Him and their stars.

Chapter 1774: The Headless Leader

Sobaek looked at the colleague at the back of the video and always felt that the other's distracted eyes and broken expression were very suitable for appearing in a horror movie.

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, he shuddered involuntarily.

In comparison, Vice Admiral Midbech was relatively calm. Although he was shocked, his words were still clear: "Martyr for his country? The Grand Master Witte has sunk?"

Grand Master Witte is Vice Admiral Karaman's flagship, a Corona dreadnought. It is a bit old-fashioned, but the armor protection is quite strong, and it has been upgraded this year, with a new engine and energy core. If we only talk about survivability, it should be better than the Flame Dragon class.

Major General Tuckers said hesitantly, "...The Grand Commander is fine."

"Then Karaman..."

"It's just that the bridge is gone."

Sobek was a little annoyed by what he heard. He felt that if Her Highness Brunhilde was here, she would definitely order the major general to be shot first and replace him with a normal person who could still speak.

Sure enough, even a well-mannered person like Lieutenant General Midbeshi couldn't help but roar: "What's going on?"

At this time, Major General Tuckers seemed to have finally regained some consciousness. He smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, I really don't know how to answer you. We still don't know what happened."

Even though Sobek was very confident in his good temper, he couldn't help but lose his temper. However, this was not the time to dwell on this situation, and soon his men reported,
That was a report from the reconnaissance ship ahead: "The Earth Fleet has begun to move!"

Thinking that they had the protection of Earth's fighter planes, the Empire's reconnaissance ships certainly didn't dare to get too close, but they were still hiding at the edge of the galaxy, trembling with fear and observing the other side's general movements.

Now, they could clearly see that the Earth fleet, which was calmly stationed, began to move rapidly, and countless artificial lights flashed within their detection range, as if countless fireflies suddenly appeared in the dark sky, flapping their wings and dancing in the cold wind.

In just two minutes, the state of the Earth fleet changed from static to dynamic, as if the soldiers who had set up camp were singing and dancing around the campfire just now, and the next second they rolled out of the tent, already wearing armor.

Thus, this hair-raising scene was transmitted to the Golden Skull and the Royal Rabbit once again.

Sobek felt that this was a trap. He guessed that Lieutenant General Midbeshi on the other side also thought so. At least he remained silent and did not shout for everyone to take the initiative to attack.

After half a minute, the lieutenant general asked, "Major General Tuckers, do you need some time to reorganize?" His voice was very calm. Or rather, it seemed too calm.

Major General Tuckers naturally nodded with a heavy face: "It will take at least two hours."

Compared to the broken robot face he had when he first appeared, he had finally regained some consciousness and looked more lively. But because of this, the panic on his face was much more obvious.

"Very well, that's all," said Lieutenant General Midbehi.

Major General Tucker nodded and saluted, but before logging off, he hesitated and sent a document: "Sir, you need to take a look at this. After reading it, you will understand that it is not that our army is not working hard!"

The file was not small, and the transmission was affected by the interference environment on the far shore, so it took a full hour to complete the transmission.

During this process, Lieutenant General Midbehi not only did not mention the attack again, but also ordered the entire army to return to a defensive posture.

In just a few hours, the entire army had to conduct two completely opposite full-scale fleet operations, which would have caused complaints from the crew if it were in the Alliance.

However, these are the Imperial Army after all, and at least they can be considered the best in the galaxy in terms of obedience.

Everyone worked silently, retracting the half-drawn arrows that had been transformed. The entire fleet spread out to both wings and transformed again into an irregular crane-wing state that was watertight.

Naturally, the Rabbit, where Jaeger Sobek was, slowly formed a salient on the left wing of the entire army. Of course, at this time, he was too lazy to worry about this little situation.

He numbly watched the entire army reorganize, numbly listened to the conversations between the various departments on the bridge, numbly observed the movements of the Community Fleet in the opposite galaxy, and for a moment he really felt a little tired.

Of course, as a young man from a small town born in a colony, the biggest advantage may be this surging vitality. The decadent mood cannot stay for too long.

When the data from the Karaman fleet was transmitted, he quickly regained his spirits, sat upright, and stared at the outline that appeared on the screen.

