On June 17, the Empire was shaken by the news of the loss of the fortress of Iserlon, and from now on, the rebels could set foot on the land of the Empire. Just thinking of this possibility gave the officers of the Imperial War Department a headache, and the names of Admiral Shotekhajan, the commander of the garrison of the fortress, and Admiral Jackett, the commander of the garrison fleet, were cursed by countless people. Shotekhoujan surrendered, his nobility was stripped of his nobility, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by a court-martial, while Admiral Jackett was not punished further for his death in battle, but was still not given a special promotion but was given a mandatory retirement.

The Imperial High Command was in a state of confusion, and all the forces and defenses had to be adjusted, and the fleet, which was originally set up according to attack batches, had to be changed to a defensive setting that blocked the exit of the cloister in a short period of time. The defenses of the system behind the fortress of Iserlohn will also need to be rebuilt and activated. What caused more headaches for the Imperial High Command than this was the successive rebellions of some careerists within the Empire.

The previous emperor, Altfleet V, had three sons, and the current Friedrich IV was a forgotten prince, with an older brother who had been made crown prince above him and a younger brother who had great hopes below. When the elder brother and younger brother were fighting for the throne, they died one after another, and he, the prince who was not favored at all, succeeded to the throne, and it was completely by luck during the period. His elder brother, the crown prince Archduke Lychar, had a son-in-law whose whereabouts were unknown after his accession to the throne. In fact, everyone knows that this child was brought to his family's territorial galaxy by the eldest princess's family, the Agenford Galaxy. Friedrich IV did not ask the Ministry of the Interior to track him down, and it was tacitly allowed the child to fend for himself at his maternal grandfather's house.

This time, due to the fall of the fortress, some people thought that the opportunity had come, and they abandoned the forbearance of thirty years. The Duke of Wallenstein, the brother-in-law of the Grand Duke of Lychar, launched a rebellion in the name of his nephew Renhalt as the "rightful heir to the Empire!" Duke Wallenstein's tentacles stretched out for thirty years, and there were many local nobles in several nearby galaxies who were his henchmen. Since the banner of chaos has been raised, the systems of Eckhart, Huatian Perk, Yamont Hubel, and Chihoisa have rebelled at the same time, and for a time, a whole five systems of the empire have started a joint rebellion.

Not only that, Maximilian, Duke of Castrop in the Castrop system, also launched a rebellion due to his inheritance, seized Fritz, Count of Malindorf, who had gone to mediate, and defeated the crusaders sent by the Empire twice.

At the same time, in the Henn system, which is close to the Alliance, the long-dormant "democrats" also launched a ground riot.

For a while, the wind and rain were shaky. In the five galaxies involved in the Wallenstein and Reinhardt Rebellion, the Empire's garrison troops were either infiltrated and surrendered to the enemy, or were annihilated or defeated due to surprise attacks, and the rebel army had the momentum to sweep half of the empire for a while.

Rudolf von Fafnier also had a headache with the scrap of his subordinates before this, and the fleet he received had many thorns and remnants of the defeated and incompetent, although due to hundreds of years of war with the Alliance, almost all the Imperial soldiers had war experience, but this could not bring the Fafnier fleet to improve its combat effectiveness. For a while, Admiral Fafnir did not have much to do to clean up, but fortunately, the opportunity came soon.

Favenir's Seventeenth Fleet was stationed in the Shahen system, closest to the Wallenstein Rebellion, and when the rebellion began, his fleet was the first thing that came to mind for the Imperial High Command. "Order us to devote ourselves to the suppression of the rebellion! But what about the backup?" was the question of the Chief of Staff, Major General Gustav von Schutkhaughan, after receiving the order.

"If you want reinforcements, it's going to be difficult. The Imperial General Staff should not be able to spare much fleet to support us right now. The fleet at the exit of the fortress of Iserlohn, and the fleet that is now under the command of Marshal Royancram can now only draw one fleet for the Castrop rebellion, and the rest will be deployed on the front line. More than half of the other fleet had to be stationed to defend the Imperial capital, and the rest could only be used as breakwaters to prevent the Wallenstein rebels from attacking the heart of the Empire. So, basically, the pacification of this rebellion is up to us, but fortunately, the Wallenstein army is also scattered, at most three times our number - about 45,000 ships, spread across five systems at the same time. We still have a great chance. Fafnier explained at length to his chief of staff.

