Chapter 209 Analysis "Baby is amazing!"...
All battle videos were played at double speed, but even so, the 42 battles took nearly an hour and a half to broadcast.
In addition to the 13 victorious battles of the 8 legions here, there are also 29 defeat replays included.
This made Shen Qingzhu look sideways, because the legions participating in those 29 battles belonged to the royal family or several other major families, and among them there were even hostile forces of the Ji family.
Logically speaking, those battle records could not possibly appear here.
Even the eight legions under the Ji family did not know the specific circumstances of the battle between them before, because this was strictly prohibited by military orders from being disclosed.
The reason why the eight legion commanders were able to gather here today to watch these battle images together was obviously because of the instruction of the Duke of Xingyao at the top.
But judging from the reactions of everyone present, not only the marshals of the various legions, but even their accompanying staff officers and adjutants, all looked accustomed to this.
It was as if it was normal for the 29 defeat videos to appear here.
Shen Qingzhu knew that the Ji family was far more unfathomable than he had always known.
The other 12 major legions of the empire have obviously been infiltrated by the Ji family.
After the video was played in its entirety, a heated discussion quickly broke out in the conference room.
Except for Shen Qingzhu, most of the people attending today's meeting have been through many battles. Even the extremely noble Grand Duke at the top had been to the battlefield more than once when he was young and had made outstanding military achievements.
Although Ji Mingxue had served in the "Expeditionary Force" for two years, he was too young and rarely spoke unless necessary.
As for Shen Qingzhu, as a scientific researcher who had never been on the battlefield, Shen Qingzhu was very clear about his position and knew that he was not the protagonist today.
So, while everyone was discussing heatedly, Shen Qingzhu listened carefully while repeatedly replaying the points of interest in the battle record on the small military screen in front of him, and occasionally writing and drawing on his own light computer projection screen.
Because Shen Qingzhu has been receiving imperial education with Ji Mingxue for the past six months, his understanding of the military and contemporary warfare is now much better than before.
Although the population seems to be expanding in the interstellar age, with the Leman Empire alone having a population of 500 billion, manpower and human life are still very precious.
Therefore, contemporary war pioneers mostly rely on various unmanned equipment to fight, such as unmanned starships, unmanned shuttles, space drones, military robots, etc., first with a wave of intensive firepower coverage, and then the main field of the mecha warriors, the god of individual soldiers.
After the mecha warriors have eliminated all powerful hostile individuals that may pose a threat to the large force, the space force truly composed of humans will be officially dispatched to carry out alien ship landings, anti-electromagnetic interference, capturing or killing enemy personnel, collecting spoils, and emergency rescue, and other delicate tasks that still cannot be replaced by machines today.
Of course, this refers to the military forces of major powers with sufficient military expenditures.
Small countries that are not wealthy enough and many poor armed forces basically do not have the money to purchase too many unmanned equipment and high-tech weapons. They can only use what they have. Most of the equipment they have is many versions behind that of the military, and sometimes there is even a generation gap of hundreds of years.
This is the case with the pirates who have been roaming around the Lyman edge planetary belt.
Because of this, the pirates had always been suppressed by the military and never confronted the military head-on.
But this time, the pirates' behavior pattern changed completely.
When they were initially covered by the firepower of the military's unmanned equipment, the pirates were defeated step by step but never escaped completely.
According to subsequent post-war summaries, the pirates' starships did not even have enough fuel reserves.
There are two possibilities:
One possibility is that the pirates are really crazy because of poverty, and they plan to make a desperate attempt to survive the war by robbing all resources.
The other possibility is that the pirates never intended to escape from the beginning. Their real purpose was to lure the enemy deep into their territory and allow the human space force to board their starship.
The 42 battles in the video clearly represent the second situation.
So the question is, why did those space pirates do this? Why did they suddenly become so bold recently that they dared to fight the Imperial Legion head-on and actually won?
Shen Qingzhu started watching the replay again.
Seeing this, Ji Mingxue approached him inconspicuously and whispered, "What did you find?"
Shen Qingzhu paused, glanced ahead, and seeing that no one was paying attention to them, he lowered his eyes again, gently pinched the back of Ji Mingxue's hand that he had warmed, and said softly, "As the marshals have analyzed, this is indeed a deliberate test against the major legions of the empire."
