Him and their stars.

Chapter 1721: The stronghold is useless, but we still have to take the spaceship to collect food
The community also has a group of strong defensive fleets in Xinyumen. Three to five light cruisers, more than ten destroyers and assault ships, more than ten intra-galactic gunboats, and the particularly troublesome torpedo ships. It is said that the number should be more than thirty. In addition, the outer ring fleet left in Nantianmen can also come to support at any time.

All the Imperial Army staff on the Vulcan Airan agreed that the biggest obstacle they faced was probably in New Yumen.

However, when the Imperial Army's vanguard fleet of high-speed cruisers arrived at New Yumen, they found that the sea was calm. The shipyards, space stations, and power generation arrays in the galaxy orbit had almost all been destroyed, leaving only a few automatic artillery batteries, which fired at the Imperial fleet in vain.

The Imperial fleet thought it was a trap, so they waited hesitantly in the outer orbit for at least six hours.

The Purple Lightning Dragon fighters escorted the reconnaissance plane and circled the galaxy several times cautiously - they were very afraid of being intercepted by the light wing aircraft - but still did not find any danger.

The Imperial Fleet followed the procedure step by step, knocking out the automatic turrets and sweeping away the mines. It took them more than three times as long as before, but they still did not encounter any surprise attacks from the enemy fleet.

Afterwards, the cautious Imperial reconnaissance planes checked the wreckage of the dock and identified the "corpses" of the gunboats in those galaxies. The Earthlings were not prepared to leave even these old, bulky warships that were almost useless except for their firepower to the enemy.

It was not until this time that the newly arrived Imperial Vanguard Fleet realized belatedly that the Earthlings' New Yumen Fleet might really be gone.

However, the New World Fleet, which had suffered many losses and had already gone PTSD, only cautiously surrounded the New Yumen planet, but did not send any marines to land.

They even kept a considerable distance from the planet's atmosphere, probably to prevent a sudden burst of heart-pounding fireworks from rising from the surface.

"Haha, what a smart man." Marshal Farrell laughed.

"Brigadier General Evan is indeed a smart and cautious man," said Chief of Staff Admiral Selemer.

"No, I'm talking about the commander of the defense of Xinyumen. I remember it was Admiral James Carter, right?"

The newly appointed adjutant quickly reported, "Yes. Admiral Carter has served as the Chief of Staff of the Cantilever War Zone, the Director of the Logistics Audit Bureau of the Military Command, and the Chief of Logistics of the Community Expeditionary Force during the War of Conviction. After the outbreak of the war, he was appointed as the Commander of the New World War Zone, but before that, he had no experience as the chief officer of a combat unit."

The adjutant was very confident in his memory. He had memorized the names and resumes of all the generals in the community, and even knew a lot about their family backgrounds and hobbies.

Unfortunately, the marshal did not intend to ask further, but just sighed to himself:

"...Humans, if you are not favored by fate, you will not know where your limits are."

There was a hint of respect in his words: "For example, if I had not had the opportunity to fight against Marshal Ester in the Glory Mission military exercise, I would not have been recommended by Her Highness Brunhilde, let alone caught the eye of His Majesty. I was born in an ordinary citizen family, but I got the marshal's scepter before I was sixty years old. Isn't this a great blessing from heaven?"

Of course the adjutant did not dare to reply. He was vaguely aware that the marshal seemed to put Her Highness Brunhilde on the same level as the emperor, but he was immediately shocked by his own thoughts and suddenly wished he could turn himself into a piece of furniture.

Spirit of the universe, who can save me! Wasn't I born in an ordinary citizen family?
Chief of Staff Admiral Selemer said: "Of course they are smart people. The New Yumen Guard Fleet can indeed pose some threats to us, but it cannot affect the overall situation. On the contrary, retreating to Nantianmen and huddling together with the Outer Ring Fleet and Gibraltar Fortress can give full play to their combat power. But in this way, they are equivalent to leaving the entire New Yumen to us."

"Yes, yes, New Yumen and New Lushun, we occupied all the colonies of the Community in the New World within one day. It's a great military achievement, right? Bobby." Marshal Farrell said.

I always feel like the way you call me is like calling a dog. The adjutant had such a careful thought, but he could only reply cautiously: "Uh... yes, is that right?"

"Idiot, isn't Yao Chi still in the hands of the Earthlings?" Marshal Farrell shouted.

The adjutant bowed and apologized. Even so, he still felt that Marshal Farrell was a little crazy.

After the war began, the Community had a total of eight strongholds in the Dawn Star Domain, but they were all eliminated one by one by Marshal Farrell's men. Even the main force of the Earth Marines who were fighting stubbornly in the Ring of Miracles were almost wiped out.

In comparison, a small Yao Chi cannot affect the overall situation of the war at all.

Although the planet is indeed like a copper pea that cannot be chewed, boiled, crushed or broken, and the Empire did suffer heavy casualties there, it can only be said that "it's not that our army didn't work hard, but that the enemy was too cunning."

In fact, when Marshal Farrell suffered a small loss in the early stage of the war, he proposed to implement a strategy of besieging Yao Chi without attacking it, but it was not approved by the Grand Marshal's Office and the Privy Council.

