Lear stood in front of Lei Guang, his hands behind his back, and looked up at the single horn on Lei Guang's head, not knowing what he was thinking.

He was silent, his posture was upright, he looked like some great person, combined with his identity as a hero, people in the past thought he was thinking about something big in the world, so they didn't dare to disturb him, and let him stand alone in the same place.

With his handsome face, it really feels quite picturesque.

"What are you doing, Alxstein?" Suddenly, someone's voice came from his side.

"It's you again, Char's senior," Lear was interrupted by Char's question, and had to turn his head helplessly: "Although I have given up the useless struggle with you, if you want to talk to me, I am very welcome." ”

"But haven't you been coming to me too often lately, it's enough to make me have bad thoughts."

"Don't say that, it's just an exchange of feelings with your classmates," Lear's words were tingling, but Char smiled and said with no concern at all, "We still have a long time to get along in the future." ”

His words meant something, but he didn't make it clear, so that Lear, who didn't know the inside story, thought he was talking about fellow Zeon soldiers and had a long time to work with in the future.

Lear just spit out, and he didn't continue to dwell on it, but said, "Are you that idle?" Are your bodies ready? Don't need to check again? ”

In fact, at this moment, the vast majority of people in Granada's Gnaku are checking their bodies, in fact, the inspection of the body has been repeated many times in the past few days, and they are still checking it today, not so much conscientious or meticulous, but more like a means for the fighters who want to attack to force themselves to calm down.

Because they all know that although they have achieved a lot of results against the Federation Army before, not only are they not afraid psychologically, but they still have a certain advantage, but at this moment, they have to face the main force of that Rebir, which is a decisive battle on an unprecedented scale in human history.

Therefore, I can only distract myself in this way.

In fact, even Lear himself can't be said to be completely devoid of any nervousness.

"Now that there is any need to check, it will be done before it is done," Char looked at the pilots who were inspecting their bodies, and even angry at the rearmament troops, and said with some disdain: "If you still do these things, you are either a waste that you haven't done before, or you have already done it, but you have no confidence in your previous work." ”

"It's enough to do the same work once, do it seriously and devotedly, because the same thing costs many unnecessary hours, not a waste of life or whatever."

"You're really ruthless。。。。。。" Lear shook his head with a dumb smile, and then he said as if he had discovered something: "Senior Char, although you have done what you said you want to do, you don't have something to do well. ”

"Huh? What's up? ”

"Didn't you even change your spacesuit?" Lear pointed at Char and said, Char was still wearing the red military uniform that was awkward to look at: "The order to attack will be issued at any time, if you don't hurry, you will have to change your clothes in front of the public." ”

"You don't want to show your ass openly, do you?" Lear suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but feel a chill, and subconsciously moved a few steps away from Char.

"What are you talking about。。。。。。" In this regard, Char could only sigh helplessly: "Enough is enough." ”

"I don't have that interest, how many times do I have to say it before you understand?"

"I'm sorry."

"Forget it," Char was helpless to Lear's insincere apology, he could only explain: "The reason why I don't change my spacesuit is very simple, I just wear this military uniform to attack, and I don't need any spacesuit." ”

"Are you crazy?" Lear said in surprise: "This is not a simulated warehouse battle, there is a vacuum outside, are you sure you want to attack in ordinary clothes?" ”

"If the oxygen supply equipment is malfunctioning or the body is hit and there is a loophole, you won't even have room to escape."

"There's nothing wrong with the oxygen supply equipment, I checked it myself, I know best," Char said as he looked at Lear, "As for the leak。。。。。。。 ”

"Just don't get hit." He said lightly.

This is easy to say, but on the battlefield ready to carry out without harm, if you are not a completely proud and complacent idiot, or you have an ace with absolute self-confidence.

The difference between the two is not that big.

"I'm not going to make any irresponsible remarks about you, but it's better for you to be careful," Lear kindly reminded, "You have people who will cry for you when you die, like your parents, and the little girl from last time." ”

"Don't be nosy," Char said expressionlessly at the mention of Lala, with a very obvious displeasure in his tone: "What's more, Lala and I are not in that kind of relationship. ”

Lear just smiled and didn't dig deeper, he had a feeling in his heart that Char didn't care as he looked, and he also had an inexplicable sense of tension in his heart, and maybe he came to talk to himself to relieve the tension.

