Gu Hang's previous sentence was exactly the same as what Old Fofana said, although he respected Yelicia very much and gave her the right to choose, but after all, the identities are different, and it is more or less perfunctory.

But the latter sentence really hit what Yelicia thought in her heart.

Is she a person who is content with the status quo? Is she a person who is content to become a representative of the family, to become Gu Hang's wife, and to become a symbol of the union of the two families?

Not.

Although the old man did not say it explicitly, the old man's so-called 'putting himself in the sea of stars established the prestige of Fofana', but he had clearly explained the old man's opinion first.

Then, Gu Hang really said what she wanted, and that was indeed what she wanted.

A man she trusted the most in her past life, and the man she should theoretically trust the most in the future, said so.

So what else did she have to hesitate about?

Yelicia smiled and said to Gu Hang: "Then I just got engaged and am leaving, and I don't know how long it will take to go until the end of the war, will you always wait for me?" ”

"Of course, my lady, I will wait for the news of your triumphant return."

"When the battle is over, we'll get married."

Gu Hang felt that this sentence was a bit strange, but he didn't think much about it or not.

He tentatively reached out and grabbed Yelicia.

The female general's body was a little stiff, very unaccustomed, and even instinctively wanted to break free.

But she didn't.

Next, none of them spoke.

They both felt the heat transmitted from each other, and they both relaxed a lot.

In fact, they all know a truth in their hearts: they don't have much emotional foundation to speak of, but because of this, they should take advantage of the limited time they have to create this kind of emotion as much as possible.

This is rational thinking.

But soon, all this rationality was transformed into emotion.

……

The engagement ceremony of the combination of Gu and Fofana is a rare grand occasion even on the prosperous planet of Flying Wings.

The grandeur and extravagance of the setting and setting are secondary, but more important are the people who attend, and the significance of being a political event.

There are two groups of people to say here.

First and foremost, there are a large number of people who take a neutral position. In addition to the two Imperial Chamber of Commerce, and the Imperial Navy, there are also members of the State Church, psionics, and various other big businessmen and capitalists...... These people came to this engagement ceremony.

They both have two characteristics at the same time:

One is that each has its own political or physical power, but it is not too strong within the sector.

The second is that none of them want to get involved in the whirlpool of struggle between Fastces and the star district government, which currently dominates the Pegasus Star Region.

And now, the combination of Gu and Fofana has suddenly become a banner that calls on these neutral forces to unite.

In this way, the third-party neutral forces, which were not weak in the original but were very scattered, formed an alliance that was still not close, but had the same demands, and united around the Gu family and Fofana.

And as a result, a second wave of people was triggered.

The Fatcher family sent people, especially Ivan Facches, the governor of Koroga and the upstart of the Fatcis family, who flew in person from Koroga to attend.

At the same time, Ivan Martinelli, the head of the sector, and Pedes Jr., the governor of the winged star, were also in attendance.

The two sides are like fire and water, and the core characters are all here.

In the eyes of others, this is, of course, a lot of face for the two families and for the unmarried couple of Gu Hang and Yelicia. In order to attend their engagement ceremony, even your life-and-death relationship can be temporarily put aside and be in the same room.

And actually, they are a little forced.

They didn't pay attention to it before, but now the neutral forces gathered together through this engagement ceremony are no longer to be ignored. They can't afford such a huge force to lean toward the other side, which will directly break the balance of confrontation.

And the demands of the neutral side are also very clear: you want to fight, yes, we can't control it anyway. However, even if it is a fight, it must set up a rule, and fighting in the rules cannot be too outrageous. The chaotic and unbounded political struggle in the Pegasus region over the past two years must be stopped. Korogana's situation is not getting better at all, and it is even getting worse step by step, and it must be reversed.

And there is no doubt that the tax chief who also attended the engagement ceremony between Gu Hang and Yelicia, Ms. Nair Lauis, as a representative of the Star Domain government, also stood on the neutral side and made the same demands on both sides of the political struggle.

In this way, no matter how unwilling the two parties are, they must sit at the same table and talk about it.

This is actually a game created by Wang Qi and Lao Fufana, who broke their hearts for the overall situation of the star region, and took advantage of the engagement of two young people.

As the protagonists of the engagement ceremony, the two of them have little willingness to participate in these things under the table.

It's not that I can't participate. Both of them have a pivotal position in their respective forces. It can even be said that the next generation of Fofana is the steward of Yelicia, and the same is true for the Gu family firm. There is no need to wait until later, now the two of them have a very heavy right to speak, especially Gu Hang.

But since there are old fritters at home, these places that require the old fritters to exert their experience and wisdom, the two of them are too lazy to participate.

Instead of intrigue, it is better to seize the last time to warm up and cultivate feelings.

Then, before the multi-party tandem, negotiation, and compromise of those 'old men' came to an end, the two were already about to say goodbye.

Six days after the engagement ceremony, Elicia received an official order from the Imperial Navy.

There were five cruisers, including quintet, opera, cello, terminator, and intermezzo, with fourteen destroyers, thirty frigates, and the rest of the small ships below the patrol ships were not counted.

More than half of the forces of the Pegasus fleet have been dispatched, most of the ships have attacked, and only two cruisers remain.

The commander of the expedition was Tylemans, the vice admiral commander of the Pegasus fleet, and his flagship was the 'Opera'.

With the rank of rear admiral, Elicia served as captain of the quintet, and at the same time served as deputy commander of the fleet, assisting Tylermans.

On the Flying Wing Star, a grand departure ceremony was held for the Navy.

Most of the sailors of the Pegasus fleet's starships come from the Imperial Tax—to put it bluntly, from Corroga.

However, most of the naval officers are natives of Flying Wing Star and graduated from the Flying Wing Naval Academy.

