"Recruitment, Ann?"

Inside the flagship of Space Pirates, Red Dragon was taken aback for a moment, then shrugged and laughed.

"Ha, hahaha...you really dare to think about it, crippled human being. Zhao'an, it's really interesting. Do you still remember how the old woman surnamed Lin got the knife in her hand?"

Under the Golden Throne, a row of space pirates standing raised their fists and roared immediately. This group of people looked like a group of crazy chimpanzees, and the words "endless and endless" were almost written on their faces.

On the other side of the communication, Jiang Jianming said calmly: "The matter of slaughtering the thief can be discussed."

Bemaner was surprised, and whispered: "Colonel!"

"Unless the empire can extract the old leader of the lava from the crystal particles alive." Red Dragon grinned, "how about it, do you want to let the black shark base try it?"

"Why does Lava cooperate with the Crystal Cult?"

Jiang Jianming didn't change his face, "The last time we met in a hurry, we didn't have time to have a good talk...In order to fight against the empire, would you rather cooperate with a heretical organization that wants to destroy all mankind?"

Red Dragon didn't answer right away.He tilted his head to look at Jiang Jianming for a while, and then showed that kind of cruel and innocent eyes again.

He suddenly said: "Human being, I actually like you quite a bit."

"Space Pirates like rare things, and you, you're a rare cripple."

The starship is still speeding through the vast universe.On the golden throne, Red Dragon lazily stretched his waist, "If you are willing to surrender, I will spare your life, only break your kneecap, and let you feed me cats on your knees every day."

He beckoned, and the black cat he kept jumped down out of nowhere, nestled on the lap of the owner, and let out a "meow".

"So," Red Dragon scratched the back of the black cat's neck, suddenly put his face close to the communication screen, and laughed coldly, "For your rare sake, I can specifically tell you 'why'."

"Lava's purpose is only one—"

The boy stuck out his tongue: "I am happy."

"It seems that Lava has no intention of peace talks."

Jiang Jianming sighed, and he gathered his army coat regretfully, "But I don't really want to have to kneel and feed cats for the rest of my life, so I can only force you to leave the fortress."

After that, he reached out his hand to cut off the communication, and finally glanced towards the opposite side with a cold gaze.

Red Dragon's face was cloudy, and he felt something was wrong, and suddenly the hull shook violently!

At the same moment, Lava's Space Pirates fleet was crossing this dead and silent old battlefield of the universe. When dozens of missiles appeared, no one reacted. They plunged into the starship group that was moving at full speed at the same time, blasting a series of bright lights.

Under the cover of wreckage and garbage, the military mechas of the empire rushed out of this Yu Region like ghosts, and all kinds of high-destructive long-range weapons were thrown at them for free.

"Oh shit"

Red Dragon nearly slipped off his seat.The space pirates on both sides have already stumbled.The vulgar scolding, the frightened scream of the black cat, and the piercing sound of metal friction sounded almost at the same time as the enemy attack siren!

A Space Pirates with thick limbs rushed in from outside: "Boss, there is an ambush!"

Red Dragon looked up sharply: "Where is it!?"

Space Pirates: "Behind our right..."

"Stupid donkey!" Red Dragon kicked Space Pirates in the chest and roared, "I asked where the coordinates of our fleet are now!!"

He turned his head with bloodshot eyes, staring at the blackened communication screen, the veins on his forehead popped up: "Kill you..."

The matter couldn't be more obvious, that crippled human being stalked him again.

The Red Dragon jumped out of his seat and roared, "Old black sheep!"

The tall Space Pirates who always followed him muffled a reply.Red Dragon grabs a few pieces of true crystal, "Drive Hephaestus out, follow me!"

It's a pity that the S-class mecha Hephaestus failed to fight the enemy.Zheng Yue followed Jiang Jianming's instructions, and ran after an ambush, more Space Pirates style than Space Pirates.

By the time Lava and his gang climbed onto the mechas to prepare for battle, there was only a shadow of the Imperial Army left, and they could only swallow their anger and drive the mechas back to the starship.

