A Desik [Little Demon] scout ship, ending the jump.It is a small ship that looks like a metal snail and is equipped with two 600 mm energy cannons on either side of its spiral body.Except for interstellar reconnaissance, there is little defense and combat effectiveness.The little demon was alone in the lonely void, as if carefully observing its surroundings.A moment later, two more white lights flashed, and the other two demon-class reconnaissance ships ended their jump and appeared beside the first demon.After the three reconnaissance ships arrived, the 6 continued to turn on the thrusters, dragging the blue ionic light flow as thin as silk from a distance, and scattered the voyage.One went straight to the start of the next leg of the transition channel, while the other two made two arcs in the air, flying to the left of the transition end channel to a brown planet and a white asteroid belt to the right.On the bandit warship, everyone was holding their breath.As you know, this is a routine counter-ambush probe when the fleet jumps.Three reconnaissance ships, but the first batch, after they left, there was a second batch, a third batch of reconnaissance ships for repeated inspections.If a cautious fleet commander is encountered, this probing will last five or six batches.Until the main force of the fleet enters the jump start channel and starts the jump engine, the last group of reconnaissance ships will leave the exploration airspace and go to the next flight segment.Sure enough, after walking around a long circle and probing the key areas around that might be ambushed, the three reconnaissance planes, which had nothing to show up, slowly drove into the jump start passage of the second leg and began to jump to the next channel.A few minutes later, the second batch of five Desik reconnaissance ships, appearing in the same position as the first batch of reconnaissance ships, began a repeating and careful second round of exploration.The first batch, the second batch, the third batch......
Ten groups of reconnaissance ships carefully searched almost all the places in the area where the first leg of the jump ended, and even a few reconnaissance ships even circled the back of the asteroid on the left and carried out a dragnet investigation of the asteroid belt on the right.As more and more reconnaissance ships appeared, the atmosphere of the bandit fleet became more and more tense.Everyone knows that the more reconnaissance ships the enemy sends, the more likely it is that the main forces of the Desik fleet will pass through here.Ten groups of reconnaissance ships are a sign of the opposing commander's caution to the point of almost timidity, and similarly, the fleet that also nailed him will definitely pass through here!
In addition to the nervous monitoring, the staff officers looked at each other, and their eyes were full of irrepressible excitement.No matter how cunning a prey is, it can't compete with an experienced hunter.Fat sir, but a master of sneak attacks, ambushes, and psychological warfare!
He not only guessed the opponent's route, but even guessed the direction of the opponent's reconnaissance ship!
The appearance of several batches of Desik reconnaissance ships in succession has made the staff officers gradually see the subtlety of the fat man's choice of this place as an ambush location.Although from the geographical situation, this is a more complex environment in the whole route, and it is more likely to be ambushed.For such a cautious Decik commander, it was also definitely an area to focus on searching.In particular, the back side of the brown asteroid and the asteroid belt on the other side of the course were the focus of his attention.However, because of this, almost all reconnaissance ships focus their reconnaissance on these areas.Fearing that the ambush fleet would enter the ambush site after they had finished exploring, each group of scout ships not only spent a great deal of time carefully and cautiously searching the brown planets and asteroid belts, but also had to make short jumps to flanks farther away to detect the presence of enemy fleets.It is these suspicious locations that firmly attract the attention of the Desiks and occupy their time and energy!
They never dreamed that there was a huge fleet, which was actually diagonally above the airspace where their jump ended!
When they finish their transition, the light of the stars, more than 80 million kilometers apart, will shine unreservedly on their portholes.Looking up, all they could see was a void of space, nothing but a dazzling light that was not obscured in the slightest.No one would explore such airspace.The ambush fleet may try to seize this direction after the battle breaks out, putting itself in a favorable position to attack in the backlight, but no idiot will choose this place as an ambush location.The scout's scanner will quickly capture the shadow of the battleship in the stellar light, leaving nothing to hide.When he saw that the tenth batch of Desik reconnaissance ships had spread to the end of the jump after the search was completed and were on alert, instead of entering the next segment, the fat man smiled and picked up the communicator."
Charge the main gun!"
———————— the silver-gray [Michael] space carrier, slowly approaching the beginning of the jump passage.Annis stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling porthole, staring out at the vast universe outside.Beside him, thousands of Desik warships, at the same degree, marched in unison towards the leap channel.They lined up one after the other, spreading endlessly into the distance, like a school of whales sailing in the sea of stars, silent, huge and majestic."
The search of the 10th Reconnaissance Brigade is complete!"
