After a few hours of calm consideration, Han Tuhu's face was vastly different from a moment ago. Li Yao felt that he was trying to suppress a certain part of his brain and turn himself into a precise, emotionless machine.
"I'm sorry, Major Li."
Han Tuhu held the military hat in his hand and touched the red star medal on the hat with his thumb. The medal was already glittering because of the friction. "Just now, I was too agitated and lost the calmness that a commander of the Union Army should have. Unnecessary rashness and fury will only lead to errors in my judgment and doom the troop forever. I need to apologize for my loss of control."
Li Yao did not know whether Han Tuhu's change was a good thing or a bad thing.
Han Tuhu stared at the medal in his hand in a daze. The glittering red stars on the medal turned into two sparks in his deep eyes. He was dazed for a long time before he hesitated and said, "In fact, many of us have considered everything that Major Li said when we were on the island of the Nether World. After all …"
The tail that was like a meteor hammer crossed his shoulder and extended to his head. Like a thick arm, it knocked his extremely ugly head. "How can I not have the slightest doubt when I see myself turning into such an inhuman and inhuman appearance?"
"At first, we thought that it was a certain scheme of the enemy and the effect of a brand-new virus.
"However, we were not the only ones who were mutated. Very soon, we got in touch with the Blood Lion Battalion, Suo Chaolong, and other silver-blood demons who were also caged together.
"While we were becoming more and more like demons, Suo Chaolong was becoming more and more like a human being. If Suo Chaolong and I were pulled to a stranger Cultivator right now, who would say that I was a human being and he was a demon?
"What's going on here? Both Suo Chaolong and I must've been asking ourselves the same question countless times every night. I feel that ten thousand ants have crawled into my head. Gnawing away viciously every second! "
"I wanted to figure out the answer, but I was afraid of the real answer. I could only deceive myself and come up with all kinds of impossible reasons. The relationship between Suo Chaolong and I was like fire and water. Rather than saying that I hate him for being a yao officer, it would be better to say that I am jealous of him. I am jealous of his current appearance. I am jealous of how an evil yao like him can have a human face! "
"I think so. He was the same, wasn't he? I can read the way he looks at me, the way he looks at me is exactly the same as mine! "
The expression on Han Tuhu's face was indescribable. "You know, Major Li, although you saved us, you also gave us a huge problem."
"Originally, neither Suo Chaolong nor I thought that we could really escape from that dark and terrifying island. We only wanted to escape before the answer to the despair completely appeared and made us all go crazy. We wanted to die a glorious death on the battlefield as a glorious Union Army or as a pure silver-blood demon!
"But you showed up and really saved us. You also put the answer that we were unwilling to face in front of us clearly!"
Li Yao listened quietly.
He had a feeling that Han Tuhu did not need a response but only a heavy machine gun. He was going to release the dark feelings that had been buried deep inside his heart for half a year.
As he expected, after saying everything, Han Tuhu stared at the ceiling in a daze for a long time and took a long breath in relief. He seemed to be a completely different person from one second ago. "Major Li, in order to cease fire or even join hands with the Blood Demon Sector, a few critical problems have to be resolved from a technical point of view."
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. "Colonel Han, are you willing to set aside your prejudice and join hands with the demons?"
"I am not."
Han Tuhu seemed to be crawling out of the swamp that he had been trapped in for half a year. An officer of the Union Army, who was so shrewd that he was almost cruel, was waking up. He shook his head and said, "Even if everything you said is true and human beings and demons are of the same origin, so what?
"Forty thousand years is enough for an original race to evolve into two different branches. Moreover, even within the same race, there may be irreconcilable conflicts."
"Species is never the only reason for war. It is not even the most important reason.
"Take the Imperium of True Human Beings, the greatest threat that we are faced with, for example. Isn't it a country of human beings with the same culture and species as us? But when it comes to destroying us, they won't show the slightest mercy. "
"Therefore, I'm afraid that I will not change my hatred for the demons. I believe that the Union Army will not be able to change the hatred in only a few years, either.
"However …"
Han Tuhu's eyes were sharper and sharper, as if a scalpel had ripped apart the haze that covered his brain. "I am a soldier. My duty is to protect the country, the Xing Yao Federation, and all the citizens of the Xing Yao Federation.
"I will fulfill my duty by whatever means necessary.
"If destroying the Blood Demon Sector can achieve the goal, I will try my best to achieve the goal and kill every demon, no matter what kind of bird their ancestors were.
"However, if the Federation can only be saved by joining hands with the demons, I will make the right choice without any hesitation, even if the choice will be despised and despised by countless people, even if it will be despised and despised by myself, I will still do it without any hesitation.
