It's not easy to return to your home system, and it's even harder to leave your home system.

According to the information provided by the Theater Command, there are at least ten main fleets of the Silicon Alliance near the home system, as well as tens of thousands of small patrol ships. After completing the encirclement and blockade of the home system, the Silicon Alliance deployed a large number of probes outside the home system, and the slightest anomaly will sound an alarm. Including the Third War Zone, there have been many times before this to dispatch fast warships to try to break through the blockade circle of the Silicon Charm Fleet, but all of them have ended in failure. The point is that the blockade circle of the Silicon Charm Alliance is too dense, no matter where an anomaly is found, one fleet will arrive within fifteen minutes, and three fleets will arrive within two hours. Even the fastest warship of the Human Federation could not escape in just fifteen minutes. As long as it is caught up by the main fleet of the Silicon Charm Alliance, being destroyed is the inevitable result. If you send a small warship and shorten the distance of the space jump as much as possible to avoid triggering the probes deployed by the Silicon Alliance, you may also encounter a small patrol ship loitering outside the home system. If it gets entangled in a small patrol ship, it will also delay a lot of time, so that the nearby main fleet has enough time to arrive.

Prior to this, the breakout operations organized by nine theaters, including the Third Theater, had ended in failure.

While it is uncertain whether the ships that tried to break out of the encirclement were destroyed, none of them returned to the home system, or even made contact with the home system. Even if a ship breaks out, it will definitely suffer heavy losses and completely lose its mobility.

Of course, these ships are on a special mission and will not actively reveal their whereabouts until they have completed their mission.

Although there is a "Xinghai", Yang Yi has no bottom in his heart whether he can successfully break through the enemy's encirclement. Even Otis wasn't entirely sure.

Quite simply, it's not just warships that the Silicon Alliance uses to lock down the home system.

According to Otis's speculation, the Silicon Alliance must have set traps near their home system to deal with ships that tried to escape. Although the "Star Sea" has advanced performance and is very fast, it is enough to get rid of the warships of the Silicon Alliance. But as long as you fall into the trap, even if it is just an ordinary space trap, you will suffer a catastrophe, at least a lot of time, and then be caught up by the fleet of the Silicon Charm Alliance.

I don't know what the outside world is like, and the risk of breaking out is too great.

Yang Yi did not rush to take action, but waited for Shen Chengwen to return with the officers and soldiers of the special investigation team. Anyway, Shen Chengwen knows more about the Silicon Charm Alliance.

After consulting with Shen Chengwen, Yang Yi formulated a set that didn't seem so reliable. However, the breakout plan was barely feasible, and then submitted to the theater command. Because the breakout operation required the cooperation of other troops, Yang Yi could only ask Lin Xiaoting for help.

The plan is very simple, the main thing is to arrange a feint, and at the same time dispatch a large number of small warships to break through in all directions, so that the enemy can not figure out the intentions of the third theater, and the "Xinghai" takes this opportunity to kill it. If you can. The small warships responsible for cover also provide real-time combat conditions, so that Yang Yi and them can grasp the battlefield situation in a timely and accurate manner. It is more certain to find holes in the enemy's direction.

Lin Xiaoting agreed without thinking about it, in addition to Zhan Ruilin's order to help Yang Yi unconditionally, it was also related to some tasks that had already been arranged, plus Lin Liexun was still active outside, Lin Xiaoting had no reason to shirk.

Here it is. There are now large fleets and forces of the Human Federation resisting invasions outside of their home system. Although they were able to get in touch with their home system, they were unable to get any help, not even a few words of encouragement. Long before Yang Yi and the others returned, the Theater Command had drawn up an action plan to send small warships that were fast enough to the colonial systems that were still resisting. Although small warships could not carry much supplies. The help that can be provided to the resistance groups in the colonial system is nothing, but as long as these small warships can reach the colonial system, even if it is just one, the value of encouragement is very great.

Put simply, it would convince the colonial system's resistors that the Federation had not forgotten them or abandoned them.

It's a pity that before that, Lin Xiaoting never waited for the right opportunity.

Although under pressure from the military department, he took action and sent a number of small warships, but none of them succeeded, and all the previous breakout operations failed, and a large number of warships were lost as a result. Even if they were all small warships, they would not have much value in the battle to defend the home galaxy, but Lin Xiaoting could not accept letting the officers and soldiers on these warships make meaningless sacrifices, so after symbolically launching several breakout operations, there was no major action in the third war zone. Of course, the situation is similar in other theaters of operations. If it is expected to break through, even if only one battleship can break through the encirclement, even if it is a big sacrifice. In a hopeless situation, just to show his existence, or to satisfy the personal ** of a few military dignitaries and federal officials, to send thousands of officers and soldiers to death, not only Lin Xiaoting, I am afraid that the chief of staff and commander of any theater of operations will not be able to accept.

