Chapter 467 The ultimate showdown of old-school command
Guterres did not need to explain too much, and other members of the ‘Command Observation Group’ quickly understood what he meant.
In the past, when the speed of long-distance communication was limited, it was difficult for naval fleets to operate on an extremely long front. At most, the time for launching an attack and tactical retreat was uniformly stipulated. The efficiency of joint operations was extremely poor. There are no complicated operations such as 'front linkage'.
So large-scale fleet battles often involve both sides concentrating their forces and then fighting to the death in a certain galaxy.
This also leads to the fact that although the front lines controlled by both sides are very long, there are only a few key star systems that can break out large-scale battles.
In a land battle on a planet's surface, the spectacular scene of a full-frontal attack by both sides has never been seen in a fleet battle in space.
But the ‘quantum entanglement communication technology’ developed by Atlas Group directly complements the last ‘technical puzzle’ required for ‘long-distance front cybernetics’.
Because among the five key elements that support the military theory studied by Marshal Trafalgar - communication and information processing, resource and material support, command and control, auxiliary decision-making system, and dynamic dispatch algorithm, The most important thing is 'communication and information processing' which ranks first.
This is also the basis for a large number of fleets to coordinate attack and defense on long-distance fronts.
While the members of the 'Command Observation Group' were discussing the possible battles that would happen next based on the star map, Cliffs suddenly said:
"By the way, Atlas has communication business cooperation with the Federation and the Empire. Since both of them currently have ultra-long-distance real-time communication technology, there is no technological generation gap on the Imperial Royal Navy's side, and they should also study it. Come up with a similar military theory?”
After hearing his words, everyone stopped the discussion and nodded in agreement, but Guterres still looked a little embarrassed while nodding.
After he and Van Fleet officially joined the Atlas Group, Amber quickly pulled him to get to know Cliffs and Randall.
When Guterres learned that the commander of the Atlas fleet who defeated the Thirteenth Fleet led by him in the fleet battle in the orbit of Pyla IV was his teacher at the Federal Naval Academy After becoming a student at that time, the former federal navy lieutenant only felt a complicated mood.
He is proud of the fact that the students he taught, who still have little impression, can achieve such achievements in fleet command as "defeating the main fleet of the navy with fewer victories and more".
At the same time, I also feel a little embarrassed that I and the Thirteenth Fleet have become the "background" for this achievement.
Especially when he thought that in the future, whenever he mentioned the classic battle of the Atlas Battle Fleet and the tactics of using a large number of plasma torpedoes launched in advance to circle the planet to attack the enemy, he and he would definitely be compared. When the Thirteenth Fleet pulled out the 'Whip Corpse', they felt even more ashamed.
After Amber noticed Guterres's emotions at the time, she also expressed her comfort with a "high emotional intelligence".
“Don’t feel frustrated, you can think from another angle and look at things from a different perspective. No loser will be remembered, except you~”
Although when I think of this, Guterres’ His heart was in turmoil, but he quickly adjusted himself.
At the same time, Amber also opened her mouth to answer Cliffs' questions. "Of course the empire will also develop similar military theories. This is bound to happen, but not now. Although the navy of the Star Dragon Empire carries the title of 'royal', in fact, within the Royal Navy fleet, due to domestic The reasons for "party struggle" are quite fragmented.
And the major noble fleets also account for a large proportion of the empire's naval power, so the situation is even more complicated. < br>
This also prevents them from being able to follow the command of one person and carry out joint operations without compromise like the Federation Navy.”
Amber paused and enlarged the star map. Go to Lurna and surrounding galaxies, and then continue:
"Although we don't know the specific deployment of the Federation fleet, we only know that the Rurna galaxy will be a target of attack with a high probability, but we can still make deductions based on this.
Marshal Trafalgar's purpose is simple. That is to use a series of pre-war preparations, deployments and stealth maneuvers of the fleet to confuse the empire's reconnaissance forces so that they cannot obtain the accurate movements of the federal navy.
At the same time, two mobile fortresses are placed like bait. On the surface, it will attract some attention, and at the same time, the imperial fleet will have to deploy enough fleets in these two directions to prevent the mobile fortress from attacking with superior forces.
After gaining the initiative, Special Forces will. Marshal Rafalgar should concentrate his superior forces and launch attacks from two to four directions, trying to quickly defeat the Imperial fleet in these directions.
If the battle can be resolved before the Imperial fleet reacts, the Empire will be able to defeat them. This side will fall into a greater passive situation. If they want to launch a counterattack, they will be timid because they don't know whether these "superior forces" will fight back to form a larger-scale "more to attack less" force. '.
If you shrink your defenses, you have to worry about whether the fleets in each galaxy will be intercepted by the federal attack fleet during maneuvers.
Under normal circumstances, the Imperial Royal Navy would not be so helpless, but Given the complexity of their current chain of command, I can only say that this possibility is very high. ”
Amber’s answers and speculations made everyone in the ‘Command Observation Group’ think. Especially Guterres, who has a deep understanding of the federal navy, even compared the imperial fleet provided by Amber. The 'current situation' was put into the 'deduction model' built in his mind.
Soon, this person was the same as Marshal Trafalgar and several Dukes from the Empire in Amber's definition. , a former federal navy vice admiral who also belongs to the "old school command" also came up with his own deduction results - basically no different from what Amber said
On this issue, Guterres wanted to say. As he continued to go deeper, Amber's voice reached his ears again
"Of course, that doesn't mean that the empire will definitely suffer a big loss. If Marshal Trafalgar's 'multiple breakthroughs' cannot achieve results quickly, or even fall into a protracted war, the situation will be completely different.
The Empire will soon discover the fact that the Federation Navy has dispersed its forces in order to achieve a 'multi-point breakthrough'. At this time, no matter who is leading the Empire's naval power, there is a high probability that the 'old-school naval commander' will do what he likes best. One of the tactics."
"What tactic?" Randall, who had been listening carefully but not speaking, asked curiously.
“Changing homes.”
(End of this chapter)