"Now tell me why they're here?" On the bridge of the Confederation, Lu Lu looked at the nine somewhat overnumbered battle formations displayed on the radar screen, and asked the adjutant who was standing half a step behind the left in a dissatisfied questioning tone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The advanced computer system passed the identification of friend or foe early, and at the bottom of the screen filled in the footnotes to the triangles representing friendly forces, three of the battleships in the nine battle formations were carrier-based aircraft carriers, and the remaining six were the Federation's latest Throne Federation battleships.

This is the big surprise that the headquarters gave to Lu Lu, an expeditionary formation with powerful firepower and control capabilities. Obviously, this is another conspiracy, and there must be huge troubles waiting for Lu Lu in that so-called 9527 region.

"Not long ago, the Galactic Empire's Source Expeditionary Force was attacked by the Mimatar fleet in the PG-60 galaxy, and the formation with two battleships suffered heavy losses." Hayabusa simply took out the electronic information board and made a detailed report of the information intercepted by the intelligence department.

"Although the commander of the Galactic Empire's starship force did not make any mistakes, the unfair equipment resulted in the destruction of two battleships. Over the course of two hours of fighting, the Mimatar lost about a hundred frigates. Among them, there are 30 ships of the Rift class and 70 ships of the new Hound class. ”

"Hound? …… Should I say fortunately, it's not a wolf? Lu Lu casually took the highly classified electronic device from the Ministry of Intelligence. The glass-like surface was unexpectedly light, and the optimistic analysis of the intelligence analyst could not dispel the bitterness in Lu Lu's heart at all.

When the Emma Empire was heavily equipped with the Hell Angel class, when the Mimatar people also created a high-lethal Hound class to wreak havoc in the Source Domain, the Federation's new warship, the Dragon God class, was stuck on the production line due to financial problems. Not to mention the large-scale fleet into battle, it is impossible to meet the demand for rotation training of familiar equipment.

"Wolf-level? What type of ship is that? What about performance? Hayabusa furrowed his eyebrows together and asked, puzzled. Falcon knows a little about the types of warships in the universe at present, but the Wolf class is indeed a very unfamiliar name.

"Get all the information about the Hound class ready, and don't bother me." Lu Lu uncharacteristically did not give an explanation for Falcon's doubts, but directly issued a new order to Falcon.

As Hayabusa focused his gaze, Lu Lu was immersed in the small part of the battle footage attached to the information. Although he knew that Lu Lu would not be aware of his every move at this moment, Hayabusa still responded with a standard military salute.

"Yes, General."

When Lu Lu came back to his senses, seventy-two hours had passed, and this flotilla, which was supposed to be small, had successively added six aircraft carrier formations and three battle formations along the way. The 9527th Exploration Fleet, which is even more bloated, has also reached their first navigation system, the Baredon system.

"The fact that the Federation is fighting far from home means that the original Marine Corps command and fleet staff need to be evacuated from the Federation, and a large-scale replacement of personnel throughout the Federation has been approved by the High Command." Hayabusa explained to Lu Lu the personnel turnover that was going on at the moment.

"But most of these new recruits only have flight qualifications, which will have an impact on the smooth command of our warships." Lei Qingrang, who is still the chief of general affairs, put forward his views straightforwardly, without giving face to Hayabusa, one of the few ace fighter pilots in the Federation. "Not only can it not provide combat power, but it also increases the consumption of materials."

"They are aviation, subordinate to the new formation of the Navy." Hayabusa replied with a smile that there was a big difference between the special forces that were part of the intelligence system and the regular army. Both the way of behaving and the concept of combat are different, although Hayabusa has such a talent that everyone envies. "It's just the product of the federal government's compromise between cost and power."

"After possessing the resources of the vast universe, why do human beings still like war so much?" Lu Lu rarely let out a sigh in front of his subordinates.

"Actually, it's just to conquer, whether it's the universe or the same kind. Conquest is always the most intoxicating. Hayabusa raised his chin and said with a hint of pride in his voice.

"Conquest?" Lu Lu tilted his head and blinked. "I'm not interested in those." At first, he just wanted to protect this country that he felt affectionate just by name, and now, after going through so much, Lu Lu has not changed his original intention, in this world, the only thing he wants to protect.

"Really?" Falcon stared at Lulu's unhandsome face, as if trying to see something in the unhealthy color of the face. "The Rearmament Department intends to add external armor to the first to fourth deck areas of the Federation, and to convert the extra space into a new fighter sortie passage. This is a collated report that requires your signature. ”

"Huh? Put it here, and I'll sign it when I see it. Lu Lu nodded, and retrieved the pen from his messy desk. By the way, what do you think about the Archon fighter? What else needs to be improved? ”

"Good, but isn't it too extravagant?" Hayabusa asked, confused.

