Tales of Soldier

Chapter 274: enemy attack

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After a lot of fuss among the personnel in the air defense system, they finally got an electronic telescope to modify the fire control system, but at this time, Tang Long's five warships had already left the range of the planet's air defense.

Not far from the planet, the radar siren suddenly sounded rapidly. Tang Long looked at the number of enemy ships ahead shown on the radar, and immediately shouted: "Activate the escape system!"

Hearing this, Tang Zhong and the others were all stunned, and the fat man opened his eyes wide and muttered, "Escape system? There is such a thing?"

Tang Long's soldiers did not hesitate much, and immediately pressed a green button.

When this button was pressed, Tang Zhong and others only heard the sound of "click, click" from the battleship, which seemed to be the sound of several pieces of metal moving and rubbing, and then felt that the width of the battleship seemed to be a little narrower, and the length was a little shorter. Other than that, there's nothing weird about it.

Although unable to attack the Tanglong battleship, the Weishen Air Defense Force, which was tracking the Tanglong battleship with electronic binoculars, stared at the screen in a daze.

Because they saw that the five beautiful warships actually lost weight, the originally beautiful body became slimmer, and the dagger-like prow shrank into a sharp cone, and the length was also shortened .

The most surprising thing is that the jets at the stern of the ship suddenly changed into a total of thirteen jets with one inner, one middle, four outer and eight outer. After these nozzles appeared, after emitting light, all of a sudden, the traces of these battleships disappeared from the electronic screen.

"Damn! Why does the enemy have stealth technology?" The commander of the Weishen Kingdom warship who came to encircle and suppress Tang Long couldn't help shouting when he saw the red dot that suddenly disappeared on the radar.

No wonder he lost his composure, because the order to encircle and suppress Tang Long was an order directly issued by the Supreme God of Weishen Kingdom. .

"Quickly, order the forward to activate the electronic telephoto system and send the image of the enemy to the whole army!" The commander suddenly remembered that his battleship had such equipment, and immediately shouted.

With the forward troops in a hurry, the image of the front line appeared on the commander's flagship.

Seeing the video, everyone on the flagship was dumbfounded, because the tens of thousands of warships in the vanguard were swaying around like headless chickens, disrupting the entire vanguard camp.

"What's going on? What are they messing up? Where's the enemy?" The commander looked around, but found no trace of the enemy at all.

The soldier in charge of controlling the computer heard the commander's words and immediately started to adjust the computer. After a while, the commander noticed an image of a white warship appearing on the screen.

This battleship is very strange, it looks like a very slender cone, and it is light, flexible and fast in the densely packed battleship group.

I don't know what program was installed on the shipboard computer, and it can actually pass by the body of the battleship on my side, not to mention the personnel on the battleship of my own side, even the onlookers like myself feel cold sweat, it's no wonder Your own warships will be in chaos and panic.

"Can you aim?" the commander asked his subordinates.

"The enemy's speed is too fast, and the direction of movement is irregular, so it is impossible to aim at it." The soldier replied immediately.

Seeing the enemy warship constantly switching screens on the screen, the commander also understands that the computing power of the shipboard computer on his side cannot be compared with that of the enemy, otherwise he would not need to switch screens so frequently to track the enemy. .

It seems that the task entrusted by the gods cannot be completed this time. The commander secretly sighed, but with the resolute expression on his face, he ordered solemnly: "Send the record up, and ask for permission to martial law in all areas, and activate all barriers. Point, the border is ready, once the target is locked, don't worry about anything, just fire and shoot!"

The adjutant who sent the order was stunned for a moment, because once the request is agreed, the enemy warship will be attacked no matter where it is. Even if they stay on the capital star, as long as they are locked, they will attack regardless of the safety of the capital star of.

This request should not be granted, right? The adjutant thought so, but he still followed orders.

Just when the adjutant sent the request, the radar soldier shouted: "Sir, the enemy warship has slowed down, we can lock and aim!"

The sullen commander immediately showed a joyful smile, and immediately shouted: "Attack! Attack me! Destroy them!"

Hearing this, the radar soldier swallowed his saliva, because the radar showed that those enemy ships were out of the effective range of all his warships, but he didn't dare to say a word, seeing the frenzy of the officer, he would definitely be killed if he said it of.

