Chapter 2194 Silly General
Li Yao blinked and said to himself that the "Black Wind Battle" was the source of everything. .
It is precisely because of the Battle of Black Wind that the remnants of the Black Wind Fleet went on an expedition to the border of Xinghai, causing major worlds on the border of Xinghai to unite to defend against the enemy and form a "new alliance".
It was also because of the Battle of Black Wind that the True Human Empire suffered a crushing defeat, which led to the continuous reforms and reforms in recent years, which made the rule of the four electoral families relaxed, and even the emergence of reformists and ambitious families like Li Linghai.
Now, even the legend of General Lei Chenghu is related to the Battle of Black Wind.
Li Linghai sighed and said, "In the past thousand years, the Empire and the Holy Alliance have competed for the hegemony of the Central Sea. Although the Holy Alliance has launched a large-scale attack and has shown an aggressive trend, the Empire has always stood firm on the front line and has not shown an obvious decline.
"Especially in recent hundreds of years, the attack of the Holy Alliance has become increasingly messy and impatient. Many senior officials of the empire believe that the national strength of the Holy Alliance has been seriously overdrawn. Even if there are brainwashing secret methods such as the "Three Origin Laws" that can trick the people into devoting their lives to them, they are gradually unable to support it.
"So, the empire was full of optimism, believing that if you stick to the Star Sea defense line for hundreds of years, you can wait until the day when the Holy Alliance collapses without fighting.
"But the 'Black Wind Battle' poured a scoop of cold water with ice into everyone's spine.
"The entire cantilever defense line completely collapsed, and several deep space fleets suffered devastating blows. Five major war worlds such as Black Wind fell into the hands of the Holy Alliance, which made the people of the Holy Alliance sharp and unstoppable soldiers reach the softest abdomen of the Empire. The Holy Alliance fleet's eye was the fertile land that the Empire had worked hard to build for thousands of years!"
Li Yao said: "World of War?"
"Yes, according to the number of resources and the level of development, the empire roughly divided the vast worlds within its territory into four levels: 'the world to be developed, the world of resources, the world of industry and the world of war'."
Li Linghaidao, "The world of war is the highest level of comprehensive value, the deepest industrial foundation, with a large scale arsenal, magic weapon refining assembly line and even the Xinghai dock, and can refine a whole huge fleet by itself, and be guarded by the emperor's heavy troops.
"The value of a war world is far more than ten worlds to be developed!
"The five major worlds, including Black Wind, are all military centers that the empire has operated for hundreds of years. They suddenly fall into the enemy's hands, and they don't know how much resources they lose and how many secrets they leak, so they are the biggest threat to the empire in hundreds of years.
"After the news that the world of the five major wars on the border was lost, the emperor's capital was naturally stunned and immediately thunder was furious to launch a counterattack.
"In addition to the elites of the four electoral families who have been sent to the front line, they naturally have to recruit troops from nobles and warlords to "defend the empire."
"At this time, the four electoral families controlled the government for many years, and the consequences of the continuous fragmentation and gravel of the local area were revealed.
"There are many small and medium-sized nobles and warlords in most places who are perfunctory and fearless, and unanimously agreed that, with the elites of the four electoral families leading the way, they cannot make it to the frontline to be cannon fodder.
"The most despicable and shameless among them is the warlords who were originally entrenched in the Black Wind Realm.
"The responsibility for the collapse of the entire 'Black Wind Line' was originally about to fall on the Black Wind Fleet, and the fallen Black Wind Realm is their hometown. The Black Wind people should take back the lost land at all costs, right?
"But Hei Yeming, who was commanding the Black Wind Fleet at that time, was a cunning warlord leader. He did not stop and sternly annexed the remaining fleets of the other four war worlds, and had enough capital to bargain with the imperial capital. Taking advantage of the chaos on the front line, he actually fled to the border of Xinghai under the name of helping the empire expand its territory!
"Haha, although the journey to explore the border of Xinghai is long and dangerous, no matter how dangerous it is, it is impossible to deal with the Holy Alliance army that is close to you. If you really want to 'expand the territory', just turn around and fight back to your hometown. Why bother to seek far away?"
Li Yao: "...uh, the commander of this Black Wind Fleet is really despicable!"
But I smiled bitterly in my heart. This is already the third statement about the "Black Wind Fleet's Expedition to the Frontier of the Star Sea". All the parties involved are gilding on their faces. What is the truth? I am afraid it will be destroyed in the starry debris and it is impossible to verify.
Li Linghai was extremely despised by the Black Wind Fleet's actions, and his voice became cold: "Since the 'debtor' who fell into the world, the Black Wind people all looked like they were fleeing in the wind and urinating. The private soldiers of the major princes and warlords could not make any mistakes to help the entire empire "block the eye" and defeat the Holy Alliance army that was winning battles and in full swing.
