Chapter 162: Alliance's Desperate Plan_1

Earth Alliance, PDC secret meeting room.

Ye Chen, the commander of the Earth Alliance, also serving as the rotating chair of the PDC.

He rose from an ordinary Underground City, changed its fate, led it to a broader world, and eventually became the commander of the Earth Alliance.

Ye Chen, a name implying restraint and strength, was born at a time when humanity was on the brink of extinction due to the relentless disasters 28 years into the crisis. As his father entered the Underground, with human civilization at sunset, and the land of China submerged, he was named "Chen."

Ye Chen said, "The Earth Alliance and the Moon Base have already entered a stage of war; now we just lack a fuse for the first great space battle of humanity as it steps into the interstellar to begin.

"As for the current state of the war, the strength of the Moon Base far surpasses ours. However, war is not a matter of strength comparison. The biggest mistake of the Moon Base is losing their vigilance in a long peace; they think we will wait until all of our latest 22 battleships have been commissioned before we start the war with them.

"They have overlooked that the laws of war have never waited for one side to be ready before commencing. There are only two states we are living in: war and preparation for war.

"The Moon Base not bringing back their battleships deployed on Mars, Mercury, and Titan is to be expected. If war breaks out, these battleship bases will be strong support for the Moon Base and also a deterrence to us.

"Due to the ultra-long attack distance of modern battleships, they can have a greater impact from afar. But this is also our opportunity; our plan has entered its final phase.

"The fundamental reason why the Moon is currently negligent in its defense is their severe underestimation of war; perhaps they are still being bound by their own 'morality.'

"They believe that at the initial stage of the war with us, they hold all the cards. They're not thinking about destroying all of our battleships at the start, and destroying all our space elevators and spaceports.

"Then, using battleships to strike all potential military strongholds on the surface, completely seal off Earth Alliance's power, and land on Earth to gradually consume all Underground Cities, step by step.

"We have also conducted extensive research on Lin Sen's behavior model. During the early days of the Great Valley, everyone called him the savior. During the midway point, as many archives were declassified, he was also called the biggest dictator and exploiter.

"But looking at it now, Lin Sen seems to have seen the inevitable traps in the development of civilization; the inherent defects of human civilization will lead us into an unbeatable abyss.

"If not for Lin Sen, according to the social model at that time, after experiencing such disasters, the backbone of human civilization would have been completely destroyed, an unthinkable consequence.

"We have spent more than half a century, combining all social models of the Underground Cities, to preliminarily perfect the model of human civilization's social development. But Lin Sen might have predicted all of the future in the early years of the crisis; his wisdom far exceeded the limits of our imagination.

"Lin Sen's prediction of the future has made us surrender; what's more precious is that he also found a path to change the entire future of humanity with great determination. Betting the entire civilization, he allowed human civilization to completely differentiate; in all the branch civilizations, he sought out, no, he screened out the strongest branch civilization, allowing human civilization a chance for rebirth.

"We have to say, we are still shocked by Lin Sen's plan until today; being in the same era as him is our greatest fortune.

"But we will not show mercy to him; the greatest respect we can show him is to defeat him.

"Lin Sen believes that in the early stages of the war, they can suppress us but not completely destroy us, leaving us a glimmer of hope, and have our civilization continue under sufficient oppression, to grow amidst it.

"However, Lin Sen still failed to realize, if we follow this path, can we really face the Trisolaran civilization? Lin Sen is like our father; he has planned the future path for us, but this is not our path.

"The true growth of the lion king is to defeat the old lion king; we must defeat Lin Sen to be qualified to lead humanity forward.

"For this we have been preparing; how is the plan proceeding?"

Military Advisory Group replied, "According to your plan, the latest 22 'battleships' in the docks are all a strategic deception for the outside. According to the intelligence feedback we've received, the strategic deception has been successful.

"The 22 'battleships' are actually our latest technological remote strike 'turrets,' totaling 88, with firepower even surpassing the 12th generation battleships of the Moon Base.

