Chapter 233: Sudden Inspiration
“The outstanding performance of intelligence work allows us to anticipate the enemy, gives us a huge advantage in future wars, but we have been somewhat negligent in this area.”
Li Jian concluded, and the atmosphere in the war room suddenly became somewhat heavy.
Undoubtedly, these years of focus on science and technology, weapons and equipment, and other hard conditions have inevitably led to neglect in these soft areas.
As Li Jian said, the huge caliber gun barrel on the Hans Civilization’s battleship clearly indicates the intelligence on what kind of firepower configuration uses this caliber.
However, the fact is that this point was subconsciously overlooked by everyone.
Fan Ren pondered for a moment, with some emotion in his eyes. Li Jian’s statement did not dwell on the battle damage ratio on the frontal battlefield but directly addressed it from the source. His words rang true, stunning everyone.
He nodded frankly and said, “This is our failure in work.”
Without pausing, he continued, “So, elevate our previous intelligence agency’s rank to department level, independent from the military headquarters.
Here’s what I’m thinking: in the future space age, we face species with different genes from ours. Their civilizations have developed for as short as thousands of years, or as long as tens of thousands, even possibly hundreds of thousands of years.
Facing these civilizations that require a lot of analysis work, we need to establish a professional intelligence analysis agency.
Of course, actually, A’dai is the best assistant in this regard.
However, unfortunately, for certain reasons, A’dai’s existence must go underground from now on.
Even completely erase A’dai’s existence from our history. I will explain this in detail to everyone later.
What I want to say is, without A’dai, we will no longer have near real-time analysis capabilities in intelligence analysis.
But even so, we still need to establish a professional intelligence analysis agency, intelligence processing agency, and intelligence collection agency.
For these, I plan to establish a new intelligence department, which will also be independent from the military headquarters, at the same level as the military headquarters.
Commander Liu, what do you think?”
After Fan Ren finished speaking, he tossed the topic to Liu Shengzhan, after all, the intelligence system was originally a branch department under the military headquarters.
Now that a new one is to be established separately, with a rank even reaching the military headquarters level, the military headquarters’ emotions must be considered.
And Liu Shengzhan is the decision-maker of the military headquarters.
Hearing this, he stood up, glanced at everyone, and then said loudly, “The military headquarters will resolutely and thoroughly carry out the chief’s orders, and this will never change!”
All the commanders and combat personnel in the room immediately stood up, their bodies straight like pines, gazing firmly at Fan Ren without a hint of hesitation, and saluted in unison.
Seeing this, Fan Ren scanned the space force members of the Azure Phoenix Legion in the room, feeling slightly relieved.
Originally, he was worried that it might take some time to fully control this army.
Now it seems that the heritage left to him by Elder Ye and the predecessors does not require any special effort on his part.
He waved his hand, and the crowd sat down one by one again.
“Alright then, since that’s the case, we’ll study the intelligence department issue after the meeting. Now, let’s continue summarizing the deficiencies in our army during this interception battle, as well as what we can learn from the Hans Civilization Fleet.”
After his words, the crowd involuntarily returned to their previous state.
Soon, a captain in charge of the Punisher’s large team stood up.
“Hello, chiefs. My name is Zhao Hai Fei.”
Fan Ren immediately recognized that this captain was the pilot who, decades ago over the Pacific Ocean, shot down two threatening fighters from South Australia.
Unexpectedly, decades later, he had now become a captain in the Punisher team of the Azure Phoenix Legion’s space force.
He nodded slightly and smiled, gesturing for the other to continue.
“It’s like this. In my opinion, the Punisher’s performance in this interception battle is undoubtedly commendable.
At least, within 200 km range, the Hans Civilization’s battleships basically had no power to fight back.
I believe everyone observed this: under our firepower coverage, the Hans Civilization’s warships were fragile.
This undoubtedly proves that the Punisher’s design expected performance meets our standards.
However, even in such an advantageous engagement within range, with the enemy and our combat-effective warships at 1731 to 500, we still lost over a hundred Punisher battleships.
I’m thinking our combat method could perhaps be further optimized.
For example, using drone decoy ships to take missile-class firepower attacks instead of the Punisher, which might save us over 100 Punisher battleships.
Of course, I don’t know if this method is feasible; this is just my proposal. That’s all from me.”
After Zhao Hai Fei finished, perhaps realizing his idea was a bit fanciful, his expression became somewhat uneasy.
But hearing this, Fan Ren’s eyes lit up.
All along, he had been a complete novice in war, but now Zhao Hai Fei explained it to him in the most straightforward way, so even he, a battlefield idiot, understood the meaning.
Originally, he thought that in space wars.
The silver-like super metal, after high-intensity processing, inherently has super strength, providing warships with extremely terrifying armor properties.
But obviously, this is still not enough.
On average, 4 heavy attack missiles from the Hans Civilization can completely destroy one Punisher.
And this type of missile attack, in the vacuum’s high-speed flight state, fundamentally lacks large-angle maneuverability.
Of course, this refers to heavy attack ballistic missiles with a caliber of 10 meters, not lightweight missiles with super high maneuverability.
In that case, these missiles without large-angle maneuverability would undoubtedly lack penetration capability against suddenly appearing drone decoy ships.
The more Fan Ren thought, the brighter his eyes became, and he immediately said, “A’dai, analyze feasibility!”
He couldn’t wait. Now aboard the Conqueror in the Ross 154 star system, A’dai didn’t need to be too hidden.
“The Ross civilization’s locking system uses analysis data corresponding to the ship. Generally, once a missile locks on, it won’t transfer to other targets.
However, if the decoy ships mentioned by Captain Zhao are specially designed enclosed ones that can directly ‘swallow’ the opponent’s missiles into their belly, it might work. This needs verification.
Moreover, the volume of the decoy ships might not be much smaller.
Also, the quantity definitely can’t be carried too many, which would affect the Punisher’s performance.”
