Mecha and Knife

Ji Xinghe, who decided to wait until he joined the battle, could only watch helplessly as his independent regiment and the mecha corps in the western theater charged the positions of the three major armies of the empire.

Judging from the current situation, the Independence Regiment and the mech corps in the western theater have an absolute advantage.

But this advantage will definitely not last long, because it is impossible for the empire not to invest in large noble mechs of the same size, allowing the independent regiment to tear apart their positions, and then the Federation's long-range firepower will carry out precise and effective strikes.

As long as the empire's noble mechs join the battle, the independent regiment will sacrifice again.

This feeling is actually very uncomfortable, and it does not match his fighting philosophy.

But Davis was right: Not many dukes of the empire have been killed by Ji Xinghe, if they kill some more, the empire will be in chaos.

Up to now.

Li Yuanba beheaded one of the imperial generals (dukes), one of the princes, and one of the princes (suspected). After these three beheadings, no Duke of the Empire dared to face Li Yuanba on the battlefield of Gods Mountain, so Li Yuanba failed to obtain more gains.

Han Li beheaded two imperial dukes and one general (duke).

Jackson, Kedilin, Rovich, Andre, and Yu Ren each beheaded a Duke of the Empire. Among them, Yu Ren's defeat on the Vulture Mountain battlefield had the help of Han Li and Jackson, so it could not be regarded as a single defeat.

All of them added up, that is, apart from Ji Xinghe, the Federation killed a total of nine Dukes of the Empire.

Ji Xinghe personally beheaded eight Imperial Dukes, and destroyed another six Duke Armors, the driver of which was the Imperial Earl, that is, Aida Kang's personal guard.

Therefore, from this point of view, it is understandable that Ji Xinghe, a white man, was promoted to a major general by the front line only two years after he came to Alien to participate in the war, and he has mastered the independent regiment that the Federation invested a lot of resources to build. .

A single person can defeat all the ace mecha fighters of the Federation against the Duke of the Empire. Even if it is the General Armor that Li Yuanba and Han Li did not defeat, no one will question his strength.

Everyone believed that it wasn't that Ji Xinghe couldn't beat General A and Prince A of the empire, it was just because the general and prince A of the empire didn't dare to fight him.

He has no chance.

Counting only the Duke of the Empire, the Federation has killed seventeen of them.

How many dukes are there in the empire?

Based on the analysis of all the imperial captives, including Kazeman, and Bell Rossi IV, who was unwilling to speak before, but finally chose to speak after seeing Yinan's death, the imperial orangutans recruited.

The number of dukes in the empire is still more than two hundred, which is much more than the number of ace fighters in the federation, and they all have at least one duke armor.

However, many ace mecha fighters such as Su Chuanyun did not have an ace exclusive mecha that could match the overall performance of the Duke armor.

From this point of view, there is still a big gap between the Federation's top mech combat power and the Empire's, and Ji Xinghe's beheading does not seem to have much significance.

But the account cannot be calculated in this way.

"Actually, I'm not sure if you kill a few more imperial dukes, will it cause chaos in the empire?"

Davis' voice rang in Ji Xinghe's ears.

At this time, in the battle on the front line, because of the participation of the independent regiment, the western theater has an absolute advantage. It only needs to be fought step by step, and he, the commander, does not need to do anything on the spot.

"But I remember that some of the words you once said were the words you said to Aida Kang on the battlefield of Vulture Mountain."

Davis didn't have time to explain more before, so Ji Xinghe agreed directly. Now he wants to explain, because he doesn't want Ji Xinghe to think that he did this to keep the credit in the Western Theater proposal.

Ji Xinghe also thought of some words he said at the beginning, and Liu Mian, Tang Qiao and others who were also in the communication channel also thought of those words.

At that time, Aidakang slashed Ji Xinghe a lot, and Ji Xinghe slashed Adakang a lot with his backhand, all of which hit the vital point.

Judging from the results, Ji Xinghe won.

The real reason why he won was that he publicly revealed the two biggest contradictions within the empire: First, the contradiction between the imperial family and the nobles. Second, the contradiction between the new and old nobles of the empire.

Davis didn't hear Ji Xinghe's response, so he continued talking nervously.

"Seventeen imperial dukes, including two great generals, according to Kazeman's statement and the statements of the few imperial marquises who were captured by you at Base No. 5, their combined land area exceeds Three million square kilometers.

It is roughly equivalent to one-third of the area of ​​your Longzhou, and it is also roughly equivalent to one-third of the area of ​​our Yingzhou, so this is a very large fief area. Even if the empire occupies a complete livable planet, the land area is larger than that of our blue star, and it can entrust more than 200 dukes, and there are more marquises, earls, and many lands with larger land areas. Prince.

But these three million square kilometers must be very important to the empire. I think the emperor of the empire definitely wants to reclaim the three million square kilometers of fiefdom, but it cannot be easily reclaimed, because doing so will make all empires The nobles were chilled.

