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The Sijing Super Mothership, which had been staying still, was hit one after another by the energy clusters generated by the five fusion cannons after ten seconds, and then shattered and disintegrated like broken glass, and disappeared without a trace in a very short period of time.

Lin Hai and the others, who saw this scene ten seconds later, also confirmed their guess.

"Hell, those things are just some mass projections!" Targate patted the platform in his hand with some annoyance, "Their main force is not here!" ”

"Order the alert fleet to return to low-earth orbit and continue its ground support mission." Lin Hai's face was expressionless, and he just ordered vigorously, "The fleets assembled in various places will raise the alert level, and the bases in various places will raise the alert level again, and all the detection equipment we can control will be operating at full power." Since the Sijing people plan to use false targets to contain our main fleet, it is very likely that their main force has other bigger plans! ”

"But we don't know what their plans are, we can't prepare in advance, we can only put all the important locations on alert, but it would be a waste of our excessive troops." Kane said, "Even if the Sijing people don't do anything this time, a large amount of our military strength will be held back and unable to deploy. ”

"That's what we've always wanted to avoid." Lin Hai talked to Kane while ordering Colonel Tagate, "Since the main fleet of the Sijing people is not here, then we will kill those real things, and we can reduce some of their starships." ”

"Wormhole reaction detected!" Without waiting for Tagate to answer, the crew on the side shouted loudly, "In the area behind the Sijing fleet, they have opened a wormhole!" ”

"Are they increasing their troops, or are they going to withdraw the real thing?" The expression on Lin Hai's face was a little loose, the response of the wormhole detector is always one step faster than that of the radar or optical telescope, before the optical lens receives the picture from three million kilometers away, they have no way of knowing how the Sijing people will use the wormhole, and there is no way to judge it out of thin air just by the data on the wormhole detector.

"Personally, I hope it's the latter." Kane said, "This shows that their strength has not actually recovered, and after we saw through the containment plan, they can only withdraw decisively." If it's the former......"

"If it's the former, then they're hell-bent on dragging our fleet here." Lin Hai sneered and took Kane's words, "But the premise is that our military strength is only what is visible in front of us. ”

"Now are you going to show your hole cards?" Kane asked curiously.

"No, I just want to say we don't have to worry too much. As for whether to use the hole cards, you have to see what the Sijing people are going to do next before you can make a more suitable plan. So intelligence gathering is what we need to do now. ”

"It's not easy, in fact, so far, our intelligence collection work against the Sijing people has not been very smooth, they are too deep, too far away. If it weren't for your luck in catching a real Sijing, we still haven't been able to figure out their deployment in the solar system, let alone eradicate them. ”

"As a civilization that has long entered the era of interstellar colonization, even if we are only facing a group of refugees, their heritage is still deep, and we have performed well to suppress them until now." Lin Hai said as he entered the data on the map in hand, "Regardless of whether the Sijing people leave or stay, Colonel, the area where the wormhole is covered by firepower can be used if conditions permit." ”

"Understood, sir." Tagate turned around and saluted Lin Haiwei, and then roared loudly at the entire bridge, "All ships are speeding up, and all their firepower is ready to cover the coordinates of the wormhole!" When you enter the effective range, you don't need to ask for instructions, shoot freely! ”

As Colonel Tagatet, as the commander of the fleet, gave the order, Lin Hai clearly felt the sense of acceleration, although the magnetic boots were still firmly glued to the bridge floor, but in order to prevent any accidents during the acceleration of the starship, he immediately sat back in his place - instead of wanting to put on one, Dr. Kane had already sat down and fastened his seat belt at the same time as the colonel gave the order - if he didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of his subordinates.

At a distance of three million kilometers, although the laser beams fired by these human starships could arrive in ten seconds, it would take them more than eight hours to fly if they were to complete the voyage on their own, even if they maintained their maximum speed.

Human interstellar technology that has not yet mastered the method of faster-than-light navigation or even the method of light-speed navigation can only allow them to continue to stay in the home galaxy and develop. Until they master those technologies, they won't be able to do a true interstellar expansion.

Therefore, although this fleet composed of fifteen sea monster-class heavy cruisers began to accelerate forward, it would take a long time to enter the most suitable combat distance with the Sijing fleet, if the Sijing fleet wanted to leave, the human side would not be able to stop them, even if the fleet covered the coordinates of the wormhole with laser cannon fire, with the current technology of the human race, the power of the laser weapon would be attenuated to the point that the Sijing people could ignore the strike.

