Tales of Soldier - Chapter 97

[Chapter 97]

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“The main guns of the whole ship are aimed at the 3 o’clock position, and immediately move to the 6 o’clock position after the attack, attack!” Lieutenant General Darrens, who was cold and stern, waved his hand, and the main guns of hundreds of imperial warships roared at the same time, countless A huge laser beam rushed towards the 3 o’clock position. As soon as the hundreds of warships finished shooting, they immediately moved as ordered, because they all knew that if they didn’t move, they would definitely be attacked by the enemy.

“The radar officer reports the situation!” Darrens’s adjutant, a middle-aged man with short brown hair, the rank of lieutenant colonel, and a resolute face, immediately issued an order to the lieutenant monitoring the radar without waiting for Darrens to speak.

“Report sir, 30 enemy ships have been routed!” the lieutenant replied with a salute.

“Enemy attack! Position at 5 o’clock, prepare to withstand the attack!” This voice suddenly came from the battleship’s computer, and the crew returned to their posts to fasten their seat belts or grab nearby objects. The battleships outside immediately moved to the flagship, ready to block the attack for the flagship.

There was a flash of light on the screen, and the flagship ship where Darrens was shaking was fine, but everyone knew that in that instant, more than a dozen of their own battleships disappeared.

Darrens, who was sitting in the command chair, said coldly: “Map!” As his words fell, a holographic galaxy map immediately appeared in front of him. Several staff officers with the rank of colonel immediately took out their electronic pens and ran over.

“This is our position. The enemy’s traces have been found here, here, and here. The number of enemy fleets has been identified here and here, with 2,000 and 3,000 troops respectively.” A colonel skillfully pointed out what he just said on the galaxy map with an electronic pen. place.

I saw a small blue triangle on the galaxy map, surrounded by five or six red triangles. Darrens didn’t speak but listened quietly to the staff officer’s analysis of the situation on both sides of the enemy. Others thought he was thinking about the battle, but he was actually thinking about what happened during these days:

“The command of the Silver Eagle Empire ordered Lieutenant General Viscount Darrens to lead 3,000 warships to the M’o system to destroy the pirates who disturbed the balance of the galaxy. I wish you an early victory. The cosmic calendar is February 3, 3434.” A young school officer finished reading The back of the order looked at Darrens with envy and jealousy.

If envoys from other empires heard this order, they would be very surprised, because generally any order of the empire must be preceded by the words ‘follow the will of the supreme emperor’. However, due to the existence of dukes and counts in the empire, all military orders start with ‘Silver Eagle Empire High Command’, while government orders start with ‘Silver Eagle Empire Prime Minister’s Order’.

After Darrens saluted, he took the order book expressionlessly. He knew this order early on, and he also knew that he was personally named by the third prince to be the commander. Although they are not familiar with the third prince, everyone in the empire knows that the third prince is arrogant and bloodthirsty.

Besides, the M’o system is basically the territory of the third prince. It can be said that the population of the M’o system has been decreasing since it became the territory of the third prince. There will definitely be one or two groups of pirates who can’t stand the oppression in the place controlled by such a terrifying guy, but it is absolutely impossible for these pirates to be able to wander around after gathering 5,000 troops. Could it be that the strength of the third prince’s private fleet of hundreds of thousands of troops looks good?

So needless to say, there is definitely a conspiracy in this matter. Although Darrens did not understand why the earl would agree to the request of the third prince, but he was used to obeying orders and still obeyed. But what bothered him more was that the count actually gave his daughter to his flagship. The Empire is different from the Federation. There are no women in the combat positions of the Imperial Army, so the appearance of the Earl’s daughter made the soldiers of the flagship cheer loudly. But soon they began to sigh and let them know what kind of person the earl’s daughter was.

The earl’s daughter first asked curiously about everything she saw, and then started to control these instruments. What’s even more confusing was that she was actually very interested in fighter jets, and even took out her identity as the earl’s daughter to force those The pilot taught her to fly a fighter jet.

When she got tired of those small weapons, she began to think about the battleship. Not only did she forcibly seize the control of the battleship, but she also drove the battleship and rampaged in the troop formation. Fortunately, she did not learn how to control the artillery system, otherwise I am afraid Before the pirates were found, the fleet was destroyed by her.

When the earl’s daughter finally lost interest in these, she began to pester Darrens again. Ask Darrens to chat with her, play with her, and even harass her during military meetings. Darrens scolded her a few words and even made him cry, make trouble and hang himself. In the end, Darrens only concerned her with confinement, otherwise the battle would not have to be fought.

After dealing with the Earl’s daughter, just calm down when the radar found traces of pirates, and the soldiers, who had long been annoyed by the Earl’s daughter, immediately prepared to fight with excitement. According to the investigation, the pirates were indeed 5,000 warships converted from merchant ships, just like the information given by the high command.

