As the Tang Dragon was flying into the Union, the fleet led by Kester and Darrance finally came to the self-propelled gunboats that stood still. Although he surrendered, the personnel on the self-running ship still felt uncontrollable when he saw the dense fleet.

They wanted to be dealt with by the two Imperial officers as soon as possible, so that their nerves would not be able to bear such an atmosphere. However, the Imperial Army did not send any message because the two supreme commanders were communicating in secret.

"Darrence, I didn't expect that a little lieutenant of the Union army should have so many outstanding men." Kester sighed to the three-dimensional image of Darence presented in front of him.

"Oh? How outstanding? " Darrence smiled as he looked at his partner.

"Hey, don't you understand? Didn't you see that battleship just showed unparalleled driving skills? Being able to drive a battleship as flexibly as a fighter shows that the pilot is definitely an excellent person. I really want to have such a battleship pilot. If he surrenders, I will give him command of the flagship. Ah, the flexible movement of the battleship is like an art. " Kester put his hands together and sighed, squinting his eyes.

Darrance smiled and nodded and said, "I know that. What else?"

Kester glared at Darence when he heard this, and he shouted angrily, "you knew you were going to ask me, and the radar crew on that battleship. According to the prisoners, it was the radar man on that warship who was the first to detect the light of cold radium, and the first to detect the jump point of our vanguard troops." As you can see from the back, without the perfect detection of the surrounding environment by the radar crew, could the excellent driver have demonstrated such excellent skills? Oh, another soldier like a diamond. I really want to have them. Damn it, Tang long. Why won't you surrender? If it hadn't been for you, I would have had two excellent subordinates! " Speaking of the intoxicated Kester, he turned into an expression that stared and gnashed his teeth.

Darren saw Kester's expression and said with a smile: "looking at your appearance, I'm afraid what you want most is that second Lieutenant Tang long." Oh, it's Lieutenant Tang long, isn't it? "

Kester immediately put away his resentful expression and said with a charming smile, "that's my old friend. I can see it at once." Yes, the person I most want to get is that Lieutenant Tang long, who can drive and serve such an excellent subordinate, is definitely the elite of the elite. As long as he turns to me, I'll make him a colonel and command 1000 fleets! " Speaking of this, Kester suddenly asked suspiciously, "by the way, why don't we go after Tang long?" If you send a high-speed submarine, you can easily catch him. "

Darence shook his head and smiled, "our main task is not to catch Tang long, even if he sees that we Guards are here with a mission, but I don't think he can know what the mission is." because even if we carry out the mission, we don't understand the significance of this mission. So he left and left. Anyway, according to the federal bureaucracy, which is more bureaucratic than our empire, he will not be treated as a hero when he goes back. "

Kester laughed, "A system that is more bureaucratic than imperial bureaucrats?" Ho-ho, Tang long is in trouble. He will surely regret not surrendering at this time. Yes, haven't you reported it yet? I scolded my mother just now. I can't believe it took so long to do such a trivial thing. Oh, if only the radar man had surrendered. " Kester said this with a look of yearning.

When Darence shook his head helplessly and was about to say something, the voice of the two adjutants came in at the same time: "Sir, it has been found." Hearing this, both major generals jumped their eyebrows, and they nodded to each other and turned off the stereo image.

Darren went to the command tower and sat in his command chair and saw on the screen images of hundreds of surrendered self-propelled gunships, of which only one was expanded to the main screen. When Darrance's adjutant saw that the officer was coming, he took two steps faster and said, "Sir, according to your order, we found that only this battleship has emitted the same band as you requested."

Darrance nodded and said, "get in touch with that battleship and get him closer to us." At the same time, other warships were ordered to remove their shields and prepare to welcome our surrendered personnel on board. " The adjutant answered loudly. Yes, he went to execute it at once.

After Darrance gave this order, he pressed a button on the command chair and created a virtual screen in front of him, which was Kester's image. When Kester saw Darrance, he immediately asked, "are you ready?" Darrance nodded and said, "it's up to you to give the order."

", good!" Kester responded excitedly, then quickly pressed a few buttons on the chair and sent the early stored orders to all the Imperial ships.

