"If this continues, we'll eventually be completely overwhelmed by the Zerg flying fortress horde. If we're really chased down by such a massive number of Zerg flying fortresses, the interstellar shuttles won't be able to exert any advantage and will eventually be annihilated by the Zerg flying fortresses."
Major General Griffith Fred stood on the command platform and said with concern.
Despite being a legendary combat mech pilot, his individual strength was still too weak in the face of such a massive war. He was powerless to turn the tide and could only command the interstellar shuttle to try his best to destroy the Zerg flight fortress.
"I really don't know how Mo Tianyun can have such powerful martial arts skills, able to condense thousands of swords and wipe out a large number of Zerg flying fortresses in one go!"
Suddenly, Major General Griffith Fred remembered seeing Mo Tianyun's "Thousand Starlight Sword" move in the holographic image and said enviously.
Of course he knew that Mo Tianyun's martial arts combat skills were at the Starry Sky Martial Arts level, because Major General Griffith Fred had seen martial arts combat skills of this level when he was studying at the Oron Genius Mecha Master Academy.
Furthermore, his former superior, Marshal Odis Swift, possessed a martial arts technique at the level of Starry Sky Martial Arts.
However, to exchange for martial arts combat skills at the Starry Sky Martial Arts level, at least tens of millions of military merits are required.
From this perspective, Mo Tianyun is incredibly lucky to have exchanged 100 points for the Myriad Starlight Sword, a martial arts technique at the level of starry sky martial arts, from the core space of the miracle. The spirit of the miracle is so kind to him.
The Spirit of Miracles intended to give it to him for free; otherwise, why would it have deliberately placed the Myriad Starlight Swords there at the lowest possible cost, and even made Mo Tianyun notice it?
"Do we really have to retreat now? There are planets ten light-years behind us. If we retreat, they will all be invaded by the Zerg, and trillions of imperial people will be wiped out..."
Major General Griffith Fred is facing a difficult choice: if he does not retreat, all the interstellar shuttles and soldiers at the Duna Star Defense Base will perish here.
If they retreat, countless people of the Oron Empire will die in the Zerg invasion.
"Hahahaha, what's there to hesitate about? To die on the battlefield defending the empire is the honor of us warriors!"
Major General Griffith Fred suddenly burst into laughter, his hearty laugh jolting the tense nerves of all the officers in the command room.
The officers looked at Major General Griffith Fred, puzzled.
"Glorious warriors of the Oron Empire, it is my fault. I failed to notice the presence of a Zerg General-level Zerg hive complex here sooner. This is my greatest dereliction of duty. But I will protect the safety of all the planets surrounding the Duna Star Defense Military Base with my life. The entire 114th sector of the 51st Star Cluster is watching this war. We cannot be deserters..."
"Therefore, for the lives of the billions of people in our Empire behind us, we must fight to the last moment! Even if it means sacrificing the last interstellar shuttle, the last mech pilot, and the last soldier, we swear to stop the Zerg's attack!"
Major General Griffith Fred activated the command screen connecting all the interstellar shuttles and spoke these words in a calm tone, without any grand gestures or impassion.
The reason why Major General Griffith Fred spoke these words so calmly was not because he did not want to boost the morale of his soldiers with an inspiring speech, but because the soldiers of the Oron Empire all knew that the moment they chose to join the Oron Empire's army, every soldier understood that they had dedicated their lives to the entire civilization.
Joining the Imperial Army to defend against invading enemies is never child's play.
War is that cruel.
I remember when Mo Tianyun first joined the Imperial Combat Mech Division, Lieutenant Colonel Chris had already given every new recruit a piece of advice:
"I must remind you that war is never child's play; it is extremely cruel, and one wrong move could cost you your life!"
Yes, whether they are soldiers in the combat mech legion or ordinary Imperial soldiers operating various energy weapons on interstellar shuttle warships, officers will tell them the cruel truth about war when they join the Imperial army.
However, in reality, even if the officers hadn't told each recruit about the cruelty of war, they would have experienced it firsthand later on.
If you think about it carefully, Mo Tianyun has been in the Imperial Army and at the Duna Star Defense Military Base for almost a month now.
During this month, a legendary figure emerged at the Duna Star Defense Military Base—Mo Tianyun.
Rumor has it that Mo Tianyun became a major in just one month by carrying out no more than two missions, and he may now be a major general.
But in fact, within the entire Duna Star defense military base, there is only one example like Mo Tianyun; it can be said that there is no one like him before or after.
Don't think that military rank promotion in the Oron Empire is easy just because Mo Tianyun became a major so easily, and may even become a major general.
In fact, that's not the case. Among the thousands of combat mechs that underwent basic military training with Mo Tianyun, apart from Mo Tianyun, not a single lieutenant-level officer was produced in the past month, and there were very few sergeant-level officers either.
Even more brutally, among the thousands of newly joined mech combat divisions, in just one month, or even less than two weeks excluding basic training, the number of mech combat divisions killed or lost in various missions has already exceeded 30%.
Think about it, many of the soldiers who participated in basic military training with Mo Tianyun have already died.
This is because the combat mech division's missions are extremely dangerous, and they have to fight the Zerg all the time. How could the mortality rate not be high?
One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand.
The birth of a general (high-ranking officer) is accompanied not only by the death of the enemy's bones, but also by the sacrifice of his own comrades. Only in this way can a general achieve his dazzling and brilliant achievements.
But such a dazzling and glorious achievement was earned by countless people at the cost of their lives.
In the current war against the Insect General-class Insect Hive Complex, the Duna Star Defense Military Base has deployed a fleet of over a million ships, and has already lost more than half of them. This represents the deaths of countless Imperial soldiers.
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