Chapter 6: Crossfire

"As long as Datang divides his troops like this, the other two ways of our army will definitely be able to destroy the enemy army blocking in front of them, and then our three-way army will surround the last enemy army and win!

"As long as we don't count the losses, we can definitely destroy the main force of the enemy before the Datang Expeditionary Force returns to the army, and when the time comes, our army, which has 30 million troops, can concentrate our forces to destroy the Datang Expeditionary Force, even if it is that silver-armored fortress, it will not be able to withstand the attack of such a huge force of our army, and the victory belongs to us!"

Hearing these words, the officers immediately shouted in high spirits: "Victory is ours!" ”

Seeing the officers' expressions excited, Admiral Leopard nodded and said, "Pass on our plan to the other two admirals, and order the troops to ignore those surrendered planets, target the capital star of the Tang Dynasty, and move forward quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

The Tang Army was indeed as Admiral Leopard had guessed, they abandoned the defense of a large area of the star field and gathered the troops scattered in various places.

They also realized that if they were one-on-one, their side would definitely win, but because the number of opponents was too large, the high-ranking warships on their side could not show their advantages, so they had to abandon the local garrison and concentrate their forces to confront the enemy. In this way, it can not only avoid being broken by the enemy individually, but also counterattack the enemy.

As for whether those abandoned places will be bullied by the enemy, it can only be resigned to fate, anyway, if the troops are not transferred, they will not be able to resist the invasion of the enemy army, and they will lose both people and land.

While looking at the data on the screen, the rear admiral issued a transfer order: "The new Ninth to Eighteenth Fleets will concentrate in Area A, the Eighth to Twentieth Fleets will converge with the First Fleet, and the new 50th to 100th Fleets will go to Area C to assemble, and I will transfer 300,000 supply transport ships to Area A."

"! The new 78th Fleet, what are you doing? How are you procrastinating, hurry up and gather troops for me to go to the destination! Order the commanders of each district to organize their command while reorganizing their troops, I don't want the battle to start or the fleets to attack separately!

"Ask for a candidate? Depend on! I've delegated the appointment to them, let them choose themselves, and turn in the list in an hour! ”

A colonel in charge of logistics was busy asking below: "Are the supply points in A, B, and C ready?" Not yet? Order them to hurry up, the transport will not be so convenient after the start of the war! Replenish before the war begins!

"Is the battleship repair line ready? Are there enough maintenance personnel? Very good, immediately transport to the war zone to set up a maintenance station, as long as our battleship does not explode on the spot, then we must continue to fight, let the workers of the maintenance station prepare a rotation system, otherwise they will not be able to withstand it.

"Are the repair parts for the robot soldiers and battleships ready? No! What do you eat? Get ready for me in the shortest possible time, or I'll kill you!

"How are the space medical hospital and the rest ship ready? Very well, our soldiers who have fought so hard will be resurrected and rested here, and you must do it properly!

"What is the production speed of the shipyard? How many warships are in stock? Well, order them to increase their productivity, I don't want to have enough people and no battleships to drive! ”

Unlike the noisy people coming and going here here, Xing Ling is completely silent here, and Xing Ling is stuffed into the game cabin, she is not playing a game, but borrowing the function of the game cabin, entering the central network, and carrying out the deployment of the area where Datang is not occupied by the enemy, it looks nothing, but the workload of Xing Ling is so huge that the central computer can crash on the spot.

With the advance of the Dark Night Army, Datang's troop deployment and material deployment also slowly ended, and when everything was ready, Datang combatants couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, picked up food and sobering drinks and drank them.

They all know that when the war starts, they will work harder, and now they can rest, because no one knows if they will have the opportunity to enjoy the rest after the war.

Major General Datang looked at the three enemy forces on the screen, and slowly approached the three battlefields he had arranged, the total strength of the Datang Army in these three battlefields reached tens of millions, of which Area A, that is, where the capital star is located, arranged four million troops, and Area B and Area C were three million respectively.

