Chapter 798: A Battle that Is Not a Battle

Strictly speaking, the battle at the gravitational boundary was no longer a battle, but a chaotic chase. The high-speed battleships of the Revenge Army that were isolated by us were scattered into more than a dozen formations, and each formation specifically disrupted the formation. , galloping around the border and flying everywhere, their speed is astonishing, and they are constantly jumping within a few light seconds, like thousands of locusts that move quickly, they have given up any grouping operations, because the pilots of those small spacecraft The pilots knew that without the support of a mothership, a small spaceship alone outside would not be able to face off against the enemy's mixed fleet using any tactics. And our interception force can only follow the opponent's same maneuver method, jumping around and making sharp turns on the enemy's general path. Bright and short blue-white flames flash in the deep space, which are assault ships and The main cannon of the individual fighter planes was firing, but in comparison, very few battleships were hit directly. Most of the high-energy beams flew past the opponent, and many battleships were hit instantly before being hit. Teleporting away, the ferocious reaction speed of the automatic evasion system manufactured by Xiling Technology can be seen. Of course, the level of fighter pilots is also really strong. I am not familiar with the soldiers of the Revenge Army, but these soldiers of the New Empire Army can all The ruthless character driving a three-wheeler in the city center and racing with the traffic police brigade. I know this analogy is not appropriate here. What I mean is: the scene of two groups of high-speed spaceships constantly jumping around and shooting in maneuvers is really the best. It is more exciting.

This chaotic chase may therefore last longer than we expect.

"Fortunately, we separated their escort formation and mothership formation." Sandora sighed softly. "Half of them are elites of the original Royal Guard. If they were not separated but were all sent to the ambush circle, I'm afraid After our first round of attacks, they will be able to organize an effective counterattack, and even if the ambush force can win, they will suffer a lot of losses."

"It seems that these escort formations are just small ships with weak shields, right? What role can they play if they are saturated and bombed in the encirclement?"

After being with Sandora for so long, I also gained some military deduction skills, and immediately asked curiously. The latter shook his head slightly: "If an ordinary army encounters a saturation bombing at the moment of completing the transmission, its lightweight The escort formation will definitely be wiped out, but the Royal Guards I used to have the confidence to fight against this situation. They will instantly jump the mothership formation to the outside of the battle line to form a joint shield, which in turn will protect the escort formation, and wait until they can survive the first round. After the bombing, release those high-speed ships and let them attack the enemy mothership that has just completed the bombing and have no time to recharge, and at the same time interfere with the ambushers' second attack. When these escort formations that rush out to serve as cannon fodder are almost completely wiped out, the mothership The fleet formation should have also completed charging, and what is left is the evenly matched giant ships to shoot at each other. In this way, even if the convoy is completely wiped out, they can let their combat power explode as completely as possible in the case of a sneak attack...

After listening to Shandora's explanation with my eyes open, I couldn't help but marvel: "What a ferocious reaction speed..., from falling into the ambush circle to the time when the ambush troops opened fire, there was zero time difference." One second?"

"Under the action of the short-distance jump device, even a microsecond of time difference can be grasped. Any emperor's royal guard should have the ability to turn what is theoretically feasible into reality. The royal family that Pandora has formed for you What the Guards are good at is using more and more artillery to crush them. They can continue to increase their combat effectiveness no matter how much they are attacked, while my army is good at surprise attacks. In their opinion, all kinds of tactics you can't think of can be adopted. Yes, the more elite the troops are, the more cunning and weird they are."

I looked at Sandora in silence, saying to myself that I had never noticed that Sandora’s military style was so... eh, quirky, maybe this is in line with her personality to some extent. ?

At this time, the chase at the gravitational boundary is almost over. Our interception force finally only intercepted less than half of the opponent's small gray aircraft. The speed of those raiding ships is really too fast, and what they are good at is all kinds of counter-encirclement. About ten assault formations are outflanking the Misty Star from all directions. While they are leaping here at several times the speed of light, they are erratically exchanging positions halfway, making it impossible for our fire control system to accurately aim. In the time it took for a lollipop (this is equivalent to the time it takes for a pack of cigarettes, editor's note), groups of small red dots appeared on Jiangjun City's close-in defense radar.