"This is a special aircraft for the aces of air combat, and I hope that I can use them to defeat one against a hundred, ah, wrong, if it were you, it would not be a problem to fight with one against ten thousand." Lu Lu thought about the fierce record of Hayabusa on the RT battlefield, and laughed happily.

"There is no escaping the trend of building up professional aviation, but the Federation can still achieve an overwhelming advantage in this area. After all, our elite aces have far superiority over other empires in terms of quantity and quality, and even in terms of training system. "Excluding the population...... Lu Lu pursed his lips bitterly, there is no best way to solve this problem, the difference in political attitudes between the Federation and other empires makes the Federation take advantage of those Mi people in the Federation.

And the problem of insufficient population is not a problem at all in the world that Lu Lu is more familiar with. At that time, the government was more worried about the problem of too few resources per capita due to overpopulation. If the war is dragged to the level of competing for human resources, whether it is the Galactic Empire or the Emma Empire, they are both countries that can casually drag the Federation into the abyss.

"These are put aside first, it is not enough to have only one production line above the Phoenix level, you can consider adding one. However, this will require additional engineers and the production line will occupy a sortie path. Uh, is it possible to put the fighter on the deck? Not...... It seems like it can be done after anchoring. ”

The naval berth harbor of the Baledon system seems to be particularly lively lately, with starships with blue and white coats of arms engraved on the bow of the ships, moored in space in an orderly manner, and near-white striped supply channels connecting from the harbor to the hull of the starships. Outside the space station not far away, a community of transports glowed constantly, and those transports flew up and down like fireflies in the summer wilderness.

In front of the best observation deck on the USS Federation, Lu Lu looked at the starship that was being refitted in the dockyard with emotion. The Throne of Kings class, a starship equipped with the Federation Navy a few years ago, although it is still a first-class battleship, but the Federation has never dared to relax its research on new battleships.

"Backwardness in design concepts? No, I guess it's a last resort. Lu Lu, who was supposed to stay in the space station's café and wait for sailing instructions, was now casually wearing a general's coat and standing in front of the observation deck of the Federation and looking out the window at the seemingly nearby pit station, the sparks that kept flickering around the starship.

"It's not so much an advanced design concept as a terrible design concept." Not long ago, Lelu received a routine report from the intelligence service, mentioning a kind of starship made by the Mimatars, which is completely different from the concept of building starships in the mainstream of today.

The materials used in the ships themselves have not changed, and the cost of manufacturing is greatly reduced, but the starships, which were born for war purposes from the beginning, pose a great threat to the federal navy.

The main system is the catapult weapon system, and other parts such as the living module, energy structure, command structure, etc., are completely tied to the periphery of the barrel of the railgun weapon system.

It is only the size of a frigate, but it has a battle-class main gun, and in a sense, it is a dangerous battleship that can threaten a battleship. Compared with the high cost of battleships and the sophistication of technology, this cheap product seems to be more cost-effective for warfare.

In fact, tens of thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the earth's civilization used warships of similar structure to ensure their own security. It's not that no one knows, it's just that no one chooses to do it. As a result, this information was ignored by everyone until Lu Lu found out.

"Didn't you already let the intelligence officers of the field team follow up, it's useless for you to be anxious here......" Falcon just looked at Lu Lu's sad face, and persuaded with some reluctance.

"That's just because you're completely unaware of the threat to the Federation from this information, and the people who did it." Lu Lu turned his head and stared directly at Falyabusa's always calm face. "The corvette group attack tactics that caused us a lot of trouble in the Gillesis incident are the same, and if the guns of the small frigates that attacked us were replaced with the caliber of battleships, I am afraid the result would not be what we know."

In this era, battles are usually contested with only two stats, attack and repair. Tactical and strategic considerations are all based on these two figures. Generally speaking, the attack is determined by the quantity and quality of the main guns, and the maintenance is the strength of the hull structure and the quality of wartime damage control. So, the ships of the Emma Empire are known for their sturdiness, while the Federation's starships are known for their ease of maintenance.

"Sure enough, you still haven't understood the severity of the matter." Lu Lu couldn't help but smile bitterly as he looked at the confusion on Falcon's face.

"Leave aside the continuity of firepower, and this patchwork of fragile structures. Purely in terms of the number of more than 600,000 frigates dispatched by the so-called Mimatar Republic fleet at the end of the last war. If a tenth of them are new, it means 60,000 battle-class guns. In terms of instantaneous attack, it is equivalent to 10,000 throne-class battleships. I think you should understand what it means for a good commander to hold half a salvo of the Central Fleet. ”

"I don't think there's any point in such a simple digital exchange." After a long silence, Hayabusa said something like this. "It is impossible for the air forces to sit idly by. Such a design makes the protection of the starship extremely weak, and the fighter can completely kill it. ”

"That's right, this is one of the reasons why the federal effort to build the aviation system has increased again. In the face of the Mimatar rebels' massive frigate swarm tactics, we have only two options: increasing the number of frigates in the fleet and strengthening the deployment of space fighters. However, do you think the Federation can compete with the Mimatar rebels in terms of population? ”

The Federal Navy's goal of fending off frigate swarm tactics by massively increasing the number of frigates is nearly impossible.