Those warships of Weishen Kingdom who were in a mess also found traces of Tanglong warships at this moment. These warships are worthy of the elite troops of Weishen Kingdom. They recovered from the chaos in a short period of time and quickly organized their formation towards Tang Dynasty The dragon battleship rushed forward.

"Why did it stop? The speed just now was quite enjoyable." Fatty asked curiously.

But the people around were gasping for breath in shock. It was really terrifying just now. They were able to enter the sub-light speed state while traveling in normal space, and they were able to shuttle through the crowd of battleships at this speed. They were even more fighter jets than fighter jets. I really doubt it. Why didn't this battleship disintegrate.

"No way, after sailing at super speed for a period of time, it needs an hour of cooling time, otherwise the engine will explode due to overheating." Tang Long smiled nonchalantly.

But no one knew that his heart was thumping, thumping violently: "Damn, I almost let my heart beat out! This super speed flight is much faster than a fighter jet. Fortunately, I did not control the pilot arrogantly, otherwise it would be really amazing. It’s impossible to make so many evasive moves flawlessly. I don’t know how the eldest sister and the others researched it to make the battleship move so flexibly.”

It's no wonder that Tang Long is like this. He didn't expect the escape system of this kind of warship to be so terrifying. He was sitting in the center when the speed sailed just now, and the excitement coming to his face was much stronger than that of the people on the side.

When Tang Long was alone, he would definitely not give up the manual control to pilot this battleship, but now that the battleship was full of his family and relatives, he did not dare to take this risk.

In this way, Tang Long's five warships sailed at super speed for a period of time, and then sailed normally for an hour. When the enemy thought they could catch up, they sailed at super speed again, making it impossible for the enemy to catch up.

As they got farther and farther away from the enemy, it became more and more difficult for the enemy's binoculars to capture the trace of the Tanglong warship, and finally lost the trace of Tanglong completely. Needless to say, the Tanglong battleship has already jumped in a safe place left.

Knowing that the mission failed, Weishen Kingdom had no choice but to give up the pursuit and lifted the alert situation in various places.

When Tang Long escaped Weishen Kingdom and rushed to Datang, a group of more than 30 million warships quietly gathered in the dark star universe near the border of Datang. A bit like the battleship of the Beluga Battleship, the strangest thing is that all the battleships are not painted with any patterns.

In other words, none of these battleships have any designation flags including pirates. In the universe, such spaceships are ghost ships, which means that they have malicious intentions. Anyone can capture and destroy such spaceships.

Of course, with such a huge group of ghost warships, no idiot would protest to them.

In one of the flagships in the center of this group of warships, three famous figures in the Dark Night Empire are sitting in the commander's bedroom surrounded by them.

As the leader of the three, Ao Han, Admiral Tiger, said aloud: "Both, now that we have reached the border of the Tang Dynasty, let's talk about how to fight this war." Reckless, but a wily and calculating manner.

"Brother, my younger sister thinks that now that most of the troops of the Tang Dynasty have been transferred away, we should divide our troops into three groups to attack these three places at the same time, cut the Tang Dynasty into three parts, and then we will concentrate our forces to conquer each other. Use the fastest speed to win the overall victory." Wolf Admiral Xue Lisi pointed to the simplified galaxy map of Datang on the virtual screen, and said.

Admiral Tiger pointed to the left side of the galaxy map and said, "Well, this is a good idea. The place on the left belongs to Ain But."

Leopard Admiral Ain Bute nodded after hearing this. That star field contains the Wuchao Galaxy. Although it is the core of Datang, it is also the hometown of Ainbut. The person who was born in the Wuchao Galaxy is responsible for It couldn't be better.

"Okay, then I will hand over the right side to my younger sister, and the middle will be in charge of my elder brother." Admiral Wolf said first.

Admiral Hu nodded in agreement. As the boss, he is obliged to be in the middle to help.

After discussing military affairs, the three of them issued orders to their subordinates using their communicators. They didn't need to organize the pre-war work by themselves. If so, what would their subordinates do

The three of them waited for the notice from their subordinates to finish their work, while drinking and chatting, Admiral Wolf asked: "Brother, why does Your Majesty want us to eliminate all the number and banners? Could it be that our three admirals came to attack Datang and cause chaos in the universe? Do we need to cover up our identities like this?"

