The next day, Chen summoned Second Lieutenant William Arthur, retired Captain Eleanor Dart, who became the Port Minister, Lieutenants Salter Evans and Second Lieutenants Murrell, two MS Force captains, and Sergeant Major Lynch to the office to discuss how to deal with the crisis in the Atlantic Federation.

At this time, Sergeant Major Lynch brought bad news.

"Are you saying that some of the soldiers are complaining?" asked Chen Xiaomou.

"Yes, the soldiers on the mining side are generally complaining that they don't look like soldiers now, but like absenteeism," Sergeant Major Lynch replied. Now all the production points and energy points in the base come from the soldiers' mining, but after all, the soldiers are not absenteeism, they are used to fight. In the beginning, absenteeism was a last resort, but now that it is on the right track, many soldiers have a lot of resistance to their job being mining mines.

Chen Xiaomou has fallen into the misunderstanding of playing the game before, and always thinks that farmers must be needed, and everyone is willingly arranged. But now that all sorts of grievances have returned, he realizes that although the system has helped a lot and made this place like a game, it is still a real society in essence. Although everyone does not have the heart of betrayal, there is still a heart of expectation of personal treatment and personal development planning.

Chen Xiaomou said to Sergeant Major Lynch: "You tell the mining team that we are currently negotiating with the outside world, and in the future, all the ore will be purchased from outside, and their work will be rearranged." After that, he thought for a moment and then asked, "What are the negative emotions in the army now?" "The sergeant major has always been responsible for the training of military soldiers in the U.S. military, as well as the psychological counseling of soldiers, somewhat similar to the political commissar of the PLA. Therefore, Chen Xiaomou also wanted to understand everyone's thoughts in the army through the sergeant major.

Sergeant Major Lynch thought for a moment and said, "Another thing worth noting is that the internal discipline in the army has been relatively poor recently, and many male and female soldiers have been involved together. He organized the language and continued: "The main thing is that there is still too little entertainment in the base, and there is no other entertainment except for the entertainment room." In the commissary, most of the food rations were empty, except for the field rations. The conditions were tense before, and everyone was trying to hide their desires temporarily. Now that the base is on the right track, there is some emotion in it. ”

Chen Xiaomou sighed and said: "At present, we can only produce military equipment and construction equipment, and we do not have the ability to produce civilian equipment. ”

Sergeant Major Lynch said, "I heard that the Department of Commerce has some companies on the moon base, and we can commission them to buy things. For example, daily necessities, and even imported games, various entertainment equipment, movies, etc."

Chen Xiaomou wrote down all these things: "You go back and discuss with Sergeant Wells (who has been promoted), collect information from the soldiers, draw up a procurement list, and I will go back and talk to Frey to strengthen the procurement." Then he suddenly thought of something, and turned to ask Dart: "Captain Dart, are we enough for our current transport?"

Dart replied with his hands spread out: "If you count the procurement of ore and the purchase of daily necessities and entertainment equipment, it is estimated that one ship will not work, and at least two or three transport ships are needed to operate at the current scale of the base." ”

Chen Xiaomou asked, "Then do you have enough people?" ”

Dart replied: "You can have the mining team come as a crew member in the future, we estimate that we will need a few warships when dealing with the Atlantic Federation this time, so there are not too many crew members now, the more the better." ”

When Chen Xiaomou heard about the Atlantic Federation, he realized that the meeting was off topic, and quickly brought the topic back. Ask Second Lieutenant Arthur, "How many troops do you expect the Atlantic Federation to send to us?"

Second Lieutenant Arthur intercepted Frey's notice yesterday, so he was prepared, took out his notebook and read: "If we are very important, if we want to be ready for the Atlantic Federation to dispatch one or two aircraft carriers, we need to withstand the combat power of about one of their air and space fighters. After a pause, he continued, "But the above is the expected acceptable loss of the enemy. In reality, it is expected that the enemy will attack in batches, because they do not understand our situation and think that we are just ordinary civilian armed groups. Therefore, it is initially estimated that only cruisers will participate. In the first batch, it is estimated that two or three heavy warships will already look up to us. ”

"If this is the case, then our MS troops should be able to withstand the attack of the first group of enemy troops. However, if we are to deal with nearly 256 air and space fighters in two wings, the MS team needs at least 48 aircraft in one group. ”

Chen Xiaomou calculated the means of production and asked, "Although I don't know when they will attack and don't dare to guarantee the number of MSs, I can try my best to provide you with 3 units per day." But do you have enough people on your side? ”

Second Lieutenant Evans replied, "The miner group is fine, they usually drive small engineering robots for mining activities, and it is easy to turn into MS drivers." ”

Chen Xiaomou felt a drop of cold sweat fall from his forehead: "You have also taken a fancy to the miner group, it seems that there is really enough manpower now." "Originally, there were only more than 80 people in the base, and the miner group accounted for a quarter, so all groups were very concerned.

"That's right" Chen Xiaomou suddenly said to Sergeant Major Lynch, "Sergeant Major, I hope that you will draw up a training plan in the next time, so that everyone can receive training in battleship piloting, communications, radar, turret, MS piloting, etc. in their spare time." We can't just wait for people now, we have to mobilize our internal potential, mobilize all of them during the war, and even if we fail, we can escape in boats, instead of sitting and waiting in the bases. ”

"Yes," the sergeant major commanded.

"In addition, I would like to convey to you that if we survive this crisis, I promise to give everyone a certain amount of vacation and can take turns to travel to the lunar colonies. In the future, we will also formulate some holiday measures, so that everyone can travel every once in a while and even go around the world of this world. Chen Xiaomou knew that he needed to drop a carrot in front, so he used the vacation that everyone was generally looking forward to as a trophy.

"That's right, sir." Ensign William Arthur suddenly interjected, "We still have a magic weapon that will allow us to win easily. ”

"What is it??" Chen Xiaomouqi asked. Then Arthur whispered in Chen Xiaomou's ear the magic weapon to win.

Then Chen Xiaomou thought for a while and said: "It can indeed be used, but we still need to fight a battle to show our combat strength." Then use it, and the effect will be even better. ”

After that, the atmosphere in the conference room was relaxed. The haze of the past two days is estimated to have dissipated a lot.