There is also a million mobile forces among them, which are ready to be thrown wherever danger or hope of victory arises.

Behind each of these three theaters was a huge logistics regiment, and in the front row were countless small speedboats, which were autonomous ships used to search for soldiers who were lucky enough to be thrown out of the battleship before it exploded.

The middle platoon is a field hospital converted from 10,000 transport ships, but in the current space war, this kind of field hospital is just a facility for personnel, because in space warfare soldiers are either intact or become cosmic dust, and only the most lucky will survive the attack injured and survive.

After excluding the dense transport ships, there are space maintenance stations that are combined and converted by hundreds of transport ships, and there are at least 1,000 such maintenance stations, which can repair tens of thousands of warships at the same time.

This is a magic weapon for victory, with this repair station, as long as the battleship does not explode on the spot or is destroyed, it can be repaired in a very short time and put back into battle.

Think about it, you have already beaten that battleship to the point of sinking, and you can win it if you work harder, but it ran back to repair it under the cover of friendly ships at a critical moment, and then ran back to join the battle after a while, and also destroyed you who was already injured, so you must feel very depressed, right?

Although the invading Night Army cannot obtain detailed information about the Tang Army, where the Tang Army is assembled and how many there are, it can still be obtained by the reconnaissance boats that send out to reconnoiter like ants.

Seeing the report sent back by the reconnaissance boat, Admiral Leopard smiled a little proudly, because the arrangement of the Tang Army was the same as he predicted, and the Tang Army put the main force in front of his own army, and the number was about three million.

The intelligence of the other two route armies shows that they each have about two million troops in front of them, although it is one million more than the six million troops of the enemy army predicted by themselves, but this error is normal, and in a country as large as Datang, it is still possible to make one million warships out of temporary production and inventory.

"Okay, now that we already know the decisive point between the enemy and our army, then advance carefully, remember not to attack to the death, as long as you maintain the strength of the attack, we can wait until the other two route armies have eliminated the main force of the Tang Dynasty, and then come to besiege the main force of the Tang Dynasty here." Admiral Leopard ordered.

His subordinates all nodded in understanding, the three admirals were almost equal to the warlords, because their troops were always with them, and in the long run, they would inevitably have the idea of preserving their strength.

Almost all three admirals entered the battlefield at the same time, but the strength of their attacks was different.

The least powerful attack is not the Tiger Admiral, who should be the middle lane of the friendly army, but the Leopard Admiral, who has the largest number of enemy troops, and the attack degree is almost kept in a state of firing at the enemy.

And the strongest attack was the Wolf Admiral's way, as soon as she saw the enemy army entering the attack range, she ordered to shoot and assault at the same time.

The arrogant wolf admiral has completely lost her cautious wolf-like style, leaving only the habit of stalking, and the leopard admiral's side has also lost the style of attacking quickly like a leopard, and has become cautious and abnormal, as for the tiger admiral's side, it is even more outrageous, the momentum of the tiger coming down the mountain is not shown at all, but like a fox watching.

Under their wrong style, Admiral Wolf was the first to be struck, and her troops pressed up on all lines were actually blocked by a mere two million enemy troops.

"What's going on? Why stagnation? ”

Seeing that the advance of his own front on the screen had all stopped, and even some areas had retreated, Admiral Wolf couldn't help but ask immediately.

"Admiral, the enemy's firepower is very strong, and the strength of the battleship is high, and after forbidding the initial losses, they have already established their position. Also, our intelligence is wrong, the number of enemy troops is not two million, but about three million. The adjutant immediately reported.

"Three million? Not counting those transports behind enemy troops? ”

Admiral Wolf was a little puzzled, his reconnaissance boat shouldn't have made such an outrageous mistake, right? That's a million less.

"It is because of those transport ships that our reconnaissance boats miscalculate the strength of the enemy's forces, and there are about a million warships hiding next to the transports, and these warships do not leave the transports until the battle begins." The adjutant explained.

