In the face of the fierce pursuit of the Fourth Fleet of the Federation Army, the Imperial Army jumped into the speed of light and fled for their lives without engaging a battle. 1(6) k Minor Says αр.(1)(6) After sorting out the Federalist's location and finding out its position, it re-engaged in pursuit. However, the Imperial Army never dared to directly confront the other side, and when the Federation warship changed to a faster-than-light organizational formation, it immediately 'excited' the Akuberi engine and entered the faster-than-light speed.

After several times like this, the army of the new Roman Empire gradually led the opponent away from the middle line of the 135th line and went deeper in the direction of the planet Neurhine. However, the Imperial Army did not find an opportunity to attack. Wehrmacht Major General Gerald? In the pursuit, Hancock moved with a logistical supply fleet, maximizing the number of combat ships and protecting the fragile supply fleet.

Hancock's approach is a bit unconventional, and if the Imperial Army has enough strength to fight him, the logistics supply fleet that follows him will likely become a heavy burden for the Federation Army. Fortunately, the Imperial Army was no longer able to face the Fourth Fleet head-on, so he was able to successfully pursue the enemy with 400 supply ships.

Jiang Ziyue realized that the plan he had made with Gus and Lota was likely to be unable to be implemented, and he felt that he could no longer simply play with the Federation Army like this. In the space of two hundred light-years away from the planet Neu-Rhine, in the escape gap that had not yet been pursued by his opponent, he connected with Gus? Whitehead's Correspondence.

"Gus, the enemy's actions are not meticulous, and there are no flaws that are 'revealed'. It is likely that they anticipate that we are going to 'seduce' them, and they will do what they will do to us. ”

"Will it be calculated?" Gus asked with a smile.

"The enemy has the advantage of forces, so he can bring the logistics supply fleet with him to pursue us." Jiang Ziyue reminded, "If we can't separate them and continue like this, I'm worried that the plan we made before will probably fall through." Our 'luring' of the enemy to go deep may turn into luring the wolf into the house. ”

Gus said thoughtfully, "You have a point. Once in the New Rhine, if we don't get reinforcements and can't drive them away, the situation becomes very passive. ”

"Yes, once in the New Rhine, the enemy can rush into the sheep like wolves. Even if we receive reinforcements sufficient to engage them head-on, at that point, the enemy will be able to choose not to engage us and instead attack countless civilian targets. Instead, we 'made it self-defeating'. ”

"But our current strength is obviously insufficient, and the odds of winning a decisive battle with the enemy are too low." Gus said embarrassedly.

Jiang Ziyue thought for a moment and said, "I have an idea, but it's very risky. ”

Just as Jiang Ziyue was about to continue to explain, Gus hurriedly stopped him and said, "Wait, don't be in a hurry to say it first." Let me guess...... Are you trying to use our logistical supply fleet to lure the enemy's battle fleet away from their supply fleet? ”

"Gus, you're a roundworm in my stomach!" Jiang Ziyue exclaimed in surprise.

Gus didn't agree with Jiang Ziyue's statement, and corrected: "No, Ziyue, this is the same as what the hero sees." My idea is still according to what we have planned, you and Lotta will command the cruiser fleet to continue to 'lure' the enemy, and at the same time we will transfer the logistics supply fleet back and deliberately 'expose' it to the enemy. I led the remaining battleships and cruisers around the logistical supply fleet and waited for the enemy to come and attack our logistical fleet. Since the supply fleet is not escorted, the enemy will only send some cruisers to come, and I can easily destroy them. ”

Jiang Ziyue thought about it for a moment and said, "I'm afraid this won't be very successful, and it won't give them a fatal blow, maybe after destroying their fleet of cruisers, we won't be able to reap any benefits." Besides, we're on the run, so why is the logistical supply fleet stuck behind the battle fleet? The enemy will certainly not be easily fooled. ”

"Tell me what you think." Gus said with interest.