"Alright! Now I order! Brigadier General Dick von Karl! Take 3,000 cruisers and half of the landing craft to the Hann system and suppress the mob as fast as possible! I will give you three days to suppress the mob in the system! I will see you and your troops appear in my fleet on the first of July!"

"Yes. Brigadier General Dick von Karl, a bad gambler and an old friend of Fafnier, said, and immediately went out.

"I'll take charge of the rest, and the whole army will target the Edchenford system!

"Rudolph, will you abandon our station?" said Schutkhowjan.

"Yes! We have always put down rebellions, either by cutting off their wings and then eliminating the culprits, or by simply beheading them and letting them disperse! The most important thing is time! Now we have to kill the leaders of Wallenstein in one fell swoop before the whole army has time to assemble!"

June 24, the sixth day after the start of the rebellion. The Favenir fleet attacked in full force. Twelve thousand warships swooped down on the Eckhart system at great speed.

The number of rebels in the Eckhart system is not large, after all, it is a galaxy within the empire, and it does not face the alliance, so the imperial fleet stationed on weekdays is only a thousand ships at most. Moreover, after the rebellion, most of them surrendered and a few fled to Favinir's Shaheng system, and the nobles of the Eckhart system did not have many private soldiers - how many private soldiers could the poor ghost system have? So all the rebels in the Eckhart system were more than 4,000 ships. The nobles in the rebel army have their own plans, and no one will use their own forces to fight the empire, and Fafnir ignored them, and directly drove the fleet through this system at high speed, entering the rebels' lair, the Agenford system.

On the other side, Commodore Karl's 3,000 cruisers set off a day earlier than Fafnir and arrived in the Hahn system on June 25 with a reckless high-speed jump. He desperately ordered to fire directly at the mob's location with naval guns and meteorites, destroying all of them regardless of whether they were good or bad. At the same time, the Farfnier fleet marines wearing skull masks also began to parachute, "Kill everything that moves!" Under this roar, Karl led the landing team to suppress the rebellion - more than 450,000 civilians and mobs died, and it is impossible to tell how many civilians and how many were mobs...... But he managed to complete the task of suppression in only one day, after leaving part of the ships and marines under military control. Karl led the rest of his troops at high speed to catch up with Fafnir's main force.

On the 1st of July, the entire fleet arrived in the Agenford system. Fourteen thousand warships faced the Wallenstein rebels with thirty thousand warships. The Dukes of Wallenstein and the "Grand Duke" of Reinhalt had the largest number of troops - about 15,000 warships, and the rest were the private armies of the nobles, and the Duke of Wallenstein could not directly command them.

"It's a rabble. Admiral Fafnir said, looking at the rebels' formation on the screen.

"It's 30,000 pigs, and there's 30,000. It's not that easy to fight. Major General Schutkhao Jane frowned.

"But Wallenstein still has a bit of a brain, his own troops are huddled in the back, a few other noble fleets are arranged in front, and the rest of the guys are organized into a team on the periphery ready to sneak up on our flanks. He wants to pick up the bargain?" Favinier said.

"It seems right, it should be that when we attacked the fleet in front of him, we ordered the flanks to attack us, and then came up to pick up the bargain ourselves. Schutkhao Jane pointed.

"There's no need to talk nonsense with him, the whole fleet will attack him head-on!, let Colonel Selfi von Dalk take his destroyer detachment and go around the flanks with the shit. ”

Fafnier's fleet launched a frontal onslaught! Fafnir formed the fleet into a diagonal array, facing the enemy's guerrilla forces on the oblique side, and could change formation at any time to cover the flanks, while his own flagship Loki launched the first round of attacks on the rebels at the top of the diagonal line, with 3,000 warships under him.

