When he saw Peterson and this group of young people from Saka, Yang Ming swallowed back the words he had prepared.
In fact, there is no need to say anything.
Since they choose to stand up, they have to bear the risks and costs of being heroes.
Peterson's eyes became calm and heavy, his young face showed a sense of vicissitudes of life, and his expression remained as calm as possible.
"well done."
Yang Ming patted Peterson's arm and sighed slowly:
"You can do it. I will use my connections to arrange you in the rear area. You will find a hard job to fight the insects."
"Sorry, Lord Lord, I know these ships are worth a lot of money..."
"Why are ships so valuable? Aren't they all man-made?"
Yang Ming interrupted Peterson's words and whispered:
"A general must not only learn how to let soldiers die, but also how to keep soldiers alive and how to give their deaths a heroic meaning.
"This is to fight against natural disasters. Pensions for soldiers killed in battle will be tripled according to the standard we set, allowing Governor Godoy to take good care of their families.
"The loss rate is 60%...can you fight this battle like this?"
Peterson lowered his head and dared not speak.
"Okay, don't put any pressure on yourself. You were at the front and I saw it.
"Carrying their share and continuing to fight is the best consolation for the fallen soldiers, remember?"
"Yeah," Peterson said with an ugly smile, "I understand."
Yang Ming clicked his tongue, glanced at these young people, and frowned: "Let's all go back to work. Bosu and I will rest on this ship for a while, and form a battle formation to harvest as many bugs as possible. The two of us can survive the bugs
Absorb nutrients from your body.”
"yes!"
This group of soldiers from Saka planet saluted at the same time and quickly returned to their respective posts.
They obviously have an aura about them that they didn't have before.
But whenever Yang Ming thought that these soldiers were his personal followers, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable in his heart.
There were only 10 million indigenous people left on Saka Planet;
These young people who joined his personal guard had suffered a lot when they were young. They had suffered from the economic recession and the plague of insects. Now their lives are better with great difficulty, and they have lost their lives here in the starry sky.
Of course, soldiers in other armies are also soldiers, and the two are of equal value. Although Yang Ming is a bit protective, he does not feel that his soldiers are more valuable than other soldiers.
But he just felt a little depressed.
'My situation may only be this big.'
Yang Ming did some chest enlargement exercises and asked Po Sao to rest in the corner of the cabin.
There is still a fierce battle ahead, and they must adjust their condition as soon as possible.
The Great Queen also has a 'war song' that lures the ancient god's life form, but she has to guard against this thing.
…
This is war.
Revell moved a chair and sat in front of the porthole, staring at the bodies of more than a dozen ships being dragged back into the starry sky.
It was a ship that was attacked by insects and did not have time to detonate itself.
He could vaguely see the corpses piled up into a hill, which swelled into a somewhat terrifying appearance in the cold universe. They were densely packed, with hundreds to thousands of people on each ship.
Revell suddenly felt that the use of various semi-automatic machines and restrained artificial intelligence was indeed a very good thing.
Otherwise, a thousand-meter warship would require thousands of soldiers and technicians to operate and maintain it. In such a war, the casualties would be several times greater.
In less than half an hour, 293,000 soldiers died.
Revell couldn't imagine how tragic the situation would be on a battlefield where there was constant fighting and even a 'Main Insect Tide' broke out.
This is the second disaster.
Insects do not have human emotions. They should not feel what grief is. They are more like indifferent biological machines, accurately executing the instructions given by the mother worm, in order to advance the mother worm, ascend the dimension, and plunder the starry sky.
everything of.
But humans can't.
Revell couldn't say a word for a long time.
At this moment, he went to read the official frontline battle report, and what he saw was no longer the cold words. What he saw were the mountains of piled corpses, the horrific-looking corpses, and the nearly endless swarm of insects.
.
"Your Excellency," the staff officer walked over quickly and said seriously, "the military department has issued a commendation order to you. Your outstanding performance in this battle has won positive comments from many generals."
Revell frowned and glanced at the staff officer.
He is somewhat disgusted with these officialdom styles.
"I didn't do anything," Revell said calmly. "The orders were all issued by the Imperial Guard system. I just stood up to cheer everyone up, and then I ended my mission."
The staff officer said slowly: "The Imperial Guard system is always only an auxiliary system."
"I didn't do anything!"
Revell suddenly stood up.
The chair was being thrown back, and Revell grabbed the staff officer's collar and glared at the staff officer:
"We didn't do anything! That's what the empire's generals and officers do, right? We didn't give a single meaningful order! We watched helplessly as the Imperial Guard system let so many humans die!
"We didn't even try to save lives!
