Him and their stars

Ostana smiled and said: "Serving a true dragon is indeed different from serving a mortal, and you will always take some risks. But compared to what you can get, whether it is fame, profit, or even the sense of accomplishment of realizing your ideal, The risk is simply not worth mentioning. More importantly, it will never be boring.”

She really didn't feel hard at all, and there was even a hint of pride in her smooth smile. It was obvious that she was fully loyal to her master.

Yang Xiyi always felt that there was something in this woman's words, but a smart man like him would naturally know what he understood and what he didn't, so he repeated it with a smile: "Indeed, we ordinary uneducated common people, except Taoism, "It's hard work, I really don't know what to say."

"In addition, what I said just now is actually just a joke. After all, the ruins of the Enlightened Ones appeared in your territory. Without your official invitation, the empire, as a friendly diplomatic country of your country, will naturally not do anything to allow the army to come. Disrespectful thing to do in sector orbit."

"Friendly diplomatic relations! We are now being pointed at by 1,000 naval guns. A temporary detection station that can accommodate up to 1,000 people, what can we do?" Yang Xiyi said with a smile.

"I can understand your concerns and apologize to you. But I hope you understand that His Royal Highness King Suliuka will also unite the large fleet to set off in the near future, and there will be some fixed tactical formation training here. Something small may happen. Just a small misunderstanding."

"This misunderstanding cannot be some kind of metaphysical concept."

Faced with Yang Xiyi's weirdness, the chief of staff responded with a hearty smile: "As you said, the universe is too big, and coincidences will always happen."

All in all, no one seemed to have the upper hand in the conversation between the two wise generals. In the eyes of others, these two people are just spewing nonsense words at each other across the screen, but as the parties involved, they both understand that in this delicate situation, they can maintain a relationship that everyone likes to hear and see. Communication channels are actually the best thing.

As a result, within the next twenty-four hours, the imperial fleet indeed began to conduct training for formation operations. The obstacles they would face were almost non-existent, but they never crossed the middle of the New World Highway Channel.

During this period, Major General Yang Xiyi also had frank exchanges of views with Major General Ostana Barr several times. Although they could not reach consensus in most cases, at least they still achieved results: both sides believed that in order to ensure smooth future operations, , should establish a unified coalition logistics command.

Indeed, they are all pragmatic people and know that the so-called coalition headquarters is meaningless, but they can work hard on logistics.

"Your Highness appreciates your opinion very much. She will also report it to our Fleet Headquarters and Privy Council as soon as possible."

"I will also draw up a preliminary plan as soon as possible. I still have some experience in writing homework."

"It's just that, General Yang, I am more than 90% sure that the bill proposed by His Highness can be passed by the Privy Council; but how many percent are there for a plan drawn up by a top-notch wise general like you?"

"It is my job to propose a plan, and whether it is passed or not is the choice of the leaders. There is actually no conflict between freedom of choice and fairness of the process. As long as you learn to express your opinions frankly in person, that is a mature quality. I think , both people and countries should have such qualities."

In short, although the bickering continued, the communication was also going on. The two of them even discussed the personnel structure of the logistics headquarters while playing tricks. If it weren't for the expedition fleet of the Blue Star Community, they finally arrived at the scene. , they might have already started arranging personnel.

Like the Imperial Army's expeditionary fleet, the Community's fleet also dispatched a vanguard fleet composed of high-speed battleships. This was actually a standard formation operation for the space fleet. Once the size of one's own fleet reaches a certain level, even when passing through stable, high-quality gravity wells, it will cause "traffic jams", making it difficult to deploy firepower and fleets in the shortest possible time during combat. In this case, it is a very meaningful choice to divide the fleet into several formations and advance in batches.

Of course, if the fleet is too large and not well commanded, or if the commander has certain strategic considerations, there may even be situations where several formations are separated by dozens or hundreds of light years across several galaxies.

The current Earth Expedition Fleet feels quite a bit like this. You know, the vanguard fleet with the battlecruiser Hydra as its flagship arrived at NR18 at 4:15 a.m. on May 18. But at this time, the main fleet formation with six Independence-class dreadnoughts as the core had just arrived in New Lushun.

As for the reserve fleet, which mainly includes a large number of logistics, auxiliary and transport ships, it also brings twenty full Marine divisions, and it has even just arrived at Xinyumen. It is said that the commander of the Marine Corps, who is in contact with the fleet, is even interested in engaging in exercises with the New Yumen garrison to exchange feelings.