Colonel Dalk with a thousand destroyers temporarily assigned to him interspersed at high speed through the enemy's guerrilla fleet of 15,000 ships, and the enemy on the opposite side was in disarray, "These bunch of waste! Mixed up to this kind of ghostly appearance, there is no maneuver!" The rebel warships and cruisers are on the periphery, and inside are supply ships and landing ships, and the result is that the mobility has dropped to a certain point, but the defense is very good, "This is not a guerrilla formation at all! They should be in the ...... of the front" Darke laughed wildly. "Attack! Attack! All destroyer railguns attack with all their might! Anyway, there are enemies everywhere, and they won't miss!"

The rebels' guerrilla fleet, composed of the private soldiers of many nobles, immediately exposed the biggest problem - the lack of unity of command, and the result was chaos, and Dalk's fleet, which numbered only a thousand, was driven away from the main battlefield, but because of the problem of numbers, Dalk did not dare to force it too much.

The Fafnir fleet in front exerted the power of the diagonal formation, and as the distance narrowed and time passed, more and more warships fired at the rebels, and several noble fleets in the front collapsed under the powerful blow, blocking the firepower of the 15,000 Wallenstein fleet behind. Just as the tip of the diagonal line where Fafnir was approaching the wing of the Wallenstein fleet, the 500 mine-strike ship carriers that were hiding behind the 3,000 battleships of Favnir began to send into the light-strike boats, and the 1,000-speed destroyers that were also hiding behind the battleships also broke through the gap between the battleships at high speed, quickly went around the flank of the Wallenstein fleet and launched a close-range bombardment, disrupting the formation, and then the mine-strike boats broke through and began to bombard! One wing of the Wallenstein fleet began to collapse - the chain reaction began.

Fafnir's main fleet of warships began to turn under the leadership of the flagship, and the Duke of Wallenstein, who had previously been busy with an artillery battle with the slash array of Fafnier's fleet, ordered the Central Fleet to begin to turn when he learned that the flanks were beginning to crumble.

"It's a pity! a step too slow!" Fafnier said as he watched his opponent's Central Fleet begin to turn. "Alright! Tell Jung to assault with all his might! Give Wallenstein the last blow!"

Brigadier General Jung Heinrich Young received the order, and he ordered the cruiser squadron, the center of the diagonal array, to begin to speed up, and the all-out assault began, and the fleet of up to 4,000 cruisers did not advance in full force, but kept slowly advancing to exchange artillery fire with Wallenstein's fleet. Now it suddenly accelerated, and it didn't take long to hit the side of the Wallenstein Central Fleet, which had engaged Favinir's fleet of warships after turning. The Duke began to be confused, contradictory orders were issued, and the Wallenstein fleet, which was composed of noble private soldiers and the Imperial Resident Fleet that had received surrenders, began to be in disarray.

All of this culminated in the arrival of the air carrier fleet in the rear after it reached the attack position. Wang Erguray and the Thunderbolt constantly attacked the chaotic enemy forces, turning them into cosmic dust. There are constantly warships that stop their momentum and try to surrender, and there are fools who are desperate to launch jumps ready to try their luck......

At 23 o'clock on July 1, the battle ended. Only six thousand of the Wallenstein fleet, of as many as fifteen thousand, fled back to the planet, while the rest of the fleet had five thousand destroyed and four thousand surrendered. The guerrilla fleets on the periphery, seeing the main force scattered, and after losing only a thousand ships in the battle with Colonel Dalke, they all withdrew from the battlefield, some returned to the planet Ajenford, and many others ran back to their hometowns with their own fleets......

On 3 July, the landing battle of Ejenford began. Fafnir again destroyed more than three thousand ships of Wallenstein in planetary orbit, and the rest surrendered. He himself landed on the planet with a landing force and launched a play on the planet known as the "Agenford Massacre". Fafnir ordered the indiscriminate shelling of all targets on the planet except the noble manor - the only reason for avoiding the noble manor was that it would not be able to grab anything. However, he also issued an order to avoid attacking the commoners as much as possible, "Those poor devils don't have much to rob! It is better to rob the nobles! The upper woman must pay the Reichsmark! The distribution of spoils must be according to military rank!"

