The masterminds of the Chenqiao Mutiny were Seth Heinrich and Anders Aaron, and the accomplices included almost all the senior officials of the Shining Legion in the Chenqiao Fortress at that time. There is a unique condition for these people to rebel, that is, if they unite, they can restrain Marshal Celia.
In fact, the first step in mutiny is to restrain the marshal. They injected a large amount of anesthesia into the medical cabin, handcuffed Celia after he was caught unconscious by surprise, and sent the Declaration of Independence to the Parliament in his name and his dedicated communication channel; Communications, mastery of firepower and energy, controlled other officers who refused to obey with lightning speed.
When Celia woke up, Chenqiao Fortress had become an isolated island in space.
He was handcuffed to the head of the large conference table. Two adjutants pointed guns at his head. Heinrich was sitting in front of him, holding a Phoenix Mecha ring in his left hand and a copy of "Autonomy" in his right hand. Declaration".
"Please sign here, Marshal." The strong guard with ice-blue eyes pushed the declaration in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Forty generals of the Glorious Legion are here to join hands, please lead us to independence."
At that moment, the golden stellar wind came from the window, reflecting Heinrich's side face as deep and hard as a sculpture.
Celia stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled and asked, "What if I don't want to?"
"Marshal!" An adjutant holding a gun against him couldn't help but was stopped by a wink from Heinrich.
"We will not kill you, Marshal, you mean a lot to each of us. But if you don't break free from the hopeless mud of the Alliance, you will die with them one day. Now The new hope and power are in your hands, as long as you are willing to stand up, you will not only follow us, but also thousands of people who are oppressed and exploited under the tyranny of the alliance."
Heinrich got up and uncuffed Celia's right hand, and put the pen in front of him: "—to achieve this goal, even if you kill me afterwards, I will have no complaints."
Celia picked up the pen and seemed to be thinking about something, her face was calm and motionless. Everyone was nervously staring at the nib hanging in the air. There was not even a breath in the spacious conference room, but after a long while, Celia threw the pen and there was a soft "snap".
The adjutants all changed their colors in an instant: "Marshal!"
"I can't do it," Celia said. "You shoot."
When he said this, he was calm and calm, but there was a slight sarcasm in his eyes, as if he was waiting to see how they planned to kill him. Tears welled up in the eyes of an adjutant, and the hand holding the gun trembled so that he couldn't aim it. A few seconds later, he suddenly threw the gun, stepped back half a step and knelt on the ground, crying uncontrollably.
The other adjutant also trembled violently: "No, I too... I too..."
However, Celia didn't look at them, and only stared at Heinrich quietly with that kind of eyes. After a long time, Heinrich suddenly turned his head, grabbed the manifesto, and ran away without looking back.
The mutiny stalled for two days amid Celia's nonviolent disobedience.
—Herein exposed Heinrich's inexperience in commanding soldiers for the first time. Although he had extraordinary political ability and persuaded a full forty high-ranking generals to follow him, he did not have sufficient military acumen to organize the mutiny.
If it were Kaleyan, he would definitely not let Chenqiao Fortress drift aimlessly in space at this time. Even if the marshal does not cooperate, he will definitely take the army out of the Milky Way and go to the distant stars to find a resource-rich man who can be stationed there. planet to build a base. Or to be more ruthless, if he were to be the marshal, he would definitely take down the Gemini galaxy on the spot, recruit the local garrison, establish a rebel stronghold, and then negotiate with the alliance council, which would undoubtedly greatly grasp the initiative.
However, Heinrich wasted these precious two days.
After the mutiny occurred in 48 universes, Kaleyan led an army of 200,000 troops through the temporary transition gate and surrounded the space island without anyone noticing it. The battle without any suspense started immediately. Celia summoned a mecha phoenix from the air. After two hours of fierce fighting, the Chenqiao Fortress was completely captured, and the mastermind Heinrich and others were all captured alive.
Although the mutiny lasted for a short time, it made the entire parliament terrified. On the one hand, they finally realized that their power and status were not unshakable, on the other hand, they also deeply realized the horror of the military and the hearts of the Shining Legion.
Because of this, they reversed their previous attitude of almost breaking with the Marshal. When Celia returned to Lanxi Star, she was almost received by the entire parliament; at the same time, they strongly demanded the execution of Heinrich, Aaron and others, and repeatedly requested : "The marshal must personally execute them, and set an example for future generations!"
Celia didn't do that.
