The preparations for the Filipino coalition forces in the Al-Aqsa fortress to move south were going on in an intense and orderly manner.Although Hastings' act of forcibly dissolving the upper house of the coalition parliament has attracted a lot of criticism, in exchange for the unusually smooth progress of war preparations.Without the containment of the Coalition Council, the High Command and the High Command worked closely together.The orders given can be described as unimpeded.Whether it is the deployment of troops or materiel, whether it is personnel appointments or procurement plans, they can be implemented in the first time.The atmosphere of the Filipino alliance alliance has swept away the previous lifelessness and become vigorous with the acquiescence of the major allies to this fait accompli and the consensus reached at the supreme military conferences held one after another.In Al-Aqsa, a large amount of supplies are coming from the major star fields every day, and the mobilization of materials that used to take a week to complete now only takes two days.Even with the temporary addition of 300 quartermasters to the Allied command, the logistics department was too busy to touch the ground.Many logistics officers had just received a batch of supplies on the front foot to guide a giant transport ship into port, and on the back foot they received a list full of long queues of transport ships applying for shipping lanes, reporting supplies, and asking for docks or waiting for loading and unloading of goods.In addition to the logistics department, other departments are also like wars.Every day, the personnel department has to process the biographical information of thousands of officers, talk to hundreds of officers, and issue thousands of appointments, applications, and confirmation letters.The engineers in the technical support department are faced with a battle every day when they wake up.Their work plan is full of Skynet systems that need joint communication between fleets, electronic instruments that need to be installed, synchronization procedures that need to be updated, and faults that need to be eliminated......
Even when they were eating, they were all in front of the battleship's instruments.Being in the Al-Aqsa Fortress, all you can see every day is the bustling [***] people walking in a hurry.It is to wave the cursor and flag in his hand and direct the ground crew of transport ships and fighters.It is the mechanic who drives the data detection vehicle and has an automatic maintenance arm on his arm, and the staff officers of various countries who ride the hovercar on both sides of the passage.Men, women, young and old, each and every one of them did his best to run as fast as he could.Every automatic door opens and closes at the fastest frequency.Every port, every berth, every base, every warehouse and conference room is a busy crowd.As the fleets and transport fleets of the member countries of the Filipino Alliance continue to arrive in the Al-Aqsa system and join the Allied combat sequence, the entire Al-Aqsa Command has become a high-running machine.However, despite their busyness, the Allied officers and men were in a very happy mood.In their view, the current Filipino Alliance really looks like a military cooperation organization.Now these companions beside them really look like a group of soldiers ready to fight!
The previous Fijian alliance army was not so much an army as a beast trapped hand and foot.Those intriguing political struggles, those interest groups that only care about themselves, those outdated concepts, those procrastination styles and rigid systems are like invisible ropes that cannot be seen or touched, but are entwined, which always make people angry and helpless.An undoubted personnel appointment order needs to be stamped with more than 30 seals, and it takes half a month to travel between dozens of departments.A replenishment plan, from the time the application is made to the delivery of the supplies, is absolutely impossible to complete in one week.Prevarication, rip-off, corruption, superficiality, dereliction of duty -- people's inferior roots and surnames are vividly exposed in this kind of obsolescence and chaos.In such an environment, great ambitions will be consumed!
And now, that's finally changed.Seeing the same army, a military alliance under the control of that iron-fisted hand, such earth-shaking changes, looking at the same place in Aqsa, the same people with very different spirits and work styles from before, everyone is also chatting and discussing in private.At this time, he slowly smacked his lips, as if he had just come back to his senses."
His Excellency Hastings has ordered the Phayan Military Department to transfer one more Double-Headed Eagle Group Fleet and two First Class Fleet Fleets from Heidfeld to join the Allied Combat Sequence within a week."
Cuckoo café in the Al-Aqsa Fortress, Admiral Lyon.Yuris gently stirred the coffee in his hand, his dark blue eyes slightly at Alez.Vice Admiral Macchia said: "In this way, Marshal Hastings is preparing to gather five hundred A-class fleets in three months to fight Sobo to the death. ”It's tea time, but there are very few people in the café.At a time when everyone is too busy to touch the ground, it has become a luxury to walk into a café and drink a cup of afternoon tea.Admiral Yuris sits on the edge of the circular terrace that extends from the plum-shaped café.The transparent dome and the floor-to-ceiling portholes around it are not protected by armor when they are not at war, and at a glance, the sky is full of bright stars.The nebula in the distance seemed to be burning, and the nearby star Al-Aqsa was like a giant ball shrouded in mist, which was extremely beautiful.And the Al-Aqsa Fortress, which is covered in metallic luster, looks like a giant wheel.Lying in space.Countless Filican warships and transports swam around like schools of fish, either retreating from the fortress or jumping far away in the channel, following the laser signposts fired by the floating towers of the channel to the entrance to their respective ports."
To be honest, I'm a little worried."
Known as the new generation of talented generals of the Republic of Lane, and who had risen to prominence in two beautiful battles in previous wars, Lieutenant General Macchia rubbed his flaxen-colored head as he spoke.The slight curls that lengthened the roots of the ears made the young man with a high nose and sunken eyes look more like an artist than a commander.His face was solemn, and his blue eyes looked at the liquid in the coffee cup with some distraction: "The first batch of southbound fleets must be divided into three waves because of the different preparations.Only fifty fleets could immediately set off for the south within a week, and the fleets behind were fortunate to be able to set off smoothly in the next two weeks. ”As he spoke, he turned his head to stare out the window, his eyes becoming more and more dazed: "Together with the Double-Headed Eagle Group fleet and the two Feiyang First Class Group fleets that have just arrived, the total strength in Al-Aqsa is only one hundred and thirty A-class fleets.The gathering of more than 300 fleets in the future is already the limit of the current Fijian Alliance. ”He turned his head and looked at Admiral Yuris seriously: "General, with such a small number of troops, can we really win the decisive battle of Lelei?"
”There was silence in the café.Admiral Yuris held a small coffee spoon in one big hand, stirred it in the cup, and sighed for a long time: "We all know the current predicament that the Filipino Alliance is facing.The passage was not smooth, the time was insufficient, the preparations were hasty, the troops were insufficient, and everyone understood that the forces that Sober could mobilize were by no means the only ones he was currently leading south......
"According to our analysis of the forces of the Western Covenant," Vice Admiral Macchia said anxiously: "If Sober needs it, he can at least draw the same number of fleets from the major theaters!"
”"We all know this......"
Admiral Yuris finally stopped the meaningless little movements in his hand, raised his head, and looked at Lieutenant General Macchia with blazing eyes, "You say, can Your Excellency Hastings not know?"
”"If you care, you're messy!"
Lieutenant General Macchia said indignantly, "I don't know why, but Your Excellency Hastings is too partial to bandits.Not to mention that he used allied funds to equip the bandit army with 12th generation mechas, let's just say that this time in the internal dispute of the Filipino Alliance, Admiral Li Fo ran away angrily, and it also has a lot to do with his sparing efforts to protect Tian Xingjian!
”The young lieutenant general leaned back in his chair, raised his chin slightly, and showed a subconsciously stubborn posture: "Even if it is a military god, it is unforgivable to make such a mistake!"
”"Your tone is very similar to that of your resourceful friend Tsuyoshi Fujii," Admiral Ulis smiled slightly, "I'm afraid that in private, you have not talked much about these practices of His Excellency Hastings. ”"Don't hide it from the admiral, I'm also troubled by this."
Lieutenant General Macchia hesitated for a moment and said, "Perhaps because of Admiral Liver, many in the officer class of the Lane military have complained about Field Marshal Hastings' insistence on focusing his strategy on the southeast.After all, if it weren't for Admiral Liverford, perhaps Lane would have been destroyed at the hands of Banning. ”He relaxed his somewhat stiff body, smiled embarrassedly, and continued, "Actually, I don't agree with everyone's resistance.After all, Admiral Liver's arrival at Lane was also because of the orders of Field Marshal Hastings.However, what everyone can't understand is why the Lelei Federation has already made it clear that it is irretrievable, and it still fights this battle......"
Speaking of this, Macchia's face became extremely solemn: "You know, judging by the intelligence, the forward commander of the Western Covenant is likely to be Banning.And whether from the point of view of troops or from the point of view of command, the bandit army could not resist the attack of the Western Covenant.It is only a matter of a week or two to get out of the Leray passage.Moreover, there are still Yuto Mikami to block the Allied forces from moving south.There is not enough time!