There is no way for a reconnaissance boat, which can only rely on electronic telescopes to observe and calculate, to make such an error.

Why can you only use an electron telescope? The Tang warships all have stealth functions, and the Night Empire does not yet have a radar that can detect this stealth function.

Admiral Wolf frowned, compared with just now, the strength of this enemy army is a full third more, if it is two million, he can barely break them, but three million can only confront them, this is also no way, who calls the battleship surname of Datang can be good.

It's not that if the surname can be good, it will definitely win, but if you think about the battle between the wooden ships and the iron ships in ancient times, you know how much the quality of the battleship surname can affect the victory or defeat of the battlefield, fortunately, the number of enemy troops is not large, otherwise they would have retreated long ago.

"Continue to attack with intensity, inform the two admirals of the situation, let them pay attention to the true strength of the enemy army, and ask the tiger admiral to send two hundred fleets to support." Admiral Wolf ordered.

According to the previous intelligence, among the three battlefields, the enemy army in this place should be the best solution, because this is the newly occupied territory of Datang, and his fleet has rushed up, and many warships have entered hand-to-hand combat, so it is better to strengthen the forces on his side and concentrate on the advantages to eliminate the enemy on this side.

"Captain, the damage rate of this ship has reached seventy percent!" On a certain battleship in Datang that was exchanging fire with the enemy, the damage manager shouted to the captain who was desperately shouting and firing.

"What?" The captain looked at the situation report on the screen suspiciously, and when he saw that it had reached 75 percent in just a while, he immediately shouted in shock: "Send out the maintenance signal, cover the artillery fire, and retreat!" ”

For this Datang battleship that sent a maintenance signal, there is nothing special on the outside, but on all Datang shipborne radars, you can see that this is different from its own green and the enemy's red orange representation. And the Datang battleship near this battleship immediately stepped forward to block the attack and began to cover its retreat.

In the group of battleships that had not yet entered the battlefield in the rear, a battleship was immediately dispatched and rushed into the battlefield, maintaining the attack density of the battlefield, and not being reduced by the retreat of one battleship.

The retreating battleship, as soon as it was out of range of the enemy, turned around, and then ran to the rear in a puff of smoke and, under the command of the logistics staff, entered the maintenance port of a maintenance point.

The door of the battleship opened, and the officers and men were pulled to the nearby transport converted rest ship, while the staff of the maintenance station busied the battleship.

The ship was just ready for repair, and on its left was a ship under repair, and on the right was a ship that had been repaired, and the repainted ship was like new.

The repaired battleship was towed away from the repair point and placed on the landing pad next to the repair point, and a transport ship immediately left the team to replenish the battleship.

All this seems to be so organized, as fast and convenient as assembly line production.

After entering the rest ship, the officers and men ate and drank something, and then began to brag and fart with the other members of the battleship who were also resting on the ship, saying how many warships they had killed, and how many enemies they had destroyed.

While they were chatting, the horn of the resting ship sounded: "Attention to the officers and men of the XX battleship of the XX fleet, your battleship has been repaired, please carry out boarding operations at the XX landing platform." ”

The officers and men who belonged to the battleship immediately ran out with the blessings of their comrades.

The well-rested officers and men entered the reserve fleet group in battleships that could not be seen to have participated in the battle, and these warships were to be reorganized, renumbered, and replenished with depleted soldiers.

They could not go to the battlefield for the time being, so they could only wait here until they received an order to replace the destroyed or retreating warships in front of them.

The lucky ones who were rescued by the unmanned search and rescue boat braved the artillery fire to stay in the medical hospital for treatment, physical treatment is very convenient, and the trouble is psychological treatment, after all, they who survive the danger will suffer greater or lesser psychological damage.

As for robots that aren't humans, just help them fix their bodies.

These nominally wounded soldiers, even after being healed, cannot return to the ship immediately, and either become a reserve to replenish the depleted personnel of other ships, or wait until the shipyard produces new ships before they can regain their own ships.

