Chapter 67: The Confident Major

Feretins and Sophie did not expect that since they had just arrived in the Feather System to board the flagship, the Hydfield, the battle broke out.

They stood dumbfounded at the exit of the passage of the inner harbor.

In front of me, the entire mothership was already in chaos amid the cacophony of sirens. Countless Filipino League officers and soldiers poured out of nowhere and rushed frantically to their posts; The isolation door with flashing alarm lights is slowly falling, and the telescopic passage connecting several battleships has broken away and is slowly retracting. In the confusion, the two men, the cameraman with the camera and the accompanying officer could only cling to the wall "as far as possible to avoid blocking the way of the Allied officers and soldiers rushing by."

"The Celestial pounced." The accompanying propaganda liaison officer was a handsome major in his twenties "in the uniform of the Federation of Leray." He turned his head to look at the floor-to-ceiling porthole behind him and said to Sophie and Felek.

Sophie and Felek "both wore uniforms without epaulettes and only with a war correspondent's logo on their left chest." Hearing the Major's words, they looked back. In front of him is a floor-to-ceiling porthole that is as clear as water" In the starry sky outside the window, countless Fijian warships are like a school of whales in the storm, "riding the wind and waves" together, constantly surging forward, constantly staggering flights, adjusting course, and changing positions.

The closest to the front of the command cluster "was the Central Fleet under Admiral McKinley.

At this moment, the middle fleet is already waiting for it.

Destroyers and cruisers on the periphery of the fleet formed dozens of cone-shaped assault formations of various sizes, fanning out at the front. The battleship guarded the space carrier in the center, forming two huge circular battleship main arrays, one on the left and one on the right.

The formation of the Middle Route Fleet fully reflects the high tactical literacy of the Feiyang Fleet that has been crisscrossing the universe for many years. Each cone was arranged in an extremely tight manner, and each battleship was nailed to its place as precisely as a part of a machine.

When they're stationary, it's hard to believe that these perfect geometries are made up of battleships. And when they move, "you can see the long and short tail light streams shining in the universe with frequent flashing lights", and they are almost exactly the same.

And the farther afield, the right and left theaters of operations, it is not clear to see.

"In addition to the brilliant stars and majestic nebulae, it is pitch black all around.

Felek and Sophie stood silently by the porthole. Listening to the shrill sirens and messy and hurried footsteps in my ears, "Looking out the window at the moving warships and the endless darkness, a sense of desolation born in troubled times arises spontaneously.

Everything around them made them feel so clearly that the bloodthirsty monster of war was approaching step by step.

"Major Mills", Sophie, who was standing tall, turned her head and looked at the liaison officer, "I heard that the fleet had already been in contact with the enemy before we arrived?" The result? ”

"Yes, Sophie...... Major Mills, the liaison officer who accompanied him, nodded, "Just a few hours ago, the Western Fleet sent a large number of reconnaissance fleets to jump over the center line to carry out electronic attacks and intelligence reconnaissance, however, they have already been driven back by us. At present, the intelligence control areas of the enemy and us are all within a distance of 800,000 kilometers from the main formation. The airspace with a width of 400,000 kilometers in the middle of the battlefield is currently a contested area, and no one can suppress anyone for the time being. ”

Sophie nodded, glancing at Felek.

Sophie himself is a Chakner soldier, and Felek is also a famous host who has been in contact with the military for a long time, and both are no strangers to the space fleet's combat mode.

In modern warfare, information shielding and unimpeded communication are the conditions that a fleet must have when fighting in battle. This involves commanding, coordinating "tactical execution and even the safety of various electronic instruments in the ship."

Therefore, in fleet operations, electronic information warfare has become the first field in which the two sides are fighting.

This is an invisible war, but it is related to the victory or defeat of the entire war.

If it was a sudden encounter", then the warships of both sides had already launched an electronic attack at the same time as they opened fire. The criss-crossing energy cannons and missiles "are mixed with invisible deception signals, electronic viruses, electromagnetic interference and other electronic attack methods." In addition to these, destroying the enemy's reconnaissance ships, electronic ships, and satellites, blinding the opponent's telescope, and "launching electromagnetic cannons with fighter planes, laser attacks on the enemy's information ships, and even sending space mechs to carry out special strikes are also part of information warfare."

Information warfare in encounters "is usually short and inadequate." Both sides were unprepared when encountered, and physical attacks took precedence over information attacks. After all, "in such a battle, the most important thing is to destroy the opponent's living forces as soon as possible."

And in a large-scale head-to-head duel like the A3 galaxy, "the intensity of information warfare is much higher than that of encounters.

