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Chapter 642 Poseidon, move the heat resistance, cut our logistics.

While Amber led the fleet to rush towards the assembly center, the "Polarized Light" special ship, which had already completed the positioning of the assembly center and transmitted the accurate coordinates back to the fleet, also quickly followed the latest instructions and made a complex orbit adjustment, and came to a position that formed a "triangle" with the Atlas Fleet and the Federal Navy Fleet, and began to monitor the First Fleet chasing behind.

In the eyes of Tom, the captain of this special ship and the commander of the entire special ship detachment (although there are only 5 ships), for the "Polarized Light", it is actually much safer to hide in this position to monitor the Federal Fleet than to open the way in front of the fleet.

Whether on the ground, the sea, the sky or the vast universe, the vanguards and pioneers in the battle have always been in a high-risk environment, because no one knows what "surprises" will be waiting for them ahead.

Even if they thought they were sneaking quietly, they were actually exposed to the enemy's reconnaissance, and then after entering the enemy's attack range, they were suddenly dismantled into parts by a heavy metal particle jet.

Now, although the "Polarized Light" seems to have left the fleet and is alone to monitor the enemy fleet, it is not so easy to be discovered.

The interstellar dust cloud of the "Pillar of All Life" was originally at the edge of the gravity well of the "Eye of Serpens", so the effect of the gravitational wave radar in this area can be said to be extremely poor. In addition, there are a large number of dust clouds and interference from various sources, which greatly reduces the detection of fleet-level targets in this area. As for finding a hidden boat, it is even more difficult.

At present, the "Polarized Light" has not only turned on the stealth action mode, but also hidden behind several huge ice crystals, and the surveillance of the battlefield is handed over to dozens of probes connected by transparent carbon nanotubes.

This is just one of the reconnaissance methods of the Polarized Light. As soon as it arrived at this location, the spy ship released 12 self-powered spy satellites.

These "little things" remotely controlled by neutrino communication found some gravel, ice crystals and other climbing objects according to the pre-set settings after they were dispersed, or directly fixed on the micro-powered camouflage meteorites thrown by the Polarized Light.

The huge reconnaissance network composed of spy satellites and probes also allowed the Polarized Light to firmly lock the movements of the Federal Navy fleet, and according to Amber's instructions, focus on the movements of the damaged ships in the fleet.

After many actual combats, Tom has obviously gradually figured out the positioning of the spy ship. It is much more concealed than ordinary reconnaissance ships, which not only allows the spy ship to do some dirty work such as "subversion behind enemy lines", but also allows the ship to have a very high survival rate when performing many highly dangerous reconnaissance missions.

Moreover, after a major transformation, the internal structure can even be said to be completely reborn, so that this special ship has nothing to do with the "Dragoon-class" destroyer except that it still looks like the latter.

At this moment, while the "Polarized Light" was conducting reconnaissance, a group of "worker bees" attached to the ship also took this opportunity to start mining on the nearby ice crystals to replenish some working water, coolant and pure water for personnel to drink for the ship.

Because these worker bees are small enough, unless the opponent sends another reconnaissance ship to "get close to the face", it is impossible to detect the mining of this group of "worker bees" at this distance.

Entering the bridge with blackout lights, only the faint light in front of the workbench of each combat position can be seen. The holographic projection platform in the middle of the bridge will also be temporarily closed to reduce the energy supply demand of the entire ship, so that this hidden warship can minimize all energy reactions.

Captain Tom sat in his command seat, quietly watching the composite image sent back by the spy satellite. After being the captain of a spy ship for so long, the young officer who jumped down from the space elevator starport with Randall at that time has become much calmer.

Time passed by minute by minute. Just as everyone on the bridge was watching the approaching federal navy fleet and praying that the other party would just pass by without discovering them, the scene that the spy ship had been waiting for for a long time finally appeared.

"Captain, the other party's damaged ship has moved, and it seems to be leaving the formation!" The intelligence officer suddenly said excitedly.