"Didn't you say you had to act? Let's do it again. My cruiser departed first, headed for the planet Neo-Rhine, and turned around behind the enemy. And you lead your battleships and cruisers to rendezvous with the supply fleet, and make the illusion of receiving supplies, so that the enemy thinks that they can successfully intercept us. When the enemy appears, you symbolize 'sexual' resistance, and then abandon the supply fleet and retreat. I reckon that the enemy will immediately separate and pursue you with the main force, leaving some cruisers and logistical supply fleets to pack up our supply ships. At this time, it is up to me to destroy them. ”

"Hehe, Jiang Ziyue, you always want me to block the enemy's blade, but you yourself run behind the enemy to make great contributions."

Jiang Ziyue didn't care about Gus's jokes, and continued his plan: "It's more risky for us to do this, if the enemy stays to attack our supply fleet, the strength is stronger, and then it will be difficult to bite down." Moreover, after you retreat, whether the enemy will separate and pursue, I am only fifty percent sure in my heart. ”

"Then take a gamble." "Fighting a war is sometimes like gambling," Gerstine said. ”

"But this time we have to win, there's no room to lose." Jiang Ziyue said solemnly.

"Then go all out, we still have a good chance of winning."

According to Jiang Ziyue's suggestion, Gus quickly drafted the battle order and issued it to the various commanders.

Lotta? When Staudt received the order, he immediately objected to Gus, arguing that it was inappropriate to sacrifice his own logistical supply fleet.

"It wasn't the first thing I came up with." Gus explained, "It was your family's Ziyue who came up with the idea. Then, Gus connected the correspondence with Jiang Ziyue and said to him, "Your wife is against your plan. ”

"My wife?" Jiang Ziyue didn't react for a while, and asked puzzled.

"Don't listen to his." Same as Lota on the line? Stoldt shouted, "Ziyue, what are we going to do if we sacrifice the supply fleet?" It's not worth exchanging our supply fleet for the enemy's. ”

Jiang Ziyue hurriedly explained: "Luota, we are not going to continue to march into the territory of the enemy country and retreat to the New Rhine Star Domain, without these supply ships, we can still get sufficient supplies and logistical support." Don't forget, the New Rhine Planetary Domain is our territory. ”

Let the logistics supply ship be used as a 'decoy' bait, Jiang Ziyue has already used it once. In May, in the vicinity of the Yi star field, the integrated supply ship "Olympus" committed suicide and shattered the fighting spirit of the Bundeswehr tracking fleet. But after listening to Jiang Ziyue's explanation, Lota still seemed a little incomprehensible. She continued: "Do you still want more people to become Ernst?" Captain Guinski and Sergeant Chung? ”

"Not this time, don't worry." Jiang Ziyue promised, "You just need to follow Gus and beat the Federation Army." ”

Listening to Jiang Ziyue's assurance, Lota also accepted the order with relief and said, "Okay, I wish our tactics success." ”

"With you husband and wife, we will succeed." Gus was confident.

The Bundeswehr Fourth Fleet soon caught up, and Gus had to lead the entire fleet into faster-than-light again and continue to escape.

On August 21, the standard clock on board the warship showed 10 a.m., less than 100 light-years away from the planet New Rhine in the new Roman Empire.

"Another hundred light-years of flight, and we will be able to see the white and immaculate face of the planet Neu-Rhine." Gerald? Major General Hancock said proudly.

Despite the fear of danger in the depths of the lone army, the pursuit for several days has proved that the enemy is far from being as strong as expected. So at this time, the Fourth Fleet was full of optimism.

Two unmanned carriers from different directions changed their speed of light at almost the same time, hundreds of thousands of kilometers in front of the fleet, which was doing a short break. One flew in from the direction of the Perseus Star Federation and informed the Secretary of Defense, the commander-in-chief of the "Argos Expedition" operation, Eric? Feng? New instructions from the five-star general of Bloomberg.

Bloomberg asked them not to get too entangled with the Imperial fleet, urging the Fourth Fleet to invade the territory of the New Roman Empire and assume the posture of attacking the planet Neu-Rhine in order to attract the main force of the Imperial Army. Bloomberg also made a commitment to replenish the Fourth Fleet with a reinforcement fleet of 400 battleships and 600 cruisers.

