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The ranch battle brought the north and south sides of Orion to a stalemate.

The Gusi people in the south were boiling with resentment because of famine; The Hall families in the north are at odds and vying for power; Only a foreign war can slightly relieve some internal pressure.

Since the departure of the southerner Bal, who sent the war letter, the Donghuo and Xihuo tribes have been constantly agitating, so that the great patriarch Taifu has made up his mind to start a war with the south as soon as possible.

The servant was still a little hesitant.

First, he had to think about the future of the entire North, after all, war is no small matter.

Second, the words of Bert, the director of science and technology, also worried him that if the southerners had the advantage in weapons, the war would be lost; Once defeated, the Zhonghuo people will inevitably lose their position in the northern clan.

After much deliberation, the servant decided to send an envoy to the south to test it, hoping to avoid war, or at least delay it.

By the way, the envoy also brought with him an agreement – the "Mutual Protection Agreement between the North and the South in Wartime" signed by the two sides thousands of years ago, pledging that the two sides would not use "weapons of indiscriminate destruction" in wartime – that is, thermonuclear weapons.

This agreement is important, and in the past dozens of large-scale conflicts, both sides have kept the agreement, thus ensuring the survival of all Orions to this day.

The servant chose the internal affairs officer Mao Ke as his special envoy, with his own handwritten letter and the "Mutual Insurance Agreement".

Mauk set off with 100 escorts, and within a few hours, the Starfast was on its way to the south.

When there were still hundreds of kilometers away from Xihe Space City, I met two fleet phalanxes, neatly lined up on both sides, each phalanx was a hundred starships.

It was the first time that Mauk had seen such a large starship, each one was a thousand meters long and four or five hundred meters wide, and the front end of the starship was a huge cannon about 100 meters long, with thick armor all over the hull.

Seven or eight hundred heavily armed soldiers lined up on the foredeck, their weapons gleaming.

Fleet Commander Gurban greeted Mauk from afar, and led the starfleet column to escort Mauk back to Xihe Space City.

Xihe Space City arranged a grand reception banquet, at which the Holy Lord Chahl personally delivered a welcome speech, and Mao Ke handed over a personal letter from the servant and the "Mutual Insurance Agreement".

Chahl read the letter and said: "Your Excellency, I am glad to have you here, and I understand your plight; War is not an end for us, just a means that have to be employed. ”

Mauk: Thank you, Honorable Lord, for your understanding, and allow me to express my position. For the sake of continued peace between the two sides, we are willing to send a delegation to negotiate with you. ”

Chahal shook his head, "Your Excellency the Special Envoy, there is no need for this for the time being, please tell the Grand Patriarch of the Imperial Servant, you either hand over the Hebei Ranch or prepare for war." ”

After the banquet was over, and Mauk was about to return from Space City, Foreign Minister Barr personally sent him out, took him by the hand, and whispered:

"Mr. Mauk, go back and tell the Grand Patriarch and the servant to prepare in advance, be careful, many external forces are involved in this battle, and the situation is likely to get out of control."

Mauk nodded and thanked Barr for the reminder, hoping that he would continue to work hard and work towards peace between the two families.

Mauk bids farewell to Barr and boards the Starship.

After that, the unexpected happened, and instead of flying back into the airspace of the Northern Alliance, Mauk disappeared in the middle ground between the two sides.

The Northern Alliance was the first to issue an indictment, accusing the South of murdering Special Envoy Mauk.

Later, the Southern Alliance also issued a notice denying the accusations from the North, saying that it was a conflict among the Northerners that led to Mauke's death.

The day after the incident, both sides sent starships to the airspace where Mauk disappeared to investigate and search for evidence.

They found that the starship that Mauk was riding on had been completely shattered, and the starship fragments had drifted thousands of kilometers away, presumably under a sudden attack by a high-yield weapon.

On the third day, the northerners claimed that they had found shrapnel left behind by the Taurus, which was evidence of the South's collusion with the Taurus.

Almost at the same time, the South also claimed that they had found traces left by the Siho people in the North, and that this was your internal feud and had nothing to do with us.

The death of the envoy Mauk sent the already tense situation out of control, and the northerners were completely enraged.

The two chiefs of Guna of Donghuo and Hella of Xiho found the servant together and said: If the great patriarch does not agree, the two tribes will send troops independently to start a war with the south.

The servant did not stop this time, because the death of the envoy Mauk made him very angry.

The servant had only one worry, that is, once the war started, it would lead to a final thermonuclear war, which would be devastating for both sides, so he let Mauk go to the south with the "Mutual Insurance Agreement".

Mauk did not return safely, and it is not known whether the South will abide by the agreement.

After the deliberation of the three patriarchs, it was decided that a low-intensity war would be fought first, and the North would unilaterally abide by the "Mutual Insurance Agreement".

The Siho patriarch Hela volunteered to personally lead the fleet into battle.

The servant allocated him 1,000 warships, all of which had been built in the north in recent decades and were of the latest type; The fleet lined up in a phalanx, stretched for hundreds of kilometers, and then marched mightily to the south.

The southern fleet had long been on the border, and they sent 500 warships.

When the fleets of the two sides were more than 100 kilometers apart, they opened fire on each other without declaring war.

The southern fleet also silently complied with the "Mutual Insurance Agreement", using only magnetokinetic cannons, laser cannons, and implosion guns.

These are direct-aim guns, which will not destroy starships, and are typical weapons for low-intensity warfare.

Although the types of weapons used by the North and the South are similar, the South has a clear advantage, with their starships being more tonnage, more powerful weapons, and longer range.

In a short time, more than 300 starships in the north were destroyed, either by magnetic cannons, burned through by laser cannons, or blown apart by implosion shells.

The northern soldiers who did not admit defeat, although their weapons were poor, but they had a strong will to fight; Seeing that the battle from a distance could not be achieved, three or four hundred warships directly started and rushed into the enemy's position.

This kind of lethal tactics made the Southern Fleet, which was only familiar with positional warfare, at a loss, and when it was emergency to dodge, it led to a collision with each other, and coupled with the back and forth impact of the northern warships, the southern warships also lost a lot.

Just as the Northern Fleet was about to turn the tide, a cannonball flew from the flank direction, hitting a battleship in the North, raising a huge mushroom cloud, and the battleship instantly turned into a reddish fireball.

Only 10 seconds later, there was a loud bang, and the battleship that had been hit exploded; One minute later, the 9 warships surrounding the perimeter were also detonated by the powerful shock wave, followed by more than 20 warships.

The shell caused a total of 31 starships to explode and 56 to be damaged.

Captain Hela was a little confused at the time, and when he came to his senses, he realized that his fleet had been subjected to a thermonuclear attack.

Hela's first instinct was to fight back, and before coming, he didn't tell the servant, and quietly planted 10 thermonuclear starships in the fleet, and now they are at the back of the line.

He moved the 10 thermonuclear starships to the front of the formation, lined up, and was about to give the order to launch, when he suddenly received an order from the servant:

"Hela, back now, don't fight back, don't fight back."