On the 20th of February Standard Time of the Expedition, the Feria Intelligence Vault obtained from the Vulture Fortress was finally unraveled perfectly. After more than a week of collective discussions www.biquge.info Admiral Overmars wrote a long letter to the Global Federation to report on the matter and the next stage of strategic discussions.

When the letter reached the three-star circle, it was already September 25, 69 Earth time. At this time, I had just returned from Earth to the base camp of Leirondo, so I left this letter unceremoniously for me to read. Fortunately, judging from the tone of the above letter, it was basically written to me alone, so my behavior is not shameless.

"At the moment, it seems that the hesitation and suspicion we started with was unnecessary." In his letter, Overmars wrote: "The situation of Feria is far more special than we can imagine. All things considered, the objectives of this expedition should be greatly modified, with the aim of total conquest or destruction of Feria, not as we had originally planned. It seems that we no longer need to deal with Feria for another decade or two, and the situation is very favorable to us. The advantage offsets the disadvantage of our hasty preparation and labor expedition. ”

Along with the Admiral's letter, a copy of the Feria Intelligence Library was sent to Samsung. The decipherers of the expeditionary fleet have carefully sorted it out, and it is not difficult to pick it up. According to the introduction of the Intelligence Essentials Search, this intelligence database contains the current state of Feria's planetary government, military status, current civil war situation, and a large number of star maps. It takes a lot of time to fully digest this information, but the mystery of Feria has indeed faded.

The intelligence points briefly mentioned by Iovimars are that Feria is an incredible group - they have no civilians. Feria is just a purely military bloc, and its militarized overtones are superior to those of the GDI. Their host star is Niphelheim IV, the fourth planet in the Niphelson galaxy 130,000 light-years away from Samsung (usually cosmic space), where there is a well-developed civilization and many biological populations. Feria is merely a group of forces that stands above all biological strata and represents the entire armed force. Most of them are biochemical warriors that breed unnaturally, and only the Blue Shadow Mage is a natural individual.

130,000 light-years away, they are really willing to run! When I came into contact with them at the beginning of 66, everyone thought that it was just a conflict caused by the geographical intersection of the cosmic biological population, and some fools even proposed to abandon the three stars - anyway, there were still ninety-five light years, and the Feria Army probably wouldn't come if they didn't see the enemy, right?

However, the battle log in the intelligence vault clearly records this contact. It was definitely not an unintentional contact, but the result of more than one hundred and fifty years of searching in the universe by the Feria Army. They searched the universe tirelessly for more than 150 years, from the time they formed an army to search for the location of the earth, to the chance encounter with the Adams mining ship in 66 years! The planning and implementation of such a long-term battle plan is unheard of in history. Even the Hundred Years' War between England and France in the Middle Ages was not in a constant state.

"I'm not surprised to get the information that Feria is intent on invading us. But the fact that they have been searching the universe for hundreds of years makes me feel shocked. On this point, the Admiral wrote: "Féria's ambition to destroy our race has been confirmed, and I think the clamor of the pacifists can come to an end." However, what Feria did when he found out about us was really incomprehensible to me. Not only me, but all the generals in front of me discussed it, but could not come up with a convincing explanation. ”

This problem that bothers you is also brought to you by the records in the intelligence database:

Although Feria has searched for us in the universe for more than a hundred years, his military strength is not strong. There are a lot of records, and the data is extremely cumbersome. Anyway, someone has already sorted out the report, so I don't need to review it carefully. According to the study, Feria's military power is more likely to have been slowly expanded and developed over a period of more than 100 years. Forty years ago, they didn't even have the current fighter plane, and they could only use the kind of small planes that attacked Zhang Ning and Kuibyshev for space flights.

Even if their pilots weren't natural beings but were made on the production line, and their officers didn't have the slightest class camaraderie on their subordinates, it would be terrible: a small plane wouldn't be able to withstand a slightly higher stellar storm or meteor shower, and that kind of thing would be no different from crossing the Pacific Ocean in a battery-powered bumper boat. We can fully imagine how much human and material resources Feria has lost in this high-cost search in the past hundred years.

