When Yang Ming saw this headline, he had mixed feelings.
How come it was such a big victory?
The Luofeng 3rd, 4th, and 6th fleets lost more than 150 ships, more than 40 main battleships, and 63,042 soldiers were killed.
Here is death, not casualties.
The side that failed in the warship bombardment had no chance of boarding the rescue cabin.
In this battle, the Fourth Fleet originally controlled by Gudun Mahar suffered the most.
It's almost useless!
If the Sixth Fleet were not currently under the control of Gudun Maha, Gudun Maha would have become the weakest warlord in Luofeng.
The Royal Guards suffered more than 7,000 casualties, which was an extremely heavy casualty.
More than 16,000 civilians were killed or injured. This was a figure that Yang Ming did not expect. Fortunately, most of them were injured.
Yang Ming clicked on the title of the article and took a look. There were words of praise everywhere, making it clear that it was a notice issued by the royal family.
He picked up his watch and made a voice call.
"Boss," Lu's clear voice said, "Please give me your instructions."
"Take the headlines off! Change the title to "National Disaster"! Cut out the footage of the soldiers who died on the battlefield and put it up, and also put up the footage of the victims being killed!"
Yang Ming cursed:
"You're still singing and dancing! A bunch of aristocratic trash!"
"Yes, boss."
The voice hangs up immediately.
In the prison car escorting Yang Ming, several heavily armed prison guards looked at each other.
They don't know the specific details of this war yet. At this moment, they are just here to perform a mission, to pick up a "prisoner who must not do anything offensive" and serve his sentence in their prison.
The original military prison of Yin Landuo Star has been abandoned.
——Military personnel who have not committed any crime will be imprisoned on Yin Landuo Star.
The prison where Yang Ming was sent was an ordinary prison located on the outskirts of Yin Landuo City. A sign was temporarily placed on the bottom floor of the prison and it was changed to Yin Landuo Military Prison.
He will be the only prisoner on this floor.
In the prison car that was sliding smoothly, a prison guard couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Sir, what have you committed?"
Yang Ming smiled: "Disobey orders on the battlefield."
"This is not something that should be shot... Oh, I'm sorry, sir."
"It's okay, my relationship is relatively strong."
Yang Ming shrugged, crossed his legs and began to close his eyes to rest.
At this stage, the internal and external environment of Yin Landuo Star is extremely complex.
The space battle ended ten hours ago. The palace cannon fired only one shot, and the New Federation's Seventh Voyage Fleet paid a heavy price with twenty-five battleships.
Of course, being able to skewer candied haws on a stick was also due to Lu constantly adjusting his layout to force the enemy ships into a narrow area.
This super large anti-ship planetary gun has no chance to fire a second shot.
The New Federation's 7th Expeditionary Fleet desperately broke through, and the 9th Expeditionary Fleet also spared no effort to tear a hole in the defense line of the Sherman Empire Expeditionary Corps.
In this battle, the New Federation's Seventh Expeditionary Fleet lost eighty or ninety warships of various types, the Ninth Expeditionary Fleet lost twenty-five battleships, and the New Federation's estimated loss of troops reached 86,000.
The Sherman Imperial Expeditionary Fleet lost more than 40 warships and 32,524 men.
This was indeed a great victory, but a great victory for the Sherman Empire.
Likewise, this was the most humiliating defeat of the New Federation in recent decades.
This war is not over, it has just changed from a battle of warships to a battle for the right to speak internationally.
The Sherman Empire vigorously publicized the "Battle of Fallwind" within the empire.
The 721st Expeditionary Corps achieved a major victory that was rare in recent years. Even His Majesty the Emperor was alarmed and was about to receive a public award.
This is Luofeng's opportunity.
Law and Adwang's intelligence team worked at full capacity to "The Luofeng Fleet suffered heavy losses."
"Heavy" and "Victory is based on the heroic fighting of Sherman soldiers and the fearless sacrifice of fallen soldiers" are the core keywords to create public opinion in the Sherman Empire in order to gain more benefits in the future.
Under Yang Ming's arrangement, Lu compiled relevant information on the battlefield as quickly as possible;
Adwang urgently contacted officials from the Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau and came up with a mature diplomatic attack plan.
Before the New Federation came to its senses, a diplomatic offensive and defensive war began that spread to most of the galaxy.
As an invader, Luofeng took more than 20 men from the Sherman Empire camp and began to criticize the New Federation's "invasion war" verbally and verbally.
The New Federation quickly began to fight back, constantly controlling and guiding public opinion, beautifying itself as conducting anti-terrorism operations, and smearing the Luofeng Empire as a petri dish for the Communist Party.
Luofeng's diplomatic team argued hard and used popular social software and portals in the galaxy to continuously publish a series of evidence.
The main evidence is:
The action trajectory of the new federal agent who launched the terrorist attack, related surveillance videos, the implementation process of the entire terrorist attack plan, and the video of the agent's life in the new federal territory;
The New Federation attack boat directly attacked the old emperor in the speech, and the fleet commander issued a clear "fire" order;
New Confederate ground force prisoners abandoned by the fleet recounted the orders they received.
