After the 60-year-old Admiral of the New Roman Empire, Muhammad Ahmat, threw away the burden of protecting the logistics ship group and immediately threw himself into the defense of the "easy" planet.

In space one astronomical unit away from the "Yi" planet, the more than 1,400 warships of the "Cyrus" fleet were distributed in a honeycomb shape at a distance of about 5,000 kilometers, and arranged in a large conical array facing the direction of the Yingxian spiral arm, half covering the "Yi" planet.

At the top of the umbrella array is the flagship "Cyrus the Great" super battleship. In the space of more than 1,000 astronomical units in front of the array, seven groups of ships were deployed for reconnaissance and vigilance. Each ship group consists of thirty-one unmanned reconnaissance ships, and the ships are distributed in a honeycomb pattern of seven units, spaced by one astronomical unit, forming a reconnaissance and alert network.

Each reconnaissance ship released 97,469 gravitational-wave detectors in its front hemisphere at a distance of 300,000 kilometers. The detectors are also distributed in a honeycomb shape, and the distance between them is also maintained at 300,000 kilometers. In this way, in the space of 150,060,000 kilometers in front of the "Cyrus" fleet, the Imperial Army spread an umbrella-shaped reconnaissance and warning network composed of honeycomb structures.

Each reconnaissance ship group has a huge cellular network monitoring area of 29.0625 square astronomical units (about 6539062.5 billion square kilometers). Taken together, the seven networks essentially cut off the straight route from the Perseus Star Federation planet "Aegis" along the galactic plane to the planet "Yi". That is, according to the usual rules of navigation, any aircraft from the Perseus Commonwealth had to pass through this reconnaissance and alert net.

The gravitational waves generated by the vehicle will propagate to the four nearest probes within a second as they pass through the reconnaissance network. After detecting gravitational fluctuations, the detector will immediately summarize the enemy situation to an unmanned reconnaissance ship 300,000 kilometers away by laser or radio. After receiving the signal, the reconnaissance ship on standby at any time will immediately enter the sixth-level Akuberi speed, and in one second, it will appear about 300,000 kilometers in front of the "Cyrus" fleet and transmit the enemy's situation by laser or radio.

Since human warships and most civilian ships generally limit their maximum speed of light to 4.5 speed of Akuberi, which is currently the safest and most economical faster-than-light class. If a Bundeswehr ship passes through the reconnaissance network at this speed, the Imperial Army of the New Roman Republic has more than twenty-two seconds of warning time. Even if the enemy pounces head-on at level 5 Akuberi speed, the Imperial Army still has ten seconds of warning time.

Considering the importance of large-scale fleet operations on formations, the early warning time left for the Imperial Army "Cyrus" fleet defending the planet "Yi" is far more than the above two figures. In the face of a large fleet such as the "Cyrus" fleet, the Bundeswehr ships also need a lot of time to form after changing to a faster-than-light state, in order to defeat the enemy from the formation when engaging the enemy.

However, it is not enough, and even dangerous, to form a reconnaissance and alert network on the front according to general logic. Therefore, General Ahmat divided the remaining 200 or so unmanned reconnaissance ships into seven reconnaissance groups and formed a mobile reconnaissance and alert network in the space in other directions outside the same distance of more than 1,000 astronomical units from the "Cyrus" fleet, in case the Bundeswehr made a detour and suddenly attacked from these directions.

When the huge three-dimensional image on the bridge of the "Siegfried" showed the magnificent umbrella formation of the "Cyrus" fleet, the bridge crew was shocked.

"The formation of a thousand battleships!" First Mate Captain Joseph Dietrich expressed his heartfelt admiration from the bottom of his heart.

Most of the young officers and sergeants on the cruiser were born after 2890, and their impressions of the two general battles that mobilized tens of thousands of battleships were only based on stereoscopic video data and dry data.

Today, it was the first time that all of them had seen such a massive fleet build-up, so their hearts were greatly inspired.

The cruiser fleet commanded by Jiang Ziyue was not numerous enough to form a hollow spherical array to protect more than 600 logistics supply ships and reconnaissance and communication carriers, so it could only be divided into three groups to patrol around the spherical array composed of those huge and bloated logistics ships and motherships.

So he couldn't help but sigh with the first mate: "This is the strength of the sea of stars!" ”

The battleships with a body length of thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters lined up in a huge umbrella-shaped array, forming a strong and majestic arch wall in the direction of the "Yi" planet towards the Immortal Spiral Arm. It not only gave the young people of the border fleet who had not seen any big scenes a strong and stable feeling, but also made them feel a strong confidence in victory.

