Chapter 363: Prime Minister Guell's Drawer
Lieutenant General Thomas is a good teacher.
He really has something and he really teaches it to those around him.
Yang Ming has commanded medium-sized fleet battles.
——He led less than a hundred Dark Star "old" ships and fought seven times in and out of the Free Kingdom of Nonar.
But that is a lawful breastfeeding-level assistance.
Lu is different from ordinary ship-borne super brains. Her reaction speed and control over the ship are far superior to the command systems at all levels used by the Imperial Fleet.
Yang Ming gave an order verbally, and Lu controlled the entire fleet to carry out the mission within a few tenths of a second.
But this is not 'regular assistance'.
Because of human vigilance against the omnic crisis and the importance of ship control systems, the logical chains that can generate self-awareness have been removed from the shipboard super brains. They can summarize the massive amount of information on the battlefield and construct a three-dimensional structural diagram for the commander's reference. According to the commander's instructions on the structural diagram, the information is conveyed to the command desks of each ship in a very short time, and the operators of each system of the ship independently complete the next step of control.
It is humans who issue instructions and it is also humans who execute them.
This is the fleet command system that human civilization can accept.
When the Empire's global defense system is activated, it will integrate the computing power of all Imperial ships in the war zone, replace the position of the commander-in-chief, and forcibly connect the main brains of all warships into a whole, giving the operator sufficiently simplified instructions (press button number).
It is the machines that issue the instructions and it is humans who execute them.
The reason why the Dark Star Fleet is more efficient is that the above relationship is exactly the opposite.
The combination of Yang Ming and Lu took advantage of the loopholes of the companion mechanical thinking body. Lu itself should not be a creation that can be created below the fifth level of civilization.
Therefore, Yang Ming felt that he should take this opportunity to supplement his professional knowledge of battleship group command.
Yang Ming will neither place all his bets on the Empire nor on the still-developing Luo Feng, and of course he will not place all his bets on the Dark Star and the mechanical thinking body. What he wants is three legs... ahem, two legs to walk on.
After the first battle, Lieutenant General Thomas held a video conference with general officers to summarize the battle as usual.
At the meeting, Lieutenant General Thomas specifically asked Yang Ming, the "head coach", to speak.
Yang Ming, sitting in the main seat, expressed his thoughts on the battleship command in a cautious and calm manner. These generals also liked Boss Yang very much and applauded to encourage him.
Yang Ming: …
The atmosphere gives me a sense of a village committee cadres meeting.
Once the war broke out, interstellar public opinion became extremely turbulent, and the diplomatic struggle among countries officially began.
The various departments of the empire, in contrast to their lazy attitude during the last expedition, began a joint sniping attack on the New Federation in various fields.
Economic confrontation, cutting off external resources, and tit-for-tat in international organizations;
There was even an "unseemly" incident where two delegations came to blows in a public meeting.
In the first week of the war, the Empire's large-scale army leapt into the border of the New Federation, repelled the New Federation's "showy" counterattacks dozens of times, controlled the twelve stars in this section of the border, and achieved the first step of the established goals.
This is just the beginning.
Then, the Empire slowed down its offensive and adopted harassment tactics, using these twelve stars as a springboard to radiate one-third of the New Federation's territory.
In the next half month, the Empire used a small fleet to attack the New Federation's transport fleet, dispatching nearly 10,000 ships in total, losing more than 120 ships of various types, destroying more than 30 New Federation main battleships, more than 230 transport ships of different specifications, and more than 100 frigates of various types, significantly curbing the resource supply of the New Federation's main fleet.
The imperial military's harassment tactics achieved fairly good results.
At this moment, a standoff between the two sides has already occurred.
The Empire uses these twelve New Federation administrative stars and nearly 1.6 billion people as bargaining chips, waiting for the New Federation's main army to move forward for a decisive battle, and making a gesture as if it is ready to rush into the heart of the New Federation's territory at any time.
At this time, the New Federation was under tremendous political pressure.
The empire suffered overwhelming criticism, but it didn't care at all.
