Chapter 415 The Final Battle is Coming
When he saw Peterson and this group of young people from Sakaar, Yang Ming swallowed back the words he had prepared.
Actually, there is no need to say anything.
Since they have chosen to stand up, they must bear the risks and costs of being a hero.
Peterson's eyes became steady and heavy, his young face showed some vicissitudes of life, and he tried to keep his expression calm.
“Well done.”
Yang Ming patted Peterson's arm and sighed slowly:
"You can. I'll use my connections to place you in the rear area. You just have to find a tough job and fight the bugs."
"I'm sorry, Lord. I know these ships are very valuable..."
"How can ships be so valuable? Aren't they all man-made?"
Yang Ming interrupted Peterson and whispered:
“A general must not only learn how to let his soldiers die, but also how to keep them alive and how to give their deaths heroic meaning.
“This is to fight against natural disasters, and the pensions for the soldiers who died in the battle will be tripled according to the standards we set, so that Governor Godoy can 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 at that time, I saw it.
"Carry on their share and continue to fight. This is the best consolation for the fallen soldiers. Remember?"
"Yeah," Peterson said with an ugly smile, "I understand."
Yang Ming clicked his tongue, his eyes swept over these young people, and frowned, "Everyone go back to work. Po Su and I will rest on this ship for a while. We will form a battle formation and harvest as many insects as possible. The two of us can absorb nutrients from the insects."
"yes!"
The group of soldiers from Sakaar saluted at the same time and quickly returned to their respective posts.
They clearly had a new temperament that they had not had 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 natives left on Saka.
These young men who joined his personal guard had suffered a lot when they were young, including economic recession and insect plagues. Now that their lives are finally getting better, they lost their lives again in the starry sky.
Of course, soldiers from other armies are also soldiers, and their value is equal. Although Yang Ming is a bit protective of his own soldiers, he does not think that his soldiers are more valuable than other soldiers.
But he just felt a little depressed.
'Maybe this is the extent of my vision.'
Yang Ming did some chest expansion exercises and asked Po Su to go to the corner of the cabin to rest.
There is another tough battle coming up and they must adjust their condition as soon as possible.
The Queen also has the "War Song" that can lure ancient god life forms, so we have to be on guard against this.
…
This is war.
Revill moved a chair and sat in front of the porthole, staring at the hulls of a dozen ships being towed back in the starry sky.
That was a ship that was attacked by bugs and did not have time to self-destruct.
He could vaguely see that the corpses piled up into a small hill had grown 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 kilometer-class warship would require thousands of soldiers and technicians to operate and maintain it, and in such a war, casualties would multiply several times.
In less than half an hour, 293,000 soldiers died.
Revill couldn't imagine how tragic the situation was on the battlefield ahead, where there had been fighting and even a "main insect tide" had broken out.
This is the second plague.
Insects do not have human emotions, so they should not be able to feel what grief is. They are more like cold biological machines, accurately executing the instructions given by the queen insect, plundering everything in the starry sky in order to advance and upgrade their dimensions.
But humans can't.
Revelle was unable to utter a word for a long time.
When he looked at the official front-line battle reports again, he no longer saw cold words. What he saw were the piles of corpses, the horrific-looking corpses, and the nearly endless swarms of insects.
"Mr. Earl," the staff officer walked over quickly and said solemnly, "The military has sent you a commendation order. Your outstanding performance in this battle has won positive comments from a number of generals."
Revell frowned and glanced at the staff officer.
He was somewhat disgusted by these official practices.
"I didn't do anything," Revill said calmly. "The orders were issued by the Imperial Guard System. I just stood up and told everyone to cheer up , and then I ended my mission."
The staff officer said slowly: "The Imperial Guard System is always just an auxiliary."
"I didn't do anything!"
Revell suddenly stood up.
The chair was thrown back, and Revil grabbed the staff officer by the collar, glaring at him:
"We didn't do anything! That's what the generals and officers of the Empire do, right? We didn't issue any meaningful orders! We watched the Imperial Guard system kill so many humans!
"We didn't even try to save lives!
"Answer me! Are all the generals of the empire such losers? They can only hide behind the Imperial Guard System!"
