"Well done, boys."

Sun Xiwu saw on the screen, three battleships that were blown up by volleys, one was a battleship, one was a cruiser, and one was a supply ship. Since the first sneak attack took out three of the opponent's battleships, the enemy himself was killed and scrapped one.

In the next two pursuit battles, 2 cruisers, 2 supply ships, plus this cruiser, a total of 4 battleships, 4 cruisers, and 3 supply ships were killed.

The enemy's originally mighty fleet now has only 21 battleships, 13 cruisers, and 5 supply ships left, and two cruisers and one supply ship have been severely damaged, and it seems that the enemy will have to give up cannon fodder when the next surprise attack is launched.

For more than half a month, Rear Admiral Johnson's fleet has been beaten piecemeal, and the losses have been like this, although it is not enough to shake the core combat effectiveness of the fleet, but it has caused the morale of the fleet to fall to the bottom.

If it is a head-on bombardment, the loss of so many warships is nothing, the most tragic record of the Principality of Ranke is that in a border conflict with the Longshan Empire, it was ambushed by mistake and surrounded by the opponent's superior fleet, including more than a hundred battleships, a total of more than 300 warships, which were completely annihilated by the superior forces of the Longshan Empire in just a few minutes.

At that time, it was a fleet that had quietly come up from the Yongsan military, the Fifth Fleet.

This fleet did not use small and medium-sized warships at all, and more than 900 main warships, including battleships and cruisers, swarmed up, and the Ranke military did not dare to take an offensive on the Yongsan border for more than 200 years, and always adopted a defensive position.

However, there is no such aggrieved battle as the one in front of him.

"Major General, Lord Duke orders us to return fire."

The communications officer reported the latest order of Duke McBie directly to Major General Johnson.

"Hmm!"

Qiao Shan was noncommittal, but he knew in his heart that the Duke did not look for him, but directly issued the order to the communications officer, which showed that he was already very dissatisfied with himself.

Moreover, this order will not be violated.

At the beginning, the Duke ordered himself to lead his team to retreat, but he was attacked by the other party again and again, which shows that the other party can find himself and be able to catch up with his fleet, and it is definitely not possible to blindly escape, here is still nearly a month away from leaving the Lost Star Field and arriving at the border of the Duchy of Rank.

This month, it is likely to be eaten away by the other party little by little.

The Duke also saw this, and at the same time wanted to find out the details of the other party, so he ordered himself to turn around and fight.

"According to the route map, to search for favorable terrain nearby, we need a battle."

As a commander, Rear Admiral Qiao Shan was still experienced, and first ordered the ships to start preparing for battle, and at the same time combined with the route map to find a favorable combat position.

"If we can find a more favorable terrain, we can wait for the enemy to catch up and counterattack."

Although Qiao Shan knew that the other party was likely to have obtained the route map from the vanguard force, after all, the other party did not know when he would counterattack, so it was completely feasible to find a more favorable terrain and start a battle.

Subsequently, he made a war mobilization speech and informed all the officers and soldiers of the Duke's orders, and the morale that had fallen to the bottom actually recovered somewhat.

With the announcement of some incentives, such as bonuses, Qiao Shan even took a sum of money out of his own pocket and was ready to reward his subordinates heavily.

Soon, the long-tracked Imperial guerrilla fleet discovered the problem.

"The Rankers' fleet has slowed down. At this time, I didn't want to run, but slowed down, and it seemed that I was ready for a fight. ”

Qin Baijiang said excitedly, after chasing for so long, if the other party can slow down, then he will be able to fight a few more times.

Sun Xiwu said with a solemn face, "The enemy suddenly reduced his speed, instead of blindly fleeing, it is likely that there is some plan, open the route map, let's see what the enemy is doing." ”

Soon, Zhi Brain opened the route map and made some annotations on it according to Sun Xiwu's requirements, such as some chaotic star belts, or places with more unique terrain were marked one by one.

"This is it!"

Sun Xiwu's light pen is suspended in a meteorite belt, on the way, this meteorite belt is not dangerous, the fleet only needs to pass in an orderly manner, but once there is an enemy ambush here, it will occupy the geographical advantage.

Qin Baijiang came up to take a look and understood what was going on.

"Qiao Shan, this kid was angry with us with a style of play that he is not used to, and he wants to give us a waiting rabbit."

Qin Baijiang laughed and said, everyone has a route map in their hands, coupled with the ultra-long-range radar monitoring of the Zhonghua, Qiao Shan's abacus is about to be wrong.

There is one of the most critical points in this, Qiao Shan has never known how large the enemy's effective radar monitoring range is, although he has imagined this distance as large as possible, but he still made a mistake and underestimated the advanced degree of radar of the Zhonghua.

After upgrading, the radar on the Zhonghua is a good guy from a fourth-level civilization, and it is also an extremely rare top-notch product in a third-level civilization, let alone a second-level civilization like the Principality of Rank.

