Chapter 573 Rest and Recuperation

The battle with the Reaper was not the most difficult for Duanmu Huai, but it did cost the Inquisition many warships. Therefore, after the battle with the Reaper, the Inquisition began a new round of resource collection and fleet expansion.

After the battle with the Reaper, Duanmu Huai also understood that although the Reapers in the game were almost extinct due to being killed by players, the problem was that there were no players on his side. It can be said that he was now playing the stand-alone version of an online game. In the game, the players killed the players to extinction, but on his side, he could be crushed to death by sheer numbers.

If the Reaper was like this, wouldn't he be even more doomed when the Tyranids came?

Facing this situation, what else could Duanmu Huai do?

There was only one way.

Explode soldiers!

Explode soldiers to death!

It would be best if he could explode the whole guild by himself!

Simple and crude, just use the number of A.

This problem is still easy to solve, but other problems are not so easy to solve.

For example... manpower

That's right, Duanmu Huai found that there were too few people in his fleet who could command the battle.

Like this time against the Reaper, he was busy almost the whole time, and the others could not help at all except cheering him on... Of course, this can't be blamed on them. An and Gu Leiya are princesses. They are good at magic battles, but commanding a fleet is another matter.

As for the rest of the people... Feilin, Odell, and Lorena can't be counted on, and Bambi and Kula are even more out of the question. Even if they want, Duanmu Huai doesn't dare to hand over the command of the fleet to these little guys.

From this point of view, it seems that all his men are warriors, and there are no generals at all!

Think about it carefully, after all, Duanmu Huai is a lone wolf in the game. Even if he is hired by the guild, he is a pioneer or something like that. He doesn't need to mobilize troops in the rear at all. He just needs to follow the employer's orders. So Duanmu Huai has never considered this problem, but now it seems that he has to consider this problem.

So Duanmu Huai called everyone over... Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang, so they should be able to come up with some good ideas.

"Hey? There seems to be no similar people in Manalia..."

"Mr. Duanmu wants a staff officer and a general, but such people are hard to find..."

"Why don't you ask Mr. Duanmu to ask the Star Alliance for a few people? There should be many people who are good at commanding fleets in the Star Alliance."

"So is it the fleet of the Inquisition or the fleet of the Star Alliance? How to ensure loyalty?"

Although An and Gu Leiya and others are not good at commanding operations, as royal family, they immediately noticed the biggest problem.

That's right, loyalty.

The army is the biggest pillar of a force, and as a commander of the army, loyalty must be the most important. This is why emperors of all dynasties often choose mediocre generals to command the army instead of talented people. After all, for many rulers, talent is secondary, and loyalty is the first.

If you are talented but not loyal, then you are just waiting to be crowned with a yellow robe?

Especially for talented and ambitious generals, who would dare to hand over the army without an emperor who is equally talented, ambitious and can control him?

Although the Inquisition is not a country, as a pioneer in fighting against aliens, heretics and demons, their requirements in this regard are only higher than those of the emperor. If you cannot agree with the ideas and methods of the Inquisition, then you will not join. In this case, it is indeed very difficult to find a suitable one.

At this time, the bell girl raised her hand with a smile.

"Then, do you want to look for it in the NCO school?"

"NCO school?"

"Yes, there is a NCO school in our world that specializes in training officers. Among the students there, there may be suitable talents."

"Your world... the level is a little lower."

This is why Duanmu Huai had never thought of looking for officers from places like Manalia and Skyrim before. After all, the tactics they learned were all on a plane, but the space battle was a 360-degree sphere. To put it bluntly, a fleet can go around from the bottom to the back. It will explode your ass, and in the universe, it is extremely difficult to distinguish up, down, left, and right. Ordinary generals will be confused when they encounter the enemy...

"Hey? But you don't want ordinary generals, right? If it's a genius, it won't be learned in one go. Meow o (=∩ω∩=)"

"Your words seem to make sense."

Hearing what Ling Nu said, Duanmu Huai also felt that it made sense. Indeed, what's the use of ordinary generals in his Tribunal? He wants geniuses, and since he is a genius, he must be able to blossom and bear fruit in any era.

"Wait a minute."

Duanmu Huai was also very fast. After making a decision, he immediately gave an order to Lumiel. A moment later, Duanmu Huai returned to the room with a helmet and handed it to Ling Nu.

"Meow? What is this??"

"A VR tactical simulator, used by Star Alliance. I asked Lumiel to help me adjust the parameters and change it to the Tribunal version. You can take this to find someone. If you see a suitable one, let him test it, and then tell me who passed the test."

Although it was a selection, Duanmu Huai did not relax the selection criteria. He changed the VR tactical simulator originally used by the Star Alliance into two parts. The first part was a tutorial, which was to let players understand the rules of space combat, and the opponent was the Zerg.

