The Military Department has withdrawn, but not completely.
Perhaps those bigwigs in the Military Department were directly rebuffed by Yang Ming, and couldn't bear the embarrassment, so the withdrawal order merely required the imperial fleet to leave the three Dominicos planets and remain at the farthest attack distance of the Dreadnought to continue pressuring the Dominicans.
Yang Ming also received a synchronization order from the Empire, instructing him to proceed to the Empire's border region as soon as possible to complete a handover with the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau.
Despite the tough stance, the order still has to be obeyed.
To facilitate the subsequent plan, Yang Ming did not ride in the fleet's escort formation but let this escort formation carry out the normal advancing order, to rendezvous with the bordering fleet of the Military Intelligence Bureau in the designated Star Domain.
