The aliens' reaction was not slow either. A large grating composed of thin light immediately began to block it, and the alien fleet remaining behind Europa also began to assemble, forming a second line of defense in Europa's low-altitude orbit.
It is hard to say whether the third fleet's feint attack can break through the first line of defense. The alien fleet has deployed two lines of defense, which is enough to intercept all human firepower.
But the aliens obviously thought that this was not enough. The second line of defense quickly divided into two fleets with hundreds of warships each. One of them continued to guard Io, and the other quickly changed orbit and flew towards Io.
High altitude orbit.
Yes, there are three lines of defense in the front, middle and back. Ling Yu can't find any holes even if he wants to.
At this time, Ling Yu was almost furious. No matter what the third fleet did, the alien fleet would immediately counterattack. If it were on the ground, Ling Yu could set up an ambush based on environmental conditions such as terrain, and then use
One force lures the enemy deep, thereby annihilating part of the enemy's force.
Soldiers are very cunning, but there are no conditions for them to be used in this damn place!
The battle situation once again reached a stalemate, and Ling Yu was extremely unwilling. At this moment, he suddenly found that the alien fleet had also dispersed, still blocking the way between the human warships and Europa Zero!
Moreover, the alien fleet is divided very evenly. Regardless of space carrier or landing ship, every human warship is preceded by more than a dozen enemy ships.
Ling Yu blinked his eyes and almost lost his joy.
This is such a fucking opportunity!
One human warship is definitely useless against ten enemy ships, but one space carrier must crush ten enemy ships. Otherwise, what is the use of the space carrier?
The third fleet should have regrouped after dispersing and firing. Ling Yu quickly stopped the fleet from regrouping and ordered the ships to continue to disperse. Once there was any sign of the alien fleet approaching, they must retreat immediately and the counterattack was limited to the minimum intensity.
This inexplicable order was really difficult to understand, but no one questioned the order and all the captains immediately complied with it.
As the human warships spread farther and farther apart, the alien warships blocking the front became more and more scattered, but the distance between the enemy forces was not widened yet.
Ling Yu hesitated for a moment, picked a destroyer at random, ordered the warship to move forward to feint attack, and immediately retreated after the exchange of fire.
The destroyer complied and cautiously moved forward for a certain distance before launching an attack on the enemy in front. However, the enemy was not fooled at all and always stayed on the same level as the other alien fleets.
Ling Yu understood very well that he underestimated the aliens again, so he immediately extended the order to the entire fleet.
Before the battle with the alien fleet, the image of the aliens in his mind had been very vague, but after several trials, the image of the aliens became clearer and clearer.
It’s not that my appearance is clear, but that I’m getting to know aliens more and more clearly.
More than a dozen battleships were playing like whack-a-mole, moving forward erratically to lure the enemy, then retreating in time after a brief engagement, using all kinds of provocation tactics.
At the beginning, each ship only attacked the enemy ships directly ahead, but the clever captains soon began to play cross attacks, and then launched multi-directional concentrated fire, causing the alien fleet to gather and disperse.
No, it was chaotic for a while.
The Third Fleet also achieved the result of damaging two enemy ships in the melee. It took a long time to fire hundreds of missiles and thousands of artillery shells to kill two enemy ships. This achievement is really hard to talk about.
Ling Yu's expression became worse and worse. He had already discovered that the feint attack order was a mistake. Not only did it fail to achieve the purpose of dispersing the enemy forces, it would instead allow the enemy fleet groups to cover each other.
If this situation cannot be broken, continuing the stalemate will be a waste of ammunition!
Thinking of this, he decisively ordered: "Wang Tianyu, order all ships to continue feigning attack. Duan Jingwen, Nanzhou will leave the battlefield immediately and turn towards Europa Zero!"
"Yes!" The two voices said in unison, and the order was quickly executed.
The Nanzhou suddenly turned away from the combat zone, and the alien fleet that had been blocking the front of the Nanzhou instinctively chased after it and continued to stand between the Nanzhou and Europa.
Ling Yu's eyes showed a bit of surprise, and he secretly shouted: "Duan Jingwen!"
"arrive!"
Ling Yu pointed at the group of enemy ships on the screen that had separated from the main force: "Pull a little distance away and send me the aviation troops. I don't care how you direct them. In short, I want these ice ships!"
"Yes!" Duan Jingwen agreed and immediately started arranging actions.
Under the command of Duan Jingwen, the Nanzhou continued to maintain the density of firepower and launched a batch of smoke bombs at the enemy ships.
Because both sides were accelerating, this wave of smoke screen could not be kept between the two ships, but was quickly left behind by the two ships.
The alien casually shot two rounds of gratings at the smoke screen and stopped paying attention to the smoke screen.
Duan Jingwen shook his fist excitedly and ordered the battleship to fire another round of smoke bombs.
His purpose was to use a smoke screen to test the enemy's reaction.
The battle between the Third Fleet and the alien fleet was very short. Smoke bombs have always been mixed with other missiles. As long as the aliens see the smoke screen, they will definitely think that there are other missiles hidden in it.
The volume of carrier-based aircraft is much larger than that of missiles. If the carrier-based aircraft is directly hidden in the smoke screen and goes into battle, the probability of being plowed by the grating is very high.
Duan Jingwen deliberately created a smoke screen while accelerating. The smoke screen would soon be thrown down by the warships on both sides. Even if there was a missile hidden in the smoke screen, it would not be able to hit the accelerating enemy ship. In addition, the missile's flight direction deviated from Europa.
, in this way, we can test out the aliens' attitude towards smoke screens.
The situation was better than Duan Jingwen expected. The second round of smoke screen even eliminated the grating.
Ling Yu promptly reminded: "Duan Jingwen, use so many useless smoke screens, be careful of the enemy targeting you."
"It should be no problem." Duan Jingwen continued to direct the battle with some anxiety.
The Nanzhou fired a third round of smoke screen while slowing down. Dozens of heavy carrier-based aircraft took the opportunity to hide in the smoke screen and slowly flew forward with the smoke screen.
Duan Jingwen hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "Lean over, cover with fire!"
The Nanzhou immediately turned around, and at the same time fired several rounds of artillery shells and missiles at the enemy, as well as some scattered smoke bombs, floating in the east and west between the two sides.
It is not safe for a carrier-based aircraft to hide behind a smoke screen. The distance between the Nanzhou and the enemy ship is not close. It is completely possible to get closer and strengthen the firepower to provide cover. As long as it does not enter the effective range of the thin light, there will be no problem.
As expected, the approach of the Nanzhou attracted the attention of the aliens. The sudden increase in firepower made the aliens even more alert. They instinctively concentrated their firepower and swept away the missiles and smoke screens coming from the front, no longer caring about the previous waves.
smokescreen.
Duan Jingwen breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, the aliens would have a high chance of ignoring the smoke screen on the side.