The nobles of the empire will believe what you said to Ada Kang before. The emperor of the empire stipulated that no titles could be inherited and obtained without military exploits. The main purpose was to reclaim their fiefdoms. So I think that killing some big nobles such as Dukes and Marquises of the Empire will be able to cause internal conflicts in the Empire to erupt.

As long as the Empire is in civil strife, our chance will come. "

After Davis added his previous thoughts, he really wanted to see Ji Xinghe's expression, but it was a voice communication, so he couldn't see it.

I can only ask: "General, the reason why you agree with my proposal is because you think the same way, right? After all, you have said this before."

Ji Xinghe felt a little strange, why did people like Zhao Mou and Davis, after putting forward very constructive ideas, say that they had thought of these ideas in the first place?

Is it because they want to kiss ass, or because they really think so?

The difference between the two is so big that Ji Xinghe will doubt their character and professionalism.

So he wants to figure it out.

"Davis."

Ji Xinghe didn't answer, but asked rhetorically: "If we killed too many imperial nobles, the empire will change the status quo that only nobles can drive noble mechas, and let ordinary orangutans selected by thousands of people pilot them." First Duke, do you think this is good or bad for us?"

Hearing this question, Davis suddenly felt a little happy in his heart. He said softly: "General, if you are testing me, then I can only say that this is definitely a great thing for us."

Ji Xinghe asked again: "Why?"

Davis did not answer, but said: "Colonel Liu Mian should know why."

After working under Kentweiss for many years, Davis's military literacy and professional ability are beyond doubt, and there is also no doubt that there are reasons why he is very sensible in some aspects.

He felt that this was Ji Xinghe's test, because how could Ji Xinghe, who has a strategic thinking mode, not understand such a simple question?

That being the case, then I just need to tell the result, and the analysis process should be left to Liu Mian, a person from Ji Xinghe.

If it wasn't that Chen Xun was not on this communication channel, but instead ran to the front line with a sniper rifle to achieve the goal of 'Slaying Thousands of Gorillas', he would give this opportunity to Chen Xun.

Ji Xinghe figured it out. Davis really thought he had thought of this in advance, but some of the "bad habits" that Kentweiss brought to Davis also existed.

But on this point, there is no need to be serious.

"Liu Mian, tell me."

"yes."

Liu Mian replied immediately: "Just looking at the current situation, this will indeed pose a greater threat to us. Because General Tu Yuan and you have both said that when our mecha fighters face the imperial aristocratic mechas The biggest advantage is that our mecha fighters are not afraid of death, but the noble mecha pilots of the empire are very afraid of death.

But if the imperial civilian orangutans were driving noble mechs, they would not be so afraid of death, and our advantage in this regard would be greatly reduced. Moreover, we were able to intensify the conflict between the imperial family and the nobles when we defeated the imperial noble mechas before, but if those noble mechas were all civilian orangutans, it would be difficult for us to achieve this goal.

But in the long run, this is definitely a good thing for us, because if ordinary orangutans, or those low-level aristocratic orangutans, can drive better mechas to participate in the battle, they will be able to get enough to make them knighted and promoted. This will allow the empire to produce more new generations of nobles.

That is to say, the contradiction between the imperial family and the imperial nobles will be transferred to the new and old nobles of the empire, which is also enough to cause civil strife for the empire. Because this kind of contradiction cannot be completely transferred, on the contrary, it will lead to even greater contradictions between the imperial family and the nobles. "

Speaking of this, Liu Mian paused for a while, and then said: "There was a period in the history of our Longzhou. The emperors in the era of enfeoffment wanted to achieve a high degree of centralization, so there was a system of Tweeting Orders. This exacerbated the conflict between the royal family and the nobility.

At the same time, the emperor had the determination to expand the territory, so he had to use military exploits to inspire people's hearts. But the knighthood itself conflicted with his idea of ​​centralizing power, so there was a phenomenon of allowing the older generation of nobles to make room for the new generation of nobles.

To put it simply, it is one radish and one pit. When there are new, stronger radishes, the rotten radishes must be pulled out. The total number of pits remains the same or even decreases, and the radishes are replaced generation after generation. .

Taking history as a mirror, there is nothing new under the stars. We can be sure that the emperor of the empire will inevitably take the same measures, forcing the old generation of nobles and the new generation of nobles to compete for military exploits, that is, to compete for titles, which will lead to two internal contradictions in the empire intensified at the same time.

So, this is really a good thing for us. "

After hearing this, Ji Xinghe asked again: "What if we take a longer-term view?"

"Then this is a bad thing for us, a very bad bad thing."

"Why?"

This time Liu Mian did not answer, as if he had also learned humility, or as if he wanted to give Davis a chance to perform in front of Ji Xinghe, or wanted to see whether Davis wanted to be in Ji Xinghe or not. performance in front of you.

The difference is actually huge.

Davis understood what Liu Mian meant, because he saw Liu Mian's eyes, so he took the initiative to speak.

