Three days after that fierce night battle, in the No. 1 Barracks at the ground base, many Marines and soldiers who participated in the battle that night and won meritorious deeds were invited to gather here.
In the largest Marine Corps' armored power combat uniforms, Captain Leona, the highest commander of the Hope, who came to the ground base on armored transport spacecraft, was preparing to issue medals to all combatants who made meritorious battles in the night battle three days ago, and to conduct a planned promotion ceremony for those who achieved the standards.
Among them, Lieutenant Colonel Doug, the commander-in-chief of the ground base command center, was promoted from the original rank of lieutenant colonel to the rank of colonel due to his excellent command and dispatch.
Garen and Dryus, the two Marine Captains, were also fully recognized because they fought on the front line, had outstanding military achievements and their ability to command the troops! Therefore, in this battle, they were promoted to lieutenant officers of the Marine Corps respectively.
As for other tank troops and marines, as well as SV engineers, logistics and internal staff, they also received corresponding promotions of medals or military ranks.
Of course, among them, the one that makes everyone envious and jealous is the second colonel officer in the Hope Army: Ghost Agent, Colonel Anne Hasta!
This little girl, who was originally taken back from the space lifeboat of Hope, has not only successfully integrated into the Hope military system, but also turned the tide, saving the ground base many times and made several great achievements!
It is no exaggeration to say that she is the life-saving benefactor of the entire Hope. So, now, she naturally accumulates her merits and is directly promoted from the rank of major to the colonel?!
Many people have this idea: Maybe, in the near future, as long as the insects attack a few more times, as long as the little girl takes action to make a few more military achievements, it seems that even if she is promoted to a general, it seems that it will not be impossible for her to be promoted to a general?
She seems to be only eight years old now?
An eight-year-old girl is about to get to the rank of General Hope?
And what about these people? There are probably not many lieutenant officers? I wonder how many years it will take for them to survive to make a fortune?
Fortunately: this little girl, she is just the highest commander of the current ghost troops of Hope!
Apart from herself, Hope did not have any ghost troops to command her, so this made others feel a little gloating while staring at the three dazzling silver stars with military ranks on her chest?
So what about the youngest colonel? So what about even if you become a general in the future?
In the end, she is not a bare commander yet?
Anyway, it is foreseeable that in the next decade, before the new generation of Hope will grow, she will most likely not see the new ghost agent of Hope.
Sure enough, the highest commander of the Hope and the politicians in the parliament agreed to grant this little girl such a high military rank.
"Please keep quiet! Everyone, please listen to me now!"
After the brief awards and awards and promotion ceremony, Captain Leona once again stood at the microphone on the platform, and now she is going to make her final closing speech.
"Everyone, it's January 19, 2499, and the New Calendar of Hope! It's been more than a hundred years... We, those of us, were stuffed into the dormant warehouse by the lumbar slugs and forcibly exiled from the earth, forcing us to leave the earth for more than a hundred years..."
After a pause, Leona glanced at the faces of the soldiers below who were staring at her.
"Maybe, everyone knows that the reason why we were exiled here by the UP bureaucrats: some are because of their respective beliefs; some are because of their unwillingness to give up the ancient cultural heritage they have adhered to; some are just for their beloved relatives...
So! We must firmly believe that we are by no means a criminal, a villain or an exiled person in their mouths!
They are undoubtedly a group of dictatorial persecutors!
And we are just a group of innocent people who are persecuted!
Those damn bureaucrats from the Earth Federal Government, they wish that we all died sooner, so that no one would oppose them again!
But we will tell them with our own actions: We will never give up!"
Leona raised her fist and slowly strengthened her tone. She looked at the faces of the officers and soldiers who were moved by her speech.
They were staring at her with hot eyes, their chests rising and falling, and gasping.
Seeing this, Leona nodded with satisfaction.
She had successfully mobilized their hatred for UPL, and now it was time to add another fire, and she had to turn the soldiers' emotions to where she needed them.
“Today, we finally got to where we are now and began to gain a foothold on this dangerous planet!
This is inseparable from the efforts of everyone and the sacrifices of those brave and fearless people before...
