As Robb expected. After exiting the battle, it was detected that the Federation fleet returning to the battlefield rearranged a spherical formation and retreated from the center of the 135th line with a lower reaction propulsion speed. Whitehead immediately consulted with his men how to re-attack his opponent.

Jiang Ziyue believed that it was impossible to arrange a dense formation by luring the enemy into a dense formation like in the battle just now, and then launch a space storm, and it was necessary to adopt new tactics. In the multi-party communication composed of commanders, Jiang Ziyue suggested: "Change the order, launch a space storm first, blow up the enemy's ships as much as possible, and then attack." ”

"No, Ziyue." Gus denied, "If the enemy suffers a loss, he will definitely widen the distance between the ships and reduce the number of warships taken away by the space storm as much as possible." The effect of using Space Storm again will not be too ideal, but it may put us in a bitter battle. This is quite disadvantageous. ”

"However, judging from the current balance of forces, although our side has destroyed nearly 400 enemy warships, it can only be equal to the enemy in terms of numbers." "Without the Space Storm tactics, it's hard for us to gain an advantage over the enemy. ”

"We can't rely too much on space storm tactics." "As useful as it is, if the enemy comes up with an effective way to deal with it, it's easy for us to become very reactive." ”

"Space storm tactics are effective in dispersing the enemy's forces, and without this tactic, we can only distract the enemy by maneuvering. However, we do not have a clear advantage in numbers, and it is not easy to do this. Jiang Ziyue said embarrassedly.

Gus laughed and said, "Ziyue, we are almost evenly matched with the enemy, and it is unrealistic to want to eat them in one bite. ”

"Pirate head, do you mean you want to spend time with the enemy?" Lotta? Stoldt asked.

"Judging from the current situation, it is clear that the enemy has planned an all-out attack on our country." Gus analyzed, "This fleet should be the lead force, preparing to attack the planet New Rhine. I have sent briefing ships to inform New Byzantium and Iserlohn of the enemy's situation, and I am confident that the Senate and the Central Fleet will soon respond. Therefore, before the new directive is issued, we should not lightly engage the enemy in a decisive battle, but should delay the enemy's offensive as much as possible and force them to 'revea' their true strategic intentions. ”

"So, we're not going to attack the enemy?" Jiang Ziyue asked.

"No, we're going to attack, but we're going to keep attacking in a different way." Gus said mysteriously.

"Changing 'flowers'?" The two bald deputies looked puzzled.

"Of course, the new 'tricks' are actually tactics created by you." Gus explained, "Ziyue, didn't you 'make up' some faster-than-light raids when you were in the 'Yi' Star Field? Isn't that just the right time to come in handy? ”

Jiang Ziyue shook his head and said, "Gus, the effect achieved when I used it for the first time was quite limited. Unless battleships are put into battle, it is difficult for cruisers alone to exert their power. However, the mass and size of the battleships were too large, and the radius of the 'tidal' tidal force generated by the faster-than-light warp bubbles 'excited' by the Akuberi engines was too large, and it was difficult to form a dense formation when changing to faster-than-light. Therefore, even if the battleship is put into a faster-than-light raid, I am afraid that it will not have the effect of a surprise attack. ”

"Didn't you use this tactic again when you counterattacked the enemy's Thirteenth Fleet? Moreover, he achieved the achievement of destroying dozens of enemy battleships without a single casualty. ”

"That's when the enemy gets out of control after being blown away by a space storm. That's when Lota inspired me, and then attacked. Jiang Ziyue explained.

Hearing Jiang Ziyue mention herself, Lota said happily: "Ziyue, thank you for remembering me." Don't forget, you promised to reward me, but you haven't kept your promise. ”

"I have asked the consuls to award you the Golden Caesar Medal in my later report, but as you know, we were all expelled from the army...... Jiang Ziyue said embarrassedly, "I am no wonder about it. ”

"Ziyue, I don't want a medal." Lota said and squeezed her eyebrows at Jiang Ziyue in the video system.