Later, Heinrich always thought that Celia was unwilling to execute Aaron, so he exiled the two of them to a distant galaxy. For this reason, he was very grateful that he had dragged Aaron into the water. At the same time, he was also slightly sad. The emperor with the largest territory and the greatest power in history could not help but ask himself in the depths of his heart during the long days and nights of hundreds of years in the future: If there was no Aaron, the marshal would have killed him. kill me
It's like a thorn buried in the flesh, which still hurts after so many years.
What Heinrich didn't know was that after the defeat of the mutiny, Celia had negotiated with the parliament many times about the aftermath, and finally the parliament made a concession: the two masterminds can only execute one, and the other will be permanently exiled to a distant galaxy , From then on, we can no longer return half a step to the Milky Way.
"This is already the greatest preferential treatment, Honorable Marshal... You know that although the Alliance has not used the death penalty for many years, the death penalty has not been completely abolished for serious crimes such as treason..."
Celia stood at the end of the corridor, with half of her body hidden in the thick darkness, silent for a long, long time.
After a while he finally let out a sigh of relief:
"... send Heinrich away."
However, during the public trial the next day, the marshal changed his mind again, announcing that Heinrich and Aaron would be exiled at the same time under the great pressure of the parliament, and immediately sent to the dormant cabin.
What price this incident cost Celia, Heinrich will never know.
The airship landed on a distant star tens of millions of light-years away from the Milky Way, where there is twice the gravity, the climate is extremely cold, and the living conditions are extremely harsh. Within a month after Heinrich and Aaron arrived, other generals who participated in the mutiny at the Chenqiao Fortress were also sent in one after another. Robot jailers will watch them mine and do hard labor here until they die. last second.
It was true that Heinrich did thirteen years of hard labor on the distant star, until the year 3307 of the Galactic Era. In an extremely cold winter, the convicts huddled together in a dilapidated straw hut and used blood-frozen Signed the second Declaration of Independence.
Then they took out the weapons they had stored for a long time, cut down the robot jailer, snatched the supply ship, and rose from the distant galaxy to start the vigorous Gemini Empire War of Independence.
This is the beginning of the glorious and arduous journey.
In 3307 of the Milky Way Era, an independent army was established in the far galaxy, initially only 4,000 people followed; the following year, the independent army expanded to 80,000 horses, with 200 spaceships; in the third year, they occupied the extreme north of the far galaxy Star, the Alliance finally ordered the crusade to begin.
The first galactic war officially kicked off.
In 3340, the independent armed forces were officially renamed the Imperial Army, with Heinrich as the commander, and the remaining 39 people in the Chenqiao Mutiny as generals; in 3342, the Imperial Army expanded to 9.3 million people, 480,000 spaceships, and large warships. 60,000 ships; in 3354, the imperial army won the first battle with the alliance and kept its base in the distant star. Lieutenant General Kaleyan returned without success; The solar storm destroyed the alliance, and 2 million soldiers of the alliance were wiped out by the imperial army. In the same year, the parliament dismissed Marshal Silia on the grounds of a major failure.
During the period when Celia was deprived of military power, the empire developed rapidly, annexing several galaxies on the border of the alliance in one go. In the spring of 3392, the Gemini galaxy of the Alliance fell, and the Empire occupied the Egret Star and designated it as the capital.
Since that year, the population, economy, and armaments of the empire have all developed by leaps and bounds in an instant; the balance of power between the alliance and the empire in the first galaxy war has been completely reversed since then.
In the spring of 3399 in the Milky Way Era, the rapidly declining situation finally made some members of the parliament realize the danger of destroying the country, and the parliament was thus divided into two factions: the main war faction and the main peace faction. In the second year, the war faction gained the upper hand after a brutal strife, ordered Celia to be re-appointed as the commander of the alliance, and led four million troops to the Ophiuchus constellation, preparing for a decisive battle with the imperial army led by Heinrich .
However, no one knew that before the expedition, Celia left the alliance alone to visit the distant sky star.
"Remember when you said you owed me once? Now is the time to pay back."
"Please keep my memory in the form of thought waves. Once I die in battle, they will use the space electromagnetic to resurrect my soul. If you find that the thought waves they input are different from the backup I left today, please don't refract My soul."
"One day I will come back as the real Gavin Celia—until then please keep my most precious legacy, and I will entrust everything to you."
Celia's eyes turned to the sky, above the constellation Ophiuchus in the night sky, red Saturn was shining brightly.
This is the 3400th year of the Milky Way Era, and the final decisive battle is about to begin.
The war and love and hate that lasted for a hundred years all came to a bloody end in this year.