Chapter 125
On the 27th, after thirty hours of wandering around the outer reaches of the Vanfleet field, the Grimmels Hughand fleet was finally ordered to stay in the planet's fourth orbit. At the generals' meeting, the generals' officers of the fleet listened to the old general's correct nonsense, while Colonel Favinier, who was not yet qualified to attend, was bored and dragged in the officers' conference room on the flagship "Osterfa Company", waiting for the next order to be decided by the generals' meeting.
Soon after, the meeting was adjourned, and Colonel Fafnier received his order, and at first glance began to skew, and prepared to go to the office of the Lieutenant General.
He almost rudely broke into the office of His Excellency Lieutenant General Grimmelshouen, and saw the old general talking to the blonde Brigadier General Mugel. This guy waited for the old general to finish speaking, and then he spoke: "Your Excellency General Greenmelshoujian, the lower officer has questions about the stationing of this fleet. Why is Xiaguan's fleet stationed so far away from the supply point?"
Reinhardt could watch almost dumbfounded at Colonel Fafnier's almost utterly brazen, sloppy words and actions. "Such a blatant violation of military orders! Colonel! You are so brazen! Or are you not a soldier?!"
The old general glanced at Colonel Fafnir good-naturedly, touched his chin and said, "Viscount Fafnier, it seems to be the same." Well, as long as you can maintain military discipline, let's put you here. After saying that, he pointed his finger somewhere on the electronic map.
"No problem, Your Excellency. You can count on the Commander's determination to maintain military discipline!" said Colonel Fafnier, saluting, cheerfully. Mugel was on the side...... Out of politeness, he suppressed the lion's anger.
"Then, the lower official retired. The brigadier general and the colonel said their farewell almost in unison, looked at each other and bowed and exited the office.
Outside the door, Colonel Fafnier greeted Reinhardt and said, "Your Excellency Mijel, it is happier to be a man, the lower limit is lower...... You're already the main character of an oil painting, so why be aggressive and insist on coming out?"
Reinhardt snorted coldly: "Is there such a lower limit for your lordship? There is really no one to compare! Treating the imperial military order as a bargaining thing is not comparable at all." ”
"Ah, that's what the young man said. Your heart is too anxious, Sir Miurger. Fafnier grinned, scratching his chin.
Looking at Brigadier General Reinhardt von Mujel's vigilant gaze, and seeing the figure of Captain Gilfias hurrying in, Colonel Rudolf von Fafnier smiled again and said: "Your Excellency Mijel is very ambitious, but at your age, there is really no need to be so impatient...... Hehehehe, don't you think that the lower officer can't see your ambition? How can such a burning ambition be concealed by a young man who is only eighteen years old? Ha Lu hahaha...... "Seeing that Captain Gilfias had already walked nearby, Fafnir smiled and gave a military salute and walked away.
He didn't intend to see what Reinhardt said to his red-haired henchman in the back, so he directly joined up with the chief of staff of Schutkhajan and left the flagship "Osterfaren" and returned to his command ship "Van Mark 4". "If I hadn't liked this work and vowed to role-play seriously, without supernatural powers, Grandpa would have exploded you, a golden retriever boy, a long time ago. ”
For example, Vanfleet 4=2 refers to the second satellite of the fourth planet of the Vanfleet system. The Zeus, where the Grimmels fleet was configured, was in the orbit of Vanfleet 4:2.
It is a celestial body with a solid crust attached to a 120,000-kilometer-diameter gas-shaped planet, a 2,260-kilometer-diameter barren inorganic bed covered with ice, sulfur flavonates and volcanic rocks. The gravity coefficient is 0.25G, and the burden on the ship's gravity resistance from landing is also very small. There is a trace of atmosphere, and nitrogen is the main component.
It was the intention of the Imperial Commander-in-Chief to place the old man Grimmels here as a valuable reserve against the Confederate forces in this rock that had no chance of life, but Marshal Mukenberga's real intention was nothing other than to isolate the old man who would only cause interference from his fleet.
Naturally, the same goes for the mixed forces of 900 cruisers and destroyers of the Fafnir fleet. His troops fought most frequently in the chaotic front of the Grimmels Hajan fleet, as early as the first firefight, his fleet broke through to the right front to exchange fire with the Confederate fleet, and in the subsequent chaotic battles, he also made a lot of achievements, destroying the Confederate ships above the number of his own fleet, and his own number also disappeared by one-tenth.
On 27 March, the northern hemisphere of Vanfleet 4=2 was occupied by 12,200 ships of the Grimmels Hagen fleet of the Galactic Empire. Such an account may not escape the criticism of later historians as "exaggerated and untrue", but the ice cap of the Arctic, with a radius of 100 kilometers, is equipped with ships on the ground and an anti-aircraft attack system around it. Incendiary bombs were fired into a part of the vast ice cap, melting the ice and creating a man-made lake of more than 1,000 square kilometers, where about 1,000 ships could be put into the water. In order to prevent the rapid evaporation and solidification of water, a special liquid metal film is also installed, and unitized above-ground facilities are set up, and various pipelines of roads, power distribution, communications, and water and sewerage are uniformly arranged, which also connects the above-ground facilities underground through a tunnel network made of unit-type composite materials. The ships that landed on the water were under the command of Colonel Fafnier.
