The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2369 Failed to Fight
2370: Operation Failure

Thrawn now looked like an angry lion. The aura emanating from him made Feng Bi take several steps back even through the holographic projection.

"Ah... this... Oh! Oh! I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I got carried away." Feng Bi had cold sweat running down his forehead and quickly apologized, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

"Enough! Tell me what you want to say this time! Starting tomorrow, you will no longer be qualified to talk to me directly!" Thrawn said harshly.

"This... this is not right! General..." Feng Bi's whole body shook violently. This unexpected development seemed to make him even more nervous and scared.

"Speak!" Solon had turned his back, leaving behind this cold word and his majestic back.

"Yes... Now General Chiara has been demoted to major general, and the planet Hisla is trying to block the news of its failure. But it doesn't matter. We have control over many information channels and have spread the news. I believe that soon, the news of the destruction of the main fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn will spread throughout the entire Chiss Territory!" Feng Bi said.

He glanced at Thrawn, but found that he still had his back to him and had no intention of speaking, so he swallowed and said in a trembling voice: "Right now, the Kingdom of Dawn is strengthening its reinforcements for the Chiss Territory, and a large number of transport ships and warships are entering. This is the opportunity we can take advantage of... I, I have found out the location of the stargate, and I can actually..."

"Assault on the Stargate?" Thrawn turned his head and smiled mockingly, "Why? Just because I want to die?"

“No, no, no…” Feng Bi waved his hands hastily. “I mean, we can take this opportunity to rob some transport fleets so that we can replenish our supplies. I have control over the routes of at least three transport fleets…”

"This is the realistic choice. Minister Feng Bi, give me the route." Solon suddenly smiled and turned to face Feng Bi. "We must learn to respect our opponents. Next time, don't talk like that."

"Ah! Yes, yes, yes, yes..." When Feng Bi heard this, it seemed that he was forgiven, and he nodded quickly, as if pounding garlic.

After receiving data from three routes, Thrawn waved his hand and closed the communication.

Then he turned around and looked at the dark universe outside the porthole and fell silent.

Colonel Taremi said: "General, this fellow Feng Bi...seems..."

"Prepare to retreat. Our battle in Chiss Territory has failed," said Thrawn.

"Ah?" Taremi didn't react immediately. "General, although the truth of Feng Bi's words is questionable, but to say failure..."

"He probably originally wanted us to raid the transport fleet, and then there should be an ambush by the Kingdom of Dawn's fleet there," Thrawn said, "but... I just found an opportunity to get angry, making Feng Bi think that this was his last chance to influence me, so he planned to throw out a more attractive target, so he changed it to the star gate. After discovering that it was not appropriate, he changed his mind again and made it the target of the transport fleet."

"But this doesn't mean that our operation has failed..." said Taremi.

Thrawn shook his head and said, "He showed no signs of being interrogated, and his expression was full of confidence and determination, which is not the state a traitor should be in after being exposed. From common sense, he should be interrogated and tortured, and then bribed again, but in this case, people's eyes are erratic, and the most important thing is the uncertainty brought about by repeated betrayals. Because once a person betrays twice, he will undoubtedly be abandoned by everyone. However, he obviously did not do that. He is full of hope for his future and he is very firm in his choice. There is only one possibility... Including him, almost the entire internal network we have built has been uprooted."

"You can tell so much from just one glance?" Taremi was shocked, and at the same time he was full of admiration for Thrawn, "Is this what you said you wanted to confirm just now?" "No. But it doesn't matter, the result is the same. Evacuate immediately and return to the Empire!" Thrawn said.

"Yes!" Taremi nodded quickly and made arrangements immediately.

Although the process took a long detour and the reasons for evacuation were different, the reason he came to find Thrawn in the first place was to leave here.

When Taremi was conveying the order, asking all the warships to complete their departure preparations within an hour, he looked back and saw that Thrawn had also gone to the navigation control department on the other side and was talking to the dark Jedi Knight in charge of the fleet's hyperspace navigation. He was gesturing on the holographic star map from time to time, probably planning the evacuation route.

It is obvious that Thrawn attached great importance to this retreat, otherwise he would never have planned the route personally.

Just by communicating with Feng Bi once, he went from having just won a great victory and having a promising future to being in a desperate situation where he needed to evacuate as soon as possible, or else he would be in danger of death? Taremi felt that his brain could no longer keep up.

An hour later, the dark Jedi Knight over there issued a jump command to the navigator, and the entire fleet immediately started the hyperspace engine and disappeared in an instant.

Over the next two days, Colonel Taremi felt that his fleet seemed to be going in circles under the leadership of General Thrawn. Thrawn was really cautious. He almost always stood in front of the star map thinking, then consulted the dark Jedi Knights about some questions, and then thought again, repeating this several times before issuing a new jump order.

How could a dark side user have such patience? Finally, this time, he and General Thrawn had a fierce quarrel. If the other two backup dark Jedi Knights had not come over to pull them apart, the angry dark Jedi Knight might have drawn his lightsaber.

Taremi also looked at the star map, and he understood why the dark Jedi was angry, because they were only one jump away from Celwis, and due to the recent "entanglement" situation, there would be several temporary hyperspace channels near Celwis that could lead to the outside world.

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But Thrawn asked to take a detour again, which made the dark Jedi feel that Thrawn was making fun of him. After all, navigation by the Force was not an easy task.

The altercation ceased after the dark Jedi was pulled away, and Thrawn gave another order, beginning to leap and prepare to take a detour.

The Dark Jedi Knight walked over to the navigation console, cursing, and reported a set of coordinates. The navigator immediately entered the coordinates and pressed a button to start the jump.

At this time, Thrawn frowned, turned around and said angrily: "What coordinates did you just report? Tell me again!"

"So that you can return to the cool coordinates of your shabby shack as soon as possible, you lowly Chiss!" The Dark Jedi sneered.

Thrawn fell silent, his expression very ugly, and Taremi felt that the anger in Thrawn was beginning to rise.

"Then congratulations on leading us into the encirclement, Mr. Dark Master." Thrawn said coldly.

A moment later, with a dazzling white light, the fleet left the hyperspace and appeared near the planet Servis. Here, there were already more than ten warships, ready for battle!