"the whole ship's main gun is aimed at 3 o'clock, and immediately after the attack, it will be transferred to 6 o'clock. Attack!" With a wave of his hand, the main guns of hundreds of Imperial warships roared at the same time, and countless huge laser beams pounced on the 3 o'clock position. As soon as the hundreds of warships were shot, they immediately moved in accordance with the order, because they all knew that if they did not move, they would certainly be attacked by the enemy.

"the radar crew reports!" Darrance's adjutant, a middle-aged man with short brown hair, the rank of lieutenant colonel and a resolute face, gave orders to the lieutenant of the surveillance radar without waiting for Darence to speak.

"report, sir, 30 enemy ships have been routed!" The lieutenant saluted and replied.

"an enemy attack! Five o'clock, prepare for attack! " The sound suddenly came from the warship's computer, and the crew returned to their posts to fasten their seat belts or grasp nearby objects. On the other hand, the warships outside immediately moved in front of the flagship, ready to fend off the attack.

With a flash of light on the screen, Darence's flagship shook and was fine, but everyone knew that at that moment, more than a dozen warships had disappeared.

Darren, sitting in the command chair, said coldly, "Map!" As his words fell, a holographic picture of the galaxy immediately appeared in front of him. Several staff officers with the rank of senior colonel immediately took out their electronic pens and ran over.

"this is our position. Traces of the enemy have been found here, here and here. Here and here have identified the number of enemy fleets, which are 2000 and 3000 respectively." A senior colonel skillfully pointed out what he had just said on the galaxy map with an electronic pen.

There is a small blue triangle on the galaxy map, surrounded by five or six red triangles. Darren said nothing but listened quietly to the staff officer's analysis of the situation between us and the enemy. People thought he was thinking about the war, but in fact he was thinking about what happened these days:

"the commander of the Silver Eagle Empire ordered Viscount Darrance to lead 3000 warships to the Mu-ou system to wipe out the pirates who disturbed the balance of the galaxy, and wish you an early triumph. February 3, 3434, the cosmic calendar. " After reading the order book, a young school official looked at Darence with envy and jealousy.

If other emissaries of the Empire heard this order, they would be very surprised, for generally speaking, any order of the Empire was preceded by the words "obey the will of his Majesty the Supreme Emperor". However, due to the existence of dukes and Earls in the empire, all military orders began with the Silver Eagle Imperial Command order, while the government order began with the Silver Eagle Imperial Prime Minister order.

After Darrance saluted, he took the order with an expressionless face. He had known about this order for a long time, and he knew that he had been named as commander by the third prince himself. Although he is not familiar with the third prince, everyone in the empire knows that the third prince is arrogant and bloodthirsty.

Besides, the Mu-ou galaxy is basically the territory of the third Prince. It can be said that since it became the territory of the third Prince, the population of the Mu-ou galaxy has been declining all the way. In such a horrible place, there will certainly be one or two groups of pirates who can't stand oppression, but it is absolutely impossible for these pirates to wander around after gathering 5000 troops. Is it possible that the third Prince's private fleet of more than a hundred thousand troops is good-looking?

So needless to say, there is definitely a conspiracy in this matter. Although Darence did not understand why the count agreed to the request of the third prince, he, who was accustomed to obeying orders, did so. But what bothers him is that the count should send his daughter to his flagship. The Empire is different from the Union, there are no women in the combat posts of the Imperial Army, so the appearance of the Earl's daughter makes the flagship soldiers cheer loudly. But soon they began to sigh, and let them know what kind of man the count's daughter was.

At first, the Earl's daughter was curious about everything, and then she began to manipulate the instruments. what was even more puzzling was that she was very interested in fighter jets. She even used her status as an Earl daughter to force the pilots to teach her how to fly a fighter.

When she was tired of playing with those small arms, she began to focus on the warship, not only forcibly seizing the right to drive the battleship, but also driving the warship, rampaging through the ranks, fortunately, she did not learn how to control the artillery system, otherwise I am afraid that before the pirates were found, the fleet would have been destroyed by her.

When the count's daughter finally lost interest in this, she began to haunt Darrance again. Ask Darrance to chat with her, go to play with her, and even mess around during the military discussion. if it doesn't go well, it will make the flagship restless. Darrence scolded her and made him cry, make trouble and hang himself three times. In the end, Darence was only confined to her, otherwise the battle would not have been fought.

After dealing with the matter of the Earl's daughter, as soon as it was quiet, the radar found the trail of pirates, and the soldiers who had long been bored by the count's daughter were immediately excited to prepare for battle. According to the investigation, the pirates, like the information given by the Command, are indeed 5000 warships transformed by merchant ships.