These systems, not to mention that the number of warships that allow the Datang Army to participate in the battle on the front line has always remained unchanged, nor how much the casualty rate can be reduced by this, just allowing all the troops to participate in the purging of the war is enough to make the military department of the Tang Dynasty very satisfied with this system.

Of course, the officers of the Night Army also know about this system of the Tang Dynasty, even if they don't know it, after watching the actions of the Tang Army for a long time, they can understand what is going on.

For this, they can only curse the Datang Army while envious, the most amazing thing on their side is to carry out some minor repairs to the battleship, how can there be a Datang to carry out comprehensive repairs for the entire battleship like this.

However, they also understand that they can't envy it, who calls their country does not have such powerful logistics facilities, you must know that those facilities in Datang are equivalent to moving the arsenal to the battlefield.

Of course, this is also an advantage that only exists in local combat, who will take the arsenal with them when attacking other countries? Dragging those facilities, don't even think about attacking at any speed, if someone ambushes and destroys the arsenal, then I really don't know where to cry, is the battleship maintenance line so cheap?

As for the battlefield rescue of the combatants? Don't think about it, there's no emptiness, there's no ability.

After receiving the report, both the Tiger Admiral and the Leopard Admiral carefully reconnoitred the number of enemy troops, and found that there were indeed discrepancies, but the discrepancies were not large, and the result of the investigation on the Tiger Admiral's side was about 2.4 million, an increase of 400,000. On the Leopard Admiral's side, it is about 3.5 million, an increase of 500,000.

There is no way, the Tang Army did not participate in the war, and the information is not very detailed.

After getting these data, the two admirals didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just a few hundred thousand more troops, and it was nothing remarkable.

Admiral Tiger saw that he was in a state of confrontation here, because the terrain restrictions made it impossible for the large army to deploy, coupled with his own intentions, so he did not enter a state of death battle.

Although the terrain on the leopard admiral's side is the main battlefield is also wide, both sides are very restrained, and they are not ready to make a plan to win or lose, so it can be said that they have not really started the battle, and they are in a state of confrontation like their own side.

It seems that the other party wants to drag down his three-way army, and is ready to wait for the Datang Expeditionary Force to come back to make a Jedi counterattack.

Thinking of this, Admiral Tiger agreed very much with Admiral Wolf's idea, and first dealt with one enemy army in order to concentrate his forces to destroy other enemy forces, so he agreed to send two million troops to support.

The decision of the commander of the Dark Night Army is not clear to the Tang Army, but the movement of troops of the Dark Night Army cannot be concealed from the Tang Army, which is the advantage of local operations.

The intruder has no idea where the defender has planted the detector, and it is helpless for the defender to find out about the intruder's actions, but the intruder with superior forces generally does not care much about such things.

At the headquarters of the Tang Military Department, the major general saw that the enemy army in the middle had deployed two million troops, and he knew that he was heading for Area C by looking at the direction of movement.

The major general and the staff officer said with a smile: "Although it is a little different from our prediction that they will concentrate their forces to attack Area A, the result is the same, they are all concentrating superior forces to solve a war zone." ”

"yes, it's a little different, but it's still the same, give orders to the troops, right?" The staff officer, who also had the rank of major general, said with a smile.

The major general nodded and said: "Well, order the A theater to send two million troops to Area C, order the B theater to send one million troops to Area C, and order them to send the same number of camouflaged troops, so that the enemy will not notice the change in strength."

"What about the mobile units? They send a message every few minutes. The staff officer asked.

"Continuing to be on standby, we can't predict what the enemy forces in Area A and B will make after discovering the situation in Area C, and we still have to keep a force in our hands, just in case." The Major General's words were agreed by the staff officer.

The Tiger Admiral and the Leopard Admiral, who were in a state of confrontation with the Tang Army, did not find out about the movement of the Tang Army at all, there was no way, a large number of transport ships were carrying warships, transporting back and forth behind the Tang Army, where can we know how many warships left here!

