Chapter 187: Waiting hard
Chapter 187: Thank you for your hard work
With a "slam", the general on the opposite screen had already stood up: "Which fleet on which side, identify it immediately!"
"Enemy!" The fleet in front quickly sent a simple message.
"Kill them!" General Lucas's face suddenly became extremely excited. He pointed at the screen and ordered loudly: "Kill them, don't let anyone go!"
"Huh!" Zhao Li let out a long sigh and found that the enemy's supply fleet was not wrong. At this time, Zhao Li finally sat on the ground with confidence. Whatever he was fighting in front was no longer something Zhao Li could control.
The extremely boring and extremely nervous waiting just over an hour made Zhao Li almost exhausted his mind. No wonder General Lucas got older in a few days because of the unfavorable situation of the war. This kind of war commander that involved the lives and interests of many people is really not something that ordinary people can do. Even General Lucas's level eight master's strength will still have to pay the price for it.
Not to mention Zhao Li, this is the first time he has coordinated a fleet to attack. Although all the rear are special forces soldiers, the attacks of the fleet in the front are real. Such a simple command and coordination work makes Zhao Li feel such pressure. Then, isn’t a larger-scale and higher-level battle even more cruel?
Unfortunately, after the ambush battle began, Zhao Li’s communication was cut off. He could not see the battle situation ahead from his side. He could only speculate based on the excited screams of the fleet commander just now. Such a voice should be fine, right?
"Good job, boy!" General Lucas lost his trace for a while and appeared on the screen in front of Zhao Li again. His voice was very excited: "The supply warship of the brigade is definitely providing supplies for the two battlefields of the Fringe Planet and the Journey Planet. Now they are finished." Uncontrollably excited, the general paced back and forth on the ground: "Without this batch of supplies, I see how long they can spend with us! Boy, you have made great contributions!"
"Thank you, sir!" Zhao Li was also infected by his happiness. Of course, he himself was also very happy from the bottom of his heart. However, Zhao Li said that the previous war ended with victory, so this excitement was not as strong as the general. The general was frustrated by the half-dead war zone report for a long time. Finally, there was a moment of being proud.
"I will promote you to win this battle!" The general threw down a large promise without hesitation: "Continue to monitor the supply warehouse, and I will notify you if there is any news!" As he said that, he took the initiative to hang up the communication without waiting for Zhao Li's routine salute.
While being happy here, Zhao Li was worried about Li Mengdie and the others. They also had no news about it now, and Zhao Li had no way to guess what the specific situation was. He could only continue to wait honestly.
There was also a long wait. Before, I was waiting for the enemy to appear, but now I was waiting for the ambush to end and wait for the results of the surprise attack on the supply warehouse.
It took more than two hours to wait. Zhao Li didn't know how large the fleet sent by the general was. He didn't know whether there were escort attack ships in the enemy's supply fleet and what scale. Everything was just a surprise. The result of the battle was beyond the imagination.
"General!" Zhao Li stood up and saluted. The general's communication was connected, not sure whether it was good or bad news. However, seeing the general's straight body and high emotions, Zhao Li felt a little relieved.
"We successfully ambushed the rebel supply fleet, Zhao Li." When we said these words, the general kept smiling, but he no longer had the excitement he had at the beginning: "All the escort attack ships were destroyed by us, fourteen supply ships were destroyed. Three were captured, and none of the enemy's warships escaped, and we won a great victory! Damn it, how long hasn't been heard of this news? I'm so happy! Boy, it's a good job!"
"Yeah!" Zhao Li couldn't help but raise his fist and cheer. The general's words also mean that the supply channel was completely cut off by the government forces. An exposed supply channel was no longer of great effect.
"Tell your informant that he can get a large bounty." The general did not pursue Zhao Li's disobedience. It seemed that he was also immersed in the joy of victory and couldn't wait to start rewarding merits. From the beginning to the end, the general did not ask where Zhao Li's information came from.
