I have encountered a great crisis, even more serious than the moment when I faced that high demon, after all, no matter what kind of powerful enemy I faced, I at least had the qualifications to fight for survival and desperate fight, and now, my fate is not in my own hands, and it is completely in the hands of others. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Why did it suddenly take such an unexpected turn when it was going so well? I haven't experienced this kind of test in my dreams......

Of course, the progress between me and her in the dream was much slower, and the trust between life and death that had been cultivated after a long period of fighting side by side was a natural thing, which made her never ask me such childish questions.

With such a change now, it is estimated that even if you want to continue to cultivate your feelings steadily in the future, it will not work...... Therefore, I, a defender of the Guards, should honestly implement the traditional tactics of the Defenders, and rashly imitating the Star Marines is a completely adventurist wrong route!

I struggled to put together some words to explain, but Sylvia didn't give me much time.

She pushed my shoulders and forced me to lift my head, while bending slightly to meet my gaze at eye level.

"Lieutenant Colonel Ilshan, do you think that your force is unrivaled on this ship, so you can do whatever you want?"

I suddenly felt aggrieved, don't use your Fenrisian thinking pattern to put on an ordinary person like me, okay?

As if reading the answer from my expression, she didn't wait for me to discern, and then asked, "So are you pretending to be a real strong person and abandoning all feelings and desires?" ”

How can it be?! Although liking and waiting leads to dependence, it is the behavior of the weak, but strictly speaking, I think that under the emperor, there is no strong person - even the demigod-like genetic prototypes have their own problems of one kind or another, and I am an ordinary person, even if he is full of shortcomings, he can tolerate it.

"Or maybe it's you...... Actually, I like it...... Man? ”

Poof!

Feeling that the topic was drifting in a very strange direction, I hurried to speak, but she was once again ahead of the curve, "In that case, it can only be because of another woman, right?" ”

It's not entirely true, but it's close to the truth, so I nodded.

Sylvia suddenly withdrew her gaze from me, and her expression seemed to relax greatly. She straightened up in front of me, then turned to me and sat down, putting her hands around my shoulders. I was a little confused by such a big change, and the words I was just ready to use to deal with the crisis were quietly swallowed.

"Ilshan ......" removed the suffix of her rank, and although her tone was still solemn, she was no longer so aggressive, and seemed much more cordial, "What you told me earlier, about the future crisis, let me remind you again, we have to go through life and death every step forward, and the slightest mistake in our actions will be doomed, we must be cautious and decisive, we must be united." You may foresee our victory in the future, but I foresee more of the cruel tribulations that preceded that victory than you foresee! ”

She twisted the back of my head and forced me to turn my head to face her, "Look into my eyes and see what I've ever seen, the true power of the Empire!" ”

From her shallow thinking, I saw the vast starry sky and the bright stars, but it was clear that she wanted to show more than that, I saw the huge space fortresses, the orbital weapon arrays and the air ports, like the magnificent mountains floating in the endless void, the dense artillery like honeycombs, I saw countless ships of all sizes coming in and out of the port, dense and busy like ants, and in the corners of the farther field of vision, there were even more huge warships, not even dwarfed by the fortress, However, they have no vibrant lights or tail flames on them, as if they have fallen into complete silence.

"See those ships? That is the real strength of the Imperial Navy, the main force that is really used in the decisive battle. The smallest of them also has a tonnage ten times greater than that of the Luna class. Any one of them can wipe out a dozen ships like ours unscathed, and their firepower can wipe out all living things in a world in a matter of hours......"

What she showed me was not only these simple images, but also the utter and pure awe in her heart. I understand this awe, and I feel the same as she does when I stand in the square in front of the palace and pay my respects to the majestic temple.

But they are not living forces, like emperors, they are sleeping. I had my own questions in my mind.

They don't sleep like emperors for 10,000 years, and will continue to sleep like this for the foreseeable future, do they? I hid this question in the bottom of my heart and did not express it.

"Because in peacetime there is no rival in the territory of the empire, and in peacetime conflicts are sufficient to deal with cruisers and frigates. And these battleships, the cost of maintaining operation is a terrifying figure that you and I can't imagine, so in peacetime, these battleships are in mothball, and only in the event of a real war will their power be released. Obviously, what we are going to face next is what is called the real war. ”

They're very slow to unblock, right?