"Count Revil," the staff officer frowned slightly, with a helpless smile on his face, "You are under too much pressure. Relax. Everyone will be afraid of bugs. What we need to do is to face our fears."
"Fuck the fear!"
Revill growled, pushed the staff officer away, took two steps back, squeezed his eyes hard, and his voice trembled a little.
"Sorry... Sorry, I'm a little..."
"This is normal. Take a deep breath and you'll feel better."
The staff officer said in a gentle voice:
“You also performed very well in the previous insect plague when the New Federation’s insect burial plan was detonated, but these two insect plagues are very different.
“During the last insect plague, our biggest problem was that dozens of insect swarms were activated simultaneously by the New Federation. We could only temporarily mobilize conventional forces and were unable to activate the true power of the empire.
“The insect swarm we faced that time were all relatively recent-stage insects that barely reached the fourth stage.
"Right now, it is the Zerg swarms at the edge of the Milky Way that are carrying out an extinction-style attack on human civilization. More than a dozen small political entities have failed to resist the Zerg plague and have disappeared forever from the Milky Way. The Empire has barely managed to resist the Zerg tide by relying on its own foundation.
"This will inevitably come at great expense... In fact, we have already modified the figures released to the public so as not to cause public panic..."
Revell covered his head with his hands, leaned against the porthole, and slowly sat on the ground: "What can we do?"
"We are all insignificant, just cogs in this battlefield," the staff officer said gently, "even Major General Hanton, our hero, is just a larger cog. To resist the insect tide, we need enough soldiers, enough ships, enough firepower, and efficient control of all firepower points."
"My idol is nearby, right?"
"He has already moved towards the front battlefield," the staff officer said. "About five minutes ago, he arrived at the Sakaar escort fleet and is harvesting scattered insects while moving towards the main battlefield. We have also received some interesting orders."
Revell calmed down a lot and asked softly, "What order?"
"Drive these mindless bugs that have lost their command center toward the ship where Hanton is. Kill the bugs near him and the Valkyrie Posa to recharge the two ancient gods' transformed bodies."
Two question marks appeared on Revell's forehead.
"That's it," the staff officer shrugged. "It's a force we can't understand."
"Did I just lose my temper?" Revill grinned. "It suddenly occurred to me that my idol has been fighting against life forms like insects since the very beginning..."
The staff officer smiled and said, "I was even more emotionally devastated when I faced a high casualty battle for the first time. You are already outstanding among young people."
"No, no, no, I'm just an ordinary person," Revelle shook his head and took out his own network terminal. "If you have any follow-up questions, just let the Emperor Guard system go. I'll go get some gifts for my idol."
Staff Officer: ...
There is no doubt that this is the basic quality of an excellent commander.
…
A fleet of more than 200 miscellaneous ships escorted Yang Ming and Posha all the way 'northward'.
After more than half an hour's rest and a steady supply of exotic biological energy, Yang Ming and Posu have made up for their previous shortcomings.
When Li appeared again, Yang Ming was dozing with his eyes closed, and Po Su was disassembling two laser pistols.
The latter is the type that only cares about disassembly but not installation.
"Major General Hanton," Li called softly.
Her projection attracted the attention of many young people from Saka, but after they looked at it for a while, the "Imperial Security Confidentiality Clauses" automatically popped up on their network terminals or various screens in front of them.
Without even opening his eyes, Yang Ming said, "Just tell me about the next battle plan."
"Please allow me to summarize the current situation first."
The reason's voice and tone became visibly polite.
She said slowly:
"According to the data we detected, the 'express delivery' you threw out severely injured the fake 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 Milky Way, the Zerg's continued attacks have put most of the small and medium-sized polities that have been attacked by the Zerg in addition to the four major polities of the Sherman Empire, the New Federation, the Free United States, and the Guel Alliance in trouble.
“Level 5 and 6 adults are powerful enemies that a small country’s fleet cannot defeat.
"In the past two galactic hours, six political entities have been completely destroyed..."
Yang Ming opened his eyes and looked at Li: "Is it so serious?"
Posa also looked up.
