Li Yao blinked, thinking that the "Battle of Black Wind" was simply the source of everything. .
It was precisely because of the Black Wind War that the remnants of the Black Wind Fleet went on an expedition to the Star Sea border, which led to the major worlds in the Star Sea border uniting to defend against the enemy and forming a "New Federation".
It was also because of the Black Wind War that the True Human Empire suffered a disastrous defeat, which led to continuous reforms and innovations in the past hundred years, loosening the rule of the four Electoral Prince families, and even giving birth to innovative and ambitious people like Li Linghai.
Now, even the legend of General Lei Chenghu is related to the Black Wind War.
Li Linghai sighed and said: "In the past thousand years, the Empire and the Holy Alliance have competed for hegemony in the center of the star sea.
Although the Holy Alliance has launched repeated attacks and presented an aggressive posture, the Empire has always stood firm and has not shown an obvious decline.
"Especially in the past few hundred years, the Holy Alliance's attacks have become increasingly messy and impetuous.
Many high-level officials in the empire believe that the Holy Alliance's national power has been seriously overstretched.
Even if there are brainwashing secrets such as the 'Three Original Laws', they can trick the people into Their lives were dedicated to their 'god', but they could no longer support it.
"Therefore, the empire is full of optimism, believing that if we stick to the Star Sea defense line for hundreds of years, we can wait until the day when the Holy Alliance collapses without a fight.
“But the ‘Black Wind Battle’ poured a ladle of cold water with ice into everyone’s spines.
"The entire cantilever defense line completely collapsed, several deep space fleets suffered devastating blows, Black Wind and other five major war worlds fell into the hands of the Holy Alliance.
The unstoppable military front of the Holy Alliance people reached the softest belly of the empire.
The Holy Alliance What the fleet is looking at is the sacred land that the empire has worked hard to build for thousands of years!"
Li Yao said: "War World?"
"Yes, according to the amount of resources and the level of development, the empire roughly divides the world within its territory into four levels: "world to be developed, world of resources, world of industry and world of war".
Li Linghai said, "War World is the level with the highest comprehensive value and the deepest industrial foundation.
It has a large-scale arsenal, magic weapon refining lines and even Xinghai Shipyard.
It can refine an entire huge fleet on its own, and it has an imperial power.
*A heavily guarded super heavy industry world.
"The value of one war world far exceeds ten undeveloped worlds!
“Black Wind and other five major worlds have been military centers that the empire has operated for hundreds of years.
If they suddenly fall into the hands of the enemy, they will lose countless resources and leak many secrets, so they are the biggest threat to the empire in hundreds of years.
“After receiving the news of the fall of the five major war worlds on the border, the Dukes of Gungun in the imperial capital were naturally dumbfounded, and they immediately became furious and wanted to launch a counterattack.
“In addition to the elites of the four Electoral families being sent to the front line, it is natural that troops from nobles and warlords must be recruited to ‘defend the empire’.
“At this time, the negative consequences of the four Electoral Prince families having controlled the government for many years and causing the place to continue to be fragmented and gravelled became apparent.
"Most of the small and medium-sized nobles and warlords in the local areas are perfunctory and hesitant to move forward.
They all believe that since the elites of the four Electoral families are at the front, they will not be able to serve as cannon fodder on the front line.
“The most despicable and shameless among them are the warlords who originally occupied the Black Wind Realm.
"The responsibility for the collapse of the entire 'Black Wind Defense Line' originally fell 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.
Yes or no?
"But Hei Yeming, who commanded the Black Wind Fleet at that time, was a cunning warlord leader, but he never stopped doing anything.
He brazenly annexed the remaining fleets of the other four war worlds, and had enough capital to bargain with the Imperial City.
Taking advantage of the situation on the front line There was a huge chaos, and they actually fled towards the border of Xinghai in the name of helping the empire expand its territory!
"Haha, although the journey to explore the border of the Star Sea is long and dangerous, no matter how dangerous it is, it is still in danger of dealing with the Holy Alliance army that is so close.
If you really want to 'open up the territory and expand the territory', just turn around and go back to your hometown.
Why bother to sacrifice the near and seek the far away?"
Li Yao: "...Well, this commander of the Black Wind Fleet is really despicable!"
But there was a bitter smile in his heart.
This was already the third theory about "The Black Wind Fleet's expedition to the border of the Star Sea".
All the parties involved were trying to put gold on their faces.
What is the truth?
I'm afraid it would have been annihilated in the debris of the stars.
There is no way to verify it.
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Li Linghai was extremely disdainful of what the Black Wind Fleet had done, and his voice turned cold: "Since the Black Wind people are the 'sufferers' of the fallen world, they are all running away and pissing themselves off, and the private soldiers of the major princes and warlords are even more He couldn't help the entire empire's "eye-catching" battles, and was able to overwhelm the arrogant Holy Alliance army that had won consecutive battles.