"Yes, even if manpower and resources are invested regardless of the cost, it will take a month or two to unblock a warship itself. And even powerful battleships can't cope with all situations, they need to organize and coordinate into a fleet, even if it is such an efficient part of the Imperial Navy, it will take half a year to optimistically. Moreover, the hastily formed troops will not be able to exert their maximum combat effectiveness, and it will take a year to wait until they are completely run-in. ”

That is, within the next year...... Well, it seems to be in line with what I foresaw in my dream, it was indeed a year-long training years, and after surviving that year, the rest of the days were much better.

"Therefore, our next opportunities and challenges are within this year. Battleships are a force that cannot be hidden at all, what we have, the enemy knows very well, since they dare to enter head-on, they must have something that they think can match it, maybe a warship of the same level or even a larger fortress, such as the so-called planetary killer, maybe there is a more powerful horror that we simply cannot imagine. And in this year, we have to use fragile cruisers, frigates and even destroyers to resist the enemy's main fleet, and the danger in the meantime is too lenient to describe it as nine deaths and one life, and there is simply not one in a hundred! You must know that no cruiser's shield or armor can withstand the shelling of a battleship, and our hull will be irretrievably damaged with just one shot, and two or three guns will bring complete destruction, and we will not even have time to abandon our ship and escape. So in such a battle, the cruiser has an even worse chance of survival than the smaller, but more nimble frigates and destroyers. In addition, naval warfare is different from ground warfare, no one can predict the landing point of the enemy's shelling, and we can only find out at the moment when death comes. ”

I know that. Due to the vacuum, lasers will not scatter due to dust in space, will not ionize due to air, and their trajectory is completely invisible, even if it can be detected by other technical means, it is meaningless. We can only perceive when the laser hits itself. In fact, speaking of which, one moment it was calm, and the next moment it turned into dust in the flames, this feeling seems quite good, and it is much more decent than our ground troops lying on the ground all day long and being suppressed by artillery fire and unable to raise their heads.

In addition, it is a misconception to say that we can predict the point of artillery landing in ground combat. The speed of the high-speed shell is several times the speed of sound, and when we hear the screech of the shell, the shell that made the screech has already hit the ground and exploded, and what we can estimate is actually the shelling that has already taken place - of course, this is also meaningful. Also, slow mortars are not in this list, and their landing point is really predictable.

"Therefore, even if you are now scheming to grab a battleship and successfully make it form a combat force, your situation is just from an ant to a fly, you still have no right to choose to fight or not to fight, you are still small and fragile enough to be crushed to death by a finger."

Anyone can crush ants casually, but not everyone can crush flies casually, okay?

"Of course, great crises come with equally huge gains. If we face the coming war and become the luckiest of the hundred, the Empire will grant us extraordinary rewards, promotion is only the most insignificant, and if we do well, we may be able to earn our own place on a battleship...... Well, that doesn't seem like a good ending for us. ”

I immediately understood her reasoning. The number of personnel on a battleship was ten times larger than that of a cruiser, and the more people there were, the more complicated things were. What's more, even if you can be transferred to a battleship, there is only one captain's seat after all, and it is not so easy to grab, if it is only to an inconspicuous position, how can I arrange idle personnel like me who are not in the navy establishment at all? Even if you are lucky enough to be the captain of the ship, as an out-and-out main force, there is still the fleet headquarters watching over your head, and you can't go out of line with every move, where is there such a relatively relaxed and free environment as a cruiser?

"We'll survive." I said, staring into her eyes.

"Is this a prophecy?"

"It's not just prophecy. Compared to other warships, we have a 100-fold chance of survival, because I can predict the trajectory of the ballistics, and I can accurately predict the trajectory in the next one or two seconds. As long as you have a good steering skill......"

"Definitely passed, I have been tested by the boiling sea! A test that only Fenris has a chance to go through! ”

There was another memory in her gaze, followed by incomparable warmth and heroism.

But for me, the images in those memories bring only horror and a spinning dizziness.