Counterfeit Hero

Riparan, Provisional Presidential Palace. starter

With a soft sound, two six-meter-high arched relief wooden doors were pushed open by guards standing on both sides.

Vice Admiral Malki, commander of Newton's local fleet, strode into the room.

An empty room with plenty of light. The sunlight shines through the tall windows and reflects several squares of gold on the snow-white walls. A whole piece of Casmal cashmere carpet with red background and white stripes covered the entire room with an area of ​​​​500 square meters.

On the other end of the carpet, President Flavio was standing quietly next to the filing cabinet.

"What did Fisichella say?" Flavio's voice echoed in the high dome.

"Mr. President." Malchi, who had some gray hair, walked up to Flavio, stood at attention and saluted, looked back at the closed door, and replied: "Fisichella, refuse to accept the suggestion of my headquarters. .

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Flavio nodded. He didn't find this result surprising.

He snorted coldly, put the folder in his hand into the filing cabinet, turned around and walked to the sofa. While motioning for Malki to sit down, he asked: "Doesn't he know that our suggestion is also the opinion of the high command of the coalition forces?" ?”

"I'm afraid he understands this very well." Malki took off his military hat. He sat down and said, "But. He has enough reasons to refuse to attack the Leray Central System."

"Tell me about it." Flavio gritted his teeth.

"The headquarters of the Supreme Command issued the command. It is the combat guidance." Malki got straight to the point: "Let Fisichella attack the Leray central star system jump point. Contain the central star field and the Bermuda-Western coalition forces. Control the 19th Feiyang Group fleet. The Salega Longbow Galaxy creates conditions. It is not a combat order that must be executed. Fisichella can decide whether to execute it based on his own judgment."

"His judgment?" Flavio blew his beard and glared: "The matter is obvious. Is his judgment different from ours?"

Mulkey placed his hat on the arm of the sofa. He shook his head and said: "He does not agree with the judgment of my headquarters. He thinks that after the Feiling and Feiyu Royal Elephant-class fleets of the Binart Empire and the fifth group fleet of Desik arrived in the central star field of Lele Later, Douglas adhered to the strategic plan of the Longbow Galaxy. In fact, it was bankrupt. In a situation where the enemy was outnumbered and we were outnumbered, he was opposed to investing the Southeastern Alliance's inherently insufficient troops."

"Short-sighted!" Flavio snorted angrily: "Does he think that the 19th Group fleet has been annihilated and that the main southeast channel has returned to the hands of West York. Can we still hold on until the end of the war by defending Newton's Jump Point?! "

"Maybe we can't." Malki said solemnly: "But, he can!"

Flavio was startled, and then he understood, and his face suddenly turned green.

Now, the strength of the Fifa League in the southeast is concentrated in Leray's Newton and Galileo systems, Gacharin's Little Pyrenees system, the Knawil Four Nations Alliance, and the Tatanian Free Alliance and Pudi The Tok Federation is formed in an area shaped like the Big Dipper.

Tartania and Puditok, have been fighting against the Decic Empire since the beginning of the war. Although in terms of individual strength, the two members of the Fifa League are not much stronger than the Leray Federation before the war, they are not at a disadvantage when facing Desik.

Historically, Tartania and Puditok were an inseparable whole. Although they are two countries in name, economically they implement a zero-tariff policy for each other. Militarily, they have hundreds of joint military bases, research, manufacture and use the same weapons. In terms of education, their citizens are free to choose each other's schools. On the political side, their political parties form alliances with each other and run jointly for elections.

What is the difference between two such countries and one country? !

Moreover, in terms of national strength and land area, although Desik can rank among the top ten great powers, this old and decaying empire has long lost the majesty it had when it overthrew the Nademik Dynasty and dominated the country. Even in the West, many small and medium-sized empires did not look down upon the Desik Empire. Their royal family, their nobles, and even their army all exude the smell of decay from their bones.

During the Lere Patriotic War, Desik once sent troops to the Gacharin Empire and the Lere Federation. However, their huge fleets and armies struggled for a long time, but in the end they came back defeated and got nothing.

Therefore, the most stable ones in the current southeastern star field are Tatania and Putitok.

