Interstellar leader

The fleet sent to guard the outer transition point has long been exhausted under the wheel of battle between the sufficient forces of the two alliances. Now those who are defending the imperial capital are all elites who are extremely loyal to the imperial power.Most of the nobles in the empire still have the tradition that the eldest son and daughter serve in politics, and the second son and daughter serve in the army. The children of the nobles who received elite education from an early age risked their lives to protect their interests rather than the imperial power.Once they are occupied by the Republic or the Federation, not only the emperor will be overthrown, but the entire feudal system will be overthrown.

On the imperial capital, the sky in the area where the imperial palace is located is still so dark, dark clouds gather above people's heads, and after a while, the rain turns into a vast expanse of whiteness, falling vertically like water lines one after another.The aristocrats have taken their families and hid underground. The bustling streets are empty on weekdays. There are no shadows of luxury speeding cars in the low sky, and only fighter planes are circling silently in the high sky.

The tired emperor sat in his office with one elbow resting on the table and his fingers resting on his temples, trying to speak to Admiral Lasalle in front of him.Since he lost Jonathan, the empire has no more senior generals available. Most of them are potbellied and rich, well-versed in welcoming and sending, and bribery is common.Except for Jonathan who had already surrendered, the few young and middle-aged major generals in the empire who had real talents and real learning had already died in Rockefeller's outer space.

It's not that Chris doesn't want to depose these corrupt officials, but it's a pity that he can't clean up the dirt accumulated in the empire for hundreds of years.They have formed a towering forest with entangled roots. Their connection must be severed, pulled out one by one, filled with new energy, and finally complete the renewal of the entire forest.

But the reality can't give him so much time.

He sat sideways, looking out of the floor-to-ceiling windows in a daze at the rainy and majestic sky.He remembered a young man with black hair and black eyes, and his slender fingers flying on the keyboard, fluorescent blue projection lines wrapped around his fingers, and complex symbols projected in his dark and deep pupils.Isaac must have been sending top-secret messages from the Empire to his country by then?But he didn't find out until the end.Chris gave a wry smile.

The sound of the rain hitting the building was getting louder and louder in his ears. Facing the violent weather and the fate of defeat, everyone in the central area of ​​the imperial capital was filled with mania and depression, but he unexpectedly calmed down, thinking of In the face of possible death, his heart was as calm as the surface of a windless lake, and there was not even a trace of waves in his heart.

Does he hate him?

No.It wasn't Isaac he hated, Chris thought, but himself.

During these dreamlike years, he learned at least one truth from that young man: a person's power can be almost infinite, and he can certainly change his own destiny, no matter he is in a trough or an endless abyss, as long as He has enough wisdom.

Isaac had this kind of wisdom, not only enough, but much more—enough to not only turn his own destiny around, but also hold the future of others in the palm of his hand.He let him see how much potential a person can have, but Chris himself does not, no matter how high his status is, in fact he is like all other ordinary people, under the pressure of the environment, before the tide of the times There is no room for struggle.

He knew that he would fail, and he also knew that tens of thousands of lives in the empire would be buried with him, and he also knew that what Li Qing said was the best ending.

Why didn't he surrender?Chris asked himself.Maybe it's because he longs for blood and death, he wants to see the destruction of the imperial capital, he longs to see this planet that gave him life, pain and status follow him into hell.He doesn't want it to be peacefully occupied, and then the people of the imperial capital discover the benefits of the new ruler and live a better life.Everyone had a better ending, leaving him alone in a miserable life, and he was still reviled by history after his death.

He is jealous.

So he wanted the imperial capital to be completely destroyed, in an epic evening.

Yes, Isaac.He said silently in his heart, a kind of revenge-like pleasure welled up in his heart.I, Christopher Windsor, am evil as hell, and you can't stop me.

"Your Majesty." La Salle's voice brought him back to reality, and he turned his head blankly, but his subordinates didn't pay attention.The fat, gray-haired middle-aged man lowered his head and half-kneeled in front of him, his voice trembling. "Your Majesty, the outer defense circle of the imperial capital has collapsed, they have approached the atmosphere—"

boom!A sudden beam of laser viciously swept across a military base hundreds of kilometers away. Its control tower was cut off in the middle and hit the ground with a deafening echo.The strong impact and destruction triggered a big explosion in the ammunition depot. The shock wave swept across a radius of thousands of kilometers. The earth trembled and mourned.Even the hybrid glass of Monarch's office, which was strong enough to withstand the impact of the plane, swayed and made a sound of being overwhelmed.

