Volume 16 of the Revised Edition Chapter 5 Niphelson - The Second Battle of the Highway of the Revenant (Part II)

According to incomplete information collected afterwards, the Ferry Asia Air Force, which was secretly assembled in Niphelsen at that time, was very large, reaching as many as 8,000 aircraft. They are mainly composed of three forces www.biquge.info led by Marshal Sauron, General Rijie, and Prince Zacharai. After receiving a distress call from the main planet of Nebuchu, they traveled for nearly a year to rush back to Nippelsen. If you only face the remnants of Nippelson's human space fleet, the alliance of these three Feria's forces is enough to turn things around, but it is different when facing the invulnerable Gonggong fortress.

The Ferians are not fools. Although the Commander-in-Chief Headquarters on the main planet asked them to return to support immediately, no one obediently obeyed the orders of the Commander-in-Chief to return to the main planet to strengthen their prestige and then bow down and lead their battle group to the sublime consciousness of crashing into the space steel bullet of the Gonggong Fortress. They watched around the perimeter for a few days, organized a successful raid, and after capturing the human reconnaissance ship 0080 in an instant, they obtained a strategic map of the human army from above.

At this time, the human cosmic expeditionary force is in the stubborn entanglement of a large head and a small body, and the foundation is almost zero, and the biggest weakness is to intercept the back road. As a result, the strategic policy of the Ferry Asia Air Force came down almost immediately: a small number of troops monitored the human fleet near Nebuchu, and most of the troops continued to use the assault form of the "July Incident" to destroy the rear headquarters of the human fleet, strive to recapture the vulture fortress, and extend the territory connected to the human universe to the situation when the human space army set out in 3069. If this strategy succeeds, the human space fleet ahead will be cut off from its return and reinforcements, and it will become deaf, dumb and blind in the twilight of the day. Even if you don't send a single soldier, as long as you wait for years, you will all starve to death in the Gonggong Fortress.

Nebuchu's Feria Commander-in-Chief seemed to be very dissatisfied with this plan, but at the insistence of Prince Zachare, they had to adopt a tacit attitude. So they left Admiral Zhijie's troops near the Niphelsen Gate, while the forces of Marshal Sauron and Prince Zacharai slew them in reverse of the a-route of the human expeditionary fleet.

However, the Rijie forces, which were responsible for blocking the Nippelsen Gate and clearing the human expeditionary fleet of the terminal navigators and reconnaissance forces, had a premature exchange of fire with Hongxiang's forces. If it could have been delayed by a week, the situation would have been very different, and Hongxiang's intuition at this time added a heavy weight to the balance of victory and defeat for the expeditionary fleet. After the exchange of fire, Hongxiang ate the advance of the Rijie troops in five hours with an unimaginably sharp attack, destroying more than 600 fighters, and only dozens of them escaped with serious injuries. When Rijie heard the news, he was furious: he was already very unhappy to be left alone behind the back hall, although he was not weak in his hands, with 2,500 fighters, and he was not afraid of a full-scale war with the human fleet - in order to prevent this, some of Prince Zacharai's troops deliberately slowed down the march, marching at a rapid pace on the other side of the Niphelsen Gate, so that they could return to the division at any time to rescue. But the key is not that he is afraid of fighting, but that he can't pick up soft persimmons and pinch, and he can't grab the first-class achievement, how depressing this is! In this case, Hongxiang also took the initiative to provoke him, according to the original words of Rijie recorded in the document, it is really "the rebellious thief Kintaro".

When the Combine of Feria developed a strategy to isolate the main force of the expeditionary fleet and sneak up on its rear, the focus of the operation was on the Battle of Bourbon, but there was also an important condition that Nippelsen tried not to fight. It would be best if it could cover up that when the rear headquarters of the expeditionary fleet had been eliminated, Hongxiang's side didn't know about it, and then he could be cleaned up leisurely and slowly.

But now the situation is obviously impossible, and the vanguard troops who have returned from the escape cry to Rijie about the powerful firepower of the human space fleet that destroys the world and the earth, and describes Hongxiang as a cosmic demon who swallows the stars while talking and laughing. This kind of exaggerated narrative is innumerable in war, and how to judge valuable information from the perspective is the fundamental difference between a famous general, a good general, and a waste of firewood. As soon as Rijie heard his subordinates' description, his head immediately grew: According to the information obtained from the No. 0080 reconnaissance ship, the human expeditionary fleet has a lot of fleets in Nippelsen, but all of them are the lowest establishment, which one can have such powerful firepower? The only explanation is that Hongxiang went out to fight with him.

