In June 857 of the cosmic calendar, between the planets, the Federation and the Hermit Era have been flying high-speed fighters for two months.

Six hundred years ago, the Celestial Knight profession contributed to the Federation's complete victory in space supremacy. Now, it is also the time for the Heavenly Knights of both sides to decide the fate of civilization.

In the War of Planetary Supremacy, the high-speed fighter piloted by the Sky Knight has never been less important than the battleship. Even if the technological changes progress in the future, with the Star Governor (commander promotion) and the Wrangler (controller promotion), the Sky Knight will still be the core of the interstellar war - the Sky Knight will also develop by leaps and bounds due to technological progress, but it will not change the model of the Sky Knight profession.

In any war, the elements pursued are simple, that is, the destruction of the target, the control of space.

In the eyes of non-military professionals, the most gorgeous thing about war is destruction, so the idea is often that a strong ability to destroy is to assist military control. That is, 'destruction' is the main task, and 'theater control' is the auxiliary task.

However, the first words of "The Art of War" are: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored." In other words, when the war has developed to the stage of mutual destruction, it is already a time when the cost is extremely great. And before this stage, it is necessary to have enough information to obtain! to ensure your team's chance of winning when destroying each other.

Interplanetary space warfare, such a vast space, unless it is covered by super energy on the scale of a solar magnetic storm, what force dares to guarantee absolute destructive power in space? Large-scale spatial information control has become the primary purpose!

If warships are used alone to seize interplanetary space supremacy, space warfare is a rather long process. Fleet against bombardment? Before the bombardment, there was an artificial planet observation next to it, that is, +10%, +10%...... Hit rate is greatly improved.

Back then, the Water Star Temple Sect just didn't understand this truth, and felt that the number of their fleet was good, ignoring the Federation's planetary observation system, ignoring the impact of the Heavenly Knights, and going directly to recklessly. As a result, the only trouble for the Federation is the disposal of space junk in that orbit after the war, which is a bit annoying.

For hundreds of years, the Federation's artificial planet deployments have been completed and replenished by cruising fleets. It seems that there is nothing to do with the Heavenly Knight? - The fleet deploys large planetary orbital artificial celestial bodies to control the entire solar system for a long time and curb the infiltration of guerrilla pirates. No, because of the Federation's network, the fleet on the temple side has become that ridiculous star fruit flake structure, and even the "Uigtengu" with them lacks good maintenance facilities and has become hibernation cans.

But large planetary orbital artificial objects are security-type infrastructure. In a high-intensity confrontation, the existence of such a long service life and large volume is not reasonable, and a small artificial planet dropped by high-speed fighters takes over the task. In addition to its small lifespan and limited number of high-intensity scans, this small artificial planet has a high survival rate in wartime.

In war, the investment in controlling the theater of operations must be cheap and withstand attrition.

The future technological change related to the Sky Knight is a small artificial planet with a pure heavy nuclear element. - In the second life, the carrier born of Haji'e that Su Ying encountered was the most desirable goal that the Federation Fabricators were currently pursuing in the field of technology.

At present, this technology is in the solar system, only those beings of the God Star have it, and the professional researchers of the Heavenly Knight are still working hard for one or two hundred years to overcome the difficulties of high energy, high density, and high precision.

No matter how popular the future herdsmen are, they can't violate the principle of quality, let the fleet quickly spread throughout the solar system, and deploy ultra-small wartime artificial planetary networks, and they have to rely on the Sky Knights.

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Now, around the right to deploy the planetary network, the Celestial Knights of the Magnetocloud Star and the Federation have been entangled in space for two months, emptying all the large artificial celestial bodies in the orbital areas of the three planets, and then the small artificial planetary reconnaissance networks of the two sides have achieved the goal of "You have me, I have you".

The fog of the battlefield is open to both sides. Even if a celestial knight on both sides goes out, the other party can find out the trajectory and direction of this lone soldier in space for the first time.

So now the scale of the Heavenly Knights on both sides is very large, and the conditions for the general battle have been quietly formed.

……

On the fortress of Haoge, Sikong Tong was seriously watching the space chase outside the blocking glass, and in the virtual hall displayed on her eyepiece, a total of eight upper controllers and one hundred and twenty-six middle controllers participated in the meeting.

They are the fleet faction of this theater cruise, although they have the strongest firepower module in the star area, they can only be used as bystanders in this battle - the fleet speed is difficult to reach the battlefield.

