"Command! The entire fleet is ready for battle at the first level! The fleet pauses and moves forward, and immediately switches to an Inverted A defensive formation! The battleships Cardison and Winifred are out and defend the aircraft carrier Radiance! The formations of cruisers and destroyers immediately dispersed, protecting the left and right flanks of the fleet! The rest of the small and medium-sized ships are all shrunk around the aircraft carrier, and they are not allowed to open fire at will without my orders! The Radiant Goddess immediately ejects the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Squadrons of space fighters, ready for a firefight! ”

Major General Douglas calmly gave the order as he fell into deep thought. He didn't expect that in this remote and almost abandoned Beta 29 channel, he would actually be able to collide with the aircraft carrier fleet of the Solo Empire!

What are they doing here?

At this time, Tom, who was on his way to the cafeteria, was stunned when he heard the constant loud sirens and the announcement on the radio asking the entire crew to enter the first level of combat readiness.

It wasn't until the fat man saw the closed protective armor on the porthole fall rapidly, completely obscuring the light of a small star nearby, that he understood that the fleet must be in trouble.

It was too late to get back to his cabin, and the cafeteria was not far in front anyway, so Tom quickened his pace and ran in the direction of the cafeteria.

"Command! Immediately send a light signal to the Solo fleet! Tell them that we are just passing by and there is no hostility. After pondering for a moment, Major General Douglas felt that he should communicate with the other party first.

Two minutes later, the herald officer ran up to the bridge again, saluted Rear Admiral Douglas and reported, "Report to Your Excellency! Just received a light signal reply from the Solo Imperial fleet, and they said that their fleet was also just passing by, and there was no hostile intent. ”

Strange!

Major General Douglas touched his chin and did not speak.

Also passing by, is it possible?

If it wasn't intentionally planned, the chances of the two space fleets meeting by chance in the vast universe are almost zero! What's more, this is a remote waterway that is about to be abandoned!

But how could such a huge fleet of Solo Empire aircraft carriers suddenly appear on Beta 29? Although they say they are passing through here, they must have some ulterior motives! Could it be that they are on their way to Basel to reinforce the Blood Wolf Legion of the Vilia Empire? Or do you want to ambush here, wait for your fleet to return, and take the opportunity to cut off your own back road?

Now Major General Douglas's mind was full of questions, and he seemed to have faintly smelled a mixture of conspiracy and danger.

"Contact the General Command of the Combined Fleet on Imand immediately, and I will personally report to Marshal Williams!" Douglas stood up and shouted orders to the officer under the bridge who was in charge of interstellar communications.

A few minutes later, Douglas finished talking to Marshal Williams on the interstellar phone, and the old marshal was also surprised by the sudden encounter with Solo's fleet, but he advised Douglas not to act rashly and lead the fleet out of the Beta 29 channel as soon as possible to avoid further trouble.

As soon as Douglas put down the phone, he ordered the fleet to speed up. Soon, the Federation's Fourth Carrier Fleet found a large space warp jump point. After the fleet entered the space jump, it finally shook off the Solo fleet and stayed away from that dangerous airspace.

On the bridge of the space aircraft carrier Goddess of Radiance, Douglas looked at the vast universe with his hands behind his back, thinking to himself that no matter what the outcome of the Barcelona Star Raid and Disturbance War would be, he would never take the Beta 29 channel again when he returned. In case this aircraft carrier fleet of the Solo Empire really has bad intentions, the Fourth Fleet, which is no longer full of ammunition and supplies when it returns, is no match for the Solo fleet, which has two giant aircraft carriers and is waiting for the rabbit.

At this time, the 4th Space Carrier Mixed Fleet had just been relieved of the order of first-level combat readiness, and the crew returned to their jobs to continue their work. However, when the men of the cooking camp on the Goddess of Radiance returned to the cafeteria, they found that they had lost a chicken and a duck, as well as some seasonings, including two bottles of cooking wine for cooking.

After Tom came back from the cafeteria, he went directly to the cabin of Lao Liu and Team Doctor Wang in the kitchen, and the three of them stewed a pot of chicken and duck with the guy on Lao Liu's logistics mecha, Tom added two bottles of cooking wine to the kettle that was only half a pot, and the three of them drank it again until it was dark, and then they huddled together and fell asleep again.

The boring time of space travel slowly passed in the process of the three of them eating and sleeping, waking up and continuing to eat. It wasn't until Bai Jie personally opened their hatch and carried the three guys who hadn't woken up to the deck of the cargo hold to assemble that the three drunkards understood that they were about to arrive at Basel.

The twenty-two mechs of the intelligence bureau's operation team were already lined up on the cargo deck, and all the men in black were nervously waiting for Bai Jie's order.

In fact, Bai Jie herself was also very nervous at this time, and she had never participated in a cosmic battle. Fortunately, now that everyone is in their respective mechas, all the men in black, including the dead fat man, can't see her nervous expression.

Bai Jie could only wait quietly now, waiting for Rear Admiral Douglas to give her the signal to break away from the aircraft carrier formation and rush into the atmosphere of Basel.

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At this time, in the synchronous orbit of the Basel Star, the direct personal guard of Tokugawa Jiro, the second prince of the Vilia Empire, and the two mixed fleets of the space aircraft carriers of the Blood Wolf Legion were spread out in a serpentine array, arching each other to form a horn momentum, firmly holding the portal of the Basel Star.

In the luxurious suite of the fleet's flagship heavy cruiser, the Iga, Tokugawa Jiro rests his feet high on the table and gently shakes the wine glass in his hand.

Below him, Major Lisa was kneeling on the ground, giving him a gentle massage and thumping of his legs.

In an imperial state, the nobility and the commoners could never be equal.

Just like Saori Tokugawa, although she was only a lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Army, she was a hereditary prince, and even if the dukes with the shogun on their shoulders saw her, they had to salute respectfully.

Knighthood, the status of the Imperial Army is much higher than the rank.

Of course, with the exception of a few princes or princesses who have a royal title, titles from the duke down are often more or less commensurate with military ranks.

In the imperial army, there could not be a duke who was only a lieutenant-level officer, and the duke was generally a marshal or general awarded by the emperor himself; Marquis generally have the rank of general or lieutenant general, and a few have the rank of general or major general, but it is not common; Counts, on the other hand, generally have the rank of major general or colonel, and rarely reach the rank of lieutenant general or above.

The viscounts who came down were almost all colonel-level officers, and the barons were almost all lieutenants, with occasional majors and majors.