Chapter 552 The Shining Light Ball
Stoner’s question directly stopped Benelli.
The latter immediately realized that he might have been misled by the other party's arrangement.
For naval operations in this era, before entering the final stage of close combat and shooting, the commanders of both sides are actually playing a 'guessing' game.
Although the naval fleets galloping on the ocean in ancient times actually had to play some games of 'intrigue and deception', the area of operations on the sea was only so large anyway. After the means were developed, the detection of distant oceans became more and more perfect.
At the end of the surface fleet era, the navies of all human forces were basically operating on the "open card".
Because as soon as the fleet is dispatched from the port, it will be discovered by the opponent and monitored throughout the entire process. It is basically difficult to achieve strategic fraud.
This is the same for both parties. of.
So during that period, the battles between naval fleets became more and more pure and direct. After both fleets were dispatched, they found a calm sea area and started the duel openly.
However, after humans dug out the prototype of the jump engine from the Forerunner ruins and entered the age of space exploration overnight, the detection methods that they were once proud of were enough to cover the entire planet seemed to be in vain in the face of the infinite universe. It's so small.
This also led to mankind establishing a space fleet and classifying it into the category of 'navy'.
This long-established military branch has once again returned to its former glory.
Various tactics and strategic deception methods are springing up like mushrooms after a spring rain, and are constantly being developed by various fleet commanders.
One thing that is now recognized by the naval history community is that the first batch of famous space fleet commanders.
All of them were ‘Old Six’.
"So the Atlas combat fleet wants us to misjudge that their fleet is so large, so that we can launch an attack rashly, and then let the lurking fleet give us a fatal blow?"
< br>Major General Benelli slowly came back to his senses, and then saw Stoner on the other side nodding, and said:
"Yes, otherwise there is no way to explain the opponent's defense of the Rubin Galaxy. The fact that the fleet was completely wiped out. "
Obviously, neither Benelli nor Stoner realize at this moment how big a role a super flagship like 'Infinity' can play in the battle.
Their current state and direction of thinking is just as Amber and Randall expected. Based on the fact that 'the Lubion system garrison fleet was completely wiped out', they have no confidence in the size of the Atlas combat fleet. There has been a serious miscalculation.
This also caused the federal fleet to immediately give up the plan to directly break in and start the attack, and instead continued to carry out the previous 'high-speed raid' operation.
Since the previous strategic decisive battle with the Star Dragon Empire ended and the two sides began to contact and engage in armistice negotiations, the Federation Navy has become extremely important to its fleet.
Because during the 'strategic decisive battle', the entire federal navy sank one-third of its warships, and less than half of the remaining warships were intact.
So fleets like the 17th and 18th fleets, which have been supplemented and relatively complete in terms of organization, have become a rare "new force" in the federal navy that can be dispatched quickly.
The paradoxical point is that the Federal Navy also attaches great importance to these "new forces" used to support the field and does not want them to be easily damaged in battle.
Marshal Trafalgar, before Bonelli and Stoner set off, repeatedly warned them to be cautious and cautious, and not to confront the Atlas fleet unless it was absolutely necessary.
Even if we must fight, we must wait until follow-up support is in place and the federal fleet has an absolute numerical advantage before taking action
These are also the seventeenth and eighteenth fleets The reason why these two commanders are so "throwing a weapon against the rat".
Because they also know that the main fleet of the Federation Navy can no longer afford to be squandered at will. In order to deter the Star Dragon Empire and the 'rebels' throughout the territory, the Federation Navy must ensure that there is always a certain scale.
That is to achieve the so-called 'existence fleet' effect.
If the two of them crippled or even killed the two main fleets due to a sudden attack in the Lubion system, in the worst case, the federation might fall into complete civil strife or even destroy the country.
So in order to prevent themselves from becoming the ‘eternal sinners’ in future history textbooks, Benelli and Stoner finally chose a more stable style of play. The caution of the federal fleet made Randall and others on the other side feel relieved.
After confirming that the opponent showed no signs of changing formation or course, but continued to maintain the momentum of a 'high-speed raid', Randall knew that the opponent was probably being bluffed. .
When the enemy fleet formed a formation, showing a posture of annihilating its own side, or a posture of high-speed raiding, Randall decisively chose the latter to deal with it.
Moreover, the fleet's dense formation under high-speed raids also made it easier for plasma torpedoes to hit~
Soon, after confirming that the federal fleet had not changed its mind, Randall issued a new order again.
"The entire fleet pays attention to the flagship signal and prepares to activate the 'visible light band jammer'. Serena, when the federal fleet enters the practical detection range of optical and infrared, it is up to you to release the signal as soon as possible."< br>
"Understood, Captain! Observations are in progress!"
At this moment, the relative speed between the Federation fleet and Atlas's 'bait fleet' has reached 100 kilometers per second, and The relative speed of the actual battle fleet that Randall was part of was similar.
Therefore, the distance between the two sides was closing extremely quickly. It took another 25 minutes after the Federation fleet entered the radar detection range of 300,000 kilometers to enter the practical observation range of optical and infrared detection equipment of 150,000 kilometers.
At this distance, these devices can basically clearly observe the target. Coupled with the synthesized picture of the radar equipment, it can basically generate a real-time monitoring picture.
That is, after the federal fleet entered this distance and started visible light observation under the orders of Benelli and Stoner.
The scene that caught the eyes of all the observation groups was that another huge 'light ball' appeared behind the fleet just discovered.
A large group of warships are so densely packed that even if the radar wave cancellation device is turned off, the radar cannot distinguish them at all.
Not to mention that under the optical and infrared channels, the flash that was enough to blind the observation team's dog eyes made the Atlas fleet truly become a 'disco light ball' hanging next to Rubian 5.
Looking at the picture sent back by the observation team, which showed the Atlas fleet buried in a large ball of white light, Benelli and Stoner suddenly felt that their brains were not enough.
They are no strangers to this kind of visible light band jammer, and the warships of the Federation Navy are also equipped with it.
It’s just that there are too few scenarios that can be used in daily life.
After the fleet was deployed, this jammer did not interfere with enemy warships as much as the developers imagined. Instead, it guided the opponent to attack targets.
But with the support of the Atlas fleet's current "dense ball formation", the visible light band jammer has really turned the fleet into an "all-round, blinding, blinding light ball", and also allowed the federal fleet to try The plan to observe through the optical channel completely failed.
In addition, the dense formation made it impossible for radar to effectively judge the scale, which directly led to Benelli and Stoner only knowing that they had discovered a new fleet.
But we don’t know how many ships this fleet has and what their specific configuration is.
"Grandma, if there is a mobile fortress, just shoot it with one shot! I wonder if they dare to put up such a formation!" Rear Admiral Benelli was a little excited and hammered the armrest of the captain's seat. , the expression on his face is full of 'happy'.
“That’s good but don’t we have none?”
Major General Stoner also sighed, obviously not expecting this situation at all.
“Then the question is, what should we do next?”
(End of this chapter)