In the halo, the instrumental atom is a virtual star map space. Lu Yuan waited for his chief of staff, Guan Xu.

After Guan Xu saw Lu Yuan, he saluted. After crossing dozens of 'stars' on the star map, he came to Lu Yuan, and asked straight to the point: "Do you really choose war?" Angela was right. At present, we do not have an advantage in military science and technology, in terms of total strength. ”

Lu An smiled, the spiritual energy in his palm flashed, and hundreds of meters away, in the landing gear space where the spaceship and the ground were docked, one by one cockroach-like creatures jumped into Lu An's palm.

The metal gate in the landing gear space has been isolated from the space in the cabin, there is already a vacuum, this cockroach has entered a state of suspended animation, and was folded into the cabin, this thing sensed the air pressure normally, so the insect legs began to move again. It shows tenacious vitality.

Guan Xu looked at the insect in Lu Yuan's hand with disgust, this thing eats everything, although the spiritual energy is isolated, but visually seeing this thing close to the front, he will also instinctively hate this kind of thing physiologically.

Lu An raised the insects, saw the disgusting on Guan Xu's face, and said with a prank smile: "Insects are insects after all, even if they have a history of hundreds of millions of years, there are all kinds of black technologies on the genes, and they have adapted to various environments, but there is still a huge gap between them and the existence of higher intelligent species." Because their evolution is in the pursuit of perfection, not progress. ”

The ionized light in the palm of the palm flickered, and the bug turned into a fly back.

Lu Yuan blinked his eyes and said: "It's the same now, Angela has a long history, and after multiple civilizations have developed to the end, they form a large cluster. Their technology is terrifying, just like the genes of cockroaches that adapt to various environments, almost perfect, but this is the wrong way to develop. ”

Lu Yuan looked contemptuously at the area where Angela's insect swarm was located on the map and said lightly: "Here, only we have the ability to organize its strategic decisive battle for hundreds of light years. ”

Guan Xu saw that Lu Yuan was so confident, and he did not say anything to deny Lu Yuan. However, since the hundreds of light-years operation mentioned by Lu An has not yet been carried out, Guan Xu is skeptical of the advantages proposed by Lu Yuan.

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Most people tend to focus on obvious military advantages, such as advanced weapons. Able to fight ten, one dozen hundred, revolutionary war armament. (For example, in the anime, pick a hundred Zagu super weapons.) Or an absolutely horrific number. (For example, a large swarm.) ）

But Lu Yuan in this world, after seeing the four million years of new generation civilization challenging the ancient civilization, he thought that the war between the two interstellar civilizations, the gap in science and technology was quickly bridged, and almost every time the new generation of civilization challenged the original overlord civilization, a new generation of science and technology could be developed in hundreds of years.

However, in terms of organizational superiority, the original hegemonic civilization has never been able to catch up with and surpass the new generation of civilization.

Unless this former overlord civilization starts a great revolution from the bottom up in the interval between defeats and strengthens the organization of civilization again. This is a very rare possibility. Because even if the war is defeated, the original overlord civilization can still maintain its strong internal rule, and still has the strength to prevent the internal restart (revolution) of the civilization.

This kind of bottom-up super revolution that is actually completely localized under the banner of foreign is almost non-existent in interstellar civilizations. (Lu Yuan, this kind of super)

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Let's talk about the advantages that organizational advantages now bring to heat surges.

That is the advantage in the size of the fleet. In today's universe, almost all civilizations are unable to accumulate an unlimited number of fleets for every star within their dominion. This is similar to the reason why 10,000 heavy cavalry could not be stationed in a small village.

Because once the size of the fleet exceeds a certain level, it will bring all kinds of problems.

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Air alone,

The air inside the cavity of the battleship and the vacuum in space outside the battleship always maintain a pressure difference, and the construction standards of the battleship and the migrant ship are not the same.

The entire hull of the migrant ship is as smooth as possible. Keep the inside pair completely closed to the outside. The standard of the Somudo migrant ship is that it can maintain the internal air pressure stably for 100 years. It is based on the maintenance of space migrants.

However, the battleship is not an immigrant ship, the battleship is mainly to maintain combat effectiveness, and a large number of combat modules must be loaded, and in order to reserve these combat modules, there are mechanical windows on the surface of the battleship.

The floodgates of these mechanical windows open to reveal electromagnetic cannons, and in order to cope with the war situation, it is necessary to frequently dispatch maintenance robots out of the warehouse. These gates all leak air, so it is inevitable by design that air in the cavity of the battleship will be lost into a vacuum.

If there are only a thousand warships, this problem does not need to be considered, just a temporarily converted supply ship will solve the problem.

But once there are more than 10,000 warships, this must be carefully considered by the logistics officer in a notebook.

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Of course, air supply is not the only problem, all kinds of parts, all kinds of crew physiological needs, even if each crew member asks for an extra vegetable in the bowl. The robot that asked for the cleaning of the ship's cabin, update the system. It's a huge problem that all kinds of people get together all the time.

Not to mention the replacement and maintenance of parts for battleships.

