Chapter 530 Execution of Deserters
Li Mingze was awakened by a burst of sobbing. Qiuyue, with tears in her eyes, was squatting beside him.
"What happened? Why are you crying so sadly?" Li Mingze reached out to help Qiuyue wipe the tears from her face and asked softly.
"Just now, one of our colonies was flattened by the enemy. All 1,305,700 people in the colony died, and no one survived." Qiuyue twitched her nose twice.
"I personally sent the colonists to that colony. I told them that they would have a new life here."
"I told them that they would turn this land into fertile fields with their own hands, so that their children could run happily in the fields."
"But. They are all gone. They are all gone. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have sent them to develop that planet."
"Some of them have just got married, and their lives have just begun!" Qiuyue couldn't help crying again.
Li Mingze's sleepiness disappeared instantly after hearing this, and he sat up suddenly.
"What did you say? One of our colonies was just massacred by the enemy?" Li Mingze grabbed Qiuyue's hand and asked.
"Yeah," Qiuyue nodded.
"Damn it!" Li Mingze slapped the table beside the bed angrily.
"Tianyi! Tianyi!" Li Mingze shouted loudly.
Soon Tianyi appeared in the bedroom: "Your Majesty, I'm here."
"Notify everyone, our empire does not want any prisoners in this war, and all enemies will be killed!"
"If we encounter the enemy's colony, we will not leave any alive! You know what I mean!" Li Mingze's eyes seemed to be sparking.
"I understand." Tianyi lowered his head. She also knew the news that the colony had just been destroyed, but she was not as angry as Li Mingze.
"Activate all dangerous weapons sealed by the empire, and all troops are equipped with special warheads."
"Order all fleets on defense to take the initiative to attack! If you can't find the enemy, send spacecraft to find them!"
"Find the enemy's colony for me and blow them all up!" Li Mingze ordered viciously.
"Yes, my majesty." Tianyi waited for a while and found that Li Mingze had no further words, so he disappeared.
"Qiuyue, I just heard that all the personnel in the destroyed colony orbital space station survived?" Li Mingze frowned and asked Qiuyue after listening to the briefings of several intelligence departments.
"Yes, your majesty, they have been sent to the sanatorium behind the Perseus Arm Rotation Defense Line." Qiuyue nodded.
"Order the soldiers in the sanatorium to control them all, I will go there myself!" Li Mingze sneered and switched bodies.
A few hours later, in the outdoor square of the sanatorium, 120 space station staff lined up in four rows and stood in the center of the square.
Behind them was a Sith Marine soldier holding a rifle in his hand.
"Welcome, Your Majesty!" As the soldiers shouted, Li Mingze strode towards the square.
Li Mingze paced in front of the team of more than 100 space station staff with a solemn face. Finally, he stopped in front of the person in charge of the space station, stared into his eyes and asked loudly:
"Why did you abandon the colonists in the colony and retreat?" The person in charge of the space station didn't dare to breathe.
"Your Majesty. If we don't retreat, it will only be a vain sacrifice. Our space station can't cause much damage to this fleet." A soldier next to the person in charge couldn't help but defend himself and others.
Li Mingze reached out and pulled out a pistol from his waist and shot the soldier who was talking in the head.
"In order to survive, you left 1.3 million civilians to face the enemy's guns!"
"You gave up your humanity and lived here for the selfishness in your heart!"
"You know what the will of the empire is! The empire will never retreat!"
"Your actions trampled on the dignity of the empire and the will of all the soldiers in the empire who are fighting for the country!" Li Mingze's hands trembled with anger.
"Your Majesty, don't! We are willing to go to the battlefield and continue fighting!" The soldiers seemed to feel something and hurriedly begged for mercy.
"The Empire does not keep deserters. You will use your blood to commemorate the 1.3 million citizens of the Empire you have abandoned!" Li Mingze looked at them coldly and turned to walk into the sanatorium.
When he turned around, the Marines standing around raised their rifles.
"No!!" Accompanied by several terrified pleas for mercy, hundreds of gunshots rang out, and the bright red blood dyed the square of the sanatorium red.
Then the news of the execution of this group of deserters spread throughout the empire.
The people's respect for the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor rose to a new level again, and the soldiers in the army also agreed with this. What they despised most was the shameful deserters who abandoned the people for themselves.
Their duty is to create an environment for the people behind them to work and live in peace.
Influenced by this massacre, the combat style of the Imperial Fleet suddenly changed from the original conservative style to a radical and fearless style.
For a moment, the fleet of unknown civilization was caught off guard by the fearless imperial fleet, and the battle line began to retreat behind them.
This greatly boosted the morale of the citizens of the Empire, and the citizens worked harder. Knowing that they would die if the war failed, everyone worked to the best of their ability.
The efficiency of the Empire increased by nearly 10%!
With the continuous dispatch of warships to the front line, the hinterland of the Empire gradually became empty, relying only on a small number of warships to prevent accidents.
All the warships that can be mobilized in the entire Empire are flying towards the Perseus Arm.
However, since the battle only took place in the Perseus Arm, the emptiness of the Empire's hinterland is not a big problem in Li Mingze's view, not to mention that there is a star fortress on standby.
There are also a large number of orbital defense modules on the orbits of planets such as the Empire's Sith Star. It can be said that any unexpected situation can be controlled by the Empire.
However, at this time, a fleet was quietly gliding towards the starting star system.
All of this fleet is in a special position, and any known detection equipment outside the position cannot detect the situation in this position.
Not only that, the light in the field was also distorted, and all the light would circle and continue forward, and the warships in the entire field seemed to be non-existent.
At this time, the Empire knew nothing about this fleet, and all the Empire's energy was placed on the distant Perseus Arm.
In this situation, this fleet was getting closer and closer to the capital star system of the Empire.