Chapter 42: Changqing and Honor
"I understand that you are here to the point where you want to move your muscles and be eager to try, and I also understand your determination to protect the people of the Federation, but you must know that soldiers, it is our duty to obey orders, and our duty now is to guard the Dawn base and wait for reinforcements to arrive."
Taking a deep breath, Qin Chong's gaze slid over the helpless faces of the two subordinates, "What we want to protect is something more precious than our lives, for the security of the country and the nation, no one's life can be lost." β
At this moment, Qin Chong had a deeper understanding of the general's determination, and when he said that sentence, he should have been extremely heartbroken! For the sake of the country and the nation, what he needs to give up is the life of his beloved daughter!
It was also at this moment that this "old major", who had never made any achievements in military affairs but wanted to quench his qualifications in the frontier, suddenly let go of all worries. And what about the kamikaze special mecha regiment? What about the man named Tsuyoshi Miyamoto coming in person?
The people of the Federation can be sacrificed, the talented female academicians of the Federation can be sacrificed, and all the members of the Federation here, including himself, can also be sacrificed.
It's just a matter of doing your best.
Facing the base commander, who rarely reprimanded the two of them strongly, Ye Xiaozhou and Zhang Wuhui's eyes were filled with suspicion.
This is very different from the major commander who has always maintained a harmonious atmosphere in their impression, and it is completely like a different person. They clearly heard an iron-blooded aura from his tone, and even contained a hint of determination.
Could it be that there is a great danger coming to the Dawning base?
These two are worthy of being the two best grassroots officers of the Shuguang Military Base, and just from Qin Chong's tone, they felt that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings.
Qin Chong knew very well that the two young captains under his command, they were the ones he had seen in the army for fifteen years, although they were not the best lieutenants, but they were definitely the most upright and enthusiastic young lieutenants.
The Dawning Military Base, as the Federation's only military stronghold on Rafi, is twenty light-years away from the area actually controlled by the Federation, and even if it costs energy to resupply the starship to open the jump point, it will take almost a week's voyage. If you want to use a natural wormhole to arrive, it can take up to a month.
The soldiers who came here, except for a very small number of people who were stuffed here by their superiors in small shoes, most of them came here with a strong purpose, and some hoped to make a small fortune in this chaotic place; Some hope to be promoted quickly through the experience of garrisoning on the frontier, instead of having to be stuck in the hurdle of captains and colonels for four or five years like Qin Chong; Even more bizarre, it is a failed love affair and wants to hide in this distant planet where communication is not even developed to heal his woundsγγγγγγγ
Including Qin Chong himself, he also took the initiative to apply for transfer here for the sake of military promotion, and he didn't have the idea of working here for a long time.
But Ye Xiaozhou and Zhang Wuhui are the others among all the people here, and the others among the others.
As young people who were promoted to captain at the age of 25, they can be called excellent, but if you look at their resumes, you will find that they are actually better than the three stars on their shoulders.
After human beings set foot in this starry sky, they were pleased to find that compared to the little resources that they grabbed by fighting life and death on the blue star, the resources in the vast starry sky are almost unlimited. Countless planetary surfaces, all kinds of valuable mineral resources are like huge mountains of garbage on the blue star, which are ready to be extracted.
For a thousand years, the human society that has stepped into the starry sky has been peaceful for thousands of years, and the starry sky countries that have been built in a hurry are burying their heads in digging resources and developing and growing. It wasn't until a thousand years later that the human population exploded to hundreds of billions, and human footprints traveled thousands of light-years across the star field.
Mankind has only discovered that the once vast resources are still limited. If you want to go to a more distant star field, you need more resources, a larger territory, and a larger population base. And the people in the upper echelons also need to grasp more power, and they need more people to bow to him or them, "wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lie on the knees of beauty" is the ambition hidden in the hearts of each hero.
The reason for the outbreak of various wars in history is almost exactly the same, and the terrible war has broken out again. The war that swept the countries of the starry sky was like a huge whirlpool, involving all human beings into the battlefield, and no one was spared, not even the so-called neutral countries.
In the face of interests, no one can be truly neutral, and no one can close their eyes to death. Every country and every person has a reason to fight for itself.
The flames of war ignited in star fields within thousands of light-years.