"Because the empire is learning from our federal system, this is inevitable. It is impossible to achieve a high degree of centralization in a feudal empire that retains the feudal system, even if the emperor of the empire has nuclear weapons, because its nuclear weapons can only guarantee that the empire will not There was a large-scale rebellion, but it was impossible to avoid the arrogance of those nobles.

In order to achieve a high degree of centralization, the emperor of the empire must learn some of the systems of our federation. For example, there are no nobles in name, and all land and resources belong to the federal government. Including the military, only the governments of the states are eligible to form, and all of them are under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

If the emperor of the empire is smart enough, no, it must be smart. It must want to achieve such a high degree of centralization, and everything in the empire will be governed by the government formed by the royal family.

Judging from the fact that they don't care about the life and death of those nobles at all, the emperor of the empire may have already started this kind of restructuring, using the war with us to eliminate the older generation of nobles in the empire who hindered it from achieving a high degree of centralization.

The new generation of nobles in the empire, apart from titles and nominal fiefdoms, will no longer have a high degree of autonomy over their fiefdoms, and all governance rights will be taken back by the emperor.

If the emperor of the empire successfully completes this transformation, then the empire we are about to face can become a real war machine at any time. So from a longer-term perspective, this is a very bad thing for us. "

Ji Xinghe pondered for a while, and continued to ask questions.

"What should we do?"

Davis and Liu Mian, who were in the command center of the western theater, looked at each other and spoke back and forth.

"Intensify the internal contradictions of the empire and let them break out into civil strife."

"End this war before the Emperor of the Empire resolves the civil strife and completes the restructuring."

In fact, there is another method. Davis and Liu Mian know it, and many people know it, but they are unwilling to say it because it is impossible to achieve.

Ji Xinghe was noncommittal to the answers of the two, and asked another question.

"Do you think the pattern of the alien war will change because of this?"

This question itself has already explained Ji Xinghe's thoughts, and both Davis and Liu Mian can hear it.

And they all agreed with this idea, so the two began to answer Ji Xinghe's question one by one, or to add theoretical evidence to Ji Xinghe's idea.

"Yes, as the combat effectiveness of mechs becomes stronger and stronger, the role of conventional troops will become smaller and smaller."

"Our mechs can forcibly break through the fire blockade of the empire's conventional forces, rush into the enemy's formation, destroy the anti-missile systems, bunkers, fire output units and other vital points of the empire's conventional forces, and then use long-range firepower to annihilate them. In this kind of combat In this mode, the empire's conventional forces can be described as cannon fodder."

"Similarly, if the empire starts to use civilian orangutans in large numbers to drive high-performance mechs to fight, then they can also use this combat mode against our positions, and our conventional troops will also become cannon fodder."

"We have living bases on alien planets, and the empire has leap gates, but these are only auxiliary means, and cannot provide the necessary supplies of oxygen, water and other living materials to conventional troops fighting on alien planets anytime and anywhere."

"If we transfer the resources invested in conventional troops to mecha units, we will be able to have more mechas, more efficient mobility, and stronger combat effectiveness."

"As long as we do this, the Empire will definitely do the same. They can't always let combat units like the Independent Regiment use the formation-breaking capabilities of the mechs, combined with the long-range firepower that we can accurately hit when we have air supremacy. , Annihilating their tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of conventional troops at every turn."

"Information shows that over the past twenty years, most of the empire's regular military forces on alien planets have been lost by the great nobles of the empire. This is the exhaustion of their strength by the emperor, and we have to Put more conventional troops in."

"Once the internal conflicts of the empire broke out, the emperor of the empire began to restructure. The war mode on the alien planet will be based on three types of combat units. Air control units, including space battleships and individual starships, include artillery, Firepower output units including rocket troops and missile troops, and surface combat units including mech warriors and individual exoskeleton armored special warfare soldiers.”

"Our conventional forces, and the empire's conventional forces, will be converted into auxiliary combat units. The outcome of this war will be determined by three aspects."

"Only those who dominate the air can always win, and firepower is paramount. There is no need to say more about these two aspects. It has always been like this. Therefore, the real change lies in the mecha."

"Only mechas can deal with mechas. Wars on alien planets will be dominated by mecha warfare. Because the meaning of mastering air supremacy must fall above surface wars, we are not the real interstellar era, the empire Neither, space wars are far away."

"The ultimate meaning of supremacy of firepower also needs to act on the surface. In the absence of real space warfare, all our firepower will serve the mech warfare between us and the empire."

"Moreover, the essence of this war lies in the control of the Alien Star. The empire's leap gate can only be opened on the surface of the Alien Star. As long as we control the Alien Star, it is impossible for the Empire to come to the Alien Star."

"So, we're going to enter a new era of warfare, which I'd like to call..."

Davis paused for a moment, regretting that he couldn't see Ji Xinghe at this time, and Ji Xinghe couldn't see him either.

Because what he was talking about, and what he was going to say, had an inevitable connection with Ji Xinghe.

But it doesn't matter, as long as Ji Xinghe can hear his voice and understand his attitude.

He said.

"The era when mechs are king."