Chapter 581: The Great War Begins (Part I)
What the sculpture left to the people was the bravery and unyielding of the local garrison, which made the already high-status federal soldiers soar in the hearts of the people.
But the ordinary people of Pegasus did not behave badly at the moment of disaster.
The most impressive thing was an underground shelter where they could have closed the alloy gates and waited for the battle to end, but they didn't make sense.
In this attack, not only did they not close the door to survival, but many young people, under the leadership of their parents, took advantage of the flagship between the battlefields to rescue thousands of people who were scattered on the ground or in danger.
But in fact, the real local resistance forces, or the war reports submitted to the Ministry of War, knew that the refuge was a place of refuge that was rarely found by the mercenary ground forces, so thousands of people survived.
Because of the heroic resistance of the Southwest Federation ground forces, the mecha units of the Black Hawk First Fleet on the planetary ground suffered heavy losses, which led to their ferocity, and many other shelters like this were slaughtered by thousands of people.
Once these mercenaries have become invading bandits, there is no more humanity to speak of, and those shelters located underground, once discovered, are often blocked by a few mechs, and in the accumulation of several heavy machine guns with a rate of fire of up to 10,000 rounds per minute, few people can escape such a catastrophe.
Therefore, every soldier, even the ground mecha unit that relied on the tragic cost to defend the Pegasus, denounced their own incompetence when they cleaned up the battlefield afterwards.
And this highlights the preciousness of the people in this shelter that has been widely reported on the Internet. When disaster strikes, you can see a lot of filth that you don't usually see, and in the same way, you can also find a crystal pure heart.
When such a report was presented to the office of the chief of military affairs, Changsun Hong looked at the military and civilian casualties above, and he was speechless for a long time. In the war with the Jeppen people, he and his staff officers had already calculated the number of civilian casualties in the war, once they entered the battle for the planetary ground, under the large-scale shelling of energy cannons, civilian casualties were inevitable, but he did not calculate that the mercenaries of the Black Eagle Company would carry out such a frenzied killing on the surface of the planet.
As the military commander of a country, Changsun Hong understood that the main purpose of the other party's killing was naturally not to simply vent his anger, but to stimulate the high-level of the Southwest Federation to send the main fleet to find them and fight a decisive battle.
Even, this is a war letter in another sense, using the blood of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people on Pegasus to the entire country of the Southwest Federation.
If your main fleet doesn't arrive at the first time, then Pegasi will not be the last, there will be a second and third Pegasus. Even if Changsun Hong understood, the 2nd and 3rd fleets of the Black Hawk Company might be waiting somewhere in the void, waiting for a certain main fleet in the Federation to be transferred, and then 。。。。。。 It couldn't be more obvious than the turn of the tiger away from the mountain.
But Changsun Hong understands that once the true situation of Ma Xing is revealed, the surging public opinion will be coerced by some potential forces, forcing the federal military top brass to make this wrong choice.
Because, no one wants to be put under the butcher's knife at any time.
That's why Pegasus casualties are so painful. It is true that the enemy is inhuman and bloody, but their cruelty also has a purpose, and that is the purpose.
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At the end of the year 4013, the year is a world full of wars.
The day before the end of December was about to enter the New Year of 4014, the Jeppen Empire took the lead in launching a war with the Confederacy that had been dormant for a hundred years.
The two starry sky-type countries, which are constantly in conflict and friction, finally completely tore their faces again and fought on the long border.
The Jeppen Empire launched a war without warning, but it came prepared, and fully invested 6 main fleets to attack the Southwest Federation from three directions, especially in the three-star domain sandwiched between the two major galaxies in the southwest of the Southwest Federation and the border of the Jeppen Empire, and even invested two main fleets and three military region-level second-class fleets to surround the 2nd Fleet responsible for guarding the border in the star field around Lafi.
In the siege of the opponent's huge fleet of more than 100 starships, the 2nd Fleet of the Federation has no chance to open up an artificial jump channel, which not only requires a huge amount of energy and time, but more importantly, once the huge energy reaction appears, the opponent immediately puts aside all scruples and throws himself into an all-out attack, which is the end of the total annihilation.
Fortunately, the Southwest Federation had made sufficient preparations before the war, and although the 2nd Fleet had insufficient starships, a large number of giant railguns had been built in the orbital circle of Rafi, and with the help of these railguns, it could barely resist the attack of Jeppen's huge fleet.
The 10th Fleet, which is responsible for defending the Central Tianquan System, also rushed to the Southwest Military Region and joined the three military region-level fleets there to enter the Third Star Domain to support the encircled 2nd Fleet.
Ten days after the New Year, the fleets of the two sides were basically tied in the void, and the three fronts won and lost each other.
