Chapter 786: Total War
USS Mercury Operations Command Room.
When the probes that passed through the layers of blockade passed back the latest star map, the dense red dots that gathered shocked everyone.
After a long while, Yang Wenzhi came back to his senses and looked at Ye Ming in disbelief: "Mr. Ye, there is nothing wrong with Aita, right?" β
"Obviously." Ye Ming was also shocked, he blinked vigorously, and then quickly controlled Aita to complete the spatial reconstruction of the model.
Compared to the red dots that are meant to cause dense phobia, it is obvious that in the "limited" outer space surrounding the artificial jump device, countless enemy support ships are "crowded" together like building blocks, forming an external armor belt composed entirely of spaceships.
"True Turtle Shell Array." Ye Ming accurately described the enemy's formation in a word that was almost impossible to appear in today's era of space warfare.
"That'...... Locking is no problem, right? β
"Absolutely." Ye Ming exhaled lightly, shook his head, and a smile rose on his face: "But I have to come out, the one who can come up with this kind of trick must be a genius - this turtle shell array is no problem blocking the first generation of rice grains, but the second generation of rice grains is curvature locked, and he can't surround it as much as he wants." β
Hearing Ye Ming say this, everyone was relieved.
For a moment, the conference room was filled with cheerful sounds.
"It seems that the enemy does have a psychological shadow on missiles."
"Inevitably, their reaction was like a World War I soldier seeing a missile."
"And it's a hypersonic missile."
"But the fact that the enemy is doing this means that they really value this artificial jump generator."
In the midst of everyone's gossip, Yang Wenzhi was also constantly staring at the enemy's support ship data, and his left hand was placed on the microphone directly connected to the front-line command center.
Now that the support of the enemy ships has reached 200, and it is about to reach the upper limit of what humans can handleβhe is worried that the gang on the front line is too ambitious and wants to be greedy.
But as it turned out, his worries were unfounded.
Soon the conference room sounded Helco's rice grain firing instructions, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Thereupon...... Ten minutes later, with the feint attack of the first generation of rice grains, the ghostly second generation rice grains quickly broke through the enemy's defense line, and then accurately hit the artificial jump generator surrounded by iron barrels.
The only pity is that there was no expected martyrdom. Even the fireworks couldn't be seen clearlyβit was the dozen or so grains of rice that were used to confuse the enemy, which caused the enemy's early support ships to intercept intensively, and the skyrocketing light illuminated the entire night sky, which was very beautiful.
Then, as if stabbing a hornet's nest, the enemy's iron bucket array quickly dispersed.
The enemy's support fleet immediately began to maneuver.
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Ella Star, Executive Base.
Hall's calm voice echoed low through the command room.
"Disperse! All functional ships are scattered! β
"All of us are moving closer to the fleet that has come to support."
"The remaining fleet accelerates, and the logistics ships separate to induce the enemy."
After giving several orders in one breath, Hall looked at the camera above his head, took a deep breath, and asked in a deep voice, "Chao, can you transfer command?" β
A moment later, a deep voice rang out: "Can't. β
Everyone in the conference room quickly looked up, their faces full of resentment and bewilderment.
Only Hall's brow furrowed deeply.
Chao's voice continued to sound: "You directly hand over your remaining support ship and functional ship formation to me, I want to personally command it." β
Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Hall nodded slowly: "Yes, but you have to tell me, what are you going to do?" β
"I want to fight them β we can't beat them head-on."
"Good! Here you go! β
Hall took a long breath and nodded after glancing at Dicca.
Decca understood and immediately handed over the command code.
After doing all this, Hall sat down slowly, then closed his eyes, and hid all his emotions.
As he continued to take deep breaths, his heartbeat slowly slowed down.
If the breakthrough of the orbital ship a day ago can be explained by "exceptions" - for example, human missiles evaded surveillance and interception - now ...... When you surround the artificial jump generator into an iron bucket, and the human race still has a way to break through, it means...... Humanity does have a powerful weapon that they don't know about.
