More than half a year has passed since the First Fleet destroyed Queen Sarna's forces in Salento.
During this period of time, Jiang Xingchen once again eliminated two ghost forces located 1,800 light years and 2,000 light years away from the Alpha star system based on the information detected by the rest of the fleet.
At the same time, in a recent battle, due to the acquisition of a new batch of 200 Zhurong-class warships, Jiang Xingchen directly carried out an encirclement and annihilation campaign against a queen named Mel, and successfully defeated the 400 Zhurong-class warships.
its capture.
As a result, the federal intelligence agency obtained a large amount of information that ordinary ghosts did not know, and for the first time had a preliminary understanding of the overall strength of ghosts.
In Ghost, the president has nearly 200 large and small forces, and these forces can be roughly divided into four levels.
That is, top power, upper power, middle power and lower power.
There are three top forces among them, the weakest one has more than 2,000 warships, and the other two have more than 3,000 warships each.
As for the upper-class forces, they usually have 1,000-1,500 battleships, and currently there are ten in total.
Next are the middle and lower forces. Medium forces generally have more than 300 ships. Those with 680 warships like Sarna are very rare even among middle forces.
As for the lower-level forces, the number of battleships is less than 300, and most of them are 100-200 ships, and some even have less than 100 ships.
Currently, Queen Mel, who was captured by the alliance, is a queen of a lower-class force. She has a total of 128 warships under her command, so that after being defeated several times by the First Fleet, there are only less than 50 ships left.
Jiang Xingchen did not use the gravity bomb in the end, but chose an encirclement and annihilation battle.
However, the process of capturing the queen is not easy. Even though the ghosts are each over three meters tall and very large, their combat effectiveness is still much lower than that of the queen who is almost the same height as a human and is also very thin.
If the overall combat power of ordinary humans is 1, the ghost soldiers are 20-30, and the queen is 50.
I don't know how that petite body can explode with such terrifying power and speed.
In addition to the overall strength of the ghost, another piece of information obtained by the intelligence department was the information of a queen named Nastasha.
Among the three top ghost forces, the other two are 4,000 light years away from the Federation, but Nastasha is only 2,000 light years away.
Moreover, its sphere of influence is actually right next to Sarna.
When Jiang Xingchen learned this information, he was also shocked.
At this moment, he finally knew where the ghost battleship planned to go.
Isn't that direction exactly Nastasha's territory?
If he hadn't successfully intercepted and killed him, once Nastasha woke up and more than 2,000 ghost battleships pounced on him, the problem would have been really big.
However, just letting it go and waiting for Nastasha to wake up naturally after ten months would also be a huge trouble.
To this end, Jiang Xingchen submitted a combat plan to the military department.
A plan to completely destroy Nastasha's power at once.
As for how to do it...
Stop the search operations of the remaining eight fleets and move them all to Nastasha's sphere of influence.
Then he spent half a year searching every star system in detail to find at least 80% of the dormant ghost battleships.
Finally, use a jump carrier to carry a cold fusion bomb to attack all ghost battleships at the same time.
Strive to destroy more than 80% of its troops in one go.
First of all, it will take several months to mobilize the rest of the fleet here, and then it will take at least half a year to search and find most of the ghost battleships.
In other words, the Federation needs to spend all its power and time on Nastasha before the ghost awakens.
After a heated discussion, the military made the final decision.
Combat proposal, approved!
Soon, the eight fleets, which were originally performing search missions at different locations, all rushed towards Salento.
Three months later, seven star systems with ghosts were discovered, and a total of 117 battleships were discovered.
Four months later, it was discovered that twelve star systems with ghosts were discovered again, and a total of 215 battleships were discovered.
Five months later...
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Year 5 of the new federal calendar.
More than eight months have passed since the entire combat plan. In addition to the more than two months it took to assemble the fleet, the search operation has also continued for eight months.
As of now, 165 star systems with ghosts have been discovered in the 480 light-year range, and a total of 2,198 ghost battleships have been discovered.
According to the information obtained by the intelligence department from Mel, Nastasha's strength should be around 2,500 ships.
Although they were not able to find all of them, they have greatly exceeded the predetermined target, which is 80% of the quantity, reaching close to 90%.
The only flaw is...
It is unknown whether Nastasha was among the discovered battleships.
But the time for the ghost to wake up naturally is only a month or two. If it continues to be delayed, if something unexpected happens, all the efforts will be wasted.
Therefore, neither Jiang Xingchen nor the federal military intends to drag it out any longer.
It's time...
The net is closed!
Soon, depending on the number of ghost battleships in each star system and whether their locations were dispersed or concentrated, the Federation mobilized more than 500 jump carriers and took out 20% of the reserve of cold fusion bombs.
One month later...
"Commander, all formations have arrived at their scheduled positions."
"Start releasing jump carriers, lock on their respective targets, and wait for attack orders!"
"Understood, the order has been issued, and each formation is releasing jump carriers. It is expected to be completed in eight minutes."
At this moment, 165 star systems away, there is a formation consisting of several battleships and a large transport ship.
One after another, small carriers with a length of less than fifty meters are being towed out of the large transport ships.
Immediately, relying on the eight auxiliary thrusters on the hull, these jump carriers began to adjust their posture.
A few minutes later.
"Commander, all formations are ready!"
"clear!"
The next moment, the order was conveyed to each formation.
Those jump carriers that had been prepared long ago immediately started their jump engines and headed for the locked coordinates after receiving the remote command.
If you open the shield, you can barely resist one shot, but this is impossible.
After all, after tens of thousands of years of dormancy, how can a battleship maintain an energy shield?
The attack without warning gave these ghosts no chance to wake up, and they were all killed.
but...
"Commander, the 39th formation had an accident and was unable to jump to the target!"