When the standard clock of the Milky Way Perseus Spiral Arm Interstellar Human World pointed to 9:18 on June 22, 2918, the Thirteenth Fleet of the Immortal Interstellar Bundesmail appeared in a vast space five astronomical units away from the interstellar planet Yi. Easy to read on mobile phones: αр.(1)(6) finishing

In less than ten seconds, a thousand battleships changed their speed of light, arrived at the predetermined position, and appeared in front of the Imperial reconnaissance ship in a complete and huge conical array. At the same time, 100 Federation reconnaissance ships in charge of leading also appeared in different positions in the three astronomical units in front of the battleship group to detect the enemy.

At this time, the Imperial "Cyrus" fleet moved forward by about one-fifth of an astronomical unit at one-half the speed of light, and it was still nearly three astronomical units away from the Federal Army. But the seven reconnaissance ships that had just been deployed in the ten astronomical units ahead had already detected the size of the enemy.

So by 9:20 a.m., the commander of the Imperial Army, Admiral Mohammed Ahmaiti, had already learned the details of the other side from the reconnaissance ship. In the face of a thousand Federation battleships, Ahmaiti did not hesitate to order: "Umbrella array, medium-density ship distance!" ”

As the order was given, the flagship "Cyrus the Great", which had been charging at the top of the already tightened cone, immediately slowed down. The ships behind maintained their top speed and overtook the flagship, gradually forming an umbrella in the space in front of the flagship.

Admiral Henning Geisler, who personally commanded a thousand battleships to attack the opponent's front, also quickly completed the contraction of the fleet formation. The Federation battleships were advancing at half the speed of light at full speed, and at the same time approaching each other, reducing the distance between the ships, and soon formed a tight cone formation.

The two sides, who had completed the work of the formation before the battle, quickly approached each other face to face.

The cannon 'doors' of all the battleships have been opened, especially the black 'hole' and 'hole' muzzle of the Akuberi cannon, which looks even more murderous in the background of the universe. The ion thrusters and hydrogen-oxygen thrusters at the tail of the battleship were running at full speed, spewing out dazzling light, making the two sides look like glittering divine generals, crossing the heavens, ready to fight.

When the two militant battle ship groups pounced on each other, their respective unmanned reconnaissance ships also worked non-stop for a second. They sail faster than light for the shortest period of one second, and even venture through enemy formations to find out the enemy's formation. Since the fleets of the two sides still have more than 20 minutes to move each other, it is of great significance to use this time to 'find out' the characteristics of the enemy's ship formation.

Since the Federal Army is all "famous" class battleships, Henning Geisler's cone formation looks watertight. All battleships took the flagship "Yang Willy" as the top of the battle, maintained a distance of 1,000 meters, and carried out a straight line movement.

Ahmaiti, for his part, deployed all the cruisers, which were weak in firepower and protection, in a sector on the right flank of his formation. In this way, the "Cyrus" fleet has a "soft underbelly" that is easy to be broken through by the other side in the large umbrella-like formation.

But the general didn't seem to care. In the flagship tactical command center, which has a strong protective 'sex' ability, he wears black 'color' space combat civilian clothes and an Arabic-style turban, kneels on the floor, prostrates in the direction of the earth, and shouts Allah. Muhammad Ahmati prayed before every battle and received the strength and courage that Allah bestows.

He then flew into the air and returned to his seat, where he sat down in serenity.

The period of mutual movement before the 'crossfire' is almost the most difficult of every battle, and the short period of time is stretched out for an incomparably long time due to the pressure of the battle. In this way, we know that the enemy is hundreds of millions of kilometers away, but even the stereoscopic imaging is only a blue 'colored' icon that shows the enemy's possible location. This is because materials such as gravitational 'waves', electromagnetic 'waves', and visible light, which contain information about the exact location of the enemy, have not yet been transmitted to their respective warships.

For the time being, the two sides can only use unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to continuously make short faster-than-light voyages to obtain intelligence and adjust their formations accordingly.

As the Cyrus fleet of the New Roman Imperial Army and the Thirteenth Fleet of the Commonwealth Wehrmath approached each other at a relative speed of almost the speed of light.