Lieutenant Benjamin Alfrec, the navigator, followed suit: "My holy senate and one-fifth of the battleships under the Roman people are lifted up like the skirts of dancing girls. It's just that I don't know if it's the jade legs of the goddess of victory or the hairy feet of a shemale below? ”

In the middle of his sentence, Alfrec's true nature was revealed, and he almost caused his comrades to vomit en masse. The impression of the strength and might of the fleet of "Cyrus" was immediately replaced by a strong feeling of nausea.

"Benjamin, can't you be a little more elegant?" Jiang Ziyue shook his head and said, his words full of uncomfortable emotions.

"It's enough for you to mention the goddess's jade legs, why do you still mention the shemale hairy feet?!" Early warning sergeant Tang Xingyun shouted dissatisfied.

"It seems that our navigator is a hermaphroditic creature, otherwise how would he think of the shemale hairy feet?" Communications Sergeant Abighij Cumanfur unceremoniously mocked Alfreck, who was an officer.

I wonder how Admiral Muhammad Ahmaiti, who kept halal precepts, would have reacted to Alfreck's vulgar description of his powerful "Cyrus" fleet.

But no matter how vulgar the womanizer Alfreck was, he wouldn't care. Because an unmanned reconnaissance ship that has just been changed to superluminal speed has sent out a communication laser, and the information contained in the laser pulse has caused the officers and men of the Central Fleet to secrete adrenaline hormones sharply - a federal reconnaissance ship, a five-level, one hundred gravitational fluctuations, and six light-seconds to change!

In other words, two hundred federal reconnaissance ships passed through the reconnaissance warning network at the speed of the fifth-level Akuberi, and changed to the speed of light at 1.8 million kilometers behind the reconnaissance warning network.

This information was the prelude to the arrival of the massive fleet of the Perseus Federation.

Of course, the acquisition of this information also means that the Imperial fleet has revealed its approximate location and strength. Because after the British Wehrmacht reconnaissance ship changed to the speed of light at that distance, it only took six seconds to also know the size of the Imperial Army's reconnaissance alert network through gravitational detection. According to the usual practice of the Imperial Army, that is, the fleet is generally equipped with a number of reconnaissance ships equivalent to about one-third of the combat ships, and about half of them are placed in the frontal space of 1,000 astronomical units in front of the main force of the fleet, the position and size of the main force of the Imperial fleet can be deduced.

The situation of the Federal Army can also be roughly judged based on the number and location of its reconnaissance ships, and its characteristics are actually similar to those of the Imperial Army. But this time there was an exception, and the number of main forces of the fleet reflected by the Union reconnaissance ships was different from the usual. Because the vanguard of this attack on the "Yi" star field is the famous Thirteenth Fleet. The commander of the fleet, Admiral Henning Geisler, followed the tradition left by General Su Yu and placed only a quarter of the reconnaissance ships on the front.

General Ahmat sat on the seat with a paperclip buckle, his expression looking rather calm.

According to common sense, the number of reconnaissance ships can be inferred from the fact that the fleet arrived by the Federation was similar in size to its own "Cyrus" fleet. Although he experienced the two largest fleet battles in human history in 2890, he also learned the "sword goes sideways" style under the command of General Su Yu, who never paid attention to the front of the fleet. But in Ahmaiti's mind, General Su Yu is immortal, and his legend cannot be cloned by future generations.

Therefore, despite the doubts in his heart about the number and size of the upcoming Federation fleet, Admiral Ahmat still issued one order after another according to his command style: "Tighten the formation!" Burn the wind! Unleash the Scout Ship! ”

The 1,400 warships of the New Roman Imperial Army erupted blue ion jets and hydrogen-oxygen combustion tailflames in unison, and accelerated forward while approaching each other with the flagship "Cyrus the Great" as the apex.

At the same time, seventy unmanned reconnaissance ships, which were still attached to the reconnaissance and communications carrier, were ejected, rapidly accelerated, and then conducted faster-than-light patrols in space within a range of ten astronomical units ahead at the speed of three Akuberi speeds.

The unmanned reconnaissance ship that reported the enemy's situation rowed a beautiful arc, reversed course, and quickly activated the Akuberi engine and entered the speed of light. A second later, a reconnaissance alert network was reached a thousand astronomical units away. The federal reconnaissance ship that appeared just now has disappeared without a trace.

