Chapter 769: Crisis is approaching
Sure enough, with the active cooperation of the Earth Fleet, I felt that the results were gradually becoming fruitful, and the Iron Battlestar also regained its fighting spirit and became interested in continuing to fight with the Earth Fleet.
It's not that Iron Battlestar can't see that the Earth Fleet released the bait to hang itself, but what the Earth Fleet thinks, this is not important to Iron Battlestar, the important thing is that this matter itself is not in line with Iron Battlestar's own ideas.
And one thing is obvious, if the destruction efficiency is appropriate, the Iron Battlestar will not spare a few days of waste, after all, for the Iron Battlestar, it is definitely in its interests to be able to weaken the power of the Earth Fleet to the greatest extent, and it is also a worthwhile thing to do.
The Earth Fleet just wanted to throw those badly damaged warships as bait to attract the attention of the Iron Battlestar, but the Iron Battlestar didn't just want to eat the bait fed to it by the Earth Fleet, it also wanted to take the initiative and swallow some of the intact warships of the Earth Fleet!
As a result, the heat on the battlefield heated up rapidly again for a while, and became fierce again, although the Iron Battlestar itself was slow, it still actively activated the regular flight mode, and moved closer to the direction of the Earth Fleet at a speed of twice the speed of light, and at the same time increased the scale of the firepower strike to its performance limit.
The Earth Fleet's rapid transfer of personnel and supplies in the void is simply not concealed from the Iron Battlestar, which can be observed clearly from a distance of several light years. It saw the extremely high difficulty and the extremely large amount of work involved in the transfer of materials and personnel from tens of thousands of warships, and knew that this operation of the Earth Fleet could not be completed in a day and a half, and that in the process the Earth Fleet must remain in a relatively static state as much as possible, and it was relatively easy to be hit, so it specifically targeted those warships that were in a busy state and exerted a large number of blows on the area where they were located.
Although there is still a delay of about a day for these attacks to really fall on the head of the Earth Battleship, the Iron Battlestar is very sure that as long as the targeted attack is launched, it will inevitably have a good result, so the Iron Battlestar has increased the intensity of the attack on the Earth Fleet at no cost, trying to grab some results as much as possible.
As for the Earth Fleet, a lot of work has been done to protect the ships that have not completed the transfer work as much as possible.
After feeding some bait and attracting some attention from the Iron Battlestar, the Earth Fleet immediately suspended the attraction of the Iron Battlestar, and no longer took the initiative to transport those seriously damaged battleships to the danger area, but placed these damaged battleships in front of the ships that transferred goods in the rear, and the ships were aligned with the Iron Battlestar in a line, so that these damaged and unmanned ships could act as the meat shield of the rear warships, and improve the safety of the rear warships as much as possible.
After all, the scale and quantity of Earth Battleships are limited, and the number of damaged warships that can be used to attract the attention of the Iron Battlestar and act as bait is even smaller, so when the combatants of the Earth Fleet use them to attract the attention of the Iron Battlestar, they are also quite stingy and do everything possible to save as much as possible.
Generally, the Earth Fleet is to make a big news first, put a wave of bait on the Iron Battlestar, so that the Iron Battlestar can harvest a large number of results in several attack waves, and then after a while, it will save resources as much as possible and reduce the strength of the Iron Battlestar's results, and then wait for a while, and wait until the average hit rate of the Iron Battlestar is reduced to a certain lower limit, and it is possible to hit the stop loss point of the Iron Battlestar, and the Earth Fleet will feed the Iron Battlestar with another wave, increase the number of achievements of the Iron Battlestar, and let the Iron Battlestar continue to maintain the interest of fighting as much as possible。
Essentially, this is no different from feeding the monkeys, and if Iron Battlestar was an intelligent life with real joys and sorrows, it would have stopped playing with the Earth Fleet a long time ago.
However, in the final analysis, the Iron Warrior is only an intelligent man-made product, although its intelligent system can be disposed of in a variety of ways, and has the ability to greatly adapt to the combat environment, but after all, it does not really belong to its own joys, sorrows, and sorrows.