Since the search has taken such a huge amount of effort, this battle plan for the invasion of the earth must be quite reliable, at least a perfect work that has been refined for decades. For someone like me who doesn't know much about tactics, at this point it is necessary to take one or two enemy fortifications with the power of thunder to build forward positions (as evidenced by their initial attacks on the three stars), and then send a large number of troops over, and after accumulating a considerable strength, it is okay to repeatedly harass or attack in a large way. As long as they are willing to pay a waiting time to accumulate strength, they will definitely be able to take the absolute initiative in front of us by surprise.

However, Feria did not do this, they seemed to completely ignore the vast sea of stars between their main star and the three stars, and sent all the troops close to the direction of the earth with almost crazy perseverance, and produced and equipped the army on the Nippelheim IV, and completed this arrogant super expedition operation deployment in less than six months, spanning the vast journey of 130,000 light years, and throwing nearly 200,000 troops mainly the army to the earth in one go.

The events of July took place in the midst of their arrogant, mad, ignorant, lawless, and unreasonable expedition. Two years have passed since the event, and perhaps both of us are gradually beginning to be qualified to look back. For either side, the end result of the July events should not have happened. Feriria's plan of warfare was completely disregarding the influence of various factors, and seemed to be aimed only at the timely destruction of humanity. That kind of arrogant tactics would never have succeeded under normal circumstances, but the disputes and negligence within GDI made them almost successful.

The final nuclear fire of the July Incident wiped out their expeditionary force and ignited the spark of internal unrest in the heart of Feria. The various tribes of Nippelheim IV, who had been under Feria's rule for hundreds of years, suddenly launched a great rebellion when they were on an expedition to Earth with all their might, and the rear was empty. After the fire that had been accumulated for a long time burst out together, it instantly lit up the vast night sky of the Nippelsen galaxy, and quickly expanded into a prairie fire, and the situation there was already a mess.

Since the rebellion took place so easily, it is clear that the discontent of the indigenous population against the Feria group was not a matter of a day or two, and it is impossible for the Feria group to be unaware of this threat. Then why do they ignore the hidden danger of unrest in the rear and still use troops against us? Can it be explained with just one sentence of "hubris"? Or is there a general problem with their intelligence?

A three-star general may think that the enemy is arrogant, but he will definitely not think that they are mentally retarded. In the battle with the Feria Army, we have deeply felt that their level of civilization is at least no less than that of the human world on Earth in six or six years.

This is the question that the generals of the human expeditionary fleet are puzzled by. Those doubts that smart people can't answer, I naturally only have dry eyes after reading them.

The Great Civil Unrest on Niplheim IV quickly grew to the point where the local Feria core could not control it. In order to control the situation, they kept issuing summoning orders to the remaining forces in the universe. The old units that did not participate in the July operations and the newly formed units that had formed after most of the July events have been recalled to Nippelheim IV for suppression, but the situation is still not optimistic.

This lack of optimism is the opposite for the human world, which provides detailed star maps of dozens of galaxies between the human world and the Nephelson system, and confirms that half of the galaxies are no longer free of any Feria's military forces, and have become an absolute vacuum. As long as you follow a certain route, you can reach the Nephelsen system without firing a single shot, and pour the cannons of revenge on Feria's head as much as you want.

"After repeated research and demonstration, two routes that are most suitable for entering the army have been selected, which are hereby named Route A and Route B, and the specific route map is shown in the attached diagram." In his letter, Overmars wrote: "The systems through which Route A passes through are all garrisoned or active by the Feria Army, while Route B is a route without encounters. Our generals engaged in a fierce debate on what route to take. My own opinion is inclined to route A, even if it does not succeed in retaliating against the Nephelson system, it can greatly deplete the existing space force of the Feria Army, clearing the way for the next round of attacks. Even if Feria's long-term strength far exceeds current intelligence projections, we can use it to gain experience and reduce pressure for the next defensive operation. ”

The admiral said it nicely, but only he knew what he was thinking in his heart. When I read the letter, I had a thought rather maliciously: "The admiral wants to exchange the fire of the expeditionary fleet for himself for a marshal's scepter, right?" What a shame. ”

This kind of shameless thought was attacked by Han Han and others as "boring jealousy", and it is natural that it is natural. But compared to my insignificant jealousy from a little vanity, the two giants of the front line were too far to say.

