In a pinch, Rota? Stoldt led two hundred of her cruisers, like sharp spears, as she desperately 'shot' from the right flank of the Federation Army to the right flank of the Fourth Fleet's parachute formation. (Full text reading, all in ωωω.1(6)κxS.Сom(1(6).文.学网)

Although the cruiser is far less powerful than the battleship, it can greatly increase the accuracy of hits at close range, and the attack at close range can also make the opponent feel serious pressure. Plus Gerald? Admiral Hancock commanded the fleet to concentrate on attacking the opposing Gus formation, allowing Lotta's fleet to calmly deliver a 'fine' and accurate strike.

Faced with the group of Imperial cruisers rushing into his array, Hancock had to change his gravity and suppressed his nervousness and gave instructions: "Order the ships of the fifth detachment on the right flank to counterattack nearby!" Other warships continued to maintain pressure on the frontal enemy. ”

In this way, the Federation no longer pressed all its firepower on the Gus ship formation, and the pressure on the Gus ship group was relieved. On the left flank of the Federal Army, Jiang Ziyue's cruiser fleet also completed the turn, but Jiang Ziyue did not rush into the enemy position like Lota to attract fire. Instead, he took two hundred cruisers and accelerated to maneuver behind the flanks of the Federation forces.

Gus? Seeing this, Whitehead immediately gave the order to retreat again: "Retreat at full speed, maintain formation, and increase firepower!" Draw enemies in! ”

Under the effective command of Gus, the formation gradually returned to a strict 'nature' of the ship group and moved quickly, risking the dense fire network of the Federation Army to accelerate its retreat, and constantly pouring directional energy into the opponent.

"Are these guys ready to run away?" Faced with the retreat of the Imperial army, Hancock couldn't help but be full of suspicion. The cunning approach of the opponent who retreated and advanced a few times just now made him feel uneasy.

"Sir, the enemy cruiser fleet on the left flank is maneuvering towards our rear." Subordinates report in a timely manner.

Hancock hesitated for a moment and ordered: "Let the second detachment on the left flank stay and intercept them, and the fifth detachment on the right flank continue to attack the enemy who rushed into the formation." The other ships immediately pursue the enemy in front of them, and be sure to crush them! ”

Although nearly 200 warships commanded by Robb were blown away by the space storm launched by Jiang Ziyue's fleet to nearly 100 astronomical units, the Gus ship group itself was blown away by Robb's fleet with a space storm. So even if Hancock left two detachments to deal with the two cruiser fleets of the Imperial Army, the number of warships he used to bombard the Gus group would still be in a slight advantage.

Jiang Ziyue originally wanted to lead the cruiser fleet around the back of the Federation warship formation and form a flank attack with Gus's fleet, but his operation was unsuccessful. Hancock left the second detachment in the detachment commander Edward? Under the command of Colonel Mandalay, he quickly maneuvered to the left flank, cutting off the way of Jiang Ziyue's cruiser fleet and forcing the other side to 'engage' with him.

Gus was well aware that the current general situation was not too favorable for the Imperial Army. If it weren't for the other party's 'trick' of space storm, the Imperial Army would not have fallen behind. With his deployment at that time, letting Jiang Ziyue and Lota lead the team to move to the opponent's two wings can completely form a favorable situation of attacking from three sides. However, the current situation is far from the original estimate, and if it continues to be consumed with the enemy, the Imperial army will inevitably be terribly annihilated in the end.

"Retreat, keep retreating!" In the communications system of the Imperial Army, Gus emphasized.

"Boss, we can't get rid of the enemy, and they're speeding up." The subordinate said in embarrassment.

"It's okay, we'll just go back at full speed." Gus said calmly, "Keep the fire intensifying and let them come." ”

I can't help it if I don't let them come. After all, the maneuverability of the warships on both sides is at the same level, and the forward speed is twice as fast as the backward speed. If you retreat alone, you will not be able to escape the pursuit of your opponent.

In this way, the Imperial warship group commanded by Gus and the Federation warship group commanded by General Hancock, while bombarding each other, one retreated and the other advanced, gradually leaving behind their respective detachments and moving in the direction of the new Roman Empire. The entire battlefield was gradually divided into three parts, with the two main ship groups of Gus and Hancock advancing and retreating simultaneously, the Lota fleet and the fifth detachment falling into a 'melee' battle, and Jiang Ziyue's fleet and the second detachment bombarding each other. In the three corners, the Imperial Army did not have an advantage in numbers, and they were all fighting hard.

