While the First Legion was selecting a commander, a war involving millions of battleships was breaking out in Russell, more than 10 light-years away, one of the three nodes on the border between the Oaks Empire and the Kabate Empire.
In Felton, the last border legion of the Oaks Empire and two legions of the Guards are stationed here.
Of course, they also learned about the fall of the capital area and the destruction of the empire. Like Wells, they used communications to send messages to various star systems to confirm the authenticity of the messages.
Obviously, the last messages sent fell into the sea without any reply.
It can be said that the territory of the original Oaks Empire has now been divided up by the Io Federation, the Human Federation, and the Kabate Empire, except for Russell.
Especially the Kabate Empire, which directly ignored Russell and occupied all the surrounding areas.
Russell's defenders still don't know that they have been surrounded by millions of Kabat's troops. Until this day, sirens rang through all the fortresses and warships.
Russell has four star roads, two of which lead to Felton of the Kabat Empire and the border node of the original Oaks Empire, Witte. The other two lead to the territory of the original Oaks Empire behind it.
Witte was captured by the Kabat Empire a few years ago, and now even the two areas behind Russell have fallen into the hands of the Kabat Empire.
In the current situation, Russell's defenders can be said to be surrounded from all sides, with more than 1 million Kabat Empire fleets in every direction.
When the alarm sounded and Kabat Empire warships emerged from the four Star Road exits at the same time, the fate of Russell's defenders was doomed.
After all, there are only 1.2 million troops. It is impossible to defend four lines of defense at the same time, not to mention that the four fronts of the Kabat Empire are all battleships with energy shields.
Over the years, through transactions with the Human Federation, the Kabat Empire has also armed a total of 80,000 warships with energy shields, and deployed 20,000 ships in each offensive fleet!
In just half an hour, under the attack of 80,000 shield ships, all four fronts were in a state of collapse.
The situation on the entire battlefield is clear. In at most an hour, the last fleet of the Oaks Empire will be wiped out!
However, the soldiers of the Oaks Empire are still the same as Lin Fan is familiar with. The saying that the casualty rate will collapse when the casualty rate reaches a certain level does not apply to them at all.
The soldiers of this empire are the type who will shoot at you crazily without surrendering even if they hit the last person.
For this reason, when the last Oaks Empire battleship was destroyed an hour later, the Kabat Empire conducted a detailed unification of battlefield casualties. However, when the unification results came out, everyone took a breath.
With its absolute strength advantage and the shield advantage of various vanguard fleets, the Kabat Empire still paid a price of 800,000 warships to completely wipe out the Oaks Empire's warships.
As a result, there is no longer a fleet of the Oaks Empire in the entire area outside Horton, and the entire Oaks Empire is officially destroyed.
Although after the destruction of the Oaks Empire, the Kabat Empire and the Human Federation used Horton as the border node, and the territories of the two sides were directly adjacent to each other, but Emperor Fakhale and the commander of the space fleet, Hamid, did not dare to invade at will.
They knew that the civilization occupying the frontiers had an inexplicable relationship with the fourth-level civilization. If they were stupid enough to attack it, the Kabat Empire would probably cease to exist soon!
There is no need to anger a fourth-level civilization for those territories. It’s not just the Oaks Empire that can lead to the outside world from one aspect of your empire, you can do it in other directions too!
Wouldn’t it be nice to bring a large number of quasi-level 4 battleships to bully other level 1 to 3 civilizations?
Wouldn't it be nice to acquire a large amount of territory and then buy more shield devices from humans to support the war with war?
This is what Fakhar and Hamid are thinking. If they know that Lin Fan is going to kill them in three years, who knows what expressions will appear on their faces?
Therefore, the Kabat Empire directly placed an order for 50,000 energy shield activation devices to the Human Federation, and the required resources were also ready, and humans could come and take them away at any time.
After seeing such a large order, the Federation itself was in a good mood, and a large amount of resources entered the Federation's pockets!
Well, 50,000 units, right? Don’t worry, they will be delivered uniformly in three years!
------
Half a month later, the star system Horton.
The selection of fleet commanders, the points ranking competition has ended, the entire selection has come to an end, and seven commander candidates were finally successfully born.
Fujiwara Ayako, 28 years old, formerly a colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and serves as the commander of the Sixth Fleet of the First Corps.
Carol Taylor, 36 years old, formerly with the rank of colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and serves as commander of the 1st Corps and 7th Fleet.
Dennis Lyndon, 38 years old, formerly a colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and serves as the commander of the Eighth Fleet of the First Army.
Elio Reed, age 38, formerly with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is now awarded the rank of colonel and serves as the acting commander of the 9th Fleet of the First Army.
Shangguan Yunting, age 32, formerly with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is now awarded the rank of colonel and serves as the acting commander of the 10th Fleet of the First Corps.
Xia Yu, age 29, formerly with the rank of major, is now awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel and serves as the acting commander of the 11th Fleet of the 1st Corps.
Qin Tian, age 26, formerly with the rank of major, is now awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel and serves as the acting commander of the 12th Fleet of the First Corps.
According to orders from Starfleet Headquarters, all seven of these people were promoted in rank.
Of course, for four of them who have not yet reached the rank of brigadier general after being promoted to one rank, according to convention, the word "acting" is added before their positions.
Although you are an acting commander, it is actually no different from a formal commander. As long as you make no mistakes, you will not be deprived of your position, and when you reach the rank of brigadier general, you will automatically become a regular commander.
As for the nine people who were defeated in the final points match, Lin Fan also accepted them all.
In addition to these 9 people, there are also some capable people who were defeated in the knockout round in the early stage. Lin Fan also did not let go, just like the one who was defeated by Fujiwara Ayako in the first round of knockout.
These people will be added to the seven new fleets and hold positions such as adjutant and chief of staff.
Now that the crew is settled, Lin Fan no longer has to worry about the subsequent situation of having ships and no crews. As for ordinary crew members, that is not a big problem at all.
After all, the new Orca-class battleship requires only half the personnel of the current Snow Leopard-class battlecruiser. The surplus personnel from the first to fifth fleets alone can meet more than half of the needs of these seven fleets.
Regarding the candidates for the squadron commander and the bridge command team, Lin Fan said that there are many suitable talents in the Star Military Academy.
Future commanders are still waiting for ships. You can go to the academy in person to make your selections when there is a bus available. Once selected, you can report them to the legion headquarters for approval.