Taking advantage of the fact that the space fleet of the Sethan Federation was temporarily afraid to move forward and get too close, the Montreal, which had escaped the disaster, desperately turned its rudder and accelerated into space. The destroyer Hom followed closely behind and began to retreat while fighting.

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Just when the space fighters of the four squadrons of the Saitan Federation were about to pounce and continue to intercept, a dozen small black dots rushed over in the distant space!

The Blood Wolf Legion's space aircraft carrier mixed fleet dispatched a patrol boat squad to conduct a pre-war secret reconnaissance of Basset Star. Following the order of Tokugawa Jiro, it finally appeared in the combat airspace at this moment.

The battle began to become stalemate with the addition of the Vilia Empire patrol boat detachment. The Montreal finally took the opportunity to escape from the battlefield and gradually moved away from the synchronous orbit of the Basset star.

"Fire!" Williams shouted reluctantly as he watched the enemy ship escape.

"Reporting to the marshal, after the Kaldev gun is fired, it will take at least a minute to recharge! And the effective range of other gun groups on the space station cannot reach the current combat airspace." Major General Henry explained in a murmur.

"Damn it!" Williams slammed his fist on the podium.

A few minutes later, the ammunition of the Sethan Federation's first wave of space fighters was basically exhausted.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the Saitan Federation's first wave of fleets to return to the space station to replenish energy and ammunition, the Vilia Empire's destroyer Hom was seriously injured by the Federation fleet, and three more patrol boats were destroyed as reinforcements.

After many ships were damaged, they also left the battlefield and fled into space.

At this time, an adjutant under Major General Henry ran over in a hurry and gasped: "Report! The Scorpio local fleet encountered a space aircraft carrier formation of the Vilia Empire near 18 million kilometers away from me.

There are still fifty-seven minutes of contact between the two parties."

"This..." Major General Henry turned to look at Williams.

The old marshal sat back on the chair in front of the command podium, thought for a moment, and said: "Although the ships of the Vilia Empire forced their way through the border and exchanged fire with us, and a local battle took place. But this does not mean that the two countries have

Let’s start a war! We can’t fire this first shot!”

Williams stared at the command podium. At this moment, officers from various departments were shuttling back and forth. Various data and intelligence were constantly being refreshed on the huge virtual screen. The military interstellar map above was also densely marked.

Everyone in the entire temporary combat command room was busy non-stop.

After a long time, Williams stood up again and said: "Order the Scorpio local fleet to immediately break away from contact with the Vilia aircraft carrier fleet and continue to defend the Basset planet with all its strength. Order the Ophiuchus federal fourth space aircraft carrier

The mixed fleet speeds up its march! If the aircraft carrier fleet of the Vilia Empire really comes to start a war, then the local fleet of the Scorpio Constellation alone will never be able to withstand it!"

"Yes!" After receiving the order, the adjutant hurried down to deliver the order.

"Old Marshal, can I help you go to the office to have a rest?" Seeing Williams's face full of fatigue, Major General Henry was about to step forward and take him down to rest, when suddenly there was another loud "bang" sound from below the space station! Then there was another loud "bang" sound from below the space station!

The entire space station began to shake violently again!

"What's going on?" Major General Henry rushed to the command podium and asked loudly.

Soon, the person in charge of the battle damage statistics department ran up, stood at attention and reported: "The support system of the city defense cover under the space station has begun to collapse! Please evacuate as soon as possible, marshal and general!"

At this time, on the virtual screen in front of the command podium, a real-time picture of the support column that was blown up by the torpedo began to collapse downwards.

Major General Henry and several adjutants quickly pulled up Marshal Williams and ran quickly outside the command hall. Space station personnel from other departments also followed the emergency plan and began to evacuate in an orderly manner under the guidance of the broadcast.

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July 14th, late at night in Doha, the capital of Basah.

The city that had been busy and noisy all day finally calmed down, and most people fell asleep tiredly.

Suddenly, a giant fiery red light ball flashed in the night sky, followed by a huge muffled sound, waking up the sleeping people.

Many people got up, put on their clothes and went to the balcony, staring at the giant ball of light in the night sky that lingered for a long time. They had no idea what was happening.

