Chapter 208: Tempering of War (2)

After the short but fierce second round of confrontation, large sparks once again appeared in the formation of the Ten Planetary System Fleets of the Temple of Earth. In a violent explosion, the Grim Reaper swung his reaping scythe again. Like a lamb to the slaughter, all resistance seemed to be meaningless, and after this second round of confrontation, the fleet of the Ten Planetary Systems of the Temple of Earth once again lost 10% of the warships and crews.

The cruel reality panicked the crews of the fleet, and the already low morale dropped to freezing point. If it weren't for the fact that someone was preparing to detonate the starship, I am afraid that there would have been a crew member who fled in a hurry by this time.

However, the tipping point of fleet collapse is rapidly approaching. The explosion of a nuclear bomb can threaten the crew not to defect, but if the result of a death battle is still death, then the threat of a nuclear bomb is no longer irresistible.

After two consecutive rounds of encounters, the size of the Ten Planetary System Fleet was reduced to 80% of its original size. If you just look at the battle damage, this battle damage is not too big. But the problem is that the situation on the battlefield is one-sided and beaten by the enemy. It was clear that the side was already defending with all its might, but it still suffered such a huge loss in just two rounds of confrontation.

If you can't make changes in the third turn, the fleet is in danger of collapsing.

"General, what are we going to do?" Not only the ordinary crew members were hit, but even the descendants and top management of the fleet were also hit.

"Keep going!" General Kaino uttered these words, which suddenly seemed cold and chilling to others. If you don't make an effective counterattack, the fleet won't last long at all!

The second round of the confrontation reduced the fighting spirit of the crews to freezing point due to the fear of death. Facing the third round of confrontation in this mental state, isn't that looking for death? However, drugs such as stimulants are not available at this moment. If the crew is allowed to use this drug at this time, the resentment and anger in the hearts of the crew towards the top of the fleet may get out of control, and then they will do things that are harmful to others, or even end up with the top of the fleet.

"General, why do you still have to defend it?" At this moment, General Kaino's decision to continue to hold on seems to have been clearly wrong. Therefore, the top brass of the fleet wanted Admiral Kaino to give an explanation of why the fleet did this, to do such a thing that was likely to cause the fleet to collapse.

"The ships we temporarily control are not necessarily our ships, how many of the ships we lost in the first two rounds of confrontation are really under our control?" General Kaino asked in a calm tone.

was mentioned by General Kaino like this, and the top echelons of the fleet in the video conference suddenly discovered that the peripheral warships of the fleet's hedgehog formation turned out to be the battleships of the eight planetary systems of the Temple of Earth and the nine planetary systems of the Temple of Earth! Although the previous fleet losses were huge to the point of shocking, the fleet that really belonged to the Ten Planetary Systems of the Temple of Earth had almost no losses!

It was only at this moment that the top echelons of the fleet were surprised to find that the descendant fleet belonging to their own fleet was still intact!

"Will we break the morale of the crew by doing this?" Chief of Staff Qichen asked hesitantly.

"The fleet is not the bigger the better, but the more elite the better. We don't need to worry about the warships that are not with us, we just need to strictly control the starcruisers, interstellar destroyers, large supply ships, and all the warships in the ten planetary systems in the fleet. "Speaking of which, the other high-level officials have nothing to say. The reason why the previous two rounds of confrontation was so painful and devastating was because of the battle damage of your own fleet. But if you just calculate the battle loss according to Zuo Zhe's calculation method, the battle loss of your own fleet will become very small!

In the newly opened top-secret communication channel, the crews of all the fleet's starcruisers, stardestroyers, large supply ships, and all the warships of the Ten Planetary Systems of the Temple of Earth received a message that stunned them in horror and despair.

"Because of your hard work, our army's losses in the first two rounds of the confrontation were almost zero, I hope you will continue to work hard!" Along with this commendation, there is also the battle damage algorithm of the "own fleet". Hearing this "ingenious" battle damage calculation, although the crews, who were already on the verge of despair, became angry, but in their hearts, they felt that this was really the case. Although this method of calculating battle damage is infuriating, if the inhumane "Butcher Commander" had calculated the battle damage in this way from the beginning, after these two rounds of confrontation, his side really didn't lose a few ships!

Although anger is often a sign of incompetence, it still means not giving up, and it is better to make the crew angry than to despair. As for what General Kaino thought at the beginning, whether it was as inhuman as he said, who knows? Now, according to Admiral Kaino's method of calculating battle damage, the already desperate crew has gradually stabilized. When he looked at the crew members who cried for their fathers and mothers with very sympathetic eyes, they also regained their confidence in facing a strong enemy.