Gus's fleet retreated as it fought, leading the other side to nearly three million kilometers from the original battlefield. Hancock's fleet advanced faster than the opponent's retreat, and soon narrowed the distance between the two sides, giving the opponent a more 'precise' blow.

"It's only 80,000 kilometers away, sir!" In the tactical command center of the "Gustav II", the controller shouted in horror, "The outer electromagnetic shield of the flagship has failed!" ”

"Gustav II" has fallen into a state of violent tremor. The antimatter particle beams and ordinary matter that were 'fired' by the enemy's battleship Akuberi's cannon produced frequent but small spatial 'waves', constantly rocking the huge battleship.

"Hold on! Get the enemy closer. Gus said calmly, "Inform Jiang Ziyue and Stoldt to get out of the battle as soon as possible and go to the supply point to rendezvous." ”

Although the distance was getting closer and closer, the Imperial Army still maintained a state of movement of retreat at full speed, and the firepower did not decrease, and it showed quite tenacity.

"What a bunch of hard bones who don't know how to live or die." Hancock commented contemptuously, and then uttered harsh words: "Keep a distance of 50,000 kilometers and increase your firepower!" Convey to every battleship, do not accept the surrender of the enemy, annihilate them all for me, and avenge the noble commander of the dynasty! ”

When orders are transmitted to each Federation ship via encrypted radio, the Imperial Army's encrypted radio also transmits new orders to its own ships.

"Fifty thousand kilometers, sir! Enemies slow down! The men shouted nervously and fearfully.

"It's now! Stop retreating, sail in a straight line, go full speed ahead, and penetrate enemy formations! Gus exclaimed 'excitedly'.

Hundreds of Imperial warships stopped retreating, and also stopped maneuvering along the spiral curve, erupting dazzling flames from their tails, propelling the battleships to rush towards the enemy line with a straight-line acceleration of more than 6,000 kilometers per square second.

"It's not good, the enemy wants to flee!" Gerald? Major General Hancock suddenly realized and hurriedly shouted, "Stop advancing, retreat at full speed, don't let the enemy artillery, increase the fire!" ”

The Federation forces that received the order drove the ships one after another, stopped their advance, and prepared to retreat to intercept the opponent. However, the distance of 50,000 kilometers was too close, and the inertia of the Federation Army to advance made it take only four seconds for the Imperial Army, which had been prepared, to rush into its formation. Each Imperial warship quickly passed through the opponent's loose formation, flying towards the opponent's rear space, and at the same time quickly dispersed the formation.

The Federation warship hurriedly turned the weapon on the hull to 'shoot' the window, and desperately 'shot' at the Imperial army that had already reached its back. But it was no longer helped, a large number of Imperial battleships and cruisers had disappeared into the depths of the universe.

"Let them run away again!" General Hancock said angrily slamming his fist on the armrest of his seat.

This is the second time that the opponent has managed to penetrate his battle formation and escape the doom of being annihilated. Just a few hours ago, General Hancock took over from the fallen Wang Chaogui, maintaining that peculiar set of formations, maintaining a distance of 200,000 to 300,000 kilometers, and allowing the opponent to successfully escape after hedging head-on, and now only about 50,000 kilometers away, the opponent once again 'holed' through his loose umbrella formation and successfully escaped.

Hancock then ordered: "Turn at once and pursue the enemy!" ”

Gus did not walk away, passed through the opponent's ship formation, and after successfully breaking away from the opponent's 'firing' range, he immediately divided into two ways to rescue the two cruisers.

"Attack enemy ships at top speed, then move on and go faster than light!" Gus shouted to his men, "Be careful, don't fall in love. ”

Half of the plan in his mind has been realized, and now it's up to him to take action. His sudden counterattack escape left the Federation's capital ship group completely behind, leaving it in desperate pursuit from nearly 600,000 kilometers behind. Therefore, the Gus fleet, which had already been divided into two routes, could calmly launch a round of surprise attacks against the second and fifth detachments that were fighting against Jiang Ziyue and Lota cruiser fleets respectively.