After fighting for so long, the war was only on the border between the two countries and Desik. Even if Jepen and Soos ignore the main southeast channel and the Chakna Republic and send troops to cooperate with Desik, they cannot easily win over these two members of the Fiji League who live and die together.

As the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces in the Southeast Theater of the Fiji League, Tatania and Puditok are Fisichella's greatest reliance!

Moreover, in his hands, there is also the Knawil Four-Nation Alliance!

The Knawil Four-Nation Alliance consists of the Knawil Republic, the Nasai Republic, the Bachela Republic and the Tansila Republic. Of these four countries, except for the larger Knawil Republic, the other three countries only have two immigrant planets in total. Among them, Bachela and the Republic of Tansila are on the same immigrant planet. In terms of military strength, the combined strength of these four countries is only 40% of what the Leray Federation had before the war. However, they have two advantages, that is, the war has not done anything to them until now. Influence, and they have the interstellar route to the Feiyang Republic.

Although this waterway is really far away, it would take about three to four months to pass by a single boat, and almost half a year to sail by a fleet. However, this is a passage after all! At the critical moment, this passage is the retreat route for the Fisiche Expeditionary Fleet led by Fisichella!

The Knawil Four-Nation Alliance, the Tatanian Free Alliance and the Putitok Federation formed a fairly stable iron triangle. With this iron triangle, Fisichella didn't care at all about the loss of the Lere Central Passage, the Lere Federation, which had little strategic value and was already torn apart.

The devastated Atlantis star field is just a forward position that he can abandon at any time.

Therefore, as a coalition commander who does not belong to the Southeast Star Territory but leads the military forces here, Fisichella's thinking is essentially different from Flavio's. In his opinion, he still has enough strategic depth. What he needs to ensure is the security of the military power in his hands, not these several galaxies.

Billions of people in the galaxy.

Now, Binart's two elephant-class royal fleets and the fifth group fleet of Desikland have joined the battle in the southeast.

In addition to the Western-Japanese coalition forces originally stationed in the Bermuda and Leray central star fields, even if we do not count the three super fleets of Jiepen that can arrive within a week, Western-Japanese military strength in this area is far higher than that of Fei. The troops in Sichela's hands.

In Fisichella's view, Douglas's strategic attempt to guard the Longbow Galaxy had been shattered as early as the arrival of the Binart Royal Fleet in the central star field of Leray. No matter from which aspect, Douglas will not be Humphrey's opponent. If he was leading the 19th Group Fleet, he would choose to leave the Longbow Galaxy and quickly go north to preserve his strength. Instead of wandering around the Longbow Galaxy to contain and cover the Chakna war situation.

He was not Douglas, and he could not make decisions for the Nineteenth Group fleet. However, he could tighten the reins of the southeastern coalition in his hands and make this army stop outside the Lelei Central System Jump Point.

No one could make him change his decision, even if it was Feiyang's own fleet that was dealing with the enemy in the Longbow Galaxy. Even Douglas can be considered his student. The war has just begun, and Fisichella doesn't want to suffer a predictable defeat because of a wrong decision!

Flavio knew all of Fisichella's calculations. However, there is no power to change.

Now, Le Lei only has one star field and two star systems at hand, and the air and land forces, a total of only three fleets, fourteen armored divisions and thirty-two fully mechanized infantry divisions. It sounds like a lot, but most of them are improvised. Even if there are weapons and equipment supported by various countries, the quality of the personnel is far from being comparable to that of Le Lei's army in the early days of the Great Patriotic War.

The main force of the Southeast Expeditionary Force is currently stationed in the jump point airspace between the Newton System and the Leray Central System. However, Flavio has no doubt that as long as Xiyo launches a large-scale attack, as long as the Southeast Expeditionary Force suffers a slight loss, If Fisichella finds it unbearable, he will abandon the Newtonian system and retreat to the Galileo system. Thus, the Newton Galaxy was once again thrown into the flames of war.

This is absolutely intolerable!

"Does the staff have a plan to come up with?" Flavio wandered around the room with his hands behind his back.

"The opinion of the staff is to implement strategic transfer as soon as possible." Lieutenant General Malki said solemnly: "If we wait until the situation we predicted happens, I'm afraid it will be too late."

