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, and even his soul was floating along.
But when his rationality returned, Lu Fenghan regretted his impulsiveness half a minute ago.
He stepped back a little and opened his eyes.
Qi Yan sank into the pillow, his eyes still heavy with sleepiness - it was obvious that the kiss just now had no effect on him.
As he breathed a sigh of relief, Lu Fenghan felt a sharp pain in his heart for a moment.
He slowly took Qi Yan's hand in his palm and stroked Qi Yan's wrist with his calloused fingertips to adjust his emotions.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that."
"Because I can't understand the meaning of kissing?" 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 up at Lu Fenghan, and said seriously, "You can kiss me. I remember you kissed me."
Lu Fenghan knew that due to the lack of emotions, Qi Yan had lost some of the basis for judgment, so he used memory as a reference standard to judge "yes" or "no", "allow" or "reject".
He held Qi Yan's hand and pinched his knuckles twice, then his voice returned to his usual casual and smiling tone: "Not now, you can only do that when you get your lost emotions back, otherwise I'd be bullying you."
Qi Yan was a little confused, but chose to believe Lu Fenghan's words.
With his eyes half closed, his voice became even more unclear due to sleepiness. After thinking for a while, he said to Lu Fenghan without any context, "I only allow you to kiss me."
After saying that, he couldn't hold on any longer, his eyelids closed completely, and he fell asleep.
Lu Fenghan looked at the sleeping person quietly for a long time, and then he lay down on the bed quietly.
The lights went out, and the white noise produced by the operation of the starship continued. As usual, he sorted out the things in his mind and made sure that there was nothing missing. Then he prepared to sleep and gather his strength, and wake up to go to Donald's lair.
After being on the front line for nearly ten years, 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 my memory overlapped.
Lu Fenghan pulled the person over, hugged him, and fell asleep together.
He is indeed a clingy little guy.
After catching up on 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, and after a few minutes, Mei Jielin and Wei Yin yawned and came in.
Du Shang saw that Mei Jielin had been yawning since she sat down: "What have you been busy with? You look so listless as if you were hollowed out."
Mei Jielin was in low spirits: "Don't throw dirty water on me. I am a good rabbit and I never eat grass near my nest."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Lu Fenghan tear open a packet of nutrient solution and feed it to Qi Yan's mouth. Qi Yan was still sleepy, so he leaned his head against Lu Fenghan's shoulder, opened his mouth and took small sips of the solution.
Seeing this, Mei Jielin was immediately furious - why am I not so lucky? It's all the rebels' fault!
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 cover the rear, and Erich will stay on the command ship."
As Lu Fenghan finished speaking, Pojun released the shadows of a fleet of ships above the conference table.
In the scaled-down version of the star map, fleets as large as models are neatly arranged in formation, and the positions of supply ships, frigates and other accompanying ships are marked with different colors.
His eyes swept over the people present one by one, and Lu Fenghan asked, "Any objections?"
Mei Jielin continued, "No objection, but I want the Chanyuan to be in the front. The designer of the Pingning has a strange habit. He designed a good starship into a trapezoidal shape. The rear of the ship is particularly large, and it will block the view if it follows behind."
Wei Yin stared. "How did it block your vision? Did the Pingning block your radar detection? Or were you going to take a look at the dark scenery around you while going at full speed?"
Everyone present was drinking water or picking their nails, giving them enough time for a minute to bicker.
But just like usual, the bickering ended after forty seconds, with Wein regretfully admitting defeat.
"Okay, the Chanyuan is in the lead." Lu Fenghan rolled up the sleeves of his standard shirt and rested his elbows on the table. "Five battleships will send Donald to his doom. That's enough to give him face."
Mei Jie Lin: "When he is dead, he can still brag about it to his brothers who died early!" Her smile faded. "Linton should be in a good mood. He can beat someone up first to vent his anger."
The Linton she was referring to was the captain of the Eros, who was ambushed during the rout and never returned.
There are no such things as corpses or remains in space wars.
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 finalized by Long Xiyun. Those whose names were on the list had betrayed the alliance to some extent, and none of them were clean. However, they were all marginal figures and there was no need to deal with them in front of the army.
After the war is over, it will become a common practice for the expeditionary force to report someone as "missing".
Seeing that he had remembered everything clearly, Lu Fenghan said, "If we win this battle, we will do it on Donald's territory and give an explanation to the brothers who went there."
The faces of the people present were somewhat gloomy.
