Chapter 178: Surprise Attack (I)

After issuing several orders in succession, Robin stared at the planet Othello on the electronic map with red eyes, and a bold tactical plan had been gradually sketched in his mind.

Othello, which is the core of the entire Proxima Centauri system and the core of the Ans-Air triangle defenses. Although a few minutes earlier, Robin had angrily denounced Admiral Patlem for choosing to attack Othello directly as a stupid tactic, it is undeniable that if you look at the strategic level, then Admiral Patlem is the right choice to target Othello.

At present, Blair's new federal government has not yet established a logistics base large enough to supply a large fleet. As a result, the new federal army, which lacked reliable logistical support, was not capable of fighting a long war. Rex left Alpha Planet to form the Exile Regime, leaving Ansel without the last stumbling block in the Alpha System, which is bound to speed up the progress of Anse El in receiving the Alpha System. In other words, as long as Ansel stabilized the situation in the Alpha system, his fleet would suddenly arrive in Proxima Centauri at any time, and if Patriem's fleet was still in the middle of a bitter battle, it would definitely be a catastrophe full of despair.

Therefore, neither the internal conditions nor the external environment allow Admiral Patalum to drag on the war for too long, and the only correct strategic direction is to fight with Othello as the target.

It's a pity that when designing the triangular defense area, Anse Air was presciently aware of this possibility. On the eve of the coup, he would spare no effort to encourage the military to spend huge sums of money to build the Othello orbital ring, not just to complete the earth-shattering assassination that shook the entire Federation. Strengthening Othello's space defenses and strengthening Othello's role in the war is what Ansel really aims to do.

In addition, the current ruler of Proxima Centauri is Eugene, who is also capable and familiar with all of Ansel's plans? Mellon, Patlem will be defeated, and it will become inevitable again.

However, as AO95 has commented, Anse Air's ability in layout is unmatched, but he also has a weakness. His layout, his calculations, and his control of the situation are the three most crucial elements of his victory, but he does not have the natural ability to grasp the fleeting opportunities in the intricacies of the situation, let alone deal with the variables that are beyond his control. And these are exactly what Robin is good at, in the eyes of ao95, being good at improvisation is also the only place where Robin can beat Anse Els.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Ansel's layout in Proxima Centauri is completely planned against Blair's new federal army, and although he attaches enough importance to Robin's potential force, he doesn't have much to do to limit Robin's destruction, let alone know that Robin has already worked with Blair when he was still busy receiving the Alpha Galaxy? Rex reached a tripartite alliance that was extremely unfavorable to him.

Of course, what if Admiral Patalem's fleet was killed by Eugene on the planet Bruno? If Mellon is annihilated, then this tripartite alliance will immediately burst like a bubble, but at least for now, this alliance is still effective. This means that Robin, as an ally, can ask Admiral Patlaim to abandon the breakout and drag Eugene in a way that swears to the death? Mellon's fleet is close to seventy percent. As for the other three-percent fleet, because it has to guard the space station industrial park, Eugene? Mellon also didn't have a way to use it flexibly.

So, in Eugene? When Mellon surrounded Admiral Patlem's fleet, he actually completely dismantled Ansel's triangular defense area system, allowing the Hermes spaceport and Othello planets, which are one of the triangular defense areas, to burst out in a completely undefended posture.

If Robin had a complete fleet at the moment, then he could have directly attacked Othello from the Pioneer Space Station, in Eugene? Before Mellon's fleet could react, it captured the core of Proxima Centauri's system in one fell swoop.

This is a rare opportunity, but the problem at the moment is that Robin does not have a complete fleet in his hands, and the only thing that can be used is a frigate, an assault landing ship, and a space shuttle formation.

With such an armed force, it would be suicide to attack Othello, which is protected by the planet's orbital ring. But Robin, who has always faced all opportunities with a gambler's mentality, is not ready to give up, as usual, he wants to gamble on this fleeting fighter, but the target is not Othello, but the equally important location of the Hermes spaceport.

Robin is no stranger to the Hermes spaceport, which is where he started after arriving in the Federation, although after the bloody Harry led the Northern Star Domain Pirate Storm 1uan, Hermes is no longer the commercial center of the original Free Passage, but has become Eugene? Mellon's logistics center and the Ford family's mechanical parts production center have not changed the basic structure of their commercialization.

Therefore, even if the Hermes spaceport has been converted to military use, its structure is still an open structure that is not suitable for military defense. It was already easy to attack and difficult to defend, and because the fleet now stationed there had been transferred to encircle and suppress Patlem, the Hermes spaceport had become almost a completely undefended place.

At present, although there are not enough warships under Robin's command, there are definitely a lot of space shuttles that can be put into combat, and under the full operation of the various production lines of the Charon Space Fortress, the number of fighters under Robin's command has formed a considerable scale. This time, excluding the garrison formation that stayed in the Charon space fortress, the Rose formation that is currently on standby on the Trailblazer space station alone has no less than 500 J-IX space shuttles, which is almost a quarter of the number of fighters on an aircraft carrier.

The reason why the Federation's Titan aircraft carriers can be invincible in space warfare is that the aircraft carriers are equipped with up to two or three thousand space shuttles, and the Federation's F-V. space shuttle has excellent combat capabilities, which also makes the Federation aircraft carrier fleet invincible. And now, although Robin does not have an aircraft carrier, the range of nearly four hours is not an insurmountable distance, and the J-IX space shuttle enhanced by Old Jack is better than the F-V. space shuttle of the Federation Army's conventional equipment in terms of individual capabilities. Therefore, in terms of attack power alone, the Rose formation with 500 space shuttles is enough to pose a deadly threat to the unprotected Hermes spaceport.

Of course, with the space shuttle formation alone, it will inevitably be lacking in combat endurance and long-range offensive capabilities, but fortunately, Robin also has a 15-million-ton 'Whale Shark' frigate. The heavy "Tomahawk" shipborne missiles equipped with the "Whale Shark" frigate are enough to make up for the weakness of the space shuttle formation at a long distance, and can provide effective fire cover for the space shuttle formation that enters the charge mode, so as to avoid the space shuttle formation from encountering too dense defensive fire and causing a large number of casualties before entering its own range.

As for the landing warfare, which has the ability to decide on one blow, the 100,000-ton U-2 assault landing ship can also fully meet the needs of the operation. After repairing some of the Type IV armor captured from Emperor **, Robin's Marines have surpassed the Twin Knights, the Federation's ace army, in terms of equipment. Although most of the marines except Robin can't really wield the power of Type IV armor in terms of individual capabilities, if they only deal with some regular infantry, they can definitely sweep away the ground garrisons in Hermes space with one block and one hundred.

Carefully analyzed from all sides, if Robin had targeted the Hermes spaceport, there would have been a great deal of ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］