And not to mention the wolf admiral, the hull of the Datang warship will retreat when it is worn out to a certain extent, and the same number of warships will be sent to participate in the battle, several warships are destroyed every second on both sides of this battlefield, dozens of warships are retreated for maintenance, and the rear of the Datang Army is even more from the beginning of the battle, and the battleship transport ships are constantly coming and going, where can we know how many troops the other party has transferred!

After leaving the effective range of the enemy's radar, the transferred warships immediately made a space jump, jumped directly to the rear of the destination, and then sandwiched the transport ships in batches and entered the rear of the battlefield.

The commander of Datang Area C saw that the troops allocated to him had arrived, and now he had nearly six million troops in this area, and after a series of losses, even if the other side replenished two million troops, it was only tens of thousands of troops, and if there was no accident, the victory would be his own.

He smiled and ordered, "Keep up the attack for the time being, but take one back and give me two." ”

The Tang Army, which received the order, immediately understood that a decisive battle was coming, and they all became excited.

As for the wolf admiral who was replenished by two million troops, he didn't notice that one of the Tang Army was withdrawn, and two ships were added to the rear, which was also a helpless thing, everything could only be watched with electronic telescopes, and the range was so wide, one retreat was tens of thousands, and one was also tens of thousands, who knew that there was a difference in number between one advance and one retreat?

Admiral Wolf shouted in high spirits: "Brothers, we have replenished our strength by two million, and we have gained glory and victory at this moment, give me a full assault!" ”

In their opinion, there are 12 million warships on their side, while the enemy only has 3 million warships, which can definitely crush the enemy, and they no longer have to watch the enemy be injured to a certain extent, so they can retreat to the rear to repair in a timely manner.

How dare you send only a few troops to stop us in front of us? This time, we must directly blow up the enemy troops on the front line and see where they can retreat to repair!

Sensing that the enemy was assaulting on all fronts, the commander of Area C smiled again, raised his hand, and shouted with a fierce wave: "Assault of the whole army!" ”

Although it is to retreat one or two ships, if it is still the same amount of troops just now, the reserve fleet will not have to wait long, but now that it is twice the number of troops, the waiting time for the reserve is still the same as before, which makes people wait frustratingly.

Especially the battleships transferred from other districts, which originally belonged to the alternate fleet in other districts, thought it would be refreshing to come here, but I didn't expect to become an alternate alternate, so it wasn't as simple as being depressed, but waiting for my brain to be on fire.

Now that the commander had given the order to assault the whole army, the reserve fleet, which had been impatient for a long time, immediately rushed towards the front line like a bull in heat.

The electronic binoculars of the Night Army were immediately overwhelmed, and the number of the enemy troops displayed on the screen went straight up like crazy, and finally stopped at the number that stunned the Wolf Admiral and other officers: more than five hundred and eighty-seven thousand.

"Damn the reconnaissance troops, didn't they say there were only about two million? Now what's going on? The enemy army here has nearly six million troops! Admiral Wolf completely lost the reserve that a female surname should have, and jumped to his feet and scolded.

"Admiral, what now? Need to retreat? The adjutant cautiously asked Admiral Wolf.

Worthy of being the commander of the elite troops, Admiral Wolf quickly recovered: "No, you can't retreat, order the troops to fix me to the death." ”

"Huh? However, our 10 million troops can't defeat Datang's 6 million troops, and now the intelligence is seriously wrong, and the number of enemy troops in the Tiger Admiral and the Leopard Admiral is probably not matched. The adjutant reminded anxiously.

"That's right, the number of enemy troops in their two places definitely doesn't match, when we got the information, there were only six million troops left behind by the Tang Dynasty, even if there is an error in the intelligence, this error is unlikely to increase by several times, after all, the intelligence department of our Dark Night Empire is not a dry meal.

"Of course, because of the stealth surname of the Datang battleship, we can double it, and we probably believe that the remaining troops of the Datang are about 10 million."