The result of the war was the same as the soldiers thought. The pirates had no formation and no match, and 5000 warships rushed in such a hustle and bustle and were beaten to pieces by the well-prepared Imperial army. However, when everyone lost their vigilance, numerous powerful mystery warships suddenly appeared, beating the victory-obsessed Imperial army into a daze, and 3000 men lost one-third of their strength at that moment. Had it not been for Darence and the other captains, they would have been wiped out.

Finally, the remaining forces were transferred to a meteorite belt and began to use meteorites as cover for guerrilla warfare, but they were surrounded by these mysterious fleets. Although guerrilla warfare has effectively wiped out those enemies, due to the great disparity in strength, there are only 3000 or so ships left.

Darrance sighed as he looked at the staff officers who were concentrating on tactics, and those who were focused on controlling the battleship. Although no one said it, everyone knew that these mysterious fleets were the private fleets of the third prince.

Although Darrance had expected that the third prince would come to murder him as a romantic rival, he did not expect that the third prince could launch such a fierce attack knowing that the count's daughter was on board the ship. There can be no survivors under this fierce attack, and if he kills the count's daughter, he and the count will be sworn enemies. Is it no longer necessary for the third prince to win over the count?

At the thought of this, Darence's brow jumped, for he remembered why the third prince, who had always fawned on the count, dared to fight, for only one reason, and the emperor began to attack the count! Otherwise, the third prince, who cherished his troops very much, could not have risked great losses to attack himself. In just a few days of guerrilla warfare, he has wiped out tens of thousands of troops of the third princes, which is equal to one-tenth of the strength of the third princes.

If the emperor had not opened his mouth, it would have been impossible for the third prince to throw the chips for the throne here, and the emperor must have ordered that whoever took care of the count and the duke would be the crown prince. In that case, those princes would be willing to pay any capital.

"well, if the emperor starts to do it, the situation in the imperial capital will be more dangerous than here. Alas, good friend, you must take good care of yourself. " Darrance sighed in his heart.

For the count, Darence did not have much affection but loyalty, and he cared more about his only friend than his boss who promoted him. More than once he blamed the count and the duke in front of Kester, for he did not think that these two eminent adults of authority had the bearing to achieve great things at all. In accordance with their power, there will be no objection to dragging the emperor off the stage and doing it on his own. But they just do not do so, but feel at ease with the status of powerful courtiers.

Since they were bent on being ministers of power, they should be more subtle, but no matter what they did, they did not pay attention to the emperor, not even a bit of hypocrisy. In general, powerful officials still blackmailed the son of Heaven to command the world, and did everything in the name of the emperor. But they actually threw the emperor aside and acted on their own, as if to show the whole world that they did not need to obey the emperor's orders. Maybe Kester is right. They are doing this to show their loyalty to some mysterious person.

Knowing the secret, Darren once revealed to Kester that his allegiance was to the count of the Empire, not the mysterious man who had no idea who he was. Kester, on the other hand, said somewhat covertly that his allegiance was to the entire empire, not to one person. Darrance understood the meaning of Kester's words very well, and his allegiance was to the country, not to the duke, not to the emperor, let alone the mysterious man.

As a matter of fact, Darence did not say something, which he dared not say, because it would be rebellious. In Darence's mind, the true allegiance was himself. He was willing to serve the count, either because the count had discovered his talents, and because the count was very powerful. If the count is willing to be emperor, Darence is willing to wipe out all opponents for the count. But the count had no such ambition, but was faithfully waiting for a mysterious man to ascend the throne.

Since the count has no ambition, and he is unwilling to dedicate his loyalty to the mysterious man, he should keep his loyalty to himself. Darren, who made up his mind on the battlefield, did not know where his decision would take him, but he did not regret it. He had no regrets about working hard for himself.

"Sir! The enemy ship suddenly withdrew! " The radar man's shout sobered Darence from his mind. Darren looked up at the galaxy map, and the red squares began to withdraw quickly from the battlefield, and soon they were completely out of radar range and disappeared completely.

When Darrance was about to ask what was going on, the radar man's cry sounded again: "report!" A mysterious fleet of 20,000 enters the radar range! " The soldiers who were ready to cheer the departure of the enemy ship immediately shut their mouths and looked nervously at a large yellow square displayed on the screen.

