Proxima Centauri's northern star field.

In the past nearly a week, the flames of war in Proxima Centauri have burned almost exclusively in the remote place of the Northern Star Field.

Compared with the Othello planet, which is unusually quiet in the confrontation of the army, the Fifth Fleet of the Raymond Kingdom, which was ordered to capture the Ultra Nebula, under the leadership of the commander Vice Admiral Bunier, fought to the death with Chief of Staff Yalvis, who was holding the Charon space fortress, in the Ultra Nebula. Although not a single capital ship in the fleet was used in this war, the total investment of nearly 4,000 space shuttles on both sides was considerable. This, combined with the recent defeat in the war, made it impossible for the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Bunier, to wait for victory as leisurely as he did at the beginning.

Having served in the army for nearly two decades, Lieutenant General Bunier is old in war, even if he doesn't have the military talent of Duke? Arthur is so outstanding, but the experience accumulated over the past 20 years has already made him a veteran general in the army. When the third formation was under siege and forced to ask the fleet for help, as a veteran's keen sense of danger, he realized that he had fallen into a plan. The opponent is not as vulnerable as he appeared at the beginning, and his own initial underdog has already made a huge mistake of underestimating the enemy.

The loss of one-third of the ship's space shuttle at one time is an unbearable loss for Vice Admiral Bunier, and it will also become an indelible stain on his own battle record. Therefore, in order to make up for his previous mistakes, Vice Admiral Bunier desperately pressed all the shipborne space shuttles in his hands, trying to reverse the current unfavorable situation with his strength.

However, when the more than 1,600 fighters that set out for reinforcements were silent like mud cattle like a sea after entering the Ultra Nebula, it made Lieutenant General Bunier's heart inexplicably uneasy. He began to worry about whether his reinforcements were also expected by the other party, and whether the other party had designed a strategy to encircle the reinforcements from the beginning. Also, how many space shuttles are hidden in the labyrinthine Ultra Nebula? Can the true number of the opponent's fighters allow him to accomplish what he envisioned to break through the tricks?

Worries and speculations began to plague Lieutenant General Bunier, which directly affected his mood and made him more and more irritable lately. Under his direct influence, the officers and men of the fleet under his command were no longer as optimistic as they were at the beginning, and various rumors began to spread in the fleet, and there were even rumors that there was actually a fleet hidden in the Ultra Nebula.

Gradually, this rumor reached the ears of Vice Admiral Bunier, which was just baseless nonsense from the officers and men on the ship, but after Vice Admiral Bunier carefully scrutinized it, he was immediately shocked to believe it.

Alerted by this rumor, Lieutenant General Bunier finally understood what he had overlooked. All along, all the fleet officers, including him, subjectively regarded the Ultra Nebula as a no-fly zone for warships. After all, the 'Whale Shark' frigate, the smallest tonnage in the fleet, could not enter the Ultra Nebula, so they never thought that there might be a behemoth like a battleship hidden in that nebula.

However, when this rumor began to spread in the fleet, and when Vice Admiral Bunier recalled the interstellar pirate storm* that had occurred in the Northern Star Domain two years earlier, he realized that the Ultra Nebula was not actually a no-fly zone for warships. At the beginning, the reason why Bloody Harry was able to turn the Northern Star Domain upside down with a mercenary army was precisely because he had a 10-million-ton Republic 'Knife' frigate under his command, and it was precisely because his 'Knife' frigate could freely enter and exit the Ultra Nebula, making the large number of fleets guarding Proxima Centauri unable to do anything. In the end, he was tricked out of the Ultra Nebula by Anse El into designing it, completely eliminating this destructive interstellar pirate.

Republic "Knife" type frigates, this kind of frigates are definitely not inferior to the Federation "Whale Shark" frigates in combat effectiveness. However, compared with the 15 million tons of tonnage of the 'Whale Shark' frigate, the 'Knife' frigate is only 10 million tons, which is nearly one-third smaller than the 'Whale Shark' frigate, which is just enough to meet the Ultra Nebula channel.

If there is really a fleet of "Knife" frigates hidden in that labyrinthine Ultra Nebula, then when the frigates cooperate with a large number of space shuttles, the lethality formed is definitely not comparable to that of just 2,000 F-V. space shuttles. Vice Admiral Bunier had realized that his clever tactics had actually fallen for the opponent's tricks again, and if all the space shuttles in the fleet were lost in the Ultra Nebula, the combat effectiveness of the entire fleet would be reduced by more than half.

Startled into a cold sweat, Vice Admiral Bunier couldn't sit still, and he was originally bent on returning to the Othello planetary battlefield after victory, and he deployed his entire fleet to the Pioneer space station, building a line of defense with the Pioneer space station as the core. Now, after realizing that the enemy forces in the Ultra Nebula were far beyond his expectations, he immediately ordered the Ministry of Communications to send an urgent message to the first and second fighter formations that had entered the Ultra Nebula, asking them to immediately abandon the rescue and return to the Pioneer space station. In addition, for the sake of insurance, Vice Admiral Bunier also sent two 30-million-ton Apollo battleships and three 15-million-ton 'Whale Shark' frigates to the space shuttle attack base on the periphery of the Ultra Nebula, ready to meet the first and second fighter formations that have withdrawn from the Ultra Nebula.

After sending half of his military strength to respond and possibly return to the first and second fighter formations, at present, in the Pioneer space, the only troops under Bunier's command are a Titan aircraft carrier that has lost all carrier-based space shuttles, two Apollo battleships, and three 'Whale Shark' frigates. Among them, the only ones that can really be put into battle immediately are two Apollo battleships and three 'Whale Shark' frigates.

With the current situation in Proxima Centauri, such a combat power allocation seems to be more than enough only for self-protection, after all, Blair? All the forces in Rex's hands were trapped on the planet Othello and could not move, and it was impossible to threaten the Fifth Fleet of the Raymond Kingdom, which had lost more than half of its combat strength. However, in the Barnard system, a large fleet of Vice-Admiral Bunier's surprise has been assembled near the R-N black hole in the Barnard system. The target is the Pioneer space station, which is less than ten minutes away from Proxima Centauri's Northern Domain-18 White Hole.

Barnard's system, R-N black hole.

After Robin's effective administration after returning to Planet Wendini, the situation on Planet Wendini and the entire Barnard system is now tending to be in a steady development momentum.

Not long ago, the Republic's third batch of supplies and manpower has arrived on the planet Wendini and is officially engaged in the construction of the city of Boton on the planet Wendini. With this group of new forces to ensure the progress of the construction of Bolton City, Robin, who had been suffering from a shortage of personnel, was finally free to implement the plan to participate in the war. In addition, under the desperate work of the spaceyard led by Old Jack, Robin's long-awaited fleet has finally completed the repair and trial voyage and is truly included in the combat sequence.

At present, the batch of scrapped warships that Robin desperately earned from the New Federation have all been repaired and renewed, not only repairing various post-war damages, but also further strengthening the engine and power system under the transformation of Old Jack. Therefore, although the current batch of warships leaving the dock are still the Federation's Titan aircraft carriers, Apollo battleships, and 'Whale Shark' frigates in appearance, their maneuverability is on average more than 30 percent higher than that of the long-range type, and they have become undoubtedly strengthened warships of all types. Although it remains to be seen how much this 30 percent increase in maneuverability will be reflected in actual combat, in any case, this is the first time that the Republic fleet has gained the upper hand in the performance comparison with the Federation fleet. And with this as a confidence, the generals of the ships who followed Robin on the expedition to Proxima were also full of confidence, and they were determined to wash away the shame of their repeated defeats in the Great Patriotic Battle of the Republic ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］