The strength of the decoy detachment is weak, and judging by the scale of the roundabout assault, it is really unreasonable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBecause of this, when the Imperial Army is pursuing, it has always maintained a tight formation to prevent an ambush at any time. This is also the biggest reliance on the 8 starships to be able to retreat in their entirety. Now that the Ruida 3 has broken the communication silence, the Imperial pursuit ship group has stalled for a while, and the nervousness of the enemy commander can be imagined. They were afraid that behind these 8 starships, hundreds of ships of the solar system would swarm in.

An almost static wait ensued. Chase and escape, both sides maintain the same speed and the same relative distance. Until the Imperial Fleet was the first to break this state of stability. Through a short communication, the enemy has already seen through the reality of the decoy detachment. Without the fear of being attacked, the Imperial Pursuit Ship Group has a natural advantage over the decoy detachment.

Liao Fan had to accept a fait accompli. At this time, it is difficult to judge the pros and cons of issuing a warning to the headquarters, but it is a foolish thing that should never be done just from the perspective of self-interest.

Breaking the silence of communications will not only cut off its own retreat, but will also make the Imperial Army realize that this force is just a feint and a decoy. What will they judge below? Will there be a real attack on the other side of the embankment army? It can be said that the actions of the Ruida 3 ship not only put itself in danger, but also pushed the stealth detachment to the forefront.

Liao Fan had no time to blame the wingman for his recklessness. He was working hard to calculate the route and find a way for the Tranquility to escape.

Under the fierce pursuit of the Imperial Army, this was an extremely difficult task.

A bright fireball illuminated a corner of the detachment. Located at the top of the right flank of the group, the Health-class destroyer glides into the abyss of death. It balloon-like swelled and shattered under the intense fire of the Imperial Army.

At the same time, on the left flank of the detachment, most of the enemy ships were also approaching. The dense firepower exploded on the defensive magnetic field of the flanking ships, bursting bright blue electric sparks.

The staff group made a request to him for the ships to seize the road and break through the encirclement. Liao Fan suppressed the restlessness of the staff officers. He also wanted to break through and leave, but the timing was not good enough. Compared to destroyers, cruisers are more valuable in the eyes of the Imperial Army, and if they break through in a scattered way, the Tranquility is undoubtedly a big target.

"Wait, we need better chances."

The initiator of the dangerous situation, the speed of the Ruida 3 suddenly slowed down. It can be clearly seen that two of its 6 main engines have dazzling spots that flicker and darken.

"Ruida 3, main engine failure. unlucky. Let's go first! ”

The captain of the Ruida 3, commensurate with his behavior, is an idealist. Although the detachment was dragged down by him and fell into a desperate situation, Liao Fan did not look down on him. This is an altruist who is accustomed to thinking about others, and everyone has different principles, and there is no right or wrong.

"So, let's go, pull a few more pads..." On the communication screen, the six captains saluted Ruida No. 3, and the order to disperse and break through the decoy detachment was finally issued.

Just as Liao Fan had wished, the Ruida 3 had a heavy blow to an Imperial destroyer, dragging the broken hull into the flank of the Imperial cruiser. Bright artificial supernovae bleached the dark void around them.

The surviving 6 starships, taking advantage of the chaos, broke through in 6 directions. The Imperial ship group should divide its forces to pursue according to the situation.

There were quite a few pursuing troops behind the Tranquility.

The cruiser was bathed in a waterfall of fire, and the defensive magnetic field turned orange and shattered at any moment under the saturated attack. Liao Fan's alarm for people to turn off the bridge, and the piercing multiple alarms have begun to affect his thinking and judgment.

He didn't know what was going on in the other directions, but 10 minutes after the Tranquility broke through, it encountered a group of space fighters, and the situation was not optimistic.

The close-in defense module poured fire on the close-fitting space fighter, and the rapid-fire gun of 120 caliber never stopped. On the boundary between light and dark, the exploding balls of light made him lose his sense of direction.

The Tranquility overloaded its main engines and broke through the interception of the space fighter group in the ominous tremor of the ship's hull.

There was no time to celebrate the successful breakout, and at the end of the route, a hostile swarm of artificial light points approached.