The result of this war was the same as what the soldiers thought. Those pirates had no formation and no matching. The 5,000 warships rushed over in such a chaotic manner, and they were all smashed by the imperial army that was waiting for them. However, when everyone lost their vigilance, countless mysterious battleships with powerful firepower suddenly appeared, making the Imperial Army dizzy and dizzy. If it wasn’t for Darrens and the other captains struggling to move their positions, I’m afraid the entire army would have been wiped out long ago.

Finally, the remaining troops were transferred to a meteorite belt, and began to use meteorites as a cover to carry out guerrilla warfare, but they were surrounded by these mysterious fleets. Although the guerrilla warfare effectively eliminated those enemies, due to the disparity in the strength of the troops, only 500 ships remained of the 3,000 troops.

Darrens looked at the staff officers who were concentrating on studying tactics, and the officers and soldiers who were concentrating on controlling the battleship, and sighed. Although no one said it, everyone knew that these mysterious fleets were the private fleets of the Third Prince.

Although Darrens had long expected that the third prince would come to murder his rival in love, he did not expect that the third prince could launch such a violent attack knowing that the Count’s daughter was on the ship. Under this fierce attack, there can be no survivors at all. If the earl’s daughter is killed, he and the earl are mortal enemies. Does the third prince no longer need to win over the earl?

Thinking of this, Darrens’s brows jumped suddenly, because he remembered why the third prince who had always flattered the earl dared to fight clearly, there was only one reason, the emperor began to attack the earl! Otherwise, the Third Prince, who cherishes his own strength very much, would not be able to risk huge losses to attack him. In just a few short days of guerrilla warfare, he had already wiped out tens of thousands of the Third Prince’s troops, which was equal to one-tenth of the Third Prince’s troops.

If the emperor did not speak, the three princes would not be able to throw the chips for the throne here, and the emperor’s order must be: whoever manages the count and the duke will be the prince. In this case, those princes are willing to take out any capital.

“Well, if the emperor starts to take action, the situation in the imperial capital is definitely more dangerous than here. Alas, good friend, you must take good care of yourself.” Darrens sighed in his heart.

As for the Count, Darrens has little affection except for his loyalty. Compared to him, he cares more about his only friend than his superior. He said more than once in front of Kester that the earl and the duke were wrong, because he thought that these two powerful adults did not have the bearing to achieve great things. According to their power, there would be no objection to pull the emperor down and do it by himself. But they just don’t do that, instead they are reassured of their position as powerful ministers.

Since they are determined to be powerful ministers, they should be a little more subtle, but no matter what they do, they don’t take the emperor in the eyes of them, and they don’t even conceal a bit of hypocrisy. Ordinary officials still rely on the Son of Heaven to command the world, and they do everything in the name of the emperor. But they actually threw the emperor aside and acted on their own, as if to show the world that they didn’t need to obey the emperor’s orders. Maybe Kester was right, they were doing it to show their allegiance to some mysterious man.

After knowing this secret, Darrens once revealed to Kester that the object of his allegiance was the earl of the empire, not the mysterious man who did not know who he was. Kester, on the other hand, said a little secretly that his allegiance was to the entire empire, not a single person. Darrens knew exactly what Kester meant. His allegiance was to this country, not the duke, nor the emperor, nor the mysterious man.

In fact, Darrens didn’t say something, and he didn’t dare to say these words, because it would be outrageous to say it. In Darrens’ mind, the real object of allegiance is himself. He is willing to be loyal to the earl, one is that the earl has discovered his talents, and the other is that the earl is very powerful. If the earl is willing to be emperor, Darrens is willing to eliminate all opponents for the earl. But the earl did not have this ambition, instead he was faithfully waiting for a mysterious person to ascend to the throne.

Since the Earl has no ambition, and he is unwilling to devote his loyalty to that mysterious man, he should keep his loyalty to himself. Darrens, who made up his mind on the battlefield, didn’t know where his decision would take him, but he didn’t regret it, and working hard for himself has nothing to regret.

“Sir! The enemy ship has withdrawn suddenly!” The radar operator’s shout made Darrens wake up from his thoughts. Darrens looked up at the galaxy map, the red squares began to quickly withdraw from the battlefield, and soon completely left the radar detection range and disappeared completely.

Just when Darrens was about to ask what was going on, the radar operator’s exclamation sounded again: “Report! A mysterious fleet of 20,000 has entered the radar’s effective range!” Those who were about to cheer when the enemy ship left The soldiers immediately closed their mouths when they heard this, and all looked nervously at the large yellow square displayed on the screen.

