Ye Han had a lot of ideas, but he didn't say a word, and it was impossible to affect the military operations far away on Ceres.
During the landing of the clone army, the Nanzhou fleet always stayed near Ceres, not giving the alien fleet a chance to get close. The aliens also knew how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and stayed far away, and did not dare to approach Ceres at all.
But the other star fields in the asteroid belt are different. Since the arrival of the Nanzhou fleet, the alien fleet in the asteroid belt has been like a boiling pot. A large number of alien warships have poured out of their respective hiding places and begun to attack.
Assembling in the direction of Ceres, preliminary judgment shows that the number of enemy ships is no less than 300.
When Ye Han saw the news, he simply didn't know what to say. The aliens' shipbuilding speed was too abnormal!
But thinking about it again, it doesn’t seem to be anything particularly strange.
Alien battleships grow. No matter how harsh the environment is, as long as the basic conditions are met, the spacecraft can be planted.
A little-known inference about the asteroid belt is that when the asteroid belt was formed, a snow line with a temperature lower than the condensation point of water formed at a distance of 2.7 astronomical units from the sun. All celestial bodies outside this line
It is possible for ice to accumulate.
In other words, any celestial body located outside the snow line may contain a large amount of water ice.
Water is one of the important environmental conditions for aliens to plant warships. The aliens are eager to control the asteroid belt, probably because of the water resources here.
These are all deduced by Ye Han based on known information, and the accuracy cannot be verified, but he himself feels that the possibility is very high.
The unfavorable situation faced by the Nanzhou fleet has attracted great attention from all parties. Although Huo Qiang gave the order at all costs, the Nanzhou fleet cannot be an opponent of three hundred enemy ships in any case. If the alien fleet assembles
It's over, it will be an outright disaster for both the Nanzhou fleet and Ceres!
In order to reduce the pressure on the Nanzhou fleet, the remaining fleet headed by the US battleship Saratoga stormed Vesta, and a fierce conflict broke out with the alien fleet lingering near Vesta. The exchange of fire lasted for more than two hours!
However, from Ye Han's point of view, the so-called fierce conflict is a joke. The Saratoga Fleet (hereinafter referred to as the Sara Fleet) has always maintained a safe distance from the alien fleet and made appropriate concessions. There is no such thing as
Fight to the death with the international fleet.
This situation has also attracted great attention from all parties. Analysts believe that the Nanzhou fleet has attracted the main attention of the aliens. They have seen through the intentions of the Sarah fleet, so they only left some troops on Vesta to contain it.
The main force of the Sarah fleet must gather in the direction of Ceres!
This is not a good sign. Obviously, the aliens want to defeat them one by one, first defeat or even annihilate the Nanzhou fleet, and then turn around to deal with the Sara fleet. In this way, the confrontation in the asteroid belt can be broken.
situation and completely grasp the strategic initiative in the asteroid belt.
The situation was very unfavorable for the Nanzhou fleet, and Beijing immediately held a round of emergency consultations with Washington.
Although the two sides have constant conflicts in private, Washington is not ignorant of what it means to be at odds with each other. No one dares to be negligent in the slightest on major issues of right and wrong.
After the consultation, Washington immediately issued a death order to the Sala fleet. Regardless of method or cost, the alien fleet must be held back!
After receiving the order, the Sala fleet immediately launched a storm ship attack on the enemy in front.
Facing the attack of the Sala fleet, the alien fleet retreated instead of advancing, and never engaged in a head-on firefight with the Sala fleet.
The response of the alien fleet further confirmed the joint command's inference. Washington recommended that Beidu evacuate Ceres to prevent the Nanzhou fleet from being put in danger.
The Northern Capital seriously considered this suggestion and decisively canceled the order to seize Ceres. It suggested that the Nanzhou fleet should act cheaply and quoted Taizu's famous saying "If you save the land and lose the people, you will lose both the people and the land; if you save the people and lose the land, you will gain both the people and the land."
After receiving the order, Gao Kai was in a dilemma.
It is easy to evacuate according to the order, but he has invested a 10,000-person clone army on Ceres. They have cleared 40% of the underground space. According to the current progress, it will take another seven to ten days to completely control Ceres.
underground space.
The clone army has been exposed to the sight of aliens. The aliens are on guard. If they want to use the clone army to fight for Ceres in the future, it will definitely not be as easy as now.
If the fleet retreats alone and leaves the clone army on Ceres... it seems to be a method that can be tried. The problem is that the servants are from aliens. If Gao Kai is killed, he does not believe that the aliens have no countermeasures.
By then, not only will Ceres fall into the hands of aliens, but a clone army of more than 10,000 people will also be involved, which will definitely outweigh the gains.
Humanity has never been as close to Ceres as it is today. If the fleet withdraws, Ceres will definitely fall into the hands of the enemy. He is really unwilling to let go at this juncture.
But the alien fleet has begun to assemble, and there is really not much time left for Gao Kai.
Gao Kaisi thought about it and realized that the enemy's only flaw was their speed of assembly.
Calculated based on the speed and position of the enemy ships, the enemy forces will complete the initial assembly in half a month. By then, approximately 30% of the enemy ships will be in place, which is about 90 ships.
Twenty days later, more than 50% of the force, approximately 150 ships, was assembled.
Eighty percent will be assembled in one month, and it will take about thirty-five to forty days for the remaining 20 percent to reach Ceres.
With the strength of the Nanzhou fleet, it is not a big problem to deal with ninety enemy ships. If these enemy ships can be eliminated, not only can Ceres be defended, but the alien fleet can also be greatly intimidated, and there may be a chance to crush the alien robbery.
Ceres' plan.
Gao Kai made up his mind and immediately summoned the fleet command and held a brief meeting with the support of the communication system.
At the meeting, Gao Kai elaborated on the situation facing the fleet and analyzed the pros and cons of retreating. Finally, he said: "I won't be willing to give it a try!"
Gao Kai was not the only one who was unwilling. Few of the commanding officers present were willing to retreat. The vast majority of people supported Gao Kai's idea and immediately began to discuss tactics against the enemy.
Gao Kai originally planned to wait for the aliens to gather some of their forces, and then use his own main force to defeat the enemy's assembled fleet in one fell swoop.
However, killing one thousand enemies would result in eight hundred losses. A duel between the main forces was really not a good plan, so he rejected the idea without anyone else objecting.
Attack is the best defense, and the most likely solution is to use the essence of guerrilla warfare and take the initiative to defeat the enemy ships before they can gather together.
But there is still an enemy force near Ceres. If the Nanzhou fleet wants to leave, it must first annihilate this enemy force - note, annihilate the enemy force!