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Without the consent of the fleet command, starships were dispatched without authorization, and 8 starships were sunk below the Tranquility. At the same time, his reckless actions also affected the actions of the stealth detachment, bringing extremely serious disasters to friendly forces...

The Judge Advocate General's Office listed his charges, and he himself listened absent-mindedly. It's all over, and the Tranquility crashes headlong into the Empire's destroyer group. Under the heavy rain of the dense line of fire, any tactics and evasions are in vain. He watched as the beloved Serenity was under a saturation attack heading for the abyss of destruction.

At the last minute, his loyal men pushed him into the life pod. In the turbulence of the explosion, the lifepod escaped the devastating force, leaving him the sole survivor of the decoy detachment.

He would rather he be dead.

In the ensuing accountability action, he became the only one who could be held accountable. There is nothing surprising about this, the complete loss of 8 starships is still second, more than half of the bombers of the stealth detachment failed to return home, and the commander of the detachment was also killed on the spot, and someone must bear the responsibility for the defeat.

In a big push of charges, Liao Fan finally unraveled the conspiracy of the chief of staff. The matter of the decoy detachment is not registered, that is, the decoy detachment does not exist in the official archives. In the real record, there is only the plan of the stealth detachment to attack the Imperial ship group in a roundabout way.

It doesn't take much inference to find out, chief of staff and commander of the stealth detachment, they need cannon fodder. In the direction of the decoy detachment's feint, the dense group of Imperial ships was not accidental, but the result of intelligence leakage.

They wanted to attract the attention of the Imperial Army with 8 starships of cannon fodder, creating a time window for the surprise attack of the stealth detachment. This is also the meaning behind the intriguing gaze of the bomber captains at the tactical meeting.

What they didn't expect was that the decoy detachment would return to the sea ahead of schedule, and they didn't expect the altruistic Ruida 3, mistakenly thinking that the Imperial Army still had hidden forces, regardless of their own safety, and sent a warning signal to the main force of the fleet.

Calculations, conspiracies, and so on, have become jokes in the perverse behavior of altruists. The decoy detachment could not escape the fate of destruction, but it also dragged the stealth detachment into the water.

At the military justice meeting, Liao Fan met with the chief of staff of the Second Fleet again. The middle-aged white-cut and talented bureaucrat is like a drunkard at this time, and he has no image at all. He stared at his red eyes and angrily reprimanded Liao Fan and others for their unauthorized actions, which harmed the stealth detachment and made the army passive.

Liao Fan could see that the chief of staff's anger was real, and the unauthorized action in his mouth was not a feint, but an unauthorized break of the communication silence.

Either way, he doesn't care anymore. Even if the chief of staff denied giving the order to attack and put all the blame on the decoy detachment, he didn't care. Any act of accountability is meaningless for the dead, and he himself is a dead man.

At the court-martial, the old commander personally defended him, stating that they broke the silence in order to warn the main force, which was a noble act of self-sacrifice by throwing away their pawns and protecting their cars.

A big defeat, while losing troops and losing generals, the top brass of the Space Army is facing tremendous pressure. This special result is both unexpected and reasonable.

The military court convicted Liao Fan with unprecedented speed, and he was dealt with as discretionary as he was, taking into account the self-sacrifice of the decoy detachment.

Liao Fan was dismissed from the post of captain of the cruiser and removed from the rank of major. He was personally assigned to the Wanderer battle group and became a gunnery chief for a grassroots assault ship.

According to the old commander's opinion, he needs to defend himself, highlight the warning elements of the main force, highlight the self-sacrificing spirit of the Einsatzgruppen, and bite the leading role of the chief of staff in the operation. Liao Fan didn't do what he wanted. The whole person was empty, and he was in no mood to explain anything.

In the life pod, he saw the whole process of the Tranquility bursting. At that moment, the scene of the officers and men of the whole ship lining up to greet him flashed, and the high-spirited faces and solemn military postures were imprinted in his eyes in the dazzling white light, becoming an indelible part.

He left in the disappointed, pitiful gaze of the old chief. His expression and mood were frozen in the moment when the Serenity exploded. Since then, he has been beaten back to his original form, he has lost his purpose, he has no support, and the Space Army is no longer a big family.

He became a lonely member again.