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"General, we have successfully contacted the remaining troops of the Special Combat Battalion at the Sandru base." In space, a large fleet of nearly 100 was slowly flying towards the earth, and in the bridge of the temporary flagship "Marathon", Lin Hai, who was floating in mid-air because of weightlessness, quietly listened to the report of the communications officer.

"Have you contacted Liu Yan?" After a few seconds of silence, Lin Hai spoke.

"Not yet, Major Liu should still be in Kahler City, but the communication signal there is still being interfered with, and they can only barely contact their transport fleet, but because they can't learn more about it intermittently, the only thing that can be sure is that they are safe for the time being."

"Safe for now? Even contact cannot be ensured, and this security is not that safe. Targate," Lin Hai turned his head to look at the major general who was sitting in the commander's seat and was still being examined by the medical corps, "The Sandru base can be determined to be unreliable at present, and at this point, I directly ordered them to dare to refuse to send reinforcements, then that base has no point in existing." What do you think about the special operations battalion remaining units to evacuate from there, and then raze the entire base with orbital bombardment? ”

"Although I have this thought, it is only mentioned in the previous report," Tagate replied with a hand raised his hand to the medic to slow down and check again, "the Sandru base may be unstable, but there are still two to three percent of the personnel in the base garrison who do not know, and if Carlson intends to defect, those people will not necessarily fall to him, which is one of the reasons why Carllin has not really defected for a long time." Wouldn't the direct orbital bombing also kill that part of our personnel? ”

"Then how do you think we can screen out the small group of people who are still loyal from nearly 10,000 people in a short period of time?" Lin Hai asked rhetorically, "Of course, I also know that it is too much to directly destroy the entire base, including the personnel inside, but we can't draw enough troops to suppress that base at present, take care of the nearly 10,000 people inside, and then screen the loyal and disloyal people from it." ”

"I don't think you need to suppress the entire base, you just need to suppress the base headquarters. It should be enough to arrest or kill Carlson, as well as his officers who are also in question. ”

Liu Yan's report, as well as the CIA's report, mentioned that a considerable number of soldiers in the Sandru base were recruited by Carlson himself, and were not recruited and assigned through the GDI recruitment department. Although at this point, we made concessions in order to win over other countries, which led to the current hidden dangers, on the other hand, we also have a new reason to strengthen the control of the entire GDI, and the next clean-up work can be carried out. ”

"So you deliberately gave in?" Targate looked at Lin Hai in surprise, "When you agreed to let those generals who were directly sent to GDI by various countries have a certain right to recruit troops in exchange for the independent recruitment right of the entire GDI, did you expect that there would be today?" ”

Lin Hai shook his head and said, "No, I really didn't think of that much at first, but after hearing more similar information, I gradually had some ideas that some information could be used." At the beginning, I just wanted to get the right to recruit troops on our own, and I thought that there was nothing wrong with our own loyalty testing, but I never thought that there was a loophole to exploit on it, which led to the current unfavorable situation, although it also gave us a chance to clean up internally, but you also have to think that doing so will also prove to outsiders that the GDI organization is not monolithic, it is also quite problematic, and if it is not done well, it will become our big scandal, which is why I prefer to directly erase the Sandru base rather than suppress them. ”

"Solve the problem as soon as possible and reduce the chance of scandal exposure?" After pondering for a moment, Tagate asked, "But even if we directly wipe out the entire base with orbital bombardment, together with those officers and soldiers who have not yet defected, but the Sandru base is not a small base, and it is impossible to destroy the movement there without the outside world noticing, and at that time, how can we explain to the outside world that we want to use orbital bombardment to destroy our own military base?" No one would believe the reason for the accidental bombing. ”

"The base has fallen, and as a last resort, it can only be annihilated along with the rebels inside. How does this explain? Although it will be a little embarrassing, after all, GDI's military base was occupied by a group of rebels, but GDI headquarters reacted quickly and completely annihilated the main rebel force that occupied the base at the expense of a base, and it can also explain why the nearest Sandru base did not send reinforcements during the battle of Calle City, because the base itself has fallen. A good manipulation of public opinion should come in handy, right? ”

"What about personnel? Not to mention that the level of weapons and equipment of the GDI troops is incomparable to that of the rebels, after all, there are nearly 10,000 personnel in that base, even if the base commander is incompetent to the extreme, it is impossible that even a single soldier cannot escape, right? As long as anyone doubts this, we will not be able to explain the whereabouts of our personnel in the base - it is impossible for all officers and soldiers to be killed by the local rebels, no one will believe it. What's more, although the location of the Sandru base is relatively remote, the surrounding area is not a completely uninhabited desert, there are still several villages, and some additional food supplements will be provided to the base in normal times, so if the rebels attack the Sandru base, those villages cannot not hear the wind at all. Are we going to destroy those villages as well? ”

"If you want to cover up a fact, you have to cover it up with another lie, and then keep covering up the lie with lies?" Listening to Targate's words, Lin Hai muttered to himself, "Is it possible to only admit this scandal?" That's not good for my reputation. ”

