Chapter 259: Right and Wrong

After a few minutes, it began to rain fire in the sky, and from time to time the wreckage of ships and Zerg burned and fell. It is clear that the troops of the 5th line of defense have already fought with the Zerg, and the victory and defeat look obvious.

The people on the ground began to panic and run in all directions. Luckily, they were hit by the wreckage of the ship, and their bones were gone, and a large number of buildings fell into the scourge.

The apocalyptic scene that I had seen in the CG of "Virtual Life N" really appeared in front of Su Yongming.

Two minutes later, a large number of Zerg obscured the sky. The larger Zerg is 10 times larger than humanity's largest space carrier, and the smaller one is the size of a hovering car. And the quantity ...... There are countless of them.

The small Zerg pounced on the fleeing people on the ground with their mouths open, and bit them to death; The larger Zerg attack in the sky.

Some launched attacks that were invisible to the human eye, and buildings on the ground collapsed one after another; Some spew out a downpour of acid, corroding everywhere they go; Some resort to suicide attacks, plunging headlong into the ground, as powerful as the explosion of a small nuclear bomb......

The seven warships that Su Yongming brought back to participate in the exercise, including five small gunboats and two small fast survey warships, took to the air to fight under the cover of 20 mechs.

And the ground headquarters of the Defense Alliance kept threatening Su Yongming, asking him to gather all his troops and return to the Defense Alliance headquarters, so that he could not be held accountable for the crime of resisting military orders before. Su Yongming didn't bother to pay attention to it and hung up the communication.

The main force of the Great Song Dynasty, which was deployed in the Martian defense line, also urgently contacted the only quantum communication equipment in Su Yongming's private army, so that Su Yongming would protect Zhao Xi at all costs and try his best to preserve the industrial facilities, and the main force would urgently accelerate back to the defense, and it was expected that the time to arrive at Aeus would be 1 hour and 47 minutes later.

As for the troops deployed in the fourth line of defense, that is, the lunar line, there is no need to count on it. The Zerg split half of their forces against them, and by this time they had almost half of their battle losses......

Therefore, now there are only the private armies of Su Yongming and Zhao Xi on the ground of Aeus, plus the few remaining troops of the 5th line of defense are still resisting. If they fail, in the next hour or so, Aeus will no longer have a formed defense force, and can only be exposed to the minions of the Zerg like a delicate girl......

In later generations, many historians and military scientists will discuss that if Su Yongming's private army was not on the planet Aeus when the Zerg raided; Or, when the Zerg launched a surprise attack, Su Yongming's private army did not protect those important industrial facilities, but was as exhausted as Zhao Xi's private army to protect civilians, what would be the difference in the final outcome of the Great Hundred Years War.

The conclusion is much the same: in that case, humanity would be doomed to lose the war from the beginning, and it would not be able to wait for a great counteroffensive a hundred years later.

But at the time, Su Yongming's actions were not commendable.

Most of his private army was killed and wounded, and almost all the recruits were wiped out, but some experienced veterans were saved. And the result? Of the 100 industrial bases and military factories he ordered to defend, only more than 20 were preserved intact, and the rest were more or less damaged, more than 10 of which were completely destroyed, and all the mecha masters in charge of defending them were killed.

At the same time, he abandoned the protection of civilians, resulting in more than 700 million civilian casualties in just over an hour.

It was not until the main force of the Great Song Dynasty in the third line of defense returned to help that this massacre stopped.

After this battle, Su Yongming was pushed to the forefront, and everyone did not regard him as a hero who defended his homeland, but cursed him as an accomplice who assisted the Zerg in the massacre of civilians.

It was only when the war continued, and these military factories and industrial bases, which were preserved by Su Yongming's order, played a huge role, that public opinion began to turn around.

But at that time, Su Yongming was under unprecedented pressure.

In that battle, Su Yongming's own mecha was destroyed and he was not lightly injured. At that time, Zhao Xi sent the last guards to rescue the civilians, but her own car was targeted by the Zerg. Su Yongming received an emergency communication from Han Jingjing, and hurriedly rushed to the rescue, and finally saved Zhao Xi's life at the cost of his own injuries.

It was precisely because he saved Zhao Xi regardless of his own safety, after this war of heavy losses for mankind, although public opinion was extremely unfavorable to him, he was not thrown out as a scapegoat, and the death guarantee of the Great Song royal family allowed him to escape.

Later, Zhao Xi asked Su Yongming in private, do you blame me for not listening to you, not only did it not play any role, but it put you in danger?

Su Yongming replied to her like this. Human society needs people like you, and it needs people like me. Sensibility and rationality are two sides of the same coin, and at certain moments a person only needs one side of the other, but it is never possible to completely get rid of the other side.

Although civilians did not appreciate Su Yongming's choice, the military top brass praised Su Yongming. The tactics he practiced in the private army were also promoted by the entire army of the Great Song Dynasty.

This raid did not achieve the desired effect for the Zerg. The ideal effect is to destroy all the industrial bases of the human race, and then wait for the rest to inflict heavy damage on the army that has returned to the third line of defense of the human race.

Humanity has preserved its vitality, and the potential for war is still enormous. With Su Yongming's continuous supply of ore, the war machine continued to operate, constantly replenishing the damaged fleet.

Two months later, the main force of the Zerg arrived, and in this battle, the first and second lines of defense of mankind collapsed, and the main army of the Great Song Dynasty of the third line of defense also suffered heavy losses.

But in any case, mankind finally held the Martian defense line, and the war entered a phase of stalemate. The human army was at a disadvantage, and every skirmish was like bloodletting, but the humans persevered.

Su Yongming has constantly made new feats in battles again and again. By the end of 780, he had been awarded the rank of major general, and in addition to continuing to command his private army, he was also appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the 3rd fleet of the Great Song Dynasty.

Nominally a deputy, in fact, the entire 3rd Fleet obeyed his orders, because the commander-in-chief of the 3rd Fleet was Zhao Xi.

Since saving Zhao Xi's life that time, the relationship between the two has become very good, they often drink and chat together, and Zhao Xi also regards Su Yongming as a friend who can be talked to.

Thanks to Zhao Xi's cooperation, the 3rd Fleet made many miraculous feats under the command of Su Yongming, and soon became a legendary force.