Chapter 564: Fighting to the Death
Randall was very surprised by the sudden space fluctuations. After all, he knew that there were no other reinforcements on Atlas' side.
If this kind of unauthorized 'jump signature' appears in battle, it usually comes from the enemy or a third party.
"The Federation's reinforcement fleet? Or does the Empire also want to get involved?"
Hearing Randall's question on the quantum entanglement command communication channel, Amber shook her head and replied:
"It certainly won't belong to the Empire. The Lubion system has already become a 'rear area' after the Federation's counterattack. With the Empire's current problems, it will not allow the Royal Navy to send a fleet deep into the Federation."
Speaking of this, Amber took another look at the 'jump signature code' information analyzed by the shipboard controller's personality, and simultaneously gave it to Randall.
“Look at the analysis content of this feature code. Although you can’t see the starting point, you can see that the jump distance is not too far. From a time perspective, it jumps at the same time as the war begins. In other words, this The force set off from the interior of the Rubian system
I don’t believe that the Imperial Royal Navy can still send a fleet to lurk in the Rubian system in advance, and it is still on alert for war with the Federation Navy. Under the circumstances.
So this is probably the reinforcement of the federal fleet”
Although Amber and the others could not figure out who jumped in when they discovered unauthorized space fluctuations and 'jump signatures', these 'jump signatures' developed by the Forerunner civilization could tell them a lot of basics. information.
The most important of these is the end time and distance of the jump. The former allows the fleet to prepare, while the latter allows the fleet to judge where the other party is coming from.
This is also why the Federation Navy and the Imperial Royal Navy did not engage in 'long-distance beheading operations' during the battle, or directly jump to the opponent's capital system to 'burn glass'.
Because the longer the jump distance, the longer the jump takes, and the earlier the space fluctuations at the destination will appear, which can even be as long as a week.
So when executing the 'Long Distance Decapitation Operation', you must first consider whether the fleet will be directly confronted by the enemy who is waiting for you after the fleet escapes from the jump.
The jump detected by Amber and the others did not take too long, so their doubts were quickly answered.
In the flash of light at the end of the jump, warships with the navy's navy paint appeared 30,000 kilometers away from the left wing of the federal fleet.
The Fourteenth Fleet of the Federal Navy arrived on the battlefield at this critical moment.
Amber: "Look, what I said is right, it is indeed the enemy's reinforcements~"
Randall: "No. What's so exciting about this kind of thing? , Bastard!”
After hearing Amber's voice, Randall almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, while Cliffs, who was following Amber on the bridge of the Dawn, asked with some confusion:
"Didn't we cut off the federal fleet's network? Moreover, the Third Task Force has always been at an advantage in the previous electronic countermeasures. When did the federal fleet send the signal for help?"
"No" Amber Shaking his head, "They didn't send it out, we sent it out for them."
"Huh? We sent it out for them?" Hearing Amber's answer, Randall suddenly became confused.
“When we carried out the 'disconnection' operation and temporarily lost contact with the outside world through electronic countermeasures, the other party's reinforcements knew that a fight was about to begin, and perhaps launched the attack as they had agreed in advance. A collective jump.”
Cliff immediately understood what Amber meant:
"In other words, regardless of whether our First Fleet launches this raid, the opponent's reinforcements will jump in as soon as the battle begins?!"
“That’s right, because they were probably just trying to beat us to death, but they didn’t dare to put all their ‘chips’ on the table at the beginning, for fear that we would give up. The goal of annihilating us will not be achieved."
The current situation is naturally unfavorable to Atlas, because Amber really can't afford a ship now.
Although there is an 'artificial celestial fortress' that can change the situation of the war, not only can that thing not quench the thirst of the near, but if LLS943823 is not fully prepared, it is activated rashly, but it may bring out other things. question.
Therefore, he can only rely on the three fleets currently on the field plus the disabled third task force to fight against the five fleets of the Federation Navy.
But the good news is that under the crossfire attack just now, the losses of the four federal fleets that first entered the battle were greater than what was assessed before the war. The opponent obviously did not expect Atlas at all. The First Fleet attacked from the bottom of the sky.
For Amber and the others, the enemy's chaos at this moment is their best and last chance.
