Who was Yang Xiyi, after all? In the Imperial military, many had already started calling him and Yu Lian the "Twin Fiends" of Earth. And in the eyes of experts, they rated him even more highly than the latter.
After all, Yu Lian's record was certainly glorious, but he had commanded the vast majority of Earth's combat-ready forces. Yang Xiyi, on the other hand, had achieved the destruction of the Destroyer at Unity Fortress, sunk a Titan, and killed King Soren with only a small fleet that didn't even have any capital ships.
After that, the entire Dawn Nebula had become a battleground where his little fleet could fight on its own terms. Even now, the Imperial fleet massed there was five or six times the size of Yang's fleet, yet it had remained at the other side's mercy.
For the martial-minded Holy Galactic Empire, such an opponent was certainly worthy of respect, but also dangerous. Of course, they could offer him a chance to surrender—but only after defeating him and driving him into a corner. Why would they start broadcasting surrender terms now? And why mention the terms of his surrender in advance?
Even when King Su Liuqian had tried to recruit Yu Lian, the terms had only been discussed in private.
But now, they'd made a surrender offer over an open broadcast to the entire star region. That made it seem like they were backing down. For the Imperial military's New World Theater of Operations, this must have been quite humiliating.
Roces said, "The resistance at Yaochi and the Ring of Miracles is still ongoing. Of those, Yang's fleet remains the greatest threat to the Empire. We don't have an exact report on the Empire's losses in the New World Theater of Operations, but last November, our intelligence