In the early morning of January 22, the Han Zeng fleet, which first arrived in the Shuofang system, detected the existence of the Feria military base. In order not to disturb the enemy www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion quietly retreated after using a stealth reconnaissance plane to conduct optical photography at a long distance.

When the Grand Fleet goes on an expedition, the speed of action cannot be exactly the same. In order to avoid the oscillation of high-speed navigation from being detected by the enemy, after sailing out of the Zenith Gate, the entire expeditionary fleet was limited to advancing at cruising speed, but after a long time, a long snake formation of hundreds of thousands of kilometers was still pulled. At such a long distance, conventional communications are very unreliable, and neutrino communications are feared to be discovered by the enemy. In order to maintain communication between fleets, the only way to do so is to rely on the frequent launch of ultra-small unmanned communication and liaison boats that operate under the superphase navigation method. It took six hours for this major battle situation to reach the various detachments. This kind of inefficiency is really scratching the head - this situation is not considered in Beifei's laboratory, where the communication on the simulator is real-time.

This is what happens after the fleet skyrockets twenty times. For Overmars, who has been in the stars for many years, until two years ago, the fleet he could command was no more than the size of a reconnaissance detachment. There will always be many gaps in the history of the nouveau riche, which is a pain that has no choice but to endure.

The enemy situation is unknown. The material obtained by optical cameras is small and difficult to distinguish, and intelligence analysts are in pain and have their heads on the ground. However, the generals could not wait for them to come to a reasonable conclusion. Guo Yingying took the lead in asking for battle: "General, the location of this base cannot be ignored, and we must launch a seizure operation. Please let me take the lead! ”

The rest of the generals also asked to go into battle. Overmars thought about it for a while, and replied: "I am afraid it will take more than fifty hours for the fleets to fully assemble and enter the combat state. At present, there is no trace of mobile forces near the enemy's base, and after a long time, I am afraid that there will be many dreams at night. Han Zeng went up first and was ready to attack within five hours. Kernin and Guo Yingying hurriedly marched to the combat position to prepare for the battle, and they had to prepare for the battlefield as quickly as possible. The rest of the fleet proceeded according to the existing plan and was not allowed to act on its own. ”

"Isn't it a bit risky?" Zhang Ning questioned: "There are only two Yokohama-class cruisers on Han Zeng's side, and the rest are Satsuma-class frigates, and their firepower and defense are too weak. In case ......"

Overmars replied: "Time waits for no one, Zhang." If we had a complete star map and a thorough reconnaissance network, we wouldn't need it. But now in the dark, the only way to seize all the time is to seize all the time. The Satsuma class is much better than the Yanagihara class, and Han Zeng now has more troops than the entire combat force of the three-star fleet two years ago, so I think this risk can be taken. ”

After all, Zhang Ning is not a professional leader, so he was lame when he gave Overmars a word. Overmars waited for a while, and when he saw that the generals from other places had no new opinions, he gave an order to Han Zeng: "Then you should prepare for battle immediately." This great and difficult task is entrusted to you, and you must give it your all. As a token of encouragement, the naming of this enemy fortress is up to you. What are you going to give it a name? ”

"Xia Guan must do his best." Han Zeng replied: "How about naming the fortress as 'Vulture'?" ”

Han Zengqi's experience is quite peculiar. The word "peculiar" is not a thrilling prominence for him, but an indescribable decline. He is a graduate of the fifth or sixth class of Beifei, and his grades are not good or bad. After graduating, he escaped the fate of being assigned to the three-star fleet, and went to the North American Air Force for a period of time as a trainee instructor and a technical cadre in the ground support department. After five or six years of unsatisfactory results, he decided to return to his old profession and voluntarily joined the Samsung fleet, which no one wanted to come to at that time.

