The 9th Fleet, once a majestic fleet of more than 40 large and small starships, has all but disappeared.

In the void, steel wrecks floated, and some of them had terrible arcs of light, indicating that there was still energy that had not been consumed. In a huge wreckage of only more than 1,000 meters, there are still star fighters entering and flying out, that should be the fighters that are ready to re-enter the battle after replenishing the photon missiles, if it weren't for these fighters, you wouldn't even know that it was a mothership.

You must know that in the past, they were steel giants more than 3,000 meters long, but now, only half of them are left, almost completely scrapped, but they are still fighting.

In fact, before the arrival of the independent fleet, the long-range optical detector could clearly see that at least five or six starship wrecks would shoot a luminous missile from time to time, and all the people here fulfilled the oath they made when they entered the federal barracks: life will not stop, and the battle will not stop!

There are no more than 8 starships left in terms of morphology, only one of the 6 heavy cruisers remains, there is only one mothership, and the remaining are four destroyers and two frigates, but in just an hour of fighting, the 9th Fleet has lost as much as 80 percent.

In the normal situation, the 9th Fleet could already declare defeat, and the starships could break through on their own, so that although the battle was lost, it could always escape and the entire fleet would not be wiped out.

But the 9th Fleet apparently did not do this, judging from the footage transmitted by the remote monitor, they still stubbornly used defensive formations to deal with the wave of charges launched by the mercenary fleet.

Tang Lang and all the officers and men of the Independent Fleet looked at the remnant starships that had only begun to gradually change their formations when they arrived, and they could fully imagine what had happened before this. The 9th Fleet, which did not retreat from the battle, even used the wreckage of its own destroyed starships as cover to launch a counterattack against the opponent, so even the 100-meter-level steel wreckage on the battlefield was rare, and the half-destroyed mothership, if it was not firmly protected by the rest of the starships, I am afraid it would be difficult to escape.

Ming Yueshang's face was miserable!

She finally believed what her father had told her, that on the battlefield, if there were no fortifications, then the remains of her nearest comrades would be piled up with fortifications, which seemed impossible to her.

That's not disrespect, but, comrade-in-arms, although I'm sorry, but, I need you to fight with me, even if you are dead. Because, I believe, you who died, like me, hope to win the war.

For the sake of victory, comrade-in-arms, please use my body to build fortifications for you, to block the enemy's bullets, and to protect the bullets that can shoot at the enemy.

Yes, comrades-in-arms, for victory! I'd rather be reduced to ashes.

Tang Lang's face was as pale as iron, and when he connected the signal sent by the command ship of the 9th Fleet, the former cruiser "Han Xin" disappeared, and the officers and men of Han Signal who had once given ridicule to the "Immortal Bird", Tang Lang wanted to hear their voices again, even if it was ridicule! It's all a pipe dream.

The figure of Vice Admiral Feng Qin, Chief of Staff of the 9th Fleet, appeared on the big screen.

"Where's Commander Zhou Tai?" Tang Lang's face changed, and his heart sank suddenly.

If an admiral commander dies here, the losses for the Federation are a bit too great, even if it is to completely annihilate all three fleets.

"Thank you Major General Tang for your concern, Admiral Zhou Tai was seriously injured and is now being rescued in the medical cabin! Now the whole fleet is under my command for the time being. Vice Admiral Feng Qin's words made Tang Lang finally put his heart down a little, but then Vice Admiral Feng Qin's words made everyone's faces miserable, "But my 9th Fleet suffered heavy losses, Rear Admiral Li Zhongxun, commander of the 1st Fleet, was killed in battle, Rear Admiral Zhu Feng, commander of the 2nd Fleet, Rear Admiral Zhou Kai, commander of the 3rd Fleet, was killed in battle, Commodore Kang Jun, captain of the flagship Han Signal Ship, was killed in battle, and the officers and soldiers of the colonel and lieutenant were unable to count the specific casualties because the escape boats were too late to recover, 36 large and small starships were lost, and only 600 star fighters remained. ”

In this battle, the commanders of the three major fleets of the 9th Fleet were all killed, and four-fifths of the starships were destroyed, and the Federation Fleet has always had a tradition that few captains are willing to abandon the ship and escape, preferring to fall forever with their beloved warships. That almost meant that the backbone of the 9th Fleet was completely destroyed in this battle, and even if the Federation could rebuild it, it would not be able to regain its previous combat effectiveness for at least a few years.

In other words, the 9th Fleet was completely crippled.