At this moment, 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 cup of steaming espresso and a pair of dark circles under his eyes. He said, "Don't rush forward like you have mania. Take care of the power system. If more than one breaks down, the technical department will quit. You can handle it yourself."
After making the threat, Lorenz turned around, and the hem of his white coat swirled in the air.
After making sure the person had left, Mei Jielin and Dushan looked at each other and muttered, "Why is my breathing so tight? Lorenz is so scary!"
Weiin was heartbroken: "Because you two always rush the most wildly, and your post-battle repair report is the thickest!"
Metierne and Dushan touched their noses in unison and stopped talking.
At 4 p.m. on July 10, the rebel army's 11th Corps was stationed.
In the monitoring room, two people on duty were chatting in low voices.
"How many times have the higher-ups quarreled over the expeditionary force's new weird tactics?"
"Who can count them? I only know that the legion commander got angry several times. How could the expeditionary force predict when we would come out of the warp tunnel? We can't figure it out. The stakes we planted on the opposite side have been out of contact for a long time, and we don't have any news.
I think maybe someone is leaking the information, but it's just a random thought. Unless the commander-in-chief announces it himself, no one will know what is going on. "
"How can we fight if we don't know the whole thing?" The person who spoke saw that the surveillance video was normal and confirmed that there was no one around, so he whispered, "I'll lose anyway, so we might as well figure that thing out first. I don't want to go and get killed."
The person on duty with him patted his shoulder and said, "We just finished two battles, and the expeditionary forces need to rest. There shouldn't be any problems during our half-day duty. The wise man is so powerful, and the 'envoys' sent by the wise man are also very powerful. They will definitely figure it out."
The two had nothing to do, so they used their imagination to guess the expeditionary force's new methods. At this moment, the monitoring equipment suddenly made a sharp "beep", indicating that there was an abnormal situation.
The two men suddenly came to their senses and rushed to the monitoring equipment, only to see on the screen that a red dot representing a high-speed energy body appeared within the monitoring range.
“Is it the expeditionary force attacking—” Before he could finish his words, he saw red dots of all sizes connected together on the fluorescent green background, approaching at a very fast speed!
The sound of the sirens became more and more shrill, and blood-red warning signs popped up one after another, filling up most of the surveillance screen.
There was nothing but red in front of him. After nearly ten seconds of being stunned, the officer on duty slammed the red button in fear and announced loudly: "Enemy attack! An unknown fleet is approaching quickly!"
Under the dark curtain of the universe, the Jiangling was in the front, and the vast fleet of starships was like shadows lurking in the night, stabbing into the distance like daggers.
In the communication channel, Du Shang on the Jiangling said: "The other side sent out the 'Clairvoyance' to investigate our situation. It seems that after so long, they finally discovered us."
Lu Fenghan said "hmm" and asked Pojun to locate the position of the Clairvoyance and transmit it to the destroyers near Jiangling, so that they could be killed one by one.
"Clairvoyance" is a long-range monitoring device commonly used in space battlefields, which can transmit images in real time over long distances. He had no intention of hiding it, and didn't mind this little bit of monitoring. Lu Fenghan still had people shoot it down like a bird, just to put psychological pressure on him.
At the same time, he issued an order: "Check again whether the internal communication is smooth."
As the words fell, an image of the fleet appeared on a virtual screen as high as the wall, and countless green dots of light gradually lit up - green means communication is 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 personnel are on duty, ready for battle!"
As the order landed, all the members of the expeditionary force had already taken their positions. The missile thrusters on the ships rose up 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."
The sound was still there, and outside the porthole, one could already see missiles, propelled by thrusters, smashing towards the rebels in lines.
Flames rose from the explosion.
Soon, Po Jun reported: "After the central control system corrected the trajectory, the hit rate is 79%."
Before the birth of the starship central control system, long-range missiles could only win by quantity, and their accuracy was really poor.
This is because the space environment is complex and there are many factors that affect ballistics, but also because the enemy starships are not scrap metal that has lost its energy and will just stay still.
Only after the emergence of the central control system was the goal of "precision guidance" initially achieved.
The central control system can instantly capture space environment data, predict the movements of enemy targets, and correct the trajectory 0.1 seconds before the missile/missile separates from the booster, reducing the circular probability deviation to within one meter and increasing the probability of a direct hit to about 80%.
This is also why for a long time, the rebels were suppressed by the expeditionary force, and Y jumped to the top of the blacklist.