As the saying goes: a declining person will decline for a lifetime. Han Zeng's luck really did not improve at all because of the convenience of changing places: as soon as he came, he drove a patrol plane with Tang Qingfeng, who was six years younger than him, and then watched Tang Qingfeng soar from the sky in front of him to the squadron leader and captain, and he could never get rid of the life of the ghost machine. Finally, Tang went up, and he saw that he could be a squadron leader, and then he was expected to be a deputy captain with his old qualifications...... After that, he climbed all the way to the leadership - but he met Dai Jiangnan and joined the Ovimas fleet.

Five or six years before Tang Qingfeng and Dai Jiangnan entered the Overmars fleet, there was very little new blood in the fleet, and there were no particularly outstanding people, so it stands to reason that they were easy to mix - but at that time, Han Zeng was basking in the sun and blowing the sea breeze all day long on the airport of the North American Air Force in Florida. It wasn't until the July incident that he barely managed to become the deputy captain. At that time, Tang Qingfeng, who was much younger than him, had already become the commander of the detachment, and Dai Jiangnan also entered the list of inspection objects. With his academic qualifications and qualifications, if he had come two years earlier, he would probably have been able to sit in a senior leadership position in front of these two. - So, time is also, life is also. In the Three Kingdoms era, Zhou Gongjin shouted "Both Shengyu, He Shengliang", but what about Han Zeng? There were so many mountains in front of him that he couldn't even shout.

This person is not as good as the new generation of Tang Qingfeng, Dai Jiangnan and other leaders, and not as well as the older generation of Kuibyshev and Kernin and other people with special qualifications, so he is particularly dispensable in the Overmars fleet. If it weren't for Admiral Overmars's strict grip and resolute resistance to the unhealthy trend of airdropping senior officers on the ground to take up real posts in Samsung, I am afraid that his life would continue to suffer. It was precisely because the size of the fleet was rapidly expanding and there were no people on the ground that he was suddenly thought of by the command, and after a quick assessment, he was promoted to Tang Qingfeng's deputy, and later he was promoted again to the commander of the newly established material escort detachment. It's also thanks to him that he adjusted it like this, otherwise he would have been buried under the clutches of the Feria pirates with the young and promising Don. In this way, it is difficult to describe the blessings and misfortunes of people.

To sum up, such a guy who has always been unknown suddenly has to assume the role of a vanguard general in this operation, which really makes people feel a little worried. When I read this part of the report afterwards, I started to worry. At that time, the generals in front of him also had serious confidence in him. Fortunately, Han Zeng's confidence in himself is still very high - that's fine. At the time, he and most people thought the battle was just his own.

At 0800 a.m. on January 22, Han Zeng commanded the fleet to launch an encirclement operation against the Vulture Fortress in three directions. The fortress was built on a twenty-kilometer radius of iron ore star, backed by an endless meteorite belt. It is said to be an encirclement, but in fact, it can only achieve a frontal attack from a wide angle. Fortunately, this fortress does not have the perverted defensive firepower of the Adams Fortress cannon, and it does not even have decent long-range containment firepower. The middle route of Han Zeng's fleet was led by two Yokohama-class cruisers, and the destruction was carried back and forth in the near-air defensive fire of the vulture fortress. Sometimes they join forces on the left, sometimes they go to the right. The three-way soldiers and horses are like two unpredictable fists, bombarding the vulture fortress in turn. In less than two hours, the firepower of the fortress had been greatly weakened, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely annihilated by Han Zeng.

Seeing such a battle situation, Zhang Ning praised Han Zeng, who was also Chinese: "Very successful encirclement and attack tactics, I think Xiao Han is still good." ”

"After all, he came out of Beifei Keban, and he has done practical work for so many years, and this superior force is not good at fighting against a weak enemy, so we can only question our judgment that promoted him." Overmars responded lightly: "This kind of strength comparison, I can't see anything. ”

As if in response to the Admiral's comments, the Ferians suddenly gave Han Zeng a chance to prove his true talent. At this time, Han Zeng had decided to abandon the tactic of destroying the fortress by artillery battle, and ordered the fleet to organize marines to prepare to land on the fortress for demolition and infantry battles in order to capture the fortress. However, just as they were out of the weak range of the fortress's artillery fire, closing the cannon doors and preparing for the marines, a group of sixty Feria's fighters suddenly rushed out of the meteorite pile behind the fortress. It seems that the enemy has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and has bitten the left flank of Han Zeng's fleet in one bite.

