Chapter 1688 Impossible, Absolutely Impossible

Combat proposals from the General Staff? There are indeed a lot of new things today.

You know, in the course of the war over the past year, the National Defense Committee and the Military Command have been trying to find ways to overfulfill the logistics and military and political work, but the specific combat strategies are really left to the front-line generals to do as they please.

However, the General Staff, which should provide guidance to the front line in the war and should be the most visible General Staff, seems to be a completely invisible mascot department.

Of course, the people in the General Staff actually have reason to express dissatisfaction.

You know, there are overlapping functions between the Military Command Headquarters and the General Staff. And this special organizational structure is actually a remnant of the imperial rule.

But can the Galactic Empire and the Community be the same thing? They dominate half of the galaxy, have hundreds of princes and dozens of satellite countries under their command, and control the most powerful military force in the world. The mighty armies under the Dragon King include the Imperial Guard, the Princes' Guard, the Local Army, the Border Fleet, the Lords' Fleet, and the Imperial Army. In addition, the soldiers come from hundreds of civilized races. Many people have dual nationality, and there are also dual political identities of noble retainers and national soldiers.

In this case, in addition to the Privy Council and the Ministry of National Defense, it is also reasonable to have a Grand Marshal's Office, the Military Affairs Department, the Space Fleet Command, and the Star Knights.

However, the source of the community army is relatively simple and not so large. If we want to imitate the military command headquarters established by the Grand Marshal's Office and the general staff established in the same way as the Military Affairs Department, it will always be a bit superfluous.

In fact, in the era of Marshal Li, he realized this problem and proposed to reduce the number of departments, but later he failed to implement it due to various accidents.

What's more, after the incident of the last Chief of the General Staff, the military command intelligence of the General Staff has been weakened a lot.

But even so, Minister Bai still felt that the people in the General Staff were all salary thieves. If it were the old me, I would have made some sarcastic remarks. However, considering that Marshal Ferragu, the acting chief who was forced to take the position, was also innocent, I just had to endure it.

Then, I heard Vice President Yero laugh and said, "Oh my! I almost forgot that the main job of our General Staff should actually include the formulation of combat strategies!"

It can be seen that the vice president still has a lot of resentment towards Marshal Ferragu, but this is actually quite undignified.

Of course, President Kes Nishita and the leaders of the Political Friends Party present must be very pleased. After all, one of them is Mao Yuanzuo's nephew, and the other is Mao Yuanzuo's cook. They are all backbones of the Gongrong Party. Naturally, the more fierce the fight, the better. If they both die, then the world will be peaceful, right?

Of course, as an excellent leader of a multi-party coalition government with high magnanimity, Mr. Nishita waved his hand to stop the whispers at the scene, and said to Yero earnestly: "Vice President, you can't use such a frivolous method to evaluate the soldiers of the General Staff. They have also made the greatest efforts."

"I'm sorry." Vice President Yero was very humble.

"You can't comment on a community marshal with great military achievements like this!"

"Marshal, I'm really sorry, I lost my temper." Vice President Yero was very sincere and ashamed. Of course, it was precisely because he was too ashamed that he looked really insincere.

However, President Nishita was very satisfied and waved his hand and said: "Marshal, please speak."

Marshal Ferragu still looked broad-minded and fat, completely out of line with the knowledge of these insect politicians, but really opened the star map of the overall battle situation and marked various battle situations on it.

Mr. Bai was amazed. He had met Marshal Ferragu several times at such meetings, but this was the first time he looked like a serious chief of staff.

"Now, after a whole year of reconstruction, the home fleet has 4 Yinglong-class battlecruisers, 4 Saratoga-class aircraft carriers, 18 heavy cruisers of various levels, and nearly 200 combat and auxiliary ships of various types. Overall, it has restored a certain combat effectiveness." Marshal Ferragu said.

Indeed, if we put aside the old ships dug out from the warehouse and the new ships that have not yet completed the test, and the reality that more than 70% of the crew are rookies, the combat effectiveness is indeed good from the perspective of paper combat effectiveness.

"This is good news. On behalf of the people of the Blue Star Community, thank you for your hard work." The president said.

Marshal Ferragu looked ashamed, but he said with a stiff upper lip: "It is my suggestion to lead the local fleet to go out, after joining the main forces of the 6th and 7th fleets in the New Atlantis Star Region, go out of the border of the New Atlantis Star Region and take over the Chelo Galaxy first."

He pointed his finger at the border of the Circe Kingdom, and the volume suddenly increased, but it did not increase any persuasiveness, but it felt a bit self-destructive.

But even so, his words made the scene fall into silence.

