Chapter 499: The Operation Begins

With the official end of the joint meeting, the entire Second Army of the Ming Dynasty has also entered a state of full combat readiness, and each fleet has begun to warm up its engines, and the gun barrels have also begun to be charged.

Just when Zhang Yunfan had just regained his vision and was about to readjust the fleet allocation, a communication from Ling Aocang came again.

Connected, this time it's also a public channel for four people.

"Brother Ling, didn't you just come back? Rushing to find us for a meeting before the vision is restored? Yi Lexuan said in the public channel of the first four people.

"The road is running out of time for us, and I'm afraid the situation will change if it drags on!" Ling Aocang said directly. "We must finish this before the big coalition forces arrive, or we will leave a hidden danger for the battle!"

"What's the matter?" Zhang Yunfan didn't understand it for a while, so he deliberately looked through the attack plan that had been determined, and did not find any regulations and plans that needed to be prepared before the war.

"Clean up the perimeter of the battlefield!" Ling Aocang said. "Although this area is relatively empty, the scale of this battle is too large, and this area is no longer enough for the entire coalition fleet to fully deploy, so we must make some preparations!"

"You just assign the task!" Zhang Yunfan said directly.

"We're all ready, Brother Ling, just give the order!" Yi Lexuan also said.

"Actually, it's not too much work, it's the large meteorite circle where the Zerg army was hiding before, lead the army to clean up the meteorite circle, and this empty area can accommodate the military operations of the entire coalition fleet!"

"Brother Ling, are you joking with me?" Zhang Yunfan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said, "Just these fleets in our hands? That large meteorite circle that can easily accommodate nearly 100 million Zerg, how can this task be completed! ”

"Who said it's just our fleet? Do you think you don't know how many catties and taels we have on our side, how can we take on such an unrealistic task? Ling Aocang was a little dissatisfied in the face of this kind of question, but he still answered carefully. After you left, I talked to the commanders of the other expeditionary legions, and they were willing to help! ”

"Before the battle starts, it will be carried out by the fleet that arrives at the station in advance, and after the battle begins, it will be carried out by those fleets that do not need to fight for the time being, which can not only ensure the progress of preparations, but also prevent the Zerg from using the terrain here to carry out a sneak attack on the coalition forces, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone!"

As he spoke, Ling Aocang sent over a document, and when he opened it, he found that it was the meteorite sphere topographic map that was set as their goal of cleanup, and on this map, large and small, were marked with different colors.

"You take a look at that document,......" Ling Aocang said slowly, "The blue area marked above is the area we are responsible for at this stage, and the fleets of Stars and Stripes and Ou Yun will also be jointly carrying out this mission with us this time, so there is no need to worry about the shortage of manpower......"

"Got it!" Zhang Yunfan immediately replied, and after him, Yue Linxian and Yi Lexuan also took over this task.

"The Tianling fleet still needs to be prepared for a while, if your fleet is ready, you can set off early!" Ling Aocang said. "In addition, keep alert troops in all directions, and maintain the combat state of a part of the fleet, don't be taken advantage of by the Zerg!"

"Got it!" The three of them answered and immediately began to transmit the message, and the position of the entire legion began to change slowly until it was completely changed, and the three fleets broke away from their original positions and headed towards the target area.

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The three fleets bypassed the Zerg army's defensive formation from the side, and at this time, the other two fleets had already begun their own operations, and when the three armies converged in the target star field, they began their own cleanup work with little interaction.

The cleanup of the meteorite circle is not difficult, the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the huge Zerg army stationed nearby, so the three forces have all set up sentry troops to monitor the movements of this Zerg army.

Of course, the Zerg side would not allow the coalition fleet to act so unscrupulously, and several raids and harassment attacks were organized during this period, but they were all detected in advance by the coalition outposts, and all of the attacks were repelled by the coalition fleet. On the most recent occasion, the tripartite legions cooperated with each other and even annihilated the entire attack force of the Zerg.

Since then, it was as if the Zerg had abandoned the operation, and the coalition fleet was never harassed by the Zerg forces again, and the entire cleanup operation went exceptionally smoothly.

As time passed, the fleets involved in the first phase of operations began to be gradually put in place, including the Yuchen Legion and the Kayun Legion. When these fleets arrived, they also joined the clean-up team, and the progress of the clean-up was much faster.

When the last first-echelon corps arrived, Zhang Yunfan's clean-up work was over, and all the fleets also put down their clean-up work at the same time and began to prepare for the first phase of the attack, and some of the consumption carried out in the clean-up stage was also replenished accordingly at this time.

"Alright, it's time to move again!" Zhang Yunfan was chatting in the communication channel of the four while deploying the next stage of the fleet's mission.

Seeing Zhang Yunfan's casual attitude, Ling Aocang couldn't help but remind: "Yunfan, your attack position is the highest, but you must not take it lightly, you will suffer a big loss!" ”

"You can rest assured! I've never taken those zergs lightly! Zhang Yunfan said lightly.

Although at this time, Zhang Yunfan still maintained that casual tone, but the seriousness in his language really persuaded the other three people in the channel.

"Just pay attention to yourself!" Ling Aocang said.

"Understood!" Zhang Yunfan responded.

At the same time, each fleet began to move towards the action position of its own fleet while testing its own indicators, and the Zerg side also seemed to feel the urgency of the approaching big war, and the defensive formation began to slowly shrink, moving out of a dead defense and confronting the coalition front.

Soon, the coalition's attack formation was ready, and each fleet also completed self-testing, providing the most complete state for the entire operation, and could launch a surprise operation against the Zerg formation at any time.

At the forefront of the attack formation, the Second Expeditionary Corps of the Ming Dynasty, as the core of the first stage, was responsible for leading the various fleets, so it was ranked at the forefront of the line, while Zhang Yunfan's Celestial Shadow Fleet was directly transformed from the vanguard of the legion to the vanguard of the coalition forces.

In the battle that follows, the Celestial Shadow Fleet will be the sharp knife of the entire coalition fleet, and their success or failure will be directly related to the success of this attack, so the pressure on the Celestial Shadow's shoulders is not insignificant.

But as the commander, Zhang Yunfan didn't show too much pressure and tension, and now he just stood silently in front of the large-scale battlefield projection, waiting for the final attack moment to come.