220. Evacuation of Siberia
It is normal for interstellar fighters to temporarily land on other ships due to the needs of the mission or due to special reasons such as damage to fighters and motherships. Risen squinted his eyes and carefully studied these lightnings, the reason why the fighter plane was damaged and forced to land on the Archangel is too far-fetched, they are generally independent, sporadic cases, it is impossible for dozens of lightning bolts to be damaged at the same time and forced to land on the Archangel, the fuselage of these lightning bolts looks normal and intact, not as if they have received any damage, even if there is any damage, the battlefield position is almost between the Archangel and the Sweeper, and there is no reason why they can't fly back to their own mothership Sweeper if they can fly to the Archangel.
It is unlikely that something will go wrong with the Sweeper, the Alliance is the attacking side and the victorious side, and the Empire has not had time to attack at all.
Then there was only one possibility, and that was because of the needs of the mission, but Risen didn't know what mission between them and the Ninth Fleet needed these fighters, so these should have been decided on the impromptu during the period after he was shot down.
"No, Risson, these lightning bolts will belong to our fleet in the future, and the emblems and liveries on the fighters will all be changed to the emblems of our fleet in a while." Yao corrected his statement.
"No, it won't." Ryson's eyes widened in surprise, "Is this all right?" General Alfred has no opinion? ”
He suddenly knocked himself on the head hard, "I'm so stupid, of course this has to be approved by the general before these lightning bolts fly on the Archangel, what happened?" ”
"This is General Alfred's support for our fighters, as a supplement to previous combat losses. Of course, it was only the fighters that were added, not the pilots, and the pilots of the Ninth Fleet all returned to the Sweeper by shuttle. Schneier preemptively said.
"Let's not talk about the pilots, what I'm concerned about is, what about the Ninth Fleet? These support fighters, to say the least, there are twenty, plus the losses in previous battles. Isn't the Ninth Fleet about to become an undefended shell fleet? The more Risen listened, the more strange it became. Although these lightning strikes make him happy. But hollowing out one fleet to replenish another, what kind of support method is this?
"The Ninth Fleet will leave the Siberian system through the JP1 jump point to rendezvous with the Fourth Fleet with the USS Victor as the core as planned, and on the way they will be supplemented by lightning fighters drawn from several secret bases and space stations. So as long as you are careful to avoid the reconnaissance of the Imperial fleet, I believe that there will be no major danger. Unlike us, our fleet is very important to cover the ground, and it will not be replenished by any fighters or personnel for some time to come, so the general decided to leave some of the lightning fighters to make up for our damaged strength. Yao explained.
"Can't get a supplement? If I'm not mistaken, there are a number of secret bases near the route from the JP2 hop point to the new headquarters," Risen wondered if he was mistaken.
"Risson, plans have changed again. Now the JP2 Space Jump Point fleet will evacuate Siberia via the JPL Space Jump Point, and the Archangel is escorting the last transport ships to leave Siberia to the JPL Space Jump Point. ”
"Take JPL?" Risen was taken aback, and he looked at the girl's somewhat serious face in disbelief. She's not kidding.
It's not that you can't go to the JPL space jump point, the key is how to leave after entering? Once the Imperial Army is blocked in Siberia, the death route is interrupted and they can't go to the Federation, then there is a dangerous route through the Almeron system to go, the Cardoso Space Station Imperial Army will never sit back and watch them swagger through Almeron, and the Eleventh Fleet of the Imperial Empire in the Corcoran system will not fail to come to support, such a large and slow transport fleet is simply impossible not to be discovered, and after being discovered, without the help of the Energy Pulse Torpedo, it is extremely difficult to escape the pursuit, Even if they were brave and the pilots were higher, the losses would be very heavy.
"Why did you go there?" He calmed down, it seemed that the change of plans was a foregone conclusion, and he believed that General Oscany, Lady Almeda, and Yao knew the dangers of taking this route, but they still made such a decision, and they must have made this decision for good reason.
"Because, we have no way out." The girl glanced around and whispered. "The four Imperial fleets have accelerated their speed towards Siberia despite our containment and harassment, and we have to be cautious in any action due to the failure of the energy pulse torpedo, so in fact, it has little effect on the invasion of the Imperial fleet, among them, especially Rear Admiral Piper's fleet is the fastest and the closest, and it will not take two hours for the Starfighters of Piper's fleet to appear again on the JP3 hop in the Siberian galaxy.
"He is probably also in a hurry, the imperial advance fleet we annihilated is under his command, but we are still lucky to have completed the task of annihilating the enemy fleet first, and he still came too late." Risen smiled softly.
"It's not too late, the empire seems to want to take revenge for this arrow, which puts us in a bad situation, among several space hopping points in the Siberian galaxy, the Piper fleet is rushing to the JP3 jump point, where it will definitely not be able to go, and the JP1 space jump point, which is roughly the same as the JP3 jump point, is not good, another imperial fleet is rushing there, and the time is too tight, the transport fleet is afraid that before all of them pass JP1, the Imperial starfighters will arrive.