They, and we, all silently contribute their respective strength to the survival of our Hope and the future of us, human beings!
And now, all of this has finally received the rewards it deserves!
You all saw: our ground base is constantly developing; we have defeated the attacks of the bugs again and again, letting them know that we humans are by no means easy to bully!
The most important thing is: our energy database is also increasing day by day! The previously expected goals will be achieved soon!
So, now, we must firmly believe that the dark and difficult days are about to pass, and dawn is right in front of us!
Let us start from now on and keep working hard!
With our own sweat and our blood, on this dangerous planet, in this dangerous star field, we will give us all human beings of Hope, and our future generations, to water a soil for survival!
We will let the bureaucrats of the Earth Federation know!
We will also let the evil bugs on this planet try to destroy us and drive us away!
We hope that the humans of the number, all of us, will continue to fight!
We will never surrender!”
Finally, Captain Leona's speech in this barracks and on the channel of Hope and all the officers and soldiers came to an end with her last shout.
"Never give in!"
“Never give in!!”
“Never give in!!!”
With Captain Leona's ups and downs, after the final inspiring speech, both present, viewing or listening began to shout loudly.
"salute!!!"
In the equipment room, amid the loud shouts of a soldier, including Captain Leona, all the officers and soldiers present stood attentively to salute the list of fallen soldiers and the flag of Hope, the ceremony of awards and titles finally came to an end.
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"Leona, why did you suddenly come down today? It's not very safe on this planet..."
After the speech, the newly promoted Colonel Doug asked curiously next to Captain Leona who was about to leave.
In addition to the relationship between superiors and subordinates, they are also very good friends and best friends, so in informal occasions, they usually refer directly to each other by their names.
"Ha...you are all here, why can't I come? Moreover, the Hope number is not necessarily safe!"
While walking, Leona replied to her friend with a funny look.
Actually, in her opinion, if this star field is really dangerous, what's the difference between it, whether it's Hope above space or the base on the ground?
"Too……"
Doug thought about it seriously and nodded.
The advanced war in the interstellar era, this distance is considered to be within the enemy's attack range...
"So, Leona, are we really not going to open a sub-base? Over the past few days, the strength of the bugs has probably been almost touched by us, right? As long as we do the corresponding prevention work, it is certainly OK to open another sub-base, right?"
Doug, who followed Captain Leona and was about to take the captain and others out to board the plane and leave the base, after walking a few steps, finally couldn't help but approach the other party and began to ask in a low voice.
Today, Leona will personally land on the planet and come to the ground base of planet jno.3 to preside over the ceremony, which surprised Doug.
Because, in the original plan, the awarding and promotion ceremony should be carried out by Captain Leona's holographic projection speech and Doug.
But she didn't expect that when things came to an end, she found that Leona, the highest commander of the Hope, actually took the Planck's armored transport ship No. 01, escorted by a cross-resentful fighter jet, and airborne the ground base and personally presided over today's ceremony?
"Doug... Although we have almost investigated this planet, whether it is the surface or the caves near the sea, we have also figured out the trajectory of the insects' activities... But please believe me and stay alert enough! Because, in my intuition, they may not be as simple as we imagined! The sneak attack a few nights ago is proof! If it weren't for the timely reminder of Anne, we might..."
I'm afraid something, Leona didn't say much, Doug should be able to understand.
If there was no timely warning from Little Annie at that time, it would be a little bit more to say whether their base would continue to exist in the end under the overwhelming sea of ​​insects at night!
Moreover, now, the bugs have even appeared terrible long-range units and flight units?
Think about it, the kind of insects that can emit bone spurs and like snakes, their threat to human light armored units has been proven in practice!
Then, there are the flying monsters like flying dragons. Their poisonous sacs can attack, and even directly damage tanks and corrode metal buildings with thick armor.
So far, the bugs' melee, long-range, large heavy armored units and flight units have appeared. In addition, the kind of digging worms that can dig tunnels, who knows if they have other species?
Just thinking about it alone can make Leona feel uneasy!
So, she would never agree to the matter of sub-base!
