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Earth Federal Senate.

Several federal soldiers strode into the Senate building, and the guards on duty at the gate of the Senate did not block it, but raised their hands and saluted this group of people, these federal soldiers raised their hands and saluted while walking, and did not stop for a moment, for these soldiers, especially the one in the middle, the guards are already familiar with each other, and how many people don't know about General Hamilton, the hero who saved the Federation in the Battle of Big Horn Seven, and the general has not been to the Senate once or twice.

"Hello, Miss Liu."

"Ah, General Hamilton, you came on time." Seeing these soldiers pushing the door in, a middle-aged lady with a good appearance immediately stood up and politely said that she was Senator Yao's most trusted secretary, and she had been his secretary since he entered politics when he was young.

"Soldiers are supposed to strictly abide by the time, is Senator Yao here?"

"Yes, but please wait, Senator Yao is receiving a communication, and I have sent him a message to remind him that a guest has arrived, and since you have made an appointment with him, I am sure he will know who is here now."

After a short time, a light on the communicator came on, revealing Senator Yao's head.

"Is it General Hamilton?" The senator asked directly

"Yes, Senator, the general has been there for a while, and you were on the phone......"

"Let him in. Alas, it's not a big deal. ”

Communication was cut off, with years of experience following senators. The secretary knew that the senator did not seem to be in a good mood, and in fact, the senator had been in a bad mood since Miss Yao had completely lost contact.

Is it because of that communication? She couldn't help but wonder.

"Yao, what's wrong? Your face seems bad. As soon as Admiral Hamilton walked into the office, he immediately noticed that his friend had a very bad face. A sad look on his face.

"It's nothing. Not the same as before? You know that, too. Promise. It was your sister-in-law's newsletter just now. Senator Yao smiled wryly and pointed to the communicator on the table. I asked my daughter again about the news, alas, am I not in a hurry? She is not alone in her daughter. ”

The admiral sighed silently in his heart, as Senator Yao's friend, he naturally knew what was going on in his friend's house, but at the moment there was really nothing he could do, and the secret contact channel with the rebel alliance would be cut off. At the beginning, several liaison officers couldn't wait for the ship sent from the Alliance, they thought that something might be wrong, and the ship sent to survey later confirmed this conclusion, the spatial jump point leading to the Eye of Death actually disappeared in the position where it should have existed, and its disappearance also means that this secret route to the Alliance has been interrupted, although the fragility of this route has been estimated at the time, but still did not expect it to come so quickly.

In order to restore contact with the Alliance, it is necessary to find another channel. But how can it be so easy? Those are easier to find, safer passages. It's not nothing, it's just that it has long been controlled by the Empire and the Federation respectively, and the star fields or galaxies where the junction of the passages they each master. It has become the frontline galaxy of the Federation and the Empire, and both sides have deployed heavy troops in these frontline galaxies, especially near the space jump point of the frontline galaxy, there are unmanned monitors, automatic batteries and non-stop intensive patrols everywhere, and there are fleets ready to send reinforcements or intercept at any time, if you want to quietly break through these galaxies or star fields that the empire is heavily defended, it is almost impossible, unless it is a forced breakthrough, but that kind of large-scale exchange of fire means the resumption of the war.

In order to avoid the blockade of the other side, in order to achieve a sudden "sex" tactically, the Federation and the Empire do not know how much time it spent, how many ships and personnel were lost, but it was all in vain, fortunately, the friends of the alliance were lucky, they actually found a route channel that even the Federation and the Empire could not find, although it was dangerous, full of danger "sex" and uncertain "sex", but better than nothing, now after the route is interrupted, how can it be so easy? The easy route had long been discovered, and the Admiral knew in his heart that the Federation had been trying to regain contact with the Alliance, sending a considerable number of survey ships on the Death Route to try to find a new space jump point, but as of today, they had found nothing, which could not but be frustrating.

"Old friend, relax and refresh, although there is no news, she should be fine, don't forget, your daughter is already very capable, and there is the one from the Hua family who went with her, and in the Blue Angels where she used to stay, there are also many of her friends who stayed in the alliance with her as volunteers, including the former captain Major Yang--- our No. 3 ace, they will take care of her." Admiral Hamilton could only comfort his old friend in this way.

"Thanks, Hamilton, by the way, what is the important thing that you are here today? I know you, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and what is the budget problem, ask me for money. The "chairman" of the Senate Appropriations Committee soon returned to business.

