Abyss Solo-Chapter 228 - 121 Tragic Victory
Chapter 228: 121 Tragic Victory
Chapter 228: 121 Tragic Victory
“Victory.”
When Yang Ming saw this headline, he felt a complex mix of emotions.
How was it a victory?
The Third, Fourth, and Sixth Fleets of the Wind Army lost over one hundred fifty ships, with more than forty main battleships destroyed, and sixty-three thousand and forty-two soldiers killed.
This was death, not just casualties.
For the side that lost the battleship duel, there was no chance of boarding the lifeboats.
This battle left Gudun Mah’s originally controlled Fourth Fleet the most severely damaged.
Almost completely destroyed!
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If it weren’t for the Sixth Fleet also being under Gudun Mah’s control at this stage, Gudun Mah would have become the weakest warlord of the Wind.
The Royal Guard Army suffered more than seven thousand casualties, and the loss was extremely tragic.
Over sixteen thousand civilians were killed or injured, a statistic Yang Ming had not anticipated—fortunately, most were injured.
Yang Ming clicked on the article headline to take a look, and it was filled with words of praise, clearly a royal announcement.
He picked up his watch and made a voice call.
“Boss,” Lyu’s clear voice sounded, “please instruct.”
“Take down the headline for me! Change it to ‘National Crisis!’ Edit and upload the footage of the sacrificed soldiers and the scenes of victims’ suffering!”
Yang Ming cursed:
“Still celebrating! A bunch of useless nobles!”
“Yes, Boss.”
The call was immediately disconnected.
In the prisoner transport vehicle escorting Yang Ming, a few fully armed prison guards exchanged glances.
They still didn’t know the specifics of this war, they were merely here to execute a task: transporting a prisoner who “must not be offended” to their prison to serve time.
The original military prison on Ilando Star had already been abandoned.
—No military personnel who committed crimes would be imprisoned on Ilando Star.
Yang Ming was sent to an ordinary prison located outside Ilando City, a temporary sign hanging on the basement turned it into Ilando Military Prison.
He would be the only prisoner on that floor.
In the smoothly sliding prisoner transport vehicle, a guard couldn’t help but ask in a small voice, “Sir, what did you do?”
Yang Ming smiled, “Disobeyed orders on the battlefield.”
“Isn’t that punishable by death… Oh, sorry, Sir.”
“It’s alright, my connections are strong.”
Yang Ming shrugged, crossing his legs and closed his eyes to relax.
At the present stage, the internal and external environment of Ilando Star was extremely complex.
The space battle ended ten hours ago; the Planet Cannon of the palace fired only once, costing the New Federation’s Seventh Expeditionary Fleet twenty-five warships.
Of course, able to skewer pieces of candied fruit on a stick, it was due to Lyu’s constant maneuvering, forcing the enemy’s fleet into a narrow area.
This super large anti-ship Planet Cannon had no chance to fire a second shot.
The New Federation’s Seventh Expeditionary Fleet was desperately breaking through, and the Ninth Expeditionary Fleet spared no effort to tear open a gap in the Sherman Empire’s Expeditionary Corps defense line.
In this engagement, the New Federation’s Seventh Expeditionary Fleet lost eighty to ninety various types of warships, the Ninth Expeditionary Fleet lost twenty-five warships, and the estimated number of personnel lost by the New Federation reached eighty-six thousand.
The Sherman Empire’s Expeditionary Corps lost more than forty warships, with personnel losses of thirty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-four.
This indeed was a great victory, but it was the Sherman Empire’s victory.
Similarly, this was the most humiliating defeat the New Federation had suffered in decades.
The war was not over, it merely transitioned from a battleship duel to a struggle for international discourse.
The Sherman Empire was promoting the ‘Wind Campaign’ extensively within the Empire.
The 721 Expeditionary Corps achieved a rare major victory in recent years, even the Emperor was alarmed and was about to publicly commend them.
This was the Wind’s opportunity.
Lyu and Edwan’s intelligence teams were running at full power, creating public opinion in the Sherman Empire centered on “heavy losses for the Wind Fleet” and “victory built on the bravery of Sherman soldiers and the Wind soldiers’ fearless sacrifice,” to reap more benefits in the future.
Under Yang Ming’s arrangement, Lyu quickly organized the relevant battlefield information;
Edwan urgently contacted officials from the Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau, presenting a mature diplomatic offensive plan.
Before the New Federation could react, a diplomatic offense and defense war involving most of the Milky Way commenced.
As the invaded party, the Wind led more than twenty small Sherman’s Empire camp allies to launch a verbal attack on the New Federation’s “invasion war.”
The New Federation swiftly started a counterattack, continuously controlling and guiding public opinion, beautifying itself as conducting anti-terrorism actions, and slandering the Wind Empire as a breeding ground for terrorists.
The Wind’s diplomatic team argued with reason, constantly releasing a series of evidence using popular social media and portal sites within the Milky Way.
The main evidence included:
The operation trail of New Federation agents who launched terrorist attacks, relevant surveillance videos, the entire process of implementing the terrorist attack plan, and the agent’s life video within the New Federation;
The New Federation’s attack craft directly assaulting the Old Emperor during a speech, the fleet Commander issued a clear ‘fire’ command;
The captured New Federation ground troops left behind described the various orders they received.
Among them, the most passive evidence for the New Federation was the footage of the New Federation ground troops massacring civilians.
The most embarrassing evidence for the New Federation— the Wind Palace Cannon blasting the New Federation expeditionary fleet.
The video of this shot had already gone viral across the Milky Way.
The Wind Empire made a name with one shot.
However, the diplomatic offensive and defensive war couldn’t last more than a few hours.
