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spn "Lost" edge of the Star Territory, the area actually controlled by the Chinese Empire.

"Prime Minister Cai personally came to the front line. This time our operation will definitely be a success."

On the flagship of the Zhonghua, Sun Xiwu and Qin Baijiang raised their glasses to welcome Cai E's arrival.

As the Deputy Right Minister for Military Affairs, Cai E's status in the military is not much lower than that of Jiang Baili, and according to the order of His Majesty the Emperor, in the future the Imperial Fleet will implement a three-person frontline commander in the battle against Lanc, led by Cai E and Sun Xiwu

Cooperate with Qin Baijiang".

In fact, Cai E will officially assume the post of commander of the First Fleet, Sun Xiwu will become the commander of the Second Fleet, and Qin Baijiang will soon become the commander of the Third Fleet.[

"This guerrilla war has been going on for almost five years, and His Majesty finally decided to officially declare war. It's very shameful. We have waited too long for these five years."

Cai E said with emotion that in the past five years, the empire has built a large number of modern industries, especially completed the upgrade of the battleship factory, and increased the overall industrial capacity by several orders of magnitude.

His Majesty purchased hundreds of battleships from extraterrestrials, and from the launch of the first batch of Shenlong-class battleships and Tianlong-class battleships, the empire has produced a total of 20 Shenlong-class battleships and 150 Tianlong-class battleships in the past three years.

"Shjnmeyou have been waiting in vain these past few years.

Before the Habarok factory was put into operation, we had 53 battleships, including the Zhonghua. Later, we purchased 30 new ships, 70 second-hand ships, built 22 Shenlong-class battleships, and 153 Tianlong-class battleships. After removing them, we needed to sell them to

In addition to the 100 battleships of the Principality of Lanc, we still have a total of 228 battleships left.

These include the Zhonghua super battleship, 22 Shenlong-class battleships, and the remaining 205 battleships of various types, including enhanced types, Tianlong-class types, and some standard types.

On the contrary, the number of cruisers is much less. In the past few years, 20 ships have been outsourced, and there are only 61 cruisers in total, which is much less than the number of battleships."

Sun Xiwu carefully counted the empire's weapons arsenal. In total, there were 228 battleships, 61 cruisers, and hundreds of other auxiliary ships.

"We have finally reached the peak of our first-level civilization's military strength. Although our economic strength and industrial strength are still insufficient. But Ruguo will use external expansion and foreign arms sales as the driving force for future national strength growth. It may only take 5 or 10 years.

, we can advance to the second level civilization."

Qin Baijiang said happily.

In terms of command ability, he is slightly inferior to Sun Xiwu, and in terms of qualifications and prestige, he is even worse than Cai E. He has more battleships, can form three fleets, and makes him the commander of the third fleet, which makes him feel a huge influence.

mission.

A picture was being played in front of the three of them. A cruiser was docked at a comprehensive supply station located on the edge of the Lost Star Territory. The supply station was transformed from an asteroid and looked very busy.

In the distance, a powerful fleet suddenly broke into the scene. Looking at the logo, it turned out to be the battleship group of the Principality of Rank.

"The enemy is coming. We have been waiting for a long time. Let our space cameras record every scene. After the war is declared, the people across the country who have seen the enemy's ferocity should see our strength and victory."

Cai E couldn't help but feel slightly moved. The 100 battleships he personally led to support would join the 50 battleships originally commanded by Sun Xiwu and Sun Xiwu to form a fleet of 200 battleships. They would fight against this rash raid on the empire's border.

The powerful Rank fleet at the supply depot carried out counter-sneak attack operations.

The empire has been holding back for five years relying on sneaky guerrilla warfare. Isn't this the moment it has been waiting for?

The two countries are at odds, but the Lancs are busy with surrounding wars and the empire's offensive power is not enough, so the two sides are in a stalemate.

But now, if the 150 Tianlong-class battleships produced by the empire need to be exported to the Orion Alliance, the channel from the Tongguo-Rank border to the Orion Alliance must be opened.

Because the Duke of Lanke received support from a large family in the Silver Moon Empire, and with the support of the Longshan Empire, it suffered repeated defeats. It was the best time for yjng to get involved. If it were later, it would be possible for the Orion Alliance and the Nuo

The anti-Rank forces, including the Croat Merchant League, are at a disadvantage.[

Before Cai E left, he was told by His Majesty that this passage must be opened. In addition to the Orion's urging, their situation had indeed reached a critical stage and they urgently needed a group of high-quality battleships to put out the fire.

"Dong dong dong!"

"Come in."

Zhang Shusheng stopped what he was doing and saw Zhou Guolai taking the lead, Jiang Baili, Su Yuren, Luo Feng and others walking in together.

Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year. According to tradition, the imperial family will hold a lunch banquet for all ministers. It is also the day when the royal family announces important decisions.

"I have met His Majesty!"

After everyone bowed, Zhang Shusheng motioned for everyone to sit down.