As we all know, the relationship between Overmars and Zhang Ning is not very harmonious. To the general, Zhang Ning is a tiresome political cadre with little existential value. Compared with the political commissar role of other troops, Zhang Ning is more frightening in that he does not think that he is just a political work cadre - the kind of character who is born to wash the ears of junior officers and soldiers. Although everyone who approached him, including me, thought so at first, it didn't take long for me to realize how terrible it was.

He was so strict with himself, sleeping only six hours a day, and spending more than ten hours concentrating on studying documents and textbooks. It stands to reason that it is the duty of the cadres of their political work department to study political documents, and although it is annoying, it is the only thing that can be done without chaos, and we have nothing to repbefore but to endure it in silence. But if such a person learns the military business in a serious way, it is often a disaster.

Zhang Ning took this disaster to the extreme, and conscientiously studied the 52 edition of the interstellar warfare textbook with more enthusiasm than a young man, and often followed Overmars to express his carefully summarized opinions at combat meetings. However, even Dai Jiangnan, who he picked up with one hand, complained to me:

"Oh my God, he's going to rest. We are all in the military for ten years and over 30 years old, and we are forced to listen to him for half an hour at every meeting. Fortunately, the fleet expanded and separated, otherwise if they met and held meetings every day, they would definitely be driven crazy before he retired! ”

He is not wise that is not wise for himself. However, Uncle Zhang didn't feel that he had done anything wrong. After a long time, seeing the expressions of surprise and admiration on the faces of the highly meritorious generals when they spoke (in fact, I hoped that he would be in a better mood after reading it and finish it sooner), my confidence swelled even more. Although Overmars often sneered at him in small aspects, the rumors of discord between the two were known all over the world, and there were many rumors, so it was not good to crack down on him in this regard.

There are not many people in Samsung who are qualified to fight Zhang Ning, Ovimars refuses to let go, and Zhang Ning and I have no intersection in many circles of work and life, and I am even more happy to see where he is embarrassing and behaving for the Ovimars fleet. Several factors combined, and his behavior was uncontrolled, so that it became more and more rampant.

Although he admits that "there is still room for improvement and further improvement in tactics", he already feels that he is a little bit higher than most of the people at Samsung in terms of strategic planning, and even Ovimas needs to discuss with him in many aspects. In fact, this kind of thing was caused by Overmars - if he hadn't been so resolute in resisting the pressure on the ground and not letting the high-ranking generals on the ground come up, there would have been no place for Zhang Ning to speak anyway. But Overmars would rather see power being taken away by someone like Zhang Ning than see a veteran with prestige and ability leap to his head.

After Dai Jiangnan was locked up in a small black house, Zhang Ning came to visit him once, and left Dai Maniac with a suitcase of books and combat textbooks, and earnestly asked him to continue to study and progress and keep up with the footsteps of the division commander. Then he published a two-hour personal strategic concept to Xiao Dai, which made Dai Jiangnan dizzy and flustered, and completed the workload that the discipline inspection team had not been able to complete for three months. When I talked to Dai Jiangnan about this, I once asked, "What did Lao Zhang say?" ”

Dai Jiangnan recalled painfully for a while, and muttered: "You have evolved A to B, and then said that this is actually incomplete, and you need to reconsider, and then go back and prove the correctness, inevitability, and sustainable discussion of the evolution of A to B." Repeating such words for two hours -- this is the strategy he painstakingly worked out. ”

"Lao Zhang is not young. Older than Overmars, almost fifty, right? I sympathized with Brother Jiangnan sadly: "He can't rest and rest, let everyone relax?" Take a breath, it's almost time to prepare for retirement. ”

"He doesn't think so!" Dai Jiangnan scoffed: "He doesn't think he is old, and often says: 'Kuibyshev is my senior, and he is still fighting in his old age, so I have to be stronger than him'." I am very impressed by the energy of learning every day. But, Huang Er, it's not that he speaks ill. This kind of thing really depends on some talent. You've only been at Samsung for a few years, and you've only taken a short-term course, but you're much better than him - no, it's fair to say, there aren't many weaker than him. He really has no understanding in this regard, and he can't learn anything about the present as he did in the thirties! He spent a hundred times as much time and energy as we did, but he hardly learned more. The bad thing is that he feels so good about himself. Don't let him take the troops seriously, it will be a nightmare. ”

Unfortunately, Dai Jiangnan's nightmare became a reality. Zhang Ning's existence is also quite helpless for Overmars, with his status to fight hard, and even wrote a ****** to the Global Federation to ask for war, it is not possible not to give a fleet command, and the fleet size is too small to fool. He took the position of receiving the modern class in advance, and was not satisfied after winning a planetary attack fleet. From another letter from Hongxiang who arrived at the same time, it was learned that after Guo Yingying proposed the A road plan, Zhang Ning almost for tat biased towards the B road plan, proposing to kill the Feria base camp with "lightning speed".