"Boss," the Space Pirates who came to report said in a daze, "Our fleet is moving too fast! The imperial bastard is cunning, shall we slow down and hunt for the enemy?"

The red dragon jumped up angrily, and roared: "A bunch of idiots! Slow down your mother's speed, open your dog eyes and see, there is no place to ambush the mech on the next path!?"

Under the intimidation of the junior commander, the Space Pirates continued to advance at full speed.In the end, he rushed to the vicinity of the alien star with his head held high, and was blown up again.

——There is indeed no place to ambush mechs, but unfortunately, when the group led by Zheng Yue retreated, they set up miniature crystal particle induction bombs code-named "Thunder Cloud" here, with a total of three to four hundred pieces.

Red Dragon's pretty face nearly turned as red as his hair.He had no choice but to grit his teeth and order the fleet to proceed cautiously.

But then there was no more ambushes, and when the large troop of Lava came to Beta Alien in fear, he was relieved and geared up to do it——

A beam of light shot up into the sky.

At the top of the pitch-black Yinbeidou Fortress, energy and heat gathered rapidly, and the second and third beams also penetrated the sky, directly burning the clouds to create a huge hole.

Just a minute ago, the fort's heavy artillery was fully charged.

...

"Colonel!"

In the command room of the Imperial Fleet, Bemaner stood up in surprise, "The Space Pirates have retreated."

"Yeah." Jiang Jianming was still sitting on the conductor's seat in the same posture. He drank a sip of water to moisten his throat, and then blinked and said, "It's not bad, let them go."

At this time, more than an hour had passed since the reinforcements arrived on the battlefield. Most of the lava mechs hovering over Beta Alien were shot down, and the rest either surrendered or ran away.

Lava's starship was beaten several times with sap along the way, and now it has no intention of fighting, and it takes away its surviving mecha remnants and runs away.The Imperial Army did not pursue, and the Space Pirates slowly withdrew from the Beta Aliens.

Jiang Jianming reduced the coordinate axis of the three-dimensional star map by ten times, confirmed the evacuation route of the Space Pirates starship, and asked, "Is Old Zheng back?"

Just as Bemaner responded, the mechanical automatic door behind him opened.Zheng Yue's face was flushed, and he strode in, panting heavily: "Colonel!"

Jiang Jianming turned the command seat back and tilted his head: "How is it?"

"It's so cool." Zheng Yue wiped off his sweat, shook off Jin Rilun's military cap and pinched it in his hands, "I've never fought such a good battle...with less than two thousand mech soldiers,The large starships of the group of Space Pirates were beaten to nowhere, and they were counted on the way back, and there were almost zero casualties."

"Almost zero casualties?" Bemaner next to him was taken aback, thinking to himself that Major Zheng Yue was really good at leading mecha soldiers.Even if it's a guerrilla war, it's really not easy to use a mecha to fight a starship without causing casualties.

"That's right. Now, those Jinri Lun soldiers who just came to Star Wars are not afraid anymore, and the rumors that Colonel Jiang is young and inexperienced have also shut up."

Zheng Yue was so excited that he kept talking, "To tell you the truth, I was worried about whether I could do it before! Now that I have won the first battle, and now that I have reached the second fortress, even Lieutenant General Jin will definitely look at you differently."

Jiang Jianming smiled noncommittally. He was thinking about his ignoring Lieutenant General Jin's communication... and quickly decided that it was a problem, but not a big one.

While perfunctory to Zheng Yue's bragging, he took out the pair of black gloves from the pocket of his military overcoat, and put them on again for himself.

Now there is no need to cheat and kidnap, but it can still save yourself a lot of trouble.Even if this layer is put aside, for him without a crystal bone, it is still necessary to protect his hands.

Jiang Jianming: "The lava has left the Beta galaxy. Prepare to land and park the whole ship. Zheng Yue, you go to confirm the return of the mecha soldiers; Man'er, contact the second fortress to open the port and receive the starship."

The two said in unison: "Yes!" "Understood!"

