It took only four hours for the Orca fleet to replenish supplies, and after the last truckload of supplies, the fleet set sail immediately, refusing to stay for a second.

Probably because of the traditional thinking of the Chinese people that "if the name is not right, the word is not good", the killer whale fleet was named "the first high-speed fleet directly under the head of the Sky Army Headquarters", and the temporary establishment on the head was finally removed.

But in the eyes of those who understand, this fleet is still a little too weird.

Conventionally, the fleet should be composed of several warships with different functions and different sizes, and from this point of view, the capital ships of the Orca Fleet are a little nondescript no matter how you look at it.

However, it is really an impossible task to find a few active warships of other types that can keep up with the speed of the Orca ship.

There are two fleets in the space army headquarters to support Mars, namely the Central China Aerospace Helicarrier Battle Group and the Northern Aerospace Heliary Combat Group, these two fleets set off at a time similar to the time when the Saturn fleet left the Saturn base, and now they have crossed the sun and are rushing to Mars at full speed, but despite this, the two fleets still have not completed half of the voyage.

Since then, half of the four battle groups of the Celestial Army defending the Earth have been dispatched.

If it is just these two battle groups, in the face of the alien fleet, I am afraid that even the strength to parry will not be enough. However, China is not the only one who is in a hurry to support Mars, and the space forces of the United States and Russia have also sent fleets of considerable scale, and several scattered warships from Germany, France, and other countries in the three major aerospace countries have formed a joint fleet to support Mars.

The combined fleet is dominated by the fleets of China, the United States, and Russia, and this is the first large-scale cooperation in the history of the space forces of various countries.

Since it is a combined fleet, what is the combined fleet called if it does not elect a commander in its own way? Even if it's just in name. However, the number and quality of the fleets dispatched by the three parties are basically balanced, but in this way, who will be the commander of the combined fleet will become a big problem.

Looking at the strength, the three parties are not bad.

Looking at the ranks, the Chinese fleet was led by Vice Admiral Wang Wei, deputy commander of the Space Army; The top commander of the United States, Henry Harry Arnold, is a four-star general, who seems to be two levels higher than Wang Wei, but the Chinese side has reached the top of the military rank, although General Henry has four stars, but the Yankees also have a five-star general who is not commonly used, and the actual status of the two military rank representatives is much different; As for the general sent by the Russians, it is a little sensational, this old man named Frosilov with the rank of marshal of the Russian Celestial Army!

From this point of view, the Russians have the upper hand, but the Russians have always maintained the tradition of stupidity, bigness, roughness, and blackness, and the comprehensive performance of warships is more or less inferior to that of China and the United States.

Besides, how could the two generals, Wang Wei and Henry, be willing to give up their command?

Wang Wei is okay, he just doesn't want to hand over the command, but Henry is different, the limited five-star generals in the history of the Yankees have all served as commanders in the Allied theater of operations, if he can become the commander of the combined fleet, maybe he has a chance to become a five-star general!

After discussing and discussing, there was no way to discuss, and in the end, I simply made a bet that whoever got to Mars first would be the commander of the combined fleet!

Even if it's just nominal.

At this point, the so-called Combined Fleet can actually be disbanded, but in this case, it will definitely face the doubts of the people, so no one will want to pierce this layer of window paper.

That is, when the heavenly armies of various countries were rushing to Mars at full speed, the killer whale fleet set off again.

At this time, the combined fleet is less than four days away from Mars, and the Earth is 3.6 astronomical units away from Mars in a straight line, but in order to bypass the sun, the killer whale fleet needs to cross a distance of four astronomical units, and at a maximum speed of nearly 1,600 kilometers per second, it is precisely a four-day voyage

Ke Long had no intention of competing with anyone, but after the battleship left the lunar base, he directly gave the order to move forward at full speed.

According to the original voyage plan, the fleet's course would not exceed the orbit of Mercury, that is, it would follow the outer side of Mercury's orbit and make a bow-shaped arc to Mars.

But instead of flying directly to the Sun, the Orca fleet flew slightly off course towards Venus, ready to use the gravitational acceleration of Venus. After that, it will cut into the orbit of Mercury and use the sun's gravitational pull to accelerate again, which can be calculated to shorten the entire voyage by 6 hours.

In this way, there is a good chance that the killer whale fleet will arrive on Mars before the combined fleet.

Ke Long did this, not because he got any rumors, but because he, like Jiang Yufei, had relatives on Mars.

The killer whale fleet skimmed over Venus, passed through the orbit of Mercury, circled the sun at close range, and was nearly destroyed by a sudden flare that destroyed the ship's electronic systems.

The orca fleet, which was flying at far faster than the norm, crossed the orbit of Mercury for the second time and suddenly received the latest news from Jupiter, which quickly detonated the entire fleet.

After more than ten days of confrontation and fighting, the Outer Bone Man failed to take Europa, but the coalition forces with heavy losses did not have the strength to counterattack, and in this case, the comet nucleus, which had been hovering in the outer orbit of Jupiter, suddenly accelerated away from Jupiter and flew straight into the asteroid belt, there is no doubt that the target of the Outer Bone Man is Mars!

The Outer Bone Fleet was divided into two ways, and Jupiter's side was focused on the battle of Europa, but he didn't even notice it, so that it was not until the alien fleet that broke away from Jupiter annihilated a fleet of Yankees retreating to Mars in the asteroid belt that his whereabouts were accidentally revealed.

The annihilated U.S. fleet was unable to determine the exact location of the Skeleton Fleet, but it was almost certain that the distance between the Alien Fleet and Mars was between 2.6 and 2.9 astronomical units.

According to Qi Xiaodong's understanding, the speed of the Outer Skeleton Warrior's warship is definitely not slower than that of the killer whale class, and the distance between the killer whale fleet and Mars is still 2.5 astronomical units, which is really not an advantage, and what is even more terrifying is that although the distance between the combined fleet and Mars is much closer than that of the high-speed fleet, with the speed of the combined fleet, it will definitely not be able to reach Mars within 72 hours!

The military strength of Mars itself is only two less than that of the Aerospace Helicarrier battle group, the asteroid belt

This sudden situation immediately disrupted all plans, and the insanely delayed wireless communication between the fleet and Mars and Earth was running at full power.

But at this time, the Earth side was powerless, except for ordering the fleet to do everything possible to speed up, that is, asking the Martian side to strictly defend it.

As long as you hold on for a day after the Outer Bone Man attack, no, it won't take more than a day for reinforcements to arrive on Mars!