The Federation is lost!

Not long after, not only Wu Xiaoqing and others thought so, but also the senior gamers of the entire solar system, and almost the entire federation of people now thought like this.

Because it was a defensive battle, before the battle of the Black Star Campaign, the entire orbital layer of the Black Star had been installed by countless good people to observe the battle situation, various types of artificial satellites, and even many people spontaneously launched some space vehicles, using these aircraft to get close to the Federation's army - to shoot the live broadcast of this war from the best perspective.

When the battle began, Changbai was on the Third Earth.

Third Earth has just undergone a major game upgrade, which has expanded the scope of the simulation from a single Earth planet to the entire solar system. After the upgrade, the first big activity of the server was to simulate the progress of this war in real time on the black star of the virtual world.

Compared with those live broadcast footage of the first earth, it is much more intuitive to look directly at the analog picture here. If desired, they can even sit in a human or even a sapient spaceship and experience what both sides of the war and the combatants see.

Changbai is now sitting in one of the Federation's battleships.

There is almost no difference between the simulated environment and the real attack ship, especially Changbai, a soldier who has really participated in the war, when he sat down on the console in the control room, he immediately had an illusion, as if he had really entered the battlefield again.

All battle command signals are also simulated and guaranteed to be realistic - this is a decision made by the federal government, and they transmit the signals of the planes on the real battlefield to the game servers in real time. Of course, due to signal transmission, the time in the game is delayed by about ten minutes compared to reality. The federal government did this, of course, not to revive the game industry, but to prepare for war.

The Archon has apparently listened to some of the game's experts and turned the war into a show on the part of the government, whether it is victory or defeat, as long as all the Federalists can follow the war in real time and participate in the war, the government side will gain quite a bit.

"Sitting" inside the attack ship, the only thing that can remind Changbai that this is not reality is that the attack ship will not be under his control - he is just watching the scenery here, like watching a completely realistic holographic movie.

The ship chosen by Changbai is located on the edge of the entire battlefield and is a command ship that is part of the 8th Fleet of the Federation. The ship itself does not undertake combat missions, and the biggest purpose of appearing on the battlefield is only to better collect battlefield information and provide necessary battlefield information for the commander's decision-making.

Because it did not have to participate in specific battles, the command ship was faster than the other ships of the surrounding fleet, and at this moment, this battleship was leading the way in front of the entire fleet.

The Eighth Fleet is the unit that undertakes the main defensive operations of the outer orbit of the Black Star, and mainly carries out defensive patrols around a certain high orbit of the Black Star during the period of combat readiness in peacetime. Now that it has entered wartime, the entire fleet has also changed from a cruising state to a parade state before the sortie.

From the electronic map inside the command ship, it can be clearly seen that the flight attitude of the entire fleet is being adjusted.

In space, a huge fleet, like the planets in orbit, cannot be concentrated into a large lump, whether for reasons of flight safety or for reasons of tactical formation.

The more than 30 billion warships of the intelligent body almost circled the solar system for a full two circles before they were fully deployed, which was not a deliberate pomp, but a real need for flying in space.

In a planetary-class spaceship, each spacecraft will inevitably generate a large amount of high-velocity jet wake when it is started.

Generally speaking, the higher the acceleration of the ship, the higher the speed of the jet stream, and the more dangerous it is.

If densely formed, the threat of these jets to the rear spacecraft is extremely huge, these jets that can almost reach quasi-light speed, if they directly hit the surface of the spacecraft, will not only cause a blow effect similar to a speed bump on the ships behind, and even some jet streams of energy can form a cosmic storm that has great damage to the planet itself after converging, which is much greater than the energy of an ordinary solar storm, and if it is not done well, it may even cause a large-scale accident on the surface of the planet.

The concept of the so-called fleet is defined according to the space of space, in fact, from the perspective of ordinary people, the separation between the two ships of the same fleet is very huge, and the distance between each other is about hundreds of thousands to millions of kilometers - this distance can allow the ships to be relatively free to carry out some difficult tactical actions to avoid to the greatest extent, reduce the mutual influence of the jet stream between ships, and also roughly ensure the communication coordination between ships, and the communication delay between the two ships is only within a few seconds.

In such a situation, it is difficult for a single ship to know the position of other friendly forces during a fleet-level cruise, and the communication system of most ships can only know the position of the nearest few ships through the ship's electronic communication system. All ships will spontaneously and continuously announce their position information to friendly forces during combat status, and most tactical actions with friendly ships are carried out by relying on this information.

In terms of true absolute distance, in fact, all the ships are hundreds of thousands of miles apart...... Even if the nearest friendly is destroyed, the nearest teammate will not know until a few tenths of a second, and even if they do, they will never come to the rescue - in space, a ship loses normal power, for other ships it means that it has become uncontrollable space junk from friendly forces, according to the tactical norms, the friendly ships in the rear will be the first to distance themselves from the ship in front of them, avoiding the course - and at the same time transmitting this dangerous signal to other ships.