"Retreat to Galileo?" Flavio stood still and looked at Malchi in shock: "Do you know that doing this will not only destroy the morale of the people that has just been restored, but also Make Fisichella’s retreat more justified?!”

"Your Excellency, we have no choice!" Malki lowered his head and said: "If we can't take precautions, we won't even be able to save the Galileo Galaxy! According to the intelligence from the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Brody rebels are stepping up their gathering and mobilization. Very soon. Obviously, their target will not be the distant Salega or Chakna. The Dersik Fifth Group fleet that arrived in the Leray Central Star Domain, the two Suss A-class fleets stationed in Bermuda and the Capital Star, and the Six The Jiepen mixed fleet, as well as the three Jiepen super fleets [Yingsun], [Thunder], and [Storm], which have set off from Jiepen's homeland and rushed to the Bermuda galaxy, are a huge rock hanging above our heads."

Flavio looked at the electronic plane interstellar map hanging on the snow-white wall with a pale face, and listened to Malki's mouth spitting out the judgment he least wanted to hear: "The current battle situation is related to each other. Once Chakna cannot quickly obtain The victory of the Battle of Lesk, once the Mars Free Channel is occupied by Xijiao, cutting off the main southeast channel, and once the Feiyang 19th Group Fleet in the Longbow Galaxy is annihilated, this boulder will lose its ties. It is a rope, with a bang. fall.

"

There was a deathly silence in the room. Flavio stood quietly in front of the interstellar plan. His frowning brows, deep wrinkles, and slightly stooped body made this cheerful and heroic veteran seem to have aged ten years!

He slowly turned his head: "We still have hope, right?"

He pointed at the map: "Where is Tian Xingjian? Where are he and his bandits? Admiral Bernadotte, didn't you say that they have arrived at the Longbow Galaxy? There is also the Zangfeng Fleet. Maybe they can"

Flavio didn't say any more, the expression on Malki's face said it all.

Tian Xingjian led just a miscellaneous force gathered from Mars. Their battleships and their military quality were completely different from Binart's most elite Royal Elephant-class fleet. Perhaps, a squadron of the Binart Empire can completely defeat them with just one attack!

And how could the Zangfeng fleet, which had been hidden deep in the nebula of Bermuda for several months, lost its understanding of the situation, lost intelligence support, and even depleted its supplies and energy, risk losing Le Lei's last remaining force? Danger, to hit an egg against a stone? !

Another large-scale retreat from home seems to be the only option.

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At the junction of the Feyan Republic and the Chakna Republic is a galaxy called Triflan.

This galaxy is just a small province of the Feyon Republic. Apart from a small planet with a population of less than 10 million and three resource planets that have been almost exhausted, perhaps the most noteworthy thing worth mentioning is its geographical location. . The Tryflan system, which has six A-level interstellar jumping points, is not only connected to the hinterland of Feyan Republic, but also to an enclave of Chakna, Siliyak and Lane Republic.

Now, the immigrant star known as Al-Aqsa has become the base camp of the Fifa Alliance Command. Setting up the base camp here is not only because of the suitable geographical location, but also because it is a tradition of the Fei League.

Al-Aqsa not only has more than 20 large-scale military bases and more than 200 large and small space air ports, but also has a complete and reliable wartime command system established three hundred years ago, as well as a complete and reliable wartime command system spread deep in the galaxy. backup material warehouse.

More importantly, there is a fortress here that is said to never be captured, which is the Joint Command Headquarters.

On the ground, Al-Aqsa Space Fortress.

Among the human countries, with the exception of Desik and Sus, which each have a small fortress, and Lane, the Naga Federation and the Jepen Empire each have a medium-sized fortress, there are more than ten fortresses in the Feyan Republic and Bina. In the hands of the Erte Empire. This kind of super battle fortress that can station several super fleets, has a complete defense system, and can move freely is, in a sense, a symbol of all military forces. .

A battleship flew slowly past the porthole window. Before it disappeared in the light of the star, another battleship passed by the window at the same speed and trajectory.

Inside the porthole, there was a lot of noise, voices, footsteps, and electronic sounds mixed together.

