Chapter 333: Consecutive Defeats
Zhang Jin's fleet began to adjust its formation while trying to resist the opponent's attack, but this was easier said than done.
When changing the formation, it would inevitably lead to a brief confusion in the queue, but now Li Xingqi's fleet was launching a fierce attack around Zhang Jin's fleet, and many ships were devastating when they changed positions.
Seeing that the battleships were beaten so that he couldn't fight back, Zhang Jin was already anxious, but in order to break through, these costs had to be paid, and there was no other way than gritting his teeth and insisting.
Under the fierce attack, Zhang Jin's fleet finally completed the change of formation, Zhang Jin did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately ordered the whole army to break through.
At this time, Li Xingqi already knew Zhang Jin's purpose, and immediately ordered to give way for Zhang Jin to break through, while other ships chased after Zhang Jin and continued to attack.
At this time, Zhang Jin couldn't care about the pursuers behind him, so he could only break through first, and then the fleet endured the attack from behind and rushed forward.
Li Xingqi's fleet fought and retreated, and soon left a passage for Zhang Jin's fleet to pass. Seeing that there was a gap ahead, Zhang Jin immediately ordered the fleet to rush out from the gap.
Finally breaking through the encirclement, Zhang Jin's fleet had already lost a large number of ships, and the loss rate had reached about 20%, which was even worse than the previous battle.
Li Xingqi accepted it when he saw it, and did not chase all the way to the end, he was worried that if he hit too hard, Zhang Jin would run back to his hometown in fright.
In two consecutive battles, Li Xingqi eliminated almost one-third of the enemy ships, and his own losses were less than half of Zhang Jin's.
The victory boosted the morale of Li Xingqi's fleet, and many people sent a plea to Li Xingqi, asking for continuous attacks until Zhang Jin was completely defeated.
However, Li Xingqi's mind is still quite clear, the continuous battles have brought the fleet to the limit, and if he does not rest, sooner or later there will be problems.
What's more, pushing too hard will make Zhang Jingou jump off the wall in a hurry, and even if he defeats Zhang Jin at that time, I'm afraid he will lose a lot.
Li Xingqi's goal is to eat Zhang Jin's fleet little by little while trying to preserve himself as much as possible.
"Tell me, how should this battle be fought?" Zhang Jin angrily yelled at his subordinates, asking them to come up with a plan that could defeat Li Xingqi.
None of the staff and officers spoke, and if they had a way, they would have brought it up a long time ago, and they would not have had to hide it until now.
The worst thing is that after a series of rumors, these people now don't trust each other, and no one wants to say too much, lest someone catch them again.
Among all of them, this is especially true of the people of the Thunder Dragon Fleet, after their previous Admiral Zhuang Sheng was driven away, the newly transferred Admiral Tian Yin was a loyal person on the surface, but in fact he was very tactful.
In view of what happened to Zhuang Sheng, Tian Yin made up his mind not to offend Zhang Jin, but he would not really contribute, no matter what he could, he would dodge, he would slip if he could, in short, he would try his best to make a living.
Because Tian Yin had this kind of thinking from the beginning, he was unwilling to do his best when fighting, and spent his main energy on defense, and at most pretended to attack when attacking.
After the two battles, Zhang Jin's fleet suffered a lot of losses, but the loss rate of the Thunder Dragon fleet was significantly lower than that of others.
Zhang Jin waited for a long time, but none of the officers below refused to speak, and they all lowered their heads as if they hadn't heard Zhang Jin's words.
Faced with such an atmosphere, Zhang Jin's heart ignited a wave of anger, but he didn't know who to shoot at his head, so he habitually fell on the data of a fleet.
Looking at it, Zhang Jin found the problem that had arisen again, and the loss rate of the Thunder Dragon Fleet was once again less than anyone else.
"Damn! It's the Thunder Dragon Fleet again......" Zhang Jin secretly scolded in his heart: "This fleet is here to drag me back!" ”
Although he was furious in his heart, the current Zhang Jin did not dare to trouble the Thunder Dragon Fleet again, if he drove Tian Yin away again, it would be equivalent to tearing his face directly with Zhao Xian.
Zhang Jin deliberately said without naming names: "The battle in the past two days is really bad, I think the main reason is that some people have not done their best, I hope these people will be careful for me, don't forget that now we are a whole, one is prosperous, one is lost, do you understand?" ”
All the senior officers of the fleet were here, and when they heard Zhang Jin say this, they were all very uncomfortable, and they all felt that Zhang Jin was talking about himself.
Zhang Jin held a military meeting for several hours, but instead of getting any useful advice, it made everyone uncomfortable, and the atmosphere in the fleet became worse and worse.
The fleets of both sides rested for a day, and then Li Xingqi's fleet took the initiative to attack and began to approach Zhang Jin's fleet.
This time, Li Xingqi didn't play tricks, just simply discharged a phalanx, and it seemed that he was going to conduct a regular shooting.