"Rota, didn't you sleep with Jiang Ziyue? Still not satisfied? Gus smiled and said, "According to his subordinates, Captain Jiang Ziyue's chastity was plundered by you, a 'female' pirate. ”

Jiang Ziyue was quite embarrassed by Gus's words, and hurriedly said: "Hey, we are discussing combat operations, not talking about yellow 'color' jokes. ”

"It's not funny at all." Lota said coldly, "I took off my coat that night, but Jiang Ziyue was drunk like a dead pig, and nothing happened." ”

"Alright, don't talk about these things again." Jiang Ziyue shouted, "Let's get down to business. If the enemy had been prepared, I don't think we would have had such a good record at that time, and attacking battleships with cruisers would always be insufficient. ”

"As I said, it is unrealistic to annihilate the enemy in one battle." Gus responded, "Our priority now is to slow down the enemy's advance and look for opportunities to gradually eliminate them. So, your faster-than-light raids can come in handy again. Jiang Ziyue, you have to be confident in your tactics. The enemy has already suffered a great loss from the space storm, and when it encounters us, it will definitely widen the distance between the ships, and in this way, it will increase the difficulty of mutual support between the fleet command and the warships. Use your faster-than-light raid tactics, just right. ”

"You have a lot of sense." Lota immediately agreed.

Jiang Ziyue thought for a moment and said calmly: "Gus, I must remind you that the expectations for this tactic should not be too big. And if it were to be commanded by me, it would only be possible to put the cruiser into the cruiser, just as I would not put the battleship into the space storm tactics. ”

"I can understand, Ziyue." "You want to change the speed of light at the effective combat distance and immediately form a dense battle formation." ”

"Exactly." Jiang Ziyue replied solemnly.

Gus then announced his plan to his men: "My plan is this, we will still divide the work as before. It's up to me to draw the enemy in front of me and 'lure' them into a loose umbrella formation. Ziyue, you lead the cruiser fleet to use faster-than-light raid tactics to flank the enemy's parachute array vertex and nearby battleships from the rear, and strive to take out the enemy's flagship in one 'sex'. ”

"The enemy's flagship will not necessarily be arranged at the apex of the umbrella array." Lota was skeptical.

"Judging from the battle just now and the enemy's current conservative strategy, the commander of the opposing side is not like a person who will pursue novelty. He would have traditionally placed his flagship at the apex of the umbrella array, otherwise I think he would find it difficult to control the entire fleet and coordinate its actions. Gus confidently analyzed. Judging from the actions of the enemy fleet, the commander of the enemy fleet was a conservative person, and this weakness of the enemy commander was the "soft underbelly" that could be attacked.

"There's a risk involved." Jiang Ziyue said, "If the enemy's flagship is not at the apex of the umbrella array, it will be difficult for us to achieve the desired results." ”

"It's not a big risk." Gus responded, "Our purpose is to delay the enemy's attack, to exhaust the enemy, not to destroy the enemy. So whether or not we can destroy the enemy's flagship, our goal can be achieved. All you have to do is destroy as many ships at the top of the Umbrella as you can, and as soon as the enemy focuses on your fleet, you'll have to get out of the fight. Don't be in a fight. ”

"I understand, sir. But I feel that since we have to divide our troops, we should score one more direction, so that the enemy will be exhausted to deal with it. Jiang Ziyue proposed, "I propose to separate my cruiser fleet, and half of it will be commanded by Lotta." At that point, Gus you attack from the front, then I appear from behind, while Lota looks for an opportunity to bypass the enemy's reconnaissance network and attack from the flank. Having destroyed the ships in the central area of the enemy formation, we immediately accelerated and disengaged from the battle. ”

"Good. That's a good idea. Gus nodded in approval, "Here, let's calculate the specific coordination and attack sequence." ”

At 21:15 a.m. on 19 August, an unmanned Wehrmacht reconnaissance ship moved faster than light to warn the fleet that the Imperial fleet had been detected. Soon after, a large number of Imperial warships reappeared at 12 million kilometers from the Bundeswehr Fourth Fleet.

Imperial Army Commander Gus? Whitehead led the team back up.

This time, four hundred battleships and two hundred cruisers of the Imperial Army, divided into three smaller conical formations, flew from three directions along the galactic plane to the spherical formation of the Bundeswehr Fourth Fleet.