Hearing Admiral Wolf's words, all the officers nodded in agreement, they still believed in the ability of the Intelligence Department of the Night Empire.

"Then now we have six million confirmed enemy troops on our side, so to speak, the enemy troops in the other two places combined, at most, are between four million and five million, and there should be more on the capital star, it should be about two million to three hundred and fifty million.

"On the Tiger Admiral's side, there are only 1.5 million to 2.5 million people, which is consistent with the results of the two Admirals' re-investigations.

"Of course, it is not excluded that the enemy forces in these two places have hidden troops like this side, but there will definitely not be many, because their main forces are concentrated on destroying us along the way, if they are strong, they will definitely attack on both sides at the same time, not like now, only we have a fierce attack here, and the other two places are just counter-fire attacks.

"So as long as Admiral Tiger destroys the enemy on his side, and then rushes over to destroy the enemy on our side, the victory will still be ours."

Admiral Wolf said in high spirits: "So now we have to hold on, as long as we hold on until Admiral Tiger arrives, the victory will be ours!" ”

"Yes!" The morale of the officers was again high and they went to do their work.

The Tiger Admiral and the Leopard Admiral who got the report were taken aback, and they carefully reconnoitred the situation of the enemy troops on the opposite side, and this time the number was actually different from the last time, the Tiger Admiral had 1.8 million on the other side, and the Leopard Admiral had 3 million on the other side.

The two admirals who got this number slapped the electronic telescope system angrily, and muttered to themselves: "The number calculated by this electronic telescope is just inaccurate, but taking the average number and matching with the guess of the wolf admiral, Admiral Tiger should have between 1.5 million and 2 million enemies, and Admiral Leopard should have 2.5 million to 3 million enemies here." ”

Getting this psychological price, Admiral Tiger is ready to compete with the enemy army in front of him with a number of eight million, a numerical advantage of four to one, even if the attrition is one to one, he still has six million troops after the war, which is enough to cooperate with Admiral Wolf's 12 million to kill the six million enemy troops.

And the leopard admiral's side still maintains a state of shooting, he is not so stupid, even if the other party is only two million, he is not ready to take it on his own.

What is the other party guarding? That's the capital star of the Tang Dynasty!

What kind of fleet is the fleet that guards the capital star? It is definitely the most elite unit in the whole army, and the attrition rate of one to one cannot appear here, so I still have to wait for the other two admirals to destroy the enemy army, and then destroy the enemy army in front of me together, anyway, if you shoot now, the other party can't cause any major damage to yourself.

So the two admirals acted according to their own ideas, and the tiger admiral began to violently attack the enemy army on the opposite side, but it was limited by the terrain of Area B, no matter how fierce it was, it could not cause important damage to the Tang Army.

As for the leopard admiral's side, needless to say, they are still shooting at each other.

Seeing the other party act like this, the major general of the Datang Military Headquarters couldn't help laughing, and the staff officer next to him asked, "Where is the mobile unit sent?" ”

The major general didn't want to say directly: "Send to Area C and concentrate superior forces to destroy that group of enemy troops!" ”

The staff officer who read the intelligence knew that there was no problem in Area A and Area B, and very much agreed with the order of the major general. After the order was conveyed to the mobile force, the one million elite troops who had been trapped for a long time immediately rushed to Area C with cheers.

The commander who commanded the battle in Area C had already seen that he was about to win, but he was only a little bit stronger, and he could not break the enemy's formation, and he was in great distress, and when he got a million new troops under his command, he really felt like he had fallen from heaven, and immediately put this million troops into the most important place.

The wolf admiral, who was already struggling to support, was attacked and slammed by the new force of the Tang Army, and immediately collapsed.

At this moment, in the face of a total of seven million troops in the Tang Dynasty, the advantage of troops no longer exists, and many important positions have been occupied and divided by the Tang Army, and the wolf admiral whose formation has collapsed can only reluctantly order to retreat.

(To be continued)