The federal officers and soldiers who surrendered on the self-propelled gunboat, who were ordered to turn off the shields, saw that one of their warships had been ordered to move closer to the Imperial fleet. Although it was a little strange, they didn't take it to heart when they thought that the other side might be interrogated. I just wonder when I'll be interrogated. They were thinking wildly when suddenly the radar man shouted in panic, "what's going on?"

Hearing the radar man's words, everyone's eyes immediately looked at the screen, and all the people froze, because they saw that the main and secondary muzzle of all the Imperial warships were glowing, which was only when they were ready to fire a laser. and these muzzle are all aimed at themselves!

The captains were stupefied at first, but then immediately blushed and shouted, "activate the shields!" It was only now that they remembered that Tang long said that the Imperial Guards would not accept their surrender, but there was no time for them to regret it. The driver hurriedly activated the shield as soon as he heard the officer's order, but it was too late. With Kester's orders, countless laser lights have been flashed first and drilled into the body of the self-propelled gunboat without difficulty.

Darrance did not have time to enjoy the hundreds of brilliant fireworks in front of him, but only said, "the whole army has a rest and recuperation." Without waiting for a reply from the dazed adjutant, he turned and left the command tower. Kester on another flagship gave the same order as Darence and also left his post. Soon two small transport ships flew out of the flagships of the two fleets and greeted the only remaining self-propelled gunboat.

"report, sir, the passage has been opened and the vacuum has been lifted." The navigator of the transport ship said to Darence, who had been silent. He was very strange, although he often carried the officer back and forth between the flagship and the warship and the planet, but this time it was very strange, because this time the officer did not bring a guard, and this time he was single on the enemy ship that had just surrendered.

He was sure of the secret of the officer's visit to the enemy ship, especially after seeing the arrival of Major General Kester's transport room. However, after kindly reminding the officer to pay attention to safety and being responded by shaking his head, he knew that he was not talkative. Because he knows that not to worry about things that have nothing to do with him is the law of long life.

Darrance got up and came to the passageway, and as the door opened and closed, he came to the self-propelled gunboat. Darrance came to the interior of the battleship and saw the smallest cabin he had ever seen. Although it has long been found that more than a dozen personnel in the battleship sat quietly in their seats, they did not ask questions, just waiting for their partners to come. Because he knew the cooperation between the two greatest forces of the empire, people of both forces had to be present.

After a while, Kester came to Darence from the passageway, and the usual smile on his face was long gone, and he saw what was going on in the cabin, but glanced at each other and stood there as quietly as Darence.

At this time, the bench with its back to them began to move slowly, and an ordinary-looking, glazed-eyed man with the rank of second lieutenant sat on the chair like a statue. Neither Darrance nor Kester made a sound, but looked at the man silently. The man gave them the impression that there were only two words in common, that he was a man with no features everywhere.

"is it the two major generals, Kester and Darrance?" The man's face and eyes still maintained the statue-like expression, but the slightly open mouth made an awkward sound as if it were computer-generated.

Kester and Darrance looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes, and at the same time they saluted, saying in a loud voice, "long live the Silver Eagle Empire!"

The man did not respond to their unanswered questions, but still sat there and continued in a computer-generated voice, "how are they doing, Lott and Ice?"

The two major generals, who had already let go of their hands, saluted again and said, "Sorry, sir, I don't know them!" After answering the question, they nervously looked at the man whose boss asked that he must be treated respectfully. The code has been matched, and now he should be able to get down to business, right?

The man stood up quietly for a long time. The two major generals forcibly held back the action of pressing the pistol around their waist. They were startled. After all, this is an enemy ship.

I saw the man, his hands grabbed his clothes, suddenly pulled, the wear-resistant military uniform was unexpectedly torn open. Seeing the man's body, the two major generals could not help but stare wide-eyed and open their mouths. Because in front of this man in addition to the head and palm has a human body, the rest of the body is made of metal skeleton, is a robot!

The robot, stretching out a hand to grab its own piece of metal sternum, yanked and honked. With the spark, the piece of metal sternum was plated down, and the robot casually threw the piece of metal and made a clanking sound.