"So," Ryson said worriedly, "Admiral Alfred's Ninth Fleet must leave the Siberian system quickly. ”
"Don't worry, the Ninth Fleet is estimated to have passed through the JP1 space jump point + [P1 space jump point is very close by the time we speak now, and the general will be able to leave in time before the Imperial fleet arrives, but. If the convoy is far away from JP1, it is unlikely that the convoy will rush over. ”
"That JP2 jumps
The adjustment was made when it was planned to leave JP2.
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"Fei Ren?" Sonia heard something, and she suddenly said, "So, now the convoy has changed to the JPL space jump point. It's your idea. ”
"Hmm!" The girl nodded affirmatively. "Due to the time constraints. I didn't have time to ask for advice, this is my personal advice, and if something goes wrong, the responsibility is on me. ”
"Fool!" Risen gently squeezed her tender little hand, "What kind of personal advice, your opinion is not the opinion of all of us, the ability to analyze and judge you." Can't we believe it?"
"Yes, we've got your back, Philen"
"Captain, your opinions have always been correct," Schneier, Jessica, and the others said in a word.
"Thank you, Risson, thank you." The girl looked at everyone gratefully and said.
"Tell me about it. Fei Ren. What do you think? Risen asked curiously.
"Actually, if you think about it carefully, you will know the risk of taking the JP2 jump point, the remaining two fleets of the Empire. According to the current position and course, it can be basically judged that they are all through the JP2 space jump ~ JP2 space jump point two fleet-ground interference and containment, the progress is much faster than we imagined, we currently have no fleet to stop its rapid advance, the enemy fleet can enter the XY-293 domain in half a day at most, and the position of the transport fleet, due to the previous precautions, is still near the JPL space jump point, this half a day, only enough for the fleet to leave the Siberian galaxy and enter the XY-293 domain, But there is no guarantee that the fleet will be able to leave this star field before the Imperial fleet enters the XY-293 domain, so after General Cassin's fleet enters this star field, the transport fleet will definitely take more cautious actions in order to avoid being discovered, which will greatly delay our trip, I estimate that before we leave this star field, the second Imperial fleet has already entered XY-293, a slow transport \|Only in one star field, think about this risk. She shook her head, "Although this star field is very large, and the Empire may not necessarily find us, I always feel that it is dangerous to pin things on an idealized process. ”
After saying so much in a row, she took a breath, paused, and continued, "The most critical point is that we can't afford to lose, we can't afford to take the risk of being discovered, the Second Fleet was severely damaged by the Imperial Cassin fleet, which is really a pity, but for example, even if the Second Fleet is annihilated, it is said to the Alliance, it can still be bearable, the loss of one fleet, we still have five fleets, but the Alliance Headquarters and the fleet that transports most of the equipment of the Newport News Super Shipyard are annihilated, this blow is absolutely fatal." ”
"And taking the JPL space jump point, although it is also very risky, but there are also several major benefits, one is that the JPL space jump point is a secret jump point, the empire may not know its existence, even if it can be discovered, it will consume a lot of their time, the second is this death route, the alliance is quite familiar with it, and the empire has never entered the death route, they have not even completed the exploration of the XY-1987 star field, and they don't know that the XY-1987 star field is one of the links of the death route, Otherwise, they will send a fleet there, which means that the empire does not know this route, does not know the location of the space hop points on this route, does not understand which star field this route leads to, what are these star fields, they are equivalent to fighting in a completely unfamiliar environment, and the alliance is like a fish in water, the third is that most of the transport ships are near JPL, we can all evacuate this galaxy when the imperial fleet arrives in the Siberian system, even if the empire can catch up, we are far away, After the empire enters the death route, they don't know the location of the space jump point, and they don't even know which direction to chase, it's easy for us to get rid of the imperial fleet, and the XY-293 domain, the empire is as familiar as us, if any clues are found, they look at the star map, maybe they can guess where we will hide and which direction we will go, this is really too dangerous"
"JPL space jump point, our biggest trouble is how to break through the Almeron system, the empire because it does not understand the death route, does not understand where the JPL space jump point leads, it must not be imagined that the alliance's transport fleet will suddenly appear in the Almeron system, although the imperial army has strengthened the defense of the Almeron system and Cardozodo space, but the alliance has the advantage of a surprise attack, and the possibility of success is not out of the sky, these troubles are undoubtedly much less dangerous than taking the JP2 jump point
The girl talked eloquently, and her point of view was quickly accepted by everyone, and Risson sighed quietly, he was not against her point of view, and he also agreed that it was indeed relatively less risky to take JPL, but
His gaze turned to the left, where a few idle ground crews were silently watching a screen where the last sight of the Siberian galaxy was, with Planet Four and Satellite Two in the distance, the former Alliance Headquarters and the Newport News Superyard, getting farther and farther away from the stern of the mothership, faintly visible flames and explosions, the final blast of the base
Goodbye, Siberian galaxy, one day, we'll be back.
The next step was the XY-1987 star field, passing through there--Almeron, Cardoso space station, what a familiar name, he felt a little trance in front of him
I'm back again, and this is the third time! What awaits me?