"Answer me! Are all the empire's generals such trash? They all just hide behind the Imperial Guard system!"
"Count Revell," the staff officer frowned slightly, with a helpless smile on his lips, "You are under too much pressure. Relax. Everyone is afraid of insects. All we have to do is face our fears."
“Fuck fear!”
Revell growled, pushed the staff officer away, took two steps back, squeezed his eyes hard, and his voice was trembling.
"Sorry...sorry, I have some..."
"This is normal. Taking a deep breath can make you feel better."
The staff officer said warmly:
"You also performed very well in the previous insect disasters when the new federal insect burial plan was detonated, but there are many differences between these two insect disasters.
"During the last insect plague, our biggest trouble was that dozens of insect swarms were simultaneously activated by the New Federation. We could only temporarily use conventional troops and were unable to activate the true power of the empire.
"The swarm of insects we faced that time were all insects that had a short development time and were barely at the fourth level.
"Now, it is the insect swarm on the edge of the galaxy that is carrying out an extermination attack on human civilization. More than a dozen small political bodies have failed to fight against the insect plague and have disappeared permanently from the galaxy. The empire has only managed to suppress the insect swarm by relying on its own heritage.
Resist.
"This will inevitably require huge sacrifices... In fact, we have modified the figures released to the public to avoid causing public panic..."
Revell covered his head with his hands, leaned his back against the porthole, and slowly sat on the ground: "What can we do?"
"We are all small, just cogs on this battlefield," the staff officer said warmly. "Even Major General Hanton, our hero, is just a bigger cog. If you want to resist the insect tide, you must rely on enough."
soldiers, enough ships, enough firepower, and efficient control of all firepower points."
"My idol is nearby, right?"
"He is already maneuvering towards the frontal battlefield," the staff officer said. "About five minutes ago, he arrived at the Saka Star escort fleet. While harvesting scattered bugs, he moved towards the main battlefield. We also got some interesting orders.
."
Revell's mood relaxed a lot and asked softly: "What order?"
"Drive these bugs that have lost their command center and brains toward the ship where Hanton is located, and kill the bugs near him and the Valkyrie to recharge the modified bodies of the two ancient gods."
Two question marks appeared on Revell's forehead.
"That's it," the staff officer shrugged. "This is a force we can't understand."
"Did I lose my temper just now?" Revell grinned, "I suddenly thought that my idol, he has been fighting against life forms like insects from the very beginning..."
The staff officer smiled and said: "The first time I faced a battle with high casualties, my mood broke even more. You are already outstanding among young people."
"No, no, no, I'm just an ordinary person," Revell shook his head and took out his own network access terminal, "If you have any problems later, just let the Imperial Guard system connect to it, and I'll go get some gifts for my idol.
"
Staff officer:......
There is no doubt that this is the basic quality of a good commander.
…
A formation of more than two hundred miscellaneous ships escorted Yang Ming and Po Suo all the way 'northward'.
After more than half an hour of rest and a steady supply of strange biological energy, Yang Ming and Posuo had filled in the previous defects.
When Li appeared again, Yang Ming was taking a nap with his eyes closed, disassembling two laser pistols.
The latter belongs to the type where the tube is removed and not installed.
"Major General Hanton," Li called softly.
Her projection attracted the attention of many young people from Saka, but after they watched for a while, the "Imperial Security Confidentiality Clause" automatically popped up on their respective network terminals or various screens in front of them.
Without opening his eyes, Yang Ming said, "Just tell me the next battle plan."
"Please allow me to summarize the current situation first."
Li's voice and tone became visibly more polite.
She said slowly:
"According to the data we detected, the 'express delivery' you threw seriously injured the pseudo-queen and directly exposed the coordinates of the queen's hiding place.
“To a certain extent, we have taken some initiative.
"But the current situation is not optimistic. From the perspective of the galaxy, the Zerg continues to attack. In addition to the Sherman Empire, the New Federation, the United States of Free States, and the Guel Alliance, most of the countries in China have been attacked by the insect plague.
Small political systems are now in trouble.
"The fifth-order adults and the sixth-order adults are powerful enemies that cannot be defeated by the fleets of small countries.
"In the past two galaxies, six political systems have fallen completely..."
Yang Ming opened his eyes and looked at Li: "Is it so serious?"
Whisper also raised his head and looked over.
Li nodded slightly: "Although things outside the empire's territory have nothing to do with me, this is the rule I was written into, but from a humanitarian perspective, as well as the mission and responsibility of the Sherman Empire in the galaxy, we should
We will do our best to end this insect wave as soon as possible."
Yang Ming captured some information in her words.
However, now is not the time to pursue these details.
Yang Ming asked: "How do you want to solve it?"
