After a series of battles throughout the Border System, it became clear that they had lost a lot of money - the Border System that had vowed to liberate and pacify the Border System did not achieve its goal, but instead seemed to open the way for the Favinir fleet.

"If we hadn't started the Frontier War in the first place, Favenir probably wouldn't have had such an easy excuse to commit such a crime against the Border System, right?"

Of the more than 30,000 warships brought out, only more than 18,000 were able to go back, and although they destroyed far more than their own number, they fattened the vultures behind...... The only strategic victory was that at least the vice-leaders of the nobles were killed, and a large number of nobles of the same faction were martyred, and that's it.

On the other side of the galaxy, the chaos of the alliance continues. There was turmoil in various places, various political parties appeared in large numbers, and three slogans arose one after another. The woman Yang Willy admired, his friend's surviving (unmarried), Ms. Jessica, also became a prominent figure in the political chaos of the Alliance. She called for a reckoning of former state officials, while harshly opposing the current provisional military mandate and calling for an immediate commencement of elections. However, Ms. Jessica was unable to provide a suitable reason to oppose the proposal, and Ms. Jessica could only maintain a rigid opposition to calls for autonomy and independence – a point that also affected Willy Young, who had been corresponding. As a soldier, Yang Willy adhered to the credo of not intervening in politics, but both sides issued orders to him...... Yang Willy may not be afraid of anyone on the battlefield, but for this kind of chaos, he has to ask the fleet to stay in the fortress...... Helpless.

On the imperial side, Rochenthal, as another vanguard of the whole army, invaded the Xiangtao galaxy like a bamboo. He noticed that the enemy's organization was very efficient and well-organized, and that although the enemy's successive attacks were all repulsed by Rochenthal, he was really surprised by the adhesion and uniform movement of the enemy during the attack, and the losses suffered were much greater than expected, and Rochenthal should reflect on it.

The reason why the enemy's actions became so effective was immediately understood by Rozenthal because the commander of the enemy army had changed. At this time, eighty percent of those who stood on the front line and commanded the battle were 1st class general Merkaz. There was no one in the aristocratic coalition who could have so much of a force in his army—except perhaps another scoundrel whom Rochenthal had deliberately forgotten about, the scoundrel who disparagingly called him the "erotic Persian cat", a lustful bastard like him.

In terms of the disparity in strength, it was not to favor Rochenthal, who was not a self-absorbed fantasist, but a sensible and capable assessment of the enemy's strength.

"Give up the Xiangtao Star Domain and retreat?"

When it is time to retreat, he has the ability to retreat immediately, which is also one of the qualifications for becoming a famous general.

Even if the Xiangtao Star Field is abandoned, it will have no impact on the overall strategy, and the Xiangtao Star Field is not an indispensable part of the battle plan. It was just a place that was a matter of course as the range of the force expanded, and at this point, it didn't matter if he ceded this place to the enemy, and the only thing he hesitated about was the psychological effect that this might bring to the enemy.

The preservation of the Xiangtao Star Field is a symbol of the first victory for the aristocratic coalition army that has been defeated and retreated since the beginning of the war, and it is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the enemy, and the enemy's morale may be greatly boosted and they will advance with the victory. There are countless examples in history of overwhelming the enemy's dense battles with the momentum of victorious pursuit and finally winning the final victory.

Thinking of this, Rochenthal, who was lost in thought, unconsciously smiled evil in his black and blue eyes.

"Well, retreat now, and since there is no value in making the greatest sacrifice to defend it, it is up to the Marquis of Royancram to decide whether or not to retake this place. "

There is a saying that if the boss causes the place occupied by his subordinates to fall, then the boss will have no face and no place to stand. However, if the boss recaptures the lost part of the subordinate, then the result will show that the boss is indeed more capable than the subordinate, and the boss may be displeased with the temporary failure, but if the boss says, "With the ability of the subordinate, I cannot take on this great responsibility, so please make the true meaning of using the army clear," then in the long run, it will not only satisfy the boss's self-esteem, but also improve the impression that the subordinate gives to the boss.