At 9:40 a.m. on 22 June, the distance between the two armies was shortened to 18 million kilometers, and at this time, the bridges and tactical command centers of the warships of both the Imperial and the Federation forces were filled with dense green and blue ship-shaped symbols.

The commanders of both sides issued the same order at the same time:

"Enter the spiral, sixty seconds 'shoot' the countdown!"

All warships activated the attitude control system and began to move forward along a spiral curve with irregular curvature and randomly varying radius. As a result, the relative velocity of the two warship groups was reduced by almost half. But the two sides still entered the effective combat distance of 300,000 kilometers after a minute.

Admiral Henning Gessler had already seen the weakness of the Imperial parachute formation, and a fan of 400 cruisers on the right flank of the opposing side held a great chance of victory. So, after giving the order to enter the spiral and 'shoot' countdown, he hurriedly added and fine-tuned the direction of the cone formation, no longer going straight to the center of the opponent's umbrella, but preparing to pierce the thin cruiser area.

"Prepare to slow down, hundredths of the speed of light!" The commanders of both sides gave orders almost simultaneously.

Then the computers on the respective warships read the seconds to the soldiers through the loudspeaker: "Ten seconds 'shoot' the knockdown timer." Ten, nine......"

Nearly all of the warship command and control personnel donned heavy space combat suits, and the marines all wore power armor and assembled in the landing capsule and the space plane, ready for broadside combat. Behind the thick dark 'colored' protective helmet, there are nervous faces, and the soldiers know very well that the upcoming fate is a life-and-death battle.

As the distance got closer, the blue and green ship icons indicating each other's positions were getting closer and closer on the three-dimensional images on the bridges and tactical command centers of the two sides, and they were about to overlap together. Many auxiliary imaging that shows real-time images can already see the ion tail flame light point that is rapidly approaching the opponent in the background of cosmic visible light. The cluster of bright points of light like the stars is a large number of fierce and vicious enemies.

At a distance of nearly 300,000 kilometers, the two ship groups almost simultaneously sprayed out a stream of hydrogen and oxygen combustion air in the opposite direction, maintaining a spiral state and decelerating sharply, and at the same time, millions of rays of light were 'fired' from the cannon 'doors'.

Millions of rays of light were like silent thunder, tearing apart the tranquility of the universe. Beams of particles full of death energy and beams of light may pass between the opposing warships and dissipate into the depths of the universe, or they may hit the target with precision, causing bursts of intense flash of light and radiation on the electromagnetic shield and ceramic alloy armor.

The Imperial Army's "Cyrus" fleet focused on the 13th Fleet of the Federal Army on an umbrella surface of more than 300 million square kilometers.

The 13th Fleet of the Federation launched a 'fire' bombardment in a dense conical formation, but the direction of its array still deviated from the axis of the opponent and instead headed towards the cruiser sector on the opponent's right flank.

After three rounds of mutual 'fire', some of the Imperial Army's poorly protected cruisers and unlucky battleships were torn open to their shells, and their internal structures and life-sustaining systems were destroyed by the opposing side's directed energy weapons. A small number of battleships of the Federation were also punctured through their hulls.

"Stay in formation and shoot freely!" General Ahmat ordered in a loud voice as he stared at the flashing stereoscopic imagery.

Due to the irradiation of the opponent's directed energy weapons, not only the electromagnetic shield of the battleship was bound with a large number of high-energy particles, but also the armor of the warship's shell was bombarded with many charged particles, which caused a lot of interference and affected the normal operation of the observation system to a certain extent.

However, Ahmat still saw clearly the enemy battleship symbols that had overlapped into red 'color' targets, and they were coming at the weak cruiser group in his formation. The corners of his mouth under the mustache suddenly twitched, and then the whole old face 'revealed' a smug smile.

This is exactly what he wants to see, and his opponent really sees the flaw he deliberately 'exposed', and uses this 'smart' trap as a chance to win. But now that the enemy is still on his way to the trap, he still has to hold his breath.

Although the formations in Starfleet operations are called "umbrella" and "cone" and a series of other names, the positions of the ships in all formations are distributed according to the honeycomb structure. In this way, the battleships in front will not block the 'firing' attack route of the battleships behind, and the firepower can be arranged in a hexagonal shape of a honeycomb structure, and the adjustment of the formation is also extremely convenient.

