Chapter 549 There are no cowards in TF3
"Yuebei. Really came from this direction?!"
Randall stood up from the captain's seat of the 'Infinity' He stood up and quickly walked to the front of the holographic projection platform.
Shipboard controller Ge Selina has already zoomed in on the three-dimensional star map in advance to the celestial system composed of Rubian 5 and two satellites.
Currently, the Third Task Force and the Cargo Fleet are conducting escort and aerospace transport fleet deployment operations in the medium- and high-altitude orbits of Lubion 5.
The unidentified fleet that was just discovered will now be sliding out from the shadow of the No. 2 satellite, the small moon commonly known as 'Penta', with a current straight-line distance of 420,000 kilometers.
This is also the reason why the 'Infinity' has just upgraded its entire ship detection unit. Unless a conventional fleet releases a large number of probes and deploys a 'Fleet Detection Array', it will be difficult to detect tight targets at this distance. A fleet of satellites.
This kind of celestial structure with multiple satellites still has an impact on some conventional fleet detection methods. This is why some classic fleet surprise attacks often occur under similar celestial structures.
Judging from the rough trajectory of the opponent detected by 'Infinity', Serena speculated that the opponent should be using the synchronous rotation of 'Penta' to accelerate, and then wait for an opportunity to escape from 'Penta' orbit and maneuver towards the position of the Third Task Force.
“Captain, according to my search of a large number of fleet combat records in the database, there is a 75% chance that the opponent will launch a high-speed raid, and the next step will be decided based on the investigation results of this raid. The trend! ”
Serena expressed her reasoning quickly and clearly with an intellectual and mature voice. This is also the characteristic of the new generation shipboard control personality of the Atlas Combat Fleet.
In addition to conventional ship control, situational awareness, and electronic warfare countermeasures capabilities, these more intelligent control personalities will also begin to make their own tactical suggestions or make inferences about the current situation.
"High-speed raid. Alas, why didn't I think of deploying some probes to these 'high-risk blind spots' beforehand?"
Randall responded to his obvious lack of experience in the arrangement. She covered her forehead helplessly, but not long after she fell into the mood of self-blame, she heard Serena say 'comfort':
"Captain, in fact, you don't need to blame yourself, after all, the fleet did not carry There are too many combat probes, and only a small part of them have been consumed in previous battles, so even if you think of this tactical arrangement, we cannot implement it~"
Randall: "."
The officer on duty: "Colonel. This controlling personality is quite good at talking."
"Selena, you have such a sweet little mouth" Rand Er said somewhat speechlessly.
“You’re welcome, Captain~”
Selena had a smile on her face, her hands folded in front of her, and she looked decent.
However, Randall had no time to argue with the shipboard controller at this time. He immediately looked at the officer on duty beside him, and then said seriously:
"Go to the commander of the high-speed cargo fleet, they We don't have much time to invest slowly, so we should either seize the time and invest them all in one go, or stop working and start running away.
Our combat fleet will find ways to delay them, but judging from the current situation. , I definitely can’t delay it for too long.”
The officer on duty nodded in agreement, then turned and left again.
In addition to lamenting that his luck seemed a bit too bad, Randall was also glad that he listened to Guterres's suggestion and adjusted the resting position of the previous fleet to allow the third task force to At present, the working fluid water and refrigerant of all ships have returned to more than 75% levels.
At least it avoids the decline in bombardment frequency and hull protection capabilities due to the inability of these warships in the fleet to dissipate heat in time in the following battles.
At the same time, as the large fleet on the back of the 'Eight Moon' continued to 'reveal its true face', the observation team of the 'Infinity' finally obtained more accurate intelligence information. "Report, the size of the currently detected unknown fleet is expected to be close to two full fleets! Judging from the current observation results, the opponent is changing orbit and adjusting its formation!"
" Received, continue to monitor,”
Randall quickly thought about the current situation. This fleet that suddenly appeared from behind the moon is basically certain to be the 17th and 18th of the Federal Navy. The fleet is gone.
Because the only ones that can suddenly appear here right now are these two federal navy fleets.
After all, the coordinates of their escape jump and the timing they chose were too tricky, allowing the back of the moon to provide them with cover. Only the Federation Navy, which has a sufficiently complete collection of the astronomical conditions of the galaxy, can achieve this.
Although Randall is not sure yet, why did the Federation fleet choose to jump to this potentially dangerous space after losing contact with the galaxy guard fleet.
But he knew that the other party had only one purpose, and that was to come for Atlas's fleet.
Thinking of this, Randall looked around the captain's seat again A virtual screen displayed the expected arrival time of the two unmanned fleets coming to support.
"07:42:52"
"07:42:51"
"07:42:50"
"07:42:49"
< br>"It will take nearly eight hours for the reinforcements to arrive. During this time, we can only rely on ourselves."
Randall sighed helplessly. He never expected that the first few fleet battles he encountered under his independent leadership would be so difficult, and every time he would use less to fight more. situation.
A battle with the third task force against an entire galaxy garrison fleet has just ended. It has not been long. The fleet's rest and supplies are not perfect, and another attack is coming soon. A new battle.
The enemy forces we fought against even doubled. Where are you going to ask Randall to reason with you?
Soon, the officer on duty returned to Randall:
“Colonel, the cargo fleet has given us a reply. The fleet has basically entered low-medium orbit now.
If it were to escape the gravity of the planet and accelerate to the 'jump speed' in a fully loaded state, it would take even longer than the time it would take to retreat in a low-load state after deploying all the aerospace transport fleets. "
"It means that we really have to cover them to complete the fleet deployment now? "
"Yes, Colonel. "The officer on duty looked serious. He had obviously realized what kind of situation he would face next.
"Huh"
Randall took a deep breath that smelled of oxygen tablets. of the air in the ship, and then slowly exhaled it to calm down
After a moment, he said in a calm but firm tone:
"Issuing a full combat readiness order, the Third Task Force will immediately begin to block the approaching fleet and cover the evacuation of the cargo fleet!"
Randall paused for a moment, wondering what thoughts were passing through his mind, and after a moment he said the last words.
"As I said before, there are no cowards in our Third Task Force."
(End of this chapter)