The humans who have entered the starry sky have far more terrifying weapons than the humans on the blue star, and several superpowers that have established themselves in the starry sky have even been equipped with super nuclear bombs that destroy the planetary level. The hundred-year-long interstellar war has shattered the construction of mankind that has taken thousands of years, and more than 20 habitable planets have been destroyed, and the population of human beings has plummeted from 700 billion at its peak to 300 billion, and more than 400 billion human beings have died in the war.
In the scientific and technological civilization of mankind, except for the birth of more terrible weapons, all kinds of other technologies have even regressed terribly because of the disconnection of talents. It was only at this time that mankind realized that the war would not stop, let alone any more distant starry sky, and I was afraid that human beings would only be able to hide on the surface of the planet and eat barbecue in the future.
The countries that came to their senses finally sat down at the negotiating table, and after years of verbal sparring and all kinds of striking, the war known as the first interstellar war in the river system finally came to an end. Although in the future, that proved to be a big joke. Human beings have a very shallow understanding of the river system.
The war is over, and the scars remain. Governments have jointly formulated a ban on planetary weapons, destroying all weapons that can destroy planets or even stellar stars, and strictly prohibiting all countries from developing similar technologies, if discovered, they will become the public enemies of all human countries.
At the same time, the power of various starship weapons is also limited to prevent those military maniacs from taking advantage of the human-inhabited planets at every turn in war. Human beings have realized that in the starry sky, the habitable planet is like an island in the ocean on the blue star, one less will always be one less, and it will be all smashed, and human beings will not even have a place to stay, and it will be finished.
It is precisely because of such an agreement that Tang Lang and Hob Meat, two visitors from other worlds, came to this starry sky and felt that the weapons of human war were not as strong as they imagined. In fact, if human beings are allowed to develop murder weapons so desperately, they may be able to develop artificial black holes sooner rather than later, which can completely destroy a galaxy.
But human beings have always had the habit of forgetting the pain when the scar is good. In the nearly 4,000 years since then, there have been 5,000 recorded local wars, with an average of one local war breaking out every year.
In the Southwest Federation alone, there have been as many as 100 border wars and resource wars between the Southwest Federation and its neighboring old rival, Jeppen, and in an average of 40 years, the two countries will have to do a ping-pong game, which can be called old enemies.
It's just that the two countries have similar populations and basically equal national strength, and the war is won and lost, but it is extremely difficult to carry out a war of annihilation against the other side. That is, a genius of the Southwest Federation Changsun family rose a hundred years ago, leading the Federation army to defeat the Jiepeng army and retreat without the power to resist, but it encountered the participation of the Great Eagle Empire, the master of the Jiepeng country, and the Southwest Federation, which won the battle against the Jiepeng country, was forced to sign a ceasefire treaty without foreign aid and lost control of the third star field, which was the national shame of the Southwest Federation.
On the day the agreement was signed, the talented Admiral Sun Qingyu jumped from under the 99-story building of the Federal People's Assembly, expressing his determination not to give in to power rather than die.
On that day, it was designated as the Day of National Shame by the Southwest Federation, and on that day every year, every galaxy, every habiting planet, and every city in the Southwest Federation would be alarmed. It is both a wake-up call and a remembrance.
On that day, the First Military Academy of the Federation, which has a history of 4,000 years, was officially renamed Qingyu Military Academy. Honor the memory of the best graduate in the history of the Military Academy.
Because the talented general a hundred years ago has the laurels of the double bachelor's degree in the Department of Strategic Warfare and the Department of Mecha of the Qingyu Military Academy.
Therefore, for the past 100 years, the two major departments of the Strategic Warfare Department and the Mecha Department of the Qingyu Military Academy will each select a graduate to accept the challenge of the graduates of the whole military academy.
The winner will be awarded the titles of "Changqing" and "Honor".
No one can compare with the ancestors, so catch up with him together and miss him. That is the dedication that the century-old soldiers of the Federation will never forget.
And Ye Xiaozhou is the "Changqing" of the year before last, and Zhang Wuhui is called "honor".
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PS: For some reason, when updating this chapter, I carefully read the end of this chapter and suddenly burst into tears. Because of the general I wrote about jumping from a tall building? Or is it because Fengyue suddenly thought of the tens of thousands of scholars who jumped into the sea after the battle of Yashan many years ago. This is the backbone of our nation! Even if it is thousands of years or tens of thousands of years, it will not break.
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