Chapter Ninety-Seven: Dark Clouds II

The Seventh Fleet's mooring base in the Gillesis Spacefield was completed two years ago, and before that, they had managed to sort out the various routes within the Gillesis Domain while chasing down the remnants of Emma's army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 It wasn't until the outbreak of war between the Federation and the Liberal Alliance that the Seventh Fleet handed over the responsibility for the security and defense of its territory to the newly established Fourth Fleet of Gillesis.

Although it is a newly established local fleet, its equipment and combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated because it is in a time of war. Anyone who despises them has already suffered. And now, in the eyes of Lu Lu and Falcon, the merit of the Fourth Fleet of Gillesis is to ensure that its transportation lines are not disturbed.

Thinking of this, Lu Lu suddenly thought: "Can we trace the accurate delivery process of materials and find the enemy's movement pattern through the transport ship." ”

"It's hard. And purely in terms of the logistics industry, the group of businessmen of the Freedom Alliance are the top logistics experts. The reason why we are able to gather relevant logistics intelligence now is simply because our current behavior has not aroused their vigilance. As soon as our actions attract the attention of the other person, we will fall behind in this area. "Hayabusa is very firm in its veto, and it is in the best interest to maintain the current state.

"I also know that they can save a lot of money compared to us just for transportation." Thinking of the strength of those conglomerates that controlled the Freedom Alliance, Lu Lu sighed a little distressedly.

"Yes. They are also much higher than us in terms of efficiency transformation. Before the start of the war, the armed forces of the Freedom Alliance were ten mercenary regiments. They belong to 10 super-large business groups. And after the war, they were able to maintain the operational needs of a fleet of 800,000 troops. Their conversion in transit took only seven days. ”

Because the timing was so incredible, the intelligence services had made a serious mistake in their timeline for waging war against the Freedom Alliance. Because of this mistake by the intelligence department, the Federation Navy responded in a hurry, resulting in the loss of many industrial systems in the east of the Federation at the beginning of the war.

For comparison, the Union Navy currently has 1.2 million battleships. However, the rapid increase in combat forces has led to a serious lag in the establishment of logistics and auxiliary fleets, and even if the production capacity of the source industrial zone is sufficient, the problem of insufficient transportation capacity still plagues most of the federal navy.

"Seven days?" Lu Lu twitched the corners of his mouth, the Federation has used it for two years, and the logistics are still a mess. The first half year was the relocation and resettlement of residents from the east, and the second half year was a rapid expansion of the army. The fact that the Federation was able to launch a counterattack after a year of stalemate is already a miracle in the eyes of many. So the mistakes of the federal intelligence services are understandable.

Lu Lu knocked on the table, and a flash of inspiration passed through his mind. "If the Liberal Alliance's logistical capabilities were so strong, they wouldn't have been able to go two years without realizing their superiority. The people at the top of the Freedom League are remarkable. ”

"That's not right." Lu Lu raised his head violently and quickly pulled the star map. The situation map of the Eastern Theater of Operations, from a military point of view, the huge fleet divided into three groups has surrounded the 300,000-strong Free Confederate army from three directions. However, the logistics line that maintained the offensive of the Federal Navy had to show its weakness because of the overwhelming dispatch of combat troops.

"First the show of weakness led us to counterattack, and then the roundabout outflanking and cutting off our logistics line. Even taking into account the possible reaction of our Gillesis cluster, genius-like strategy. Lulu, who sighed, grabbed his scepter and poked it on the star map. Strange, if it were me, the counterattack point would have been set here. If you move fast enough, you can take the fortress. A strategist of that caliber wouldn't make such a big mistake. ”

After Lu Lu and Feng Qingyin discussed, he wrote his views into a report and handed it to the Supreme Command, and then the new Supreme Overseer, General He Ji, asked for a communication. The Supreme Overseer is said to be the main supporter of the Eastern Counterattack Strategy. Therefore, Anwei, the commander-in-chief of the Federal Navy, will end his term of office two years early.

As An Wei's successor, this Admiral He Ji is naturally much younger than An Wei. And the recent war situation is very good, which does make He Ji very happy. But as a general of the older generation, he always maintained a wise and shrewd elder demeanor in front of Lu Lu's young people.

"We've thought about what you've proposed." He Ji replied very seriously. "Although you can't see the previous battle plan for security reasons, it's right to have some concerns about the status quo. In fact, we also considered this possibility when we developed a counterattack plan. ”

“……”

"Before the counterattack, we thought that the Allies would regroup after the completion of the Hefa system." When He Ji said this, Lu Lu also agreed. Because Lu Lu also thinks so, the Hefa system, which has four super-large star gates, has convenient transportation and has a natural advantage when luring the enemy deep. "But after the counterattack, the Allied fleet was not able to complete the reorganization of its huge forces in Hefa."