Li nodded slightly: "Although what happens outside the empire has nothing to do with me, this is the rule I was written into, but from a humanitarian perspective, and the Sherman Empire's mission and responsibility in the galaxy, we should do everything we can to end this insect tide as soon as possible."
Yang Ming caught some information from her words.
However, now is not the time to get into those details.
Yang Ming asked: "How do you want to solve it?"
Li said quickly: "We can just follow our previous ideas and lure the Queen out directly, destroy her or repel her."
"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, within which appeared an overview of the environment of the star field where the main battlefield was located.
"The instigator of this insect tide is this great queen. If the great queen dies, her direct lineage of sixth-order insect swarms will collapse, and the pseudo-queen insects that split from her body will also die.
"Now, we have three weapons that can defeat the Queen."
A 'final stage' queen insect thousands of kilometers tall appeared in the corner of the battlefield.
"She's probably in this direction," Li said softly.
Posha asked, "Which three?"
"The first one is the exotic matter bomb."
The corners of his mouth showed a little arc:
"This is a weapon that can be carried by a single soldier. Due to the special properties of the exotic matter, we only need one cubic centimeter of the exotic matter to come into contact with the queen's body to defeat her in a very short time.
“This seems to be a very feasible plan, but in fact, I have deduced it 120,000 times and not once has it been successful.
"So, the two of you carrying the exotic matter bombs can serve as the first feint attack."
Feint?
Yang Ming nodded: "I like this kind of work, and I like your choice of words. At least, you don't believe in Faya's power."
Li said calmly: "The Faya people are not reliable."
"Go on," Yang Ming and Po Suo crossed their arms at the same time. Their movements, postures and expressions were somewhat similar.
Li continued, "Your feint is just a superficial feint. I will arrange for the entire army to cooperate with you in this play. The only thing you have to do is to determine the exact location of the Queen, and then hand over the Terminator weapons of our conventional forces."
A giant fortress with a diameter of thousands of kilometers appeared on Li's right hand side.
Imperial Skywrath Fortress.
Without waiting for Yang Ming to speak, Li continued, "This stellar cannon has the potential to severely injure the queen, but it is not 100% certain to do so."
Yang Ming asked: "Even the stellar cannon can't be used?"
"Have you noticed? This queen is like a planet now."
Li said softly:
"She is actually a three-layer structure. The outermost layer is formed by the special material of the high-dimensional space, similar to a kind of armor. The middle layer is her old molt, that is, her original body, which is connected to the outer layer. The innermost layer is the real high-dimensional life form.
“After repeated calculations, it was determined that the stellar cannon could only break her outer shell and cause damage to the middle layer.
"The most ideal situation is that she is forced to release her thought network and break away from her old metamorphosis under the bombardment of the star cannon. This also means that she has lost control of the insect swarm in our current dimension, and the pseudo-queen will also collapse.
"It's like a master brain forcing its central processing unit to leave the host computer."
Yang Ming asked: "What if the stellar cannon fails to live up to 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 playful look, "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 subject. "For the sake of the overall civilization of the Milky Way, we need to launch a crusade against the Queen as soon as possible."
The corners of Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly.
The thoughts that were swirling in his mind began to come alive.
Yang Ming said: "The one I wanted to transfer here, Bray, the sexless angel, the super-changer who is good at mind control, why hasn't he come yet?"
"He is a level one dangerous person to me," Li said calmly, "I can't activate him."
"So that's how it is," Yang Ming asked again, "Then I have three conditions. The first is that my assistant stays by my side all the time. I think you won't refuse to cooperate with her."
Li nodded gently: "If she doesn't object, I can agree."
"Second, you have to ensure the safety of Po Su and me."
"Please rest assured that you have won my respect in this series of battles," Li said quickly, "and before I achieve my strategic goal, you are my most important helper."
“That has two meanings, right?”
"I'm 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 prepare for the attack. The Dongfeng and the escort fleet will arrive soon."
Her figure was about to disappear.
"Emperor Guard!"
Yang Ming suddenly called her.
"Hmm?" Li expressed his doubts just right.
Yang Ming asked: "Are you just using me to fight against the Queen?"
Li looked 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 trance.