It was still a dynamic video screen, but it was much clearer than the instant message just now. I didn't know if any rendering was done before it was transmitted.

In the center of the screen, a figure wearing the community's blue emblem machine stood on the back of an ancient flame-winged dragon that looked like a giant firebird, overlooking the outside of the screen. The owner of the emblem machine was wrapped in a slightly bulky mecha, covering his head and face, and his face was completely invisible. But Sobek felt that he could feel the other person's eyes.

It's that person!

However, the man's eyes seemed calm and his posture was very relaxed. He stood in the starry sky, as if he was admiring the galaxy, not hunting something with ferocity and hostility.

Well, that is indeed the manner that a person should behave. If he were to act murderous or overbearing, he would suddenly appear vulgar.

Miss Serlu reminded, "This is a reconnaissance image from the bridge equipment of Vice Admiral Karaman's flagship, the Grand Commander."

Was it a video? Sobek suddenly realized what was going on. He quickly glanced at the numbers jumping in the lower right corner of the screen and determined that this scene should have happened three hours ago.

Come to think of it, since it was being recorded, why could I feel the other person's eyes and emotions?
Jaeger Sobek shuddered.

He didn't think it was because he had made any progress in mysticism and perception, but just felt that he was starting to have wild thoughts again.

...Of course, it was more likely that this person's method was used, but Sobaek felt that the mere thought of it was terrifying, so he decided not to think in that direction.

At this moment of anxiety, the man in the picture raised his hand, and a golden blade of energy blossomed. It expanded from a slender "blade" into a huge beam of light, and then condensed from the rhythmic energy into a clear crystal form. At that moment, the figure of the man was no longer clear, but only a huge gem that seemed to be made of fragments of the sun remained.

Sobek was so shocked that he was almost speechless. Of course, he could recognize the gun skills that shuttled through the stars, but he could not understand for a moment what it meant for the hot energy to be transformed into static crystals.

Or in other words, were the images captured by the Karaman fleet’s reconnaissance telescopes real?
At this time, the gem that seemed to be made of sun fragments was like a cannonball, rushing directly towards the outside of the screen. The clear crystal was flashing with bright light, blocking all other light sources.

This was the last scene of the video. Jaeger Sobek now knew how the Grand Commander's bridge was lost.

Come to think of it, this scene seemed to have been staged during the "War of Judgment" back then. The Imperial Army even used this scene in a propaganda video.

After all, the person in question used the "Long Night Meteor", which was a psychic martial art with great imperial power. Moreover, this operation of using the atomic light spear as a javelin to blast out the effect of a naval cannon was also in line with the aesthetic taste of the nobles of Tirulo.

But now, the person involved is still the same person involved, and the target of attack has changed from the plunderer to the empire. This is really embarrassing.

Sobek fell silent. He himself didn't know how long he had been silent. Then a new report came from the reconnaissance ship that had been on standby in the galaxy ahead: a new Earth fleet had arrived, having jumped from the direction of Nebula Fork No. 1.

Needless to say, this new fleet is none other than the Athena fleet.

Nebula Trail No. 1 was indeed not easy to walk. It took the Earth fleet another full hour to leave the gravity well. If the Galactic Empire suddenly launched a surprise attack during this process, it might be possible to throw the Earthlings into complete chaos. If everything went well, they should be able to win.

If that person was in charge of the troops, he would definitely make the same decision, right?

However, although he could think so, it was almost impossible for him to do the same thing.

In this way, the remaining main force of the Yu Lian fleet, including 624 warships including two main god-class dreadnoughts, completed the meeting in front of the Imperial Army.

"Their strength is twice as great as ours again," Captain Pegset reminded Sobek.

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"I know. And the number of single-wheeled ships is actually two and a half times." Major General Sobaek said unhappily.

At this time, Lieutenant General Midbeshi also called. The fierce general who was still considering attacking two hours ago now lost his courage and domineering spirit again.

"Brother Yeager, we can retreat one galaxy and wait for our friendly forces behind us."

Sobek agreed. After all, he was a believer in safety first, and he agreed with this approach in his heart. However, after struggling for a few seconds, he hesitated and said, "If we retreat again, I will not be able to explain to the Marshal and His Highness the Shah."

