081 Battle of Leo (I)
At this time, the war between the Kabat Empire and the Oaks Empire had entered a white heat.
After taking Witt, Commander Hamid's confidence was greatly increased, and he quickly drew up a strategy plan for Laseaya and Leo.
The 1.2 million fleet stationed in Werther left 200,000 to defend the Star Road in the direction of La Seia, and the remaining 1 million warships set off directly from Werther to attack Leo!
At the same time, Leo was attacked by the 2 million Kabat Imperial army stationed in Sicili, which was already facing Leo, with a total offensive force of a terrifying 3 million.
According to calculations, this battle will start in 2 years, after all, Sicilier is a full 6 light years away from Leo, and it will take 2 years to walk the path of the stars.
The distance between Werther and Leo is about 3 light years, and in order to match the attack time, it will not be set off until 1 year later.
On the other side, the Oaks Empire has stationed 3 Praetorian Guard Legions and 1 Frontier Legion in Leo, with a total strength of 1.6 million!
Originally, with the help of favorable conditions, these 1.6 million warships had no problem defending Sicili's 2 million warships in the Way of the Stars.
But now that Werther has fallen, therefore, in order to deal with the threat from Werther, Leo's defenders had to place half of their warships at the entrance and exit of the Way of the Stars, resulting in the line of the Way of the Stars in the direction of Sicilier, with only 800,000 ships left.
The most important thing is that the entrance distance between the two Star Paths is a full 2 AU, so the defenders on both sides cannot support each other quickly.
As for the Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard, which is returning at the moment, it is on the way to Houghton and is expected to arrive in 3 years.
Horton is about 12 light-years away from Werther, and it is a node that cannot be avoided by the Kabat army's attack on the capital area of Oaks, unless it goes around the periphery of the Oaks Empire for most of the time, not to mention, it may be intercepted by another frontier legion.
It was precisely with this that Essa went straight to Holden to wait for the rabbit.
Two years later, when the time came to the 64th year of the Federal Calendar, the Battle of Leo finally began!
The first to appear in Leo through the Way of the Stars was the Kabat Imperial fleet from Werther.
According to the strategy of Werther, the first point breakthrough was made by the trapping fleet, and a hole was torn in the defender's array, and the subsequent fleet was based on this opening to tear apart the entire defender's defense line.
If it goes well, it should be like this, but the Oaks Empire is not stupid, they have already received the process of the fall of Witt before, and they naturally know that the Kabat Empire has such a trapped-in fleet of nearly 10,000 warships!
Therefore, for this fleet, Leo's defenders also attached great importance to it, and on the front line of defense, the 200,000 fleet immediately began to gather fire.
A wave of attacks inflicted losses on more than 500 warships in the trap fleet.
The Kabat Empire has long been prepared for this, and even in Hamid's plan, this trapped fleet is used as bait, ready to be buried here.
As long as it can attract the defenders to concentrate fire and attack for ten minutes, the subsequent fleet can gain a foothold at the exit of the Star Path, and then directly take the opponent with a difference in strength.
You must know that this is not the narrow star path between Witt and Cessia, ten minutes here is enough time for 200,000 warships to pass through the star path.
Don't look at the 800,000 defenders on the Star Path defense line, but there are really not so many who can attack at the same time, at most 300,000 are dead.
If the 200,000 warships of the Kabat Empire are allowed to pass through the path of the stars and gain a firm foothold, then the 800,000 defenders will basically be useless, because the speed of the warships consumed by the two sides is not as fast as the arrival speed of the follow-up fleet of the Kabat Empire.
So this time, Hamid let the trap fleet be used as bait to attract firepower.
In Hamid's strategic thinking, as long as Leo's defenders are completely annihilated, the Oaks Empire's combat power on the border between the two sides will only be 1.8 million in La Saiya, while the Kabat Empire will be more than 5 million.
With the remaining 8,000 trapped fleets, if you can help the Kabat Empire get such an advantage, then why not give it up?
Besides, Hamid remembered that Lin Fan said that as long as he won the Oaks Empire, he would give more rewards.
As a result, Leo's defenders were caught in a difficult choice.
1. Concentrate all your efforts to annihilate this trapped fleet, but the consequence is to allow the opponent's follow-up fleet to build a bridgehead.
2. According to the normal way of playing, it is not necessary to concentrate fire on the fleet, but the consequence is likely to be like Werther, which will directly break into the array, and eventually lead to a complete collapse.
In the end, the commander of Leo's defenders gritted his teeth and made a decision.
For the ultimate victory of the Oaks Empire, no matter what the cost, this trapped fleet must be wiped out here, even at the cost of the fall of Leo!
First destroy the trapped fleet, and then consume the warships of the Kabat Empire to the greatest extent before his own side is completely destroyed, this is his general policy now.
Soon, all the fleets on the defensive line received orders and began to frantically gather fire towards the trap fleet, completely ignoring the follow-up fleet of the Kabat Empire.
Ten minutes after the start, the trapped fleet lost more than 7,000 ships, and the losses of the Oaks Empire were also very large.
In the process of the assault alone, the trapped fleet killed at least 20,000 warships, and in addition, in these 10 minutes, nearly 200,000 warships sailed out of the Star Road, not watching the show on the sidelines, but as soon as they came out, they joined the attack on the defenders on the defense line, and killed at least 50,000 warships.
At this time, as expected by the commander of Leo's defenders, although the trapped fleet was disabled, it also allowed the other side to successfully establish a bridgehead, and nearly 200,000 warships were already deployed there.
The next moment, the real meat grinder started. The defenders on the defensive line no longer concentrated their fire on the remaining hundreds of warships, but began to shoot at the exit area of the Star Road, and the Kabat Imperial fleet, which had already established a bridgehead, naturally fought back with all its might.
On the battlefield, thousands of warships of both sides are blown up basically every minute, and when one warship is blown up, the other behind it will immediately step forward to fill the position, and the two sides will directly fall into a complete war of attrition.
The difference is that at the beginning of this war of attrition, the Kabat Empire still had 1 million warships, while the Oaks Empire had only 700,000 warships.
Just when the commander of Leo's defenders was considering whether to transfer 300,000 warships from the direction of Sicilier to support, the Sicilic army of the Kabat Empire also came to Leo through the path of the stars at this moment.
The commander of the defenders of Leo knew that the Sicilic side had more than 2 million ships of the Kabat.
Although I don't know if all of them are here this time, it is obvious that at this time, the defenders must not be mobilized to support the Star Path in the direction of Werther.