Davis understood what Liu Mian meant because he saw the look in Liu Mian's eyes, so he took the initiative to speak.

"Because the empire is learning from our federal system, this is inevitable. A feudal empire that retains the feudal system cannot achieve a high degree of centralization, even if the emperor has nuclear weapons, because its nuclear weapons can only guarantee that the empire will not

There was a large-scale rebellion, but it was impossible to avoid the nobles' overt and covert rebellion.

In order to achieve a high degree of centralization, the emperor must learn some of the systems of our federation. For example, there are no nominal nobility, and all land and resources belong to the federal government. Including the military, only continental governments are qualified to form it.

, all fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

If the emperor of the empire is smart enough, no, it must be said that he must be smart, he must want to achieve this high degree of centralization, and everything in the empire will be governed by a government formed by the royal family.

Judging from the fact that they don't care about the lives and deaths of those nobles at present, it is very likely that the emperor of the empire has already started this restructuring and is using the war with us to eliminate the older generation of nobles of the empire who hinder him from achieving a high degree of centralization.

The new generation of nobles in the empire, except for titles and nominal fiefs, will no longer have a high degree of autonomy over their fiefs, and all governance rights will be taken back by the emperor.

If the emperor successfully completes this restructuring, the empire we will face can turn into a real war machine at any time. So from a longer-term perspective, this is a very bad thing for us.

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Ji Xinghe pondered for a moment and continued to ask questions.

"What should we do?"

Davis and Liu Mian, who were at the command center of the Western Theater Command, looked at each other and spoke back and forth.

"Intensify the internal conflicts of the empire and cause them to erupt into civil strife."

"End this war before the emperor resolves the civil strife and completes the restructuring."

In fact, there is another way. Davis and Liu Mian both know it, and many people know it, but they are unwilling to say it because it is impossible to achieve.

Ji Xinghe was noncommittal about the two people's answers and asked another question.

"Do you think the pattern of alien warfare will change as a result?"

The question itself already explained Ji Xinghe's thoughts, and both Davis and Liu Mian could hear it.

And they all agreed with this idea, so the two of them began to answer Ji Xinghe's questions one by one, or to add theoretical evidence to the ideas proposed by Ji Xinghe.

"Yes, as the mecha's combat effectiveness becomes stronger and stronger, the role of conventional troops will become smaller and smaller."

"Our mechas can forcibly break through the fire blockade of the empire's conventional forces, rush into the enemy's formation, destroy the anti-missile systems, bunkers, fire output units and other key points of the empire's conventional forces, and then use long-range firepower to achieve annihilation. In this kind of combat,

Under this model, the empire's conventional forces can be described as cannon fodder."

"Similarly, if the empire begins to use a large number of civilian orangutans to drive high-performance mechas in combat, they will also be able to use this combat mode against our positions, and our conventional troops will also become cannon fodder."

"We have living bases on alien planets, and the empire has jump gates, but these are only auxiliary means and cannot provide necessary supplies of oxygen, water and other living materials to conventional troops fighting on alien planets anytime and anywhere."

"If we transfer the resources invested in conventional troops to mecha units, we will be able to have more mechas, more efficient mobility, and stronger combat effectiveness."

"As long as we do this, the empire will definitely do this. They can't always let combat units like the independent regiment use the mecha's ability to break formations, combined with our long-range firepower that can accurately hit when we have air superiority.

, easily annihilating their tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of conventional troops."

"Intelligence shows that for more than twenty years, the empire's real losses of conventional troops on alien planets are overwhelmingly those of the empire's great nobles. This is the consumption of their strength by the emperor, and it also makes us have to

Dedicate more conventional forces."

"Once the internal conflicts in the empire broke out, the emperor began to reform. The war mode on the alien planet will be based on three categories of combat units. Air superiority units including space battleships, individual starships, including artillery,

Firepower output units including rocket soldiers and missile soldiers, and surface combat units including mecha warriors and individual exoskeleton armored special operations soldiers."

"Our conventional forces and the empire's conventional forces will be converted into auxiliary combat units. The outcome of this war will be determined by three aspects."

"Only those who dominate the air can always win, and firepower is supreme. There is no need to say more about these two aspects. This has always been the case. Therefore, the real change lies in the mecha."

"Only mechas can deal with mechas. War on alien planets will be dominated by mecha warfare. Because the significance of mastering the air must fall on the war on the surface. We are not in the real interstellar era. The Empire

Nor is it true, space war is far away from us."

"The ultimate meaning of firepower supremacy also needs to be applied to the surface. In the absence of a true space battle, all our firepower will serve the mecha battle between us and the empire."

"Moreover, the essence of this war lies in the control of the alien planet. The empire's jump gate can only be opened on the surface of the alien planet. As long as we control the alien planet, the empire will not be able to come to the alien planet again."

"So, we will enter a new era of war, which I would like to call..."

Davis paused for a moment, regretting that he couldn't see Ji Xinghe and Ji Xinghe couldn't see him at this time.

Because what he is talking about and what he is about to say are all inevitably related to Ji Xinghe.

But it doesn't matter, as long as Ji Xinghe can hear his voice and understand his attitude.

He said.
Chapter completed!