Not only will she not be able to open a base, she will also face insects on this planet with the greatest vigilance, or some threats that have not yet appeared.
"But if we don't open the base, our ground base will be limited by metal resources and its development is too slow..."
In fact, if there were enough metal resources, the ground base Doug was in charge of now would probably look like another.
There is no shortage of manpower in the ground base now.
So far, the number of various logistics personnel and engineers who operate SV engineering vehicles has almost exceeded 2,000!
The number of ground troops such as Marines, medical soldiers, fire bats equipped with heavy combat suits and plasma Hellfire Sprayers is almost 1,500!
Even the armored vulture suspended chariot has a scale of nearly fifty reinforced battalions!
They were also under Doug's order, all of which were covered with dense reinforced large spider mines that could target heavily armored targets in the beaches around the base island and the buffer areas included in the defense belt.
The current scale of heavy arc siege tanks has expanded to as many as 39. A fourth batch of tanks have already stepped down from the production line. Human heavy firepower has been greatly improved enough that they can definitely use a steady stream of long-range and powerful artillery fire to support the attack or defense operations of the Marine Corps.
Four barracks have been built, and the second heavy factory is under construction.
Others, such as walls, machine gun bunkers, missile launch towers responsible for air defense, various signal towers, military radars, and electromagnetic metal columns that have recently begun to be built around islands and penetrate deep into the ground to defend and monitor hole-drilling bugs, have now begun to be under emergency construction.
Therefore, the current ground base is not short of manpower, high-energy crystals as energy, and high-energy gas, but only various metal resources!
After all, whether they build the most basic supply station or supply station, they require a large amount of steel and other metals, and they are at least in units of tens of thousands of tons!
Buildings like those large heavy factories, barracks, engineering stations and arsenals, as well as the small interstellar ports, are often up to 100,000 tons, far from the pitiful output of the current No. 1 base.
"Don't worry, Doug, the three small interstellar ports at the second base have now 200 armored transport ships on the production line. In the near future, your dilemma of lacking metal materials will definitely be improved."
No matter what, Leona disagreed with Doug's idea of ​​opening a new ground base, and she hoped that the other party would be a little more conservative.
Even now, the war between humans and insects seems to have gained the upper hand, but Leona still wants to continue her original idea: to work hard to mine precious energy crystals and gas, and then create and develop military forces enough to defend the Hope colonial spacecraft.
It is best to have about ten heavy battlecruisers and one or two air-to-ground dual-purpose vengeful fighter aircraft carriers, which can fully guarantee the safety of humans on the Hope.
It’s not that Leona doesn’t want to produce more fleets, but she just hopes that the number of humans on the ship is limited, so it’s already very good to be able to form such a fleet.
Then, they quickly packaged various resources and started to set off, stay away from here, find a planet that can provide human living environment, and then slowly develop and grow...
This is enough!
"Well, I hope you're right..."
Seeing that the captain disagreed with his thoughts, Doug had to nod and followed him to the outside of the barracks a little sadly.
Here, a passage and a hemispherical fully enclosed apron have been temporarily sealed by the SV engineers using glass pipes.
The spaceship on the apron was Captain Leona's car when he returned. The Hyun on it showed that it was the armored transport spaceship operated by Captain Planck, who was a technically mysterious.
"Okay, you'll send it here, Doug, I'll go back to the Hope number first."
Leona, who was busy with business, was unwilling to stay for more.
So, she went up and hugged Doug a little, and smiled at the little ghost Anne, who had just been promoted to colonel, and then turned around and walked towards the cabin door of the transport spacecraft.
"I wish you a good journey, Captain!"
Doug stood at the right hand in a straight military posture and gave a standard military salute. She formed a sharp contrast with little Anne, who was standing next to her, and she stood at the spaceship without looking sideways.
When the hatch door closed, two Titans behind the opponent's armored transport ship pushed forward the main engine and began to eject two streams of blue high-energy particles, and then the spacecraft began to slowly take off.
At this time, a piece of isolation and protection glass suddenly fell in front of Doug's senior officer who was seeing off. Then, the spherical gate on the top of the semi-spherical closed apron finally began to slowly crack to both sides. When it was completely opened, the engine of the armored transport ship gradually began to increase force, and then, it rolled up a violent airflow and rushed upwards into the sky.
