Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 145: The Battle of the First Star (2)

After the eight Imperial Star Cluster fleets arrived in the Capital System, the Capital System accelerated into hyperspace, and Tianxing-2 also accelerated into hyperspace, closely following the Capital System.

After destroying four star clusters, the eight star cluster fleets of the Capital System guarded eight positions one hundred light-years away from the Consul's Residence planet, relentlessly attacking reinforcements from all over the Capital System to support the Consul's Residence planet.

Under the outer protection of eight Imperial star cluster fleets, the Imperial, Dory, and Crus allied forces began preparations for a landing operation on the planet "Consul's Residence".

Like the Fortress System, the "Consul's Residence" planet has thirteen planets. Twelve asteroids orbit a central large planet, which is Balatu, the consul's residence planet with the greatest power in the Fortress System. Eleven of the twelve asteroids are the other eleven consul's residence planets, and the last asteroid is a place for the twelve consuls to play, eat, drink, and have fun. It was on this asteroid that Zhou Yuan first met Chu Xiaolu.

If it were like the Zerg in the Andromeda Galaxy, Zhou Yuan would probably have ordered the sniper ships to destroy these thirteen planets long ago. However, considering that there are other innocent intelligent civilizations on these thirteen planets, enslaved by the consuls, Zhou Yuan ordered the allied forces to painstakingly carry out a landing operation to rescue an estimated number of tens of millions of enslaved intelligent civilizations.

The Earth Empire fleet is responsible for nine planets, including the major planet, while Dore and Cruz are each responsible for two minor planets.

To prevent the enslaved intelligent civilization beings from being killed prematurely by the "consuls'" forces, Zhou Yuan dispatched a large number of warships to these thirteen planets to quickly transport the enslaved intelligent civilization beings on those planets who were easy to teleport to the transport ships.

In order to rescue the remaining intelligent civilization beings, the allied forces began landing operations on thirteen "Consul" residence planets.

The Earth Empire fleet dispatched warships to first destroy some of the planet's ground-based weapon systems, fortresses, and military bases. Then, intelligent combat modules and drones patrolled the planet, attacking objects in the air that resembled fighter jets and helicopters, as well as objects on the ground that resembled armed vehicles and laser cannons.

After clearing out the heavy weapons and armaments in the air and on the ground, the remaining task is for intelligent combat robots and mechs to carry out the cleanup.

A large number of intelligent combat robots and mechs were transported to the ground. Large mechs launched fierce firepower and small missiles to suppress the enemy, while unmanned aerial vehicles also assisted in the attack. Then, the robot army swarmed forward. These robots ran at an extremely fast speed and reached the enemy's defensive camp in the blink of an eye, shooting and slashing.

As soon as reconnaissance aircraft detected a gathering of garrison troops, these mechs and intelligent combat robots would take off and fly towards the garrison strongholds, launching a fierce attack. Garrison strongholds were cleared one by one. The rescued slaves were gathered in one place and transported away by Imperial transport ships.

To prevent the "consuls'" powerful figures from infiltrating the slave population, Zhou Yuan ordered that all creatures belonging to the twelve "consul's" races, regardless of whether they were good or bad, be imprisoned in the "Twelve Races Concentration Camp" and not allowed to be transported away.

Mechs and intelligent robots conquered fortress after fortress and city after city, rescuing as many slaves as possible.

What angered Zhou Yuan was that when the Imperial military attacked the capital of Balatu's residence planet, the largest city on the central planet, Balatu ordered the massacre of more than a thousand Amos slaves and imprisoned two thousand Amos slaves and one hundred thousand other races as "hostages".

Balatu proposed to Zhou Yuan that he cease attacks on his residence planet, ensure that Balatu himself, his family, his retinue, and all creatures of his race would be free from accountability and enjoy freedom, and that he would take control of the planet. In exchange, the imprisoned "hostages" and other slaves on the planet could be released; otherwise, "we would all perish together."

This was obviously Balatu using the lives of "hostages" and slaves to blackmail Zhou Yuan, forcing Zhou Yuan to order a temporary halt to the attack on Balatu's residence planet.

"Baltu, we agree to your terms."

“Zhou Yuan, I want you to make a public commitment speech, broadcast to your compatriots and my planet.”

“That’s fine. However, Balatu, if you secretly keep even one ‘hostage’ or slave, I will not keep my promise. If you want to live, you must release all those ‘hostages’ and slaves and you must not harm them again.”

"it is good."

Zhou Yuan was forced to address all humans on Earth in the capital star system, stating that if Balatu released all the slaves and "hostages" on his residence planet, in exchange, Balatu himself, his family, followers, guards, and all creatures of his race would be unconditionally pardoned by the Empire, exempt from accountability, and enjoy freedom. The Empire's armed forces would all withdraw from the planet, and Balatu would regain control.

This public video address seems to have had an effect, as the planet has greatly excited the Balatu forces.

Balatu began releasing "hostages" and slaves, who were then gathered in various city shelters. Under the screening of intelligent robots, almost all of these creatures were transported to transport ships, while a few creatures belonging to the twelve "consul" races were sent to the "twelve races concentration camp".

The Imperial fleet, armed, began an orderly evacuation from the planet Balatu's residence. Balatu, leading his personal guard, emerged from his concealed position and laughed wildly into the sky.

Similar hostage-taking and slavery situations occurred on the other twelve planets, and Zhou Yuan promised to do the same for all of them.

Outside the planet where the "Consuls" resided, eight starlight fleets extinguished wave after wave of attacks from reinforcements sent to aid the "Consuls." Many of these reinforcements, arriving from all directions, were fleets affiliated with the Kelly Great Wall Group. These affiliated fleets were not particularly powerful and were easily defeated and destroyed by the eight Imperial starlight cluster fleets. Eventually, the number of reinforcements dwindled until none remained to harass them.

The activities of various advanced civilizations in the Capital System, including the reinforcements and fleet activities of the "consuls," had already been observed and recorded by the "Star Eyes" previously deployed by the Earth Star Fleet in the star of the Capital System.

The Capital System and Tianxing-2 have been traveling in hyperspace for three days and have long since left the Fortress System. The Capital System and Tianxing-2 are now entering normal space. The warp-space blockade on the Capital System's "Consul's" residence planet has been lifted.

The slaves and "hostages" from thirteen planets were loaded onto thirteen large transport ships of the Imperial fleet. These ships, escorted by the combined fleets of the Empire, Dolai, and Crus, traveled through warp drive to a large planet near Earth, which Earthlings called "The Wise Planet." "The Wise Planet" was divided into thirteen regions, each with its environment modified to resemble one of the thirteen mansion planets. After all, the intelligent civilizations carried by the transport ships numbered over a hundred different species, each with unique living environments. The thirteen transport ships landed in their respective regions.

A semi-transparent metallic sphere, a miniature "intelligent super energy exchanger" manufactured by the Earth Empire, suddenly appeared near the Consulate's residence planet. This metallic sphere activated, emitting a bright light, and then suddenly vanished (in stealth mode). The Consulate's residence planet, with its thirteen planets and a sun, was trapped within a "light-speed barrier" two light-years in diameter!

On Tianxing II, George ordered two hundred Earth Empire fleets to travel through hyperspace to the capital system and begin attacking the fleets of the Kelly Universe Great Wall Group's affiliated civilizations—the fleets supporting the "Consul's" residence planet. Six of the eight stellar cluster fleets still in the capital system also participated in the battle against those affiliated civilization fleets, while the other two stellar cluster fleets guarded Earth, Amos, and "Wise Star."

Based on the earlier observations and records of the "Eye of the Stars," the six Starlight Fleets and two hundred Earth Empire fleets quickly located the fleet bases of these affiliated civilizations of the Kelly Great Wall Group through hyperspace travel and warp drive. The outcome of the battle was obvious: those affiliated civilization fleets and bases were easily destroyed.

To ensure the future "safety" and "purity" of the capital system for the Earth Empire, the Earth Empire's powerful fleet launched a ruthless purge of various "malicious civilizations" within the capital system. The remaining fleets and forces of those affiliated civilizations of the Kelly Great Wall Group and other "malicious civilizations" were annihilated by the Imperial fleet, no matter how far they traveled, under the comprehensive surveillance of the entire "Eye of the Stars" in the capital system.

After confirming that the Capital System was relatively "safe" and "pure," the Capital System and Tianxing-2 accelerated their journey into hyperspace.

On "Wise Star," in thirteen zones, all the intelligent civilization beings transported by the transport ships were successively "interviewed" by Earth humans in secret chambers. These chambers were equipped with various monitoring and detection instruments, such as lie detectors, infrared detectors, electrocardiographs, electroencephalogram (EEG) analyzers, and vital sign analyzers. These instruments served two purposes: firstly, to test whether any spies had infiltrated these "hostages" and slaves; and secondly, to collect information on the physiological and vital characteristics of these beings.

In these thirteen areas, through various instrument tests and analysis aided by the Empire's advanced technology, fifty spies and infiltrators loyal to the "Consul" were indeed found to have infiltrated. These fifty individuals were publicly executed.

After compiling information on all six million slaves, it was found that about five million of them belonged to the other twenty-six intelligent civilizations in the capital system. Of these, 520,000 were Amos, and the remaining 400,000 or so did not belong to the fortress system. They were actually brought to the fortress system from the Kelly Universe Wall by the "consuls".

The Earth Empire fleet began a system-wide, real-time, indiscriminate broadcast across the capital star system, calling on twenty-six intelligent civilizations to accept their compatriots. Of the five million slaves, four million voluntarily returned to their home planets, while one million insisted on remaining on "Wise Planet." The four million slaves, escorted by large fleets of Dolai and Cruz, returned to their respective home planets.

The 520,000 slaves of Amos returned to their home planet. President Adams ordered that these compatriots be given care and preferential treatment in all aspects, including life, work, medical care, and education, and that their living conditions be improved. All the humans on Amos were deeply grateful to the Earth Empire. On Amos, portraits of Zhou Yuan and Adams walking side by side in the presidential palace were printed and made at an accelerated pace.

The two great civilizations, Dolai and Cruz, became the "left and right arms" of humanity on Earth, striving to maintain the new order in the capital star system.

The Capital System and Tianxing II continued their high-speed journey through hyperspace, their target the Balu Civilization's fleet.