At the moment of the radar crew's report, the computer also listed the data distribution of the fleet's warships. Seeing the above data, all the people took a breath, because there were no warships below Class 3 in this fleet, all of them were warships of Class 1 or 2. No wonder the warships that just attacked themselves fled immediately. In the face of such a strong fleet with such a high level, who would stay here and wait to die?

The hierarchical distribution of the Imperial Fleet is not as tedious as that of the Confederacy. The Empire simply refers to all warships with more than 100 main guns as Class 1 warships, 80 to 100 as Class 2 warships, 60 to 80 doors as Class 4 warships, and 60 to 40 doors as Class 5 warships, while those below 40 doors are collectively called Class 6 warships.

"20,000 are all Class 1 and Class 2 warships?" Darren murmured thoughtfully when he saw the number. At this moment, the correspondent also turned to Darence and said, "report, there is a communication from the other party. Is it connected?"

Everyone looked at Darrance, and everyone thought he should think about it before making a decision, but Darence let them down. Almost at the same time as the correspondent reported, Darence said, "put him through." If so.

Everyone closed and nervously looked at the slowly unfolding screen, a handsome young man with blond shawl hair, but looked a little fluffy, with the rank of Imperial Lieutenant General on his shoulders. He waved to Darence with a smile and said happily, "Yo-ho!" Brother, how are you these days? " Seeing this man, all the people sank into their seats with a sigh of relief. This is a good friend of his officer, Viscount Kester, who is on the same list as the two heroes of the empire.

Darrance shook the corner of his mouth and smiled blandly: "not bad. There are less than 3000 men left."

Kester made a surprised expression and shouted, "not bad?" 3000 troops have been surrounded by 30000 regular troops for four days, and after destroying nearly 10,000 enemies, they still have 500 troops left. is this not bad? They would have killed me in the first place! You are really too modest, you know, excessive modesty is pride! That's not good enough. " Kester said and shook her finger.

"to help me supply, repair and navigate, these brothers have not had a rest for several days." Darrance looked at the subordinates who had fallen asleep on the ground and sighed to Kester.

Kester nodded. "No problem. Come to me. I've got a bottle of good wine." Darrance nodded wordlessly.

In Kester's flagship commander's room, as soon as Darrance took the glass handed over by Kester, he asked, "how is the Imperial Capital?"

Kester smiled. "I thought you could bear to ask." After a sip of wine, he continued: "one word: chaos!" Two words: chaos! Three words: very chaotic! Four words: very chaotic! Five words. "

Seeing that Kester wanted to go on, Darren hurriedly interrupted, "well, I know the Emperor is a mess. Let's just say how messy it is."

Kester took another sip of wine before he said, "on the first day after you left, there was a slave riot in the imperial manors, a riot of nearly ten million people!" The police and intelligence departments did not even notice the first sign, so after the riots, the heads of these two departments changed. "

"change people? Who did you change? " Darrance asked as soon as he heard this. Because the Didu police department and the Didu intelligence department control the law and order and intelligence of the entire imperial capital, the selection of a slightly bad candidate will cause great chaos.

"the Duke of Pat Omes is the police director of the new Imperial Capital, and the Duke of Jelson Ames is the intelligence director of the new Imperial Capital." Kester grabbed a piece of beef and chewed it.

"two brothers of the Omes family? They are relatives of the emperor, and the count and the duke have no objection? " Darrance asked in surprise. The emperor's relatives hold these two sensitive positions, which means that the two departments are under the control of the emperor.

Kester shook his head and said, "there is no objection, because their minds are focused on the voyage to the Union." Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed and said, "the way they looked when they took office, as soon as they came out, the slave riot would die down immediately." Hee hee, it's a pity that the slave uprising has spread to other planets, and the whole capital circle is in chaos. The policemen were simply not enough, so at last they had to beg me. "

"Please? Why? " Darrance also pinched a piece of beef and began to eat it.

"Hey, hey, my third Fleet of the Guards is the only one in the capital circle, and of course your fourth Fleet is there, but you're not here as a commander, so don't beg me." Kester smiled proudly.

Darence asked inexplicably, "is there only the third and fourth Fleet left in the seven fleets of the Imperial Guard?" Where are the rest? "

"they have all been transferred to other places to fight pirates, and they all go with the whole fleet, but you are quite special, leading only 3000 troops to fight pirates."

"all go to fight pirates? How come you didn't take part in it? "

"Hey, hey, when the command issued the order, I happened to be playing with Mei Mei in the suburbs, so I didn't get the order. Originally, the headquarters wanted to punish me, but when there was a slave riot, they had no choice but to curry favor with me. "

"does the command want to punish you? Neither the count nor the duke is in the imperial capital? "

"of course not. They are secretly organizing troops at the front." Said Kester, skimming his lips.

