"Sir." Risen immediately gave his beautiful female boss a salute that he thought was the most handsome, as the saying goes, men and women match, work without getting tired, especially this woman is still a beauty, Resson's previous dissatisfaction with Captain Ralph and General Martin has also disappeared unconsciously.

His new boss didn't buy him, and she glanced at his new colleague with a sophisticated, sharp, and critical eye, and opened her lips lightly, and although her voice was as crisp and pleasant as that of a hollow oriole, the meaning of the words made Risen feel unspeakably uncomfortable.

"Rest a moment, Lieutenant, and I may state in advance that I don't want anyone to hold me back, and if you can't keep up with me, I'm not going to stop and wait for you. Not all of them can be my partner, so you'd better think about it. ”

What are these words? Risen felt a rush of anger, and his favorability of his new chief immediately diminished greatly, and he replied coldly without humility or arrogance, "Sir, it was the intention of my superiors to arrange me to be your partner, not my own application. If you have any comments about my arrangement, please report it directly to my superiors, and I will gladly comply with other arrangements from my superiors. ”

"I'll think about it." Hearing his tough answer, the major did not get angry, but bowed slightly. She turned to Captain Ralph, "Alright, Captain, nothing else, he's qualified for the time being." ”

"Understood, Major, I'll inform General Martin."

Qualified? He understood. Risen glared at his female boss with fierce eyes, he knew that he was designed, he was played with by this woman once, and they all said that women are the most cunning animals in the universe, and sure enough.

If there really is a pair of hands that play with our destiny in the dark, then this is it.

Sonia. Major Yang, the captain of the Blue Angels Squadron of the Earth Federation, is a legendary woman who once had a life-and-death battle with Risen in the Henison system. Since that ambush, Risen had been looking forward to meeting the 'idol' who had beaten him so badly, but he regretted that he had not been able to do so during his three-month career with Henisson, and that they had just disappeared from the front lines.

However, fate actually arranged for them to meet here again, and they became partners, not only did Risen not expect--- he didn't even think about it, the ace pilot of the Earth Federation would run to the rebel base in the rear of the empire, and become a colleague with him, is this possible? The Arabian Nights is not so exaggerated; Even Sonia never thought that the person standing opposite her was actually the pilot of the black banshee fighter with a tulip painted on the nose of the plane that impressed her, she only knew that the current person was arranged for her by the rebels, she was only worried about his skills, abilities, and whether he was competent for this operation, as for his past history, it was not a matter of concern to her.

The two of them got together in such a daze, as if they responded to the poem: There is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, but there is no chance to meet on the other side. Anyone, at the time, if they had mentioned the Blue Angels, the Black Tulip, or even the Henison Meat Grinder, maybe they would have guessed each other's identities right away in a few words, but the wonderful thing was that it was Sonia, Ryson, Captain Clark, General Martin...... During these three days, all energy and attention were focused on the preparation of this operation, and no one even mentioned it, at least not in front of the two parties, who had been in the dark to participate in Operation Firefox, which shocked the Empire. When the two of them later recalled this detail, they still felt incredible, completely incredible, as if they could not think of any other word to describe the experience.

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"This is the TAU-7 space station, and the Empire's military base is here, and a captured Imperial shuttle with commandos and four pilots on board will jump into the New Lyon system from here, the JP2 jump point." General Martin himself carried out the briefing, and he was pointing to a point in a certain sector of the New Lyon galaxy displayed on the large screen, and as his words fell, a small shuttle icon appeared on the jump point, and then slowly moved towards the small icon representing the space station, and finally disappeared near the space station icon.

"The shuttle will use a passcode that we have spent a lot of money to get into the space station, disguised as an Imperial investigator, and our intelligence shows that although the Empire's fleet is near the station, the station does not actually have too many armed personnel, which will make it easier for you to carry out your operations. Of course, the Imperial fleet is still a big problem, if they find out, then you are finished, the commandos may be able to deal with the armed men on the space station, but they will never be able to deal with the marines on the battleship, even if a destroyer has many more marines on board than you. The general warned.

General Martin stretched out his hand to gesture, and a large group of green battleship icons immediately appeared on another point on the screen, and the red icons representing the Imperial Dispatch Fleet near the space station slowly left the space station and greeted the green rebel fleet, and a large number of Banshee fighters on both sides were also entangled.

"The second step of the operation is to lure the Empire's fleet away from the space station. The fleet will be in control of the time, once you enter the space station, within five minutes the fleet will jump in from the JP4 jump point, if nothing else, the Imperial fleet will leave the space station to intercept, and our fleet will do their best to entangle the Imperial fleet and cover the actions of the commandos. The commandos take advantage of this chaotic moment to carry out operations, the first step is to control and destroy the station's communication system to prevent the station from sending any warning or distress signals to the Imperial fleet; In the second step, half of the commandos occupy the station's core control center, scan the computer system and download all the Lightning fighter test and improvement data, while the rest cover the pilots to seize the prototype of the Lightning fighter.