"It's not very clear, but there must be a reason for His Majesty to ask us to do this. We just need to follow the order, and we don't need to make more guesses." Admiral Tiger said, shaking his glass.

"Hey, brother, this is your flagship, and there are only three of us here, what can we say! Don't hide it, you are not worried that we will not be able to win this battle, right?" Admiral Wolf said dissatisfied.

Admiral Tiger pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Forget it, the three of us are on the same boat anyway, so we can talk about anything." Speaking of this, Admiral Tiger subconsciously looked around, while Admiral Wolf and Admiral Leopard They will also put their heads together in satisfaction.

Admiral Hu lowered his voice and said, "Our boss has a disobedient heart."

"What? Impossible?" Both Admiral Wolf and Admiral Leopard showed expressions of surprise and disbelief.

"I didn't believe it at the beginning. After all, as long as the prince takes the position of head of the Royal First Army, he will be the next emperor. This is true." Admiral Hu said with a wry smile.

"Why did you do this, sir?" Admiral Wolf asked suspiciously.

It's no wonder she was puzzled, since he couldn't run away, why should he fight? Aren't you afraid of arousing His Majesty's dislike and depriving him of the position of legion commander

"He can't wait any longer. After all, His Majesty is now in his prime, and he can be the emperor for decades. Our chief doesn't have the patience to wait for decades." Admiral Leopard, who quickly reacted, said with a sigh.

He hated this kind of power struggle the most, but he couldn't help but get caught up in it. After a pause, he asked aloud, "Is there any evidence?"

"How can there be evidence for this? I just noticed that the palace guards have all become officers." Admiral Hu shook his head and said.

"It's impossible for Your Majesty not to know?" Admiral Wolf said cautiously.

"Your Majesty will not be unaware of the fact that the guards around me have taken refuge with his son. You must know that this is how His Majesty came here." Admiral Leopard said softly.

Admiral Hu nodded solemnly and said: "Yes, this is the habit of the dark night royal family, we courtiers should not be too fussy.

"Especially my little sister, you don't want to get involved. If you take one wrong step, you will destroy your family. Even if you make the right move, you may end up with nothing afterwards, so you must be careful."

When Admiral Wolf heard this, his face turned red and white, and he gritted his teeth after a while, and nodded to show that he understood Admiral Tiger's words.

When the three were silent, three messages appeared at the same time: "Admiral, the whole army is ready and ready to go!"

The three of them immediately stood up, saluted each other, and said: "I wish you all the best!" They went back to their command rooms.

As the order was issued, the mighty battleship group was divided into three groups, and then formed into a formation, rushing towards Datang's predetermined position.

A patrol boat on the border of Datang is wandering slowly in this star field at the moment, and the two soldiers in the boat are chatting boredly.

"Damn, it's really boring. When I retire, I must build a spaceship to do trade. Seeing those merchant ships returning and leaving with full load, I'm really jealous." A soldier said.

"Hey, what's so great about Merchant Shipping is that it's better to contract the planet. When the Ministry of Commerce first issued the announcement, no one took it seriously. Only my uncle who was unwilling to be ordinary borrowed money everywhere, and even sold the old house. I collected a sum of money to apply, and actually applied for him to a barren planet, and then threw the child to relatives, and the couple drove a broken boat to that planet. At that time, people in the family said my cousin was stupid .”

"Wow, applied for a planet? That's amazing! What did your cousin dig up from that planet?"

"Who said it wasn't! At that time, when everyone heard about the barren planet, they thought there was nothing. Who would have thought that nothing is for a country, for a person or a company, it has everything!

"My cousin's planet not only discovered several rare minerals, but also the most precious thing like smoky crystals. Although the output is not high, it is enough for private mining for about ten years."

"Damn! Mo Jing? Ten years! Then isn't your cousin so rich?"

"Of course, my family and my cousin are on good terms. I lent him 100,000 yuan at the beginning, which was the most among so many relatives. Not long ago, he repaid 100 million yuan and gave him a beautiful large merchant ship. Give me home."

"100 million? Damn, why don't you come to be a soldier?"

"Fuck, this is after I became a soldier, and you think that if you don't want to be a soldier, you won't be a soldier? If you violate the conscription regulations, no matter how rich you are, you will be killed!"

"Hey, I'll apply for a planet after I retire, even a garbage star can get treasure."

