Section 33 Survival and Failure
At 7 o'clock on April 5, 2020, the hideous-looking super battleship "Lin Biao" led a large number of warships out of the void, and the fleet commander Vice Admiral Li Jingxian prepared to attack the planet "Atlantis".
The planet "Atlantis" is located on the outer side of the Milky Way by the spiral arm of the Perseus, less than 1,000 light-years away from the planet "Andromeda", if the planet "Midgard" is a "Mercury", then "Atlantis" is completely different from its name, it is a hot "Saturn".
Unlike most of the planets in Perseus Spiral Arm, which orbit a vigorous star, the planet Atlantis orbits a dead star, the white dwarf Plato, about two billion years ago, the star half the size of the Sun "Plato" ended its life, expanded into a red dwarf, and ejected her gas shell in a violent explosion, leaving behind a dense and weak core, gradually evolving into a white dwarf slightly smaller than an Earth.
But the death of the star "Plato" brought life to the rocky planet "Atlantis", which was more than ten astronomical units away from her: the explosion of "Plato's death" destroyed the planets close to her, but also heated the surrounding space, and pushed the original habitable zone outward by five times, so that the light of life shrouded the originally icy planet "Atlantis".
The dimming star Plato's light is still able to maintain a minimum of photosynthesis on the planet Atlantis, and the remnants of the gas shell ejected by the previous explosion also heat the planet's atmosphere.
The day on the planet is like a clear night when the earth is full moon, the white dwarf star "Plato" is like a "bright moon" hanging high in the sky, emitting a bright and soft light, and there are colorful "auroras" in the sky from time to time, and the remnants of the gas shell ejected during the big bang of the main star hit the atmosphere.
However, there are not too many days to see this strange and wonderful scene, the planet is orbiting in an orbit full of high-energy and high-heat matter, coupled with the gravitational upheaval caused by the big explosion of star death, which induces the instability of its own core and mantle, and the volcanic and seismic activities are frequent and intense, so the temperature of the planet's surface and atmosphere is heated very high, and most of the moisture on the ground is evaporated, which further leads to strong convection. In the midst of a hellish scene of overflowing floods and lava flows.
However, humans call it "Atlantis" not because of its harsh environment, but because it is a good interpretation of the ancient legend of "heaven in hell", the planet's north and south pole crown region is surprisingly calm, neither geology nor atmosphere changes much, so although the climate is cold, it is suitable for human habitation.
The Arctic crown region is called "Europa", and the male Antarctic crown region is called "Latin", on the surface, the planet "Atlantis" seems to be insignificant to the entire human world, and the population, economy, and resources cannot have any impact on the Immortal Interstellar Federation, but the planet's geostationary orbit has a goal that all the soldiers of the New Roman Empire will covet, the largest interstellar spaceship manufacturing plant in the Immortal Interstellar Federation and even the entire Immortal Spiral Arm: the "Poseidon" United Shipyard.
The "Poseidon" joint shipyard is like a huge ring, set above the equator of the planet "Europa", it is not only a factory for building interplanetary spacecraft, but also a huge and complete industrial system, using the space material in the "Plato" star system and the abundant material on nearby asteroids, it smelts, manufactures, assembles, and turns cosmic dust into huge, sophisticated, and complex interstellar spaceships.
This joint shipyard, which is controlled by the Interstellar Federal Assets Management Committee and operated by the Golden Causeway Industrial Group, is related to the fortunes of the Federation, and it is currently the only shipyard in the Federation that can independently build the latest "mythical" super battleships of the Wehrmacht and the largest "Citizen" class starliner in the human world, and once it is destroyed, it is expected that within three to five years, the Federation will lose forty percent of its shipbuilding capacity.
At the same time, there is a military base "Socrates" on the planet "Atlantis", which has a huge amount of metallic hydrogen to support the many construction projects of the United Shipyard.