"You misunderstood me, what I'm going to talk about today has nothing to do with the budget, in fact, I didn't know whether to tell you or not, but I finally felt that it was necessary to tell you, two news, one good and one bad, I remind you to be mentally prepared in advance, this is provided by the liaison officer we sent to the empire to supervise the ceasefire after he returns." General Hamilton cautiously pointed to the telegraph on the table,

"It's a bit of a relationship." ”

"Something to do with it?" Senator Yao was a little skeptical at first, he didn't understand why his friend said that the message had something to do with the communication machine, but he soon realized that he was using the communication machine to talk to his wife.

"Yes...... Is it news about Fei Ren? Is this the good news you are talking about? His nervous voice trembled a little, if it was news from his daughter, of course it was good news, but the senator was afraid, if the good news was that, what was the bad news? Is she hurt? Killed? Or captured......

"Yes and no, in fact. We don't know for sure about her. He handed his friend a piece of paper, "Let's see, it's been a long time to find out, the Imperial Security Service keeps a close eye on our liaison officer, and he doesn't relax 24 hours a day, and even goes to the toilet with someone to follow, so it's very difficult to get some useful information." ”

"This is ......" Senator Yao looked at the piece of paper suspiciously, and the title read: The current known battle sequence of the Resistance Alliance (incomplete). Here are some fleet names, ship names, fleet formations, and so on. But it's not complete. And there are many unclear, or question marks, or blank places, and many are still marked with words such as heard and heard, probably, undetermined, and so on.

"Old friend, why did you give me this information, which is mostly unknown, uncertain, and heard?" The senator replied reluctantly, "Do you want me to analyze?" Very well, all I can say is that our allies already have at least four fleets. It's been developing very fast, and it seems that our local assistance is still quite effective, but other than that, I really can't analyze the missing content, and I'm not a military expert. ”

"You're really a 'fan' of the authorities." General Hamilton personally pointed out to his friend, "Look at it. These fleets of our allies and friends. The core of the fleet is a space carrier, and the space carrier of the Seventh Fleet is known to be the Assaulter-class space carrier Raider (SC-1), the space carrier of the other two unnamed fleets. Although I don't know the name of the ship, it is also the Assault class, one of which should be the Liberator, if you look at this fleet, the Fifth Fleet, the space carrier as the core of the fleet, is the Imperial class, and her ship name, don't you feel familiar? ”

"Imperial-class space carrier, Archangel......" Senator was shocked, and he finally became uncontrollably excited, "Archangel." ”

"Exactly." General Hamilton said meaningfully, "The naming convention of the fast space carrier of the Alliance friends is usually XXX, why does this space carrier not follow this naming convention, but uses another name?" ”

"It's her, it's her, it must be her, the cruiser she commanded before was called the Archangel, she must be on this ship. Oh my God, oh my God, I finally know about her, she's still alive, she's still alive and well....... Hamilton, tell me, is the captain of the Archangel her? Oh my God, she's risen again, she's the captain of a space carrier now, how old is she, even in the Federation, it seems that she has never heard of such a young space carrier captain...... right" The senator said incoherently, he couldn't listen to what others were saying, his hands trembled, and he held the trembling piece of paper on the ground, as if he was holding a priceless treasure, no matter how much he looked at it, he couldn't bear to put it down......

General Hamilton looked at his friend with some pity, pity the hearts of parents in the world, no matter how powerful his friend is politically, after all, he is still a father, flesh and blood, which is inevitable for any slightly normal human being.

After the senator calmed down a little, he said, "Yao, listen to me, whether the captain of the Archangel is Fei Lun or not, we really don't know, what we know so far is that the alliance has such a space carrier named the Archangel." ”

"Who provided the information, and how did he get it?" He asked eagerly, he would love to ask in person.

"It's useless, Yao, this information has been synthesized by the federal liaison in the Empire in charge of overseeing the ceasefire, and they have just returned home." The admiral shook his head, "We don't have the opportunity to contact our friends in the alliance, the empire is very strict on their movements, and most of the information they provide is drunk and chatting or overheard, so there are so many blanks or comments such as hearing and so on, because it is too uncertain 'sex', it is not of much use to us, it just opens a window for us to understand the development of our friends." ”

"That's right." Senator Yao was a little disappointed, he thought about it, and finally asked hesitantly, "You didn't come to me today just to tell me this, just for this, you don't need to come to the door in person." By the way, you mentioned a bad piece of news. ”

He suddenly became nervous again, and cautiously probed, "What about Fei Ren?" Could it be that something is wrong with the Archangel number, I remember you said that it is not sure if she is on the Archangel number or not. ”

At this moment, he hoped that his daughter was not on that ship again.

The "......." admiral was speechless for a long time. "We have recently detected a large number of subspace communications, and reconnaissance intelligence has also indicated that the movement of the Imperial Army is abnormal, and there is no doubt that there will be a large-scale military operation in the Empire. ”

"What do they want to do? Planning to go back to war? "Ginseng

A cautious and serious expression appeared on his face.