You must know that once one side achieves an overwhelming information superiority, even if the other side has stronger forces, it will be crushed by it. Especially the warships sailing in space battles, once their information, command and coordination systems fail, they simply cannot cooperate with each other.

The fleets cannot maintain formation, can not fire in a coordinated salvo, cannot turn at the same time, cannot cover each other. Even the navigation system, fire control system and positioning system will fail. Completely transformed into a herd of bison that are deaf and blind, and can only spin in place or sail straight in one direction.

Therefore, in the case of a large fleet operation and a confrontation between the two armies, sending a reconnaissance fleet to cover the battlefield and gain information superiority is a prescribed action that even super-famous generals like Sober and Hastings are not exempt from.

Felek and Sophie can imagine two or three A-class fleets, or several group fleets, fighting each other in the middle of the battlefield with their reconnaissance ships and high-speed destroyers responsible for guarding their opponents. However, this kind of scene of more than 300 A-class fleets and tens of thousands of large warships on both sides facing each other is completely unimaginable.

It was only on board, the Heidfield, that in the latter part of the battle, the battleship of the Western Covenant, which had been flaunting its might, had returned home because of the sudden attack of the bandits. Not only was the Western Reconnaissance Fleet on the left flank completely wiped out, but even the Western Reconnaissance Fleet on the middle and right flanks was forced to retreat.

This is the most exciting news Felek and Sophie have heard since they left south.

The reason for the two of them to go south this time was a southeast war situation observation group organized by the Chakner military department.

Sophie, who was the chief spokesperson for the propaganda of the military department, was naturally a member of the observation group, while Felek was only allowed to follow the observation group south to the southeast with the special approval of Marshal Li Cunxin.

The reason why the door is wide open to non-military members, in addition to Felek's own influence, "also because of the current Chakner people, the opponent of the southeast", or the relationship with the bandit army, has really reached an unbelievable point.

This concern is not even weaker than the all-out battle that Chuckner is fighting in the Resker system at the moment. Every day, Felek receives many letters and calls from viewers who care about the bandit army in the southeast. Even in several episodes of the show, the audience and even the guests who participated in the show put aside the war-torn Trevran and Reske and focused the discussion on the southeast.

After all, in the minds of both the people and the soldiers of Chakna, the status of the bandit army is not comparable to that of other armies.

Especially for Velek, "even more so." He and Sophie, who once "airdropped to the Canglang Star to fight with the bandit army" in Chakna's most difficult time, once saw with their own eyes that the ten mecha gods of the bandit army led Chakna's most heroic mecha warriors to lead the second armored lion of Jeppen Royal into disagreement, thus buying time for the power led by the nine marshals of Ge Cunxin, and also laying a solid foundation for Chuckner's counterattack on Canglang Star.

After that, the bandit army swept the western front of Phoenix City together with the Leifeng Star Front Army led by General Chen Fengxi, and annihilated the menacing main force of Belif in one fell swoop.

Every Chakner understands that without the bandits, "Chakner would have gone further down the wrong path." If there is no bandit army, "Chuckner wants to re-log in to Canglang Star, and wants to win such a great victory on the western front of Phoenix City as Leifeng Star, which is heavily assembled in the West, what he needs to pay is tens or hundreds of times the battle situation of Daioh Leske, which has completely reversed the situation with the fourth increase of the coalition army.

The combined forces of Jeppen and Seuss, who poured out of the nest, failed to obtain enough results in the fierce attack some time ago, "The ground battle of the two major immigrant stars is at a disadvantage, and they no longer have the crazy energy they had at the beginning.

In space, the two generals Li Hongwu and Qian Pailin cooperated tacitly with sufficient troops, and they did not fall behind against Mikami Yuren. On the ground, the army offensive led by General Chen Fengxi was like mercury. As long as the southeast can stop Sober, "as long as Chackner is given a little more time, it will definitely not be a problem to force the two empires of Seuss and Jeppen to withdraw from the war or even surrender!"

Therefore, "whether it is emotionally or from the actual interests of Chakner, it is natural for Chackner's military and people to care about the bandit army and the situation in the southeast." In the eyes of the Chakners, "the bandit army is their own soldiers, closer than anyone else." Everyone also heard about the various contradictions in the southward movement of the Filipino coalition army, and they were even more worried about the bandit army. I want to know what the current war situation in the southeast is, whether the bandit army is in danger, and whether it will be squeezed out by the coalition forces who can't eat rice and say strange things in battle.

Although Sophie and Felek went south to follow the Mission, "their mission was not so much to keep an eye on the coalition forces as to keep an eye on the bandits."

Therefore, when they had just arrived in the A3 galaxy and learned from the other members of the Observation Mission, as well as some of the Allied officers and soldiers, they were both excited.

