The fat man sat honestly beside Hastings, pricked up his ears, opened his eyes wide, and listened attentively.At this moment, he suddenly remembered his student days many years ago.At that time, I was still an inconspicuous fat man, sitting in a spacious and bright classroom.Outside the window, the campus is lined with greenery.Students with books and professors with calm steps passed by under the shade of the trees.Summer cicadas are chirping, and white runway lines stretch from the red track to the dormitory buildings in the distance.The sun shone brightly on the lawn of the course and on the leaves of the trees.There is a fiery tranquility.The surround sound in the classroom is always so clear.There is not a single impurity.On the podium, the gray-headed professor pointed at the virtual teaching light curtain with an electronic teaching whip, and his voice was subdued.The classmates next to him had different expressions in the difficult afternoon, and they didn't care if they were poor in studying, hanging their children, or talking to each other, or sleeping on their desks.Those who study well are engrossed, and the expression on their faces is close to holiness and piety.At that time, I was just a fat man with low grades, no eye-catching background, and no outstanding appearance.Cowardly, not motivated, there are no ideals that can be used, let alone planning for the future.Every day, he slipped past the school bullies with low eyebrows and smiled, smiling at every guy he couldn't afford to mess with.The greatest pleasure is standing in the aisle and looking into the breasts of girls in dresses, or else going home to sort out their erotic magazines and inflatable dolls, burning the floor and counting the arrival of the latest limited edition dolls ordered.Occasionally, he would stand alone in the crowd and quietly look at An Lei in the spotlight.Watch her laugh with her classmates, watch her grow flying, watch her dance like a fairy at the evening party with the lights blurring and laughter, conquering everyone.These seem to be all there is to the life of my students.Calm and restless, full of the hormones, reverie, sweat, sunshine and longing of adolescence.At that time, I never dreamed that one day the war would break out, the city would be destroyed, and I would become a soldier, working hard for that careless life on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke and artillery fire.I would never have imagined that today, many years after leaving school, I would sit next to Marshal Hastings, the god of the Feiyang army, and take such a class.In front of it, the semi-circular silvery-white central podium exudes a soft metallic sheen.Three huge tactical computer main screens, dozens of small screens of different colors and sizes, and also belonging to different system terminals, are suspended on them.Through this command platform, the fat man can clearly and intuitively understand everything about the fleet.The deployment of troops, the situation of Skynet's electronic countermeasures, the proportion of the fleet's battle losses, and even the current specific situation of each warship are all clear and clear.The fat man knows that this central command platform is a chessboard.These steel fleets, where humanity has exhausted its last resources, are pawns on a chessboard.Hastings sat on one side of the board, and Sauber was on the other side!
They are the gods of this star field.Every command they give will decide the life and death of tens of millions of soldiers on both sides on the chessboard!
This lesson weighs more than a thousand pounds!
The atmosphere, as the Lecht fleet and the Western fleet approached, became more and more tense.Because Sober invested far more troops in the left flank theater than in other theaters, and because of the important surname of the left flank theater, the Filipino League generals in the command hall paid much more attention to the left flank than the center and right flank."
Tactical command is not as mysterious as imagined."
Hastings, who seemed to sense the fat man's nervousness, stared at the screen and said to the fat man."
Whether you want to break the enemy or block the enemy, all you need to do is choose the corresponding formation and tactics according to the situation on the battlefield.These formations and tactics are all in military textbooks.They are all classics that have been tempered by thousands of years of war.It is not difficult to master it, but it is difficult to apply. ”"Battle after battle, the art of war, the magic of use, and the same heart?"
The fat man quickly remembered a sentence he had seen in Gariparan's laboratory, when he was studying conducting."
Yes."
Hastings nodded approvingly and said, "Space fleet operations are difficult to say, but simple is easy to say.It's hard because the battle on the ground is flat, while the battle in space is three-dimensional.The battle on the ground, whether it is a mecha or a fighter, as long as the earth is used as the base, a war plan can be drawn.But in space battles, warships can soar at will. ”As he spoke, Hastings asked the fat man, "Can you play a three-dimensional chess game on a two-dimensional chessboard?!"
”The fat man shook his head quickly, and his cheeks were thrown so fast that he was about to fly out.The sense of direction cultivated by human beings living on Earth is the biggest obstacle to the understanding of space warfare by ordinary people.Although a lot of interstellar planes have been drawn for the sake of this habit of mankind, they are maps.No one can compress a space battle into a plan.If a human commander wants to command a battle, he must abide by the rules of space!"
It's simple, but it's really simple."
