Revised Edition, Volume 4, Heaven and Earth, Chapter 13: The Alpha Recapture Campaign (I)

On July 7, 3066, the Alpha recapture operation began. For several months, www.biquge.info the intelligence reconnaissance of the alpha side has been quite detailed. According to intelligence estimates, the remnants of the Feria's military strength there were not very strong. In the final pursuit of the fleeing Alpha Army at the end of the last Alpha Raid, they killed more than 200 of their fighters by the Adams Fortress Cannon, leaving no more than 120 fighters, thus losing the advantage of space warfare. From then on, the Ovimas fleet had been blocking the Zenith Gate at every turn, and Feria could not even send a single reinforcement. Our military strength has skyrocketed, and their side has not moved, and under the advantages of one and the other, the military strength is far from our opponent.

The Overmars fleet is shabby. Because most of the troops were sent to block the Zenith Gate, and they had to leave 20% of their Space Grand Cross garrison station, only fifteen frigates and three Aerospace Helicarriers carrying 280 ghost fighters could be allocated to fight Alpha. According to the intelligence bureau's assessment of the combat performance of the Feria aircraft, it is clear that the military strength of the space war does not have an absolute advantage. Overmars personally led the main force of the fleet to deploy defense at the zenith, and was deployed by Deputy Commander Brigadier General Zhang Ning, and Chief of Tactical Staff Guo Yingying specifically commanded the first phase of space operations.

In the first phase of the operation, the main task of the Leilondo troops was to watch the broadcast. I took a video cable from the intelligence bureau and took the lead in illegally starting a live webcast. At this time, the main source of customers of the Internet café, the soldiers of Leilondo, were confined to the barracks and were not allowed to go out casually, and only twenty or thirty local children of Leilondo could sit in the Internet café of more than 100 people at any time to play games online. I didn't go to the bureau, let Chen Qi make tea for me, and often sat in front of the computer to observe.

Who knows that Guo Yingying is very sorry for the audience, his tactics are quite steady and conservative, and he has won the essence of Ovemas's positive attack method, but he plays too slowly, not only the soldiers on Lei Longdo are waiting for complaints, but even Ovemars, who is stuck to the zenith and can't go back to the base to rest, is impatient. For a time, Guo Yingying, who had only advanced 5,000 kilometers on the Alpha Axis in a week, was given a series of indecent titles such as "snail" and "ladybug" by everyone in his name.

I was going to watch the broadcast all day, but I lost interest in the ship he commanded not much faster than I could ride a bicycle. I'm fine, I don't want to watch it. Those soldiers who sat in the office and in the barracks were miserable, and they could only sit there and watch him shake three times in one step, an average of eighteen hours to fight a contact battle, and then disappear after firing two shots. If he continues to fight like this, sooner or later there will be an outbreak of hemorrhoidal plague among the soldiers of Leirondo.

In the early morning of July 16, I was sleeping with my head covered after a day of playing games, when suddenly the phone in the Internet café rang loudly without knowing the time. These days, business is light, I simply closed the night business to change a good night's sleep, but the good dream will not come true. I hate to be interrupted at bed, and I get angry every time I encounter this situation. Chen Qi saw that I was irritable, so I ran to answer the phone. I was about to count the sheep so that I could continue to sleep, when she rushed over and shouted, "Huang Er, get up quickly." Lao Guo really did it, it seems to be quite spectacular! ”

"Go eat poop, hero!" My nerves suddenly became excited, and I couldn't help but curse Guo Yingying loudly in pain when I thought that I would never be able to sleep again. Enough of scolding, rushed to the computer and sat down, peeping at the fleet's text message exchanger.

Interstellar warfare has a large amount of information, and it is easy to be interfered with by traditional analog voice methods, and the information efficiency is low. Nowadays, the widely used method is to transmit operational plans and other texts through wireless digital communication networks. For this reason, not only did the commanders have a large number of special term keys on their special keyboards in order to quickly issue orders, but the staff officers also had to practice their typing speed to more than 200 words per minute. If the legendary digital nervous system is studied, these hands flying in the flames of war can be freed.