Under the astonishing destructive power of the freak of Feria fighters, the left flank of Han Zeng's fleet, which consisted entirely of frigates, was quickly annihilated in the flames. Countless dense beams of light streaked through the air, igniting one flame after another in the dark starry sky. However, this fire spread too much, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it covered the entire left flank of Han Zeng's fleet, and quickly spread towards the flagship in the center of the fleet! At this point, the disadvantages of the standard planetary guardian fleet become apparent. Only two Yokohama-class ships in Han Zeng's fleet, including the flagship, were slightly more capable of resisting strikes, and the rest of the frigates were completely unable to organize effective resistance due to their disorganized formation, and were divided, surrounded, and eliminated one by one by the gathered Feria fighters. The rapid assault of the enemy vanguard even deliberately swept past the troops near the flagship, which was not easy to deal with, and killed them directly to the right flank. If they were allowed to succeed, Han Zeng's central troops would be counter-surrounded by enemy forces. In the face of the catastrophe, he also used his strength to eat milk at this time, almost in vain to command his fleet, trying to break out of the chaos and assemble an effective formation to counterattack the Feria fighter group.

Han Zeng's entire command has never had a big problem, but it is a little negative, and he can't be blamed for it, at that time, anyone who encountered such a surprise attack would probably have to be dizzy and panicked. If you have to find out the problem of him, you still have to find the reason from the fact that he is too weak. The first wave of the Feria fighter group was so damaging to his left flank that twenty-six were completely destroyed and fifteen were withdrawn from the battle. After such a blow, Han Zeng's fleet was in chaos for a while. But to make matters worse, the combat effectiveness of his troops has been weakened to the point that they are almost the same as those of the Feria assault forces, and the formation is extremely different, almost at the mercy of others, and the battle situation is completely one-sided.

At 1120 o'clock on the 22nd, when the Korning fleet, which had arrived at the predetermined position for more than half an hour, saw that Han Zeng had fallen into a bitter battle and even despair, it finally could no longer wait for Guo Yingying to arrive. At the sound of Kernin's order, the fleet formed a three-pronged attack formation and entered the front battlefield. However, all Kernin could do was drive away the Feria fighters around Han Zeng. Han Zeng packed up the remnants of his troops and was about to discuss with Kernin how to counterattack and defeat the enemy, when suddenly the stars shone on the ultra-wide-angle observation screen—a new wave of reinforcements from Feria had also arrived.

The Kernin fleet and the remnants of Han Zeng's fleet fought and retreated, trying to draw the enemy out of the meteorite belt once and for all. The Feria army was not stupid, and did not send new reinforcements, and the remnants of the army, together with reinforcements, made a total of nearly 120 planes, constantly outflanked the flanks of Kernin's fleet, and after their fierce counterattack, they quickly retreated. Kernin's fast fleet could not lure the enemy's main force, and the enemy's planes were slow and leisurely in front of them, carrying out counter-decoy battles. The battle was glued for a while, and the losses on both sides were not too large, but the fighting never stopped.

At 1400 hours, Guo Yingying's fleet finally arrived at the predetermined position. His fleet has a lot of capital ships such as modern classes, battleships, destroyers, frigates, etc., and it is really not easy to control the speed of the entire force. But before his troops could take two breaths, suddenly a bright spot like a rain of flowers appeared on the screen of the array radar, and there were thousands of people - Han Zeng and Kernin's fleet in front had been surrounded by the enemy who had been invisibly outflanked to the rear!

At the 1420th hour, Guo Yingying's fleet was also put into battle. Xiao Guo is very self-aware, knowing that his planning strategy is not bad, but the specific tactics are not very clever, and as soon as he marched to the battlefield, he sent radar information and a report for help to Overmars. Indeed, although the strength of his fleet far exceeded that of Han Zeng and Kernin combined, the enemy had outflanked so many troops that he might not be able to deal with it completely. Moreover, will the enemy be a full-fledged attack? If not, how many Space Troops are there in Feria?