"Between the Moon and Earth lies a distance of 380,000 kilometers, and now there is almost no contact, having controlled the relay stations, we can achieve information isolation between us. They absolutely don't know that our plan to build warships has been changed to building 'gun turrets'; spies have also nearly lost their role in space warfare.

"In two weeks, Mars, Mercury, and Titan will all be on the opposite side of Earth from the Moon Base, and all military bases on the Moon Base will be within our strike range. It is estimated that we will be able to destroy one-third of the Moon Base's military force at the first strike.

"Most of the Moon Base's force is at the Lagrange Starport on the far side of the Moon, where our warships are no match. We have also secretly built 160 small space thunderstrike ships, which basically have no defensive capabilities.

"The thunderstrike ships are similar to space missiles. Although they have propulsion, they are also launched using electromagnetic rail acceleration to quickly reach one-thousandth of the speed of light (crew protected in deep-sea acceleration fluid), swiftly flying to the Moon and traveling tangent to the lunar surface until they reach the far side, where they will directly initiate a kamikaze attack.

"The remaining military force of the Moon will then be cleared by our regular warships, and the remaining military bases on Mars, Mercury, and Titan can completely be persuaded to surrender.

"It is expected that during our attack, we will also encounter a strong counterattack from the Moon's military forces, and all our space powers, including the space elevator, should be completely destroyed.

"But as long as our first wave of attack meets the expected target, with 160 small space thunderstrike ships destroying part of the Moon's far-side military force, we will have won this battle.

"This plan is code-named 'desperation.'

"According to our analysis of the Moon Base, once the military power of the Moon suffers a loss of two-thirds, even if our space forces are completely lost, they will choose to surrender.

"Their spirit is not enough to fight against us; we can completely despise them in terms of mentality.

"However, based on our understanding of Lin Sen, he must have a clear understanding of this, but he has not contacted us yet. We still have doubts about this; our behavior analysis of him has never been accurate."

Ye Chen said, "This has also been my concern; we have never analyzed what backup Lin Sen may have hidden."

The Military Advisory Group said, "Yes, but we are unable to speculate. It's unlikely that a person like him does not have a backup plan. Even if he cannot guess our current military plan, he can surely foresee the future warfare situation between the Moon and Earth.

"We have always thought that after his awakening, he would negotiate peace with us, and we would not demand to try him, for we have no right to judge him—he is one of the greatest persons of human civilization.

"We even envisioned various peace negotiation proposals—Lin Sen's Wallfacer authority would visibly be significantly reduced. In essence, however, we could also be his 'Wallfacer's Assistant,' and all his plans could be carried out through us. This is our reverence for a great man.

"We have always thought this would be the best outcome, but as of today, Lin Sen has not shown any willingness to negotiate, putting us in a predicament and forcing us to proceed with the desperation plan."

Ye Chen said, "Lin Sen must have a backup plan. On one hand, the desperation plan is our last-ditch counterattack against the Moon Base, our only chance, but more importantly, it's also about detecting what other plan Lin Sen might still be hiding.

"Our final enemy, along with Lin Sen, is Trisolaris, but this does not prevent us from choosing to go to war with Lin Sen.

"For some reason, I feel that Lin Sen views the Trisolarans as too weak, filled with a kind of arrogance. In the face of a war between civilizations, any contempt is a crime against the entire civilization.

"If all efforts are in vain, then war becomes the inevitable choice. The only thing we cannot do is to hesitate.

"Before the war, any talk to inspire morale is a waste. We have been through countless acts of desperation, and this one is no different.

"We are either in the process of desperation or in the process of preparing for it. Always be ready!"

The Military Advisory Group responded, "Yes, Commander!"

Ye Chen had a vague feeling that this military action against the Moon Base would not be successful; the Moon Base was too quiet.

The information from the far side of the Moon was unknowable, but everything else about the Moon seemed too normal. The calm before the start of a war was the most terrifying.