Among them, the evidence that makes the New Federation most passive is the scene of the New Federation ground troops killing civilians.
The most ugly piece of evidence for the New Federation - the Luofeng Palace cannon bombarded the New Federation's voyage fleet.
The video of this shot has gone viral throughout the galaxy.
The Luofeng Empire became famous instantly.
The diplomatic offensive and defensive battle actually did not last more than a few hours.
Seeing that the New Federation was about to suffer a total defeat, the New Federation used their trump card.
title.
They began to delete relevant information on a large scale and directly purified the galaxy network.
The official account of Luofeng Empire was banned;
Millions of ordinary accounts in Luofeng have been banned.
On the interstellar network, Luo Feng was directly covered.
Facts have proved that the citizens of the new federation are not freedom fighters. When their country's reputation and interests are damaged, most of them remain silent, and the small minority continue to defend and smear.
Seven hours after the war broke out, the Fallen Wind Empire formally sued the New Federation to the Galactic Interstellar Court.
This prosecution will inevitably have no results, but it will allow Luofeng to stand up for justice.
This great cause will allow the Luo Feng Empire to gain spiritual support from most of the small and medium-sized countries in the interstellar world, and it will also be able to get more material support from the Sherman Empire.
As for Luofeng's country, public sentiment is now aroused, and anti-New Federal riots have broken out in various places.
Although the turbulent public opinion has added many unstable factors, in Yang Ming's view, this is at least a hundred times better than the indifference and numbness of the people, and is more conducive to his follow-up actions.
At this moment, Yang Ming was thinking about two main issues in the prison car.
One is how to deal with the aftermath and quickly restore health to the military fleet under your control.
The other is how to deal with the prisoners of the New Federation.
"These prisoners must not stay in Luofeng."
Yang Ming's eyes became a little sharp.
Several prison guards on the opposite side were a little flustered for no apparent reason.
Yang Ming thought for a while, took out the shielding device, wrapped himself in the soundproof light curtain, and used the special communication method of the watch to make a video call to Adwang.
Adwang is on a spaceship, probably on his way back to Yinlanduo Star.
"Ming, I'm going to save you right now!"
Adwang frowned and said:
"Don't worry, if the military doesn't agree to release you, I will ask my father to sign a pardon.
"You are the hero who saved this country! The first shot fired will definitely go down in the annals of history!"
Yang Ming said: "No, I want to stay in prison for a while and think about people."
Life and philosophy."
Adwang was suddenly speechless.
The second prince looked haggard at the moment, with tiredness in his eyes.
"Adwang," Yang Ming asked in a low voice, "you know what you should do now, right?"
"To commemorate the dead, support the soldiers, and encourage the people," Edwang whispered, "I will provide as much material help as possible to the families of the fallen soldiers, and I will also build a cemetery for martyrs."
"No," Yang Ming said, "You have to return to the Sherman Empire now."
"Why?"
"Condensing what you should do, condolences, and pensions into a televised speech as much as possible, and leaving the rest to your subordinates is enough. No matter how many awards you receive, it is better to give more pensions and arrange social welfare
The organization takes good care of their families."
Yang Ming reminded:
"Take those prisoners, as well as the captured New Federation attack boats, and send them to Sherman as gifts...Which of the martial Sherman nobles would refuse the captured New Federation military emblem? Don't forget it.
, the Sherman Empire still retained slavery in some areas."
"Oh, this..."
Adwang hesitated.
Yang Ming said quickly:
"The only way to prevent the New Confederacy from continuing to attack us is to have the Sherman Empire exert strong pressure on them.
"How can you guarantee now that the New Federation will not directly retaliate against us with force again? Even if they are afraid of the cannons under the palace and dare not come to Yin Landuo Star, what about our other administrative stars?"
"Okay, I'll prepare a TV speech right away!"
Adwang whispered:
"Earl Williams has left two formations to guard the area. I will contact them right away."
"Keep the dozens of captured special force members," Yang Ming said, "I will torture them and execute them secretly."
Adwang said: "You can decide these things. I will ask General Philemon to contact you directly later."
Yang Ming paused and then said: "I have asked Gudun Maha to send people to put your brother under house arrest. Since he likes the Second Administrative Star, let him stay there. Next, I will integrate the Luofeng Army
, the methods will be a bit bloody, and there is no need for those generals who are watching the battle to continue to exist."
Adwang looked at Yang Ming.
Yang Ming looked at Adwang calmly.
Soon, Adwang frowned and asked: "Do you want to be the emperor? Ming?"
"We understand each other, and our goals at this stage should be the same," Yang Ming smiled, "We are all the same, we are not interested in the throne."
Adwang laughed bitterly.
He didn't know how Yang Ming did it.
But now, the reins around the country's neck are clearly in Yang Ming's hands.
Yang Ming was about to hang up the communication.
