At the end of the meeting, the Jizhou officially issued the order to march to Jupiter. Jizhou Battle Group, Youzhou Battle Group, Taizhou Battle Group, Qingzhou Battle Group and Yangzhou Battle Group set off immediately, regardless of whether the battle groups were dispersed or assembled, and regardless of the battleships
There, after receiving the order, each ship immediately changed direction and flew towards Jupiter at full speed.
At the same time, the international fleet with the Enterprise as its core also launched operations. Two powerful human fleets rushed to Mars from two directions. Such conspicuous actions immediately aroused strong vigilance from aliens.
There is no way to conceal one's whereabouts in space, and the actions of both the enemy and ourselves are in each other's eyes. The aliens immediately judged that the human target was Jupiter.
This news immediately shocked the alien high-level officials, and the aliens immediately mobilized their forces in the asteroid belt to encircle and suppress the invading human fleet.
After receiving the order, the originally scattered enemy ships quickly gathered together and even flew directly in front of the human fleet, blocking Jupiter behind them.
Alien battleships are like moths flying into a flame. The top brass of the human fleet can't wait to raise their hands in approval. They can't wait to give the aliens a break and tell them that the more they come, the better.
But the aliens were not stupid. After discovering this situation, they immediately ordered the alien fleet blocking the way to move out of the way, and repeatedly emphasized that they were not allowed to intercept the human fleet.
It's not that they don't want to intercept, but that one or a half ships can't stop them at all. It's just a waste of warships.
Temporarily forbearing in order to kill with one blow, the aliens set up several assembly points around the route of the human fleet and ordered the scattered alien warships to rush to the assembly points as quickly as possible.
The actions of aliens cannot be hidden from humans, but Huo Qiang was surprised when he received the news.
He originally thought that the aliens would withdraw the fleet sent to Mars, but it turned out that the aliens seemed to have forgotten the fleet and had no intention of withdrawing it.
Faced with this situation, Huo Qiang immediately ordered the fleet to launch a counterattack - although the enemy forces gave way to the route, they only gave way to the route in front of the main force, and the enemy ships in other directions did not withdraw.
Although there were many human warships heading for Jupiter, only three battle groups, Jizhou, Youzhou and Taizhou, were assembled together. The Qingzhou and Yangzhou battle groups were never able to regroup.
Even though the two battle groups only have twenty-two battleships, these battleships are spread over a very large area and cannot be assembled in a short time, so they can only start from the current positions of each ship.
The assembled fleet is difficult to deal with, but the situation is different with dispersed warships. The aliens do not hesitate to target these warships and order the alien fleet to intercept them with all their strength. Every lone human warship can be found in front of them.
There were as few as three or two enemy ships as there were as many as five or six, and they seemed determined not to give up until they achieved their goals.
This was just the beginning. A few days later, the Jizhou found that the situation was more serious than expected. The enemy actually gave up the idea of blocking the battle group. All the alien warships that were originally gathering in front of the main force dispersed and diverted to intercept the lone ones.
Human battleship.
"It's a good calculation!" Huo Qiang commented lightly after reading the report.
Having said that, Huo Qiang did not mean to underestimate the enemy at all. He immediately called for Zhuang Bo and Wu Han, and the three of them got together to carefully study the current situation and discuss ways to break the situation.
Next, the captains were also called, and everyone gathered at the virtual command center for a war game. Through the game, they found that our situation was not optimistic. If we did not take prepared measures, the warships operating alone would be intercepted by the enemy.
Seventy percent.
The five battle groups had only fifty-five battleships in total. They lost a quarter of the total number in one fell swoop. There was no need to continue the next operations. It was better to withdraw directly to the earth.
The previous problem has not been solved, but another problem occurred later. Huo Qiang received a report from Gao Kai that enemy ships were gathering near Ceres, and the target was probably Ceres!
Gao Kai couldn't help but sigh that the predictions were broken one after another by the aliens. These bastards really didn't follow the rules.
The voyage between the main force of the fleet and Jupiter was more than two months, but the enemy ships were not that far from Ceres. Half a month after the fleet set off, a group of enemy ships were assembled.
However, the enemy did not attack Ceres, but stayed near Ceres with eager eyes, waiting for more alien warships to arrive.
Gao Kai could guess what the aliens were thinking without any analysis. They were simply afraid of the super cannon and wanted to gather more troops and attack with greater confidence to solve the Ceres problem once and for all.
Gao Kai really wanted to disrupt the aliens' intentions, and the most direct way was to lead a fleet to take the initiative and take advantage of the opportunity when the number of enemy ships was still small to annihilate this enemy force in one fell swoop.
But the two battle groups Huo Qiang left for him were in such a miserable state that even after more than half a month of repairs, they had only restored 60% of their combat effectiveness. With the cover of the super cannon, they would definitely be able to deal with the enemy for a while. If they left the range of the super cannon,
It's hard to say whether this enemy force is a match or not.
In desperation, Gao Kai could only stay on Ceres depressedly, watching the enemy troops slowly gather.
At this time, he finally understood why Huo Qiang didn't vaccinate others, but specifically reminded him at the meeting. Apparently he expected that it would come to this point and didn't want to lose the two remaining battle groups.
Thinking of this, Huo Qiang simply ordered all the soldiers who landed to evacuate, leaving only the servants on Ceres. In this way, even if Ceres is occupied by aliens, the losses can be minimized.
Of course, Gao Kai did not forget to leave some souvenirs for the aliens. Before the troops evacuated, enough nuclear bombs were buried in the ground base, underground space and under the super cannon. Once the aliens landed on Ceres, Gao Kai would
Detonate the nuclear bomb at the appropriate time. On the one hand, it will destroy the ground facilities and cause some trouble for the aliens who landed. On the other hand, it will increase the difficulty for the aliens to occupy Ceres, so that they have to start over.
In the blink of an eye, another ten days passed, and the aliens near Ceres finally gathered enough warships, and more than seventy enemy ships approached Ceres.
The Nanzhou fleet has not been idle these days. The entire fleet has been repairing warships day and night, and has restored the fleet's combat effectiveness to 80%.
Upon discovering that the enemy was approaching, Gao Kai immediately ordered all ships to prepare for combat. At the same time, he ordered all transport ships to evacuate Ceres. Regardless of whether they were unloaded or fully loaded, all transport ships must stay away from Ceres and stay away from dangerous airspace on standby.
As for the safety of the transport ships, there is no need to worry. Although these big guys look clumsy, a fully loaded transport ship can keep up with the pace of the battleship, and an empty transport ship will have no problem even more. The speed at which it can move forward at full power is very fast.
, even if the alien’s hip bones are broken, don’t even think about catching up.
At this point, both sides' combat preparations have been completed, and the war is about to begin.