Even if these maintenance swarm minds and AI systems are maintained, there will be no problems in residing on a planet, but once the space jumps, the entropy increase phenomenon accumulation error is not found, and the maintenance of the entire system will collapse.

All in all, there is a limit to the number of armies that can be maintained within each star. Just like the impossible unlimited growth of terrestrial life. The size of the fleet cannot grow indefinitely, and the large-scale space jump of the fleet in space must be maintained by people to clean up the entropy increase phenomenon.

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Military laymen often judge which army can fight and which weapon is powerful.

Military insiders look at logistics.

Strategists, on the other hand, look at organizational capabilities.

Weapons can only determine the superiority of a skirmish. The logistics system determines the outcome of each battle. Organizational skills determine the final outcome of the entire war.

Whether it is the Os, or Somudo, or the Angelas, and now the heat surge, they are all lagging behind in the thinking of war because of the aging of civilization.

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Guan Xu saw that he didn't convince Lu Yuan, so he organized the language again to ask from another angle. He pointed to the blue and red Oss theater on the star map and said, "The first thing we are facing now is the enemy of the Oss Empire. And now you're suddenly asking to withdraw from the troops. Arriving here (his finger pointed at Sosomudo), seventy-six light-years away, engaged in a large-scale war against the swarm, you don't realize that from a military point of view, you have committed a two-front taboo"

Lu Yuan looked at Guan Xu with a smile and clapped his hands and said: "That's right, from a military point of view, my decision is wrong, and in all AI analysis, I also think it is irrational." But the military is a derivative of politics. The military serves politics. ”

Lu Yuan walked to the Somudo area of the star map, pointed to the planets and said, "The Somuduo people here are facing the attack of the swarm. And we want to be with it here. And wisdom integrates intelligence, and AI sometimes doesn't analyze. But I can tell you. Integrating another group of wisdom, in addition to showing adherence to their own rules and bottom line, should also show responsibility. ”

Lu Yuan pointed to the huge area of dozens of administrative planets in Suomduo and said: "This is not a small place, there is a lot of population here, and it is the point where we will develop in the future, and half of the population within our group is from Suomduo, and the problems that arise here are not a problem that can be ignored for us."

In order to continue to grow, and to ensure that there are no cracks in our internal group, we must show our commitment to Somudo.

This responsibility is that no matter what the AI calculates, we will not be distracted by too many profit calculations. Even if these decisions violate the maximization of interests at some level. We are still willing to pay the price and do it.

War must be rational and equally responsible.

The sanity of war is not swayed by the impulses of individuals, by the interests of the few. The responsibility of war is to make a solid commitment to all the wisdom of one's own side. ”

Guan Xu looked at Lu Yuan and nodded: "I understand your words, by the way, follow you and let me know what charm is." ”

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The so-called charm is not called charm when it is supported by everyone.

It's about sticking to the bottom line that everyone is hesitating about, which is called charm.

For example, the decision made by Lu Yuan to fight back against Angela at the moment, from a purely military point of view, this kind of behavior is completely capricious, and it is very easy to lead to a short-term shortage of strength on the Oss side.

Therefore, no one is willing to support this decision before Lu Yuan makes a decision, because in the military, AI staff officers have done more harm than good after many analyses.

So no one has the courage to support this decision, but no one is willing to stand up and call for a complete abandonment of Somudo.

Because once the shouting of total renunciation is tantamount to setting up a barrier between the Ottos and the Somudos within the heat surge. Therefore, the easiest result is to use a small number of forces to fight against the swarm in the Somudo area, showing a political posture.

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And two days later, at the Heat Surge Plenary Military Conference,

However, at this time, Lu Yuan showed a bold decision, that is, to simply fight, as much as possible, to draw all the forces against Angela in the Somudo region.

For the sake of this plan, the strategic decisive battle of the Ostic Empire was postponed, and priority was given to solving the problem of the extinction of the Somudo species. After containing the Somudo offensive, Oss began a large-scale strategic turnaround.

Such a military decision is extremely testing the entire Reyong military system. All the military AI auxiliary staff systems have made a stinging objection and announced that this military action may have a price beyond imagination.

But in the end, all the human officers agreed, and Lu Yuan's strategy was adjusted. Lifeless AI doesn't understand what despair is, and it doesn't understand what hope is.

But humanity can comprehend that when one can give hope to the people he has declared to be integrated with, with practical actions, in the most desperate times. That's the 'charm'.

And this 'charm' is the power that makes other wisdom abandon their wariness and become convinced.

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In the virtual body hall meeting, at the end of the strategic meeting of the General Staff, in the context of the entire star map, Lu Yuan faced the many people inside the heat surge.

Lu Yuan made his final speech: "Time is very tight, we must act quickly to participate in the rescue, and the most precious thing for us is time in the current battle situation."

But please be equally aware that for being rescued, they don't have much time to hold on

(Lu Yuan said this, and the star map of the blue hall flashed one by one.) Their hopes are dying. Our actions today are to tell ourselves that we will not let others fall into despair, and that we will try to bring hope to our people. ”