Humans in this area have committed many crimes.

In the final battle, Emperor Augustus defeated and captured Dugar.

After that, through some means, Emperor Augustus ordered people to cure Dugar's infection and asked him to plead guilty and commit suicide as the leader of the Earth Expeditionary Force.

The cured Dugar also realized his crime after getting rid of the infection of the swarm. He was grateful for the kindness of the emperor, and tearfully asked the emperor to grant him a peaceful death, hoping to die as a human instead of an infected person.

Later, the people on Earth only found images of the Tyranid Empire's public execution of Dugal, without knowing the cause and effect.

Alexander Dugar may not hate the Empire that much. Gerald Dugar is too ancient a figure for him. This declining family does not pursue the so-called family glory and hatred for generations, but the Tyranids and the Earth

Everyone believed that he came for revenge.

In short, in the tenth year of the reign of Angus VIII, Alexander Dugar once again opened the door of the empire with a huge expeditionary fleet and a declaration of war. He was only thirty-nine years old at that time.

, is the youngest expeditionary force marshal in the history of the Earth Federation.

Marshal Dugar is a military wizard who is rare to see in a thousand years, and his men are all star-studded. The Earth Federation has been preparing to restart the war before he was born.

And who are we here? The top brass of the empire's army are all imperial military nobles who are living off their ancestors' merits. There were a group of them during the time of Emperor Augustus, and then Arcturus II.

In that group, there are also the favorites and relatives of the old and new emperors, as well as the losers, hooligans and braggadocios who the above-mentioned people have tried their best to fill into the army to accumulate qualifications.

It is always like this at the end of the dynasty. Class conflicts are sharp and conflicts are constant. The government is inefficient and corrupt. It cannot control the local government from top to bottom. It is like a paraplegic giant. Most bureaucrats are either useless or stupid and bad.

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People of that era also generally lacked a long-term perspective. When other people took out the real thing, they thought it was a joke.

There are still many smart people in the imperial army. The higher military academies of Korhal and Tarsonis still adhere to the tradition when they were first established. Admissions do not ask about origin or place of origin. Although this does not prevent the powerful

People put their children in to get qualifications, but these colleges can still provide a large number of outstanding military talents to the empire every year, and almost every generation has famous figures.

But their supreme leader, Imperial Admiral Thomas Raynor, was undoubtedly a complete idiot, and people called him the Talking Pig.

As mentioned before, there is a group of meritorious people who live solely on the glory of their ancestors. If your surname is Reynolds, Horner, Warfield, or Hank, you must be a great general.

For the people, this was understandable, after all they had grown up listening to the legends of Jim Raynor and Matt Horner, but many emperors actually thought the same way.

No matter how incompetent the heirs of these meritorious families are, they can always have a place in the court. As long as these people take on human form and don't urinate in their crotches, they will definitely be able to become marquises and prime ministers.

Take the reconqueror Arcturus as an example. When he re-established the Terran Empire, the big families at the beginning of the country had basically declined. Not any family can survive from the old Federation era like the Terra family.

Now.

However, Arcturus II insisted on bringing back these declining families to support them.

This was entirely due to Arcturus's own idea. He was a staunch bloodline believer. Most of this guy's courage came from his mysterious confidence in his descendants from Emperor Augustus.

Emperor Augustus said that a king should not be honored by blood, but blood should be honored by the king.

Let’s talk about Thomas Renault.

After Marshal Thomas heard the news of the invasion of the Earthlings, he immediately mobilized his troops and led the army in person.

Isn’t that heroic?

In the entire battle, he only did this one thing right.

Only the marshal is responsible for allocating supplies, and his most suitable position should be transportation captain.

However, the marshal had no idea how many warships the Earthlings had sent and how many troops they had mobilized.

It was such a coincidence that no one from the empire rushed back to report. Some said there were only a few hundred warships, some swore that there were many enemies, and some actually said there were so many that they couldn't even count them.

Our great marshal adopted one of them in a compromise, and said magnanimously, well, it seems that the number of enemies is indeed quite large.

Alas! This will definitely be a hard battle, and the soldiers must fight bloody battles, worthy of the divine grace! That’s pretty much what it means. I’m a casual person, and if I love yin and yang, it’s up to me.

The marshal didn't even send another reconnaissance fleet before the war began. He didn't know the enemy's number, location, or intentions. He didn't ask, and he really didn't mention the food and wine bags of his men.

Marshal Thomas's tactical staff who had just learned how to play in the mud were all talking in front of the tactical picture. One said I think they should attack like this, and the other said okay, then I will defend like this.

It's like boxing, you punch me and I punch you, you parry and I block.

That's never how wars are fought, at least for Alexander Dugal.

This is not a brilliant strategy. Dugar divided the main force of his huge fleet into three parts. His largest and most terrifying Star Destroyer warships were all shielded and hidden in Saturn (it was Umoyan who founded this colony.

In the heliosphere of the huge star of the Descendants of Man galaxy, the main fleet merged with the swarm of comets that were constantly moving in the Oort cloud.

Only a small number of Earth's warships arrived in high-altitude orbit with great fanfare to scare the terrified colonists into calling for help from Korhal.

But our marshal was fooled immediately. You can't expect his intelligence to be able to distinguish such an "undetectable" trap.

Although Edmund Duke and Jim Raynor were almost incompatible, the Raynor family and the Duke family were married several times later. Thomas Raynor can even count the blood of the Mengsk family, which is difficult to explain clearly. Whose gene is dominant in his body?

