1337 Successes and failures
Ye Han had a lot of thoughts, but he didn't say a word, and it was impossible to affect the military operations in Ceres.
During the landing of the clone legion, the Nanzhou ship group always stayed near Ceres, not giving the alien fleet a chance to get closer, and the aliens also knew that they would seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and they would not dare to approach Ceres at all if they were far away.
But the other star fields in the asteroid belt are different, since the arrival of the Nanzhou ship group, the alien fleet in the asteroid belt is like a pot, a large number of alien warships poured out of their respective hiding places, began to assemble in the direction of Ceres, preliminary judgment, the number of enemy ships is not less than three hundred.
When Ye Han saw the news, he didn't know what to say, the speed of aliens' shipbuilding was too perverted!
But when you think about it, it doesn't seem to be a particularly strange thing.
Alien warships are grown, and no matter how harsh the environment is, as long as the basic conditions are met, the spaceship can be planted.
The asteroid belt has a little-known inference that at the time of the formation of the asteroid belt, a snow line with a temperature below the point of condensation of water formed 2.7 astronomical units from the sun, and any celestial body outside this line could accumulate ice.
In other words, any celestial body that is outside the snow line is likely to contain a lot of water ice.
And water is one of the important environmental conditions for aliens to plant warships, and the aliens are in a hurry to control the asteroid belt, probably because they are interested in the water resources here.
These are all deduced by Ye Han based on known information, and the accuracy is impossible to verify, but he himself feels that the probability is very high.
The unfavorable situation faced by the Nanzhou ship group has attracted great attention from all sides, although Huo Qiang gave the order at any cost, but the Nanzhou ship group cannot be the opponent of three hundred enemy ships in any case, if the alien fleet is assembled, it will be an out-and-out disaster for the Nanzhou ship group and Ceres!
In order to reduce the pressure on the Nanzhou ship group, the remaining fleet led by the US battleship Saratoga strongly attacked Vesta, and a fierce conflict broke out with the alien fleet hovering near Vesta, and the exchange of fire lasted for more than two hours!
However, from Ye Han's point of view, the so-called fierce conflict is a joke, and the Saratoga ship group (hereinafter referred to as the Sara ship group) has always kept a safe distance from the alien fleet, and has made appropriate concessions, and has not fought to the death with the international fleet at all.
This situation has also attracted great attention from all sides, and the analysis believes that the Nanzhou ship group has attracted the main attention of the aliens, and they have seen through the intention of the Sara ship group, so they only leave part of the forces on Vesta to contain the Sara ship group, and its main force will inevitably gather in the direction of Ceres!
This is not a good phenomenon, obviously, the aliens want to break each other, first defeat or even annihilate the Nanzhou ship group, and then turn back to deal with the Sara ship group, so that they can break the confrontation situation of the asteroid belt and completely grasp the strategic initiative of the asteroid belt.
The situation was very unfavorable for the Nanzhou ship group, and the northern capital immediately held an urgent round of consultations with Washington.
Although the two sides have continued to contradict each other in private, Washington does not know what it means to be cold-lipped, and no one dares to slack off on major issues of right and wrong.
Immediately after the consultations, Washington gave a death order to the Sara ship group, regardless of the method, at any cost, the alien fleet must be delayed!
Receiving the order, the Sara ship group immediately launched an attack on the enemy forces in front of the storm.
In the face of the attack of the Sara ship group, the alien fleet did not advance but retreated, and never exchanged fire with the Sara ship group head-on.
The response of the alien fleet further confirmed the joint command's assumptions, and Washington suggested that the northern capital evacuate Ceres to avoid the danger of the southern continent ship group.
The Northern Capital seriously considered this suggestion, decisively canceled the order to seize Ceres, suggested that the Nanzhou ship group act cheaply, and quoted Taizu as "saving land and losing people, losing people and land; Save people and lose land, people and land will be gained".
Receiving the order, Gao Kai was in a dilemma.
It was easy to evacuate according to the order, but he had already put a 10,000-strong clone army on Ceres, and they had cleared forty percent of the underground space, and at the current progress, it would take another seven to ten days to completely control the underground space of Ceres.
The clone legion has been exposed to the aliens' sight, and the aliens are on guard, and it will definitely not be as easy as it is now if they want to use the clone legion to compete for Ceres.
If the fleet retreats alone, leave the clone legion on Ceres...... It seems to be a means that can be tried, but the problem is that the servants are from aliens, kill Gao Kai, and he doesn't believe that aliens have no means of countermeasures, and then not only Ceres, but also a clone army of more than 10,000 people will be put into it, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Humanity had never been so close to Ceres as it was today, and if the fleet withdrew, Ceres would fall into the hands of the enemy, and he was not willing to let go at this juncture.
But the alien fleet has begun to assemble, and there is really not much time left for Gao Kai.
After thinking about it, the only flaw in the enemy army is the speed of assembly.
According to the speed and position of the enemy ships, the enemy forces will complete the initial build-up in half a month, and about 30 percent of the enemy ships will be in place by then, that is, about 90 ships.
Twenty days later, more than 50 percent of the forces were assembled, about 150 ships.
After a month, 80 percent will be assembled, and the remaining 20 percent will take about 35 to 40 days to reach Ceres.
With the strength of the Nanzhou ship group, it is not a big problem to deal with 90 enemy ships, if you can destroy these enemy ships, not only can you hold Ceres, but also greatly deter the alien fleet, maybe there is a chance to smash the aliens' plan to seize Ceres.
Gao Kai made up his mind, immediately convened the fleet command, and held a brief meeting with the support of the communication system.
At the meeting, Gao Kai elaborated on the situation faced by the fleet, analyzed the pros and cons of retreating or not, and finally said a word: "If you don't try, I'm not reconciled!" ”
Gao Kai was not the only one who was unwilling, and few of the commanders attending the meeting were willing to retreat, and the vast majority of people supported Gao Kai's idea and immediately began to discuss tactics against the enemy.
Gao Kai originally planned to wait for the aliens to gather some of his forces, and then use his main army to defeat the enemy's assembled fleet in one fell swoop.
However, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, the main force duel was really not a good plan, and he himself vetoed the idea first without the opposition of others.
Offense is the best defense, and the most likely plan to achieve is to give full play to the essence of guerrilla warfare and take the initiative to attack and break through each while the enemy ships have not yet gathered.
But there is still an enemy army near Ceres, and if the Nanzhou group wants to leave, it must first annihilate this enemy army - mind you, the enemy army! ( Carapace Mobile Edition Reading M. )