Before leaving, these local officers said goodbye to their wives, children, and parents. Streamers are flying in the sky, passionate music is played repeatedly, and under the sun, the warriors of the empire will walk towards the sea of stars in the expectation and concern of their families.

After saying goodbye to her parents and family, Yelicia stood in front of Gu Hang again. The two of them hugged each other like the other young officers as they said goodbye to their partners, their ears grinding.

A moment later, the urging sound of the space elevator sounded, and the two separated.

With her hands behind her back, with the sunlight as the background, she faced Gu Hang and stepped back step by step with a smile.

"I'm leaving."

"Triumphant return."

"Okay."

The female general put on her military cap, smiled and waved her hands, turned and left, and ran to her battlefield.

……

As Yelicia left, Gu Hang found that he really missed a little bit.

Instead of restraining this emotion, he let it develop.

That's not a bad thing.

As for Yelicia's safety, no one can guarantee this matter, and Gu Hang can't do anything about it across several star regions. All he could do was send a team of men into the quintet to keep Elicia safe.

This team is composed of five immortal birds and a hundred special operations elites of the 10th Brigade wearing exoskeletons.

But in fact, the role they can play is not so big.

In the war in the sea of stars, the losing side has almost no way to survive, and the space marines are not gods, no matter how strong they are, they can't save people when the starship is blown up.

The only place that can play a role is when it comes to gang jumping.

Coincidentally, the green-skinned orcs are one of the most popular forces in the entire Star Sea.

With the elite of these hundreds of people, at least in the case of gang jumping, with the guard force on the quintet, it should be able to play a big role.

……

After Yelicia left, Gu Hang himself didn't stay on the flying wing for long, and the next day he said goodbye to his mother and returned to the Angry Owl.

As he passed Koroga, he paused and greeted his soldiers as Legion Commander, especially those who had just joined the Angry Bear Legion from the new barracks in Koroga.

In the army composed of 320,000 people, although the people have been gathered and the number is also available, in fact, it has not been completely established.

Although the formalities have been put in place, the total tax currency required for their formation is more than 14 million, and the Ministry of Military Affairs has also given the alliance an order for all the armaments and materials needed to arm these 320,000 people.

But at present, these things are still in the state of order, after all, weapons and equipment cannot be conjured out of thin air, they all need to be produced.

The alliance is on the Angry Owl Star and the Black Sword Star, and it has done its best to explode production capacity.

According to the negotiations between the alliance and the representatives of the Ministry of Military Affairs, within the next year, the alliance will have to assemble the 320,000 men. There will be an official from the Ministry of Military Affairs who will stay here, and with the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion as a friendly force, there will also be a representative to oversee this matter.

This means that in the future, in addition to its own needs, the alliance will have to produce more than 600 tanks, more than 3,000 armored vehicles and self-propelled guns, and tens of thousands of other military vehicles in a year. As for other individual equipment and company and platoon-level equipment, there is not much to count.

There is still pressure on this capacity.

It is a little difficult to meet such a large production capacity demand by relying on the Raging Owl alone. After all, for example, in the past two years of war on Black Arrow Star, a lot of weapons and equipment have been lost, whether it is tanks or armored vehicles, they have not been replenished yet. Unless the rest of the alliance is not supplied at all, and the alliance itself does not expand its army, it will be difficult to meet the needs of the new army of the Raging Bear Legion within a year.

However, if you add the Black Arrow Star, it will be fine.

On the Black Arrow Star, the Stefano Industrial Center, which was established mainly in the former capital of the Kingdom of Stefano, has put into operation a production line for the Lion tank.

As the industrial population increases and more production lines are laid there, productivity gradually increases, and it should be able to bear some of the pressure on the production tasks on the Raging Owl.

After inspecting the army, Gu Hang met with Colonel Li Kexi, the commander who had been fighting on the Black Arrow Star all along, to learn about the recent situation and some of Li Kexi's views on the future.

situation, in fact, there is nothing to say. The intensity of the battle in Koroga has not been too great, even if the governor surnamed Fastes urges them to attack with all their strength every day and solve the problem as soon as possible, but the main general here, General Hansen, does not pay attention to these voices.

Between Li Kexi's words, he still recognized General Hansen. They had talked about it before, and General Hansen assured his men that he would never go into a 'political battle'. Whether or not we can fight and how we can fight is purely from a military point of view.

Anyway, he is the chief general of the Astral Army, the commander-in-chief, and the planetary governor can't control his head.

Here, it is necessary to mention the views of Li Kohi and the many imperial officers who fought on the front line for the future.

They are rather pessimistic.

The city of Fino is like a huge black hole, constantly 'sucking' everything around it, and the population is constantly being lost, but due to some political reasons, the speed of the refugee camps that have been established is not fast enough.

As for the politicians' request that the army march into Fino City and completely retake the entire nest capital, it is simply impossible.

"With our current strength, I'm afraid we have to fill in the more than 20 million people of the entire Dragon Eagle Legion before it is possible to do this."

"But if you really have to fill it in, what about other cities?"

"Your Excellency the Governor...... Legionnaire, please be aware of one thing: Koroga's problem is far bigger than you think. The existing military forces can only barely manage to prevent the situation from continuing to deteriorate. If you want to solve it, unless you have another 30 million Astral Army, and the decision-makers are willing to lose 20 million Astral Army, you can really solve the problem. Or, let Ivan Falchers, the braggart king, fulfill what he said, and add a billion native troops, and that would solve the problem. ”

"And, it has to be as soon as possible. 50 million astral troops, prepared to lose 20 million, or 1 billion native defense troops, this is the price of solving the problem now. If it is delayed and the situation worsens, no one knows what the price will be when the time comes. ”

(End of chapter)