This time is different, at least for good reason.

Lin Xiaoting personally made arrangements, personally gave orders to the captains who carried out the covering tasks, and personally planned the breakthrough routes of each warship.

With the chief of staff of the theater in charge, the preparations in all aspects were not only carried out very smoothly, but also with frighteningly high efficiency.

On the fifth day when Shen Chengwen arrived with the special investigation team, that is, the third day when Yang Yi submitted the breakout plan, the deployment work was completed.

Of course, this is also related to the current situation.

Don't forget, the Human Federation has long been in a state of war, and in addition to the war mobilization in the major theaters, the mobilization of civilians is also in full swing. In addition, the Ministry of War has taken over the home system, federal authorities have stepped aside, and the entire Federation of Humanity has been regulated in accordance with the laws of war. To put it simply, everything is military first, and the military orders issued by the military headquarters and the major theater commands have the highest effect.

In addition, of the nine theaters, the third theater was the first to start mobilizing and had the highest completion rate.

In just two days, Lin Xiaoting not only mobilized hundreds of small warships, but also made these warships all ready to set off, and arranged tasks for each captain. Although the main task was to cover Yang Yi and their "Star Sea" to break through the encirclement of the Silicon Charm Alliance, Lin Xiaoting also deployed other tasks for these small warships. It's very simple, as long as you break through successfully, try to rush to those colonial systems that are still resisting, bring the orders of the Federation and the military department over, and improve the morale and confidence of the armed forces of the colonial galaxy. If the target system has been captured by the Silicon Alliance, switch to a mission to break the friendship and attack the rear supply lines of the Silicon Alliance.

To put it simply, these small warships will not return to their home system after covering Yang Yi and their breakthrough.

Although he felt that Lin Xiaoting's arrangement was a bit redundant, and those small warships that broke through were very likely to be self-defeating, Yang Yi didn't say much, after all, the chief of staff had his own considerations, and it was impossible to dispatch more than a hundred small warships just to cover Yang Yi and them to break through.

You know, there aren't many warships available to the Human Federation right now.

Because the advance speed of the Silicon Charm Army far exceeded everyone's expectations, even Zhan Ruilin did not expect that the seemingly impregnable Greenwich Defense Line would be broken through by the Silicon Charm Army within a few months, so when the Greenwich Lines were lost, most of the forces of the Human Federation were outside the home galaxy, and many of the legions and fleets mobilized at that time were even on their way to the colonial system. As a result, before the home system was surrounded by the Silicon Charm army, only the main fleets of the nine theaters returned in time. Although most of the capital ships were saved, nearly seventy percent of the small warships did not return, and it is obvious that all of the capital ships in a fleet cannot be all.

If there is enough time, the problem of the lack of small warships will definitely be solved. After the war mobilization is completed, the war potential of the Human Federation can be brought into play. During the Fifth Greenwich War, the Confederation of Mankind set a record of 3,500 small warships built in one year.

The problem is, there isn't enough time right now.

It is conservatively estimated that it will take at least five years for the Federation of Mankind to complete the war mobilization, and it will take three years to be optimistic, and after the completion of the war mobilization, it will not be possible to immediately bring into play the war potential, especially the industrial potential, after all, it will take more time to adjust the industrial structure.

According to the mobilization plan drawn up by the military department, it will take five years at the earliest to build small warships in batches.

Prior to this, there were less than 10,000 small warships in the home system, and on average, there were only more than 1,000 in each theater. Even if the Third Theater is strong, there are less than 2,000 small warships that can be used, and only about 5,000 civilian spaceships that can be transformed into small warships. Lin Xiaoting sent more than a hundred small warships, and it was a real warship to cover Yang Yi and them to break through, which was already very good.

Of course, this also shows that Zhan Ruilin and Lin Xiaoting attach great importance to this operation.

It's just that secrecy is more important.

In order to hide people's eyes, Lin Xiaoting formulated an action plan called "Brother Gongzi", which was signed by Zhan Ruilin and sent to the military department for the record. Although this is just a formality, it is enough to make others think of Lin Liexun who is still alive, and thus think that Lin Xiaoting is going to fight in order to save his most beloved youngest son. Because Lin Liexun is a major general and has nine Shadow Ships belonging to the Weaving Star Clan, it is not surprising that Zhan Ruilin signed this action plan.

Although this trick is not clever, the outside world will at least not immediately link this operation with Yang Yi. In any case, Lin Liexun is Lin Xiaoting's son, and he was deeply valued by Zhan Ruilin before, and he was appointed by the military department to leave his home galaxy, not the arrangement of the Third Theater Command. I always thought that he was dead, but now that I know that he is still alive, I naturally have to take him back.

This series of arrangements and deployments took only five days before and after, and the efficiency was amazing. (To be continued.) )