"If you understand, organize the troops for me immediately, the shortest time and the fastest speed, who thinks that they can't bring it up now - no? It's good, if something goes wrong, don't say I don't teach and punish you. Speaking of this, Nie Jianrong, who was full of expression, pointed to the back row, "Ye Fei stayed, and the others dispersed." ”

The officer on the far left of the first row stood up vacantly: "From right to left, exit in turn." ”

Ye Fei, who was sitting in the back row, looked in the direction of the sound and was startled.

The person who shouted the password was carrying the light plate three on his shoulder, and it was actually Wu Han, the commander of the Heavenly Army!

"Left - turn, run - walk!" The officers of the Celestial Army in white military uniforms in the front row jumped onto the aisle like a row of excited grasshoppers, and the colonel, major, and lieutenant general jumped out of the conference room one after another, passing Ye Fei's side.

The senior officers of the Celestial Army have also lived on the moon for at least ten years, and they are very familiar with the low gravity of the moon, and there is definitely no problem in lining up to run out of the moon according to the standard of the queue order, but then the speed will be too slow, and no one wants to be remembered by Nie Jianrong because of the speed problem.

It was only then that Ye Fei discovered that the lowest officer who participated in this meeting was also a colonel, and he was the only colonel.

Wu Han left after the last one at the end of the team, and when he crossed Ye Fei's side, he seemed to glance at Ye Fei meaningfully.

Ye Fei's eyes were always looking straight ahead, but he still found Wu Han's strange gaze, and his heart couldn't help but burst out, not knowing what Commander Wu meant.

Nie Jianrong saw Wu Han's back being covered by the dry door of the meeting, and beckoned to Ye Fei: "Follow me." ”

"Yes!" Ye Fei immediately stepped into the aisle. A few ups and downs jumped in front of Old General Nie.

"Do I want to leave you behind for you?" Nie Jianrong asked an idiot-like nonsense.

"Report, I don't know what to do." Ye Fei told the truth, and his loud voice stirred up echoes in the empty conference hall.

"Don't be so nervous, relax." Nie Jianrong tried his best to make his tone more relaxed, but the tightly knit brow still revealed the worry in his heart.

Ye Fei relaxed a little when he heard this, but his attitude was still very respectful: "Chief, I see what you mean...... Not so good? "If you change to another person, even if the head of the defense department speaks, it is impossible to really relax. However, it was not the first time that Ye Fei had dealt with Old General Nie, although it was not familiar. But it's definitely not unfamiliar.

Nie Jianrong rubbed the corners of his eyes worriedly: "What's not good?" It's simply a knife holder to the neck! He made a throat-slitting gesture with the palm of his hand around his neck.

Old General Nie's tone didn't look like he was talking to a subordinate. It's like communicating with friends on an equal footing, if someone who is familiar with Nie Jianrong sees this scene, he has to lose his eyeballs.

The first time the old general knew Ye Fei was at the Jupiter peace talks, Ye Fei unexpectedly acted as a bridge between humans and the outer bones. This news made General Nie have some interest in Ye Fei. I specifically found Ye Fei's file and looked at it. Since then. He has been paying attention to Ye Fei's news.

In Nie Jianrong's impression, Ye Fei was a troublemaker, and he was a troublemaker with extreme luck!

Is the crime of hijacking a battleship big enough, but this kid found the Outer Bone Man. The most sloppy and detrimental offset.

The Battle of Mars, the First Battle of the Bone Mound, the Second Battle of the Bone Mound, and the encounter with the mechanical civilization...... Nie Jianrong believed that if there was no Ye Fei, maybe the earth would have turned into a desolate desert under the bones and hooves of the Outer Bone Man.

From this point of view, Ye Fei's exploits are enough to go down in history, so what does it matter if his attitude is special? Ye Fei has this qualification.

Ye Fei's pupils shrank when he heard this, and he said suspiciously: "It's not like it...... What else do I don't know? ”

"You little slippery head!" Nie Jianrong frowned, and finally had a little smile, but the smile only lasted for a moment, "Let's get down to business, your name was not on the list of participants in this meeting, mainly because your level was a little lower." I asked them to call you over, because you are currently the most experienced warship commander on the mainland, and no one is stronger than you, not only our army, but also the American and Russian forces. ”

The expression on Ye Fei's face froze suddenly, and he smacked his lips and tasted the meaning of Old General Pinnie's words: "Chief, this is really a bit undaring." If you have anything to say, just say it, hold me up so high, and you won't be afraid of falling to my death. ”

Ye Fei is not a modest person, but he is also not an arrogant person.