"However, if Your Excellency Commander Tang, although our 9th Fleet has suffered heavy losses, the remaining warships can still attach to Jiwei to strike at the invading enemy!" Lieutenant General Feng Qin's face was sad, but he still looked at Tang Lang eagerly and continued. "The enemy fleet is also not as majestic as before, and in the battle with our fleet, they have destroyed 30 enemy ships, and according to statistics, the enemy fleet still has 110 large and small warships."

The faces of the generals and colonels of the independent fleet on the bridge were solemn, and the fact that the 9th Fleet was able to destroy almost as many enemy warships as itself in a situation of being outnumbered was beyond the scope of so-called tactics and equipment and combat effectiveness.

This is a contest of fighting will, that is, if you slash me, I have to bite off a piece of your flesh fighting spirit, they are worthy of the name of the top ten fleets of the Federation.

"Leave the rest to us, you have done well enough, please allow me to pay the highest salute to all the officers and men of the 9th Fleet." Tang Lang stood solemnly and saluted.

All the soldiers on the bridge of the connected video stood in unison and saluted.

"Thank you, but I don't need a salute for my 9th fleet, we need 。。。。。。" Vice Admiral Feng Qin solemnly returned the salute, turned his head to look at the wreckage of the starship floating around the portholes, and tears finally flashed in his eyes. "We need revenge, to comfort my brothers with the shredded corpses."

"Okay, Chief of Staff Feng, please wait a minute, I'll give you the answer in a minute!" Tang Lang nodded.

After the arrival of the independent fleet, the retreating mercenary fleet was regrouping in the distance.

Obviously, after a short period of being frightened by the large number of starships of the independent fleet to almost 300 ships, they observed through the monitor the external strength of this hodgepodge fleet, more than 150 of the 300 starships are just small assault ships, and among the slightly larger starships, more than half of them can be called battleships.

Therefore, they are not willing to cripple only the achievements of a regular fleet of the Federation, they plan to bury this fleet that looks very powerful but ordinary here, and deal a greater blow to the Southwest Federation.

And on the side of the Combined Fleet, there are indeed many problems such as uncoordinated command.

Just a slowdown, there was some confusion, the battleships moving in front obviously ran a little fast, and after receiving the order, they had to go around the arc and retreat to their own formation, which in turn squeezed the position of the rear fleet, and the starships of the independent fleet had to move forward to be regarded as holding down the formation.

This situation caused a burst of ridicule from the mercenary fleet more than 100 kilometers away, and even more than 70 percent of the captains had already asked the flagship to take advantage of the fact that they should rush forward and kill a group of rabble without having to line up.

However, "Falcon" Nas was unusually cautious, and after pondering for a few seconds, he still vetoed the proposal of his subordinates.

It was really the previous battle with the 9th Fleet that gave him a new understanding of the country and people of the Southwest Federation, the equipment of the main fleet of the Southwest Federation was not bad, but it was by no means strong, a little worse than the warships under his command, but the fighting will it showed was the only one in Nas's life.

Besieged with three times the force, although he achieved certain results, but he also lost nearly 30 starships under his command, and when he received the loss of starships, he could hardly believe his eyes. This is a 3-1 ratio of forces! But it turned out to be a nearly 1 to 1 battle loss ratio.

Who said that Chinese people are good at being individuals and not good at groups? Indeed, he who says this should be thrown into the stars and fall into darkness forever.

These starship groups on the other side that look chaotic, not to mention the will to fight of the fleet just now, as long as there is half of them, it is a difficult bone to gnaw, rushing over rashly, if the other party really collapses, it is okay, if it is entangled, Nas is not sure that he can take a few starships back to the Great Eagle Empire.

He was ordered by the Empire to help the Empire's younger brother, the Jeppon, to destroy the country, to earn merit, not to die for the Jeppen.

Whenever historians study the classic case of the decline of the Jeppen Empire under the name "Battle of the Sunset", they basically regard this point in time as a turning point in the entire battlefield.

They unanimously agreed that if the "Falcon" Nas chose the advice of his subordinates and launched an attack on the unstable United Fleet at this time, perhaps the outcome of this battle would be different, and Tang Lang would not become famous because of this battle, and more and more famous generals chose to attach themselves to his command, and finally grew into an existence that the Great Eagle Empire's military was extremely afraid of.

Tang Lang, who is full-fledged, is tougher than his father-in-law. Admiral Changsun is very awesome, but he is just a representative of the fat beating Jiepeng people, but this is even the chief military attache of the Great Eagle Empire in the Star Alliance, who can't take care of himself, and besides, it is not he who took action personally, it was done by the most "notorious" fat man under his command, in front of tens of thousands of Star Alliance participants, he went up to do that! It's almost out of the.

