Xia Chujian was not an inflexible person.
She didn't like knowingly doing the impossible.
In her opinion, that wasn't noble, but foolish.
If there were no conditions to do something, she needed to create the conditions first, and then execute it.
Instead of clearly having no conditions, and still stubbornly running into a brick wall.
Bashing herself until she was bruised and battered was one thing, but dragging others down with her, what kind of brain did that?!
After Xia Chujian finished speaking, her gaze slowly swept across everyone in the bottom warehouse hall of the five Airships.
"If you don't agree, I won't force you. Anyway, I'm going back."
At this time, Sun Jiahao and Li Dali, these Marine Corps of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet, immediately said, "We'll follow Captain's orders!"
"If Captain says retreat, we retreat! Besides, this battle is really impossible to fight!"
"Sending us to fight is just sending us to be cannon fodder!"
Hearing Sun Jiahao and Li Dali's words, the faces of the five hundred survivors of the First Interstellar Fleet looked very unsightly.
Because these survivors remembered their commander, Chu Qingchen.
He didn't say a word to let them retreat at the time, but forced them to "fight to the death"! Fang Ping looked complicated and said in a low voice, "But Captain Xia, the target of those Shang People and Haidagong is our Beichen Empire. Now that we're here, can't we find a way to wipe them out in one fell swoop?!"
Another more excited Marine Corps also said, "Facing a group of villains who have already planned to occupy your house and eat your family, are we still going to talk about morality with them?!"
Xia Chujian admired their courage and determination, but she was the commander and couldn't just rely on the courage of a single man to command the battle.
Now she had the lives of fifteen thousand people in her hands, and she had to be cautious.
Xia Chujian's tone was indifferent as she calmly said, "I completely agree with what you said."
"I understand these Shang People and Haidagong even better than you. If they invade our country, what misfortune will befall our families and friends!"
"I don't think that just because they haven't started invading yet, haven't fired the first shot, we can't preemptively strike!"
"But the premise is, do we have the conditions and means to preemptively strike?"
"Even if we fill it with the lives of our fifteen thousand people, can we kill the opposing forty thousand Shang People and fifty thousand Haidagong?!"
Xia Chujian glanced at them and said in a deep voice, "More importantly, I have already discovered that the weapons in the hands of these Shang People and Haidagong are gradually being upgraded."
"To be honest, I have already killed ten thousand Shang People and ten thousand Haidagong in the South Pole."
"I won't go into the specific process, because it was completely by chance that I found a loophole."
"At that time, the weapons in the hands of those Shang People and Haidagong were not as advanced as these three batches of sneak attacks."
"The rifles in the hands of the Shang People in the South Pole were Type 37 Old-fashioned Rifles, which have been eliminated by our country for ninety years."
"The range of this kind of gun is not far, and the explosive power and impact of the bullets are not strong. Our conventional Mecha can completely resist it, and there will be no damage at all."
"But the weapons in the hands of the three batches of Shang People and Haidagong who attacked just now, you have also seen..."
"Those are the latest weapons produced by the Ximanielli Federation!"
"They are in the same range as the new weapons produced by our Beichen Empire's Zong Military Industries and Royal Heavy Industries."
"What if the weapons in the hands of the remaining forty thousand Shang People and fifty thousand Haidagong are more advanced?"
"What if they even have a batch of Space-Based Weapon?!"
"Then even if we return to the Starry Sky Cruiser, we may not be able to return smoothly!"
"So at this time, we can't hesitate any longer, let's return immediately!"
"When we return to the Beichen Empire, report the whole situation to the Military."
"If you still want to participate in the war, sign up with the Military at that time."
As a commander, Xia Chujian didn't actually need to explain in such detail.
It was a unit, and she could just give orders to her subordinates.
But this was the first time she had commanded so many people, and her position as commander was self-appointed, not a power truly granted by the Military.
Therefore, she still patiently explained to these people.
This explanation took her ten minutes.
But within these ten minutes, the situation on the battlefield changed again.
On her eyepiece display, Seven Lù rapidly typed out a series of childish graffiti-like characters.
[Seven Lù]: Master, run! The main forces of the Shang People and Haidagong have arrived!
[Seven Lù]: Master, there's no time! Seven Lù has already taken direct control of the Airship!
Just after reading these two lines, the five Interstellar Airships suddenly shook simultaneously, and then accelerated sharply, causing everyone inside the airships to stagger and fall, clearly losing their balance due to the sudden inertia.
Xia Chujian's face turned ashen.
She knew that the balance and gravity systems in these Interstellar Airships were very sophisticated.
Even if the speed itself was very high, this phenomenon should not occur unless the speed had exceeded the proper range of change.
She abruptly turned off the communicator, cut off the internal communication system, and her figure disappeared from the virtual display screen.
Xia Chujian stood in front of the main console in her Captain's Room, and said angrily, "Seven Lù! What are you doing?!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the entire Interstellar Airship shook once again, as if it had been lifted high by something, and then fell down again.
Seven Lù didn't have time to explain, and only projected the situation outside onto the solid display screen that slowly rose in front of Xia Chujian.
This was the largest solid display screen in the Captain's Room, three meters long and one meter high.
Xia Chujian's eyes widened suddenly.
