345. Battle of Naboo (2)
Naboo, the capital of mankind Theed City.
The minister of security walked quickly to the palace and came to the King's Hall.
Now the entire Naboo including Theed City is under full martial law, basically three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. Facing the brazen invasion of Trade Federation, Naboo tried his best to prepare even though he was unable to do anything.
Among the King's Hall, Naboo Planet Queen, who was dressed in a rich dress and with thick makeup on her face, was sitting upright on the throne. Queen's maids stood behind her, while Minister of Defense, the Minister of Interior and other core administrative staff of Naboo were on both sides.
Concern was written on everyone's face.
"Your Majesty Queen! Trade Federation refuses to withdraw troops and refuses to negotiate. Their only demand is for us to surrender unconditionally! And sign an even more unequal peace treaty!" The Minister of Security came to Queen, shook his head and sighed.
"Connect Trade Federation Commander's communication for me, and I'll talk to him personally." Queen said.
The communicator was activated, the holographic projection flashed, and the projections of Trade Federation Governor Newt Gunray and Adjutant Rune Harkou appeared in front. Queen said expressionlessly, "Trade Federation's current behavior is a violation of Galactic Republic's law! You must withdraw your troops immediately, otherwise Galactic Republic will not tolerate your intrusion!"
Newt Gunray pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh? Invasion? Queen Your Majesty, you should pay attention to your wording. There is no invasion here. Everything is legal. We are serious businessmen and act according to the law."
"Galactic Republic's constitution does not contain any article that can support your barbaric invasion!"
"Oh, this matter has to be decided by Republic Senate. It doesn't matter what you Naboo said. Besides, this is because you breached the contract first."
"The unequal treaty signed by the former King Als-Veruna should have been invalidated with his abdication and suicide. Moreover, this treaty fundamentally violates Galactic Republic's principles of fairness and justice! The people of Naboo will never recognize it!"
"Then let's just wait and see." After Newt Gunray said this coldly, he closed the communication.
Queen Amidala stared blankly in the direction of the communicator. Her expression was completely hidden by the thick makeup. After a moment of silence, she said, "Immediately report the situation here to Republic Senate. In addition, immediately help me connect to the communication of our congressmen, Sheev-Palpatine."
The holographic projection projected the image of Sheev-Palpatine. His hairline was very high, his gray hair was neatly combed, his hook-like nose bridge looked very energetic, and he always had a kind smile on his face.
He bowed and saluted Queen, and said, "Your Majesty Queen, I have heard about what happened to Naboo, and I also reported the situation to Phineas as soon as possible. E-Chancellor Valorum. Of course, if you send a formal notice of help in the name of Naboo Planet Queen, I think the effect will be better."
"I hope Galactic Republic can stop Trade Federation's intrusion, impose sanctions on them, and even take back their trade privileges." Queen said coldly.
Palpatine sighed, the expression on his face looked a little hesitant and a little lonely, and then he said with some embarrassment, "Okay, I will fight for this matter in the parliament."
"Please ensure Galactic Republic's position on this matter, because once our trade routes are cut off, our material reserves will not last long." Queen said.
"Okay, my Queen." Palpatine bowed again and wanted to turn off the communication, but seemed to want to say something, but still turned into a sigh and turned off the communication.
Trade Federation flagship command center.
Rune Harkou looked at the blue Naboo through the porthole, and said with lingering fear, "It's okay, okay, Naboo's reaction is not very intense."
"The key is not Naboo, but Galactic Republic!" Newt Gunray said, "We are holding back now, waiting for Queen of Naboo to come and beg us!"
"But..." Rune Harkor was just about to say something. He looked around again to make sure there was no one nearby and then whispered, "Didn't that Lord want us to occupy Naboo?"
"Sending ground troops to occupy and besiege them and make them surrender are two different things!" Newt Gunray said with a gloomy face. "We can't block our own retreat! Once we send ground troops, then we will really violate the Galactic Republic law."
"This is the best, this is the best." Rune Harkor said, patting his chest.
"Naboo doesn't have many troops, they can't support it." Newt Gunray snorted, looked at the Fourth Group military observer sitting on the other side, smiled and said, "This battle is destined to be impossible to fight, so you can just treat it as a vacation."
Now Trade Federation and Fourth Group have a very good relationship, and the Hiigaran-class battlecruiser project that the two parties are jointly developing is also in progress, so Newt Gunlay is naturally very polite to the representatives here.
The representative sent by Fourth Group is currently Army General Xiao Guanghua. Tang Xiao also knows that the war on Naboo is mainly based on ground war. The battle in space is not fierce and has little reference value.
Xiao Guanghua nodded calmly and said politely, "Anyway, we also need to learn from Trade Federation in order to improve our level in all aspects."
He had already cursed in his heart. If Tang Xiao hadn't strictly ordered him not to interfere with Trade Federation's decision-making before leaving, he would have even wanted to go up and beat these two cowards!
You are invading, brother! And your 60 Luukri-Hok-class freighters are loaded with a full army of 6 million robots! At this time, instead of directly landing on the ground and capturing the opponent's supreme commander alive to avoid more variables in the night, you actually want to wait for others to surrender?
Your opponent is a planet with a population of 4.5 billion! Even if we only count the human political power, there are more than one billion people. If you look around, you can find a large number of passionate men. How could they succumb so easily?
And you are actually worried that ground invasion will violate the law? Brother, your current behavior is already shitting on Galactic Republic's face, okay? Whether there is a ground invasion or not, Galactic Republic has been offended to the end! Why don't we end the fight quickly, cook the rice before it is ready, and then slowly go to the parliament to argue, and still think about whether it is illegal?
Newt Gunlay accepted Xiao Guanghua's compliments and said, "Actually, we also took the opportunity of this battle to learn how to use the robot army to fight. As you can see, the B-1 combat robot cannot operate on a large scale due to computing speed issues. The performance in combat and cooperation was not good. Therefore, we modified Luukri-Hok-class freighter into a robot control ship, and our controllers coordinated the robot's combat. At least in the previous simulation tests, these rigid B-1 combat robots performed much better."
He looked at Xiao Guanghua, "Are you in charge of the army unit Fourth Group? You also ordered 10 million B-1 combat robots from us before, so you also need to take a good look at this battle and learn from it."
Xiao Guanghua nodded and said nothing.
"Okay, since we have nothing to do here, I brought some Shura fruit wine that are special products on Naboo, just in time to wish us to occupy Naboo, hahaha!" Rune Harkou came over and said.
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