Chapter 138
Vice Admiral Luffip's Third Fleet, which had 13,000 warships, was the flagship of the USS Ku Herring. At the moment, it is residing in the Ruijin Ancient Galaxy.
"α-4.1, β3.6, γ4.8!1.9 lights and seconds!!Lots of shadows!Imperial fleet!" exclaimed the bridge officer on the flagship, Ku Hering.
Vice Admiral Lufip shouted: "Don't panic! Quickly determine the number of the opponent! Quantity! The whole fleet is ready for battle!"
"The enemy fleet is already observable. It's the Seventeenth Fleet of the Empire!...... The number is more than eighteen thousand!" The cry of the bridge officer, with an icy shiver, swept through the entire command.
"That murderous 'Dragon' fleet. The whole fleet is in defensive formation!" Vice Admiral Lufip muttered to himself, and gave the order, "Prepare to retreat......" he muttered at the earliest.
"We are eighteen thousand, and the fools on the opposite side are thirteen thousand. Even according to the oldest Lanchester equation, they were defeated! Order the right flank of the fleet to advance to form a diagonal artillery array! Commodore Serfier von Dalk led a thousand high-speed destroyers to pull out on the left flank, waiting for the order to flank the enemy's right flank!" Fafnier sat down in his seat and lazily gave the order to Vice Admiral Schutkehaugian's chief of staff. "Let's get started!"
"I say, why do the Confederate fools spread their forces apart, and distribute fleets to each system like pepper noodles. Fortunately, the golden retriever here is also a fool, if he concentrates two fleets to attack one of the enemy's fleets first, then at least he can paralyze or severely damage the opponent's four fleets, and there will not be many losses, and the decisive battle will be easy to fight later. But he wants to ...... one-on-one," Fafnier waited for Hutkhao Jane to convey the order, and then shook his head and said, "Now it's interesting, the only one who can guarantee that it will never fail is my fleet, and the others are not much different from the other side, due to the previous miscalculation, the combat effectiveness of the opposite side will not be weakened much." ”
"Rudolph, you're right, the golden retriever really seems to have a low IQ aura. You see, the generals who joined his marshal's mansion had seen a few guys who were good on the battlefield alone, and they had forgotten even elementary school math after entering that place...... "Schutk Hao Jian Thief replied with a smile. The two men were not at all concerned about the exchange of artillery fire that had begun.
Countless spears of light galloped through the void, creating flowers of light in the universe, each representing death. The Fafnir fleet had the battleships as the most prominent spearhead on the right flank, and the rest of the ships were neatly arranged in an inclined artillery formation, firing at the Allied arrays as soon as they came into range. Due to their numerical inferiority, the Allies were unable to concentrate their attacks on the group of Imperial warships that were the first to engage them, but had to form a stalemate on the entire front because of the continuous entry of Imperial warships into effective range. As the Imperial fleet continued to enter the battlefield, the power of the numerical superiority began to be revealed, and within three hours of the battle, both sides still had only triple-digit casualties, which was basically evenly matched. But in the fourth hour, as the number of the Imperial army began to exceed the Confederate forces on the battlefield, the casualties of the Confederate suddenly became skyrocketing, far exceeding the Imperial army, and in the fifth hour, the casualties of the Confederate had accumulated to more than 3,000 ships, and the Reich only temporarily lost more than 1,000 ships on the front line during the same period, at this time Favinir ordered: "Okay, don't bother to mess with them anymore! The time is almost up, order Dalke to cut me in at high speed from the enemy's right flank!"
Commodore Darker's 1,000 high-speed destroyers have been cruising on the right flank of the Alliance, and at the beginning, the Alliance's Third Fleet also had a considerable number of ships vigilantly monitoring them, ready to deal with Dalke's offensive at any time, but as the pressure on the front increased, the number of ships monitored was repeatedly reduced and drawn into a head-on engagement, and the Allied forces in front of Commodore Dalke at this time were no longer worth mentioning.
"Assault!assault!assault!" Darke yelled, "send them to hell!"
But Vice Admiral Lufip was no incompetent, commander of the Alliance's Third Fleet, and he laid a trap for Commodore Dalk - in the rear of the right flank, Lufip quietly gathered a thousand cruisers directly under the flagship, ready to gather fire.
"Imperial Army! Concentrate on attacking! Ruthlessly turn the Imperial Lord into cosmic dust!"
Dark's fleet crashed headlong into the ambush circle, and in just twenty minutes it reimbursed more than three hundred ships. Dark's back was covered with cold sweat, "Don't stop, rush straight over! Try to disrupt the enemy in front! Don't care about the artillery fire from the side!"
"Darke seems to have fallen into a trap, what should I do, do you want to help him?" reminded Schutkerhaughan.
"No, start the assault head-on!Launch the missiles!Tell the mine-strikers to prepare!" Fafnir said, still slumped in his chair, "Darke is a reckless fellow, he will try to attack as long as he is not dead, and I just need this time." ”
The Imperial fleet suddenly began to accelerate.
"Oh no! Order the rear fleet to start retreating and open fire with all its might to cover the withdrawal of the central battle group!" Vice Admiral Lufip gave a quick order.
However, the numerical disadvantage put an end to the Vice Admiral's efforts - the frontal began to crumble, and the Imperial Army continued to break through the frontal Alliance array, releasing mine-striking boats to deliver the most final blow to the Alliance's already disintegrated front, at which point Lufip was no longer able to destroy the Darke fleet, which was already on the verge of destruction. "Shock! Shock! Opposite is the enemy's flagship?! Great, crash me!" Darke was already in a state of euphoria, his fleet had only about 200 destroyers left, but he was lucky enough to find the flagship of the Third Fleet, Lufip's "Ku Herring", just in retreat.
"Imperial destroyers! very close! Oh no! The other side is firing!" the observer let out a mournful cry as the flagship's frigate came up and blocked the Imperial destroyer's line of fire with its own flank. The huge explosion and fire filled the entire observation window of the bridge, and as the light faded, the remaining half of the battleship's hull suddenly slammed into the "Ku Herring", knocking out the power of the flagship, and the two ships began to fall towards the planet together......
On 12 October, the Confederate Third Fleet was devastated by the Imperial Fafnir fleet, in which Vice Admiral Lufip was killed, leaving only 3,000 ships of the entire fleet out of the battlefield, 6,000 destroyed, and the rest surrendered or captured. The Faffnier fleet had lost only 2,000 ships, many of which could be repaired, and soon the number of ships that Fafnir had retained during the repair and early counterinsurgency efforts brought the fleet back to 18,000.
The Third Fleet was not the only Confederate fleet that was attacked on this day. The Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Fleets were all attacked by the Imperial fleet. But the Imperial Fleet did not have a good deal, the veteran of the Fifth Fleet, Bicgu, faced Rochenthal, Rochenthal had no strength to annihilate Bickogu's Fifth Fleet, the number of the two sides was almost the same, and the commander's talent would not make imbecile mistakes, and finally because Rochenthal's fleet was more energetic, he forced back Bicgu's Fifth Fleet, resulting in the loss of forty percent of the Fifth Fleet's troops, but Rochenthal himself lost thirty percent of his strength and was powerless to stop Bicquegu's retreat.
Herwood of the Seventh Fleet was attacked by Gilfias, who used a successful flank assault to defeat the Seventh Fleet with high-speed warships, and pursued the remnants of the Seventh Fleet until they left the battlefield. Gilfias defeated his opponents, wiping out seventy percent of the Seventh Fleet's forces and capturing Vice Admiral Herwood.
Vice Admiral Upton of the Eighth Fleet and Mecklinger's fleet were both defeated, and both sides retreated after losing thirty percent of their fleets.
The Confederate Ninth Fleet, commanded by Admiral Yar Shaleem, was defeated by the Imperial Army's Midamaia. Admiral Shalem is desperately trying to prevent the collapse of the chain of command.
As a result, Midamaia's pursuit was too rapid, and the forward forces of the pursuing Imperial Army and the rear group of the pursued Allied Army blended together, resulting in the spectacle of the two ships side by side, and the soldiers on both sides were surprised to see the enemy ship mark in front of them through the window.
