Sandora's final decision was to have the battle take place far away from the Divine Fog Planet and the outpost base. It was also the best choice to prevent the Imperial Army's main force from suffering a setback and lay the foundation for future development. In theory, there was no better plan than this. However, no one knew how Sandora was going to carry it out.
The Avengers weren't fools. The previous few battles had proven this point. Although we still couldn't be sure if the other party's commander was still thinking logically, their tactical intelligence had proven that the other party wasn't a rigid autonomous spaceship like the ones in the Great Nebula. Instead, they were a group of people from the Imperial Army with sharp battle senses. Sandora might succeed if she wanted to hide two bases right under their noses. However, was it possible for them to attack an empty space without any hesitation where there weren't many Imperial Army troops stationed?
"It's a bluff." Sandora spread her arms and slowly drew a huge arc in the air. "In fact, ever since the first battle, I have been thinking about the strange behavior of the Avengers and trying to figure out how they are different from the normal soldiers of the Empire."
"Do you even need to say it? How many normal soldiers of the Empire would dare to shoot at their commanding officer?"
I immediately followed up. In the end, my sister and Sandora glared at me angrily.
"Cough, cough. I know. I won't talk nonsense. Continue."
"Mm, what Ah Jun said actually makes sense." Sandora nodded. "The biggest difference between the Avengers and normal soldiers of the Empire is that they treat the Shiring Apostles as their enemies and dare to shoot at their Emperor. However, this is just a mistake in their judgment. What I am concerned about is something more detailed. During the first ambush, due to the urgency of the battle, Icetis and a few members of Jingle's team personally participated in the battle. I believe everyone remembers that, right? "
Of course, we immediately nodded. Uncle Kenser sighed and rubbed his ribs. I had to admit that the battle had left a deep impression on me, no matter if it was Icetis's brick or Lin's Thomas Spin.
Sandora continued, "At first, I thought that the Avenging Army's ability to judge friend from foe was to list the normal Shiring Apostles as enemies. This might be because they were attacked by the rebels when the old Empire collapsed and discovered the Abyss Infection that was spreading through their mental link. So, they destroyed their mental link and damaged their ability to judge friend from foe, mistaking the Imperial Army for the infected rebels. However, Icetis and the others were Protoss. Whether it was their fighting style or energy response, they were completely different from the normal Shiring Apostles. Yet, the Avenging Army still categorized them as enemies. This made me overturn my initial assumption. The confusion in the judgment of the fleet that had gone insane was even more serious than I had expected. Not only were they unable to recognize the normal Shiring Apostles, they had even forgotten what their original comrades looked like. "
Everyone nodded. In reality, many people had also noticed this point and had mentioned it after the battle. However, due to the lack of information, it was impossible to come up with a concrete conclusion, so it had been put aside. This time, Sandora might have discovered more things from the Avenging Army's actions, which was why she had brought it up again. After all, those were her personal soldiers from tens of thousands of years ago. In this world, there were only two people who understood an army the most. One was their general, and the other was the enemy's general. Now that Sandora had taken on two roles at once, I felt that she was invincible.
"In the battle just now, a portion of the servant army joined the battle," Sandora suddenly said, seemingly abruptly changing the topic.
I recalled that they were the elite troops from the New Eden Federation. In the first ambush on the Divine Fog Planet, the soldiers of the Federation could only make it to the end to clean up the battlefield. This made many hot-blooded pilots who had the thought of "fighting on the frontlines of the Empire and bragging about it" to no avail. Thus, in today's battle, they voluntarily took on the task of harassing the enemy from the outside, which was most suitable for the Federation. After all, even if they were all equipped with the standard equipment of the United Front Department, their combat strength was just a group of armed militia in front of the Imperial Army. It was impossible for them to intercept the Avenging Army head-on, and the officers of the United Front Department wouldn't send so many soldiers to their deaths. Thus, their role in such a chaotic battle was to patrol the perimeter of the frontlines like 'vultures'. They wouldn't participate in any direct combat, and they wouldn't even charge into the enemy's firing range. However, throughout the battle, they would use their tremendous numbers and constant harassment to disrupt the enemy's attack. This tactic seemed to be very successful in today's battle. The soldiers of the Empire who had participated in the battle all said that the Avenging Army's formation was indeed chaotic — because they were chaotic from the start.
That was one of the tactics that the commanders of the United Front Department came up with in response to the fighting strength of the New Eden Federation's servant army. Their goal was to allow the servant army, the 'militia', to display their greatest value on the frontlines of the Empire. This was definitely much more reasonable than the old Empire's practice of using them as cannon fodder to block the cannons. It was also the job of the newly established United Front Department to come up with such tactics and test their effectiveness — but that was a digression.
