"General, all the warships of each squad have arrived in the airspace above the designated airspace and are ready to stand by at any time!" In the outer space of the planet Puen, in the flagship command center of the Jihua fleet, which was ordered to carry out the clearance, the rear admiral was standing behind the holographic floor-to-ceiling window with his hands behind his back, looking at Puen in a daze like an orange that was about to rot.

"Alas, it will take at least a few hundred years for this planet to become suitable for human life again!" The rear admiral, who was interrupted by the loud report of the staff officer behind him, let out a long sigh and muttered to himself, and then Huo Ran turned around, strode to the command platform, and turned on the general communication channel of the whole fleet.

"I am the commander of the fleet, Kuang Xi, and all the battleships immediately switch to the main gun firing mode, and after 30 seconds, they will fire at each predetermined coordinate point! Now, the countdown begins! With a deep voice, the major general waved his hand to signal the staff officer on the side to take over the command, and he turned around and walked towards the gate of the command center with a stunned face.

"General, General Collins said he wanted to talk to you about something!" The major general had just walked to the gate when a major adjutant hurriedly greeted him and whispered a word of declaration.

"Collins? Where's that old guy? Don't tell me that he's already run to Lao Tzu's flagship? The major general frowned and asked in a deep voice.

"Well, about ten minutes ago, General Collins arrived at the flagship on a communications ship that was back to the flagship for repairs. At that time, General You were deploying to carry out the clearance of Jihua, and your subordinates did not dare to disturb, and decided to ask General Collins to rest in your meeting cabin! So......" the major hurriedly and respectfully explained.

"Okay, come on, anyway, I expected that old guy would definitely come to the door!" The major general interrupted the adjutant with a wave of his hand, raised his feet and continued out of the gate, heading straight for the cabin. Just after taking two steps, a not-so-obvious flutter faintly came from the stainless steel floor under his feet, and the major general was slightly stunned, and sighed softly. He knew that the tremor was caused by the space vibration induced by the other warships of the fleet firing their nuclear guns at the same time.

Nearly 100 space battleships fired powerful nuclear energy main guns at the same time, and needless to say, the movement was naturally earth-shattering. Although the flagship was not directly involved in the attack, it was in the center of the fleet, and the huge flagship was shaken.

"Yo, rare guest! I didn't expect that the famous task force commander, Vice Admiral Collins, would deign to visit this dilapidated battleship, which is really rare! Walking into the cabin, the Major General saw Collins with pale temples standing next to the porthole of the cabin, frowning and looking at something.

"Hmph, no matter how broken your battleship is, a single shot can take the lives of thousands of people!" Hearing the movement behind him, Collins turned around and sneered in response.

"I said old fellow, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you still talk so meanly to an old immortal?" The Major General didn't seem to mind Collins's sarcasm, smiled and quipped, went straight to the wine cabinet in the corner of the reception room, poured two glasses of golden wine, and raised his goblet and walked towards Collins.

"It's better to speak harshly than you, an old immortal, who can bury millions of living beings with a single sentence!" Collins took the goblet, but he still sneered unrelentingly.

"Okay, okay, I said that I don't die, I'm also carrying out the order of the peak! Do you think I like it very much, doing this kind of work that will cut off children and grandchildren? The rear admiral took a sip of wine, and finally showed an impatient look on his face: "Serious old fellow, how do you know that the commander of this fleet is me?" ”

"Needless to say, naturally the excellent subordinates you trained sold you, as a commander!" Collins' face softened, and he said with another sincere smile.

Collins and the fleet commander, Rear Admiral Kwongsey, had been friends at the military academy in their youth. After graduating from military school, Collins went to the Ground Combat Unit, while Kwong Xi joined a battleship as a trainee staff officer. After decades of separation, although the two old friends still ridiculed each other as before when they met, the deep friendship between the two is needless to say.

"Those little rabbits, I'll clean them up when I turn around!" Kuang Xi's old face put on a look of displeasure, and said angrily.

"Okay, don't blame those juniors, I insisted on asking!" Collins turned around and looked through the holographic porthole at the planet Pune, which had been stirred up by huge mushroom clouds and was about to change its appearance, and sighed heavily: "What a beautiful planet, just like that, it became unrecognizable in an instant!" ”

"Alas......" Collins' sigh made Kuang Xi's heart tremble involuntarily.

"Old immortal, do you know, how much blood my task force has shed on this planet? How many bones are buried? Collins frowned slightly and asked lightly. Seeing that Kuang Xi beside him did not respond, Collins turned around and said word by word: "The entire task force, when it set off from the theater station, totaled more than 785,390 officers and men. And just now, I asked my staff officers to roughly count the officers and soldiers of the task force who withdrew from the ground of the planet Pune, and there were only more than 467,000 officers and soldiers left. It also includes no less than 200,000 lightly and seriously wounded. It can be said that the task force in Lao Tzu's hands has almost been crippled by the alien bugs on this damn planet! ”

Collins's words made Kuang Xi speechless for a while.