After making a judgment, Rijie immediately ordered the rearguard troops guarding the Niphelsen Gate and the guerrilla forces that were sweeping up the human reconnaissance fleet to gather at the Hongxiang fleet. Although the number of human fleets is small, they will be quite large when combined, so they will not be able to move fast, and their movements will be easy to detect. However, the strength of the Ezje forces could not eat the entire human fleet, and he immediately sent a letter of help to Zacharai's forces.

In this operation, the terminal navigation system of the human expeditionary fleet was completely destroyed, and instant communication with the rear was interrupted, and communication was limited to the Niphelson system; And Feria has never had the means of ultra-long-distance instant communication, which is destined to have a certain blindness in this kind of battle with a huge span of time and space.

Zacharai's rearguard immediately returned to Niphelsen to rescue after receiving the letter for help, but even Sauron and Zacharai, who were in front of them, were shaken: are the human forces in Niphelsen really so strong? Is it necessary to address them first? But can it be solved - as soon as the tide of the battle is reversed, they drill into the Gonggong fortress, and everything is lost. Unable to make a decision, they were forced to slow down the speed of their advance, lest the rear be unable to save when it was really out of control. But they didn't stand still - because the news told them that all of the main human forces of Niphelsen were at war with Rijie, then the main star would be safe for the time being, and their pressure would be greatly reduced, and they could completely let go of it.

The root cause of Feriria's serious error in judgment was the actual strength of Hongxiang's fleet. With the power in his hands, he abandoned most of the light ships and concentrated all the heavy warships on his side. When the gamma cannon is fired in a volley, it does have a tremendous sound that shakes the earth and tears through the universe. Bewildered by his vast prestige, Rijie formulated a four-way combined attack strategy, preparing to find the traces of the Hongxiang fleet as quickly as possible, and then surround and annihilate it with superior forces. However, he really couldn't imagine that in addition to the three modern-class and six battleships, Hongxiang's attack fleet only consisted of forty frigates composed of cruisers and destroyers, which was even far inferior in number to the two planetary guard fleets that were bombarding Nebuchu indiscriminately, and it was a very typical small fleet of heavy elite troops.

When fighting against the Rijie Striker, Hongxiang's fleet cast a large number of false targets against the Meteor Swarm, giving the Rijie Striker the illusion that they had four or five hundred people. During the subsequent mutual search, the Rijie troops occasionally found him in the distance, and after counting the number, they did not regard them as the main fleet, so they never found Hongxiang. At this time, Rijie kept receiving orders from Nebuchu to be attacked and asked for reinforcements, and suddenly one head and three big.

A week before the Battle of Niphelson, Rijie never found the location of Hongxiang's fleet, but his own troops surrounded by various combined attacks continued to be inexplicably defeated. Although the loss of one or two hundred at a time was not much, a week later, more than half of the troops were lost! At this time, Rijie finally collided head-on with Hongxiang, and immediately fought with bayonets. Behind them were a thousand Zachare reinforcements that would arrive in thirteen hours.

Fortunately, prior to this battle, the reconnaissance ship 0082, hidden in the asteroid belt, managed to detect the arrival of reinforcements from Zachare's forces at close range. After Hongxiang obtained the information, he resolutely gave up his plan to implement the turtle tactic to drag Rijie to death, and ordered to adopt an all-attack tactic with a desperate gambler's posture. The battle suddenly became quite difficult: although half of Rijie's troops had been wiped out, the remaining half had been assembled, and the sheer number far exceeded Hongxiang's family.

The advantage of the Hongxiang fleet is that it is extremely familiar with Feria's tactics and fighter performance, and its own warship firepower is more than one grade stronger than Feria. After the battle began, Hongxiang sent a Hyundai-class as the core of the three directions, and launched an unimaginable attack on the Rijie troops that kept rushing as they retreated. Rijie also constantly dispatched troops in an attempt to open a gap and scatter Hongxiang's troops—as long as they lost their organization, this scarce elite force would still be trampled to death by thousands of ants.

