It was just a light kiss on the corner of the lips, but it made Lu Fenghan feel like he was out of the control of gravity, even his soul was floating.
But when he regained his mind, Lu Fenghan regretted his impulse half a minute ago.
He stepped back a little and opened his eyes.
Qi Yan sank into the pillow, and the sleepiness in his eyes was still strong - it was obvious that the kiss just now had no effect on him.
While he breathed a sigh of relief, Lu Fenghan felt a pain in his heart again.
He slowly held Qi Yan's hand in his palm, and stroked Qi Yan's wrist with his thin fingertips to adjust his emotions.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't do this."
"Because I can't understand the meaning of a kiss?" Qi Yan's voice was originally cold, but it was diluted a little by sleepiness. He tilted his head slightly, his neck lines were clear, and his eyes looked at Lu Fenghan from bottom to top, and said seriously, "You can kiss me, I remember you kissed me."
Lu Fenghan knew that because of the lack of emotions, Qi Yan had lost some of his basis for judgment, so he would use memory as a reference standard to judge "yes" or "no", "allow" or "reject".
He held Qi Yan's hand, pinched his knuckles twice, and his voice returned to his usual casual and smiling voice: "Not now, you can only do it when you find your lost emotions back, otherwise it would be bullying you."
Qi Yan couldn't understand it, but chose to believe Lu Fenghan's words.
With his eyes half closed, his voice was even more vague due to sleepiness. After thinking for a while, he said to Lu Fenghan without any context, "I only allow you to kiss me."
After that, he couldn't hold it any longer, his eyelids completely closed, and he fell asleep.
Lu Fenghan looked at the sleeping person quietly, and after a long time, he lay down on the bed quietly.
The lights went out, and the white noise produced by the operation of the starship continued. According to his habit, he sorted out the things in his mind, making sure that there was nothing left to deal with, and then he prepared to sleep and conserve his energy, and wake up to go to Donald's lair.
After nearly ten years on the front line, Lu Fenghan had already developed the ability to fall asleep quickly anytime and anywhere. However, before he fell asleep, he noticed Qi Yan turned around and snuggled into his arms.
For a moment, the scenes in his memory overlapped.
Lu Fenghan picked her up and hugged her, and they slept together.
She is indeed a clingy little guy.
After five hours of sleep, Lu Fenghan took the still dazed Qi Yan to the command room. There were only three people sitting at the conference table. After a few minutes, Mei Jielin and Wei Yin yawned and opened the door to come in.
Du Shang saw that Mei Jie Lin had been yawning since she sat down: "What have you been busy with? You look so depressed as if you were drained."
Mei Jie Lin was in low spirits: "Don't splash dirty water. I'm a good rabbit and never eat grass near the nest."
He caught a glimpse of Lu Fenghan tearing open a bag of nutrition and feeding it to Qi Yan's mouth. Qi Yan was not fully awake yet, his head was against Lu Fenghan's shoulder, and he opened his mouth and bit it obediently, drinking it in small sips.
Mei Jie Lin was immediately angry when she saw this scene - why don't I have such a good blessing? It's all the fault of the rebels!
After Qi Yan finished drinking, he stood up and sat on the sofa. Lu Fenghan tapped the table with his fingers to attract everyone's attention: "Okay, let's start the meeting."
"For this operation, Du Shang will lead the assault team, with Jiangling as the vanguard, Long Xiyun will lead Feilian to defend the two wings, Meijielin, Weiyin, Chanyuan and Pingning will be in the middle, I will be in Dingyuan to cut off, and Erich will stay in command ship."
As Lu Fenghan finished speaking, Po Jun released the fleet phantom above the conference table.
In the miniature version of the star map, the fleet of ships as big as models was neatly arranged, and the positions of supply ships, frigates and other follower ships were marked with different colors.
His eyes swept over the people present one by one. Lu Fenghan asked, "Do you have any objections?"
