Rewind to a recent past.

The expeditionary fleet marched all the way to Jupiter, and the main force went all the way forward, and the alien bases encountered along the way were all bombed with nuclear bombs, and some warships were scattered around the main force to solve the alien bases close to the main route.

Not to mention the alien battleships encountered along the way, all those who can be killed will be killed, and those who can't catch up will be driven away.

The Jizhou ship group is composed of five aircraft carrier battle groups, which can be called the largest in the history of the expeditionary force.

This is not counting the International Expeditionary Fleet, which is composed of nine battle groups, and the International Fleet, which rushed to Jupiter from another direction, is a few points stronger than the Jizhou Battle Group.

The two fleets each went in one direction, advancing while clearing and clearing, and before they reached Jupiter, they destroyed dozens of alien bases and sank more than a dozen alien warships.

Along the way, it is true that there are more alien bases than alien battleships, at first, I thought it was because the aliens transferred the battleship to Mars, but after approaching Jupiter, I found that this was not the case at all, and the aliens were only transferred to Mars by some warships, and the asteroid belt was close to Jupiter, and there were a large number of enemy ships hidden.

Because the human fleet destroyed the alien base all the way, forcing the enemy ships to show up, eighty percent of these alien warships will not show up, and they can't tell which corner they are hiding in, waiting for the Yin Human Fleet.

But Huo Qiang and the US commander Halsey were very sober, and they deeply understood that the fleet had only cleared the alien bases near the fairway, and only opened two passages among the many enemy bases, and there were more bases in other directions, and it was impossible to tell how many enemy ships were still hiding in the shadows.

Huo Qiang and Admiral Halsey discussed countermeasures more than once, and finally decided on an operational plan for the main force to march to Jupiter and attack the reinforcements with the division.

As for which battleships are the main force and which are partial divisions, it is up to the two supreme commanders to decide for themselves.

Leaving aside the battle plan of the main force for the time being, the battle plan of the partial division refers to the wolf pack tactics in World War II, which can be called the space version of the wolf pack tactics.

The two generals thought very well, but the aliens were not stupid, as the fleet advanced, the aliens played a strong hand to clear the wilderness, took the initiative to abandon the bases along the way, shrink the troops, and withdraw the alien warships scattered to Jupiter.

And not to retreat into the range of Jupiter, but to withdraw to the inner layers of Jupiter, which is so large and gravitationally amazing, strictly speaking, Jupiter refers to Jupiter itself, but for both sides in the war, Jupiter refers to Jupiter itself, and the entire constellation of moons around Jupiter.

At present, the farthest moon from Jupiter is S/2003 J 2, which is an unnamed Jupiter moon, and its semi-major axis is as high as more than 30 million kilometers, in other words, with Jupiter as the center, the spherical space with a radius of 30 million kilometers belongs to the range of Jupiter.

In order to facilitate command, the Joint Command divided Jupiter into three layers: inner and outer layers, the inner layer is within 2 million kilometers from Jupiter, which is basically outside the orbit of Ganymede; The middle layer is between 2 million and 10 million kilometers; 10 million kilometers away are all outer layers.

In other words, the aliens withdrew all the warships to Callisto, put on a strict defense, and waited for the human fleet to attack.

Faced with this situation, Huo Qiang was not in a hurry at all, after the fleet arrived at Jupiter, he had no intention of attacking at all, but divided his troops to go to various satellites in the outer layer, and used the materials on the transport ship to build a space base, intending to turn all the satellites into strategic nodes to encircle aliens.

The captains suddenly realized that it was no wonder that they had spent such a large amount of money, and it was both Ceres and Mars, originally thinking that it was to transfer the enemy forces away and create conditions for the fleet to attack Jupiter; Now it looks different, is this especially to create conditions for the fleet to gain a foothold on Jupiter?

Due to various conditions, it is impossible for these space bases to be guarded, so they are all unmanned bases, and the only role of these bases is to fire at alien warships that enter the firing range.

The various moons on the periphery of Jupiter have different volumes, different textures, and limited fleet materials, so these bases are also different, and some put a batch of lasers to camouflage super cannons; Some set up missiles to deter enemy forces; There was even an extreme case of only two naval guns.

Anyway, Huo Qiang didn't expect these peripheral bases to play much of a role, the key to these bases is not how strong Mars is, but that each small satellite has weapons and equipment left by humans, and they all have the ability to sink alien warships.

This method of gradually encircling Jupiter layer by layer is so poisonous that it is simply going to kill the aliens.

The Jizhou has always been very concerned about the movements of the enemy, and since the Jizhou ship group began to build a space base, the shrinking alien fleet has been ready to move, looking at the possibility of rushing out at any time, but in the end the enemy force is still stable.

The aliens were stable, and Huo Qiang was not in a hurry, and repeatedly asked the ships to fight steadily.

"At the critical moment, we must be calm and stable!" Huo Qiang said.

If you think about it, you are also learning the lessons of the past and intend to solve the Jupiter problem once and for all. Previous expeditions have been directed into the inner layers of Jupiter, but the result has never been able to solve the aliens.

Now it's different, although the method of gradual encirclement is a bit stupid, the effect is definitely much stronger than going straight to the inner layer - it's not that they didn't learn a lesson before, but they didn't have such strong manpower and material resources, and it was impossible to send so many materials to Jupiter.

The supplies sent this time were not as abundant as expected, otherwise the outer space base would not be so rough.

According to Huo Qiang's meaning, a complete space base must be equipped with at least three weapons: lasers, missiles, and close defense, and have all-round strike capabilities at various distances such as long, medium, and near, and each base must also be equipped with a reactor.

He thought it was good, but it was really a bit out of reality, the fact is that the weapons are not equipped at all, and the reactor does not need to be thought about, and in order to supply power to the equipment, photovoltaic cells have to be laid on the satellite.

This hellish place is Jupiter, the light intensity is only four percent of the earth, and there is a large area of photovoltaic cells, but there are few devices that can be driven, which almost broke Huo Qiang's heart.

A few days later, the international fleet rushed to Jupiter and began to build a space base in the other direction.

The two fleets are in different directions but have the same goal, and the pace of construction is unprecedentedly fast, and six space bases have been repaired in just a few days, and if the satellites on the periphery are too scattered, this number will be doubled.

But then again, that is, the outer base dares to be so foolish, the closer to the inner layer, the more complete the new space base will be, there should be a lot of equipment, and the weapons and equipment are becoming more and more sophisticated, and each base is equivalent to a shrunken version of the capital ship.

With so many space bases surrounding Jupiter, it's not so easy for aliens to leave.