After that, under Queen Leng Yun's and General Leng Qian's arrangements, control of the Luohe capital star system was very soon restored.
Order began to return bit by bit too.
At the same time, Queen Leng Yun's guard fleet and General Leng Qian's Luohe Third Legion Fleet joined forces and began maintenance and resupply.
At the same time, Queen Leng Yun announced publicly the Chang family's betrayal of the Luohe Kingdom,
and declared that from now on the whole Luohe Kingdom was on a war footing.
On the other side, Chang Liqun, who had fled the battlefield with his former Luohe Second Legion Fleet, fled first of all to his family's fief star system.
In the Chang family's fief star system Chang Liqun did not stay long; after taking a great load of supplies, he fled the Chang family's fief star system with his whole household in tow,
making off toward the Meng family's territory.
By the look of it, he truly was afraid and terrified: that mysterious, powerful interstellar fleet had T5-grade interstellar warships through and through, and no small number of T6-grade interstellar warships.
Against such a mighty power, he had no strength at all to resist on his own.
The only course left to him now was to throw himself on the Meng family.
He had not carried out the original plan, but seeing the sincerity of his coming over, the Meng family, even if it could not keep its earlier promises, would at least not kill the donkey once the millstone was turned.
At the same time,
only now did the Meng family and the Hu family receive word from the battlefield, and learn that their operational plan against the Luohe Kingdom had miscarried because of an interstellar fleet of unknown origin.
And the other side had sent only three thousand interstellar warships, yet destroyed hundreds of thousands of their interstellar warships.
They did not know where the Luohe Kingdom had dragged in this ally from, but a power of this grade
had surely reached the level of a T6 technology civilization.
On their own, they were in no position to stand against it.
Now, besides urgently calling up all their legion fleets to deploy along the border, they also began contacting the other two families' powers,
and even tried to seek the help of the T6 technology civilization behind them.
For everyone knew very well that if the Luohe Kingdom had a T6 technology civilization standing behind it, the only means of standing against it
was to bring out a T6 technology civilization of their own.
Time passed bit by bit.
Ten hours after the defense of the Luohe capital planet, an interstellar fleet a hundred thousand ships strong appeared in the Luohe capital star system.
Then these interstellar warships began to follow the Luohe Third Legion Fleet under General Leng Qian in a purge throughout the Luohe Kingdom.
In three days, every family power that had moved in the rebellion was cleaned out, and everything the Chang family had built up in the Luohe Kingdom over many years was torn out by the roots.
From then on, rule of the Luohe Kingdom could be said to be back in the hands of the Queen of Luohe once more,
on the surface at least.
And at this time,
at one point on the Luohe Kingdom's border, the four great family powers had drawn up nearly three million interstellar warships.
It was a great massing such as had never been before.
Even when the four great families had split the Luohe Empire, there had never been a move on the scale of a war between nations.
For these interstellar warships were very nearly over nine-tenths of the interstellar fleets in each family's hands.
And facing these three million interstellar warships were only the three hundred thousand interstellar warships of the Luohe First Legion Fleet, which had been standing by here all along.
Three hundred thousand interstellar warships against three million: the gap between the two could be called enormous.
But how things really stood on the spot was wholly different.
The three million interstellar warships opposite dared not make a rash move at all; at any time before this,
in this sensitive area, the families' fleets would often cross the border line to provoke a little.
But now they were very well behaved.
Even the interstellar fleets that used to patrol kept a very safe distance from the border line, as though afraid that one slip might give the other side some misunderstanding.
The sight made even the supreme commander of the Luohe First Legion Fleet laugh in spite of himself.
"All these years, and I've never seen that crowd of bastards over there so timid." An old marshal sat in the captain's chair, holding something like a cigarette; he drew deeply on the mouthpiece and breathed out pale green smoke.
"Old Marshal, you've heard all about what happened on the capital planet. This… the helper Her Majesty the Queen has brought in, is the interstellar power behind it really so strong? To make that crowd over there as timid as mice?" the middle-aged secretary-officer beside him said, puzzled.
They senior officers on the border had learned everything about the Luohe capital planet too.
After all, with this great purge inside the Luohe Kingdom these three days, how could they not know?
But all of them were "clean"; at least in the matter of the Chang family's rebellion, they had not taken a side, and had refused to work with the Chang family.