“If we can incorporate these guys, the Imperial Army’s tactics will be greatly supplemented.

"Sivis said involuntarily, and I quickly coughed twice: Sandora should be disappointed again.

At this moment, the enemy's assault ships, which were dispersed by our traps, have been surrounded by multiple armies and are within the firepower range of the Mist Star's close-in defense artillery. The accuracy of the latter is obviously far superior to that of the long-range artillery. The enemy's agile small spacecraft finally moved at high speed. Under the attack of anti-aircraft guns, a lot of damage began to occur. If nothing unexpected happened, the high-altitude orbit of the Misty Star would be the greatest result they could achieve in this suicidal charge. However, they still rushed forward without fear of death, with no intention of retreating at all. And we once again saw the most awesome tactic of the Revenge Army: self-destruction, all kinds of self-destruction.

At this time, even Qian Qian could see that the defeat of the escort formation of the Revenge Army was determined. If they continued to charge, it would only be a matter of time before the entire army was annihilated. However, no one of them retreated, even under constant attack from intercepting troops and anti-aircraft artillery. Being beaten into fireworks, they also fiercely attacked the defense line of Fog Star, which was almost impossible to destroy for small warships like themselves, saturating the attack and then concentrating on self-destruction. This was completely a fighting method that no longer sought victory but sought to fulfill its purpose. I couldn't figure out why they didn't retreat at first, but now I kind of understand what the other commander is thinking.

Yes, if they were to flee in all directions, some of these ultra-high-speed spacecraft could still escape. After all, the gravitational trap can only be effective within a certain range. We cannot be densely packed in the sky with a radius of 1.5 light-years. Fill this kind of restraint, so as long as the escort formation of the Revenge Army can get rid of the intercepting troops and initiate the time-space jump, at least one-third of the warships and fighter planes can escape from this battlefield. Although the Xiling Apostles are powerful during the attack, They were not afraid of death, and they were not incapable of turning corners when they had to make a strategic retreat, but the other party did not do so because they wanted to protect the secrets of their main base.

As long as you retreat, your opponent may capture the space trajectory. Then your main base may be exposed. They are different from those mothership formations trapped in another world. The latter have to pass through the world barrier when retreating, so as to block possible tracking signals. However, these escort formations are fighting on the mainland, and in our Right before their eyes, as long as they turn around and run away, they might be tracked.

The commander of the Revenge Army (we still don’t know what kind of command method the Revenge Army has now, let’s assume that they still have a commander, and this commander is rational) knows that he is facing the Imperial Army with the same technical strength, so he Don't dare to take this risk. So all the Revenge Army chose a fatal attack method. They would rather all self-destruct on the position than turn around and run towards the main base. Of course, they couldn't be captured alive by us.

Pandora and Visca have already entered the battle, which means that this short firefight is about to end. Even the fastest individual fighter can't avoid these two 1.2-meter budget fire control units. When these two little lunatics When summoning the floating cannons in the sky, the enemy's largest nose team could no longer advance one meter. They seemed to have hit an invisible barrier. It was the artillery net woven by the Pandora sisters and the fragile individual fighter planes. Facing this layer of fire kings, they basically crash instantly. In several other directions, the Revenge Army was also blocked by local interception forces.

In the end, everyone fell silent when they saw a dazzling white flash of light on the high-altitude orbit. The scene still appeared... The few hundred scarred Revenge Army assault ships that survived after breaking through the firepower net were there. Self-destructed.

I really want to complain about the other person's bloody journey of one and a half light years just to be disgusted. But in the end the complaint turned into a sigh.

When the small-scale battle on the defense line of Misty Star (compared to another universe) had just ended, information from the closed universe also entered the command link. The captain of the Death Star Fortress reported: "Your Majesty, the battle has begun. Finish."

"The results of the battle... Sandora only said two words briefly. She was no longer in the mood to use rhetorical techniques and subject, predicate and object.