Rochenthal thought so. Since it is impossible to achieve a landslide victory, it is better to change to a more tactful and clever method, which is by no means something that a strong and simple warrior can come up with.

As soon as the decision was made, Rochenthal immediately began to prepare for a full-scale retreat, but the other party was such an extraordinary commander as Merkaz, and it was not easy to retreat in front of him, and it was at this critical juncture to show his military talents.

On 9 July, Rochenthal launched an offensive on all fronts, concentrating all his forces on a few key points, and everywhere he went, he gave the enemy a head-on blow. However, instead of falling into chaos as the Lords, the Noble Coalition fought with neatness and calm, and soon after, took advantage of the time lag when Rochenthal's forces reached the border of the battle line. This reaction alone shows that Merkaz is indeed a good and excellent commander.

However, Rochenthal's counterattack against the enemy did not make a move to attack again, but withdrew the central forces from the battlefield entirely, while the troops on the left and right flanks cleverly shifted their angles to both sides.

While these actions are carried out continuously, they are constantly and deliberately provoking the enemy. At this time, if you look down from above, you can see Rochenthal's fleet, which is formed in a concave shape, as if trying to lure the enemy in, and then attack from three directions.

Merkaz's staff officers did think the same thing, so they made suggestions to the commander, asking them to slow down the speed of their own attacks and not fall into the trap of the enemy's tactics.

Merkaz crossed his arms on the bridge of the flagship. He still had doubts in his mind, and in his eyes, the movements of the Rochenthal fleet were extremely unnatural. Is Rochenthal, one of the few experts in the use of troops, playing some tricks? For example, on the surface, it appears to be a postural attack, but in fact it is waiting for an opportunity to escape...... However, Merkaz was the last to adopt the advice of the staff officers. The excessive blood of the army has always been the most worrying place for Merkaz, so when using troops, prudence must always be the first priority, if the purpose of Rochenthal is to escape, then it is easy to obtain the Xiangtao Star Field without paying too much price. If the opponent this time is Reinhardt himself, then it is a different matter, since it is not Reinhardt, then this dangerous gambling game is better avoided as much as possible.

The Noble Coalition's pursuit slowed down. After confirming this, Rochenthal did not take immediate action, but continued to deliberately and slowly retreat with the soft movements of the concave formation. Soon after reaching the outer edge of the Xiangtao Star Field, the distance between them and the enemy army was widened, and the whole army was immediately formed into a spherical formation and evacuated with the most decisive speed.

The Xiangtao Star Field fell into the hands of the aristocratic coalition army in this way.

"Rochenthal has come up with such a problem to test me. "

Reinhardt said with a wry smile when he learned of the report. He didn't feel displeased, in fact, Rochenthal's psychology of not defending the Xiangtao Star Field was as easy for him to understand as if it were completely in his hands.

"The Marquis of Dawn is dead. Gilfias has done a great job!" This is the latest report from the blonde lion, but "Gilfias was attacked by Rudolph, Count of Fafnier, and was forced to withdraw from all border systems and join his own army. Field Marshal Fafnir was defeated by Lidian Heim. "That's not good news...... "This damn rascal!" After learning of Fafnir's vulture-like behavior, the blond young man couldn't come up with much of a feasible strategy—Gilfias reported that Fafnir already had a fleet of 60,000, which was more than the aristocratic coalition that Duke Branch now commanded. And Reinhardt's ships after unifying the regular fleet of the Empire, and also accelerating the production and configuration in Odin and other places, are only about 100,000, if Marshal Fafnir really devotes himself to the noble coalition army, it is obvious that he can fight a decisive battle with Reinhardt.

