In the huge command room of the fleet flagship, all kinds of information are displayed quickly on the screen, and the operators are processing all kinds of information in a fast and orderly manner. A group of commanders stood in front of the 4D screen without speaking, and the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air kept colliding, as if they wanted to give people an unexpected chemical reaction, but it didn't come to fruition after all.

Fleet Commander Tiger stared at the Red Flame Star in the distance, and finally uttered a sentence: "The battle situation is very unfavorable, the situation is worse than imagined, do you have any suggestions?" ”

"General, is it to summon the nearest base and ask them to send more mechas, at present, the loss of mecha is much greater than expected, and it is difficult to make the plan smoothly implemented without replenishment." Said one of the closest people to Tiger.

"Colonel Futek, if I'm not mistaken, it will take more than a month for the nearest base to come!" The general asked.

"Yes, General, for a month and a half."

"If there's anything else, let's talk about it." The general looked around, and everyone's optic nerve left a relatively kind face on the general's face.

"General, I feel that we do not know enough about the enemy's situation, and we must increase our reconnaissance of the enemy's situation." Adjutant Li Fei straightened up and said, he had followed Tiger for many years and knew the sternness of this general.

"yes." One of the next to him also received: "According to intelligence, we know that what we want is at the main base of the rebels, and now it is being dragged by an outpost that is unknown in advance. Or simply attack the enemy's main base, in fact, I doubt that the information I got before is correct, maybe what we want is not in the enemy's main base at all, if this is the case, we must plan early. ”

"Colonel Kemp, you're right." The general nodded rarely, "Did someone in the Marine Corps propose to directly attack the main base before?" ”

"Yes, General. In addition, the heavy firepower deployment of the Marine Corps this time is a little weaker, and whether we can rely on everyone to tell you the real task this time, and under the current morale, we may be able to strengthen the motivation for fighting and enhance everyone's confidence in victory. Before the official battle, some old acquaintances secretly asked me about the real mission of this expedition, but I refused to answer on the grounds of military secrets. Camp was praised and continued to propose.

The crisp footsteps sounded in the cabin with the general's thoughts, each sound was like a small drum beating in the hearts of the commanders, and the footsteps finally stopped, replaced by Tiger's heavy voice: "I order, summon Base 24, let them immediately transport the mechs of the two brigades, and the fleet mechanical group will immediately prepare at least one brigade of robot dogs, and order the hummingbird to prepare for dispatch." Tell the Marine Corps leader that you can explain the objectives of this battle, and the time is almost up anyway, and sooner or later you have to tell them. In addition, let the Marines capture as many rebel prisoners as possible, the original intelligence should be problematic, and it is hoped that this problem will be solved before the interstellar storm comes. ”

"Yes!" The adjutant then went to issue the order.

"The team leaders will immediately go to the headquarters for a meeting." I was inspecting the construction of the fortifications on the position, and another order came from the headset, and I didn't know what the situation was, so I talked to Xiao Zhang and Xiao Chen and ran towards the headquarters.

When they came to the headquarters, the two captains were waiting at the headquarters, and after everyone arrived, Captain Tom spoke first: "Everyone has worked hard during this time, the battle is far more difficult than everyone imagined, and there have been many accidents, and the loss of the mecha is also very large, everyone can talk about any ideas." ”

"What can you think, you must increase your troops, the advantage of the mecha is to destroy the enemy on the plain with an overwhelming number and a posture of useless battle damage from the mecha, and now the mecha is fighting less and less, and in the end, I don't know if it will become a rebel army to attack us with a posture of needless battle damage." Efson suffered a lot of losses this time and couldn't help but complain.

"The mecha must be increased, otherwise this battle will definitely not be able to be fought, the key is how to fight after the increase in troops, but it can't still be consumed with the rebels in the hole, and there is only a dead end if it is consumed." Someone picked it up.

"Captain, can you tell us the true purpose of this expedition now, if you just destroy the rebels, you don't need to make so much effort. Just let the flying coffin come with a few shots and it won't be over. "Hans, as a veteran, still spoke up to many people.

Captain Mbo looked at Hans, smiled and said, "It seems that everyone is quite fascinated by this battle, but in fact, it is not that I am hiding it from everyone, but there is an order from above." But now that the order has been issued, I can tell you the true purpose of our labor expedition. ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone was a little more excited, and everyone stared at Captain Mbo in unison, just like a student in the classroom staring at the teacher to explain a new thing.

"Actually, we're not here to destroy the rebels!"