Therefore, although the Iron Battlestar has long seen through the tricks played by the Earth Fleet, and knows that the Earth Fleet is consciously adjusting the scale and quantity of its own battle damage, it is trying to contain its own movements as much as possible, and delay its own attack on the star field directly under the Earth civilization, but as long as the Iron Battlestar thinks that it is still profitable in such a war and it is necessary to continue, then the Iron Battlestar will continue to "cooperate" with the Earth Fleet without caring at all, and will not be angry at all.
So with the cooperation of the Iron Battlestar and the Earth Fleet, the Earth Fleet dragged on for another seven or eight days.
During this time, the Earth Fleet transferred supplies and personnel from the damaged warships, and at the same time placed the warships that had completed the transfer at the front of the fleet for the Iron Battlestar to destroy. In the process of tacit cooperation between the two sides, the Earth Fleet has quickly completed the transfer of relevant personnel and materials, and the rest of the time is deliberately killing time on the battlefield in order to drag the Iron Battlestar.
Although the Earth Fleet has tens of thousands of badly damaged warships that can be used as bait, these warships have not been able to sustain much time under the premise that they must meet the minimum hit rate standard of the Iron Battlestar, and in these seven or eight days, all the warships that can be discarded have been consumed.
While consuming a large number of these damaged warships, the Earth Fleet is also adopting the strategy of retreating in batches, jumping a small detachment of a hundred warships at a time, carrying out faster-than-light jumping operations in batches, and evacuating in the direction away from the steel battle star.
After all, within the range of about three light years of the Iron Battlestar, in the final analysis, the Iron Battlestar still has considerable lethality to the Earth Fleet, no matter how carefully the Earth Fleet changes its formation, how it evacuates the warships, and increases the distance between the warships, under the round of attacks of the Iron Battlestar, the Earth Fleet will still have some warships that will be hit more or less every time.
These intact warships are the core combat capital of the Earth Fleet, and if they want to contain the actions of the Iron Battlestar in the future, these warships are the most critical forces, they are not like those damaged warships that have a lot of damage to the energy shield and are difficult to repair, these intact warships can still play a great role in the follow-up operations, and will not be damaged by a large number of defense systems of the Resistance Alliance and faster-than-light battleships.
Therefore, the Earth Fleet cherishes these intact warships extremely much, and it is impossible to allow the Iron Battlestar to be destroyed at will on a large scale like it did with those damaged warships.
In order to reduce the loss of these warships as much as possible, as soon as the jump engine completed the cooling a few days ago, the Earth Fleet had already begun to evacuate, and the reason why they jumped in small batches and jumped to different regional locations was that the Earth Fleet was afraid that the Iron Battlestar would also jump over, so as to carry out large-scale destruction of the Earth Fleet.
During this delay, the intact warships of the Earth Fleet were also attacked and partially damaged.
However, now it is relatively far away from the Iron Battlestar after all, if it is attacked by a faster-than-light cannon, and it is not repeatedly attacked by a large number of conventional weapons, the degree of loss of the Earth Battleship is generally relatively small, and there are some key parts that have been removed from some of the previous damaged warships, and these warships can also be repaired better, and the Earth Fleet has actually arranged for these ships with less damage to jump and evacuate as soon as possible, so as not to be hit by the Iron Battlestar for a second time. The damage was aggravated again, and the ability to continue operations was lost in subsequent operations.
Just as the fleet continued to withdraw in small batches, when all the damaged warships were finally consumed, the Earth Fleet was only about 50,000 ships left in the area of about three light-years of the Iron Battlestar.
In the final remnants of the Earth Fleet's large-scale fleet, all the ships in it were in good condition, without the slightest damage, and each of these intact warships was an important combat force in this Earth Fleet, and it was impossible to easily sacrifice them on their own initiative like the previous damaged warships.
