The area of the swarm exercise was set in the orbit of Ganymede, a large moon with a mass of one-third the mass of Mercury. As a 'simple' pure moon composed of only ice and iron, the iron part of its body constantly cuts Jupiter's magnetic field during the orbit of the satellite, thus forming a thin covering material similar to an ionization cloud near the satellite, and the starship will be more or less affected by it when passing near it, and then there will be abnormalities in navigation, fire control and sighting, attitude control, etc., and because there are countless meteorites and war wreckage rotating around the satellite itself, In the nearby universe, many non-standard shipping lanes have been formed that are not suitable for the maneuvering of the ship's body, although they can be passed by a single ship.

It is in such a complex environment that the judgment and decisiveness of the commander of a small group of ships and the ability to control the writing of the group can be tested the most.

As the command gave the order to start the exercises, the ship group began to accelerate. This time I didn't stay with the starship cores again. Stanley, they stand out, and it is really because of the presence of me, an 'experienced' commander, that the transformation fighters are so brave and resourceful.

In Stanley's exact words, "The military department is to confirm the combat potential and value of the reformed soldiers, not to test Zhao Ping's personal experience and ability." ”

For this reason, I was 'invited' to dismount Kiana's command ship and instead use a shuttle to take the magnetic track accelerator to Ganymede's headquarters and watch the exercise with Kramer.

According to general tactical common sense, speed represents safety, attack power, and superiority, so at the beginning of the exercise, both groups of ships should be in a state of acceleration with all their might. Although I know that there is nothing valuable to observe now, I don't want to miss even the most boring part of the battle for the name of Kiana. After hurriedly running into the headquarters and hurriedly proving my identity to the guards, I came to the electronic sand table. Kramer, Green, a staff officer, and the military and political bigwigs gathered together to point fingers at the situation unfolding on the sand table.

I hurried to a corner of the sand table, preoccupied with the drills in progress, and with a polite nod to Kleiman and Green and Verelli, I was preoccupied with the analysis of the existing form.

"This officer, who allowed you to come here, guard! How can you be negligent in your duties, and can anyone break in? ”

“......”

There seems to be some kind of dispute, and I have no intention of focusing on those trivial matters, but concentrating on studying the situation in front of me. The two ship groups, Stanley and Kiana, entered the exercise area almost at the same time, and the speed of the ship groups increased to the top speed of 3.8 cosmic speed. In order not to leave the battlefield in an instant, the two sides coincidentally chose to use the gravitational pull of Ganymede and the friction of the ionosphere to slow down and change the overall navigation attitude.

Due to the time difference and probability, the two sides did not meet at the first time, but at the same time followed a clockwise direction relative to Ganymede, and made a differential orbit around the satellite. In general, due to the choice of commanders on both sides, the two groups of ships were in fact in a head-to-tail chase, and Stanley was slightly ahead of the line.

I myself am not very good at fleet warfare, and even if I have been carefully instructed by Verelli and Maxim, I have no ability to see the advantages and disadvantages and the victory and defeat at this time, so I can only stare at the sand table from the side, as if I can drag the Stanley ship group in this way.

"This officer, are you deaf? I'm talking to you! ”

Under the high-pitched and sharp questioning voice, the arm that was not very powerful was about to push me.

This kind of gesture with neither speed nor murderous intent, if you can touch me, you can write the words "battlefield hero" upside down. In the case of abnormal concentration, I felt that the impact that was not considered a threat came from the position of my left shoulder.

The left shoulder sank slightly, easily dodging the pushing action, and the mechanical arm in the right hand grabbed the opponent's wrist fiercely. With just a slight force, a pig-like wail sounded.

Only then did I reluctantly take my attention away from the sand table, and felt the gaze of the frightened eyes with fear, disgust, and other factors around me, and saw the embarrassing appearance of a group of guards hurrying forward, but not daring to step forward.

Although they are not directly subordinate, from the perspective of the relationship between superiors and subordinates, the guards of the headquarters are also my subordinates, although I will not blame them for their hesitant appearance. But in the eyes of the commander, these guards should be considered dereliction of duty. Anyway, since it's your own people, you have to help them at a critical moment.

"What's going on with you guys? Let this inexplicable guy break into the headquarters! With such an important organ, the guards can be said to be the last line of defense for the commanders, and why such omissions occurred will be handed over to me later this day, and then I will ask the commander for responsibility. Okay, now arrest this unknown guy for me, interrogate him immediately, and notify me when there is news. ”

Hand over the lean officer, already sweating profusely, to the guards. I turned to General Kramer and saluted, apologized for the dereliction of duty of my men, and confessed that it was all due to my lack of training progress and accuracy, and that I would definitely make up for it in due course, so I begged the command not to draw conclusions on the matter immediately.