The Empire even took the initiative to release various tragedies that occurred on these twelve planets - the supply of daily necessities was cut off, energy was cut off, resource reserves were emptied, and all kinds of problems arose in the people's living environment.
The areas of the New Federation affected by the war have caused public resentment to boil over;
How could the citizens of the New Federation, who have always lived in an atmosphere of democratic superiority, tolerate such continuous insults?
The slogans of decisive battle, promoting war, and driving the invaders away from the border have become the hottest terms in various regional networks within the New Federation.
Fortunately, their network model worked again, and the planets in the rear that were not threatened were still able to pretend to be peaceful.
Yang Ming also discovered a very interesting phenomenon.
International human rights organizations demanded on-site monitoring of the imperial occupation zones, and the empire opened its doors and fully cooperated.
The imperial army had strict military discipline. Even the second-line troops who were sent to carry out the "plundering order" did not do anything out of line and fully respected the human rights of the residents in the occupied areas.
The imperial soldiers could even do this: not retaliate when being insulted, and fight back when being beaten.
This made Yang Ming very emotional.
Look at the personal qualities of soldiers in this interstellar age!
In his hometown, those imperialist soldiers from the Baga Oyesmita family create negative news every day to undermine the hard work of their intelligence navy.
However, food shortage and shortage of drinking water resources are the problems that these planets cannot change and are getting worse.
An Imperial spokesman publicly stated:
The transmission lines and energy station equipment on the twelve stars had been destroyed by the New Federation army before it retreated, and all responsibility belonged to the New Federation. The Empire had no obligation to feed these New Federation residents unless they obtained the Empire's residence permit, in which case the Empire would fully let these residents feel the benevolence of the great emperor.
In response, the Interstellar Human Rights Inquiry Commission and a group of new federally funded nonprofit organizations attempted to channel resources to the Twelve Planets.
However, they were soon harassed by some "interstellar pirates". Not only were their supplies lost, but their ships and people also disappeared without a trace.
The empire completely blocked the shipping routes to the twelve planets in the name of eliminating pirates.
As a result of this combination of imperial hegemony, a large number of residents of the Twelve Stars began to apply for imperial household registration.
Yang Ming has been very busy recently. He has to study and participate in some interview programs at the same time.
With a famous general like Thomas by his side to guide him, Yang Ming gained a fairly intuitive understanding of large-scale naval battles in the Milky Way, learned a lot of tactics and combat skills, and also had the most basic concept of "full ship synchronization".
However, Lieutenant General Thomas was very cautious and did not let Yang Ming take part in the battle even in a small conflict.
There was no way. Yang Ming was only a nominal commander, and the military had extremely strict discipline.
As time goes by, the first large-scale confrontation between the Imperial Expeditionary Force and the New Federation's battleship group seems to be getting closer.
On the 46th standard galactic day after the war broke out, the President of the New Federation delivered a speech lasting three galactic hours, announcing that the New Federation would immediately enter a stage of "full war preparedness" and engage in a "just" battle with the Sherman Empire.
After the speech, seventy percent of the political systems in the galaxy condemned the Sherman Empire's invasion to varying degrees.
The Guel Alliance officially dispatched an interstellar mercenary corps to enter the New Federation to protect the safety of the New Federation's logistics routes and ensure the stable lives of ordinary people.
The Free United States has not yet sent troops directly, but they have taken the initiative to disclose the production orders of 62 military factories, and they will all serve the new federal military in the next year.
The four strongest countries in the galaxy, two are fighting each other, two are making money, and the other medium and large countries also follow suit, and then unanimously condemn the Sherman Empire which was the first to take action.
Another half month later, in the vast deep space behind the Twelve Occupied Stars, twelve thousand ships of various types from the Empire and sixteen thousand ships from the New Federation officially began a confrontation.
A war could break out at any time.
The New Federation was determined to fight to the death and assembled twelve 'Eye of Deep Space' dreadnoughts, four of which were old dreadnoughts that were sealed up as strategic resources.
The Empire seemed to be at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, with only eight dreadnoughts on the front line of the battle.
The situation on the front line is becoming increasingly tense.
