Under the leadership of the four capital ships, more than a hundred small warships lined up in a phalanx, and the front with the strongest attack and defense was facing forward.

The phalanx is the simplest and most commonly used battle queue.

To put it simply, these warships, deployed in a vertical plane, are able to concentrate all their firepower in one direction, attacking both one target and multiple targets. Because the battleship has the smallest frontal projection area and the strongest protection, it can also improve the overall defense capability of the fleet.

It's just that the phalanx is not omnipotent, and there is a very prominent shortcoming.

That is, the flanks of the phalanx are extremely vulnerable, and if they are attacked from the flanks, they can be easily routed. Therefore, in the decisive battle of the fleet, it is often formed when the opponent is evenly matched, in order to maximize the attack power of the fleet. If you face a stronger opponent, forming a phalanx to fight is looking for death. In addition, in some special cases, the phalanx can also come into play.

For example, now, it is necessary to block the enemy and cover the evacuation of other ships.

To put it bluntly, as long as those Thunder Ling Clan warships were in the way, the Weaver Clan's warships would not be able to attack the evacuated transport ships in the distance.

It was obviously not an easy task to defeat the more than a hundred Lei Ling Clan warships commanded by four capital ships.

Even if Lin Feng was piloting the Empress fighter, there were only a few dozen small warships with her, and there was no absolute superiority in strength. Even if you count the ten Shadow Ships, they are at most equal to the Lei Ling Clan's fleet with four capital ships in terms of combat power, and there is no absolute advantage.

Lin Feng dared to hesitate, and immediately flew back with the fighter plane, and at the same time gave orders to all the warships.

Rushing into the Thunder Ling Clan's fleet is tantamount to sending them to death.

You must know that the more than 100 Lei Ling warships that make up the phalanx can concentrate their firepower to attack a single target. If the Weaver ships attack separately without organization, it will be equivalent to letting the opponent break each other. Not to mention just small warships. Even the capital ship could not survive the concentrated fire attack of hundreds of warships. It is necessary to organize an attack, and only in this way can the enemy be defeated.

Fortunately, the captains of the Weaver ships are very clever and very familiar with the tactics of fleet engagement.

After Lin Feng gave the order, dozens of warships lined up in a neat queue. However, it is not a phalanx, but a cone formation that is more conducive to attacking.

If the phalanx can attack and defend, then the cone formation is a pure offensive array.

The cone formation has one ship as the core, and the other ships are lined up in echelons behind its flanks, thus concentrating the fleet's attack power into a single point that can be used to break through the enemy's defenses. Under normal circumstances, the most powerful battleship in the fleet is the core, and the other warships follow in order of combat power.

In fact, this is also the most commonly used array for the Oristar fleet.

If it's the main fleet of the Weavers. Then the one that acts as the core must be the Mother of God.

The problem is that Lin Feng is not in command of the main fleet of the Weaver Star Clan, not only does it not have a super battleship like the Divine Mother, but it does not even have a capital ship.

The position at the top of the array was set aside, and it was for Lin Feng.

The attack power of small warships is not strong, especially in front of the capital ships, and in comparison, the Empress fighter piloted by Lin Feng is even more prominent.

Apparently. If you want to break through the phalanx formed by the Lei Ling fleet, especially the blockade of the four capital ships. You can only pin your hopes on the Empress fighter.

Lin Feng didn't shirk, she was the commander of this fleet, and she should take the lead.

It's just that ten Shadow Ships didn't join the queue.

At this time, the ten female warriors who had previously piloted the space fighter to engage the enemy had returned to their battleship and taken over the command of the battleship.

When Lin Feng ordered the formation of an array. The ten Shadow Ships left the battlefield as fast as they could.

Not to run away, not to evacuate, but to have other plans.

Attacking the fleet phalanx from the front is the stupidest and most old-fashioned approach. If there is an absolute superiority in combat power, the problem is not very big. If there is no absolute superiority in combat power. Especially if the attack is strong enough, then an attack from the front will definitely be in trouble.

Obviously, the fleet commanded by Lin Feng did not have an absolute advantage in combat power, and its attack power was not strong.

Even if the attack power of the Empress fighter is comparable to that of the capital ship, the other small warships in the fleet lack attack power, let alone compared to the capital ship, and not even much better than the small warship of the Lei Ling clan. Relying on these small battleships, it was clearly impossible to break through the enemy's phalanx.

Attacking from the flanks is the ideal way to break through the fleet phalanx.

There is no doubt that the Shadow Ship has an advantage in speed and is not weak in attack power. If they can maneuver to the enemy's flank while Lin Feng and the others are dragging the enemy, and then launch an attack, they can disrupt the array of the enemy fleet, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

It's just that Lin Feng still doesn't have much confidence.

The point is that there are four capital ships in the fleet of the Lei Ling clan, and they are all SSS-class capital ships.

Although they were four capital ships built more than a thousand years ago, that is, during the Fifth Greenwich War, they can be regarded as old-fashioned, but capital ships are capital ships, both in terms of attack power and protection capabilities, they are far superior to small warships, and the only thing that is inferior is maneuverability.