On 4 July, the Duke of Wallenstein committed suicide, and the "Grand Duke" of Reinhalt was captured alive. The entire aristocracy of the planet Agenford was razed, their property was looted, and many noble women were distributed according to their ranks...... The cascading civilian casualties are also enormous. The number of casualties at the end of the spectrum is not countable, but it is estimated that more than one and a half million commoners and nobles died.

Not only that, but seven rear admirals, sixteen brigadier generals, and more than three hundred colonels died in the Fafnir fleet. Fafnier took the opportunity of the campaign to purge a group of incompetent and errant officers, ordered them all to be shot, and reported them to the Ministry of Military Affairs for nonsensical reasons - the death in battle was good, and many of them were reported to have died of a violent illness.

The Ministry of Military Affairs also pinched its nose and agreed, anyway, it was just a waste and thorn in the head that was kicked into that fleet, and if it died, it would be dead. Fafnir was given the nickname "Draken" for his massacre on the planet......

On the 5th of July, the battle for Edgenford ended, and Favinir continued to suppress the fleeing noble rebels in the surrounding area. On August 9, the rebellion in all five systems was suppressed.

August 9, Odin, Marshal Royankram's house.

"That scoundrel has also finished suppressing the rebellion...... Siegfried, his talent is indeed worthy of his rank. But, but this butcher is fighting with complete disregard for the civilians!" Reinhardt said to Gilfias, who had also returned victoriously from suppressing the rebellion.

"Lord Reinhardt, a man like Admiral Fafnier will inevitably reap the consequences in the end!"

They didn't know how many people Fafnir had killed at the moment......

Gilfias was appointed commander to quell the Castrop rebellion. And he succeeded in quelling the turmoil, which had lasted half a year, in just ten days.

First, Gilfias pretends to be on his way to the rescue of the Marindorf territory, creating the illusion that the enemy is going to do so, and then makes a sharp turn to the Castrop territory. Maximilian, fearing that his base would be captured, immediately lifted the siege of the Marindorff territory and was forced to lead his entire army to the Castrop territory, and in this way, the crisis in the Marindorff territory was resolved. However, Gilfias's attack on Castrop's territory was originally just a tactic to attack the west.

Maximilian, who was anxious about the crisis in the base area, was negligent in guarding against the back. Gilfias hid his fleet in an asteroid belt and swooped into its unsuspecting rear to deliver a devastating blow.

Maximilian, who escaped from the battlefield, was killed by his men who expected to alleviate his crimes, and the remnants surrendered.

In this way, the turmoil in Castrop was simply resolved. Although it took ten days to quell the rebellion, six days were spent on the journey from the Imperial capital, and two days were spent in Castrop as an afterthought, and the actual battle took only two days.

In this rebellion, Gilfias showed his extraordinary ability to use his troops, and Reinhardt was very satisfied, and the admiral in his marshal's palace nodded yes, and the nobles of the gate lords were astonished. Not only Reinhardt, but also his henchmen had such a skillful skill, which was by no means a pleasant thing for them.

However, Wu Xun is Wu Xun after all. Gilfias was promoted to lieutenant general and awarded the golden "Order of the Two-Headed Vulture".

Soon after, however, a piece of news came that suppressed the light of Gilfias. Admiral Rudolf von Fafnier was also successful in suppressing the Wallenstein rebellion, a victory that far surpassed Gilfies's military exploitation. Admiral Fafnir sent Reinhardt to Odin for execution, and he himself was promoted to general of the first rank.

Rudolf von Fafnier received another prize, and he can now be called Count Fafnier......

Gustav von Schutekhaugie was promoted to lieutenant general and became viscount, Dick von Karl was promoted to rear admiral and baron, Jung Heinrich Young was promoted to rear admiral, for which he broke his five-minute abstinence from alcohol, and then performed a hot striptease at the fleet's celebratory banquets; Selfi von Dahlke was promoted to brigadier general, and he was also drunk at the banquet, where Karl took the opportunity to win a large sum of money and owe a lot of debts to his superiors......