"That's right! As long as it is a planet, it can be sent. Even if you get a planet that is not stable, you can still produce energy and sell it for money, and you won't lose money. You must know that those of us who have served as soldiers have the priority to choose. It is absolutely safe. .”

The two chattered a few words and changed the subject.

"I said brother, why didn't the military department move the cordon outside? In this star field, no country dares to fight against our Tang Dynasty. These places are not occupied for nothing."

"Hey, it's not that simple. It's really like what you said. Our Tang Dynasty has unified the universe long ago. At that time, there were no national borders, so we people don't have to worry about it like this."

"Oh? What's the reason? We've been here for so long, but we haven't seen any enemy ships."

"Hey, it's not because of our lack of troops in the Tang Dynasty. We don't have enough troops to occupy the planet. Even if the other party is not defended, we have no interest in attacking."

"Isn't it? Last time the military department issued an enlistment order for 300 million people. It's impossible for all of these 300 million people to go to the ground troops and our patrol troops, right?"

"Are you a recruit? These 300 million people have only been recruited for a few days, not to mention that the physical training has not been completed, even if the physical training is completed, do you think that the battleship can be opened as soon as it is on board? The 300 million people have not trained for a year and a half There is no combat power at all.”

"Hey, you don't know something about this. Let me tell you, while those recruits are undergoing physical training, they are also undergoing holographic training. Don't tell me that you have never played the game "War", as long as you have played this game, No matter what, they all have the ability of battleships."

"Is there such a thing? But even so, we don't have many warships. I heard that there are only tens of thousands of ships."

"Hey, don't listen to the news that deceives the common people. I don't believe that our Tang Dynasty is so powerful that there are only tens of thousands of warships. There must be a large number of them hidden."

"Haha, if that's the case, why doesn't our Tang Dynasty occupy the surrounding territories immediately? This is the opposite of what you just said."

"I… "

When the soldiers said this, the radar alarm sounded eagerly. They only saw red dots appearing on the radar screen, and before they had time to react, countless beams of light rushed towards them.

At the last moment, they just thought: "Fortunately, the current device automatically alarms after encountering an attack. It doesn't need to manually alarm like before. Now the country should already know about the enemy's attack, right?"

In the military headquarters of Datang Capital Star, sirens were already sounding for a while, and the red sirens made everyone's faces turn red.

They were all officers who were most loyal to Tang Long, so after the enemy invaded, even though they knew that Tang Long was not in the country, they didn't panic, and acted in an orderly manner according to the established rules and regulations.

"Enemy notification!" An officer with the rank of major general shouted.

"The enemy attacked our three places in three ways, and the number of enemy troops in each way exceeded 10 million. Judging from the signs, they want to cut our country into three parts and make our army difficult to care about." The officer on duty immediately reported. Images from various security points were also displayed on the screen.

"Damn it, there are all ghost battleships without serial numbers and flags. Which hostile force is so generous?" The major general looked at the image on the screen and muttered, and then ordered: "Order all planets to enter a state of combat readiness, and all fleets to enter a state of war ! I will apply for a general mobilization order to the eldest lady."

Although this major general is the highest rank in the Tang Dynasty, he does not have the power to order all the fleets to set off and issue general mobilization orders. At this moment, the only person in the Tang Dynasty who has this power is Xingling who is a female celebrity in the palace.

Just as the major general was about to leave, the guard at the door shouted: "Miss is here!" Everyone in the headquarters immediately stood up and saluted.

Xing Ling, who was dressed in casual clothes, walked in anxiously, and asked about the situation while returning the salute. After the major general explained, he did not speak, and immediately pressed the emergency button.

As soon as the button was pressed, alarms sounded from all the planets in the entire Datang, and the voice set by the computer also sounded in the entire Datang: "This is a first-level alarm. All civilians enter the shelter immediately, and all reservists immediately go to various places. Report to the military area!"

The citizens of Datang, who were busy, were stunned for a moment when they heard the siren. When they heard the warning and saw the air defense facilities stretched out and the shelters opened, they immediately understood, and immediately threw away the work at hand. Rush to shelters everywhere.

Although they entered the refuge in an orderly manner, the people still couldn't help talking, because this level of alarm has not been activated since it was set. You must know that this was activated by all the planets in the entire Datang territory at the same time, not to mention other things Yes, the economic loss alone is inestimable, and it is impossible to use the first-level alert for exercises.