"Yes, General!" Zhao Li suppressed the excitement in his heart. Looking at the refreshed general, he couldn't help but ask: "General, what about our losses?"
As soon as this question was released, General Lucas looked at Zhao Li with a strange look, which made Zhao Li feel very bad. Then Zhao Li immediately realized that this question should not be asked by himself, and he might not have the authority to know it, so he hurriedly remedy: "Sorry, General, I shouldn't have asked."
"You are the plan maker and have the right to know the final result." The general looked at Zhao Li for a while and finally spoke: "We have lost three attack ships in total and severely damaged one. Compared with the enemy's losses, we can ignore them."
"..." Hearing this number, Zhao Li said nothing. It didn't seem to make much sense to lose three ships and damage one. But Zhao Li knew that the loss of personnel on these three warships was several times more than Zhao Li lost when he was sniping the rebels before. A medium-sized assault ship had a full capacity of 400 people. Zhao Li could no longer imagine that three ships were all sacrificed because of his plan.
"What's the result with you?" The general didn't care about Zhao Li's attitude. In fact, he didn't notice at all. The ambush supply fleet won a great victory. So, what is the result of the surprise attack supply warehouse that he wants to care about.
"There is no news yet, General!" Zhao Li answered truthfully.
"Yeah!" The general said mercy without comment, and then operated it on the screen a few times. Soon, a satellite picture appeared in front of Zhao Li.
It was the ground scene seen by remote sensing of high-altitude satellites. Surrounded by the thick green jungle, the two camouflaged supply warehouses appeared very clearly on the screen.
From the satellite perspective, there seemed to be no movement there, and the occasional movement of people was very calm, without any tension at all being attacked. It seemed that Li Mengdie and the others had not succeeded yet.
There is such a satellite remote sensing video, and Zhao Li can clearly see the situation there. However, most of the buildings are hidden in the dense forest and cannot see the actions of the people, let alone distinguishing which ones are their own people and which are the sentinels of the rebels.
However, one thing is certain, that is, the number of sentries around the warehouse has increased a lot. It is estimated that since they received the attack on the supply fleet, they have increased their vigilance against the warehouse. This is very unfavorable to Li Mengdie and the others.
Perhaps today it was God who specifically tested Zhao Li's nerves. As soon as he saw this scene, Zhao Li discovered that there were several small attack ships on the screen, hovering in the air for a while, and began to attack crazyly at a place in the dense forest not far from the warehouse.
Oops, was discovered? Zhao Li's heart suddenly rose from his chest to his throat. Those two warehouses are not far away. The flight base is the warships can arrive in a few minutes. If it weren't for discovering something abnormal, it would never be possible that a warship would attack somewhere in the dense forest in the air.
This result made the general stand up nervously and stare at the screen tightly, as if he wanted to see some specific information from the screen.
At this critical moment, the screen suddenly darkened and there was no display again.
"This?" Zhao Li was anxious and took a few shots on the screen: "What's going on?"
"Our satellite was discovered!" The general also sat down opposite the screen: "The eighteenth. They must have discovered our attempt."
There is no doubt about this. As soon as the supply fleet was attacked, the rebels probably knew the focus of Zhao Li and his team's combat. From the increased posts, we can see that even the satellites in the sky have been shot down, which further confirms their speculation.
"Don't worry!" The general looked at Zhao Li with a little restless look and reminded him: "Your combat plan has achieved the main combat goal. Even if their operations fail, we will win."
"Yes. General!" Zhao Li answered clearly with a lack of confidence, and his worried expression was clearly visible on the screen.
"When there is war, there will be casualties, which is inevitable." The general saw something from Zhao Li's performance: "Even if the mission fails, they are heroes!" After affirming Li Mengdie and the others' contribution, the general began to become harsh: "If you are just afraid of casualties of your own people, quickly dispel that stupid idea. You are the highest military commander of the marginal planet, don't naively think that the war can end without paying the price!"