In the silent hall of the flagship, the intelligence officer's report sounded.Annis quickly turned her head to look at Gonzalez, who was standing on the podium.Gonzalez, who had always had a serious face, raised his head after repeatedly confirming the safety of the channel, his eyes met Annis's eager gaze, nodded slightly, and ordered loudly to the coordinator: "Each ship starts the jump engine and enters the jump channel with a spindle array.The interval between the marching divisions is one minute.The five-minute jump is ready for the countdown. ”"Yes!
Your Excellency, Commander," the Coordinator turned and ordered loudly, "Five-Minute Jump Countdown......"
The Coordinator's roar echoed through the command hall."
Maybe I'm being too careful," Gonzalez said as he lit a cigar and walked over to Annis, looking side by side at the starry sky and fleet outside the window, and said self-deprecatingly, "The older you get, the less timid you become."
Let His Highness smile. ”"I understand."
Annis smiled slightly, "You did the right thing.Safety is paramount.As long as we can make it to the Longbow Galaxy's jump point, we've already won more than half of this battle!
”Gonzalez nodded approvingly.Flagship, encased in a spindle formation of the Desik ship group.The loud roar of the jump engine and the clearly felt vibrations are a reminder that the ship is about to enter the gravitational jump channel.Outside the window, the tail thrusters of countless warships were fully open.The thick and bright ionic streamers sprayed longer and longer, as if the missiles under the wings were about to break away from the tail flame of the launcher, giving people a sense of degree that would shoot out in the next second.Although the Fifth Fleet of Desik, judging from the number, is only a group fleet.However, Gonzalez had a total of six A-class fleets under his command.In addition, each A-class fleet still uses a large fleet of more than 200 capital ships, with the same number of frigates and twin aircraft carriers.As a result, the fleet has far more ships than most of today's group fleets.This kind of large fleet actually began to be phased out as early as ten years ago.The battleships built in the later period were more advanced, with stronger combat ability and survivability, so the frigates equipped with them were basically eliminated.The Fifth Fleet of Desik is somewhere between the old fleet and the new one.Most of the active warships of the fleet are seven or eight years old, and they can only be used in the old warships of the previous era, but they are not as good as the new warships after the outbreak of the war, and they can only continue to maintain the same number of frigates to increase their combat effectiveness and survivability.Although in front of these small countries around Desik, the huge fleet still has an overwhelming advantage, but in the eyes of many large countries, the combat effectiveness of this kind of fleet can only be called medium!
When the Fifth Fleet was sent to join the Western and Southeast Coalition Forces, the royal family did not actually consider how much benefit it would gain.In addition to the fact that the forces are stretched thin, and they can only or only want to come up with a group fleet, more than that, it is just an indication of an attitude.But no one expected that when Seuss and Jeppen were mired in the war morass of Reske, and the Sheldon fleet entered the most critical period of attacking the Newton system, it was the Fifth Fleet that had a chance to make a thousand pounds!
The [Michael] space carrier named after the archangel was launched, and it was suddenly added, so that people in a state of reaction protection suddenly felt an oppressive force.The scenery outside the window has begun to distort.Distant stars are flying away.Aurora-like hairsprings wrapped around the ship, on the shell and armor, and even on the floor-to-ceiling portholes in front of Annis and Gonzalez, like the tentacles of a light jellyfish.Even accustomed to such scenes, Annis and Gonzalez held their breath and were dizzy.The reconnaissance ships in front of them are still sending back news about the safety of the channel one after another, and when this not long journey is over, the Desik Empire will become the star of the Western Covenant with the record of the Fifth Fleet.And he will also rely on this great merit to reach the pinnacle of power!
No more resistance!
This opportunity is rushing towards itself with the addition of battleships!
Time passed minute by minute.Half an hour later, the brief jump ended with the Coordinator's reduction order.The distorted scenery in front of them, the wandering filaments of light, disappeared without a trace at the same time that the battleship's jump engine stopped working.The starry sky outside the porthole, as if it were a broken TV screen, suddenly magically became clear and normal.When the brown planet on the left and the asteroid belt on the right come to you.The blazing light of the stars also spilled down from the diagonal rear, casting the shadow of the bridge and a brilliant golden light on the long upper deck in front of the porthole.Just as Annis and Gonzalez were dazzled by a piece of metal armor from the energy secondary cannon on the front bridge of the battleship, suddenly, a huge black cloud appeared above their heads.They watched as the reflective piece of metal armor sank into the endless shadows, and they saw the battleships that had been bathed in light were shrouded in endless black."
Enemy Attack !!"
With a terrible scream, Annis and Gonzalez turned back in horror.In front of them, the staff officers in the command headquarters were raising their heads blankly, looking at the top of the transparent dome of the command hall, and the strangely shaped bandit warships, like black demons with teeth and claws, silently emerged from the void.They grinned wickedly, spreading their bat-like wings, blocking out the last glimmer of light from the fiery red star on the Desik's Fifth Fleet.
(To be continued)