An hour later, the cracked text communication screen was still blank......

The Guo Hero fleet on the screen is still crawling at the speed of a snail, but it maintains a frequency of one per minute to take off ghost fighters from the air carrier to attack the Alpha mainland. I wanted to scold, but thinking that he was so far away, scolding was in vain, so I took Chen Qi and knifed: "Where did you hear the false news?" I'm going to clean you up. What about handcuffs? ”

Chen Qi hurriedly smiled and said, "My wrist hurts, is it good to play with those perverts in the past two days?" You haven't had a good rest all day, forget it today. ”

I sneered and said, "Aren't you excited to try playing in an Internet café that is usually crowded with people?" Come here. ”

Chen Qi screamed and jumped up and ran away, and I chased after me. After several circles, he finally caught her and pressed her aside. I was about to do my best, but she exclaimed, "Look, there's movement!" ”

Guo Yingying is simply deliberately mischievous with me, disturbing me to sleep first, and destroying Lao Tzu to do good deeds later. The Ghost fighters he sent were badly defeated, and only seven or eight seriously wounded were driven by the Feria Air Force. This group of pursuers was quite aggressive, and a large blue glow of Feria's planes was seen in the dark cosmic sky. Half a minute later, the commentary screen on the TV showed statistics: Eighty-two Feria planes, fourteen of our ghost planes. Originally, the Ghost Machine was no match for the Feria fighter, so why was there so many fewer of them all of a sudden? Chen Qi and I couldn't help but scream, and at the same time we heard shouting and scolding in the military camp and living quarters in the distance.

Guo Yingying is the first general to command the actual battle under the live TV broadcast since the big era, if he messes around, there is no question of whether the boss can cover it up, and the scolding of the audience alone can force him to commit suicide by cutting his stomach live and definitely can't find a fault to help him cut off his head.

We watched the TV broadcasts in a lot of noise, but something even more interesting happened in the Helicarrier in Alpha orbit. The transcript of their conversation intercepted on the screen finally has content:

JN: "Commander, give the order to attack, I promise a big victory!" ”

Hero: "Major Dai, you only have five frigates. This mission is to protect the ...... of the team"

JN: "Ah~~~~~~ it's not good, the command cabin was shot and caught fire......"

The conversation between HERO and JN was interrupted.

After a while, Hero (obviously Guo Yingying) sent a message to the other ships in the team:

"This cheating, merit-stealing guy, how many times has he done this?"

A number of people quickly replied: "Major Dai Jiangnan is already in danger during the mission for the fifteenth time and acted without authorization. It is strange that his command module has been hit so many times by fires, meteorite impacts and other disasters, but he is unscathed......"

"Command the whole army to act!" Guo Yingying decisively gave the order. He, a good student of Lieutenant General Ao, should not have any extra measures, but he immediately posted a complaint:

"This dictatorial guy is bad for me!"

Guo Yingying's order had not yet been conveyed to the whole army, and Dai Jiangnan had already led the five frigates of his own team, which were supposed to be a rout, to rush straight towards the enemy at ten o'clock, like a cylindrical sharp corner protruding from the formation, rushing towards the enemy's corner. Although Guo Yingying's follow-up troops set off in time to attack together, after all, they were a beat slower, and Dai Jiangnan's team was the first to enter the effective shooting distance. Five frigates opened their gun doors at the same time and fired a rain of missiles at the enemy. These missiles were shot straight from a long missile launcher, and suddenly changed speed in the air and flew towards the enemy formation, bringing out the tail smoke and fire like a huge comb, exploding countless fire chains in the enemy formation. Although the group on the left side of Feria tried its best to dodge, its maneuverability was far from comparable to that of missiles, and it was hit one after another, and the airspace in that area continued to burst into flames of explosions. When the other two parts of the group were pressing towards Dai Jiangnan's team, a rainstorm of saturated missiles suddenly flew out at a very close distance, and the Feria array was suddenly covered by firelight.

"Damn, our ghost machine is already equipped with invisibility!" I watched the sudden explosion of the number of our fighters on the TV screen and couldn't help but scream.