Hastings smiled faintly and said, "Although the battlefield is a cosmic space, and the terrain is more complex than the ground, because of the preciousness and rarity of warships, every space battle will have a far greater impact on the forces and resources of both sides than on the ground.A space battleship, even the most basic frigate, is thousands of times more precious than a soldier or a mech.As a result, no country can devote as many combat units in space as there is on the ground.The small number of combat units, coupled with the fact that the frequency and duration of the fleet's battles are much longer than those on the ground, makes the battles between the space fleets manageable.You can't control a soldier to dodge bullets, target his shots, and run routes, but you can control almost every detail of a battleship or a fleet in battle.Including the sailing route, steering angle and salvo time. ”Speaking of this, Hastings took a slight break and said slowly: "Therefore, space battles are also known as [battles of details].The commander needs to take command deep into every detail of the fleet and battleships. ”The fat man listened attentively.Although what Hastings said is the most basic knowledge for even the most ordinary military academy command cadre, it is completely new for the fat man.These things, whether it is Russell, who only analyzes battle examples and only guides him to think, or Margaret, who once instructed him in the command game of [Decisive Thousand Miles], has never talked about it."
The details of the battle."
The fat man muttered on the words."
For thousands of years, the tactics of the Space Fleet have become a relatively fixed system.Just like the layout of the cold weapon era, it is also like playing chess, as long as you master the patterns and study the changes of these patterns in depth, then you will find that no matter what position your opponent puts in the chess, there will always be corresponding changes in the pattern for reference.Of course, stereotypes are not omnipotent, and it is impossible for us to master all of them, let alone know the myriad variations that have emerged from them. ”As he spoke, he said to the fat man: "Your bandit fleet is an example of breaking the tradition. ”The corners of the fat man's mouth grinned, and he was inevitably a little proud."
The formula is dead, but man is alive.The two sides are playing against each other, and the competition is who can use tactics more flexibly to crack the opponent," Hastings said: "However, if you want to use it flexibly, you must first master these formulas!"
”On the command screen, Lecht's Phantom First Fleet is getting closer and closer to the enemy.The fat man could clearly see that the five double-headed Eagle A-class fleets under Lechte's command were all arranged in a standard triangular assault formation.The main formation of their battleships was located in the rear, in equal formations.The patrol group, on the other hand, formed a large triangle in front of it in a smaller triangular assault formation.The five A-class fleets, like five warplanes cast into the shadow of the undulating ground in the sun, clinged to the Phobos-2 and faced the enemy."
What I'm teaching you now is [to meet the enemy].This is my general term for all the tactics of the first stage of fleet operations. ”Hastings stared at the screen intensely, his gaze moving as the ship moved.On the other hand, he raced against time to teach the fat man.However, no matter how tense the situation seemed, his voice was slow and clear, as if he wanted to imprint every word into the fat man's mind."
Whether it's a sneak attack or a head-to-head confrontation, the fleet will try its best to suppress the opponent's firepower, seize the attack position, and maintain the formation when encountered.Thus laying the groundwork for the next battle.There are many examples in history where one side of the fleet was suppressed by the enemy at the beginning, and thus gradually lost the battle in the later battles.Therefore, how to suppress or avoid being suppressed by the enemy in the early stage of a battle is a knowledge that a commander must delve into and master. ”As he spoke, the distance between the two fleets on the screen was less than three thousand meters.Through the telescope, the fat man could clearly see the oncoming fleet of the Western Covenant.At the forefront were three fleets of the Western Group, for a total of nine A-class fleets.Like Lecht's five A-class fleets, they used the standard triangular assault formation.The main array of battleships was located at the rear of the fleet, and in front of it was a high-advancing destroyer formation."
Fatty!
See clearly!
”When the two fleets had already entered the strangulation distance of 3,000 kilometers, Hastings's finger quickly tapped over the tactical computer screen.The space that he hit rippled like a splash.Dozens of coordinates suddenly appeared in front of the route of the patrol formation, and immediately passed on to the Lecht fleet through the tactical computer."
[Wolf pack] tactics," Hastings pressed the communicator switch, and Sen Ran ordered: "Battleship main formation, salvo!"
Fire!
”On the screen, the main array of battleships of the five Phantom fleets burst out with a dazzling white light.And the course of the fleet ahead has also changed towards the rippling coordinates on the tactical computer screen!
In the white light, a patrol formation, like wolves walking side by side on the wasteland, spread out to the left and right when they encountered their prey.The fat man held his breath.He saw that while the Lecht fleet was moving, the fleet of the West Continent also changed.A salvo of battleship main formations moving almost simultaneously!
Evacuation formations that spread out almost at the same time!
At this moment, the fleets of both sides fired head-on.It's like two fireworks!
(To be continued)