More than twenty seconds later, the ship group commanded by Gus divided into two teams and attacked the second and fifth detachments of the Federation Army at the highest reaction propulsion speed of half the speed of light. The sudden and powerful rapid attack caught both Federation detachments by surprise and suffered heavy losses. But Gus didn't give the order to slow down, and the Imperial army only launched two volleys of 'fire', and then it swept through the opponent like lightning, and flew into deep space.

Commander of the Second Detachment of the Fourth Fleet of the Wehrmacht, Edward? Colonel Mandalay, who immediately ordered to withdraw from the battle, also began to retreat directly from the 5th detachment due to excessive losses. The cruiser fleet commanded by Jiang Ziyue and Lota was able to quickly get rid of the entanglement of their opponents and quickly leave the battlefield.

When Gerald? When Admiral Hancock arrived with his fleet, most of the Imperial ships had fled, leaving only a few crippled ships that had signaled surrender.

In this battle, the two sides barely reached a draw. More than three hundred warships of the Federation were destroyed. The Imperial Army also lost nearly 400 warships, among which the Lota cruiser, which rushed into the enemy line and launched a melee battle, lost half of its ships. Both sides quickly moved away from the battlefield after breaking away from the fighting, leaving only unarmed hospital ships to search for survivors.

At 0:30 a.m. on August 20, Gus? Whitehead finally welcomed back the ship that had been blown away by Robb's space storm. So far, there are more than 600 combat ships left in the "Haraldi" fleet of the Imperial Army, of which 200 cruisers are specially "men" to escort the logistics supply fleet. Therefore, there were only more than 400 battleships under the direct command of Gus, and more than 100 battleships remained, and even the flagship "Gustav II" was already scarred. The battle loss rate of the "Haraldi" fleet is already close to sixty percent.

Therefore, Jiang Ziyue suggested to Gus: "Gus, it seems that we can only abandon the plan to detour the planet Andromeda. ”

"I didn't expect this battle to turn out like this." Gus remorseful.

The images of the two bald men and women projected on the tactical command center, as well as the light emitted by a large number of battle statistics and charts, scattered and 'shot' on his face and white hair, 'shooting' a bleak light.

At first, he was too arrogant and too blind to think that he could defeat a slightly superior enemy with his own skills. However, he didn't expect the opponent to also use the space storm tactic, not only blowing away some of his own warships, but also 'disrupting' his formation, so that he suffered several rounds of fatal 'shooting' hits.

"Gus, don't blame yourself too much. We still have more than 600 warships in total, and it is still not a small force to attack the enemy's borders. Lota remained optimistic, and despite the fact that her "Nezha" was "pierced" through the hull by the enemy's artillery fire and her men suffered heavy casualties, she still maintained high morale and confidence in victory.

In the communication video, Jiang Ziyue's stereoscopic image shook his head and said, "No, Lotta, the cruiser that protects the logistics supply fleet can't be used easily. And we have to take into account the constant attrition of personnel on long circuitous voyages. Therefore, when we arrive at the Andromeda Star Field, we may only have two or three hundred warships that can be put into battle, and our strength is very weak. ”

"And what do you want us to do?" Lotta asked, "The enemy has already been wounded, and I don't think it's likely that we will be able to march on the planet New Rhine again." ”

Jiang Ziyue stared at Gus's stereoscopic image and said, "I think we should immediately return to the rubble asteroid and wait for new instructions from the Iserlon Central Fleet and the Senate. On the one hand, we can rest our personnel and repair warships, and on the other hand, we can support the planet Neu-Rhine at any time. ”

After listening to Jiang Ziyue's opinion, Gus finally said: "Ziyue, how much do you estimate the strength of the enemy's fleet?" ”

Jiang Ziyue immediately replied: "Based on the report on the destruction of enemy ships by our side and the information on enemy ships obtained by various ships and reconnaissance ships during the battle, I estimate that the enemy still has at least 800 warships. This figure includes the number of enemy ships blown away by my cruiser with space storms. ”

"The data from the flagship intelligence center is more than 900 ships." Gus's voice was a little painful, "Compared to the combined numbers of the previous two battles, there are more enemies. At least two hundred more, it seems that the enemy has received reinforcements. ”

"If the enemy gets reinforcements, then they will not care about us and will definitely attack New Rhine directly." "I said earlier that our expedition to the territory of the enemy country is too risky. ”

"It doesn't have to be reinforcements." Jiang Ziyue said, "Have you noticed that in all enemy reports, the number of battleships is 'consistent' with the number detected in the first two battles and the number destroyed by us." That is, the enemy increased only cruisers. If it was reinforcements, why not more powerful battleships? Even a few can have a greater effect, but just add cruisers? ”

Lota reacted quickly this time, and immediately blurted out: "You mean that the enemy has also 'pumped' the cruisers guarding the logistics supply fleet and put them into battle?" ”

"Yes." It was Gus who answered, but what he didn't expect was that he was depressed, but he suddenly joked again, and then said to Rota: "Rota, you finally have a bit of a husband and a wife with Jiang Ziyue." ”

"Of course." Lota said smugly.