Hearing this, Overmars finally couldn't help but stab him: "Zhang, it's not okay not to fight, it's better to fight early than late, and it's better to fight while fighting than to suffer the enemy on the back of the belly." ”

"Your Excellency is overly belligerent and has misjudged the current situation." Zhang Ning insisted: "We should maintain our strongest strength to kill the opponent's main star, even if we can't do our best, we can still show the prestige of the human race." It is much wiser than fighting in the universe for years and dragging a broken body there to face the enemy army waiting for their work. ”

According to the practice of the GDI, such major decision-making issues must be deliberated internally in advance and a preliminary consensus is formed before they are brought to the meeting. So much so that a GDI meeting takes only a week, and the preparation period is often as long as half a year or even a year. This is a face-saving project, all for the sake of showing harmony to the outside world. However, this fine tradition has gradually metamorphosed after decades, and this time Overmars and Zhang Ning did not talk about it at all in advance, and went directly to the decision-making meeting to quarrel. The two top leaders quarreled, and the officers below naturally quarreled according to the faction, and only Hongxiang was calm, sitting on the side seat and drinking tea without opening his mouth.

The two groups quarreled for a whole day, putting out everything about the theory of war history and settling accounts. At this time, the meeting was no longer a meeting, but a debate competition. It is well known that there is no truth or justice on such occasions, and both sides are using justice mixed with sophistry to subjugate the other. A victory for either side can only be a victory in words, but it cannot prove the correctness of its position. It's just that Zhang Ning, the leading coach and debater in the B route group, kept coming out with some nonsense that made the Beifei dropouts break out in a cold sweat when they heard it, and kept demolishing the stage on his side, which weakened the momentum a lot.

After arguing for a day, everyone dispersed into factions and went to eat and rest in anger. There was no referee in this debate match, so I couldn't come to a conclusion. Although Overmars could have played hooligan as the commander of the expeditionary force to draw conclusions, his side was less manpowered, and only Guo Yingying, Takeshi Nakai and Polkin were his loyal men. It turned out that the commander of the Third Fleet, Kuibyshev, had a good relationship with him, but he was killed in the battle of the vulture fortress, and the new acting commander Wang Lei was Chinese, and he had a prejudice against Overmars, who had a Japanese background and participated in the July incident, and was obviously inclined to Zhang Ning's side. The commanders of the remaining four detachments except for Hongxiang were all from Zhang Ning's side, although Han Zeng had already beaten only a quarter of the fleet, but the weight of that mouth did not decrease. The ratio of votes between the two factions was four to six, and Overmars's side was clearly unfavorable.

In this case, it is not surprising that Hongxiang, who holds one of the strongest planetary attack fleets, has suddenly become a popular sweetheart.

But Hongxiang is different from those generals who have the idea of "I can't make a name for myself with the general, and I may be recommended by Zhang Ning when he is down", he doesn't expect to be famous with anyone, but he is very afraid of Zhang Ning's mouth tied to political education, so he ran to talk to Ovimas. When Ovimas asked him what he thought of the current situation, he was unashamed to say, "It's so simple, you can do whatever you want." The strength of our army has reached the peak of history, and it is only necessary to follow the feelings. ”

"If you don't agree on your opinions, how can you act?" Overmars asked,

"Divide the way and march, those who are willing to take road A take road A, and those who are willing to take road B take road B." Hongxiang replied seemingly casually: "The strength of the two sides is almost the same, and it is good to have one more preparation." ”

This answer was unexpected. The admiral watched him carefully for a while, and after making sure that he was not joking, he asked solemnly: "What about you?" Where do you go from here? ”

"Time flies slowly here, it's been more than half a year since the three stars and the main star are there, right?" Hongxiang said with a haha: "I heard that there are a batch of battleships made by Adams that will be replenished, if you can give me ten and eight modern-class......"

