You know I'm just an officially sanctioned member of the sightseeing delegation. Why do you keep calling on me?
Yu Lian rolled his eyes internally, but said aloud, "Since they're from the academy, they're naturally accustomed to looking for tactics in military history."
"Lord Yu Lian, don't forget—you're from the academy too."
As if! I'm a textbook case of growing wild. Even if you include my past life, where I studied at the Lunar Military Academy, that was more like taking an adult education course. Have you ever heard of someone taking an adult education course being called an academic?
"In any case, the enemy's formation bears a strong resemblance to the Battle of the Daka Sector during the Fifth Galactic War." At Yu Lian's words, quite a few people present looked unhappy, but he pretended not to notice and continued smoothly, "In that battle, the Alliance assembled a force of two thousand four hundred warships from twelve member states to face the Imperial Guards' Second Fleet, which had eleven hundred. The balance of forces is very similar to what we have here. When one side already has the advantage, the question isn't whether they'll win, but how to annihilate the enemy."
In that battle, the Alliance's famous general, Marshal Emilis Berenkester, had adopted precisely this three-pronged deployment. He had deliberately given the Imperial Guards the impression that they could be picked off one by one, luring them into a direct assault on the central force he personally commanded.
Marshal Emilis Berenkester had employed a flexible, mobile defensive strategy, letting his forces absorb the Imperial ships like a sponge and draw them into a chaotic melee. This created a valuable opportunity for the other two forces to encircle them. In the end, nearly eighty percent of the Imperial Guards' Second