"What? Teacher surrendered? " Aurelia, who received the surrender communication, was equally surprised. She didn't expect her teacher to surrender on his own initiative. She had been racking her brains to capture Adams' flagship.
"Could it be a fake surrender?" Aurelia immediately thought of this. In her heart, Adams was not someone who was afraid of death, so she couldn't understand why Adams surrendered so quickly.
"I don't know, but Sister, they have shut down the weapon system and radar!" Lacus said. At this time, Adams had ordered the fleet to shut down the weapon system.
"He really surrendered?" Aurelia still didn't quite believe it. She then ordered, "Connect me to the enemy's flagship. I want to ask in person. Is Teacher being held hostage?"
Aurelia didn't believe that Adams would surrender at all. She subconsciously thought that Adams was being held hostage by his adjutant, who had given the order on his behalf.
"Yes, Sister." Lacus immediately carried out Aurelia's order. Soon, the communication was connected.
"Congratulations, Aurelia. You've finished your apprenticeship." Adams appeared on the big screen with a smile.
"Teacher, did you really give the order to surrender?" Aurelia asked.
"Yes, there's no need to fight this battle anymore. I've lost. Child, your performance was perfect." Adams nodded.
"This has little to do with my command. The main thing is that this ship is too powerful. If it was your flagship, I'm afraid the entire universe would have been conquered by the empire!" Aurelia saw the desolate face of her teacher, and her heart was filled with infinite melancholy.
"Aurelia, I know the empire has let you down, but it is your motherland after all. Won't you consider taking this ship home?" Adams asked, slightly agitated.
"Teacher, I'm sorry. The Aldera Empire is my motherland, yes, but I've done enough for it. But what have I gotten in return? I can't even decide my own marriage and future. In the end, I'm just a commodity and plaything in the hands of others! "Speaking of her motherland, Aurelia's heart was filled with infinite grievances.
"I'm sorry, child …" In the face of Aurelia's tearful face, Adams was speechless. Although the education of the Audra Empire had always advocated for citizens to sacrifice their family for the greater good and to prioritize the interests of the motherland, humans were made of flesh and blood. Aurelia was not an emotionless machine. She could persist in the beginning, but after a long time, a person's heart would turn cold.
"Teacher, do you really want to surrender?" Aurelia asked with a straight face after she calmed herself down.
"Yeah, it doesn't matter to these old bones of mine, but there are too many people in the fleet. I can't drag millions of people down with me …" Adams sighed. His reason made Aurelia unable to refute it.
Indeed, the fleet in reality was not like the "players" in the gamma space. Every ship in reality required a large number of crew members to operate. A cruiser had hundreds of thousands of crew members, and a fleet with millions of soldiers was even more common.
At this time, Adams' fleet had no chance of winning. Instead of watching the ship be destroyed and the soldiers die in space, surrendering at this time might be the best choice.
"Well, teacher, I accept your surrender, but please order your fleet to turn off the shields and power furnaces after I stop attacking, and have the rear stand by. I will have the tugboat take you back to the spaceport!" Aurelia said.
"No problem!" Adams agreed immediately.
But in the face of such a straightforward answer from Adams, Aurelia was even more confused. Turning off the shields was tantamount to completely abandoning defense, and turning off the power furnaces was tantamount to giving up everything!
Turning off the power furnaces could be turned on again, but if the power furnaces were turned off, it would have to be preheated. This process was time-consuming. Before the power furnaces were restarted, the entire spaceship could not do anything. The shields couldn't be turned on, the engines couldn't be started, and the weapons couldn't be used.
Turning off the power furnaces was tantamount to putting one's life in the hands of the other party. Adams actually agreed to this condition. Could it be that he was really determined to surrender?
"Sister, should we stop attacking?" Lacus asked.
"Yes! Order the fleet to stop attacking! " Aurelia nodded. If Adams really surrendered, she would naturally be overjoyed. Although the Audra Empire had wronged her, Aurelia couldn't bear to let millions of her motherland's soldiers die in her hands.
Soon, under Aurelia's order, the Dawn and the 5th Fleet's drone cluster stopped attacking. Adams also kept his word. His fleet also turned off the shields and extinguished the power furnaces.
"He actually turned off the power furnaces!" Lacus was a little stunned.
"Teacher … He's changed …" Aurelia muttered to herself. Adams used to be a famous iron-blooded commander. His fleet had never retreated, but now, for the sake of the lives of his subordinates, he actually made the fleet surrender. This was completely unimaginable to Aurelia before.
"Sir Marshal, are we really surrendering?"
"Sir! Let's fight it out with them! "
"That's right. Instead of being trampled on like this, it's better to fight to the death!"
"Fight my ass! You want to fight to the death with him? We can't even touch a hair on their heads, okay? "
"You coward!"
"Bullsh * t, this is called a wise man submits to circumstances. If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"
At this time, in Adams' fleet, there was a constant quarrel.
"Alright, everyone stop arguing!" Adams stopped the quarrel between the captains in the fleet channel.
"Sir! We can still fight! "Some captains were still unwilling to give up.
"Look around. You are willing to fight, but are your subordinates also willing to fight? What's the situation now? Even if we all die in battle, we can't destroy even one of the enemy's frigates. What's the point of throwing our lives away at this time? "Adams felt very pained as he spoke. How could he not want to fight to the death with the enemy?
As an empire's grand marshal, no one had ever surrendered to the enemy. He, Adams, was the first marshal in the history of the Aldera Empire to surrender. This was an unforgettable shame, an eternal shame that would be recorded in the annals of history!
But for the sake of the Aldera Empire, Adams knew that he had to accept this shame. He could only truly surrender, even at the cost of killing his own comrades and attacking his own motherland. Only then could he gain the enemy's trust. Only then would he have the opportunity to come into contact with the super warships!
Only then would he have the opportunity to obtain the blueprints of the super warships. When the time came, he would give the blueprints to the Aldera Empire and use his death to comfort his compatriots who had died in his hands.
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