The Great Eagle Empire was so angry that even the emperor showed up to condemn this person and ask for an apology, but this one only replied with four words: disobey, come to war!

Then, there is no then. No matter how aggrieved the Great Eagle Empire is, it can only hold back, while this one is still alive.

Of course, that's all for later. What historians think may be only maybe, at best, maybe, and what did not happen can never be conclusive.

The reality is that Nas, who doesn't want to fight hard for the Jeppen people, chooses to be cautious, attacking and retreating, and from this point of view, there is nothing wrong with it at all.

In the words of historians, Nas was exchanging his precious lives for the time for the United Fleet to reorganize and boost morale, and every second was extremely important to Tang Lang and the officers and men of the Combined Fleet.

Nas didn't know that the more than 20 starships in the core of this hodgepodge fleet in his eyes had only just been integrated for a month, and most of them had not even really experienced war. It can be said that compared with those small assault ships converted from civilian starships and controlled by air pirates, their battlefield experience may not be as good, and their only strength is discipline.

Tang Lang instilled in this complex fleet the most important discipline of the army in the space of three months, which was their only advantage.

And now, Tang Lang has time to instill discipline in the entire United Fleet.

The entire Combined Fleet, which had been heading forward, began to slow down slowly and stopped. Two super-large starship groups, facing each other from afar.

Many captains of the Combined Fleet began to suppress their beating hearts, and shouted orders to the ship formations under them, "Enemy tracks!" Lined up! ”

"Form a goose-shaped formation!"

According to the coordination of previous exercises, the huge ship group of the Combined Fleet began to form a tactical formation, arranged into combat sequences, and deployed in space.

However, the pace of coordination is still relatively rusty, and the distance between each warship is obviously not as accurate as the array of the militarized assembly line factory of the mercenary fleet opposite, but it is uneven, but the fighting spirit is extremely high.

Especially after seeing the tragedy of the 9th Fleet.

The 9 starships of the 8th Fleet did not join the array of the Combined Fleet, but lined up separately on the right flank of the Combined Fleet. They lined up in a front-arrow formation, with Vice Admiral Feng Qin's last heavy cruiser, which was still desperately carrying out damage control operations and had been damaged, as the arrow, four destroyers as two wings, and two frigates and the last mothership as the rear wing.

They showed their attitude with their actions, and they will fight to the death.

Tang Lang connected the image of the bridge of the Immortal Bird into the communication channel of the entire fleet, and on the big screen, the avatars of the captains and captains of the entire combined fleet appeared in the form of screens, and everyone looked at Tang Lang through the video.

It was the first time Tang Lang felt such tremendous pressure. After all, hundreds of people are all looking at you with the same nervousness, no matter how strong Tang Lang's psychology is, he can still deeply feel these hundreds of pairs of eyes, as well as the hopes and worries transmitted by the thousands of pairs of eyes behind them on behalf of the fleet.

This is a war, not a game, it is a matter of life and death, and life is an exciting victory that determines the situation. Defeat is a one-sided slaughter, that is, the fate of tens of millions of people turned upside down. The interstellar situation has changed, and history has taken a turn.

But all of us feel the power of history at the same time.

They are in the midst of history, creating, or experiencing the sensation of a history.

Some people already feel that this life is in vain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have seen the situation of the 9th Fleet, our Federation forces did not disappoint us, they held back the enemy and waited for our army to arrive. But the price they paid was that Commander Zhou Tai of the Federation General was seriously wounded, four generals were killed, 36 starships were destroyed, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were killed. I won't hide it from you, they still have 110 main warships, and our combined fleet, plus the remnants of the 9th Fleet, can be called the main battleships, but 60, less than half of the opponent, the only advantage is that our army has as many as 300 starships of various types, and this is the territory of the Laozi Southwest Federation. For the first time, Tang Lang sent out the voice of his commander to the entire fleet, and his voice was as firm as gold.

"I am the commander, and I can give the order for a general attack, but I still want to hear your voices, because you are warriors, and it is you who can finally charge the enemy and shoot artillery fire. I hope to be here with me to fight alongside the brave who have witnessed the sacrifice and still dare to sacrifice it, not just by relying on the cowards who are just fighting with one blood but now they are just two wars. If you are not brave enough, you can leave, so that I can firmly surrender my back to my comrades. Tang Lang looked around at the many captains and captains on the virtual screen, and continued with a firm gaze.