"Let's have a combat meeting."

The two didn't have to wait for those captains and staff officers to arrive, and they directly held a virtual meeting. Five minutes later, more than a dozen participants entered the virtual conference room and began to plan the layout.

Soon, a plan came out.

"The front of this decoy fleet is led by Qin Baijiang, and the flank raid fleet is personally commanded by me, and then ...... like this"

Sun Xiwu briefly summarized the plan.

In the plan, Qin Baijiang will lead a frontal decoy fleet composed of 5 battleships and 7 cruisers, although the number is a little less, but it is enough to confuse the enemy, once the enemy is greedy, he will think of eating this 'advancing' enemy fleet.

The main force of the guerrilla fleet will make a detour to the flank and, after successfully luring the enemy fleet head-on, will suddenly launch an attack to achieve the greatest results.

In this way, the enemy is likely to be a big one.

"Our trick is called Ming Xiu Plank Road, and Dark Chen Cang. However, I must emphasize one thing, this operation, we must not beat the enemy too badly, just hit them hard.

Your Majesty's latest order is for us to drive them all the way to the exit of the Lost Star Field, and then return. ”

Sun Xiwu emphasized it again, emphasizing His Majesty's latest order, that is, he was afraid that this group of captains would be happy, and a few cannons would go down to beat the enemy and abandon their armor, and if they surrendered directly, it would be bad for His Majesty's strategic arrangement.

All of you here are long-tested emperor officials, so they naturally know how big and small they are, and it is impossible to spoil the overall situation because of impulse.

That kind of rush to the brain as soon as it is hot is rare in the Star Wars era, unless the commander takes the initiative to make a mistake, the captain is unlikely to make a mistake. Just in case, there is a clause in the war control policy of many countries, once you act without permission and do not obey orders, you will be directly destroyed.

There was a situation where warships were running around, and the big battle was imminent, and the commander directly ordered a few shells to be destroyed, and there was no mercy at all.

In the space battlefield, a high-speed maneuvering warship, once it does not listen to the command, one can disrupt the formation of half of the fleet, which will lead to a hole in the defense of the fleet and a problem with the distribution of firepower.

Two days later, the Imperial fleet finally crept up again.

At this time, Qiao Shan was also in full swing to arrange the blockade.

"The radar is turned on at full power, don't be reluctant to give up the energy block, the main gun remains charged, according to the previous law, the enemy is likely to appear today."

Before that, he was going to be attacked almost every two or three days, and Qiao Shan also thought that he had figured out the pattern.

In his opinion, the enemy must have a two-day combat interval for supply and other reasons.

In his opinion, if the enemy was not limited by certain conditions, he would have come up long ago and directly destroyed himself.

In order to win this blocking battle, Qiao Shan made a special investment.

21 battleships, 13 cruisers, and 5 supply ships, he moved all the important materials on the 5 supply ships to the battleship in the past two days, and left all the other non-important supplies alone.

Now, in the meteorite belt, the outermost part of this fleet is already five supply ships, 13 cruisers are on the second level, and 21 battleships are at the innermost.

The enemy also has thirty battleships, in order to block the success, he has made up his mind to abandon some of the battleships as cannon fodder battleships, the personnel on it have retreated cleanly, relying on the wisdom of the brain and robots, although the combat surname can be reduced, but it is enough to block the enemy.

He also ordered the use of all the ship's jamming equipment to try to make the most of the meteorite belt to evade himself, and placed detectors near the meteorite belt to detect enemy tracks in advance.

The current layout was all facing the direction of the enemy's pursuit, and the battleships were hiding behind.

"Warning, warning, discovery of the enemy fleet!!"

"Warning, warning, discovery of the enemy fleet!!"

Zhi Brain began to call the police frantically, but it was not the previous special alarm.

Qiao Shan was overjoyed, the enemy could already be seen on the radar screen, "12 large warships, good guys, this time I caught a big fish." ”

Although he also wondered why it was not the murderous battleship formation, but this much weaker fleet.

Maybe the enemy used that strange way of fighting, and another fleet went after us.

You know, before this, he deliberately led the fleet around the chaotic starry sky near the route, and he thought that he had temporarily thrown off the enemy's main fleet.

The enemy fleet in front of you is your own dinner.

"Listen to my orders and get ready to attack."

Qiao Shan roared loudly, as if he had seen the enemy being destroyed one after another under his heavy artillery fire.

"Report, the enemy has slowed down!! Their battleship is reversing! ”

The emergency was reported by the radar officer.

"Chase!!"

Qiao Shan didn't have time to think about it, and directly ordered the fleet to catch up, keeping the supply ships and cruisers in front of the formation, and the battleships hiding in the 'very safe' rear.

What he could not see was that in the rear of his fleet a pure battleship formation of 20 battleships was advancing at high speed.

"The main cannon is fully charged, and the energy shield is opened."

Sun Xiwu: "The whole army obeys the order and assaults." ”

(To be continued)