Accepting the lessons of his earlier failure, General Wang Chaogui immediately changed the spherical array into a very loose umbrella formation, pulling the distance between the warships to about 50,000 kilometers. In this way, even if the enemy launches a space storm from the side of the umbrella array again, as before, the number of warships affected will not be too large. However, in this way, the entire umbrella array is too large and loose, and the diameter of the circle of the umbrella array facing the enemy is nearly 3 million kilometers. The radio command issued by the flagship "Deng Zilong," which was at the apex of the umbrella formation, would not reach the battleship on the edge of the formation until six seconds had passed, which was extremely unfavorable to the command.

"Closely monitor the surrounding space, and as soon as you detect other enemy ships, open fire immediately!" Wang Chaogui issued an order to his subordinates, "We must not give them another chance to launch a space storm against us. ”

However, the Imperial Army did not emerge from the surrounding area, and its three conical formations were moving towards the Federation Army at a tenth of the speed of light, as if they were in no hurry to enter the battle. In the tactical command center on both ships, the green 'color' icon of the enemy ship is slowly catching up with the blue 'color' ship icon.

Three minutes later, the Imperial Army's three conical formations converged into a dense cone, and entered an effective combat distance of 300,000 kilometers with the opponent. Dao Dao Death Light once again pierced the cosmic void, 'stirring' up bursts of dazzling brilliance on the electromagnetic shield of the opponent's warship.

After two rounds of bombardment, Gus gave the order to retreat again, and the Imperial Army's cone began to fight and retreat. At the same time, a notification ship was sent to the rear to inform the enemy.

Seeing the enemy use the same trick again, Wang Chaogui and his federal soldiers immediately realized that the enemy was likely to repeat the old trick, and they all tensed their nerves, staring at the image of the surrounding space revealed by the gravitational detection system.

However, the other fleets and space storms of the expected enemy did not appear, but the frontal enemy was fighting and retreating. Although the Bundeswehr is relatively numerous, the umbrella array used to be so loose that many warships on the periphery have even fallen beyond the effective combat distance, and can only use algorithms to blindly 'fire' at the Imperial Army's cone formation, and the firepower of the 'fire' cannot hit the target at all.

Although the Imperial Army was small in number, it formed a dense cone formation, and its firepower was very concentrated, and it was at an effective combat distance from the central area of the opponent's umbrella array, constantly bombarding it. The firepower of the two sides came and went, and they damaged each other.

Wang Chaogui couldn't sit still, and if he continued like this, he had to lose both. If he immediately reduces the distance between the ships, shrinks the umbrella array, and reduces the radius of the circle of the umbrella array, he will inevitably be able to form a 'precise' and lethal focused firepower.

But in his eyes, the enemy must not be so stupidly consumed with himself, and must be waiting for himself to shrink the umbrella array and relaunch the space storm in due time. In hesitation, he thought of a compromise.

He drew a three-dimensional diagram on the sensing image and explained to his men: "The outer warships accelerated, approached the enemy fleet, and formed a trap. ”

Under Wang Chaoguixin's instructions, the formation of the Fourth Fleet of the Federal Army, which was originally like an open giant umbrella, began to shrink - like an open umbrella was put away, the peripheral warships accelerated towards the Imperial Army's cone formation, and the central area battleships remained unchanged. Half a minute later, the Fourth Fleet formed a "closed umbrella formation" against the Imperial Army, forming a cone-shaped encirclement of the Imperial Army's dense conical formation. In this way, not only did it not reduce the distance between the ships, but it also effectively formed a flanking attack on the enemy.

"It's like an ice cream cone with an ice cream cone." The subordinates praised Wang Chaogui's new formation.

"Then let's enjoy the ice cream from the Senate." Wang Chaogui said proudly, "If the enemy wants to lure us into being fooled, we will do it." ”

As soon as the words fell, the communications officer shouted: "Report, the reconnaissance ship has reported that a superluminal speed 'wave' has been detected directly behind a hundred astronomical units." ”

"Is it our warship?" Wang Chaogui asked in surprise.

"I don't know. The faster-than-light 'wave' movement reached the speed of the fourth level of the Akuberi, and judging from the scale of the 'tidal' tidal force, it should be a cruiser. Up to 200 warp bubbles. The communications officer replied.