"After the data download is completed, the commando team will place the ZHA medicine in the core control center area of the space station and blow it up completely, we cannot let this data fall into the hands of the Empire. Once the mission is complete, you will be evacuated from the station by shuttle, and four of our captured Lightning Starfighters will provide you with cover. At this time, you don't need to join the fleet, as it will be too risky to cross the Imperial fleet line, and you will use the hyperspace jumping ability of both the shuttle and the lightning fighter to jump away from the JP2 jump point. At a stardust patch near the other end of the JP2 jump point, we arranged for a cruiser, the Odyssey, to pick up the pick-up from here. General Martin switched the screen to another star sector in the Deep Space Universe, where a rebel cruiser was displayed within a small cloud of foggy stardust.

"After you jump out of the New Lyon system, the rebel fleet will also disengage from the Imperial fleet and evacuate the system, which is Operation Firefox. Finally, I hope you will remember that all operations must be completed and evacuated within two hours, otherwise by the time Imperial reinforcements arrive from the military base, it will be all over. Have any questions? General Martin ended his briefing.

"Yes, General." Risen looked at the others who were whispering, and he decided to be the first to stand up, because he felt that it was too dangerous, and his life was like a small sampan barely navigating in a storm, which could be swept to the bottom of the sea at any moment by the wind and waves.

"What if there's a problem with that passcode?" He felt that this was the most dangerous step in the whole operation, this problem would not only lead to the failure of the operation before it started, but also that they would not be able to run if they wanted to, and the empire would never give a chance to let this slow shuttle escape to the space jump point and escape. All the people listening to the briefing immediately understood the meaning of the question, and the humming commotion in the room became noticeably louder.

"Very good question, lieutenant, I admit, it's really a big risk." General Martin waved his hands to signal quiet, and his voice echoed in the room, "This pass code was obtained at a great cost, how big it is, how it was obtained, I am not convenient to explain to you here." All I can say is that it's unlikely to go wrong, and that's the only thing I can assure you. Of course, if something unfortunately goes wrong, and you can guess the consequences, Operation Firefox will fail before it even begins, and all the elite commandos and a few of the best top pilots on the shuttle will not be spared, which is why you were asked to volunteer in the first place. ”

The room, which had become quiet, was in an uproar, and the whispers of the people tended to overwhelm the general's voice, and even the moans of a few could be heard, and if this really happened, the losses of the rebel alliance would be too great, and not only would they lose nothing, but their best commandos and pilots would be lost.

"Quiet, please be quiet." General Martin raised his voice and lowered it again, "I know the risks are great, but any combat operation is risky and has the possibility of failure, and we can't stop trying because there are risks. Why are we taking such a big risk? What is the significance of this operation? I'm sure you all know that. This action is already the most balanced of all the possible options with the best balance of risks and likelihoods of success, which is why we chose it, and believe me, if there were other better options, we would have made other choices. ”

Risen sat down slowly, General Martin understood very clearly, it was impossible to change the plan at this time, maybe he should start praying now, praying that the pass code would not go wrong. He thought of his beautiful partner, if something really went wrong, could it be that such a beautiful and lovely person would be so fragrant?

He couldn't help but turn his head to look at the Major, who was sitting there thinking quietly, her long eyelashes motionless, and the white light shining on the bridge of her straight nose, looking like a statue of a holy goddess as white as jade. Rayson's heart beat a few times at this moment, after a few days of getting along, he was a little sad to find that he was becoming more and more lacking in resistance to this beautiful female boss, her charm made him feel attracted, her ability convinced him, he felt the gap between himself and her, especially her maturity and calmness beyond her years, although Risen also grew up quickly after many battles, but after all, he had only been in the war for three months, and he knew that he was still a little far from her in this regard, which made him feel a little inferior and discouraged......

"General, what if the Empire sends a fleet to ignore our fleet and insist on not leaving the space station?" Standing up to ask a question was a commando in a white combat uniform.

"Not generally, the Empire doesn't know that our real purpose is not to destroy the space station, they won't let us get close to the space station. If they don't come out to intercept it, the TAU-7 space station will be at great risk, and the space station will be within range of our warplanes and warships quantum torpedoes, and the Imperial fleet commander will not watch us destroy the station. However, we also anticipated the possibility that if the Imperial fleet did not come forward to intercept it, in that case, our fleet would have to take the initiative to approach the space station, and the shuttles to evacuate the space station and the captured prototype of the lightning fighter could also choose to land directly on our warships and evacuate with the fleet. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, General."

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"Who else has questions?"

There was silence in the room.

"So, let's take their places, and I wish you all the best of luck."

Like sand leaking from an hourglass, the crowd rose from their seats in an orderly row and rushed towards the door.