This chaos was slowed down by Midamaia's orders to his subordinates, and it was finally cleaned up. However, for the Allied forces, this only meant that the enemy's pursuit was organized again, and the Imperial army was attacked by artillery fire while maintaining the firing range, and the ships and human lives were lost one by one.
The flagship Baramidis also suffered seven damage to its hull, and its commander, Vice Admiral Yar Shaleem, broke his ribs and was seriously wounded. The deputy commander, Major General Morton, took over the command, reluctantly commanded the remnants of the army, and embarked on a long road to defeat.
Rear Admiral Camp of the Imperial Army pounced, and the Thirteenth Fleet of the Alliance, which had been scheduled to be encountered, disappeared without a trace, and by the time he heard the news of the Thirteenth Fleet, it was already time for the Thirteenth Fleet and the Tenth Fleet to merge and inflict heavy damage on the Bidianfeldt fleet.
Vice Admiral Ulanf's 10th Fleet faced the Empire's Bidenfeldt fleet, but he wasn't alone in facing Bidenfeldt - Young's 13th Fleet joined him early. When Bidian Fürth launched a fierce attack, Yang Willy gave him a lifelong memorial - after using the warship groups of the two admirals of Ulanfu and Yang to absorb the strength of Bidian Felt's charge, he carried out a counter-assault on Bidian Felter from the left and right flanks, Bidian Felter himself led the flagship squadron to successfully escape death, but he lost as many as eighty percent of his subordinates, even so, Bi Dian Felter still caused the loss of three percent of the Ulanfu fleet and two percent of the Yang fleet.
Then Ulanfu and Yang took advantage of the situation to save Vice Admiral Borodin of the Twelfth Fleet, and after blocking the attack of the Imperial Army Lutz, the three fleets worked together to annihilate the Lutz fleet, and Lutz himself was only spared, but the energy and missile losses of the three fleets had reached their peak, and they also began to retreat.
On the way back, they met the Gilfias fleet. Facing three alliance fleets, even if two of them have suffered considerable losses, they are still not something that Gilfias can match. Therefore, after exchanging long-range artillery fire, both sides withdrew from the battlefield.
In the bridge of Brenshire, the general flagship of the Imperial Army, Reinhardt listened to the report of Oberstein. Then several people were half-speechless.
"The enemy fled in defeat, but remained in order, as if they were converging towards the Amritza system. “
"But our army has also lost the fleets of Bidianfeldt and Lutz!
"Your Excellency!"
"Oh, Your Excellency Marshal Royankram! Our forces have annihilated the enemy's Third, Seventh, and Ninth Fleets, and inflicted considerable losses on the other fleets. Congratulations...... In this case, at least the enemy's Eighth Fleet would not be able to escape, and the Fifth and Tenth Fleets would certainly suffer greater losses, and our army would not have lost two fleets. Okay, let's not talk about that, is the next step for your Excellency to have the final battle with the allies in the Yamliza system?"
Fafnir didn't turn on the visual options, so as not to die laughing at Royancram's face, and to avoid being locked up again for contempt of his superiors.
The star Amritza let out a silent roar constantly. In the ultra-high heat of nuclear fusion, countless atoms collide, split, and regenerate each other, and the process repeats itself endlessly, and the expanded energy is emitted into the void. All kinds of different elements emit flames of different colors, jumping in units of 10,000 kilometers, or red, yellow, or purple, dyeing people's vision into a kaleidoscopic color space.
The fifth, eighth, tenth, twelfth and thirteenth fleets of the Allied forces were resupplied and repaired in Yamriza and the morale of the Allied forces was quite good, although they lost three fleets, but also annihilated two fleets of the Empire, so it can be said that the exchange was one step behind for the time being. The original scale of the front-line actual combat fleet of 100,000 ships is now only about 50,000 ships remaining, and the number of Imperial troops in front of it is about 65,000 ships, not counting the Favenir fleet.
The final battle is about to begin.