This question reached Admiral Overmars along with Xiao Guo's request for help.

After Guo Yingying's fleet joined the battle, the battle situation suddenly became chaotic. The two armies entered a state of outflanking each other, outflanking a small piece of each other's vital forces with their main forces, and there were countless miscellaneous troops on the periphery. If you look down from the zenith, the formation of the two armies can actually form a small-scale Bagua map.

Overmars looked at Guo Yingying's report for a while, closed his eyes and thought for a moment about the current situation of the comparison between the enemy and our forces, and asked, "Who is closest to there?" ”

Under Admiral Overmars's orders, several fast planetary guard fleets increased their speed and headed towards the battlefield.

At 1600 hours, the Nakai Takeshi fleet entered the battlefield;

At seventeen-fifty-fifty hours, the Porkin fleet entered the battlefield;

At nineteen thirty o'clock, the Adams fleet entered the battlefield;

It is strange that the enemy's military power is constantly being strengthened. New warplanes and warships are constantly pouring out of the meteorite belt, stubbornly pushing the expeditionary force back little by little, and then being forced back little by little. Although the total investment of troops was not as large as that of the expeditionary force, so that the ratio of enemy to enemy and the battle situation gradually fell in favor of us, the enemy's back to the meteorite belt, and the enemy planes that were seriously wounded at any time fled into it, but they always came out to replenish it brand new and undamaged, so that their battle groups were always able to exert their maximum combat effectiveness and from time to time inflict devastating blows on the weak parts of our army. Because of this, the generals in front did not dare to be too aggressive, for fear of being hit by a broken blow like Han Zeng.

Until 2100, the expeditionary force had invested six fleets and more than 800 warships, but it was never able to completely drive the enemy into the meteorite belt, and the vulture fortress was still in the hands of the enemy! Seeing that they were caught in such a and absurd tug-of-war, every general had deep doubts about the true intentions of the commander of the Feria Army hidden in the meteorite belt: why would he not send his whole army to launch a decisive battle in one go? How much military power do they have at their disposal? If their military is strong enough, why don't they invade Samsung first before our army invades? If the two sides just gathered a large army by extreme coincidence and coincidentally, it would be a little romantic and incredible.

At 2300, the last planetary guard fleet, the Wilson fleet, joined the battlefield. The officers and men on duty in the fleet of Overmars also gradually fell asleep. Overmars's staff finally mustered up the courage to suggest: "Admiral, it's late. Is it to withdraw Han Zeng, Kernin and Guo Yingying, who are at the front, so that the rear fleet can also enter a normal rotation and rest for some time before fighting? ”

"That's not the point, the enemy hasn't been fully rested, they're just as tired. It is possible to inform the front to take this factor into account when rotating the attack sequence, but this is really not the point. Overmars closed his eyes half-closed, and slowly stroked his short golden hair with his palm: "I still can't see through the enemy's intentions. If they had enough military strength, they wouldn't have fought like this. But at the moment, it seems that they are not showing any obvious signs of military shortage—what exactly do they want to do? ”

Glancing back at the stammering staff, the admiral smiled slightly: "You don't have to answer this question, send this question to several fleets in the rear and see how they will answer." The content is: what is the enemy's tactical intentions, and what the current countermeasures should be. ”

After a while, the responses of several fleets in the rear came one by one. Zhang Ning's opinion deviated from ideological education and team rectification in the second line, and Overmars only glanced at it and hurriedly threw it aside. Kuibyshev was cautiously optimistic, believing that whatever tricks the enemy was trying to do, he would certainly face a shortage of troops. The current military strength of our army is absolutely sufficient, and the battle can be resolved by slowly retreating the front army and turning to the rear, so as not to let the enemy have a hole to exploit, and then slowly advancing as a whole. He also admitted the shortcomings of doing this: I don't know how long it will take, and maybe it won't be completed within this month. Moreover, the Vulture Fortress is too much of an eyesore in such a frontal attack, and the most concise way is to use the existing four Modern class and the main guns of all the battleships to aim at it and blast this medium-sized fortress into cosmic dust.