Darrance noticed that the crew were still sitting in their seats unresponsive, without even looking back. It seems that the personnel of this battleship are all robots.

The robot reached into his black chest and pulled out a CD the size of his palm. after throwing it to Darrance, he sat back in the command chair, and the chair began to slowly turn back to its original position after he sat on it.

Darren stuffed the CD into his uniform, nodded to Kester, and the two saluted in the direction of the chair and left quietly. At the entrance, Darren said to Kester, "I'll take your transport ship." Kester knew that Darren meant that he would not go back to the flagship, knowing that it was to avoid suspicion, because the CD that did not know what was in his arms. So Kester nodded and agreed, because if the disc had been on him, he would have gone to Darrance's flagship.

Then carefully put the disc into a password box in Kester's commanding officer's room, and the two men entered different passwords on the two locks. After locking it, Kester looked at the swarthy box with a sigh of relief and was in the mood to go to the wine cabinet to pour wine.

After clinking glasses with Darrance, Kester asked aloud for the first time in such a long time, "I said, dude, who are that Lott and Ice?" How could it be used as a code? "

Darren sat wearily on the wide sofa, staring at the glass he was playing with and said faintly, "Rott is a nickname for Robster and ace is a nickname for Elantes."

Kester nodded and listened when he heard him suddenly open his eyes and shouted, "the nicknames of the Duke and the Earl?" This is an imperial class A secret! How do you know that? "

"stupid, what do you have ears for? I really doubt whether you are a confidant of the Duke. This secret is for those civilians and subordinates. It is an embarrassing thing for a lowly person to know the nickname of an adult. Look at the way you die, haven't you ever heard aristocrats who are higher than adults call them? Besides, it's only A-level secret, and you can get it by some random tricks. " Darrance smiled, squinting his eyes.

Kester curled his lips and said, "play some tricks?" Well, you got the news from the count's daughter. By the way, Darrence, brother, I remind you that the princes have laid their hands on the count's only daughter in order to win over the count's representative army, so don't mess around in it. " Speaking of which, Kester had looked straight at Darrance.

Darrance smiled, took a gentle sip of the wine and said, "Don't worry, it's only because of the order of the count that I can barely cope with the count's daughter." It's more dangerous on your side. "

"dangerous?" Kester asked casually, taking a bottle of wine and sitting down beside Darence and filling a glass of wine for both sides.

Darrance stared at Kester and said with a smile, "Don't pretend you don't know. Are you used to having assassins at night on the Duke's side?"

Kester shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Oh, who says the Duke doesn't have a shrine? if anything happens to the Duke, the duke's territory and the power of the court will be carved up by the princes."

Darren raised his glass to Kester with a smile and said, "if they like to dream, let them do it. One day they will realize that they are just a puppet pulled by a string on the stage."

Kester was stupefied, but when he saw the black password box, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Puppet?" I think they're clowns! Of course, they will soon find themselves a puppet pulled by a string. Come on, let's drink to our puppet clowns! " With that, I clinked glasses with Darrance.

As soon as the two men finished their glass of wine, the virtual avatar of Kester's adjutant appeared in front of Kester's desk. The adjutant shouted anxiously, "Sir, that surrendered federal warship suddenly and completely exploded. No life reaction was found except for the wreckage!"

Kester and Darrance were in a daze, but they soon understood something and nodded to each other. Kester went to his desk and said, "I see, maybe they blew themselves up because they didn't want to be prisoners of the Empire." All right, let's organize the fleet and return to Didu. "

The adjutant who originally stayed was even more stupefied when he heard this: "Imperial Capital?"

Kester nodded and said, "Yes, Didu, our job is done." After hearing this carefully, the adjutant saluted with ecstasy, and now he forgot to think about why people who had surrendered committed suicide now.

Kester looked back and smiled at Darence. "the soldiers must be happier to hear the news than to win the battle."

Darrance nodded and smiled, "of course it is, because we have been away from our family for months." Speaking of this, Darence said with a straight face, "I think the person we serve should be a very important person in the Union, otherwise we can't send extremely hard-to-get robots to warships. What do you think is the plan of this superior?" Don't you think we are here to destroy a fleet of self-propelled gunships and retrieve this thing with a great deal of military strength and expense? It would be faster and safer to pick this up with a spy, wouldn't it? " Darrance pointed to the black password box.

