"It's been 65 years since Tianyuan!" In the distant starry sky, five spaceships emerged from the hyperspace flight and checked the direction of the Midway Star.
Captain Gautama calculated the time, and the time could not be too early - that would make the Third Prince and the Red River Civilization discover that Tianyuan Star was not far away from them, and it would be troublesome if they sent out a spacecraft to search.
But it can't be too late, as that will exhaust the third prince's patience.
Thirty years is the limit of Gundam's calculations. From the time he first returned on the spaceship traded by the third prince, to now taking his own spaceship to the Midway Star, and considering the various problems within the Tianyuan Star, the third prince can only allow at most
Thirty years' time.
For more than thirty years, even if the three princes can continue to cooperate, there will be knots between the two parties. And as long as there are knots, sooner or later there will be an explosion.
Gautama's plan is to arrive at the Midway Star in about 25 years, that is, around the 80th year of Tianyuan. Before that, just sail slowly. By the way, you can take a detour and observe the surrounding starry sky.
Moreover, 25 years is also a test for the third prince by Godard Shang. If the news has not been leaked in 25 years, it means that the third prince is really capable. Everyone can strengthen their cooperation a little, but they must also strengthen their defenses.
Cooperating with capable people saves effort; but cooperating with capable people does not save worry!
Calculating the time, they could still linger in space for 16 years, so Gundam let the fleet continue to enter the state of hyperspace flight.
Needless to say, being in this flying state is actually helpful for spiritual practice - but only in the realm of returning to true nature.
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Here in Tianyuan Star, it was already a different scene. After the invasion was confirmed, the entire Tianyuan Star mobilized instantly.
As early as after the Voyager returned, everyone had strengthened their equipment to the limit in order to deal with the problems of the Red River Civilization.
At this time, it took the entire Tianyuan Star less than half an hour to complete preparations for war, and a large number of spacecraft began to accelerate.
A stationary spaceship is a living target. Only a moving spacecraft can avoid strikes to the greatest extent.
But the situation is still not optimistic. At this time, the base closest to the battlefield is not the Pluto base, but a base on Jupiter's satellite, the legendary satellite.
At this time, Pluto was just at the other end of the starry sky. The other bases had similar problems. This resulted in the Jupiter base being the closest to the battlefield.
And this nearest one is 1.4 billion kilometers away!
What's more serious is that at this time, everyone's super-light communication only has a single line with Dugu Junjie; and the latest news shows that Dugu Junjie's flagship seems to have suffered heavy damage, and Dugu Junjie had to move to another location with the communication equipment.
In the spaceship.
Except for the super-light speed communication with Dugu Junjie on the ground, the rest of the communication can still only rely on traditional methods.
Communication is not smooth, which is definitely an extremely bad situation. Not to mention that Pluto, an extremely important military base of the Ocean Group, is still on the other side of the starry sky. It is more than 10 billion kilometers away from the battlefield.
The most important thing is that the Pluto base has not received the signal of attack. From this moment on, the signal from Tianyuan Star to Pluto is still on the way. It will take at least more than 300 minutes for the signal to arrive.
Fortunately, everyone is still prepared.
In the orbit near Tianyuan Star, a large number of starry sky cannons have begun to correct their direction.
At the same time, the communication was also transmitted: pay attention to the attack path of the evasive rail gun. Considering the error problem, please do not get close to the 10,000 kilometers of the designed path. Of course, the further away, the better.
Especially Dugu Junjie is more than 4.5 billion kilometers away from Tianyuan Star. When the rail gun attacks here, the error may reach 100,000 kilometers. But Dugu Junjie is also under the greatest pressure. They need to find ways to keep the enemy fleet moving forward.
Basically unchanged.
In other words, Dugu Junjie must not only delay the enemy's footsteps, but also act as a bait to keep the enemy in a fixed direction as much as possible.
This sudden appearance of the enemy is so cunning. Their spacecraft can hardly move in a straight line, and its direction in space is erratic and unpredictable. Its overall direction remains unchanged, but its lateral movement may be as high as hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
Thousands of kilometers.
The rail gun launched from Tianyuan Star can reach a speed of 0.16 times the speed of light. To fly 4.5 billion kilometers, it will take at least 26 hours. Considering the influence of the star's gravity, it may take an additional half hour.
How to ensure that the enemy always maintains the same general direction for such a long time?
"Lead by example!" The staff officer next to Dugu Junjie said these four words. It sounds a bit off topic. We are discussing military affairs, not education.
But Dugu Junjie understood.
He hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and ordered: "Adjust the direction of the spacecraft and enter the central area of the route map. Try to stay in this area and attack the enemy."