Suddenly, strong winds began to blow in the sky, and the wind speed became faster and stronger, and the wind force became stronger and stronger! A few minutes later, the strong wind in Doha City had exceeded level 19, reaching a level that could not be measured by any instrument!

The howling wind is like a giant hungry monster, roaring and roaring crazily in the sky!

At first, the strong wind only uprooted big trees and destroyed some low buildings. But as the wind became more violent, tall buildings, bridges and other large buildings in the city also began to collapse under the raging wind!

The dark night sky swept away everything! Houses, cars, trees, gravel, and densely packed human bodies as big as ants!

Immediately afterwards, the atmosphere in Doha began to become thinner, and all the oxygen in the atmosphere was sucked out of space in an instant. Those who were lucky enough not to step onto the balcony or stand outside and be blown away by the wind began to feel fatal at this moment.

Suffocation. Only a handful of people who lived near underground public air raid shelters and ran fast enough barely survived.

According to official statistics from the Saitan Federation afterwards, in the extreme disaster that occurred when the energy defense shield of the interstellar city in Doha, Bassah was blown up, a total of more than six million innocent civilians died, and the number of people who died of suffocation exceeded the total.

Two thirds!

In just a few minutes, the city of Doha turned into a dead city full of ruins, like a hell on earth!

Later history called this tragedy "Bloody July 14th"!

At this time, in the escape layer above the city of Doha, on a medium-sized military transport ship of the Saitan Federation, Old Marshal Williams was looking dreamily at the porthole.

Outside the porthole, the synchronous orbiting space station of Basset Star was falling into the large hole blown by the space torpedo, and the energy defense cover of the entire interstellar city was also collapsing downwards.

"Marshal, the president's secret message." An adjutant walked up to Williams cautiously and said softly.

Williams received the secret message, glanced quickly, and said solemnly: "I won't go back! The enemy's fleet is coming, and this place will soon become a battlefield!" He raised his head and said to the adjutant: "

Call the president back, Basak needs me, I want to stay here and fight!"

After the adjutant went down, Major General Henry sat next to the old marshal and asked: "Marshal, where should we go next?"

Williams pondered for a moment, then sighed and said: "Let's join the local fleet of Scorpio first!"

At three o'clock in the morning on July 15, 254 in the cosmic calendar, the Vesuvius space aircraft carrier mixed fleet of the Blood Wolf Legion of the Vilia Empire arrived in the space space near 20,000 kilometers away from the Basel Star, and began to defend the synchronous orbit of the Basel Star.

The system launches an attack!

The local fleet of the Sethan Federation stationed in the Scorpio constellation, which arrived shortly after, under the leadership of old Marshal Williams, faced the enemy head-on and fought bravely!

After several hours of fierce fighting between the two sides, the Scorpio local fleet of the Sethan Federation, equipped with only two old battleships, several light cruisers and destroyers, was defeated by the Vesuvius aircraft carrier formation of the Blood Wolf Legion. With more than half of the fleet casualties, it had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield.

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After the space battle ended, the forces stationed by the Saitan Federation on Basset began to turn to ground resistance. The fall of Basset was almost a foregone conclusion.

Marshal Williams led the defeated Scorpio local fleet to withdraw to Ophiuchus and merged with the Federation's fourth space aircraft carrier mixed fleet.

At nine o'clock in the morning, President Johnson in the Capital Star Presidential Palace saw on TV that the second prince of the Vilia Empire, Tokugawa Jiro, publicly issued an edict to all countries in the universe to declare war on the Saitan Federation. At the same time, the Vilia Empire began to send troops to Basset Star.

Ground combat forces.

"These bastards! They just pretended to declare war after the fight was over!" President Johnson turned off the TV angrily.

"Your Excellency, what should we do next?" asked the confidential secretary next to him.

"The Vilia Empire invaded our country first, and we must fight back! Inform Congress that our country officially declares war on the Vilia Empire!" President Johnson thought for a moment and continued: "Also, prepare a TV speech for me. I want to address the whole country.

Issue an emergency federal war order and be sworn in as wartime president."
Chapter completed!