Li Kuai said: "We can follow our previous thinking, directly lead the Queen out, destroy her or repel her."
"The specific steps," Yang Ming said directly, "I want to know the empire's trump card."
"The specific steps require me to adjust to changes in the battlefield environment. I can demonstrate part of the plan for you."
Li raised his hand and drew a square box, inside which appeared an environmental overview of the star field on the main battlefield.
"The initiator of this insect wave is this big queen. If the big queen dies, her direct sixth-order insect swarm will collapse, and the pseudomother worms split from her body will also die.
"Now, we have three weapons that can defeat the Great Queen."
A 'final stage' female insect thousands of kilometers high appeared in the corner of the battlefield.
"She is probably in this position," Li said softly.
Whisper asked: "Which three?"
"The first type, strange material bomb."
Li's mouth curved slightly:
"This is a weapon that can be carried by a single soldier. Because of the special characteristics of the strange substance, we only need one cubic centimeter of the strange substance to come into contact with the queen's body to defeat the queen in a very short period of time.
"This seems to be a very feasible plan, but in fact, I have gone through 120,000 deductions and none of them have been successful.
"So, two people carrying the strange substance bomb can be used as the first stage of feint attack."
Feint?
Yang Ming nodded: "I like this kind of work, and I also like your choice of words. At least, you don't have a superstitious belief in the power of Faya."
Li said calmly: "Faya people are not reliable."
"Go on," Yang Ming and Wu Sua crossed their arms at the same time. Their movements, postures and expressions were all somewhat similar.
Li continued: "Your feint is just a superficial feint. I will arrange for the entire army to cooperate with you in this show. The only thing you have to do is to determine the exact location of the Queen, and then hand over to us the terminator weapon of conventional force.
."
A giant fortress with a diameter of several thousand meters appeared on Li's right.
Imperial Skywrath Fortress.
Without waiting for Yang Ming to speak, Li continued: "This is a star cannon that can only be plugged. It is expected to be able to severely damage the queen, but it is not 100% sure that it can be severely damaged."
Yang Ming asked: "Can't even the stellar cannon?"
"Have you noticed? This queen is like a planet now."
Li said softly:
"She actually has a three-layer structure. The outermost layer is formed by the expansion of special materials in high-dimensional space, similar to a kind of armor. The middle layer is her old slough, that is, her original body, which has been connected to the outer layer.
The inner layer is the true high-dimensional life form.
"After repeated calculations, the stellar cannon can only break her outer shell and cause trauma to the middle layer.
"The most ideal state is that under the bombardment of the stellar cannon, she has to release her thinking network and break away from the old molt. This also declares that she has lost control of the insect tide in our current dimension, and the pseudomother insects will also self-control.
collapse.
"It's like a mastermind, forcing its central processor to leave the host computer."
Yang Ming asked: "What if the Stellar Cannon fails to meet expectations?"
"I will directly activate the empire's unconventional ultimate force."
"What?"
"Before it appears, this is the empire's top secret," Li said with a hint of amusement in his eyes, "You should be able to guess it."
Yang Ming frowned and said, "I hate the Riddler."
"Do you need to make any preparations?" Li calmly changed the topic, "Out of consideration for the overall civilization of the galaxy, we need to launch a crusade against the Great Queen as soon as possible."
The corners of Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly.
Several thoughts swirling in his mind have begun to come alive.
Yang Ming said: "The one I wanted to transfer before was Blay, the asexual angel and the super-alterer who is good at mind control. Why hasn't he come over yet?"
"He is a first-level dangerous person to me," Li said calmly, "I can't use him."
"So that's it," Yang Ming asked again, "Then I have three conditions. The first is to keep my assistant by my side. I think you won't refuse to cooperate with her."
Li nodded lightly: "If she doesn't reject it, I can agree."
"Second, you have to ensure the safety of me and Posuo."
"Please rest assured that you have won my respect in this series of battles," Li Kuai said, "and you are my most important helper before I can achieve my strategic goals.
"
"That's a double meaning, right?"
"Sorry, I don't understand your hint."
"Okay, third," Yang Ming took a deep breath, "I hope you can promise that the people of the empire have the right to know the details of the insect tide."
Li thought for a moment and nodded gently: "Please be ready to attack, the Dongfeng and the escort fleet are about to arrive."
Her figure is about to disappear.
"Emperor Guard!"
Yang Ming suddenly stopped her.
"Huh?" Li expressed his doubts appropriately.
Yang Ming asked: "You are just using me to fight against the Queen?"
Li stared at Yang Ming calmly, and his figure turned into a point of light and disappeared.
Yang Ming seemed to see her smile, but only in a daze.