"The four electorate families didn't want to waste their elites in vain, at least they didn't want to be the first wave to rush forward and fight with the Holy Alliance people, so they thought of General Lei Chenghu's fleet."
Li Yao said "Ah" and said, "This is a strategy that kills two birds with one stone and hurts both sides!"
"Yes, even a blind person can see that the four Electoral Prince families want to use their swords to kill people.
Regardless of whether they can repel the Holy Alliance's attack, they can at least greatly weaken General Lei Chenghu's strength."
Li Linghai said, "If General Lei Chenghu is really, as the world thought at the time, a deeply hidden careerist and a big warlord who has a self-respecting army, then he can completely ignore the orders from the imperial capital, or be like other warlords. , randomly sending some cannon fodder out to make up the numbers and do the job in a perfunctory manner.
"Anyway, with General Lei's ability to vaguely unify the outer world of the fourth quadrant at that time, as long as he can't retreat, what can the four Electoral families do to him?
"It's not necessarily a two-sided war.
We have to deal with the Holy Alliance on the front line, and we have to fight General Lei in the rear, right?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment, then widened his eyes and said, "But General Lei still obeyed the orders of the Senate and led his elite to the front line?"
"That's right, and General Lei did a better job than you.
Not only did he bring all his elite troops out, he also tried every means to bring along the 'Wayway Guards' as much as possible, which are dozens of worlds outside the fourth quadrant.
The elite formed a mighty coalition and marched towards the 'Black Wind Front'!"
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, those nobles and warlords handed over the fleets to General Lei, They believe that General Lei can bring them benefits, and they even attack the privateer fleets in the other quadrants and take back all the spoils to divide them up.
In other words, they want to make a fortune, but they don’t want General Lei to lead them to die in vain!
" Li Yao blinked for a long time and said in disbelief: "That is to say...
General Lei is not only going to be a fool himself and try to steal the spotlight, but he is also bringing dozens of elites from around the world to become the most famous fool in the world!
" "Yes, the star sea is vast, and it is not difficult to block the news.
When the nobles and warlords who rule dozens of worlds finally realized, they were beyond their reach.
All their elites disappeared into the depths of the star sea and could never return.
Coming."
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, and completely cut off his own escape route.
What a package of 'channel guard force' The agreement also collapsed instantly.
"Now, General Lei only has a large-scale combined fleet with no foundation, and all logistics supplies are in the hands of the Senate, that is, the four electorate families.
“Not surprisingly, the Senate deployed the combined fleet brought by General Lei to the most dangerous front line.
"Faced with the massive attack of the Holy Alliance, General Lei did not complain or hesitate at all.
Instead, he turned the tide and spent five years of bloody fighting.
He almost wiped out all his direct descendants and elites and blocked the Holy Alliance.
The allies launched a stormy offensive.
“Although he failed to recapture the Black Wind and other five worlds, he re-established an impregnable defense line and completely dragged the Holy Alliance people to death in front of him.
"For the next hundred years, General Lei's fleet has been stationed at the forefront, blocking the Holy Alliance like an iron wall, never letting a single starship of the Holy Alliance get past the thunder.
"It can be said that since the 'Battle of Black Wind', the empire's dirtiest, most tiring, and most painful work on the battlefield in the past hundred years has been done by General Lei alone.
Only then can the troops and resources in the rear be accumulated, dispatched and deployed calmly.
Operations, coupled with the spirit of the Holy Alliance people, were all drained by General Lei, so the "Empire Strikes Back" on such a large scale could progress so smoothly. " When Li Yao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "So, this General Lei Chenghu is really not a careerist or conspirator, but a... uh, an upright and selfless soldier?"
"Yes, the so-called warlord, the army and the territory are inseparable.
Although General Lei has a large-scale combined fleet with amazing combat power, he has long since lost his own territory.
Everything is controlled by the Senate."
Li Linghai said, "As he fought bloody battles on the battlefield regardless of life and death, everyone gradually saw General Lei's sincerity.
Even the four Electoral Prince families respected General Lei's character.
In other words, killing General Lei If so, I don’t know where to find such an honest, unambitious person who can fight.
"The Senate and the four Electoral Prince families are in great need of General Lei Chenghu, a 'real soldier who is loyal to the empire' to fight against the Holy Alliance on the front line.
After a hundred years, they have completely let down their guard against General Lei, and have supplemented and strengthened the 'Thunder Fleet' under his command.
Logistics supplies also flowed smoothly all the way, and all kinds of benefits and false claims continued to fall on General Lei.
"The True Human Empire has been established for thousands of years.
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The highest level of the imperial medal, the 'Principal Black Star Medal', has been awarded to a total of seventeen times.
Fifteen of them were awarded during the expansion of the territory in the first five hundred years.
In the next five hundred years, There were only two awarded in total, one of which was awarded to the commander-in-chief from the four electorate families, and the other was awarded to General Lei Chenghu, which shows his military exploits and prestige!
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