Char suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, what were you thinking about just now?" ”

"Me?" Lear was a little surprised, and then realized that this was just Char's way of stirring up another topic to avoid silence, and said casually.

"It's just an endorsement."

"What book to memorize?" Char asked blankly.

"It's nothing, just memorizing an essay or a poem before the war," Lear explains, "and it's very calming." ”

"As long as you concentrate on the things that you don't remember clearly, you won't notice anything else."

"I always feel that something is wrong, it is not to calm down but something else," Char said, "By the way, what are you reciting?" ”

"He realized that by this method of reasoning it was easy to speak of vice as virtue, rumor as truth, impotence as abstinence, arrogance as humility, plunder as good, thief as honor, blasphemy as wise, barbarism as patriotic, and obscenity as justice."

"Anyone can do this, and it doesn't take a brain at all, and it doesn't require any personality," Char picked up the second half of the quote, apparently knowing the source of the quote as well: "Catch-22." ”

"Are you sure it's really good to carry this kind of thing before the war?" Char looked at Lear and said, "You shouldn't be in an inexplicable sentimentality again, right?" ”

"What?" Then Lear understood what Char was trying to say, and he waved his hand and said, "No, I'm not someone who would fall into the same pit twice in a row." ”

"It's really just just the right thing," he paused and said, "Then again, this so-called reasoning method sounds very reasonable, and a closer analysis shows that it is simply nonsense." ”

"This so-called method of reasoning is logically unreasonable, but it is just a deliberate attempt to confuse concepts by taking advantage of the approximate nature of events," he said, pouting: "Even if the result is the same, the starting point is different, these are two different events." ”

"Just like killing people in the same way, some people will say that killing people for the sake of robbery is essentially no different from killing people for the sake of the country and killing for the sake of ideals, but as I said, killing people is just the result, and the result is just one of the constituent conditions of the event.

"Of course, there are sometimes multiple simultaneous purposes in the same event, and they may have different priorities, but they all exert influence on the outcome."

"To grasp only one point and ignore the others is nothing more than the absolutist logic of the typical absolutization of partial generalizations."

"Why are we talking about philosophy here at a critical juncture before the war?" Char nodded, but suddenly smiled dumbly.

"Because we're all idle." Lear said with a smile.

And at this moment, a familiar super loud voice came from not far away.

Lear and Char turned their heads in the direction of the sound source.

I saw that it was a black triple star, and Gaia was mobilizing the pilots under their command before the battle, but what he blurted out was: "It's finally time for the real battle!" ”

"You will be the protagonists of the battle!"

"If you want to win the Federation, do you hear, you must win the Federation!"

"Win, we'll be able to get everything today!"

"Fame, honor, money, and women!"

That's really 。。。。。。 Speaking to lower morale, Lear looked at Gaia and the others a little awkwardly, although he knew that the black triple star was a soldier from the bottom, a combatant who climbed up purely by driving skills and not a commander, but he didn't expect that Gaia's command talent was so low that even boosting morale seemed 。。。。。。 Brusque.

"Those three are really 。。。。。。。" Char on the side also pouted and said helplessly.

Despite the countless murders that have been committed, the Zeon Army is a modern army united by the ideal of cosmic independence, and of course there are people who only regard it as a job or even do not want to fight for Zeon, but in general, it is still an army of faith.

For such an army, of course, it is necessary to ensure that they can get a reward, fame, honor, and money to sustain their lives, but for such an army, it must not be directly agitated with money and women.

Because people will habitually make excuses for all their actions, so that they can become just and reasonable.

According to the general moral outlook, fighting for the country and the people and ideals, there is no room for mixing personal desires/desires, which will make you appear impure, so even if a soldier really only thinks about grabbing money, food and women, he can't say it directly in front of him, because when the dark thoughts in his heart are exposed to others, the person concerned will feel ashamed, and then angry (only a very few people who can calmly face their dark side exist), and those who really fight for the country will instinctively reject similar remarks, and it is not flattering. Therefore, agitation with ideals and convictions has become the basis of the modern army.