Because of this vital, the shipyard itself was also designed and built as a weapons platform, and Dr. Luo Minghui, the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the "Poseidon" joint shipyard, followed the famous interstellar war theorist and practitioner Klaus ? Liszt's other heavy theory, planetary defense with limited mobility, designed the shipyard to be able to break down into tens of thousands of modules with maneuverability and attack capabilities, although these modules are not equipped with "Akuberi" engines and cannot fly faster than light, they can still maneuver and fire dense firepower as effectively as warships, and as long as they are used properly, they can become an astonishingly powerful "fleet".
However, this design will also bring considerable "side effects" to the planet: the mass of "Poseidon" is too huge, once it decomposes and changes its orbital position, it will have a certain impact on the gravitational field of the planet "Atlantis" and even the entire "Plato" star system.
On weekdays, the "Plato" star field is stationed with a full Wehrmacht fleet, but because since the first "Yi" star field battle, the Wehrmacht fleet has suffered huge losses and is unable to defend the "Atlantis" planet and even the entire "Plato" star system, and then the 10th Fleet of the National Guard took over the garrison, but with the deepening of the war, even the 10th Fleet was transferred to the front line to participate in the "Aegis" planet defense battle, which made the entire "Plato" system become extremely empty. All the defensive forces were concentrated at the United Shipyard itself.
Central Fleet of the New Roman Imperial Army "Mao? Marsh? Vice Admiral Li Jingxian, commander of the East Squadron, was not sure whether the planet "Atlantis" would still be heavily defended, but in light of the analysis of the forces invested by the Bundeswehr on the planet "Aegis", especially the stimulus of the good news that Jiang Ziyue led the "Zheng He" fleet composed of cruisers to besiege the planet "Andrometa", Li Jingxian resolutely chose the route of military adventurism and attacked the planet "Atlantis" along the way.
"Our biggest campaign goal is to destroy the 'Poseidon' combined shipyard, and then capture the planet 'Atlantis' and seize the enemy's metallic hydrogen reserves as much as possible!" Li Jingxian was determined to read out his battle plan to his subordinates.
But there was an objection in the correspondence meeting, the commander of the third detachment, the captain of the battleship "Elizabeth I", Adolphina? Colonel Steinmetz expressed concern about the commander's plan: "Sir, the 'Poseidon' joint shipyard itself is also equipped with powerful firepower, and it adopts a modular design, each component module can be quickly disassembled, and use its own power to carry out mobile operations, even if there are few enemy ships guarding, we have to face a powerful 'temporary fleet', and we are humbled to suggest that we change our goal and join forces with Colonel Jiang Ziyue's 'Zheng He' fleet to form a greater advantage!" β
"No, Colonel, my Central Fleet has suffered a heavy defeat at 'Aegis', and our detachment is now a deserter, if only to the planet 'Andromeda' to rendezvous with the border ships. Although it can play the role of concentrating forces, it will not save much honor for our Central Fleet and our own fleet, with the current strength of our army, we still have an advantage over the 'Poseidon' combined shipyard, and we will definitely be able to defeat the enemy smoothly! β
Li Jingxian is confident, he also has some understanding of the performance of the "Poseidon" joint shipyard, calculated by the data on paper: "Poseidon" has more strength and firepower than the Mao fleet, but he, like most people, believes that the modules of the joint shipyard cannot play much combat role after being disassembled, because they are not specially developed warships, and their protection capabilities are quite poor, and they do not have specially designed heavy armor like full-time warships, and even if they are electromagnetic shields, their strength is not high. And it was the workers, not the professional soldiers, who operated them, and the combat modules were at best armed merchant ships, he added to his men:
"We're just dealing with a bunch of militia, and there's no reason why we can't win!"
After listening to Li Jingxian's words, Steinmetz stopped speaking, but the worry in her heart did not dissipate.
The Mao fleet decided to turn around and point directly at the planet "Atlantis".
