The Imperial Council lasted for several hours.

In the end, Grune decided to mobilize a garrison fleet, plus five main fleets, to attack 6,000 warships.

Set a trap...

Encircle and suppress the scorpion star bandits!

That's a lot of money!

You know, the empire now has a full 20,000 warships, deployed at the entrance of the Silver Heart Passage to the first main spiral arm.

In other words, there are only three garrisons and twelve main fleets within the empire's borders at the moment.

At least...

That's all there is to it.

And Gren's order is equivalent to directly mobilizing nearly half of the fleet to participate in this encirclement and suppression operation.

Six thousand warships encircled and suppressed a hundred star pirate ships, isn't this a big deal?

But what Gruin didn't know was.

Just as he was about to set a trap and carry out an encirclement and suppression operation, the fleet of the Scorpion Star Thieves had already unknowingly penetrated deep into the hinterland of the empire.

It is 280 light-years away from the imperial capital.

Auston Starfield.

This star field is very special in the Kairui Empire.

Because...

Since ten years ago, it has been classified as a forbidden area by the Empire.

Any ship that enters here without permission will be destroyed immediately if it is discovered, regardless of the reason.

Whoever you are!

At this moment, it is not in a certain star system, but in the sea of nothingness.

A hundred warships, which looked very dilapidated on the outside, were staying here in a silent posture.

Inside one of the battleships.

"There is still half a year to go, and the Federation will launch a counterattack on the galaxy."

"This time, no matter what, we have to find out what secrets the Kerry Empire is hiding in the Auston Star Domain!"

Unlike what Gruen had seen, the bridge was now full of humans.

And the person he said was the commander of the current Tenth Fleet of the Federation, Mu Qianshan.

In fact, as early as a year ago, they discovered the problem with the Alston star field.

And, in order to figure out Auston's problem, he and Liu Tao also planned several raids of merchant ships within the empire, and even the attack on the administrative star a month earlier.

Just to catch more people and come back to see if they can interrogate anything.

But it's a pity, let alone those caravans, even the highest governor of the previous administrative star is completely unaware of the situation of Auston.

All they know is...

Auston has been locked down for nearly a decade, and even if he enters by mistake, he will be killed without asking the reason.

A proper Imperial Forbidden Zone.

Originally, they were ready to come a little bit.

After all, judging from the previous interrogation, Auston should be full of various detection and monitoring devices.

Once inside, it's easy to spot.

If you rush in directly, you might startle the snake.

But a few days ago, the Federation set a time for a counterattack on the galaxy, and this time is half a year later.

Therefore, before the counteroffensive begins, Mu Qianshan must find out what secrets the Kairui Empire is hiding.

Time was pressing, and there was no room for him to worry about it, expose it, or surprise the snake.

"Dude, do you really want to go in?"

"Even though there is a hyperspace engine, I am not afraid of being trapped in it."

"But once we use hyperspace to navigate, I'm afraid that we will be exposed immediately, and we are human beings."

"And this exposure is likely to cause the vigilance of the Kerry Empire, and even lead to the union of the four major forces again."

On the side, Liu Tao asked.

However, Mu Qianshan was very resolute.

In his opinion, if the Kerry Empire was only a superficial force of these forces, it would not pose much of a threat to the Federation.

Even if the four major forces are united, it is the same.

But if Gruin plays the same trick again, that is, the strength on the surface confuses the enemy, but in fact there are a large number of unknown forces hidden behind the scenes, it will be very troublesome.

Because, the federal side has already analyzed it.

After obtaining the entire technology library of the two fourth-order civilizations, the Kairui Empire should have made many technological breakthroughs in this decade.

But the problem is that the more than 30,000 warships it can see so far are still the same as those from ten years ago.

This is very unusual.

Then, considering the hand that Gu Ren played before, Mu Qianshan was very suspicious that this Auston Star Domain was hiding a fleet built by the secret of the Kairui Empire.

And this fleet ...

It is likely that it is different from the main fleet on its surface, but it has absorbed the technology of two other fourth-level civilizations, and after a large number of technological breakthroughs, it has created a new warship.

"Go in, do you have to go in, it doesn't matter if it's discovered."

"Well, you have the final say!"

Seeing that Mu Qianshan was so resolute, Liu Tao stopped persuading.

Anyway, with the hyperspace engine, he didn't worry about getting stuck in it.

"Order the fleet, go now!"

"Yes, Brigadier General!"

The next moment, the fleet, which had stayed outside the Auston Star Domain, sailed through hyperspace and disappeared in place.

Although it is known from the information previously obtained, it is likely that a large number of detection and surveillance devices have been deployed in the Alston star field.

But Mu Qianshan believes that if this kind of monitoring network wants to spread all over the star field, it will not leave any dead ends.

That's too big.

Therefore, it is very likely that it is only within the outer 10-20 light years, and the deployment is relatively dense.

And further down, it's likely that there will be only a small number of deployments, or even no deployments.

After all, the maximum distance of the Kerry Empire's jump engine is almost ten light years at a time.

In other words, if someone breaks in, they will find it in the first place.

There is no need to deploy a surveillance network hundreds of light-years deep.

In fact, Mu Qianshan's speculation is really correct.

In the Auston Field, the Carey Empire has deployed a network about twenty light-years deep on the periphery, but since 20 light-years, the density of surveillance devices has become more and more sparse.

Even, after 50 light-years in depth, there is no monitoring network at all.

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Auston Starfield.

Outside the Amos star system, about ten light-years away.

In the void sea of stars, hundreds of swirling blue hyperspace windows suddenly appeared.

Immediately, a hundred warships with a very dilapidated appearance sailed out of it.

"Radar officer, report the situation immediately!"

"Report, within a light year, no suspected surveillance artifacts have been found, and deep space radar is being used for long-range scanning!"

Hearing this, Mu Qianshan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, as I had guessed, after hundreds of light-years in depth, there was almost no monitoring network.

Next, it depends on whether the deep-space radar can find something in the Amos star system.

Seconds later...

"Report, deep space radar scans have found that there are a large number of space artifacts in the Amos star system, and more than 2,000 suspected warship targets have been discovered."

Is that really the case...

After hearing the report of the radar officer, Mu Qianshan nodded.

In this star system, more than 2,000 suspected battleship targets have been discovered, so how many are in the entire Auston star field?

In addition to this, it is also very important that...

You need to figure out a way to see if these warships are the main warships of the Kairi Empire, or...

It's a brand new battleship!

And if it is confirmed, the Kairui Empire is really here, secretly building new warships.

Then, you must also figure out to what extent the comprehensive combat power of these warships has reached!

"Liu Tao, are you interested in breaking through with me?"

"Everyone is on the thief ship, I said no, won't you break in?"

"Haha, enlightened!"

Listening to Liu Tao's words, Mu Qianshan also laughed.

Immediately...

"The fleet will set off immediately, and the target will be the Amos star system ten light-years away!"