"Risen came over and took a look, this is the latest information received." Yao looked at the content displayed on the screen in front of him attentively, and his curved willow eyebrows wrinkled slightly inadvertently.

"What's wrong?"

"This is the latest reconnaissance report from a fighter jet on a reconnaissance mission from the intelligence friendly forces of the Fortress, and the escort strength of the enemy ships seems to be more than just one cruiser and one destroyer mentioned in the previous report, and reconnaissance shows that there are actually two cruisers and one destroyer."

"Where? Let me see. Risen was stunned for a moment, he put down his work and walked quickly to the girl's side and looked at the screen.

"It's really two cruisers." He looked at it fixedly, and muttered, "Where did that extra cruiser come from?" In the last reconnaissance report, I remember that there was only one cruiser and one destroyer. ”

"It's not like our actions are being noticed by the Empire." Yao speculated with some concern, and although she thought she had been very cautious along the voyage, there were no absolutes in everything.

"Probably not, if the Empire knew that we were planning to ambush the Bastion in the Normandy galaxy, the space carrier would not just be as simple as adding a cruiser's escort force, adding a cruiser would certainly bring a lot of trouble to our ambush, but it didn't help much in the overall situation, I believe that the Empire is more likely to notify this mothership to change its course, and if the time is in time, maybe it may send a large fleet to search for us in Normandy, but there is nothing now. Operation Bastion proceeded as planned, and the course was as planned, and there was no sign of large-scale Imperial activity in the Normandy system. Risen thought for a moment and dismissed the speculation.

"Besides," he whispered softly with his hand on the shoulder of the female captain of the Archangel, "I have complete trust in your ability to command ships, and the fleet's covert operations should not have been discovered by the Empire. ”

"You," the girl gently thumped him. Tweet. "Don't lift me up that high. No one can act 100% without being attacked by the enemy, do you remember the last time? Isn't the fleet's actions revealed by the space station's Imperial patrol aircraft? The higher you stand, the heavier you fall. ”

"That's okay, I'll hold you down there." Ressen comfortably felt the warmth of the girl's body coming through the clothes in his hands, and teased quietly. "Hold tightly."

"You," the girl blushed, "these words have become more and more comfortable for you lately. ”

"If you don't like it. I'm definitely going to be honest. Resin grinned and continued to lower his voice. But I don't think you're having a good time. ”

"Hmph, I'm a girl too." The girl gave him a blank look, and the charming eyes made him feel intoxicated

"Do you often say that to Sonia?" She asked with a roll of her eyes.

"Uh, that's it," Resson smiled, scratching his head unnaturally, trying to hide his own guilt.

"Hmph, you don't have to guess to know. The evidence is conclusive. The girl spoke. The expression of displeasure was overflowing, and a small hand quietly put it on Rissen's thigh, and pinched a piece of someone's tender meat hard

"That. Philen, you see, the current escort force of the Fort is two cruisers and one destroyer, and our fleet escort force is three destroyers and one cruiser, compared to which we do not have any advantage," someone saw that the situation was not good, and immediately changed the topic and returned to the topic, because this cunning guy knew that the two women on this ship who were close to him would never delay their business because of personal matters.

Sure enough, someone's trick succeeded, and although the girl was well aware of his clumsy tricks, she decided to let him go for the time being, and Rysson clearly felt the girl's attention return to the latest reconnaissance report, pinching his thigh, and relaxing the strength of her little hand, but still putting it on it.

"Fortunately, it's the era of starfighters, and to be honest, I'm not worried about the extra cruiser, after all, there is no need for the ships of both sides to compete with each other, the strength of firepower, even if it can add a squadron of starfighters to the Fortress, but the damaged Fortress itself has lost a lot of carrier-based aircraft in the previous battle, and a squadron of fighters is not so easy to fill the gap, I am worried about time, and our casualties, although it is one mothership against another, I don't want us to get a miserable ending, after all, maybe we will encounter a more severe test next, you know？ That opinion. She vaguely expressed the worries in her heart.

"I understand." Risen put away the joke, the attack on the Pearl Harbor base is not a joke, the high command of the alliance is by no means casual, they must have this plan or goal, if it is not too difficult to fight, they probably will not easily consult the fleet's opinion, just give orders to the fleet.