Actually, these four capital ships are not lagging behind.

Quite simply, the peaceful and prosperous era that lasted for a thousand years made all the top civilizations, including the Lei Ling Clan, pay little attention to the construction and development of military power. As a result, the Galactic Alliance's military technology has not advanced much over the past thousand years.

Although after the end of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Galactic Alliance did not believe that an armistice treaty could bring permanent peace, and the Silicon Alliance would not forget the shame caused by the fiasco, so the armistice treaty was just a truce, just to give both sides time to recover, and when they had the strength to start a war again, the war would break out again, so in the following four hundred years or so, most of the civilizations of the Galactic Alliance, including the top civilizations, focused on military construction, not only maintaining the size of the army during the war, It also spends a lot of resources on the development of military science and technology. However, after that, the war did not break out again, as most people expected, and intelligence from all sides indicated that the Silicon Phantom Alliance did not have the ability to launch an invasion anytime soon, nor did it prepare for war. As a result, the civilizations of the Galactic Alliance, including the seven top civilizations, have successively reduced their emphasis on military construction, and even the Human Federation has been affected. In the following five hundred years, the military technology of the Galactic Alliance has not been substantially developed, and even some advanced technologies that have been developed have not been popularized and applied due to cost and other factors.

It can be said that the Galactic Alliance wasted these five hundred years.

Although in the maintenance of military strength, including the Lei Ling Clan, the seven top civilizations of the Galactic Alliance have successively built some new warships, for example, in the past five hundred years, the Lei Ling Clan has built more than 300 new capital ships, and has also adopted a large number of emerging technologies, but compared with the large number of capital ships that have been retained, the newly built capital ships are not many at all. Even in the Thundering fleet, it is still dominated by those capital ships built during the Fifth Greenwich War, and the proportion of newly built capital ships is less than 30%. In addition, through improvements and other means, many capital ships that have been in service for more than a thousand years still have strong enough combat effectiveness.

Before the outbreak of the Sixth Greenwich War, I am afraid that even the Emperor of Wanluo believed that those modernized and improved capital ships were enough to deal with the threat of the Silicon Alliance.

Obviously, this is not the case.

The battle that took place in the North Fourth Region has proven that in the past thousand years, the Silicon Charm Alliance has not been unprepared, but has been preparing, but has not been discovered by the Galactic Alliance. What's more, the Silicon Alliance has focused its war preparations on military technology. Not to mention anything else, the Silicon Charm army was able to bypass the Greenwich Line and appear directly in the North Fourth District, and must have mastered more advanced space jumping techniques.

Of course, that's a long way off.

Although the ten Shadow Ships were maneuvering towards the side of the Lei Ling Clan's fleet, Lin Feng still didn't have much confidence. Even if you concentrate all the forces of your warships to attack one enemy ship, you can only destroy one capital ship. By the time the Lei Ling Clan fleet launched a counterattack, these small warships under the command of Lin Feng would be wiped out. You know, even the Shadow Ship may not be able to block the powerful firepower of the capital ship, let alone an ordinary small warship.

Is it necessary to fight the enemy to the death?

At this time, Lin Feng hesitated, or became sensible.

In the distance, the transport fleet of the Lei Ling clan was retreating under the protection of the warships, that is, making space jumps, and the remaining warships were only responsible for breaking the rear. Obviously, after the convoy is withdrawn, these ships will also retreat, and will not fight the Weaver fleet led by the Empress Fighter. If there is really a decisive battle, at least there will be more than a hundred warships left, and it will not take the initiative to rush over to engage the Weaver fleet.

The enemy is already planning to retreat, is it still necessary to fight to the death?

Don't forget, Lin Feng's purpose here is to pick up Yang Yi and them, not to annihilate the Lei Ling Clan fleet, and no one expects her to use dozens of small warships to annihilate the Lei Ling Clan fleet.

What's more, Lin Feng already knew at this time that Yang Yi was not here, but on the Slag Star.

In addition, the twenty human legions brought by Yang Yi were also on the Slag Star, and they were facing more than a dozen Lei Ling Clan legions that had already entered the Slag Star.

Obviously, the withdrawal of the Thunderling fleet indicates that the legions stationed in Slag Star have been abandoned.

In other words, even if the remaining Thunderling Clan battleship was annihilated, it would not be of any help to the human Legion who was fighting against the Thunderling Clan Legion on the Slag Star.

On the contrary, if you delay too much time here, it will be very detrimental to the human legion.

Don't forget, the combat power of the Lei Ling Clan Legion is definitely above the human legion.

Lin Feng had already thought that if it weren't for the urgency of the situation, Yang Yi would definitely not let the ten Shadow Ships attack the Lei Ling Clan fleet, so the situation on the Slag Star would definitely be very bad.

It was not difficult at all to choose between annihilating the enemy's broken fleet and rescuing Yang Yi. (To be continued.) )