At the satellite Vanfleet 4=2, the claimants of prior occupancy are already present, but in the southern hemisphere across the equator.
A rear base of the Free Planets Alliance had been built more than a hundred days ago.
"Why did the Imperial Army come to such a place? Didn't we choose this place as our rear stronghold because it was so far from the front line?"
The commander of the base, Lieutenant General Singulia Serebreje, had a constant uneasiness that bordered on embarrassment, and walked back and forth six times in front of the table.
Lieutenant General Cinguliea Serebreje, who is in his mid-forties and has more experience in rear duty than in actual combat, will be assigned to Vanfleet 4=2, also in response to the requirements of the General Headquarters, when necessary, to send the necessary number of soldiers and military supplies to the necessary space, the command and adjustment of this affairs is his task in this battle, in terms of the ability to deal with affairs, this is not a difficult task, but he has little confidence in tactical adaptability, so if there is a large fleet of enemy troops stationed at a close distance of a thousand kilometers of units, he will not be able to maintain the same calmness when dealing with affairs.
What's more, the origin of the Imperial Army is not clear, and the mind that is good at calculation and transaction processing is often accompanied by a lack of imagination. The door of thinking to reach the unreasonable conclusion that "its commander was sent to a remote place because of the scruples of the General Headquarters" has long been closed, and the conclusion drawn along the quantitative thinking circuit is this: this rear base, which is regarded by the Imperial Army as a very important existence, after all, they have sent a fleet, and they probably plan to carry out a major attack to occupy or destroy this base, and build a permanent base of the Imperial Army here, although this speculation has many loopholes, but the lieutenant general is so convinced.
"Call Colonel Vanselphi. ”
Fifteen minutes later, the Rose Knights Company was dispatched to test the Imperial Army.
The distance between the Imperial Army's garrison and the temporary base of the Allied Forces was 2420 kilometers in a straight line. A distance that would take thirty or forty hours to reach by an armored ground vehicle. In the case of Gilguray or Spartanian, it takes less than thirty minutes, and the landing boat, known as the sluggish one, can be reached in about two hours.
At 22 o'clock on March 29, neither the Imperial Army nor the Allied Army knew this fact.
The Confederates were unaware of the correct distance between themselves and the enemy, and the Imperial forces were unaware of the existence of the enemy in the Passage - with the exception of Colonel Fafnier, who had an insight into the plot...... The first to notice this possibility was Brigadier General Reinhardt von Mügel. When the Greenshoudian fleet was about to land on this satellite, he analyzed the direction of the enemy's communication waves when setting the route, and found that on the back side of the small satellite, that is, in the southern hemisphere, the Allied activity base was very likely.
At a later meeting of the generals, Reinhardt reported the matter. Greenmelshoujan spoke after full consideration.
"Anyway, do you mean that there is an enemy on earth? ”
"It's quite likely. Your Excellency, Commander, according to the consideration of the subordinate officer, first send an unmanned reconnaissance plane to conduct an investigation of the enemy, what do you think?"
The old admiral dullly avoided Reinhardt's piercing gaze and questioned his staff.
"What do you think of Brigadier General Mijer's opinion?" I think it is a rather desirable opinion..." The generals looked at each other, and an atmosphere of ill-intentioned air rose up. After about 2,000 seconds, the air flow turned into a sound.
"Even if Brigadier General Mugel's conjecture is correct, a rash reconnaissance may make the enemy discover where our troops are, and besides, if the enemy forces are weaker than ours, it is not too late to counterattack after being attacked, and the order given by the General Headquarters is to stand by. If you are happy and take unhelpful actions, it will have a bad impact on the entire battle situation, and may even produce results that are favorable to the enemy's army. Xiaguan and others think that this is something to worry about. This was the deliberate decision of the officers, but there was also a completely shameless voice: "The subordinate officers are very watery in fighting." It's better to wait for the rebels to crawl over on their own. Colonel Fafnier, the only one of them on the ground, said.
"That's right, we're giving people heads professionally, this kind of thing is better to wait for the enemy to come, let the first-class Admiral Ofresha think about it. His chief of staff, Major Shotekhoujan, also cheekily chimed in.
"If you don't dare to conduct reconnaissance for the sake of hypothetical danger, then let the subordinate take over that task, and ask Your Excellency the Commander for permission to go out and carry out activities outside the anti-aircraft attack system. Reinhardt said.
"Hey, hey, Brigadier Mugel is really a brave man......"
"It's good to be young!" two equally slick and cheeky voices rang out.
"Brigadier General Mijel, don't be impatient, don't be impatient. Your seniors all said so. Let's wait here to see the condition of the enemy. If there really is an enemy...... "The old general is still so peaceful."
