General Kramer drew his own neck with a powerful gesture.

"I don't think many people will forget who really attacked Mars and who broke the Earth system. For Senior Colonel Zhao Ping, who has suffered deeply, I guess your feelings will be more profound. ”

The Commander's account of the past reminded me of Mars in the blood-red, the vivid faces, and the once beautiful Earth system that had been lost in the blink of an eye. What has been experienced in these two years, if it boils down, it is Mrs. Wall who has really caused irreparable damage to the solar system.

"Your Excellency, I also remember that it was you who came up with the idea of uniting an unmanned fleet to fight against the Branders, do you want to break your word?"

The tone was stern and full of anger, from an officer. His face is not visible on the images of the whole department, he should be a middle- and low-level officer. But what he said was true. During Kramer's pre-war mobilization and military meetings, many people suggested that Mrs. Wall was the culprit responsible for the current state of the solar system, but the command's insistence on uniting with them silenced all other voices.

"I admit that I said that, and I am still right in my opinion. In convincing you to join forces with the unmanned fleet, my opinion is that the whole war was a great conspiracy of the Berlanders, a great conspiracy arranged by them on the basis of the political mistakes of the coalition government one hundred and thirty years ago. The conspiracy involves Proxima Centauri, the Wolf system, and our solar system. Their purpose is not only to gain control of the solar system, but also to occupy Proxima Centauri, eliminate Proxima Centauri's main fleet, eliminate the Wolfe system's largest free force in the outside world, and so on. ”

"But you said earlier that Mrs. Wall is our real enemy."

With the same voice, this time the questioning seemed much weaker than before. I think a lot of people, including myself, have been confused. Every word of the commander is right, why is the conclusion not the same?

"I still say the same thing, if you are lucky enough to survive this battle, you should learn more about politics and history after you go back, and gain valuable knowledge from it, and officers who can only fight should not become commanders, otherwise you will be stumped by boring things."

I subconsciously lowered my head and felt ashamed, because I was a student of history, but I did not understand the politics that was closely related to history.

"Mrs. Wall is our real enemy, and there is no doubt that they covet the territory and resources of the solar system. But the Branders are not a good thing, they covet more, even involving other galaxies. As for the suggestion that the two conclusions are contradictory, I may ask you, where do you see the contradiction in the above conclusions? We are now facing two difficult adversaries who will never allow us to survive, despite their non-stop intentions. Joining forces is only a matter of delaying our death, and when we are truly defeated, our allies will immediately turn back into demons. ”

“......”

This time no one asked any more questions, and the noise in the communication loop disappeared all at once. Everyone is reflecting.

"I would like to tell you now that the Command did not treat the campaign as a purely military operation from the very beginning, but gave it a political purpose. Our goal is not to destroy these two enemies, because we simply cannot do it, but to wander between them and fight for our own living space. ”

The virtual image took a sip of water, and the pause gave him time to rest and give the attendees a chance to digest what he had thrown out.

I remember a king from the ancient earth who said, "You must always remember that our assets cannot be invested in just one direction, and that the real reason why the kingdom is still standing is that we cannot invest in just one direction." ”

Reflecting on the commander's speech, I now have some understanding of what it means not to just throw in one direction. Our goal in this campaign is not to destroy the enemy, but to make peace with the mud, which can never be possible in the mind of a pure soldier.

"Some people will ask, what can we do in that case. What you can do now is to follow the orders of the command, and if you don't understand it, it doesn't matter, look carefully, think about it, and act according to the instructions, believing that the best demerit that awaits us is not to defeat the enemy or destroy the enemy, but to maintain the political position of the Jupiter system, and that's it. ”

I said in my heart sure enough. The purpose of the headquarters was far from being as simple as we thought at first, and the reality was even worse than we thought. If you think about it, you will find that Kramer's goal, although it is difficult to succeed, is ultimately possible. On the contrary, what we pursued at the beginning, physically destroying the enemy, is not so easy to achieve.

The atmosphere in the room was much more relaxed, with many people asking questions and more just listening. Although it was only a feeling, I could feel that more and more officers were looking beyond the military.

We are now standing on a thin line, with an abyss at both ends of the front, and only prudent progress along the thin line is our only life.