In the middle of the high dome of the huge hexagonal hall, a virtual screen with a diameter of 60 meters was quietly suspended. The changing color images are like a miniature world. Under the light curtain is a giant central computer surrounded by three rings of inner and outer consoles. Densely packed soldiers wearing uniforms from different countries were running around like ants in a mess. In mid-air, several suspended elevators were taking off and landing from time to time, distributed on the platform halfway up the hexagonal wall. Doors to rooms with different functions were frequently opened and closed in front of the soldiers coming and going.

The only thing that seems relatively quiet may be the three-layer curved platform close to the almost unbelievable thickness of the armor on the outer wall of the fortress.

Hundreds of armed guards guarded the three-story platform from top to bottom. Although they were in the same room, the quietness of this area was in stark contrast to the noise around them. It's as if there is a transparent cover separating the two sides.

A Feiyan staff officer with the rank of colonel walked quickly to the elevator. After inserting his ID card into the identifier next to the expressionless guard, he stood in a fixed area and accepted the DNE instant collection and identification before he was allowed to board the elevator. ladder. When passing the guards on the second floor and entering the door of the third-floor platform room, the same procedure and different types of detection were conducted twice more.

When the white automatic alloy door opened and the colonel's staff rushed in, everyone's eyes in the room were focused on him.

"How's it going?" Admiral McKinley, deputy chief of staff of Feiyang Interstellar Navy and ranked ninth on the list of famous generals, put down the electronic putter in his hand and asked the colonel's staff who walked through the door.

"Report to the general." The colonel's staff quickly walked up to McKinley, saluted, and handed over an electronic folder: "This is the latest battle report just received."

"Oh?" McKinley opened the electronic folder and said solemnly: "Is there a battle report on the Longbow Galaxy?"

"No, General!" the colonel replied solemnly: "The last information received was still sent back four days ago. The fleet of the Nineteenth Group has still not been able to contact the fleet. The Intelligence Bureau deployed three immigrant planets in the Longbow Galaxy. The intelligence network has not come back with any conclusive news about the situation of the battle. All we know at the moment is that the battle is still going on."

McKinley frowned in disappointment, his thick eyebrows almost covering his deep and slender eyes. The seven or eight generals in different uniforms standing around the huge electronic deduction platform couldn't help but feel a commotion.

"It seems that the 19th Group Fleet is in danger." After sighing, Admiral Leon Reese of the Republic of Lane touched his chin, looked at McKinley solemnly and said: "Humphrey's two Royal Elephant-class fleets, The number is 170% of the fleet of the Nineteenth Group. And the combat effectiveness is probably doubled."

McKinley looked at the battle report with a serious face and said nothing. Uris's words were picked up by another black-haired middle-aged man wearing the uniform of General Siliyak: "It's too early to draw conclusions now. General Douglas is cautious in using his troops, and Humphrey wants to defeat him." , I’m afraid it’s not that easy. Even if it can’t be delayed, Douglas can still choose a strategic retreat after all.”

"General Husseini, if Douglas chooses to strategically retreat at this time." Standing on the left side of the simulation platform, Chakna General Simon Binski, who had been staring at the simulation sand table, raised his eyes and said calmly: "What does this have to do with defeat? the difference?"

Siliyak Federation General Amin Seni shook his head and retorted: "From the overall perspective, we will indeed be very passive. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a staged defeat. However, if it were not for Marshal Hastings, This sneak attack was planned as early as two months ago. I'm afraid we don't even have the qualifications to stand here and look forward to it! Besides, who would have thought that just after General Douglas completed a perfect sneak attack, the Western Jordanian fleet would arrive. Lelei central star field? Three points of personnel, seven points of destiny, Sobol would not have thought that the Longbow Galaxy would be attacked by our army. Everything is just a coincidence. Even if the Nineteenth Group Fleet loses the Longbow Galaxy, it will be very difficult. A crime of war. In my opinion, being able to complete the sneak attack on Blue Stone Star and destroy Xiyo's forward base on Blue Stone Star is already an unexpected gain."

