Chapter 91: Tranquility Attacks (2)
At L1 of the Earth-Moon Lagrange, the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet gathered in full array on the ruins of the spaceport. The Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info lost most of the space station, and while the defenses and antenna arrays are still alive, it has lost its significance to the expeditionary fleet.
The reason why the fleet gathers here is that the once huge encirclement network was centered here and distributed on an invisible sphere, and the starship groups of each detachment were about the same distance from the L1 point.
Inside the flagship Yaeyama, the solemn and oppressive atmosphere has become the main tone.
The meeting was held in the form of the presence of the main officers and the remote terminal connection of the middle and lower-level officers.
On the podium, Tada Juntetsu blushed, he glanced at the main venue, and no one dared to look at him. During the battle of the Brand's starship, the expeditionary fleet was defeated. Not only did they lose a large number of main battle starships, but even the battleship Jiaolong was damaged. Not to mention the reimbursement of three divisions of army units in advance, which made the strength of the landing force stretched.
In this operation, at the beginning, the fleet was able to adhere to Tada's cautious and cautious style, and implement the strategy of encircling but not attacking the enemy ships. As the situation progressed, the militants in the fleet gradually gained the upper hand, and they in turn forced the command to implement more urgent tactical arrangements.
During the battle, there was no order from the headquarters, and most of the cruisers and above sent their own marine units to stand by around the enemy ships, and some small ships gathered around the enemy ships in a swarm. As a result, the final losses far exceeded the capacity of the fleet.
From the battleship Jiaolong to the Jiaolong, a total of 44 ships were damaged by space-time earthquakes, including 1 battleship, 5 cruisers, 1 transport ship, 1 engineering ship, and the others were smaller ships and shuttles.
Except for the Jiaolong, the strike team, the expulsion team, and the supply ships that were sent to the main attack at the beginning, the other 28 starships were completely affected by ignoring orders.
The loss of the strike detachment and the destroyer detachment alone was painful for Tada, and now with the addition of 28 other ships and the Jiaolong, the blow to the expeditionary fleet can be described as painful.
Not only the loss of the starship, but also the land forces were almost broken in the backbone.
The marines directly under the fleet suffered heavy losses in this battle. Their losses are not quantitative, but qualitative. Due to the small size of the battlefield, the troops sent by each department are the elite of the elite, and they are the shelves of the marine corps directly under the fleet. One breath was completely engulfed by the space-time shock, making the chief of staff of the fleet, Yuo Mikami, want to cry without tears.
The army units that went out with the fleet were even more unbearable, the 2nd, 5th, 11th, and 16th divisions, with a total of 200,000 elite troops, now only the 2nd Division of 56,000 people are still intact, and the other 3 divisions and regiments, the remaining number of people added up to less than 1 brigade, their numbers can be directly canceled.
After such a large loss, Tada Jun did not mean to shirk responsibility, showing that his command was unfavorable, and his poor internal management accounted for the majority of the responsibility. However, as soon as he changed his words, he began to severely reprimand those who interfered with the command of the headquarters and disobeyed the orders, which were standard measures for the benefit of the enemy and should be severely punished.
The losses were too serious, even Shi Yuan escaped death, and the radicals had no voice in the fleet.
Immediately, Hiroshi Oshima, the head of the gendarmerie who had been urgently promoted, led people into the main venue. There was a commotion among the senior officers. Realizing that something was wrong, Ha Chuan immediately got up and prepared to leave, but was caught by the military police, who had already been prepared.
"What do you mean by this, I am the captain of the Draco, and you are not qualified to directly appoint and dismiss me. I want to see Your Majesty, I want to appeal... I... β
Before he could continue shouting, he was gagged, and he could only hold back his flushed face and was detained.
The sub-venues distributed on the Tianlong were also in chaos. A large number of Marines entered its bridge and directly arrested a group of senior officers, including the chief of staff.