However, perhaps in the sensitivity of their profession, they were still very easily aware of the rejection and resistance of some members of the coalition army to the bandits.

This made both Sophie and Chang Xiaoke feel a little worried.

In the face of Sobol, the biggest enemy of the Filipino Alliance, and the strength of the Western Coalition Army is more than twice that of its own, no matter how much internal unity is left, this battle cannot be fought. In particular, the young team of the bandit army, although it is strong, after all, its size is only equivalent to a military district in Chakna.

The eleven bandit fleets can't even get together the four group fleets, and if something goes wrong, they will even lose the possibility of growing forever.

What if you give the bandit army a few more years?

Such questions often hover in people's minds. But "there was no answer." Reality has pushed the bandit army in front of Sober.

Either defeat Sober, or "shatter your bones!"

"Alright, please come with me." With the Allied officers and soldiers already rushing to their posts, the passage was no longer as crowded as before. Major Mills, who was accompanying him, made a gesture," he said to them.

Felek and Sophie, with the cameraman, followed closely behind Mills and walked towards the base camp.

Along the way, all everyone saw was a tense and busy scene.

The pilots who rushed to the hangar to stand by sat in droves on the rail cars, each holding a helmet in their hands "with a grim expression." In front, there was also a pilot officer holding an electronic board and gesturing while talking quickly.

From time to time, there was a rumbling sound in the walls on both sides of the passage. Major Mills said it was the sound of a railcar taxiing in the weapons transfer lane. The four main guns in the bow of the mothership, twenty secondary guns on the top, bottom, left and right, and hundreds of torpedo tubes, missile silos, rotating turrets, and self-guided cross-defense fire networks are all replenished by the criss-crossing weapons transportation channels within the mothership.

As soon as a battle broke out, the voice that best represented the personnel inside the battleship was perhaps this rumbling sound.

It is said that after many veterans retire, as soon as they take the old-fashioned sightseeing train in the scenic area, they can't help but burst into tears when they hear this similar sound. For them, the voice represents the most precious time of their lives.

The passage to the core of the base camp is flanked by closed automatic doors. Each door is marked with a different sign. Some go to the power room, some to the electronics room, and some to the staff. Officers and soldiers came in and out of these automatic gates" in an endless stream. Everyone is rushing all the way, racing against time. It is often seen that as soon as the automatic door is opened, people inside and outside the door collide together. However, "no one complained, and they didn't even have time to complain of pain" and rushed to their respective destinations.

After entering the base camp, there are more and more people.

As the brains of the entire Southeastern Coalition, "not only the best staff officers are gathered here, but also liaison officers from different fleets.

The officers, dressed in different uniforms, "went about their jobs in the large hall. Some people sat in front of the Skynet console, wearing headphones and yelling wildly at the communicator. Others gather in front of the electronic interstellar map to draw and point. In the juxtaposed rotunda, staff officers sprinting 100 meters above the passage with papers in their hands can be seen everywhere, and a group of liaison officers of different fleets can be seen everywhere chasing a base camp officer and constantly asking questions or pleading.

Sophie and Felek, following behind Mills, squeezed towards the core as they looked up at the huge Skynet screen. Hundreds of thousands of screens hovering in the air right in front of you. The signal has stabilized. On many screens, "the fleet of the West Covenant rushing towards this side can be clearly seen."

It was a metal tsunami that Sophie and Felek couldn't help but stop and shake beyond measure.

They watched as the countless Western warships rushed through the telescope lens. On the left flank, in the center, on the right flank, dense warships formed a triangular assault formation, like a galloping herd of beasts, silently and frantically attacking this side.

From the data on the screen, it can be seen that "in just ten minutes, the Western battleship has advanced 100,000 kilometers as a whole." The fleet that broke through had already broken away from its main position and advanced nearly 200,000 kilometers.

"God." Behind him, the photographer's shocked voice was heard.

The middle-aged man with a video camera "has filmed countless war scenes, but I have never seen such a terrifying and shocking scene."

Hearing the photographer's words, Major Mills, who had been walking in front, stopped in front of the automatic door leading to the core area.

The former major of the Federal Smew Hotel in Le Ray, a young major who had gone to Mars a year ago to join the bandits, "opened the automatic door while verifying his identity and permissions on the smart door lock." He said lightly: "There is no God here." If there is, then, if he is not called Hastings, he must be called Tian Xingjian. ”

As the lights of the core area shone on everyone's faces with the larger and larger cracks in the doors. Sophie, Felek and the others who followed him saw him turn around, and there was a confident and calm smile on their young faces.

"Believe me" we will win. ”