Darrance nodded. "No wonder." He finally knew why the emperor dared to do it. In the past, no matter what happened to the count and the duke, one of them stayed in the imperial capital, but now they are both gone, and it would be strange for the emperor not to do so when faced with such an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In this way, the count sent the daughter to him, not because he wanted the third prince to take care of the daughter and not dare to attack him, but because he knew that the imperial capital was full of wind and wind, and wanted to protect the daughter himself. Thinking of this, Darence suddenly realized that he had forgotten something very important. what on earth was it? Unfortunately, he used not to think about it for a while if he couldn't remember it, so he let it go.

"well, do you know how long it took me to quell the slave riot? I'm telling you, there's only one day, and I put down the slave riots in the capital circle in one day! " Kester shook a finger, and he continued without waiting for Darence to speak, "you know how I started?" From the very beginning, I used a lot of troops to find a planet with the worst riots outside the imperial capital, surrounded those slaves and carried out a super massacre for them. Hey hey, live broadcast of the massacre, ah, it is really a river of blood, seen from space, you can see a lot of red. Hee hee, in order to increase the shock scene, I ordered not to use laser weapons, but to use laser knives to kill. Haha, and after the soldiers finished the slaughter, I specially invited them to eat bloody raw beef. Hehe, is my character very bad? " With that, he looked at Darrance proudly.

"you just killed the slaves of a planet, and then broadcast the killing scenes to the slaves of the riots, and you solved the riots?" Asked Darrance.

Kester smiled and said, "Yes, that's what I do." When the riot slaves saw the three-dimensional image, they were so frightened that they all went back to the manor. Oh, look how easy it is for me to do this. "

Darrance frowned and said, "your method can only contain the riot for a while. The next slave riot will be more intense. You should execute all the slaves who took part in the riot."

Kester smiled and said, "I'm afraid of trouble. if I kill them all, it will take more than ten days, but if they dare to riot, they can't kill them again."

Darrance shook his head and sighed, "Oh, you're just soft-hearted."

"by the way, why don't you ask me why I'm here?" Kester leaned forward and Darence asked with interest.

Darrance smiled and said, "I'm not asking you, I'm waiting for you to say it yourself."

"Hey, you cheated me again. After I quelled the riot, I found that you had been gone for several days and there was no news, and I found something was wrong, so I came to you with the third Fleet and the fourth Fleet. "

"is the fourth Fleet here? Why didn't you see it? " Darrance asked in surprise. In fact, he was not surprised that the fourth Fleet also came, but how could Kester mobilize his own fleet? The fourth Fleet could not mobilize anyone but himself. Did the officers begin to waver when they saw that something was wrong? It seems that they should be well disciplined when they go back!

"Hey, stop it. I wanted to bring the fourth Fleet, but they said they wouldn't listen to anyone except your orders, and now they're still outside the capital circle." Speaking of which, Kester leaned forward and whispered, "Brother has a trick. I'm afraid the count can't command the fourth Fleet?"

Darrance smiled and replied in the same whisper, "you're not bad, too. Can the Duke command the third Fleet?"

The two closed their mouths and looked at each other, then suddenly clinked glasses with laughter. They all knew that the other had completely turned their fleet into their own personal belongings.

"Yes, when I first arrived in the Muo system, I received orders from the count and the Duke that we should go to the front as soon as possible, saying that we should do our part in the great cause. What do you think we should do?" Kester said solemnly.

Darrance mused and said, "it seems that the two grown-ups don't even want the power of the emperor in order to attack the Union of Violet." Looking at them in such a hurry, they dare to believe that the purpose of this war is to welcome back the mysterious man. They asked us to go, on the one hand, to increase our combat effectiveness, and on the other hand, they wanted us to owe allegiance to that man. "

"shall we go or not?" Kester is a little impatient.

Darren said with a smile: "go, of course, we must have meritorious service if we want to climb the ladder. How can we not go to such a good opportunity for meritorious service?" as for allegiance, we'll see. "

Kester nodded and drank the wine in silence, as did Darrance. After a while, Kester suddenly laughed and said, "by the way, you went with the count's daughter to live and eat together these days. Did you give her to that?"

Darren's face was so pale that he finally remembered what he had forgotten. He forgot to release the count's daughter in solitary confinement. Thinking of what the count's daughter looked like now, Darence shivered, and immediately got up and turned around and ran. And Kester, who vaguely knew what was going on, of course hurriedly followed, ready to watch the hustle and bustle.