Ji Mingxue raised her eyebrows slightly with interest, "What do you mean?"
He wanted to know how much Shen Qingzhu had seen.
Shen Qingzhu began to play the battle records on the small screen, and said slowly and thoughtfully, "The patterns of these dozens of battles are actually similar. At the beginning, the pirates seemed to be incapable of fighting, but in fact, the real battles were after the space army landed on the pirates' starships."
He divided the screen into two parts, with the 13 victories on the left and the 29 losses on the right.
Shen Qingzhu adjusted the 42 landing battles to a certain time point. "Here, the pirates should have used pheromone weapons."
In the video, abnormalities were seen among space force soldiers in 42 frames at the same time.
The difference is that in the 13 videos on the left, soldiers quickly used the anti-pheromone weapons that Shen Qingzhu had participated in developing, and the situation was quickly brought under control.
In the 29 videos on the right, the situation gradually got out of control. The Alphas in the space force gradually lost their minds and burst out with surging Alpha signals.
As we all know, AA repels each other. The stronger the Alpha, the more he cannot stand the pheromones of other Alphas, and he also regards the pheromones released by other Alphas as a provocation.
Because of this, from the major military academies to the major legions of the empire, all Alphas are strictly prohibited from releasing pheromones at will, and violators will be dealt with according to military law.
In the video on the right, the Alpha warriors soon started fighting, and even many of the Beta warriors on their team suffered.
Logically speaking, this is a good time for the pirates to fight back.
But in those defeat replays, the pirates never managed to make a comeback.
The pirates did not reappear until the military rescue was about to arrive. They confiscated the Imperial Army's equipment, weapons, landing craft and energy, and then threw all the soldiers into the broken shuttle, threw them back into space, and flew away.
Shen Qingzhu: "Capturing without killing is not the style of space pirates."
Because they have been suppressed by the Space Force, many pirates hate the military to the core and will kill soldiers whenever they have the chance.
Of course, in the previous few hundred years, pirates rarely had such opportunities, but many of them were captured by the military.
But this time, most of the soldiers who had been captured by the pirates returned safe and sound.
Even in the 29 failed battles, military casualties were horribly low.
Although it’s not appropriate to think this way, “Why do I feel like those pirates are playing a joke on the military?”
Of course, Shen Qingzhu only dared to say this to Ji Mingxue, and his voice was almost whispered.
Ji Mingxue nodded slightly, understanding what he meant, and whispered back, "It does seem like a joke at first glance, but it is tantamount to humiliation for the military, so there has been a lot of commotion within the legions recently, and the marshals are furious."
Having said that, Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue actually knew that the vicious space pirates would not really play tricks on the imperial army.
Shen Qingzhu pondered, "The reason why the space pirates released the space army is probably because they don't want to really anger the military, otherwise they will most likely be strongly surrounded and suppressed by the military."
"Although they have temporarily won with pheromone weapons, once the military is prepared, the threat posed by pheromone weapons will be greatly reduced."
Ji Mingxue hummed, and suddenly said, "In fact, if these eight legions had not been testing your anti-pheromone weapons recently, the military might not have been able to find out so quickly that the other side used pheromone weapons. After all, pheromone weapons have not appeared in the empire for hundreds of years."
Otherwise, the Imperial Military Academy and the military would not have banned the pheromone resistance training course.
This is not without reason, because the battlefield is mostly dominated by Alpha and Beta. If you want to develop pheromone weapons that can interfere with Alpha, you need a large amount of Omeg pheromone samples.
But as we all know, the number of Omegas in the Leman Empire is very small, and it is impossible to provide so many samples for the development of such useless weapons.
This has always been the military's thinking.
Moreover, although the major legions of the empire belong to different forces, they obviously have no intention of civil war. So there is naturally no need to develop pheromone weapons that kill one thousand enemies but injure one thousand of their own.
But this time, the pirates had so many pheromone weapons in their hands.
It is also clearly aimed at the military.
The reasons behind this, as well as the sources of those pheromone weapons, must be investigated further.
Shen Qingzhu slowly played with Ji Mingxue's fingers. This was an action he often performed when thinking after he and Ji Mingxue fell in love.
Ji Mingxue didn't disturb him. When he raised his eyes, he suddenly met the eyes of his uncle sitting opposite him. He found that his uncle was staring at him and Shen Qingzhu with interest.