In order to ensure that the crews of the peripheral warships would not immediately mutiny or even turn against each other because of this battle damage algorithm, the warships scattered in the core area of the hedgehog battle array encountered the most stringent communication controls. Well, communication between the inner ring fleet and the outer warships has been cut off. Among the warships of the Inner Circle Fleet, only the Altar Ten Star Battleship at the very core can send signals to the Outer Circle Battleship. After all, the Altar Ten Star Battleship is the flagship responsible for directing the battle, so it naturally has this kind of power. And in order to combat the enemy's cyber intrusion, it is not uncommon to keep communications within the fleet silent. As for how the outer ring warships cooperate in combat? The crews of the battleships in the outer circle are almost desperate now, where is the mood to continue fighting? If you don't run away at this time, you will be killed by the nuclear bomb in the battleship, and even if you don't get killed by the nuclear bomb in the battleship, you will be chased and killed by the enemy outside the fleet, and the battleship in the outer circle fleet will probably flee with your life.

"Keep attacking, in the third round, I'm going to completely crush them!" In the flagship of the second squadron of the Giant Bear Star Legion, the Black Bear Star Cruiser, Rear Admiral Lilith, as the supreme commander, gave the order to charge the third time in high spirits! Judging from the current situation, if your fleet launches a third charge, the enemy fleet will collapse! So, this time the battle, Lilith bet right!

As for why the enemy behaves so weakly, isn't it bad for the enemy to be weak? That means your own losses will be smaller! From the beginning of the battle so far, the only injured crew member in the second squadron of the Giant Bear Star Legion has jumped too high because of excitement, causing his head to hit the ceiling and break his head! If it weren't for maintaining the majesty of the Supreme Commander, Lilith in the control room of the battleship center would also want to jump up and cheer!

Since joining the army, Lilith has never seen such a strange enemy who only takes a beating and does not fight back! Normally, even if the enemy is weak, will frantically launch space missiles when they are being beaten. Regardless of whether these space missiles are likely to hurt the enemy, if they are launched, there will be a chance, and if they are not launched, there will be no chance at all! But this time, this time the enemy is like a fool who can't fight back just by being beaten, so stupid that it makes people want to laugh! How nice it would be if the enemies were all so stupid?

All the crew members of the second detachment of the Giant Bear Interstellar Legion are as excited as if they have been drugged, and they are eager to launch a third charge and continue to reduce the size of the enemy fleet by 10%! At this time, the crews of the second squadron of the Giant Bear Interstellar Legion even hoped that the poor crews of the enemy ships would be tenacious and not break out too soon! If the enemy fleet fled, the charge of your own ships would not be able to cause such great damage!

"Commander, our battle here is going very well, and it won't take long to crush the enemy fleet!" The combat staff officers of the Second Squadron smiled and sent an extremely pleasant message to the giant bear star carrier in the distant planetary system.

"The battle went so well!" In the giant bear starcarrier, King Bear looked at the report in surprise, and wanted to know what civil strife had happened in the enemy fleet, causing a fleet that was still performing well outside the nine-planetary system of the Earth Temple to become the current appearance of being beaten and not fighting back.

Since the battle is going so well, it's better to keep fighting. Although Lilith did not report to the Bear King before deciding to fight, Lilith's decision proved to be correct and would bring victory to the fleet. And now, victory is the most motivating thing! At the behest of the Bear King, the information obtained by the Second Squadron immediately spread within the Giant Bear Interstellar Legion, recovering the originally low morale a lot.

In the third round of the charge, the enemy fleet in Lilith's eyes finally collapsed! Even if there is a nuclear bomb inside the battleship that can explode at any time, the crew can no longer control so much. Fortunately, the crew responsible for detonating the nuclear bomb were also desperate, and even acquiesced to the escape of the battleship, and did not immediately detonate the battleship to do something that would end up together.

The scattered ships gave Lilith a sigh of relief. Discovering that the fleet's reserve of space missiles had been sharply reduced to near the warning line, and that the fleet's nuclear fusion reactors and engines were gradually experiencing some problems due to overload, Lilith immediately ordered the fleet to leave the war voyage and prepare to expand the victory behind the enemy's fleeing fleet.

As for the battleships at the core of the enemy fleet that have not yet fled? It was not in Lilith's opinion that they did not want to run, but that the retreat path they could choose had been covered by the explosion fragments on the outer perimeter of the fleet. At this moment, those fleeing battleships also looked at the space retreat that did not have too many battleship fragments in the space.

"Send back the good news, just say that the enemy fleet has been completely defeated by me!"