This was because the hit rate of long-range missiles of both sides was only about 50% at that time. Overnight, for every ten missiles fired by the alliance, three more missiles could hit the target - this simple data was extremely terrifying when placed on the battlefield.
Even to this day, the rebels have updated their systems several times but have still not been able to catch up with this number, so they are intent on seizing the source architecture of the central control system.
Dushan's voice sounded again in the communication channel: "The other side has begun to fight back!"
Mei Jielin, who was following behind Jiang Ling, said excitedly: "Good to see you! Let's fight together!"
She looked like a female gang leader who was getting ready to go out for a fight outside the school after class.
Lu Fenghan fixed his eyes on the multi-dimensional star map: "Switch to a cone formation, with Jiangling as the tip of the knife, and both wings raising anti-missiles to intercept, attack, and break through the enemy fleet formation."
The first voice heard on the communication channel was Long Xiyun's: "Yes!"
Dushan had already taken the lead, and the Jiangling fleet stabbed at the oncoming rebels like a sharp knife.
Lu Fenghan took in the overall situation and had an idea in his mind. He distractedly looked at Qi Yan and found that Qi Yan was carefully observing the multi-dimensional star map.
The fluorescent blue 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 using clairvoyance as well?"
Lu Fenghan nodded: "That's right."
Qi Yan looked away from the multi-dimensional star map: "I have an idea. If I can create a frequency that interferes 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 images sent back to the Chanyuan, Dingyuan, and a medium-sized ship."
Lu Fenghan understood as soon as he heard it.
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 quickly discovered and will not last long, but in certain situations, it is extremely useful.
But before Lu Fenghan could answer, 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 in a dangerous tone: "Is that something you can call?"
Mei Jielin very tactfully repeated, "Commander, where did you find this little genius named Qi Yan?"
Leaning back in his chair, Lu Fenghan raised the corner of his lips: "Even if you know, will it be useful?"
Stimulated, Mei Jielin raised her middle finger 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 used the starship's self-destruction to forcibly break through the right wing defense!"
Metierin cursed: "Idiots who are willing to sacrifice themselves for God are truly a specialty of the rebels!"
"Pingning, send in support personnel to fill the gap. Pojun, analyze the enemy starship with a special trajectory. I will give you control of the two-wing guns/stations. Once discovered, use laser cannons to prevent the self-destructive attack."
Pojun: "Okay, General."
Donald was not very happy as his plans were intercepted again and again.
First, a strange method appeared that could accurately block them at the exit of the jump channel, and now it is beyond imagination that they can aim at the self-destructive starship he used to break the deadlock in the mixed group of starships, and blow them up accurately!
In addition, the military factories were robbed, new weapons were lost, and the supply of ammunition was restricted - these made Donald feel as if he was being controlled by the other party.
What bothered him even more was that as the 11th Rebel Army Corps, their base was the closest to the expeditionary army and had always been a barrier and defense line. If it was breached and the expeditionary army marched straight in, he would be severely punished by the wise.
For example, the previous commander of the 11th Legion did not die at the hands of Lu Fenghan. He escaped after being defeated and apologized to the wise man.
It was not a very dignified way to die.
Someone reported: "Three more small ships were accurately bombed when they broke away from the fleet and sailed towards the flank of the expeditionary force, a total of thirty-three 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 was missing too much information about the expeditionary force's new tactics, and even Lu Fenghan's strategic approach had changed significantly from before.
An opponent whose strength you don't know is always unsettling and intimidating.
Long Xiyun also noticed this, and he mentioned it in the communication channel: "Commander, your fighting style has changed a lot."
Lu Fenghan had never mentioned his experience on Dawn Star to anyone, and only said two sentences: "Because I played thousands of strategic games with Pojun, if you have time, you can also try it."
Pojun possesses an extremely large database that can simulate the fighting styles of famous generals in history. Lu Fenghan’s thousands of games were not played in vain, but he himself was not sure how much he had learned from the battles. Perhaps only the enemies who were defeated by him in the future would know.
When Qi Yan heard this, he stood beside Lu Fenghan and gently hooked Lu Fenghan's finger under the table.
Not only was it hooked, it was also shaking.
A very secretive little move.
The communication channel was still open, and several video dialog boxes were not closed. In addition to Metierin and the others, there were also supply ships, several reconnaissance ships, frigates and destroyers connected at this time.
Lu Fenghan felt that Qi Yan's little action was like a soft and thin feather, which stroked his palm and numbed most of his arm.