"That does make sense."
Li Yao paced back and forth like ants on a hot pan for a long time before he said, "However, I believe that Lei Chenghu is still a reasonable and considerate man. If he is truly a sincere patriot who is considering the greatest interests of the civilization of mankind, he will certainly be rational and patient enough to sit down and listen to me in peace.
"If worse comes to worst, I'll think of a way to sneak into his flagship, kidnap him, lock him in a secret room, tie him up, whip him with a leather whip, and put a chainsword on his neck. Then, I'll be honest with him and tell him everything. Can he resist?"
"What did you say? Did I hear it wrong? Say it again?"
The mental devil snorted. "Do you think that Lei Chenghu is a second-rate guy like Yun Xuefeng, and that the Thunder Fleet is a half-baked Adamantine Fleet that only shows off with their equipment? Let me tell you, the Thunder Fleet is a real super army that has been bathed in blood for a hundred years. Even the ace fleets of the four families may not have as much battle experience as the Thunder Fleet. Even if every common soldier of the Thunder Fleet had to fight hundreds of battles with the people of the Holy League in the cold, harsh frontline, I can't even begin to imagine how terrifying such a fleet is. You want to break through the defense lines of the Thunder Fleet, sneak into their flagship without alarming anyone, and kidnap their commander? You are daydreaming! "
"I am not fighting alone. You and Boss Bai are my assistants, aren't you?"
Li Yao smashed his fists hard and gnashed his teeth. "In any case, this is our only chance. If we cannot convince Lei Chenghu, everything will be over. Nothing will be able to stop the second rise of Blackstar the Great. The Imperium of True Human Beings will be even more terrifying in the future, to the point that even the Immortal Cultivators today will find it unbearable.
"Faced with such a dark future, we have no choice but to bet everything we have!"
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao controlled the pores on his head to expand so that his brain cells would release the redundant heat and reduce the temperature of his brain. Calmly, he sorted through the analysis just now and made sure that there were no loopholes before he contacted Boss Bai again.
But the communication with Boss Bai didn't go well.
The Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs seemed to have been caught in the fierce battle where the spiritual magnetic interference was intense. It took them a long time to connect to each other intermittently. On the light beam that was full of snowflakes and ripples, Boss Bai's image was extremely twisted, too.
"Boss Bai —"
Li Yao had been paying attention to the synchronization of the real-time battle, but it was difficult to send the latest battle data of the warships back to the Seven Seas Grand Market. He could only ask directly, "What's the environment in space right now? Have you reached out to the Astounding Thunder Fleet?"
"What environment? Crazy. It's all crazy. It's completely out of control! "
Boss Bai's eyes were bloodshot, and his hair was messy. Intense white smoke was flowing out of his body, making him look like a steaming boiler. "Yun Xuefeng has completely lost his mind. He is rushing toward the Thunder Fleet with his main fleet, hoping to have a head-on collision with Lei Chenghu!"
"What!"
Li Yao was stunned. "How did that happen? Yun Xuefeng is too arrogant!"
"Humph. Those arrogant nobles have always overestimated themselves. They think that they are God's favored ones and that the entire universe was created for them. Everyone has to revolve around them like stars surrounding the moon."
Boss Bai sniffed heavily and said, "Before Lei Chenghu showed up, Yun Xuefeng had already gathered five Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships and tens of thousands of main-force warships. The situation on the battlefield couldn't have been better. Countless warlords, local magnates, and even the experts of the other three families had pledged their loyalty to him again. Seeing that victory was right in front of him, he couldn't have been more arrogant. He really thought that he was an unparalleled genius and a legendary 'general'!
"However, Lei Chenghu's arrival shattered all his dreams brutally. The victory that had just been in his favor was reversed by Lei Chenghu immediately. How could Yun Xuefeng not be infuriated when the cooked duck was about to fly away?
"Also, he and Lei Chenghu are known as the 'Twin Paragons of the expedition army', and there is a deep gap between them in the first place. Lei Chenghu might not consider him a big deal, but his jealousy for Lei Chenghu is so deep that he has been hoping to defeat Lei Chenghu fair and square on the battlefield to defend his so-called dignity. Right now, the greatest opportunity is right before his eyes. How can he miss it?
"Besides, he has no choice but to attack actively. The Thunder Fleet has just jumped over. After annihilating a branch fleet led by an Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship neatly, it is sailing at Yun Xuefeng's fleet at a high speed. If Yun Xuefeng does not want to collide with Lei Chenghu and wants to avoid him, he has to retreat millions of kilometers in a row.
"You know the situation on the space battlefield right now, too. Both parties are on the edge of the cliff-edge of confidence and fighting will. All the forces are observing. None of them can back off easily. Whoever 'backs off' at such a moment will be like the flag of the commander in ancient battlefields retreating. One moment of carelessness, and the army will be crushed like an avalanche!"