Kuibyshev is known as the "living military dictionary" in the Samsung system, because he is the oldest and his tactical thinking is definitely the most traditional standard. You can't do anything if you leave it to him, but don't expect to get the miracles and surprises that often appear in the new generation of generals. What he came up with, Admiral Overmars naturally wanted to get as well. Reading his report, it was equivalent to looking in the mirror. Overmars picked up Hongxiang's report again:

"The lower officer believes that the enemy's military strength must be seriously insufficient. The reason why it has been resisting so far is that there must be a plan. After all, we don't know much about the enemy, and we must be wary of the possibility of the enemy using new weapons or using unrestricted warfare to carry out sneak attacks. It is now necessary to immediately close the distance between the front and rear fleets to avoid being broken by the enemy's surprise troops. Either by ordering the front army to retreat or to the rear army to advance, it should be done as soon as possible. ”

Ovimas looked at Hongxiang's report without saying a word, and actually started to stun in his chair. After a long time, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of the staff's hurried footsteps. In a blink of an eye, the staff member stood aside with a frightened face and asked, "Your Excellency, were you asleep just now?" ”

"Hmm...... No, I'm just thinking about Kintaro's proposal, and I'm just not in a trance. Overmars narrowed his eyes slightly, dodging the glare of the lights on the ceiling, and asked, "What's so alarming?" ”

"Your Excellency, just now Zhang Ning's fleet suddenly sent a warning signal, saying that it was attacked by the enemy."

"What?!" Overmars immediately sat up: "What the hell happened?" ”

"The signal was quickly interrupted, and we immediately raised the alert to the second level, and then asked Kuibyshev. They also received only a few signals, after which contact with the liaison boat was cut off. The neutrino communication machine also did not respond, as ......"

The staff barely swallowed a mouthful of saliva, avoiding Overmars's stern gaze, and hesitated, "It's as if that side has suddenly been wiped out." ”

Overmars said flatly: "This is absolutely impossible. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, from a military point of view, it is indeed impossible. However, at present, the contact is interrupted, and the communication of the forward attack cluster is all forwarded by Zhang Ning's fleet, and now it is all cut off. There is a pitch black mass in front of us, and it is better to retreat temporarily and shrink our defenses in the opinion of the lower officials......"

"What a joke!" Overmars sneered: "Are we still the same fleet that drove dozens of broken ships two years ago, and it was all our own will and blood that could repair the rift in the sky?" Even our weakest detachment is much stronger than it was back then, and we won't be so embarrassed that we need to run away! Ordered Kuibyshev, stick to the battle line, don't act rashly, whether it's to rescue Zhang Ning or retreat to fight with me, you won't be allowed, resolutely hold his battle line, and figure out what the enemy is coming from! ”

"Yes......" The staff was a little embarrassed, but still tried their best to say: "Do you call the Leilondo fleet to advance to the airspace of the main fleet and protect the main fleet with as many troops as possible?" ”

"In a situation like this, I don't need to put my safety at risk." Overmars's mood had completely calmed down: "Pass him the same order: hold on, and do not act without further orders." ”

Afterwards, the undaunted general demeanor of His Excellency Overmars was praised by the vast number of drummers, calling it "the heroic spirit of the world". Hongxiang's evaluation of him in private is much worse: "When is it, I still pay attention to demeanor." What a fool. If I had been in command of this battle, I would have thrown in as many troops as I could on the battlefield at the beginning, and ended the battle cleanly. Do you need to play that hungrily? Cut! ”

At 0300 hours in the early morning of January 23, news of an encounter with enemy troops also came from the Kuibyshev fleet. Similar to Zhang Ning's fleet, only one liaison was reached, and all contacts were cut off after that. Fortunately, the information from the Kuibyshev fleet was much more adequate:

"The enemy has a cluster of small aircraft with an extremely wide range, among which there are many pseudo-targets, and the array radar cannot identify them, resulting in most of our army's artillery fire falling short."