"No, quite the opposite, our liaison officer in the Empire was informed when he protested. The Empire is massively withdrawing its forces from the front lines of confrontation with us. The Empire even allowed them to inspect the site of the withdrawal. The Imperial officials stated that this was an active and friendly signal, and the Imperial Army was the first to set an example, and called on both sides to take joint action to withdraw their troops, further easing tensions at the front, and expressing their willingness to forget the past with the allies and live in peace and friendship for generations to come, and so on. Forgot about the previous events so quickly. The admiral sarcastically said.

"I know that the Empire has been making frequent overtures to the Federation lately, but I didn't expect them to withdraw their troops first, which is really surprising, but isn't that a good thing?"

"No, Yao, it's a good thing for us, but it's not that simple. You know the forces they've pulled down. Where is it used? ”

"You..... You mean...... Our allies? ”

"Yes, although they keep inside information tightly sealed from our liaison officers, there are no impermeable walls in the world. We only know that the Empire has suffered several major defeats recently, and the military strength in the rear is no longer enough to deal with our allies, so they need to transfer most of their military strength from the front line, and we know that more than a dozen of them will be transferred back to the rear of the space carrier alone......."

The more Senator Yao listened, the more ugly his face became, he now knew why he said bad news, his daughter is currently in the Resistance Alliance, and the Archangel, as a main space carrier, must be the first to bear the brunt of the war.

He stood up, walked to the window, looked at the scenery outside the window, and did not make a sound for a long time, he was thinking.

"You came to me personally, actually, it should be for this matter." He asked slowly.

"That's right, we can't let the empire withdraw the army casually, otherwise when their internal problems are resolved, the front line will be tense again, and the war will inevitably rekindle, and it is in the best interests of the Federation to maintain the internal turmoil within the empire, help our allies and friends, and even help them overthrow the rule of the empire. Now the front of the Reich is under-armed and weakly defended, maybe we ......," the general said.

"It can't be, the decision to go to war will definitely not pass in the Senate, and within a few years of the war, the call for peace and anti-war and reconstruction has prevailed, and the public opinion is so that we will not be able to win enough support in any case, unless the empire takes the initiative to attack us, on a large scale, as it was last time, otherwise, at least for a few years, nothing will change." Senator Yao flatly vetoed.

"But it is impossible for the Empire to take the initiative to attack us, it is too late for them to beg us, the Empire has become extremely gentlemanly at the moment, even if our reconnaissance planes or fighters cross the ceasefire line and reach the side of the Empire through the space jump point, they will endure it with their anger, and even the surveillance and interception are far away, and then it is a diplomatic protest, and it is impossible for our pilots to really fire at them, even if there are skirmishes and firefights, it will not be of great help to the decision to start a war." General Hamilton sighed, "It is difficult to expect them to attack on their own initiative, unless they have to wait until they settle our allies, but then it will be too late." ”

"The Alliance is not so casual to be wiped out by the Empire," the senator looked at the blank piece of paper on the table, "Don't they already have four fleets?" ”

He regretted it a little now, he had known that when he could help them, he should have used his influence and spared no effort to increase the assistance, then the alliance might have more than four fleets now.

"But this time, it's hard to say that the strategic center of gravity of the empire has been entirely assumed by them, and I'm worried about ......"

"It's useless for you to worry, so think about what to do." While thinking about it, he said, "Although it is impossible to pass the decision to start a war, it is impossible to really launch an attack, but it is still possible to gather heavy troops on the front line and put on an offensive posture, which is to prevent the possible attack of the Empire, to prevent the smokescreen of the Empire, and to explain it to the people and the Senate, which can attract the attention of the Empire and make them dare not transfer too many troops back to ......"

"What if the Empire ignores it?"

"Then there aren't many good ways to do it." The senator shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm just the 'chairman' of the appropriations committee, and I still have a way to increase aid to the alliance within my purview, but now that the aid pipeline has been interrupted, there is really not much I can do." ”

"Understood, I will let them continue to intensify the search for new routes, and on the other hand, deploy heavy troops on the front line to deter the Empire ......"

"Also, at home, we must find ways to reverse the current public opinion, do a good job of persuading other senators, and increase propaganda efforts, although it will not be effective in the short term, but it must be done...... The budget of the army, I will also help you find a way......"

“...............”

Fei Ren, you must take care of yourself, that young man named Ruisen, I hope he also remembers his promise to protect the poor child, no matter what, father will definitely find a way, public or private, father will never leave you alone. The senator prayed silently.

When you get home, how do you tell your wife? Senator Yao felt a headache again.