Chapter 140

Six hours had passed since the Allies launched the attack on their own initiative, and both sides had lost considerable fleets. On the Imperial side, the 40,000 warships led by Field Marshal Reinhardt von Royenkram had been reduced to less than 25,000, the Seventeenth Fleet of the Reich under First Admiral Fafnier had also shrunk from 18,000 ships at the beginning of the war to 14,000, and the Alliance's fleet had also been reduced from more than 53,000 warships at the beginning of the war to more than 38,000.

Vice Admiral Bikegu's Fifth Fleet went on the offensive again, this time targeting Fafnier's fleet. "Really, the old guy is very good at fighting! This tactic is to force me to exchange one-to-one. "The Tenth Fleet of Ulanfu and the Thirteenth Fleet of Young Willy, who had repelled the Empire's twin walls at the same time, also began to retreat while trying to attack the Fafnir fleet with flank fire and Spartanian fighters.

"Damn it! Gustav! Order the whole fleet to start retreating and straighten out the battle line! Close and personal combat is not worth it at all! We don't need to pick three here. Fafnir grumbled and ordered, "What are the imperial twin walls.........? But that Persian cat is really cunning, and he doesn't have much to lose, right?"

"I see that the Persian cat's losses have been half removed, and I remember that he had just arrived at the Golden Retriever and had given him twelve thousand ships, and now it seems that there are only about seven thousand left at most. Lieutenant General Schutke Haugan said after glancing at the three-dimensional screen.

"What an embarrassment! Why do you say that little guy likes to play with danger so much? He is anxious and likes to divide his troops......... I said, how good it would be to give him the command of a detachment!Why should he be promoted to marshal!" Fafnier's words did not expect an answer.

The veteran Bircogu also stopped his advance in time when Fafnir retreated to reorganize the battle line, and took the 10th and 13th fleets back into formation. Now, the Confederates are once again united, but there is a recess in their battle line, the Fafnir fleet.

"Now the whole army is back and back in the direction of the cloister! Prepare to begin the retreat!" said the veteran Vic Bee in the Admiral's communication, "the Thirteenth and Twelfth Fleets, which have suffered less losses, will serve as rearguards, and the remnants of the Ninth and Eighth Fleets will be strengthened to you. It's all up to you! Yang, Porodin, My Fifth and Tenth Fleets will start to retreat first, establish a second front, and prepare to start a rolling retreat!"

The Confederates began to retreat gradually, and they first quickly leveled the battle line - before Fafnir had time to start advancing further and break through to the depth of the alliance formation, the Yang fleet in front of him was already facing Fafnier, slowing his advance, while Bicgu on the other side first began to withdraw at high speed, and Borodin's fleet also quickly leveled the line with Yang Willy, and worked together to exchange fire with Fafnier.

Fafnir also didn't have the idea of being caught in the fire by Reinhardt, "No need to assault! At normal speed!Lined up and fire with all my might!" Fafnir faced more of the two Allied fleets together than him, so he had no idea of learning from the dead ghost Valle to force a surprise attack.

"We're fighting well on both sides!" Reinhardt muttered as he looked at the screen.

Although the General Headquarters was far from the rear and the overall command was not tactful, the Allied forces were brave and good at fighting. In particular, the actions of the 13th Fleet are even more neat, and its commander is Yang Weili! The so-called strong generals have no weak soldiers under them, and this is the truth!

Reinhardt casually glanced at Oberstein.

"Hasn't Gilfias arrived yet?"

"Not yet!"

The chief of staff replied simply. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he asked in a tentative tone, "Are you worried?"

"I'm not worried, I just want to confirm!"

Reinhardt responded as if he had been told the truth, and then stared at the screen in silence.

At this time, Gilfias, who led one-third of the entire imperial army, bypassed the sun in the Yamliza system and outflanked the back of the Allied army.

"A little later than scheduled, a little in a hurry!"

In order to evade the surveillance of the Allied forces, Gilfias sailed close to the surface of the sun. However, the strong magnetic force and gravity were higher than their original estimates, and due to the influence of magnetic force and gravity, the pilot had to use primitive calculations to determine the route. As a result, they lagged behind, but they still arrived in the cosmic airspace of their destination.

Behind the Confederates - there is a large expanse of cosmic machine mines scattered.

In the thinking of the Allied Army, even if the Imperial Army outflanked from behind, these 40 million nuclear fusion mines would block their way, although Yang could not be completely assured, but he also believed that even if the enemy had the means to break through the mine group, it would not be possible to do it in a short time, so it should still be possible to have enough time to make full preparations for the battle before the enemy arrived on the battlefield!

However, the Imperial Army's methods were beyond Yang's expectations.

"Shoot off directional particles!"

Gilfias gave the order.

The Imperial Army succeeded in developing a targeted Uniform Particle before the Allies, and this war was the first time that it was actually used in combat.

There are three cylindrical radiational devices, which are directed by the working ship to the mine group.

"If you don't hurry up, the damned enemy will slip away!"

Colonel Ginz, one of the staff, said loudly, and Gilfias smiled softly wryly.

The dense swarm of particles passed through the mine swarm like a cloud pillar of interstellar matter, and the heat and mass sensing systems installed on the mines did not respond at all.

Three hours later.

"Jiefu particles have arrived on the opposite side of the mine group!"

A report came from the forward ships.

"Okay!

Gilfias gave the order, and the striker's three beam cannons were set to shoot beams in three different directions.

In an instant, I saw three huge pillars of fire cut through the mine group. After the white-hot flash of light died down, three large holes were dug in the minegroup, and all the mines in their place were detonated.

However, in a short period of time, three tunnel-like safety passages with a diameter of 200 kilometers and a length of 30,000 kilometers were formed in the center of the mine group.

