Chapter 59: Atmosphere

The two-pointed corridor of the A3 galaxy is a place full of all kinds of dreamy colors.

In peacetime, it was once one of the famous scenic waterways of the main interstellar channel of mankind. The ship sailed here, like getting into a kaleidoscope.

Colorful nebulae in the distance, dazzling white asteroid belts, floating stardust and rubble, red stars, brown white green and blue planets, plus the silver sand stars on the eternal black curtain of the universe, form a dreamy and blurry picture.

Different angles lead to different views. Merchant ships, exploration ships, mining ships, and interstellar cruise ships passing through this waterway, whether they jump southeast or northwest, change the scenery with each leg they make. Like a constantly shaking kaleidoscope, ever-changing, never get tired of looking at it.

And on this day in March 2064, with the meeting of the two main fleets of the Western Covenant and the Fiji Alliance, this beautiful corridor is destined to add the most vivid color to the myriad of colors - red. The color of human blood and fire smeared in the starry sky!

Outside the porthole of Feiyang's flagship [Heidefeld] space carrier, tens of thousands of large and small steel warships, large and small, were silent like a school of sharks gathered in the same sea area.

Six Fiyan [Unicorn]-class battleships surround the [Heidefeld]. Seven warships are connected by a mobile passage to form a huge temporary space station.

Allied officers and soldiers, dressed in various uniforms, hurried back and forth through the corridors. Shadowless electronic lights on the walls and overhead illuminate every corner. Overhead announcements rang out from time to time, and automatic doors leading to the different functional areas opened and closed with a crisp electronic confirmation tone.

On the long, wide aisle, the self-propelled conveyor belt runs silently. Levitating elevators carried people up the high bridge, and one after another automatic rail cars slid swiftly past the sides of the passageway, on which sat soldiers escorting supplies or staff officers holding urgent documents.

Through the glass of the rooms passed along the way, it can be seen that the staff officers of the base camp are nervously gathered in front of the interstellar map and the electronic sand table to discuss and formulate battle plans; The pilots were looking at the mission electronic board in the pre-war preparation room and listening to the commander's explanation of the key points of the mission; The fighters in the hangar have been raised to the ejection tunnel and stand by; Mechanics and ground crews drove data detection vehicles or ammunition supply vehicles back and forth, nervously doing the final tests for the fighters and adding missiles to replenish energy.

The atmosphere was tense and dignified.

The enemy is just two million kilometers away. It was a huge fleet led by the most terrifying enemy in the history of the Filipino League, the genius of a generation of famous generals, Sober. More than two hundred A-class fleets, totaling more than 30,000 large and small warships, are like a huge black hole, horizontal in front of them.

To say that there is no reverence is false. As soldiers in the war era, this is a group of men who fought for their family and country, and did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives. They will never lack a heartfelt reverence for a good general. Even if this person is his enemy.

No matter how arrogant the Filipino League generals are, they don't dare to stalk their necks in front of Sober.

Not only do you not have the guts, but you also don't have the qualifications!

They knew Sober and knew his resume inside out.

In their eyes, the thin, handsome, middle-aged man with eyes like an eagle was simply an insurmountable mountain, and it was impossible to even raise people to challenge their ideas.

For more than 30 years, they have watched this young man from Western York, who was only a cadet at the time of Hastings' fame, stand out from the Sober family, which is full of generals, and in the name of genius, from the lowest level of the army, calmly and calmly step by step to the same status as Hastings.

His steps were so determined. So determined that no one even had the slightest doubt that he would be able to reach the heights he is now!

To be able to do this, it is not enough to rely on talent, nor can it be done with wisdom alone.

This is an enemy who is flawless in every aspect of his intelligence, body, and character.

He achieved today's prestige not by boasting, nor by the power and wealth accumulated by the Sobo family over hundreds of years, nor by the help of others. All he relied on was his record. Undisguised, unabashed, but people can't find a flaw in the outstanding feats!