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......

The battlefield timer began 20 hours, and the unmanned fleet that attacked completed the formation and asked our main fleet to cooperate.

Within 23 hours, the main fleet completed coordination with the unmanned fleet, and both sides received the support of each other's intelligence network and the ability to coordinate the efficiency of firepower output.

In 24 hours, the reconnaissance fleet intelligence reality, the once retreating biochemical fleet regrouped. A large fleet stretched out near the asteroid belt. At the same time as the information was obtained, the headquarters issued an order to take all shifts and suspend the battlefield timer.

The lounge of the King is fully equipped with various entertainment and fitness facilities, as well as reading, games and entertainment theater experience equipment. People seem to seize the last chance to experience the part of their life that they are nostalgic for. I'm in the corner of the open bar. In this humble place, it was my interest to see what people were doing before the war. It can be said that this is the only connection I have with my previous life, a professional in history, who likes to observe the present, and sees this action as a substitute feeling for appreciating history, which seems to be a contradiction but is the habit of many real historians in reality. I'm not a historian, but I seem to have learned a lot about their quirks.

"Miss Teresa?"

A tall, rugged figure obscured my vision, and the rude cruff guy casually pulled up a chair and sat down beside me.

You don't need to tell carefully, you can know that this is Harding in the living treasure duo, the guy who runs the train with his mouth. I didn't hate or like him, but I saw him as one with Jasmine. The two of them are a minority of people who have been with me for a long time, so I still cherish my relationship with them.

"Unfortunately, not what you think. I'm just watching people's actions to calm their minds. ”

"Oh, that doesn't sound like a good habit."

casually snatched a drink ordered by other people on an automatic food delivery truck passing by, he took a sip, and then showed a disgusted expression.

"Zhentmad, who ordered the drink, so sweet and greasy. It's like a drink that a warrior loves to drink. ”

"Maybe it's just a girl's order, you went to rob people's things, and you made irresponsible remarks, God can allow a guy like you to live until now, it's really eye-opening."

"Hahaha, I said sir, your viper is already on par with Jasmine."

The two of them looked at the core of the lounge, the noisy crowd, and chatted with each other.

"How can you have time and not care about the little devil, is that okay?"

The little devil I'm talking about is actually Jasmine's nickname. is obviously a delicate girl, and her appearance is also sweet and lovely, but with this character, she will be called a little devil and will not wronged her at all.

"Whew...... How to say, sometimes people also need to have independent space. She's writing an email to her family who will never receive it. So I'm a henchman who can only be reduced to spending precious time on a stinky man like you. ”

"Then I'm really going to say I'm sorry."

The two of us looked at each other and laughed so much that we seemed to have left behind the gloom of the war.

"Then again, what do you think of our great commander's plans? My point is bullshit, whether it's Wolf or Brand, if they could be led by the nose so easily, they wouldn't have gotten this far. ”

I took two large sips of bitter coffee in my hand, and the pure bitterness made me frown and realize the reason why I chose this drink. To be honest, I usually belong to a black tea party, and I don't know why I chose coffee today, but now I finally understand, this is my state of mind. The commander paints a picture of the situation, although promising, but with innumerable material of despair. In this situation, every step we take is full of dangers, and it is very appropriate to describe the current situation as a life of nine deaths. If there is any similarity between the situation and the bitter coffee I drank, I can only say that after drinking the bitter taste in my mouth, the sweetness of the aftertaste is very similar to what we actually feel now.

"I agree, but we have no choice now. You can only keep moving forward, either to destruction, or to fight for that glimmer of the future. ”

"But I don't think you're too worried."

"There's nothing to worry about, I've experienced a lot of despair, that's all. The point is that there is hope. ”

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The battle timer restarted after 4 hours. According to the reconnaissance units of the Combined Fleet, a large number of biochemical combat ships have rushed out of the small star belt, and they will make a short jump to the battlefield. Due to the interference of Mass Effect on the jump, it is easy to calculate the coordinates of the position of the ground fleet out of the jump, so the combined fleet is calmly deployed.