The Empire has stockpiled a large number of ambushes near the Twelve Stars. Thousands of warships from the core fleet of the Imperial Star are trying to become the axe that falls on the neck of the New Federation's main fleet.
Sensing that a major battle was approaching, Yang Ming also stopped the so-called propaganda activities and followed Lieutenant General Thomas every day, feeling the powerful sense of oppression brought about by this highest-level war in the galaxy.
It's quite enjoyable.
…
The encirclement around itself collapsed, and the powerful Empire and the New Federation were about to engage in a high-intensity war.
Luofeng has indeed entered a golden period of development recently.
Because of Yang Ming's 'assassination at one stroke' incident, which triggered a decisive battle between the two superpowers, the news of the expansion of the Luofeng Alliance has become a small news event.
The high-quality capital flowing out of the New Federation and the Sherman Empire, as well as the resources continuously flowing in from the United Kingdom of Nonar, have become a new driving force for Luofeng's economic development.
Pulled by these two space carriages, the entire Luofeng territory showed a booming development trend.
The rise of Luofeng has become the dream of every Luofeng person.
This is just on the surface.
Secretly, in order to open up the connection between the Luofeng Alliance and the United Kingdom of Nonar, Lu took advantage of the opportunity when his boss went to the Imperial Expeditionary Force to learn and began to focus on managing and conquering several small countries between the two.
Mechanical thinking bodies combined with highly realistic robots to replace the politicians and military leaders of small countries have become the killer weapon of the Dark Star system.
Although objectively speaking, the replacement of power by omnics can usually trigger the highest level of omnic crisis;
But Lu firmly believes that mechanical thinking bodies are fundamentally different from the intelligent machines of the current stage of galactic human civilization.
What's more, each political-level mechanical thinking body is equipped with a one-button headshot system, and the detonation button is in the hands of Yang Ming and Lu.
Now, Lu and Luofeng just need to wait for an opportunity.
Far away in the airspace of other galactic spiral arms, a fleet of thirty thousand warships were confronting each other;
The Sherman Empire and the New Federation are about to face their first major battle.
If the result of this battle is a great victory for the Sherman Empire, Luo Feng must control his own expansionist intentions and put the expansion of the alliance on the back burner.
But if the Sherman Empire wins a small victory, a partial victory, or even loses this battle for the first time, the Fallen Wind Alliance can immediately expand outward.
The latest contracts for the five small countries to join the alliance are already in the corner of Adwant's desk.
This time they have learned their lesson and will adopt the method of external announcement instead of holding any signing ceremony.
"Your Majesty, you should rest."
Miss Guina's gentle reminder came from the side.
"Um."
Adwant raised his head and stretched his neck a few times, then stopped reviewing the documents and leaned back in his seat.
Gui Na took the initiative to step forward and help Edwang massage his sore cervical vertebrae.
Ed Wang suddenly asked: "Is everything going well with your boss?"
"It went smoothly," Guina said softly, her long hair falling on both sides. "The boss is in a pretty good environment now. The aftermath of the previous incident where Dixing insulted the emperor has subsided. Although the emperor still doesn't want to see our boss, the royal family that controls all kinds of resources in the empire is pretty good to the boss."
Edwang wondered, "How did you do that?"
"The goddess complained that her boss betrayed her sexy body."
"Wow," Edwang said with a sigh, "This should be just a joke. I know Yang Ming. Unless the other person is a very beautiful girl, he will definitely not be willing to offer his body."
"You guessed it right."
"Or Her Highness Daphne?"
"Yes."
"This princess is actually a nice person," Adwan whispered, "It is said that she has never had a boyfriend. She is a rare chaste princess in the empire, and now she has become a singer in the empire."
Guina smiled and said, "The boss still likes the type of Captain Catherine, who has a strong sense of justice."
When they are chatting with physical contact, their voices will not be heard outside the two of them. This is a new technology used in Guina's Terminator No. 1 machine.
Adwant sighed slowly.
He asked softly, "Actually, I've always had a question. Can you help me answer it, Guina?"
"Your Majesty, please tell me. I will comprehensively judge the authority I need to answer your questions."
"Ming Ta, why don't you just replace me?" Edwang asked in a low voice.