Sandora seemed to have organized her thoughts and gave me some time to let my imagination run wild. She continued, "When the New Eden Federation's fleet was disrupting the Avenging Army's advance, I noticed something: the Avenging Army didn't do anything hostile to the Federation at first. They even ignored the large number of unfamiliar warships outside the battlefield and focused solely on attacking the frontlines of the Divine Fog Planet. According to my observations, the Avenging Army's first attack on the Federation's forces happened after one of their frigates was destroyed by a group of Federation warships. "
Everyone looked at each other and analyzed the information in Sandora's words.
"In other words, the Avenging Army didn't count the Federation's forces in the 'enemy list' at first," a young but loud broadcast suddenly sounded around us. "They only recognized the Federation's forces as the enemy after they were attacked? Isn't that too stupid? "
I shouted anxiously at the air, "Bubble! There's no more war. If you want to talk, come to the bridge. Can you not use the broadcast to scare us all the time?! "
As I said that, my heart ached as I took out the little thing that had suddenly twitched and then stopped moving from my pocket and placed it on the table. Ding Dang rolled around in front of everyone's concerned gazes and decisively wrapped herself in a large flower bud. This little bean is most afraid of people waking her up when she's sleeping. Bubbles had just mischievously played a 130-decibel broadcast and I felt that my brain was still trembling.
Speaking of which, I suddenly realized that Jingle had completely degenerated into a pet recently. Apart from receiving food and sleeping and acting cute, had she ever done anything proper? Aside from treating Kenser and the others, I felt that the best way to deal with those idiots was to leave them to fend for themselves for a few days. At the same time, they should reflect on themselves and not go against hundreds of Galaxy Cannons in the future.
Bubble teleported to the bridge after a few seconds. She looked at the barrier that separated the surroundings and formed a conference room. She pouted and jumped onto the chair next to me. "Tsk, if I knew that you would lock yourselves in here, I would have used a 200 decibels. You forgot about me after the war. You left me alone in the mainframe slot, feeling sad. Dad, don't you know that you have to pick your wife up after work?"
I had already given up on hearing a normal sentence from Bubble. This little girl seemed to want to lead me down the path of eternal damnation at any moment. The last time I took this little girl to the park (otherwise, she would have died at home), she talked to me about the lack of marital life in front of four or five police officers. In the end, not only did the police officers get a shock, but half of the park's young ladies and young wives also ran away …
Sandora saw that Bubble was causing trouble the moment she arrived. She couldn't help but glare at the little girl. Although the little girl was impolite, she was still Sandora's subordinate (I felt that everyone had forgotten about this). She immediately stuck out her tongue and kept quiet. Then, Sandora continued, "After that, I replayed the records of the first ambush and confirmed one thing. Icetis and the others were counterattacked after they initiated an attack on the Revenge Army's battleship. From this, we can confirm that the Revenge Army's judgment mechanism is actually in a very strange state. They treat the normal Shiring Apostles as their enemy. This should be a fixed boundary between friend and foe. Other than the initial ambush, everything that appears in front of them is classified as irrelevant, even if it is an aggressive fleet. They will only treat the latter as their enemy when they are attacked … "
The few of us looked at each other, and confusion began to spread.
"This judgment method — to use Bubble's words — is really silly." Liliana said thoughtfully as she watered the flower bud on the table (inside was Jingle).
"So, I speculate that the commander of the Revenge Army should be in a state of confusion between rationality and emotion. They show very flexible battlefield thinking and military deployment during the battle, but in other aspects, they are like puppets. But this is different from the Holy Church Guards in the Great Nebula. The latter is purely mechanical judgment, but the current Revenge Army … I feel that they are still thinking, but they are definitely missing something important, turning them into puppets. "
I nodded at Sandora. I had already guessed what she meant. "So, you want to use this point to confuse the judgment of the Revenge Army and make them target an 'enemy' that doesn't exist?"
"But I'm afraid that this won't be able to fool them. We will still have to use the Empire's fleet to fight them head-on, but at the same time, we will have to build a large number of fake battlefields in this galaxy. This will make the Revenge Army think that the 'invaders' are everywhere in their territory. If their judgment mechanism really has the problem that I described, they will invest a large number of troops in every military target. Of course, they may also concentrate their superior forces to destroy these fake battlefields one by one. But that doesn't matter. Our main forces will be constantly moving between these empty bases, and at the same time, we will constantly have the servant army transport resources between these bases. If the Revenge Army intercepts the transport fleet, it will give us even more opportunities to ambush them. As for a head-on battle … "
At this point, Sandora paused and revealed a nostalgic and conflicted expression. It seemed that she had thought of someone very important.