Another notification ship came from the direction of the Empire, reporting information from the unmanned reconnaissance vessel: the Imperial fleet was replenishing three thousand astronomical units directly ahead. Judging from the data obtained by the reconnaissance ships, there were only more than 400 combat ships left in the Imperial Army, of which nearly half were battleships.

Gerald? General Hancock immediately made the decision to try to crush his opponent in one fell swoop and then march on the planet New Rhine.

But, Edward? Colonel Mandalay then came out again to dissuade the acting commander. "Sir, there's no need for us to dwell on the enemy any longer. Again, at the behest of General Bloomberg, we went straight to Neue Rhine and attacked the enemy's infrastructure. Then we will be able to better contain the enemy at the strategic level. ”

"Edward, you're really annoying." Hancock was very dissatisfied with the twitter of his subordinates, "If we don't crush the enemy, after entering the New Rhine Star Field, plus the enemy's defenders and reinforcements, our actions will be even more dangerous. How else to contain the enemy at a strategic level? ”

Mandalay did not give up immediately, and continued to speak: "But sir, in our previous analysis, the enemy fleet should still have a total of about six hundred combat ships, and now there are suddenly two hundred less, isn't it strange? And they are resupplying so close to us, are they really running out of energy? ”

Mandalay's series of rhetorical questions did not provoke the commander's thinking, but was met with impatient ridicule: "Colonel, why do you keep asking questions like a schoolboy?" We have been in pursuit for so long, and we have not seen any 'tricks' from the enemy. Besides, they just want to hit us with just two hundred warships, it's just a joke. Don't be suspicious. ”

With that, Hancock terminated the correspondence. Before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, he had the advantage of troops, and he was fully confident that he could defeat his opponent.

Less than ten minutes later, more than 900 warships and 400 supply ships of the Bundeswehr Fourth Fleet appeared 10 million kilometers away from the Imperial fleet, which was undergoing maintenance and replenishment.

After receiving the report from the reconnaissance ship, Gus smiled lightly and conveyed the order to his subordinates: "The big fish is coming!" Get ready for battle. ”

The Imperial warships immediately left their supply fleets behind and formed a loose umbrella formation to meet their opponents.

The Federation also formed an umbrella formation, but they had 900 warships, which made the umbrella array look even more grandiose. Supply ships on all four sides were arranged behind the umbrella array, following a distance of about a million kilometers.

As the distance decreases, both sides can clearly observe each other's formations from the gravitational sounding system. Seeing the small umbrella-shaped formation of the Imperial Army's slightly shabby 400 warships, the officers and men of the Imperial Army strengthened their confidence in victory.

At a distance of 600,000 kilometers, the Imperial Army was impatient to launch an ineffective 'shooting' attack, then stopped its advance, quickly turned around, and prepared to flee.

"Straight sailing! Don't let them run! Hancock wasted no time in giving the order.

Taking advantage of the U-turn of the Imperial Army, the Federation Army marching at high speed 'pressed' the distance to within 400,000 kilometers.

Hancock didn't even think about it, so he ordered the pursuit. The Federation warships were moving at half the speed of light, taking advantage of the time of the Imperial Army's acceleration to reduce the distance to a little more than 300,000 kilometers.

"Fire, fire! Free 'Shoot' Shot! Annihilate them! "Gerald? Hancock shouted.

The Fourth Fleet of the Federation Army erupted a myriad of directional energy rays that illuminated the Imperial warships that were fleeing at full speed in front of them.

Bathed in the dense beams of light and particles that 'shot' from the rear, the Imperial Army fled at high speed while spreading out in formation, preparing to enter the speed of light. The pursuit lasted less than half a minute before the Imperial fleet managed to enter a faster-than-light state and disappear from the view of the Federation Army.

"Let them run again!" Hancock shouted angrily.

At this moment, the communication system received information from two reconnaissance ships: the Imperial fleet did not flee far and appeared ten astronomical units away; The Imperial supply fleet is more than five million kilometers away and is on the run.