For many years, both the military academy of the Western Covenant and the military academy of the Filipino League have made the study of Sauber and his war examples over the years an important subject. The generals in the fleet, who came from different countries and graduated from different military academies, all had the same lessons on the analysis of war examples.

The teachers who teach include college professors, senior generals of the military department's advanced training class, and famous military strategists all over the world. They analysed Sober's examples, from large-scale regional conflicts to the miniature battles he commanded in his early years as a junior officer.

However, apart from marveling at the precise calculations that Sober displayed in each of his commands, shocked by his judgment and premonitions, and amazed by his commanding skills and ingenuity, they knew nothing about this Western general, who did not care about being scrutinized and analyzed, and even became more and more unfamiliar.

No one could see through him. He is like a rising sun, when he jumps out of the horizon, he is only red, or obscured by clouds, and people can't feel his blazing. But you know he's there, and then you watch him rise inexorably into the sky, so radiant that you can't be forced to look at.

That's the difference between a genius and an ordinary person. Not to mention now, even when these officers and generals of the Filipino Alliance were still young and frivolous students, and their bones were still filled with a blood that the king of heaven and Lao Tzu were not convinced, no one dared to release the bold words of surpassing Sober in front of others.

Because, a soldier can be brave and fearless, but he cannot be arrogant and ignorant. You can bravely face the prestige of your opponent, but you can't lose respect for a good enemy.

There is only one person who is qualified to fight Sauber.

Or should it be said that in the whole of Western Covenant, only Sober is qualified to fight this man.

That's Hastings. With an undefeated name, the military god Hastings who single-handedly sent the Republic of Feiyang to the throne of mankind's number one superpower!

Although since the south, the officers and soldiers of the Filipino League have many doubts about Hastings. However, when the huge fleet of Western Covenant led by Sober appeared in front of him. When everyone was really engaged in the battle that was about to begin, and everything about Ryan, Fjan, Chuckner, Treflan, Mema, and Reske was thrown out of the clouds, they realized how lucky they were to have this old man in a wheelchair by their side!

It was a fateful battle between Sobo and Hastings. The irreconcilable contradictions between the two camps of the Western Covenant and the Filipino League, the increasing depletion of the resources of the human world, and the humiliation suffered by the Sobo family at the hands of Hastings thirty years ago are all destined to come today.

Under this starry sky, the two fleets are like two cavalry regiments in ancient times, facing each other in the vast Gobi. A storm is coming. In the wind that rolls up the dust and sand, the military flag hunts and flutters. The warhorse snorted, the knight drew his long sword, and the eyes hidden under the cold helmet were sharp and fanatical.

In the wind, you can almost smell blood.

The base camp is running like a sophisticated, high-speed engine.

One after another, the commands were transmitted to the tactical computers of the commanders of each fleet through the fleet's Skynet system, and the combat plans were issued and executed at an astonishingly fast speed.

In the silent transmission of commands from the system, several Fijian fleet fleets were swimming outside the porthole of the USS Heidefeld like schools of glowing fish in the deep sea.

The current formation of the coalition forces is very different from the formation when they just encountered the Western Fleet.

On the right flank of the corridor, the Lane fleet, which guards a wide galactic asteroid belt and a gravitational reef, has been strengthened. By order of the command, ten A-class flotillas of Fiyan were supplemented to the right flank, and the Lane group formed a sickle-shaped line of up to thirty A-class flotilla.

The center, the main force guarding the transition channel, is divided into two parts. One part was the Advance Fleet led by Admiral McKinley. The total strength is also thirty A-class fleets. The other part was a reserve force led by Hastings himself, with a total strength of twenty A-class fleets.

The eighty Fijian fleets heading south were all allocated in the middle and on the right flank. This also means that the bandit fleet, which is located on the left flank, has not been replenished in the slightest.

