Chapter 264: Encounter (I)
When the Righteous Order Fleet was entangled with the Betales Federation, the Freedom Camp saw a gap and sent five War Demon-class heavy assault cruisers to invade the Xuanmu Constellation on a large scale, hoping to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Righteous Order Coalition to expel it and complete the control of the Betales Domain.
Michael Blake immediately made a decision to give up the entanglement with the Betales Federation, and the three Exorcist-class heavy assault ship fleets headed north to resist the invasion of the Freedom Camp Alliance.
The fleets of the two sides met unexpectedly in the border system of the constellation Xuanmu, and a huge encounter ensued.
The [Exorcism Class] of the Righteous Order and the [War Demon Class] of the Free Camp, two heavy assault cruisers that represent the trend of future wars, have been fired at in the Southern Star Domain for the first time, which has also attracted a lot of attention from this encounter.
"Distance, distance, don't melee with them!"
Michael Blake looked at the other party's sea-like fleet and hurriedly yelled in the fleet channel.
There are five fleets on the opposite side, and there are only three on their own side, so they are not superior in numbers and firepower, so they have to take advantage of the long-range firepower of this Exorcist-class heavy assault cruiser and fight at a distance.
"What about scouts! Where are the scouts dead! Don't hurry up and pull out a tactical point! Seeing the opposing fleet swarming in, with the excellent melee firepower of the War Demon class, it entangled some of his own warships at once, Michael Blake shouted with some excitement.
"Report, the opposing scout ship has been pestering us, and the scout team can't get out, can't get out!"
Before the leader of the scout team could finish his sentence, a cannonball pierced his cab, killing him instantly.
The scout team of the Righteous Order had already been targeted from the beginning, and within a few minutes of the battle, their twenty scout ships had already been lost.
"Damn it!"
Michael Blake looked at the disconnected scout team and couldn't help but curse.
Looking at the enemy warships that were gradually infiltrating his fleet, he knew that he couldn't wait any longer, otherwise more and more people would be entangled and killed!
Then, Michael Blake gritted his teeth and yelled on the channel: "Everyone is coming to me, overload thrusters!" ”
After speaking, Michael Blake took the lead in overloading his own battleship's thrusters, and the thrusters burst out with strong thrust under the overload, pushing the battleship forward quickly, and soon opened up a considerable distance.
After receiving the order, the other warships of the righteous order also overloaded their thrusters and approached Michael Blake, and soon most of them had already distanced themselves from the enemy.
Of course, the entangled Exorcist-class pilots were not so lucky, and after their teammates distanced themselves without support, the entangled Exorcist-class ships were destroyed one by one, and the pilots were captured.
"When the interruption continues, I still haven't learned it properly!"
Frederick McGee couldn't help but shake his head as he looked at the Righteous Order fleet that was like a gecko shutting its tail to survive, it seems that this old classmate is still so indecisive!
If you decisively lead the fleet to distance yourself when you have just made contact, you will lose twenty or thirty warships at most.
But as he expected, this old classmate was still as dogmatic as before, and when the war started, he had to hope that the scout ship could pull out a tactical position for the fleet, so that he could come to the best attack position and attack the enemy in one step.
Before the battle, he ordered his scouts to 'take care' of the other party's scouts to the fullest, but he didn't expect that Michael Blake was really waiting for the scout tactical point.
Then it took almost a hundred warships to complete the separation, and the price was very heavy.
The exorcist-level powerful thrusters are far stronger than their war demons, so Frederick McGee also ordered not to pursue them after seeing the righteous order's fleet pull out of the attack range, so as not to suffer losses, it is not worth it!
This brief encounter ended with a small victory for the Liberty faction.
Michael Blake was afraid of the melee firepower of the opposing fleet, and led the fleet around the high-speed course; And Frederick McGee didn't want his fleet to be used by the Exorcist-class warships of the righteous order using kite tactics, so he also led the fleet to the fleet of the righteous order all the time, as long as the opposite side dared to show flaws, he could take the fleet to jump over and fight melee combat through the combat probe!
The two sides confronted each other in the starry sky.
"Old classmate, after so many years, it seems that your command ability has not improved, it is still so bad!"
Looking at Michael Blake's vigilant tactical moves, Frederick McGee couldn't help but chuckle, and then opened the public channel to send a message to everyone.
And after seeing Frederick McGee's news, Michael Blake's eyes narrowed slightly, and the doubts in his heart were suddenly solved.
"Who did I say, it turned out to be your defeated general!
Why, you haven't been studying how to beat me all these years, have you? ”
Looking at Michael Blake's reply, Frederick McGee smiled coldly:
"Heh, you're really good at putting gold on your face, how many times did you beat me when you were in school?"
"How many times did you defeat back then?"
Michael Blake asked unceremoniously.
The fleets on both sides watched their commanders go back and forth in the public channel, and everyone did not dare to speak.
Posting messages on public channels during this battle is a very serious disciplinary offense, and it will be punished very severely, so this supreme commander can speak, and they are not qualified to do so.
So I could only stare silently at the fleet channel, waiting for the latest orders from the commander.
Michael Blake and Frederick McGee were both classmates of the Imperial Military Command Academy of the Betales Empire, and they were both outstanding students of that class.
But since ancient times, there is no first, and there is no second.
So the two didn't deal with each other from the beginning of their entry into the school, and the school also encouraged this kind of competition, so the two had a lot of contradictions in their college days.
When they were in the academy, they competed for the first place in everything, and the two also won and lost each other, but before they could officially divide the winners, the Betales Empire died in a short period of time.
Frederick McGee was then captured on the battlefield and joined the Freedom Camp because of his father; Michael Blake, on the other hand, led a fleet in the Camp Domain to fight for the revival of the empire for more than a decade, and then surrendered to the righteous order after the hope became more and more slim.
Then the battle of the camp has ended, the two have no intersection, and this is the first time they have fought in so many years, which can be described as a narrow road!