So next, under the full dodge of the Earth Fleet, the hit probability of the Iron Battlestar was suddenly reduced to an unprecedented state, and sometimes after a round of attacks, even the probability of a hit did not exist, this is because the scale of these Earth Battleships has not only been greatly reduced, but also the distance between each other has been stretched extremely wide, and at the same time, the Earth Fleet has a deep understanding of the attack mode of the Iron Battlestar, and can dodge the most effectively.
In this way, the Iron Battlestar's attack hit rate will naturally only be able to hit new lows.
As a result, after a few more rounds of attacks, it became clear to the Iron Battlestar that it would be impossible to achieve any more valuable results if it continued to entangle with this Earth fleet like this.
Even if you make another short-range jump and want to get closer to the Earth Fleet, as long as the Earth Fleet wants to, you can immediately make another space-time jump and reconnect with the Iron Battlestar.
Therefore, it is of no value to continue to fight with this Earth Fleet, and it is just a waste of time.
During this period of time, in the battle with the Earth Fleet, the Iron Battlestar has eliminated more than 60,000 ships of the Earth Fleet, and the remaining strength of the Earth Fleet is still more than 100,000 ships, such a fleet of more than 100,000 ships is still a threatening force for the Resistance Alliance, but in a short period of time, even if the Iron Battlestar wants to destroy them as much as possible, the feasibility is not great, so it is not meaningful to continue to deal with this fleet, it is better to simply attack the star field directly under the Earth civilization, which is more practical。
As long as these directly subordinate star fields of the Earth civilization can be uprooted, blocking the possibility of the Earth civilization continuously sending troops to the surrounding star fields through the wormhole channel, then the vast star fields of nearly a thousand light years around will become the territory of the Iron Battlestar and the Rebellion Alliance's great expansion, and then the tasks that the Iron Battlestar needs to complete will have room to perform.
Therefore, after communicating with the various forces of the Resistance Alliance, informing them that they would launch an attack on the star field directly under the Earth Civilization, and asking the forces of the Resistance Alliance to do a good job of defense, so as not to be easily affected by the Earth Fleet's safety of many underground production bases in the core area, the Steel Battlestar was directly a short-range jump, appearing in the starry sky a hundred light-years away.
The direction of the Iron Battlestar's attack this time is the closest direct star field of the Earth civilization to the Resistance Star Field, which is 320 light-years away from the previous position of the Iron Battlestar, compared to the other two direct star fields of the Earth civilization that are 350 light-years and 400 light-years away from the Rebellion Alliance Star respectively, the distance of this star field is not much different from the Iron Battlestar.
After all, a jump of the Iron Battlestar is a distance of 100 light-years, and more or less dozens of light-years are meaningless to the Iron Battlestar, and it takes four jumps to the left and right before it can launch the final attack on the corresponding star field.
However, although the distance of these dozens of light years is not much different for the Iron Battlestar, this difference is quite large for the Resistance Alliance, and the extra space of dozens of light years is a real safe distance for the Resistance Alliance.
Even if the other two star fields directly under the earth civilization want to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and launch an attack on the resistance alliance in a vain attempt to contain the actions of the Iron Battlestar, this extra distance of dozens of light years is enough for the Earth Fleet to make more than ten jumps, delaying at least two months, so the Iron Battlestar will launch an attack on this nearest direct star of the Earth civilization as soon as possible, this is undoubtedly the best choice for the Iron Battlestar, and the Iron Battlestar will naturally not be reluctant to seek far。
The distance of 320 light years is not close, but it is not far away, the Iron Battle Star has experienced three cycles of jumping engine cooldown, it took a full month, and the last short-range jump directly jumped to the core of the Earth Civilization Star Field, appearing in a void surrounded by layers of defense systems.
At this time, the earth civilization was directly under the star field, and it can be said that it had already been prepared for a long time.
As early as when the Iron Battlestar launched its first short-range jump in the direction of the star field directly under the Earth Civilization, the Earth Civilization already knew the goal of the Iron Battlestar and locked the position of the Iron Battlestar after the jump, and then, all the forces of the entire Earth Civilization were mobilized to deal with the huge threat posed by the Iron Battlestar.