Chapter 88: Strategy: Driving out wolves and chasing away tigers
Ace Tarot Star, the captain of the 4th Battalion of the 4th Regiment of the Luofeng Empire's Royal Guard and Yang Ming's nominal superior, was standing on the bridge of the 004 landing ship with a pale face.
He didn't understand why fate was so cruel to him.
He could obviously be transferred in these two days!
If everything goes well and there are not so many unexpected events, his deputy captain Yang Ming, who is so dazzling that he is covered in diamonds, will take over as the captain of the Fourth Battalion after completing the military rank promotion ceremony.
That way, Lieutenant Colonel Ace could go to an idle department and continue to use his military rank to fill his empty noble honor.
In such a small country, it is already quite good for him to have achieved what he has achieved.
But now...
Yang Ming was suddenly assassinated.
That anti-mech missile destroyed everything that was supposed to be beautiful!
The sudden order forced Lieutenant Colonel Ace to lead this group of soldiers whose cerebral cortexes were filled with muscles to the most chaotic and dangerous area of the Luofeng Empire - the Fifth Administrative Planet.
When the transport ship sailed directly into the atmosphere and pressed towards the rebel base, Lieutenant Colonel Ace got the exact combat target.
[In the shortest possible time, destroy the New Federation Agent Group! ]
this……
Lieutenant Colonel Ace really wants to ask, are those generals who slapped their thighs to decide on this battle plan mentally ill?
Is it so easy to annihilate the New Federation Agents, the second most powerful country in the galaxy and known as the strongest agent team?
They only came with a mere 600 people!
To fight a war of annihilation, we need at least ten times more troops! We also need heavy artillery to bombard the space to destroy the solid structure of the commercial building!
With the limited manpower, equipment and firepower we have now... aren't we just courting death?
But military orders are military orders.
Even if Lieutenant Colonel Ace was dissatisfied in his heart, at this moment he could only continue to issue combat orders and do his job well.
Later, Lieutenant Colonel Ace was not prepared to charge forward, even though he had put on a privately purchased full-body trigger shield, he was not prepared to go to the front line.
Outside the landing ship, a row of unmanned gunboats sped past.
"Wow?"
Lieutenant Colonel Ace opened the battle report summary channel in front of him and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Their assault boat formation had already begun exchanging fire with the rebels on the ground, and guided by precise intelligence, they easily destroyed the rebel air defense positions.
This group of rebels, who were portrayed by the military as an elite armed force, were hastily using airships that were actually crude weapon platforms converted from hovercraft.
In front, half of the gunboats fired a salvo... We gained air superiority.
There was a subtle change in Lieutenant Colonel Ace's mentality.
Are all the New Federation's defense forces concentrated in the commercial building they want to attack?
Lieutenant Colonel Ace turned his head and looked at the three-dimensional sand table on the side. That shopping mall was indeed a good place to hide troops.
'If there are two high-caliber laser cannons hidden inside, that would be bad.'
Lieutenant Colonel Ace thought worriedly.
At this moment, thick smoke billowed out of the shopping mall in front of Lieutenant Colonel Ace.
At the moment the landing operation began, the command level between the 3rd Battalion and the 4th Battalion established normal communication. At this moment, the communication channel was filled with exaggerated descriptions from colleagues:
"A small team broke in ahead of time!"
"Damn it, we can't take the first credit! We ran so far, and now we have become reinforcements?"
"This team has successfully evaded detection by the new federal agents. They seem to have caused a lot of damage. It's unimaginable."
"Look, guys! You should all be able to see this intel.
"The parking lot on the ground floor of the shopping mall just experienced a huge explosion, and the passage was completely blocked! The first floor was frozen? It seems to be a special liquid bomb...
"There was a huge chaos in the middle parking lot and the top parking lot. The armored hovercrafts suddenly lost control, and it seemed that they were remotely controlled. They directly used their bodies to block various passages, blocking intersections one by one, and directly killed several federal soldiers."
"Where is the fighting still going on?" asked Lieutenant Colonel Ace.
"There was an explosion on the top of the shopping mall. We have already rushed to the assault boat near the shopping mall and sent back some images... Damn! What the hell is this!"
Lieutenant Colonel Ace frowned slightly.
He disliked the unaristocratic vulgarity of his colleagues.
This is not elegant at all.
But in the next half minute, swear words were heard one after another in the communication channel.
"Can you please send me a video?"
Lieutenant Colonel Ace urged with a frown. As soon as he finished speaking, a fierce fight taking place by the floor-to-ceiling window appeared on the projection screen in front of him.
On the left side of the video, there are more than 20 federal soldiers wearing desert camouflage uniforms, relying on the protrusions on the walls in various parts of the corridor to prepare for defense. The protective energy shields equipped to each person are also fully opened, and the gun barrels are locked on the area directly in front.