As a result, the First Army's temptation in the Hefa system at that time inexplicably won an extremely beautiful victory. When the news of the Federation Navy's victory at Hoffa broke, the entire universe was stunned, including the Freedom Alliance.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the Liberal Alliance's strategy, but the planners of this strategy ignore a military common sense. That is, the larger the army, the more sluggish it is to react in the face of an attack.

The Liberal Alliance was not wrong to choose to break it up to avoid the initial offensive of the Union Navy. But the most important point of the Liberal Alliance's strategy is to regroup after breaking it into pieces, which is not something that the "immature" Confederate army can do.

When the fleet of the Federation Navy appeared in the Hefa system, the 240,000 fleets that the Free Alliance had arrived were in chaos.

"......" received the specifics of the situation from the Supreme Overseer Lulu was silent, after all, after this victory, the Free Confederate army once again retreated. And this time back, the Freedom Alliance took the initiative to give up dozens of galaxies, all the way to the Xinyang Galaxy, the largest industrial galaxy in the eastern part of the Federation. During this retreat, the rearguard units of the Liberal Alliance even disengaged from the forward forces of the Union Navy at one point.

"The Alliance has now completed the reorganization of the fleet in the Xinyang system, and is waiting for our army to rush to the Xinyang system to form a confrontation situation." The Supreme Overseer's serious face was written with contempt for the Freedom Confederate Army's petty calculations. In this regard, Lu Lu just smiled and raised his hand in salute.

After the communication screen went black, Lu Lu let out a sigh of relief, and turned his head to look at Hayabusa, who had been pretending to be in the background behind him: "You see, the new Supreme Supervisor doesn't seem to have any intention of holding the Intelligence Department accountable. ”

Although Lu Lu stood in a somewhat indifferent position to evaluate, although such a mistake was understood, it could not be forgiven. But Lu Lu has too close a relationship with the Federation's Ministry of Intelligence, and on the premise of not affecting the interests of the Federation, it is natural for him to protect his shortcomings.

"Even so, the split of the Ministry of Intelligence is inevitable. However, the time should be after the situation has stabilized...... "Hayabusa made a very serious conclusion. From that heavy tone, Lu Lu sensed Falcon's true thoughts.

"There should be checks and balances beyond overlapping powers and wasted resources." A large federal intelligence department, because the organizational structure is too large, it is not surprising that because of the bloated body, it has lost its sharpness. At this time, splitting and streamlining becomes a good choice.

"But the Ombudsman already has a Ministry of Internal Affairs...... "Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs is a department that is not very popular with the federal military, and their reputation in the universe is even worse to the point of stopping crying, this great reputation really ensures that the various institutions of the Federation are functioning in the right way."

Lu Lu waved his hand, indicating that he would not continue the topic. Later in the discussion, it will inevitably involve whether the authority of the Ministry of the Interior is too large and whether it needs to be restricted. Or there are too few really suitable candidates among those who are willing to join the Ministry of Internal Affairs, even to the point where it is necessary to force recruitment in the form of a call-up order.

"What's the Seventh Fleet doing lately? The heads of the port handling department all ran to the Federal's dining room to complain. Lu Lu leaned back in the chair and tilted his head, stretched, and relaxed his previous tense body.

"Oh! Loading and unloading department? Who? When did it happen? Hayabusa tilted his head, puzzled. Although it was said that the other party could enter the Federation, it meant that the identity of the other party was guaranteed, but Hayabusa still had doubts about the officer who appeared on the Federation.

"Zhao Jinping, the deputy chief officer of the loading and unloading department. Popped up when I was eating breakfast. Lu Lu didn't suspect the identity of the other party, after the accident with Fang Xuan, the regular scanning of the internal personnel of the Federation has been increased to every five seconds, unless there is another Yanhuang Federation Central Information Control System to help cheat, otherwise it will trigger a response from the alarm system.

"Well, it's the ......" Hayabusa frowned, obviously this Lieutenant Colonel Zhao has a bit of a reputation in logistics, at least Hayabusa can quickly match people with names. I remember his old boss telling him that he had a rough temper. Hayabusa twitched the corners of his mouth. can make the boss write such a comment bluntly, and he has not been kicked out by the federal navy system, but has done a good job in his current position, what a powerful guy.

"I don't know if he's rough or not, but he's been a little anxious lately. Presumably, it was the Seventh Fleet's recent merger drills that disrupted their normal operation. Lu Lu shrugged, this kind of thing is very common. Not to mention, Zhao Jinping was a logistics management officer temporarily seconded by the Yuanquan United Fleet, and he couldn't follow the traditional way of taking the transport troops and the staff officers of Fang Xue to do a certain thing.

。 (To be continued.) )