"Assault the whole fleet!Advance at maximum speed!" The Imperial Army marched out in unison under the command of the red-haired young admiral. Twenty-five thousand warships rushed at high speed behind the Allied forces in the distance.

At this moment, the order "Volley! Full salvo!" sounded on the communication circuit of the Allied forces. The 3,000 Confederate ships that had been deployed here for a long time from the fortress of Iserloon and had been waiting for a long time, the fleet directly under his own command sent by Marshal Robles from the fortress, and the reserve force of the League, opened fire.

This force was ordered by Field Marshal Robles to go to the Yamliza system to strengthen the front group, but when advancing to the vicinity of the minegroup, Young Willy suggested that Vice Admiral Bickgu approve "this fleet should be used to protect our most rearly retreat....... not to join the melee, their task is to watch our rear roads, and to fill the battlefield as a rearguard when retreating." ”

They had been outside the mine group in the Yamliza system for as long as four hours, and no matter what the front line was like, Lieutenant General Bikgu never ordered them to abandon the task ahead and strengthen into the formation. Now, this backhand has finally played its due and great effect!

Three thousand warships launched a number of rapid salvos! The Imperial Outflanking Fleet had just emerged from the passage and the advance was dealt a heavy blow. Gilfias lost three thousand high-speed warships forever in just twenty minutes, and the formation was completely disrupted, and it was completely impossible to successfully attack the back of the Alliance's main fleet without destroying these three thousand Alliance warships.

"There's an Imperial outflanking fleet in the back!" the Allied communications showed a message that demoralized all the soldiers.

"Stop broadcasting! The whole fleet immediately began to speed up its retreat! The defense line between this fleet and the tenth fleet has been completed! Yang! Porodin! Hurry back to our rear and lay down the defense line again! We will move quickly! Field Marshal Robles's direct fleet can only buy us an hour and a half more at most!"

Reinhardt's face turned pale, "We can't destroy all the enemies!"

"We have won the victory!, Your Excellency!" said the chief of staff of the prosthetic eye, still unemotional.

It took Gilfias less than an hour to drive back the Allies' ships and destroy more than two-thirds of the enemy, but it was too late to reach the intended location in time, and the Allies had successfully completed their alert maneuvers to the rear, and the retreat was accelerated. Gilfias could only flank the Confederates with an effort to attack the Allies as the retreating Twelfth Fleet was already in the way of the Confederates he was meant to cut off......

The battle had come to an end, and the Allied forces had covered each other and retreated into the cloister one after another.

"Call from the General Headquarters! Return after sweeping away the remnants of the enemy army!"

The Imperial Communications Officer issues a report.

The defeated ranks of the Free Planets Alliance quietly set out on their way home to the fortress of Iserlon. They lost more than half of their ships, and only more than 32,000 ships returned to Iserlon, and only 17 million of the 30 million soldiers who went out to fight returned - fortunately, the contraction of the alliance was relatively timely, and there were not many losses in ground support and land forces, and many of the warships damaged in the early stage were also repaired in Iserlon, and the number of combat ships that the alliance went out after the alliance was originally 100,000, but now it has lost more than 60,000.

The loss of the Empire also made Reinhardt's face pale, and his marshal's palace originally had half of the Empire's actual combat fleet, more than 90,000 warships. Now three fleets have been lost, one admiral has died, and there are less than 50,000 ships left after the final repair, which is no better than the Alliance in terms of losses alone. Happily, he accomplished the campaign objective assigned to him - to advance and retreat the Alliance. However, the strength of the Marshal's Mansion can be said to have a huge demise, and it is estimated that the great nobles can celebrate each other.

The losses of the Fafnir fleet were the largest ever - more than three and a half thousand warships were beyond repair, and the death toll was close to three hundred thousand.

"The blonde imp looks like he's still going to hold on...... I don't know if he will learn to be a little better. Lieutenant General Schutekhao Jian said to his old friend and superior.

"I don't think he'll learn to behave. Maybe it's a little more impatient....... after all, the pressure of the big nobles is not child's play, but those maggots may not have that ability. In the end, it will still break the golden retriever....... who knows. Fafnier replied.

This defeat will have a far-reaching impact on the political, economic, social, military, and other aspects of the Free Planets Alliance! When calculating the lost funds and the bereaved pensions and annual allowances that will be paid in the future, the financial authorities cannot help but change their faces drastically!

On the other hand, the bereaved families of the military and the anti-war faction all lashed out at the government and the military department's expeditionary operation, which had no chance of victory! The citizens who had lost their husbands and children were filled with grief and indignation and strongly criticized the incompetence of the government and the military department.

The prestige of the main war faction plummeted, and the status of the anti-war faction was greatly enhanced, and the three members of the council who voted against the expedition were greatly praised for their opinions, so they were retained, and the chairman of the National Defense Committee, Trunisit, temporarily took power until the next year's elections.

In his study, Trunisit toasted his foresight by removing the word "temporary" from his title, and the time was not far off.

On the military side, Marshal Sitre, head of the United Front Operations Headquarters, and Marshal Robos, commander of the Space Fleet, also resigned. Some say that Ropos finally used his defeat to remove his rival Setlet.

Reinhardt, who had returned from victory at the Battle of Amritza, did not expect to be greeted by a sea of mourning flags planted on the surface of the Imperial capital of Odin.

The emperor is dead!

Died of acute heart disease. The cause of his sudden death, in addition to the indulging in wine and improper conditioning, seems to have a lot to do with the royal blood of Gordonbam, who died too suddenly.

"Now, it's time to make an offer!" said two people who were far away, one was a domineering golden lion, and the other was a famous and brutal "dragon" and an aristocratic hooligan.