Before getting up, the black-haired officer glanced at the star map one last time.

Suddenly, as if he saw something interesting, he slightly hooked the corners of his eyes.

But Jiang Jianming didn't make a sound, but quickly hid his smile, adjusted Yin Beidou's military uniform, and walked out of the general command room.

The other end of the Yu Region.

Inside the flagship White Jade, Captain Rita Liu anxiously stood under the bridge.

"Gassi...His Highness Lai An," the female adjutant almost bit her tongue, but she had no time to care about the gaffe, "Excuse me, but we have to change the course."

The crown prince sitting at the top held the virtual command screen with one hand.Platinum curly hair fluttering, he turned his head to look down at Major Rita, his emerald eyes were piercingly icy.

"must?"

"Yes," Rita said hastily, "The silver Beidou army in the first fortress is exhausted, and morale is extremely low. If you continue to move in this direction, once you hit the lava pirates who have withdrawn from the Beta alien planet, the consequences will be severe."It would be unimaginable!"

"Is it."

Lai An turned his face away again, "Major, tell me first."

"Why are you exhausted?"

"And why is morale so low?"

"We..." Rita was speechless, she stared up blankly.After many days of defending the fortress, the female officer wearing electronic glasses lost a lot of weight.

Of course she could give a reason.The exhaustion was because the First Fortress was suddenly attacked by the Crystal Cult. The opponent had higher technology, could control intelligent alien creatures, and would also trigger the crystal particles in the true crystal mine to cause large-scale crystal chaos.

While the chief general of the first fortress was away, more than half of the starships and many mainstays were also taken away by Xie Yuduo, and there was no external reinforcements. It was not easy to support until now, of course exhausted.

In the end, the fortress was still not defended.Alien Alpha, which had never been lost since the holy battle, was abandoned by them, and the heroic monument buried with the bones of comrades-in-arms was left to the enemy. The crime of losing the front line and the shame of the defeated army weighed on their heads. Of course, morale was extremely low.

But are these reasons really reasons?

It is the job of historians not to judge heroes by success or failure.For soldiers, on the battlefield, where are there so many reasons other than victory or defeat?

"Without Xie Yuduo, the Silver Beidou First Army will be reduced to this?"

Lai An knocked on the podium and said coldly: "When will he die? What if this expedition is the result of annihilation of the entire army?"

"Is this fortress of Alpha still defended? If not, is the Silver Beidou First Army still alive?"

Rita's heart skipped a beat.

She looked up at the handsome prince in shock, and suddenly realized that there was indeed something different about His Highness.

His Highness Garcia used to be withdrawn, indifferent, and too lazy to care about anything.He stayed in the first fortress for three years, like an eagle, flying to infinite heights alone in the snowstorm of Alien Alpha, only occasionally resting his wings in the fortress.

Because of this, when the news came from the empire that His Highness Garcia was only the crown prince after his fake death, Rita always felt something strange.

She always felt that His Highness Garcia was still different from the former Crown Prince Lai An in her impression.

In fact, Rita knew that Her Highness Garcia had a fortress in her heart.For the sake of the fortress, he will go alone to eliminate alien creatures that others dare not touch, and he will accept the most dangerous tasks with a cold tone.But never like today.

Only Major General Xie would reprimand them like this. Those sarcasm were not meant to insult his subordinates, but to point out hate iron for not becoming steel.

But now, His Highness Garcia... No, His Highness Lai An has actually started to take care of them. This discovery made Rita feel incredible and unreal.

If the previous three years were not a pretense, what would have changed the man?Is it the long-lost empire, the turbulent current situation, or...another person?

"..."

On the command seat on the bridge, the corners of Lai An's eyes twitched.He was admonishing others, yet the other side dared to distract himself...

Forget it, maybe it's the resistance from being scolded by that guy Xie Yuduo.The crown prince gave up the pursuit and set the fleet's route to a position where it would collide head-on with the lava.

Rita finally regained her senses from the fright: "Your Highness! Still can't fight..."

Lai An: "Shut up and watch."

Rita: "But!"