Their attitude may have been somewhat ambiguous still,
but at least they had not stood on the Chang family's side, so they had not angered the Luohe royal house, and naturally were not on the list for the reckoning.
And this great purge had instead brought very great opportunity to the family powers behind them.
For the places of the family powers or lord powers that had been dragged out were now empty, and naturally needed to be shared out anew.
And their families had a chance at a slice of the cake.
But what concerned the old marshal more was the situation before them.
He said in a low voice, "The strength of the interstellar power working with our Luohe Kingdom is beyond doubt: T6 grade at least. But the danger hasn't passed yet; those four families opposite have a T6 interstellar civilization's support behind them too. At this point, where the Luohe Star Region goes from here is no longer something we can control. We can only see what the two T6 interstellar civilizations decide."
Just then a video call popped up.
The old marshal looked over; on the other end was General Leng Qian.
"Old Marshal, it's been a long time." General Leng Qian greeted the old marshal before her, showing her respect.
"So you've finally come, girl. Any later and I couldn't have held down those three million interstellar warships over there." The old marshal looked at this girl he had watched grow up.
For a long time she had followed at his heels learning tactics and command; he could count himself half a teacher to the girl.
After some idle talk with him, Leng Qian's expression turned serious again. "Old Marshal, let's leave the chat there for now. Next, I have a decree from Her Majesty the Queen to read out."
The smile left the old marshal's face, and he nodded. "Go on."
"From now on, I serve as supreme commander of the Luohe Kingdom, with authority to command all the Luohe Kingdom's interstellar legion fleets, and may give any operational order directly without reporting."
Hearing this, the old marshal showed no particular expression; he had foreseen all this long before.
The old marshal nodded. "I understand."
"Old Marshal, don't read too much into it. This is only a temporary arrangement; the Luohe First Legion Fleet in your hands is still under your command."
General Leng Qian did not forget to explain.
The Luohe Kingdom had only just been through a great purge, and naturally did not want any further misunderstanding with this old marshal before her, who stood for the Luohe old-line families.
The old marshal said with a cheerful laugh, "Don't worry; this old man hasn't so many twists and turns in him. If you and Her Majesty the Queen want it, you're quite welcome to my First Legion Fleet too. I know your ability well enough. I'd be glad to step down early and rest."
"You're still in good health; we can't do without you, Old Marshal." Whether he meant it or not, Leng Qian could naturally never truly take him up on it.
Even if this half-teacher of hers stepped down of his own will, the interests of the old-line families behind him would never allow him to.
"Nothing else to pass on?" the old marshal asked.
"Nothing else for now," Leng Qian answered.
The old marshal narrowed his eyes, and his tone grew lighter. "Leng Qian, you and I are half master and pupil, after all. I hear it was you who brought in this T6 interstellar power that's supporting us. Can you tell me where this T6 interstellar civilization comes from? Which is stronger, it or the T6 interstellar civilization behind those four families over there, so we can make preparations to match?"
Leng Qian could naturally hear that the old marshal was fishing for news.
She said with a smile, "As for news of this T6 interstellar power behind us, I'm sorry, but I can't tell you much for now. But on one point you can rest assured: the T6 interstellar civilization behind us is beyond any comparison with the power behind those four families over there."
The old marshal's eyes lit up; he pressed no further, but let out a breath and said, "Good. That crowd has drawn up three million interstellar warships in front of me. If we had nothing to back us, I'd guess they really would have come at us."
If the T6 interstellar power behind the Luohe Kingdom was no weaker than the T6 interstellar power behind the four families opposite,
then most likely this standoff could settle into calm.
But now Leng Qian said with a smile, "Old Marshal, they don't dare come at us. Then can't we be the ones to go at them?"
At Leng Qian's words, the old marshal's pupils widened slightly.
He had caught something in what Leng Qian said.
Before the old marshal could ask,
Leng Qian came straight to the point: "I can't tell you anything about that T6 interstellar power. But some things that have been agreed, I can still tell you."
The old marshal at once looked interested.
"Of the things promised so far, one is this: within twenty days we'll restore rule and jurisdiction over the whole Luohe Star Region! The Luohe Kingdom will be restored to the interstellar map of the old Luohe Empire!"
This time the old marshal's pupils did not just widen; his whole being shook like an earthquake!