Although he didn't say it, Valkyrie's words still touched Fengyu's heart, making him doubt his decision. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The flowers in the greenhouse can never grow into towering trees, and only those who have survived the baptism of storms and still stand tall can grow into pillars. The same principle applies to pilots, who have not experienced a life-and-death crisis with their lives hanging by a thread, and how can they have the opportunity to grow into an ace pilot who is in charge of his own life.

Will Fengyu's own life and death be less? He was now looking at this group of awakened pilots like a hen guarding a chick, was it really the right thing to do?

He couldn't face this for the time being, and he only thought about making these young people stronger, strong enough to have a certain ability to protect themselves in front of the ace pilots before releasing them.

Regardless of whether Fengyu's approach is correct or not, he will not change for a while, and the Tempest's operations in the galaxy will continue at this pace until something happens that makes him have to make changes.

After leaving the GM49, the Tempest continued its voyage to its next target.

This time it's a little farther away, almost 23 light-years away. It's just that for the "Stormwind", which has 1,200 times the speed of light, it is a week's voyage. If the battle goes well, Fengyu will still have enough time to get to the fourth target.

Such a rhythm was previously unthinkable. Only such a high-speed warship can maximize the efficiency of Fengyu's mobile operations, and allow the limited Awa-ker to hit as many important targets as possible in a unit of time.

After a short voyage of a week, Tempest entered the third leg of its journey to the galaxy, Rutan. This is an old man discovered and named a star, located in the direction of the Earth's constellation Canis Minor, 12.36 light-years from the Earth, an M3-type star, about a quarter of the mass of the Sun, and a tenth of the diameter.

Rutan Star belongs to the stellar domain developed in the early stage of the human space age, which is located in the center of human activities, the main economic circle of the Earth Federation, and has a total of more than a dozen space cities, large and small.

NO's production base in the Rutan Star Field is another crucial core industry - the engine factory, the Rutan Spaceship Engine Manufacturing Group.

A few months ago, when the "Quasi-Ace Squad" program was first implemented, the 10 ships of FI alloy transported by the Soros consortium caravan intercepted by the "Storm" at the WG1 shipping center were ready to be transported here. This also shows in disguise that Rutan's engine factory has the technical strength to produce the third-generation jump engine, and is the top three targets of Fengyu's trip to the galaxy, and the other two key targets are naturally the Mobile Suit production center in GM53 and the target of the next stop, the Galaxy Shipyard.

Rutan Spaceship Engine Manufacturing Group is currently the largest engine manufacturer in the Earth Federation and the largest engine supplier in the early human space age, relying on the rich rare metal resources of Rutan, monopolizing most of the spacecraft engine market before SC0041, and thus giving birth to a trust monopoly consortium - Rutan Foundation.

However, with the outbreak of the colonial independence movement in SC0041, the Rutan Spaceship Engine Manufacturing Group was abandoned by the four major galaxies except the Milky Way, and has since become the fourth largest engine manufacturer, only occupying the leading position on this side of the galaxy, and even the market in the Earth Federation Occupation Zone of the New African Galaxy is occupied by other engine manufacturers.

At the same time, the second largest engine manufacturer in the galaxy has gradually risen, cutting another piece of the pie from the Rutan consortium, because the Earth Federation cannot tolerate all the engines being supplied by the Rutan family, and there must be a backup supplier just in case.

The loss of the hegemony in the industry made the Rutan consortium very angry, and eager to regain its former glory, so it embarked on the same path as the Soros consortium and became the original initiator of NO.

After learning the true face of the Rutan Consortium, Fengyu naturally would not be polite to this source of evil. His goal is to wreak havoc on the Rutan Spaceship Engine Manufacturing Group, bringing their production to a standstill in the short term, unable to deliver existing engine orders, and further losing market share in the galaxy to second place in the Earth Federation.

If this goal can be achieved, the blow to NO will be extremely huge, and it may even make the Rutan consortium lose its core position in the NO decision-making level and become a second-rate member.

Of course, this is not easy.

As the trust monopoly consortium of the Rutan Star Domain, except for the base of the local garrison fleet, almost all the space cities in the star field are owned by the Rutan Consortium, and cover the entire industrial chain of engine production and the surrounding derivative industries.

If Fengyu wants to cripple the Rutan Consortium, he must sweep all the space cities in the Rutan Star Domain, which will inevitably attract local garrison fleets. In other words, the Tempest may need to fight a second-tier fleet.

But that's not really a problem.

First of all, the strength of the local garrison fleet itself is only half of that of the first-line main battle fleet, and the warships and mobile suits used are all replacement models that have been eliminated by the first-line fleet. The battleship is better, anyway, the current battleship is the same weak in front of the mobile suit no matter which generation, and there is no difference between the new and the old. In terms of mobile forces, the first-line fleet of the Earth Federation is currently equipped with the third-generation knight series, while the local garrison fleet is half third-generation and half-second-generation.

Moreover, more importantly, it has indeed been a long time since the Earth Federation declared permanent neutrality that it has not experienced a war, which makes the actual combat experience of their fleet worrying. The first-line fleet can occasionally fight pirates, and the local garrison fleet is a bunch of raw melons and eggs that will never have a chance to experience actual combat.

However, it is not true to say that, if this local garrison fleet stationed in the Rutan system is ready to stop the "Tempest", Fengyu will make them the first second-tier fleet in the history of the Earth Federation to experience the baptism of war.

It's hard to say whether the Earth Federation Army has an ace pilot, anyway, the pilot in charge of the second-tier fleet is a quasi-ace level. If each of the 9 Awakened pilots of the "Quasi-Ace Squad" has about this level, the number of quasi-aces in the Rutan Local Garrison Fleet is not as large as that of the "Tempest".

According to Valkyrie's words, "With those soft eggs, I can fight them with a mobile squadron alone!" ”

If it had been a few months ago, Viking Girl would not have dared to make such a big talk. But having experienced the battle of WG1 and having a prototype "Twin Hammer AM" with performance close to that of an exclusive custom model, she said this with confidence and without a hint of pompousness.

It can even be said that she is ready to use the battle with the local garrison fleet of Rutan to surpass Hong Juxing, who has always been leading in the number of falls, and gain the upper hand in the bet between the two.

For Valkyrie, Fengyu is really powerless. As a member of the Earth Federation, how could this Viking girl not even have the slightest basic patriotic thoughts, and actually think about how to win the bet from her own people.

What a simple-minded guy!