After four hours of fighting, both sides were showing signs of fatigue, with nearly half of each fighting force withdrawing from the battlefield. At this moment, Rijie's troops suddenly found a gap and repelled three human cruisers, semi-surrounding Hongxiang's flagship with lightning speed. The follow-up troops immediately swarmed up, completely separating Hongxiang's flagship from the other warships, and then pounced on it like mad dogs. Although Hongxiang's flagship firepower was extremely strong, and the short-range escort guns were constantly firing, it still couldn't stop the countless Feria fighters who came forward to attack, and forced him to retreat into a nearby meteorite group.

In a cosmic war, meteorite swarms are a headache, basically like the forests of the Cold Weapon Age, and are the natural enemies of the attackers. In particular, the armor itself is not strong, and the non-combat attrition rate of drilling into it is extremely high. Hongxiang relied on his modern-grade thick skin and thick flesh to get into it at the first end, while the Feria fighter was not so strong. But Rijie didn't hesitate at all - although there was still a human fleet behind him that had lost its commander, it was nothing, the important thing was that the flagship of the human fleet had been divided and surrounded by an absolutely superior side, and that was enough! Most of the remaining troops of the Rijie force, more than 600 fighters followed Hongxiang into the meteorite group. Only a hundred or so human troops were left behind the blockade outside the meteorite group, so that they could not get close to the rescue.

In the meteorite swarm, it was out of place for the massive Modern class to play hide and seek with the much smaller Feria fighters. To be precise, Hongxiang's flagship seems to have become an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean, opening a safe passage for the Feria fighters who are following behind. The speed of both sides was reduced to a minimum, and the distance was reduced to about a thousand meters, and the Feria fighter was almost like biting at the tail of the modern class. Fortunately, the space in the meteorite group was small, and the Feria fighters could not be deployed, and under the resistance of the modern tail guns, only a dozen of them could barely squeeze in the front and continue to attack them. After more than an hour of pursuit, Hongxiang finally got into a dead end, and there was no smooth passage ahead. The space in this dead end was quite large, about three kilometers in circumference, and Feria's six hundred fighters finally found the space to spread out, surround Hongxiang's flagship from all sides. The scene of street thugs slashing and slashing the gang boss to death in a small black alley is about to be recreated in the meteorite cluster of Nippelson.

There were dense Feria fighters on all sides, and Hongxiang's flagship couldn't even turn around and make a gesture. It's really disrespectful to hold your butt against each other when you're fighting for life and death. Hongxiang felt that this was a bit regrettable, but he did not have the patience and time to convince Feria, so that he would turn around and fulfill the knight's fate in a dignified manner. This kind of demand is not only absurd and meaningless, but it will also be laughed to death when it gets out:

"Phew, is a bully and rogue leader like Kintaro embarrassed to call himself a knight?"

Thinking that everyone would say that, Hongxiang not only smiled bitterly. He took the hand of Jin Ling, who had been standing behind him, and waved his hand firmly to the combat staff officer. The combat staff officer immediately turned on the communication machine, opened his voice and shouted: "Fire at me, fire at me!" ”

The Feria fighters guarding outside the meteorite group have always felt that something is wrong: the battle group left outside by humans is still very strong, and at least it will not take much effort and time to cut off their own more than 100 planes. But they only patrolled around the area, occasionally launching symbolic attacks, and did not look elsewhere to find another entrance to the meteorite group, as if there had been a sudden rebellion in the army, and Hongxiang was to be sacrificed to the Feria - but the possibility of such a ridiculous conclusion remains to be determined. At this moment, they noticed that the two Hyundai-class ships suddenly stepped forward slowly, formed into an array, opened the missile embrasion on the top, and fired two missiles at the same time. The missile adjusted its attitude slightly, and like an arrow from a string, it swept through the gap of the Feria fighter and burrowed into the meteorite swarm.

"What's that?"

"Such a big battleship, firing such a missile?"

"Symbolic fire support?"

There was a sporadic discussion and laughter among the group of Feria fighters guarding outside.

