Xu Yifan looked at Li Wei, who was crying like a child in front of Zhao Chen, and felt deeply moved.

Before this, Li Wei had never shed a single tear.

Even after the battle to defend the Beiyan Group ended, and he learned that all his brothers had died in action, he only silently said one thing: do your best to collect their remains.

However, it's important to understand that in interstellar warfare, collecting the remains of fallen soldiers is extremely difficult, and identifying the bodies afterwards is even more challenging.

Despite this, Li Wei showed no outward emotional fluctuations, simply completing all his work silently before receiving orders to head to the Imperial Capital.

Li Wei cried for a long time, until he was exhausted and fell asleep on the ground.

Zhao Chen took off his coat and covered Li Wei with it.

"What are these injuries on his body?" Zhao Chen looked at Xu Yifan.

Xu Yifan explained, "In the final stage of the defense of Beiyan Group, we only had one last line of defense left to hold, behind which was the Beiyan Group's industrial base."

During combat, Li Wei's flagship showed no fear in the face of the attacking T3 Zergling mothership.

Ultimately, the bow of Li Wei's flagship was hit by an attack from the T3 Zerg mothership, rendering it inoperable and damaging the bridge.

Fortunately, Li Wei was rescued by the crew, but he lost one hand.

With current technology, it is possible to equip people with lifelike artificial arms, just like real people, although their performance is not as good as that of mechanical arms.

Li Wei rejected the artificial arm and chose a robotic arm instead.

He said that's what makes a man."

Zhao Chen felt a pang of sadness. He patted Xu Yifan on the shoulder and said, "You are all heroes in this civil war."

Rest assured, you will receive the glory you deserve.

Do me a favor: do any of Li Wei's brothers have any relatives, like Sister Ma's children? If they are still alive and willing, I would like to invite them to live in the Xiaolong Star System.

I promised to provide them with the best possible living conditions.

“I have already given the instructions, so please rest assured, my lord.” Xu Yifan nodded.

Although the meeting with Li Wei was somewhat complicated, it went relatively smoothly.

After Li Wei regained consciousness, the group chatted for a while longer.

Because Zhao Chen still had some matters to attend to, and Li Wei, as the current representative of the Beiyan Group, also needed to hold some business meetings in the Imperial Capital Star.

Everyone then went about their own business.

Back to the bridge of the T4 Blue-Eyes White Dragon-class heavy interstellar armored battleship

Zhao Chen sat in the captain's chair. Although he saw that Li Wei was alright, Zhao Chen was still in a bad mood.

"What's wrong?" Lilith asked with concern when she saw that Zhao Chen was in a bad mood.

Zhao Chen told Lilith about Li Wei's situation, and finally said heavily, "Ultimately, it's because we're too weak."

If our JF-17 Legion had been ten or twenty instead of just four legion fleets back then!

Will such a thing still happen?

Lilith looked at the remorseful Zhao Chen, walked behind him, and gently pressed his temples with her slender hand.

"Don't put too much pressure on yourself; there are some things in this world that are unavoidable."

"You've done your best to change things," Lilith said softly. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Lilith's voice seemed to have a magnetic quality, which made Zhao Chen feel much better.

Seeing that Zhao Chen was in a much better mood, Lilith changed the subject and said, "All the data on this civil war has been compiled."

"Just tell me a few key data points," Zhao Chen said.

Lilith raised her hand, and an electronic screen appeared in front of Zhao Chen. Lilith zoomed in on some of the data.

"This battle lasted for nearly a month."

We deployed four JF-17 Dragon Legions, with a total of over 12,000 combat-type interstellar warships.

In this battle, nearly two thousand interstellar warships were lost, including thirteen T4-class interstellar warships.

Nearly 200,000 people were killed in action.

The war directly cost 800 billion star coins, a figure that does not include the number of interstellar warships we lost.

To date, our Dragon Legion has only 100 billion Star Coins left in strategic reserves.

It is anticipated that a campaign of this scale will not be able to be launched again within the next three months.

The war cost 800 billion star coins, of which it is estimated that more than half was spent on interstellar missiles.

If it weren't for the massive deployment of interstellar missiles, the losses suffered by the JF-17 Legion would not have been just two thousand interstellar warships.

"Two hundred thousand people—this must be the largest casualty figure in the history of our Dragon Squadron." Zhao Chen looked at Lilith: "How are the related arrangements going?"

Lilith understood the meaning behind the commander's words and whispered, "These two hundred thousand people have been arranged."

However, with such a large number of personnel, it's impossible to completely guarantee that familiar faces won't be encountered when incorporating them into the active-duty JF-17 squadron.

To date, information about the resurrected has been kept under the highest level of secrecy by the Dragon Legion.

When there were only a few hundred or a few thousand people, all that was needed was to reorganize them and incorporate them into the active fleet. After all, a few small stones thrown into the sea would not attract attention.

But now there are nearly 200,000 people.

The entire JF-17 Thunder Legion has just reached ten million crew members.

That ratio of fifty to one is still quite high.

“Since we can’t integrate them, let’s just incorporate all 200,000 of them into the newly established Xiaolong Legion,” Zhao Chen said. “According to our original construction plan, we were to expand the Xiaolong Legion to ten units this year.”

Currently, only four teams are at full strength; the remaining six can be assigned.

Lilith nodded; this was also one of the solutions she had come up with.

Since they're all resurrected anyway, it's good that they're all together. This can also alleviate the pressure on the resurrected to hide their secrets.

"In addition, these are the circumstances of other personnel's sacrifices."

The Princess Royal Fleet lost over 60,000 interstellar warships and nearly 20 million personnel.

The Chu family's army fleet lost nearly 30,000 interstellar warships and nearly 10 million personnel killed in action.

The North Wind Sector Fleet lost nearly 10,000 interstellar warships and nearly three million personnel killed in action.

In addition, there was the Beiyan Group's defensive fleet, which suffered an astonishing 90% casualty rate, a truly devastating defeat... If the Fourth Army Corps of the JF-17 had not arrived on the battlefield in time, the Beiyan Group's defensive fleet might have been completely annihilated.

In addition, the Imperial fleet under Qin Xiaotian's command suffered direct losses of nearly 300,000 ships and more than 50 million soldiers killed in action.

"In addition... there was the Zerg virus incident in the Snow Swallow Starfield, which caused the deaths of trillions of lives," Lilith added.

"What's the situation in the Snow Swallow Star Region right now?" Zhao Chen felt frustrated just thinking about this mess.

That level-four cosmic wormhole has always existed.

"We dispatched some interplanetary reconnaissance ships or unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance."

The Xueyan Second Galaxy has been completely occupied by the Zerg, and is spreading to surrounding galaxies.

"The mutated insectoids are all dead. Based on observations, they seem to have a limited lifespan," Lilith said.

Zhao Chen said seriously, "Order the Xiaolong Star System to set up a research department specializing in space research. I will have Qin Xiaolei cooperate in recruiting all the experts in this field from the Xingyao Empire."

We must find a way to shut down the Level 4 cosmic wormhole before it goes out of control.

After all... there are still nine insect eggs missing.

If this crisis is not resolved, it will remain a sword of Damocles hanging over Zhao Chen's head.