When reporting to Kramer, I always felt that the gaze around me changed from stunned to inexplicable, and finally there was a strange atmosphere that resembled a comedic effect. Although I was concerned about the progress of the exercise, I was fascinated by what was happening around me. What is it that makes the soldiers and soldiers around him look like they can't help but laugh?

Turning to the help of the most familiar Verelli, he spread his hands out and asked me to ask Greene.

Green's usually extremely serious expression was also relaxed at this time. He shook his head and turned to Kramer.

The commander was a little annoyed, nodded and shook his head.

"Zhao Ping! At first, I thought you were doing a drill to give color to those who are trying to embarrass you. But from the fact that you're defending the guards, ostensibly denouncing the actual means of protection, I know that you don't even know what's going on, and you're acting purely intuitively. I'm going to ask you, is the ongoing exercise really that important to you? You don't even care about the fact that there are spies in the headquarters, which should be considered a major matter within your share? If there really were Berland's assassination subhumans mixed in and were run into such a core area, the entire fleet and even the top of the military department would be here! ”

Kramer's voice wasn't high, but I was still in a cold sweat at the scene he said.

“...... I'm very sorry sir, but I was too negligent in my duties, and I will immediately reorganize the guards when I go back today, and I will never let something like this happen again. Guards, bring this guy down for me, I'll interrogate it myself! ”

To my surprise, laughter erupted all around, and at the same time, as an inexplicable figure who had been 'caught', the lean officer let out a mournful cry.

"Wait a minute!"

A fat, bearded man asked the guards to pause their actions for the takeaways.

I was tempted to focus on the sandbox, and I was annoyed that someone had disturbed my concentration again. However, although this person is not wearing a military uniform, he has a majesty of his own, no matter how you look at it, it is the style of a person who has been at the peak of power all the year round. I don't mean to offend too many people. I can only endure the irritability and face him.

“......”

The bearded man walked up to the guard, and brutally pushed the guard away to help the lean officer up.

"Wait, who are you after you tortured me? Why rescue this man, what is his relationship with you, what right do you have to order the guards? ”

Originally, I didn't want to mess with such a guy who looked like a big guy. But since he was so ruthless, the anger in my heart came up.

"Who am I, are you qualified to know? Do you know who you are beating up here? Let me go! ”

Forced by the bearded man, the guards looked at me in embarrassment and asked for help.

I looked at the guards, not even glancing at my beard, "I don't care who you are, this is the army, and obedience is the most basic principle." The immediate supervisor of the guards is me, and my immediate supervisor is General Kramer, and on the Internet Mr. Clark is known to me as the head of the Provisional Government and the supreme head of the military department. As for the other cats and dogs, I don't care who you are. ”

"You!"

The beard was so angry that I was speechless for a while. I know very well that at this time I have been roasted on the fire, and I simply broke the jar and broke it, and since I have offended you, I will offend you to death.

"Guards, give me a handcuff! This person broke into the headquarters of the Wehrmacht without permission and attacked Senior Colonel Zhao Ping, the deputy commander of the Marine Forces, and had already reached the standard of arrest! I request that this person be interrogated immediately, if he does not cooperate with the use of torture because of the importance of the stakes and the security of the Interim Government. ”

I immediately gave the most serious order in front of me. The beard was so angry with me that his hair stood on end, and he pointed at me with his fat finger, unable to speak, only trembling.

"Zhao Ping, don't be rude. This is Mr. Derek, the former governor of the Saturn system and the current Provisional Government in charge of education and talent training. ”

General Kramer spoke. I noticed that the commander did not mention the lean officer, and immediately understood what he meant.

"I'm sorry Your Excellency, but I have been busy with military affairs recently, and I haven't been able to pay close attention to your public information, minister, if you have offended, please forgive me."

I saluted Derek respectfully, and while he was still in a state of consternation, the guards dragged the wailing lean officer out.

“...... But you ..... He ......"

Derek pointed at me, then at the lean officer. I respectfully ignored the minister's meaning, saluted him again, and asked General Kramer for advice with my eyes, and after receiving his nod of approval, I did not pay attention to the minister or anything like that, and stood in a corner of the electronic sandbox, and continued to observe the progress of the exercise.

"Hehe, Your Excellency Minister, my subordinates are all rough people, please forgive me if you offend, then let's continue to observe the soldiers' drills!"

"But ......"

