May 11, 2083 at 11:35 a.m.

In Duke? Within less than 12 hours of Arthur's order, the Fifth Fleet, a guerrilla fleet, was able to capture the Pioneer space station manned by Lieutenant Commander Barron with lightning speed.

Faced with a well-equipped and well-trained fleet of fully equipped aircraft carriers, Lieutenant Commander Barron, who only had a few small transport ships and a few space shuttles, had no ability to compete with it, so after simply disassembling the intergalactic satellite communication equipment in the space station and sending the last piece of information about the movements of the Fifth Fleet to the Barnard system, Lieutenant Commander Barron ordered the entire army to withdraw and retreat to the Ultra Nebula at full speed.

However, although Lieutenant Colonel Barron had been prepared for this attack, the enemy's advance was faster than he expected. Less than an hour after evacuating the Trailblazer space station, the opposing carrier squadron caught up with them, attempting to intercept the small fleet under Robin's command before they entered the Ultra Nebula.

The confrontation was very short, but it was extremely tragic. Under the desperate resistance of the fighter formation in charge of escorting, Lieutenant Colonel Barron's AT-056 fleet forced a breakthrough, but the price paid was the death of all the escort fighter formations and the crash of the remaining five 'Catfish-I' ships in the fleet, except for the flagship AT-056. If it weren't for the fact that after receiving Lieutenant Commander Barron's distress signal, Chief of Staff Yarvis immediately sent a formation of fighters cruising around the Ultra Nebula to pick it up, I am afraid that even Lieutenant Commander Barron's flagship AT-056 ship would not have escaped the fate of being shot down.

The AT-056 fleet, a small fleet of all Catfish-I transports, may seem of little value at the moment, but if you turn back the clock to two years ago, this fleet was Robin's starting capital, and it was a great participant in the miraculous deed of following Robin to escape from the Kuiper Ring of the Solar System and go to the Raymond Federation. But now, after such an engagement, only the battered AT-056 and the TR-735 in the Barnard system are still surviving of the original seven transports. The seven captains who had accompanied Robin through all the ups and downs were now only Cecilia and Barron.

Just imagine, if Robin hadn't let them return to the Trail Blazer space station not long ago, maybe none of them would have died. But again, if they hadn't held out until the last minute, perhaps the intergalactic communication network between Proxima Centauri and Barnard would have been interrupted long ago, and Duke? The message that Arthur's Fifth Fleet was targeting the Ultra Nebula would never have been passed on to Robin.

Now that they have completed their mission, the information they desperately transmit back to the Barnard system will surely have a huge impact on Robin's next military deployment.

Therefore, the Battle of the Pioneer Space Station on May 11, a small-scale engagement that can even be described as insignificant, will not be forgotten, and its importance will surely become a strong stroke in the annals of the Republic's wars. And the decisive battle really kicked off after this battle......

12:05 a.m.

Thirty minutes after the end of the engagement, the Fifth Fleet of the Raymond Kingdom, led by Vice Admiral Bunier, officially entered the Pioneer space station.

According to Lieutenant General Bunier's original plan, he did not plan to stay at the Trail Finder space station, but planned to blow up the forward base belonging to the Ultra Nebula. However, upon arriving at the Pioneer space station, he found that it was equipped with a purely military spaceyard and a large starship harbor, where even his flagship aircraft carrier could be moored. Therefore, considering that stationing here is conducive to returning to the northern star field to participate in the war, he did not follow the original plan to blow up this place and continue to advance towards the Ultra Nebula, but planned to keep the Pioneer space station and arrange for the fleet to be stationed here, preparing to return to the Northern Star Domain immediately after dealing with the free people entrenched in the Ultra Nebula and participate in the real war.

It will take two hours to reach the periphery of the Ultra Nebula from the Pioneer space station to the Ultra Nebula, and from this point of view, the fleet stationed on the Pioneer space station will undoubtedly exceed the maximum combat radius of the F-V space shuttle. At first, Lieutenant General Bunier tried to blow up this place, precisely because it was too far away from the Ultra Nebula, which was not conducive to the combat supply of the space shuttle.

However, after the Space Shuttle Formation, which was tasked with pursuing the enemy fleet, returned and gave the latest forward information, the problem that plagued Vice Admiral Bunier was solved.

Because the aircraft carrier fighter formation on the side of the Fifth Fleet pursued all the way to the outer periphery of the Ultra Nebula, the pursuit formation found that on the outer edge of the Ultra Nebula, some temporary military space stations based on large individual meteorites were being built on a large scale. Judging from the purpose and geographical location of these space stations, it seems that the purpose of the other side is to prepare for an attack, so that the space shuttle formation in the nebula can use the military space stations on the periphery of these nebulae as a base to attack at any time.

"You're saying that on the southern line of the Ultra Nebula, there are nearly ten temporary military space stations?"

In the headquarters of the Pioneer space station, Lieutenant General Bunier, who had a two-handful beard, stared thoughtfully at the interstellar map unfolding in front of him, while beside him, the commander of the space shuttle formation who had just returned from the pursuit was marking the location of the enemy's military space station on the interstellar map one by one.

Hearing Lieutenant General Bunier's question at this moment, the commander of the space shuttle formation, who was still wearing a pilot's uniform, immediately replied: "Yes, six of them are located relatively close, and the remaining four are deployed farther away on both sides. ”

"Hmm......" Vice Admiral Bunier rubbed the slag on his chin and sneered after a slight mutter: "It seems that the other party is preparing to use the space shuttle formation to sneak attack our logistics supply line, first let Blair's fleet retract into Othello Planet, and drag the battle into a long tug-of-war." If the war really turns into a tug-of-war, then with the sheer size of our fleet, the amount of supplies consumed daily will definitely not be able to be replenished by local production alone. In this case, the Tokyo metropolitan area will have to use the transport fleet to provide us with material reinforcements. Humph......"

Speaking of this, Lieutenant General Bunier paused slightly, and suddenly pushed a little harder E-18 White Hole: "Duke? General Arthur's order for us to attack the Pioneer Space this time was indeed prescient, and if we let the Pioneer Space go unchecked, then with the geographical location of the Pioneers, we would be able to closely monitor the movements of the E-18 White Hole 24 hours a day. At that time, as soon as our transport fleet passes through the E-18 White Hole, it will be attacked intensively by enemy space shuttle formations. In the long run, our logistical supply line will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and we may even be forced to terminate the entire operational plan due to logistical supply difficulties. Tut-tut...... This kind of intrigue really fits the usual style of the guy named Robin. ”

Listening to Vice Admiral Bunier's detailed description of the specific role of these dozen or so temporary space stations and the huge threat that may be posed to the fleet in the future, the commander of the space shuttle formation immediately couldn't wait to fight: "Please give the general an order, and his subordinates will destroy all these enemy strongholds within 10 hours." ”

"Destroy?" Lieutenant General Bunier glanced at him and laughed heartily: "Why destroy, wouldn't it be nice to leave a few." I'm worried that I don't have a front-line stronghold, so why don't I want these gifts from the enemy? ”

"You mean ......"

"Capture these six military space stations in a line, as long as there are these six space stations arranged on the periphery of the Ultra Nebula, our space shuttle formation will have a bridgehead for attack... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］