Chapter 633: Counting is Counting
Escaping may seem like a good option, but when you think about it, it's not a long-term solution. If Vader can search for them across most of the galaxy, what's the use of running fast and far? In this galaxy, Vader can call on a much larger military force than them, and if he can't catch up with him in a straight line, he can also split the fleet to chase and intercept him.
Unless they run back to the rear and hide in other planes to avoid Vader's search, then their mission will be considered a failure. Never before had an expedition suffered a similar defeat.
At this time, they did not know that Vader had found them on the basis of self-harm, only searching for the traces of the Force left by Padmé, and in the eyes of all of them, Vader's tracking ability was simply a bug, and his combat ability was unpredictable.
Just when everyone was helpless and the discussion seemed to be deadlocked, the Master Chief spoke: "We don't need to fight him directly, just hold him off for a while......" His tone was as relaxed as mentioning 1+1=2, and he seemed to be completely unaffected by the battle situation.
As the second commander in this mission and an ordinary person with no abnormal abilities, he has a deeper study of the problem of facing the Force Warriors. In terms of the ability to fight head-on, he is naturally no match for a BUG warrior like Vader.
In fact, without considering other weapons and equipment, the personal combat effectiveness of the Master Chief is not even as good as Sister Xue before the enhancement ability, but it is precisely because of this "defect" in combat effectiveness that the Master Chief's rich and diverse combat style has been created.
Sister Xue is a powerful ability herself, and she has become more powerful after joining the expedition, so she always limits her tactical thinking to better striking methods, and is always ready to overwhelm her opponent head-on.
To put it simply, she has a lot of tactical options due to her own strength, and her goal is always to defeat her opponent in the first place. And the Master Chief is different. He has defeated countless enemies on the battlefield, many of whom have greater strength, speed, and firepower than him.
The reason why he was able to defeat those enemies one by one was precisely because of his flexible tactics and his willingness to prepare more and run away. When facing a strong enemy like Vinda, Sister Xue's first thought was the tactical goal of "finding a way to defeat the opponent", which was not very feasible.
The Master Chief's first consideration is how to survive the opponent's possible offensive and use the surrounding environment to deal with strong enemies. At this point, the different starting points produced completely different inferences and results in the later tactical deductions.
After carefully considering her deduction ideas, Sister Xue thought that no matter which tactics were adopted. The hope of defeating Vader is too slim. This statement cannot be said to be wrong, but the Master Chief sees an opportunity in this seemingly unsolvable battle situation.
"You forget, we don't need to be his enemies. In fact, even if he orders the fleet to set fire on us as soon as he jumps out of hyperspace, we can still force him into an ally! In fact, his arrival is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to drag him into the water without Vader's consent......" Master Chief began to talk about his "brain-blowing" battle plan.
At its core, according to his interpretation, the core of this plan is continuous misdirection. At this time, there are no other than expeditions and the Imperial fleet that is about to jump out of hyperspace. There is also a third force nearby, and that is the few battle madmen who have not yet withdrawn.
And both the Imperial side and the war mad side have important blind spots in intelligence, and this is where their opportunity lies. Neither the madman who was attacked nor Vader, who had come to look for his relatives, knew the details of the expedition. It is impossible for them to even determine what their enemies are!
In such a situation, with a little guidance, the expedition team has the opportunity to lure the Imperial fleet and the battle madman to the same area, so that they can fight each other, and at the same time create a gap in the expedition's activities while draining the strength of both sides.
According to the calculations of the Master Chief, as long as the execution is good enough. They can even take advantage of the gaps that arise in this kind of combat to kill two birds with one stone and accomplish multiple major mission objectives here. On the one hand, complete the task of capturing the senior officers who met the madmen in battle. On the other hand, he also pulled Vidar towards his own camp.
Of course, this is the best-case scenario. In fact, the biggest possibility is that the execution steps went wrong, and the mission eventually failed, and they were caught between the battle madness and the Imperial fleet, and ended the mission with an unprecedented failure. After all, the complexity of this program is comparable to large-scale tasks. And the time they had left to prepare was stretched thin.
"That's a good note, John. It's adventurous, but it's worth a try... Okay, that's it, you're in charge of guiding. I will lead the team on the most dangerous boarding missions. Everyone is getting ready for battle now, and I want all unrelated personnel on the ship to evacuate within 5 minutes......"
Sister Xue thought about it for a while and finally frowned and agreed with the non-commissioned officer chief's suggestion, she herself was still not very optimistic about the success of this plan. But asking herself, she really didn't have a better alternative, so she decided to support this risky plan.