"To say this, General Husseini is too unenterprising!" Labinsky said coldly: "Now, from the intelligence point of view, the Mars Front that can threaten the main southeast channel has been defeated by Ershkov. The Suss fleet led by him was defeated. If we lose the Longbow Galaxy again, not only will we lose the strategic balance in the southeastern star region, but it will also affect the Lesk battle situation and the Newton Galaxy. You know, Xio has long wanted to attack the Newton Galaxy and completely destroy it. Our coalition forces drove away from the central channel of Leray. In Resk, the battle situation is a critical moment. Once Sous obtains the support of the West-Jordan coalition forces from the southeast main channel and regains a foothold in Resk, then , all our previous efforts were in vain.”

"Then what can we do?" Hosseini shrugged and said to Labinski: "We still have to face reality after all. Instead of expecting Douglas to use the Nineteenth Group fleet to fight Humphrey to the death, it would be better to Save your strength. Or, I hope you, Chakna, can get Resk back as soon as possible. Chakna, it’s time to work harder.”

"That's easy to say," Labinski sneered: "You Siliyak, go and beat him up."

"If it were my Siliyak Army"

The two men's voices became louder and louder as they talked about the fire. His face was red and his ears were red, as if he might draw his fist at any time. However, no one offered any advice. Several generals from different countries seemed to be accustomed to such situations. McKinley was still looking at the battle report, and Uris was discussing something in a low voice with General Havenster of the Putitock Federation.

Several other generals on the side were also doing their own business.

"General Bernadotte, I heard that your major general has led the fleet to leave the Mars Front and go to the Longbow Galaxy?" Lieutenant General Aleskila of the Chakna Republic was the senior command officer at the site. Among the generals, the lowest rank. Not wanting to argue with a bunch of generals, he walked to the information desk on one side, touched his old friend Bernadotte's arm, and asked in a low voice. He found that since the strategic discussion reached an impasse, Bernadotte was sitting next to him with a calm expression, flipping through his computer. Simply participate in other people's disputes. .

"This is no longer a secret." Bernadotte raised his head with a wry smile: "Don't ask me where he is, I don't know either."

Malachy shrugged his shoulders. He really wanted to ask where the fleet, which was said to be composed of armed merchant ships and a few shabby warships, was in the Longbow Galaxy. Of course, he did not expect this fleet to save Douglas's Nineteenth Army. Group fleet. As long as he thought about the comparison between armed merchant ships and Binart [Big Wave] class battleships, he would not have any such ridiculous thoughts. He just wanted to ask if there was any news about the Douglas fleet in that fleet. Being able to deliver a message back is perhaps the greatest use of that small fleet.

While thinking about it, Malachy looked towards the computer screen in front of Bernadotte.

"What's this?"

"Central Skynet's surveillance screenshots of the city behind." Bernadotte slowly switched the pictures on the computer screen.

Pictures passed by Malachy's eyes one after another.

In the streets of Heidfield, the Feijian capital, countless people gathered around the bulletin boards on the streets, at the entrances of public televisions, death lists, newspapers, television stations, and government press centers. Those were heavy and expectant faces. The photo freezes the image at that moment, with no sound and not much color.

The same picture appears in Lane, in Chakna, in many different countries, in different cities, in different streets.

"We are waiting." Bernadotte let out a deep sigh: "They are waiting, too."

Malachy looked at the time on the surveillance screenshot and asked seriously: "Are they waiting for the battle situation in the Longbow Galaxy?"

"Yes!" Bernadotte lit a cigarette and let the green smoke linger in front of his eyes: "The successful sneak attack on the Longbow Galaxy is the most exciting news in recent times. And the Bernadotte Empire fleet immediately headed towards The news that the Longbow Galaxy is launching an attack is the most worrying news in recent times."

Looking at the pair of expectant studies in the photo, Malachy suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.

Are the relatives of the officers and soldiers of the 19th Group Fleet also among the crowd at this moment? ! The whole universe is waiting.

Waiting for victory or defeat,

Waiting for the death list,

Wait for the dust to settle.

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"Left rudder 1200 ticks."

"Understood, left rudder 1200 seconds."

"Speed ​​level four."

"Emergency take cover, turn on the engine!"

"boom!"

The battleship was shaking violently, and the sirens were blaring.