The battle will soon begin, and all reconnaissance ships will rearrange the reconnaissance cordons in accordance with established procedures. So the Empire's scout ships moved quickly to recover as many of the tens of millions of gravitational probes that had been released.

Jiang Ziyue, who was guarding about 200,000 kilometers away from the "Yi" planet, also received a report on the enemy situation from the notification ship.

He quickly connected to the communication of the scientific expedition team that was still on the ground of the planet "Yi".

"Professors, doctors, you must leave the planet's surface at once, return to the research ship, and be ready to retreat!" Jiang Ziyue said eagerly, "The Grand Fleet of the Federation Army is coming. ”

"Didn't you say that the detachment of the Central Fleet has arrived?" Ulf Bernstein seemed reluctant.

"Yes. Although I have full confidence in the Cyrus fleet, you still have to withdraw to space for the time being, just in case. ”

During the battle with the Bundeswehr tracking fleet in May, Chen Weiyin, who was stranded on the planet "Yi", always worried Jiang Ziyue. So this time, he was by no means willing to repeat the mistakes of the past, and added in a stern and strongly commanding tone:

"I have a great responsibility for your safety, so I ask you to return to the research ship as soon as possible."

"A lot of our equipment has been launched, and it won't be recycled at all for a while, and a lot of experiments can't be stopped right away." Chen Weiyin said embarrassedly.

"Please as soon as possible. I don't want to be like last month, when enemy warships are starting to sense this planet remotely, and you're still on its ground. ”

"Major, we can't leave all our equipment and junk on this planet, so please give us twelve hours." Bernstein said calmly, unable to understand what a major threat the arrival of the Union Army posed to their expedition, as their research did not seem to have anything to do with the war. Although he knows something about the relationship between Jiang Ziyue and Chen Weiyin, he believes that personal feelings do not take precedence over the scientific career.

Jiang Ziyue thought about it for a while, so he could only nod and agree.

After cutting off public communications, he connected to Chen Weiyin's private phone call and said with concern: "Weiwei, come back as soon as possible." I've been worried about you. ”

"Okay, Ziyue, I know you've been worried about my safety." Chen Weiyin seemed reasonable, "I was really unwise last time, but I'm not good yet." Rest assured, I'm sure you'll drive the enemy away. ”

"Now that more and more troops have been invested by both sides of the enemy, the scale of the war has exceeded what I can grasp, so please come back quickly." Jiang Ziyue tried her best to persuade her ex-girlfriend.

"Didn't you kill several times as many enemies? I believe in you, Ziyue. Chen Weiyin was full of optimism and confidence in her ex-boyfriend, and intentionally or unintentionally added: "I said it all, the fortune teller said that I would be guarded by a hero in my life." ”

These suggestive words had no practical meaning in Jiang Ziyue's heart, and he said anxiously: "In the last battle, I didn't expect to win at all at the beginning. If it weren't for ......"

If it weren't for you, Chen Weiyin, my beloved woman, who was still trapped on the planet, how could I have taken a great risk to lead the army back and rack my brains to defeat the powerful enemy?

But Jiang Ziyue still swallowed back the words and changed his words: "I hope you can understand, we are already under the weight of war." ”

"Okay, Ziyue. I promise you to evacuate as soon as possible. Chen Weiyin replied sincerely.

After ending the call with Chen Weiyin, Jiang Ziyue immediately devoted himself to the command of the fleet.

Although the strength of his own fleet can be completely ignored by the "Cyrus" fleet and the upcoming Federation fleet on the surface, after all, protecting all the existing logistics supply ships and four valuable scientific research ships of the "Yi" Star Domain Imperial Army is very important, and there must be no negligence.

He began to give instructions in an orderly manner:

"Joseph, with the exception of the hospital ship, order all logistics supply ships and research ships to be ready for a faster-than-light retreat to the second rendezvous point on the return voyage at any time."

"Abiji, order all cruisers to enter combat mode, ready to change formations to meet the enemy at any time."

"Tang Xingyun, let the reconnaissance and communications carriers, send reconnaissance ships and notification ships, pay close attention to the comparative situation between the 'Cyrus' fleet and the enemy fleet, and maintain contact with Admiral Ahmaiti."