Kester also looked thoughtfully at the password box. For a long time, he smiled and shook his head and said, "it doesn't matter. All we subordinates have to do is follow orders." With that, he picked up the bottle and poured the wine.

Darren took the glass and looked at the bright red color, only shaking his head with a wry smile. Kester was right, and it was very difficult for the lower to understand the intentions of the superior.

At this time, the Union Command, the Marshal's temporary rest room. Although such a room was prepared for officials who stayed up late to work, because the marshal often spent the night here, the room was fixed as the marshal's bedroom. Since this kind of house is only a suite, the guards are all at the door.

The room was dark and quiet, and the marshals of battleships from all over the Union were resting in bed all day, and there was nothing but his slight breath.

Suddenly, Marshal Olmster sprang to his feet, his eyes glowing in the dark, without the hazy look that a man who had awakened from his sleep should have. Instead of pulling the lamp, he held out the luminous watch he had been wearing on his wrist.

Seeing the faint red light from the watch, he could not help whispering to himself, "Red, so the prelude is complete." Speaking of this, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, which looked so gloomy in the dark.

At this time, the bedside phone BBB rang. Olmster seemed to know that there would be such a phone. He first pressed the red spot of his watch, then took it off and put it aside. Then he turned on the light and answered the phone.

A young officer with the rank of major on the screen, seeing Olmster, immediately saluted and said, "Sorry, Mr. Marshal, to disturb your dormancy."

Olmster waved his hand and said calmly, "it doesn't matter if the enemy situation has changed."

"Yes, the two enemy fleets began to retreat to the empire after wiping out our self-propelled gunships!" The major said succinctly.

"withdraw?" Olmster put a look of surprise on his face, then nodded and said, "I'll be right there." With that, he turned off the phone.

He silently changed into the marshal's clothes, and as he was about to leave, he stopped, picked up the watch and put it on his wrist, and whispered to himself, "I almost forgot, I've only been wearing this watch for a month, and I can't break it so early." Talking about the whole clothes, he shouted the guard loudly, and left the room at a steady pace.

When Olmster came in, the spacious command room of the headquarters was already full of generals. Like Olmster, they all spent the night in the room here. There was nothing they could do about it. They were on wartime alert and had just arrived from all over the country. Seeing that there were no civil servants in the room, Olmster nodded with a smile, for it was impossible for a civilian to appear in the army's supreme command. The feeling made him very comfortable.

Olmster glanced at the generals who had stood up to pay attention when he saw him coming in. He knew that they had been his subordinates, his colleagues, and his superiors. In their decades of crawling, some of these people have become their own confidants, some have become their own enemies, but in any case, they have finally become the people of the highest rank in the army. If you want to stand in this position in times of peace, how many intrigues and tricks you have to go through to suppress flattery. Olmster could not help feeling that he was really old at this moment.

Olmster sat down at the top of the conference table, waved his hand and said, "sit down and start the military discussion." He looked at the middle-aged general who sat first on his left-hand side. Olmster was well aware of the general named Camuch, because he was the first to rise from the lower ranks with himself, and it was under his own promotion that he became one of the four generals of the Union.

Camucci saw the eyes of his old boss a long time ago, but he sat down with everyone before standing up and said, "Marshal, according to the latest intelligence, the two enhanced fleets of the Imperial Army are in the death zone." after destroying the self-propelled gunboat we were training there, we only made a short stop and began to move towards the empire, and now we are out of the dead zone. " As he pressed the button on his desk, a broad picture of galaxies immediately appeared in the air.

First of all, we saw that the blue fleet representing the enemy was moving slowly, and the self-propelled gunboat group, which was originally gathered somewhere in the death zone and represented by red, suddenly disappeared, and there was only a little left in the red area.