Boss Bai told Li Yao that after annihilating an Adamantine Fleet unstoppably, Lei Chenghu announced his existence through the public channel to all the starships on the enemy's side and his own side that were scattered everywhere in the Seven Seas Space Zone. He also published a "Letter to All the Soldiers of the Imperium".
In the "Letter to All the Soldiers of the Imperium", Lei Chenghu did not specifically distinguish between the "reformists" and the "Kurfürst", nor did he investigate who raised the civil war exactly. Instead, he included 99% of the soldiers on both sides of the war from the perspective of "a regular soldier of the Imperium".
"The great enemy is right in front of us. The main fleet of the Holy League hasn't been destroyed yet, and it may strike the heartland of the Imperium at any moment. At such a critical moment, the Imperium of True Human Beings cannot afford a total civil war!
"When the nest is overturned, no egg can remain intact. Whatever their stance is, if the Imperium is doomed, everybody's interests and even lives will be doomed!
"Whether you are loyal to the reformists, to the free coin, to the four Kurfürsten, or even to nobody but your hometown, everybody who is fighting on the battlefield right now shares the same identity, which is that they are soldiers of the Imperium!
"The Imperium's army does not fight the Imperium's army. As the purest soldiers, we should not be instigated or manipulated by any force. Our glorious and noble blood should flow in more valuable places, on the battlefield against the Holy League!
"Right now, in the blood-soaked Seven Seas Space Zone, countless people have fought side by side with me in the cold trenches in the frontline of the cosmos. They have saved my life or been saved by me countless times. Our blood has long been mixed together. We are all life-and-death brothers. I cannot bear to meet any of you on the battlefield!
"If you are willing to trust me, a regular veteran of the Imperium, one more time, gather under my command and gather all the starships here and all the soldiers of the Imperium who are willing to fight for the country into a real army!
"The army will boast unparalleled strength, and it will be able to achieve all your goals. It will be able to defend the great Imperium. It will also be able to receive the ultimate glory and … everything that you want!"
That was basically the content of Lei Chenghu's "Letter to All the Soldiers of the Imperium".
Although the language was rather lackluster, it boasted thunderous and deafening power when it was uttered together with the Astounding Thunder Fleet's unstoppable attacks.
Intimidated by Lei Chenghu, at least half of the starships in the coalition fleet of the four families wavered again and returned to the ambiguous neutral stance. Also, as time went by, more and more starships that remained neutral, and the situation became more and more unfavorable for Yun Xuefeng.
Yun Xuefeng's main fleet was the closest to Lei Chenghu's Thunder Fleet. If the commander backed off in such a situation, there would be no need to fight the following battles at all. He might as well surrender directly.
Therefore, Yun Xuefeng did not have a choice but to gnash his teeth and take a wild gamble with Lei Chenghu!
"Yun Xuefeng has the greatest trump card, which is our fleet."
Boss Bai said, "Although I only displayed one third of the starships for him to scan, he was already overjoyed. He asked me to ambush the Thunder Fleet from the rear. I could only agree on the surface, but right now, I'm in a dilemma and waiting for your message. I wonder, should I fight Lei Chenghu with all my strength?"
"Of course not. Lei Chenghu is someone that we can win over. He is even the greatest opportunity for us to turn the tables. I believe that I can persuade Lei Chenghu. By then, won't the Thunder Fleet and the Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs be invincible when they work together?"
Li Yao said, "However, I need your assistance!"
Looking at Li Yao's face, Boss Bai frowned and said, "For some reason, I have a feeling that I will not like what you are going to say next. However, why don't you tell me how you want my assistance?"
"It's very simple. First of all, you need to bite Lei Chenghu's ass and rip apart the Thunder Fleet's battle formation to create an opportunity for me to sneak in without alarming anyone. With your marvelous commanding skills, it shouldn't be a problem for you, right?"
Li Yao said in a breath, "Of course, you may as well fight more fiercely on the surface. It will be best if you and Lei Chenghu are truly fighting each other to the point that all your starships have been blown up. Only in such a way will more people be lured into our trap so that we can trap and kill them together!
"However, since we are going to join hands later, naturally, we cannot really fight until both of us are heavily wounded. We can only make it more lively without causing any substantial damage to the fleets of the two parties. I know that it is slightly difficult, but it certainly won't be a problem for you, the legendary Boss Bai, will it?"
With a gloomy face, Boss Bai bit his cheeks and asked, one word after another, "Anything else?"
"Anything else …"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao snapped his fingers. "Right, can you send some information that only a senior commander of his level can understand to Lei Chenghu with your delicate starship microoperations so that he will be under tremendous military pressure and realize that he will be killed if he does not cooperate with us? That way, it will be easier for me to reason with him!"
"Hehe."
Boss Bai put on a fake smile. "If that's all you need, why don't you …"
He paused for a long time without saying anything. Li Yao couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you what?"
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