"If it is the overall commander, it probably won't concentrate all its forces to attack a single target. It will use its main army to crush a base, and at the same time, it will send one or two waves of smaller forces to attack the base that is directly connected to the target. This will make it impossible for the enemy to concentrate their forces. Back in the day, this tactic destroyed many enemies with tight defenses. But now that the Revenge Army's judgment mechanism has been broken, it might be confused by this illusion and waste its main forces on the illusion. Then, our main forces will be able to quickly destroy the smaller armies. If everything goes smoothly, we will be able to slowly even out the disadvantages we have in this universe. "
I didn't really understand Sandora's plan, but I faintly felt that it was quite amazing. Of course, what I cared about the most was who this "it" she mentioned was. You have to understand that this was my girlfriend, after all. Not only that, Sandora had such a nostalgic expression just now, and most importantly, she was speaking Chinese. If she was speaking English, I would be able to tell the difference between a man and a woman … or perhaps I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, as I had almost forgotten all about English.
The moment I asked this question, Sandora smiled faintly as she glanced in my direction. It was obvious that her girl's intuition told her that someone was jealous of her. However, she also faintly had a happy expression on her face. Perhaps she was happy that someone was treating her like a treasure, and Bubble answered my question for her.
"'It' refers to the Supreme Warlord, PL-15, the supreme commander of the Revenge Army."
“PL-15？ That's such a strange name. It sounds like a serial number. " I scratched my head in confusion, but I also relaxed a little. No matter what, this type of name was harmless to anyone. Back in the day, Ximen Qing had introduced himself to Pan Jinlian as "Young Man Zhu, Idiot Zhu," which meant that there wouldn't be any Wu Song stories in the future. But then again, this example really wasn't appropriate. If Sandora heard it, she would probably eat me whole without any sauce …
"PL-15 is indeed a serial number, because the Supreme Warlord wasn't a normal Shiring Apostles. He was an amalgamation." Sandora continued to stare at me with a smile that didn't seem like a smile. Her stare gave me goosebumps. "He, actually, I should say 'they'. They were all commanders who had followed me through many battlefields. After they died in battle, their souls were severely damaged and unable to revive. However, they were unwilling to leave the battlefield just like that, so they amalgamated into PL-15 and continued to serve me in the form of a Thinker. I didn't bring this aide-de-camp with me on my last expedition, but now … after seeing how the Revenge Army fights, I'm afraid that we'll be able to meet again very soon."
Sandora didn't say anything else about this Supreme Warlord. It was obvious that she didn't want to think too much about these sad memories at this time. I could also imagine what kind of existence PL-15 was to the entire Revenge Army from Bubble and Sandora's words. They were a group of followers who would never rest until they died. The oldest of them could probably be traced back to the time when Sandora was still an ordinary military officer. I couldn't imagine how such a large group of soul fragments could form a unified thought. But when I thought about how I might be dealing with the largest brain trust in history, I felt quite melancholic. I didn't know to what extent my advantage would be amplified by Sandora.
At that moment, I suddenly noticed that Sandora's gaze was still focused on me. She was still smiling faintly, and I instantly shivered. "Ahem, girl, why are you looking at me?"
Sandora kicked me under the table. "I'm wondering if I should dip my sauce in it."
I was speechless.
I realized something. If my thoughts were related to food, this girl would be able to hear it, regardless of whether I opened the group chat or not!
"How do you intend to create those illusions?" I coughed dryly and steered the topic back from the curious topic of whether I should dip my sauce or not. "We've already tricked the Revenge Army with a fake coordinate. It's hard to say if they won't guard against us like we're a thief. I'm afraid that using the broadcast won't work."
"Indeed. That's why we need to create a large group of illusions that look more realistic."
Sandora nodded and waved her hand to turn off the star map. Then, the holographic projection was replaced with a large pile of tattered things.
"A waste collection station?" Qian Qian blinked and muttered. I quickly knocked her head and said, "What are you talking about? This is a performance art exhibition!"
Sandora glared at the two of us fiercely. She was probably considering whether or not to dip her sauce in it again.
"Be serious. I'm fine." The Queen's last three words sounded strange, but I knew that she had noticed that Shallow Shallow and I were thinking of a way to help her get rid of those terrible memories. "These are the ruins of the Old Empire that we discovered in space."
"You intend to use them to disguise them as our outpost? Will the Revenge Army see that we have fallen to such a state and lose all their fighting spirit? Instead, they will help us to alleviate the poverty? " Out of habit, I blurted out a few words. Then, my elder sister twisted my waist and spun me around in a circle and a half.
"No, these ruins are just the foundation. So far, the ruins of the Old Empire that we have discovered are spread across the entire universe. The ruins on the planets are actually just small things with no value. Even if they were disguised as outposts, they wouldn't attract much attention. What is truly worth paying attention to are these. " Sandora pointed at the holographic projection a few times. Many of the pixels on the holographic projection were immediately enlarged. I realized that they were all huge buildings floating in space. Some were floating in midair, while others were right next to a lone star or a giant planet.
At that moment, I knew that Sandora had a big plan. Could it be that she wanted to activate all the ruins of the Old Empire?
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