Seeing the puzzled eyes of many people, Camucci thought that few people were clear about the incident, and hurriedly explained to everyone, "the enemy used cold radium light that opened up a safe passage before the war began." and our self-propelled gunships happened to be within the range of these cold radium rays, and lost 90% of their troops before they had time to react. "

Hearing this, everyone sighed that the self-propelled gunboat was really unlucky that it had been shot in this way. It seems that the recruits died without feeling of pain. Of course, they know what kind of battleship a self-propelled gunboat is, and they also know that the president forced the marshal to come up with a budget for development and construction, and of course they also know that the president has benefited a lot from it. Who could not have thought of such a common thing? It's just that they don't know the exact amount of benefits the president got.

At this time, the blue plates on the screen split into two small pieces and move forward. Camucci went on to explain: "the enemy sent 2,000 warships as vanguard troops, and they started the space jump in the safe passage, while we only had about 1,000 self-propelled gunships." When they saw the pitifully small red plate, they sighed again, knowing that the self-propelled gunboat was finished.

But the next situation stunned them, because the originally very scattered red plates began to gather, and then the blue plates that served as pioneers disappeared as soon as they appeared. Seeing that everyone was looking at himself, Camucci said with a wry smile: "I don't know what happened. The monitors we scattered there can only sense and cannot take pictures. So all we know is that these self-propelled gunboats fired four torpedoes and one main gun each, and the Imperial warships disappeared. The details are really unclear."

"really? A thousand cannon-grade self-propelled gunships can use 4,000 torpedoes and a thousand main guns to destroy the 2000 regular warships of the Imperial Army? Sir, I didn't mishear you, did I? " Talking was a middle-aged man with an arrogant look on his face and four gold stars on his shoulder.

Olmster doesn't have to look at people, but he knows by his voice that he is his mortal enemy, one of the four generals, Senior General Moon Rees. Olmster would let his mortal enemy live because he was useful, so Olmster just looked at Camuch, ignoring Ryan's provocative eyes. When he saw Camucci smiled awkwardly, he explained to Moonres that it was because of the lack of detailed information, but frowned.

It was thought that Camucci would absolutely obey his orders, but now Camuch's manner, and just now he signaled that he could hold military discussions, followed the behavior that the crowd sat down before he got up to speak, that this man was a man who liked to follow the public blindly and didn't want to offend anyone. When will this love of obedience to oneself become like this? Is it because he became a four-star general? So it looks like you need to talk to him.

While Olmster was thinking, the demonstration on the galaxy map went on, and when you saw hundreds of red dots representing self-propelled gunboats, they stopped in front of the Imperial army. Hundreds of other red dots run around chasing a red dot. Can't help but show a suspicious expression again.

Camucci sighed and said: "according to the information sent back by the monitors, these warships have stopped the power furnaces and turned off their weapons systems, which is simply surrender."

"surrender?!"

"these bastards! Have they forgotten that they are noble federal soldiers? "

"extradite them! Send them to a court-martial! " Although the sound of such scolding came out in the mouths of everyone, everyone knew that if they did not want to die in the war, they would have no choice but to surrender. Of course, it is impossible to say such an excuse for them.

"Hey, this is the quality of soldiers in the Guyunlong galaxy, and we can't ask them to be qualified federal soldiers." The strange voice of yin and yang sounded in the conference hall, and Olmster knew that Moonres was laughing at himself again, because he would be on his own side of the ancient Olympics of the Gu Yunlong galaxy, and he certainly wouldn't miss the opportunity to laugh at himself.

Everyone knew that the second lieutenants were all selected by the Fukexing military region, and Olmster knew that this guy did not talk about the soldiers of the Yuanxing, but that the soldiers of the Guyunlong galaxy were selfish. Because the commander of the military region of Kukexing is recognized as belonging to his faction, he certainly has to take care of the face of his own faction. Olmster sneered at the thought.

The factions of the Union Army are intricate, with some generals on two sides, some bosses of one faction and their subordinates of another, and all the generals of the Union Army are of the same faction. The reason for this is that in times of peace, nothing can be found to drive people from different factions away. Moreover, the authority of the marshal in peacetime has been restricted, which does not mean that he can be promoted to whom he wants to be promoted. After nearly a hundred years of peace, the general may not be able to fight a war, but he is definitely a good hand in the political struggle. If he retires and joins the political arena, he will certainly be an old and treacherous politician.