The repeated failures that followed certainly proved the wisdom of the front-line marshals, but cruelly speaking, the empire could still afford this price.

As for the Yang Fleet... that is a big problem, but they can't get supplies, so they will only become smaller and smaller and weaker. They have disappeared recently, which is the biggest proof.

In general, the war situation in the Dawn Star Region should have stabilized, probably...

Admiral Ta Yin, who is currently in charge of taking over the battle situation in the Dawn Star Domain and is also a master-level military engineer, has now gone to Dawn Pass to take up his post.

The new war zone commander was planning to use Dawn Pass as his headquarters, and he also proposed that in order to revitalize the war situation in the entire Dawn Star Region, the first task was to rebuild the Unity Fortress. At the same time, a large fortress should be built in Onotia and the Queen Galaxy respectively, so that the space for Yang's fleet to move could be completely blocked.

I don't know what the bigwigs in the Privy Council think, but it sounds like a huge effort. No wonder Commander Farrell is so angry, the adjutant thought.

Fortunately, although the Marshal had been very angry recently, he did not really take it out on a small adjutant. He immediately ordered the vanguard fleet to blockade Xinyumen and also send warships to continue forward reconnaissance.

"It will take ten hours for them to receive my order. If Evan ahead was smarter, he should have taken action earlier." said the marshal.

"Brigadier General Evan is a smart and cautious man." Chief of Staff Admiral Selem repeated, obviously having great confidence in his old subordinate.

However, he paused and continued, "It's just that the Privy Council has ordered us to completely occupy New Yumen and conduct a full-scale exploration of the remains of the Enlightened Ones that were exposed during the Judgment War."

The marshal nodded indifferently: "Let's wait for the exploration information ahead."

In this way, one Titan, two Dreadnoughts and more than two hundred Imperial warships of all sizes continued to stand by in New Port Arthur, staring blankly at a planet that had completely lost its defense capabilities.

Fortunately, the subsequent battle was relatively calm.

Four hours later, the landing operation on the planet New Port Arthur was basically declared over, and all Community Army strongholds and residential settlements that the Imperial Intelligence Department could grasp were occupied.

Perhaps there are still a small number of troops or secret bases lurking in the deep sea waiting for an opportunity to resist, but they can no longer cause any major disturbance.

Then, it is a one-stop procedure to set up a security station, recruit officers, post notices to reassure the public, etc.

In addition, several small-scale arsenals and machinery parts factories on the island were blown up by the defenders, but at least the Imperial Army also safely captured the two huge tidal power stations.

"Very good, at least we don't have to transport batteries from the Gate of Glory to provide heating and lighting for half a million people," said Marshal Farrell.

"But we have to send rations for another 500,000 people." Admiral Selem sighed, "Just now a group of mothers holding their children came to my house crying and saying they were hungry. I can only allocate part of the army's rations."

"They should resume production," Farrell Yunshuai said. "But that won't happen until next year. The soldiers of the Community destroyed the algae fields and the hydroponic farms in the bay, and also sent away all the food and military supplies. This is actually a conspiracy of the Earthlings." Admiral Selem sighed.

"It was an open conspiracy, my friend. I knew they would do it, and they knew I knew they would do it, but it was unbreakable."

After the war broke out, many immigrants from the New World returned to their homeland. However, there were always ordinary people who brought their families and built new lives in the colonies because they could not leave their homes.

New Lushun is an ocean planet, with land accounting for less than 10% of its surface. The population of the major islands and surrendered or captured soldiers exceeds 500,000.

More importantly, they were almost all human. Even the brutal Abstract Empire Army would not massacre hundreds of thousands of people just to save some food.

Moreover, for the Galactic Empire, such a colony with a large human population is of high quality. They are also quite confident in their own system and assimilation ability. They firmly believe that as long as they are human, as long as they can bathe in the glory of the emperor, it will not take long for them to become loyal subjects of the empire again, and they will be good children.

"We have a responsibility for the survival of more than 500,000 citizens of New Lushun. This is also the obligation of a qualified conqueror," said Marshal Farrell.

The Chief of Staff said, "But there are still two million human immigrants in Xinyumen. In addition, there are more than 100,000 Lumina immigrants, and at least 300 million Sand People."

"I have said before that we should not carry out landing operations on New Lushun and New Yumen. As long as we clear all the Earthlings' fleets and space stations on the New World Highway, the route from the Gate of Glory to the South Gate of Heaven will be unobstructed. As for those two planets, they have never been important."

"Like Yaochi?"

"It's just like Yaochi. It's of the same nature."

"But you just said that the conqueror has obligations towards the citizens?"

"There is indeed an obligation. But as long as we don't land, won't we not be bound by the false title of conqueror?" Marshal Farrell sighed.

"Is this your theory on the uselessness of strongholds? However, in the eyes of most senior generals and the adults in the Privy Council, your strategic theory is still a bit too radical," said Admiral Selemer.

"It doesn't matter. Some people agree and are ready to do it themselves," said Marshal Farrell.