And this opinion finally came down

What else does the establishment of a mobile fleet say? If this attack is to be carried out, it will definitely be carried out by the Fifth Independent Mobile Fleet, and although they cannot think of any good way to do it at this time, they must still make the necessary preparations in advance.

"Well, in order to reduce the difficulty of the attack," he mused, "just like the attack on the Agama base, the first wave of assault dispatched all lightning bolts, using a large number of quantum torpedoes to carry out a saturation attack, and before the enemy's carrier-based aircraft had time to take off and intercept them, we were caught off guard before all the carrier-based aircraft of the enemy ships took off, and we just replenished a large number of quantum torpedoes when we liberated those transport ships a few months ago, and the task during this time was not difficult, and these torpedoes did not come in handy, and this time it was just for everyone to use it happily." ”

He looked distressed: "This method will consume hundreds of quantum torpedoes in one battle, and almost all of our torpedo stocks will be emptied, which is really a waste, a little distressing." ”

"When the torpedoes run out, we can still apply to the logistics department for replenishment, or go and take it from the Empire again, as long as the fleet is still there, as long as our pilots are still there." Yao comforted him.

"Well, but before the raid, I have to trouble you to quietly bring us to the ambush point, if the empire really shows our actions in advance, everything will be in vain."

"Don't worry, I'll take you to your intended location." The girl smiled confidently.

"Of course I don't believe you, who else do you believe?"

"By the way, Risson, what the hell are you going to say to Sonia?" Seeing that the business was roughly over, Yao turned the topic back again, and her deliberately stiff pretty face felt like a prelude to a storm.

"Oh, oh, oh, I forgot something, I still have to discuss with others how to implement this operational concept, and there are still many details that need to be solved." Someone immediately grabbed the road and fled.

"Come back and solve it, don't be in a hurry, answer my question first at this time, and then talk about Rissen"

The man had disappeared from the door.

"It's so fast, but it's panicked," the girl couldn't help but chuckle softly.

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"Archangel number Risen here. Nigaul Tulip 1 requested to take off. ”

"This is Archangel Tulip One, you can take off, sir, good luck."

"Thank you, Archangel."

The black lightning fighter quickly left the space carrier, and Risen gently pulled the thrust control lever back to reduce the degree so that the friendly aircraft that came out later could keep up with the formation, and the lightning fighters from the Archangel and the Cyclops filled this space in a short period of time, and the sensors on all the warships were full of dense green highlights, and the group soon divided into three assault groups, which flew in different directions under the leadership of Resson, Sonia, and Schneier.

It was an overwhelming attack, and the entire fleet was left without a single starfighter to defend the fleet, and the task of covering the fleet was given to the cruiser Cyclops and its Courage. The destroyers Resolve and Agarma, however, are limited in their role if they are attacked by the Empire's starfighters, so their main means of cover is the small satellite fleet that orbits Stellar III at the center of the Agarma system, hiding in the shadow of this satellite, close to the surface of the satellite and remaining relatively stationary to avoid possible detection.

The three fighter assault groups came out separately, hiding in the middle of several gravel groups around the route that the Fortress was expected to pass through or on the back side of the asteroid, and the ambush position was carefully selected, neither too close to the route that the Fortress was expected to pass through, so that the enemy ships would be too vigilant and not too far away, so that they had not yet approached the range of the quantum torpedo, and the carrier-based aircraft of the Fortress and its escort cruisers had all taken off to intercept them.

Risen estimates that even if the Fortress can appear in time for the approaching alliance attack cluster, before the quantum torpedo is fired, the empire will only have time to take off at most, half of the starfighters will not be able to deal with the saturation attack of so many quantum torpedoes with that small number of interceptors and the ship's own interception firepower, as long as the fortress is destroyed first to prevent most of the imperial fighters from taking off, the already insufficient number of imperial starfighters will be even more unlikely to compete with the alliance's fighters, so the rest of the imperial ships will be destroyed sooner or later.

He looked around at all the Allied starfighters, kept their communications silent, turned off their engines, and waited quietly in this dark star field for the arrival of the Imperial fleet. Hopefully they will arrive on time as scheduled. Rissen

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