As soon as the communications conference ended, Steinmetz's operational staff officer, Anatoly? Major Sherinsky immediately offered her a message: "Sir, it seems that General Li is very confident, and in order to ensure that in case of emergency, I suggest that we send a notification ship to inform Colonel Jiang Ziyue of our plan and ask him to come to support!" β
Steinmetz hesitated a little and said, "The 'African' Star Field Battle General Li and Colonel Jiang have a grudge, and this time there is no guarantee that he will die or not be saved!" β
Major Sherinsky still firmly believed in his own judgment and said: "I believe that Colonel Jiang Ziyue must put the overall situation first, and our briefing ship must explain to him the defeat of our Central Fleet on the planet 'Aegis', and ask him to come and join our Mao fleet quickly!" β
Finally, he hastened to add:
"Sir, please forgive me for talking too much, now that our Central Fleet has suffered heavy losses, even if General Li Jingxian can lead our detachment to destroy the Federation's 'Poseidon' Combined Shipyard, it will not be able to restore the notoriety of the failure of the entire Central Fleet and the resulting disaster, at most it can only be regarded as a small compensation for the fiasco, and Jiang Ziyue and his' Zheng He's fleet is composed of cruisers of the border fleet, but it can go on an expedition of tens of thousands of light years to encircle the enemy's capital planet in one fell swoop, shocking the stars, and the battle is over, it will definitely become a great praise and promotion of the Senate, plus he is an officer who is the focus of the consuls, this time he will definitely be entrusted with a heavy task, and it is very likely that he will rise to prominence in the future, you send a briefing ship according to my suggestion, whether General Li's plan succeeds or fails, it is the beginning of a good relationship between you and him! β
After listening to such a detailed analysis by Shelinsky, Steinmetz couldn't help but smile slightly and said: "Major Schelinsky, I really didn't expect that a combat operation could be so complicated!" β
"I firmly believe that my judgment was correct!" Sherinsky said very firmly: "According to my opinion, if General Li sincerely joins forces with Colonel Jiang, coupled with our full assistance, the Senate can rest easy!" β
In fact, he himself had already planned that as long as he could survive this battle and return to the empire, he would try his best to defect to Jiang Ziyue of the border fleet.
"Alright! Sherinsky, I will send a briefing ship to the colonel on your suggestion! Steinmetz eventually accepted her subordinate's suggestion, but she also deliberately emphasized her motives: "But you must be clear that I am not doing this for personal relations or the so-called future of my career, but for the supreme interests of the Senate and the people of Rome!" β
For the clichΓ© of his boss, Sherinsky just laughed back.
The unmanned carrier was quickly launched into the deep space, and the Mao fleet quickly changed course, scattered the ship formation, fired the "Akuberi" engine, and disappeared into the vast space.
When Jiang Ziyue received the report from the notification ship sent by Colonel Steinmez, it was already 21 o'clock on April 9, when the "Zheng He" fleet had completed the "plunder" and "sabotage" operations of the planet "Andromeda" and even the entire "Machu Picchu" binary star system, and was preparing to return to the New Roman Empire directly along the silver plane.
During the past ten days of besieging the capital planet of the Perseus Star Federation, the "Zheng He" fleet did nothing but "do no evil", they shelled the military industrial planet of the Perseus Federation, the moon of the brown dwarf "Kronos", "Pelion", destroyed the two giant military docks at the fourth and fifth points of its Lagrange, and sent the Star Marines to blow up the planetary hydrogen harvesting plant in the resonance orbit of "Kronos", except for the planet "Andromeda" itself: "Machu Picchu" Almost all military supplies and facilities that can be found in space in the binary star system have either been looted or relentlessly shelled.
However, the sea monster "Keto" did not harm the "princess": the "Zheng He" fleet adhered to the spirit of chivalry, and all attacks were double-checked before they were launched, and the killer was killed only after driving away the opponent's civilians, and did not fire a single shot on the beautiful and habitable planet "Andromeda".