They were divided into two parts, most of them were ready to welcome the arrival of the imperial fleet, while Sister Xue took a very small number of elite combat forces to the front line to adventure. Although she led few people this time, the work to be done was the most dangerous and important part of the whole plan.
Master Chief will try to lure the Imperial fleet to the hiding place of the madmen in battle, but whether the other party will take the bait, whether they can help depends almost entirely on Sister Xue and their appearance, if they get rid of it, they will be wiped out at this step, so Sister Xue does not dare to let others take over such an important link.
After making her decision, she called in Luke and Alex, and selected the six most experienced members of the infiltration class from the crew on the ship, and then formed a standard team of 9 people, ready to use such a small force as the core of the plan.
And she herself seized the time to go back to the rear through the time gate on the Guò No. 1 Star Destroyer, and asked for an important prop from the warehouse management. She then returned to the Star Wars plane and took her team members on two shuttles to the planet where the battle madmen were organizing the evacuation.
There are still millions of war-mad people on the surface of the planet, waiting to be picked up back to the mothership. Many of the battle madmen are reluctant to accept the retreat order of the theater commander, after all, many of them have been making their home here for decades, and there are a lot of descendants.
Taking advantage of the confusion during the retreat, Sister Xue and their arrival were not noticed, and after confirming the infiltration route on the surface, everyone began to disguise. Their plan was to disguise themselves as battle madmen to board the ship, and then find a way to lure Vader and his army up through a guò relay to help them deal with the army of battle madmen.
It's a crazy idea, but it's not that hard to think about. A few days ago, the physiological research of the madmen in the war has allowed them to disguise their appearance through the mimicry function of the guò nanosuit, and they can look like a fake one.
Although it is impossible to imitate the racial traits of the battle madmen in this way, they do not need to be disguised for too long, as long as they can be mixed into the big ship. As for Alex, his disguise is much simpler, he only needs to devour the corpse of a battle madman, and he can simulate almost all the characteristics of a battle madman from the inside out.
It took them a few minutes to make this preparation, and they didn't leave the hiding position until Alex had checked them one by one to make sure that everyone's camouflages were impeccable. By the time they managed to blend in with the crowd of battle madmen in line, a message came from the rear almost simultaneously that the Imperial fleet had arrived at their location.
At this moment, in a nearby galaxy 25 light-years away, an entire Imperial fleet that had just jumped out of hyperspace and two expeditionary Star Destroyers were at a stalemate less than an astronomical unit apart. Since Vader was not allowed to open fire without permission, the Imperial task force simply slowly formed an encirclement formation, carefully monitoring the two fellow warships that had been part of their fleet not long ago, outside the range of both sides.
"Pick up the other party's communication, and then everyone leaves here, and I'm going to negotiate with them." Vader gave the order in an unquestioning tone. He knew that there must be the emperor's spies in this bridge, and if he didn't empty this place, he wouldn't be able to negotiate with the other party freely.
This is the main Cambridge of the Executor-class Star Destroyer, and there are other secondary control centers inside the hull, and although the withdrawal of all the operators of the main Cambridge will reduce the command efficiency, it will not affect the main control system of the entire ship.
"My lord, this is a bit unconventional, there is no precedent to show ......," Lieutenant General Biya next to him kindly reminded. He was the commander of the fleet that Vader had recently promoted, and although he was often worried about his own safety, he was still very loyal to Vader, who promoted him.
He could directly carry out Vader's anomalous orders, but that would undoubtedly damage Vader's own reputation. The emperor was very suspicious, and the spies were all over the army, which was something that everyone knew.
Although Vader had never said what was going on with the mission they were currently on, the senior officers knew that the two Star Destroyers in front of them were already under the control of the Empire's opponents, and Vader's secret talk with them would undoubtedly cause everyone to speculate.
The spy personnel who were directly loyal to the emperor would report such information to the emperor as soon as possible, and it was difficult to say what the suspicious emperor himself would think about such a thing. For the sake of Vader and, most importantly, his own future, he felt the need to remind him to think twice about his decision.
"Don't question my orders, Lieutenant General Biya, I don't want to find you a successor so soon......" Vader didn't seem to appreciate it, he turned his head and pressed in a stern tone, his left hand pressed against the hilt of the lightsaber at his waist, and the threat in his tone was undisguised. Lieutenant General Biya had no doubt that if he persevered to dissuade his superiors, he would be killed by the lord himself. (To be continued......)