What needs to be mentioned here is that the Feria fighter is far larger than the standard configuration of the Ovimas fleet and even any kind of aerospace fighter in the human world, with a body length of about 30 meters, more than twice the size of our fighter, even compared with the eighty-meter-long Yanagihara-class frigate led by Guo Yingying, it is not necessarily small. This aircraft of theirs is not so much a fighter as a small warship. Although the speed and reaction are far inferior to the Ghost Machine, the corresponding firepower and armor are also much stronger. Even though he suffered losses from Dai Jiangnan's surprise attack and the attack of the stealth ghost machine at close range at the beginning, there was no chaotic scene at all, and he immediately counterattacked while retreating.

In less than a quarter of an hour, there were only fifty-six of the Feria Formation, which had been frequently harassed by the Ghost Machine at zero distance, and they all gathered together to form a dense cylinder array, making it impossible for the invisible Ghost Machine to easily drill into its formation and fire at zero distance. At the same time, they retreated and used the heaviest armor on the front to resist waves of missile attacks from the frigate group, waiting for opportunities to make sporadic counterattacks.

Although the ghost machine and the frigate group bit each other to the death, due to the strong armor and barrage defense of the Feria fighters, the losses in the ensuing pursuit battle were not large. After about twenty minutes, there were still forty-five fighters left on the Feria side, four frigates on Guo Yingying's side were seriously injured and withdrew from the battle, and the fragile Ghost planes suffered considerable losses.

The most active was still Dai Jiangnan's team, whose ability to command the fleet had already been highlighted in this skirmish. He led the five frigates under his command to launch the highest mobility, repeatedly went around all corners to launch strikes against the Feria aircraft group, although he also suffered losses while striking the enemy, but he did not suffer any serious injuries, and all members insisted on fighting. This guy's ability to command fleets is truly remarkable, and as soon as the battle began, the computer screen I used to spy on his ship's text communications was quickly and brutally swiped. He was able to convey absolutely forward-looking instructions to four subordinate ships almost simultaneously, and quickly achieved great results. Of course, his achievements are based on a disregard for the strategic intentions of the commander, and it is estimated that few people will appreciate such a "genius".

I watched his team perform outstandingly, and immediately searched for his information on the Internet with the port number and observed it. Chen Qi turned her head to see his photo, and the schoolgirl screamed: "Ou~~~ beautiful man~~~" I immediately slandered: "There is an eagle hook nose!" Chen Qi chuckled twice and said, "Are you jealous of others?" That's the one with a Western taste, and it's the most popular. ”

Probably because I've been better with her in the past two days, this woman has been playing for a long time? I was secretly annoyed in my heart, and asked tepidly: "You said that you would be dead set on messing with me, and if you met a handsome man for a long time, would you still be obsessed?" ”

"That's what all women do, isn't it, not to mention that even a man is just a pork prince?" Chen Qi laughed.

I was about to clean her up, but the situation of the battle changed, and I had to give up. The Feria fighters have retreated into the airspace of Planet Alpha, and the air defense facilities they have built on the ground have begun to attack Guo Yingxing. Under the cover of anti-aircraft weapons, they smoothly and quickly returned to the ground to replenish themselves. At the same time, because of the effect of the large radar of ground-based air defense weapons, the stealth effect of the ghost machine has all faded. Guo Yingying's fleet no longer has a decisive magic weapon for victory.

After a brief addition, the Feria fighter group took off from the ground one after another. They gradually gathered together and regrouped, and it seemed that they were about to launch a counterattack on Guo Yingying's fleet. Guo Yingying's fleet is now stuck at the limit of the range of Alpha air defense weapons, and it only takes twenty minutes from the range of Feria aircraft to fire, and in this short time, Guo Yingying must make a decision whether to continue fighting or retreat.

"It all makes sense. If you retreat, you can avoid greater losses. Guo Yingying's fleet has already achieved the result of annihilating one-third of the opponent's entire air force this time, and our side can force the landing under the cover of the fleet. As soon as Chen Qi commented on the military operation, he immediately became serious.