Lai An impatiently lowered her throat: "Major, obey the order—I said, watch."

His tone is unquestionable, with the coercion that belongs only to the superior.Rita was suddenly speechless, she could only look at the star map in fear, and watched the whole ship begin to accelerate under the command of the crown prince.

...

"Boss! Ahead... an imperial fleet appears ahead!"

"There are quite a few, there are, one or two thousand..."

Inside the Space Pirates starship, that unlucky guy stumbled and rushed in for some unknown number of times.

Red Dragon's face twitched violently, and he broke down and shouted: "Again!?"

Sudden reinforcements, ambushes, bombs... After the suspicious tricks of delaying time, they were greeted by the fortress heavy artillery.

Now they all chose to retreat, and another team of imperial starships came along the way to retreat!

There are traps at every step, and it was calculated to death by that disabled human being and the imperial monster.Chilong slammed his fist against the wall unwillingly: "Don't come into contact with the imperial ship, change the route, and withdraw for me!!"

Space Pirates: "—Hey! Let's go, let's go!"

Thus, a very funny scene was born.

In the unofficial history of the empire that will be circulated in the future, this period of battle will be described as follows: the remnant army of the Silver Beidou First Army, which has completely lost its combat effectiveness, evacuated from the siege of the Crystal Cult with great pains, staggered and reluctantlyEarth - drove the fleet of lava out of most of the galaxy.

It sounds like a black joke.

In the middle, Red Dragon was ready to save something.Sadly, as soon as L-Hephaestus drove out, he bumped into the crown prince who also came out of the mecha.

Now that there is no such fragile and perishable human being by his side, His Highness can be more reckless when fighting.The confrontation between the crystal bone and the crystal bone stirred the surrounding crystal particles like a wild wave. Twenty minutes later, L-Hephaestus flew out first and hit a starship in the middle.

The latter exploded, and the fire and smoke rushed straight into the field of vision, and the metal fragments hit the fuselage of the mech with a crackling sound.

Red Dragon didn't dare to fight, let the old black sheep control the mech to get up and run, find a chance to slide into the starship, and never came out again.

Major Rita who stayed in the flagship was stunned.

This, this is also fine...!?

Space Pirates has always been a rogue style of smearing oil on the soles of their feet if they can't beat it, which has troubled the empire for many years. Unexpectedly, this characteristic has been exploited instead.

The rogue was mistaken by the rogue, this time the Lava Space Pirates was cheated by the bluff of the Imperial Fleet...

Didi——

In front of the empty command seat, a communication window suddenly flickered.

His Highness Lai An was not there, Rita hesitated for a moment, worried about missing some important military information, so she went up and clicked on the connection.

A young man with black hair and dark eyes appeared opposite, with a gentle tone and a smile.

"Your Highness, it's too late, it should be—Major Rita?"

Rita was surprised, and quickly saluted: "Your Excellency Jiang!"

"Oh," Jiang Jianming over there poked his head to look at the empty command seat, "Did your Highness go down to fight? It's okay, chasing the universe thief can relax, and Yin Beidou's morale should be restored to some extent."

Chasing space pirates, relax... Rita's mouth twitched at the shock of this word.

But... She couldn't help but tremble, thinking quietly: But, this statement is too cool!

His Excellency Jiang Xiao on the opposite side of the communication is still so stable, he doesn't seem to have changed much, even the mysterious temperament that reveals a certain black belly and force in his calmness is still the same as before:

"But it's almost done. I'll make another private message on my wrist phone to call His Highness back. Please, Major, let the fleet retreat first, and please come to Beta Alien Planet to rendezvous as soon as possible—"

At the same moment, black military boots stepped on the red soil of Beta Aliens.

Jiang Jianming stepped off the starship, squinted his eyes to hide from the dazzling sunlight above his head, and said the last sentence before hanging up into the headset: "I am waiting for you at the second fortress."

Fragments of sunlight illuminated a vertical sign he passed by, and the lettering on it was strong and powerful: the second fortress of the Silver Beidou, No. 1 starship port.

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