The so-called Chelo Fortress is the border star system between the Blue Star Community and the Circe Kingdom, and it is also a very important transportation route. During the period when the community was ruled by the empire, this star system was operated by the Circe Snapping Turtles as an important fortress to protect the border of the country, and naturally a lot of military equipment was built and deployed.

Of course, after the independence of the Earth, the two countries were considered good-neighborly and friendly quasi-allies. Considering the operating costs, the Cirke Kingdom shut down most of its fortress facilities. However, three years ago, during the war with the Principality of Khayal (and the empire behind it), the Cirque Kingdom used the Chero star system, which was the furthest away from the battlefield, as a rear base. A shipyard was built here meticulously, and a large amount of military supplies were stocked.

Now, a small part of these materials were used in the "Battle of Conviction", and the Circassians only charged the cost price. In addition, they also dispatched at least one division of Marines to join the battle in a mercenary manner and act together with the community.

From this perspective, these snapping turtle-like races can really be considered good allies.

However, what Marshal Ferragu means is for us to sneak attack our allies? Isn’t it too disrespectful of martial ethics?

"Of course, in as peaceful a way as possible. A completely peaceful way." Marshal Ferragu added: "In order to save costs, Cherk shut down most of the galaxy fortress equipment. They also lacked defense against us. If mobilized With the full combat power of the Blue Guard and the Home Fleet, I can launch a surprise attack and I am 70% sure that I can capture this galaxy without bloodshed."

This...doesn't this sound even less martial ethics? Mr. Bai thought.

Needless to say, as soon as this statement came out, all the big shots present could only continue to be stunned.

Even Vice President Hierro, who felt that he was very abstract, fell into a state of shock and even subconsciously put his hands under the table. There is an alarm there, and when it is pressed, guards and doctors will rush in immediately.

President Nishita even made a tactical move and winked at Yang Mingzhao next to him. As a psychic, the deputy secretary-general can serve as the president's personal bodyguard. This is actually not a secret.

After receiving the eye response from his loyal deputy secretary-general, Nishita seemed to feel a little more relieved, and then slowly said: "Marshal, if you are too stressed, we can temporarily adjourn the meeting today. The Chief of General Staff's The selection is of course based on your opinions.”

"Mr. President, everyone, I am very sober. Okay, okay, before... um, I was as surprised as you were before I got the deduction from the boys on the staff." Marshal Ferragut said.

Could this really be the deduction of some "young man" from the General Staff? I have been in contact with those people, but I don’t think any of them are as good as Zheng Ao! Mr. Bai always felt that everything was a bit untrustworthy.

"Your Excellency, Marshal, can we open the skylight and speak frankly?" Vice President Hierro said. He still had a smile on his face, but his tone was already quite rude.

"What we need to seriously consider now...is our biggest national defense vulnerability." Marshal Paris answered in a slightly stiff tone.

Compared with the dough-like Ferragut, this veteran of the Revolutionary War was much heavier. The vice president's momentum was slightly suppressed, and he asked: "National defense loopholes?"

At this time, Marshal Ferragut, like a well-trained chief of general staff, drew a line at the community's New Atlantis border.

Everyone can intuitively see that the borders of the star region extend in all directions, and they are all prosperous channels. Therefore, although New Asia is a border star region, it is also quite wealthy.

Having said that, the big guys in the community have never regarded this place as a border. They seem to regard the Cirke Kingdom as their natural barrier by convention.

However, no one has stipulated that the Circassians will always be allies of the people on earth.

"The border of Xinya is undefendable. The only place we can rely on for defense is the Chiero Fortress." Marshal Paris said in a firm and solemn tone.

Marshal Ferragut said: "As long as we hold this place, New Atlantis still has some room to defend. If not, this, um... will be a bit reluctant."

The old marshal directly interrupted the fat marshal's hesitation: "It's not that it's forced, it's simply impossible. Even if the First Fleet and the Tenth Fleet are all here, we can't set up a position on the border of New Atlantis. Create an airtight line of defense.”

President Nishita finally interrupted the two of them: "Stop, please stop, my respected marshals. According to what you mean, the Circassians betrayed us. But the intelligence service got it What evidence?"

As soon as President Nishita asked this question, he felt that he must have discovered some blind spot, and quickly turned his attention to Chairman Shona, but the latter just shook his head: "The Circassian Army is far from recovering, and it got it from the Tuhan people." It will be at least the next year for those battle cruisers to become combat effective."

To put it bluntly, the severely wounded Circassians are still licking their wounds and have no ability to attack the community.

"Since we don't have the ability to attack, of course we can counterattack. Is this also the natural law of survival in the universe?" Vice President Hierro thought thoughtfully, looking like an imperial noble.