Lieutenant General Midbeshi certainly knew this, and his face was filled with distress and struggle.

"Don't worry, sir. Based on my understanding of that man, he is the type who will stop when he sees the opportunity ahead. He won't kill everyone."

"..." Lieutenant General Midbehi's face was full of disbelief, as if he had heard that dragons don't eat meat but should eat dumplings, and with leek filling.

"Especially when they are not strong enough. In fact, even though they have made peace, they still don't have enough strength," said Sobaike.

This was true. They had all witnessed the two-week forced march of the Yu Fleet, and the Third Battle of Said that was deliberately launched before the march. They saw the enemy's brilliant move of attacking instead of defending, saw the fire on the Tirello Advance, and of course saw the fall of the Mirriage.

From common sense, the Earthlings on the other side should have been exhausted long ago. Even if they completed the meeting, it would be impossible for them to defeat Midbeshi's fleet so quickly.

What's more, there are reinforcements behind us, and they will arrive in just three or four hours.

The prerequisite for defeating them one by one is to be able to complete a crushing blow to a certain group of enemies within the time difference.

But, the above is common sense.

"Brother Jaeger, using common sense to predict the dragon's actions is the most irrational approach." Lieutenant General Midbech said, "Until now, we still haven't figured out what happened to Karaman. Don't you feel a chill down your spine when you think about this?"

"…I am still trembling now."

Lieutenant General Midbeshi was not sure whether the other party was joking, so he laughed dryly:

"But if it's your judgment, brother Yeager, I'm willing to accept it."

It turned out that the Community Fleet on the other side did not attack. They spent some time to reorganize, and then set off in a swagger, heading straight for the exit of the I Earl Star Gorge. From beginning to end, they did not even look back at the Imperial Fleet on this side.

Only after the Earthlings had completely left did the Midbeth fleet cautiously enter the I Count-4 system.

Even at this time, they were still worried that the Earthlings in front of them would suddenly turn around and attack again, so they still deployed a defensive formation, but sent a light cruiser to take the nebula fork to find out what was going on.

They waited until the fleet led by Vice Admiral Laken arrived at the scene before they relaxed a little. Then, in the direction of the Nebula Fork Road, the Karaman fleet, which was said to have been beaten up, finally arrived under the guidance of its own light cruiser. Of course, considering that Vice Admiral Karaman had died in the battle, the official name of the fleet had to be changed, but that was not the point.

The generals originally thought they would see a miserable and miserable friendly army like this:

The fleet suffered heavy losses, with at least a quarter of the warships missing. The warships that arrived at the scene were all injured, and some were even missing limbs. The alloy shells were twisted and deformed in the fierce battle, or scattered with burn marks. The deformed imperial army emblem was covered with scars and no longer had the majesty of the past.

Even ships cruising normally would suddenly emit flashes of fire while moving, as if they were a group of wounded soldiers bleeding.

Even in those giant ships that can still move, and those closed cabins that had to be blocked and abandoned due to fierce fighting, they may be filled with the remains of crew members, stormtroopers and combat robots.

They floated quietly in the vacuum compartment inside the battleship, still holding their weapons tightly and maintaining their forward posture, like a group of martyred white blood cells.

Vice Admiral Midbeshi originally thought that this was the case. But in fact, the Karaman fleet was in very good condition, and most of the warships were intact. At most, they were only slightly scratched by various unfriendly space radiation during the long cruise in narrow alleys.

However, these are completely tolerable losses and are unlikely to affect the ship's cruising and combat capabilities.

Obvious battle damage, of course, is also present.

For example, two Silver Knight-class battlecruisers had a shocking scar on their sides. If it weren't for the obvious burning signs of dissolution and deformation around them, it would have looked like they were scratched by the claws of some Leviathan beast in the void.

But what kind of Leviathan could tear apart a battlecruiser's solid shield and five layers of outer armor like cardboard?
Immediately afterwards, in everyone's astonished eyes, Vice Admiral Karaman's flagship, the dreadnought Grand Commander Witte, sailed so clumsily into the galaxy.

...What a pity, he is a leader without a head.