Mei Jielin replied, "No objections, but I asked for the Chanyuan to be in the front. The designer of the Pingning has a strange habit. He designed a good starship into a trapezoid. The ship's rear is particularly large. It will block the line of sight too much if it follows behind."
Wei Yin glared, "How did it block the line of sight? Did the Pingning block your radar detection? Or did you go at full speed and also want to see the dark scenery around you?"
The people present drank water and picked their nails, giving them enough time for a minute of argument.
But just like usual, the argument ended after 40 seconds, and Wei Yin still admitted defeat with regret.
"Okay, Chanyuan goes first." Lu Fenghan rolled up the sleeves of his uniform shirt and rested his elbows on the table. "Five main battleships sent Donald back to the West, which was enough to give him face."
Mei Jielin: "When he is in his grave, he can still brag to his brothers who died early!" Her smile faded. "Linton should be in a good mood, and he can beat someone up first to vent his anger."
The Linton she was talking about was the captain of the Eros, who was ambushed in the defeat and never came back.
In space warfare, there is no such thing as corpses and remains.
Lu Fenghan released another list: "Take these people out this time, and don't let them come back."
Everyone present understood that this list was finally finalized by Long Xiyun. The names listed have all betrayed the alliance to some extent, and none of them are clean. However, they are all marginal figures, and there is no need to deal with them in the military.
When this war is over, it is a custom for the expeditionary army to report a "missing" case.
Seeing that everything has been remembered clearly, Lu Fenghan said again: "If we win this battle, we will give an explanation to the brothers who went there on Donald's territory."
The faces of several people present were a little gloomy.
At this time, the door of the command room was opened from the outside, breaking the atmosphere in the room.
Lorenz, the head of the technical department, was the last to arrive. He had no intention of sitting down to attend the meeting. He just stood at the door with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, holding a cup of steaming espresso, and said, "Don't rush forward recklessly like you have mania. Pay attention to the power system. If more and more of them break down, the people in the technical department will give up and you will have to deal with it yourselves."
After the threat, Lorenz turned around, and the hem of his white coat swirled in the air.
After making sure that the person had left, Metierin and Dushan looked at each other and muttered, "Why am I breathing so hard? Lorenz is so scary!"
Wein was worried, "Because you two are always the most aggressive and have the thickest post-war repair applications!"
Metierin and Dushan touched their noses in unison and stopped talking.
At 4 p.m. on July 10, the 11th Regiment of the Rebel Army was stationed.
In the monitoring room, two people on duty were chatting in a low voice.
"How many times have the higher-ups quarreled about the new weird methods of the Expeditionary Force?"
"Who can count them? I only know that the commander of the corps got angry several times. How can the expeditionary force predict when we will come out of the jump channel? I can't figure it out. The stakes on the opposite side have been out of contact for a long time, and there is no news at all.
I think someone might really be leaking the news, but it's just a random thought. Now unless the commander-in-chief on the opposite side announces it himself, no one will know what is going on."
"How can we fight if we don't know the whole situation?" The man who spoke saw that the surveillance footage was normal and was sure that there was no one around, so he whispered, "We're going to lose anyway, so we might as well figure this
out first. I don't want to go and die." The man on duty with him patted him on the shoulder and said, "We just finished two games, and the Expeditionary Force also needs a rest. Nothing should happen during our half-day duty. The wise man is so powerful, and the 'messengers' sent by the wise man are also very powerful. They will definitely be able to figure it out."
The two had nothing to do, so they relied on their imagination to guess the new methods of the Expeditionary Force. At this moment, the surveillance equipment suddenly made a sharp "beep", indicating that there was an abnormal situation.
The two men came to their senses and rushed to the monitoring device. On the screen, they saw a red dot representing a high-speed energy body appearing within the monitoring range.
"Is it an expeditionary attack?" Before they could finish their words, they saw large and small red dots on the sepia background, which were approaching at a very fast speed!
The sound of the alarm became more and more piercing, and blood-red warning signs popped up one after another, filling up most of the monitoring screen.