In space warfare, the distance between the two sides is often extremely far, although it is not yet up to the light-second level of galaxy-level operations, but it is very common to be thousands of kilometers apart, and the speed of movement is extremely fast, and the speed of missile weapons is too low in this kind of battle, and the hit rate is always not high. Therefore, every time a human warship launches a missile, it is launched hundreds or thousands of probabilistic attacks after entering the middle distance and killing the spirit of the old man with a fist, and the Feria fighter often only fires violently within a distance of nearly 100 kilometers, so as not to have a low hit rate, and the highest lethality in the starry sky is the human gamma cannon, and missile weapons cannot be compared with it at all. Never before have we seen such a leisurely missile launch since the two sides engaged in war - so few numbers mean an infinitely close to zero hit rate, and even if you get lucky, what's the point of two missiles?

That's usual. At this point, it makes sense.

Rijie's 600 fighters and Hongxiang's flagship had been moving slowly forward in the big hollow cul-de-sac in the meteorite group for five minutes, and Hongxiang had no way to go in front of him, so he had to hover the modern flagship. If he could turn around, he might have used the gamma cannon to fight back, but all he could do now was divert all the output of the antimatter engine to the energy armor to minimize the damage. When Rijie found out about Hongxiang's action, he laughed smugly. He was about to attack, when suddenly the radar showed a moving object approaching at high speed behind him. As usual, this "high speed" is nothing, and most of the Feria fighters can easily dodge. But at this time, they wrapped Hongxiang tightly, but they couldn't move an inch. However, there is no need to dodge, at most it is just to sacrifice a few unlucky fighters, and it will not be the lucky self anyway - most of the Feria fighter pilots, including Zhijie, think so.

Suddenly, a dazzling light erupted from the meteorite group. Everyone on the bridge of the Hongxiang flagship had put on their anti-light masks and quietly admired the sudden burst of sun fire around them. The flames that destroyed everything also involved Hongxiang's flagship in an instant, and at this moment, Hongxiang suddenly turned around and hugged Jin Ling, and whispered, "Let's dance in the furnace of the sun while everyone can't see it." I promised you to see this magnificent sight, and now you have it? ”

A few years later, the self-detonating tactic of using the modern class as a bait to lure the enemy deep and using tactical nuclear weapons to bomb itself when both sides were stationary was written into the interstellar combat textbook as a typical battle example to educate future generations. If you think about it, the modern class can indeed resist the bombardment of small and medium-yield nuclear weapons, and as a prerequisite for luring the enemy into an undodgable space to ensure 100% hit of low-speed nuclear weapons, and use the shock wave when the meteorite swarm evaporates to achieve the maximum lethality of the nuclear bomb - this tactic is indeed not difficult to think of, but the first thing that comes to mind and has the courage to go to the scene to put it into practice is the difference between Hongxiang and ordinary people.

Hongxiang did not hide the news of the elimination of the Rijie troops. The outer fleet could have completely annihilated the more than 100 Feria fighters guarding outside the meteorite group, but Hong Xiang gave an order before entering the meteorite group, asking them to stay alive, so the peripheral fleet was very generous to leave a seriously injured Feria fighter not to kill, and let it slowly escape from the battlefield to report the news. The most difficult thing to clean up the battlefield this time was not to eliminate the Feria army, but to control his own fleet, and not to destroy the Feria army to disrupt Hongxiang's strategic deployment.

The news of the total annihilation of the Rijie forces was sent by the lone fish that slipped through the net to Zachara's reinforcements, and then quickly forwarded to Prince Zacharai and Marshal Sauron, who were marching into the Sixteen Galaxy. The fact that Rijie, who had a huge combat power of 2,500 planes, could not help but be destroyed so quickly could not help but confuse the established strategic goals of Zachare and Sauron. At the same time, the bombed Nebuchu Native Command also sent a rather strongly worded order, asking them to make returning to the main star their first priority. Under the pressure of the front and back, the original strategic goal of assaulting all the way to the Vulture Fortress is basically impossible to accomplish. While Zachare and Sauron were hesitating, news came that Zachare's defenders had exchanged fire with Hongxiang.

