Chapter 529 Begin Action
"A perfect raid that only exists in theory?" Murat and Jacob asked almost in unison.
Randall nodded: "Under the current strength gap, we must complete an annihilation battle against the enemy's fleet near the 'scheduled jump escape point' as quickly as possible, and we must not let them have any chance. We have the opportunity to reveal our true situation to the other two federal fleets."
"Why can't we reveal our true situation to the federal fleet?" Jacob asked with some doubts before he figured it out.
“Because ‘keeping it mysterious’ is our biggest talisman now.”
Randall explained patiently:
“If the federal fleet commander discovers that the galaxy guard fleet has been suddenly annihilated in a short period of time, and no information about the enemy has been sent back, there is a high probability that the other party will be thought to have been attacked. A stronger enemy force was annihilated.
In this case, based on my understanding of the Federal Navy people, they will never risk being ambushed, but will extremely. It is possible to send a reconnaissance ship to jump over first to check the situation.
If this is the case, it can buy us at least 3 days. At that time, the cargo fleet can give up the recovery fleet after releasing all the aerospace transport fleet. , accelerate the jump directly to leave the Rubian system, and we can also hold on until the arrival of the two unmanned fleets."
"That's it."
Jacob nodded thoughtfully, while Murat had new questions.
"But Colonel, the 'perfect raid' you want to achieve doesn't seem to be a little difficult? Although the Infinity can find a way to maintain a balance on the battleship, what should the opponent do if there are so many heavy cruisers? "
Randall: "So this is what I need to ask Jacob and the others to do. During the battle, I need heavy armored combat boats to help me deal with the extra 30 heavy cruisers."
< br>"It's the colonel! The 'Deep Sea Fish' heavy armored combat boat brigade and the 'Revival Fire' heavy armored combat boat wing will complete the mission at all costs!"
Jacob's snap! ’ He stood at attention and saluted and accepted the order without any hesitation.
The 'Renaissance Fire' unit he spoke of was actually the heavy armored combat boat pilots among the first batch of trainees sent by the Renaissance Alliance.
When Franklin on Rubion 5 confirmed that the Federation was going to take action against the galaxy, he agreed without hesitation that Jacob would temporarily take over the combat trainees.
After all, these trainees arrived with them, as well as the combat boats assigned to them after the final assessment. Sending such a force back to Rubion 5 would not reflect their value.
Only in a fleet commanded by professionals can they exert their full strength, and the Renaissance Alliance and the Atlas Group have already reached a consensus on the point of confronting the Federation.
At the same time, Franklin also knew that if the Atlas fleet could not defeat the Federation fleet in the space fleet battle, then the Renaissance Alliance would also begin to enter the countdown to being defeated by the large force of the Federation regular army.
Therefore, the HCP pilot trainees, including Johnny Redding, are currently authorized by Franklin to be temporarily incorporated into the Third Task Force to assist in operations as non-staff forces.
After hearing that Jacob had received the mission, Murat continued to ask Randall: "The gap problem between the heavy cruisers has been solved, so how can the communication between the other party and the federal fleet be cut off?< br>
If you want to prevent the garrison fleet from issuing a warning about our detailed formation, in addition to a swift and efficient raid, you also need a powerful enough electronic suppression to crush them to death."
" Yes, but we can only pray that the electronic warfare attack capability of Infinity after turning on the 'Battle Module' is really as strong as those experts from the design institute said."
Randall paused. He seemed to be thinking about something, but it didn't take long for him to give up thinking. He glanced at the time and continued:
"Forget it, there is nothing to think about now. I only have so many troops on hand if I want to defeat the enemy. I will go and finalize the final battle plan with the fleet staff in a while. The fleet is expected to launch operations in 5 hours
Murat, Jacob, I will trouble you both to mobilize the HCP pilots and heavy armored combat boat pilots before the war. This battle will be difficult, and the casualties of HCP and heavy armored combat boats will be high. "It could be very disastrous." "Colonel, you don't need to say this, we all know it." Murat looked calm, as if he was saying something he was accustomed to, "This is what we should do, even if we are all in this battle." Even if he turns into a star, he will not back down even a step to let Atlas' honor be tarnished."
