Before the support force on the Western Front was in place, the parties used the high-speed round-trip of a class of reconnaissance ships to clarify their responsibilities.

The already damaged Coalition Vanguard Fleet on the Western Front temporarily avoided large-scale contact with the swarm and waited for an opportunity to join the support fleet to carry out joint operations after the convergence.

The mercenaries of K7 and K8 received persuasion to take action and ask them to temporarily accept the unified management of Pan Wen. This persuasion did not allow Pan Wen to fully control the mercenary forces stationed in K8, and most of the mercenary groups with close ties to him were in K7, and the rest of these groups were left behind waiting to be picked up. But persuasion should not be a problem to get them to cooperate in carrying out less dangerous actions.

At the same time, with the strong support of the Western Front Command, the mercenaries of K7 who were operating with him also made a choice, promising to mobilize another fleet to join as soon as possible.

However, because the mercenaries were restricted by the purchase of ships before, the fleet remobilized was mainly patrol ships, and the addition of support troops could barely expand the overall strength of the fleet by less than 20%, which can only be said to be better than nothing. More mercenary support will help the fleet continue to guard K7 after making contingency actions, so as to alert in all directions in a timely manner.

While everyone was busy arranging follow-up operations, the situation in the Vanguard fleet was worse.

After they provoked the insect swarm in K5, they directly entered an endless situation, received several waves of intelligence and news, and never had a chance to completely get rid of the insects, and were intercepted by a small group of fast-moving insects in two waves, and almost wiped out in it.

As a last resort, after losing hundreds of warships and mobilizing three first-class reconnaissance ships to perform self-destruct actions, they barely dragged their wrecked bodies to complete the jump action and returned to the K8 area.

Returning to the Vanguard fleet in the K8 area, the total battle losses have exceeded 32%. It can already be regarded as a high proportion of combat power attrition, which makes the psychological state of the soldiers deteriorate very seriously, and if they are immediately put into battle again, it is difficult to say when there will be a flight.

The morale of the Vanguard Fleet delayed the entire operation, and the Western Front Command chose the method of fleet replacement, allowing two new fleets that had never clashed with the swarm to take over the rest of the Vanguard Fleet.

The fleet changed, so that the coalition fleet was already five hours after the assembly time in K8, and it was also faced with a new problem - experience.

The problem of experience will not be obvious when dealing with enemies who are also humans, anyway, just follow the process, and it will become a bigger problem when facing bugs.

Human reconnaissance equipment is not very sensitive to insect swarms, and after parameter modulation, dealing with normal insect swarms is only barely equivalent to dealing with human fleets, and nymphs are in a stealth state, and the acquisition of reconnaissance intelligence is very dependent on experience.

For example, when you are not in combat, you will always pay attention to the mass points within a certain range, and then use the equipment to confirm the metal reaction of the target and whether it can be detected by optical means, so that you can determine whether it is a swarm at the distance possible. Mass positioning is a data generated by the passive sensor that is not usually directly displayed, and there are many types of digital indicators of the target after being added to the main interface, and the full screen number may affect the judgment when there are too many celestial bodies.

Not only in the non-combat state, in the battle, the acquisition of intelligence has also developed some local methods to assist in precise positioning and other problems, these functions will be newly added to the fleet, but the crew will inevitably reduce the response frequency of the ship's weapons before getting used to it.

Of the five fleets of the new anti-occupation combined fleet, only one is the original K11 garrison, which translates to the ability of the original four fleets in the first battle, and of course, if it is broken into the ship formation by the swarm, it may not be a matter of five or four fleets.

While waiting, there was good news, as an armed transport fleet was sent to the rear to bring thirty new sets of projectile anti-living weapons to the K7, as well as several accompanying personnel.

Because it is still a test weapon, it can only be used centrally, and there are too many external liaison personnel and decision-makers on the Gold that are already very busy, and things and people are concentrated on the Diamond.

K7's Pan Vin had one last communication with the mercenaries and K8's combined fleet, and the anti-occupation war was officially launched.

When the two large fleets began to jump, the mercenary fleets in charge of defense also withdrew from their respective jump circles, leaving only a few ships for espionage and warning purposes.

The main reason for defending the evacuation jump circle is that this part of the mercenaries lacks the main battleship, and it will not have a good result if it is attacked on a large scale, and it is better to use the environment of K7 and K8 that have no fixed facilities for the time being to contain the incoming insect swarm, even if it is not completely contained, at least it can buy time for K11's command to make decisions, and at the same time save a large number of living forces.

The target of both the Combined Fleet and the Mercenary Fleet this time is K5, and before entering, a class of reconnaissance ships will open the way to clear the obstacles.

The choice of K5 was approved by the Western Front Command after Pan Wen's suggestion, and through the previous swarm reaction, there is reason to believe that K5 has a central command system of the swarm, at least there are command bugs with higher tactical literacy, and solving them may be able to reduce the retaliatory losses of the swarm after the operation. To put it bluntly, Pan Wen suspects that K5 has a demon king.

It turned out that his guess was most likely true.

After the fleet jumped into the K5, it lost a total of five first-class reconnaissance ships in succession, so as to gain enough space and time for the fleet to obtain the basic combat speed, and the fleet with almost no gaps began to engage in sporadic battles.

The scale of the bug attack is small, but it is continuous.

"Inform the Combined Fleet that the bugs want to delay their time, and ask them how many types of reconnaissance ships they can put in." Pan Wen did not wait for more data, and directly gave instructions to the signal soldiers.