After watching Brigadier General Mugel retreat in a huff, the old general ended the meeting without constructive advice. However, after the last day, Lieutenant General Grimmels Hughan agreed to let Brigadier General Mujel build a ground attack system, with the assistance of Colonel Fafnier...... The old general let out a bored laugh and looked at Colonel Fafnier, who had been dumbfounded by the order.
"The subordinate will work under your lordship. Please give us orders," said Colonel Fafnier, and Major Schutkhaughan on one side nodded his head continuously.
"Unexpectedly...... It's so cheeky...... In the blink of an eye, you can completely forget the previous evil words. Isn't there a sense of shame for these two men?" Reinhardt was also shocked, and unconsciously opened his mouth to say the second half of his thoughts.
"Thank you, sir, for cultivating! What is such a thing as shame and discipline? "It's still the same tone, but the person who said it is completely serious and serious.
"Forget it, as long as you can obey my orders......" Reinhardt had never seen such a person in his eighteen years of life, and he had no choice but to wave his hand weakly and give an order.
Bad things always come in a consistent manner, and Brigadier General Hereman von Réneburg also made proposals like Reinhardt, but Brigadier General Hereman von Réneburg was an expert on ground warfare, and his opinion was certainly far more important than Reinhardt. It was therefore quite reasonable that Brigadier General Réneburg seized the initiative from Reinhardt.
Heremans von Reunionbrk, Brigadier General of the Galactic Empire, was a colonel of the Free Planets Alliance three years ago, and the 11th generation of the "Rose Knights" company captain, at the age of 35 this year. A tall man born with the appearance of an imperial nobility, his silver-gray hair and unpleasant blue-gray eyes were impressive.
In the three years since his death, he has only risen to the first rank, which is not a good thing for him in terms of his talents. During this time, he married the daughter of the nobles of the empire, and it is said that he was also disgusted because she was recognized as a beautiful woman in Jin. In any case, he was in a situation he did not want, as evidenced by the fact that he had been placed under Lieutenant General Grimmelshou.
The Brigadier General Réneburg objected to Reinhardt's plan to conduct reconnaissance on the ground, and in Reinhardt's eyes, proposed to Lieutenant General Grimmelshou.
"Brigadier General Mugel may be an excellent talent in the command of combat in space, but in terms of ground warfare, the lower rank will always be long for a day. As for this matter, please leave it to the lower officials. ”
It seems that he was not in a hurry to become famous, nor did he slander Reinhardt. Calm self-confidence surrounded Lorraine Miles Howard with the strength of steel, and the old admiral seemed to be immediately affected by the spiritual magnetic field, and changed course.
"That's right, that's better, Brigadier General Mugel, I'd better leave this matter to Réneburg, I know what you think, but after all, Rénieburg is an expert in ground warfare. ”
The seventy-six-year-old admiral did not have a commanding tone, but said as if to persuade the young man, although he was unwilling, but if it was forced, Reinhardt would still have to resist, but the commander spoke in such a tone, and if he refused, Reinhardt would be considered disrespectful and narrow-minded.
"Whatever you want, Your Excellency. ”
On deep thought, this was still quite rude to the chief, but Reinhardt really couldn't completely hide the frustration that his proposal had given way to others. Maybe it's because eighteen-year-olds tend to fall out of the cracks of etiquette. In any case, the reins were in the hands of Réneburg.
"The golden retriever should be angry now, right? Hey, hey, young man, it's good to grow up if you suffer a little. Colonel Fafnier had completely forgotten the previous words, and said shamelessly.
"yes, I really want to see that face. Major Schuttkhaujan said as if he were pinching Miel's handsome face.
"I said, don't be so optimistic about you two. Lyubrürk is much more seasoned than the young ones, so he is not afraid that he will give you two little shoes for the two of you who are delaying the cost of the project?" said Captain Karl von Dirk, the trio's bad gambler and ground commander.
"I'm afraid of, I'm a viscount! Gustav is a baron! Even you have at least a false name as a lord. He left Nebulk, a small imperial knight, and he still escaped, even if he was a brigadier general!"
Lyuéburk is not incompetent, and as a former captain of the Alliance's Rose Knights, he is naturally excellent in ground combat. Although Fafnir and his team did not make any efforts, the brigadier general still succeeded in ambushing the reconnaissance force of the alliance on the opposite side, presumably killing the senior officers on the opposite side.
"Rudolph, how is that Lyuneburg? Can you get it done?" said Captain Dick, looking at Brigadier General Rénebrk's video of the battle.
"Hah! Rudolph only needs 2 seconds to send that love saint to hell! How long will it take Rudolph!" said Schutkhowjan, a comrade-in-arms who had fought alongside Colonel Fafnier for many years, mainly in groups.
"Okay, don't you see that there is a pretty good opponent on the other side, since you are here, I guess we can go and have some fun in a few days. Fafnier said lazily.
"I'll open the market! Rudolph can cut a few!" Dick immediately ran to calculate the odds.