Chapter 627, you can pull
This may be the most stressful moment in Yelicia's life.
She has been in the Navy for a long time, but before joining the Alliance Navy, she could only be the captain of a single ship at most. She was in the Alliance and became an Imperial Admiral, commanding the Alliance's massive fleet.
Battleships, aircraft carriers, battle cruisers... are all under her command.
This is almost the pinnacle of life that an imperial naval general can reach.
Can an ordinary admiral have such a powerful fleet under his command?
I'm afraid it won't work.
Not even an admiral would be enough, a marshal might be about the same.
However, although many of the previous actions were directed by Ye Lixia, Gu Hang's role in them cannot be ignored. Although her husband did not directly interfere with how the fleet acted, the biggest means for the entire fleet to win was undoubtedly Gu Hang's psychic power. The fleet's actions must be coordinated with Gu Hang's psychic power.
Gu Hang usually tears down the shield of an enemy ship, and the fleet's firepower is directed at that enemy ship. Ye Lixia doesn't need to worry about it.
Although one victory after another has become her military medal as a naval admiral, she is very happy. However, she also understood that those things did not entirely belong to her, and they were not obtained entirely through ability, but because they were taken advantage of by Gu Hang.
Of course she would not be ignorant and ask someone to give her a chance to prove her abilities.
War is not a child's play. If you do this, even if the ship's void shield is hit by one more shot, the energy of the curse shield consumed will be valuable; if the armor is hit by one more shot, the dents and cracks will be left when repairing the ship. We need to enter the dock and use large construction machinery to repair the surface of the ship.
It's all money!
Nothing compared to the navy is cheap.
But putting aside the practical factors, she also had similar fantasies in her heart.
She has always been a strong person who is eager to prove herself.
But now, unexpectedly, this opportunity was placed in front of her.
Without the help of psychic powers, Gu Hang devoted himself wholeheartedly to the battlefield in another dimension and had no time to care about the naval battle in the real universe. He also fully delegated his authority and trusted her. She is now the supreme commander of the entire fleet, and everything is at her will.
And what she has to face is a huge challenge.
An enemy even more powerful than the Alliance fleet, with a headwind disadvantage... How was she going to fight this battle?
When such a challenge was presented to her, she regretted it and would rather not have such an opportunity.
Is there anything wrong with a simple victory?
But the reason why the challenge is a challenge is that it will not be transferred by her will, and it is what she must meet.
And she is also very pragmatic.
This battle cannot be won.
It doesn't pay to win.
Although, she didn't know what Gu Hang's situation was like on the two battlefields, whether he could win quickly and then return to the real universe to help. But she can't pin her hopes on this, she must make the right decision independently.
Instead of trying to drag Gu Hang out with his inferior naval power and making huge sacrifices, or trying to win the war, Yelicia decided that it was better to be on the safe side.
She decided to withdraw.
But it is definitely not turning around and running away with the fleet.
Otherwise, under the pursuit of enemy ships, many ships would be lost on the way back to Alamita.
The entire fleet, under the command of Yelicia, maintained the fleet's formation. The cooperation between the ships was relatively tight, and the entire fleet circled around to ensure that the frontal firepower was directed at the enemy while keeping the distance between the two sides as far as possible.
The biggest advantage of this strategy is that the farther the general distance between the two sides, the less effective the firepower will be. When it really takes a long time for a macro cannon to hit, then no matter how powerful the auspicious array, psychic calculation array, or trajectory calculation is, the hit rate will be low to a certain extent.
The light spear will be slightly better, and the hit rate may not be affected so much. However, if the distance is too long, the power attenuation of the energy weapon will become exaggerated.
In short, as the distance increases, the intensity of naval battles will naturally decrease.
When the distance is far enough, you can leave the battlefield and return directly to Alamita; even if you are still bitten, as long as the intensity of the naval battle decreases and the loss of the ship is acceptable, such a naval battle will be entangled again and again. It's not unusual for ten days and a half. If you keep pestering me, why don't you just fight and retreat back to Alamita?
By this time, Yelicia had to be thankful that the previous strategy of the alliance in Alamita was quite valuable.
If the place had not been taken down quickly, the orbital defense system and the ground orbital gun fortress group were not in hand, and five army groups and a total of hundreds of millions of alliance army troops were stationed on the planet, then The situation is really going to be bad.
Now, they at least have a solid backing they can rely on.
Returning to Ala Mita, with the support of the track system, there is no need to worry.
Although the strength of the Varuk fleet is superior, it has not reached a higher level and cannot attack the Alliance fleet under the cover of the orbital defense system. If they really dare to come forward so recklessly, then Yelicia won't mind using a head-on attack to gain herself a few more distinguished military medals.
And if Varuk's fleet chooses to besiege and cut off external supply connections, it is not afraid. Even though the alliance's main fleet suffered little losses, it continued to maintain its initiative. The Mechanicus fleet could not be too presumptuous, otherwise Yelicia could attack at any time and bite them hard.
There is nothing wrong with the whole idea.
The problem is execution.
Will the mechanical fleet allow them to do this?
It seems that he is unwilling to do so.
They speed up and go up, giving chase.
If Yelicia wanted to stop their pursuit, she had to ensure that she had enough deterrence.
The firepower of the main ships was the most important aspect, while the six hundred Space Marines who had previously ordered the attack were another aspect.
The latest news that Yelicia received was that they had successfully logged in.
However, they encountered stubborn resistance within the fleet.
In the end, only one team completed the mission.
Those two hundred shadow warriors had finished their work. They detonated the engine room and energy compartment of the enemy ship, and triggered a violent explosion inside the ship!
This explosion directly destroyed the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser.
There were even more than a hundred shadow warriors who, just before the explosion, robbed the small spacecraft attached to the ship that originally belonged to the Mechanicus, or rediscovered the landing spacecraft they used when they came, and ran back .
However, the fate of the other four hundred Space Marines was more tragic.
They could only say that they completed the mission to a certain extent, destroying 60% of its weapons systems and briefly occupying the bridge, but failed to destroy it.
While the hundreds of survivors of the Shadow Legion have returned, the progress of the four hundred warriors of Raging Flame and New Age Torch is still stuck at the current stage.
They should not all be dead yet. The second company commander of the New Age Torch, Erich, is still leading a considerable number of Space Marines to resist stubbornly inside the enemy ship. However, the losses they suffered in the battle within the ship were too great, and after the number dropped sharply, the possibility of completing the mission became increasingly slim.
At the same time, they have almost no chance to evacuate.
At this stage, it can basically be considered that they have been destroyed.
The total loss of five hundred Space Marines was quite large. But in Yelicia's view, this sacrifice is worthwhile and necessary.
This directly caused one of the opponent's battle cruisers to be destroyed, and the other one fell into chaos. Even if their subsequent ship management damage department can repair part of the firepower and repair part of the command system, the effect of emergency repairs may not be very good, and the ship's combat effectiveness will inevitably be seriously affected.
Allowing one of the enemy's six battle cruisers to be destroyed and the other paralyzed has greatly reduced the pressure on our own side.
This is not only reflected in the frontal duel between the fleets.
Yelicia's plan was to take a detour, widen the fighting distance, and reduce the intensity of the fighting. In this plan, the greatest threat is not actually the two Mechanical Arks and the two Retribution-class battleships in Varuk's fleet.
These four giant ships are indeed powerful in frontal combat, but they are all cumbersome. The real trouble is the six Dragon-Snake class ships.
Battlecruisers run fast, and they can catch up first, delaying and nauseating the Alliance fleet. They can even leave their own array for a short period of time and detour to the path of the alliance fleet to intercept and delay.
Although Ye Lixia also has some plans to deal with it, the risk has definitely increased greatly.
It would be great to be able to deal with two ships immediately, and the subsequent pressure will be much less.
Yelicia even thought about doing it again.
Even if another 500 space warriors are sacrificed to replace the two battleships on the opposite side, it is not impossible.
However, out of caution, she did not release so many troops in the second wave of troops she ordered to attack.
Although New Age Torch and Raging Flame still want to continue fighting, they even hope to be sent to the battleship where the battle brothers fought before. On the one hand, they can complete the unfinished task, and on the other hand, they can also try to save some people. .
But it was rejected by Ye Lixia.
She only silently dispatched two hundred shadow battle groups, targeting the third Dragon-Snake-class battle cruiser.
But this time, the results were less than ideal.
There were still fighter planes projected by the USS Hippogriff as cover, but this time the losses during the boarding process were relatively large. More than fifty people were shot up on the road before they even boarded the ship.
Then, the one hundred and fifty people who successfully boarded the ship, with the assistance of a small number of marines, failed to complete the task perfectly. They still only paralyzed the enemy ship's command system and failed to completely destroy it.
Moreover, he could not withdraw.
Yelicia also clearly realized that the previous success might have a small chance.
She stopped gambling.
After all, Space Marines can't all do this kind of thing.
The Varuk fleet is also engaging in gang jumping. Those strange egg-shaped spores with anti-reconnaissance properties that can stick to the armor of a ship and invade by corroding holes are also quite disgusting. The invasion caused by the previous suicide squadrons that rushed up had not been resolved after the two standard Terra days at the beginning of the naval battle.
Moreover, the Adeptus Mechanicus continues to project these boarding spores in the reverse direction.
The Alliance fleet has greatly increased its vigilance in this regard and strengthened interception. But just as one's own boarding torpedoes can board enemy ships, it is also impossible to intercept all those boarding spores.
Even the probability of their successful landing is not low, at least higher than that of conventional boarding torpedoes and boarding spacecraft. Now there are only a few floating over occasionally, causing some trouble, but can we rule out the possibility of the enemy launching large-scale drops?
I'm afraid it's not possible.
In this case, Space Marines would have to take small boats to rescue the invaded ships.
Need to be on guard.
Now, it was enough to use the Space Marines' gang-hopping tactics to destroy one battle cruiser and significantly reduce the combat effectiveness of the two battle cruisers.
In the subsequent process of extending the combat distance, and even in the process of retreating while fighting, the threat posed by the remaining three battle cruisers in the Mechanicus is relatively limited.
They also tried a detour interception, but suffered a big loss. It did delay the Alliance fleet a little, but the price paid was that a Dragon Snake-class battle cruiser was severely damaged and almost destroyed.
After being repulsed, they tried to drop a wave of high-density boarding spores. However, the embarrassing thing was that this kind of boarding spores had the advantages of being stealthy and having a high boarding success rate, but its speed was really not fast.
During the high-speed maneuvers of the Alliance fleet, more than half of them failed to fall into the predetermined position and had to be awkwardly recovered by the Varuk fleet.
The remaining boarding spores that arrived at the predetermined location at the predetermined time did indeed exert their effect. Except for those that were intercepted, a considerable proportion of the remaining ones completed the landing and used the semi-mechanical and semi-automatic spores The insect's modified servitor was released into the Alliance ship.
But they were met with ferocious counterattack.
Yelicia's remaining hand came into play at this time.
The Honor Guards, Battle Sisters, and Space Marines, the three elite forces of the alliance, had all boarded various small ships and fighter planes when they detected the approach of large-scale boarding spores.
When transferring among your own ships, the risk is definitely very small. You will be hit by the artillery fire of the enemy ship group from a distance... There are indeed cases, but they are very rare, and only those who are very unlucky can do it. arrive.
In most cases, the transfer can be completed smoothly.
They are quick reaction troops who will go to the ship most severely invaded by boarding spores to assist the marines on the ship to deal with the invading enemies.
The whole process is about speed.
Even if this crisis is passed like this.
Subsequently, the Mechanicus fleet also launched a rapid advance of the entire army, but the heavy Mechanical Ark with two Retribution-class battleships was really unable to move quickly.
Later, they seemed to have resigned themselves to their fate.
He no longer even chased Yelicia's ship, but directly changed his target and headed for Alamita.
Anyway, don’t your alliance want to go back?
Then wouldn't it be better if I'm faster than you and intercept at the destination?
But this time, they failed.
The Alliance had some fleets ahead of them and returned to Alameda.
(End of chapter)