At this time, although the Hongxiang fleet completely annihilated the Rijie troops, it also suffered a lot of losses. All the Hyundai-class and battleships were wounded, and the frigate group lost a third. At this time, he was no longer able to create a miracle to annihilate Zacharai's reinforcements in one fell swoop, and immediately sacrificed his unique magic weapon "turtle tactic" and slowly entangled with Zacharai's rearguard troops. Zachare's rearguard troops fought with him for a day and immediately reported Zacharai:

"There's no way this guy can deal with! As long as we have him, our troops will never be able to get close to the main planet of Nebuchu to support them. According to the current progress, it will take at least half a month to determine the winner, and there is no guarantee that he will be able to defeat him. At present, however, it appears that the enemy has taken a decisive posture, and has no regard for his own rear, nor has he reacted to our action of cutting off his retreat. As long as 200 more reinforcements are enough, we can surround him to death, so that he will never return to that space fortress. Therefore, now is the perfect time to return to the division for reinforcements and destroy the main force of the human race! ”

At this time, there was a conflict between Zachare and Sauron. Rijie and Sauron had a teacher-student friendship, and the main star's letter for help—more of an order and ultimatum than a letter—was so strong that Sauron began to shift to the elimination of Hongxiang first and then the expedition to the human lair, but Zacharai was reluctant. As the prince of Feria, if he had the will to save the main star, he would have gone early in the morning, and there was no need to wait until now. There may have been other considerations, but he could only openly proclaim slogans such as "building immortal deeds".

Sauron set off earlier than Zacharai, the troops were all in front, and Zacharai's rear team was engaged with Hongxiang, if it was said that the division would eliminate Hongxiang, Zacharai was the most suitable person. But Sauron and Zacharet couldn't agree on this point, so much so that a ridiculous scenario arose: Sauron's troops were forced to make a long way to turn back to Nebuchu, while Zacharai, who was closest to Nippelsen, continued to advance without blinking an eye to fight for his immortal deeds. This fact once again shows that irrational things are not unique to human beings, and that Feria is indispensable, and that even the existence of this universe itself may not be reasonable.

The 8,000 fighters of the Feria Coalition Army completely annihilated 2,500 of Hongxiang's Huaheze troops, excluding the 1,000 Zacharet guards who were besieging Hongxiang and the 3,000 Sauron troops who were fast horses back to Nipulsen, and finally killed only more than 1,500 Zachare's main force in the Bourbon system. Although Sauron patted his chest and promised Zacharet that he would annihilate the main human force in the shortest possible time, and then catch up, even making a joke of "you should wait for me in the Vulture Fortress for a little longer", no one could laugh.

Restrained by Hongxiang, Sauron's troops wasted more than ten days of journey back and forth on the road from Niphelsen to Bourbon, making a super useless long march. By the time they rushed back to Nippelsen, Zacharai's rear team had already been crushed by the porcupine team that adhered to the turtle tactics, and the fighters were badly damaged, and even worse, the morale of the army was completely discouraged. Fifteen hours before the arrival of Sauron's forces, they were flanked by two convoys drawn from over Nebuchu, and were quickly annihilated. Sauron heard the wails of Zacharai's troops in the communication line, and he gritted his teeth in anger, hating Zacharai for his greed for merit and refusing to return from the nearest place to rescue his own troops. But Sauron didn't know that although Zacharet's return could be roughly a week earlier, the result would be exactly the same.

The first to fight Sauron was Wang Lei. In the battle to destroy Zacharai's rear troops, his fleet took the lead, and it was when morale was high. After spotting the advance of Zachare's troops, he jumped out again and asked to take the lead. However, this formation was not as easy as the defeat of the water dogs just now, and although Sauron's troops had run in vain for ten days and turned back, they did not show any fatigue at this time, and they met and went up with a bang. The two sides fought for two or three hours, Wang Lei was never able to gain the upper hand, and at this time he received Hongxiang's retreat order: "Withdraw quickly, they have outflanked it, it is the army that has returned to the division, and it is estimated that there are about 3,000 planes." ”

Wang Lei couldn't hold back the disappointment in his heart, and asked while ordering a retreat: "Then what plan do you have to retreat from the enemy now?" ”

"The whole army should withdraw to the Gonggong Fortress, and the action should be the fastest to avoid being cut off by them and unable to go back." Hongxiang said: "It's almost time to do, we can only keep their strength at bay while maintaining maximum strength." The future has been arranged for us by the big people who should be responsible for the future. ”

Sauron never expected that the rainbow turtle would be strong in attack and defense, but it was also very good at running, the speed of the Feria fighter was already below the human warship, and the timing of Hongxiang's decision to run away was very good, but Leng failed to catch up, so that Hongxiang completed the miraculous record of annihilating 3,500 Feria fighters, and led the remnants of half of the attack fleet and one and a half guard fleets to run back to the Gonggong Fortress to hide and recuperate. From time to time, he sent some kamikaze teams to spin over Nebuchu and drop a few oil and gas bombs outside the atmosphere, as a terrorist act to show that he still exists.

