400 to 500 tanks, he is even confident that he can take all the ground strategic positions of the allies on the Bomir colony in five days.

The situation with the operation on the Bomir was very unfavorable. The Confederates, with their more advanced reconnaissance equipment, are carrying out preemptive strikes against all fleets of the Imperial Royal Guard entering the vicinity of Bomir. Their success rate in the jump collision battle was almost as high as 30%, and the two Imperial Royal Guards had already lost 12 capital ships, 22 large cruisers, and hundreds of destroyers under the attack of the allies.

Attempts at the Royal Guard's attacks were repulsed again and again, while the Confederates had been attacking on the ground for more than a year. More than 25% of the entire Bomir colony is controlled by the allies, and a large number of cities are occupied. The Bomir Colonial Room has almost completely lost its functionality.

The allies had somehow come up with so many fleets, and the number of their fleets frightened even Rear Admiral Horn - according to current intelligence, the allies had gathered more than seven main fleets around the Bomir colony alone.

Seven main fleets, which means more than 105 capital ships, 280 large cruisers and thousands of destroyers. And that's just the size of the Confederates' navy, and if you count the ground forces, the Confederates have amassed at least 1.8 million men in this attack on the Bomir colony.

In the last 400 years of warfare, the largest offensive of the Confederates has amassed only 1.2 million men. And that attack was to counterattack the colony occupied by the Empire.

This time, the allies seemed to be really anxious.

The Empire's counterattack is also rapidly expanding, with three of the four Imperial Guards already being sent to the front. The mobilization of garrisons from other colonies was also included in the discussion. The Imperial Navy was shocked for the first time to discover that they had been completely suppressed by the Freedom Alliance in the balance of power.

The Fifth Imperial Guard is being formed at an unprecedented pace, but it is clearly too late to wait for new ships to enter service. As a result, the Admiralty directly withheld all the ships that were to be replenished to the garrison navy - from capital ships to destroyers, and finally gathered a fleet of 20 capital ships, 45 large cruisers and 105 destroyers.

In other words, Duchamp could not have been strengthened by Orin at all, and the three capital ships in his hands were all remembered by the Olin Admiralty.

Due to the peculiarities of the fleet, it is impossible for Orin to pull all the fleets into the Bomir orbit and have a cannon confrontation with the allies in the era of sail battleships. If the Imperials do do this, the Alliance will definitely make a collective jump as soon as they complete the pre-strike strike, and the destination will most likely be Orin or some other important colony.

They don't even need to occupy these colonies directly. A few rounds of shelling of important ports, factories, mines, and cities on the colony planet are all it takes.

The entire Upper Albin probably could not withstand three salvos of 945 21-inch guns. And that's not counting the number of guns on the numerous cruisers and destroyers.

If, if such a fleet had mastered the coordinates of Orin, then after this round of salvos, I am afraid that the entire empire would have to be finished.

In this regard, the Imperial War Department judged that the most effective plan to organize such an extreme situation was to achieve great success on the ground battlefield. As long as more than a million allies were completely killed in Bomir, the only option left for the Alliance's seven main fleets was to retreat.

As the third-in-command of the naval commando, General Horn felt that the "tank" invented by Dussart was indeed a good thing that could turn the scales of ground warfare.

You see, there's a genius little inventor that's good at that. Admiral Horn thought happily that Dussand's invention of the load vehicle had changed the mode of operations for almost the entire naval commando force. Now, naval commandos can easily run long distances without having to follow rivers or lakes. And after the tank is finalized and mass-equipped, the naval commando will also be able to gain the ability to easily break through the defensive positions of the allies.

Merely...... General Horn looked at the experimental tank behind him and muttered thoughtfully, "This isn't a good idea for combat." ”