Although Lin Hai was just talking to himself, because he didn't deliberately lower his voice, Tagate on the side also heard his words, so he took over and continued: "Indeed, once this matter is exposed, it will have a huge impact on your reputation, after all, you are not representing a certain national force, but the leader of an independent force, your status is guaranteed by our force, and your influence in the world is also obtained by military merit and your current status, once there is a serious scandal in the GDI you manage, It will indeed have a negative impact on your already weak reputation, although with our force, neither the Security Council nor other forces can shake your position as commander-in-chief of GDI, but they can also take this opportunity to add sand to GDI. ”

"Yes, I'm just worried about that. It's like I want to take this opportunity to carry out a purge of the entire GDI, so that power is more centralized and more privileged, but others can also take this opportunity to add shackles to me in the same way, even if they still can't get the command of the Iron Eagle Force directly under me, and can't directly access our technology, but they can further increase the restrictions on my current command that is not very strong for the entire GDI organization- Maybe even the right to recruit troops on the GDI that we have won so hard will be withdrawn. Although it is said that as long as we can manipulate public opinion well, we can take advantage of the situation and turn the situation around, but no matter how you think about it, we may fall behind in the public opinion war, and Dr. Kane has too much work to do at the moment, and he has no time to help us in this regard. ”

"This important situation, maybe I can ask him to squeeze out some time to solve it."

"You don't have to have to do it." Lin Hai replied, "Just like you guessed just now, when there was a problem some time ago, I judged all kinds of situations that might arise, so it's not like I didn't have some plans to come up with some plans, so don't get involved in this matter, or help me think about it, whether to directly bombard the Sandru base according to my original plan, or send troops to take over that base, and if I want to take over there, where will the required troops come from." ”

"How about the redeployment of our troops from other parts of the Middle East?" Tagate replied without thinking, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Of course, I'm an officer in the Space Fleet, and I don't know much about the situation in the ground forces, so I can only provide some additional ideas, don't blame me for being wrong." ”

"Of course I won't blame you, after all, after too many events, even I can't remember all the things and think of them all." Lin Hai waved his hand and said, "Has the orbital alert fleet that was evacuated because of the appearance of the Sijing fleet return to its original position?" ”

"After the Sijing fleet was defeated by us, we have already asked them to go back, and I have also strengthened their military strength, now it should be an orbital defense fleet there, if it is not enough, there will be other reinforcement fleets over, and it can be strengthened to the level of an orbital attack fleet within an hour."

"Then so be it, you are experts in space affairs, and it is up to you to decide." Speaking of this, Lin Hai slightly drove the attitude adjustment engine on the armor, lowered himself to the deck, and then activated the electromagnetic lock on the sole of his shoe, and after letting himself "stand" on the floor again, he looked at Tagate, "As for the other troops in the Middle East near the Sandru base you mentioned...... To be honest, although there is no evidence yet, I don't dare to trust them either, after all, they are not our direct lineage, most of them are troops sent by various countries to join the GDI, and some of them are also recruited by the garrisons in various places. Originally, we always believed that the strategic value of the Middle East region had decreased with the emergence of the space fleet, and many of our important materials were basically not transported by land or sea, but by transport ships, so we let them stay in the Middle East because we were afraid that they would make trouble on important battlefields. ”

"What about country Z?" Knowing that he didn't know much about the situation on the ground, seeing that a plan was denied, Tagate was not discouraged, and immediately put forward another suggestion, "According to the information I have seen so far, it seems that among our allies, it seems that only country Z is reliable and has the spare strength to send reinforcements." The main force of our space fleet is divided into four parts, the two main fleets guarding the lunar base and guarding the Lagrange point cannot be easily used, and the other two parts, except for the alert fleet and the patrol fleet guarding various points in the earth's orbit, are the fleets that are fully defending Asia. That is, with the full support of our space fleet, so far, the Asian region, especially country Z, is the only permanent member of the Council that has not been harassed by the Sijing people. With such support, it shouldn't be very difficult for them to send troops to assist us, right? ”

"I've thought about it, but you also know that everyone has their own core interests, after sending 300,000 expeditionary forces to Europe and sending 50,000 troops to join GDI, if you want country Z to send more troops, then country Z may need a certain degree of mobilization. Whether it's recalling veterans or recruiting new recruits, it takes time, and their equipment also needs to be produced, so you can't expect to challenge the Sijing people with those old weapons, right? Also, after all, I am also a citizen of country Z, and when I think of my compatriots to shed blood and sacrifice, my heart is always not very comfortable, and I would rather let people from other countries go to death. It's a pity that the clone soldiers have always had a limit on the total number of troops, and after training 200,000 clone soldiers, the servo computers in all barracks facilities will automatically stop training work, even if I give a direct order on the orders of the lieutenant general, it is useless, and the supercomputers of the science and technology center and the space command center refuse to assist in the program cracking work. ”

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