The second part was actual combat. Players must lead an Inquisition army to simulate what to do when the Tyranid Zerg attacked a galaxy.

That's right, this is equivalent to the first level after the tutorial is hellish difficulty.

After all, there is only one level. And Duanmu Huai wanted to see who could last the longest in this situation!

After all, the battle of the Inquisition itself is almost endless, and you can't do it without a strong heart.

"Meow, I understand, leave it to Lingnu!"

It must be said that as a top ninja, Lingnu's action is indeed very fast. After only a week, she successfully brought back data to Duanmu Huai.

As for the evaluation...

"Many people say it's too difficult."

"This is normal. How can you see their strength if it's not difficult?"

As Duanmu Huai said, he took back the helmet and opened the data.

Well, most people only lasted more than ten minutes before they were finished, which is normal. After all, the levels are different, and Duanmu Huai didn't expect it... But the first place result is exaggerated.

"Five hours? And successfully passed the level? Are you kidding me?"

Looking at the record in front of him, Duanmu Huai was shocked. You know, this is a nightmare difficulty. Even Duanmu Huai himself is not sure whether he can win by playing like this. How did the opponent do it?

With curiosity, Duanmu Huai opened the game record video and started watching it.

At the beginning of the battle, the commander did not get any intelligence. He only knew that an unknown alien invaded the galaxy and needed the commander to investigate the situation. Then the commander was free to play. In the records that Duanmu Huai had seen before, most people sent out scouts at the first time, and then were eliminated by the swarm. Then they either chose to split their troops around to engage in guerrilla warfare or to defend the planet.

But in fact, these two methods are very normal but useless against the Zerg. After all, the Zerg can explode on the spot. Whether it is guerrilla warfare or defense, when the two sides fight, the commander will face a Zerg that is far beyond his expectations, and then he will be swept away by the other side.

However, the commander's reaction was very strange. He also sent out scouts, but not just one wave, but four waves in a row. Of course, the first wave of scouts was destroyed, but at the same time, the other side also obtained the general information of the Zerg from the subsequent three waves of scouts. Then, the other side led the main fleet and rushed directly to the battlefield.

"Isn't this sending you to die?"

Looking at this scene, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but complain. The commander had only one fleet. Although the Zerg was the vanguard, the number was definitely not something that a fleet could deal with. Once the two sides confronted head-on, there would be heavy casualties.

But he fought for five hours? ?

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai looked down curiously.

Then, a scene that made him drop his jaw appeared.

The fleet did not enter the battlefield directly, but stopped far away from the Zerg army, and then... opened fire directly.

"???"

Duanmu Huai looked at a series of artillery fire across the star sea, flying all the way to the Zerg army, and then exploded inside... He was also confused.

Is this possible?

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai more or less understood the other party's idea. In simple terms... it is a beyond-visual-range attack.

No, this is no longer an beyond-visual-range attack, this is simply the level of a cruise missile.

This is actually very normal. Generally, weapons have a difference between "effective range" and "maximum range". The so-called "effective range" refers to the exact distance at which the weapon reaches the expected accuracy and power requirements when shooting at the predetermined target. The "maximum range" refers to the farthest distance from the bullet to the ground after it flies out of the muzzle. Accuracy is not important, power is not important, only distance is considered.

Of course, there is no accuracy to speak of, it belongs to where it hits.

However, in the universe, this is another matter.

As we all know, the universe is a vacuum environment with almost zero resistance. Once it is launched, it will keep flying forward. Of course, if it is an energy attack, it will disappear as the energy itself is exhausted. But if it is a cannonball, it will keep flying and flying...either it will hit some unlucky celestial body or it will go nowhere.

So strictly speaking, as long as you predict the position and speed of the opponent, you can indeed use this method to launch an attack. Just like a submarine predicts the speed and route of a warship, it can also directly bombard it with a torpedo, and then it will be too late when the opponent finds out.

The principle is very simple, but in fact, this trick is not easy to use on the actual battlefield.

The reason is also very simple.

The universe is too big...

Even if you put 10,000 warships in a galaxy, it is just a drop in the ocean. Trying to use this method to carry out a beyond-visual-range attack is as difficult as hitting a fly 5,000 meters away with a pistol without aiming. It is simply a dream. Not to mention that the universe is not the sea, and people can hide wherever they want. If you miss the first wave of attacks, it means you have exposed your position to the opponent.

Players have tried this method before, but later said that it was not for human beings to play, so they gave up.

But right now, there are actually people who actually fight in this way?

Sure enough, although the first wave of attacks hit the insect swarm, the insect swarm also locked the attacker's position. Soon, a large number of insects were seen moving forward quickly, as if a huge monster stretched out its huge tentacles, trying to catch Live like prey hidden in the dark depths.

