The garrison of the Imperium that was stationed in the Green Wind Sector finally arrived.
But at this moment, the chaos of almost a million people had already reached an unmanageable level.
The comrades of the assassins of the Blood Oath Alliance, on the other hand, were not necessarily involved in the scheme, but stimulated by the life-and-death comradeship of more than ten years, they were still intentionally or unintentionally expanding the chaos and interfering with the reactions of the local garrison.
"None of the people in the logistics department are decent!"
"It is exactly because of the shortage of ammunition and fuel that we failed to expand our victory!"
"The soldiers in the frontline are all heroes, and the officials in the rear are all assholes!"
It was the consensus of almost all the troops in the frontline.
Even the troops in the frontline that were directly under the command of the four Kurfürst families would think so instinctively after more than ten years of bloody battles.
By the time the infuriated local garrison finally reached the podium, the assault warship that was obviously determined to die together with the enemy had already crashed into it brutally.
While the anti-air magical equipment could've riddled the assault warship with holes, it was impossible for them to obliterate the metal that weighed almost ten thousand tons.
The broken, furiously burning assault warship smashed into the podium like a shrieking shooting star. The blast threw the soldiers who had come to the rescue a hundred meters away into the sky. Fire and smoke were popping up everywhere. Nothing could be seen anymore!
To this moment, Dongfang Tuo, an elder of the Imperium, was still alive.
His loyal personal guards were all blocking the assassins on the podium. Some of them were even building a powerful defense shield with their soul and spiritual energy at the cost of their life, helping the elder of the Imperium to block the blast caused by the assault warships.
"Protect the elder. Elder, go now!"
A team of local defenders of the Green Wind Sector escorted the heavily wounded Dongfang Tuo away.
They patted the oval-shaped magical equipment on their waists, and a translucent, arc-shaped shield appeared behind each of them. When almost ten shields overlapped, Dongfang Tuo was fully protected like a solid turtle shell.
Before that, however, a flyer drifted in through the gaps of the shields and landed on Dongfang Tuo's face.
Dongfang Tuo struggled to raise his head from the floating stretcher and read the content on the flyer carefully. He only read half of it when his face turned pale, and blood flowed out of his mouth. He couldn't have burst into fury.
"This bunch of bastards! How disgraceful! How lawless!"
The elder gritted his teeth and growled, "The army … has been infiltrated to such an extent. It's simply, simply, simply —"
Before he could say the word 'practically', he heard a heavy and disorderly gasp beside him.
Slightly startled, he turned his head to look, only to see a local garrison of the Green Mist Star staring straight at him. He was also sweating profusely, his eyes were red, and the corners of his mouth were twitching nervously.
Dongfang Tuo's pupils instantly constricted to the size of needles. "… Wait, this is not true!"
"Kill the traitors and protect the Empire!"
The local defender of the Green Wind Planet roared and ripped open his Crystal Suit brutally, revealing the terrifying body below that had undergone modification surgeries. Most of his internal organs had been removed and replaced with super destructive crystal bombs. He lunged at Dongfang Tuo and hugged the elder of the Imperium before the other soldiers realized what was going on.
"Long live the Empire!"
The soldier laughed wildly and shouted at the top of his lungs.
BOOM!
A dazzling crimson fireball burst out of the light ball made of the overlapping spiritual shields. Dongfang Tuo, who had been heavily wounded in the first place, was killed on the spot.
The enemy's crystal bombs seemed to have adopted a special design and a very insidious formula that was specifically designed to damage the soul.
When the situation was finally under control, and the defenders sent Dongfang Tuo's burnt body to the hospital for treatment, not even the slightest part of his soul could be saved. His soul had completely dispersed.
It was exactly the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance that happened three days ago and would soon shock the entire Imperium.
The Imperium of True Human Beings controlled hundreds of Sectors, but there were only five hundred elders in total in every field.
It was not hard to imagine the position and value of every elder of the Imperium.
In the past, assassins of the Holy League had assassinated the elders of the Imperium.
However, an elder of the Imperium was assassinated by his own army in broad daylight, especially during the triumph ceremony where a million people were gathered. It was definitely a first since the founding of the Imperium.
Although the crystal bomb embedded in the body of the member of the Blood Oath Alliance only blossomed for half a second, the blast it raised did not stop at all. After Dongfang Tuo was killed, it was still spreading out in the entire Imperium at a speed faster than the speed of light. On all the Sectors, forces, fleets, sects, and planets, it raised a great shock.
Three days later, the blast shocked the bridge of Dragon Abyss, the flagship of the Deep Sea Fleet, into a dead silence. Li Linghai stared at the intelligence on the light beam without uttering a word for a long time.
