Although the natives of the Black Wind Fleet were best known for their disobedience and brutality among the hundred species of the Imperium, a man who had been the leader of the Black Wind Fleet and the commander of the fleet and maintained a high degree of leadership and stability while leading the defeated soldiers of the five Sectors for a hundred years without finding anything was certainly not an impulsive man.
Heiye Ming, the commander of the Black Wind Fleet and the father of Heiye Lan, was unwilling to make a rash choice when the enemy was unknown.
After he learned the truth about the 'prey' and that what he was faced with was not just one Sector as he thought when he set off a hundred years ago but seven highly-developed civilizations that had expanded by seven times, together with Firefly from the government-in-exile of the Star Ocean Republic and even 'Kunlun', a star fortress from the primeval war, he was even more reluctant to act recklessly.
Leading the Black Wind Fleet, Heiye Ming anchored near the brown dwarf that he had carefully selected. On one hand, he was repairing the wear and tear of the hundred years of sailing and waking up the experts who were in the hibernation state, slowly unfolding the enormous fleet from the 'cruise state' to the 'battle state'. On the other hand, he had established star beacons and spiritual towers to receive the news from the homeland of the Imperium. On the other hand, he had released tremendous spies who snuck into the Federation in super small stealth shuttles to collect information, instigate the leadership, and find and create flaws!
Should he attack the Xing Yao Federation on his own, or should he wait and ask for reinforcements from the homeland of the Imperium so that he could attack the enemy with more abundant troops?
It depended on his infiltration in the Federation and whether or not he could find an opportunity to break the enemy, and it also depended on the situation in the homeland of the Imperium.
The Black Wind Fleet had been wandering outside of the homeland of the Imperium for a hundred years. To some extent, it was sort of a 'forgotten army'.
Although they would establish star beacons and spiritual towers in every new space zone and establish communication routes to the homeland of the Imperium, the universe was a vast place after all. The further away they were from the homeland of the Imperium, the more likely their communication routes would be interfered with or even ripped apart by the cosmic storms. Also, every communication would consume more time and resources.
For the Black Wind Fleet that was short of supplies, it was not easy to maintain real-time communication with the homeland for a long time.
Besides, the news released from the homeland and the capital were all what the emperor, the nobles, and the warlords wanted them to know. Even if they were not fabricated, they were highly packaged and were not the truth at all.
The Black Wind people had dominated the empire for hundreds of years. Naturally, they had their own, absolutely loyal and reliable information network. However, it was very difficult to transmit real information through this network in real time.
Taking all the factors into consideration, after a hundred years of trekking to the edge of the cosmos, for Heiye Ming, as the commander of the Black Wind Fleet, the so-called Imperium of True Human Beings was completely enshrouded in mysterious mist. It was barely possible for him to figure out the truth. It was even more unpredictable than the strange "Federation" before his eyes.
As far as he was concerned, Heiye Ming naturally did not want to summon new reinforcements. He preferred to solve the problem on his own.
On one hand, it was a matter of reputation and capability. The prey was just a barbarian at the edge of the cosmos, and they were the elites from the center of the cosmos. They were the 'heavenly soldiers'!
If they had to summon reinforcements for such a situation, wouldn't the Black Wind Fleet be too humiliated? Who would believe in their prestige, deterrence, and threat in the future?
In the Imperium, losing the ability to threaten was indeed a very dangerous thing.
On the other hand, the prey was so fat. The docks of the warships in the Flying Star Sector and the Uranian Ring Sector, and the abundant human resources in the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm could be absorbed into the Black Wind Fleet. Even Kunlun and Firefly would make the Black Wind Fleet one of the super forces of the Imperium!
Heiye Ming was very reluctant to share such fat prey with other people.
Once the news was released, whether or not reinforcements would come, and how many would come, would be beyond his control.
The situation in the frontline was urgent, and there were no reinforcements to help them. Naturally, it would be awkward. But if he described the value of the prey too high, and the homeland sent out ten or so reinforcements, who were all well-trained and well-equipped without the experience of a hundred years of hardships, the Black Wind Fleet would have nothing to do with it. Wouldn't it be even more awkward?
Such concerns were exactly the same as when Su Changfa and the other 'vanguards' were unwilling to summon Heiye Ming and the rest of them when they discovered the high value of Kunlun a hundred years ago.
However, as the commander-in-chief of the Black Wind Fleet, Heiye Ming was more rational and more considerate than Su Changfa was at that time.
If it were really impossible, he would not be so obstinate as to risk the entire Black Wind Fleet.
After the spiritual towers and the first batch of star beacons were established, Heiye Ming did not activate the star beacons recklessly or report the real situation to the homeland.
He kept the existence of the 'Xing Yao Federation' a secret and only reported to the homeland that he had been cruising at the edge of the cosmos for a long time and that the strategic resources of the fleet were running dry. He had not made any major discoveries yet.
