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"Do you think we've cost the Sijing people? Can you afford to get resources in the asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt with a higher degree of automation? Lin Hai disagreed with Targate's tactics of competing for consumption, "It's not a good idea to start competing with the resources of the whole earth before we integrate them." ”

"Then we'll have to ......," Targate shook his head, not finishing, and it was evident that he was also embarrassed by the situation in front of him.

He knew that even if their fleet directly under the headquarters arrived at the battlefield in time and participated in the battle, it was difficult to say whether they would be able to protect those orbital ion guns in time - those Higra-class destroyers were not very useful in the face of planetary assault motherships, they could only be used against the Destroyer gunships, and in the end, it was still three Kodiak-class and twelve Sea Behemoth-class ships that came in handy.

"I think we still have a chance." Lin Hai said when Tagate was anxious, "Although the Sijing fleet has an advantage over the escort fleet in terms of quantity and quality, it does not have an absolute advantage in quantity, and they have adopted the tactics of total encirclement, isn't this too scattered forces?" Executing the encirclement tactic with this amount should have a lot of loopholes and gaps, right? Our fleet only needs to concentrate a little attack, can't it form a superiority in forces in a local area? ”

"Hmm......," Targate thought silently for a moment, then said, "It's not impossible, it's just that the convoy is capable of such a mission, except for our original Kodiak-class battlecruisers, and the twenty-four Higra-class are too fragile and slow, and I'm worried about whether they can complete such a mission." ”

"If you can't do it, you have to do it!" Lin Hai said coldly, "There are only eight planetary assault motherships, and they have to be dispersed into several directions to attack at the same time, so the three Kodiak-class can form a breakthrough in a certain direction, and those destroyers can provide them with cover and break off!" ”

"But what about the three orbital ion cannons?" Tagate looked at Lin Hai, "If only that escort fleet exists, they can break through the encirclement of the Sijing people at will, but with the addition of three slow-moving orbital ion cannons, the question will come back again, can we give up those three orbital ion cannons!" ”

"That's what I mean, three battlecruisers to open the breach, and destroyers tow rail-ion guns and provide close-fire escort. Although there will definitely be a lot of losses for the destroyer in this way, but it is better than the loss of an orbital ion gun. ”

"Using a destroyer to tow an orbital ion cannon?" Obviously, Tagate has never considered this kind of plan, after all, his global defense force has always held the control of space in space, and has never needed a starship to tow a space platform, so all strategies and tactics have not considered this need, with the data input during the cultivation period and the later learning, it is actually normal for Tagate not to think of these plans for a while.

Lin Hai pointed to the holographic projection and said: "You see, although we have a space tug to assist the orbital ion cannon to accelerate into orbit, just because of the functional requirements, in order to be able to complete the task stably, the tugboat itself is not fast, and it can't be dragged with the orbital ion cannon platform to move with the fleet at high speed, and the number of tugboats is also insufficient, more fragile, and it is most vulnerable to be destroyed once attacked." The destroyer is different, the body shape is the same as the orbital ion cannon platform, and the power is higher than that of the tugboat, and two or three to carry out towing work on the platform will definitely be more efficient. Of course, because the destroyer is not a professional tugboat, there will be some problems in performing such a mission, but this is better than three orbital ion guns being destroyed by others, right? ”

"This ......" Tagate was still a little hesitant, he was not very sure about this kind of plan, which he had never thought of.

"It's better to give it a try than to be knocked out for nothing at nothing. If you still fail in the end, there is nothing to regret. ”

"Understood." Tagay nodded, grabbed a computer, and got to work.

Although the Sijing Fleet is an encirclement that is outside the working range of the GDI Fleet's detection equipment, they still turn on some kind of new silent equipment, which makes the GDI Fleet find them at a shorter distance, which makes it easier for humans to discover them, the Sijing Fleet is only 30,000 kilometers away from the GDI Mission Fleet, and they will take half the time to include the GDI Orbital Escort Fleet in the range than the fleet directly under the GDI Command.

If the GDI orbital convoy can't come up with any effective way to solve this crisis, the three-minute time difference is enough for the Sijing people to achieve their goal.

Three azure ion beams shot out from the central area of the GDI Orbital Escort Fleet in turn towards a corner of the Sijing people's encirclement! A huge fireball then swells in the void and is generated!