"Count Favenier would never really join Duke Branc's coalition. What he did in the Border Systems was a complete disregard for their covenant and an act of robbery. Moreover, in General Gilfias's report, he was also one of the helpers who killed Ridenheim. Oberstein the Prosthetic-Eyed said to the Lord.

Regardless of whether he enters or not, the blonde lion can't do anything to the "dragon" hooligans on the border, and the overriding thing in front of him is to bring down Duke Branche Baike, and as for how to negotiate with Fafnir in the future, that is a matter for later......

"Let's use a little trick to get those over-blooded wastes out for a showdown. "That's the blonde lion's quip.

Reinhardt sent a classical book of decisive battles to the City of Condor, around the end of July, shortly after Gilfias had broken through the fleet of the Marquis of Lidian in the Chihoissa Domain.

The decisive battle book appeared in front of the leaders of the aristocratic coalition army through faster-than-light communication, and it did have the effect of angering these great nobles.

Reinhardt said, "Ignorant and timid nobles, if you still have a little courage like the tip of a mouse's tail, then come out of the fortress and fight us to the death with dignity! If you don't have even such a little courage, why don't you abandon your nominal pride and surrender? Not only will you save your dogs' lives, but we will also allow you incompetent idiots to live the rest of your lives without worrying about food and clothing." I'm sure you also know that a few days ago, your respected deputy alliance leader, the Marquis of Lidian, finally came to a dead end and died a miserable death. If you don't want to have the same fate, why don't you choose a path to survive...... "Bastard, milky boy, dare to speak wildly!"

"Blonde boy, have you forgotten about the Xiangtao Star Field!"

The young aristocrats were furious and almost mad. Soon after, warships of the Midamaia fleet, the vanguard of Reinhardt's army, made occasional appearances near the fortress of the Condor City. He provoked and teased as much as he could, and sometimes deliberately swaggered outside the range of the main guns of the fortress, sometimes approaching, sometimes going away, and then approaching again, all deliberately for the people inside the fortress to see.

Although Admiral Merkaz repeatedly forbade the fleet to attack, the young nobles still attacked on their own, and Midamaia also "failed" as expected, leaving behind a large number of ships and supplies and fleeing in disarray. The returning nobles were punished by the brainless First Admiral Merkaz for ignoring their orders, but under the protection of another fool who liked to act, Duke Branch, they finally succeeded in destroying the prestige of Admiral Merkaz - and from then on they rushed further down the path of the rabble......

"It's about time, Oberstein. "

Reinhardt asked.

It was almost, the chief of the general staff with the prosthetic eye nodded.

So all the admirals gathered on the flagship of Burrenshire, and after receiving precise instructions, they each set out for the war zone with their own fleet.

"The Midamaia fleet is attacking again!"

On August 15, such information was received on the city of vultures. However, unlike the previous ones, this time Midamaia took an active offensive with long-range laser missiles.

"The general of the defeated army even shamelessly dared to humiliate himself again. Let's teach him a good lesson and make him understand that no matter how many rounds he plays, he is nothing more than a waste who can never win!* Merkaz's orders and military regulations have long been ignored. The young nobles rushed to the battleship, and before they received instructions from the port controller, they were already rushing to attack on the ship.

Midamaia couldn't help but laugh at this point.

"These stupid sons of nobles, if they obediently huddle in the fortress, they can live longer, but they don't see the coffin without tears, and they are in a hurry to come out and die, it's really a big joke!"

In fact, Midamaia is the same generation as these "stupid sons of nobles" in what he calls them, but he is indeed qualified to scold these young nobles as "stupid sons of nobles" in terms of military history and meritorious service.

In his eyes, fighting these fools who couldn't even see through his previous deliberate deception was boring and no fun. He muttered to himself with a little disappointment: "They don't even understand this most basic tactic, to be honest, it's really not interesting to fight with them, if you have the opportunity to fight Yang Willy, it will be different, or Your Excellency the Marshal thinks the same way!"