The staff officers and adjutants present were all elites of the Imperial Army, and naturally they all knew who the marshal was talking about, but they really didn't know how to respond, so they could only remain silent with an awkward but polite smile.

A silent bitter smile flashed across the Chief of Staff's face, and he whispered to comfort him: "The Dragon King and mortals are different after all."

The implication is that if the emperor gets it wrong, he is still qualified to take responsibility, but ordinary people cannot bear such a big blame. In front of the Dawn Royal Family, even the Imperial Marshal is not a "mortal"?

Although you have the Marshal's Scepter, you are the youngest and least experienced (except the Elector Emperor), and the only one who is not born a noble. It is better not to do anything too showy on the battlefield.

Farrell Yunshuai smiled knowingly, "I understand. Old man, of course I understand. Moreover, it is said that even His Majesty personally approved the remains of the Enlightened One in the New Jade Gate. At this moment, the Investigating Judge and the Star Seer may have already set out from the Gate of Glory. How dare I just leave it alone?"

He paused, then continued, "It's just that I'm a soldier and I don't want to do anything unprofessional. Bobby, Bobby?"

He began to call loudly to his adjutant again.

"Send a message to the Gate of Glory, asking the follow-up supply fleet to follow up as soon as possible. Also, tell them that it's time to prepare a group of professional bureaucrats from the Governor's Office."

In fact, the food, drink, defecation and urination of a few hundred thousand people would not really bankrupt the empire. Even if the two million people in New Yumen were really supported, it would not be a big deal.

But the problem now is that if the Empire plans to attack Nan Tianmen from the direction of the New World, it can only transport it to the front line from the Glory Colony Star Zone along the New World Highway.

In addition, the special consumables and replacement parts needed by large battleships such as Titans and Dreadnoughts even had to be transported from the Empire through the Gate of Glory. The supply line was suddenly stretched to nearly half.

It is conceivable that once the imperial fleet launches an attack on Nantianmen, the loss of various materials will increase exponentially, which will also be a great test for the empire's transportation capacity.

In fact, the reason why a certain "Dawn Dragon" risked his life to enter the homeland of the Kaitai Kingdom after destroying the Blood Gate and burned a large area of ​​its land to the ground was to force the empire to give up the possibility of attacking the South Heaven Gate from the Blood Gate.

As for the route from the Empire's Gate of Glory to the New World Highway, after all, the New World colonies had only been developed for less than half a century, and the population and infrastructure construction were far from developed.

Although it is not as bad as the Kingdom of Kaitai, which was burned in and out by some evil star, with cement poured into the wells, sulfuric acid poured into the fish ponds, earthworms dug out and cut vertically, and even the coin-operated maintenance drones that wax the ships have to be disassembled into atoms, but it is certainly impossible to pile up six Titans and three or four thousand sky-blocking and sun-destroying fleets in a galaxy like the ones on the mainland.

In the entire year after the war broke out, the Galactic Empire did build a lot of buildings on the Gate of Glory and even the New World Highway, but even with the empire's financial, material and engineering resources, it was impossible to build the New World Highway on the mainland during this period of time.

In short, according to the Grand Marshal's Office's inference, the fleet that can be used for fighting in Nantianmen only consists of one Titan, two Dreadnoughts and five hundred large and small warships.

Although a large number of elite soldiers and generals of the Community Outer Fleet were transferred to the front line of Sai, they still played the role of the general reserve. Marshal Joseph Bonaparte still had four Independence-class ships and 600 warships.

Judging from the combat power on paper, the two sides are actually balanced.

In this situation, any additional supply burden is likely to cause a series of adverse chain reactions.

In response, Marshal Farrell said sincerely: "In fact, I have no interest in the remains of the Enlightened Ones. It is not my turn to care about it. I just heard that the agriculture of New Yumen has developed very well in recent years. If they can supply food to the army of Nantianmen, it will definitely be a pleasant surprise."

"So we really have to drive an interstellar battleship to Xin Yumen to collect grain..." The adjutant sighed in astonishment, and even sounded a little like wailing.

Whenever he thought of the glorious imperial army landing in front of a small earthen kiln in a valley on a warship that had traveled across the sea of ​​stars and ordering the shivering old farmers to hand over the sprouted potatoes they had been using for the winter, he felt that the scene was so beautiful.

If this continues, the imperial army's flag will be defiled by the dung fork of the country farmer.

Marshal Farrell was unmoved: "It depends on whether the people of that planet are willing to cooperate. If they are willing to contribute, it would not be a big deal to ask for a medal or even a title for their representative."

His attention seemed to have been focused on other important areas: "Is that thing possible to use?"

Admiral Selaimo was silent for a moment. "It is indeed feasible. Lieutenant General Maville of Tiangongyuan in Dawn Pass has reported that another cut can be made."

"Very good!" Marshal Farrell's face flashed with obvious joy. This was probably the happiest time for him since he left the Dawn Star Region.

"It's just that the current situation is different from when Yang Xiyi was there."

"I understand. I don't expect to succeed in one strike, but even if it's just to serve as a cover, it's necessary to give it a try."