Homeland, Captain's Quarters.

As a flagship that represents the highest combat power of the New Holy City, the captain's room of the Homeland is not large, and it has nothing to do with luxury - even if theoretically, the owner of this captain's room of less than 30 square meters is the supreme leader of the New Holy City.

The reason why it was designed this way is because the long period of exile and the difficult life of the Kra people have brought each Kra people together spontaneously, and there is no hierarchy, and secondly, because of the ...... This main flagship is essentially designed for "escape" - if it encounters the doom of extermination, the more places this ship can carry people, the better.

Therefore, the captain's room has no way to learn the "luxury" of the Kerong people.

But what puzzled the Kra people was that humans were perfectly qualified to make the captain's room as extravagant and gorgeous as the so-called royal palace, but in fact, their captain's room was just like that...... It's just a little more spacious than the average crew's.

It can only be said that the cognition of humans and the Kra people is indeed quite similar.

At this time, Helko sat in a slightly cold faux leather chair, sipping the red wine brought from the human side in his left hand, and holding a ballpoint pen in his right hand and writing in his notebook.

At this time, there was a gentle knock on the door, and a moment later, Cao Yuwei, the human communications officer, appeared at the door: "General Hai, the joint attack on the front line has begun. Would you like to take a look? ”

"Oh? Can you see the battlefield? ”

"Who knows?" Cao Yuwei shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Anyway, everyone is waiting around the window." ”

Helco glanced at his watch and stood up, drank all the red wine in one sip by the way, and saw Cao Yuwei looking at him with some surprise, so he smiled: "With my physique, your low-alcohol wine is almost the same as a drink." ”

Cao Yuwei was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

……

The captain's room was the command cabin, which was already full of commanders of various departments of the fleet, and everyone stood in front of a transparent porthole of less than two square meters, looking at the starry sky ahead.

When designing the warship, the Kra people had not yet made a breakthrough in the field of electromagnetism, and they could not reproduce the environment of a fully enclosed hull with a lettered camera and a large screen like humans, and they used an extremely high-intensity and high-transmittance material to complete the optical observation of the outside world - which was actually unnecessary in battle, but only necessary during long voyages.

As soon as Helco and Cao Yuwei appeared, the rest of them consciously gave up two positions.

"What is the exact distance we are from the battlefield now?" Helko turned to look at Vice Captain Dibes.

Dibes immediately replied: "819 ......"

"Say the Allied units."

"Uh...... That's probably ...... I'll have to do the math. Dibes involuntarily touched his head, but he touched it empty, so he had to laugh and say, "Forget that now we don't have brains." ”

Helko snorted, closed his eyes and recited silently for a few moments, and then said softly: "It's about 300 million kilometers, 100 light seconds - the allied light seconds, minutes, and hours are a very delicate unit, you must remember in the future, and you must also get used to the days when there is no brain in the future - the computing power of the Atabi brain is much more powerful, I think you should have seen it in the new holy city." ”

Dibis glanced at Helco deeply and nodded with a smile: "Indeed, it's just that I'm not used to it yet." ”

"Well, let's watch the fireworks."

With that, Helco put his hands behind his back and waited for the time to pass.

300 million km...... Even the light has to run for 100 seconds - that is, even if the battle is already underway, it can't be seen.

At this moment, he moved his wrist slightly, and after taking a look, he immediately put on the headphones hanging around his neck.

"Lao Hai, the first wave of strikes has been completed." Yang Wenzhi's voice came from the earphones: "I see that your speed is a little too fast, you can slow down a little and wait for our battleship to be in place first." ”

"No problem—how's it going?"

"Three for thirty-seven, but it was the Silver Moon Fleet that lost three ships, and the casualties are still unknown, I hope their escape system is useful." After a pause, Yang Wenzhi's voice came again: "You have more personnel on board, so you should pay more attention." ”

"Understood, convey my salute to Aishara on my behalf."

"Roger, the next move of the Silvermoon Fleet is to make a strategic maneuver with VSC-62, which is the Eastern Jump Point, and wait for Ursa Ursa and your fleet to arrive."

