There are 5,000 warships on one side and 9,000 warships on the other side, of which 2,000 are imperial garrison warships.
There are a total of 14,000 warships. From the perspective of ordinary people, this is definitely the pace of a big war.
Only a few people with knowledge of the matter understood that this was not a war with any force at all, but simply an attempt to annihilate a group of star thieves.
A group of star thieves with only a hundred battleships...
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The combat conference room of the Zhurong-class battleship.
"Commodore, camouflaged detector No. 2177 captured a fleet of approximately nine thousand battleships."
"No. 2177?"
Mu Qianshan, who was presiding over the follow-up combat meeting, suddenly became serious when he heard the report from his chief of staff Gu Bei, and immediately opened the three-dimensional star map.
Of course he knew what the disguised detector Gu Bei was talking about.
After a search on the star map, the location of the camouflaged probe No. 2177 is about 150 light years away from the capital of the Kerry Empire.
At the same time, it is only 70 light years away from his current location.
And if you draw a straight line along the Imperial Capital and past the location of the detector.
Then, I am now exactly on its extension line.
Obviously, these nine thousand warships are coming towards us.
However, Mu Qianshan was not panicked about this information, rather...
He has been waiting for this information for a long time.
In other words, the fish finally bit the bait!
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A few hours later.
It is about eight light-years away from the administrative star where the Scorpion Star Thief Group stayed.
An imperial fleet is waiting quietly here.
However, what is here is not the nine thousand battleships brought by De Wit, but only one of the garrison fleets.
In fact, DeWitt arrived here more than an hour ago.
However, there was no rush to attack.
Because he knew very well that if he attacked directly, the result would be the same as Kyle's.
Whenever you jump over, others will jump away directly, thus entering a complete endless loop over and over again.
Therefore, the important thing is not to attack, but to intercept!
Since the offense is destined to fail, spend more time on interception.
Taking the enemy's current location as the center, and then spreading out to a range of ten light years, completely splitting up the fleet in his hands and that of Kyle's.
Every five hundred warships form a group and are equally spaced within this range.
This way, when the fleet attacks, the enemy flees again.
No matter where they jump to, they can locate it immediately and have the surrounding fleets jump over to encircle and suppress them immediately.
Finally, take advantage of the opponent's jump engine to recharge and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
Therefore, DeWitt is not in a hurry now, he is waiting...
Wait until all interception fleets are in place and the jump engines are fully charged.
"Commander, all fleets are in position!"
"Inform Kyle and ask him to lead a fleet to conduct a feint attack!"
Hearing this, DeWitt's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately stood up and ordered.
"Yes, Commander!"
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At the same time.
The Scorpion Star Pirates Fleet.
"Commodore, a total of forty-three fleets have been detected within ten light years."
"There are as few as 300 warships and as many as 500, and they are distributed at equal distances."
On the bridge, the radar officer reported the latest deep space scanning results.
"I got it, keep monitoring!"
"Yes, Brigadier!"
On the side, Liu Tao looked a little solemn.
"Brother, is this a deployment specifically for our jump?"
"Yes, in this case, no matter where we jump, they will be able to confirm our position immediately, and then immediately deploy a fleet to encircle and suppress us while our jump engine is charging."
"Indeed...but we have the hyperdrive, so there's nothing to worry about."
"No, I'm not going to use the hyperdrive!"
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Tao was stunned.
If there is one place where the Federation's battleships are better than those of the Kerry Empire, it's the hyperspace engine, right?
There is not much advantage in going head-to-head with others without using a hyperspace engine, right?
What's more, your numbers are also an absolute disadvantage, aren't you?
"Don't worry, although there is nothing wrong with their tactics, there are still some problems in them."
"For example, although deep space radar can detect several light-years or even ten light-years away, it cannot locate precise coordinates, and there will be slight deviations."
"Although it is only a slight deviation, in the vast environment of the universe, even a slight deviation is enough to cause a difference of tens or even millions of kilometers."
"Therefore, if they want to accurately locate and encircle us, they can only use deep space radar to determine our position, then jump over with a fleet and obtain our precise coordinates at close range, and then other fleets can take action."
"This whole process is difficult to complete without a few minutes."
Hearing this, Liu Tao also nodded slightly.
Don't underestimate the difference of these few minutes. In the encirclement and suppression operation, which originally only had ten minutes, these few minutes are very important.
only...
"Brother, even if this takes a few minutes, they will still have at least five or six minutes to carry out this encirclement and suppression operation after determining our precise coordinates, right?"
"Yes, this is indeed the case in theory, but you have overlooked one thing, and that is that the fleets of the Kaili Empire are not concentrated together now, but are completely dispersed."
"In other words, we don't need to face too much pressure at once?"
At this moment, Liu Tao seemed to have come to his senses.
In other words, the opponent's fleet will not come over at once, but will arrive in batches.
Moreover, among the 14,000 warships, the number of warships that can arrive in one jump will never exceed 4,000.
And these 4,000 ships will not arrive at the same time. Among them, the farthest fleet, which is ten light years away, will take 2 or 3 minutes to jump alone.
The most important thing is...
These one hundred of them are Zhurong-class battleships!
What does this mean?
It represents the equivalent of one hundred battleships in the empire!
As for the empire's warships, if thousands of them came up, they would definitely be able to crush the hundred Zhurong-class warships.
But if there are hundreds of ships...
Although the number is several times that of Mu Qianshan, more than half of the hundreds of battleships are frigates, and the number of battleships is probably only about a dozen.
Therefore, as long as thousands of warships are not overwhelmed at once, Mu Qianshan will be able to deal with them for a while.
Even if three to four thousand warships arrived in a few minutes, he could escape through the plan he had prepared long ago.
The one named...
A plan to survive by docking your tail!
Furthermore...
Mu Qianshan never said that he would run away as soon as the enemy arrived this time, right?