There was nothing but red in front of him. After nearly ten seconds of being stunned, the person on duty slammed the red button in fear and reported loudly: "Enemy attack! An unknown fleet is approaching quickly!"
Under the dark curtain of the universe, Jiangling was in the front, and the vast fleet of starships was like a shadow lurking in the night, stabbing into the distance like a dagger.
In the communication channel, Du Shang on Jiangling said: "The other side released the 'Clairvoyance' to explore our situation. It seems that after so long, it has finally discovered it."
Lu Fenghan said "hmm" and asked Pojun to locate the position of the Clairvoyance and transmit it to the destroyer near Jiangling, and one shot solved it.
"Clairvoyance" is a long-range surveillance device commonly used in space battlefields, which can transmit images in real time over long distances. Lu Fenghan had no intention of hiding it, and didn't mind this little bit of surveillance. He still let people shoot it down like shooting birds, just to put psychological pressure on him.
At the same time, he gave an order: "Check whether the internal communication is unobstructed again."
As the voice fell, the image of the fleet appeared on the virtual screen at the same height as the wall, and countless green dots gradually lit up - green means unobstructed, and red means no communication.
Lu Fenghan: "Confirm the status of each starship, self-check the central control system, preheat the long-range missile thrusters, all on duty, ready for battle!"
As the order landed, all the expeditionary forces had already stood at their posts, and the missile thrusters on the hulls rose silently, with the black muzzles pointing directly at the enemy.
When the leading Jiangling entered the range, Lu Fenghan issued a firing order: "The first batch of missiles will be launched." Before the
tail sound ended, missiles could be seen outside the porthole, propelled by thrusters, hitting the rebels in a line.
The flames of the explosion rose.
Soon, Po Jun reported: "The trajectory has been corrected by the central control system, and the hit rate is 79%."
Before the birth of the starship central control system, long-range missiles could only win by quantity, and the accuracy was really not good.
This was due to the complexity of the space environment and the many factors affecting the trajectory. It was also because the enemy's starship was not a piece of scrap metal that had lost its energy and would only stay still in place.
After the emergence of the central control system, the goal of "precision guidance" was initially achieved.
The central control system can instantly capture space environment data, predict the movement of enemy targets, and correct the trajectory 0.1 seconds before the missile leaves the booster, reducing the circular probability deviation to within one meter, and increasing the probability of a direct hit to about 80%.
This is why for a long time, the rebels were suppressed by the expeditionary forces, and Y jumped to the top of the blacklist. This was
because the long-range missile hit rate of both sides was only about 50% at that time. Overnight, for every ten missiles fired by the Alliance, three more missiles were able to hit the target. This simple data is extremely terrifying when put on the battlefield.
Even today, the rebels have updated the system several times, but still cannot catch up with this number, so they are determined to seize the source architecture of the central control system.
Du Shang's voice rang out again in the communication channel: "The enemy has started to counterattack!"
Mei Jielin, who was following behind the Jiangling, said excitedly: "Good! Let's fight together!"
She looked like a female gang leader who was going to fight outside the school after class.
Lu Fenghan fixed his eyes on the multi-dimensional star map: "Switch to a cone formation, with the Jiangling as the tip of the knife, and the two wings raising anti-missile interception, attack, and break the enemy fleet."
The first voice to come out in the communication channel was Long Xiyun's voice: "Yes!"
Du Shang had already taken the lead, and the Jiangling fleet stabbed at the oncoming rebels like a sharp knife.
Lu Fenghan took a panoramic view of the overall situation and had an idea in his mind. He looked at Qi Yan distractedly and found that Qi Yan was carefully observing the multi-dimensional star map.
The sapphire light reflected on his facial features, like a thin layer of glaze on porcelain.
"What are you looking at?"
Unlike when he gave orders just now, Lu Fenghan's voice was very soft, as if he was worried about scaring Qi Yan.