This is actually understandable. After all, isn't the Imperial Expedition Fleet on the other side looking for a way to do it? The vanguard fleet led by King Suliuka is already preparing to march towards the Devil's Labyrinth, while the main force led by King Soleyn himself is still marching slowly within the colonial sector. As for the backup fleet composed of fleets from various vassals and princes commanded by Admiral Farrell, they have not even passed through the Gate of Glory.

Since the imperial fleet is so impressive, of course the people on earth cannot lose to the opponent. You know, this is the largest country-destroying expedition fleet ever assembled since the founding of the Community! Be sure to fill up your aura!

"I guess that's what our commander thinks. He's such a person who is very good at doing desk homework." The person who spoke was a tall bald man, who looked like he was in his early fifties. , although he is about to enter his old age, his body is still tall and burly, like a strong young man in his twenties.

He is Vice Admiral James Picard, the admiral of the Community's Tenth Fleet, and the deputy commander and forward fleet commander of the expedition fleet. He and his fleet were the first Earth Expedition Fleet to reach the middle section of the New World Highway.

This general, who looked quite powerful and domineering, once served as the department director at the Lunar Military Academy and served as Yang Xiyi's instructor for two years. When the latter graduated for internship, he happened to be serving in the army under his command. With so much shared experience, the two of them were either going to be friends or enemies, but luckily, they were the former.

Although from the outside, Yang Xiyi and his old boss are completely opposite types, they probably complement each other. The two have a good relationship, a friendship where they can sit together and complain about their boss while drinking.

Lieutenant General Picard, a tall and muscular man with no hair, and Yang Xiyi had not seen each other for two years. Therefore, the first thing these two friends who have been friends for many years did after meeting was to complain about their boss, which seems very reasonable.

Lieutenant General Picard then told Yang Xiyi that the Marine troops currently stranded in Xinyumen were indeed preparing to engage in joint exercises with the local garrison, but the participants were by no means just them, they also included the Republic of Minlan and China. A land combat force united by the Kingdom of Erke and other countries.

"It is said that armies from at least twenty countries are participating. Your Majesty the Commander has already mentioned the exercise plan to the Earth." Lieutenant General Picard sneered.

"His work efficiency in this area is indeed admirable." Yang Xiyi said.

"Then why not hold the Celestial Galaxy Cup and the Olympic Games? This is how people can make the best use of their talents and resources." The bald general said.

"...General Picard, organizational ability is actually the same as commanding ability. At least judging from his current resume, Admiral Conneris is an elite with outstanding ability." Yang Xiyi said.

"But this does not mean that he is an excellent commander, especially when we clearly still have options."

Admiral Connors is the commander of the First Fleet, commonly known as the "Solar System Fleet" or "Home Fleet", named Admiral Sherman Connors.

He is also the supreme commander of this community expedition fleet.

However, the reason why he was able to hold this position was after a considerable period of power play.

In other words, as early as the Galactic Civilization Conference in Huaxu was held, and representatives from various countries were quarrelsomely discussing how to correct or even abandon the "New World Combat Readiness Limitation Treaty", the formation of the expedition fleet had already begun. The selection of commander is naturally the most important issue.

At present, the most prestigious general in the entire Blue Star community is of course Marshal Norm Paris, who was then the Minister of Integrated Military Command. However, after all, this old man is the number one military person in the country, and he is also an old man in his nineties. It sounds particularly unreliable to allow an old man of this age to lead the army in person on the front line.

In addition, Mr. Paris is also from the Victoria Lee era after all, and he is a pure and noble professional soldier of the old era. Although he has a good relationship with Chairman Nichita, he is not a pro-alliance faction of his political allies, and he does not have a good face towards the group of comprador lackeys from the Co-Prosperity Party who made their fortune during the imperial era. Even if such a person is young and powerful, the big shots above will not be too willing to hand him over the command of the largest expeditionary fleet since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Of course, these are all conspiracy theories. In fact, the Marshal strongly recommended young generals from the Mesozoic Era to serve as commanders.

Speaking of the Mesozoic Era, the most famous one is probably Admiral Jordi Bonaparte, the current commander of the Outer Rim Fleet. This general, who is not yet fifty years old this year, although he is a son of a noble family, he also grew up on the battlefield. He has suppressed rebellions, suppressed bandits, chased pirates, beaten cults, and even fought with the imperial guards. The fleet has experienced friction, and Duoduo is also a strong man.