But even if Edmund Duke were in charge, he would not make such a mistake.

The Battle of Saturn probably started like this. Alexander Dugar whistled, and Thomas Raynor rushed over without thinking.

When Marshal Thomas was preparing to enter the Saturn system with the first batch of fleets, an Earth fleet of no more than a few hundred battleships suddenly appeared and attacked their flanks. Then the Earthlings retreated with one blow and quickly escaped from the Imperial fleet. Attack range.

So the marshal immediately sent a fleet three times that number to pursue the victory.

When the second, larger Earth fleet repeated its tactics, the marshal repeated his genius strategy, and so on, until more and more enemy fleets took away more and more of his own fleet, one-fifth of which The fleet left him.

Of course, this is not the main reason for Thomas' failure.

His luck is so bad.

When Thomas's flagship was hit by the Earth Fleet ambushing the Saturn system, the ten-mile-plus super battleship was immediately and completely destroyed, along with all the top commanders of the Imperial Navy.

However, no one moved the entire fleet headquarters to their flagship like Thomas, just to save time for meetings.

How efficient.

Judging from past experience, even so, the imperial fleet will not be defeated immediately.

This kind of thing has happened in the past. When the top commander of the fleet dies, the lower-level deputy commander, the headquarters staff, a captain who suddenly discovers that he has command talents, and even a lower-level officer will also Take over the command and lead the Imperial Navy to break out of the encirclement or turn defeat into victory.

But not this time.

The first batch of imperial fleets that entered the Saturn system were completely annihilated within eight hours. The second and third batches of fleets were defeated in confusion, either in the hyperspace disruption field that covered several light-years on Earth, etc. Die or surrender.

All Imperial fleets entering it are nothing more than chickens waiting to be slaughtered.

In one day, the Terran Empire lost half of its fleet.

Even after such a disastrous defeat, Emperor Angus VIII still had considerable military power in his hands, but he lacked time to assemble a fleet and appoint a new commander.

Dugar didn't give him this time.

If the commander-in-chief of the Earth had invaded the Empire before, then the Dalarian Shipyard and Blackxis would definitely be the military locations they would try their best to seize. The former produced the largest number of warships in the Empire, while the latter was the Empire's most popular science base. The gateway to Luxing District.

But Dugar didn't do that.

The Earth Fleet broke through as much as it could, circled around as much as it could, and drove all the way straight into Korhal. It was unstoppable. No Imperial fleet could stop this terrifying force.

In fact, even at this time, the emperor does not need to panic. There is no fortress world or planet fortress that can compare with Korhal in terms of defense. Every emperor will more or less strengthen the orbit that few people can reach so far.

With layers of defense facilities added, the Sky Shield orbital platform left behind by Emperor Augustus has become an actual artificial moon.

Coupled with the millions of Imperial troops stationed on the planet at the time, Korhal was able to hold out for several months, long enough for other Imperial fleets to arrive to support. A similar incident occurred during Titus Mengsk's time, leaving Earth no matter how hard it was.

No matter how indiscriminate the human fleet bombarded them, they could not break through Korhal's defenses.

But Angus VIII was frightened out of his wits. When he heard the news of Marshal Thomas's defeat, he was so frightened that he just locked himself in the palace. The emperor saw no one, refused to listen to anyone, and was unwilling to give any orders.

Or sign on administrative documents.

There is a leadership team around Angus, but they are all clowns. The empire is in chaos, and no one dares to stand up and take charge, let alone organize defense.

But at that time, people were not too panicked.

People at this time no longer say like them: We have a sky shield.

When you swear that something will never happen, it happens to come true. Do you believe in God? The gods just like to make this kind of joke.

It took Alexander Dugar less than two weeks to bust the Sky Shield myth.

At that time, communication between Kehal and the orbiting platform still relied on electromagnetic waves. Tens of thousands of messages were sent between the ground and outer space every day, most of which were insignificant things - observation reports, material application forms, etc.

Receipts, approvals. These communications are not encrypted and can be easily intercepted and forged. It is actually not difficult to crack the military's encrypted information.

At that time, Korhal had long been infiltrated into a sieve, and their people were everywhere, even on the Sky Shield.

We Tyranids are too confident in the mind-reading abilities of psychics. As long as we pass this level, no one will be suspicious anymore. Inappropriately speaking, the seal of the censorship department is like stamping quarantine on pork.

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Even when the economy was at its worst, hundreds of millions of people entered and exited Korhal every day. There were all kinds of people, and even people on Earth could come and go at will with customs clearance documents and the like.

After all, we are a civilized and confident country, why should we be as ignorant as the barbarians on Earth?

Yes, the Tyranids, the Camorians, and the Umoyans are all descendants of a group of criminals who were exiled from the Earth, but this story has been over.

Dugar's strategy to capture the Sky Shield is not complicated, and it will be easier to implement because of the internal support.

The people on Earth spent almost a week just gathering in front of the Sky Shield in a daze. They did nothing. They did not even cut off the communication between the orbital platform and Korhal. Even the cargo ship delivering supplies to the Sky Shield could

Unimpeded travel to and from outer space.

Everything was as if nothing had happened. The earth's terrifyingly huge fleet covered the sky with darkness, making it look like they had just come all the way to Kohal for a dinner party.
To be continued...