”"If we can put our forces into the central theater at this time, contain the West from the other direction, and at the same time, temporarily let go of the untimely kills against Seuss and Jeppen, and form a stalemate at Resque, we have much more leeway.If we are in a hurry for quick success, even if Marshal Hastings leads the army, we are likely to reap an unbearable defeat!
Judging from the current situation, once the main forces of the Allied forces are lost, the entire battle situation will be out of control. ”He finally looked into Admiral Yuris's eyes and asked word by word: "Is it worth it to put the forces we can gather into a situation like this in the southeast and carry out a strategic decisive battle without adequate preparation?"
”Yuris did not answer.After a long time, he shook his head slightly: "Your question, I can't give you the answer." ”Lieutenant General Macchia, who looked expectant, looked gloomy."
The reason," Admiral Ulis raised his head and said seriously, "I am not the god of war, Hastings!"
”Macchia looked at Yuris in confusion, saw his finger pointing out the window, and said to himself, "Do you see these fleets?"
Compared with the past, what has changed in the current Fijian coalition army?
”Macchia was silent for a while, then said, "War cannot be fought entirely in an open boiled way.History has proven that war is always a game for the elite few.And the current changes in the coalition forces of the Filipino alliance have benefited from the forcible dissolution of the coalition parliament by Marshal Hastings, which we have never denied.We are soldiers, not politicians. ”"Just because of the forcible dissolution of the parliament?"
Admiral Yuris's eyes narrowed slightly: "Could it be that when you think about it now, you don't see how it all came naturally?"
”Macchia stared out the window, thoughtful."
The Filipino League paid a heavy price for its pre-war carelessness.At that time, everyone said that the war would not break out, and even Field Marshal Hastings could not reverse the situation.With the council and the political axe on the rope around their necks, the soldiers of the Ming Cook Nation will never be able to readily prepare for a war!
”Admiral Yuris stood up and walked to the porthole."
When our armaments program and procurement budget were rejected again and again, the war broke out.Throughout the early days of the war, we were only passively beaten.We can only watch as the fleet of the Western Lord, already armed to the teeth, storms our country, wantonly slaughters our unprepared soldiers, and annihilates the fleet we never thought of fighting!
”At that time, Field Marshal Hastings remained silent, and he did not command a single campaign except for strategic deployment.When everyone was looking at him, he delegated power to the hands of these generals of the alliance who had not experienced much war. ”Yuris looked into the distance: "At that time, I didn't understand, but now, I understand. ”"If there was no marshal's silence, there would have been no rebirth of the Filipino League, and if we were still fighting under his protection at that time, then by the time his illness spread throughout the Filipino League, we would have collapsed!"
He turned his head and looked at Macchia: "As a soldier, have you ever thought about this old and rigid alliance, who is preventing us from devoting ourselves to this war except those politicians?"
”"And the arrogance and conceit of the soldiers," said Lieutenant General Macchia, "and the greed and stupidity of those chaebols and interest groups. ”"If you can see this, then how can you not see that the reason why Lord Hastings is silent is to make us understand our situation, to make us grow, to expose everything that hinders us, and to remove it in the end?"
Admiral Yuris's voice was like iron: "Let Liver, who is ambitious and too deeply involved with interest groups, leave and dissolve the upper house of the coalition parliament, which is the marshal's last sword for the alliance!"
”Macchia was silent, looking out the window at the Filipino fleet like a carp crossing the river, thinking back to Hastings's step-by-step approach, and suddenly, he only felt his heart shake."
However, the situation in the southeast ......"
Macchia still couldn't figure it out."
As I said, I'm not Lord Hastings, and I don't know what he's thinking," Ulis smiled slightly, "but I'm sure he's not old and foolish."
His vision, his judgment, his control, his foresight, are still at their peak.He must have a reason for doing this!
”A bell rang, and Yuris answered the phone.Macchia shook his head with a wry smile, acknowledging Yuris's judgment, but for him and the other officers, they still couldn't let go of Hastings' strategy of moving south.It's like a fish in the water, and you can never imagine what an eagle in the sky can see."
Tell you a piece of news......"
Yuris put down the phone, was a little stunned for a moment, said a word, and stopped."
What?"
Macchia asked curiously."
The bandits have annihilated the advance fleet that Western used to open the way, and booby-trapped twelve Western reinforcement fleets," Yuris sighed, "At present, they have invaded the Desichemis system. ”Macchia opened her mouth stupidly, dumbfounded (to be continued)