"General, all the warships of each squad have arrived in the airspace above the designated airspace, and they are ready to be on standby at any time" In the outer space of the planet Puen, in the flagship command center of the fleet ordered to carry out the zero-clearance plan, 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 fit for humanity 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'm the fleet commander Kuang Xi, all the warships immediately switch to the main gun firing mode, and after 30 seconds, they will fire at each predetermined coordinate point, and now, the countdown begins." In 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." As soon as the major general walked to the gate, a major adjutant hurriedly greeted him and whispered a word of report.

"Collins, where is that old fellow, don't tell me, 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 came to the flagship on a communication ship that was back to the flagship for maintenance, and at that time, General You were deploying to implement the zero-clearance plan, so your subordinates didn't dare to bother, and decided to ask General Collins to rest in your reception cabin, so ......" The major hurriedly and respectfully explained.

"Alright, here it is, anyway, I expected the old guy to come to the door." The major general waved his hand to interrupt the adjutant's words, raised his feet and continued to walk out of the door, walking straight towards the cabin, just two steps away, a not very obvious tremor faintly came from the stainless steel floor under his feet, the major general was slightly stunned, and sighed softly, he knew that this vibration was caused by the space vibration induced when the other warships of the fleet fired nuclear energy main guns at the same time.

Nearly 100 space battleships fired powerful nuclear energy main guns at the same time, needless to say, the movement was naturally earth-shattering, although this flagship did not directly participate in the attack operation, but in the center of the fleet, the huge flagship was still shaken.

"Yo, rare guest, I didn't expect that the famous task force commander, Vice Admiral Collins, would deign to visit this dilapidated warship, it's 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 kill 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 old immortal still speak so harshly." 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 word." Collins took the goblet, but he still sneered unrelentingly.

"Okay, okay, I said that the old man is immortal, I am also carrying out the orders of the peak, do you think I like it very much, do you do 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 guy, how do you know that the commander of this fleet is me." ”

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

After graduating from the military academy, Collins went to the ground combat unit, while Kuang Xi entered a battleship as a trainee staff officer, and after decades of separation, although the two old friends met as the same as before, sarcastic and sarcastic to each other, but 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 a huge mushroom cloud 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 and how many bones have been buried on this planet?" Collins frowned slightly, asked lightly, and 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, there were more than 785,390 officers and soldiers in total, 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, there are only more than 467,000 officers and soldiers left, and there are no less than 200,000 light and serious wounded here. It's almost been crippled by the alien bedbugs on this damn planet. ”

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

Since the appearance of the alien insects on the major planets in the Fifth War Zone, the ones who rushed to the forefront were naturally close combat units like the Collins Task Force, and they were also the ones with the greatest casualties, of course, this premise is that the alien insect troops in the Fifth War Zone have not yet fully evolved and developed, even old generals like Collins Kuangsy may not know that if once the insect swarm develops to a certain degree and evolves into a large flying beast that is enough to compete with space battleships, then those battleships suspended high in low-earth orbit, In the end, it is impossible to escape the fierce attack of the insects.

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

Just now, Collins, who was standing by the porthole, saw with his own eyes the fleet under Kuang Xi, firing nuclear energy main guns at the planet Pune, that thrilling scene, perhaps even a battle-hardened veteran general like Collins has never seen it in his life, dozens of nuclear energy cannonballs the size of meteorites roared into the clouds of the Pune planet, and hung a whirlpool of terrifying clouds like a dozen storms on the planet's ground, and then, an incomparably huge thick black mushroom cloud slowly rose, The whole planet seemed to tremble faintly.

Collins knew that in the future, this poor barren planet would experience a series of global natural disasters, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters that could destroy the world, and in a few days, at most ten days and a half months, all the surviving creatures on the entire planet would quickly disappear, even those alien monsters with strong vitality.

"I don't know." Kuang Xi smiled helplessly and said: "Don't ask so much about right and wrong, old guy, you and I are both soldiers, and naturally obey orders as our duty. ”

"If the order is for you to slaughter millions of civilians with your own hands, will 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 with a grimace on his face.

"......" 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.

"Ladder platform, there are no less than three or four million civilians there, I just saw that your fleet used it as a bombing point, and now, the PN01 ladder platform has probably been touched from the surface of the planet by artillery fire." Collins took a sip of the wine and whispered thoughtfully.

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"Now I see, if you withdraw from Pune later, you will probably be in those mushroom clouds by now."

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

Because he couldn't withstand Xia Li's "threats and entanglements", Raul had to take her and Zhao Jiakun to the logistics maintenance cabin of a certain battleship quietly under the premise that Xia Li promised not to shoot or interview, this maintenance cabin is on the right side of the front of the battleship, which happens to be able to clearly take in the planet Pune, that is, in this cabin, Raul and Xia Li Zhao Jiakun have just witnessed the shocking bombing of the fleet on the planet Pune.

"Boom." Zhao Jiakun, who had an iron face, gritted his teeth and 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 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 doesn't mean anything, it's just a fireworks show at best, let's go." 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 a broken nose was heard, and Raul staggered backwards.

"Me x your uncle, the life and death of a planet and millions of civilians, in the mouths of those of you who know how to fly around in space all day long, is it just a fireworks display?" 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 reflex mode in five minutes, please make relevant preparations immediately and repeat the ......" Just as Raul wanted to defend himself, the loudspeaker in the cabin suddenly called out urgently.