The combined fleet was closing in, but the Xel'Naga fleet was out of alignment due to the two small forces that suddenly shot out from the flanks. It seemed that if they continued to maintain their formation, they would have to face the combined fleet in an extremely unfavorable vertical formation.
Attacked!
When the strength of the two fleets is not very different, the formation of the two fleets during the exchange of fire will largely determine the development of the battle situation.
From the perspective of the combined fleet, Xel'Naga's current fleet formation looks like a bloated football with narrow ends and a wide middle. Their front formation blocks the firing angle of the rear formation, and the entire fleet's firepower is directly lost by three points due to the formation.
Divide into two!
Stukov and Harens resolutely seized this hard-won fighter opportunity, and the two fleets were like an iron wall pressing toward the opponent's protruding front formation!
Faced with this situation, the commander of the Xel'Naga fleet had no other choice. If it did not want to be annihilated by the combined fleet's firepower advantage and annihilate the entire front formation, then it could only choose to change its formation.
But as soon as it changes its formation, the Kraken assault fleet of the swarm will definitely be able to take advantage of this opportunity to escape from their encirclement. In this way, the series of arrangements they made before and the efforts they made to trap the Kraken assault fleet will
The price paid is equivalent to wasting it!
This was a difficult decision. The two flanking fleets of the Xel'Naga fleet that had surrounded them from both sides had now become a flaw in their formation.
But after hesitating for a while, it finally decided to change its formation!
The reason that drove it to make this decision is obvious. The importance of the Kraken assault detachment of the swarm and the two wing branches of the own fleet are obviously not comparable.
Even if the United Fleet loses the Kraken branch fleet, there is still the protoss' Judge assault fleet, and the swarm fleet did not dispatch all the Kraken in the main fleet at once, which means that even if they lose this
Even a single assault fleet could not inflict a devastating blow to the combined fleet of the two races.
But if the Xel'Naga fleet loses all its two-wing branch fleets, then the total number of biological warships in their fleet will be directly reduced by one-third. Such huge damage will not only be enough to break the Xel'Naga fleet, but also
The entire battle situation was reversed in an instant.
The Xel'Naga fleet, which has lost one-third of its total number of ships, will not be able to numerically suppress the combined fleets of the two races. On the contrary, they may even be suppressed by the combined fleet in turn.
Therefore, although the commander of the Xel'Naga fleet felt extremely unwilling to spit out the piece of fat in his mouth, he still chose to give in for the sake of the entire war situation.
Under its order, the Xel'Naga branch fleets that had surrounded the Kraken assault fleet of the insect swarm had to disband the encirclement and return to their main formation as quickly as possible to reorganize their confrontation formation.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Kraken Squadron managed to break out of the encirclement under the "farewell" of artillery fire and successfully returned to the main formation of the Insect Fleet.
In this tactical raid, the Kraken fleet wiped out more than 200 enemy ships and seriously damaged more than 300 enemy ships. It can be said that it gave the Xel'Naga fleet a fierce and cruel "heart-breaking blow"!
However, the Kraken assault fleet itself also suffered considerable losses under the opponent's siege. Even with the constant support and treatment from the King Insect, seventy-three Kraken were still destroyed by the opponent's artillery fire.
The loss of seventy-three Kraken was equivalent to the insect swarm's loss of seventy-three medium-sized insect nests. This loss cannot be said to be small, but compared with the results of the battle, it was still within an acceptable range.
The remaining more than three hundred Kraken quickly returned to their main formation under the support of the artillery fire of the swarm fleet. At the same time, the Xel'Naga fleet also rearranged its fleet array.
The two fleets continued to form a wing formation in the void and pour firepower on each other, but on the side of the combined fleet, Stukov had no intention of changing the entire fleet's assault order.
The combined fleet continued to approach each other despite the opponent's increasingly accurate firepower. The distance between the two fleets quickly shortened from hundreds of kilometers to less than fifty kilometers!
At this distance, the artillery fire of both fleets can cause maximum damage to the other side, and it is almost impossible to miss.
Such close-range artillery fire exchanges greatly increased the pressure on the front defense arrays of both fleets, especially the combined fleet, which was still at a slight numerical disadvantage, so it was under greater pressure!
But even so, Stukov still did not modify the assault order, which means that the combined fleet will continue to advance towards the enemy fleet's main formation until it enters the "sticking firefighting distance"!
In the command room of the Queen of Blades, the flagship of the swarm fleet, Xue Hua raised his head and felt the slight shaking from the flagship's body from time to time, while involuntarily looking back at Stukov.
Is this a good time to launch a full-scale attack?
He frowned slightly.
It seems that the Xel'Naga fleet still has some trump cards that it has not revealed. Doesn't it seem a bit careless to take such a risk and engage in a decisive battle when the enemy's situation is unknown?
Xue Hua was a little puzzled by Stukov's command strategy, but still did not interfere with it in any way.
He believed in the former human vice-admiral's ability to grasp fighter planes, so he would never make the kind of stupid mistake that an amateur would make when commanding an expert.
Xue Hua glanced at the battlefield star map, and then quickly looked away. Since Stukov was commanding the fleet battle, the target he should be concerned about should be Narud.
This guy doesn't know what he is doing. From the beginning of this crucial fleet battle, he has been hiding behind the back of his own fleet without even showing his face.
If the insect swarm's supervisory king insect hadn't clearly sensed its psychic energy fluctuations from the Xel'Naga fleet on the opposite side, Xue Hua would have couldn't help but wonder if this guy had never appeared here at all!
However, the fact that it was hiding like this would put even greater psychological pressure on Xue Hua, because if it kept refusing to show its head, Xue Hua would have no way of knowing what kind of tricks this guy was playing.
There is no doubt that Narud's only purpose here is definitely the Chaos Core whose current status is unknown, but what method does it intend to use to seize the core from Mephisto, who is not yet dead?
?
Just rely on this fleet?
I'm afraid it's too much, right?
Even if the combined fleet of the swarm and the protoss failed to defeat the Xel'Naga fleet in the end, Narud's fleet would definitely suffer heavy losses after this battle.
What's more, judging from the current situation on the battlefield, it is probably not yet known who will win in the duel between the two fleets!
Therefore, this guy must have another backhand, and with Narud's character, this hidden backhand is likely to be his real trump card!