It's not that the Federation blindly decides personnel by blood, but because working on a starship requires quite specialized knowledge, and with the current level of education that the vast majority of Mimatar people receive, they are not qualified for the work on a starship. As a result, the Federation Navy had to be limited to the Yanhuang people, who were weak in numbers, and could not rapidly expand their strength by recruiting Mimatar into the army in large numbers.

Although the federal government is committed to the development of various resources, the history of the Federation is too short, and it is impossible for the Mimatar people in the federal territory to fully integrate into the way of life in the cosmic age in a mere hundred years. The vast majority of the Mimatar people, and the entire tribe, would rather live as a nomadic hunter on the surface of the planet than settle in the environmentally prosperous and economically developed space space.

"It's not something I'm worried about." Lulu shrugged his shoulders and gave up on his radical ideas, but then kicked the table hard. "This damn population base."

Although Lu Lu had given up on continuing the topic, Hayabusa's mind was clearly not on the subject. She paid more attention to the question that Lu Lu had just mentioned, what the firepower of half a fleet, close to ten thousand battleships, meant to the commander.

For most junior officers, this is only a conceptual problem. However, for Falcon, who has personally experienced the baptism of fire, both Lu Lu and Feng Yiwu have brought her a great shock. In Lu Lu's hands, the ultra-efficient salvo and the continuous light are the best annotations. And for a commander like Feng Yiwu, it is a powerful weapon to achieve a reversal of victory and defeat in an instant.

It is undeniable that with a large population base, the odds of genius birth do not seem to change much, so when the Federation has geniuses, the Mimatar with a larger population has more geniuses. At least, the designer who boldly came up with the "coffin design" is one.

Starships with weapon systems as the core and combat as the shooting concept, their weak protection makes them only suitable for the known universe and not competent for exploring the unknown world. While streamlining a large number of protective structures and reducing the ability to defend against emergencies to the extreme, it has not been able to reduce the number of necessary crews, as high as more than 30 people, more than one-third of ordinary frigates, which seems to be the design of letting people die on the battlefield.

Even with a completely different stance, Hayabusa couldn't help but sigh for those enemies in his heart. This has nothing to do with on-the-spot command, and it can be said that those people simply planned to exchange human lives for results from the beginning. The thoughts of those tribal elders were still crude and direct.

"After all, they are different from ours." Falcon looked at the seemingly eternal universe in the distance and said with a rather disappointed expression. "Although as human beings, there is not much difference."

"It's just a design that doesn't quite fit the technology of this era." Lu Lu just sighed inwardly, the people of the Earth Age, out of delusional design ideas. Because the people of that era did not regard ships as their home. No one designs their home as a weapon to be expended.

"Falcon, help me contact the Supreme Overseer and ask for the highest level of secrecy." Lu Lu sighed, this time can only remind those who can do something.

"Uh, at this time?" There was a strange look on Falby's face, and although he was surprised by Lu Lu's behavior, he did not hesitate to activate the secret equipment.

In a well-guarded residential complex in the central system of the Federation, Anwei, the supreme overseer of the Navy, was woken up in his sleep by his lieutenant.

"What's the matter?" An Wei, who just walked out of the bedroom with his clothes on, asked, patting his sleepy face. "Looks like you haven't rested yet."

"It's the highest secret line of the Ministry of Intelligence." Because Mu Jie, who was on duty without resting, had a wry smile on his face, at four o'clock in the morning local time in the Central Galaxy, the Supreme Overseer had just rested for two hours after the communication. If it weren't for the fact that the secrecy level was the highest, Mu Jie actually didn't want to disturb the rest of the Supreme Overseer at such a time.

"Huh?" An Wei, who walked towards the communication room with raised eyebrows, was in a hurry, the highest level of secrecy lines, few people used them, and they rarely had the opportunity to use them, even during the war. "Who's?"

"Codenamed Black Falcon, it looks like the Federation is in trouble again." There was a hint of helplessness in Mu Jie's smile.

"Black Falcon?" Anwei's footsteps paused, and then moved at a faster pace. An intelligence agent with a code name for a bird of prey, but there are only seven [falcons] who have been registered here in Anwei, and the black falcon is one of them. "Cut, eighty percent is that guy Lulu."

Although Lu Lu seemed to have resigned from all his duties, An Wei knew very well that from the very beginning, Lu Lu had just enough authority in the intelligence department that he had to command the falcon next to him, and no one could shake this right.

So standing in front of the communication screen, the first thing the Supreme Overseer who had already prepared for it when he saw Lu Lu was......

"Lu Lu, what did you do again?" (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )