The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1852. The aftermath of destruction (Part 1)

The Xilu Empire, which had dominated one of the unknown star regions for hundreds of years, was finally destroyed by the attack of the Eternal super aircraft carrier.

Legally...

Why is it said to be legal?

Because the Marines of the Eternal, Shepard's team, and the Fourth Army actually destroyed less than one percent of the power of the Xilu Empire.

But they did indeed kill the supreme rulers of the Xilu Empire, including the emperor, and paralyzed the highest administrative institutions of the Xilu Empire.

So this can be said to be a war between the Principality of Dawn and the Xilu Empire, and it was the Principality of Dawn that won.

On the surface.

In the capital of the Xilu Empire, the Kryak Palace was captured. After the news of the suicide of the emperor of the Xilu Empire, the great Xiruitut spread, it caused an uproar in the territory of the Xilu Empire!

The caste hierarchy in the Xilu Empire is very strict, and the great Siritut and the Golden Bishop, as the highest political and religious leaders, also lead the thinking of the people of the Xilu Empire.

What did the downfall of the great Siritut mean?

For the people of the Xilu Empire, the shock of the great Xiru Tut's defeat was basically equivalent to the shock that a devout Christian heard about Jesus leading an army to attack. As a result, the army was completely destroyed, and Jesus himself was killed by the enemy... …

This is basically the level of shock.

The defeat of the great Siritut almost overturned the beliefs of all Sirui people!

After confirming the death of the great Siritut, Lieutenant General He Ru sent a notice to the entire sector. It demanded the surrender of the entire Xilu Empire, and also announced the abolition of the caste system in the Xilu Empire. It mainly announced that the Piaik people would be freed from their slave status and would obtain the same citizenship rights as the Xilu people.

This is the most important point, because it means that the Eternal, a super battleship, will personally end the battle to protect the rights of the Piak people. If there are still Xilu people who want to use the Piak people as slaves, then the Eternal super aircraft carrier will uphold justice for the Piak people!

In order to ensure the commitment to the independence of the Piak people, Lieutenant General He Ru handed over all 1.7 million firearms of various types seized from the arms warehouse of the Kryak Palace to the Piak people, including 110 blaster rifles. 590,000 projectile rifles, and more than 8,000 heavy machine guns, light machine guns and general machine guns of various types.

In fact, for this subversive decision, even the Piaik people themselves were a little at a loss. Even when the Dawn Principality handed those weapons into their hands, there were many cases where the Piaik people were scolded by the Xilu people. Just kneel down on the spot and offer the weapon with both hands.

Objectively speaking, the shapes of the Xilu people and the Piaike people are very similar, and even the most primitive body shape of the Piaike people is far behind that of the Xilu people. Coupled with thousands of years of slavery and brainwashing, This really makes many Piaike people think that they are really inherently inferior to the Siru people. Otherwise, how can we say that they are so similar, but the Siru people are so powerful?

It is still unrealistic to ask them to directly become the masters.

Even if the Eternity super aircraft carrier is stationed, getting rid of slavery and casteism will be a long-term process.

In addition to distributing weapons to the Piaik people, Lieutenant General He Ru also promulgated a series of measures. These include the elimination of the existing administrative agencies of the Xilu people, the establishment of new administrative agencies including the Piaik people; and measures to reorganize the existing public security and military establishment of the Levik planet.

Normally, even with a super battleship like the Eternal at its command, it would still be completely impossible to overthrow the Xilu Empire, which has a population of more than 10 billion.

However, the Dawn Principality Exploration Fleet actually did it! Because of the very weird and weird bio-battery technology of the Xilu Empire, their factory does not need to occupy a large area. Coupled with the extreme caste system and extreme centralization system of the Xilu Empire, they concentrated almost all their industries in the Kryak Palace. Now once this falls, other areas of the Xilu Empire will lose their industrial capabilities almost instantly.

Only in this way can the Dawn Principality's exploration fleet, which occupied the Kryak Palace, suppress the entire Levik planet with just one division of marines.

…

When the news of the fall of the Creak Palace and the suicide of all the civil and military officials of the Xilu Empire by the great Siritut was conveyed to the fleet of General Lepic, General Lepic was already prepared for the worst.

Although extremely frustrated, General Lepic had to admit that it was precisely because of his reckless transfer of all the empire's main fleet that he gave the Dawn Principality fleet the best opportunity to invade.

The empire's failure was already in front of him, and it had the most direct relationship with himself.

But General Lepuix never intended to betray the Xilu Empire, although in his usual work, his relationship with the Golden Bishop was very tense, and he even wanted to bite his throat out many times. But at the critical moment of life and death for the Xilu Empire, they still stood up without hesitation and stood between the Dawn Principality invaders and the Xilu Empire!

General Lepuix immediately ordered that all fleets immediately reorganize, breaking the communication silence and starting to reorganize. After that, all the battleships immediately turned around and entered hyperspace to jump to the planet Kruda, which is closest to Levik's planet.

At the same time, he announced that he refused to accept all proposals from the Principality of Dawn. The main fleet under his command was still loyal to the Xilu Empire, and in the future, he would continue to exist as the exiled military government of the Xilu Empire and continue to command the vast territory of the Xilu Empire. territory.

After returning to the planet Cruda, General Lepic once again issued several wide-area communications in succession.

The first is that General Lepuix directly became the acting emperor of the Xilu Empire. The second is that the Xilu Empire will establish a military government in exile on the planet Kruda and refuse to recognize the traditional Xilu Empire regime supported by the Dawn Principality. Third, declare the Principality of Dawn as a despicable invader and call on every citizen of the Xilu Empire to stand up and fight against the Principality of Dawn to the end.

At the same time, General Lepic also announced that his main fleet would be reorganized into the Xilu Restoration Army, with the mission of re-establishing the Xilu Empire to its peak glory.

Regarding this point, General Lepuix still saw it very clearly. He knew that instead of bringing back the only remaining main fleet in his hands, facing off against the Dawn Principality fleet with the Eternity super aircraft carrier, and desperately trying to get a result with a winning rate of only 40% at most, it would be better to hold the main fleet in his hands. Maybe there will be another turning point in the future.

Of course, in the eyes of Shepard and Vice Admiral He Ru, there is no doubt that Lepic's fleet is a group of interstellar pirates. But at present, the Eternal super aircraft carrier must sit on the Levik planet to provide force deterrence for the planet where the planetary administrative agency has just been destroyed and is completely in chaos.

Otherwise, even if the Eternal super aircraft carrier has just left for less than a day, I am afraid that hundreds of uprisings and riots will immediately start on the planet!

Of course, facing such a problem, Lieutenant General He Ru, as the commander of the exploration fleet, naturally has sufficient plans and preparations.

The so-called exploration fleet, as the name suggests, is a fleet that has a high degree of autonomy during the exploration process and is allowed to make any decisions based on the current specific situation.

From this perspective, the authority in the hands of Lieutenant General He Ru is probably greater than that of General Lingliang, the governor of the Svenna Sector and Army General. At least General Ling is not qualified to decide whether he is in war or peace with another civilization.

Lieutenant General He Ru came to the center of the Eternal, a very large laboratory.

After receiving the news of Lieutenant General He Ru's visit, more than 20 thin engineers and scientists wearing robes and holding scepters came out of the laboratory.

Vasari!

Lieutenant General He Ru nodded proactively, gave a military salute to the group of scientists and said, "I think we can proceed with the original plan. Phase Engineer, Mr. Grandison."

The leading Vasari engineer accepted Lieutenant General He Ru's salute very calmly, nodded in greeting, and said: "I am also paying attention to the recent unrest on Levik's planet. What I need to remind you is that once Once the construction of this experimental hyperspace stargate begins, those rebels who get the news will immediately regard the stargate as the biggest threat. And we only carry one set of stargate cores..."

He Ru nodded and said: "I know... once the core of this star gate is destroyed, then we will have to go back the same way, back to the Dawn Planet, and then make a decision. If we really get to that point, it will basically declare that we This exploration operation failed."

