While First Legion was undergoing commander selection, Russell, more than 10 light-years away, was one of the three nodes on the border between the Oakes Empire and Kabart Empire. A war involving millions of battleships was breaking out.
In Felton, the last border regiment of the Oakes Empire and two Imperial Guard Legion were stationed here.
Of course, they also learned about the fall of Capital Sphere and the destruction of the empire. Like Viers, they used communications to send messages to each Star System to confirm the authenticity of the message.
Obviously, the last messages sent fell into the sea without any reply.
It can be said that the territory of the original Oakes Empire has now been divided up by three companies, Io Federation, Human Federation and Kabart Empire, except for Russell.
Especially Kabart Empire, which directly ignored Russell and occupied all the surrounding areas.
Now Russell's defenders still don't know that they have been surrounded by Kabart's millions of troops. Until this day, sirens rang through all the fortresses and warships.
Russell has four Star Paths, two of which are Felton leading to the Kabart Empire and the border node Vite of the original Oakes Empire. The other two lead to the original Oakes Empire territory behind it.
Vite was captured by the Kabart Empire a few years ago, and now even the two areas behind Russell have fallen into the hands of the Kabart Empire.
In the current situation, Russell's defenders can be said to be surrounded from all sides, with more than 1 million Kabart Empire fleets in every direction.
When the alarm sounded and Kabart Empire battleships emerged from the four Star Path exits at the same time, the fate of the Russell defenders was doomed.
After all, there are only 1.2 million troops. It is impossible to defend four lines of defense at the same time, let alone the four fronts of the Kabart Empire. The forwards are all battleships with Energy Shield.
Through transactions with Human Federation over the years, Kabart Empire has also armed a total of 80,000 warships with Energy Shield, and deployed 20,000 ships in each offensive fleet!
In just half an hour, under the attack of 80,000 shield ships, all four fronts were in a state of collapse.
The situation on the entire battlefield is clear. In at most an hour, the last fleet of the Oakes Empire will be wiped out!
However, Oakes Empire's soldiers are still the same as Lin Fan is familiar with. The saying that they will collapse when the casualty rate reaches a certain level does not apply to them at all.
The soldiers of this empire are the type who will shoot at you crazily without surrendering even if they hit the last person.
For this reason, when the last Oakes Empire warship was destroyed an hour later, Kabart Empire conducted a detailed unification of battlefield casualties. However, when the unified results came out, everyone took a breath.
With the absolute strength advantage and the shield advantage of various vanguard fleets, Kabart Empire still paid the price of 800,000 battleships to completely wipe out Oakes Empire's battleships.
As a result, Oakes Empire's fleet no longer exists in the entire area outside Horton, and the entire Oakes Empire is officially destroyed.
Although after the destruction of the Oakes Empire, Kabart Empire and Human Federation used Horton as the border node, and their territories were directly adjacent to each other, but the emperor Farhale and the commander of the space fleet Hamid did not dare to invade at will.
They knew that the civilization occupying the territories ahead had an inexplicable relationship with that Level 4 Civilization. If they were stupid enough to fight it, Kabart Empire would probably cease to exist soon!
There is no need to anger a Level 4 Civilization for those territories. Oakes Empire is not the only one aspect of your empire that can lead to the outside world. It can also be connected to other directions, right?
Wouldn't it be nice to bring a large number of quasi-level four battleships to bully other first-level Level 3 Civilization?
Wouldn't it be nice to acquire a large amount of territory and then buy more shield devices from humans to support the war with war?
This is what Farhale and Hamid are thinking. If they knew that Lin Fan would prepare to destroy them in three years, who knows what expressions would appear on their faces?
Therefore, Kabart Empire directly placed an order for 50,000 Energy Shield excitation devices to Human Federation, and the required resources were also ready, and humans could come and take them away at any time.
After seeing such a large order, the Federation itself was in a good mood, and a large amount of resources entered the Federation's pockets!
Well, 50,000 units, right? Don't worry, they will be delivered in three years!
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Half a month later, Star System Horton.
Fleet Commander selection, the points ranking competition has ended, the entire selection has come to an end, and seven commander candidates were successfully born.
Fujiwara Ayako, age 28, formerly a colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and serves as the sixth First Legion Fleet Commander.
Carol Taylor, age 36, formerly a colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and serves as the seventh First Legion Fleet Commander.
Dennis·Linden, age 38, formerly a colonel, is now awarded the rank of brigadier general and serves as the eighth First Legion Fleet Commander.
Elio·Reed, age 38, formerly with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is now awarded the rank of colonel and serves as the acting commander of the First Legion Ninth Fleet.
Shangguan Yunting, age 32, formerly with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is now awarded the rank of colonel and serves as the acting commander of the First Legion Tenth Fleet.
Xia Yu, age 29, formerly with the rank of major, is now awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel and serves as acting commander of the 11th Fleet of the First Legion.
Qin Tian, age 26, formerly with the rank of major, is now awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel and serves as the acting commander of the First Legion Twelfth Fleet.
According to the order of Interstellar Fleet headquarters, all seven of these people were promoted in rank.
Of course, four of them who have not reached the rank of brigadier general after being promoted to one rank will have the word "acting" added in front of their positions according to convention.
Although you are an acting commander, it is actually no different from a formal commander. As long as you make no mistakes, you will not be deprived of your position, and when you reach the rank of brigadier general, you will automatically become a regular commander.
As for the nine people who lost in the final points match, Lin Fan also accepted them.
In addition to these 9 people, there are also some capable people who were defeated in the knockout round in the early stage. Lin Fan also did not let go, just like the one who was defeated by Fujiwara Ayako in the first round of knockout.
These people will be added to the seven new fleets and hold positions such as adjutant and chief of staff.
Now that the people have taken care of it, Lin Fan no longer has to worry about the subsequent situation of having ships and no crews. As for ordinary crew members, the problem is not big at all.
After all, the new Orca-class Battleship requires only half the personnel of the current Snow Leopard-class Battlecruiser. The surplus personnel from the first to Fifth Fleet alone can meet more than half of the needs of these seven fleets.
Regarding the candidates for the squadron commander and the bridge command team, Lin Fan said that there are many suitable talents in the Star Military Academy.
The future commanders are still waiting for the ships. You can go to the academy in person to make the selection when there is a bus. After the selection, you can report it to the legion headquarters for approval.