"The enemy's flying machine attack method is very special and unprecedented. Our army is fighting back as best it can. ”

"There are too many enemies, the coverage of our fleet's firepower network is insufficient, and some of them have broken through the firepower network and attacked in the direction of the main fleet. From the analysis of such signs, I judged that Zhang Ning's fleet was only besieged, and was not completely destroyed. ”

In the case of losing all intelligence, this information is undoubtedly the most valuable asset. At a time when the splendor of His Excellency Overmars shrouded the universe, naturally no war historian dared to make any negative assessment of the first battle of the expeditionary force. However, Hongxiang had a very strong opinion of the admiral who caused the rear fleet to encounter such a difficult situation:

"It's a real fight. His Excellency the Admiral was so angry that he almost lost his life. What if something goes wrong in the middle of the liaison boats of the Kuibyshev fleet? As long as those few pieces of information can't reach him, he will face a sudden attack like Zhang Ning and Kuibyshev, and he will definitely be caught off guard by the enemy's surprise soldiers, and it will be too late for me to save him. ”

When I heard him say this, I only asked him, "If you had time, would you really have saved him?" ”

Hongxiang responded with a smile: "Huang Er, I'm not such a ignorant person, right?" ”

The intelligence network of the four planetary attack fleets in the rear is maintained by non-stop liaison boats. Although the two nodes of Zhang Ning and Kuibyshev have been interrupted, the information from Kuibyshev's side still arrived at Hongxiang in time. He immediately sent a request to Overmars: "Your Excellency, this is not the time to think about personal gains and losses. Allow me to lead the fleet into the airspace of the main fleet and participate in the defense. Once an accident happens to the headquarters of the expeditionary force, our entire army will suffer irreparable losses. ”

"Thank you for your kindness, but the current battle does not require His Excellency Jin to come with an army." Overmars flatly rejected his request: "The enemy's special operations with false targets and unconventional weapons, if used against any of our detachments, may work." However, traveling three airspaces to attack the main fleet is too self-sufficient and underestimates the strength of the main human fleet. There is an old saying in China: 'At the end of the strong crossbow, you can't wear Lu Min', the main fleet is not only their goal, but also their end, please wait for the good news. ”

It wasn't until before the war that Overmars sent another sentence to Hongxiang:

"Commander Jin, your fleet is at the end of the expeditionary force, the last barrier of the human world outside the zenith gate. No matter what the unexpected happens, don't act rashly. If the worst happens, it's up to you to carry the burden. Although this is very unlikely, you should be prepared in advance. ”

As a result, the Red Fleet was completely excluded from this operation. After the battle, everyone was busy filling out the form to report the merits, only he squatted at the back and never fired a shot, he was idle and panicked, only to turn the pencil to play, muttering in vain to Jesus complaining.

At 0440 hours on the 23rd, 10 large ships equipped with array radars of the main fleet of Overmars began to take turns to carry out pulse wave detection of the airspace ahead. According to the intelligence of the Kuibyshev fleet, they accurately calculated the time of the enemy's attack, and only fifteen minutes after the radar was turned on, a large number of enemy stealth aircraft were detected entering their airspace. Although the first enemy troops to arrive were more than enough - there were hundreds of them, their waiting for the follow-up troops was a testament to the serious lack of real combat power. Overmas immediately ordered:

"Prepare for war."

At 510 hours, the Hyundai-class warship "Asahi", the seat of His Excellency Overmars, fired a gamma cannon at the cluster of Feria's stealth forces, causing nearly one-fifth of that dense small cluster to disappear into the vast space. The beams of destruction swept over and over again toward the Feria Army's hideout, and in less than ten minutes it was clean. During this period, a small number of small Feria planes made a lantern-moth-like operation, trying to rush through the fire network of the Overmars fleet and approach the flagship. But they were facing the main fleet cluster of the human expeditionary fleet, and there were as many as eight battleships around the flagship. With only a volley of shots, only bare cosmic space will be left within the range of vision, and not even the residue will remain.