The oddly shaped bandit warships with ramming horns stayed alone on the left flank of the coalition, defending a narrow theater centered on a dark brown planet with three moons. To their left was a large, blazing star, so close that every bandit ship seemed to be set on fire.

Everyone thought that this was a clear signal from the command to the bandits on the left flank! Regardless of Hastings' support for his grandson-in-law, within the coalition forces, the generals still expressed their strong displeasure in this way at the division of forces.

Yes, we went south.

Come here and fight to defend the Federation of Lerays.

However, this does not mean that we can tolerate the cowardice of the bandit army to flee without a fight, and it does not mean that we can be at the mercy of this rogue fleet that has created many miracles but also has a lot of criticism.

Although this is their home turf, they are the masters of this starry sky. But this is a cosmic war, and we will fight valiantly against the army of Sober, and use our strength and courage to show these cowards, the real Filipino soldiers, how to fight!

The whole coalition army was permeated with this tense and somewhat dull and strange atmosphere.

While they were working nervously, monitoring the enemy fleet two million kilometers away, they occasionally turned their eyes to the ragtag army consisting of ten bandit fleets, ten giant space carriers, a dozen Fyan and Chakna, and even two Tatania and Puditok fleets.

Did they really annihilate the Western Advance Fleet led by Banning? Can their warships really be stealthy, ram enemies, and break down into small ships and escape into cobweb-like passages? And those ten big guys, each of them is really equivalent to a B-class fleet?

There is no shortage of topics like this on this space carrier. Even though many of the answers are no longer a secret and have been confirmed in the Skynet documents that have been exchanged, everyone still enjoys it.

On the bridge platform of the mothership, several staff officers who had just taken turns to leave work passed by, and stood still. They were chatting while looking at the bandit fleet in the distance through the floor-to-ceiling windows that were as clear as water.

"If you want me to say, this battle should put the bandit army at the forefront." A staff officer from Lane looked coldly at the bandit fleet in the distance, "Behead the one-eyed python Obuun, the famous general Banning, such a great majesty, why didn't you even dare to fight when you met Sober, turned around and ran?" Are we afraid that we will not come? Now that we're here, I don't want to listen to the explanation, and I have the ability to fight in front of me for everyone to see! ”

"That's right!" Another young staff officer said indignantly: "Obviously, they have all entered Desik's Prometheus system, and the combined fleet of the two countries is in the Zeus system to help contain it, what a good opportunity they have wasted so casually." ”

He turned his head to look at the few companions beside him and said, "If they can guard the Prometheus galaxy for three days, we will be able to have seven more strategic maneuver spaces in the galaxy, even if we lose one a week, we will lose it for a month or two before we throw it here!" With this time, the Allies will be able to force Suss and Jeppen out of the war at Renske! ”

"Yuto Mikami is not something that can be easily solved," a lieutenant colonel Fei Yang shook his head and said, "In the current situation, all he needs to do is to hold on and wait for help." That Jeppen fox will definitely not fight head-on with Admiral Qian Berlin. With the forces at hand, it may be difficult to take Reske, but it is not difficult to drag on the war for a year and a half. ”

"That's better than turning around and running like this!" The young staff officer said loudly: "The strength of the Allied forces is already weak, and Sober's division of troops this time is hitting our weak underbelly. If it weren't for the fact that the troops were overstretched, how could the top have asked Li Fo to come back to help at the cost of losing face? ”

The young staff officer's words made everyone present feel depressed.

When Hastings brazenly dissolved the Supreme Union Council, everyone thought that they could let go of the war, and the Filipino Alliance would finally win the war with the sacrifice of soldiers and the family wealth accumulated over hundreds of years. At that time, the whole of Triflan was thriving.

Everyone is preparing in the Al-Aqsa Fortress, and they can gradually accept a series of changes before the Filipino Alliance. Even those die-hard supporters of Li Buddha have kept their mouths shut, no longer mentioning Li Buddha, and no longer arguing about who is right and who is wrong.