Although this kind of unguided space bomb does not have the concept of hit probability at all, most of them are thrown into the barren mountains and mountains to play no role, and its effective hit rate should be the same as the five million jackpot of the football lottery belongs to the concept of floating clouds, but Hongxiang's gambling luck has always been prosperous, and he really touched the jackpot in less than half a month, or a double shot - two ghosts hit a bustling town in the core area of Feria and the nearby primeval forest with precision and precision, causing a great fire, As a result, the Feria Commander-in-Chief had to turn the newly recruited army into a fire brigade to extinguish the fire, and the nerves were almost broken, and eighteen death orders were issued in succession, requiring Sauron to abandon his unrealistic strategic ideas and make every effort to help defend Nebuchu.

The 3,000 fighters of Sauron's army are a powerful combat force that cannot be ignored in space, but Hongxiang has not sent the main force to fight since he retracted into the Gonggong Fortress, and all of them use high-speed space shuttles to carry bombs and drop them indiscriminately, the target is extremely small, and the execution time is short. If you want to fight Pinghongxiang in one go, don't count on it - after a few short fights between the two sides, each other has figured out each other's catties, and no longer has the luxury of expecting sparks and miracles again. Hongxiang drank tea and read books in the Gonggong Fortress with peace of mind, no matter how Sauron scolded the formation, he did not lead the army out; Sauron also died to support Zacharai's heart, sealing the Gonggong Fortress and the Niphelsen Gate to death, so that Hongxiang could not return home.

Despite this, Nebuchu was constantly ignited by the space guerrillas of the Rainbow Soar, and then the General Headquarters would write a letter to Sauron, depending on the damage, and give Sauron a routine reprimand or scolding. But Sauron is also speechless, at this time he deeply understood the meaning of the sentence in the report of Zacharai's rear team - if the same force is used to fight a fair battle, he has absolutely no hope of taking Hongxiang, relying on the current total number of troops far exceeding Hongxiang's troops, there should be a great chance of victory in a head-to-head battle, but Hongxiang shrank into the Gonggong Fortress, and he was completely out of line: if he is scolded, he will be scolded, but when the main star is in danger, he is the only force that is helping on the side, and Prince Zacharai can do a good job, and the emperor will see it in his eyes- He could only comfort himself like this.

In contrast to the quagmire battle of Niphelsen, the engagement between the Expeditionary Fleet Command and Zacharet took place quickly and directly. After receiving Hongxiang's early warning in time, it only took two hours for the rear to formulate the next policy: Overmars led the core personnel to quickly retreat to the Vulture Fortress in two destroyers in a segmented jump, hoping to gain a little respite in the worst-case scenario; Song Chunlei personally led the enhanced version of the guard fleet of the headquarters and galloped away in the direction of Niphelsen.

Song Chunlei's march was quite tragic and desperate. His forces were so weak that the chances of a miracle were orders of magnitude lower than Hongxiang, who was on the front line with heavy troops. If Rainbow hadn't kept Zachare's rear and Sauron completely at the back of Niphelson, he would have been confronted by a 5,500-plane Feria battle group as he marched to the Sixteen Systems. Once such a situation arises, the only thing he can do is to harass the enemy's rear routes and destroy the supply points they have arranged along the way, so as to hinder the enemy's counterattack as much as possible.

Hongxiang's efforts finally made Song Chunlei's situation much better. He encountered Zacharai's forces in the Sixteen Galaxy, and a fierce battle ensued. Due to the large strength of the opponent, they fought and retreated, and fought more than 120 times, turning back from the original road at the time of the first Battle of the Revenant Highway. At this time, the small forces of the hidden feria supply points and observatories in the Bourbon system observed the arrival of Zacharai's large army, and they came out one after another, some joined Zacharai's brigade, and some went to Song Chunlei's rear to block his retreat route. Although the number was small, it repeatedly disrupted Song Chunlei's operational deployment. By the time Song Chunlei retreated to the starting point of the Highway of the Dead, he was left with only one seriously wounded Hyundai-class and less than thirty frigates, while Zacharai's momentum grew even greater, reaching two thousand. Considering that Zacharé also suffered considerable losses in more than a hundred battles, this means that the total number of small Feria forces attached to him is quite staggering. Song Chunlei, who witnessed all this, had to write in his combat diary:

"I thought I could do everything I could to stop him, but I made him gather more troops. We have never cleaned up the vast Bourbon system, nor have we expected the small Feriates here to ignore the call of the main star, and have been staying here for the arrival of someone like Zachare. The strength of their desire to destroy humanity is incredible. ”

These 120-odd battles were not fought with their heads shut, and it can be seen from a few words that there were a lot of tidbits in between. It's a pity that there are too few records handed down in the end, and it is only known that Zacharai has sent no less than ten letters of persuasion to Song Chunlei. Although the specific content is unknown, it is roughly "raise your hands and spare you from death" at first, and gradually promise to be a high-ranking official later. It's a pity that Feriria's high-ranking officials are against the aesthetics of the vast majority of human beings, not to mention Xiao Song, even Huo Shuxiang, whose character is ten times worse than him, is probably difficult to be tempted to rebel. Fortunately, an excerpt from the last letter of surrender was attached to the fleet's logbook, and it was circulated.

In this letter, Zachare persuaded Song Chunlei that there were already Feria's workers among the human race, and they were extremely important. Therefore, as long as Song and the others are on our side anyway, they are immortal heroes. Gold, silver, beauties, etc., are all floating clouds that do not need to be worried at all. I hope that Song Chunlei will see the situation clearly and stop working for stupid human beings.

Song Chunlei's reply is much simpler:

"Many people can leave their names in history, but today it is definitely not you!"

A few years later, in order to commemorate Song Chunlei and realize his words, with my intervention, all military and historical popular books and official histories deliberately omitted Zacharai's name in the account of this battle, and the dignified prince of Feria has since left only a mosaic code name called "unnamed" in human history.

The decisive battle between the two sides takes place near the Bourbon Galaxy Jump Gate. Until the last minute before the start of the battle, there were still small groups of Feria troops coming from the rear to join Zachare's team, while Song Chunlei's side was gone and never returned, and there was no replenishment. News of Nippelsen's front has long been cut off, and from the month's continuous fighting, it seems that Zachare's team has been expanding rather than retreating towards Niphelsen, and all signs indicate that the worst has happened. In other words, it is very likely that Feriria's reinforcements have wiped out the human expeditionary force, leaving only Song Chunlei alone. As long as he is eliminated again, there will be an unimpeded march route, and more and more of Feria's army will pass through and kill the earth. In the past few years, except for the dubious "Second Fleet", the Earth has not made any progress in the Space Army, and Feria can return all the tricks that the expeditionary fleet has done on Nebuchu to the surface of the Earth. Moreover, when it comes to launching a landing attack by marines, Feria has too many advantages over humans.

With this section in mind, Song Chunlei has given up all unrealistic fantasies. Since there is no way to retreat and survive in this battle at the beginning, as a general, you need to consider the future other than victory or defeat.

Shortly after the last information report was issued, the final battle of the Second Battle of the Highway of the Revenant took place at the end of the road. At that time, Ovimas had already retreated to the Shuofang Galaxy, and after receiving Song Chunlei's last report, he found that there was a martyrdom in it, and he couldn't help but be shocked. He immediately ordered the unmanned probe left in the Fourteen Galaxy to survey the Bourbon Galaxy, but the Bourbon Gate failed for some reason, and the probe jumped to the wrong place several times in an attempt to jump. Finally, a conclusion was reached: for unknown reasons, the Bourbon Gate had been destroyed. If you want to detect the situation of the Bourbon Galaxy, you can only get around it by taking the route of Expeditionary Fleet B from the Shuofang Galaxy, and it is estimated that it will take more than four months at the earliest. What happened there, although it is unknown for the time being, all intelligence analysis experts have come to the same conclusion: Song Chunlei's fleet has been completely annihilated, and the casualties of the Feria army are unknown, but at least the opportunity to drive straight from Route A has been lost, and mankind still has a chance to survive in theory.

When I heard the news, I did feel that time was running out. At such a time, in order to achieve my goal, I will use any means and pay any price - it is not difficult to understand. (To be continued.) )