Sikong Tong turned around, and under low gravity, his hair like a waterfall swayed like a silver ripple. She said slowly and helplessly: "You can all see it, we can't intervene in this war. ”

The controllers looked at each other. They are all senior military leaders of the Federation and understand the current space strategy situation.

At present, this new type of space confrontation has been going on for two months, and both sides have a little bit of a clue about each other's ability to mobilize for space war.

On the side of the Federation, the number of Celestial Knights capable of conducting deep space operations is fifteen hundred; On the side of the Magnetic Cloud Star, it was obvious that there were as many as four thousand Heavenly Knights. In terms of quality, the federal side is stronger.

However, now in the wide-area space, the development of the battle situation that is constantly pulling and chasing looks very "only the winning chess player".

So far in the war, the win-only chess player has become an adjective. summarized by Rong Jixuan, that is: avoid the edge, repeatedly harass, force the necessary area to force, force the elite opponent to shoot, and after "invite" the elite opponent out, he does not simply face off, and has been doing low-tech wear-out confrontation. Drain the energy of a strong opponent until a winning point is observed, then suddenly go up to take advantage.

In the past 20 years, the most famous victim is Rong Jixuan's senior and husband - Su Tianji. Now, it looks like they're going to do the same tactic against the Sky Knights.

Now, the high-ranking Celestial Knights of the Federation have the advantage in combat skills. However, relying on its numerical superiority, Magnetostar divided into multiple brigades in circles in the vast space field, consuming the attendance of the Federation Celestial Knights.

[Jun Xingxing: It's obviously a 'mushroom' strategy, why do you want to name it after the 'only winning chess player' I took at the second year of secondary school?] 】

Hanhai Phantom Mo walked onto the star map: "Boss, the one of the Magnetic Cloud Star has already taken the initiative, and if it goes on like this, our Heavenly Knight's attendance ability will be consumed less and less by it." And the commander can't sit back and watch our heavenly knights get tired, and he will inevitably launch an active decisive battle in the near future. We must prepare early to intervene in the war.

On the other side, Sikong Yue, who had white hair and golden eyes: "Intervene, how to intervene?" ”

Hanhai Phantom glared at this colleague who had been at odds with him since he was in school. She raised her gooseneck to look around at the star map around her, and said, "The so-called intervention, that is!" She pointed to the Magnetostar Fleet module, which was now being derived towards space.

The surrounding controllers were stunned, and Sikong looked at Hanhai Phantom Foam, as if to determine which side she was on. (It is said that this Hanhai controller had an affair with Jun Xingxing in his early years.) ）

Ignoring the gazes of the others, Hanhai Phantom Foam stared at the dynamic projection of the points of light, and calmly explained: "Our fleet must probe into the inner orbit of the magnetocloud star and carry out an approaching fire suppression. Destroying the take-off and landing ability of the Celestial Knight on the Magnetosphere Star side has won a little respite for the current situation of our Celestial Knights. ”

Sikong Tong raised his hand: "Don't say it, I know." ”

Clearly, she rejected the plan. As the commander of the fleet in the current cruising theater, it is impossible for her to let the fleet take this risk. If the Federation wants to control the solar system, neither the Celestial Knights nor the fleet can be missing, and which one is defeated by the Magnetocloud Star side, then it will be like a barrel effect, forcing the Federation to completely lower its profile and fully retreat in this war.

At this time, the heavenly knights exchanged hands with each other, although it was painful, but tactically, it seemed that their own side could play the battle loss ratio advantage.

And if the fleet is forced to break through the Magnetosphere, it will be easy for the Magnetus side to achieve its goal.

Sikong Tong's gaze returned to the Star Sea projection map, and now she had to wait as the commander: to maintain the Federation's planetary access power, and to watch the Heavenly Knights compete for a crucial outcome in this war.

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Back to the perspective of the Celestial Knights' confrontation.

Both sides had strong ideas, and the scientific and technological systems had developed to a plateau of greater investment and output, and both sides explored the same frontiers twenty years before the war, with the Cryptozoic era having close academic exchanges with the Federation through the window of the Commonwealth. There is no major technical shady situation in the scientific and technological fields of the two sides, and even the industrial systems of the two sides have shared the magnetic cloud star for a long time.

Therefore, in this kind of space battle, there is no black technology, and there is no absolute generation difference.

Smoothbore artillery bombardment of heavy cavalry clusters, heavy machine guns harvesting infantry arrays, this kind of generational collision, stupid opponents bruises into the muzzle of the gun, will not happen.

weapons and equipment at the same level of science and technology.