And if the Sijing were using the wormhole to transport troops—although this was extremely unlikely, instead of increasing their troops after the fake target was discovered, they might as well send a real fleet from the start—eight hours would be enough time for them to assemble their fleet under blind human fire, and then wait to engage the human fleet.

In fact, the action of the human fleet is just an act of deterrence, and both Lin Hai and Tagate know that if they really have to wait until they fly for eight hours to engage the Sijing fleet, then it will be too late for anything, and the fleet will take the initiative to attack, just to show a situation, a situation to show the Sijing people their confidence in the decisive battle.

As for whether this method was useful, it would not take them half a minute to see the actions of the Sijing fleet through optical observation equipment to know how effective it was.

The fleet of the Sijing people is more than half that of before. The planetary assault motherships that originally roamed around the fleet were gone, and all that remained were starships that had been standing still - Lin Hai had reason to believe that those planetary assault motherships that were standing still were just some phantoms, just like the previous super carrier, and the subsequent laser cannon coverage strike of the direct fleet also confirmed this.

And their wormholes are also shrinking and closing, indicating that the troops that the Sijing people need to evacuate have completed their actions, and the rest is only the phantom troops used to infuse people.

"They're withdrawn." After repeatedly probing the situation around the fleet, Tagate reported to Lin Hai and asked the fleet what to do next, "What should we do now?" ”

"Leave a detachment here to be on guard for a while, and you will make a vigilance plan, and the other spacecraft will return to high orbit and stand by." Lin Hai unbuckled the seat belt on his seat, got up and walked towards the electronic map platform, "Contact the other fleets and bases, and ask about their situation." I want to find out if the real movements of their main forces after the Sijing people played us a trick here, and whether there is any news of surprise attacks on other places. ”

"In this regard...... No similar reports have been received, at least so far. Tagate immediately replied, "Outside of here and North America, the Sijing people are only fighting in the streets with our people in Geneva for now. For now, that's all there is to it. ”

"Stay vigilant, maybe the Sijing people will take action next." It sounded like good news, but Lin Hai didn't dare to really relax, "I don't believe that they made such a move just to contain us from supporting Geneva for a while, I would rather believe that they have other schemes in preparation." ”

"Understand that the vigilance has been strengthened everywhere, and even if it is not our troops, a warning notice has been issued to them." After a few operations on the command platform, Tagate sent the order out, although the order was delayed, and it would take a short time to reach the GDI command agencies in various places, but after the withdrawal of the Sijing fleet, the transmission of these orders would not be disturbed and affected, and it could always be conveyed in the end.

"By the way, let's see if we can bring another fleet over. I mean the kind of fleet that has no other tasks on hand, I remember that after the expansion of the fleet, we had such forces. Transferring that fleet to merge with the orbital fleet just now to form a mixed strike fleet, such a fleet of a certain size, the Sijing people have to think more if they want to attack, and they don't have to need the direct fleet to scare off the Sijing people every time. ”

"I'll have to look for it." Tagate shrugged his shoulders, picked up his data board and looked at it, "Although we have been expanding our fleet for some time, we have been fighting with the Sijing people several times before, and we have also lost a lot of new ships, and the new destroyers are not strong enough to deal with the destroyer gunships, and they need multiple sieges to deal with the Destroyer gunships, and the number of them needed to deal with the planetary assault motherships and super motherships will only be more, which leads to the fact that even if we have a spare fleet, I am afraid that it will not be enough." In terms of capital ships, since the resources are mainly shifted to the production of the Sea Behemoth class, there is only one production bar for the Kodiak class at present, and the quantity and manufacturing speed are very low, and the existing ones are basically allocated to the various vigilance and patrol fleets as flagships, and they cannot be used separately. And all the sea behemoth-class that has been created so far are basically concentrated in the direct fleet, and it is impossible for other fleets to use. So even if there is a spare fleet, I can't guarantee how much it will help. ”

"You don't need to have too strong combat effectiveness, just go up in numbers." Lin Hai replied, "From the very beginning, those Higra-class destroyers only played an auxiliary role, we just needed to have enough fleet to help the main fleet to contain the actions of the Sijing people. They have wormholes to teleport their forces, and their strategic mobility is much higher than ours, so we can only respond with crowd tactics, filling our fleets everywhere, so that all their actions can be detected and reacted to by us at the first time. ”

"If all you want is quantity, then there are three original patrol fleets that are left free due to the change of your previous orders. They were originally part of several surveillance fleets near North America, but after reducing the number of surveillance fleets there, the three fleets were temporarily out of task, and they also happened to be assembled into a new fleet in the assembly order. Targate said, raising the datapad in his hand, "I'll send you the information." ”