"Therefore, please tell me first. How is the war ability of the Flying Star Sector?
"You said that they once attacked a planet named 'Spider Den', which means that they boast certain starships that can attack planets? If we have the assistance of the Flying Star Sector, will we be able to conquer the Blood Demon Sector quickly in one to two years? "
"Trust me."
Han Tuhu added, "Any general or politician of the Xing Yao Federation will ask the same question."
Li Yao thought for a long time and said, "According to my observation, it will be very difficult.
"The situation of the Flying Star Sector is entirely different from that of the Tian Yuan Realm. Human beings there are basically a 'starship civilization'. The so-called army is in the form of 'Exo Societies'. There is no regular army of a large scale that can be commanded at all. Spider Den, which they are going to deal with, is nothing more than a mob of space pirates.
"It is exactly because there is no regular army that they have to resort to the 'Grand Illusionary Soldiers', a dangerous weapon.
"Besides, the Flying Star Sector has just experienced a war that lasted several years. It has suffered heavy losses and is still recovering.
"It is one thing to ask the Flying Star Sector to send a fleet to help their compatriots in the Tian Yuan Realm defend their homeland.
"However, it is a whole different matter to ask them to send hundreds of starships to attack a world of demons with a harsh environment across mountains and rivers."
"After all, the Blood Demon Sector is not a resource planet such as Spider Den, and it is not a mob of space pirates that is occupying the place. It is a well-functioning, efficient government with a strong regular army!
"It is true that a strong space fleet can suppress a planet. But 'suppression' and 'conquest' are two different things. Colonel Han must know that better than I do.
"More importantly, the technology of super long-distance space jumps is not mature yet. Every starship that jumps from the Flying Star Sector to the Tian Yuan Realm will consume a lot of resources.
"To teleport an enormous fleet of the Flying Star Sector to the Tian Yuan Realm, it will take at least a few years. The cost will be extremely high. Even if the Flying Star Sector has cut off all their belts, they may not be able to do it.
"On the other hand, the demons of the Blood Demon Sector have been brainwashed by the 'Four Pillars System'. They believe in the existence of the Pantheon of Demons and the theories of 'destruction, rebirth, and immortality'. Their resistance and combat ability are very high. If they are fighting in the homeland, they will have more advantages.
"Even if the enormous fleet of the Flying Star Sector does jump to the orbit of the Blood Demon Sector and blow up the surface of the planet into a wasteland, so what?
"Don't forget that the environment of the Blood Demon Sector is extremely harsh in the first place. The demons here are used to the barren land. By then, they can simply hide underground or at the bottom of the ocean and engage in guerilla warfare. That way, they will be able to pin the army of the Tian Yuan Realm and the Flying Star Sector to the Blood Demon Sector. A lot of resources and soldiers and Cultivators will be wasted for nothing.
"The Crystal Suit, the crystal warships, and the Cultivators in the high-intensity combat state are all gold-swallowing behemoths. The resources that they consume every day are astronomical!
"The resources, the soldiers, and the Cultivators are all indispensable when we fight against the Imperium of True Human Beings!
"I assume that the Union Army must've drafted a comprehensive attack plan and calculated how many resources and lives it would cost to completely conquer the Blood Demon Sector, didn't they?"
Han Tuhu smiled bitterly. "The General Staff of the Union Army did draft a lot of war plans to attack the Blood Demon Sector. According to the most optimistic estimation, after the Tian Yuan Realm continued to defend the homeland for five to ten years, fifty legions of Crystal Suit could be established by exploiting all the resources in the homeland. Then, with the fifty legions as the main force, the Union Army would shift to a strategic attack and march into the Blood Demon Sector. The main force of the Coalition Army of Demons in the Blood Demon Sector would be destroyed in five years and the Blood Demon Sector would be completely conquered in twenty years!
"At that time, the total number of soldiers that the General Staff estimated to be lost in twenty years was …
"A hundred and thirty million Union Army!
"It's equivalent to smashing the entire federal army into it and changing the blood of the entire federation in twenty years!"
"According to the optimistic estimation of the General Staff, the comprehensive war will regress the national economy of the Xing Yao Federation by fifty years. It is estimated that in the eighteenth year of the war, the GNP will drop to the lowest value, which is only 65% of what it is today. After we completely conquer the Blood Demon Sector, the curve of decline will not rise until ten years later. It is estimated that the positive benefits of the war will not be reaped until fifty years later.
"That's why I want to confirm whether or not the time can be significantly shortened with the help of a powerful fleet.
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