There were many experienced captains in the expeditionary force, and he considered himself the best of them, but by no means the best. But when it comes to combat experience, he rightly thinks that he can at least rank in the top three of the whole army.

Not the Chinese Space Army, but the Earth Alliance Army.

Nie Jianrong looked at Ye Fei with a very unfamiliar gaze, and said as a matter of course: "You are already standing tall enough, you don't need me to hold you at all." I'll show you a video first. ”

Video? Ye Fei was puzzled, which door to watch at this time?

People are old and ghosts are old and slippery, how can Nie Jianrong not see Ye Fei's thoughts? Explained softly: "The information just disclosed is not all, I still have some here. ”

"Huh?" Ye Fei's mind buzzed suddenly.

He is not a very sensitive person, but he can also think of it with his ass, and Nie Jianrong must have done this because the concealed information may undermine his confidence and morale.

A chill rose from the bottom of Ye Fei's heart, and the whole person fell into an ice cellar in an instant.

Old General Nie didn't seem to see Ye Fei's abnormality, turned on the stereo projector, and it was still that video, something spewed out from the thorns on the head of a sea urchin battleship, and it hit the biological battleship in a blink of an eye.

"Look here!" General Nie pointed to the small fish ship that was hit, and sped up the speed of video playback.

At sixteen times the playback speed, the little fish ship calmed down for a while, then suddenly began to struggle violently, and it didn't take long to regain its composure. Just when Ye Fei was wondering what Nie Jianrong was asking him to see, the small fish ship on the video suddenly changed, and a bulge suddenly appeared on the position where it was penetrated.

Because the video was shot at a relatively long distance, even if Ye Fei kept looking at the unlucky biological warship. He didn't know exactly when the bulge appeared, but by the time he discovered the anomaly, the bulge had become very large, and from what he knew about the small fish, the tomb-shaped thing was about one hundred and twenty meters in diameter, and it was not fixed, but constantly arched back and forth, like a mouse hiding under the carpet in a hurry to escape.

Nie Jianrong canceled the fast playback at the right time, but at the normal playback speed. The activity of the bulge can also be seen directly with the naked eye.

"What is this?" Ye Fei frowned in surprise.

"Keep watching." Nie Jianrong refused to disclose the results in advance.

Ye Fei could only continue to keep an eye on the biological warship. After about a minute, the bulge that arched more and more violently suddenly cracked, and a dead tree branch-like twist emerged from under the skin of the biological battleship.

Ye Fei's eyes widened suddenly, and his eyes bulged more than half an inch high: "This, this, this." Is this the thorn of a sea urchin? ”

"Sea urchins?" Nie Jianrong was stunned. Then he laughed dumbly. "You're right."

He sped up the playback again, this time sixty-four times as fast. I saw a few bulges popping out of the edge of the first thorn, and it didn't take long for a few more thorns to come out.

More than two hours later. The small fish ship that has been hit by the sea urchin has grown hundreds of thick spines, and it looks almost exactly like other sea urchins.

Ye Fei suddenly realized, no wonder he always felt that the appearance of the sea urchin battleship was a little familiar.

Nie Jianrong turned off the video and asked in a deep voice, "What do you think?" ”

"Is this ...... Parasitism? Ye Fei hesitated to say his guess.

"Yes, it's parasitic!" Nie Jianrong nodded with satisfaction, "I know that your kid won't let me down." ”

"Chief, I still don't understand, what is the purpose of you letting me see this." Ye Fei said uneasily.

"I'll tell you about that later." Nie Jianrong still sold Guan Zi, "Last night, the Communications Department of the General Staff contacted the master of the mechanical civilization, and the mechanical civilization knew about this kind of sea urchin warship, and the master said that this is a strange parasitic creature that parasitizes on the body of cosmic creatures. ”

Nie Jianrong omitted inconsequential details and did not tell Ye Fei all about the situation. According to the Juggernaut, the mechanical civilization had been in contact with this creature before leaving the Perseus Arm more than a thousand years ago, when the alien fleet tracked by Pioneer Nine encountered more than a dozen sea urchin ships, and the Outer Bone Man lost hundreds of biological warships and retreated, the Sea Urchin ship did not pursue, and the Pioneer Nine who tracked the Outer Bone Man did not care much.

