After getting on the frigate, I was surprised to find that it was still the "Son of the Wind" Dai Jiangnan who sent me back, at least that's what he called himself. www.biquge.info I directly subtracted one word from him and called him "crazy" back, and he didn't care at all, but was quite complacent. It's rare to encounter such a megalomania in the Samsung system, and I can't help but feel a little interested in it, so I chatted with him along the way and bragged about it, and used this to distract him, lest this guy have another "wind pleasure" again, and then it will be over.

This guy may not be very proud in the Overmars fleet, and there are relatively few people who pay attention to him, but when I took the initiative to talk to him, he immediately talked more. Before he could say a few words, he suddenly said:

"You're half a day late, or you'll be able to go back with Titus."

I couldn't help but wonder and said, "Titus? He finally went back to the main star, those legal documents are the most time-consuming, and it is easy to stay back, why is he in such a hurry to go back, to mourn? ”

"It's not clear." Dai Jiangnan snorted: "That guy must be the most boring one in the three stars, I guess he wants to find something to do for himself." ”

Speaking of Titus, we both had a lot of bitterness in our stomachs, and immediately put together a bunch of bad things to say about him. Although Dai Jiangnan was a year older than me, he did not show a steadiness commensurate with his age, and he also used gestures and stomping when it came to the sore spots. If the legendary spell worked, Titus was probably sneezing so hard that he couldn't breathe. Now that we have found common ground, we have drawn a lot of money between us, and I took the opportunity to ask him to show me around the frigate. Although I have participated in the training courses held by Lieutenant General O, it is all on paper, and I have not even organized an actual observation.

Dai Jiangnan was very refreshed, agreed to my request in one bite, and took me to visit this typical Yanagihara-class frigate slowly. Although he was born in the southern capital of China, he is quite tall, about 1.85 meters, and the volume of the Yanagihara ship is not large, and he has to bend over in many places, so I feel lucky and a little unconvinced when I walk straight. Brother Jiangnan was unaware of my emotions, and couldn't help but introduce:

"The Yanagihara class is a legacy technology platform from the end of the University era, and was spontaneously developed by Heguo Yanagihara Heavy Industries in 28 years. It's small - but it's better than a pilot strapped to an airplane and can't move. In many places, the floor height is only about two meters, and with lighting and equipment, it is easy for people to meet. If you look closely at Lieutenant General Ao and Kuibyshev, who are over 1.9 meters tall, their brains have been swollen countless times, and when they take off their hats, they can see indelible scars - so they have to wear hats even if the air conditioner is broken. Because I was taller, it was very difficult for me to enter the Austrian fleet. They basically don't accept people who are more than 1.75 meters tall now. In other words, if Ao Zhong gave birth to them fifteen years later, they would not even want to come in now. ”

"It's no wonder that most of the junior officers are Orientals, especially the Heclans—they're short." I just understood.

"There's another factor." Dai Jiangnan said mysteriously: "Lieutenant General Austria has a deep relationship with the country and China. ”

It's not a secret, Ovimars's wife is from Heguo, and the closest contact with him behind his back is also Heguo, not Europe, these gossip jokes are known to everyone on the Samsung front. I was distracted, hit my head on an alarm light, and crouched down in pain. Dai Jiangnan, who flexibly avoided this danger, comforted me twice, and couldn't help laughing. I cursed and stood up with my head covered and exclaimed, "What the hell? In such a small place, if there is a fight, how can you move around the ship quickly? ”

"We all wear helmets when we fight." Dai Jiangnan gave an answer similar to a bad joke.

I endured the pain and continued to visit with him. The rated number of members of the Yanagihara class was 100, but when I looked at it casually, I always had a feeling that it was crowded, so I asked him the number of crew members.

"One hundred and fifty." Dai Jiangnan replied dryly.

"How so?" I was so surprised that I almost hit my head again: "I've read the information, and it's rated at 100 people." ”

"Do you really want to know why?" Dai Jiangnan stopped and looked at me with a smile.

In fact, this kind of answer can be thought of by a fool. As long as you encounter strange things that you can't understand in GDI, there is generally a universal answer to these two words:

"No money."

According to Dai Jiangnan's explanation, the original story of the matter is this: the original establishment of the Austrian fleet was the planetary guard fleet, and now it has been upgraded to the planetary attack fleet. Regardless of whether the rank rises or not, the actual benefits do not get a single point. The main force of the fleet is designed in 28, most of them were manufactured around 30, and the latest batch is the Yanagihara-class frigates that left the factory in 41. There is no other reason for the purchase of these light ships, which are not durable to fight, and do not beat people ruthlessly, but they are cheap. At present, the cost of a state-of-the-art atmospheric fighter developed by the Qingdao Advanced Weapons Research Institute of GDI in the northern capital can make a squadron (five) of the Yanagihara-class. The Yanagihara-class frigates were the most equipped in the Austrian fleet, with a total of 250 units......

"Two hundred and five?" I immediately asked.

"That's right, exactly two hundred and five." Dai Jiangnan smiled knowingly.