The third star field is the most critical of the three fronts, each side has invested two main fleets and three military region-level fleets, not counting small assault starships, just destroyers, frigates and even cruisers and other capital ships, both warring sides have invested more than 100 ships.
However, the Jeppen Empire did not complete the pre-war strategy of annihilating the 2nd Fleet of the Southwest Federation, nor did it complete the strategy of using the 2nd Fleet as a decoy to encircle and send reinforcements, Liu Qingyun, who led the fleet to the Third Star Domain, did not use the traditional rescue method to directly attack the Jeppen Fleet that surrounded the 2nd Fleet in the area of Lafite, but directly entered the border of the Jeppen Empire along the edge of the Third Star Domain.
Although he knew that Liu Qingyun was encircling Wei to save Zhao, Miyamoto Gang, as the commander-in-chief of the third star field of the Jiepeng Empire, could only quickly mobilize the garrison fleet of the border galaxy and rely on the orbital circle of railguns to fortify layer by layer, while personally commanding a main fleet to turn around and return to block the back road of the 10th fleet.
Liu Qingyun let Jiepeng's "Flower of Famous Generals" know why he is called the top five famous generals in the Southwest Federation, it is not because he has a brother-in-law who is the first general of the Federation, and it can even be said that it is precisely because of the existence of Changsun Hong that to some extent it also covers up his light.
This sense of smell of the battlefield has reached an unbelievable level, just when Miyamoto just mobilized a garrison fleet of more than 10 planets and a main fleet for mobile operations in the Jeppon Empire, plus the Royal Guard Fleet led by himself, a total of nearly 3 main fleets, planning a big ambush to annihilate the first general of the Southwest Federation, the most relied on Admiral Sun Hong, and nearly 100 starships under his command.
The 10th Fleet, which had already approached the most important resource star of the Jiepeng Empire's border galaxy, --- Toyama Star, and was able to eat this piece of fat in one fell swoop, which made the top brass of the Jiepeng Empire's upper echelons, turn around without hesitation, open up an artificial jump channel and jump into the void five light years away from the third star field, so that the army that came at full speed four hours later pounced.
At the same time, the 10th Fleet made another jaw-dropping move, once again at the expense of enormous energy to make the leap, but this time to a jump point 500 million kilometers away from Lafite, almost on the edge of the attack of the main fleet of Jeppen who was besieging the 2nd Fleet.
Nearly two main fleets opened up artificial jump channels, and the huge energy reaction almost didn't scare the commander of the 2nd Fleet of Jeppon Royal, Ikawakita, who had been clamoring to train Liu Qingyun, and he really couldn't figure out why a madman would make an artificial jump like this, almost with the tip of a bayonet.
So he was furious and sent a detachment of his fleet to lead two military region-level fleets to meet the battle, according to the convention, a starfleet similar to the main fleet-level to attack a fleet that had just jumped out of the jump point and had no defense, even if it could not be completely annihilated, it was normal to damage and defeat it.
But no one expected that Liu Qingyun would use four cruisers as the first wave of starships to break out of the artificial jump channel, although there was no energy shield, but the thick armor forcibly blocked the first salvo of the Jeppen Imperial Fleet, becoming the strongest shield to cover the starships that kept jumping out behind.
Although two of the cruisers, which were supposed to be the core of the fleet, were eventually destroyed, it saved a large number of destroyers from being slaughtered without resistance. The near-shipwreck-like leap boosted the morale of the 10th Fleet and the three sub-fleets of the Southwest Military Region under its leadership.
It is better to weaken one's own energy shield than to send a small amount of energy to the main gun, in order to give a shot to an enemy ship that has killed or injured one's friendly ship, even if it is only to weaken the enemy's energy shield a little.
It's not terrible for a person to fight hard, just kill it. But what if ten, a hundred, or even a million people work together? What should I do if I can't kill enough?
The Jeppon people are facing such a group of people from the Southwest Federation.
So, after paying more than 30 percent of the battle losses, Lieutenant General Commander Jeppen gritted his teeth and retreated, while his opponents also paid more than 30 percent, but they arrived on the battlefield.
The 2nd Fleet also showed its strongest combat strength at the moment of the arrival of the 10th Fleet, and the two main fleets of the Federation, which had suffered heavy losses in the early stage, finally met in victory.
And the Jeppen fleet, which was transferred from the Jeppen Royal Guard, fled in disarray, and if it weren't for the return of Miyamoto's Royal Guard, I'm afraid their losses would not be as simple as 50%.
In this three-star domain battle initiated by the Jeppen Imperial Army, the Southwest Federation and the Jeppen Empire each had an attack and a defense, and the losses of the starships of the two armies were roughly the same, but if you count the two planets that the 10th Fleet conquered in a row and the massive amount of materials stored on the damaged planets, the Jeppen people undoubtedly suffered a loss.