The Knights of the Federation currently have an advantage in terms of combat skills! But tactically? They all feel that they have an advantage.

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The spirit of social cooperation fosters the formation of tactics.

And cooperation is actually hierarchical.

Willingness to share the remuneration equally is the most common spirit of cooperation in normal times. And it is a higher spirit of cooperation to be willing to go bankrupt and starve than to pay back what is owed to others. And it is better to die than to maintain the tasks that your team matches for you, which is the highest cooperative morality that human warfare needs.

What kind of spirit of cooperation will induce what kind of tactics.

The spirit of cooperation must be pure, and it seems that there is a major problem on the Federation's side, that is, the education system that has been formed once will cause the level of the Heavenly Knights to solidify. Among the celestial knights of the Federation, there will inevitably be a distinct level because of their ability.

And the back of the spirit of individual heroism will also induce the negativity of the masses. It can't be said that this is a fear of death, but as in American superhero films, mortals who feel that they are not capable of self-help are obviously very negative in terms of self-help, waiting for superheroes to come and cheer. Don't blame the Heavenly Knights of the Federation, there are top-level existences like Rong Jiying, and only existences like Jun Zhuxing who don't believe in evil will be intimidated by geniuses.

Although the Celestial Knights of the Federation are not afraid of death in this battle, their tactics have been imprisoned by the elite mode.

The heroic Heavenly Knight, the upper Heavenly Knight is much more burdened, and the lower and middle Heavenly Knights, tactically habitually put themselves in a secondary position, which will also ignore those things that "do not belong to their own ability".

On his side, although the career of the Sky Knight is much shorter, everyone has the most peak moment, and when everyone is tactically consistent, in the framework of cooperation, the hermit generation is more active and patient after the crisis.

……

The two celestial knights are exploring each other's battle positions in space at this time, and the celestial knights of the Federation will all pick up the stars from the magic lineage to the personality, and they will study it carefully.

At this time, Jun Xingxing is also like a cat staring at a fish on a plate, paying close attention to the Federation, and studying these bright stars clearly.

The interface of Jun Xingxing demonstrated the possibility of confrontation between dozens of groups of two sides, and muttered: "The first wave is the most dangerous, but as long as we fight out their core strength, then our side will definitely take the initiative in the war." ”

Jun Xingxing opened the communication.

Equally, balanced, and ...... A series of familiar faces appear on the interface.

Jun Juexing looked at the young man who was following him, and began his final speech: "Everyone, I want to nag again, why we are fighting, I have already made this very clear. I believe it too. Well, I want to ask, do you believe it? ”

Equilibrium preemptively asked, "Mentor, do you still have a heart for us-"

Jun Jiexing interrupted: "On the battlefield, call me a comrade or commander." There is no need for hierarchical authority in status, only differences in duties. If I fall, our team should not lose cohesion, because the core of cohesion is not me, but morality; Someone should take on the duties that I cannot perform due to force majeure, comrades, are you willing to take on them? ”

"Yes!" "Never betray!" "For a great cause!" ……

The answer was sonorous and powerful.

Jun Juexing smiled and nodded: "Then, I will be fearless." ”

June 13, 857 in the cosmic calendar, Saturn main continent center time, 3:13 a.m.

All the stars began to gather in clusters, and took the initiative to send a concise and clear challenge message to the Celestial Knights of the Federation - "Battle! With a handle, come quickly. ”

Six minutes later.

Rong Jiying, who was originally supplying in a circle on the gravitational field of the Water Star, immediately walked into the battle preparation hall of the Absolute Fortress after hearing the starry sky broadcast. Automated systems for him welded holographic information suits.

That's when artificial intelligence pops up on the sidelines. He said respectfully, "Sir, it will take you seventeen hours to recover from your current condition. ”

Rong Jiying denied: "The war is back in the state. ”

Rong Jiying opened the team's public communication, looked at the faces of his own team members that popped up on the eyepiece, and encouraged in a proud tone: "Young men, get ready, the guy on the other side is finally ready to fight us head-on, and before fighting, he taunted us." What do you say we're going to do! ”

"Of course, it's a duel." - Shuo Jia (only twenty-one years old, just graduated.) ）

"It's a great honor to compete with another Celestial Knight faction born in the era of Federation prosperity." - Zhao Muliu (forty-seven years old, the same class as Rong Jiying. ）

……

When one warrior after another spoke. Rong Jiying raised his head: "Okay, good, good, then let's see——"

At this time, the projection of the bright star of the blood spring popped out, and Rong Jiying didn't seem to see this superior, and still shouted: "In the end, who is carrying it!" ”

And many heavenly knights also responded unanimously: "One is about male and female!" "Very tacitly agreed, without scruples about the presence of the controller.