Of course, no matter how noble the knight is, in the eyes of the invaded people, they are all terrible evil spirits: "Keto" Ziyue and the pirate "Zheng He" have become the eternal lingering memories of the people of the Immortal Interstellar Federation who have experienced this "catastrophe", especially the bald image, and will forever become the nightmare of the vast majority of people.
The briefing ship sent by Colonel Steinmetz gave a detailed report on the defeat of the Imperial Central Fleet at the "Aegis" field and Li Jingxian's order to attack the planet "Atlantis", and of course the female colonel's request based on Sherinsky's suggestion.
Jiang Ziyue immediately let the logistics supply fleet loaded with looted metal and hydrogen energy and military supplies leave, and went to the space of the 135 realm, ready to respond, and then he called the communication sergeant Abiji? Sergeant Kumanfur ordered the entire fleet:
"Abighi, make it clear: we will immediately head to the planet 'Atlantis' and join the Central Fleet!"
"Sir, are you trying to make the inhabitants of 'Andromeda' even more panicked?" Benjamin? Alflake asked, a triumphant smile on his face.
Jiang Ziyue replied without hesitation: "We must maximize the effect of our aggression, this is our task!" β
"Yes, sir!"
Captain Rudiger? Captain Natzmer asked worriedly: "Sir, General Li Jingxian did not directly send us a request to respond, will we be regarded by him as snatching credit if we go over like this?" β
'I don't care what he thinks, Rudiger!' Jiang Ziyue replied without thinking: "No matter how serious the rumors about me and him are circulating in the army, this time we are doing our best to remedy the failures that have occurred for the Senate and the Roman people!" β
"Sir, in that case, wouldn't it be better for us to contain the Bundeswehr here!"
The question was asked by Sergeant Tang Xingyun, in fact, this was just his euphemism, like most of the crew of the cruiser "Siegfried", he did not want Jiang Ziyue to lead the "Zheng He" fleet to join Li Jingxian, and the sergeants hated Li Jingxian's treacherous "too" from the bottom of their hearts during the "African" battle. Child? Party? Party? Que".
Jiang Ziyue understands the thoughts of his subordinates, and his heart is not the same as theirs, but as a fleet commander, he must not let his personal likes and dislikes and grievances affect his loyalty to the people of the country, he calmly explained to his subordinates:
"'Mao? Marsh? After a big battle, the Eastern Squadron lost the support of logistical supply ships, and flew from 'Aegis' to the planet 'Atlantis', which consumed a huge amount, and General Lee must be in a hurry to snatch the supplies of the 'Poseidon' joint shipyard and the surrounding space, so he is unlikely to use the advantage of the 'Akberi engine' to attack, but wants to seize the shipyard and the space station by taking over the board, so that it will be easy to be used by the enemy and fall into a disadvantageous situation, and: "Poseidon" The shipyard is currently being guarded by National Guard Admiral Theresa ? Led by Quiller, this person's reputation and achievements are no less than that of 'Orion Three Stars', coupled with the powerful firepower of the 'Poseidon' shipyard, this time General Li is probably going to gnaw hard bones! β
"Sir, we believe that you will lead us to a great victory!" Alflake has full confidence in Jiang Ziyue.
Jiang Ziyue then emphasized: "This time we are going to rescue the Central Fleet, for the benefit of the Senate and the Roman people, everyone must abandon all selfishness and prejudice, and go all out, only in this way can we redeem the loss of the Central Fleet and regain the lost victory!" β
"Yes, sir!" My colleagues are full of confidence.
Only Jiang Ziyue knows best in his heart that the New Roman Empire has been defeated, and the destruction of the main force of the Central Fleet in the "Aegis" star field means that the "Three-Headed Dog" battle plan is completely bankrupt, and the collateral evil consequence is that the interstellar planet "Yi" is very likely to fall into the hands of the Immortal Interstellar Federation again, and now, they are just fighting for survival, the survival of people they hate or even loathe.