I smiled lightly, shook my head slightly, and said, "If it's me, I'll continue to rush." ”

"Why?" Chen Qi asked me with a wink.

"Because ......" I turned my head to look at Dai Jiangnan's avatar on the computer next to me: "This person will do this, and Guo Yingying, no matter how high his strategic means are, he has to rely on him as the absolute main force for specific operations." Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find. Under the current situation, Guo Yingying could not be willing to give up on him. ”

Before my words fell, Guo Yingying's fleet reorganized its formation while retreating, and the remaining eleven frigates formed a scissor-shaped W formation in front of them. The Ghost fighters, who had long since returned to the Helicarrier's replenishment, flew out of the void lined up in the middle of the formation, like a dense needle felt waiting for the Ferians to fall. This kind of defensive counterattack formation is certainly suitable for opponents of equal strength. However, Overmars also taught us: in the current situation of the Samsung system, there is a serious shortage of ships, and it is impossible to form an effective formation at all. This is reflected in the fact that as long as one or two ships are shot down, it will affect the formation configuration (no way, the number is too small). And the Feria Air Force is known for positional warfare and superior attack power - just now I clearly saw a close-up of a chase shot: three Ghost planes besieged a wounded Feria plane, only to be shot down by his desperate counterattack. When our missiles hit the opponent, the opponent only shook in the smoke and fireworks, and our ghost machine collapsed as soon as it was hit, and even the frigate could not withstand a few direct hits from Feria fighters.

Fifty of the Feria fleet were approaching, and this should be their last possessions. Suddenly, Guo Yingying's fleet split into two teams, Dai Jiangnan's team rose to the zenith, and the others stood still, rushing forward to meet the advance of the Feria aircraft with five ghost planes, and the frigate led by Guo Yingying was covered by naval guns and missiles behind. In the dark universe, it is almost impossible to see the insignificant fighter battle clearly, and you can only see the occasional flickering of the tail flames of the fighters and the bursts of fireballs that burst between the two armies. After entering this positional battle, our side, which was backward in firepower and armor, was obviously inferior. Although the Ghost Machine is fast and agile, its firepower is also weak, and even if it is superior in numbers, it is still losing ground in the field.

The number of Ghost planes in combat is rapidly decreasing, and in less than half an hour, it has been reduced to one hundred and twenty. According to the 3:1 safety ratio of the Ghost Fighter to the Feria Fighters, it has now reached the verge of being very dangerous, and there are still thirty-nine Feria Fighters, and there is still the power to counter our side. The frigates on Guo Yingying's side were seriously damaged and lacked ammunition one after another, and their firepower was significantly weakened. But Dai Jiangnan didn't cover his own team at all, but he kept changing the formation of the five ships under his command, repeatedly swept outside the Feria fighter formation, and achieved a little battle results, and the enemy's main force had a tendency to get closer, so they turned around and rushed back to the zenith. The strange thing is that although Guo Yingying's side struggled to support and Dai Jiangnan did not attack, there was no information exchange between the main ships between them at all. What is displayed on the screen is the battle instructions between the subordinate ships and Guo Yingying

Looking at the bad battle situation, I couldn't help but sigh: "Guo Yingying has dragged the other party to death, but when does Dai Jiangnan want to wait?" ”

"He's waiting for his moment." Chen Qi, who had been staring at the screen, said.

It's nonsense, but it's boring to just look at the little sparks and the dwindling numbers of our ghosts, so I ask, "What moment is he waiting for?" ”

"Assault, or flight."

Just as the two of us were talking to each other about the obvious, Dai Jiangnan's team came out. Under the cover of four frigates launching barrages, they struck from the main ship of Dai Jiangnan to the center of the Feria group. The position on the radar screen was densely filled with the shadows of Feria's planes, and as soon as the five of them broke in, their figures were immediately submerged. Although some of the Feria planes on the periphery were still fighting with the ghost planes, waiting for an opportunity to launch an attack on Guo Yingying's team, the main force had all turned to fly in the direction of Dai Jiangnan's team, and it seemed that there was indeed the most important thing in that place?

