Chapter 347: The Sect's Counterattack
Completely block out the many possibilities, so that the enemy can only see the two options he has given.
This is precisely the most clever method of psychological warfare.
"It's really strong to be able to do this. Looking at the destroyed outposts of the sect's headquarters on the charts, Reinhardt was sincerely amazed.
What is a genius commander? This is called a genius commander!
can be what ordinary people can't, when ordinary people can only see the dead end, they just rely on their unbridled creativity to open up a way of life!
With the passage of time, Emile's analysis of ancient warships has become more and more complete, and the forward base has also relied on the resources of the stars to build more warships faster and faster.
It can be said that time is on the side of the Hayabusa.
And now, relying on the rhythm of bringing the other party into his own, Midi has won the biggest ingredient of time.
The next thing to do is to accumulate enough strength, and then march towards the Heavenly Veil Beast, and the blow is fatal.
It's just that when Reinha was deliberately angry, Midi's expression gradually became solemn.
"Prepare the fleets, judging by the distribution of patrol routes on the charts, the adversaries are almost familiar with our rhythm, and the next thing is probably a large-scale build-up. Midi said, with a hint of seriousness and jealousy in her eyes, "It's just, how far will they go?"
As Midi expected, after nearly a week of this "rhythm tactic", the sect's headquarters finally got used to the dense either-or defense.
Rather than simply and rudely abandon defense, they rebuilt a new support system, and each outlying outpost or mine could receive one-on-one support.
And once all this was done, Midi's attack could no longer be effective - even if he sent two fleets at the same time, he would face two reinforcements larger than his own.
However, if three fleets are sent at the same time, the defense of the sect's headquarters will still be problematic.
After all, the defense system of the three fleets requires a greater amount of calculation, and the Mind Flayers are good at mind reading, but in terms of tactics, it is clear that this height has not yet been reached.
However, it was also the same for Midi, and it was extremely difficult to find targets that could allow three fleets to attack at the same time, and that the sect headquarters could not defend at the same time.
Therefore, even if you can launch a few attacks once in a while and succeed, from the overall strategic point of view, there are not many such opportunities, and each attack, there will be one less target, and by the time the defense line of the sect headquarters is perfected to a certain extent, it will be completely invulnerable.
At that point, it can be predicted that Midi will face a frantic counterattack from the other side.
Will Midi be able to hold off the revenge that the sect has launched after a long period of grievance?
Of course not.
Although Emile's research day and night during this period of time had some success, and nearly ten Wind and Fire warships were successfully completed and organized into a new fleet, for the attack of the sect's headquarters, this warship was far from enough to turn the tide of the battle head-on.
If you want to prevent it, you can't prevent it.
A major expedition by the Sect's headquarters would be enough to destroy Bloodhell Island.
Judging from the feedback from the scouts, the sect is indeed massing on a large scale.
They shrank their battle lines and relied on the island chains formed by the floating islands themselves for defense, while a large number of small patrol fleets were constantly integrated and rearranged after breaking up and rearranging, thus forming a large fleet.
According to Midi's basis, if this fleet is finally formed, the scale will probably be at least more than fifty warships!
Fifty ships, which in an air battle is simply an astronomical number.
Even if it is fifty iron-framed warships sailing on the sea, it can almost capture the entire west coast, and fifty antique warships will not be a problem to sweep the entire Arad continent, right?
"The offensive must continue. Faced with this heavy calculation, Midi finally made a decision.
Just waiting for the other party to launch a general attack after gathering will only be a dead end.
If you continue to attack, although you can't avoid a head-on confrontation, at least it can make it impossible for the opponent to assemble that kind of super-large fleet.
This is the only way, to replace defense with offense.
It's just that this is also a helpless and painful way, because the attack at this moment can no longer pick up leaks or attack the west, but has entered the rhythm of a war of attrition.
Every time Midi makes a sortie, the sect will immediately send a corresponding fleet, and take advantage of the geographical advantage of the floating island to defend it.
There is no longer a situation where two targets are too late to defend at the same time, and there is no problem of missing lines of defense, and every sortie is a tragic battle in which the warships of both sides are attacking from the front with all their might. In every battle, at least ten percent of the battleships are lost.
One may be fine, but as the number of battles increases, such a loss must be a huge blow to morale.
