Major events always come out of nowhere, inadvertently.

The galloping fleets of the Empire and the Federation have not yet all been in place, K11 suddenly issued an emergency full-band announcement, the K41 defense line was breached by the swarm, and K42's so-called "New Human Alliance" was in an emergency!

At about the same time, the command of the Western Front requested maximum help from the militia front's armed forces, who intended to urgently launch a counterattack on the left sector.

No matter how the NPCs usually drag their feet, it is also clear from this news that they will still try to maintain strategic balance at important points.

K41 was broken by the swarm, K42 was also in a hurry, even if the right-wing swarm stored a large number of reserve troops, it was difficult to pose a devastating threat to K11 in dozens of hours, even if it was a trap, it was also a worthwhile opportunity for the K11 parties who had been stalemate for a long time, and the rest was to grab time.

As the chief of staff, as soon as he received the news, Pan Wen had already begun to assemble the fleet, and the discussions with the parliamentarians were also going on simultaneously.

Most of the members of the meeting agreed that the main purpose of the Western Front Command was to second, the top commander of Pan Wen, and the powerful Anike mercenaries, and that everyone's interests in K11 must be supported by the Empire and the Federation, so they must be helped.

At the meeting, it was decided that the Panvin fleet would bring all the Anike mercenaries to help, and the militia front would only be responsible for providing two reconnaissance fleets, as well as for post-war maintenance and supply subsidies.

This decision has shortened the fleet assembly time, and the Anike mercenaries, unlike the ordinary security fleet, do not agree with human society now, except for some indescribable transactions, all personnel can depart at any time on the ship, saving a lot of personnel assembly time.

As soon as he left the remote meeting, he received a request from the Imperial and Federal Mercenary Forces stationed in the militia front, hoping to join the command system of the militia front.

Of course, Pan Wen agreed to them without hesitation.

After this side is processed, it will be necessary to coordinate with the command of the Western Front.

Because it is an emergency counterattack, in order to gain as much time advantage as possible and prevent insects from doing anything, the action of gathering troops will be canceled.

According to the results of the coordination, the Western Front Command will send a total of eight fleets of advance troops, with the mercenary system led by Phan Van mainly responsible for clearing the field, and other civilian armed forces waiting on the Western Front being responsible for the follow-up sweep.

Less than two hours after receiving the notification, as the last ship left the Port of the Vigilante Front, the Gold sent separate messages to the Western Front Command and the location provided by the player's mercenaries to begin confirming the operation.

The fleet waited for half an hour while gaining speed, and the command of the Western Front asked them to go directly to K8.

Without going into details, two hours later, the Panvin fleet sent rallying coordinates to all player mercenaries at K8 to prepare for clearance.

The main force of the swarm had been withdrawn from K8 when the previous type of reconnaissance ship was put into operation, but there were still quite a few bugs roaming around, and it was difficult to catch them. Fortunately, in order to cooperate with the operation, the Western Front Command has also prepared some first-class reconnaissance ships to provide intelligence support for this most powerful civilian armed force, which has eased the work of intelligence collection and analysis a lot.

While receiving information released by a class of reconnaissance ships in encrypted broadcasts of the situation, the statistical results of the fleet also came out.

The total number of player mercenary ships that have joined this purge force is more than 3,200, and the proportion of frigates has reached sixty percent, which is equivalent to three Imperial legions, supplemented by Anike mercenaries, and is only stronger than the Imperial fleet in terms of high-end combat power. Players have the will to fight to the death, no worse than the regular army, the only flaw is probably whether the Anike mercenaries can fully carry out the order is still a little variable.

Through mass calculations, it was confirmed that K8 did not have an excessively large insect swarm and backward, and Pan Wen decisively requested that the fleet be dispersed and liquidated separately.

The tactical team assembled in the Pan Van fleet quickly split the fleet into eleven small fleets, sending information such as movement paths, standard movement speeds, and target paths.

The requirement of the standard movement speed of the mission fleet is to facilitate the Pan Vin fleet to carry out non-delayed intelligence support for hyperspace information of various branch fleets, and in terms of accuracy, the first-class reconnaissance ships do not have strong enough equipment, compared with the information integrated ships, they can only do intelligence assistance, and can never become command ships.

With many cooperative operations and a coordinated command system, this super-large wild fleet is almost indistinguishable from the Imperial fleet cluster in terms of efficiency and execution, and all parties have cooperated to clean a total of 28 insect colonies in the K8 galaxy within five hours.

According to the information released by the first class of reconnaissance ships, the Imperial and Federal Coalition forces are slightly slower than them, and it is expected that it will still take about half an hour to complete the K8 corresponding jump circle clearance operation in the K7 area.

After the clearance fleet took a step forward in dealing with the emergency repair or withdrawal of the injured ship, by the time it arrived at K7, the Empire and the Union coalition had only performed less than 50% of the jumping action, and it seemed that they were delayed for what to do next.

Compared with K8, K7 left a lot more things for the clearance fleet, and the coalition also had information integrated ships, and during the time that the two fleets existed at the same time as K7, the clearance fleet got all the information obtained by the coalition forces.

The area of action of the coalition forces for several hours is not large, the distance in a straight line is only about 2 AU, and the farthest insect colony is more than 8 AU, but all the bugs of K7 have entered a stealth posture and can only be tracked with the help of mass calculations. According to the swarm's actions, there should have been quite a few command-type bugs among them, and they had already sent the news back to the rear three hours earlier.

According to past experience, it has now entered the intergalactic reaction time of the swarm, and it may counterattack at any time.