"What about the enemy? My side hasn't started synchronizing battlefield information yet. ”

"What about the enemy's actions...... In 10 minutes, we will have a tactical meeting and we will discuss it. Saying that, Yang Wenzhi smiled lightly: "The high-dimensional detector has detected a large-scale gravitational wave surge at the VSC-70 jump point, I think...... Probably their reinforcements. ”

After the communication ended, Helke's gaze rested on the porthole again.

In the next second, in the extremely distant dark starry sky, which was almost invisible, a "star" hidden in the dark suddenly lit up for a moment and quickly returned to darkness.

Just when everyone thought they were dazzled, one after another sparkles continued to rise, as if in the darkest night, the fireflies had just lit the lanterns and disappeared.

After a moment of silence, applause began to erupt.

Helko took a deep breath, and he raised his hand and looked at his wrist again.

In twelve hours, his fleet was about to enter the battlefield.

After a slow applause, Helco turned and walked to the conference room.

……

……

"In the first wave, although we accurately hit 37 enemy ships, we also lost three ships." In the light curtain, Yang Wenzhi, the former general staff officer of the enemy headquarters, had a slightly solemn expression: "If you only talk about the results of the battle, this should be a great victory, but we must clearly realize that the enemy's warships are the same unmanned as the main warships of the earth, and even their systems are more integrated - it means that they are typical disposable warships." ”

"And we have now clearly learned that the enemy has a great numerical advantage over us...... So they don't feel distressed at all. ”

"But we are different, we still have to feel distressed - especially the battleship with a shipboard crew, according to the preliminary statistics just now, more than 100 members of the Silver Moon Fleet have died, especially the Oak, which was penetrated through the entire hull by the enemy's main guns from the engine department, and there were more than 80 people on the ship...... No one was spared. ”

With Yang Wenzhi's voice, everyone nodded silently.

Even Aisara, who was bent on making a mark in the first battle, calmed down after learning that the Oak had been pierced.

In battleship duels, the most feared thing is to be pierced through the keel by the main gun, which is almost a battle damage that can declare the death of the whole ship - so in the previous battles with the Tara people, the most common tactic they used was actually flank engagement.

Although the main guns were abandoned, the side guns on the ship's side were still capable of doing considerable damage as long as they were close.

And the biggest advantage of this is that flank engagement can effectively reduce casualties - even if the flank is penetrated, it is only a large hole of a few meters, as long as it does not hit the fatal part, the crew can rely on the life support system and escape system to survive.

But the tactics of the humans and the legions ...... But it's different - unmanned warships allow them to choose to face the enemy head-on without thinking about the safety of their personnel, and give full play to the power of their main guns.

"Therefore, our overall combat idea next is that the two fleets of Silver Moon and the Sword of Vengeance will move and look for opportunities, while our fleet will focus on a frontal breakthrough." After Yang Wenzhi finished speaking, he unfolded the tactical star map.

On the star map, the human warship has obviously become a zigzag, and the soldiers are divided into three ways towards the east and north jump points, while the enemy is divided into two ways from the previous one-line soldiers, one to the north jump point out of it, that is, the VSC-63 wormhole, and the other part is to change the formation at the east jump point of VSC-62, which has changed from the previous one-line long snake formation to a V-shaped formation with targeted meaning.

"But the latest battle situation is that the enemy did not pursue the Silvermoon Fleet, which voluntarily left the battlefield, but made a big turn, depending on the situation, they wanted to avoid a head-on confrontation with Ursa Major and Ursa Minor."

"To be honest, it was a bit of a surprise to us." A smile rose at the corner of Yang Wenzhi's mouth: "I thought they were going to fight us to the death like before, but I didn't expect to turn around and slip away." ”

"But we have to realize that it's not a good thing." Yang Wenzhi quickly put away his smile and said, "Although the Enlightener ultra-high-speed reconnaissance ship has rushed into the Dias 2 galaxy at present, it has not found any enemies in this galaxy. But don't forget, there's also a star path on the Ivan side of the galaxy behind us...... Though...... There is no enemy found over there for the time being, but as long as the size of the enemy ship is determined, our side will have to consider the consequences of being raided in the back road. ”

"You know, according to intelligence, the enemy has dispatched at least two or three bases to deal with us this time, and the conservative ones are thousands of warships." Saying that, Yang Wenzhi paused: "Now, let's empathize, if we are the executors, what should we do?" ”

There was only a brief silence before a voice rang out.