But this time it was a little different, after confirming that the Duke of Branch, the leader of the alliance of the noble coalition, had also attacked in person, he knew that the task he had on his back was of great importance, and he had to endure two or even three consecutive defeats.

Fierce clashes broke out between the armies of both sides.

Countless naval guns spat out countless tongues of light. Directed beams of energy alternately bombard and shatter both ships, and the subsequent tongues of light cut through the light that erupted.

However, this did not last long, as the Midamaea fleet seemed to be overwhelmed and gradually began to retreat, and the noble coalition followed up with all their might, but the other side seemed to have given up resistance and accelerated its retreat, forming a picture of defeat and escape. "Look at their ugliness. Since the last defeat, we don't take shame seriously, so let's send him back to the West, and then grab that blonde bastard and cut it with a thousand cuts!"

The nobles thundered with joy and rushed to chase after them.

But there were also those who were skeptical of the weakness of the Midamaiah fleet, that is, Vice Admiral Fallenheit, who had been at the same distance from Duke Blanchebac in the rear of the combined fleet of nobles, who had fought on the same battlefield as Reinhardt and Merkaz, and was a skilled admiral, who duly warned his allies: "There may be a trap!" in an attempt to arouse the attention of his own side, who was bent on pursuing victory.

Realizing the possibility of the trap, some of the nobles stopped their march and stopped to put their positions in order.

But at this time, the Midamaia fleet turned back and counterattacked, which made the nobles grit their teeth in anger, and vowed not to give up until the annihilation of this hated Midamaia fleet, so they prompted the combined army of the nobles, which had slowed down, to advance again, and this situation was repeated several times. Midamaiah's mastery of timing is truly superb.

In this way, the aristocratic coalition was unconsciously lured step by step, step by step, into the deep array carefully arranged by Reinhardt and Oberstein. When the battle lines of the aristocratic coalition were getting longer and longer in both directions, and communication and support between them were also difficult, Midamaia knew that the time had come, and ordered the whole fleet to stop advancing and turn back and fight back with all its might.

At this moment, the order to "shoot with all your might!" was also shouted out loud from the mouths of those hot-blooded nobles......

Turning around, the Midamaia fleet was smashed into a ball of fire......

"What's going on?, shouldn't Midamaia turn around and smash the vanguard of the thieves?" was Reinhardt's roar, watching from behind.

Fortunately, Midamaiah's sacrifice was not useless...... Admiral Mecklinger's fleet was already on the flank, taking the opportunity to launch the strongest artillery bombardment on the aristocratic army that had pulled out of the ranks.

Almost at the same time, the hot-blooded fools of the aristocratic army fell directly into the abyss of defeat......

Many nobles turned into fireballs along with their warships without knowing what was going on. The ship's operators, who had escaped the first blow, panicked at the drastic change in the battle situation, but the surroundings had already become a killing battlefield full of destruction. The battleship that was directly attacked by the particle beam cannon suddenly scattered fragments in all directions, and the beam rays were irradiated, shining like colored inlaid glass. Many ships are crumbling due to the energy emitted by the nuclear fusion explosions. The fleet of the Noble Coalition was in disarray, and the original unified command system was completely lost.

Mecklinger's fierce artillery fire kept digging holes in the Combine array, and the Midamaea fleet, which had turned to completion, also unleashed vengeful fire. Under the combined strangulation of the front and the flanks, the morale and order of the aristocratic army suddenly disappeared like dew in the sun.

"Retreat! Retreat! There's no time to care about your allies, and if you don't retreat, you'll just die here in vain. "

Seeing that the battle had been lost, Falenheit immediately began to retreat rapidly and give instructions, and the nobles followed and fled. The Noble Coalition continued to flee desperately, and just as they thought they had escaped the onslaught of Mecklinger and Midamaiah, the fleets of Bidenfeldt and Murat came at them from both sides. The aristocratic combined warships that survived the last round of the battle turned into metal wreckage and began to float through the universe in a short time. However, the rapidly retreating Fallenheit also gave a greeting to the head-on Bidianfeldt, whose black high-speed battleship slammed into the array of the noble fleet and cut the fleeing aristocratic army in two, but he also exposed his flank......

