"Therefore, I need the Voyager to be in view of the opposing base to show them who we really are. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Is it just in the community's view?" Spred asked, "Don't you need to make contact with each other?" ”

"Not at the moment." Zhou Xin replied, "As long as the Voyager is in their field of vision, they will surely not connect us with either Kazlan or Eun after seeing the Voyager." The sooner we clarify our identity to the community, the better. As for face-to-face contact, I would like to wait until we have been talking for a while. ”

"Just what appeared in front of them—" Spred was about to say something simple when Dart interrupted.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Hearing Dart's words, Spred's face suddenly showed a puzzled look, and then Dart explained, "Don't forget that there are two other scientific research bases belonging to Kazlan and Eun on both sides of the Scorching Star, and the community's spaceship is relatively small, so it is difficult to be discovered by those two bases. But the Voyager was different, and there was simply no way to avoid them at the same time with such a large size. ”

"That's what I'm worried about, too." Zhou Xin's brows furrowed, and then he asked, "Atlas, have you sent a probe to investigate those two bases?" ”

"People have tried." The little girl replied, "But the two bases are so heavily guarded that even small detectors can't find a chance to enter." Moreover, some time ago, the probe was able to photograph those two bases from time to time when people came out to the surface of the planet, but after the start of this war, those two bases were completely closed and no one came out again. ”

"What's going on?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself suspiciously, after listening to Atlas's explanation, including him, many people's curiosity was aroused.

"It's so well guarded, can it be—" Spred's attention was focused on the little girl's first introduction, and suddenly, a bold thought popped into his mind, "Could it be that those two bases are similar to the previous asteroids, similar to the existence of weapons research institutes?" Could it be that there is also a certain amount of neutron material stored in it? As soon as he finished saying this, many people in the command cabin became excited.

Zhou Xin thought carefully for a while, and then remembered something, he shook his head and said, "I don't think it's very likely, do you remember the previous brawl?" Seeing that everyone's faces showed a thoughtful look, Zhou Xin continued, "In other words, in fact, the two countries know that each other has a base on the scorching star. So no base can be called a 'secret', so in this case, can you expect anything important to be stored inside? Even if there were important items in the past, I am afraid that they have long since been moved to other places. With Zhou Xin's explanation, the faces of those who were originally excited gradually showed some disappointment.

"And what do you think will be in these two bases?" Spred asked.

"I can't guess either." Zhou Xin spread his hands, "Actually, I'm also curious, if there is no special role, what are Kazlan and Eun doing when they build a base on the satellite, and they don't give up even if they are discovered by the other party." So, Atlas, you still have to find a way to investigate the situation inside the two bases. She said to the little girl.

"So after all this time, until now we still haven't been able to fly to the vicinity of the Community base without being detected by the two bases." Dart said.

"There's really nothing you can do right now." Zhou Xin's tone was a little helpless, and then he asked with a tentative attitude, "Voyager, can you calculate a route that is not detected by the two bases on the satellite, and at the same time can reach the vicinity of the community base?" ”

"No." Atlas preemptively said, "People have simulated it several times just now, just like the captain brother you said. It is impossible for the ship to evade detection from both bases at the same time. A few minutes later, the Voyager came up with the same result.

"It seems that maybe then we will have to trouble Deman to find out and see us." After thinking about it for a long time, Zhou Xin still didn't think of any way, he whispered to himself.

The conversation in the command module then turned back to the community, and with the information the probes investigating at the base, the group had another discussion, and the day without war passed.

However, the lull between the Eun Empire and the Republic of Kazran was only temporary, and as the Eun Empire continued to send more troops to the front line, it was only a day before the battle between the two sides began again.

However, the caution of the Eun fleet was evident just from the advance, and they did not charge towards Kazran's line at random as in the previous battle, but the fleets from all directions advanced at the same time. At the same time, after a day's buffer time, they also thought of ways to deal with the attack of the Kazlan neutron weapon. That is, the formation is arranged more dispersed, so that the explosion of each "neutron bomb" does not affect too many warships. It's a stupid idea, but it works. On the Kazlan side, the stealth warships, which were originally side by side with the other warships, retreated directly to the rear of the defense line without even attacking after seeing the formation of the Eun's fleet, and it seems that they also understand that the use of neutron weapons in this situation will hardly help. Therefore, the next battle between the two sides was still the regular fleet.

But also due to the spread of the distance between the ships, it was clear that the overall offensive of the Ewen fleet was not as fierce as before. So, although they still maintained their usual superiority in the number of warships, they were only equal to the Kazran defending fleet in battle. The two sides did not even take a big advantage, and even the losses were very small, the battle lasted for nearly an hour, and Zhou Xin, who was watching the battle in the command cabin, had not found any of the battleships that had been completely destroyed, at most they were only seriously damaged.

After only two hours of normal fighting, the Ewen retreated on their own initiative, a move that many people found inexplicable.