Therefore, the Imperial warships that entered the state of free 'shooting' attack carried out a concentrated attack on the warships on the outer layer of the federal army's cone array according to the targets assigned by the computer, with three to six adjacent warships as a group.

The "Cyrus" fleet, which had a slight advantage in numbers and firepower, inflicted a dense and fierce blow on its opponent with a favorable umbrella formation.

In the dead light of the 'crossing', one Federation battleship after another was smashed into flames. Even the flagship "Yang Willy" was bathed in dazzling high-energy particle clusters and 'excited' beams, and the anti-hydrogen particle beams 'shot' by the enemy's Akuberi engines were annihilated by the ordinary matter around the hull, resulting in small but frequent 'waves' in space, and the battleship swayed violently as if it was caught in an earth-shattering 'wave'.

"Hold on to me!" Henning Geisler shouted encouragement to his men, "Fight back!" Keep the fleet moving forward! ”

He couldn't retreat now, nor could he accelerate through the opposing ship's formation. Because the roundabout team on both flanks is about to arrive, he must attract the enemy's attention as much as possible, and hold the enemy back to attack him with all his might, so that he will not be able to break away and adjust in time when he finds the roundabout fleet. Therefore, although Gesler saw the weakness of the Lord, he did not rush to break through from the opponent's cruiser group and then break up the opponent's ship formation.

At this time, Jiang Ziyue and his task force, which were more than two astronomical units away from the battlefield, completely became spectators in the stands. Unmanned reconnaissance ships and notification ships frequently changed their speed of light to inform him of the battle situation ahead and changes in the formation of the enemy and the enemy.

"Judging from the current situation, although the enemy is a new type of battleship with all 'colors', it is still very likely to be defeated if it is backward in number and formation." Looking at the three-dimensional image showing the confrontation between the two armies, Jiang Ziyue said optimistically.

Hearing the governor's optimistic prediction, Benjamin Alfreyke also said lightly: "Then we can also plan which 'women' we will go on vacation." ”

"Benjamin, you really didn't leave the 'woman' for a word." Jiang Ziyue was a little bored with Alfrec.

"I beg your pardon, sir." Alfreck said squirtily, "I just want everyone to be a little bit easier." ”

"Nothing is easy." First mate Joseph Dietrich said coldly, "Why would it be foolish to attack the 'Cyrus' fleet from the front, since the enemy's strength is not superior?" ”

"Joseph, you mean that the Bundeswehr is ready to strike at the West?" Jiang Ziyue immediately asked.

"I'm not sure, sir."

"But what you said is very reasonable, if it were me, I wouldn't be so tough with my opponent......" The words of his subordinate reminded Jiang Ziyue, and before he finished speaking, he hurriedly gave an order: "Sergeant Cumanfur, immediately send a notification ship to General Ahmat to inform the enemy of the danger that may appear in other directions, and ask him to allow me to evacuate the logistics fleet first to avoid the danger of being attacked." ”

The faster-than-light messenger sent Jiang Ziyue's report to the battleship "Cyrus the Great", which was attacking the enemy with all its might, but General Muhammad Ahmati laughed and said to his subordinates: "Back to Major Jiang, he can withdraw whenever he wants, but when I need supplies, the supply fleet he protects must appear immediately." Also, save your mind and focus on your tasks. ”

"But, sir, he has some point." The staff officers of his subordinates boldly put forward the opinion that "the Bundeswehr has a significant outnumber of warships than ours, and is quite capable of dividing troops to our rear and flanks." ”

"Don't worry." Ahmaiti waved his hand and said, "Dividing the army is also a great risk to the enemy himself. Now we must seize the favorable opportunity to crush the frontal enemy, even if the enemy really adopts the tactics of attacking us separately and together, and if the frontal collapse is carried out, there is still nothing we can do. ”

Ahmaiti's self-confidence is also very reasonable, since the enemy uses a thousand battleships to attack from the front, then it means that they are focusing on the frontal direction, even if other forces come from the side, their overall strength should not be much stronger than the frontal ship group. After all, the Federation's squadrons are usually only slightly larger than those of the Imperial Central Fleet. Unless he is facing several detachments of the Federation Army, it is unlikely that there will be more powerful forces to fight from other directions.

