Voyage of the Stars

If there were no other fleets, then there would be no suspense in the battle of the First Fleet. The Red Flame Civilization obviously knew this, so when the two fleets were preparing to make contact, their other fleet entered the sight of the detector of the first human fleet.

It is a fleet with five million battleships. Judging from the area where they appeared and their original direction of action, they were supposed to support their first planetary defense force. Perhaps they discovered that the human fleet that appeared here was not one of their own. The fleet could handle it, so they temporarily changed their route and turned to the side of the first human fleet.

The two fleets combined have 13 million ships. Yue Yuan is used to using less to fight more. The strong artificial intelligence has already summed up many sets of cooperative fighting methods, which can be said to be skillful and necessary.

The Red Flame civilization naturally knows human tactics, but they have no better way to deal with it. They only have less than twice the numerical advantage. If they want to win, they must conduct a melee raid and destroy the human flagship. Otherwise, they can only consume it from a distance. gradually fell into a more disparate disadvantage.

So the moment the fleets of both sides entered the effective range of the laser energy cannon, humans started kiting tactics, maneuvering and fighting to keep the distance as far as 15 light seconds away.

As soon as the two sides started fighting, the humans had a huge advantage of 1 to 4 battle loss ratio.

However, this tactic changed slightly as another fleet of the Red Flame Civilization joined the battlefield from another direction. The desperate charge of the Red Flame Civilization made it impossible for the first human fleet to rely on maneuvers to keep its distance. It was originally at the forefront. Many battleships in the echelon have already fallen into the quagmire of close combat.

Yue Yuan was not surprised by this, nor was he afraid, because in the long-range consumption that had just ended, the opponent's eager charge had already wiped out more than two million battleships, and his own first fleet had only suffered a mere loss. Less than 400,000 capital ships.

Of course, judging from the strike feedback, humans also discovered that these destroyed warships were not their new warships because they were too fragile.

Indeed, the new warships of the Red Flame Civilization are all in the rear echelon. Their purpose is self-evident. They want to use the relatively powerful armor of the new warships to attack the core of the human fleet and then destroy the Tianqin.

The tactics are good, but the results are not very good.

These new warships indeed withstood humanity's long-range firepower and successfully rushed into humanity's first fleet. However, what they were facing at this moment was not humanity's flagship Tianqin, but the assault warships originally positioned at the rear.

After discovering that the new warships of the Red Flame Civilization successfully broke into the fleet cluster, the human capital ships consciously turned to avoid them, and were replaced by the charge of the rear assault ships.

When he first saw the human assault ships charging, the commander of the Red Flame Civilization was quite happy, but when he saw the acceleration of these battleships and the fact that they did not even fire a single laser cannon during the charge, he felt Something is wrong.

However, when he saw that the opponent's assault warships were hit by several electromagnetic railguns from his new warships, and then destroyed by the ultra-micro nanorobots in the artillery warhead, he felt that he was overthinking.

It wasn't until the fleet commander saw his new warship penetrated the armor by the opponent's electromagnetic railgun and exploded internally that he realized that he had made a mistake.

But it was too late by this time, and he could only watch helplessly as the armor he was proud of was pierced, and the new warships were destroyed one after another in explosions from the inside.

"Damn it! Inform the headquarters that the earth's civilization has mastered a technology that can penetrate the armor of new warships. Although I don't want to admit it, we have failed. Tell the main civilization to let them run away while there is still time. We don't have three It's been ten years, and we can't hold on until that time. I will use my life to buy time for the evacuation as much as possible."

After conveying the order to the correspondent, the commander immediately started the whole fleet communication and ordered: "Cancel the follow-up new warship raid command, the fleet stops charging, and the rear fleet immediately turns around and distances itself!"

"Remote combat? Mr. Cox Sterling, do you know what this means?" asked the fleet commander who came to support the Red Flame Civilization.

The commander known as Cox Sterling was silent for a while: "I know that our two fleets will be buried in this starry sky, but at least this can buy three months for the main civilization. If we fight with this An Earth civilization fleet launched a close battle, and even raided their flagship at all costs. Although we were able to destroy more of their warships faster and more quickly, our two fleets were also destroyed faster.

Mr. Horqin, you need to know that at this distance, neutrino detection can already illuminate our spacecraft hidden on the back of the gaseous planet. By then, if the earth civilization knows that we no longer have many warships there, our people will It's all over.

Therefore, before they find out, let's buy some more time and let the new leader take our people and run away. If the commander had not died in the previous battle, with his decisiveness, he would have been killed ten years ago We left with the main body of civilization before, instead of hesitating and waiting until now. "

"Perhaps you are right, Mr. Sterling. In the final analysis, our Red Flame Civilization is too imprudent. We think that when we come to a remote star field, we can use the third-level civilization technology to move sideways. The unknowns of the universe cannot be explored by the interstellar trading market. Understand, this earth civilization is obviously not an existence that has just stepped from the second-level civilization to the third-level civilization, and the interstellar trading market has not listed this star field as a safe star field."

"It is useless to say this now, Lord Horqin, let us contribute our final strength to our Red Flame civilization! I hope our main civilization can learn from this disaster and will not make such stupid broadcasts in the future. Behavior."

"Okay, let's have a good fight."

The conversation between the commanders of the two fleets of the Red Flame Civilization has already explained the problem. However, Yue Yuan does not know the real situation, and the goal set this time is only to delay the opponent and buy enough time for the second fleet, rather than directly destroying it. .

Therefore, after discovering that the opponent suddenly gave up the surprise attack tactics and instead distanced themselves, Yue Yuan felt strange, but he was more cautious and happy to achieve the first stage strategic goal.

Yes, as the commander of the other party said, although humans have detected the situation on the back side of the gaseous planet through neutrino detection, they do not know the specific type of spacecraft. Therefore, the leadership of the Lyran still believes that when this comes, It is safest to continue to play steadily and steadily during this stage.

Ever since, humans have missed the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the main civilization of the Red Flame Civilization, and the two fleets of the Red Flame Civilization have also unexpectedly accomplished the goal they told their main civilization to hold back the Earth Civilization Fleet. .

It can be said that both sides achieved their strategic goals through a combination of circumstances.

It wasn't until the second fleet successfully destroyed the opponent's first orbital planetary defense force, paralyzed the opponent's resource extraction area, and then came to join the first fleet that the human race realized that something was really wrong.