Chapter 63: Breaking the Battle
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The St. Mary's transport ship is a large transport ship of the Hod Empire, often going back and forth between the No. 1 large supply base and the No. 78 supply station, and there are a large number of supply stations in the rear of the Northern Military District, these supply stations collect the war materials in the empire, and then the materials are transported by numerous transport ships to the large supply base numbered No. 20, these transport ships are like hard-working ants to and from various supply bases or supply stations.
Norman, the captain of the St. Mary's transport, sat on the bridge, looking at the unchanging hyperspace scenery outside the window and yawned boredly, remembering that when he first went on a hyperspace voyage more than 20 years ago, he felt that the scenery outside the porthole was very shocking, and he was very excited, and he was still excited for the second and third time, but he had seen the scenery outside the porthole countless times in the past 20 years, and he had changed from a young man in his twenties to an uncle who was almost fifty years old.
"It's so boring. "The monotonous task of going back and forth between the two supply bases every day made Captain Norman's young second mate feel that his life was like falling into an eternal backwater, lacking passion and excitement, and he felt that if he continued to live like this, he would slowly decay and die in this unchanging life, he hoped that he could go to the front line, drive the battleship to fight the enemy, win the applause and worship of his comrades, experience the excitement of dancing with death, and think that that is the life he should live.
"It's so boring, let's have some sudden time to get me excited!" the second officer, who was in the second middle school, raised his hands and shouted.
Captain Norman was also young, and he used to have the same thoughts as the second and second lieutenants. But as I grew older and started a family, the idea of passion and excitement slowly disappeared. Instead, I hope to continue such a dull life and watch my children grow up slowly. Getting married, then growing old with his wife, and finally lying in bed with the blessings of his children and grandchildren to meet the coming of death, that's what Captain Norman thinks about now.
"Boom...... ......!"
The smooth sailing of the transport ship St. Mary was broken, and a violent tremor came from all around the ship, and the sirens sounded loudly, and the crew was in a mess.
"Don't panic, all the personnel immediately return to their posts and immediately check what is going on!" the voice of the experienced Norman captain was heard by all the crew through the system. The panicked crew quickly calmed down, and then ran towards their respective posts on Captain Norman's orders.
"The engine is working!"
"The thrusters are normal!"
"The life-sustaining system is normal!"
The status of the transport ship was summarized on the bridge, giving Captain Norman a comprehensive view of his ship.
"Captain, you see, we're out of hyperspace!"
Captain Norman was shocked and immediately looked out of the porthole, the original colorful and dream-like hyperspace was slowly being replaced by a black starry sky, and the hull of the St. Mary was completely separated from the hyperspace and returned to normal space.
"Contact Supply Base One immediately and send out a distress signal!" Captain Norman issued orders in an orderly manner.
"Communication is jammed by Yan zhΓ²ng, unable to contact the base!"
"The radar is also interfered with, and the resolution and effective detection range are greatly reduced!"
Captain Norman's cold sweat flowed on the spot, because the situation was very similar to the enemy briefing issued by the command in the past two days, no. It's exactly the same.
"Several enemy planes are approaching!" cried out the CIC with the fear of death, the St. Mary's was only a transport ship, carrying missiles and shells but it was unusable, and there were no weapons other than a few small-caliber guns for self-defense. If several warplanes attacked them, the St. Mary's and its crew would have died in despair.
Under the frightened gaze of Captain Norman and everyone on the bridge, the several warplanes that flew in did not immediately attack. Instead, it began to fly around the St. Mary's.
"Captain, there's a message from the enemy. We are asked to surrender immediately and leave the transport ship in an escape pod. Otherwise, we'll be wrecked along with the transport, and we'll only have a minute to think about it!"
Captain Norman exhaled heavily after hearing the communications officer's words, "Mary, it seems that I can go back to you alive." β
Not only Captain Norman, but also the other people on the ship exhaled in unison, especially the second mate who had committed the second illness just now, when death really came, he found that it was so terrifying, what honor, what applause was not important, the important thing was to live, live well and enjoy the rest of life is the most important thing.
"Obey the other party's orders, and everyone board the escape pod. Captain Norman knew very well that there was no room for resistance on his side, and that it was best to be obedient if he wanted to live, so he simply gave the order to surrender.
More than a dozen escape pods flew out of the St. Mary's, which were then escorted in a certain direction by enemy fighters.
"Boom......!"
Captain Norman felt the red light flashing from the window of the escape pod, he immediately looked back, the St. Mary, who had accompanied him for more than 20 years, was blown to pieces in a burst of explosion, people have feelings, looking at this scene, Captain Norman couldn't help but shed tears of sadness, and there were many crew members who cried together, and then grieved for St. Mary's at the same time, their hearts were also uneasy and afraid of the upcoming unknown fate.
"Look, look, what a big battleship!"
After a period of sailing, the crew in more than a dozen escape pods saw a huge battleship dominated by black, and Captain Norman also stared closely at the increasingly large battleship in his eyes, he had never seen such a large warship in the empire in more than twenty years of service.