Bugs are dying, and they can even be called dying, but the most important thing for swarms is quantity, and what humans lack is time.

In the continuous firefight, due to the relationship between the need to avoid and the attitude of the ships at the time of aiming, the overall speed of the fleet could not be maintained, and it would take tens of hours to sweep the entire galaxy according to the previously estimated number. During this period, the swarm can mobilize a large army from K1-K6, or concentrate its forces and wait for another bug to attack K11 to counterattack.

In order to buy time, a type of reconnaissance ship has become a costly alternative, this thing can cause an annihilation reaction with a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers when it self-destructs, and the range of the annihilation reaction when destroyed is also more than 200,000 kilometers, and it is not impossible to have enough of them to go all the way to destroy the main force of the swarm.

Of course, a class of reconnaissance ships is not cabbage, there can simply not be so many. Soon, the feedback from the K8-K5 corresponding jump circle said that within forty-eight hours, the command could mobilize up to twenty first-class reconnaissance ships for consumption, otherwise it would not be able to maintain the basic buffer zone intelligence mastery needs.

Twenty ships, even opening two corresponding jump circles so that the two fleets can quickly assemble, it is better to stay to prevent the situation from deteriorating, and then you have to rely on yourself.

The commander and liaison staff of the Phan Van and the Golden began to adjust the fleet's missions.

The sole purpose of the new adjustments is to speed up action.

The entire fleet is divided into twenty teams, sixty squads, from the basic tetrahedral formation, to the rolling worm operation, the rear fleet accelerates to the front when it turns into a vigilant fleet to maintain a uniform motion, out of the alert task has not yet entered the acceleration of the part of the ** battle fleet. In order to prevent the belligerent forces from being held back due to the reinforcements of the swarm, one of the special fleets was transferred separately to provide support as soon as the battle was engaged.

Most of the special operations fleet is patrol ships, but there are also beam main gun type frigates, which have a clear efficiency advantage when cleaning up bugs, and the short main structure to obtain a larger firing angle also allows them to lose less speed when adjusting their attitude.

The same plan of action was sent to the Combined Fleet on the other side.

However, the combined fleet will be more troublesome, the mercenaries have Pan Wen as the first commander, and at most the Anik mercenaries have their own circle, but the Anikes will not violate the order when they are not pulled as cannon fodder, and there are not many contradictions in command. The previous sequence of operations of the Combined Fleet has been reverted, and now several fleet commanders are new to each other, and they have no experience in cooperating with each other in super-large-scale operations, so it is inevitable that there will be some delays in action.

K5's swarm reacted differently, and soon after the fleet changed its mode of action, the swarm changed, increasing the size of the attack while strengthening the continuity of the attack, and the fleet was forced to maintain only one or two teams of acceleration during the acceleration many times, and engaged more ships to fight to avoid being cut off as a whole.

When the overall speed of the mercenaries led by Pan Wen accelerated to 4,000 km/s, the speed on the other side was barely close to 3,000 according to the scanning results of the No. 11 special reconnaissance aircraft.

In order to achieve this rate, the fleet losses were almost about the same as the total losses of previous operations, but in any case, the hardest time was over.

After the mercenary speed reaches 4000, it is difficult for a small group of swarms to drag them into an engaged state with a pursuit action, even if they fight to break through the mine net that may be dropped at any time and forcibly attack, it is difficult to ensure the intensity of the first wave of firepower, and it is impossible to actually drag the fleet, and then as long as the early warning work is done, so as not to be dragged by the swarm from other directions.

Instead of picking up the combined fleet, the mercenary fleet continued to increase its speed until the speed reached 6000, and then switched to cruising at a constant speed, the gold and diamond were put into data analysis, the diamond was responsible for the perimeter vigilance, the gold was responsible for large-scale scanning and analysis, and the No. 11 android girl retired after success, and returned to the ship with the No. 11 reconnaissance plane to rest and maintain.

The results of the scan are not optimistic, there are small schools of bugs everywhere, most of them are only between fifty and two million tons in terms of tonnage, and a small number of larger colonies are no more than five million tons, which means that except for the insects concentrated near the atmosphere of the native planet, the largest number of bugs in other areas is less than the size of a small team of mercenary fleets.

Small strands of insects are more like an overwhelming network of command, reconnaissance, and liaison. In this case, even if there is enough strength to cleanse the swarm near the resident star, there is a high risk that it will be completely surrounded and cause heavy losses.

is worthy of being the Demon King, with this formation, I am afraid that I will have to face a lot of difficulties if I want to take it down in a short time.

Pan Wen didn't have a mother-in-law, and after confirming the situation, he immediately made a decision, and once again reorganized the fleet to disperse the attack line and speed.

Due to the small size of the swarm, almost all of them remain stealthy, and there is still the possibility of converging operations at any time, so to be on the safe side, the fleet is only divided into ten action units, and the assembly action is performed every 100 minutes. It can be understood as using the main fleet's path of action as the axis to clean up bugs within the 0.2AU range.

At this point, the Combined Fleet finally broke free from the endless harassment and began to approach the mercenary fleet.

The large net of the K5 bugs was still a little more chic after all, and about forty minutes after the combined fleet broke free, the swarms began to concentrate everywhere, and the mercenary fleet observed the change and had to cancel the dispersal operation.

However, the return of the 0.2AU radius has not yet been completed, and the swarm has once again shown a tendency to disperse, and there are small swarms that fan towards the mercenary fleet's path of action.

Pan Wen sat on the podium, his face expressionless on his forehead.

"Hide and seek, right?"