Yu Lian had indeed wanted to give everyone a lesson and get them thinking along the same lines for a long time. On the one hand, he wanted to raise the average competence of the Community's junior officers; on the other, he wanted to clarify his own theories.
As we've mentioned before, because of the "chief culprit" that was the Enlightener legacy, the way galactic civilization entered the universe had been artificially accelerated, and it lacked the necessary accumulation of knowledge and experience. This included the development and accumulation of all kinds of tactics and techniques.
There was no point speculating about decisive fleet battles in space. After all, Yu Lian hadn't even left his home planet in his previous life, so no one could guarantee that the heretical tactic of charging straight at the enemy with the bow was actually the truth. But at least when it came to tactics on a planet's surface, it was obvious they hadn't been refined over thousands of years of warfare. Although everyone had access to advanced equipment beyond anything attainable on the "normal Earth" of his previous life, their tactical models weren't much better than those of the cold weapon era.
It was just a matter of psychics charging first, followed by tanks, then robots, and then mobile infantry. If there were no gaps between these successive waves of attackers and they could provide reasonably coordinated fire support, that counted as the performance of an elite force.
If they chose their moment to attack cleverly, adjusted their formations to suit the terrain, and could keep advancing despite suffering massive casualties, then they were unquestionably one of the strongest armies in the world.
...This didn't seem fundamentally different from the cold weapon era's approach of sending in the cavalry, then the infantry. Of