At the moment of the radar operator’s report, the computer also listed the fleet’s battleship data distribution. Seeing the above data, everyone took a deep breath, because there are no warships below tier 3 in this fleet, they are all tier 1 and 2 warships. No wonder the battleships that attacked him just now fled immediately. In the face of such a high-level and powerful fleet, who would stay here and wait to die?

The level distribution of the Imperial Fleet is not as cumbersome as that of the Federation. The Empire simply refers to all battleships with more than 100 main guns as Tier 1 battleships, 80 to 100 battleships as Tier 2 battleships, and 60 to 80 battleships as Tier 4 battleships. , 60 to 40 doors are called tier 5 warships, while those with 40 doors or less are collectively called tier 6 warships.

“20,000 ships are all Tier 1 and 2 ships?” Darrens muttered thoughtfully when he saw the number. And the communications soldier turned around and said to Darrens at this moment: “Report, there is a communication from the other party, can you connect?”

Everyone looked at Darrens, everyone felt that Darrens should think about it before making a decision, but Darrens let them down. Almost at the same time as the Signal Corps was reporting, Darrens said, “Come in.”

Everyone looked nervously at the screen that was slowly unfolding. The screen unfolded. There was a young man with blond hair and a shawl. He waved to Darrens with a smile, and said cheerfully, “Yo ho! Brother, how are you doing these days?” Seeing this person, everyone slumped on their seats in relief. This is his commander’s good friend, and the commander’s lieutenant general, Viscount Kester, who ranks among the two best in the empire.

Darrens shook the corner of his mouth and smiled in a flat tone: “Not bad, there are less than 500 troops left for 3000 troops.”

Kester made a surprised expression and shouted: “Not bad? 3,000 troops were surrounded by 30,000 regular troops for four days. After eliminating nearly 10,000 enemies, he still has 500 troops left. This is not bad? They were killed by them from the beginning! You guys are really too modest, you must know that being too modest is pride! This is not good.” Kester said and shook his finger.

“Help me with supplies, repairs, and navigation. These brothers haven’t rested for a few days.” Darrens said to Kester with a sigh, looking at his subordinates who were already asleep on the ground.

Kester nodded: “No problem, come to my side, I made a good bottle of wine.” Darrens nodded speechlessly.

In the commander’s room of Kester’s flagship, Darrens asked, “How is the Imperial City?”

Kester smiled: “I thought you could bear it until you asked.” After taking a sip of wine, he continued: “One word: chaos! Two words: chaos! Three words: chaos! Four Words: Very confusing! Five words…”

Seeing that Kester wanted to continue, Darrens hurriedly interrupted: “Okay, I know that the emperor is very messy, let’s talk about what the mess is.”

Kester took another sip of wine before saying: “On the first day after you left, the slaves in the major manors in the imperial capital rioted, a riot of nearly 10 million people! The police department and the intelligence department didn’t even notice the slightest warning. , so after the riots, the heads of the two departments were replaced.”

“Substitution? Who?” Darrens immediately raised his head and asked when he heard this. Because the Imperial City Police Department and Imperial City Intelligence Department control the security and intelligence of the entire Imperial City, a little bad selection will cause chaos.

“Duke Pat Ormes will be the new Imperial City Police Chief, and Duke Jerson Ormes will be the new Imperial City Intelligence Director.” Kester said while chewing on a piece of beef.

“The two brothers of the Ormes family? They are relatives of the emperor, didn’t the earl and duke object?” Darrens asked in surprise. The emperor’s relatives hold these two sensitive positions, which means that these two departments are controlled by the emperor.

Kester shook his head and said: “There is no objection, because their minds are all on the expedition to Wanluo Federation.” Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed and said: “The way they looked when they took office, it seems that as long as they have one If you go out, the slave riots will be subsided immediately. Hee hee, unfortunately, the slave riots have spread to other planets later, and the entire capital circle is in chaos. Those police officers are simply not enough, and finally they had to come to me. ”

“Please? Why?” Darrens also ate a piece of beef.

“Hey, only my 3rd Fleet of the Praetorian Guards is in the entire capital circle. Of course, your 4th Fleet is also there, but you are not the commander, don’t ask me to ask anyone.” Kester smiled proudly.

Darrens asked inexplicably: “Only the third and fourth fleets are left in the seven fleets of the Imperial Guard? Where are the others?”

“They were all transferred to other places to fight pirates. They all took the entire fleet there. You are special, and only led 3,000 troops to fight pirates.”

“All to fight pirates? Why don’t you have a share?”

“Hey, when the command was issued, I happened to be playing with Meimei in the suburbs, so I didn’t receive the order. Originally, the command wanted to punish me, but when they encountered slave riots, they had to curry favor with me.”