We laughed at this two-hundred-and-five-year-old question, and it was only after that we couldn't laugh or cry. Yanagihara-class did not use the technology of the previous generation, and was purely independent research and development - it sounds like a god, but at the same time, it means that the technical level is quite low. Later, Yanagihara Heavy Industries and Naito Heavy Industries proposed a new generation of frigates, absorbing some of the previous generation technology obtained by bypassing Article 301 and the research and development results of the next 15 years of the Yanagihara class, and designed four types of new-generation frigates. The Yanagihara-class is simply useless in front of these new frigates, and even the cost is not particularly superior. But...... NASA couldn't afford to renew as many as 250 space frigates, so these old ships from more than 30 years ago have been repaired and used.

The Austrian fleet is equipped with very few ships above the frigate, and the damage rate is very high after many years of operation, and there is no money to repair it when it is thrown to the lunar base, so now only the Yanagihara-class and a small number of aerospace carriers are available. Those broken ships with personnel could not let them idle all day, so they were thrown to the Yanagihara-class in service to play tricks, known as training.

I laughed and said, "No...... Maybe, these soldiers do it too? ”

"What's impossible? If they don't go on the ship, they won't have a shipboard subsidy, and they will die poor. Not to mention the Yanagihara level, even if the Yanagihara level is sawed in half and three halves, and a mini Yanagihara level is made, a large number of people will rush to get on it! Dai Jiangnan said with a smile.

Strange thing, really strange thing! I shook my head and sighed, and suddenly remembered a question, so I asked, "That's weird, since you have so many Yanagihara-class equipment, why did you only send fifteen ships to fight Alpha?" ”

"Do you still want to know the hidden answer?"

"It's not going to be 'no money' again, is it? This answer is too vulgar, can you change it to a new one? ”

It's a pity that Dai Jiangnan seems to be an elegant guy on the surface but vulgar on the inside. He continued to be vulgar without mercy: "Guess what is the sortie rate of the three-star fleet now?" ”

As an amateur military enthusiast, these things are not unfamiliar to me. The number of sorties can reflect the actual combat capability of an army in a considerable way, especially for mechanized troops and air forces. If Army A has 100 tanks, and because of proper maintenance and neat staffing, it can keep more than 80 tanks ready for battle, then the sortie rate is 80%; Although the enemy's B Army has 150 tanks, it can only reach 40% of the sortie rate due to insufficient equipment, resources, and personnel, then Army A can only draw 60 tanks to organize resistance when attacking. Assuming that the tanks of the two armies are the same, Army B, which is ostensibly superior in strength, will have a numerical disadvantage on the actual battlefield due to poor sortie rate. Mechanized troops will always have a situation where organic parts wear out and equipment cannot keep up, and the sortie rate is generally impossible to reach 100%. According to the relevant regulations of GDI, the dispatch rate of the first-level full-training army armored units must reach more than 85 percent, and the first-level full-training air force must reach more than 90 percent.

Dai Jiangnan looked at me in surprise and said, "You understand it very well." The Samsung Space Fleet is a second-class semi-training unit, and the required sortie rate is 70%. ”

If the Austrian fleet's 25-10 Yanagihara-class ships can achieve a sortie rate of 70 percent, then 175 ships can be put into actual combat at any time. Although the Yanagihara-class is old, after all, it is also a space battleship, and as long as the ammunition supply is sufficient, it should still have a certain advantage in the three-star area. But if you look at the number of troops invested by the Austrian fleet in the Battle of Alpha, a fool would believe that they reached 70%. I guessed, "Is it 50%?" ”

"You're still overestimating. Our sorties could not be rated, but 70 percent, and basically we could only guarantee that 75 ships would be put into actual combat. Dai Jiangnan smiled.

"You can still laugh?" I was taken aback, but I hid my emotions and immediately attacked his expression.

"What else can we do but laugh." Dai Jiangnan said leisurely.

That's pretty much it. The Austrian fleet has a dispatch capacity of 75 ships, and 20% of them have to be retained, that is, 15 ships are on standby on the space cross to guard their homes. Lieutenant General Ao took forty-five ships to block the Zenith Gate, which is already quite tight, and being able to give Guo Yingying fifteen ships is actually to cover the two squadrons of Dai Jiangnan, I think the lieutenant general is very generous - if it were me, wouldn't you Dai Jiangnan be angry, take your squadron to beat down Alpha alone, and if you succeed, you will be promoted to captain! After this order is issued, you can book a special coffin for a guy who is 1.85 meters tall from NASA.

After visiting the Yanagihara class, I finally felt a little tired and went back to rest for two hours. When it was time to eat, he went out to the officers' quarters. The Yanagihara class is too small, so all kinds of rooms can be small. Because of my participation, several junior officers rushed to the soldiers' canteen to eat. Dai Jiangnan's office has a good reception, and also entertains aged red wine. He toasted me gracefully, but when I remembered his performance when I returned to the main star, I was afraid that he would go crazy again, and I couldn't help but tremble when I could challenge the positive navigation method again. Fortunately, Dai Jiangnan was a little emotional at this time, and he seemed to have no intention of acting as a son of the wind for a while. He suddenly said, "Your return has really surprised many people. Anyone who can see the current situation clearly will try their best to drill into the Phantom Army, and will not return to the eventful place of Samsung. ”

"Did you hear anything?" I thought of Aori's prophecy, and my heart sank.