"Based on the results of the previous meetings, our official declaration of war against the Principality of Lanc is imminent. I will announce it at the Royal New Year Banquet at noon today. Let's take a look at the excuses for the declaration of war that we collected from the front line."

He turned on the virtual 3D projection equipment in the office. After the light in the room automatically dimmed, a virtual 3D screen was projected in front of everyone.

In the imaginary starry sky, an asteroid base covered with ferocious cannon barrels appeared in front of everyone, and the dubbing of the screen was being explained by jnhng.

"In order to find an excuse to declare war on the Principality of Rank, our special intelligence department and the military's special operations team built this fortress codenamed Carpenter Ant.

Our fleet docked at jnhng many times for supplies, giving the enemy the illusion that this is our most important supply point on the front line.

According to our secret arrangement, the Ranke people were indeed fooled. On January 22, 1960 in the Imperial Calendar, the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Ranke people sent a sneak attack fleet..."

Along with the explanation, the picture keeps changing.

The transformation work on this asteroid is not heavy. It looks like an important forward fortress made of metal and gun barrels. It seems to be an indispensable forward base for the empire.

Who knows, this asteroid supply base is just made up of scrap metal and obsolete gun barrels, but there are a lot of electronic equipment and enemy decoy equipment. Even the cruiser and destroyer that was attacked were prepared to be refurbished.

The color of the goods.

On the screen, the Principality of Rank sent a main fleet headed by 50 battleships, bringing the total to 75 ships to attack this supply base.

In order to make the attack successful, the Lancians also organized a powerful feint fleet outside the Lost Star Territory. The Empire also responded by sending a defensive fleet composed of 45 battleships to encircle the offensive.

As a result, the Lancians took the opportunity to make a sneak attack.

The next scene is very pornographic and violent.

The space supply station, which originally seemed to be brightly lit and even a cruiser was stationed there, suffered bad luck in an instant.

75 Rank warships arrived at this carpenter ant fortress, and without saying a word, their main guns began bombarding.[

In just a few minutes of shjn, the asteroid was exploded in the air. The flying fragments of the asteroid and the cruiser that was directly smashed into pieces by a dozen main guns became the most eye-catching sight on the screen.

All this was faithfully recorded.

When the entire base was attacked, it looked lively, but in fact there was only one person inside. Those who controlled the base and operated the defensive artillery fire were all robots.

"Your Majesty, when we first formulated this decoy plan, we were on the one hand to find an excuse for us to declare war, and on the other hand we were trying to lure the enemy deeper."

Jiang Baili walked up to the virtual influence, held the linear baton and clicked on the 3 image, and an enlarged picture of the frontline battle situation suddenly appeared.

"Our original idea of ​​building this Carpenter Ant forward supply base was to build it into a solid forward base, but we found a better target, which is located in the "Chaos" star belt and is extremely convenient for attack and defense.

The entire base was left empty when it was raided. All we lost were some planet defense cannons that were about to be scrapped and thousands of robots. The total loss was only a few million cosmic coins, and most of the materials inside could be recycled as scrap.

"

Jiang Baili spoke very quickly and quickly told the whole story, "As a new cosmic civilization, we have achieved many victories in previous civil wars and early guerrilla wars with the Principality of Lanke, some of which were even worthy of victory.

Weigh the weight.

However, this situation is not good for us.

The domestic people will think that war is so simple and that as long as the empire goes to war with others, it will definitely win. Some newspapers even shouted slogans to reduce armaments.

In order to completely change this foolish perception, we planned this attack."

Zhang Shusheng nodded, switched the screen, and suddenly a scene of a large number of battleships arrayed in the starry sky appeared. They were the empire's counterattack legion, which had just been brought up by Cai E.

"Get ready to start."

Zhang Shusheng zho, this time the large supply depot was 'attacked' and the picture of being blown up by the volley was transmitted back to the earth, and when it was transmitted to the TV screens of hundreds of millions of people, everyone would support the war, and the empire would win the best excuse to participate in the war.

In the past, the empire did not suffer losses, but it always reported good things but not bad things. Moreover, because of its unique geographical location, it basically took advantage of it in guerrilla warfare.

People generally believe that alien countries are nothing more than this.

The Imperial Propaganda Department also has difficulties. Ruguo hypes up how powerful the enemy's military is, with thousands or more battleships, which will be counterproductive. Therefore, Imperial citizens have always believed that the Empire will win every war and that the enemy is not strong.

This view is very dangerous. This time the empire directed and acted on its own, presenting this "tragic failure" to people, but it also organized a counter-sneak attack fleet and won another victory in the blink of an eye.

In this way, people will understand that the enemy is very cruel and powerful, but as long as we are strong, the empire can still defeat them.

Zhang Shusheng and his party left the office and arrived at the Royal New Year's Luncheon, where a royal press conference before the banquet was about to be held, with Zhang Shusheng speaking in person.

Five minutes later, all TV stations in the empire were switched to Empire TV 1.

"Dear viewers, we are now urgently showing a video from the Imperial Propaganda Department..." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!