Overmars's big words were ruthless, and he still showed the demeanor of a veteran when he fought this battle, and there was no nonsense at all. He controlled the formation very carefully, only waiting for the Feria commandos to come into range in batches and evaporate in the fire net. Because of this, the enemy was always helpless in the face of such a strong and powerful array. The bombardment lasted about four hours, and Feria's assault group gradually dwindled, and the last group was followed by the pursuing force of the Kuibyshev fleet, and this martyrdom assault ended with the first combined fire of the two fleets.

Ovimas did not rejoice in the final victory, completely ignoring the jubilant atmosphere in the ship, and asked, "Who is the general over there?" I seem to have said that I must not leave my respective posts without permission, how can I chase my soldiers to the main fleet theater of operations? Go and ask, is Kuibyshev there? ”

The staff did not dare to slack off, and immediately transmitted the question of His Excellency the Admiral to the small fleet opposite. The pursuing fleet, consisting of only sixteen high-speed destroyers, was the fastest moving part of the Kuibyshev fleet. If Kuibyshev had escaped the surprise attack of the enemy forces in Feria and rushed to the aid of the main fleet, he should have moved there and come in person. However, the answer was somewhat surprising:

"Xia Guan is Lieutenant Colonel Wang Lei, the third captain of the Kuibyshev fleet. The special leader of the team came to pursue the enemy and reinforce the main fleet. ”

"What about Kuibyshev, why didn't he come?" Overmars asked in a deep voice.

"The commander's ship was attacked, and now the situation of all the personnel of the headquarters is unknown. In the event of an emergency, the subordinate officer voluntarily performed his duties, commanding the fleet to counterattack the enemy forces and rescue the wounded. And arbitrarily decided to come and reinforce the main fleet. ”

Overmars was silent for a moment, then looked down at the intelligence data that had come from the intelligence connection sent by his staff. After a while, he said, "Understood." It's hard work, let's go back and rest. Your name...... Called Wang Lei? ”

"Yes, Your Excellency."

"When the situation of Commander Kuibyshev is unknown, you temporarily take charge of the Kuibyshev fleet."

“…… Yes, Your Excellency. ”

Soon after the rear fleet successfully dealt with the attacking Feria troops, the Feria troops in the front seemed to have lost their morale and strength, and began to retreat into the meteorite belt in a panic. But the five and a half fleets in front had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, how could they let them go so easily. Thirty minutes after the turn of the tide of battle seemed like a one-sided massacre. After the five-and-a-half-fleet quickly wiped out the crumbling Feria fighter group, it was only to discover that the Vulture Fortress had been besieged by a sky full of its own ships.

In such a situation, cleaning up the remnants of the enemy in the fortress is a drudgery that the generals who have been fighting hard for a long time are not willing to do. After arguing for a long time, some people even proposed that the Leilondo fleet, which had not fired the last shot, come forward to do this bird thing, but it was finally rejected collectively because it was too hard to work and lose money. The five generals in front of Han Zeng, who were too badly damaged, drew back their lots and decided that the Polkin fleet would stay behind to sweep the fortress. The rest of the people all looked at Guo Yingying, the chief of staff of the front fleet and the current highest-ranking officer on the front line, and the meaning was very clear:

"Still fighting?"

Therefore, if you mix too well, you will eventually encounter some occasions where you will be planted with a black pot that you can't get rid of. It's not a big win at the moment, but it's not a big loss overall. But what happens if you rush into the meteorite belt? The Leilondo fleet, known as the strongest single fleet of mankind, was also in distress in the meteorite belt during the military operation to encircle and suppress the Ferria pirates in 68 years, and almost won the battle. Giving such a similar order is naturally very testing of people's will, and no one on the front line dares to propose it except for Xiao Guo. Xiao Guo saw that all the generals who had not fought were locked on to him with very dissatisfied eyes, and he was almost overjoyed by them, and finally gave the order after symbolic consideration for an hour:

"The whole army entered the meteorite belt in turn to search for enemy troops, and I am responsible for any problems."