"Kim, don't say anything that you have or don't have." Overmars picked up the coffee cup steadily: "It's all divided in advance, your strength is already strong, and it's not in the scope of the key consideration." The focus of this addition is on the Third Fleet. ”

"Oh, oh, if Your Excellency is willing to hand over all those good goods to Zhang Ning's command, I'll go to him."

"You!" Not only was Overmars angry, but the coffee in his hand fluttered a little. He took two deep breaths and said, "One modern class, two battleships, no more." Write a letter to Huang and tell him about the situation, and the relationship between the rear must be straightened out. ”

This is the message contained in the letter from Overmars and Hongxiang.

The shipyard on Adams' side was operating at full capacity at the beginning of the year, using similar technology to the co-work fortress, and the construction progress was frighteningly fast. But building a ship is actually more complicated than building a Gonggong fortress, which is 80% iron bumps and hollow balls, and it is more elaborate and technically tested. Not to mention the shortage of resources in Adams's shipyard, there was no technical support from Naito Heavy Industries, which did not receive royalties. Although the production volume kept up with the expected plan, and the cost was reduced to half that of the Naito version, the quality seemed rather questionable.

When I received the Admiral's letter, twelve modern-class and twenty-six formidable battleships had already been built, waiting for the head of the Space Fleet to sign off on their delivery. But after Dai Jiangnan ran to take a look, he was very dissatisfied: in addition to the complete lack of decoration in the interior, no carpet, no football field, and no sauna and jacuzzi, the actual performance seemed to be much worse, just like a profiteer assembling cheap goods that were specially distributed to the unsupervised rural market to cheat money, which could not be compared with those made by Naito Heavy Industries. If there are any advantages, it is that it barely conforms to the "barrel theory", each module is a little worse, and the whole is very evenly different, but it does not have a fatal weak link like the Kuibyshev flagship, but it is still basically balanced. In any case, something is better than nothing. As for the signing, it is very easy to handle, so I will not send someone to Adams to be troubled, so I directly signed my name on the dispatch form, and handed over the big seal of the Space Fleet Logistics Department to Dai Jiangnan for him to start executing.

This official document was not signed by the top leader and was illegal from beginning to end. As soon as the supplementary fleet departed, the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Space Fleet sent a notice asking me to self-examine and correct the problem, and claimed to send an inspection team. But no one paid attention to this official document after it was sent to Leilondo, I only heard about it but I didn't see it all the time, and I tossed and turned, looking forward to it. One day, she took the initiative to ask where Han Han's official document was, and she actually said: "Anyway, you won't read it, and it was used to ignite the fire during the barbecue last week." ”

On October 4, 69 Earth time, Dai Jiangnan led the supply fleet out of the Zenith Gate and sailed to the Shuofang Galaxy, and after 12 days of forced march, he successfully arrived there. The expeditionary fleet, which had received the new ships, hastily divided the spoils and divided into two armies, each advancing along two routes. Overmars blackmailed Hongxiang once, and he was unhappy, and this time he ordered him to be a pioneer to open the way. The Red Fleet was huge, and it looked quite spectacular when it stepped forward. Unexpectedly, there are two Hyundai-class ships among them, aren't they completely on par with the fleet of Overmars and Guo Yingying? Overmars immediately jumped to his feet. Just as he was about to ask a question, Guo Yingying made a short-range call:

"Your Excellency, have you seen the Leilondo fleet?"

"What's going on?" Overmars roared.

"He went to ask Zhang Ning for two more ships, and then divided his fleet into two, dismantled half and left with Zhang Ning." Guo Yingying said with a smile: "He himself still follows us." ”

"Do you want to offend both sides? I'm afraid he can't! Overmas sneered.

Guo Yingying smiled bitterly: "It's too late to say anything now, even if it is split into two, neither of us can refuse to join the still powerful Leilondo fleet after the split." He's bitten us to death! This rascal, I forgot that he had been messing with Huang all along......"

At this time, I was far away in Leilongdo, and suddenly sneezed very seriously for Xiao Guo's words of praise. (To be continued.) )