Jacob also said: "Yes, Colonel, please don't worry, we are heavy-duty. There is absolutely no coward among the pilots of the armored combat boats. Unless all the combat boats in the wing are shot down, we will not stop attacking the enemy."
Hearing the two men's promises, Rand said. Er stood up directly from the captain's seat and saluted the two of them.
The two young commanders immediately raised their hands in return, then turned and left the bridge.
Watching them disappear behind the hatch, Randall also let out a long breath, and then came to the deputy captain in the CIC below the bridge.
"Allen, ask the fleet staff to gather in the No. 1 combat conference room within five minutes, and then notify the entire fleet to conduct the final round of pre-war preparations, and then enter combat status and standby."
"Yes, sir! (AyeayeCaptain!)"
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After an unknown amount of time, Lubion 5 was within 520,000 kilometers of airspace in a straight line, and the federal fleet planned to jump to the breakaway point.
The main part of the Lubion system's garrison fleet is arranging a fleet mobile formation to maintain vigilance and patrol in the airspace near the coordinates.
In the original reconstruction plan, the garrison fleet, which had been severely damaged in the previous battle with the empire, would be rebuilt to the size of two standard fleets with the assistance of Atlas Group.
However, with the conflict between the Atlas Group and the Federation, and the subsequent complete decoupling from the Lubion system, the reconstruction efficiency of the garrison fleet dropped significantly.
Until the rebellion occurred in the galaxy, the garrison fleet had only completed the construction of one fleet, and the ship installation progress of the other fleet was only halfway through.
What's even more disturbing is that after the Atlas Group broke up with the Rubian System Autonomous Government, they directly detained a batch of capital ships that were supposed to be delivered to the garrison fleet for various reasons.
This resulted in the originally planned Truth-class battleships and Yehuo-class heavy cruisers being directly vacated.
If the federal government hadn't seen that the autonomous government of the Lubion system was more 'obedient' during the 'Atlas Incident' and supported a group of capital ships, then the Lubian system's garrison fleet might have been It will become the first 'main fleet' in history that does not even have a single heavy cruiser.
But at that time, the Federation Navy was also preparing for the 'strategic decisive battle', so 80% of the capital ships supporting the galaxy autonomous government were repaired after being damaged or even 'broken' by other fleets. Old ship.
Even so, it has not been able to completely fill up the Lubion system defense fleet so far.
However, in the view of the commander of the garrison fleet, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, so he is still very confident that he can complete the current task of 'guarding the scheduled jump escape point'.
After all, judging from the latest reconnaissance information, the biggest threat in the Lubion system, the fleet of the Atlas Group, does not even reach half the fleet in size, and the size of the capital ship is even worse. Far.
Although the opponent's fleet has the behemoth 'Infinity', the number of other ships is a bit too small.
In a real fight, the garrison fleet only needs to find a way to avoid the famous 'map cannon', and then rely on its strength advantage to eat the opponent's conventional warships. The remaining 'Infinity' will be under siege. You can only drink hatred.
So the fleet commander reorganized the other half of the fleet with confidence and assigned them to a position closer to the Rubian 5 to suppress and clear out the defected original guard warships.
As long as he takes the main fleet to stay here for another 4 hours, and conducts the final round of situation confirmation with the 17th and 18th fleets of the Federation Navy, the other party will enter the jump and arrive in 3 days
This way The relaxed mood lasted until two and a half hours ago, but after that, the commander received an important message from the dispatched and suppressed fleet:
Atlas Group’s The small task force disappeared from the orbit between Rubion 5 and the satellite.
And this disappearance has not been discovered until now.
(End of this chapter)