"The four electoral families did not want to consume their elites in vain. At least they were unwilling to rush forward to fight with the Holy Alliance in the first wave, so they thought of General Lei Chenghu's fleet."
Li Yao said "ah" and said, "This is a strategy of killing two birds with one stone, both sides are hurt!"
"That's right, even the blind man can see that the four electoral emperors wanted to kill people with a knife. Whether they could repel the attacks of the Saint Alliance, they could at least greatly weaken the strength of General Lei Chenghu."
Li Linghai said, "If General Lei Chenghu was really a hidden ambitious man, a warlord with self-reality, as the world thought at that time, he could have ignored the orders from the imperial capital, or just like other warlords, he would have sent some cannon fodder to make up for the numbers and perfunctory things.
"Anyway, with General Lei's strength to vaguely integrate into the outer world of the Fourth Quadrant at that time, as long as he can't hide, what can the four electoral families do to him?
"It's not necessarily a war between two sides. We have to deal with the Holy Alliance on the front line, and to fight with General Lei in the rear, right?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment, widened his eyes and said, "But General Lei still obeyed the orders of the Senate and took his elite to the front line?"
"That's right, and General Lei is doing more than you. Not only does he bring all his elites out, but he also tries every means to bring the "Speedway Guard Team" as much as possible, that is, the elites from dozens of worlds outside the Fourth Quadrant, forming a mighty coalition force, and rushing towards the "Black Wind Front" at lightning!"
Li Linghai sighed, "At that time, General Lei's prestige in dozens of nearby worlds was unmatched, and many fleets were controlled and dispatched by him. But the reason why the owners of these fleets, the nobles and warlords, handed over the fleet to General Lei was that they believed that General Lei could bring them benefits, and even attacked the privateer fleet in the other quadrants, and took all the spoils back and divided them up. In other words, they were going to make a fortune, but they did not ask General Lei to take them to die in vain!"
Li Yao blinked for a long time and said in disbelief: "In other words... General Lei not only wants to be a fool, but also takes dozens of elites from the world to the big fool with the number one in the day!"
"Yes, the starry sea is vast, and it is not difficult to block the news. When the nobles and warlords who ruled dozens of worlds finally reacted, they were beyond the reach of chasing them. All their elites disappeared deep in the starry sea and would never come back."
Li Linghai smiled and said, "You should be able to imagine that General Lei's crazy behavior completely offended all the nobles and warlords in the fourth quadrant, completely cutting off his own way of retreat. The package agreement of the "Sailing Guard" was also instantly collapsed.
"Now, General Lei only has a huge team, but has no foundation. All logistics supplies are in the Senate, which is the joint fleet in the hands of the four electoral families.
"The Senate did not have any accidents and deployed the joint fleet brought by General Lei to the most dangerous frontline.
"Faced with the massive attack of the Holy Alliance, General Lei did not complain or hesitate at all, but turned the tide. He spent five years of bloody battles and almost wiped out all his direct descendants and elite troops, and blocked the stormy attacks of the Holy Alliance members.
"Although I failed to regain the five major worlds, including Black Wind, I also rebuilt the solid defense line and completely dragged the Holy Alliance to death in front of him.
"After a hundred years, General Lei's fleet was stationed at the front line, blocking the Holy Alliance like a wall of iron. He never let even a starship of the Holy Alliance go beyond the line.
"It can be said that since the 'Black Wind Battle', the empire's dirtiest, tiring and hardest work on the battlefield in the past century has been done by General Lei alone. Only then can the army and resources in the rear be accumulated, dispatched and operated calmly, and the spirit of the Saint Alliance members has been exhausted by General Lei. Only such a large-scale 'Imperial Counterattack' will progress so smoothly."
When Li Yao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief: "So, this General Lei Chenghu is really not an ambitious or conspirator, but a... uh, open and selfless soldier?"
"Yes, the so-called warlords are inseparable from the territory. Although General Lei has a large-scale and amazing combat power combined fleet, he has long lost his territory and everything is controlled by the Senate."
Li Linghai said, "As he fought bloody battles on the battlefield again and again, everyone gradually realized General Lei's sincerity. Even the four electoral emperors' families respected General Lei's character, or if they killed General Lei, they would not know where to find someone who was so honest, without ambition but could beat him.
"The Senate and the four electoral families need General Lei Chenghu, who is "loyal soldier" who is loyal to the empire, to fight against the Holy Alliance on the front line. After a hundred years, they completely put aside General Lei's vigilance and supplement and logistics supply to his "Thunder Fleet" were unimpeded. All kinds of false reputations that were not worthwhile and continued to fall on General Lei.
Chapter completed!