"Why did this happen? My entire plan has been disrupted. The reformists have been pushed to the edge of life and death all of a sudden!"
Li Linghai almost felt like burning a few holes on the light beam. She then stared at Li Yao next to her for a while.
"It's really none of my business."
Li Yao said very innocently. Pausing for a moment, he asked again, "It was not your people who did it? The purpose of the Blood Oath Alliance sounds very similar to the ideology of the reformists! "
"Of course not. We were not prepared to completely break with the four Kurfürst families in the first place. Why would we do something as serious as assassinating an elder of the Imperium?"
Li Linghai narrowed her eyes and gnashed her teeth. "The Blood Oath Alliance is a radical organization established by the young officers in the frontline of the Imperium spontaneously. Right now, in the dozens of Sectors in the frontline, there are a lot of similar organizations, such as' True Dragon Union ',' Thousand Cherry Society ',' Vanguard Society ', and so on. Like I said a few days ago, they are the products of the young officers at the bottom level who can't see a way out and feel the injustice strongly.
"The Blood Oath Alliance, on the other hand, is the most radical and extreme of all the organizations of young officers.
"It's not that I haven't thought of incorporating the organizations of young officers and uniting them.
"However, things in the army have always been particularly sensitive. The young officers who have sabers, swords, guns, and starships in Crystal Suits can easily cause uncontrollable trouble when they are in a frenzy. Therefore, we have always been very careful when we infiltrated the army. The best we did was to communicate with the young officers about the ideas of 'respecting the Majesty and settling the rebellions'. The ideas were all rather vague, but we never asked them to organize such a destructive assassination operation!
"This is great. When an elder of the Imperium is assassinated, the entire Council of Elders will burst into fury. Although it has nothing to do with us, under the thunderous strike of the Council of Elders, while the Blood Oath Alliance will be obliterated, other organizations of young officers and even the major forces of the reformists will inevitably be affected, too. In the end, our cause will suffer a heavy blow!
"Our strategy of lurking, communicating in secret, and surfacing when the time is right will not work out at all!"
Li Yao thought for a moment and asked, "Is this elder of the Imperium, Dongfang Tuo, so important?"
"Of course he is!"
Li Linghai's voice was as cold as ice. "He is an influential person of the older generation in the Dongfang family. He is very influential in the financial, banking, and economic circles of the Imperium. He is also the CEO of the Imperial Expansion Bank, which is responsible for 30% of the military assets of the expedition army in the Imperium's counterattack. He is also responsible for the logistics in the base of the expedition army. Astronomical funds and resources are flowing through his fingers every day. Do you think he is important or not?
"However, the post of the chief of logistics in the base of the expedition army is also a hot potato with thorns hidden in it. After managing the logistics of the military for so many years, there are a lot of people who resent Dongfang Tuo."
After Li Linghai explained it carefully, Li Yao finally understood what was going on.
This time, the Imperium of True Human Beings had launched a counterattack against the Alliance of the Holy Covenant with the full strength of the entire country. The overwhelming fleets and legions that blocked the entire universe naturally consumed a terrifying number of military assets every day.
So many military assets could not be supplied by a single Sector but by all the Sectors working together to support the battle in the frontline.
Then, here came the problem. Every Sector had different degrees of fertility and infertility. They had different opinions about the war and their confidence about how many benefits they could reap after the war. How to collect enough resources from those Sectors was a very delicate art.
Exploiting the resources of their own Sectors dutifully and helping the Imperium win the war, only to find that they were not the ones to reap the benefits. No Sector Master or warlord would be willing to do such a stupid thing.
"My world has offered so many resources to the frontline, but my fleets in the frontline are often not supplied. They are so hungry that they have to lick the rust on the screws, and they have to shoulder the most arduous battle missions. On the other hand, the troops directly under the command of the four Kurfürst families, on the other hand, are eating and farting every day. Have they fed all my resources to those idiots?"
The warlords and Sector Masters from the peripheral worlds often had similar complaints, too.
To be fair, Dongfang Tuo might not have really stolen the resources from the peripheral worlds and supplied them to the fleets of the four Kurfürst families in secret.
However, there were astronomical military assets that needed to be coordinated and arranged every day. It was truly impossible for him to supply the fleets of a certain world with the resources that he collected. It was such a difficult task.
Besides, for the warlords and Sector Masters from the peripheral worlds, the truth did not matter at all. They were only trying to get more benefits for their fleets with their tough stance.
Although the Imperium was vast and prosperous, the resources were limited after all. As the frontline grew longer and longer, the distribution of the fleets in the frontline became more and more difficult.
However the resources were distributed, there were always fleets that were not satisfied. They believed that Dongfang Tuo and the other "vermin of logistics" were intentionally targeting them and resented the elder of the Imperium deeply.
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