He paused and said: "We have explored from many aspects. Most of Levi's planet's industrial facilities, especially high-precision facilities, are concentrated in the Kryak Palace. Other areas include the interstellar shipyard. That is to say, processing work. Therefore, the production capacity of Kryak Palace is irreplaceable. Now, according to the news from the ground, the Xilu Empire’s last resistance has collapsed, and it is time to start transforming their production lines and then produce us I have the parts I need.”

"Then let's get started!" Grandison, the Vasari engineer, said and walked directly towards the warehouse.

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In the following period of time, the main task of the Dawn Principality's exploration fleet was to continuously win over the Piaik people and divide the Xilu people.

They continued to provide weapons and equipment to the Piaik people, encouraging them to break away from the control and slavery of the Siru people and fight for their own destiny.

In fact, after the news of the suicide of the great Siritut, the emperor of the Siru Empire, was conveyed to the entire Levik planet, the uprisings and riots that broke out on the planet reached their peak almost instantly. Dozens of serious uprisings and riots occurred almost every day. Those Xilu people were absolutely unwilling to have their emperor overthrown like this. What was even more impossible to endure was that their former slaves were allowed to enjoy the same citizenship rights as them. ?

This is a complete disgrace.

Therefore, a large number of Xilu troops refused to recognize the Dawn Principality's exploration fleet, and the Xilu generals who commanded these armies rebelled with cavalry. They occupied cities and spaceports, refused to recognize the rule of the Dawn Principality, and were determined to resist to the end.

Lieutenant General He Ru's handling method was very simple and direct - at first he would let the Eternal super aircraft carrier fire back, using extremely powerful turbo laser cannons to bomb all the assembled Xilu troops.

However, as the war situation became more and more complicated, this method could no longer stop the Xilu people's rebellion. So General He Ru decided to mobilize the nearby Piaike people.

These Piaike people are all slaves of the Xilu people. They have formed a deep-rooted servility over hundreds of years. Many people even think that they have been slaves of the Xilu people since birth.

But after receiving weapons and the independence guarantee of the Principality of Dawn, and then looking at the Eternal super aircraft carrier that always turned on the super-powerful searchlight in the sky, looking down at the earth like a god, some of the Piaik people finally took the step to resist fate. first step!

The first shot of resistance by the Piaik people started at a seaside port called Keda. On that day, the Xilu people forced these Piaik people to rob a transport ship coming off the Eternity. As a result, the Piaik people could not bear it. Under the initiative of a leader, the Aike people rushed directly towards the Xilu people!

These crazy Piaik people shot with guns, bitten with their teeth, and tore with their claws, killing all the Xilu supervisors in just ten minutes. Then, based on the content and contact information broadcast by the Eternal in the past few days, they publicly announced that Keda Port is now owned by the Piaik people.

The Eternal immediately responded to their declaration of independence and once again sent transport ships down to deliver them a large amount of food, weapons and ammunition. So the first Piaik independent army was established in Keda Port!

Even if the large number of Piaike people around them did not have the courage to resist the Xilu people face to face, they would still escape secretly and go to Keda Port to join the Piaike Independent Army.

This is just the beginning. The Pi'ek Independence Army began to appear in large numbers on the planet Levik. In just a few days, seven cities were occupied by the Pi'ek Independence Army. The number of Pi'ek people who rose up to resist has exceeded 5000000!

And with the help of the Eternity, a joint command headquarters was established among these Piac independent armies to command and coordinate independent armies in different places.

At this moment, the Dawn Principality's exploration fleet has eliminated all remaining Xilu resistance inside the Keriyak Palace, and has also captured hundreds of thousands of Xilu people.

There are only 9,000 Marines on the Eternity. It is very difficult to manage these prisoners and defend the Kryak Palace. On the periphery, several Xilu troops tried to counterattack, but they were all dispersed by the Eternal's firepower.

But as time went by, more and more Xilu troops began to gather outside the Keriyak Palace, so it was only a matter of time before a second offensive and defensive war broke out.

So, you must hurry up!

The Vasari engineers immediately started their work. They selected some more obedient people from the yellow caste of the Xilu people, and then began to repair and transform some industrial production lines in the Kryak Palace for the production of stars. Door material.

But according to their estimates, it will take at least more than a year to complete the construction of the Star Gate according to the current progress! This time is too long!

Therefore, we must get help from the Piaik people!