The fleet was getting faster and faster, gradually leaving Mars behind, and eventually turned into an inconspicuous dot, slowly being submerged in the dark space.
This fleet voyage is different from the past. Each ship no longer leaves only one or two people on duty, but all command levels are in place. Huo Qiang personally takes the commanders to observe asteroids every day, and then calls the captains together.
Discussing the enemy's situation requires every captain to have a thorough understanding of the asteroid belt.
It is very simple to let the captains hibernate, but when the fleet arrives, everyone must understand the changes in the situation during hibernation from the beginning. Huo Qiang believes that whether he reads the information or listens to the report, the impression left by personal observation and analysis is not as solid as the impression left by personal observation and analysis, so he
A direct break from past conventions.
The actions of aliens cannot be hidden from humans, and the whereabouts of human fleets cannot be hidden from aliens. Two days after the fleet set off, the fleet discovered that the assembled alien fleet suddenly experienced abnormal activities such as large-scale changes in direction and acceleration. Analysis found that the enemy
The assembly coordinates have been adjusted again.
The earliest assembly coordinates of the aliens were near Ceres. After the first adjustment, the distance between the assembly point and Ceres was almost one million kilometers. This time the adjustment was more thorough, and the assembly point was directly moved to five million kilometers away.
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At the daily analysis meeting, everyone expressed their opinions and had many ideas, but no one knew what the aliens wanted to do by moving the assembly point.
After listening to everyone's opinions, Huo Qiang concluded: "The aliens have indeed retreated again and again, but they have never given up on gathering the fleet. What does this mean? It means that the enemy has never planned to give up Ceres, and it means that they still want to seize Ceres.
Go back, so if you encounter a situation like today in the future, you don’t need to bring it to the meeting to discuss it..."
As the days passed, the fleet's deployment to Ceres probably put too much pressure on Gao Kai. The actions of the Nanzhou Fleet Group became more and more aggressive. Originally they were only active near Ceres, but as time went by, the Nanzhou Fleet Group
The range of activities of the Jizhou fleet is getting bigger and bigger. By the time the Jizhou fleet is halfway out, the Nanzhou fleet's range of activity is already less than half an astronomical unit. Dozens of human warships are galloping across the vast battlefield, blocking attacks in all directions.
Alien battleship.
The aliens did not show weakness. In order to successfully complete the assembly, they specially separated some warships and carried out tit-for-tat counterattacks. The fleets of both sides sometimes gathered and sometimes dispersed; today they interspersed and tomorrow they detoured.
The enemy and we took turns displaying various tactics, but there were very few hard-fought battles. As a result, both sides exhausted a lot of brain cells. There were only a few real tough battles, and the losses were within the tolerance range.
If one did not know that the two sides were real mortal enemies, the offensive and defensive battle staged in the asteroid belt would have seemed like a pre-arranged performance.
In comparison, there is nothing to say in the direction of Vesta. There are very few enemy ships confronting the international fleet. The international fleet is camped step by step while the enemy forces retreat step by step. The cooperation is quite close.
Time always slips away inadvertently. More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye. The Jizhou fleet is halfway through its voyage, and the Nanzhou fleet's range of activities is still expanding.
Huo Qiang thought this was not a good phenomenon, so he raised this issue in a daily discussion meeting. After discussing it with everyone, he issued an order to the Nanzhou to shrink the fleet.
The order made it clear that the mission of the Nanzhou Fleet Group was not to confront the enemy, but to defend Ceres.
The aliens divided their forces to block the attack and had a good effect. They successfully delayed the pace of the Nanzhou fleet and created favorable conditions for the smooth assembly of the alien fleet. Now that the enemy forces are about to gather, if they continue to scatter the Nanzhou fleet outside,
Once the enemy attacks Ceres, the consequences will be disastrous.
However, the order from the Jizhou also affirmed the achievements of the Nanzhou. If the Nanzhou fleet had not been attacking everywhere, the alien fleet should have been assembled by this time, but it is different now. There are only 100 enemy ships near the assembly point.
Around fifty, other enemy ships were still scattered within a vast area of half an astronomical unit. Objectively speaking, Nanzhou did hold back the enemy and bought a lot of time for our own fleet.
After receiving the order, Gao Kai sighed helplessly. In fact, he also discovered the problem of the fleet being too scattered. Even if the Jizhou didn't say anything, he was still going to collect the fleet.
But the order from the Jizhou was one step early. This situation is equivalent to the Jizhou depriving the Nanzhou of the command right in advance!
But now that the matter was over, he had nothing to say, so he directly passed on the order and asked all ships to return home as soon as possible.
The reason why they did not return immediately was because many of our own warships were entangled with enemy ships. We had to get rid of the enemy ships first and wait until it was safe to return.
The warships belonging to the Nanzhou fleet returned one after another. The aliens immediately noticed this phenomenon. Instead of launching a blockade, they took the initiative to break away from the battle and let the human warships leave.
Of course, this is not because the aliens are so kind, and they have to rush to the assembly point, so an extremely strange scene appears in the asteroid belt. Not long ago, the fleets of both sides were fighting for life and death like Mars hitting the earth, but in the blink of an eye,
Just cease fire and stop fighting. Even if you see the other side's warships, you will ignore them and concentrate on your journey.
It’s not that I really don’t want to pay attention to it, but the warships on both sides are in different directions, and their relative speeds are extremely fast. It only takes a split second for them to face each other. The distance is long and the time is short. Even if all the warships’ guns are fully fired, the enemy will at best be hit.
How many guns the ship can fire depends on whether it can be fired or not. Therefore, the two sides reached a tacit ceasefire and no one wasted their time and emotions.
After Gao Kai learned of the aliens' movements, he immediately sent an alarm to the Jizhou. He believed that the aliens should not continue to gather at this time. This situation was very abnormal.
War is a process in which commanders on both sides of the enemy and ours guess the intentions of the other side. But many times, this guess is very vague, so there is a simpler response: whatever the enemy wants to do, must be destroyed!
For this reason, Gao Kai believed that the fleet should continue to block enemy ships.
The Jizhou ruthlessly rejected Gao Kai's suggestion, ordered Gao Kai not to interfere with the enemy's gathering, and reiterated its request for Gao Kai to assemble the fleet as soon as possible.
The order didn't say what the fleet was assembled for, but as long as you had eyes, you would know that Huo Qiang meant to guard Ceres and wait for the assembled alien fleet to attack.
Gao Kai really couldn't understand what Huo Qiang meant.
Soldiers are impermanent, shapes and waters are impermanent, and this is not the Spring and Autumn Period when battle formations are clearly laid out. Since it is a war, we should use everything we have to fight the alien fleet with our horses and chariots...
There is a super cannon on Ceres, and if used well, it can indeed deal a big blow to aliens, but Huo Qiang's tactics are still too conservative. At the very least, a mobile fleet must be left, right?