Gui Na pondered for a long time.
Edwang whispered, "I can actually guess that Ming is making a very dangerous attempt to use mechanical civilization to establish his own power. Mechanical civilization can spread wildly in a very short period of time. Now I don’t know how powerful his power is... I am too important in his system. Gui Na, Luo Feng is the external cover of his secret base, and I know too many of his secrets... Replacing me should be his top priority."
“I can only say that mutual trust between humans is a very strange emotion.”
Guina smiled and said:
“You may not know that in our system, as long as you exist to follow the boss’s will, everyone knows that you are the boss’s partner and best partner.
"Then let me ask you a question. Why, as the emperor of the Luofeng Empire, can you tolerate the entire military strength of the Luofeng Empire being controlled by my boss?"
Edwang said seriously: "Do you think Ming will betray me? He even has countless opportunities to become the emperor of this country himself."
"Look, don't you have the answer?"
Edwin burst out laughing.
"This guy, I hope that one day I can call him... Boss. This title is so tacky."
Guina smiled but said nothing.
In fact, they all call their boss "father".
Guina paused her kneading motion and whispered, "The latest news from the battlefield, half a minute ago, the entire New Federation army began to press forward."
"The war has begun! Is there a live broadcast from the Empire?"
"No, Your Majesty. The Empire is fighting this time in the manner of a war of annihilation."
"Oh, this is excruciating."
Edwan placed the contracts in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief.
He could only wait.
…
at the same time.
In the underground defense tower on the first star of the Guell Alliance, in the temporary office of the Prime Minister of the Alliance, which is decorated in an exquisite and simple style.
The gray-haired leader of the fourth most powerful country in the Milky Way was sitting quietly behind his desk at this moment, and he could see some text reports by looking down.
The New Federation took the initiative to attack.
The first large-scale confrontation between the two superpowers in this war has already begun.
What is she going to do?
What else can she do?
Out of consideration for national interests, she has made a series of preparations.
The New Federation cannot fall, otherwise they will have to face the plunder of the Imperial Fleet. Therefore, it is in the national interest to support the New Federation from the military and industrial aspects and directly increase the strength of the New Federation in the form of mercenaries.
But that was all she could do.
Pulling all the main fleet groups to the New Federation, serving as the New Federation's vanguard, and engaging in a decisive battle with the Empire... that is something only a fool would do.
For them, the perfect situation would be for the New Federation and the Sherman Empire to weaken simultaneously.
Of course, the possibility of this is very low.
Now we can only wait for the results.
No matter how much the politicians outside the battlefield do, they cannot change the outcome of the fighting between the two sides of the battlefield. The only thing they can hope for now is that there is really a problem with the empire's national defense system...
Boom boom boom!
The drawer at the lower left corner of the desk suddenly shook continuously.
The Prime Minister's expression became more serious as she lowered her head and stared at where the drawer was.
Every prime minister will have a series of "teaching" when he takes office, and this drawer, which has always been empty, will be regarded as the most important matter and will be instructed by the previous prime minister to the next prime minister.
She hadn't opened the drawer in two years, but now, at this critical moment, the drawer moved.
The Prime Minister exhaled lightly, lowered his head, leaned forward, and seemingly casually opened the drawer, revealing a piece of ordinary printed paper turned upside down inside.
She took out the paper and placed it in front of her. The universal language of the galaxy began to appear on it, lines appearing and disappearing, and the content was very clear.
The Prime Minister subconsciously clenched her hands, her expression somewhat solemn, but she did not dare to delay any longer and immediately picked up the dedicated communicator beside her.
"Commander, the sixth plan, the capital fleet will jump, we must join the war."
"But Prime Minister, do we have to go out now? Even if we want to fight, shouldn't we wait until the war is almost over before we go out?"
"If we jump now, we will arrive at the battlefield in half an hour, which should be just the right time. Please do as I say immediately. The Military Federation should have received the same instructions, so execute them immediately!"
"Yes, I just received the order... As ordered! All the communicators are here! All the main battleship groups will jump to the first target area! Be prepared to enter the battlefield!"