"Turn half of your fire to the rear at once!" Wang Chaogui anxiously ordered, it seems that the enemy is preparing to launch a space storm from the rear, or a surprise attack. Fortunately, he had already set up a reconnaissance and warning net at a hundred astronomical units directly behind, so that he would not be caught off guard by his opponent.

However, this order drastically reduced the firepower of the frontal Imperial Army.

On board the "Gustav II", Gus wasted no time in issuing a new order: "Concentrate your fire and attack the ships in the central area of the enemy formation!" Be sure to destroy them. ”

The Imperial warships, lined up in a tight conical formation, braved the powerful fire around them, adjusted their gun muzzles, and concentrated on bombarding the enemy in front.

The soldiers on the "Deng Zilong" also looked even more nervous.

The early warning officer shouted: "At six o'clock, zero elevation, one light second, fifty enemy ships, no, two hundred!" ”

As he screamed, the three-dimensional image of the space behind the battleship in the tactical command center of the "Deng Zilong" was also covered with a red-light ship-shaped pattern. Immediately after that, there was a rush alarm that the battleship had been hit.

Jiang Ziyue led two hundred Imperial Army cruisers to change the speed of light at a distance of 300,000 kilometers, and formed an umbrella formation with a distance of less than 2,000 kilometers, and immediately launched an attack.

Fortunately, many Federation warships belonged to the "Liszt's fritters", which allowed the weapons on the surface of the hull to fire directly backwards. Therefore, as soon as the other party appeared, he immediately launched a counterattack.

The battlefield quickly formed an interesting picture. The Fourth Fleet of the Federation Army formed a cone formation with an opening in the direction of the New Roman Empire, and the Imperial Army cone formation with a cone head facing the direction of the Perseus Interstellar Federation, while Jiang Ziyue's cruiser fleet covered the top of the Cones of the Federation Army with an umbrella formation. The warships of both sides threw everything they had, desperately 'shooting' at each other.

The cone formation under the command of Baitou Gus was attacked by the Federation army's 'cross' fire, and the losses became more and more obvious, but they concentrated their fire on the central area of the opponent's formation, causing great pressure on the opponent. The firepower of the cruiser fleet commanded by Jiang Ziyue was not very sufficient, but in the face of the weakest tail of the Federation warship, it calmly 'shot' and formed a powerful flanking attack with the Gus fleet in front of it, causing the battleships in the central area of the Federation warship array to suffer a heavy blow.

Soon, Wang Chaogui found that the flagship and the surrounding warships were suffering more and more serious damage, and he was eager to find new countermeasures. But at this moment, the early warning officer shouted in horror: "Directly above, enemy ships have been discovered, and one light weighs two hundred!" ”

Lotta? Stoldt led the remaining 200 cruisers of the Imperial Army, bypassing the opponent's reconnaissance and alert network laid out more than 100 astronomical units, and changed to superluminal speed nearly 300,000 kilometers above the top area of the Confederate formation.

"Free 'shooting' shot! One-third the speed of light! Penetrate the enemy line! Lota shouted the order, full of confidence and excitement about victory.

The battleships in the central area of the Federation warship array, which were caught in the middle of the attack from both sides, were unable to react to the sudden appearance of the enemy in the sky above, and immediately bathed in a rain curtain composed of 'excited' light and particles.

Rota's timely appearance, just like her name (Rota) is taken from the 'female' Valkyrie meaning "spear", like a deadly spear pierced the top of the Fourth Fleet's formation, quickly and accurately piercing the enemy's Central Tower, which had already suffered from two sides. Her cruiser fleet even risked being accidentally injured by her own fire and colliding with enemy ships, penetrating the top of the opponent's cone formation lying across the silver plane from top to bottom.

General Wang Chaogui didn't even have a chance to transfer the command to the flagship, and was engulfed by a strong explosion inside the flagship. Together with hundreds of surrounding Federation warships, they were destroyed by the opponent's firepower from three sides.

Jiang Ziyue reached his goal and quickly ordered a retreat. His cruisers scattered in formation and accelerated away from the enemy's perimeter into faster-than-light speed. After Lotta's fleet 'holed' through the opponent's formation, it also calmly broke away from the battle from under the silver road.

Gus also gave the order to retreat, but then he realized that his cone of ice cream in a sleeve was not easy to get out.