Since the appearance of the insects on the major planets in the Fifth War Zone, it is naturally the closest combat units like Task Force Collins that are at the forefront, and they are also the ones who have suffered the greatest casualties. Of course, this premise is that the Alien Insect unit in the Fifth Theater has not yet fully evolved and developed. Even veteran generals like Collins Cuancy may not know that if the swarm develops to a certain extent and evolves into a large flying beast that can compete with space battleships, then those battleships suspended high in low-earth orbit will not be able to escape the fierce attack of the insects in Zuihou.

"Old immortal, you said that the zero Jihua formulated by the headquarters, is it right? In order to destroy those alien monsters, is it worth burying an entire planet and millions of innocent people? Seeing that Kuang Xi didn't speak, Collins turned his head again, frowned and carefully looked at the unrecognizable planet Pune, and asked lightly.

Just now, Collins, who was standing by the porthole, saw Kuang Xi's fleet firing nuclear energy cannons at the planet Pune. That thrilling scene, perhaps even a battle-hardened veteran like Collins has never seen it in his life. Dozens of nuclear energy cannonballs the size of meteorites roared into the clouds of the planet Pune, and hung a whirlpool of terrifying clouds like a dozen storms on the planet's ground. Immediately afterward, huge clouds of thick black mushrooms slowly rose, and the entire planet seemed to tremble faintly.

Collins knew that the poor, barren planet would experience a series of global natural catastrophes. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis such natural disasters that can destroy the world and the earth will quickly wipe out all the surviving creatures on the entire planet in a matter of days, or ten and a half months, even those alien monsters with extremely strong vitality.

"I don't know!" Kuang Xi smiled helplessly and said, "Don't ask so much about right and wrong, old fellow!" You and I are both soldiers, so it is naturally our duty to obey orders. If you don't carry out the orders issued from above, it is at least an act of fear of war, and at worst it is battlefield disobedience, which is enough for those gendarmes to send you to a court-martial! ”

"If the order was for you to slaughter millions of civilians with your own hands, would you also carry it out to the letter? Aren't you afraid that future generations will point to your tombstone and scold you that it was this butcher back then, and an order made millions of innocent civilians lose their heads? Collins asked, looking back, with a grimace.

"......" Collins's continuous questioning made Kuang Xi speechless for a while, and silently walked to the other porthole, and his right hand holding the goblet trembled faintly.

"The ladder platform, there are no less than three or four million civilians there! I just seem to have seen that your fleet is using it as a bombing point! Now, the PN01 ladder platform has probably been touched from the surface of the planet by artillery fire! Collins took a sip of his wine and whispered thoughtfully.

※※※ "Now you understand, right?" If you had withdrawn from Pune any later, you would have been in those mushroom clouds by now! ”

Just as the two commanders of the task force and the fleet were deeply troubled by this controversial clearance, the deep voice of the logistics captain Raul was heard in a corner of the Squid III battleship.

Because she couldn't withstand Xia Li's "threats and entanglements", Raul had to take her and Zhao Jiakun to the logistics maintenance cabin of a warship quietly on the premise that Xia Li promised not to shoot or interview. This maintenance pod is located on the right side of the front of the ship, and it is just right to clearly see the planet Pune. It was in this cabin that Raul and Xia Li and Zhao Jiakun had just witnessed the fleet's earth-shattering bombardment of the planet Puen.

"Boom!" Zhao Jiakun, who had an iron face, gritted his teeth and forcibly held back the anger in his heart, and slammed his fist on the transparent hatch cover of the maintenance cabin. Next to him, Xia Li, who originally claimed to be a strong woman, actually covered her small mouth tightly with her hands at this moment, her eyes were red, and she looked shocked and sad.

"Let's go, don't even look at it, it's not interesting, it's a fireworks show at best! Gone, gone! Seeing Zhao Jiakun and Xia Li, one angry and the other sad, Raul smiled helplessly, waved his hand and urged the two to leave the cabin quickly.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow the size of a casserole suddenly hit him, and the sound of the bridge of his nose breaking was heard, and Raul staggered backwards.

"I'm your uncle, the life and death of a planet and millions of civilians, in the mouths of you birdmen who know flying around in space all day long, is it just a fireworks show?" Raul, who was almost stunned, let go of the hand covering his nose, and suddenly saw that his palm was red and bloody, and Zhao Jiakun's angry curse came from his ears.

"Attention to the personnel of all departments of the battleship, this ship will enter the space folding mode in five minutes, please make relevant preparations immediately! Repeating ......" Just as Raul was about to defend himself, the loudspeaker in the cabin suddenly called out in a hurry.