"Your Excellency, you have no way to avoid this battle, and there is no way back. In fact, from the moment we followed Miss Mingyue, the Immortal Bird, and you, the commander, we had no way out! Now, ask the commander to give the military order! Yu Chaozhong, the acting captain of the "Yu Qian", who was temporarily appointed as the captain of the second brigade, took the initiative to speak.

He understands very well that at this juncture, Tang Lang's personal centripetal force is very important. Only with firm support can we have a chance to win this war, and the slightest hesitation may make the entire complex fleet psychologically collapse.

Here, it's not just the Federation, but also the Air Pirate Coalition from the meteorite star. The Federalists can fight hard for their loved ones, why should they? After seeing such a vast enemy army.

"Boss Tang Lang, my meteorite starry sky department is waiting for your order! We would like to be a striker. A bearded man followed, expressing the meaning of the forces he represented.

This is the leader of the No. 3 force in the Meteorite Starry Sky, after Tang Lang destroyed the two major forces in a row, the forces under his command have become the largest gang in the Meteorite Starry Sky except for the "Immortal Bird" Legion, and his statement is naturally authoritative enough.

The fact that the air pirate coalition forces were able to show a clear combat stance in such a short period of time was quite surprising to Tang Lang, he originally thought that even if these guys did not escape, they probably would not fight to the death.

As everyone knows, since Tang Lang led the air pirate coalition to annihilate more than a dozen large main starships of the 1st Fleet of the Sixth Army of Jepeng in the Bermuda Star Domain, the air pirates of all sizes in the meteorite star sky have regarded Tang Lang as a god. It is a regular fleet that can sweep the meteorite starry sky, and in the history of the meteorite starry sky since the beginning of the record, there has never been a regular fleet that relies on a hundred small starships such as a hundred assault ships, but Tang Lang did it.

The rules for survival in the meteorite starry sky are very simple, the weak eat the strong, Tang Lang is the person at the top of the meteorite starry sky food chain, his order, for these air thieves who are accustomed to the respect of the strong, will only be more important than the sense of oppression brought by more than 100 large starships in the distance.

Cheng Shaoning, the head of the Cheng family, who once wanted to introduce his daughter to Tang Lang, also spoke, "Commander, don't say much, please give an order!" We've already discussed tactics for this situation! Just waiting for your orders! ”

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Tang Lang's gaze stayed in the distance.

Compared with the noise and high fighting spirit of the entire fleet of the Combined Fleet, Tang Lang expected it, and what made Tang Lang care more was the coldness shown by the mercenary fleet in the distance. Being able to face the formation that has repeatedly changed on his side and seems to be a little bad, the opponent has not moved at all, and the legendary "Falcon" is worthy of the famous generals on the starry sky list.

Of course, Tang Lang knew that he deliberately did not restrain the slightly weakly disciplined civilian starships and air pirate starship groups, which were smoke bombs released, and if the opponent waved his army to attack, it would be in his arms, and the grappling was what he wanted most at the moment. If the formation is fired at each other, the losses of the combined fleet will be unbearable.

What you are facing on your own may be a very terrible army. I believe that the captains of the combined fleet, who have a little discernment, can also see this.

But what can it be?

There is no better way, even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of you, and a burning road to hell. Their fleet, which is composed of military and civilian troops, will also rush forward, because behind them is the Tianquan Galaxy, which no longer has the slightest resistance! and tens of billions of federal citizens. The tragedy of Pegasus cannot be repeated, even if all the Federation people who can breathe here are dead, they must drag these mercenaries to watch the sunset together in this star field, forever.

Facing those hundreds of pairs of eyes, facing the dependence and admiration of more than 100,000 sailors.

Tang Lang, who retracted his gaze, paused, looked around the audience, then looked at the virtual light screen, opposite the hundreds of pairs of eyes, and said, "Behind me, it is my hometown, and I can't retreat a step!" Retreat slash! In front of you, although there are many enemies, there is only one decisive battle! Enter, brave! ”

"Fight to the death, fight!"

On the light screen, hundreds of people, yellow-skinned, black-eyed, male captains and female captains, spoke in unison, and roared through the fleet.

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

The shouts of more than 100,000 people exploded in the communication channel like a tsunami.

The sparkle of the stars fell on the portholes of the Combined Fleet and the starships of the 9th Fleet as they began to advance, and the brilliance was dazzling.

Like a star!

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PS: I'm sorry yesterday, the unit had a meeting, and it was a whole day, because Fengyue didn't save the manuscript, and it was basically written now, so it could only be interrupted for one day. Today it's still a chapter, almost 6,000 words. If you have a monthly pass, vote for a monthly pass!