However, Jiang Ziyue was very dissatisfied with them making fun of himself again, but he was very helpless. He had no choice but to correct the topic of the future situation and asked, "Gus, what do you think of my opinion?" Return to the rubble base? ”

Gus smiled and said, "Ziyue, your words started me. It is time for us to abandon our plans to go deep into enemy territory and return to the rubble asteroid to defend the planet Neorhine. But we have one more thing to do before we leave. ”

"Yes, I also think you have to finish one thing before you can go back." Jiang Ziyue said knowingly.

"Lotta, take a look, compared to you, I am a better match for your family's Ziyue. I thought of everything together. Gus said provocative words in a disgusting tone, while also squeezing his eyebrows at Jiang Ziyue.

Unexpectedly, Gus, who was originally quite depressed, not only regained his self-confidence because of Jiang Ziyue's words, but also completely regained his playful mentality. Lota didn't fight back directly like before, but said confidently: "Baitou, you can rest assured, people who are a good match may not necessarily get married." Besides, our family is a normal man, and his aesthetic taste and love orientation are normal, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"Alright, alright. Can't you just respect me? Jiang Ziyue asked the two angrily.

"Okay, dear." Lota said sweetly to Jiang Ziyue before Gus.

"Oh my God, Lotta? Stoldt, I didn't think you could be like this? It's an army here! Jiang Ziyue roared angrily.

"We're not regular soldiers anymore, Ziyue." Gus reminded as if gloating, "Also, 'women' tend to change their 'sexual' personality because of the man they love, just as men always give up their principles for the sake of 'women'." In short, it is a sentence, 'there is 'sex'', no one 'sex'''. ”

Seeing that Jiang Ziyue was really angry with herself, Lota had no choice but to say stupidly: "Ziyue, don't be angry, I'm just joking." ”

Regarding Luota's explanation, Jiang Ziyue was silent, looking very unappreciative.

Seeing this, Gus quickly changed the topic and said, "Okay, let me talk about my thoughts now." This time, we are going to break the kettle and transfer the cruisers that escort the logistical supply fleet as well. In this way, we can put more than six hundred warships. After finding out the location of the enemy's logistical supply fleet, as long as the enemy still 'withdraws' the escorting cruisers, you will lead 400 warships to lure the enemy into full battle, and I will command the rest of the warships to attack the logistical supply convoy with all their might. ”

"I would like to propose two amendments." Jiang Ziyue immediately responded, "One, I don't want to partner with Lota anymore. Second, we should not rush to attack. I believe that we should direct the enemy closer to our country, preferably 'luring' into our territory. In this way, once our troops succeed in destroying the enemy's logistical supply fleet, the enemy will inevitably retreat or even collapse quickly because it is too far from its own rear, and we will have a chance to destroy them further. Otherwise, they will be lucky and stick to the middle line of the 135th parallel, waiting for reinforcements, and we will not be able to do anything. ”

Hearing his words, Gus smiled and said, "Ziyue, I will adopt the second opinion." The first opinion......" He deliberately glanced at Lotta, and then said, "Dismissed." You and Lota are the best partners to pin down the enemy head-on. Think about it, what kind of effect would a fierce 'woman' and a smart man have? It seems that there is a Socrates in history because of this. ”

"Whitehead, what are you talking about?" Lota asked dissatisfied.

"I'm against it, Gus." Jiang Ziyue also said resolutely.

"Ziyue, I personally took charge of attacking the enemy's logistics fleet, not picking light work. Are you willing to let Lota risk attacking the enemy's logistics fleet alone? Gus said solemnly, "And once the battle is launched, you have a very big responsibility. ”

Jiang Ziyue was puzzled and asked, "Great responsibility?" ”