After the order was issued, the captain of the cruiser "Nezha", Captain Lota Stoldt, connected to the communication and excitedly asked: "Sir, are we going to follow the 'Cyrus' fleet?" ”

"Captain Stoldt, General Ahmaiti has given us the task of protecting the safety of the expedition team and the logistics ship." Jiang Ziyue solemnly explained, "Without an order, no one is allowed to leave the logistics ship group one step!" ”

"Yes, sir." Lota Staudet replied solemnly, but then smiled and said emotionally, "Sir, I feel very honored and blessed to be with you to witness the largest battle between the Empire and the Federation in twenty-eight years. ”

Since it was on a public communication channel, Stoldt's stereoscopic image was projected into the space of the bridge, and everyone could see and hear her demeanor and speech clearly.

The navigator Alflake and the sergeants all turned their heads to look at Jiang Ziyue in the captain's seat behind them.

But Jiang Ziyue also said calmly: "Captain, I am also full of confidence in General Ahmati and his 'Cyrus' fleet, but anything may be on the battlefield. We must be sensible and cautious. ”

After listening to the commander's seemingly golden rule response, Benjamin Alflake couldn't help but mumble in a low voice, "It's just that the bull's head is not the horse's mouth." ”

Stoldt had no choice but to say respectfully, "Yes, sir. Then he cut off the communication with a look of disappointment and loss.

"There are some men in the world who have a very good relationship with women, and there are always beautiful women at critical moments." Alflake pretended to be full of emotion.

"That's the charm!" The mouthy Tang Xingyun loudly annotated Alfreck's exclamation.

"The battle is about to start, so let's talk less about women." Captain Josele Dietrich said dissatisfied.

"Yes, sir." Alfreyk replied lazily, with an additive: "I forgot, the Valkyries are also women. ”

Jiang Ziyue ignored his subordinates' words, he sat in the captain's seat and stared at the space where Lota Stoldt's image disappeared, not moving.

In the void at a distance of 2,000 and 5 astronomical units from the planet Yi, the 13th Fleet of the Immortal Interstellar Bundeswehr, which had traveled more than 1,500 light-years away and had already received a report from a reconnaissance ship on the general movements of the enemy, had completed the reorganization of its ship array and was ready to attack.

Fleet Commander Admiral Henning Gessler was only the captain of the battleship Deng Shichang, General Su Yu's flagship, during the Great War 28 years ago. Now that the former commander is long gone, he commands the 13th Fleet, which has made him famous, as the vanguard, preparing to lift the curtain of the war between the Federation and the Empire. As a result, Geisler was under pressure and at the same time full of ambition, determined to perpetuate the legend of the famous generals and the famous fleet.

However, General Guessler's ability to innovate was really not very good, and his attack was almost a copy of General Su Yu's counterattack tactics in the Battle of Machu Picchu in 2890.

In addition to leaving two hundred cruisers to escort eight hundred logistics supply ships, all his remaining forces were put into the attack.

The main force of the fleet, 1,000 battleships of the "Famous General" class were organized into a huge cone-shaped formation, and the distance between the battleships was more than 300,000 kilometers. The reason why the ship distance was so large was that these 1,000 battleships would almost all enter the superluminal state at the same time, sail at the fourth level of the Akuberi speed for 200 seconds, change the superluminal speed at a distance of five astronomical units from the planet "Yi", and appear in front of the enemy.

Due to the enemy's defensive position, and given the enemy's current position and the fact that a very limited speed of reaction propulsion was only possible for the next two hundred seconds, it was highly likely that the battleship cone would appear one to three astronomical units in front of the Imperial fleet. So the battleship formation will have enough time to tighten the formation and attract the opponent to come and besiege.

The remaining 1,000 old battleships and 400 cruisers of the Thirteenth Fleet were also divided into two huge conical formations, which would depart at the same time as the battleship array, but they would have to detour from both wings, so the faster-than-light range was a little farther.

Henning Geisler's wishful thinking was crackling, and he calculated: when a thousand battleships of the "Ming" class dragged the opponent's main force, a mixed formation of two battleships and cruisers would appear behind the opponent's two flanks at the same time, forming a three-sided flank attack.

Having learned that the Thirteenth Fleet was nearly twice as large as the other side, almost everyone believed that General Geisler's plan of attack was flawless and that victory was assured.

Although he was only the captain of the cruiser and could not see the complete attack plan, after Robb received the specific attack order on the "Zhiyuan", he still deduced that Commander Geisler was imitating the tactics of his father Su Yu back then. However, he did not agree with Shangfeng's approach, and immediately asked for a correspondence with the commander, Admiral Henning Geessler.

When General Geisler heard that a cruiser lieutenant commander who did not know the height of the earth was actually trying to give his opinion on his attack plan, he immediately refused the request for communication.