As for what the big guys talk about anymore, I don't care, and now I'm going to put all my energy into the drills that are going on.

Next to Europa, the ongoing inter-destroyer group exercise is going in a much unexpected direction. There was no such thing as a group of ships that were expected to be inferior or evenly matched, and what was presented in front of us was a chase similar to a speed race, and because it was a battle around Ganymede, neither Kiana nor Stanley could play to their strengths. The battle has been waged in a way that I don't think you had, including those who participated in the exercise.

If it is a warship of different types, there will be a gap in firepower, mobility, and defense power, and the commander will adopt different strategies according to the characteristics of his own ship type, and it will not evolve to this point.

However, the two sides, all of which are Lord-class destroyers, are too similar by any indicator. In certain circumstances, the strategies they can adopt have become more singular, and the fighting between opposing groups of ships has evolved into a more solitary precedence battle.

And there is no so-called before and after for such a thing as circling around Ganymede, which fixes the situation in such an embarrassing situation. No one will be the first to upset the existing balance, because everyone knows in their hearts that in such an orbital voyage, the advantages of the Lord-class destroyers can be fully exploited, and once changes are made, then the first party will temporarily lose these advantages, and the other side can use this time window to win in one fell swoop.

The staff group that drew up the exercise plan must have not thought of such a situation. I turned to the big guys. After the small unpleasantness just now, among the big people, people who understand military affairs are also watching the exercise intently, and seeing how they constantly talk to each other and shake their heads, I realize that this situation has deviated from the original purpose of the exercise. After a while, the command will order the exercise to be terminated. As for how it will develop in the future, it is difficult to say whether it will determine a tie or select a certain cosmic region to continue the exercise again.

While I was waiting for the exercise to end, the situation in the electronic sandbox suddenly changed.

Kiana's ship group, while sailing at high speed, suddenly performed a rotation based on inertia. Due to the loss of the attitude control engine's fine-tuning of the hull, coupled with the change in ionospheric frictional resistance, the Kiana group is like telling the grain that has been thrown out of the edge of the spinning flywheel. Shoot along the tangent of Callisto's unseen satellite orbits.

Lieutenant Colonel Stanley's reconnaissance team immediately changed its stance and left the current orbit. It's just that Stanley chose a more active jump out of the time, so every destroyer in the fleet completed the orbit change with the most aggressive attitude.

What's going on? Was it a mistake, or was it intentional?

Either way, Kiana's situation is extremely bad now, and I can already see that it is miserable to get out of Ganymede's orbit, there is a slight speed gap between the two sides, and this gap will remain in the vacuum of the universe until Kiana's detachment in front of them is caught up.

The whispers around him gradually turned into open chatter and laughter. Basically, no one is optimistic about Kiana.

"Commander, the referee team recommended that the exercise be stopped, and the modified manned ship group has already lost."

Chief of Staff Rex, who was the head of the referee team, asked Kramer's opinion in a calm but audible voice.

Kramer didn't say anything right away, but turned to look at Green, and the two looked at each other and nodded.

"Don't draw conclusions just yet, look at the subsequent developments."

I hope Kiana and the others don't lose the exercise, because it's a battle to vindicate them within the Provisional Government. By the time Rex stood up, I was ready to hear Kramer announcing Stanley and the others victorious. However, the facts were much beyond my expectations, the two commanders actually thought that Kiana and the others had not lost the exercise, what was going on? Could it be that my knowledge is limited, and I can't see the girls' chances of victory?

Either way, if you don't lose, you still have a chance. I cheered for the silver-haired girl in my heart. This exercise does not seem to be a matter of life and death, but in fact, it is no different from the battle for the survival of the starship cores. In the event of a failure of the exercise, the Command and even the Provisional Government conclude that the Transhuman Program is of no real significance, and that their status in the military will be greatly reduced, and it is unclear how long the resources and support they receive will last. Even if they are gradually driven out of the military headquarters and even the solar system, it is not impossible.

For this group of little girls whose identities are important, but have little combat experience and survival experience, such a conclusion is actually no different from the death penalty. Considering the terrifying consequences, I sweated more and more for the starship cores, hoping that the situation would not really evolve to the point where it would not really evolve.

"Look! What are they doing? Could it be that they went wrong together, and can this kind of thing really be achieved?! ”

Under the loud reminder of a staff officer, we focused our attention on the electronic sandbox. At this time, the situation of the two sides of the exercise changed again. I couldn't understand the meaning of the change of situation, but I could read the surprise and disbelief in the eyes of Kramer and Green.

Is it true that the starship cores still have unused stunts?