Hoffman, the captain of the battleship "Oscar" of the 191st Fleet of the 19th Feiyang Group, clung to the armrest of the command seat. Beside him, several sweaty staff officers were shaken and still running around. In the control room, the Feiyang officers and soldiers who got up from the ground rushed to their posts one after another. The instructions in the communication channel continued without any pause.

Hoffman turned his head and loudly ordered to the first officer beside him: "Let the damage control team count the losses immediately."

The first mate stumbled towards the central console under the command podium. His command computer also had a problem. If he wanted to obtain the loss data, he could only ask it in person.

"Right rudder 900, follow the main formation!" Hoffman ignored the first mate who stumbled on the stairs and quickly ordered the main pilot. Veins were bulging on his dark face, and his blue eyes were already bloodshot.

"clear!"

As the rudder in the hands of the main pilot deflected, the huge battleship swung its bow to the right under the cover of friendly ships. After adjusting its course and accelerating several times, it finally landed on the left wing of the main battleship formation again.

"The main gun is charged!" a sergeant in front of the console reported loudly.

"Target locked!" Hoffman stared hard at the Binart cruiser on the aiming system screen that was turning to fire, and waved his hand: "Fire!"

The main gun, which had been stored for a long time, suddenly erupted as the entire battleship stagnated and trembled. The dazzling white flash enveloped the battleship, then dimmed, passed through the void, and plunged into the port side of the Binart cruiser.

A perfect attack!

The energy shells fired by the 2,800 mm caliber main gun are definitely not something that the weak armor of a cruiser with a red energy shield can withstand. White meteors easily penetrated the hull, and violent explosions spurted out from dozens of portholes and cracks on the port side of the battleship two seconds later, completely tearing the battleship apart. Like a firework blooming in the night sky, the ship's own air became an accomplice, sending countless fragments flying around.

"Long live!" In the control room, Feiyang's officers and soldiers high-fived each other.

The battleship was turning rapidly.

When the command computer returned to normal, and outside the left port port window, the battleship "Mermaid" used its body to wrap the damaged "Oscar" into the main formation. Hoffman, who was holding the damage report, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The report brought back by the first mate showed that the battleship's losses were not significant, and there were no irreparable wounds on any important parts. After two attacks, the energy shield still had 70% of its strength, and was still in use. Stable recovery is nothing short of a miracle. Hoffman believes that Lady Luck has not abandoned him yet. At least, the Oscar can survive this fourth phase of the battle.

Looking up out of the window, the whole universe seemed to be on fire. Flashes of light one after another, through the portholes, illuminated the interior of the ship. The nebulae and stars in the distance, along with the Unicorn-class battleship, were completely overwhelmed by the colorful light.

behind the body

It's a huge battleship. These warships moved through energy cannons, their shields glowing blue or red, shining in the night sky. The white light of the main gun erupted from the bow of the ship from time to time, which was dazzling and moving. Space fighters, like bats, flew up and down in the night sky. Missiles, electronic bombs, and energy cannons from defense turrets crisscrossed the sky. From time to time, fighter planes were hit and turned into a group of meteors flying deep into the universe. From time to time, battleships were broken into pieces in strong explosions, throwing out countless pieces of debris and human bodies.

"Captain, the flagship has sent an order to transform into a circular defensive formation, retreat into the nebula, and implement the fifth phase of the battle plan." The panting first mate jumped up as soon as he sat on the console and reported loudly.

"Execute!" Hoffman waved his hand tiredly.

This battle has been going on for forty-five hours.

In this narrow channel, neither side has much room for maneuver. Whether it is for profit, hatred or honor, the Binarts are the enemies that the Feiyang people care about most. Therefore, the battle has entered a fever pitch from the very beginning. .

In order to break through the fourth stage, the Binart Empire fleet was forced to pay a battle loss ratio of 3:1. Under the command of Humphrey, the Feiling fleet even used their aircraft carrier as a cover to fend off the sneak attack of the Feiyang squadron ambushing in the nebula, allowing the main force to break through at full speed.

Nearly a hundred Binart Empire battleships were abandoned in the most crowded part of the route. However, when Binart's subsequent fleet swarmed into this channel like locusts and gradually squeezed forward, Feiyang's fleet had no choice but to retreat.