Now that he was about to reach the edge of the territory of the civilization of mankind that the Star Ocean Imperium had once explored, he asked the homeland if they could end the expedition and return to the homeland after exchanging the desolate worlds that they had discovered earlier for contribution points.
In secret, however, he asked the intelligence network in the homeland that was loyal to the Black Wind Fleet to send the latest analysis of the situation in the Imperium and the Holy League at whatever cost.
The situation at the center of the cosmos was not good.
It was not because the Imperium of True Human Beings had suffered losses in the war. On the contrary, the Imperium had been fighting too smoothly in the past hundred years. It had secured quite a few great victories in a row.
After the victories, new heroes would emerge, and the new heroes would lead new forces to rise. Sometimes, the old forces that had been declining would be revived again. All in all, the balance of the old forces would be shaken.
That was exactly what was happening right now. In the past hundred years of war, a small family that had been inconspicuous for a hundred years had risen again and become a force that could not be ignored in the capital.
What was not good was that the reason why this small clan, which had long declined, had fallen in the past, was inextricably linked to the Black Wind people. Many experts in this clan had died in the hands of the Black Wind people.
Right now, the Black Wind Fleet had been banished to the edge of the cosmos, and the family of its former enemy was thriving in the capital, winning one victory after another. Wasn't it greatly 'not good'?
According to the intelligence on the surface, because the war in the past hundred years had been rather smooth, the Imperium was gradually shifting from defense to offense. Right now, an unprecedented strategic counterattack was being planned. The elite forces of dozens of core worlds had been mobilized. Even if it was not a 'life-and-death battle' with the Holy League, the decline in the past two to three hundred years would be completely reversed!
At such a critical moment, how could the Imperium spare extra forces to help the Black Wind Fleet fight the 'barbarians'? Wouldn't it be more absurd than losing the bigger picture?
In secret, according to the intelligence network, the strategic counterattack would focus on the Sectors such as the 'Black Wind Sector' that had been lost a hundred years ago. It was very likely that the emperor was going to recover the Black Wind Sector once and for all!
That was rather awkward.
It was very likely that the Imperium would launch a strategic counterattack and recover the Black Wind Sector, but it would have nothing to do with the Black Wind Fleet.
The Black Wind Fleet had been wandering outside for a hundred years without making any contributions. By then, not only would it be impossible for them to claim their nest from the emperor shamelessly, it was also possible that they would be swallowed by the new forces that had made countless military contributions!
The Black Wind Fleet had been pushed to a dead end. It was a real 'life-and-death' moment.
If the truth of the 'Xing Yao Federation' was reported to the capital dutifully, the capital would certainly ask them to hold back and lock the Federation in place. Or perhaps, they would launch a war of attrition first to exhaust the people of the Federation as well as their own available forces.
In the end, after the Imperium completed the strategic counterattack and completely consolidated and digested the frontline of the Black Wind Sector, it would send out the so-called "reinforcements" led by the enemy of the Black Wind Sector to reap the dying federation blatantly. In the meantime, they would reap the Black Wind Fleet that was also dying mercilessly!
Heiye Ming had seen and done a lot of such things before!
There was no way that he would watch such things happen and allow the Black Wind Fleet to become a 'stepping stone' for other people's rapid rise!
The intelligence from the homeland of the Imperium and the intelligence sent back by the spies that he had infiltrated into the Federation finally made up his mind.
Now that he had made up his mind, he would do it on his own!
With the Black Wind Fleet and the defeated soldiers of the five Sectors, he would assault the Xing Yao Federation and swallow the remote country that had yet to rise but boasted infinite potential!
After swallowing the Xing Yao Federation, boasting the docks of the Uranian Ring Sector, the cannon fodder of the Blood Demon Sector, the warships of the Flying Star Sector, the mother lodes of the Water Crystal Sector, and the primeval technology on Kunlun, together with the Black Wind Fleet's own strength, it would definitely be one of the few war monsters of the Imperium!
Only by driving such a 'monster' back to the capital of the Imperium in the homeland would they have enough capital to bargain with the emperor, the lords, and the enemies in the past so that they could take back the Black Wind Sector, their home in the past, and even more prosperous Sectors at the center of the cosmos!
If they could not win the war, the Black Wind Fleet would be doomed, and so would the natives of the Black Wind Fleet. Not only would they never be able to take back their mother world, but they would also run out of supplies and resources. Their only option would be to return to the homeland of the Imperium in frustration, where they would be divided up by the new warlords, the traditional nobles, and the emperor himself, who had long disliked them. The proud and great name of the natives of the Black Wind Fleet would disappear from the stage of history forever. Not even a grain of dust would be left behind!
Heiye Ming had made up his mind.
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