Chapter XVII: Forming a Fleet
After the meeting, work began on the formation of the fleet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In fact, this is not a fleet, but only a fleet of battleships. Awa-Ker offers warships, including 2 capital ships and 8 destroyers, in addition to a certain number of supply transports.
And as the main combat force of the fleet will be the cadets of the pilot school. The pilot school, which is still headed by Fengyu, currently has a total of 371 students in the first batch, but it is impossible for the council to hand over all of them to Fengyu, so he only asks him to select 200, and the rest will be used as the defense force of the headquarters.
Of course, in order to give these young cadets the opportunity to exercise, a rotation system will be adopted at that time, and the fleet will be regularly replaced with pilots. In this way, the training of young pilots has also been settled.
Originally, the council wanted Fengyu to be the commander of the fleet, but he refused. As the only ace pilot of Awa-Ker at present, he must be on the front line when fighting, and he can't take charge of the fleet at all.
Situ Hui nominated Luo Yunxi as the commander of the fleet, anyway, she knew that Marshmallow would definitely follow Fengyu. However, Luo Yunxi also refused, and she preferred to continue to serve as the captain of the "Tropical High Pressure" and follow in the footsteps of Fengyu. Moreover, although her awakening ability "reconnaissance" can make the battleship go freely in an optically invisible state, it cannot take care of the entire fleet.
The essence of optical stealth is to achieve photoblocking with an ultra-high concentration of R particles, and in this state, all means of communication of the battleship will be ineffective. Even two warships, which are only a few tens of meters away, cannot see each other and are not at all suitable for collective action.
Since Feng Yu and Luo Yunxi had both rejected the appointment, the council could not force them, so they could only transfer personnel from the Department of Paramilitary Operations to take up this position. However, Fengyu still governs the fleet as a director and minister of security, and is responsible for formulating the operational policy for the fleet, but does not interfere with the specific command of the fleet in the event of war.
The commander of the fleet is a retired officer named Groningen, now 69 years old, who was once the formation commander of a fleet of the Earth Federation, participated in the war between five planets and two planets in SC0075, and knows a lot about the new African galaxy.
At Groningen's age, he should not have been on the battlefield again, but he had been serving as the principal of the Awa-Ker Aviation School, under the dual jurisdiction of the Department of Paramilitary Operations and the Ministry of Human Resources Reserves. However, as a hard-core soldier, he was very indignant about the attack on the submarine base, and hoped to join the battlefield again to seek justice from the enemy. In addition, a large number of warship commanders needed to form the fleet this time were all his students at the aviation school, and as the principal, he immediately recommended himself to be the commander of the fleet, hoping to continue to teach his disciples experience in actual combat and stand on the last shift.
Considering that Groningen was indeed the most experienced man in commanding the fleet in Awa-keri, the Council agreed to make him the commander of the fleet for one year, retiring at the age of 70. After a year, the performance of all the commanders of the fleet will be evaluated, and a new fleet commander will be promoted.
As a veteran fleet commander, when Gnoningen went to war, Fengyu had not yet been born and mobile suits had not yet appeared. And now he has to stoop to the wind and fight with mobile suits, which is more difficult for many people to accept. But Groningen is an open-minded old man, otherwise the Council would not dare to let him command the fleet, and once he and Fengyu hinder each other, it would be troublesome.
When Groningen was the rector of the aviation school, he was very concerned about the ongoing wars in various countries, actively embraced new tactical ideas, and did not reject the reality that mobile suits would become the dominant force in future wars. If he was an old stubborn who didn't have this quality, Awa-Ker wouldn't dare to mislead people by making him the headmaster.
Overall, Awa-ker is indeed a fairly healthy organization, with strong advantages in terms of system and employment.
During his time as Headmaster, Groningen already knew a certain amount about Fengyu, and used his performance in the E4 campaign as a case study to teach the Navigation Academy students how to deal with the decapitation tactics of the ace pilot on the battlefield. Now that the two have the opportunity to fight side by side, the old general is still quite happy, expressing his willingness to obey and cooperate with Fengyu.
It is also a great honor to have such a talkative partner who can implement his battle plan without interference.
The two hit it off when they first met, and they were both looking forward to the next battle, ready to teach them a hard lesson.
In addition to Groningen and his aviation school students, Fengyu also welcomed his nominal students at the Pilot School.
What impressed him the most at the pilot school was that Valkyrie, who wanted to push him, and Hong Juxing, who had the ability to double awaken, were among the first batch of cadets to join the fleet.
Although bringing Valkyrie to the fleet will make Fengyu feel a lot of pressure, she is the most likely student to become the ace of the technical stream, and she belongs to the key training objects. Feng Yu not only had to take her, but also had to be on the same battleship as her, so that he could tutor her specially.
As for one-on-one tutoring, will Valkyrie want to seize the last five minutes to get in bed again, Fengyu can only trouble Luo Yunxi to accompany him throughout the whole process. With Shi Niang present, this hot Viking girl shouldn't make any unwarranted requests.
However, Hong Juxing, who has both long-range awakening abilities "Must Hit" and "Must Flash", prefers close combat, which is a headache for Vice Principal Mihainovic. Because of the rejection of long-range shooting that lacks passion from the heart, Hong Juxing's marksmanship is naturally not much better, even if there are two awakening abilities, it will not help. If you insist on erasing his personality and force him to be a long-range pilot, then he will probably only be mediocre in his life, and he will really fail in his dual abilities.
However, Feng Yu, the honorary principal, is not just paid and does not work, and on the way back and forth to carry out the task of snatching the third-generation engine, he will spend a certain amount of time every day to compile special tactics for students of various awakening ability types. Among them, he specially designed a set of melee tactics for Hong Juxing to use with dual abilities, as long as he mastered it well, this kid will shine on the space battlefield sooner or later, and it is very likely that he will become another ace pilot.
And when he first met Hong Superstar, he showed the kind of calmness and point-to-point questioning style that Fengyu was deeply impressed, and felt that he had the potential to become a stream-of-consciousness ace. Therefore, Hong Juxing also has to be brought with him for special counseling.
As for the other students whose names are not yet known, they can only observe through actual battles and look for outstanding talents. However, regardless of the combat talent of these students, they are destined to not be ordinary pilots with the ability to awaken, and they will inevitably shine on the space battlefield.
And just like that, with the battleships, mobile suits, and crews all in place, the first fleet of Awa-ker was established.