The picture remained still for more than ten seconds.
A black shadow suddenly rushed out from the fire equipment door on the side of the corridor, fired continuously with a pistol, held up two light shields, withstood the opponent's firepower, and forced its way into the crowd!
Lieutenant Colonel Ace's eyelids twitched violently.
Just when he thought that the black shadow was doomed to die, the other party moved back and forth in the narrow terrain, relying on extremely fast movements and quick reactions to continuously send the pistol to the enemy's forehead.
The battle lasted only twenty seconds.
Commander Ace couldn't even see most of the fighting action.
But when this group of federal soldiers fell, the dark shadow paused for a few seconds, leaning against the wall to check the weapons and ammunition.
Lieutenant Colonel Ace recognized the back of the dark figure...
"Fuck!"
Lieutenant Colonel Ace immediately shut up. He actually said such vulgar words that were contrary to aristocratic etiquette.
But this shadow.
Yang, Yang Ming!
It’s his deputy captain Yang Ming!
He is not!
With a whoosh, the video in front of Lieutenant Colonel Ace suddenly disappeared, a series of codes appeared on the projection screen, and the shouting of colleagues came from the headphones.
"Who deleted the video? I'm watching it a second time to learn new tactical moves!"
"The confidentiality agreement has been triggered...Oh, this might be someone from the secret service."
"This is amazing, that person is wearing our combat uniform, this is really fucking scary! It must be a robot! The human nervous system can never react that fast!"
"Shit! Our usual training is just like fucking shit!"
Lieutenant Colonel Ace turned down the volume on his headphones, and the world indeed became quiet.
Confidentiality agreement?
The middle-aged nobleman kept thinking, wondering if he had offended Yang Ming in any way, or if he had spoken too loudly during any of their conversations.
"Sir, we are approaching the target building."
The deputy captain reminded.
Lieutenant Colonel Ace turned his head and saw that the more than one hundred soldiers behind him had already prepared their hoverboards. His eyes were almost spewing flames, and his desire to fight was burning.
"attack."
Lieutenant Colonel Ace said weakly: "Or, to clean up the mess."
"Yes, sir!"
The group of Luofeng soldiers roared so loudly that Lieutenant Colonel Ace's eardrums almost went on strike.
Four landing craft hovered above the building, and the left and right side doors opened at the same time. Soldiers came out one after another on gliders, making a roundabout landing towards the target shopping mall, giving priority to eliminating the powerful enemies near the windows.
It seemed as if there were four more double helix structures in the sky, and from a distance, they looked as fascinating as a genetic sequence.
…
Click, click, click.
A crisp sound came from the trigger, and Yang Ming realized that he had emptied the charged magazine.
The federal soldier who was restrained by his one hand was now staring with his eyes wide open and his mouth opened as if begging for mercy, but Yang Ming had already thrown away his pistol, picked up his rifle, and quickly pulled the trigger, causing the soldier to lie down with his teammates.
"Boss, only 30 percent of the resistance force remains, and the Royal Guards have already rushed in."
Lu's voice kept talking.
Yang Ming looked around and rushed towards the fire escape.
"What are the chances of the Guards winning?"
"At present, the morale of the New Federation soldiers is low, the communication is paralyzed, and the defense system has been destroyed by the boss. The Guards have the advantage of peripheral firepower. The rebels are still in the assembly stage, and I hacked the command system, so they can't organize an effective counterattack... It is unlikely to fail."
Lu said softly, "Lu's suggestion is that we have accomplished our mission and can withdraw."
"Did you get their confidential information?"
"I got it, but I can't decipher it now," Lu explained, "and the information here should only be about the Luofeng Empire."
Yang Ming stood in the dim fire escape and hesitated for a few seconds, but decided to suppress the increasingly outrageous impulse in his heart and move forward as planned.
"Lil, prepare the transmission and help me mark the unmanned route."
"Okay boss."
Yang Ming picked up the rifle and started moving at high speed again along the green arrow that appeared in front of him.
Two minutes later, Yang Ming arrived at the edge of a window sill where the glass was shattered.
Outside the window is a quiet city. If you block out the sounds of explosions, it seems that here is also peaceful.
A beam of light broke through the clouds and disappeared very quickly.
Maintaining optical stealth, the Feinan turned around and slid into the quiet space. Before leaving the sub-gravity zone of the fifth administrative planet, it had already started the jump and appeared directly in the airspace near the planet Yilando.
No one noticed that the 'secret force' had left the battlefield at the end of the battle.
No one noticed that a beam of light, accompanied by the morning light, arrived at the rooftop of a hospital on the edge of Yilandu City.
Yang Ming jumped out of the beam of light.