However, Gaia can't even do this basic thing, and it's no wonder that they are obviously the heroes who captured Rebil, and they are also the aces with outstanding achievements and superior combat effectiveness, but they are only ACE from the Battle of Rum to the death of Odessa.

"Forget it, there's nothing wrong with that," Char crossed his waist and looked at Gaia condescendingly: "I like such a straightforward person." ”

"It's easier to understand than those who don't know what they're thinking."

"How do I feel that you mean something, Char-senpai?" Lear said, glancing at Char.

"Anyway, this is the last battle," Char said, looking back, "although this is not appropriate, but for the warriors, after the war is over, the skills they have honed will not have much meaning." ”

"Everyone is very uneasy, on the one hand, they don't know if they will die in battle, and on the other hand, they are worried about what they will do when the war is won."

"This is not the last battle," Lear looked coldly at the masked man who was pretending in front of him, "You know it yourself, even if we win this battle, the Federation will never surrender." ”

"Of course they will feel confused and lost because of the defeat, and some will think about cutting their losses before taking more losses, but many more will rather take the dice to keep what they eat," Lear turned his head to look at the metallic armor of the thunder light, "It's human nature. ”

What he didn't explain was that if it wasn't from Zeon, but from the standpoint of humanity as a whole, it would be ideal for the Earth Federation to carry out organized resistance, and if the Earth Federation couldn't control the situation, the situation would likely evolve into a split of the Federation, and the Earth would re-enter the geopolitical era, and the re-independent member Congress would find that it was more hateful than Zeon, who was far away from Zeon, or his own neighbors.

Then humanity was again divided into hundreds of state regimes.

Zeon has no possibility of quickly unifying the earth, it has no experience as a political center to govern the place, and there are not enough bureaucrats who not only understand the earth, but also have the ability to maintain stability to rule, taking the Zeon Army as an example, most of them are people who were born in the universe and grew up in the universe, only earth culture lovers and land-staying officers such as Ma Kebei can be regarded as understanding the situation of the earth, and reluctantly trying to rule the earth directly will only make Zeon disjointed, unsustainable, and eventually collapse.

The most reasonable choice is to pull a group of small and medium-sized countries that have been suppressed in the past, establish the legal principle of rule in the form of recognizing the alliance leader, and then work together against the G3 to maintain the centripetal force of the universe.

Even at best, it will take at least a decade to accumulate before it attempts to consolidate its domination over Earth, and until then, it will at best act as a mascot akin to a nominal Alliance Leader.

And with the fall of the Earth Federation, the government that symbolizes the unity of mankind, nationalism, which has begun to decline or even almost disappear in the past, will once again be brought to the stage because of the needs of the ruling class, and the next time there is a product like the Earth Federation, I don't know how many hundred years will pass.

In fact, the demise of nationalism was even a welcome event for Lear, who hoped that the Earth Federation would survive as long as possible until the communist revolution was able to fully enforce its rule.

"In this operation, our number of warships is seriously insufficient, it can be said that we only have the ability to raid, but we have no ability to pursue," he said about the lack of operation, but he didn't look worried at all: "Don't say that we don't have the ability to completely annihilate the Thunder Bill fleet, there will definitely be a considerable part of the fleet that escapes, and in the direction of Rum, General Dozru will definitely not be able to completely annihilate Tiam's fleet, plus the small fleets of the Luna II and SIDE7。。。。。。。 ”

"Regardless of MS, the number of warships alone is actually not inferior to ours." Char continued.

"As long as the Earth Federation can unify its opinions, even if it is just to show its attitude, the remaining Federation troops can be entrenched in the Luna II and rely on the fortress to fight a defensive battle," Lear turned his head to look at Char: "In fact, the Earth Federation is invincible, as long as your brain is not dizzy and you grit your teeth, it is not an opponent that can be defeated in a single battle." ”

"The so-called Zeon National Fortune is just a propaganda slogan," he was expressionless, and Char couldn't tell whether he hoped that the war would end soon, or whether he was glad that the war would not end in a short time: "There is still a fight in this war, and if you want to win, it will take at least several times to bet on the national fortune." ”

"From what you hear, it's really no good news at all," Char said with a smile, in fact, he didn't know what Lear thought, but for him, he didn't want the war to end so early, he still had too much to do, if the war ended in Zeon's victory, then the Zabi family's rule would be completely solidified, and then what happened to their own internal problems, the final victory would still be the Zabi family's people, which Char didn't want to see anyway:" Isn't Zeon completely hopeless of a quick victory? ”

"Not for nothing," Lear couldn't help but recall, the Alxstein family's report on the current state of the Earth Federation, "It's actually very simple, it only takes one person to die." ”

"Who?"