It is easy to divide troops, but the combined attack is quite exquisite. In the face of a fleet with a fairly concentrated force such as the "Cyrus" fleet, a combined attack from multiple directions must appear at the same time as much as possible in order to exhaust the opponent. If it takes too long for multiple forces to arrive on the battlefield, the division of troops can easily turn into a catastrophic 'pepper-sprinkled' reinforcement, which will instead create a good opportunity for the opponent to calmly break through.

The battle had been going on for a minute, and the rest of the enemy's forces had not been seen, but they were already showing clear signs of taking the bait.

In the 'fierce' battle, the direction of the cone-shaped federal fleet had seriously deviated from the axis of the imperial army's umbrella formation, and rushed straight towards the cruiser group on the opponent's right flank, and its forward was already less than 150,000 kilometers away from the imperial warship array.

Ahmaiti lost no time in ordering: "According to the plan, start deflecting the formation!" ”

The cruiser group and other battleships on the right flank of the Imperial Army immediately stopped advancing, maintaining maximum fire intensity and began to slowly retreat. The battleship formation on the left flank slightly deflected to the left, advancing to the right of the Federation cone, and bombarded with all its might. At the same time, in order to concentrate fire to the maximum, the battleships in the upper and lower parts of the umbrella array began to move closer to the middle.

This is Ahmaiti's 'yin' scheme, deliberately 'exposing' his weaknesses, 'luring' the enemy to seek a breakthrough from the cruiser's sector-shaped area, and exposing his side.

Admiral Henning Guessler did not immediately detect his opponent's scheme. On the contrary, the warships on the right flank of the Imperial Parachute began to retreat, giving him the illusion that the other side was beginning to lose its support and was ready to retreat. So, believing that he had seized the opportunity, he ordered: "Concentrate on attacking the enemy's cruiser group, keep course, tenths of the speed of light!" ”

If the opponent tears a gap in its umbrella formation from the cruiser sector, then the Imperial Army is faced with two options, one is to change the formation and shrink the formation to the left flank, but then it is easy to fall into the opponent's semi-encirclement; The second is to disband the formation, get out of the battle as soon as possible, and then reorganize the formation for a decisive battle. No matter which one you choose, you will face a huge risk of being seized by your opponent and then surrounded and annihilated.

In the face of the powerful firepower of the federal battleships, the cruiser group under General Ahmati was indeed unbearable, but the retreat was by no means because Geisler mistook it because it could not be supported, but on purpose.

As a result, General Geisler ordered an accelerated advance, instead speeding up the right side of his cone-shaped formation to 'expose' the front of the Imperial Army, which was steadily deflecting the formation. In about twenty seconds, the Imperial Army formed an oblique parabolic formation in front of the right side of the Federal Army's cone formation.

Directed energy weapons spewed out dense and frantic energy and poured it into the Bundeswehr fleet, shooting the battleships named after the famous human generals.

A succession of reports of battle damage from the right flank allowed Henning Geisler to finally see the situation clearly. The opponent can bombard his fleet with all the firepower from the side, but most of the ships in his own fleet can only counterattack with fire from the right. And if you don't adjust in time, the opponent's parabolic ship formation will soon circle your rear, and the damage caused by that time will be even more fatal.

Before he had time to reflect on whether he had fallen for the enemy, Henning Gessler hurriedly gave the order: "Slow down, one hundredth of a light!" Turn right and stay head-on! Free 'Shoot' Shot! Linear array! ”

Despite the intense 'shooting' from the Reichs' front, the well-trained Bundeswehr servicemen carried out the commander's orders quickly and accurately, slowing down and turning the warships head-on, changing positions as they launched fierce counterattacks.

Soon, the cone-shaped ship formation of the Federation Army was stretched into a linear formation in the shape of a fritter, facing the parabolic formation of the Imperial Army, and fought back. However, Henning Gesler's previous mistakes had already caused them huge losses, and many of the battleships that were originally on the right side of the cone had been destroyed, and many of the warships facing the enemy line in front of the line had also been severely injured.