"Yes. General!" This time, Zhao Li also became serious. The general said nothing wrong. It is impossible for war to be free of casualties, and we cannot expect such an unrealistic miracle.
However, Li Mengdie is different. Li Mengdie is his childhood sweetheart who has been in love with for a long time, and he is also his girlfriend who has been sleeping with Zhao Li. For Zhao Li, Li Mengdie has never resisted any of his decisions except for his different opinions on his safety. A student and principal of the Genius School, who works for Zhao Li in this way, can't find any other reason besides the reason for love.
"War, there will definitely be casualties!" Zhao Li sat straight in his seat, thinking about this sentence. But his thinking couldn't help but fly to Li Mengdie's side.
How is she now? Being with Sanders? How are those soldiers? After being discovered, should she give up the mission immediately and turn around? These thoughts are like rolling in her mind, coming one after another.
Even the victory of completely annihilated the supply fleet of the rebels could not make Zhao Li happier. After all, Zhao Li found that he was not a cold-blooded soldier, nor was he the kind of person who could do anything for his purpose. Although his previous performances made others mistakenly think that he was such a lunatic, Zhao Li knew that he was not that kind of person.
At this time, Zhao Li seemed to suddenly understand General Lucas's mood when he sent him to snipe the rebel brigade. Contradictory and reluctant, but he had to do so because there was no other way. Although there was a period of time before that he had resented his superiors because of this so-called order to die, now, Zhao Li would rather be the one who took risks ahead as himself.
If I didn't send Li Mengdie out, wouldn't I have such concerns? Why does it seem that there is no such difficult choice for Sanders and James? Do you not care about Sanders' life? Don't you care about James' life? Just because they were prisoners?
The three dantians took turns to push a true qi, circulating in their body, and flowed little by little with Zhao Li's thoughts. Soon, Zhao Li vaguely entered that state of meditation.
A buzzing vibration woke Zhao Li from his meditation state. Communicator! Zhao Li's first reaction was to turn on the answer switch of the communicator. However, his fingers stretched out and stopped.
After a moment of pause, he looked down at his current state, and then Zhao Li turned on the communicator switch.
"Zhao Li, the task is completed!" There is no image, only sound, this is the communication of a small personal communicator. Sanders' tired voice came from the communicator's speakers, bringing Zhao Li a long-awaited good news.
It was strange that Zhao Li was not so excited, for some reason. Hearing Sanders' voice, Zhao Li calmly replied: "Good job, man!"
His answer surprised Sanders over there: "Well, why are you talking like that? Strange!"
"Where are the others?" Zhao Li did not answer Sanders' words, and asked about the news about others.
"I haven't arrived at the meeting place yet, and I don't know the situation." It can be heard that Sanders was running away frantically: "Two supply warehouses, one military airport, I am responsible for Warehouse No. 1, and have successfully completed the task. Warehouse No. 2 and military airports have exploded, but I don't know the specific damage."
"Come to the meeting place immediately and meet with others!" Zhao Li gave a calm order. At this time, there was no need to investigate why there was an additional military airport in their combat targets.
After hanging up the communication, Sanders ran and thought for no reason, what was wrong with Zhao Li? How did he feel strange when he spoke?
It seems that only Sanders has communication equipment. Zhao Li waited patiently for a long time and finally waited for another communication. This time, Li Mengdie was speaking.
"Zhao Li, the warehouse and the airport have been completely destroyed, and the airport cannot be used in a short period of time unless they use a large number of engineers to repair it." Li Mengdie's voice was like the sound of nature in Zhao Li's ears.
"Good job, A Die!" Zhao Licong was not stingy in complimenting Li Mengdie: "Where are the others?"
"There are only three of us, the others..." Li Mengdie paused sadly: "I used to be the task of luring the enemy, but no one has come back yet. Our transport ship has also been shot down!"
Chapter completed!