Then, the ten vengeful spirit fighters that had been hovering over the base, followed closely and circled around the transport spacecraft at the same direction and speed, forming a relatively tight protection circle.
After all, there have been bug units that can fly on this planet now, so they cannot be careful!
Even Captain Planck, who usually likes to be drunk, was driving the spaceship honestly at this time, and he did not dare to throw away the protection of the vengeful spirit fighter plane and fly back to Hope alone.
"Okay, the troublesome sister Leona has finally left. Now, Garen and Dryus! Let's go back to the barracks quickly. Your melee training is about to begin!"
After seeing the captain's spacecraft finally flying away, little Anne immediately cheered loudly, quickly ran into the barracks.
Because, after many days of hard work and persuasion, and under the threat of the insects becoming increasingly powerful, Garen and Dryus finally agreed to accept her melee training, and at the same time changed the names of Cobra Squad and Viper Squad to Demacia Squad and Noxus Squad as Little Anne...
The preferential conditions for the two people and their direct ten-person teams must be forged and enchanted ten two-handed great swords and ten two-handed battle axes, and they must also satisfy the two!
"Ah, that, Commander Doug, then I'll leave first?"
Lieutenant Garen, who was qualified to see off Captain Hope, heard Lieutenant Anne's greeting, first smiled apologetically at Commander Doug, then quickly turned around and chased the little girl away.
"Well, Commander, I'll leave first, too?"
After seeing Anne and Garen leave first, Dryus grinned and said hello to Doug, and wanted to turn around and leave directly.
"Wait, Dryus, the melee training that Little Anne just mentioned...what is going on?"
If the special training is just conducted, Doug will not only not stop him, but will also agree with both hands.
After all, the stronger the Marines' combat power, the safer her base will be!
Moreover, now Little Annie's military rank is no lower than her. Although the other party is under her certain control, she really has no way to take care of the other party in ordinary small matters.
Therefore, Doug really doesn't know much about the melee training that the little girl said. Now, there is no need to report to her if the other party wants to do.
"Progress special training is melee special training... Anne ordered the equipment production department to forge ten two-handed big swords and ten battle axes with the best alloy. She wants to train us into the Demacia team and the Noxus team she mentioned? It seems...that's the case?"
Dryus explained a little scratching his head.
Commander Doug asked a question, and of course Dryus did not dare to leave at will, so he could only stop and answer carefully.
"What's the use of this? This little girl is making a fuss, and you two actually follow her to do whatever she wants?!"
Melee special training? Great Sword? Tomahawk?
Commander Doug almost burst into laughter when he heard this.
She actually knew the strength of this little ghost agent and the reliability of the critical moment, but in normal times, naughtyness is absolutely indispensable! On weekdays, soldiers have gone a lot of complaints about the little girl!
And now, the other party is obviously making a fuss?
In her opinion, playing close combat with the bugs is seeking death! Instead of doing this, it is better to practice marksmanship more effectively and realistic!
Use swords and axes to fight with insects... Can they still think of it?
"My mother! Commander, you really misunderstood Little Annie!"
"She had helped us caress us casually before? Oh, or was it enchantment? Anyway, she used her supernatural magic to make us a normal dagger. Then, the dagger became amazing! A composite armor steel plate as thick as a few inches was cut in half with a light knife!"
When he thought of this, Dryus felt envious.
He was just slow to move because of his surprise. The dagger was embezzled and installed on the other party's electromagnetic rifle by the honest Galen, and acted as a bayonet.
“…”
Doug opened his mouth, wanted to say something, and then he stopped.
Thinking about the magical features of Little Annie before and the powerful magic, she suddenly felt that it was better not to interfere with them?
Then, let's take a look at the results first and then make a conclusion...
"I'll go, Xi'an won't say anything anymore. They are urging me. Let's do it first, commander, then I'll leave first?"
After getting the other party's nod, Dryus finally rushed to the barracks as if he had received an amnesty.
Chapter completed!