The fleet quickly entered the scheduled formation cruising speed after leaving port and headed straight to the southwest.
PS: Heaven Dou Continent and Star Luo Continent are located to the west of the Douluo Continent, one to the south and one to the north. Relatively speaking, Star Luo Continent will be closer than Heaven Dou Continent.
The ships on the sea form a neat silver-gray route under the sunlight, extending from Federation West Coast to the end of the field of vision.
The fleet continued sailing southwest.
Although there are occasional Sea Soul Beasts on the sea, the fleet is relatively large. Once they see so many huge "fish", no Sea Soul Beast dares to approach the formation.
This also makes the speed of United Fleet not affected at all.
According to the scheduled time, the fleet will arrive at the scheduled landing area of the Heaven Dou Continent West Coast in two months.
To be honest, this time is really too long, especially nowadays when Soul-Conducting Communication technology is relatively advanced, the speed of information transmission is much faster than the speed of the fleet, which makes the surprise tactic almost impossible to succeed.
Unless they can hide the news of the Sea God Legion's collective attack for two full months without letting any news come out.
But how is that possible?
They are human beings, not Anti-Entropy robots. As long as they are human beings, it is impossible to guarantee that they will not make any slip of the tongue in their lifetime.
Therefore, Yu Guanzhi and Mo Yuan initially discussed how long they could hide it. If they couldn't hide it anymore, they could just ignore the other party's weak behavior and just run over.
Of course, it is also possible that the opponent will be hard-topped with United Fleet, but what is the chance...
Tsk tsk tsk...
I can only say that it is better to believe that the other party will resist to the end than to believe that Tang San is not a feudalist warrior.
On the twenty-third day after the fleet set off, Council Chamber of the Heaven Dou Empire palace was urgently closed in the afternoon.
All entrances are taken over by Imperial Guards, and no one is allowed to enter or exit at will.
Inside Council Chamber, Emperor Xue Yuntian sat on the main seat with a cold face, and below him sat the heads of many big Noble families in the empire, ministers of civil and military affairs, and heads of special intelligence agencies.
On the royal table, there is also a piece of information that has just been delivered.
But it was this information that threw the entire empire into chaos.
The source of this information was an informant placed by the Heaven Dou Empire on the western coast of Federation. The content contained only one line: Federation Fleet departed from Sea God Harbor twenty-three days ago and is expected to arrive at the Heaven Dou Continent West Coast in forty days.
Of course, this number is actually just a calculation. After all, their intelligence personnel did not have a first-hand perspective of witnessing the fleet's expedition and could only make inferences through clues from all parties.
But it is enough, after all, the time error does not exceed three days.
There was silence in Council Chamber, which was even colder than the last time I heard Mo Yuan speak.
Xue Yuntian looked at the people in the audience coldly. Of course, what he was referring to was not the actions of Federation, but the fact that the information was leaked so quickly.
It was clear that the organization that sent the information was a special intelligence organization cultivated by the royal family, and logically it only served the emperor alone.
After receiving this information, he originally wanted to press it down temporarily and think about it carefully before announcing it. However, he did not expect that he had just received the information. As a result, within a day, all these big Noble knew about this information.
Doesn't this mean that there is an insider in your private intelligence agency? It can even be said that it has been infiltrated into a sieve?
But at this point, he had no choice but to temporarily suppress the cold in his heart and discuss the more urgent matter Federation Fleet first. However, he had already made up his mind. After this incident, he must deal with these big Noble.
He folded the information that was almost torn into pieces, and then slammed it on the table.
His eyes swept over the people sitting below, and then he spoke slowly. Although his voice was not loud, everyone in Council Chamber could hear the coldness in it clearly. "Okay, I believe you have all seen it, so please tell me."
The word "love" was almost squeezed out from between the teeth.
The first person to speak was Military Department Chief of the General Staff sitting on the left.
He is the second-ranking figure in the Heaven Dou Empire military system and is in charge of operational planning and intelligence analysis. "Your Majesty, judging from the departure time, Federation Fleet should have sailed halfway by now. Our The West Coast defense line currently only has conventional Garrison Force, and the main fleet is still in the northern port. If Federation Fleet attacks West Coast according to the current route, our reaction time will be less than thirty days."
"What can you do in thirty days?" Xue Yuntian asked.
"If it takes at least twenty days to mobilize the Northern Fleet to West Coast, it will take more than thirty days to mobilize the army from Central Military Region to West Coast. These thirty days are enough to complete a small-scale defense deployment."
His own family knew about his own affairs, and Heaven Dou Empire's military efficiency was indeed hard to praise. If it were normal times, he would definitely have carefully decorated it, but with a disaster approaching, he didn't have the heart to hide it.
Council Chamber fell into silence again.
Minister of Finance sitting on the right put down the pen in his hand and sighed, "Your Majesty, I believe that the top priority is to confirm the strategic goals of Federation. Their new Parliament Speaker clearly mentioned unifying Douluo Star in their election speech, but there is often a gap between speech and action. Maybe they are just exerting pressure and do not really intend to launch a full-scale war."
"The fleet that set off twenty-three days ago, do you call this exerting pressure?" Minister of Military Affairs, who was sitting opposite Minister of Finance, retorted, "Although Sea God Legion is Federation's strongest naval force, But it takes time to assemble. On the 23rd day, they set off almost immediately after finishing the speech, right? It means that they have been prepared for a long time. They must have only one goal when they go out now, which is landing operations. Do you think they brought so many ships and elite soldiers to negotiate?"
Minister of Finance did not answer the call.
The atmosphere in Council Chamber became heavier after the confrontation between the two.
Xue Yuntian raised his hand to signal for silence. "Now is not the time to argue about Federation's intentions. What we want to discuss now is how to deal with it. They say, one by one."
Old Noble, who was sitting at the end of the left side, spoke first.
He is one of the Heaven Dou Empire's largest territories Noble, in charge of a province in the southwest of the empire, and is also the earliest family in the empire to have trade relations with Federation.
His position has always been moderate among the empire's top officials, advocating that relations with Federation should be handled through diplomatic means.
"Your Majesty, I believe that formal negotiations with Federation should be started immediately. Federation Fleet has already set off. If we send an envoy now to exchange for peace on the condition of recognizing Federation's suzerainty over Heaven Dou Continent, Federation may not refuse. After all, their goal is reunification, not destruction. If we voluntarily give up resistance, Federation will have no reason to launch a full-scale attack, and our territory and property can be preserved during negotiations. This is what Parliament Speaker said in his speech, isn't it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Minister of Military Affairs slammed the table. "Li Tingzhao, you are suggesting betrayal of the country!"
"I'm just suggesting negotiation." Old Noble didn't even blink, "Federation Fleet has already set off, and our West Coast defense line can't stop it at all. If we don't talk now, we won't even have a chance to talk when the fleet arrives."