"I now announce the decision of the fleet command. The captain of the Tenryu, Hechuan, incited naΓ―ve forces in the fleet and interfered with normal combat operations, resulting in heavy losses to the fleet. In accordance with the wartime discretion granted to Commander Tada by His Majesty, he is now deprived of his position as captain, and all other accomplices are arrested. In order to meet the needs of morale in the future, the headquarters decided to deal with the criminals on the spot, hoping that the colleagues in the fleet would abandon those frivolous disputes, and everyone would work together to do their best for the rise and fall of the empire. β
As soon as Yuo Mikami finished reading out the decision of the headquarters, the gendarmes in the two main branch halls had already escorted a total of 17 arrested middle- and high-ranking officers, including Kawakawa, to the temporarily opened execution area.
Tada's face was expressionless, and he gently waved his right hand and made a quick downward slash gesture.
On the monitors, the line of fire flashed on the execution ground, and 17 officers immediately fell. The whole course of events took less than a quarter of an hour. The river line, which had the overwhelming power in the expeditionary fleet, was uprooted.
Tada Jun, who has always given people a gentle and elegant impression, has sharp eyes and a face full of evil at this time. The vast majority of officers and men at all levels were stunned as if they had just met him.
In the fleet, another Shi Yuan, who had a high prestige, frowned at all this, and he had neither a sign of approval nor opposition. When it was all over, he slowly stood up. Just when the officers and soldiers thought he was going to attack, Tada Jun personally came on the scene and announced that Shi Yuan's position had changed and he would become the new captain of the Tenryu. The crew of the original Jiaolong all entered the post of Tianlong. And the crew of the Tianlong, under the command of a Shao Zuo, accepted the seriously damaged Jiaolong.
Tada ordered two destroyers to escort the Jiaolong to evacuate along the main channel and put the battleship directly out of the battle sequence.
It wasn't until it was properly arranged that many people reacted. It was discovered that the captain of the fleet was called a famous general, and his methods were far beyond their imagination.
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At the same time that Tada Jun took advantage of the defeat to strengthen his authority in the fleet. Not far from L1 point of Lagrange, a fighter squad composed of space fighters, reconnaissance planes, and command planes quietly swept near the expeditionary fleet. With the help of the residual effects of space-time earthquakes, they recently left the outer edge of the fleet at a distance of less than 50 kilometers, and used the most anti-jamming optical detection system to conduct a wide-area scan of the area where the fleet is stationed.
"Sir, the information is there. Is it about to attack? β
The young sergeant's tone was eager. The first trump card of the Wanderer battle group, Falcaulhausen faintly glanced at the group of enemy ships that dotted the void with a starry sky. An arrogant smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
βγγγ It's not something you should know. Let's go, go back to the main force, and some of the people below are busy. β
The Space Fighter Team came quietly and left quietly. On the surface, it doesn't have any effect, but the war between the Empire of Proxima Centauri in the solar system has entered a new phase from this moment.
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Far from the Earth's sphere, or even out of the sphere of influence of Mars' gravitational sphere. An area located between the inner and middle solar systems, about 3 astronomical units from the Sun. This is the famous asteroid belt of the solar system. Due to its special geographical location and its location in the middle of the forces of Mars and Jupiter, it became the base camp of cosmic pirates, outlaws, and many dark forces nearly a thousand years ago.
A reconnaissance team consisting of 1 cruiser and two destroyers was patrolling along the established route. On this day, they became cautious in their actions. From the ship's time, it started in the early hours of this morning. There was a different background radiation from the normal surroundings, and the fluctuations in space-time energy were also beyond the normal range.
What's the situation? Could it be that the Vesta Brotherhood guys are planning to provoke, or is there a government garrison that is going to sweep it up? The commander of the reconnaissance team kept talking to himself, and he saw on the monitor the source of the anomalous shock, a huge wreckage of a large and tattered ship, enough for ten kilometers.