Zhang Jin never came up with a way to defeat Li Xingqi, so he honestly discharged the exact same phalanx, and made up his mind never to play any tricks with Li Xingqi again.
The fleets of both sides followed the most conventional method, firing each other with particle cannons for several hours, with limited losses on each side, and then hastily withdrawing their troops.
For Li Xingqi, he now has a numerical advantage, as long as he adopts this most conventional method and consumes it little by little, it won't take long to drain Zhang Jin's fleet.
Therefore, Li Xingqi doesn't need to play extra tricks, as long as he maintains the current rhythm, and when Zhang Jin is anxious, he will naturally take the initiative to send it up.
It's not that Zhang Jin doesn't understand Li Xingqi's plans, but he can't find a way to defeat Li Xingqi, and he already has a shadow psychologically, and maintaining the current rhythm is quite acceptable for Zhang Jin.
Several more firefights followed, and the result was the same, with both sides being very cautious in employing the most conventional methods of combat, and neither side could take advantage.
However, there will still be some losses in such a battle, and Li Xingqi's numerical advantage has become more and more obvious in a few days, and Zhang Jin has begun to realize that he will always be exhausted if he continues like this.
Now unless Zhang Jin can find new reinforcements, he will definitely be defeated by Li Xingqi's men, but if he can't win the war, those big families will no longer support him, and Zhang Jin is stuck in a helpless death cycle.
However, at this time, an even worse bad news came, Li Xingqi's war in the other galaxy was over, and he would soon be able to send another fleet to the Sea Eagle system.
Once Li Xingqi's reinforcements arrived, there was no suspense about the outcome of the war, Zhang Jin finally made up his mind to have another decisive battle with Li Xingqi, if he could win, he would turn the whole battle around, and if he failed, he would simply withdraw his troops and retreat to the Bison Galaxy.
In order to have a better chance of victory, Zhang Jin convened a military meeting again, at which he did his best to encourage the officers, asking them to mobilize their morale as much as possible and make all preparations for the final decisive battle.
The officers had long lost confidence in Zhang Jin, and even they didn't believe that this war could be won, so how could they encourage the soldiers below.
After the meeting, except for Zhang Jin, who had a little confidence, everyone else was thinking about how to protect themselves.
After Tian Yin returned to his flagship, he immediately contacted Zhao Xun and reported the current situation to his immediate boss.
Although Zhao Xian is Zhang Jin's cousin, he cares more about his fleet, and after listening to Tian Yin's report, Zhao Xianda feels from the bottom of his heart that Zhang Jin will lose this battle.
Zhao Xianxin said that instead of losing the fleet in the Sea Eagle Galaxy, it is better to preserve the strength first. Although this will offend Zhang Jin, the relationship can be slowly repaired in the future, and it will be difficult to make up for the lost fleet.
So Zhao Xun instructed Tian Yin that once the situation on the battlefield was unfavorable, he would withdraw immediately, and he must not lose the fleet there, it was not worth doing this for the sake of Zhang Jin.
Tian Yin naturally agreed, he was not Zhang Jin's subordinate in the first place, and he would definitely listen to Zhao Yan's words.
When everything was ready, Zhang Jin commanded their army and began to sail towards Li Xingqi's fleet. Li Xingqi still responded to the battle in a conventional way, setting up an ordinary phalanx, intending to consume Zhang Jin's fleet little by little, just like before.
The battle began, and the two fleets began to shoot at each other, and then began to rotate formations when the energy was consumed to a certain extent.
At this time, Zhang Jin's fleet changed its normal state, and the ships that were rotated to the front of the formation began to suddenly accelerate forward, and began to assault towards Li Xingqi's position.
Soon, other ships followed, and in the process of advancing, Zhang Jin's formation gradually changed into a triangular formation suitable for assault.
Li Xingqi couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene, and said in a joking tone: "I didn't expect Zhang Jin to have such a hand, I want to see if he has the courage to fight this war to the end?" ”
After speaking, Li Xingqi immediately ordered the fleet to retreat while fighting, and try to widen the distance between it and Zhang Jin's fleet, so that Zhang Jin's fleet could not quickly rush to his own front.
The fleets of both sides retreated and rushed forward, chasing through the vastness of space.
Li Xingqi's fleet already had a numerical advantage, coupled with high morale, although it was retreating, the more it fought, the more calm it became.
Zhang Jin's fleet was already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the morale of the whole army was very low, although many captains rushed all the way forward, but they did not attack actively, leaving most of their energy to the defensive cover, so as not to destroy their warships.
For this battle, Zhang Jin was desperate, and he kept urging the officers below to show all their courage and break through Li Xingqi's formation in one go.
However, most people just promised in words, but in fact they didn't do their best, and they all wanted to protect themselves first, and it took a lot of time to catch up with Li Xingqi's fleet.
Just when Zhang Jin was desperately urging, a situation that surprised everyone appeared, which immediately changed the battle.