Hearing this, Huo Yushen could not help but say, "Lieutenant Colonel Xia, you were the supreme commander on the battlefield."
"Today, you made a mistake."
"You should not have left the ship just to save a small group of people."
Xia Chujian fell silent.
She knew that if she had not gone to rescue them, the two hundred students from the Imperial Royal First Military Academy would have faced total annihilation.
Xia Chujian said, "Emergency calls for flexibility."
"Chen Yanjun and the others were within my ability to save."
"Besides, they enlisted in the Fifth Interstellar Fleet because of me."
"They are still students. This is not a fate they should have had to bear..."
Huo Yushen interrupted her and said blandly, "On the battlefield, you are the supreme commander."
"You must treat everyone equally."
"When you finally acted and destroyed that Nebula Vortex, securing the final victory of the battle, there was nothing wrong with that."
"But putting yourself in danger for two hundred Military Academy Students is something I hope will never happen again."
"Never forget that you are the supreme commander on the battlefield."
"If you take risks like this, how are you supposed to fight this war?"
Xia Chujian knew she had been somewhat impulsive at the time.
But she truly could not be like Huo Yushen and watch helplessly as her own classmates were simply "penned in to die" by the Zerg...
She also knew that if not for her, they would never have come here to risk their lives.
Xia Chujian felt that she was responsible for them.
A responsibility greater than that of the battlefield's supreme commander.
She took a deep breath and said, "This is my first time serving as the supreme commander on a battlefield. I am not as adept as