"General, are we also using the Clairvoyance?"
Lu Fenghan nodded: "Yes."
Qi Yan's eyes moved away from the multi-dimensional star map: "I have an idea, if I can create a frequency to interfere with the images sent back to the main ship by the Clairvoyance, for example, if the Chanyuan, Dingyuan, and Jiangling go into battle at the same time, this frequency will modify the returned images to show the Chanyuan, Dingyuan, and a medium-sized ship."
Lu Fenghan understood immediately.
If there really is such a frequency that can affect the frequency of the images sent back by the Clairvoyance, then it is entirely possible to mislead the enemy. This misleading will be discovered quickly and will not last long, but in some cases, it is extremely useful.
However, before Lu Fenghan answered, several voices came out from the communication channel, among which Mei Jielin's voice was the loudest: "Commander, where did you find this treasure!"
Lu Fenghan said dangerously: "Is it someone you can call?"
Mei Jielin said it again very savvy: "Commander, where did you find this little genius Qi Yan!"
Leaning back in his chair, Lu Fenghan raised the corner of his lips: "Even if you know, is it useful?"
Being stimulated, Mei Jielin raised a middle finger fiercely in the video communication frame.
At this moment, a red warning popped up on the virtual screen, and Long Xiyun's voice rang out: "The rebels forcibly broke through the right wing defense by self-destructing the starship!"
Metierin cursed: "Idiots who are willing to sacrifice themselves for God are really special products of the rebel army!"
"Pingning, dispatch people to support and fill the gap. Pojun, analyze the enemy starship with a special trajectory. I will give you the control of the two wing turrets. Once discovered, use laser bombardment to prevent the self-destruction attack."
Pojun: "Okay, General."
But Donald, whose plan was intercepted again and again, was not very comfortable.
First, there was a weird method that could accurately block them at the exit of the jump channel, and now it was beyond imagination that he could aim at the self-destruction starship he used to break the deadlock in the mixed starship group, and he bombed it accurately!
In addition, the military factory was robbed, new weapons were lost, and ammunition supply was restricted - these made Donald feel like he was being controlled by the other party. What
bothered him even more was that as the 11th Legion of the rebel army, the garrison was closest to the expeditionary army and had always been a barrier and defense line. If it was breached and the expeditionary commander drove straight in, he would be severely punished by the wise man.
For example, the previous commander of the 11th Legion did not die at the hands of Lu Fenghan, but escaped after the defeat and apologized to the wise man.
It was not a very decent way to die.
Someone reported: "Three more small ships were bombed precisely when they broke away from the fleet and headed for the side of the expeditionary force. It took a total of 33 seconds."
Donald was anxious. He turned two metal balls in his hands and felt that Lu Fenghan was becoming more and more difficult to deal with.
He lacked too much information about the new methods of the expeditionary force, and even Lu Fenghan's strategic play had changed significantly from before.
An opponent whose strength is unknown is always disturbing and fearful.
Long Xiyun also noticed this. He mentioned in the communication channel: "Commander, your playing style has changed a lot."
Lu Fenghan did not tell anyone about his experience on Chenxi Star. He only said two sentences: "Because I played thousands of strategy games with Pojun, if you have time, you can also try it."
Pojun has an extremely large database that can simulate the playing styles of famous generals in history. Lu Fenghan played thousands of games for a long time, but he himself did not know how much he had absorbed from the battles. Perhaps only the enemies who were defeated by him in the future would know.
Qi Yan heard this and stood beside Lu Fenghan. Under the table, he gently hooked Lu Fenghan's pinky finger.
It was not enough to just hook it, but he also shook it.
A very secretive little action.
The communication channel was still open, and several video dialogue boxes were not closed. In addition to Mei Jielin and a few others, there were also supply ships and several reconnaissance ships, frigates and attack ships connected at this time.
Lu Fenghan felt that Qi Yan's small action was like a soft and thin feather, which swiped across his palm and numbed most of his arm.