Even if the alchemy factory at the forward base is fully powered and newer warships are constantly added to make up for it, the dead warriors will not be able to recover.
Every time you go into battle, ten percent of them die.
Every time you fight, many families are torn apart.
Many believers living on Blood Hell Island even died after fathers and sons went into battle together, and brothers went into battle together.
Although everyone knows very well that in order to prevent the battle line from collapsing all at once, Midi's approach is the most rational and correct choice, but feelings are uncontrollable, and because of this, more and more friction occurs on Bloodhell Island.
When will the next battle be?
Which side will be the next sunken battleship?
Maybe next time it will be your turn, right?
When such thoughts begin to spread, how can morale be high?
Even Midi is a little unsustainable in the face of such a situation.
After all, for Xingyang, he is just a newcomer, although he took advantage of the danger to seize the military command of the supreme commander, but Midi's prestige has not been completely established.
To be precise, he has the majesty of personal force and wisdom, but he does not have the trust and honesty of the believers.
For this reason, Reinhardt and the others had to rush to the front line even harder, lest Midi be regarded as the kind of commander who used the bloody purification as cannon fodder and let the people of the Falcon Regiment sit behind the scenes.
And in the midst of such a difficult battle, Midi's Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord caught a piece of news that made matters worse-
The leader of the Blue Truth Sect is on the front line.
In the sect headquarters, the four major temple masters were all riding the most advanced dragon-class heavy cruisers.
Since they are all responsible for the center of the Mind Flayer's Mind Network, staying on the bridge of the Dragon Battleship will be able to convey the information gathered in the Mind Flayer Network to the captains in the fastest way.
In other words, the role of the temple master is that of the commander.
But the leader is different.
He wasn't a dragon, not even a battleship, but an airship.
It was an extremely beautiful airship made of glass.
The length of this airship is about fifteen meters, and it looks like a swallow fluttering in the wind.
On this airship, there is only one sect leader, and the entire boat is completely controlled by telepathy, without any other auxiliary equipment.
It can be said that this is not so much an airship as it is the personal car of the sect master.
The reason why this method is adopted is because the responsibilities of the Blue Truth Sect leader on the battlefield are completely different from those of the temple master.
As a super mind slayer with six tentacles, the sect leader doesn't have to care about trivial matters such as reconnaissance, detection, command, and information transmission.
The only thing he had to do was to use his overwhelming spiritual power to suppress and even dominate all enemies.
In other words, as the Mind Flayer with the highest psionic strength in the sect, he is a warrior at the forefront of the charge.
And you can imagine what kind of consequences it would bring if such a super mind snatcher unleashed a mental storm during the fierce battle between the two warships.
It was certainly no less devastating than the eight Stinger ships that Midi had captured in the first place.
No, it's even much bigger.
The only way to confront such an enemy is to use personal force to contain it.
And there is only one person who can contain a terrifying psionic powerhouse like the sect leader.
Midi Asrex.
However, this also means that Midi will leave the position of commander, and the burden on the two commanders, Reinhardt and Marcel, will be further increased.
But even if he knew that the Dao was like this, Midi could only choose to go to the front line to fight to deal with it, so as not to completely collapse the battle line in front of the sect leader's strength.
In this way, with the arrival of the Sect Master's glazed airship at the front line, a new great battle began.
At the same time, at the edge of the starry ocean, among the forward bases managed by Emile, the Wind King battleship, which had been serving as a transport aircraft for a long time, once again passed through the black cloud circle and the ice cloud circle and returned to the base.
But this time, the Wind King battleship brought not only new blood and supplies from the sea of clouds, but also a group of uninvited members.
Among the uninvited guests was an old man with ridiculous round glasses and a white coat, completely unkempt.
There is also a beautiful young man with an extremely beautiful face.
But the most striking thing is the two women at the front.
One person, with red hair as beautiful as autumn maples, like a burning flame.
The other has long black hair like a waterfall, like a piece of ice.
One ice and one fire, obviously it looks completely incompatible, but it gives people an extremely natural and harmonious beauty, whether it is a man or a woman, when you see these two women, you have a feeling that you can't look away.
Who are they?
Why are you here?
Who is it for?
Unconsciously, such a question arises in people's hearts.