Edwang suddenly asked: "By the way, my father seems to be unable to control the cannons under the palace... So what's going on?"
Yang Ming blinked: "That should be an automatic counterattack device. I don't know much about this anti-ship system. It should be that its system detects a huge threat and then automatically fires. It's a gift from your ancestors to this country.
"
"Father may want to dig up the mountain, he will really do it."
"Don't worry," Yang Ming said sternly, "His Majesty the Emperor can't find anyone who can help him with this job. You should think about how to mourn the deceased."
"Oh, may their heroic spirits rest in peace."
Yang Ming sighed softly, hung up the communication, and put the brooch-sized shielding device back into his pocket.
Several prison guards opposite him had already put their laser guns behind their backs. When they saw Yang Ming looking over, they suddenly showed a somewhat flattering smile.
Of course the prison guards didn't hear what Yang Ming said just now.
But they saw the projection of His Highness Edwang, and the expressions on both sides when Yang Ming spoke to His Highness Edwang.
Is this young officer a confidant of His Highness Edwan?
But judging from the changes in their expressions during the conversation between the two, it was His Highness Edwang who
He was speechless and looked helpless. The young officer in front of him had always been calm and confident.
When getting out of the car, the prison guard quickly opened the door.
Just as they were about to inform the warden, there was suddenly the sound of neat stomping feet coming from ahead.
Two rows of Guardsmen saluted in front.
Lieutenant Colonel Ace stood in front with a helpless face. After seeing Yang Ming, he smiled a little.
"Oh, my old chief," Yang Ming sighed with a slightly exaggerated tone, "I didn't expect you to welcome me here."
Lieutenant Colonel Ace whispered: "This may be the most outrageous order I have ever received in my life."
"What order?"
"General Fremont asked me to accompany you to jail," Lieutenant Colonel Ace smiled bitterly, "I will be on duty here for the next six months and protect you the whole time."
Yang Ming looked at Ace's bitter face, couldn't help laughing a few times, and moved forward to hook up with the noble lieutenant colonel.
"This is not a bad job. Trust me, you will fall in love with this place in less than half a month... Where is the warden?"
"In the back, do you want him to come over?"
Yang Ming smiled and said: "I have a decoration plan here. I asked him to decorate the bottom floor for me within a week. Of course, I won't let him spend money."
Lieutenant Colonel Ace lowered his voice and asked, "Is it true? You ordered your star cruiser to fire first? Now this news is spreading wildly throughout the military."
"Why else would I come here to serve my sentence?"
"Oh, you are really... this is so crazy, that is the New Federation's Invincible Fleet!"
"Invincible? They have been defeated."
Yang Ming curled his lips slightly:
"Soon Luofeng will also have a powerful fleet. And Lieutenant Colonel Ace, did you know?"
"Um?"
"In my opinion, what this country lacks most today is not advanced equipment, but the courage to show its sword in the face of strong men."
Yang Ming patted Ace on the shoulder:
"When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. This is the only reason why we can win with difficulty this time."
Lieutenant Colonel Ace was stunned for a moment, staring at Yang Ming's back as he walked slowly forward.
His figure formed a strong color contrast with the gray prison door in front of him, which slightly touched Lieutenant Colonel Ace's nerves.
Yang Ming:……
Watching more TV series is also beneficial.
At least you can use your lines to make some poisonous chicken soup.
…
Half a day later.
Adwang began his post-war speech. The ratings of the speech reached a terrifying figure, and half of the people in the Fallen Empire directly watched the speech.
Yin Landuoxing began to build the Martyrs Cemetery and War Memorial Park.
Two days later.
The Sherman Empire launched a military exercise called Deterrence.
Twelve voyage fleets, 1,600 warships of various types, and two dreadnoughts appeared in front of the New Federation's national boundary monument, their gun barrels aimed at the New Federation's national border.
The New Federation chose to avoid war.
The emperor's majesty is unparalleled for a time.
Three days later, the Sherman Empire announced that the third heir to the throne would lead a delegation to express condolences to the Luofeng Empire. The Sherman Empire would give Luofeng a batch of semi-decommissioned main warships for free.
The two sides plan to re-sign a military alliance contract. If Luofeng is attacked, the Sherman Imperial Regiment will provide unconditional support.
This is the value of this battle.
However, Yang Ming, who was sitting in a single cell and reading the newspaper leisurely, encountered several new troubles one after another.
"The Valkyrie has been captured, boss... Also, the old emperor has had the idea to summon you, probably to pardon you. This is completely contrary to our plan."
Yang Ming had a headache: "Lu, isn't there any good news?"
"Mrs. Salur was dismissed from her post. The New Federation gave up its plan to target Luofeng and withdrew the remaining agents in Luofeng's country, leaving only some intelligence personnel."
"Mader! How can we deal with these federal elders?
It’s the cannons that work! When they say we have weapons of mass destruction, we better actually have them!”
Yang Ming waved away the electronic newspaper in his hand.