"That's true...that's weird! We can't sneak attack our allies!" President Nishita said loudly.

"I was just joking." Vice President Hierro shrugged and smiled.

"The Vice President's sense of humor is really advanced!" the President said with a straight face.

"This is disrespectful to me. However, it is the Marshal who clearly has the most sense of humor."

"Ah hahaha, yes, yes, I almost believe it."

So, the president and other officials also laughed. The cabinet meeting was filled with a happy atmosphere. Or rather, the atmosphere had to be happy.

However, what everyone waited for was just the poker faces of the two marshals.

"So, Marshal Paris, are you serious?" Chairman Edward Shawna sighed.

"Chairman, you can certainly rule out the fighting power of the Circe people, but what about the Galactic Empire?"

The old marshal's words still caused a silence, but the atmosphere gradually became suppressed.

"Wait, please let me sort out my thoughts a little bit... You mean, the Imperial Fleet may pass through Circe and directly attack the New Atlantis Star Zone? So, we must take the initiative? Occupy the main traffic routes of the Chelo Galaxy?" The vice president showed a confused expression.

Marshal Paris nodded solemnly. Marshal Ferragu had an embarrassed and ashamed smile on his chubby round face, but he also nodded firmly.

"The Galactic Empire sent troops to penetrate the Kingdom of Circe and attack New Atlantis?"

"No, the Empire forced the Kingdom of Circe to open its borders and obtain military access. They are even very likely to provide maintenance and supplies for the Empire's fleet." Marshal Paris said.

Vice President Yero began to press his temples, looking like his worldview had been overturned and he couldn't answer. And of course, there was a noisy chatter at the battle site.

"There is intelligence that the Kingdom of Circe has purchased a large amount of military materials from the countries in the Trichir Star Region. Many of them are consumables for large warships, which far exceeds the current needs of the Kingdom of Circe's fleet." Marshal Ferragu added.

"I didn't receive this news." Chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee Xiaona frowned and said, "Marshal, it's not that I don't trust you, I just want to know what sources of intelligence my country has that I don't know?"

In fact, Chairman Xiaona felt that the idea proposed by the two marshals was not completely impossible. As the head of intelligence and national security, vigilance and suspicion are absolutely indispensable. However, as the head of national security, he felt that the marshals' words were really harsh.

Marshal Paris looked at Chairman Xiaona deeply, with disappointment on his face: "...It is a group of civilian traveling merchants. But, Mr. Chairman, this is not the point. The point is that once the Kingdom of Cherk opens its borders. The Empire's high-speed fleet will only take a week from Femo to Chero. And once they cross the border of New Atlantis, it will only take half a month to reach the earth."

Of course, the above time is based on the shortest route and the premise that the Empire's fleet is not stranded for any reason along the way.

However, even though Marshal Paris has described the situation so cruelly, he still did not get everyone's agreement. Some people even began to sneer and began to ridicule this community marshal with great military achievements.

"It sounds like the product of the wild imagination of some young and inexperienced young man in the General Staff, but I didn't expect that His Excellency the Marshal would also be affected!"

"If this young man is a member of the Lionheart Society, it would be very reasonable."

"Maybe not only the Lionheart Society, but also the Pioneer Party. They are all... Hey, Mr. Bai, no offense."

"You are already offending! After the meeting, White Gloves!"

"Sorry! Sorry! I'm really sorry! I really don't mean to offend, I just talked nonsense."

"Everyone, don't go off topic, don't go off topic! Now we are talking about Circe, um, puff... Hehe, are we really going to attack a traditional ally because of a guess? When we are in the middle of a war? I didn't even know that the national strength of the Blue Star Community has developed to this point? May the spirit of the universe bless you!"

"But this is completely unreasonable. Circe will never give up this battle Neutral status. Why should they abandon the traditional relationship with the Alliance for hundreds of years and cooperate with the Empire? "

"Yes, yes, won't the Alliance have any objections? They have deployed five Titans opposite the Femo Nebula! Five in total! Do you understand?"

"Moreover, the Alliance has invested a considerable amount of capital in the Kingdom of Circe and has considerable rights and interests. They will not let Circe fall into the arms of the Empire."

"Isn't the Alliance's investment in us the same? If we are annexed by the Empire. Then everything they have done will be lost."

"Yes, yes! That's right, the Alliance will support us to resist for a long time, but will never let the Empire destroy us."

"What's more, it will destroy their two allies at once!"

"You have too little confidence in the Kingdom of Circe. They are all brave free people, and they have a mortal feud with the Empire. How could they join the Empire's camp? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"