Luo Bo, who was closed, had no choice but to reluctantly confide his opinion on his subordinates: "General Su Yu has never put more than one-third of his troops in front of the enemy. And the roundabout fleet did not set off at the same time as the diversion fleet, but used the diversion fleet to lure the enemy into revealing flaws before going into attack. ”

However, before the war, Rob did not plan to use his relationship as the biological son of General Su Yu to deal with his father's subordinates, fearing that it would cause huge psychological pressure on the other party and cause inconvenience to himself at the same time.

With the exception of a number of high-ranking military officers who also maintained close ties with Luo Zhaobing, such as President Richard Milhouse, Secretary of Defense Bloomberg, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lepning, few people in the Wehrmacht knew about Robb's relationship with General Su Yu. In addition, Robb did not want to live in the dazzling halo of his biological father, so he changed to his stepfather's surname and never talked about his life experience with his colleagues. So even if he was his father's loyal horse boy back then, Henning Gessler didn't know that the little captain who he thought was a little tall was the biological son of his idol and boss.

Robb thinks that no one knows his father Su Yu better than himself. Although he was only twelve years old when his father died, his father had already taught him many principles of how to behave, and he felt that he had inherited his father's war art genes. When he was admitted to the military academy, he studied all the battles his father experienced and commanded very comprehensively, and read all the books, notes and diaries that his father read.

He found that his father barely read military books, and his bookshelves and notes were full of literary and artistic works such as poetry, prose, and novels, and the rest were leisure books about fishing, chess, bridge, and tea ceremonies.

Compared with his father and his number one opponent, Marshal Du Yimin, who is known as the "God of War", his father can be regarded as a "war immortal". Marshal Du Yimin has many "godheads", lives a luxurious life, always stands tall in peacetime, uses troops rigorously and thoroughly, calculates precisely in every battle, is fast and powerful when attacking, and tough and strong when defending, which always makes the opponent sincerely admire; However, his father Su Yu has a lot of "immortal products", lives a simple life, treats people gently and humbly, fights flexibly and elegantly, moves with the situation in all battles, the main pretend when attacking, and the defense and offense are exchanged when defending, which always makes the opponent unable to grasp it.

In the end, the "War Immortal" defeated the "God of War", but Su Yu said in his diary that if the battlefield was not in the hinterland of the Immortal Star Federation, the result would have been rewritten. In any case, Robb's admiration for his father from head to toe is that he sees himself as a continuation of his father's genius and legend, and he is better than blue, because he also inherited the genes of a great mother with great wisdom and courage.

Although dissatisfied with his boss's poor imitation of his father, Robb still faithfully carried out his orders, after all, he was only a small cruiser captain.

Admiral Henning Gessler is not unaware of General Su Yu's tactics, but he does not have Su Yu's dashing and hearty personality, but is a person who pursues perfection everywhere. Therefore, with the superiority of forces, he did not want to let the fleet that was frontally pinned down in the attack because it was too few in number. Before the two flanks detoured to the battlefield, the frontal fleet had to fight alone under the numerical disadvantage, and if it was not careful, the enemy might seize the opportunity to divide the troops and attack together, but instead gave itself a move to break through.

What's more, General Su Yu also had a fierce general who was responsible for carrying the enemy head-on—that is, the current Minister of Defense, Eric von Bloomberg, a five-star general, and Gesler's current immediate boss.

At that time, General Bloomberg's bravery was well-known in the entire Perseus Spiral Arm interstellar human world, and he was called the first tough guy in the Perseus Federation, and often personally led the Marines to conduct bloody broadside battles after the battleship bombardment. In the Battle of the "Himalayas", Bloomberg led his army in a desperate and bloody battle to prevent the Imperial Army from encircling and annihilating the remnants of the defeated generals recruited by Su Yu, and in the Battle of "Machu Picchu", he prevented the convergence of the two major fleets of the Imperial Army, so that General Su Yu could calmly divide and encircle the Central Fleet of the Imperial Army. Therefore, even Du Yimin, the "god of war" of the imperial army, had to lament before committing suicide: "It is not so much defeated by Su Yu as it is hindered by Bloomberg." ”

Without the genius of General Su Yu and the majesty of a brave general, Admiral Henning Gessler was still full of confidence.

As soon as the time for the offensive came, General Henning Geessler gave the order accurately.

The 2,400 Federation warships divided into three strands erupted brilliant ion wakes and brilliant hydrogen and oxygen combustion flames, and the Akuberi engines fired positive and negative hydrogen jets to produce annihilation, causing spatial fluctuations to enter the speed of light.