He had changed into a hospital gown, wrapped himself like a mummy with bandages, and quickly lay on a stretcher pushed by two medical assistance robots and entered the emergency elevator.
"Good job, Ritsu."
In the elevator, Yang Ming spoke vaguely.
The medical robot next to him muttered at the lowest volume:
"Although it may be a little inappropriate to say this, I still want to remind the boss to make your own safety your first priority, otherwise there will be no point in having more assessments."
"Hmm, have you contacted Edwan?"
"He's on his way... Boss, do we need to adjust our response strategy?"
"Follow our plan," Yang Ming said with a smile, "We all have to respect the 'plan'."
Law made a faint sound.
"You just said 'cut', didn't you?" Yang Ming scolded, "Are you expressing disdain for your boss?"
"Boss, Kolev's progress is going smoothly."
"You changed the subject too abruptly."
"The elevator is about to open, boss," the medical robot immediately resumed its normal working state, "The second prince's motorcade has begun speeding. He is quite concerned about you. It's a pity that he does not meet your rigid requirements for a spouse."
Yang Ming was no longer able to answer anything.
He was pushed by a robot into the busy corridor and rushed to the nearest negative pressure ward.
…
In the speeding convoy, Edwang looked at the battle report from the front line that he had just received, his eyes filled with shock, and his facial features with a strong sense of three-dimensionality quickly twisted.
Technical term: Mask of pain.
[Before our two battalions arrived, a soldier almost eliminated all the enemy's resistance and destroyed a 300-man federal elite battalion. He mysteriously disappeared after a fierce street battle.]
He did it alone?
Only Philemon and he can see this battle report, which will be submitted to His Majesty the Emperor by him later.
At this moment, Edwang had a strong intuition - he must not let his father know Yang Ming's individual combat ability.
Ding, ding ding!
Two messages popped up on the tablet in Edwan's hand.
[Yang Ming: Your Highness, please let me polish the battle report.]
[Yang Ming: Please give an order to General Philemon to refuse to take prisoners and burn down the commercial building with incendiary bombs. Otherwise, there will be a huge political burden.]
Adwant's Adam's apple trembled up and down.
The economic loss from burning down the commercial building is probably hundreds of millions to tens of billions of New Federation coins, which is not a problem worth worrying about.
Refuse to take prisoners... In other words, the special forces and special agent teams of the New Federation will leave no one alive.
Without much hesitation, Adwant dialed General Philemon's encrypted communication a few seconds later.
After he explained all the details, the back seat of the hovercraft fell completely silent.
Edwang was staring out the window, his mind going blank for a moment.
This was the first time for him to decide the life and death of hundreds of . Although he understood that this was a war between two countries and that there could be no mercy in the face of this war, he was still a little uncomfortable with it.
Ding ding!
[Yang Ming: Your Highness, remember to bring some gifts. The battle report is ready, and I also gave some suggestions for the next political operation.]
Edwang pursed his lips and clicked on the word "suggestion" with "annotation" in it. A brocade bag jumped out , revealing lines of handwriting.
Name of the strategy: Drive out the wolves and chase away the tigers.
1. Contact the nobles of the Sherman Empire through private royal connections (Princess Dana was born into a noble family of the Sherman Empire and has such connections), and in the name of remote command by the nobles of the Sherman Empire, give the credit for eliminating the spy team in the country to the other party.
Second, prepare intensive TV programs, list the crimes of the new federal agents, mainly stealing the economy, avoid mentioning words such as subverting our regime, so that the people can truly feel that their interests are being harmed. (The people have opinions on the current political system, and they need to find ways to align the interests of the royal family with theirs, protect local natural resources, and achieve sustainable development in the future.)
3. Announce the economic stimulus plan in a timely manner so that the people can get small benefits in the shortest time possible, thereby establishing the injustice of the new federal agent team.
4. Buy a few trending searches within the Sherman Empire.
…
Adwant turned off the projection screen in front of him and leaned back in his chair for a long time.
At this moment, he seemed to see the burning commercial building on the Fifth Administrative Planet and the huge wave that was about to be set off by the furious New Federation.
The soldiers' battle is over.
But the war on the political field has just begun.
The battle was won, and the Luofeng Empire turned things around and had the opportunity to seek de facto independence.
If you lose the battle, you will be like stepping on the accelerator on the edge of a cliff, accelerating into the fast lane of the 'blood bank puppet state'.
"Are you whipping me to move forward, you guy?" Edwan murmured.
The subordinate in the co-pilot seat wondered, "Your Highness, are you giving me orders?"
"Get off the bus in front and go...buy a nice flower and fruit basket."
"Yes, my Lord," the loyal subordinate used bubbling sounds to attract the attention of His Royal Highness the Prince.