Pan Wen did not continue to support the large, reviewed the size of the insect swarm settlement, simply gave up the detachment, the whole force was concentrated, and the player mercenaries used several patrol ships as a unit to do some work such as forward testing, flank guarding, etc.

The concentrated action of the large-scale fleet is relatively slow, in order to cooperate with the acceleration and other elements, it will take a little extra time to reach the same speed or change orbit, and the efficiency change is more obvious after the concentrated operation, and the clearance fleet enters K7 for a full seven hours before completing the clearance of the first target area.

On the way to the second target, the fleet intermittently received intelligence feedback from the front battlefield and messages from the rear.

The Combined Fleet is facing high resistance in K6 and is still fighting with the Bugs to seize control of the jump circle, the fleet has lost more than 20%, and the Bugs' support forces are increasing. Intelligence from a class of reconnaissance ships said that the Combined Fleet would temporarily abandon the purge of K6 and switch to K5, and the direction of action of the clearance fleet would need to be decided according to the next changes in the battlefield.

The state of the rear is even worse, and the latest intelligence shows that the rabble responsible for picking up the leak was ambushed in K9, and the swarm seems to be hiding some bugs outside the K9 ecliptic plane, and as a result, the remaining player mercenaries who were supposed to be in charge of K8 investigation had to intervene in the detailed investigation of K9 and K10. It wasn't until the clearance fleet led by Pan Wen came into contact with the K7 second target swarm settlement that the miscellaneous troops reluctantly confirmed that K9 and K10 were in a controllable state.

Looking at the steady battle situation displayed on the virtual screen, Pan Wen calculated the time, and had a headache.

"Twenty hours."

Twenty hours have passed since the hyperspace information from K42 was obtained, and if there is no new force to join this counterattack, I am afraid that K7 and K8 will be the end of the operation.

The bugs in K5 and K6, even if you fill in all the combined fleets that are dispatched, I'm afraid you won't be able to kill half of them. The sweep fleet he led went in and emptied the existing swarms of K5 and K6 with great hope, but the rear of the nymphs could still provide huge assistance, and the consequences were unimaginable.

In other words, if the bugs of K5 and K6 are not taken, even if they can cause a certain degree of blow to the swarm, it is of little significance for K7 and K8 to occupy them. The K11 garrison on the Western Front was dispersed to K7 and K8 to build a new defensive line, and it was difficult to ensure the stability of the defensive line, not to mention that the reaction time of K11 would increase a lot in the event of an accident, and even lead to an overall collapse.

Only by taking K5 and K6 can we effectively weaken the war potential of the left-wing swarm in the star-sector, so that this group of bugs loses the ability to contain the main human force, reduce the cost of building a defensive line in the future, and retain enough strength in K11 to deal with the more ferocious right-wing swarm.

Taking advantage of the end of the exchange of fire against the second target group of K7, Pan Wen had a brief exchange with the representative of the player's mercenary army, and ordered a class of reconnaissance ships to pass the message to the front and rear.

Players also cooperated, and they used their own channels to call on players who have not joined the clearance fleet to assemble in K8 to pay close attention to their corresponding K5 and K6 jump circles, and to exercise restraint and not rush into them casually.

Originally, K7's last insect colony target didn't need to be troubled, but when attacking the second target, the quality characteristics of the third target could not be detected, indicating that they were dispersed to an extremely low density. The K7 does not have large targets with low orbital speeds such as fortresses, and the ultra-low-density bugs do not have encirclement targets, and they can only harass the scattered fleets that gradually enter the K7 under the mobile fleet, which may not necessarily cause substantial damage.

In short, the scattered insects do not do much harm in a short period of time, and then the civilian ships enter the market, and with the help of observation ships with higher quality inspection precision, they can cooperate with the small fleet to try to catch and eliminate the big insects one by one.

While waiting for a reply from the command of the Western Front, the fleet was still receiving news from the front from a class of reconnaissance ships.

According to the results of the collation, Pan Wen felt that there were not many bugs.

The bugs seem to want to hold K5 and K6, and since the operation, there has been enough time for the bugs to mobilize reinforcements from the rear, but now the total number of the two areas has only reached 30% of the expected value.

The expected value not only refers to the initial value obtained by the D21 development company on the MR251 Haimer satellite E7 satellite, but also has been corrected according to various information since the start of the war, and the error will not be outrageous. Now that the actual situation is so different from the expected value, in addition to the fact that the bugs still have a large number of troops in the rear, there is also a possibility - the bugs sent to make trouble around Florin have hurt the vitality of the left wing sector, and they have not yet recovered their breath!

Pan Wen was not overly optimistic about the results of his guesses, and everything was still waiting for the reply of the Western Front Command.

The command of the Western Front did not drag the mud and water, and the sweeping fleet was quickly replied: three corps would immediately join the anti-occupation battle, and the clearance fleet was requested to cooperate.

The counterattack turned into a counter-occupation war.

The clearing fleet, which has a battle loss rate of less than 3% and stabilizes the situation of the K7, is a surprise for the Western Front Command, and it will not do better if the regular army group does it. While K7 and K8 were controlled, the clearance fleet retained enough strength, so there was not much debate, and the Western Front command decided to respond to the proposal of the clearance fleet and escalate the counterattack to an anti-occupation war and take K5 and K6.

With the addition of these three legions, the scale of the operation is equivalent to the entire strength of the K11 defense line a few weeks ago! If it weren't for the fact that the Empire and the Federation already had new legions stationed in K11, and if it weren't for the right-wing swarm to pinch the soft persimmons, I don't know when I would have found this opportunity in the human-insect war.