The battlefield was timed for 1 hour and 10 minutes, and a large number of mechanical infantry from Mars were added to the Marine Corps. This move heralded that Zeratul had finally cleared the rebel resistance. Avalon can devote himself to the battle against the biochemical fleet.

The battlefield clocked 2 hours and 35 minutes, a large-scale space-time shock was detected, and the vanguard of the biochemical fleet finally appeared in front of us.

At 2 hours and 40 minutes, the despair of the battle was issued. Although it is normally understood that it is the Combined Fleet that gives the enemy despair, my feeling is that the Biochemical Fleet has brought despair to ourselves.

It is estimated that there are many comrades-in-arms who feel the same way as me, and the name of the battle soon has its own abbreviation, and the battle of despair is the name of the battle that is generally recognized by the soldiers.

The vanguard of the Biochemical Fleet did not attack immediately, but small reconnaissance units came out in all directions. In order to avoid colliding with the main force of the sublimation fleet that jumped out, no commander would like too much uncertainty, so the combined fleet did not immediately clear the vanguard fleet of the Belland people, but sent a large number of interception units to intercept and hunt the reconnaissance units of the sublimation fleet.

On the vast void battlefield, the light and shadow are brilliant and flickering. However, compared to the real battle of the fleet, these lively atmospheres are just appetizers for the main meal, which is only trivial.

The commander of the Combined Fleet is an elite of Lady Vol called Zavatu, and the command of our fleet will selectively accept the wisdom of Zavatu.

The reason why it is not to give orders directly, but to filter through the command, is due to the suspicion of unrelated combat units in the combined fleet and the fear of being used as cannon fodder by another force. This kind of ancient worry actually happened in the modern star war, and I can only say that in the big picture, the human war has not really evolved much.

The battlefield was about five and a half hours old, and when the lineup of the entire biochemical fleet was displayed in front of him, only dense gray dots of light could be seen on the wide area viewer of the Wanwang, and the electronic sand table showed that the number of enemies was three times more than that of the combined fleet. Although the biochemical fleet is not good at space combat in the traditional sense, and the inability of the electric sauce cannon to exert its power immediately also makes them have the upper hand in the head-on battle of the starship, but such a huge number is enough to make up for their lack of long-range firepower, and the already thick carapace of the biochemical fleet, the attack power that can be exerted at close range makes such a large number of fleets dizzy.

As tens of thousands of various colored fire lines and light rods pierced the void and injected into the formation of the huge biochemical fleet, the ensuing electric cloud-like counterattack also shrouded the ship group in a corner of the combined fleet in a high-density energy porridge. Different forms of reaction erupted between the fleets of both sides. In the biochemical fleet, a puff of black-red blood accompanied by the explosion of direct fire shrouded the huge fleet in a sticky and strange color. The reaction of the Combined Fleet was relatively normal, and the artificial supernova was constantly produced under the effect of the murderous energy porridge, and soon several holes appeared inside the huge ship group, and in a few minutes, the holes were filled by reserve combat ships. The two groups of ships continued to move closer.

It is worth mentioning that in the combined fleet, the ships of our solar system are not clustered in one place. Since the starships controlled by ordinary humans are extremely afraid of strategic weapons, we still maintain the ancient method of warfare, let the battleships form a huge structure, and be careful that the battleships shuttle between them and wait for the opportunity to move.

The characteristics of the battle are like this, Mrs. Wall can't ask us to set up the same formation as their ship group, so my formation is in the rear of the Wolf fleet, building a huge framework, as for the battle, whether this battle framework is used as the backing of the unmanned fleet in front, or to use the tactic of luring the enemy into the depths, luring the biochemical fleet into the frame and then attacking, there are too many options Anyway, at the beginning of the battle, the solar system ship group was not at the forefront of the battle between the two armies. Looking at the cosmic battlefield, seeing the dense lines of fire and explosions, I felt a lot of emotion in my heart, compared to our two enemies who can concentrate forces at will, the combat methods of the solar system fleet are too limited, and the ability to maneuver is not good, if you don't want to solve this weakness, you can escape this catastrophe, and you will no longer have luck to escape the attacks of the starship group that will definitely become more frequent in the future.

The situation we are facing is not only a desperate situation, but also our future, which is full of desperate ingredients.