In other words, there was a large-scale invasion by the enemy army, and the enemy army was so huge that the Tang army could not keep them at the border, so they could only fight on the mainland.

It's just that Datang is so big, even if there is an enemy invasion, it doesn't need the whole of Datang to enter the first-level alarm, right? Could it be that the enemy has surrounded the entire Tang Dynasty? Or can the enemy force endanger any place in Datang

However, the people did not panic. In their hearts, the army led by Tang Long was invincible. As long as Tang Long was around, no one could defeat Tang Long.

Contrary to the public discussion, people with reserve status quietly gathered at the gathering points in various districts, and then boarded military spaceships, and were transported to places where they were needed.

I don’t know if it’s because the people of Datang are highly disciplined or because the central computer of Datang is so powerful. Anyway, it didn’t take long for the entire planet to be silent. Except for military spacecraft and transport ships to transport personnel and supplies to various places, there were no spaceships or pedestrians. appear.

In addition to the spacecraft transporting reservists, the busiest part is the logistics department. They open warehouses stored in various places and direct robots to use giant handling tools to load these materials onto the spacecraft, and then transport them to military bases everywhere.

And some hidden military bases popped up regardless of the exposed targets. The warships stored in these bases that were not in the establishment received personnel and supplies while being spray-painted with new designation flags. And the grassroots officers who were trained in the military academy also came to receive these warships and soldiers.

It won't take long for fleets with new designations, full troops, and decent combat effectiveness to appear in the Datang military ranks.

And the important factories on each planet also activated their defensive settings after receiving the alarm. A series of protective covers that can match the surrounding environment shrouded the factories. From the sky, this place is an inconspicuous place. Who They also don't know that there are factories supporting Datang Industries in these places.

In these factories, especially the employees in the military factories, they did not enter the refuge, but continued to work. Every finished product was shipped to the logistics department, and then the logistics department sent these finished products to where they were needed.

The spaceships transporting production materials are the same as those military spaceships, risking being shot down, delivering raw materials to factories all over the place.

Of course, it was not sent directly to the factory, but sent to a stronghold, and then the stronghold was distributed to prevent the enemy from tracking the transport ship and killing the factory.

After a busy day, Datang was ready. With Xingling's order, the warships in each military port immediately launched into the air, then assembled into a fleet, and sailed to the destination under the command of the officers, preparing to enter the battlefield.

When Xing Ling issued a series of orders, he used the simulated voice and video of Tang Long. If they knew, they would definitely panic after losing their backbone. Not to mention resisting the invaders, they might rebel or surrender directly to the enemy.

Xing Ling said to the major general after finishing all this work, "I will leave the rest to you."

Xing Ling has self-knowledge. Although he can do anything, the unpredictable behavior of war is not something he can fully grasp, and he should leave it to professionals to deal with it.

"Yes, this subordinate swears to wipe out the enemy!"

The major general and other officers are very happy that the eldest lady is so reasonable. They are not afraid of the incompetence of the boss, but the most afraid of the boss's blind command. This happens endlessly in the history of the universe. Although it is a bit too much to say so, they still don't want laymen to order them indiscriminately.

The most famous example of such a thing in the history of the universe was before the founding of Wulai, the largest country in the universe. Before the republic, the Wulai Kingdom was an imperial country with one billion soldiers, while the Republican Army that raised the anti-flag had only nearly ten million troops, and they were all low-level warships.

Judging from the data, the Republican Army has no chance of winning at all, but the result is that the Republican Army with few soldiers and ships overthrew the monarchy and established a republic.

This victory was not at all what the Republican Army claimed. It was achieved with the support of the people. This has nothing to do with the support of the people, because the people will only stand on the side of the strong.

The success of the Republican Army is entirely due to the chaotic command of the emperor of the Imperial Army. In fact, there is no problem with chaotic command. Even if a wrong order is issued, the Imperial Army can rely on its strong force, and the superb command and staff capabilities of the officers. The tables turned.

But the emperor was very outrageous. With such a huge army of one billion soldiers in the imperial army, he actually directly commanded the fleet of tens of thousands of warships, and he transferred the troops away without telling their immediate superiors. When the battle was the most pressing and needed to turn the tide of the battle, many imperial regiment commanders found that a large number of their subordinates were inexplicably missing, and they didn't know where they had been transferred, thus failing to achieve success.