It turned out that the fleet led by Gus had only sailed for a second at the speed of Akuberi at level 4, and then appeared ten astronomical units away, as if waiting for something. And the supply fleet of the Imperial Army is spreading out in formation, preparing to enter the faster-than-light speed.

Hancock immediately gave instructions: "Immediately leave the fourth detachment and the logistics supply fleet and attack the enemy's supply fleet." The other battleships follow the flagship and prepare to enter the faster-than-light speed and pursue the enemy battleship! ”

With only 300 cruisers, the Fourth Detachment was the weakest of the entire Fourth Fleet. In peacetime it was only used to escort four hundred supply ships, but now it is more than enough to deal with transport ships equipped with only a small number of weapons.

Everything happened as Jiang Ziyue and Gus expected, the Fourth Fleet of the Federation Army concentrated its main force to pursue Gus's fleet, and the cruiser fleet that remained left behind left its supply fleet and pounced on the Imperial Army's supply fleet at high speed.

The unattended Confederate logistical supply fleet formed a loose horizontal linear formation, flying forward at the speed of one hundredth of light along the inertial 'sex'. The collapse of the enemy made the crew feel more relaxed. They didn't notice that several small Imperial Army unmanned reconnaissance ships had quietly left more than 300,000 kilometers away.

Suddenly, the early warning officer screamed loudly: "At three o'clock, one light second, the enemy ship has been discovered!" ”

One hundred Imperial cruisers were like ghosts, changing their speed of light less than 300,000 kilometers to their left end, quickly forming an umbrella array, sealing off the left hemisphere space of these transports. Immediately afterward, another hundred Imperial ships cruised to their right.

Without the commander Jiang Ziyue giving an order, the Imperial Army cruiser launched a fierce bombardment on the large and weakly protected Federation transport.

The Federation supply ships sped up desperately to escape for their lives, but it was too late. Their electromagnetic shields were quickly lost in the dense firepower of the 'crossing', and the fragile hull, which lacked armor protection, was quickly pierced by high-energy 'excitation' light and particle beams, and the life-sustaining system immediately failed, and the hull was quickly damaged.

When the Federation cruisers, who were rushing towards the Federation supply fleet, received a rescue signal from their own transport fleet, they caught up with the Imperial supply fleet. However, these seemingly slaughtered lambs had already dispersed and entered the faster-than-light voyage in time, most of them escaped from the guns of the Federation army. The Federation cruiser fleet had no choice but to turn around and prepare to rescue its own supply fleet.

More than 5 million kilometers, three seconds at the speed of the first order of the Akuberi equivalent to five times the speed of light, followed by two to three seconds of reaction propulsion and simultaneous reformation. Therefore, the fourth detachment of the Fourth Fleet rushed back to its logistical supply fleet in a relatively timely manner.

But the commander of the 4th detachment of the 4th Fleet of the Wehrmacht made a major mistake. He concentrated all the cruisers in one direction, lined up in a dense umbrella formation, and pounced on the Imperial troops who were slaughtering to the left of the supply fleet.

"The Federation Cruiser, six o'clock, three light-seconds! Top speed! On the cruiser "Siegfried", Tang Xingyun shouted nervously.

"Calm." Jiang Ziyue said calmly, "The whole group of ships in the headquarters has turned around, ready to 'excite' the Akuberi engine!" ”

The group of ships led by Jiang Ziyue himself immediately turned around, preparing to face the opponent in a dense formation.

As soon as the 100 Imperial cruiser group completed its turn, the opponent rushed into an effective combat distance of 300,000 kilometers and fired a dense firepower.

The Imperial Army quickly returned fire, but instead of the directional energy ejected from the weapon window, the faster-than-light warp bubble produced after the annihilation of positive and negative hydrogens was fired. The dense warp bubbles form a powerful space storm that blows the dense enemy ships in front of them to a hundred astronomical units away.

The three hundred Federation cruisers gave Jiang Ziyue an excellent opportunity due to the small ship distance, and almost none of them were taken away by the space storm.

Seeing that Jiang Ziyue had no time to take care of the results of his space storm tactics, he hurriedly gave an order to his subordinates: "Turn, quickly!" Destroy enemy supply ships. ”