"How is this possible!!" La Salle looked at what was happening in front of him in horror.A laser with such a large destructive power can only be emitted from a starship, and the size of the aerospace plane limits it to absolutely not being able to carry such amazingly powerful weapons.But since a target as big as the starship has entered the ground defense circle, how can the air defense system not attack it? ?

Thinking of this, he immediately connected to the command post that has now been moved inside the palace, and shouted loudly to the other side: "What's the matter with you?! Shoot down that starship for me!"

"What starship?" The officer who answered the question was at a loss. "Where did it come from..."

boom!There was another loud bang, and the opponent began to destroy the second military base on the Imperial Capital Star.Lasalle trembled with anger: "Are you deaf? Didn't you hear such a big movement?!"

"We heard you, La Salle." A calmer female voice took over the communication. "But there is nothing wrong with our satellite system. We can't find the starship, and we can't find it with any detector or satellite. It shows that our airspace is clean, and there is no plane .”

"Including our own?"

"Yes, including the aircraft we are already patrolling. This shows that there is a serious problem with our satellite array and ground detection system."

"Then investigate! Zhang, do your duty well!"

After the silence and the sound of light tapping of fingers, the technical officer surnamed Zhang replied calmly: "I can't investigate because the system refuses my access. The control right is no longer in our hands. The satellite array, all the ground detection systems, the global monitoring system that we once called 'Eye in the Sky', are probably now serving the Republic."

"Take it back!" Lassalle ordered angrily.

"From the strongest computer expert in the galaxy?" The woman chuckled. "Do you think it's possible? Goodbye, Lasalle, I'm going to take my daughter away. My son has already died for the country, and I won't let my Zhang family be buried in this dead country in the dusk."

"You!" Lasalle choked, and he looked back at the monarch of the empire in horror, for fear that he would transfer his anger to him.Why didn't he have a small calculation in his heart to send his wife and children to another planet that has been occupied to save their lives.He resented Christopher I. If he hadn't suddenly called him to "entrust him with a heavy responsibility", perhaps he had quietly landed on a peaceful land in a foreign land with his wife and children.Maybe after the fall of the imperial capital, they can make a comeback and restore the glory of the nobility...

Just thinking of this, a piercing scream came from outside, and a burning low-altitude fighter crashed down in front of them. It had already completed the explosion of its energy capsule in mid-air, and now there was only a scorched black brittle shell left. Lasalle even thought Not sure what model it is.

Then, the extremely fine fragments mixed with the rain washed down, like a black rainstorm, and occasionally there were slightly larger fragments with a few letters printed on them, which is enough to show that this is the empire's aerospace plane "Eagle Howl" ".It itself has been reduced to powder, and its pilots are of course among them, the ashes of these sons and daughters in the raindrops, perhaps falling on their mother's roof.

When the war was nearing its end, from the location of the imperial palace, the light of the stars had almost disappeared below the horizon. In the bloody twilight, the tragic land was burning, exploding, and emitting extremely intense nuclear radiation.One side of the planet sinks into the night, and the other side is fully exposed in the daytime, like a rotating exhibit, showing its hideous and terrifying scars to tourists.

There is a huge difference between starship battles and landing battles. The vast space, black background and icy temperature cover up all the cruelty. On the light-year-long battle line, every starship is like a drop in the ocean. , only rely on the screen of the combat system to display.The entire battlefield is like a mathematical model, Li Qing only needs to think about destroying the points one by one, and then watch them explode in space, and count the casualties afterwards, as if life and death are a series of numbers.Even though he'd realized they weren't, he wasn't ready for what those numbers really felt like before his eyes, he wasn't ready for what the end would look like.

He drove a fighter plane and wandered like a ghost over the imperial capital.He walked through the billowing smoke from the explosion of the ammunition depot, and saw the finely divided flesh and mud mixed together and buried among the broken walls. He saw the broken glass, they were no longer bright, but blackened by the smoke. —The whole city is charred and broken, its former glory gone.

All the explosion circles became more shocking the further they went, because the corpses on the periphery were more complete. When he flew to half the radius of the explosion circle, he could already see the human torso.He lowered his height and saw someone crawling on the street dragging half of his body, leaving a trail of dirty blood behind him, a woman leaped from a crumbling building, and fell to pieces on the originally beautiful marble floor A pool of pureed meat.

There are still many people underground in the imperial capital. They hid in their basements when the air raid came, tremblingly hoping that they could escape.But the basement near the center of the explosion still did not escape the fate of destruction.The soldiers of the Republic and the Federation had already landed on the ground, starships hovered in the sky of the imperial capital, huge shadows enveloped the earth, and the fine web of destruction woven by lasers opened the way for their own soldiers.