Because of the common enemy of the Outer Bone Man, the Juggernaut once tried to find these warships of unknown origin, but since then, the sea urchin ship has mysteriously disappeared as if it had never appeared, and it was not until the humans discovered the sea urchin ships that the Juggernaut discovered their whereabouts again.

Ye Fei pressed his temples thoughtfully: "In this way, the thing that hit the small fish should not be a cannonball, but a seed!" ”

"Seeds? You're saying those twigs are plants? Nie Jianrong subconsciously repeated Ye Fei's words, and many doubts in his heart were easily solved.

Ye Fei looked dazed: "I didn't say that, I just said that it was a seed...... If you have to say yes, it's an egg, I'm not against it. He just subconsciously used the word seed to refer to the thing that hit the biological battleship, and nothing else.

"No, no, no, you're right, the thorns on those ships don't look like tree branches?" Nie Jianrong was very excited, "The thing that the sea urchin launches is seeds, and there are also many special plants on the earth, such as spraying melons ......"

Speaking of this, Nie Jianrong calmed down a little, shook his head again, and said, "It's not right, the plant has no autonomous consciousness at all, and it is impossible to know where the Dao target is, how can it be possible to accurately hit the biological battleship?" ”

Ye Fei reminded at the right time: "Chief, you didn't ask me to study this, right?" ”

Nie Jianrong was stunned, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "But isn't it, I'm stunned." Let's call them sea urchins, whether they are animals or plants, they should always follow the exoskeletons. It is said that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, but the sea urchin is very hostile and takes the initiative to attack our warship, I personally think that this is because the sea urchin uses the biological warship as a food or a breeding ground for children, so we are not allowed to get involved. ”

"Quite possibly!" Ye Fei immediately agreed.

"Now we can only consider this potential ally as an enemy." Nie Jianrong sighed, "According to the signal calculation of the interstellar early warning network, the speed of flying towards Proxima Centauri's outer bone colony and sea urchin fleet is about twenty times the speed of light, but our interstellar early warning system is not perfect. They were found only 1.3 light-years away from Proxima Centauri, and it would be more than 20 days before they reached Proxima Centauri. ”

"What?" Ye Fei subconsciously exclaimed.

Proxima Centauri is the gateway to the solar system, and the distance of 4.2 light-years is not too long or short, and it takes about 40 days to reach the maximum speed of 40 times the speed of light.

"You also know that now stationed on Proxima Centauri is the Second Fleet of the Expeditionary Force and a part of the Russian army, the Second Fleet has already lost a destroyer in the battle, and the outer bone colony and sea urchin arrived at the same time, and our strength in Proxima Centauri is not enough at all." Nie Jianrong knocked his forehead helplessly, "What's even more troublesome is that the other fleets of the expeditionary force are a little far away from Proxima Centauri. There was no time to support. There is no fleet on the mainland, and there is no time to ......"

"Is that going to let the Second Fleet withdraw first?" Ye Fei shrank his head and whispered a suggestion.

His position is that of the captain, not the operational staff officer, and he gives advice to Nie Jianrong. The qualifications are still far from qualified. So be careful inside and out.

Nie Jianrong sighed bitterly: "Don't you want to me? But that's it. The flames of war will burn into the solar system again. Defending the enemy against the outside world is a joint decision made by the Allies, and even if we are willing to do so, it is impossible for the Allies to agree to it...... Did you see the Allied fleet when you came? ”

Ye Fei said hesitantly: "I saw it." But I don't understand, where did they get the battleships? ”

"Where else could it be, made by mechanical civilization!" Nie Jianrong knew that Ye Fei had been away from the solar system for a long time, and explained in detail, "All the warships of the eight fleets of the expeditionary force were delivered last year, and now the warships of the United States and Russia are new ships that have just been delivered by the mechanical civilization not long ago, and the time is just right, our expeditionary force has been fighting in the south and the north for more than four years, and it is time for the Yankees and the Russians to contribute." ”

"They're also going to support Proxima Centauri?" Ye Fei's eyes lit up, "Is it too late?" ”

"It's too late." Nie Jianrong sighed, "Reinforcing Proxima Centauri is a decision made by the Allied Headquarters, not only them, but also our fleet. In order to hold off the enemy, Allied headquarters hoped that the Second Fleet and the Russian troops remaining on Proxima Centauri would pin down the enemy for a while. ”

Ye Fei's face sank: "!" ”

"It's, but the Allies don't do that, and we can't let them swagger past Proxima Centauri, and the Second Fleet will definitely intercept it."