"When you see it, calm down a little, don't be so excited." Tom frowned, and then summoned the shipborne control personality that hid the virtual projection.

"Calculate the orbits of these damaged ships to see if they intersect with the areas marked by Boss."

Under normal circumstances, a stream of data would flash near the shipboard control personality as an 'effect animation' of the calculation, but the entire spy ship is in low-power mode at the moment, so there is no virtual image of the shipboard control personality next to Tom.

"Completed calculation, the orbit of the damaged ship completely intersects with the marked β area. Re-calculation is in progress. Verification completed, the result is correct!"

After hearing the last words of the shipboard control personality, Tom also nodded, and then looked at the communication officer who had been on standby: "Send a message to Boss, use the encrypted channel."

"Yes, Captain!"

The communication officer saluted and quickly started to operate. Soon, the 'Polarized Light' sent a triggered pulse neutrino communication to the flagship where Amber was, and the content was also very simple:

"The enemy's damaged ships are moving towards the β area"

As the front of the federal fleet maintained strict signal detection, this communication signal was naturally captured by an electronic reconnaissance ship deployed in front of the fleet.

However, under the neutrino communication disguise of Atlas, which was adjusted by Lilith herself, this communication signal was naturally regarded as a ray of a pulsar by the electronic reconnaissance ship, and then filtered into the "clutter".

'Eternity', bridge.

Ramos: "Boss, received the encrypted communication sent by 'Polarization'. The opponent's damaged ship did go to the β area!"

"That means the opponent's logistics team is indeed hiding here!"

Hearing Ramos' words, Amber couldn't help but wave her fist slightly. Her experience and memory in her previous life finally came in handy in the fleet battle in this life.

Marshal Trafalgar was undoubtedly the most famous fleet commander in the early stage of the game "Starry Sky OL". Players also have in-depth research on Marshal Trafalgar, who was the first "fleet battle technical inspector" and a high-risk "target of crusade".

The battle between the joint fleet composed of players and the fleet commanded by Marshal Trafalgar is the most important and difficult content of the first season of the guild war.

The gameplay is very simple and full of the style of "second tour" in the early period.

The fleets of different guilds fight against the fleet commanded by Marshal Trafalgar, and finally the guilds are ranked according to the value of the participating ships and the battle loss ratio, and 30% of the weight is included in the first season of the guild war points.

The idea of ​​the planner at that time was the same as the literal meaning of the rules. The lower the total value of the player's participating ships and the higher the settlement battle loss ratio, the more points will be obtained.

But the problem is that when the first season of the guild war started, the entire "Starry Sky OL" had only been open for 1 month.

The most hardworking and kryptonian players have just started to drive a blank heavy cruiser, which is the highest driving level that players can obtain if they are guaranteed to learn skills every day.

They are even at the level of "Heavy Cruiser I", "Battleship Control IV", "Long-range Target Locking Research I", "Signal Analysis III", "Trajectory Budget III", "Trajectory Analysis II", "Weapon Upgrade Research I", and "Controlled Pulse Theory II".

Not to mention the large forces of players, which are still hovering at the level of destroyers. Many players do not have the money to buy a destroyer even if their skill levels meet the requirements.

The same is true for the "Pink Furry Rabbit" guild where Amber is located. Although the president and several kryptonians have driven blank heavy cruisers, the problem is that among the remaining players in the guild, the ratio of light cruisers, destroyers, and frigates is 1:8:1.

In other words, the entire guild fleet is actually a fast strike formation with several escort squadrons.

The Marshal Trafalgar they faced had a full fleet of the ‘Old Federation’ navy under his command. According to the plot setting, it was composed of a group of elite navy members of the Old Federation who left after the establishment of the New Federation.

In this case, the player fleets that went to trouble Marshal Trafalgar could no longer be said to be a futile attempt, but purely to humiliate themselves.