"In this Alpha Campaign, the three-star fleet is in danger of further decline because of the excessive number of sorties." Dai Jiangnan said: "That is to say, we will probably lose the overall control and protection ability of the Samsung airspace because we cannot replenish it in time for a considerable period of time." ”

I snorted: "The mobile unit is no longer maneuvering, watching Samsung get beaten?" ”

Dai Jiangnan shrugged his shoulders and said: "At present, the movement of the enemy army is unknown, if there is another large-scale invasion, our response may only be by Alpha and Lei Longdo to resist independently, and we will only send out to encircle and attack after killing and injuring the enemy to the maximum extent." ”

"That's a nice thing to say, encirclement and attack—" I asked, "and what if these two frontier planets can't resist and are all taken by the enemy?" ”

"If such a scenario occurs, it may really bring the attention of those who have global resources in control of the main planet. That's probably the price of being famous, right? ”

"Will it cost Leirondo and the natives above?" I asked sharply.

"Ha, you have to ask the lieutenant general about this, how do I know how he will choose?"

I certainly don't know Overmars very well, but I believe he did it. A chill gradually seeped from the heart into the spinal cord and spread on the back. Samsung is naturally not a place where people can live in peace, and the old days were only false prosperity and tranquility. I understand all of this, but I can't be happy at the thought of being in such a terrible situation soon. I asked, "How long will there be such a period of time when you need to resist independently?" ”

"Let's see when the main star will give us a budget." Dai Jiangnan spread his hands: "The loss this time is too great, most of the ships are not damaged, but used for a long time." If we don't increase the budget, according to the current funds, just to maintain the ship, repair what should be repaired, and maintain a 30% dispatch rate, it will probably take more than two years of struggle to cut down on food and clothing. My squadron was only allocated a quota for the maintenance of one ship, and I repaired my ship, and I had to pick up and drop off people with this kind of diligence. I'm not talking about you, but after tossing back and forth like this, you have to do a secondary maintenance before you can go to the battlefield, otherwise you will only have to patrol routinely. The second level of maintenance has to wait until two months later, what a trouble......"

I criticized without giving face: "You are vulgar, you only know how to talk about money and money all day long!" Why don't you learn from Lieutenant General Overmars? He didn't have a penny, but he also got enough momentum! ”

Dai Jiangnan said curtly: "We are at a low level, so we can only care about these things that are close to the ground, and Lieutenant General Overmars needs to worry about other things." Have you heard of it? Recently, on the grounds that the three-star defensive war has a tendency to continue and expand, the Central Military Commission has claimed that it should strengthen the professional leadership of the military struggle, and wants to row the three-star fleet over and take away all the people, money, and goods. They have invested a lot of money in promoting this, and it is said that the GDI Global Federation has discussed it a few times. ”

My eyes widened: "Oh, there's such a thing? Can NASA agree? ”

Dai Jiangnan said: "Of course you can't." But this matter can be, and it is not so easy to see. The worst possibility is that the Samsung fleet will be assigned to the Military Commission, but the Space Administration will definitely not give up the moon base and Samsung, in that case, we will become lonely ghosts. When the time comes, there will be no food to eat, so go to Huang Er's place. ”

I took the initiative to think about what he was going to do: "If you are assigned to the Military Commission, the financial guarantee will be better than now, right?" The Space Administration is too poor, and it is in charge of miscellaneous affairs, and scientific research is also in charge of border defense, and your fleet and the Samsung Branch are also in competition in terms of budget expenditure, and if one has more, the other has to be less. If it is assigned to the Military Commission, the space fleet will only be you, and you will have to give you any funds you find, and it will be developed at that time, and I expect you to take care of my business! ”

"That's ideal. In fact, there is no such beautiful good thing! Dai Jiangnan counted with his fingers: "The Military Commission has always lacked many officials, and if you really incorporate the three-star fleet, you won't eat it all right away?" First, the issue of command, now the Samsung fleet can basically make its own decisions, and it will be impossible to collect it from the Military Commission, and it will be reported by the layers of instructions and reports after 95 light years? The time is gone. Second, if NASA does not support it, the relationship with Samsung will be difficult and the location will be lost. Third, when the time comes, the fleet can be upgraded and expanded, but it will definitely be airborne marshal and many officials will come over, and Vice Admiral Overmars can only be the second or third commander at most, and it is difficult to say whether a junior like me can be the captain of the ship. Within three to five years, personnel relations will inevitably be in shambles, and people will be gone. Fourth, has the Military Commission ever fought? Why do you accept us? I have the ability to take the Heavenly Realm Bureau and the Illusory Realm Bureau first! (To be continued.) )