General Bernadotte gravely asked, “Distance!”
General Fowen answered, “43,000 kilometers.”
“Number of enemy ships.”
“One fleet, a total of 6700 warships with a combat power of Grade B. Amongst them, there are 700 battleships, a mothership, 4000 light cruisers, and 2000 destroyers.”
“The 4th United Fleet Commanding Officer’s, Vice General Brown’s, plan.”
“To allure and annihilate!”
General Bernadotte laughed. Seeing Russell, who was nodding as well, he said to Fowen, “Inform him that the forward command is not proposing any directions. He can decide on his own.”
Vice General Fowen immediately answered, “Acknowledged! The forward command is not proposing any directions!” Right when he finished repeating the orders and was about to turn around, General Bernadotte suddenly added, “Wait! Tell the vice general that General Russell and I offer our best wishes for him!”
“Yes!”
Fatty looked at the star chart and the different symbols marked on each of the outer space fleets. He felt that some were quite unfathomable. In the past, the front lines would never know what the command in the rear was like, and they would be endlessly deployed over here and there, escaping with their lives after being defeated. While escaping with their lives, when they looked up into the sky, they would sometimes wonder if there were a few eyes currently looking at them and whether he himself was merely a chess piece being neglected.
After that, when he came to the combat planning department, the soldiers in war had become strands of cold, emotionless numbers. Behind these numbers were lives and deaths. But in the combat planning department, he could no longer feel that desperate atmosphere. Even an intern like Karl was treating these soldiers emotionlessly as numbers.
The most ridiculous matter was that he had to sit here and become the pair of eyes in the skies! Whatever he heard and saw were complex orders and emotionful declarations, but they were merely a few words. Just these few words were enough to determine if a military campaign would end in victory or defeat.
The outer space fleets might have already begun their intense battle, with all the officers and men being akin to the dice being placed in a gambler officer’s dice cup at that instant when the intense clash started until the moment when the outcome is revealed.
This was a power to control people. Fatty, who had originally wanted to borrow an excuse to leave, suddenly did not feel like leaving at all; he wanted to stay here and observe. He was just like a gambler who set down his bet, extremely anxious as he waited for the result of the battle.
The battle would naturally last for quite some time; however, everyone knew what the outcome would be. Being a united fleet comprising of three newly formed fleets, the 4th United Fleet would naturally have to shoulder the position of vanguard. They would have to create chaos in the Galileo Galaxy, disturbing the different planets and the Imperial Fleets that were stationed right at the Newton warp point. Under this situation, if they were to be defeated by a medium=scale second-grade fleet, then even if they could not completely triumph over them, it would still be enough to make every single officer and man of the 4th United Fleet to feel disgrace!
Russell gazed at Fatty, who was perspiring all over his forehead, and smiled: “You aren’t my match if we are comparing who is calmer. However, I did not have such an opportunity when I was your age to access such a degree of real-time military command. Go to my office and have a look first. There are several explanations of battle examples which I’ve stored in the computer. You have to calm yourself and think carefully what you want to gain from this military campaign!”
Fatty obediently went off to his office to do his reading. Only when he was calm enough did he discover that as an ordinary soldier, a person who did not really like war, and a first lieutenant who was learning behind a general, once that person stood on the command stage, overlooking the entire military campaign, he would feel as if he was soaked in the power of controlling the masses. That was how absurd it was! And truly overwhelming! Thinking back to the calmness which Bernadotte and Russell had, Tian Xing Jian could not help but sweat.
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The 4th United Fleet received an encrypted message sent by the forward command. The commanding officer, Vice General Brown, stood on the bridge and smiled. He said to the vice-captain of the flagship, “Open all broadcasting channels to the entire fleet. I want to speak to all the officers and men.”
Every single warship of the united fleet received the same communication signal. Every single officer and man on all the warships could hear the voice of Vice General Brown being broadcasted. This outstanding fleet commanding officer, who classmates with the current 1st United Fleet Commanding Officer Vice General Snyder, was currently making his very first speech.
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