Almost at the same time, Duanmuhuai saw the fleet and reacted immediately. He saw them retreating while continuing to fire - what Duanmuhuai didn't expect the most was that almost every time he fired, he hit!

how did you do that?

You must know that when the fleet launches an attack, the insect swarm is still outside their field of vision. Most people will only feel that the fleet is meaninglessly consuming ammunition. However, in fact, every attack from the opponent accurately hit the place where the insect swarm troops were most densely concentrated.

Is it through the scout troops?

Of course Duanmuhuai also saw it. The other three scout troops did not withdraw from the battlefield, but kept monitoring the insect swarm army from a distance. If we use this method to calculate the position and coordinates of the insect swarm, as well as its speed and planned trajectory, we can indeed launch an attack in advance - but Duanmuhuai cannot do this.

Because this requires a lot of calculations, and his brain will freeze as long as it exceeds four arithmetic operations.

As for calculus and advanced mathematics, they will be returned to the school after graduation.

"No wonder it lasted five hours."

Duanmu Huai quickly finished watching the whole process and shook his head helplessly. The opponent's tactics are very clear, which is to use this beyond visual range attack to delay the kites flying the insect swarm, and then evacuate the civilians on other planets as much as possible. When the insect swarm attacks the planet for "on-site replenishment", just issue an extermination order and stick to the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the field. Slowly, little by little, most of the effective strength of the insect swarm is worn away, and then the core of the insect swarm is attacked. The battleship launched an attack, breaking through the defenses and then defeating it.

The whole process can be described as smooth and smooth. In the first four hours, almost the fleet was grinding blood, just like a level 1 player challenging the final BOSS. Maybe I only lose 1 drop of blood when I hit you, but as long as you can't hit me, I can It keeps killing you.

In the last half hour, when the vanguard of the insect swarm was almost exhausted by this tactic and was about to break through the defense, the retreating fleet suddenly accelerated, tore through the opponent's tattered defense network, and then rushed directly into the battlefield, catching the Zerg. The mothership bombed them indiscriminately and finally won.

From a combat perspective, it is impeccable. Of course, the only flaw is that the opponent did not consider the existence of chicken thieves when setting up the evacuation. As a result, most of the evacuated transport ships were hacked by chicken thieves, which also caused a certain degree of losses to the fleet... But overall Speaking of which, considering this is the opponent's first time fighting against the Tyranid swarm, it's really good to be able to defeat them.

"Yeah, very good."

After reading the process, Duanmu Huai nodded with satisfaction. The other party’s whimsical ideas were second to none. What Duanmu Huai liked most was the commander’s ability to control several fleets at the same time. You must know that Duanmu Huai initially only gave He formed a fleet, and then the commander first divided the fleet into four scout formations, and then divided the transport ships into three formations to go to the planet for evacuation at the same time. At the same time, he also needed to keep locking and predicting the insect swarm army. direction and position, and seize the favorable opportunity to counterattack... This is exactly what Duanmu Huai needs.

"It's just him. Where is this person's information?"

"Here, her name is Ecott Malius, and she is the chief of the Military Academy."

"She's actually a woman? Forget it, this question isn't important, but chief... this is not easy to handle. Is she willing to come?"

"I think there should be no problem. Because she was born as a civilian, she has been bullied in the non-commissioned officer academy. In fact, she is now in deep debt. I heard that she borrowed loan sharks to pay off her tuition, and she still can't pay the money..."

"Huh? I just don't understand what kind of brain circuit this is."

Duanmu Huai couldn't help but be shocked when he heard Ling Nu's report. To be honest, every time he saw similar scenes in novels, animations and games, he always found it incredible. It makes sense for you to say that you were bullied because of your introversion, cowardice, and poor academic performance, but it is unbelievable that you would be bullied as a top student. After all, in Duanmuhuai's era, every top student was the pet peeve of the class teacher, and it was all because of The teacher was covering them, and any one who didn't have the foresight to dare to trouble those three good students would be immediately punished by the teacher and made him cry for his father and mother.

Or have times changed? Now teachers don’t even take care of top students and college chiefs? So what do you teachers need to do? Do you want to eat dry food?

"Furthermore, according to Suzume's research, her military advisor level is also the highest among all humans, but she is LV2."

"Are you serious?"

Hearing this, Duanmuhuai couldn't sit still. Of course he knew that people in Lingnu's world could see his level limit and talent skills. Among the people Duanmuhuai knew, one of the people with the strongest ability to command and fight was Uluze, a girl who used to be in a wheelchair in the Seth Kingdom. Her military advisor level was only LV1.

However, this civilian-born Aikote has a military advisor level of LV2?

You must know that skill LV3 is the highest limit, and many people in that world don't even reach LV1.

From this point of view, Aikote is indeed worthy of the title of genius strategist.

"Bring her here immediately...forget it, I'll go find her directly!"

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai could no longer sit still.