"I'm sorry, my Majesty, we did not achieve the expected results." The commander - I really can't remember who he was - first said apologetically, and then began to explain the situation. "The enemy may have discovered that the coordinates were wrong at the moment. The Combined Shield was activated, and the first round of attacks by the ambush force failed to consume the barrier as planned, and the Death Star's "Wrath. There was a parameter error in the attack, and the last batch of impact bombs was delayed for 1.375 seconds before being released. The Revenge Army took the opportunity to escape from the encirclement. . .

Shandora frowned: "The result of the battle. Just talk about the result of the battle...

"We left about a quarter of the enemy's warships, and they all eventually self-destructed. Forty percent of the remaining enemy ships were confirmed to have been severely damaged and could not return to the battlefield in a short period of time. Sixty percent of the damage was unknown. It may be possible in the short term. Then it became a threat again."

In other words, after the ambush, we actually destroyed only a quarter of the enemy's troops, which was far lower than we expected. Our initial idea was to let the psionic energy die after the ambush fleet weakened the enemy's shields. Xing used his ultimate move to directly drop a large piece in seconds, but he never expected that the enemy commander would react so quickly and the psionic Death Star would even lose its chain slightly.

As for the battle results report, about 40% of the enemy's troops were severely damaged. This is of little significance to Sandora and I. Everyone knows how abnormal the productivity of the Xiling Empire is. For a ship to have a base as a backing As far as a battleship is concerned, as long as it can return from the battlefield alive, no matter how heavy the damage is, it will be fine. It is no exaggeration to say that even if an aircraft carrier is hit with only a windshield left, as long as it does not take much effort to send it back to the factory, it will be fine. The imperial technicians who helped fight the chicken blood can put it all together. Of course, you have to say that they found another aircraft carrier that just happened to have a missing windshield and replaced it...

But no matter what, this was still a great victory. The ratio of losses between the enemy and ourselves reached an unprecedented one to five, and the main casualties were the small spacecraft responsible for intercepting the escort formations. This was already the case when the enemy was the Imperial fleet of the same strength. A very impressive result. Of course, everyone knows that this is a dangerous tactic and Bingtis’s long-term experience in fighting sap, so it is not worthy of celebration. In fact, since the last raid on the Misty Star, we have been in this universe. Any military victory achieved is not worth celebrating.

The Command Center is still busy with post-war statistics and various arrangements, but for those of us who don’t need to participate in specific affairs, there is nothing to be busy with. Shandora tapped lightly on the table. , the eyebrows did not relax much. Because we all know that today is only the beginning.

Even today, I don’t want to call it a real “battle”. The past less than an hour has been filled with traps, sap, and conspiracy. Although soldiers are not afraid of deceit, it is undeniable that the Revenge Army was deceived by us because of its carelessness. , so we gave up the victory. We completely avoided the opponent's hard power and threw them into Bingtis's gangster-style dire straits like Tai Chi (especially referring to "fury". Who wants to cough? I'm in a hurry with him. !), the only real hard confrontation was the interception battle against those escort ships, while the Revenge Army’s mothership formation decisively chose to evacuate with almost no resistance. It can be said that this time the Imperial Army relied on 30% luck and 70% trickery. The next time they won't be so lucky. After all, ever since I went to Uncle Zhao's house in the countryside to steal fruit and was beaten up when I was a child, I knew that I was not the protagonist in a novel. life.

So I knocked on the table and said with a very serious expression: "This crisis is temporarily over, but we can't go on like this. Sooner or later we will have to fight a tough battle with the Revenge Army. I'm afraid it won't work if we try to change things next time."

I said this and everyone agreed. There was no shortage of people with long-term vision present. Everyone knew that this "victory" sounded nice, but in fact it was just good luck and cunning. Sandora also said, This kind of coordinate masking can only be used once. The Revenge Army will definitely use some method to block our wrong signals next time. A tough battle will still have to be fought.