She saw that less than ten meters in front of their airship, a huge pit had appeared!
Thick Black Smoke billowed from the pit, eventually forming a mushroom cloud!
That was the scene after a high-yield bomb exploded! So if Seven Lù hadn't maneuvered the airship in time to avoid it, this bomb would have landed on their airship.
Xia Chujian raised her eyes and saw a tank-like spacecraft rapidly approaching in the distance within her sight.
"Seven Lù, what is that thing?!"
"Master! That's a Floating Turret from the Southern Cross Star Kingdom!"
"Equipped with high-energy rockets, Missiles, Electromagnetic Railguns, and energy shields!"
Immediately afterward, more and more Floating Turrets appeared behind this huge Floating Turret.
They formed rows, like a steel torrent approaching from afar! Xia Chujian felt a wave of darkness before her eyes.
Had what she said earlier come true one by one?
The Shang People and Haidagong really had more advanced weapons?! Xia Chujian didn't even think about how those modern weapons came to this harsh and primitive planet.
She was only thinking about one question: the Mecha were useless.
Because those Marine Corps' regular Mecha were far inferior to her Shao Siming Mecha.
Her Mecha itself could be used as a turret, equipped with an Electromagnetic Cannon, but those regular Mecha couldn't...
To fight head-on with Electromagnetic Cannon-like weapons, they had to use Warplanes, Starry Sky Fighters!
The Mecha they wore were originally switched from Starry Sky Fighters.
They could switch back.
But piloting a Mecha was easy, while piloting a Starry Sky Fighter was not so easy.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be so few Starry Sky Fighter pilots in the Interstellar Fleet, and their status wouldn't be so transcendent.
Moreover, even if these Marine Corps had the potential to pilot Starry Sky Fighters now, they wouldn't have time to learn and familiarize themselves with them.
Not to mention immediately piloting Warplanes to fight...
That would lead to a crash and death with the slightest mistake.
But without Starry Sky Fighters, only using Mecha would be like delivering food to the enemy's Floating Turrets.
Xia Chujian's mind was in a mess, with one thought after another emerging.
Before long, the densely packed Floating Turret group in front had closed the distance considerably.
Xia Chujian subconsciously said, "Seven Lù, can the Airship quickly ascend and return to the Starry Sky Cruiser?"
Seven Lù's childish voice trembled slightly, saying, "Master, the enemy has set up a laser defense system near the atmosphere."
"As long as we break through the atmosphere, we will immediately be locked by the opponent's laser air defense system..."
Xia Chujian's eyes widened: "What did you say?! The Shang People and Haidagong have a laser defense system deployed in the atmosphere?!"
"When was it set up?! How can they operate such advanced weapons?!"
Seven Lù's childish voice was filled with remorse, saying, "Master, do you remember the radar system on that small island in the South Pole?"
Xia Chujian nodded blankly, "I remember... Wasn't that Haidagong's? They said there wasn't enough energy, so it wasn't turned on... It was just for show."
Seven Lù said, "That's not just for show! It's not a radar either!"
"That's a Global Laser Defense System disguised as a radar!"
"There's one in the South Pole, and there's one in the North Pole!"
"Now that both systems are activated simultaneously, they have blocked the entire planet's airspace!"
"We can't get out unless we take them down!"
"Master! It's Seven Lù's fault! Seven Lù didn't discover it! Otherwise, I would have told Master to destroy those devices long ago!"
Xia Chujian was also filled with remorse.
Careless, so careless!
She really thought that Haidagong didn't care and wouldn't use these modern devices, even using the excuse of insufficient energy to not even turn them on, so she didn't take it to heart at all.
She also didn't let Seven Lù carefully scan and detect those devices...
But it was too late to regret it now.
Xia Chujian never dwells on things, nor does she excessively blame herself.
Thinking about it is enough, now that things have come to this, she should think about remedial measures.
Xia Chujian's mind raced, and she said, "Seven Lù, how many Starry Sky Fighters can you control at the same time?"
She remembered when they entered the Asteroid Belt, Seven Lù simultaneously controlled her and her roommates' four Starry Sky Fighters.
Seven Lù's childish voice was filled with obvious confusion, seemingly surprised that Xia Chujian would ask such a question, saying, "...That depends on how I control them. Generally, it depends on the bandwidth of the network connection. How fast the network is, that's how many Starry Sky Fighters I can control."
That was obviously not going to work.
Because they didn't have a globally networked Star Network system on this planet.
They were completely relying on the temporary base station set up by the Interstellar Airship itself.
Xia Chujian then said, "Do you have a fixed program for controlling Starry Sky Fighters?"
"What I mean is, if you can copy the program for controlling Starry Sky Fighters into those Starry Sky Fighters, can you upgrade their Mechanical Intelligence, thereby achieving complete autopilot?"
"It's best if simple voice commands can be used, but the basic driving functions of the entire Warplane, such as takeoff, combat, evasion, and landing, are controlled by Mechanical Intelligence?"
Xia Chujian knew she was being a bit whimsical, but at this time, if they didn't think outside the box, they might not be able to escape.
This is the second update. The third update will be at one o'clock in the afternoon. Hurry up and cast your Moon Tickets, my dearies!
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