On the forum at that time, almost every day you could see a video of an entire player guild fleet being destroyed by a round of salvos from the fleet commanded by Marshal Trafalgar.

The krypton guys of ‘Pink Furry Rabbit’ bought the highest level of insurance for all the players in the guild, and then they finally got furious after being wiped out 8 times in a row.

They quickly united a large number of krypton guys to put pressure on the official, and dug out that the game planning team leader had actually planned an old ‘naval battle’ mobile game before.

In that game, the server also launched an extremely difficult "different color grid event" at the beginning, which directly discouraged a large number of players.

The final result of this event was that the official added a "plot kill" and set Marshal Trafalgar's fleet to a state where it had just escaped the pursuit of the "New Federation" fleet.

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Not only did it cut the number of capital ships by half, but it also greatly reduced the number of main guns that the fleet could fire, the shooting accuracy, and the frequency, and then "fired all" plasma torpedoes and anti-ship missiles, and directly reduced the number of ship-borne HCPs to only one-fourth.

After cutting this blow that was comparable to the one that cut the "Lich King" back then, Marshal Trafalgar, the boss of the guild war, could barely be considered to be able to engage in combat. Otherwise, the process of the fleet being completely destroyed in the first round of salvos was really a game experience for players.

With the process of "maneuvering", players finally had room to operate, and various targeted tactics were quickly developed under the huge player base.

The tactics that ultimately proved to be the most effective were developed by a group of "unknown players" who were highly suspected to be from the ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ Naval Command College, Annapolis Naval Academy, and Kuznetsov Naval Academy.

Because in the game, in order to reflect the gameplay, logistics ships can directly carry out unscientific remote supply work in battle, which is like a traditional "nanny" in a way.

So after killing the logistics squadron first, Marshal Trafalgar's fleet lost its ability to recover immediately, and the players could then kill the marshal.

In order to find the location of this logistics squadron, a large number of players, including Amber, went directly into the War History Museum and began to frantically check all the battles that Marshal Trafalgar had commanded before. In the end, these players really figured out some of the command habits of this naval legend.

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So Amber, as the fleet commander of the 'Pink Furry Rabbit', was also the whole people at that time, and of course he knew Marshal Trafalgar's command style and habits very well.

And the three areas α, β, and Ω that he circled on the star map were also calculated based on memory, the possible location of the logistics squadron of the Federation Navy.

This is why Amber was so excited when he learned that the damaged ships of the Federation Fleet were moving towards the β area.

Because this means that the information he has about Marshal Trafalgar is valid!

Unlike the "nanny" position in the game, in the universe where Amber is now, the logistics squadron of the human navy is indeed performing serious logistics supply work. In addition to conventional supply ships, the logistics squadron will also gather a group of combat pre-positioned ships deployed in the war zone.

In addition to pre-stocking strategic materials, these pre-positioned ships can also provide emergency repairs for the fleet during wartime, which is also the most important reason for the damaged warships to rush to the logistics squadron.

For Marshal Trafalgar and his three naval fleets, this logistics squadron is undoubtedly very important.

Although the warships of the combat fleet originally have the ability to sustain themselves for a certain period of time, it should be noted that Trafalgar lurked here more than ten days in advance. Not to mention the material consumption in these days, the fleet's lurking process in this interstellar dust cloud alone will cause a lot of non-combat damage.

And the proton annihilation bomb assembly center, which serves as a "bait", obviously cannot provide logistics supply for these warships.

In other words, this large number of logistics squadrons lurking in the β area are the "lifeline" of the three federal fleets.

Thinking of this, Amber no longer hesitated and gave orders in succession:

"Pass my order, the rear guard fleet, start to implement the "isolation tactics"!"

"The 'Poseidon' squadron, prepare to go out, complete emergency acceleration under the 'isolation cover' of the rear guard fleet, and then turn on the stealth action mode to rush directly to the β area and steal Trafalgar's logistics squadron!"