After getting the news of Joestar and Ryan, Sendaya finally breathed a sigh of relief. In any case, the mysterious device is now in hand. As long as the device is brought back, then the sacrifice of the 1st Brigade is meaningful.

"Brothers of the first team, Joestar and Ryan have already obtained the mission target device, now what we have to do is to break the rear for them, maintain the formation, slowly retreat in the direction of the fleet, and definitely don't let a Forsecon mecha rush over!"

"Yes!" The remnants of the warriors still did not hesitate to carry out this almost death-defying mission.

Sendaya silently looked at the light screen, and before he died, Gemati issued the command of the troops to him, not only as a verbal instruction, but also as the electronic command authority of the mecha team. Now, Sendaya's mecha on-board computer can obtain the combat information of all the existing mechs through the command network.

79 machines.

That's the number of people left in the First Brigade, excluding Joestar and Ryan, who are leaving. In order for Joestar and Ryan to get the target device, the first team had to maintain a rigid formation and not retreat. As a result, the troops lost nearly 30 mechs in just a few minutes.

"Gemati, you've given me a problem. Is it true that my first brigade can only keep a small spark today, and the others will eventually die on the battlefield. ”

Although it seems that there are no major loopholes in the defensive formation of the first brigade, it is even said that there are contacts with the enemy, after all, once the mecha troops form a formation, if the opponent rushes over in an orderly manner, then they will be attacked head-on. However, Sendaya knew that this phenomenon was only temporary. Although the first brigade can barely maintain the formation, relying on excellent mechs and combat capabilities, and not falling behind in the face of the enemy, as the number of mechs becomes smaller and smaller, the entire defensive formation will become weaker and weaker, until it breaks through a critical point - that is, the coming of collapse.

This is not because the soldiers of the first brigade are not enough, or that there are problems with technology and tactics, it is purely the numerical gap between the two sides at this time, and it is not something that other objective factors can make up. On the Versequin side, is there still 300 machines? 400 machines? Anyway, the dense red dots on the radar light screen, compared to the sparse green dots on your side, as long as you are not blind, you can see the gap between the two sides at a glance. Although some of the opponent's fighters are carrier-based fighters, under the absolute superiority in numbers, although the combat power of the fighters is far inferior to the mechas, they still occupy a large enough advantage.

If the first brigade only needs to retreat with all its might, then the battle situation will not be as it is now. In the precious few minutes that Gemati had sacrificed himself for the brigade, the first brigade could have thrown off the enemy and walked away. However, if it is not possible to figure out the technology that the enemy's flagship can directly locate and jump over without passing through the stable large wormhole of the stargate in this battle, the Imperial Army will be in an extremely passive situation in future wars.

Suddenly, the enemy on the opposite side seemed to be crazy, and regardless of life and death, they began to attack the formation of the first brigade again.

"yes, presumably they were also given a death order to reclaim that precious device." Sendaya thought.

He was right. When Joestar and Ryan seized the device, because of the powerful radiation and fluctuations in the light cluster, the flagship, which was actually close at hand, could not find out that the device had been taken away at the first time. But when the light group disappeared, the enemy on the Fosyken flagship was not blind and stupid, so he naturally reacted immediately, and notified the mecha and fighter troops to immediately intercept the first team and be sure to recapture the secret weapon.

On the other side, Joestar and Ryan were flying as fast as they could, heading towards the fleet.

"Ensign Lane! Second Lieutenant Lane! Can you hear ME! Suddenly a voice came from Ryan's mech communicator. This is the fleet command! Second Lieutenant Lane, please answer immediately! ”

The efforts of the Fleet Command Communicators to contact the pilots of the First Brigade finally paid off, and they were contacted as soon as Ryan and Joestar flew out of the jamming area.

"It's the battleship command!? I'm Ryan, the captain of the third squad of the second squadron of the first brigade of the Star Knights, and I want to talk to General Nakach directly! ”

A few seconds later, a deep male voice came from the communication channel, "I'm Nakach, Second Lieutenant Lane, report the current situation of the First Brigade immediately, why don't you return to the fleet immediately?" ”

"General, Captain Gemati has died, and is currently the Acting Captain of the Second Squadron, Sendaya, and we have seized what may be the enemy's flagship jump secret combat device according to the final order of Captain Gemati, and we are bringing back to the fleet by me and the newly promoted Star Knight Joestar. The 1st Brigade, the remaining fighters of the 1st Brigade are holding back the enemy forces for us. ”

In the headquarters of the First Fleet, Nakach's brows were tightly furrowed, and it was gratifying to be able to obtain a device that was suspected to be the opponent's secret weapon, but the battle situation in front of him was indeed not optimistic. There is no longer a single soldier on the command side that can be sent out to rescue the first brigade.

This, of course, is the reason for the lack of intelligence. Because of the huge racial differences between the two sides, it is almost impossible for human spies and intelligence services to collect information about the Forseken army on the other side of the wormhole, and can only rely on some data from hidden detectors and scanners sent from time to time to analyze and judge. For the sudden large-scale attack of the Fosykens and the appearance of the flagship jumping behind enemy lines, the intelligence services were almost completely devoid of any information and preparations. As a result, the First Fleet stationed on this line of defense was already overstretched by the Foseiken fleet that blocked the attack in the direction of the Star Gate.

"I command!" It was as if he had made up his mind. "The First Fleet, retreat to the vicinity of the current fortress, all personnel in the fortress are ready to evacuate, all the defense systems of the fortress are all open, and the self-detonation system counts down to two hours. All ships of the First Fleet must retreat to the vicinity of the fortress within an hour and thirty minutes, and we use the fortress's automatic defense system and self-detonation to buy the fleet time to jump and retreat. ”

Nakach didn't turn off the communication channel with Ryan Joestar, so Joestar and Ryan heard the orders he gave clearly.

"General! And what about the first brigade! Send in some reinforcements, General! Rescue the first brigade. Ryan pleaded.

"Second Lieutenant Lane. I'm sorry, but the command doesn't have any combat power to send out to reinforce the First Brigade right now. Please bring the device back to the stronghold at full speed at once. I'm sorry for the soldiers of the 1st Brigade. We must be ready to retreat before the enemy's flagships and aircraft groups come up together. ”

Ryan in the mecha closed his eyes in despair.

Joestar's bitter voice sounded, "Captain, is there really no way?" There was a deathly silence in the communication channel.