"Ahh Mbo motioned for everyone to be quiet, and continued: "Everyone knows that this is the main stronghold of the rebel leader Sheim, but in fact, we have no interest in his stronghold, we are here to find something, something that originally belonged to the Alliance. ”

"Oh!" Someone suddenly realized, and made an extremely prolonged sound.

Mbo glared at the man who let out a long sigh, signaled him to be quiet, and continued: "More than eighty years ago, as the military deputy commander of the Eighth District outside the Alliance, Sheim had one main responsibility in addition to combat, and he managed two-thirds of the energy, minerals, and manufacturing bases of our Eighth District. ”

Looking at the doubts in our eyes, Mbo smiled and said: "You may wonder how a military director can manage so many things, in fact, it is simple, because he himself was originally graduated from the Department of Geography and Engineering, and he is an absolute authority and expert in the selection of manufacturing bases, the maximization of energy utilization and other related fields, and is the full-time vice president of the Planetary Exploration Association." He manages and has a large amount of data, and it can be said that there is no information on important energy and manufacturing bases that he does not often hold. When he rebelled to become independent, it was said that he wanted to destroy all the data he had, but fortunately his intentions were detected by the Alliance. His plan didn't work out completely, but it also ruined part of the information. ”

"Damn, this bastard left on his own, and he wanted to cut off everyone's livelihood."

Someone couldn't help but scold. But no, you must know that the alliance is so big, not every planet can produce everything on its own, many things are produced in a dedicated manufacturing base on asteroids, especially some large spacecraft or large special machinery are built on suitable asteroids. On the one hand, it avoids the destruction of the environment of the habited planet, and on the other hand, it is sometimes more convenient to make things on asteroids.

Although most of the information of these manufacturing bases is publicly available and can be consulted, many special items or important strategic reserve items and some special shipping lanes are still not public, and these materials are kept by the Planetary Exploration Association. Think about it if someone changes the coordinates of a route, it could be catastrophic for the carrier. At the thought of it, I couldn't help but shudder, and everyone also showed their uneasiness.

Captain Mbo expected everyone's reaction, and continued: "Originally, the internal data of the Exploration Association was prepared, and even if it was destroyed, it was not afraid of it, but as time went by, it was found that some of the existing information was problematic. For example, the new star maps explored in some remote areas in the past few hundred years have been re-measured and found to have large errors, and the coordinates of some resource stars are simply wrong. It took a long time for the Alliance to correct some of the coordinates, and some of the resource stars were not near the coordinates at all, as if they were missing. Tell me what could be the reason? ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other even more, and no one spoke lightly.

"No one said it, so I'll talk about it!" Captain Tom continued, "There are two possibilities for this situation, one is that the resource star marked does not exist at all and is made up. The other is that there is still a resource star, but it is not in the labeled location or near it, and it may be a galaxy that is completely unrelated to the labeled area. As for why this happened, according to what was discovered later, the locations of these resource stars in the data are all sub-dangerous star fields, and most of them are shown to produce ordinary minerals, and a very small amount of associated minerals are produced, but it is very strange that there is only one kind of mineral. ”

"How can a planet have only one kind of mineral? This is rare, and generally there are minerals and associated minerals! Someone still couldn't help but interject.

Tom nodded and said, "It's rare, but there are still a lot of planets that only produce one kind of mineral, so it's not very strange that alone." However, it is strange that every missing planet produces only one mineral. ”

Tom walked around the conference room and talked, observing the expressions of the crowd. As if everyone's expressions made him more satisfied, he continued: "Maybe some people have already thought of the reason, and I won't be dumb." In fact, these stars are the private planets of the Sheim group, and he did not report the specific location and situation of these stars to the alliance at all. It's just that some special minerals are only available on his private planets, and when mentioning the source of these special minerals, he has to casually report to a certain planet in order to deal with it. He also reported the location of these planets in the sub-dangerous star field, and under normal circumstances, who would go to a sub-dangerous star field to investigate a planet that only produces one special mineral! ”

Tom paused, and said with rare anger: "This is also where he is clever, he has been operating for so many years without any mistakes, until he defected from the Alliance, and these special resource stars that consumed a lot of resources from the Alliance have become an important resource guarantee for Slim's gang to defect from the Alliance, and we don't know where these planets are." ”

At this time, Captain Mbo's heavy voice sounded: "Some time ago, we got information, and some of the information of the resource star is hidden in the base of the rebels on this planet, and we are here this time to find these information. Retrieve the resource stars that should have belonged to the Alliance. ”

"Answer me, now you know the significance of this expedition!"

“yes，sir!” The crowd replied with a loud voice.