There was not much time to discuss later. Sandora showed her resolute side. She activated the isolation barrier on the officer's platform and turned the place where we were into an undisturbed conference room, and then in the air With a few clicks of the middle finger, a dense star map appeared in front of everyone. It should be said that at this time, I was not the stupid young man who looked at the star map and was dizzy for half an hour. After seeing the star map, I only felt a little dizzy, then nodded seriously and pointed to a specially marked spot on the star map. : "Yeah. Mobrado Galaxy, right?"

Sandora glanced at me silently: "This is the outpost..."

I thought about it and decided not to speak for a while.

Of course I know about the outpost, but I just didn’t recognize it: the star maps in space are so densely packed that they look like sesame pancakes, so no one would recognize them. When we first led the army into this universe, we separated the main force. Following Lin Xue's suggestion, they established a base far away from Mobrado, which was a primitive air mass. The environment is harsh, and the surroundings are very empty and desolate. There is no conspicuous celestial body within almost ten light years. In the two battles with the Revenge Army, the outpost was never exposed. This is our biggest relief at the moment. As long as it is not exposed, relying on the Xiling Apostle's unparalleled violent force capabilities, we will soon be able to obtain a solid frontline bunker in this universe.

But the only thing that makes people worried is, can the speed of our violent troops be compared with that of the Revenge Army?

There is currently no evidence that the Revenge Army has a main base in this universe. Our probes have almost reached the space warp layer at the edge of the universe and have not found a functioning Imperial arsenal. However, the two armies they assembled cannot be out of thin air. Come on, the Revenge Army must have used any method to hide their base camp. I have no doubt that this base camp has a violent force capability that far exceeds that of our nose outpost.

Now the Imperial arsenals in Shadow Space, Kuiper Belt Base, Koprulu Branch Base, Locked Universe Branch Base and other places have entered into overtime and have accumulated a considerable number of mass-produced fleets and war puppets for war consumption, but in a short time It is impossible for them all to arrive within a short period of time to support us. We need a world gate that is large enough and more importantly stable enough, rather than a temporary channel like a teleportation crystal peak, and building a world gate takes time.

Time, time again, time to race against the revenge army.

"The outpost and the Mist Star Defense Line, these two places are our only strongholds in this universe at present." Sandora zoomed the star map, showing the current overall layout of the galaxy in front of our eyes, and the Mist Star Defense Line and the outpost suddenly turned into two light spots smaller than a pixel. "We are alone. What we are facing now is the regular army of the old empire, and there may also be a large base system from the old empire era here, fighting for productivity head-on." , we will soon be caught in a steady stream of frontal attacks from the enemy, and we won’t be able to hold on for long.”

No one spoke, they were all waiting for Sandora's next words. Everyone knew the disadvantages of the Imperial Army, so they wanted to know what plans Sandora, the former commander of the Revenge Army, would have to turn things around.

"In the past few days, the outpost has been building and expanding its troops at a high speed according to the original plan. It has begun to take shape. If the same danger as the first Raid on Fog Star occurs again, they can immediately organize enough generals The enemy has completely suppressed the fleet to rescue it. Of course, this is just a hypothesis. There is an 80% chance that the outpost will be exposed in advance, and the number of fleets that may be assembled when the Revenge Army attacks again will definitely be even larger. Now. The outpost is already our largest source of troops. Before a stable world gate is established, it may also be our only reliable source of troops in this universe. Therefore, the outpost must not be directly put into battle, and even the warships it produces cannot be used directly. They need to be divided into small batches and mobilized little by little to the Misty Star.

Then there is the defense line of Misty Planet. This giant planet has now become a strategic location. It is the bridgehead of the Mobrado star system, and the Mobrado star system is an important site for finding the truth about the out-of-control revenge army. Here You must not miss it either. "

Shandora just stated two absolutely unchangeable facts, but my sister had already understood what she was saying. She drew a circle on the table (did you feel a chill in your heart?) and said: "So, we have to find a way to make the battle here. An outbreak on a battlefield two places away?”

"And we also need to divert the attention of the Revenge Army and make them think that is our base camp." Sandora nodded and added. ! .