This Is What Power Looks Like (second update). That had been a battle worth commemorating.
Among the millions of troops in the Fourth Interstellar Fleet, one million were elite combat units composed of Gene Evolvers, while several million more were Starry Sky Marines.
In that battle, three-quarters of the one million elite combat unit members died.
Several million Starry Sky Marines were wiped out entirely...
The general public knew nothing of such horrific casualties, but Chen Rongnan and the other senior officers of the Interstellar Fleet all knew perfectly well.
That was one reason the Military had not widely publicized the Fourth Interstellar Fleet's "hard-won victory."
Of course, another reason was that Ye Chenfeng, the captain of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet, had been extremely dissatisfied with the outcome.
As the captain of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet, he had not even known during that great battle that the Executive Vice-Captain in charge of combat had remained in a deep coma the entire time! After the battle, he personally submitted a thorough self-criticism to the Military Department, admitting that his control over the fleet had been lacking and had allowed the situation to deteriorate.
He did not blame Qiu Zijun. Instead, he praised her highly, even saying that even if he had replaced the Executive Vice-Captain in charge of combat at the time, he could not have done any better.
Because at that time, the Beichen Empire's forces had no experience fighting the Zerg Army.
Their weapons were ill-suited, and the Zerg Army had not come in numbers of one or two thousand, but one hundred thousand Mid-Rank Insectoids!
Given the circumstances, that result truly was the best they could have achieved.
Afterward, Qiu Zijun was immediately awarded a medal, with his full support. She was promoted from Second Lieutenant to Major