The secretary of military affairs, the chief of the commander's headquarters, and the commander of the space fleet - these three are called the three commanders of the imperial army, "the secretary does not shirk his responsibilities and does not cherish his position, and this kind of honesty is really commendable." But once the position of the Third Commander is vacant, I am afraid that at least one of the positions will fall into the hands of Count Royankram! If you have no financial difficulties, how about you return your salaries to the state treasury for the next year?"

After the state secretary had spoken, Marshal Stankhov had a bitter expression on his face and replied: "We didn't think of this, but as a soldier, it would be a pity if I was said to be unwilling to retire because of my status and broke the rules...... Please accept this matter in any case. ”

The Marquis de la Dértier had no choice but to go to the palace to present the resignation of the three prefects to Emperor Fred Richy IV.

The Emperor, who was still listening to the report of the State Secretary in his weak and weakened appearance, ordered his attendants to summon Reinhardt to the Marshal's Palace. What can be achieved with just a TV phone call, and someone is specially sent to summon it, which is one of the forms necessary to show the supreme power of the Galactic Emperor.

After Reinhart had come to meet him, the Emperor handed the young Imperial Marshal three copies of his resignation and asked him to read them first, and then asked him in the same tone as if he were telling a child to choose a gift, which position he wanted. The fall of the fortress of Iserlohn was due to the negligence of Admiral Jack and Shotelhaughan, who had already died and the other was in prison by the enemy. I don't think there's anyone else to blame. In any case, please don't punish the three chiefs, I hope Your Majesty will think twice. ”

"Oh, you're so selfless!"

The emperor said in amazement, looking at the state secretary who was surprised by the surprise of the situation.

"If the Earl says so, what does the State Secretary think?"

“...... The young earl was impressed by this insight. The minister also hoped that the three governors who had contributed to the country would be given lenient treatment. ”

"Since both of you say so, I won't give them harsh punishment. But you can't completely ignore the culpability......

"Well, Your Majesty, in the next year, how about recovering their salaries and serving as a relief fund for the bereaved families of the soldiers who died in the war?"

"If you do this, it's okay, the details will be handled by the State Secretary, and there will be nothing else, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Then you two can step down, I'll have to go to the greenhouse and take care of Rose. ”

The two exited the palace.

Less than five minutes later, someone quietly returned. Because of the slight running, the seventy-five-year-old Marquis de Lidianrad had to slow down the pace of his breathing, and by the time he reached the Rose Garden, where the Emperor was located, he had regained his physical calm.

Among the colorful and fragrant roses, the Emperor stood like a rotten tree. The old nobleman approached and fell to his knees very cautiously.

"Wechen is terrified, His Majesty is ......"

"What's the matter?"

"Before reporting this matter, the minister is afraid that this matter will cause displeasure from His Majesty......"

"Is it Count Royankram?"

There was not a single element of sharpness, agitation, or fiery in the emperor's voice. It can't help but be reminiscent of the sound of wind and sand, and it is the voice of a lifeless old man.

"You're going to say that I gave Anne Roger's brother too much status and power, right?"

"Your Majesty already knows the Dao?"

The unexpectedly clear words of the emperor shocked the state secretary.

"Do you think he's emboldened to not only devote himself to his power as a minister, but perhaps even try to usurp the throne?"

"Your Majesty is wise! Speaking of it, you are also afraid of being a minister......"

"Isn't that great?"

"Huh?"

"It is not that the Gordonbahm dynasty has existed since the birth of mankind, just as there are no immortal people, and there is no nation that will not perish. There's nothing wrong with letting the Galactic Empire fall in my generation, right?"

The emperor let out a low, dry and hoarse laugh, which terrified the state affairs book. It was like falling into an endless dark abyss, making him feel a bone-chilling coldness from the depths of his soul.

"If it's going to perish anyway......"

The Emperor's voice swept away like the inomous trail of a comet.

"Let it perish with a bang......"

The next day, the order to relieve Colonel Oberstein from his responsibilities was given at the same time as the order to transfer the Seventeenth Fleet back to Odin.