At this stage of the battle, Feiyang and the Binart Empire once again drew a draw. Although the battle loss ratio was higher than that of the Nart Empire, the Feiyang fleet was eventually forced to abandon its inexhaustible position. In the future, the Nineteenth Group fleet will finally lose the threat to the Blue Stone Star, control the Longbow Star Territory, and flee into the depths of the universe.

The elegant and majestic bow of the battleship Oscar tilted and deflected in the silent void. The main thruster at the tail and the steering thrusters on both sides allow her to swim quickly and flexibly like a fish attached to the outside of a school of fish.

Outside the window, the friendly ships behind were still exchanging fire with the enemy, and the dazzling light became increasingly rare and distant. Faintly, a mixed formation of destroyers and cruisers on both wings could be seen, gradually shrinking like the tentacles of an octopus in the deep sea.

Hoffman, who felt like he was falling apart, took a cigarette handed over by the first mate, leaned over and lit it.

"If we continue to fight like this," the first mate with bloodshot eyes said in a hoarse voice, "We're afraid..."

The smoke circulated along the trachea and in the lungs, and Hoffman broke out into a violent cough.

The first mate's prediction was correct, but who could be blamed?

This cannot be blamed on Douglas. No one could have imagined that in less than sixty hours after completing the sneak attack on Blue Stone Star, two elephant-class royal fleets from the Binart Empire would already appear in the Longbow Galaxy.

The fully-equipped Feiyang 19th Group fleet has a total of four A-class fleets, while the two Elephant-class fleets of the Binart Empire, although they have different names in terms of organization and designation, in terms of number, they are six A-class fleets. scale. Moreover, this is not the fleet of Jepen or Suss, this is the elite fleet of another superpower that is evenly matched from personnel to ships to overall combat effectiveness!

More importantly, their commander is Humphrey!

That was the enemy who had been ranked several times in Feiyang's intelligence department, and he was a talented person who was well-known and respected by all the people in the world.

To be able to compete with him in the first three stages of the battle is a testament to Douglas's level. If it were anyone else, I am afraid that the Nineteenth Group fleet would be like a rabbit running away in fear, and could only choose its way in the hinterland of Western York.

There is no need to mention the battle plan. The passage from Blue Stone Star to Torrecles has been utilized to the limit. Use everything you can to prevent an ambush. The losses of Binart's two elephant-class fleets were much higher than those of Feillant's fleet. But judging from the entire battle situation, it was still unable to withstand the steady advancement of the Binart fleet.

In silence, in the distance, a huge flash of light flashed across the night sky.

After a commotion, the command room fell into dead silence. Through the coordination system, everyone present could clearly know that among the fleet responsible for breaking up the rear, there was a Shark-class cruiser named [Green Field], which turned into dust in the universe. This battleship was destroyed when it faced ten high-speed destroyers alone. Her sacrifice bought the remaining fleet time to evacuate.

The patrol groups on both wings have completely shrunk back, and the Binart Empire fleet has given up the pursuit because of the eager gaze of the Feiyang battleship main formation and the complex terrain ahead.

A communications soldier, with red eyes, turned on the communication recording.

That was the deep voice of Joseph, the captain of the Green Field. The voice was messy, and he seemed to be giving instructions and praying. All around, there were the shouts and footsteps of other Feiyang soldiers, and the electronic sounds of instruments and equipment. All the sounds were mixed together, making it impossible to distinguish them.

Finally, these sounds disappeared neatly after a burst of harsh noise.

Hoffman's cough echoed in the silent command room. He bent over, slowly pulled off his hat, and threw it to the ground. His bloodshot eyes were already filled with tears.

This is war. As powerful as Feiyang, he can bleed, sacrifice, and feel pain in his bones!

Ahead is a small asteroid belt.

Without the obstruction of nebulae and dust, it can be seen almost at a glance. However, this damn asteroid belt is right in the middle of the narrow channel! Even if the surrounding area is passable, the position it occupies will completely slow down the entire retreating fleet! At least one-third of the battleships must pass through the asteroid belt!

What does that mean? That means that the Binart battleships that bite their tail will happily accept their prey.

Douglas's tired voice came from the command channel.

"Each ship can turn freely, disperse and retreat, and the 191st Fourth and Fifth Squadrons are behind!".