But we all know that Admiral Bonaparte is the commander of the outer ring fleet, and his fleet is the main force guarding the outer ring gate of the community. Behind their defense zone is the Kingdom of Cathay, which has been coveting its own territory, and the empire behind it. Naturally, the Dinghai Shenzhen, which is used to control the country, cannot be moved lightly.

Therefore, the expedition can only use the Solar System Fleet, which is stronger on paper and has no defense area.

Then, there is no need to know what kind of overt and covert struggles took place in the court of the earth, and he finally became the commander-in-chief of the expedition fleet, and became Admiral Sherman Connors, the admiral of the Solar System Fleet.

In fact, this is an expected appointment. After all, the expedition fleet is composed of the First Fleet, the Seventh Fleet and the Tenth Fleet, and the "Solar System Fleet" numbered as the First Fleet is the main force. Main force. The commander of the First Fleet is in charge of everything, as it should be.

However, this is also an unreasonable appointment. Because Admiral Connors was born in the so-called "civilian service", although he had been promoted throughout his career, he did not have any convincing military exploits.

Yes, this 53-year-old Admiral Connors, who was born into a famous family and went to a prestigious school, has two doctorates. He has done star exploration, archeology, managed armaments and personnel organizations, and managed propaganda. I have organized large-scale activities and exercises, and even done financial management, but I just don’t have much practical experience.

It must be admitted that he did every job very well. During his tenure on the National Defense Commission, when he was managing the finances of the entire army, the accounts were definitely the best since the founding of the army.

This is the kind of general that the Lords of Earth like the most. Moreover, he is only in his fifties now, and he is in the prime of life. Isn't he the natural candidate to succeed Marshal Paris, an "old stubborn" from the War of Independence, as Minister of Military Order?

The only problem is that he has no experience in commanding actual combat troops, so it doesn't look good to be directly promoted to military commander. Therefore, under the arrangement of the Gongun princes, he served as the commander of the Solar System Fleet in the year before BC.

Lord Gongun probably also knows that although the Solar System Fleet is the most powerful actual combat force of the community and is also a special maneuver force, these are only forces on paper, and in fact there are very few actual combat opportunities.

This is probably why the officers and soldiers of the Outer Rim Fleet have always believed that they are the only strong force in the community, and that the Solar System Fleet is actually a proper road specimen.

Yang Xiyi was also from the Outer Ring Fleet, so it was inevitable that he would have this idea, but this was not out of prejudice, but from his own judgment. He was born as an intelligence officer, and he understands how to see the essence through intelligence.

In terms of actual combat experience, the solar system fleet is not even as good as the patrol fleets of some remote planets that have to fight pirates.

Of course, low-level actual combat experience is often inferior to high-level exercises and training. However, as far as Yang Xiyi knew, although the local fleet conducted many exercises, they were mostly for show and were far from being of a high level.

No wonder General Picard is full of doubts about Commander Connery.

"Our supreme commander is not like a soldier. He is more suitable for the Capitol of the Eternal City rather than the bridge of the Independence." General Picard sighed, looked at Yang Xiyi, who had a gloomy face, and comforted: " Don’t worry, brother Yang, it’s a taboo for military strategists to prevent the generals from using their lives if the generals are at odds with each other. I admit that I have emotions, but I am also a professional soldier, very disciplined, and I have not violated any of his orders. He ordered me to arrive before the 20th When we arrived at the middle section of the New World Highway, I led my troops to arrive three days in advance."

"So, does he have any next orders?" Yang Xiyi asked.

General Picard hesitated for a moment and then said: "You have been appointed as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Fleet. Of course, you will continue to hold the position of New World Defense Command concurrently, but you will have to work on the Independence in the future. I guess , when His Excellency the Commander arrives here, the formal appointment will be issued."

"So, when will he arrive?" Yang Xiyi asked curiously.

"Of course we have to wait until the Eighteen-Nation Joint Military Exercise in New Yumen begins! Don't worry, it's just a Marine Corps military exercise on the surface of the planet. No matter how big the scale is, it won't be much bigger. It will take another week at most."

"Your Excellency, Commander, you are really busy!" Yang Xiyi couldn't help but say.