With a slight beep, the flying car parked on the upper level of the mobile base. Lin Xi came to her senses and stepped off the speed car. A young officer came forward and saluted: "Is this Lieutenant Colonel Lin? General Lu is holding a combat meeting. I heard that you are back and asked me to pick you up to attend the meeting."
Lin Xi asked casually: "Is it an enlarged meeting?"
"No, it's an emergency meeting, including the generals. You are the only special participant."
"Then go there now."
After a while, Lin Xi entered the conference room and quietly sat down in the last row. In front of the central star map, Lieutenant General Lu Queyun, commander of the mobile base, was briefing on the current war situation. War is everywhere on the star map, the blue color representing the Federation is spreading rapidly, and the dynasty is almost losing ground.
Before the Lieutenant General finished reporting the battle situation, someone couldn't help but ask: "Is the Federation launching a full-scale attack?"
The lieutenant general said solemnly: "Most of them are small-scale battles. It is too early to say a full-scale attack now."
A general frowned and said: "It's late, isn't it? The scale of these battles combined is not small."
The lieutenant general did not answer this question, but continued to report his own defense situation.
The meeting didn't last long and ended in just an hour. When walking out of the conference hall, Lin Xi's face looked a little solemn.
In addition to reporting the battle situation, this combat meeting did not give any more countermeasures. The Dynasty has fallen into complete passivity in this star field. One of the Ninth Fleet's three mobile bases used as strategic support points has been driven back. It will take at least a month to return, and the situation has worsened.
The passive war situation was more due to the inferiority of military strength. The Federation was harassed everywhere, while the dynasty was already exhausted from just defending. Although there have been only a few major battles so far, there are an astonishing number of small-scale battles. For these veterans who have been fighting on the battlefield for a long time, they have already sensed that a storm is coming.
At the end of the meeting, all the generals stopped staying and hurried away to return to their troops.
Lin Xi's starship needed to wait for repairs, and she had nowhere to go for the time being. She walked slowly while thinking. At this time, the young officer from before came over and said, "General Lu invites you to come to his office."
Lin Xi nodded and followed him towards the upper level of the base. At this time, the young officer suddenly lowered his voice and said quickly: "Lieutenant Colonel, we heard some rumors about you, and everyone is very angry. If the war situation can only be saved by you sacrificing your personal happiness, then what do you need us to do? Now there are many People like me are ready to fight those bastards from the Federation, and after we win this battle, we can go back and settle the scores with those bastards who took advantage of us at the back!"
Lin Xi was dumbfounded and asked, "What rumors are there about me?"
The young officer said: "It's already this time, and there's nothing I can't say. In fact, the news has spread, saying that the Xu family has withheld two-thirds of the promised aid, and we have to wait for you and one of the Xu family's children to have it." As a result, we were willing to send follow-up supplies.”
Lin Xi was startled, "Is there such a thing?"
The young officer said: "The quantity of military supplies that will arrive recently is indeed much less than planned. It is far from enough to even replace the losses, let alone reverse the situation of the war."
Lin Xi didn't speak and walked silently.
Seeing the lieutenant general's office in front of him, the young officer said softly: "In short, we will all stand on your side! Although... although I know that I am not worthy of you, I have a heart to fight to the death!"
Lin Xi was a little surprised and didn't know what to say. Fortunately, the lieutenant general's adjutant appeared at this time, and the siege was relieved.
The young officer seized the last opportunity and said quickly: "My name is Duan Cheng."
Lin Xi nodded to him and followed the lieutenant general's adjutant into the office.
The lieutenant general stood in front of the star map, drinking tea one sip after another. In fact, the tea cup was already empty, but he didn't even realize it.
The adjutant exited the office and the door closed automatically.
"General?" Lin Xi waited for a while and saw no movement, then called out.
The lieutenant general came back to his senses and said, "You're here, I didn't even notice you."
"Is the war going badly?"
In fact, Lin Xi didn't even need to ask this question.
The lieutenant general wanted to drink tea again, and then he realized that the cup was empty. He smiled self-deprecatingly, put the tea cup aside, and said: "It's not bad, it's very bad, and it will get worse. We are suffering losses everywhere. Although the Federation also suffered losses, they lost If you can afford it, we can’t afford to lose it.”
Lin Xi said: "I heard that the Xu family withheld the aid supplies?"
The lieutenant general relaxed his thick eyebrows and said: "There is a batch of military supplies scheduled to arrive. It was originally ten transport ships, but we just received the news that only three ships can arrive at the original time. When will the rest be available? Arrive, there is no definite news yet.”
"What's in this batch of supplies?"
The lieutenant general smiled bitterly, "Food, fuel. Well, there are also a batch of heavy-duty space torpedoes."
A little anger began to burn in Lin Xi's eyes. Heavy space torpedoes are a type of missile with great power. They are the main weapon for small starships to fight against large starships. This is a consumable item that is in huge demand in the current battle. Once its supply cannot keep up, the impact on combat effectiveness is self-evident.
Lin Xi suppressed his anger and said, "How dare they even seize such supplies?"
The lieutenant general glanced at Lin Xi and sighed: "They really dare. The assistance from the dynasty will arrive in two weeks. This batch of supplies was supported by the Xu family themselves, but it was agreed long ago, but suddenly it came out. There are variables, and they didn’t give a reason.”
Lin Xi said directly: "Is it related to Xu Zhanfeng?"
The lieutenant general sighed and said: "The Xu family has not made it clear, and I will not think in this direction. Even if there is such a reason, I will never let you suffer such injustice. Marshal Lin knows me well." Thank you for your kindness, even if I don’t want this official position, it doesn’t matter.”
Lin Xi asked: "In the eyes of the Xu family, am I really that important that I would even risk destroying my reputation?"
Lu Queyun laughed and said: "Don't underestimate yourself too much. We old people like Marshal Lin are very optimistic about you. In the recent series of battles, your record is amazing enough. In time, the Lin family will definitely have another marshal. . Even we can see things, do those old foxes in the Xu family know? With you, the Xu family will have a mainstay in the next few decades or even a hundred years."
Lin Xi shook his head, "I really didn't think I was that powerful. Even in the battle just now, I didn't perform at all."
"That's just the gain and loss of one city and one place. But you judge that their target is the base Fulan, which is really powerful."
After receiving the compliment, Lin Xi couldn't laugh.