It's also thanks to his determination to do so. After the forward fleet entered the meteorite belt, they soon discovered a very spectacular thing, which fully proved that selling dog meat on sheep's heads is not only human, but also quite proficient. In the center of the meteorite belt, Feria's large military-industrial platform was excavated on magnetite ore with a diameter of more than 50 kilometers. There are more than 100 seriously injured Feria fighters parked there, and although they are undergoing emergency repairs, it is naturally impossible to keep up with the speed of our army's advance. What's even more interesting is that on that large military-industrial platform, in addition to the repair plant, there are several large reflective devices dedicated to the manufacture of Phantoms for Feria fighters - Phantoms that even the array radar cannot discern, but which do not have the actual attack capability.

"I see, I said how can they fight for so long and not reduce their troops, but they have never been able to increase enough troops, and the damage to us is getting smaller and smaller." Guo Yingying couldn't help but smile dumbly: "At the beginning, the strongest troops and the most phantoms were invested in batches, and after dragging our army into the quagmire of melee, we slowly took back the injured body for repair. The abacus is not refined, but unfortunately, you have too few fighters. If there are thousands of them, they might be able to start a battle here that will last for months! ”

"Do you need to destroy this enemy platform?" The fleet staff asked.

"Don't. Although you are tired and want to beat the enemy to vent your anger, for the sake of the overall situation, we must obtain enough information about the enemy's army. Please bear with me. Guo Yingying took off his general's uniform as he spoke, and said while changing into his armored combat uniform: "Let's take the lead and personally assault this platform." Let the other fleets rest. ”

At 1100 hours on the 23rd, all the enemy forces in the meteorite belt and in the vulture fortress were cleared, and the fleets also withdrew to the airspace outside the vulture fortress in turn. After the exchange of information, everyone fully understood the situation on the entire battlefield. Suffering from the small number of troops at his disposal, Feria's commanders came up with such temporary countermeasures, using illusions to confuse the front army and secretly sending small fighters for special operations. Instead of carrying light cannons or missiles, these aircraft shoot powerful neutron rays from enemy ships for a short period of time, destroying electronic equipment and human life. Because they had never seen such a tactic of the enemy, the two planetary attack fleets in front suffered heavy losses, and more than 2,000 officers and men died under the enemy's special attack. Among them were six hundred officers and men of the modern class of the flagship of the Kuibyshev fleet "Siberia". Kuibyshev, the first veteran of the human space fleet who has been guarding the starry sky for decades, also fell here.

The Feria commandos were targeting the main fleet of Overmars and did not do their best against the first two main fleets. Kuibyshev died heroically when he was attacked by the enemy while commanding the fleet in active pursuit. When Overmars learned of this, he ordered the entire expeditionary fleet to take off his hat and salute Kuibyshev. This is naturally a concrete embodiment of His Excellency the Admiral's recognition of heroes and cherishing heroes, but then there was a rumor that Overmars sighed after hearing that Zhang Ning was safe and sound:

"Why isn't this guy who only shouts political studies for a day to die for Kuibyshev? That old man is so much more useful than he is! ”

As for whether it is true or not, no one dares to verify it.

Although the losses of personnel can be made up in time, the physical damage and chemical pollution of the ships cannot be ignored, and they must stay and clean up. Moreover, although the first battle was bumpy and a veteran was lost, it was still a victory after all. But what exactly should we do next? Nothing is yet known. While intelligence agents urgently analyzed the data obtained from the Vulture Fortress and the Feria military-industrial platform, the expeditionary fleet sent a liaison boat to the human world to report the incident. The whole army immediately launched a routine cruise in the Shuofang galaxy to replenish some of the strategic materials that could be obtained.

Kuibyshev was the first high-ranking general to die in the expeditionary fleet, and whether he would be the last depends on how the ground will answer. (To be continued.) )