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"Commander, according to the last time we monitored the other party, all the battleships that were exploring jumped away, and after calculation, the direction of their jump was all Taylor."

Inside the bridge of the Ouranos, Liang Xue was reporting the latest information to Lin Fan.

"Well, the other party should have decided to take the path of stardom, and we have to step up our preparations!"

According to the information fed back by the Great Wall of Stars monitoring network, Lin Fan easily judged that the other party should have given up on continuing to search for a jumpable area, and instead borrowed the way of the stars to cross the starless belt.

Lin Fan was not surprised by this, but it was better to say that the biggest purpose of building the Interstellar Great Wall was to limit the Babawi Empire so that it could only advance through the path of the stars, so that the defenders of Shanhaiguan would have a greater defensive advantage.

"Help me convene all the commanders above the fleet level for a remote virtual meeting!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Ten minutes later, Lin Fan and Liang Xue came to an empty conference room, but as Liang Xue operated on the portable terminal on his arm, the scenery of the entire conference room suddenly changed.

What started as a small conference room that could accommodate up to a few people suddenly became a large conference room that could accommodate hundreds of people, and of course, this was the result of virtual projection.

Three Legion Commanders, 22 Human Commanders, and 18 Angel Commanders were all seated.

"Everyone has arrived, so let's get started!"

Lin Fan, who came to the main seat, said after sweeping the crowd.

"First of all, I want to inform everyone that the Babawi Imperial fleet, which has been looking for a breakthrough along the Great Wall of Stars during this time, has now all assembled in Taylor, and according to my analysis, the other party should choose to cross the starless belt through the star path between Taylor and Shanhaiguan when they can't find a breakthrough."

"I'm sure everyone understands what this means, and it means that our first head-to-head confrontation with the Babawi Empire is about to begin! And the time is three years later, and the specific time depends on when the other party starts to enter the way of the stars! ”

"At the same time, according to the intelligence transmitted back by the interstellar Great Wall monitoring network during this time, the number of the opponent's first wave of attack should be around 3 million warships, all of which are the main warships of the Babawi Empire, and their performance is not much worse than the main warships of our Federation!"

"And we currently have only 980,000 warships at our disposal, except for the 100,000 warships guarding the border of the Orr Republic."

"How to fight this battle, everyone can talk about their own thoughts!"

After finishing speaking, Lin Fan didn't speak, but looked at the commanders below.

Although Lin Fan already had a draft in his heart on how to fight this battle, he also wanted to see what the legions and commanders under his command had in mind.

For Lin Fan, he didn't want his subordinates to be a group of commanders who would only obey his orders to fight and not think at all, after all, as the territory of the Federation became larger and larger, many of these commanders would need to be on their own one day.

"Report!"

Lin Fan looked over with the voice, and the first person to speak was Boris, the commander of the Seventh Fleet of the Fifth Legion.

"Boris, it doesn't hurt to have any ideas!"

"Yes, Commander! I propose a massive mine swarm to block the exit of the Star Path. ”

Before Lin Fan could speak, many people saw Chris Rod, who was at the head of the Fifth Legion, covering his face with his hands.

"Okay Chris, don't cover your face, you can tell him why he can't do this!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Belinfan called the name, and Chris only stood up, and then watched Boris speak.

"First of all, the machine mine has limited damage to the battleship, especially the battleship of the fourth-level civilization, which can almost withstand the simultaneous bombardment of dozens or hundreds of machine mines, and the opponent almost does not need to pay much loss, and can use the battleship to hit a large safe area in the machine mine group."

"Secondly, when the enemy has carved out a safe zone in the mine group at the cost of losing thousands of warships, do you attack or not?"

"If you attack, then you are cleaning up your own minegroup, after all, at this time, the local battleship is protected by countless mines!"

"If you don't attack, then you can only watch the other side clear the mines in the minegroup, and gradually expand the security zone and gather more warships! Not only that, but the other side can fire at you without any worries, after all, this mine pack is not theirs, is it? ”

After listening to Chris's words, Boris somewhat understood, this arrangement of a group of machine mines to blockade not only cannot cause enough damage to the other party, but also tie his own side, which is indeed a bit stupid.

"I'm sorry Commander, but I thought too one-sidedly!"

"Alright, you two sit down, do the others have any ideas?"

Lin Fan didn't care very much, after all, the people of the Fifth Legion didn't have much actual combat experience, and it was normal to not think of many details.

After all, these are not taught in the military academy, and others, including Chris, also rely on the experience of many years of war to slowly understand it themselves!

When Chris and Boris sat down, one more raised his hand, and Lin Fan looked over and found that it was someone from the Fifth Legion again, this time it was Victor, the commander of its Third Fleet!

It seems that the people of the Fifth Legion are rushing to perform, but think about it, after all, the people of the Fifth Legion have not had any chance to perform since they arrived at Shanhaiguan.

Even if Lin Fan attacked before, he brought several commanders of the First Legion.

"Victor, you say!"

Immediately, Lin Fan nodded to Victor and let him start.

"Commander, I don't think we can completely hang ourselves on the defense line of the Way of the Stars, although we do have an advantage in blocking the Way of the Stars, but the other party is a fourth-level civilization and has an energy shield, so this advantage will not be as great as a third-level civilization!"

"If we stick to the defense line of the Way of the Stars, in the initial period of time, because of the difference in numbers, we can indeed exchange a small loss for a large number of battle losses on the other side, but this time will not be very long, according to my estimates, at most an hour, as the number of the other party gradually increases, our advantage will become a disadvantage!"

"Therefore, my idea is to stick to the path of the stars first, but at most for half an hour, once the number of opponents gathered exceeds 300,000, we should take the initiative to abandon the defense line of the way of the stars, and instead withdraw to the second line of defense, and cooperate with the star defense network we have built over the years to block the enemy ships layer by layer."

"In addition, I think the mine group tactics mentioned by Boris just now can still be used, but they need to be used in a different way!"

Victor kept talking about his thoughts, and Lin Fan listened with interest.

The strategy he said was somewhat similar to Lin Fan's plan, but many issues in the details were not considered too well.

But for a commander who has not participated in a major interstellar war, the fact that he can think of this step is enough to show his military talent.

This Victor is a good seedling, worth cultivating, Lin Fan couldn't help but think so in his heart.