Suddenly, a white light flashed in the starry sky, and Dai Jiangnan, who had penetrated into the center of the Feria cluster, cast an anti-stealth particle bomb. A very large Feria plane, slightly larger than the Yanagihara-class frigate, suddenly appeared on the radar screen. The shape of this aircraft is very similar to the radar early warning aircraft used in atmospheric combat, and there is a large disc overhead, is that the command aircraft of the other side? Looking at the scene of the rest of the Feria fighters chasing over there in panic despite their own attacks, it seems that Dai Jiangnan has found the right point of the enemy.

However, the speed of the Feria aircraft was simply too slow. As soon as most of them forcibly turned around, bursts of fire erupted one after another from the end of Dai Jiangnan's attack, and the huge radar target disappeared. In just half a minute, their whole team quickly protruded from the other side of the fire, and although their status showed that they were all injured, they could still fight. At this time, Dai Jiangnan's team was facing the flank of the main force of the Feria fighters, and all the firepower they had been accumulating in the artillery battle just now was fired there, and suddenly the space burned again! Guo Yingying's team and the remaining ghost machines took the opportunity to attack with all their might. The remaining 30 Feria planes obviously lost their unified command and command, and were attacked by two teams of our army in a tight formation, and they immediately collapsed and their number was sharply reduced. Ten minutes later, only two or three of them escaped into the anti-aircraft artillery fire circle, and the rest were either eliminated or scattered into space and escaped. Guo Yingying's team dispersed on the spot to seek the enemy.

Seeing this, there was no longer any need to simply seek the enemy, and Leilondo TV station immediately canceled the broadcast. I looked up at the clock and saw that it was already four o'clock in the morning, but I was quite excited to see it for a while, and I didn't feel sleepy for a while. Chen Qi ran to make me tea, and when he saw me staring at the photo of Dai Jiangnan on the screen, he asked, "Have you started paying attention to this person?" I nodded and said, "I have never heard this kind of tactics from Vice Admiral O, and it is hard to imagine that it is the people of their fleet." Chen Qi smiled and said: "Actually, this kind of combat method is not strange, it is equivalent to the sniper general of the ancient battle array." He first continued to conduct small-scale fire testing, waiting for his team to die on that side, and would rather pay a great price to fight to the death...... After determining the location of the opponent's commander, it is indeed very good in terms of tactical arrangements and command of troops to launch a point attack with local superiority and rapid forces in a timely manner to destroy the opponent's overall command system. ”

"But at the beginning, I was also impressed by the kind of aggressive and windy style that did not listen to the commander's arrangement." I looked at his information and photographs again, and asserted: "This guy's talent is comprehensive, at least in tactics and fighting against the enemy." The command of the large forces, of course, is still too early to say. However, I always felt that he would not be a person liked by the lieutenant general. Guo Yingying is so steady. In fact, if you lead the opponent into the hinterland, and then use the ghost machine to give your own side a lossless blow, the battle record may look much better. ”

"But it won't lead to a decisive battle." Chen Qi said with certainty: "If that happens, the other party will definitely immediately shrink the formation and retreat." With such thick armor, even if we lure them away from Alpha, it is impossible for us to achieve the result of completely destroying the opponent. ”

We discussed tactics seriously for a while, and suddenly it was funny. It's almost morning, why don't you sleep just blowing these irrelevant? Hurriedly gave up the topic and ran back to sleep.

On 16 July, the phase of the Alpha Air Campaign ended. The Feria Air Force has basically swept away our side, and Leilondo has entered a state of first-level combat readiness to prepare for a landing operation. On the same day, the General Administration of Space issued a circular order to commend Major General Zhang Ning, the supreme commander of the operation, and Guo Yingying, the commander of the actual combat unit. As for Dai Jiangnan, who was in the limelight in this operation, Lieutenant General Ao was very angry at his disobedience to the general's orders and acting without authorization, and sent a gendarmerie to escort him back to the Grand Cross station and throw him directly to Titus and Zhang Ning to wash his ears. The official processing name is: Quarantine Study for Two Weeks. (To be continued.) )