"What do you mean by that?" Zhou Xin said suspiciously, "The attack launched by myself on my own initiative did not cause any losses to the Kazlan fleet, and my own fleet also had no losses, so why did I retreat silently like this." ”

"Maybe it's just a temptation." Dart speculated, "The Eun fleet didn't see any new tactics or weapons other than formation in today's battle, maybe they just wanted to test the reaction of the stealth ships." After thinking about it, he added, "Of course, it is also possible that they are afraid that if the battle continues, they will cause those stealth warships to attack them." ”

"Hmm." While listening to Dart's analysis, Zhou Xin was also thinking, "According to what you say, it should be more likely to be tempted, after all, judging from the strength of the Eun fleet that has been exposed now, it is completely impossible to pose a threat to the current Kazlan defense line by relying only on the fleet composed of ordinary warships." Moreover, from the very beginning of the battle, I felt that the Eun fleet was very cautious and had lost the momentum of the previous attack at all, so I am afraid that their original intention was really just as you said, just a temptation. ”

Now that they have come to a conclusion, Zhou Xin and the others will no longer continue to pay attention to the two fleets that have retreated to their respective positions, originally they thought that the next day would pass like this. But to their surprise, just four hours later, the Eun fleet launched another attack on the Kazlan fleet.

This time the battle was almost no different from the morning battle, and even shorter, just over an hour. Moreover, this battle can be regarded as the most peaceful battle since the battle between Eun and Kazran, the Eun fleet only made a few formation changes in front of Kazran's defense line, and at the same time launched three waves of attacks in order before turning around and retreating, without causing any losses to the Kazran defense line at all, on the contrary, several of its own warships were heavily damaged.

To everyone's surprise, this was not the last battle of the day. Just as Zhou Xin was about to go to bed, the third battle of the day broke out.

Still about the same as before, the Eun fleet slowly advanced within range of the Kazlan battleships, then changed formation under their fire, and after two waves of attacks during the change of formation, they retreated again.

For three consecutive attacks in one day, even Dart couldn't guess what the current Ewen people were thinking. Because he didn't see the difference between Eon's three attacks at all, he couldn't think of any other reason than to probe at all. But if it was really a temptation, the frequency of three times a day seemed too high, so Dart's mind was full of doubts and had no other thoughts.

Not only this day, but for the next six or seven days, the Eune fleet seemed to regain its pre-inflicted vigor as it had suffered heavy losses, and they repeatedly provoked the Kazlan fleet. However, unlike the previous battles, the battles in these days lasted for a short period of time, but the frequency was very high, reaching as many as six times a day. And the whole process of each battle is very similar, the Eune fleet as a whole slowly approached the Kazlan defense line, launched three waves of attacks, and then directly withdrew from the range of the Kazlan battleship regardless of whether it caused losses to the other side, which made people feel a little annoying.

In the first few battles, Dart, who was watching the battle, was able to make some guesses, but as the number of battles increased, he was also confused by the uniform way of fighting the Eun fleet, and by the beginning of the eighth battle, he didn't even know what to say.

"When exactly will this boring battle end?" It wasn't until he saw the Eun fleet launch an attack like a replay that he didn't know it was, that Dart finally couldn't help but speak, "What's the point of this kind of battle that won't cause losses to the enemy and consume a lot of your own resources at the same time." Isn't it said that the southern continent is short of resources? And why are the Ewen people wasting their resources on such useless battles? ”

At first, Zhou Xin also had the same doubts as Dart, but after observing nearly twenty battles, combined with the knowledge of war he had learned before, he saw some clues.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." On the fifth day of the battle, in the process of observing the battle between the two sides, Zhou Xin suddenly burst into words.

"What do you mean?" Dart looked at Zhou Xin with a puzzled expression.

"I'm afraid the purpose of the Ewen people's battle these days is not so simple." Looking at the screen, Zhou Xin said thoughtfully, "Although the Eun fleet is still in the same state as a few days ago during the attack, haven't you noticed that the Kazlan fleet as a defense is any different from before?" ”

Under Zhou Xin's reminder, Dart observed for a while and seemed to have found something, and he couldn't help blurting out, "Strange? ”

"Looks like you've found out, too." Seeing Dart's expression, Zhou Xin continued, "The Kazlan people's defense has been slackened a lot, and even the counterattack is obviously perfunctory. Compared to the previous days, even the attack strength has weakened a lot. In the absence of a change in the number of battleships, this is almost impossible. If there is nothing wrong with the battleship itself, then the problem can only be—"

"It's the Kazlan." Dart blurted out without thinking, "That is, the Kazlans who have been fighting these days are purely trying to paralyze their opponents. ”

"I'm afraid it's very likely." Zhou Xin nodded, and then he pointed to the rear of the Kazran defense line and said, "Not only Kazran's ordinary fleet, but even the motherships behind are in this state. In the last few battles, he didn't even switch to an attack stance, which was simply not possible in previous battles. If you look at those stealth warships, although they don't need to adjust their attack posture, they are now far behind the defense line, and if the defense line collapses at this moment, these stealth warships will not be able to play any support role at such a distance. ”

"I'm afraid it's not very effective if it's just paralysis, if the Eun just want to raid, at most they can only have some advantages in the early stage of the battle, and in the end they will still fail with the support of the reacting Kazlan mothership and stealth battleship." Following Zhou Xin's thoughts, Dart thought about it, "But if it's not just a surprise attack, but a preparation for what they think is a key battle in the future, then the behavior of the Eun's fleet in the past few days can be reasonably explained. ”

Zhou Xin's brows furrowed, "It's only been a few days, have the Ewen people found a way to deal with both the Kazlan Mothership and the neutron weapons on board the stealth battleship so quickly......?" ”