"John Abraham Rebil, the commander-in-chief of the Earth Federation's Space Force, as long as he is dead, it is possible that the Earth Federation will be able to take a firm stance on war in the next peace talks."

"General Rebil?" Char said with some surprise, for this man who abandoned the names of Daken and Mars, he couldn't grasp a lot of information, not to mention the military, and he really didn't know much about the internal situation of the federal government.

"Although he is the commander-in-chief of the Federal Army, he is only a soldier after all, just a white glove on the table, right?"

"He's just a man."

"On the contrary," Lear shook his head and said, "He's not anyone's white glove, don't underestimate him, it's better to say that he can control the Space Army alone, so that this army can be interfered with as little as possible from the outside world, it can be said that it is entirely his own credit." ”

"Think about it, after the war, under what circumstances will the Federation choose to surrender?"

"In the absence of a main battle faction and a backbone," Lear continued, "the Federation must have a man of prestige and skill to give confidence to the confederates." ”

"This person has no one else but Rebier, the Federation can't find anyone who can replace him now, the federal government and the ground army don't need to mention it, the person who can lead the Federation to continue the war can only be the candidate of the Space Army, but now the Rebil faction in the Space Army is completely based on Rebier, and no one can take his place, and the other factions are too influenced by the forces of the member countries and chaebols, and there is no candidate who can be accepted by everyone."

"It has to be Rebier, no one else has the ability."

"At the end of the day, if Reybiel 。。。。。。。 If they die on the battlefield, the Space Army will fall into the chaos of various factions fighting for power and profit, and the ground army suppressed by the Space Army will take the opportunity to raise its head, and with the support of the ground army, the separatist tendency of the governments of the member countries will become more serious. ”

"As long as Zeon cites the harsh conditions of the federal government and at the same time makes certain concessions to the governments of the member countries, the federal government, which has been unable to reach peace for a long time, will fall into the double pressure of the member states and the victims of the disaster."

"But if Reybiel returns to Earth alive, then the situation will be completely different," Lear showed an inexplicable smile: "The Space Army with Reybiel will never be divided, the ground army will not be able to raise its head, and the governments of the member countries without military support will not have the confidence to hold the federal government accountable." ”

"As long as the army is stabilized, the federal government will have plenty of leeway and plenty of hands."

"Not only that, but Rebir can also gain the support of the main war faction without making too many concessions, and in order to maintain the battle against Zeon, he needs to reorganize his fleet, and Rebier's presence can make this a top priority."

"So if you want to end the war as soon as possible, the means are very simple, just kill Reybier." Lear smiled inexplicably, but there was no smile in his eyes, which made Char, who noticed this, frown.

He felt that Lear had undergone a more drastic qualitative change not only in his personality, but also in something deeper.

That's right, it only takes killing Rebir and there is a good chance that the war will end there.

But that's definitely not going to work.

Reybiel must live.

Only if he is alive can the Federation engage in a tug-of-war with Zeon, and they must fight to the death, until everyone loses faith in both。。。。。。 This is the ideal situation.

Because otherwise, it is difficult for people who have not experienced greater pain to actively want to change.

In order for them to change their minds and devote themselves to the destruction of the old order, it is necessary to make them feel a strong pain and an urgent desire to change.

As for the blood of billions of people that would mean the pain of turning into a protracted war, Lear couldn't guess the exact number, but it must be a number large enough to make it difficult to die.

But he also decided to bear the guilt, and this time, he did not fight for merit or any other reason, but simply to ensure Rybil's survival, and for this he had to fight until Rybil felt that there was no hope of victory and was ready to flee, and to make sure that no one could kill Rybil during the battle, and that no one could get near Reybil's flagship.

Of course, you can't expose your deliberate behavior of letting go of Reybier.

With such an unreasonable and whimsical plan, could he do it in the midst of thousands of troops?

Lil Wolfgang Alkerstein's desperate battle is about to begin.