Chapter 199: The Decisive Battle (I)

Hermes Spaceport, Othello Planetary Front.

This morning... Thirty points, Commander of the Combined Fleet of the Raymond Kingdom, Duke? Arthur suddenly received an urgent battle report from the Fifth Fleet, reporting that the main force of Vice Admiral Bunier's Fifth Fleet was attacked by Robin on the Trailblazer space station, and was blocked in the space station spaceport and completely destroyed, except for the two patrolling 'Whale Shark' frigates who were able to escape, and are currently heading for the Hermes spaceport, preparing to join the Kingdom's First Fleet and Third Fleet stationed here. In addition, the Fifth Fleet detachment, which was assigned by Vice Admiral Bunier, commander of the Fifth Fleet, to carry out combat missions on the Ultra Nebula has lost contact and its whereabouts are unknown.

Robin...... He really made a move~"

Frowning and throwing away the battle report in his hand, Duke? Arthur stood up sharply and looked at the planet Othello in the distance.

"General~" At this time, Vice Admiral McKantz, the commander of the Third Fleet, suddenly broke through the door and shouted: "General, give the order to attack immediately, the Third Fleet is fully in place"

"Sortie?" Duke? Arthur glanced at him coldly: "We don't even know where the enemy is and the combat intention now, how can we attack?" ”

Lieutenant General McCanz was stunned when he heard this, and immediately scolded: "**, what is the radar department doing? I haven't found out what happened to the other party."

"The opponent's electronic warfare technology is very superb, and the shielding coverage has reached the left and right range of nearly three light hours, and in such a vast visual blind area, we have no way to grasp the opponent's accurate movements." Duke? Arthur shook his head with a wry smile: "What a fierce enemy, with the strength of Lieutenant General Buniel, he was annihilated by the other party without even being able to resist." If he could have entangled the other party for a while, we wouldn't have been so passive. ”

"So what now? We're just waiting? Lieutenant General McCanzie asked, wide-eyed.

"That's right, we can only stand by now, and we must not act rashly until we find out the other party's combat intentions."

"Damn, are you crazy?" Hear the commander-in-chief of the whole army, Duke? Arthur's order was actually on standby, and Vice Admiral McCanz suddenly roared angrily: "Isn't the current situation obvious, after the other party eats half of Buniel's fleet, the next move must be to pounce on us, and the Patlem fleet and the Victor fleet huddled on the planet Othello should also cooperate and attack us on the back." In such a situation, how can we stand still and wait for them to come to the door? We should strike right away, before the Patlum fleet and the Victor fleet surround us, and take the first step to find Robin's fleet and defeat them one by one. ”

The tactic mentioned by Lieutenant General McCanzie is well-founded and highly feasible, which shows that Lieutenant General McCanzi, who has always regarded people as reckless, is not a fool who is brave and unscrupulous. And this tactic envisages Duke? Arthur had also considered it in detail, and until Lieutenant General McCanzie came in, he had been pondering whether to implement this strategy of active warfare. However, there was a feeling that told him that Robin's tactics would never be so simple and straightforward. Looking at Robin's previous combat examples, Robin rarely uses the kind of single-knife direct confrontation, he is extremely bold in using troops, and is good at using gambling surprise attacks to open up the situation, and then affect the direction of the entire battle situation, with an interlocking layout to subvert the entire situation in an instant.

And this time, Robin's way of opening up the situation is also a surprise attack. First Yin* Bunier dispersed his forces, and then carried out a blitzkrieg with superior forces to establish victory in one fell swoop. Just looking at this surprise attack battle that took place in the Northern Star Field, it can already be clearly seen that Robin's extraordinary tactical strategy, and how could a strategist who can arrange such detailed tactics not have follow-up actions.

Leading the army to the Hermes spaceport, and completing the front and rear flanking with the Patlem fleet and the Victor fleet is not the only way Robin can adopt, leading the army to attack the Second Fleet stationed in the southern star field alone, and seizing the E-18 black hole, which is a retreat back to the Barnard system, is also quite possible.

"Where will Robin's next attack be? It's our ...... Or Elizhe's Second Fleet? ”

Duke, lost in thought? Arthur ignored Lieutenant General McCanzi, who was already in a state of rage, and paced back and forth in the office, trying to put himself in Robin's shoes in order to guess Robin's next move.

As the minutes ticked by, the timer in the office was already chime at four o'clock, half an hour had passed since the battle report had been sent back, and more than an hour had passed since Robin had finished the battle.

"It's Elijah's second fleet, it must be Elizer's second fleet~" Suddenly, Duke? Arthur looked up sharply, he finally had an answer.

"Second Fleet?" Hear Duke? Arthur said that Robin's target was the Second Fleet deployed in the E-18 black hole region of the Southern Star Field, and Vice Admiral McCanz suddenly looked at Duke with a strange gaze? Arthur: "General, this is impossible. Robin's fleet will not exceed a mixed aircraft carrier fleet, even if their number has increased after capturing some of the Fifth Fleet's warships, where can they find so many shipboard personnel at one time. And if there is no one to fight, those captured warships are just moving targets, and they do not have any immediate combat power at all. With just a mixed fleet, Robin couldn't quickly defeat Elijah's Second Fleet in a head-on battle without any support and without superior forces, unless he was crazy, he couldn't do that~"

Vice Admiral McCanzis's rebuttal sounds not unreasonable, after all, if the First and Third Fleets of Hermes Spaceport are targeted, although they need to face two mixed aircraft carrier fleets, as long as they can be entangled for a while, the Patrium fleet and the Victor fleet will come to support from the planet Othello, and form a front and rear attack. In this way, Robin is equivalent to teaming up with Patlum and Victor, and has the advantage of three mixed fleets, no matter how you look at it, this is a stable situation, and any sober-minded commander believes that this tactical goal will be the first choice, and use it to establish the victory in the Battle of Proxima Centauri in one fell swoop. But what if it's like Duke? As Arthur said, if the Second Fleet of Elizhe in the Southern Star Domain were to be targeted, the situation would be completely reversed.

Analyzing the geographical location of Proxima Centauri, the star field where Othello is located is called the central field, while the Hermes spaceport is located on the edge of the northern star field, near the central field of Proxima Centauri. Duke? Arthur and Vice Admiral McCanzis' First and Third Fleets were stationed here, clamping down on the Patrium and Victor fleets locked in the orbital ring of Othello. Outside the central star field, there is the northern star field where the E-18 white hole is located and the southern star field where the E-18 black hole is located.

If Robin targets the Second Fleet of Elizhe stationed in the Southern Star Domain after the successful surprise attack on the Fifth Fleet, then he will have to make a long-distance attack. In this process, the Second Fleet of Elizhe, which received the report of the fall of the Fifth Fleet, must have already made defensive arrangements. Therefore, in the absence of superior forces, it is impossible for Robin's fleet to break through the Second Fleet of Elizhe, which is holding the black hole of E-18, head-on. And if the battle situation is deadlocked, then the First Fleet and the Third Fleet from the Hermes spaceport can take advantage of the fact that the Second Fleet of Elizhe is entangled with each other, and arrive on the battlefield one step ahead of the Patlem fleet and the Victor fleet from the planet Othello, and in turn complete the front and rear attack on the Robin fleet, which is bound to inflict heavy damage on the Robin fleet in a short period of time, and even completely annihilate the opponent... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ]