The sunlight penetrating into the study has begun to tilt.
The setting sun was like fire, making the study glow a faint red.
"Afterwards, we learned that the person who commanded the West York fleet in the battle at the beginning was not Sobol, but another famous general of the Binart Empire, Carnegie, known as the Full Metal Defense Line."
The reporter looked at Macchia sitting opposite and asked, "This is also regarded by many military scientists as one of the main factors in the failure of the Western York Army. In their view, if the battle was commanded by Sobol at the beginning , maybe the war situation will lead to another outcome"
"There are no ifs in war" The old man waved his hand holding the pipe, and said with a faint smile: "Besides, the front line in West York is commanded by Banning, Cadel, and Keynes. With Carnegie at the helm, there is nothing to blame for such a super luxurious lineup, let alone against that guy, even against Marshal Hastings."
"But they still lost to General Tian Xingjian in the previous battle." The reporter said, "Didn't Sobol personally take action later?"
"Did Sobol win?" the old man asked with a smile.
The reporter was stunned and argued: "But at that time, he even pushed General Tian to the point of despair! If he had directed the battle from the beginning, he would have had more time, maybe "
"Then why didn't he direct the battle from the beginning?" the old man asked leisurely.
"This" The reporter was speechless.
In fact, many people have been arguing about this issue for a long time. It was suggested that Sober did not have a result at that time. No one understood why Sober gave Carnegie command of the fleet. He did not direct the battle in the first place.
¡°If we really want to talk about the factors of commander selection, we should actually look at it from the other side.¡± The old man said with a smile.
The reporter asked in confusion: "Look at it the other way around?"
"Yes!" The old man blew his pipe and nodded: "Everyone only saw that Carnegie and the others were defeated by Tian Xingjian in the tactical command of breaking through the peripheral defense chain, but they did not realize that at this stage of the battle, they In fact, they did not make any mistakes. On the contrary, they showed a higher level of command than before, so that this stage became the most tragic and cruel stage in the entire battle!"
The reporter listened quietly.
He knew that the battle for the Fei League to break through the Western York defense chain lasted for forty-eight hours. The fighting was extremely brutal. The two sides fought fiercely along the defensive chain built by the Westerners. The total number of battles, large and small, that can be accurately calculated is over 800. The long duration and the intensity of the battle are simply unbelievable!
Until now, whenever people see the semi-circular warship cemetery outside the capital city of Leray, they can't help but feel shaken and stick out their tongues in horror.
"Carnegie's defensive level is not weaker than Sober's. This man specializes in one discipline and is extremely tenacious. Even Sober himself admitted that if he was the spear and Carnegie was the shield, he would be To break through Carnegie's defense, you need to pay a considerable price." The old man said slowly: "Therefore, it was actually a very smart strategy for the Xiyue people to let Carnegie fight this battle."
The old man's thoughts seemed to have returned from the quiet study to the era of war.
"That battle was so hard! It was so hard that Fujii and I didn't even want to recall it when we arrived after the war. We only commanded the battle from the front and were responsible for the specific command of the fleet. But the tactical changes on the entire battlefield were concentrated. The fat man was alone. For two whole days, he had been battling Carnegie and the others on the podium, while Sober was quietly recharging his energy .¡±
The reporter couldn¡¯t help but shudder.
Just from the old man¡¯s narration, he could hear the tragedy and danger of that battle.
Put yourself in someone else's shoes, when one person has to command a battle that lasts for two full days, with a total of more than 800 local battles, and thousands of tactical changes, and is exhausted, there is another person beside him who is recharging his energy. The feeling of a super general who is silent and not busy taking action, just staring at you, is actually more terrifying than if his opponent takes action from the beginning.
"Sober made no mistakes, and Carnegie and the others also played extremely long. However, they didn't know it at that time. Tian Xingjian, who had mastered the basic tactics, was no longer the Tian Xingjian he used to be. In him, Russell and The essence of Hastings' military science is his own unconstrained tactical imagination"
"And more importantly" The old man looked at the reporter and smiled slightly: "In terms of computing power, Tian Xingjian is unparalleled in the world!"
Ryan¡¯s flagship [Golden Chariot] is a ship built?A flat, sunfish-like [Sun]-class space carrier.
At this moment, she was surrounded by dozens of battleships. She was releasing space fighters while swimming upstream along the iron current of surging enemy ships, leading the fleet to fight bravely.
Fighter planes shot out from the ejection channel one after another. The rotating turrets all over the mothership pulled out terrifying lights of death in all directions. In the six well areas on the upper deck of the ship's bow, missile groups of one hundred were launched at a rate of once every thirty seconds.
The tail light of long-distance and ultra-high-speed missiles is like fireflies in the night. The tail smoke emitted by the solid fuel missile at close range covered the body of the battleship with smoke like billowing white clouds, and the smoke extended into the distance with the missile, like tentacles that were thin at the front and thick at the back solidified in the void.
As the battleship advances, fireball-like explosions of light continue to flash on both sides.
A dazzling flash of light lit up from the porthole on the left side of the bridge command hall. Fujii looked intently, and saw the condensed white light on the bow of a Lane battleship accompanying him on the left suddenly erupted, and the energy light bullet shot out straight, passed through the void, and silently sank into the belly of a Western cruiser.
Everything was like a slow-motion picture. Fujii Tsuyoshi could even clearly see how the armor of the Western cruiser exploded and broke, and how its outer shell melted and deformed in front of the oval light group, opening a big hole.
As the light group submerged, the entire battleship was like a snake that had swallowed an elephant, its belly suddenly expanded. The flat deck suddenly bulged, and the entire bridge and metal shell were sharply twisted and deformed. In just an instant, the West York cruiser was transformed into a huge fireball and countless debris flying in all directions in an earth-shattering explosion.
There was also a Western fighter jet that happened to pass by it. Because the pilot was unable to dodge, it was affected by the shock wave of the explosion and was blown up in the air. It turned into a small red thorn in this red cactus-like fire ball!
Fujii Gang clenched his fists tightly.
In the universe, everything is silent. All beautiful, gorgeous, tragic and crazy scenes can only be captured with your eyes!
This is a cruel war, and it is also a visual feast!
On the tactical computer at the command seat, a prompt sounded for the flagship command. Looking at the combat instructions coming from the [Hamilton] President, Fujii Tsuyoshi showed a smile. The instructions coincided with his thoughts!
He raised his head. On the main screen of Skynet, Banning's three A-class fleets were surrounded by his own fleet. Countless Lane battleships, like a swarm of swarms, surrounded the three spinning West York fleets. In the hall, the combat officers and staff were looking at him eagerly, waiting for his final order!
With just one order, the Ryan fleet will bite the first piece of meat from the Westerners!
Looking at the expectant eyes of the officers and soldiers, Tsuyoshi Fujii narrowed his eyes slightly and gave the order loudly without hesitation: "Order, the A2801 fleet cuts in along the third anti-tangent line of the battle group, and the main battleship array moves forward ¡±
As he spoke, he smashed his clenched fist and roared, "Hit me hard!"
"Yes!" As soon as his voice landed, there was already a roar of agreement in the command hall and the fleet communication channel!
"166 Fighter Squadron, follow me!"
"kill!"
The fighter pilot roared and controlled the fighter plane to roll and fly, rushing towards the three Western York fleets that were tightly surrounded by the Ryan fleet like a swarm. The gunners turned up the rock music to the maximum, and accompanied the high-pitched drum beats with the cannonballs piercing the enemy ships one after another! The captains even directed their warships to rush upward.
The three Western York fleets that have been surrounded have ushered in their doomsday.
When the A2801 fleet cut directly into the center of the battle group along the third anti-tangent line of the battle group, it intercepted the three fleets in the middle. When the ferocious muzzles of the battleship's main formation emerged from the fleet of ships moving around at high speed, condensing white light, they were aimed at the Western battleship.
There is no suspense about the outcome of the three Western York fleets being completely annihilated!
"Fire! Fire!"
With the roar of the Lane people, fierce artillery fire from all directions quickly converged towards the center of the battle group! This terrifying white light tore through the bodies of the Western battleships, instantly destroying their energy shields, tearing apart their armor, and sweeping out large holes in their hulls. Make them look like sheep surrounded by a group of machine gunners.
"Beautiful!" Captain Ryan shouted in the communication channel.
"Banning is so bad, today is also the day!" Another captain was dancing on the command seat!
The Republic of Lane and the Naga Federation are inherently feuding. The name of the Naga Federation?Banning made these Lane officers and soldiers hate him so much that they wanted to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin! Over the years, too many of their comrades have fallen in front of Banning. It can be said that every pore on Banning's hands is covered with the blood of the Lane people!
In the past, the Lane Army may have repelled or even defeated Banning, but they have never taken a bite out of Banning through tactical changes like they did today with inferior strength!
????????????????????????????????????????????????????Looking at the peripheral Xijiao fleet rushing towards them angrily, trying again and again to break into the Fei Alliance formation to rescue their own fleet, but due to the exquisite cooperation of their own warships, they returned in vain. Every Ryan officer and soldier laughed.
As on the Skynet screen, one after another, the Western York warships were reduced to ashes in the explosion, and the command hall was also filled with joy.
The staff officers either high-fived each other to celebrate this victory of great significance, or stared at the Skynet screen with bright eyes, carefully appreciating the subtleties of this tactical cooperation.
The attack target of Ryan's fleet is point f.
Point f is the hub of the waterway connecting Airport 1-15 in the capital of Leray. It turns out that at this location, there is a space station for temporary parking of ships, six suspended navigation towers and a tow ship workstation of the Leray Channel Administration.
In peacetime, this is one of the busiest airspaces in the capital planet of LeLei. But now, the space station and navigation tower have all become scraps of metal suspended in space. The ships at the towing ship workstation had already been transformed into immigration ships in Leray Immigration.
There are more than twenty A-class fleets deployed in the waterway at this location in Xiyue.
Because there are many channels into the port, these fleets are divided into five large groups, each stationed in an airspace. The overall shape looks like an irregular plum blossom.
As far as Banning¡¯s formation is concerned, it can be said to be quite rigorous.
You must know that when the Xyo space fighters entered the atmosphere of the capital star of Lelei, only a few fighters were retained by the defense fleet. On average, there is only one space carrier for ten A-class fleets. Therefore, the control over the surrounding airspace appears relatively weak. This plum blossom-shaped formation not only supports each other, but also maximizes the area of ??control.
As a link in the peripheral defense chain, Banning¡¯s task is to prevent the Fiji Alliance forces from penetrating into the inner circle.
The inner circle refers to the 400,000 kilometers of airspace bounded by the [Blue Moon] star.
In this airspace, in addition to West York's command cluster and slow-moving giant transport ships full of troops, more than 80% of West York's current space carriers are concentrated close to the atmosphere.
These motherships, which provide supply support for fighters attacking the atmosphere, have basically no protection because they are far away from the main battleship formation of the fleet. Once they are rushed to the side by Fei Alliance warships, they will not even be able to fight back.
Therefore, Banning¡¯s strategy is to focus on defense. Prevent the Fei Alliance fleet from destroying the landing battle.
In the eyes of all the Westerners, including him, this battle was not difficult. The Filipina coalition was just trying to show off their blood and bravery and made a desperate move. As long as our side maintains a solid defense, they will naturally rush in and beat us to death again and again. After a few times, the blood of the Feimeng people will fade away, and the body and spirit will become tired.
When the landing battle is successful and the army launches operations, the overall situation of this battle will be decided. By that time, it will be easy to defeat or even completely annihilate the Southeastern Allied Forces of the Philippine Alliance!
It is precisely because of this mentality that the West York fleet, which has the advantage in strength, did not panic at all when it saw the eighteen Ryan fleets rushing towards it in a trident formation. They responded calmly according to the established deployment. The cluster of five plum blossom-like battleships moved forward, backward, left and right, firmly blocking the Fei Alliance fleet.
The fighting situation at point u, point c and point k is the same, and the two sides engage in battle very quickly.
This is because when the Philippine Alliance forces appeared and launched an attack, they adopted a short-range jump and then a high-speed attack method. It is completely different from the way in which the two armies of the Double Star Angle move towards each other at the speed of the battleships and slowly approach. In just a minute or two, the fleets of the two armies entered the firing range and exchanged fire, and they quickly strangled each other.
During the confrontation stage, Banning adopted a [serial] defensive tactic.
This tactic includes the [Cobra] tactic and the [Sheep's Horn Turn] tactic. It is an advanced compound tactic with extremely strong defense and a certain attack power. During the battle, the fleet of five plum blossom petals will keep moving at high speed.
This kind of wandering is not in one direction, but like a sheep's horn, forming two semicircles. In this way, the fleet's main battleship formation can always remain in motion, changing formations at any time, seizing attack angles, and implementing artillery suppression.
At the same time, the destroyer groups on the periphery were also roaming and turning to protect the main formation andProvide cover for several A-class fleets in the center to find opportunities to attack.
The Ryan fleet, under the command of Fatty, adopted the simplest and most direct [Wolf Pack Tactics] in the battle stage. The eighteen A-class fleets are like a huge trident, divided into three arrows. The left and right arrows each consist of four fleets forming the wolf pack's outflanking cluster, and the middle eight fleets form the wolf pack's main attack group.
As soon as the battle began, the Fei League was hit and attacked by the main battleship formation of the West York fleet. However, because the Fei Alliance fleet was spread out relatively widely, the distance was close, and the speed was fast, the losses were not huge.
Soon, the two sides were in close combat. Eighteen Lane A-class fleets, like eighteen hungry wolves, pounced on the Western Fleet. The West York Fleet relied on its dense formation and strength advantage to confront the Lane Fleet.
In terms of tactical conditions, the two armies are evenly matched.
The victory of Xiyue was due to its stronger force, the main battleship salvo was powerful, and it occupied key points in the waterway, and the formation was complete and stable. The Feimeng is better because of its fast speed, many attack points, and flexibility.
The battle was intense from the beginning. The Lane fleet pounced on it again and again, trying to tear apart the Banning fleet's formation, while Banning calmly defended and counterattacked to defuse the offensive. The fleets of both sides were going back and forth, and suddenly the Fei Alliance fleet pressed over, forcing the enemy to recover in full. Suddenly, the Westerners counterattacked and forced the Fei League fleet to temporarily avoid the edge.
At the 70th minute, the situation of the battle changed.
At that time, Fujii Tsuyoshi was preparing to order the 191 and 192 fleets on the left wing to attack the two Desik fleets not far away. However, the instructions that appeared on the tactical computer rejected his plan.
Fatty ordered Fleet 191 and Fleet 192 to immediately turn left rudder for 1200 seconds and bypass the Lane 061 fleet, which was lining up with the opponent's fleet for bombardment. At the same time, the space fighters of the sixteen groups that had just completed supplies in the central group and were preparing to dispatch again changed their original combat plan and made two detours along the outer line of the central group.
This instruction made Fujii Tsuyoshi hesitant. However, out of trust in Fatty, he still faithfully carried out the order.
Under his order, the two A-class fleets quickly turned their bows to the left and moved to the left in two spindle formations.
At the same time, the fighter jets released by the mothership did not attack immediately. Instead, they flew backward to the large swing line, then divided into two clusters, and flew along an arc from the left and right to Fatty's designated coordinates.
Because of this action, the right wing of Lane's fleet, which had been pressing forward, was forced to retreat as the enemy's offensive strengthened.
Just when everyone was still speculating on the effect of Fatty's tactical change, they suddenly discovered that the 191 and 192 fleets had just moved over, and the four Western York A-class fleets located in the center [snake head] of the Western York formation were once again heading towards A surprise attack was launched in the middle.
The last raid was more than twenty minutes ago.
At that time, under the cover of the two wing fleets, the Western Yorkist center fleet suddenly rushed out along the passage that the patrol group had left, and directly seized the central attack position, forcing the Ryan fleet, which had already overwhelmed the Western Yorkist main formation, to turn and evade . Not only did it cost nearly twenty battleships, but it also halted the hard-fought momentum of the attack.
Now, the Westerners used their old tricks again, and the four fleets quickly came out like the heads of cobras.
This time, their huge fangs were aimed at the four fleets on the left!
As soon as he saw this situation, Fujii Tsuyoshi understood everything without waiting for the fat man to give further instructions. Under his order, the two fleets 191 and 192 suddenly came out from behind the 061 fleet, completely ignoring the Western fleet that was shooting at the 061 fleet, and moved diagonally to the left and forward. At the same time, the fighter jet cluster that had arrived at the predetermined coordinates also quickly moved forward to outflank it.
The West York fleet that rushed out was already at full speed. The four A-class fleets were two in front and two in back, forming a huge herringbone.
Just when the West York warship rushed out of the out of the way patrol group, passed through the empty airspace in front of the formation and charged towards the side of the left wing Lane fleet, all Lane officers and men held their breath. They saw, at some point, more than a thousand Lane space fighters of their own side, in five-plane formations, passing silently past the portholes of their warship.
The light of stars in the distance shines brightly on the hull of the battleship. In the shadows between the battleships, the high-speed flying fighter planes looked like a group of vampires from hell.
When the four fleets in Western York were less than 10,000 kilometers away from the left war zone, the fighter jet cluster on the left had already swept out from the Lane fleet in the left war zone and entered the rear of these fleets.
The fighter jet group on the right wing faced the patrol group of the Xijue main formation!
This time, not only the officers and soldiers of Ryan understood it, but also the people of Xiyue immediately understood it.
Although the raid on the WestThe York fleet quickly adopted the strategy of retracting the forward and retracting the rear to meet the enemy on both wings. The main battle group's patrol group also tried to rush out to cover. However, they realized it too late. Before their battleship's steering thrusters could be activated, a total of more than a thousand fighter planes from the left and right sides of the Fei League had already roared into their formation. Open fire indiscriminately.
This piece of airspace was like adding fuel to a fire, burning from the ground up.
The fighter planes rolled, dived, circled and danced in the sky. The energy cannons on the nose of the aircraft and the missiles under the wings were like lightning striking the ground from dark clouds. The incoming missile hit the ship's hull with a straight tail light, turning into balls of fire that stung people so hard that they couldn't even open their eyes. The energy shield of the West York warship is a series of ripples shot by the fighter aircraft's airborne cannon!
Fatty¡¯s timing is extremely accurate.
If there was a pair of eyes that could see the tactical computers of both sides at the same time, it would have been discovered that while Banning's center fleet ordered an assault, Fatty ordered the 191 and 192 fleets to move to the left. When Banning's middle fleet rushed out of the way of the patrol group, the Lane fighter planes had already left the mothership and headed for the predetermined location.
Precise calculations allowed the West York fleet to be completely restrained in a series of tactical changes after launching the surprise attack. So much so that they were in extreme chaos for the entire five minutes they were attacked by fighter jets. In the end, when the 191 and 192 fleets cut across their retreat, only a quarter of the Western York warships escaped back to the main formation!
This is the first sword wielded by Allied Commander Tian Xingjian in the entire battle!
"Beautiful!" Fujii Gang stared at the Skynet screen and said silently in his heart.
He knew that no matter what the outcome of this battle was, the fat man who personally directed all post-interruption battles and swept the rankings of strategic simulation games just to learn basic tactics that most commanders didn't even want to take a second look at would use his Tactical command, shocking the world!
Although the annihilation of three Western fleets is just the beginning. The battle that follows may be more difficult than expected, but it is also more exciting!
If you peel off two more layers of shell, maybe you can create a miracle!
A huge fleet traveled along the Mars Free Channel.
If a spaceship passes by here, people will be surprised to find that every warship in this fleet is brand new, and it has obviously just been built not long ago. Moreover, there is no known warship model from all over the world. They are all below the heavy destroyer level and look more like a space submarine without portholes.
"General, we have arrived at the free galaxy jump point!" In the flagship command hall, the main control pilot reported loudly.
Chekov, who has been promoted to major general, stood on the command podium, staring at the familiar star field outside the window, and was filled with emotions for a while.
More than a year ago, he was the captain of a destroyer and was ordered to escort the then Federal Vice President Flavio and Army General Bernadotte through this jumping point on their mission to Chalkner.
During the voyage, he was robbed and killed by a cruiser and two destroyers from the Western York blockade fleet, as well as several pirate armed merchant ships, and was forced to deviate from the route and live in the free world.
In just one year, he has transformed into a Major General of the Leray Federation.
A "Bolan Rose" has also become the fleet in front of you - a total of twenty "Doomsday" class space carriers fully loaded with space fighters, the most powerful space killer in this era!
These twenty [Doomsday]-class space carriers are new ships that came off the dock when the bandits returned to Lelei. Previously, they had been loading space fighters in the Chakna Republic for training and running-in.
Because the battle broke out in the Double Star Corridor, the fleet was ordered to move south urgently.
However, due to the need for confidentiality, the fleet has always used split warships to move south along the free channel. Only after arriving at Blue Stone Star did they enter the main channel.
Originally, the fleet was supposed to participate in the defensive battle at the Lelei central star field jump point.
But just before setting off, Chekov suddenly received an order from Fatty, requiring him to station on the Blue Stone Star for three days, then lead the fleet to re-enter the Mars Free Channel via the public star system in the north, and then follow the original [Bolan] The well-trodden path taken by the Rose] circled the Leray Free System and headed for the Leray Central System.
Everyone in the fleet didn¡¯t understand why they had to go in such a big circle.
The only ones who understand this are Chekov himself and the other two people standing next to him at this moment.
The commander of the bandit army's 1st Armored Division, Rashid.
Commander of the 2nd Armored Division of the Bandit Army, Stewart.
"Everyone is ready, turn off the engine, set the jump coordinates, and count down in five minutes" Staring at the dark jump point, Chekov suddenly felt his heartbeat speed up.
He turned around and looked.
Beside them, Rashid and Stewart were chatting with a relaxed look.
Not far away, Wei Jianshan, Hargrove, Wagstaff and Monson were drinking tea leisurely. Cozmo, Infantry, Buzz, Wetherill, Monson, Mountbatten, Long Tai and other young mecha war gods were playing poker in a transparent tactical room and were very busy. . Everyone's face was covered with notes.
Chekov laughed.
"Ten seconds countdown" he ordered.
"Ten, nine, eight"
Amidst the countdown sounds of the master pilot, he looked at the dark void and thought that through this darkness, he would be greeted by the bright, bright and peaceful starry sky of Leray.