The three orbital ion cannons, with fifty percent power, fired an accurate shot at the Sijing fleet, and the Sijing fleet could not dodge all the shelling - at such a distance, they could not dodge all the ion beams that could travel at the speed of light, and a planetary assault mothership was directly pierced by high-energy ion beams, and the shields and armor exploded into a beautiful firework without any effect.

There are two more Crystal Planetary Assault Motherships in this direction.

After the launch, the orbital ion cannon retracted the energy plate and restored the columnar appearance, and each ion cannon platform was flanked by three Higra-class destroyers with the help of tugboats, and at the fastest speed, alloy cables were fixed to the ion cannon platform and the destroyer, connecting the three starships to one ion cannon platform.

It's just that the ion cannon platform of the same length and almost the same volume as the destroyer has to be towed away at a relatively fast speed, and the problems that may occur on the way are reduced, and it is not a simple job to fix those alloy cables, and the crew wearing spacesuits with all kinds of equipment can not be faster.

Different from towing ships at sea and trailers on land, dragging massive objects in such a place as there is no gravity and resistance in space, a carelessness will lead to a collision between the spacecraft responsible for towing and the towed object, especially in this combat environment, it is difficult for the towing ship to calm down and tow slowly, once there is any acceleration or deceleration, the possibility of impact will also increase.

Although it is actually best to replace the destroyer with a battle cruiser to carry out the towing work, it is difficult to break through the blockade of the Sijing fleet with destroyers alone, and they must use the battle cruiser to successfully break through and avoid engaging the Sijing fleet in several other directions, so as to converge with the fleet directly under the headquarters that comes to support and keep more orbital ion guns.

The movements of the GDI fleet, the Sijing people can also observe, even more clearly than the human beings, all their starships have also begun to assemble at the fastest speed, they even seem to have judged the reason for the GDI fleet's breakout tactics, although the seven planetary assault carriers did not immediately release carrier-based aircraft-the distance is still too far-but the fixed locks that fixed those bee-type carrier-based aircraft have all been opened, as long as they enter a certain suitable distance, they will release all the carrier aircraft, Attack the three orbital ion cannon platforms with all your might.

Three ion cannon platforms, each towed by three destroyers, and the remaining fifteen destroyers will do their best to protect the ion cannon platforms around, following behind the three battle cruisers that are out of the way, trying not to pull the battle cruisers back.

Regarding this situation, Lin Hai and they can only say that the Higra-class destroyers really need to improve their performance, otherwise they can really only win by quantity, but it is useless to talk about this now, and the upgrade will have to wait until later.

And when the Sijing fleet began to pursue the GDI orbital escort fleet that was planning to escape, several crimson beams of light flew up from the ground into the sky, penetrating the earth's atmosphere, and catching up with several Sijing starships!

The shield was immediately activated by the high-energy impact, and then penetrated in a very short time! After the beam penetrated the shield, it pierced through the starship's armor at the same speed - a Destroyer gunship was cut off by the beam, the entire hull was cut off the tail, and the fire quickly erupted from the fracture and spread, and the entire Destroyer gunship exploded more than ten seconds later.

The former Iron Eagle large military base, the planetary defense base of the current GDI's Somalia military base, opened fire.

It has 12 powerful laser cannon beams exclusively powered by large land-based fusion power stations, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers of space to provide fire support to its own fleet in space. This was the first time that this planetary defense base was fired and the first time an enemy ship was sunk.

The tactics that Colonel Tagate has studied with all his heart are not only the escort fleet breaking through with ion cannons, but also the planetary defense bases on the ground that can get this battlefield, one counts as one, and all of them are considered by him in the action plan. The escort fleet left with the ion cannon platform, in addition to the fact that it was really necessary to leave, it was also a trap to attract the attention of the Sijing people, forcing the other party to launch a pursuit to fix the course, so that the artillery fire of the planetary defense base on the ground would increase the hit rate.

Even if the ground-based laser cannon cannons fail to hit the Szyg's starships, those ground-based cannon swarms can distract them from the engagements that follow, creating more opportunities for their own fleet to win.

Now Colonel Targate's plan has succeeded.

The fleet of the Sijing people could no longer continue to pursue at full speed, and they had to maintain the energy to maneuver urgently after maintaining a certain speed. The heavy and powerful laser cannons of the planetary defense base can even be seen by the naked eye, and the energy level is no longer something that the shipborne shield of the Sijing starship can resist, and they can only use dodge to protect themselves from being destroyed by the ground laser cannon.

The unfavorable situation for GDI has changed.