1842, Levik Annihilation War (I)
"Decapitation strike!" Shepard gave his answer without hesitation.
Everyone around him looked extremely grim. They exchanged glances, then slowly nodded.
A decapitation strike! That was the best course of action! A frontal confrontation was not feasible. Even the Endless-class Super Carrier could not stand against the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium and its dozens of Xirui-class battlecruisers.
Likewise, launching a massive Orbital Bombardment and creating a genocide on the scale of tens of billions was unacceptable.
The Xilu people had no moral bottom line, but that did not mean the Duchy of Dawn had none either.
"We can rally the Pia'ek people to rise up in rebellion. But first, we need to give them hope and courage. We need to show them that the Xilu people can be defeated, and that the Pia'ek people can rise up and become their own masters." Huang Yehao had traveled far and wide and was an experienced veteran. His combat experience on places like Malastare had also given him a clearer understanding of war.
A so-called decapitation strike meant directly attacking the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium's capital, taking the imperial palace, killing or capturing their emperor, and crippling their administrative apparatus, thereby inciting the Pia'ek people to rise up in revolt.
That way, there would be no need for indiscriminate Orbital Bombardment. They only needed to bomb locations where Xilu forces were concentrated and shatter their formations.
The only problem was that even the Xilu senior officers from that fleet had no idea what this so-called "Manga-Manga" was. Perhaps their Fleet Commander had known, but that unfortunate commander had been blasted to pieces along with his ship by three consecutive Particle Beam Lance shots less than a minute after the battle began.
But since even those senior officers did not know, Manga-Manga's existence was