So...... The victory or defeat of this war itself...... For the empire as a whole, it was less important β although for him it would be in some sense that his political life would be determined.
In the silence, Rao is the human warship was already close at hand, and the battle was about to start, but all the commanders did not make a sound.
Everyone's face rose with Qi Qiran.
In this battle, almost all the battleships of Base 31 were gathered, if this was lost...... Or rather, the whole army lost annihilated, then...... The entire No. 31 base has no meaning of existence.
Even if it is 10,000 steps back, in order to keep Base 31, the legion will continue to invest its strength to defend......
The war that followed didn't have much to do with them.
In the midst of this deathly silence, the system's emotionless voice suddenly sounded.
"Commander, receive communication from the High Council."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then quickly looked at Hall.
In the eyes of everyone, Holten opened his eyes, he took a deep breath and said, "Take it!" β
"Base 31, this is the High Council Security Team." The voice that spoke was the Legion Captain - he did not use the Legion Commander's identity, but the High Council.
This says a lot.
"Understood." A gleam rose in Hall's eyes, "Please instruct." β
"The Supreme Council has ordered the dispatch of three thousand warships from the six fleets of bases 33 and 32 towards the system where your base is located, and has coordinated six Enlightenment ships to the battlefield, which is expected to arrive in six days."
"Order your unit and bases 33 and 32 to form a front-line command center to fully resist the enemy's invasion."
The Legion Leader's voice rang out in the hall, and as if to give everyone time to digest, he paused for two seconds before continuing: "Hall, persistence is victory, the Legion has obtained the authorization for all-out war, and the Supreme Council has unified all voices!" In this sense...... We also have to thank humanity. β
As the Legion Commander's voice fell, a strange look rose on Hall's face.
He looked at the imminent enemy battleship, and a thick mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Shouldn't it be...... Thanks to him?
That's ...... I used the sacrifice of 3,000 warships in the entire No. 31 base to get the awakening!
"Thank you, Captain."
"Come on."
Ending the communication, Hale once again looked at the battle star map.
I saw that Asa had already taken over control of the support ship, and was forming a one-match formation with his battleship, slowly moving towards the upper right.
The direction of the fleet seems to be to converge with the fleet returning from above.
"Asah, do you want to give up the jump point?"
"Do you still want to go back?" Chao's voice carried a faint mockery: "Hall, you are just too cautious, too afraid of sacrifice." β
"If you deal with an enemy with strong individual abilities like humans, you should fight to the death! Even if all the ships are gone, let the enemy peel off a layer of skin - see that the largest battleship is not? β
Hall shifted his gaze to the star map.
Naturally, he knew which of the largest warships was referring toβit should be, the warship of the Kra people.
"That must be the enemy's flagship, Lao Tzu is going to eat it today!"
"Next, all the battleships above you are arranged by me!"
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Mercury.
Ye Ming and Yang Wenzhi walked out of the combat conference room together and strode to the location of the landing module.
They were able to leave the conference room when the battle was already underway, partly because of the front-line command center led by Helco, and partly because there was an important guest who was about to land on the Mercury.
The landing capsule slowly opened, and a rather strangely shaped landing ship docked steadily in the landing hall under the control of a robotic arm - the main reason why it was not allowed to stop by itself was that the Mercury was currently assembling carrier-based aircraft, and several landing ports of the Mercury were a bit messy.
The hatch opened, and Flac, dressed in military uniform, stepped off the ship first.
"Academician Ye, Commander-in-Chief Yang."
Flack moved his limbs and strode towards Ye Ming and Yang Wenzhi, with a bright smile on his face: "I'm sorry, I'm late." β
Ye Ming and Yang Wenzhi glanced at each other, and both of them smiled at the same time.
Both of them were among the people who had the most contact with the Tara people, and it was the Flak who had the most contact with them of their rank...... I know that this old man acts and speaks smoothly, and he is too much compared to humans.