The command ship that Changbai saw now was much larger than a conventional ship in terms of signal range, and he could almost see half of the fleet, but among these signals, the farthest distance had even reached tens of millions of kilometers - this was almost at the very edge of the fleet's cruising orbit. At this distance, the positional signal delay of each friendly ship has reached as much as half a minute, which is almost the limit of the tactical command range.

"See the enemy ahead."

With the signal from the ship at the front of the command ship's command range, for the pilot of the ship, the battle had already begun.

Changbai held his breath for a moment, as if his soul was instantly sucked into the combat spaceship, and his attention was almost subconsciously focused on the signals from friendly forces on the electronic map, especially the ship at the front of the battle line, which transmitted the signal to see the enemy.

Soon, after dozens of seconds, a small red dot appeared on the green electronic map, and experience told Changbai that the entire fleet must have encountered the charge of the enemy's high-density formation.

It has already been said that fleets, when performing general maneuvers, always maintain a considerable distance from each other, which is not only conducive to performing tactical evasive maneuvers, but also reduces damage to friendly forces.

But sometimes, in order to achieve a certain surprise effect, especially the firepower effect, the ships will move closer to each other at specific times, compressing the distance to tens of thousands of kilometers, or even thousands of kilometers. At this distance, the dynamics of the ships need to be at the same height as each other – just as airplanes need to line up in a straight line or some other specific shape when they are in the air. It's not for the sake of aesthetics, but to prevent each other's jets from hurting each other.

In space combat, this is the most trained tactical maneuver of all operators, and the best operators can even distance themselves from each other by a short distance of hundreds of kilometers - in interstellar space, hundreds of kilometers apart, almost flying with each other's faces close to each other.

Sure enough, the command ship realized that the enemy was making such a tactical move, and immediately issued a warning to other friendly forces near the target, and the entire fleet began to perform tactical evasion - the fleet began to split into two halves, separated from the middle.

The dense formation of the enemy would then fly straight in the separate and evasive routes, cutting the Federation's battle line in doing so, but at the same time being surrounded by fire from nearby ships. If it was the original Changxing, even after receiving the reminder of evasion, before making evasion actions, he would artificially create some small speed bumps to bring some trouble to the opponent's dense formation - this is a little trick of the veterans.

Soon, more and more dots on the electronic map, representing the status of friendly forces, began to change from green to yellow, which means that they are already in the position of engaging the enemy.

In space operations, it is difficult for the fleet itself to establish a system concept against the enemy because of the delay of the optical signal. If it were just two ships fighting each other in the vast expanse of space, it would not even be possible to simply search and locate each other's locations. All ships are designed to be stealthy, and in such a huge space, it is difficult for any radar or telescope to detect a target the size of a spaceship.

To use a popular metaphor for the fleet that Long Star used to be in:

It's like two blind men trying to murder each other on the street, but they are both holding only a pistol.

In order not to let the other party notice him, the blind man will definitely avoid all the noises as much as possible, and then prick up his ears and pay attention to every move coming from the other party. Only after being sure of the opponent's position will he shoot at the opponent - because when shooting, the blind man also exposes his own target, so he must avoid it immediately after shooting to prevent the enemy from possible counterattack.

And fleet-level battles and even battles are like tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions...... Even more blind people took to the streets.

All were in the dark, cautious, groping their way forward, nervously clutching their guns in their hands. Newbies are always told to always keep their firepower silent in space combat, if not one hundred percent sure - don't shoot rashly, even, don't rush too fast.

In such a combat system, everyone will hold their breath and listen for the sound of gunfire from friendly directions - this can help them quickly identify the possible source of danger.

More yellow dots appeared, and some of the yellow dots at the far front of the fleet had even begun to turn red. Red needed to be circumvented, and the whole fleet inevitably began to become more fragmented, and the two routes that were originally divided began to become four, then eight, then sixteen...... As more and more ships began to enter the battle, the two fronts began to intertwine with each other, and the contact surface began to increase dramatically.

Just half an hour later, a third of the 8th Fleet was already involved in the battle.

The dots on the electronic map began to become dense and chaotic, Changbai knew that to this extent, all the participating spaceships had been locked by several enemy ships at this time, and then their own firepower may have also locked on several spaceships, and on the street of "space", the blind people had begun to roll and shoot wildly on the ground.

At this stage, in each battleship, orders from the commander were constantly received throughout the period, and then the operator constantly carried them out.

As a result, the ship's reserve energy will begin to drop dramatically due to the large amount of energy consumed by high-speed maneuvers, as well as the energy consumed by attacks.

At this time, it can be said that the two sides have completely torn together, and it has become impossible to escape from the battlefield, for an ordinary combatant, before the reserve energy is exhausted, if he has not defeated every enemy within his range, it means that he has no chance to live.