2370. Battle failed
Thrawn looks like an angry lion now. The aura emanating from him made Formbi take several steps back even through the holographic projection.
"Ah... this... oh! Oh! I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I got carried away." Formbi felt cold sweat dripping from his forehead and apologized quickly, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
"That's enough! Tell me what you want to say this time! Starting from tomorrow, you are no longer qualified to call me directly!" Thrawn said sharply.
"This... this isn't right! General..." Formbi was shaken all over. This unexpected development seemed to make him even more nervous and frightened.
"Say!" Thrawn has turned his back, leaving behind this cold word and the stalwart back.
"Yes... Now General Ziyala has been demoted to major general, and Csilla is trying to block the news of the failure, but it doesn't matter. We control many news channels and have spread the news. I believe that soon, the news of Kingdom of Dawn main fleet's destruction will spread throughout Chiss territory!" Formbi said.
He glanced at Thrawn, but found that the other party still kept his back to him and had no intention of speaking, so he swallowed and said with a trembling voice, "Now, Kingdom of Dawn is strengthening reinforcements for Chiss territory, and a large number of transport ships and battleships are entering. This is our opportunity... I, I have found out the location of the star gate, in fact, we can..."
"Assault on the star gate?" Thrawn turned his face sideways with a sarcastic smile, "Why? Just because I want to die?"
"No, no, no..." Formbi quickly waved his hand, "I mean, we can take the opportunity to rob some transport fleets, which can replenish our supplies. I have mastered the routes of at least three transport fleets here..."
"This is the realistic choice. Minister Formbi, give me the route." Thrawn suddenly smiled and turned to face Formbi, "We must learn to respect our opponents. Next time, don't talk like this."
"Ah! Yes, yes, yes, yes..." Upon hearing this, Formbi seemed to be forgiving himself, and nodded quickly, as if he was tampering with garlic.
After receiving the data of the three routes, Thrawn waved his hand and closed the communication.
Then, he turned around and looked at the dark universe outside the porthole, falling into silence.
Colonel Taremi said, "General, this guy Formbi... seems..."
"Get ready to retreat. Our battle at Chiss territory has failed." Thrawn said.
"Ah?" Taremi didn't react for a moment, "General, although the authenticity of Formbi's words is doubtful, if we say failure..."
"He should have originally wanted us to raid the transport fleet, and there should be Kingdom of Dawn fleet ambushing us there." Thrawn said, "But... I just found an opportunity to get angry and let Formbi think this was his last chance to influence me, so he planned to throw out a more attractive target, so he changed it to Stargate. After discovering something was wrong, he changed his mind again and became the target of the transport fleet."
"But that doesn't mean our operation failed..." Taremi said.
Thrawn shook his head and said, "He showed no signs of being interrogated, and his expression was full of confidence and determination. This is not what a traitor should be after being exposed. From a common sense point of view, he should be interrogated and tortured, and then be bribed again, but in such a situation, people's eyes are erratic, and the most important thing is that he reacts The uncertainty caused by repeated betrayal. Because once a person betrays twice, he will undoubtedly enter the situation of betrayal and separation. He is full of hope for his future and is extremely determined about his choice... Including him, almost the entire internal network we have built has been uprooted."
"You can tell so much from just one look?" Taremi was shocked, and at the same time he was full of admiration for Thrawn, "Is this what you said you wanted to confirm just now?"
"No. But it doesn't matter anymore. The result is the same. Evacuate immediately and return to the within the Empire!" Thrawn said.
"Yes!" Taremi nodded quickly and immediately made arrangements.
Although the process took a big circle, and the reasons for evacuating were different, the reason why he came to find Thrawn in the first place was to leave here.
While Taremi was conveying instructions for all battleships to prepare for departure within an hour, he turned around and saw on the other side that Thrawn had also gone to the navigation control department and was talking to Dark Jedi Knight, who was responsible for the fleet's hyperspace navigation. He was gesturing on the holographic star map from time to time, probably planning an evacuation route.
Obviously, Thrawn attached great importance to this retreat, otherwise he would never have planned the route himself like this.
With such a simple communication with Formbi, I went from a situation where I had just brought the power of victory and the prospects were promising, to a situation where I was like a bereaved dog and needed to evacuate as soon as possible, otherwise I would have a narrow escape? Taremi just feels like his brain can no longer keep up.
An hour later, Dark Jedi Knight over there issued a jump command to the navigator, and the entire fleet immediately turned on the hyperspace engine and disappeared instantly.
In the next two days, Colonel Taremi felt that his fleet seemed to be circling under the leadership of General Thrawn. Thrawn is really very cautious. He almost always stands in front of the star map and thinks, then asks Dark Jedi Knight some questions, and then thinks again, repeating this several times before issuing a new jump command.
How could the Dark Side user have such patience? Finally, this time, he and General Thrawn got into a fierce argument. If the other two backup Dark Jedi Knight hadn't come over and pulled the person away, the angry Dark Jedi Knight might have pulled out Lightsaber.
Taremi also looked at the star map, and he understood why Dark Jedi Knight was angry. Because they are now only one jump away from Celwis (Celwis), and with the recent 'tangle' situation, there will be several temporary hyperspace channels near Celwis that can lead to the outside world.
But Thrawn asked for another detour, which made Dark Jedi Knight feel that Thrawn was just entertaining him. After all, Force navigation was not an easy task.
The quarrel stopped after Dark Jedi Knight was pulled away. Thrawn gave another order and started jumping, preparing to take a detour.
Dark Jedi Knight cursed and walked to the navigation console and reported the coordinates of Group One. The navigator immediately inputs the coordinates and presses the button to start the jump.
Thrawn frowned at this time, turned around suddenly and said angrily, "What coordinates did you report just now? Tell me again!"
"Let you go back to the cool place in your shabby shack as soon as possible, you despicable Chiss!" Dark Jedi Knight sneered.
Thrawn fell silent, his expression very ugly. Taremi felt that the anger on Thrawn was starting to heat up.
"Congratulations to you for bringing us into the encirclement. Mr. Master of Darkness." Thrawn said coldly.
A moment later, with the dazzling white light, the fleet left hyperspace and appeared near Celwis. And here, there are already more than ten battleships, ready to go!