The rapid response of the Federal Army did not surprise General Mohammed Ahmat, who in his eyes was an essential quality of a good army. However, the "Cyrus" fleet has further established its superiority from the mistake of the opponent just now, and it has completely seized the initiative.

Ahmaiti gave the order again. Now, he's going to play a game of split-and-combo as well.

The right-wing battleships of the parabolic formation of the "Cyrus" fleet stopped retreating, but all the battleships kept their 'shooting' while maintaining a spiral state while moving laterally to the left of the Federation Army. The battleships on the left flank also stopped moving forward and moved to the right of the Federation fleet in the same motion. The parabolic array was soon split into two fleets, each sliding towards either end of the Federation linear array.

The Imperial Army remained tightly aligned and heavily fired, inflicting serious damage on the Bundeswehr.

Admiral Henning Gessler finally discovered that the Imperial Commander was a difficult and difficult guy to deal with. In the face of the divided enemy forces, the group of Union battleships in a line formation was not only flanked by the flanks in front, but many of the battleships in the front were soon unable to exert all their firepower to attack the opponent.

In the tactical command center of the flagship of the 13th Fleet, the "Yang Willy", Henning Gesler anxiously shouted: "Attention, separate the formation, the middle fleet accelerates forward, strives to go around the enemy's rear respectively, and the fleets at both ends strengthen their firepower!" ”

As he spoke, he quickly drew a new formation map on the inductive stereo imaging with his hands, and conveyed his tactical intentions to his subordinates in the most intuitive way through the communication system.

In the midst of countless dead light 'exchanges', the Bundeswehr linear ship formation 'fired' dense fire at the moving Imperial Army. The battleships in the middle of the formation quickly advanced and followed the enemy into two groups and turned in two directions, left and right.

From a bird's-eye view of the battlefield, the battle between the two sides presents a very interesting characteristic. The Imperial fleet, which had been divided into two parts, moved from each of the opponent's two outboards in an attempt to occupy the opponent's deadly rear; The Bundeswehr fleet was also divided into two parts from the middle, with the two outer ends of the original linear array as the axis, and rotated with the two ends that the Imperial Army had just separated from the middle, as if two 'doors' were opening.

Both armies were desperately maneuvering their battleships, desperately hoping to get around the opponent's rear first. For a time, the thorns of competition, the tension of battle, and the pressure of death were mixed in the scene of "excited" light and particle "intermingling", oppressing every officer and soldier participating in the battle. The two sides not only changed their formations and competed for positions, but also put all their kinetic weapons into battle, and thousands of missiles jumped out of the 'firing' tubes, drew graceful curves, and pounced on the opponent.

Compared with directed-energy weapons that go straight to the point, missiles with active homing functions are more flexible and destructive at a distance of more than 10 or 200,000 kilometers.

The two armies, which 'fired' at each other and moved against each other, soon formed two peculiar "eight-figure arrays." The Federation fleet formed a posture in the shape of the Chinese character "eight", but the two fleets of the Imperial Army also formed an upside-down "eight-character array" under this "eight-figure array". The two wings of the Imperial Army's "Figure-of-Eight Formation" were almost perpendicular to those of the Federation Army, and they devoted all their firepower to bombardment. However, the Federation Army only had a few warships at both ends of the "figure-eight array" that could 'fire' at all firepower, and the battleships above the "figure-of-eight array" could only speed up and turn while counterattacking with limited flank firepower.

Judging by the ancient naval battles of the fleet more than a thousand years ago, the two ship groups of the Imperial Army have occupied a favorable "T" horizontal formation. Therefore, the superiority of the Imperial Army became more and more obvious, and the dense "crossing" firepower of the two ships continuously "pierced" through the two sides of the "figure-of-eight array" of the Federal Army.

More and more Federation battleships lost their electromagnetic shields, were pierced through their hulls, exploded, and disintegrated and shattered in constant flashes and violent shaking......

Jiang Ziyue, who had been only watching the battle from the side, saw the latest situation with the help of the unmanned reconnaissance ship belonging to his task force, and finally settled down and dispelled the idea of letting the logistics ships retreat first. When the Briefing Ship replied to Admiral Ahmat's rather disdainful instructions, he was a little disappointed in the General's arrogance. But now it seems that the elimination of this battlefleet of the Bundeswehr is only a matter of time.