"It's not too late." Ye Ming smiled and shook hands with the other party: "What about your fleet?" β
"Oh, it's past the jump point, I'll hurry up here and say hello to you, lest I be beaten down by the Krong people as an intruder." Flac looked left and right as he spoke, and his eyes lit up when he saw the human fighter: "This is the human space fighter?" β
"Yes."
"Can you mount rice grains?"
"Absolutely."
"Then ......" Flac immediately rubbed his hands, his eyes lit up: "Good fellow, give us a few fights?" β
Ye Ming suddenly burst into laughter.
He knew that this guy was really thick-skinned......
Space fighters, not to mention that there are only a dozen of them now, let's just say that humans can give Tara people, and Tara people don't have a mothership!
"No kidding, wait until you build a mothership in the future."
"Well, then I would like to ask for your support." Flac said hesitantly, and then his face turned straight: "There are a total of one hundred and twenty combat warships in our department, and thirty functional support ships will arrive at the artificial jump position in six hours, and then, my warships and I will completely obey the orders of the alliance command center." β
Ye Ming and Yang Wenzhi also put away their smiles and expressed their gratitude to Flac solemnly.
"But...... Academician Ye, Commander Yang, our warships have not yet completed a thorough unmanned modification, and there are men of our Tara tribe on each battleship...... So...... If there is a need to sacrifice, I also want to be able to treat them well. β
"Of course, we Tara men have never been afraid of sacrifice."
Ye Ming looked at Flac deadly.
I saw that this first person in the Tara military, who had always been a bit "mercenary" in his mind, and was as smooth as a second-hand dealer, had a solemn and resolute face that he had never seen before......
It must be admitted that at this moment, Vlac earned his respect.
After taking a light breath, Ye Ming nodded heavily.
"Let's go, go to the command center!!"
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Sophie's system, Homeland.
The rays of death flickered in the air, and lightning bolts struck the night sky.
Even if he doesn't drink catnip tea, Helco doesn't feel a little tired at the moment.
"Attention, the enemy is coming from the bottom left!"
"Shield, open shield!"
"Well played! Another salvo! β
"Ship No. 31, if you can hear it, quickly abandon the ship, repeat, quickly abandon the ship!"
"Ship 23, make up for the chain lock of ship 31!"
"Ship 16, rice grains ready!"
Rays of light continued to pass through the observation window, like lightning tearing through the night sky, turning the entire command cabin into a shining stage.
In the main control hall, Helko stands at the front of the captain's throne, wearing a combat helmet, and commanding the entire fleet, all the ships of his Sword of Vengeance fleet.
It was as if he was standing in the center of the stage.
The battle has been going on for two hours.
During these two hours, he encountered unprecedented resistance.
Frankly, this was somewhat unexpected by him - even by all former enemy command commanders.
Because everyone thinks that the enemy is going to flee.
As a result, the humans didn't take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy they had been chasing began to accelerate and then rev at the limit with their speed - of course, locking onto the target of such a lateral shift was an extremely difficult operation in itself.
Of course, it doesn't matter, in a normal battle, not even a small miss.
What really matters is that it signifies that the enemy has launched a fearless jade-shattering charge.
It's as if the enemy is looking forward to being buried here.
At the very least, in Helko's opinion, this is the kind of enemy on his side.
"Fu Jing, can you come up?"
"Yes, but it will take twenty minutes."
"Then I'll wait for you for twenty minutes."
Helko breathed heavily, and as soon as he reached out and took off his helmet, his entire forehead was covered with beads of sweat.
As soon as he stretched out his hand to the side, the orderly handed over a towel and just the right amount of tea.
Wiping off the beads of sweat, Helco stared intently at the stereoscopic projection that fell from the ceiling.
In the picture, the enemy has completed his turn and is approaching his fleet.
Even, the enemy's supporting fleet braved the fire of the fleet in the middle to intercept and cover, and carried out a fearless interspersed with death towards his position.
It's as if ...... He dug up the ancestral graves of his enemies.
This is very wrong.