When everyone was shouting and scolding, they froze again when they saw the performance of the red bright spot behind them. A general could not help asking Camuch, "Sir, why is that self-propelled gunboat being pursued by other self-propelled gunboats?" Why did the warships chasing him become less and less or all disappear? "

Looking at the small screen on the table in front of him, Camucci said: "this may be because this battleship is unwilling to surrender, so it is chased by other traitors, and the disappearance of those warships may have something to do with the recent tremors in the dead zone." Ah, according to the monitor's detection of signal fluctuations during the war, it was found that all the signals from self-propelled gunships were sent to the only remaining battleship, and the two flagships of the Imperial Army had also contacted this battleship. "

Hearing this, not only all the people, but even Olmster, who had been expressionless, showed a look of surprise, and people with a little common sense knew that the battleship was the flagship of the self-propelled gunship. It was this self-propelled gunboat commanding the rest of the self-propelled gunships that destroyed 2,000 regular Imperial warships, and resolutely refused in the face of the surrender of the Imperial army, thus being hunted and killed by the rebels, and incredibly wiped out the traitors in pursuit. This is a great achievement! As long as it gets out, this commander will immediately become a national hero! A young officer in military uniform was pictured in everyone's mind, receiving fanatical flowers and applause from the people.

The general, who was the first to respond, had begun to ask the name of the commander of the battleship, and Camucci pressed the button and began to inquire about the information. After a while, Camucci shouted happily: "found out, battleship number 512, battleship commander Tang long, stationed in the Kukexing military region, only 19 years old this year, because of his excellent performance in the training camp, he entered the army as a second lieutenant. Before the war, because General Gu'ao ordered all officers and men of self-propelled gunships to be promoted to the first rank, he is now a lieutenant!"

The 19-year-old lieutenant, who has made great achievements and is destined to be a hero, won't he be promoted to captain as soon as he comes back? All the generals began to envy the young captain. They were not officers at this age.

Hearing the name of Tang long, Olmster smiled at the corners of his mouth. It seemed that his vision had not deteriorated. At the beginning, he thought that the arrogant boy was extraordinary, but he did not expect to be so outstanding.

Olmster, who was about to say something, suddenly heard a general next to Moon Rees and whispered to him, "Sir, your son Don Terres, isn't this year exactly 19 years old?" He also joined the army from the training camp with the rank of second lieutenant, and he also joined the military region. Do you think it is possible that the prince changed his name to join the self-propelled gunboat? "

Moonres whispered awkwardly, "well, how do I know if it's that kid?" But if that brat dares to change his name, I'll break his leg! "

The general said hurriedly with a smile, "if your son is that Tang long, if you break his legs, the people will not let you go." By the way, why don't you call me and have a look? It's very likely that your son, oh, who else could he be if he is as good as him? "

"er. This. It's still in the military conference, let's not discuss it yet. " Moonres was busy changing the subject.

Olmster, who had been listening, sneered in his heart. He not only knew what kind of man Moon Rees was, but also knew very well what his son Don Terres was. Before joining the army, he did not say that after that guy signed up, he did not participate in the training camp at all. As for why he was able to enter the army with the rank of second lieutenant, it is conceivable.

Olmster knew the inside story like the back of his hand, and in order to gain more chips to control Moonres, he secretly ordered that the commander of the Fuke military region, who Moon Reis thought was his faction, proposed to Muenrez that Donterres be transferred to the Muko military region.

Not long ago, when he heard of the enemy invasion, Moon Rees immediately asked the commander to send his son away. Of course, the commander's reason for ensuring safety and saying that he had a chance to perform meritorious service at the front was reluctantly agreed, and when he saw that all the senior warships in the Union were assembled in the Muko military region, he settled his mind.

I didn't think anyone would think that Tang long was the overprotected Don Terres? Olmster couldn't help laughing at the thought, but he suddenly remembered something, with a terrible gleam in his eyes and a cold smile on the corners of his mouth.

Olmster tapped on the table and said aloud, "all right, let's adjourn the meeting for a while. Let's resume the meeting after breakfast." Ignoring Camucci, who had not yet recovered, he turned and left. When I left, I couldn't help laughing even more deeply when I saw Moon Rees pulling out his interstellar phone while leaving his position.