These words left all the senior military officers speechless.

Including the loyal officer, he now knows that if they continue to resist, civil war may break out in the Sky Fortress.

Although they are all B-level psychics, there are also many B-level psychics among mid-level officers, and most of them come from these planets in the Fornax star field.

After a long discussion, the fortress commander finally said, "We shouldn't make any more senseless sacrifices, nor should we drag this towering fortress down with it."

"This Sky Fortress is not only ours, not only belongs to Lidadas Capital, but also to the people of Fornax."

"We can die, but this fortress should not be destroyed."

A loyal officer whispered, "I think you just want to be that lord's personal guard."

The fort commander, as if he had not heard, said, "I have decided to give up resistance and surrender to General Irving's camp."

"If you have any opinions, say it now."

"I will appeal as well."

"Reconsideration!"

In the end, the vast majority of people agreed to the proposal, except for a few loyal officers who remained silent, neither opposing nor supporting it.

A loyalist officer said to the fortress commander, "I don't support your surrender, but you are right. We are isolated and helpless. The soldiers' deaths are in vain. The Sky Fortress should not fall in civil war."

"Imprison us! I will not surrender to the Galactic Defense Corporation!"

In addition to him, there were several other senior military officers who shared the same idea.

In response, the fort commander granted their wish and imprisoned them all.

Soon, the towering fortress gave up its last resistance and handed over control of the fortress.

The Galaxy Defense Group's fleet took over this advanced defense fortress earlier than expected.

The treatment of officers and soldiers in the Sky Fortress was also simple.

He recruited a group of officers and soldiers from Fornax to continue maintaining the fortress.

Then, a number of officers and technical troops were stationed in the Sky Fortress.

This fortress will temporarily become the center of activities for the task force strike group.

The transport ship docked at the rear also quickly arrived at this towering fortress.

With the arrival of this new force, subsequent handling became much easier.

The Sky Fortress in Tianlu was taken, and the subsequent planets were almost taken by order. Li Xin left a thousand warships to garrison at the Sky Fortress, and at the same time confiscated many small and medium-sized ships built in other industrial worlds.

There were several industrial worlds and large space docks nearby. After taking over the Sky Fortress, Li Xin led the fleet and attacked the locations of these space docks.

Take over all these docks and the life planets below.

Without the space fleet and the Sky Fortress, these planets basically dare not resist.

For these industrial worlds of Tianlu, as long as Li Xin's Galaxy Defense Group does not exhaust all the resources in Tianlu.

Then they can also obey the orders of the Galaxy Defense Group.

Now the banner that the Galaxy Defense Group is holding high is still to help General Owen of Lidadas Capital defeat Duncan.

The star field of Fornax and many industrial worlds are only temporarily managed by the Galactic Defense Group.

On the life planets below, there are small-scale loyalists rebelling, but Li Xin simply ignores them. As long as the space is blocked, the planetary rulers and governments of these planets will handle everything.

Now Li Xin doesn’t need the real loyalty of these planets at all, as long as they can provide him with resources.

He even recruited a group of elites from there and sent them to the Sky Fortress, and then transported them directly to the headquarters of the Galaxy Defense Company.

These several large space docks have been producing small and medium-sized warships in preparation for the upcoming battle.

Only a small number of people were able to reach the defense line of the Sky Fortress and participate in the battle.

The vast majority of warships are still outside the space dock waiting for crew members to drive them.

This time, Li Xin got all the benefits.

He mainly carried medium and large battleships, small and medium-sized destroyers, and a small number of frigates.

Now that this batch of small and medium-sized warships has been directly incorporated into our army, the number of ships has doubled.

Originally, there were only thousands of small and medium-sized warships, which were not enough to escort the Phantom-class battlecruisers.

But now it's good. The soldiers and officers who were mobilized directly drove these ships away and joined the task force strike group.

The three thousand transport ships were filled with middle and lower-level officers prepared by Li Xin.

With these officers, plus some trained clone soldiers, and some soldiers recruited from Fornax, they were incorporated.

A large number of warships were directly incorporated into the battle sequence. Although their combat effectiveness was a bit poor, it was not a big problem. Under the leadership of Li Xin, they would become veterans after fighting a few battles.

Clone soldiers and recruited Fornax soldiers each account for half of the ships, so these small and medium-sized ships do not need to worry about loyalty issues for the time being.

Middle and lower-level soldiers and officers are easily swept up by the general trend, and their personal will is difficult to change.

Now, the number of task force ships expanded from nearly 6,000 to 18,000.

The number of major large battleships, Phantom-class battlecruisers, and Guardian-class escort ships remains the same.

But the number of destroyers and frigates has increased a lot.

Li Xin also added a lot of carrier-based aircraft and carrier-based aircraft pilots to replenish the combat effectiveness of the light carrier-based aircraft carrier.

With so many warships in his hands, he directly mobilized 6,000 warships without stopping.

Among them, large warships took away two-thirds, with the original 2,000 small and medium-sized warships and the newly added recruit fleet of 3,000 to 4,000 ships.

He led this fleet directly into the subspace and accelerated towards the first batch of space fleets arranged by Duncan for support.

Duncan has a total of four space battle groups, and the fastest one only takes a year and a half to reach the defense line of the Fornax Fornax.

Now, because Li Xin launched a direct and swift raid and captured Tianlu, the fleet immediately stopped about seven months away from Tianlu.

Here they waited for the arrival of the follow-up fleet.

Faced with Li Xin's threat, this space fleet battle group was even ready to move backward to meet up with another fleet coming to support it.

By then they will have 6,000 main battleships and will be more confident.

But Li Xin didn't give them this opportunity at all. He led 6,000 warships and sprinted quickly in the subspace.

Six thousand warships also brought huge pressure to Li Xin, and the speed was much slower.

But in less than three months, this fleet also raided the location of Duncan's space battle group.