The escape pod sailed into the huge battleship's Gnaku, and immediately a group of soldiers wearing black power armor and holding electromagnetic rifles ran over, and several beautiful female soldiers of different nationalities wearing mainly white military uniforms walked to the vicinity of the escape pod and said loudly: "Everyone listen, come out and line up, don't make noise." Don't talk to each other!"
Captain Norman obediently walked out of the escape pod and began to line up, and no one dared to speak under the threat of gunpoint. The female soldiers of the other nationalities walked up to him and asked in fluent Hod, "Sue me with your name, age, position, rank, and number." β
"Pabuev Norman, forty-nine years old. Captain of the transport ship USS St. Mary, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, number AD44575624. β
The female soldiers of the alien nationality took a note of them all very carefully, and took a headshot of Captain Norman, and then walked up to the first mate and asked the same question, apparently to register the captured personnel.
The speed of the foreign female soldiers, coupled with the small crew of the St. Mary, was completed in less than ten minutes, and then a female soldier with a team of armored mechmen (this is the Hodder Empire's name for soldiers in power armor) escorted Captain Norman and his party out of Gnaku to a place where the prisoners were being held.
Captain Norman got to the place and took a look, good fellow. Dozens of rows of wide tents were set up in what looked like a hangar, and at first glance more than 10,000 people were locked inside, a two-meter-high barbed wire fence was used as a fence, and the outside of the barbed wire was guarded by guards also wearing power armor.
The alien female soldier said to Captain Norman, "You will be here for a while from now on, and I hope you will not do anything we do not want to see during this time, and after a while we will release you, and your private property will be kept, so go in now." β
Nervous, Captain Norman and his party walked into the makeshift prisoner of war camp, and it didn't take long for him to find many old friends there.
"Yo. Norman, you're here too!"
Captain Jobs of the USS Wick and Bill of the USS York hugged Captain Norman warmly.
"I didn't expect you to be arrested too. Captain Norman asked the two with a wry smile.
"Try this stuff to relieve some stress. Captain Jobs threw out a white sand cigarette from Earth China and gave it to Captain Norman, a cigarette, and ordinary liquor. This is a little preferential treatment for captives.
Captain Norman lit the fire and inhaled lightly under the guidance of Captain Jobs, and the cyan smoke entered his lungs from his throat and then exhaled through his nostrils, and the tension in his heart did seem to be a little less.
"Good stuff indeed. How long have you two been captive?" Captain Norman asked the two.
"We were captured yesterday, and the transport ship suddenly entered normal space from hyperspace. Then it was caught, and the transport ship was destroyed along with the supplies on it. β
Captain Norman looked around and asked softly, "Do you know the identities of these enemies?
Captain Jobs also looked around. After noticing that no guards were paying attention to them, he replied: "It must be the enemies mentioned in the report, and these enemies have also told us their identities, they say that they are the Avengers, and they have taken revenge on the Empire in order to avenge the Empire for recently occupying their home planet, I heard that a few months ago, there were three regular fleets of the Empire that fought with the Avengers, and they fled with a swagger after the Avengers routed one of the fleets." β
"It turned out to be a foreign race on the latest occupation planet, no wonder it was so strong, in fact, the empire's unlimited occupation policy should have changed a long time ago, provoking a lot of enemies for no reason, I heard that the current enemies in the north are also recruited because of the unlimited occupation policy. Captain Norman complained.
In fact, not only the Norman captain, there are already many people in the Hodder Empire who are dissatisfied with the unrestricted occupation policy set before, the unrestricted occupation policy is a policy formulated early in the external expansion of the Hodder Empire for thousands of years, and thousands of years later, the Hodder Empire has long since changed from a small empire in a corner of the country to a behemoth today, and the planet it has is enough for them to develop for tens of thousands of years, and the huge imperial fleet is also insufficient because of the continuous external expansion and defense of the territory, so many people feel that the policy formulated thousands of years ago is no longer in line with the current situation, and needs to be revised or abolished, but it is a pity that this generation of Hodder King feels that he is wise and martial to surpass all the previous kings, resolutely opposed to the revision and abolition of the policy of unlimited occupation, so the lower echelons of the Hod empire often complained.
After a brief grumble, Captain Norman asked, "How many people have been captured here?"
"It's almost 20,000. β
"Twenty thousand, based on fifty men on a transport, so at least four hundred transports have been destroyed by this revenge army? God, that's enough for Marshal Raymond to have a headache!" exclaimed Captain Norman.
Marshal Raymond has a headache, he almost wants to commit suicide now, Ouyang Yu's breaking battles on several routes and the previously destroyed No. 2 and No. 12 supply bases have seriously affected the battle on the front line, many fleets even include the elite fleet, which had to retreat because they could not get timely replenishment of war materials in the battle, and the retreat of these fleets caused a large retreat of the entire battle line, and some administrative stars fell because of this, although they tried their best to save some people, there were still billions of people who did not withdraw and fell into the encirclement of the biological civilization army, and their lives would be in danger at any timeγ
"Hurry up and ask Master Yoda to come to my room!" (To be continued......)