Thinking of this and looking at the approaching federal fleet on the three-dimensional battlefield situation map, Amber couldn't help but sigh:
"The federal government really thinks highly of us. I really didn't expect that they would send out five main fleets at once, and one of them also carried out a "stealth maneuver" with such a high degree of confidentiality. Speaking of which, this should be the last mobile force in their hands. ?”
"To be precise, it should be the last batch of organic mobile troops."
Cliffs interjected:
"Except for the two garrisons in the capital system that will never leave unless the country is destroyed. Outside the fleet, other mobile forces are basically in a 'semi-disabled' or 'largely disabled' state, or they are queuing up outside the dock waiting for maintenance."
Soon, Amber ordered the First Fleet to speed up. The speed of the assault forces the opposing fleet to allocate part of its strength to defend the bottom direction, thereby reducing the pressure on Randall's side.
But even so, Randall and the others must survive these more than twenty minutes, and in many classic battles, the outcome is often determined by those few minutes——
When Johnny Leiting learned that they were about to face an enemy that far exceeded their own numbers, although he was scared, at this juncture it was impossible not to attack.
After all, if he loses this battle, not only will he lose his life, but the Renaissance Alliance on Rubian 5 and his family will definitely be liquidated by the federation.
So now we have reached the point of no return, not to mention that Atlas and other people who have no direct relationship with the Rubbian system are coming to fight for their lives, but they, the 'natives' of the Rubbian system, are Hiding behind, there is no way to explain it.
"Pilots, please pay attention, the electromagnetic ejection track is electromagnetic stable, prepare to eject!"
The voice of the flight deck controller sounded in the communication channel, Johnny Lai Ting immediately focused his attention on the warring universe in front of him.
"Ready and ready to eject at any time!" After confirming that the body's monitoring data were normal, Johnny Letting replied.
Due to the 'full deck attack' being carried out under extremely tight time constraints, this time the flight deck control officers of each ship did not hand over the ejection rights to the pilots as before, allowing them to control it themselves. The ejection timing is uniformly scheduled by the ejection control room. After confirming with the control officer, Johnny Leiting fine-tuned his body into the 'ejection position'. At the same time, after detecting his body movements, the control operating system judged his thoughts and tightened the control system. The seat belt held Johnny Letting's back tightly against the back of the chair.
In the cold, dark universe in front of us, there are only some scattered starlights as embellishments. The heavy cruiser 'Solar Reward' under Johnny Letting's feet should theoretically be At a relative speed of tens of kilometers per second, it was rushing towards the federal fleet.
However, due to the lack of reference objects and the fact that the starlight in the distance hung motionless in the sky, Johnny Redding would occasionally have the illusion that the ship was at rest.
From time to time, a burst of 'stars' flashed across the background of the universe directly in front - which meant that the Federation fleet launched another salvo. After a few seconds, a large number of beams of different colors swept past the vicinity, but fortunately, the 'Solar Reward' He was not hit in this round of attacks.
“I don’t want to be the unlucky guy who dies on the ejection track!” Johnny Letin thought in his heart, and seemingly in response to his thoughts, the voice of the flight deck controller sounded again. .
"Prepare to eject. 54321 ejection!"
A huge pushing feeling came in an instant, pressing Johnny Redding firmly against the back of the chair. At the same time that the 'Fully Equipped Holy Shield' was flying away from the battleship and flying towards the battlefield, the 'genius boy' quickly adapted and pushed the body's throttle forward one gear again.
“CTM’s Federal Army, here we come!”
"Why are there so many CTM federal troops?"
When he saw the dense red dots symbolizing enemy units on the screen all over the sky, Johnny Letin admitted that he was indeed a little timid. .
If in the previous battle with the Lubion system garrison fleet, the gap between the enemy and ourselves could be made up by relying on the equipment quality, personnel quality, and tactical coordination of the combat units on both sides, then the current battle is purely a federal battle. The fleet is able to 'defeat ten with one force' through its absolute numerical superiority.
Johnny Redding must describe his feelings, that is - all the stars in the sky are enemies
"Unit 3, report status!" The command interface on the multi-function screen , after seeing the icon of his team’s Unit 3 glowing red, Johnny Letting immediately asked in the communication channel.
"The right arm is damaged and the left weapon container fell off, but the remaining weapon unit, power system and deflection field can still support the battle!"
"I can't even hold the heavy sword, and it still supports your big head. Ghost! Get back to the mothership for emergency repairs!”
Johnny Leting rejected the other party’s request to continue fighting without hesitation, and at the same time, he sent the nearest ship to the rear with the HCP heavy maintenance capability! Qingxun sent the application.
After quickly getting the reply that "it can be repaired" from the other party, Johnny Leiting, who had already found the location of Unit 3, raised the HCP's right foot and kicked the shield hanging on the left side of the other party. The feet force it away.
After doing this, he went on to modify the 'combat responsibilities' of the three squadrons in the squadron he commanded on the command interface.
"Team Johnny, temporarily short of 1 aircraft, has changed from forward combat to rear fire support!"
"Team Morabi, maintains flank support unchanged, and Team Mandela has begun to take charge of forward and close combat. ! ”
As Johnny Letin operated and communicated instructions on the squadron communication channel, the three teams in the 'Revival Alliance Task Force-1st HCP Operations Squadron' he now commanded , and immediately adjusted the position according to the instructions.
The four intact Holy Shields quickly rushed past Johnny Redding and the remaining two people in the team. With the shields on their backs and the plasma heavy swords powered on, they rushed to the squadron's combat formation. The front.
After the last battle with the Lubion system garrison fleet, due to the death of the squadron leader and his performance in the battle was indeed remarkable, Johnny Letin was fired. Promoted to the squadron leader of the 'Renaissance Alliance Task Force-1st HCP Operations Squadron'.
Although this 'genius pilot' does have some skills in HCP driving operations, combat command is also completely unfamiliar to him, which also caused him to basically not relax after the last battle.
In addition to rest and daily training, the rest of the time was spent on supplementing the combat command of the HCP squadron. I also successfully became friends with the squadron leader of the 'Avenger' squadron on Atlas, and Received a lot of help and guidance from the latter.
But even so, Johnny Redding, who was commanding an entire squadron for the first time, was still a little nervous and a little confused during the command process.
The only good thing is that so far, although the squadron has withdrawn 4 HCPs for repairs, it has not actually lost any HCPs, and there have been no casualties.
However, Johnny Redding knew very well that as the next few waves of enemies came forward, casualties would definitely be inevitable, so he had already prepared himself mentally to deal with all this.
"Relax, Johnny Redding, you are what everyone calls the 'True Red Lightning'! You can definitely do it!
Major Murat and the others only brought a few people, but they had to face the enemy on the entire right wing. There are many more friendly forces on the left wing than they are, so there must not be any mistakes!"
Due to the limited number of HCPs and heavy armored combat boats of the Third Task Force, they need to face it! The federal fleet was under attack, so Murat and Jacob finally decided to take part of their elite forces to take on the task of defending one side alone.
The other side is handled by a larger number of conventional troops and the 'Renewal Alliance Task Force'.
For such an arrangement, Johnny Redding naturally knew how much pressure Murat and his team were under, and he also knew that he could only live up to the opponent's arrangement with his team and try his best to hold off the enemy.
As the first wave of HCPs from the Federation fleet had completely rushed forward, the firefight near the Atlas frontal fleet immediately became intense.
The light of directed energy weapons is like a sharp sword, piercing the darkness again and again, while the anti-ship missiles and torpedoes of the plasma warhead are like silent assassins on the battlefield, passing silently.
The entire warring space seemed to be plunged into a blazing sea of fire, with light shining and explosions one after another.
And Johnny Redding can become the 'genius pilot' in Amber's impression ', of course it's not just talk, his learning and growth rate can be said to be like a monster.
Round after round of battles, he quickly became familiar with the command of the squadron.
And his innate 'combat talent' also allowed him to quickly understand how to use the tactics and tactics he had cultivated during this period.
Under his leadership, the entire squadron was like an indestructible sharp blade, galloping across the battlefield, invincible and quickly becoming the 'star' on the left-wing front.
But on the battlefield, becoming a ‘star’ is obviously not a good thing.
(End of Chapter)