Not only my eldest uncle, but also my cousin sitting opposite me and my younger uncle sitting diagonally in front of me, all glanced over from time to time.
Ji Mingxue suddenly raised the tip of his eyebrows slightly, and a hidden smile flashed in his bright golden eyes. Under the gaze of the three parents, he openly moved a little closer to Shen Qingzhu.
Cousin Ji Mingfeng and uncle Ji Rongyu immediately pursed their lips and turned their heads away from them, unable to bear it.
As for my uncle, Duke Xingyao Ji Ronghuan...
A few breaths later, Ji Mingxue suddenly received a new message.
He blinked subconsciously and glanced at his laptop calmly. Not surprisingly, he saw a private message from his uncle lying there.
[Uncle Xingxing: Bring your little friend to your house for a simple meal during the Chinese New Year? ]
Ji Mingxue couldn't hold back the smile, but still replied modestly, "I'll ask him later."
What this means is that he cannot be the master of Shen Qingzhu.
Whether to go back to the Ji family with him to celebrate the New Year or not, he has to ask Shen Qingzhu's consent.
Duke Ji Ronghuan slowly narrowed his eyes, looked at Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue for a while, and then nodded slightly without being noticed.
"Ji Xiaoxue, look here."
Shen Qingzhu's low voice suddenly sounded in his ears. Ji Mingxue immediately turned to look at him, then followed Shen Qingzhu's gaze and looked at the small screen on the right.
There, the 29 failed battles had been rearranged in chronological order by Shen Qingzhu.
As soon as she saw the order, Ji Mingxue knew what Shen Qingzhu had discovered.
Shen Qingzhu quickly said, "After arranging them in time, we can actually find that the strengths of these 29 pheromone weapons are different."
"The intensity of the first six attacks was very low, and the soldiers' reactions were not that severe. From the 7th to the 21st attacks, the intensity was too high, so much so that one Alpha soldier fainted on the spot. From the 22nd to the 29th attacks, although the soldiers' reactions were not that severe, they were still much more severe than the first six attacks."
"From this, I speculate that the pirates are most likely using these battles to adjust and test the imperial soldiers' tolerance to pheromone weapons."
He pointed to the 13 victorious battles on the left and said, "These 13 battles all took place in the early stages. After being countered by anti-pheromone weapons, the pirates rarely faced these major legions again."
"Of course, the above are just my speculations."
Shen Qingzhu suddenly looked at Ji Mingxue and asked him in a low voice, "Did the military intercept all the pirates' starships during the 13 victories?"
Ji Mingxue nodded, "Of course."
Shen Qingzhu asked again, "Do you have any surveillance equipment records of those captured starships?"
After saying that, Shen Qingzhu suddenly paused and said hesitantly, "I'm not from the military, so I can't watch those?"
Ji Mingxue couldn't help laughing, but they were outside after all, so he suppressed the corners of his lips to avoid making his smile too obvious.
He said softly to Shen Qingzhu, "Since you are invited to attend this meeting, there is naturally nothing you can't see."
"But," he narrowed his golden eyes slightly, "unfortunately, the monitoring systems of the captured starships all exploded, and nothing was left."
A hint of smile immediately appeared in Shen Qingzhu's eyes, "That may not be the case."
"Why are they blowing themselves up?"
Ji Mingxue cooperated and said, "Of course there are things that cannot be shown to others."
Shen Qingzhu lowered his eyes and smiled, "I wasn't 100% sure at first, but now I am sure that the pirates are indeed using the military for experiments."
"Those surveillance devices that exploded were probably designed to record the military's reaction to pheromone weapons."
"But they probably didn't expect that the Empire already had anti-pheromone weapons, which is why they hastily self-destructed after being captured."
Ji Mingxue gave a thumbs up under the table and praised generously, "All correct."
"Baby is amazing!"
"That's a very good analysis."
Although the last two sentences were almost whispered, Shen Qingzhu still froze slightly, feeling embarrassed that he dared to say such bold words in such an occasion.
He raised his eyes and quickly glanced around. Seeing that no one noticed, Shen Qingzhu breathed a sigh of relief. He pinched Ji Mingxue's fingertips lightly as a warning, signaling him to restrain himself.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com