Unexpectedly, with the evolution of the war situation, with the formulation and implementation of the southbound strategy. In the end, it was Liver's return, and these fleets assembled under the Hastings banner turned out to be an outcast, lone army.

Since the outbreak of the Battle of the Trevlan system, the logistical supply of the southbound fleet has been interrupted. These days, not a single Allied transport ship has arrived in the fleet. The convoys and convoys that used to flow endlessly, like a dry river, suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Although the supply of the fleet itself is enough for everyone to live in the universe for a year or two, and the military supplies such as medicinal skins and repair parts are enough to support one or two major battles, this feeling of abandonment still makes every Allied officer and soldier feel uncomfortable.

Now, many people don't even dare to turn on the TV. They were afraid to hear the news of the loss of the Trevlan system, to hear the scolding of the populace, and even more afraid to hear everything about the Liverford fleet.

The army that returned as a savior enjoyed the glory of the main coalition fleet of the Filipino Alliance at this moment.

Such a thing is uncomfortable in anyone's heart!

"Fight early," a staff officer said fiercely: "If we win, we will go home, and if we lose, we will take our lives, and we will be a hundred." I hate this damn place anyway! ”

"Excuse me, who the likes it here?"

"I'm not afraid of losing, I'm afraid that because of the irresponsibility of some people, I will throw my life here. I'll leave it here, if you don't believe it, bet that if one day our defense line collapses, there must be a problem with the left wing! ”

A group of people were talking and talking, when suddenly, the young staff officer said, "Look, it's the shuttle of Vice Admiral Fujii Tsuyoshi of the Ryan fleet." Look, and Lieutenant General Macchia. ”

"Ryan's new generation of genius generals, Lieutenant General Macchia, is not yet thirty-five years old this year, right?"

"Lieutenant General Macchia is thirty-four years old, and Lieutenant General Tsuyoshi Fujii is even younger, only thirty-two years old!"

"Lieutenant General Macchia is the future of the Republican side of Lane and the proud disciple of Admiral Yuris. Lieutenant General Fujii Tsuyoshi is a good friend of Lieutenant General Macchia, although he is a little worse than Lieutenant General Macchia's combat record, but when he graduated from the military academy, Lieutenant General Fujii's grades were still in front of Lieutenant General Macchia. ”

"The one with the black hair and square face, is that Tsuyoshi Fujii?" A staff officer stared at the glass of the shuttle plane's cabin, which had entered the passage below from a distance of almost less than twenty meters in front of him, and his eyes swirled over the two heroic young Lane generals: "It looks like it's serious." ”

"It's strange that these two people with completely different personalities and temperaments are actually good friends."

The Lane staff officer introduced: "Lieutenant General Macchia is the Prince Charming in the hearts of all women in our country. Even if he doesn't wear a military uniform, with his long flaxen hair and artist's temperament, he can charm many people. Lieutenant General Fujii is a typical soldier born for war, and his idol in life is General Li Fo. A few months earlier, in the Catalan system, he had fought under the command of Admiral Liverfer. ”

Staff Officer Ryan said, paused and said: "In terms of ability and talent, he is not under Lieutenant General Macchia, but his personality is a little more rigid and aggressive. This kind of personality is not pleasing to the upper echelons of the military, but it is very popular among junior officers. In the Republic of Lane, Lieutenant General Fujii was the leader of the young officers. ”

"Coming to the flagship at this time, is it preparing for a meeting?" A staff officer looked out the window strangely, and suddenly pointed into the distance and said, "Look, the shuttles of the Seventh Fleet of Feiyan also have Chakna and the Celeliac Federation."

"It seems that the marshal has convened the meeting" Staff Officer Lane rolled his eyes, his eyes suddenly froze, and his face gradually sank.

Not far away, a black shuttle appeared in front of the staff officers like a ghost.

Bandits!

These guys, it's finally here!