"Shoot, shoot, it's good to save one more of our ships!" was the cry of Vice Admiral Fallenheitt.

The black lancers vanished in the cannon fire that flew from the flanks, but the black tiger ignored the casualties and strove to strike deeper. Although Falenheit gave the black lancers a lot of casualties, he still succeeded in cutting off the ranks of the noble army, and the defeat was irreparable.

After suffering huge losses, Duke Blanch finally fled back to the fortress, and the Reinhardt army also stopped outside the range of the fortress's main guns and began to digest the front fleet of the encircled aristocratic army.

In addition to Blanx, there were also people from the other direction who fled to the fortress of the Bald City. That was the nephew of Duke Blanche Beek, and Baron Said, who was in charge of defending and ruling the Duke's domain, the planet Stat.

Westadt is a dry planet devoid of green and water, with a population of two million, which is quite a lot in the border region. Due to the fertile geology, intensive farming and mining of soil elements are carried out in the few oases. In times of peace, trillions of tons of water have been brought in from other planets to support development efforts.

Baron Said was not a completely incompetent ruler, perhaps because of his youth, he lacked the necessary flexibility in the implementation of his policies. And in order to be able to secretly provide material assistance from behind, his uncle, Duke Branche Baike, the oppression of the people has become more and more intensified. This kind of behavior was possible in the past. But with the sharp rise of Reinhardt, the dominance of the great aristocracy gradually loosened, and even developed into a situation of civil war, and the people also understood it. So the mood of rebellion gradually brewed. Baron Said was shocked and furious when he learned of this, and then suppressed it, which eventually led to a popular revolt.

After several similar incidents, the last popular people finally launched a large-scale riot to retaliate against Baron Said's repressive policies. Baron Said couldn't control the situation, and he was left alone to escape in a space shuttle, but due to his serious injuries, he died of his injuries shortly after arriving in the City of Vultures.

"These damn untouchables...... How dare you kill my nephew with your dirty hands!"

"These ungrateful untouchables must be punished with the sword of justice!"

Duke Blanche made such a decision.

"A nuclear attack on Weststat will leave no one alive for these untouchables!"

A soldier from the planet Weststat escaped from the city of vultures and came to Reinhardt's camp the day before the nuclear attack plan was about to be implemented.

After hearing his words, Reinhardt was supposed to immediately send a fleet to Weststat to stop the attack, but was stopped by Chief of Staff Oberstein.

"Why don't we satisfy the beastly desires of the mad Duke of Brown Kidney Baike, and let him carry out that cruel attack as he wishes!"

Said the ruthless chief of staff.

"Then we filmed the whole scene and made it public, as evidence of the inhumanity of the great nobles, so that not only will the people of the entire Galactic Empire see the true face of the noble coalition, but also the people in their territory and the soldiers from civilian backgrounds will inevitably defect sooner or later. Wouldn't it be better to push the boat down the river than to send someone to stop it?"

The blond young man, who had never known what terror was, actually showed a look of fear and timidity at this time, he stared at the expressionless chief of the general staff, and said word by word: "Do you want me to watch two million people being killed? How many of them are women and children!"

"If this civil war had lasted for a long time, the number of dead might not only be this number, maybe twenty million, or even two hundred million, which one would be more cost-effective? Moreover, Count Fafnier also killed more than two and a half million people when he put down the Wallenstein Rebellion, but he also avoided the spread of the rebellion, and succeeded in saving tens of millions of lives in the surrounding stars......