“The high command wants to punish you? Neither the earl nor the duke are in the imperial capital?”

“Of course not, they are secretly forming troops on the front line.” Kester pouted.

Darrens nodded: “No wonder.” He finally knew why the emperor dared to attack. In the past, the earl and the duke always stayed in the imperial capital no matter what happened, but now both of them have left, and when they encountered such a rare opportunity, It is strange that the emperor does not start. In this way, the earl sent his daughter to him, not because he wanted the third prince to take care of his daughter and not dare to attack him, but because he knew that the imperial capital was going up and down, and he wanted to protect his daughter. Thinking of this, Darrens suddenly realized that he had forgotten something very important. What was it? Unfortunately, he was used to not thinking about it for the time being, so he let go of this thought.

“Hehe, do you know how long it took me to quell the slave riots? Tell you, there is only one day, I will quell the slave riots in the capital area in one day!” Kester stretched out a finger and kept shaking, and He continued without waiting for Darrens to speak: “Do you know how I started? I used a lot of troops from the very beginning, found a planet with the most violent riots outside the imperial capital, surrounded those slaves, and gave them to There is a super massacre. Hehe, the live broadcast of the massacre, the killing is really bloody, and you can see a large area of red from space. Hehe, in order to increase the shocking scene, I ordered You are not allowed to use laser weapons, you can only use laser knives to hack. Haha, and after the soldiers finished the slaughter, I specially invited them to eat bloody raw beef, huh, isn’t my character very bad?” looking at Darrens.

“You killed slaves on a planet, and then broadcast the killing to those rioting slaves, and the riots were resolved?” Darrens asked.

Kester said with a smile: “Yes, that’s what I did. After the riot slaves saw the three-dimensional image, they were all scared and went back to the manor. Hehe, look at how easy my method is.”

Darrens frowned and said, “This method can only temporarily suppress the riot. The next slave riot will be more intense. You should execute all the slaves who participated in the riot.”

Kester smiled and said: “I’m afraid of trouble. If they kill them all, it will take more than ten days. Anyway, if they dare to riot, they can’t kill them any longer.”

Darrens shook his head and sighed, “Oh, you’re just soft-hearted.”

“By the way, why don’t you ask me why I came here?” Kester asked Darrens with great interest.

Darrens smiled and said, “I’m not asking you, I’m waiting for you to say it yourself.”

“Hey, I was deceived by you again. After I quelled the riot, I found that you were gone for several days and there was no news. I realized that something was wrong, so I brought the Third Fleet and the Fourth Fleet to find you.”

“The Fourth Fleet is here too? Why didn’t you see it?” Darrens asked in surprise. In fact, what surprised him was not that the Fourth Fleet had also come, but how could Kester mobilize his own fleet? The Fourth Fleet couldn’t mobilize anyone but himself. Could it be that those officers began to waver when they saw that the situation was wrong? It seems that we need to train them well when we go back!

“Hey, don’t say it, I wanted to bring the Fourth Fleet, but they said they would not listen to anyone except your orders. Now they are still staying outside the capital circle.” Speaking of which, Kester stepped forward He whispered: “Brother has a set, I’m afraid the Earl can’t command the Fourth Fleet, right?”

Darrens smiled slightly, and also replied quietly: “You are not bad, can the Duke command the Third Fleet again?”

The two closed their mouths and looked at each other, suddenly clinking glasses with laughter. They all know that the other party has completely turned the fleet under their command into their personal belongings.

“Yes, when I first arrived in the Muo system, I received an order from the earl and the duke. They ordered us to rush to the front line as soon as possible. They said that the great cause requires us to do our part. What do you think should be done?” Kester said with a solemn expression.

Darrens pondered for a while and said: “It seems that the two adults don’t even want the power in the empire in order to attack the Wanluo Federation. Seeing how anxious they are, they dare to fight this war to welcome back that mysterious man. They called Let’s go, one is to increase our combat power, and the other is to make us allegiance to that person.”

“Then shall we go?” Kester was a little anxious.

Darrens said with a smile: “Go, of course we will. If we want to climb up, we must have military exploits. How can we not go for such a good opportunity for meritorious service. As for allegiance, we will see it later.”

Kester nodded and drank the wine in silence, and Darrens did the same. After a while, Kester suddenly smiled wickedly: “By the way, you went with the earl’s daughter this time, lived and ate together for the past few days, did you give her to that?”

Darrens’ face turned pale, he finally remembered what he had forgotten, he actually forgot to release the Count’s daughter who was in confinement. Thinking of the current state of the Count’s daughter, Darrens couldn’t help shivering, and immediately got up and turned around and ran. And Kester, who vaguely knew what was going on, of course hurriedly followed behind, ready to watch the fun.