"Trap us in Sophie's system, wait until reinforcements arrive, and then annihilate us in one fell swoop."

"That's right! This should be the ultimate goal of the enemy. Then, in terms of tactics, the enemy has only divided more than 60 warships to return to the VSC-63 stargate in the north, and we can corroborate each other with the gravitational wave surge in the Dias 1 galaxy detected by the high-dimensional probe from the headquarters just now - the enemy's 400 or so warships don't want to fight us at all, they just want to delay time and drag their reinforcements over. ”

"Gradually increase the reinforcements and besiege our main forces here indefinitely...... Then, it is possible for them to attack the Milky Way through another star path, such as the LY galaxy in the constellation Auriga. ”

Yang Wenzhi exhaled softly as he spoke: "So now, what are we going to do next?" ”

As soon as the question was mentioned, the crowd immediately stopped talking.

Helco also looks at the nose with the eyes, and the nose looks at the heart.

Of course, he still wants to fight happily, at least to prove himself.

But the human "people-oriented" style ...... In addition, the Kerong people had just sacrificed more than 100 people, which made him suddenly realize that if his warships that had not yet completed the unmanned transformation were hit by three, the loss would be too great!

In the silence, someone finally opened his mouth: "It's nothing more than three kinds, either retreat first, or quickly eliminate, or consume with the enemy - then first exclude retreat." ”

Olaf laughed: "If the enemy's target is what Lao Yang said, it is obviously impossible for us to retreat." ”

"Then destroy them quickly, this galaxy is already small, even if they want to run, it is impossible to run to the outer meteorite belt, right?"

"Not necessarily, and we can't keep chasing it." Olaf pointed to his feet: "Don't forget this old turtle...... All we can say now is dodging the enemy's directional attacks, but it's not completely invisible, buddy. ”

"Old tortoise? Groove ...... You say it's Mercury? ”

"Or else? There's no way the Mercury will follow you, right? ”

In the midst of everyone's gossip, Aita's voice suddenly sounded: "Commander, you have received important information from the headquarters, please check it immediately." ”

As soon as Aita's voice sounded, the conference room instantly fell silent, and everyone's eyes looked at Yang Wenzhi at the same time.

Helco also looked at Yang Wenzhi's projection silently, and a slight uneasiness rose in his heart.

He'd been on the human warship long enough to know that Aita didn't usually interrupt during meeting hours, and that if he did, it would mean something particularly important—and probably not good news.

Sure enough, Yang Wenzhi's expression also became serious, he quickly clicked on the tablet, and frowned after just one glance.

"I just received word that two Enlightener hypervelocity ships have appeared in the galaxy leading to the constellation Auriga."

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately looked at each other, and then they all became serious.

"It seems that the enemy's thoughts are indeed the same as our predictions."

Yang Wenzhi lowered his gaze, and after being silent for a few seconds, he said slowly: "They attacked in two directions, destroying us all the way, starting from the Auriga all the way and going straight to our hometown. ”

After a few seconds, someone hesitantly asked, "What about ...... Lao Zeng only has one fleet on his side, can he stop it? ”

"I don't know—but we have to be aware of one thing, that is, maybe the next ship replenishment will take care of the Auriga's fleet." Yang Wenzhi frowned, and soon realized what kind of strategic impact it would bring to the headquarters after the appearance of enemies on both sides - there is no doubt that the side of the constellation Auriga, or the side of the LY galaxy, must be saved!

Because there is an antimatter mine over there, which is the core energy source of the next generation of human weapons.

The conference room fell silent again.

Looking at the quiet crowd, Helko's brows furrowed deeply, and his eyes stared at the location of friend and foe on the star map without blinking, and a bold thought flashed in his heart.

"Guys, I have an idea."

All eyes looked at Helco.

"Since the enemy wants to destroy us here, then the initiative is actually in our hands......"

Before Helco finished speaking, Yang Wenzhi's eyes instantly lit up: "Drag the knife meter!" ”

Helco was slightly stunned: "What?" ”

"Back to the carbine! - As long as the enemy has the information that we know that we are currently being attacked from two sides, and we pretend to retreat, the enemy will definitely come after us! ”

Helko laughed slowly, "That's right, as long as the enemy wants to keep us, they will definitely chase after us—and now is the time." ”