Bright Star's face turned pale, and in the face of this uncontrollable scene, he immediately asked the guy who was taking the lead here: "Rong Jiying, who told you to stop recovering and enter the battlefield ahead of schedule?!" ”

Rong Jiying turned around and saluted: "Sir, the battle situation is tense, and I have decided to immediately support Area 344 according to my decision-making power." ”

Bright Star still asked, "Who gave you the order?" ”

At this time, the second projection appeared in Rong Jiying's room.

Shuo Butian Spirit Shuo Li said: "Rong Jiying, give you four hours to enter the wartime preparations." ”

Rong Jiying immediately saluted and responded: "Our side will be able to attack in twenty minutes." ”

Faced with such a demolition, Bright Star was stunned, and suddenly said angrily: "The surname Shuo, you? ”

Shuo Butian seemed to have just noticed his colleague: "Oh, you are here, Commander, I was about to report to you, the battle is about to begin." "On the star map projected by the solar system, the red and blue lines respectively mark the two space mobile forces holding a battle simulation on a huge battlefield of 40 light seconds.

Before the delayed picture was finished, Bright Star pointed at Shuo Butian and scolded, "Didn't you hear that? He is provoking you to anger.

A few seconds later, Shuo Butian received Bright Star's question, and replied indifferently, "Yes, we understand what he means, but, we—alas! , since in the battle, he chose to decide the victory on the Heavenly Knights, then he was invited-"

Bright Star interrupted his impassioned exuberance: "What kind of masculinity? He's deliberately throwing us away, ready to focus on you! ”

After a few seconds.

Shuo Butian smiled leisurely and dismissed: "You can't thwart their (the Hermitzoic) edge, those young people orbiting on the magnetocloud star destroy your warship, and you will be captured." And every time they release their captives, we are bound to make concessions to them. However, if both sides fight to the death, then it will not be. ”

This heavenly knight silently added in his heart: "When we also die in battle, it is not obscene, and before the turn of history, it can be regarded as a passage." ”

The old general in the cockpit with a young face, but with a hair color as pure as Jun Xingxing, couldn't help but close his eyes, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was somewhat similar to that of Jun Xingxing when he came out of the frozen prison.

Bright Star was stunned - yes, this war, the prisoner policy agreed upon by both sides, is really gentle to the controller of the fleet, but this gentleness makes the controller (woman) marginalized from the war.

Bright Star threw the above thoughts out of his mind, and tried to calmly replace persuasion with questioning: "What are the chances of you fighting against them?" ”

Shuo Butian's expression seemed to see through everything: "The collision of war comes from the will, and the will collides, and it is hard and tough enough to win." In terms of toughness, I admit that he can't survive them, but in terms of strength, he still has to win a game from me. ”

……

Twenty minutes later, the North Ice Sheet was all green, and the South Pole was lit with a water star. Hundreds of traces of light swirled in the air.

On the Absolute Fortress, the firing structure of the petal state opened, the blue petals were tens of kilometers long, and the white dazzling light flickered in the center of the stamen, and in this incandescent light, clusters of heavenly knights were pushed into space from here.

And Rong Jiying, who was lying in the cockpit, determined the location of the enemy in space, and during the voyage, aimed the field beam in the direction of the God Star.

After the appearance of the truth of war in the light projection, it behaved in silence.

Rong Jiying stared at the truth of the war for a few seconds, and then said sarcastically: "It seems that you are not on my side now?" Hehe. ”

War Truth exhaled: "Now, the battle is a tragedy. ”

Rong Jiying: "Be a witness, there will be no heroes who have fallen in this war for a thousand years." ”

War Truth shook its head: "Yes, in the world of water, fire, and terroir, only twenty-four thousand years ago can be compared. You have created a glorious era. ”

"Hmph, hehe." Rong Jiying said indifferently and self-deprecatingly, "In this era, we created? He slowly exhaled a turbid breath and said sadly: "Born in this era, why is our side not absolutely righteous. ”

The truth of the war on the side silently withdrew from Rong Jiying's perspective.