The accumulation of such impossible failures has finally resulted in the defeat of the Imperial Army by the Republican Army, which has completely delegated power to the front-line commanders.

Xing Ling didn't bother to care about what these officers were thinking, anyway, just leave the war to them, and she began to direct the logistics work, which was her strong point, after all, her predecessor was specialized in these cumbersome issues.

The Dark Night Army, which was divided into three groups, invaded the territory of Datang like a broken bamboo, and met the resistance of the Datang Army at the beginning, but these Datang Fleets, which had a maximum number of ten, were in front of tens of millions of fleets. It was smashed like an egg hitting a stone, and the morale of the soldiers of the Dark Night Empire was greatly improved.

It's just that their three admirals don't think so, and some officers who have access to the loss information don't think so either.

Where is the opponent's egg, it is completely a stone hitting a rock, but the rock on my side is relatively large, smashing the other's small stone, such a collision, even if it is a big rock on my side, a few pieces will fall Come.

All the officers in the flagship of the three admirals looked a little ugly. They did not expect the strength of the Datang warship to reach this level. Under the concentrated attack of such superior forces, the loss of the two sides actually reached a ratio of one to one.

If the number of the two sides is the same, I am afraid that my side has been wiped out. And the loss at that time could not reach 1:1, it was very likely to be 1:5 or 1:10, of course the side with more was from your own side.

"This attrition rate cannot leak out."

The three admirals all issued such orders, and they were all thankful that Datang had transferred most of its warships away to participate in some family alliance battle, especially that the most trembling mobile fortress was not in Datang.

If not, I am afraid that with the cooperation of the mobile fortress and the 100,000 Great Tang warships, most of the own army can be destroyed.

Well, the attack speed should be increased, otherwise it will be troublesome when those Datang soldiers who went out to participate in the battle turn around. The three admirals couldn't help but shudder when they thought of the power of the silver-armored fortress in the information, and they gave the order to speed up at the same time.

However, Datang did not satisfy the desire of the three admirals to speed up the elimination of the main forces of Datang. Except for destroying hundreds of thousands of Datang warships on the border, the Dark Night Army that entered the territory of Datang never encountered a single Datang warship. Even the planets along the way surrendered completely without resistance, which made the troops going to capture the planets very depressed.

Admiral Leopard, who was in charge of attacking Wuchao Galaxy, said to himself with some doubts: "What's going on? Where are the enemy troops hiding?"

"Admiral, could this be the enemy's scorched-earth tactics?" An officer put forward his own thoughts.

Before Admiral Leopard answered, another officer retorted: "How can there be such a scorched-earth tactic? The people on those planets still exist, and all kinds of supplies have not been transferred. You must know that we are now a ghost warship without a number and flag. Aren't they afraid that we will slaughter and plunder these planets?"

"Then why don't we slaughter a few planets and see how they react?" an officer suggested.

Most officers disagree with this approach.

"This is not a good way. Our current task is to destroy the main force of the enemy army and occupy this star field, and since they dare to throw the planet and the people to us like this, they are not afraid of any massacres by us, so now we are massacring It's a complete waste of time doing useless work, don't you see that we don't even bother to occupy the planet now?"

"The lower officer believes that the enemy is shrinking its troops. According to computer calculations and the performance of the enemy's warships, as long as they gather more than three million ships, they can completely resist our army's advance, even if there are two million ships. , and can barely intercept our army, as long as they can hold out until their expeditionary army returns, they can turn defeat into victory." An officer said.

"That's right, the Datang Army must think so. They have such confidence in their warships."

Everyone nodded in agreement, but the mood was a little pessimistic, because this is true, if Datang's warships were all of such performance, three million ships would be enough to hold back the advance of their own army.

If the silver armor fortress attacked from the rear of our army at that time, our army would completely collapse.

Seeing the faces of his subordinates, Admiral Leopard smiled and said: "Don't worry, according to our information, Datang has only about six million troops at most, if they are divided into three parts, they can barely stop our army.

"But don't forget that our army is divided into three groups, and my attack on this route is Datang's Wuchao galaxy, which is where Datang's capital star is located. They dare not distribute the six million troops equally, so they must focus on I this way.