"For what?" Ye Feihuo slammed into it, "Knowing the strength of the enemy's army, you still left the fleet there, didn't you let the second fleet die?" ”

Nie Jianrong's face was expressionless: "Don't you know what I do?" But do you think it's better to sacrifice the Second Fleet, or to put the enemy into the solar system and fight a war of annihilation at the risk of the destruction of the homeland by the enemy? ”

Ye Fei was speechless for a moment.

The solar system is the essence of mankind, and if it is directly attacked by the enemy, the idea of keeping the enemy out of the world will soon become a joke, and then the public opinion alone will make the current government directly oust.

Moreover, the most important industrial area of mankind is now the "arsenal" of mechanical civilization located in the Kuiper Belt, and if that place is found by the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"As long as we hold on to our fleet on Proxima Centauri for a while, victory is within reach." Nie Jianrong said earnestly, "Ye Fei, I am very optimistic about your potential, but you must understand that war is not child's play, and sometimes, we must make the most tragic choice for the sake of the overall strategy and overall situation." This is both the glory of the soldier and the helplessness of the soldier. ”

"I understand, but I still feel uncomfortable." Ye Fei.

"I'm just as uncomfortable, but I or anyone else has no other choice, to be a soldier and to be a soldier to die a soldier who deserves to die. Can't let the people point at our backbone and scold our mother, right? It has been more than 280 years since the founding of the army, when have we ever coaxed it? Nie Jianrong's words were loud, and a momentum of giving up who else arose.

Ye Fei pursed his lips tightly and said after a while: "I understand the truth, but I just can't get over this hurdle in my heart." Chief, you have told me so much, definitely not to tell me this, just tell me, what the hell do you want me to do? ”

Nie Jianrong nodded with satisfaction: "War will kill people, we can't stop the sacrifice, we can only minimize the sacrifice, this is the purpose of what I told you so much today." I guess you still thought that the Yangtze River crashed, and you would go to a military court because of a command error, right? ”

Ye Fei smiled awkwardly: "I did think so, but after meeting the chief today, I know that I will definitely not be able to." ”

"Of course not." Nie Jianrong glared at Ye Fei, "What is our army?" No matter how big the mistake is, it can't be compared with the credit for discovering the giant star, besides, although your command is a little flawed, the crash of the Yangtze River was just an accident, understand? ”

"Got it!" The words made Ye Fei's heart warm.

He is no longer a simple hot-blooded young man, but there are thousands of colonels in the whole army, but generals are rare, not to mention the comfort from the first person in the military?

"Order—" Nie Jianrong suddenly shouted.

Ye Fei instinctively stood upright, and his posture was extremely standard.

Nie Jianrong unfolded the paper order and read it aloud: "Ye Fei, captain of the Yangtze River of the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force, was promoted to the rank of colonel, March 20, 2208, the headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Sky Army." After reading the most important sentence, Old General Nie handed the order to Ye Fei and said, "Take it, go back and read the specific content slowly, from now on, you will be a colonel." ”

Ye Fei took the promotion order, looked at it suspiciously, jumped through the useless clichés and found the most important part of the order, and read: "From now on, he will take over as the captain of the Aquila...... Aquila? "The Celestial Army follows the habit of the navy, and has always named warships after geographical names, and he can't think of which class of warships are named after eagles.

"That's right, it's the Aquila, the fastest flying battleship ever built!" (To be continued......)

PS: I don't know if you like the new potential force setting of the road. I personally like to work on exophyria that are different.

Those aliens who are similar to humans are very painful, and if they can still intermarry with humans, it is better to collapse directly...... From an evolutionary point of view, humans have a common relationship with other mammals on the earth, and they can barely be considered blood relations, right?

Such a relationship is no closer than that of an alien, and intermarriage with an alien makes people have an evil association......