"Don't use human life as such a simple numerical analogy!" Reinhardt said angrily. But the chief of staff did not flinch because of this, but continued to speak: "Marshal, I just want you to understand one thing, as a hegemon, there can be no woman's kindness, as long as there is the power of the great nobles, no matter how many times something like this may happen. What we need to do is to make a decision as soon as possible, even if it is unscrupulous, so it is necessary to make the people of every part of the empire aware of their evil deeds, and at the same time spread the word that they are not qualified to rule the universe......" "So do you want to pretend that you don't see it?"

"For the sake of the two and five billion people of the empire, and also for the early and rapid establishment of your hegemony Marshal. "Well, no need to say more...... I see!"

Reinhardt nodded weakly, but in his expression, there was a lack of the unique look of the past. If it was Gilfias next to him, he would never make such a statement. Reinhardt asked himself in his heart, "Gilfias, I know that you and your sister will definitely object to me doing this, is this the way I have to go?......

There are more than fifty oases scattered across the planet Weststat. Beyond the oases, there are rocky mountains that have turned reddish-brown due to the sun, gray-yellow deserts and white salt lakes that stretch infinitely to the horizon.

In other words, if a nuclear missile were to attack each oasis, it would kill all two million inhabitants of the planet. An ominous trajectory was diagonally across the gray-blue sky.

The ensuing flash of pure white seemed to fade all the scenery.

The next thing I saw was a fiery red hemisphere rising to the horizon and expanding continuously at an accelerated rate, turning into a mushroom-shaped cloud that was 10,000 meters high.

Then a blast of wind swept in, reaching a speed of 70 meters per second, and a heat wave with a temperature of more than 800 degrees, burning the ground, burning plants, and burning buildings. It also burned everyone's body.

The clothes and hair on his body were on fire, and his burned skin was covered with blisters.

The babies who had been burned alive suddenly disappeared with their last wails rippling in the hot wind. The mother called for the child, and the father worried about the family, and after a while they could not hear it.

A large amount of dust swept up by the hot wind and swirled high in the air, flowing back to the ground like a waterfall of sand, burying the deceased's burned body that did not look like a human form.

The young officer, who had seen this on the screen, left his seat with a pale face, and could not help but crouch down beside his seat, and began to vomit violently, but no one reprimanded him. The footage transmitted from the surveillance satellite strongly grabbed everyone's attention, and no one made the slightest sound. They finally understood one thing now. That is, nothing will ever tarnish the laws of the universe as brutally as bullying among human beings.

"Transmit these images to every corner of the empire. What is justice between the nobles and our side, even children understand. These aristocrats are bringing about their own destruction. "

Oberstein spoke calmly, but did not elicit any immediate reaction.

"What do you think? "

Reinhardt's expression was extremely painful and solemn.

"You asked me to pretend I didn't see it, and it turned out to be such a tragedy. It's useless to say anything now, isn't there any other way?*" Perhaps, but my wisdom stops there, and I can't find a better way. As you say, it is useless to say anything at this point. We can only make the best use of what is happening at the moment. "

Reinhardt stared at the indifferent chief of staff. The color of disgust appeared in the icy blue pupils, but it was impossible to tell whether it was against the person standing in front of him, or to himself.

The tragedy of the planet Weststat is now unfolding in all corners of the empire through faster-than-light communications. There was considerable anger and shock everywhere. The people's desire to break away from the old system controlled by the aristocracy was accelerating, and even some of the nobles who had opposed Reinhardt were unanimously and strongly convinced that the Duke of Blansch had no such future.

But almost at the same time, another video was also circulating in the Reich at the speed of light, and the famous Rudolph in the video was also circulated in the Reich. Field Marshal von Fafnier called Marshal Reinhardt "the great prophet" in a praising tone, and said that Reinhardt's photographers could receive the top prize for this year's Imperial Documentary Documentary, for their timely and effective coverage of the nuclear bomb attack against humanity, and also published his photographer's image of Reinhardt's warship lurking in orbit and trying to capture the Duke's nuclear attack.

Now, Reinhardt von Royenkram's reputation is starting to snoop