If you want the enemy to be fooled, you must first make a choice yourself - forcing the enemy to go in a certain direction is impossible, and everyone is not stupid. Moreover, with the combat capabilities of the current 15 warships, which are still small warships, it is impossible
How much strong guidance was caused to the enemy's remaining 60 warships.
And according to Dugu Junjie's understanding, rail guns have errors. Especially on a scale of 4.5 billion kilometers, the error will never be lower than three to five thousand kilometers.
Then, as long as the fleet stays within the route planned by the rail gun, it will be the safest - provided that the rail gun does not fire too accurately.
Time is running out. Because the situation is becoming more and more urgent. Dugu Junjie even saw that a spaceship with a hole in the middle that occupied half of the hull was started again!
The opponent is not only rich in combat experience, but also has extraordinary repair capabilities. Dugu Junjie has clearly realized that this attack on Tianyuan Star's fleet is no small matter.
Without hesitation, the fleet immediately adjusted its direction and began to move to the center of the route planned by the rail gun. This transfer was obviously different from the previous strategic maneuvers and had a clear purpose.
Seeing the strange movements of Dugu Junjie's fleet, Hegu Hailanbao's eyes narrowed on Hailanbao's fleet. Three words immediately came to his mind: Safe Zone!
Yes, as a nomadic civilization, they have too much combat experience. Seeing Dugu Junjie's actions, the first thing he thought of was the 'safe zone'.
During the previous 'grazing' process, many civilizations carried out a range of indiscriminate attacks. But such attacks would definitely leave a safe zone for their fleets!
Of course, because of his rich combat experience, Hegu Hailanbao did not make an immediate transfer. Instead, he asked the observation team to observe the starry sky ahead to see if there were any strange flashes.
Most weapon attacks will produce light, and the speed of light is very fast. As long as the light is detected, you can know whether there is an attack.
However, rail guns are an exception.
Considering that Dugu Junjie had already received information, indicating that if there was an attack light, he should have seen it at about the same time. However, after observing for more than an hour, nothing was found.
However, there is not much time left for Hegu Hailanbao, because Dugu Junjie's fleet has already caught up from behind.
Previously, the directions of the two sides were crossing each other in a cross pattern. The speed of Dugu Junjie's combined fleet was 6,000 kilometers per second; the speed of Hailanbao's fleet reached 13,000 kilometers per second.
But after this period of fighting, Dugu Junjie actually commanded the fleet to make a large arc and complete a turn. Although the speed had dropped to less than 5,000 kilometers after the turn, it was accelerating at this time and began to pursue the target from behind.
Of course, the Hailanbao fleet can still accelerate, but the previous attack also caused obvious damage to the fleet. Rushing to accelerate will cause at least one-third of the spacecraft to be thrown away.
After comprehensive consideration, Hegu Hailanbao resolutely decided to distance himself. Repair the spacecraft first and think about the strategy calmly again.
So, while Dugu Junjie and others were dumbfounded, the Hailanbao fleet dragged 67 injured spaceships in total and began to move away, further and further away.
"This... this..." The staff officer was a little stunned.
Dugu Junjie took a deep breath and immediately sent a message to the ground to stop the rail gun firing. Then he reported the situation here to the ground and made a comprehensive analysis of the unfamiliar fleet:
The enemy officers are very cautious, have rich combat experience, and the spaceships have strong resistance to losses; these spacecrafts are very capable of locking targets and have extremely high attack accuracy. Compared with the Red River Civilization, they are like reserves on the one hand, and special forces on the other.
The Hailanbao fleet began to accelerate laterally. Although its forward speed was still 13,000 kilometers per second, its lateral speed also began to increase. From the perspective of the sun, its trajectory resembled an involute curve.
It kept moving for more than 200 seconds, and the spacecraft recorded a moving distance of nearly 3 million miles. Only then did Hegu Hailanbao give the order to stop accelerating and keep the spacecraft moving at a constant speed. Maintenance personnel began to get busy.
As a nomadic civilization, they possess strong combat effectiveness. The maintenance of spacecraft itself on the battlefield is a type of combat effectiveness.
As for the reason for moving three million miles, it is because the enemy's covering attack may be powerful, but the range will not be very large. One million miles is the limit.
An area with a diameter of one million miles is already the diameter of a medium star, which is not a small range.
It can only be said that Hegu Hailanbao's combat experience is really too rich. These are real elites who have survived death.
Moreover, even if the spacecraft of the Hailanbao fleet is moving forward at a constant speed, it is swinging from side to side like a swimming fish. The maintenance personnel can only fix themselves to the surface of the spacecraft.
After calculating the speed of his own fleet, and then calculating the speed of Dugu Junjie's fleet, Hegu Hailanbao said calmly: "Everyone has an hour to repair the spacecraft. Prioritize repairing the power system, followed by the weapon system."
Behind, Dugu Junjie's fleet has accelerated again. This time, the fleet's acceleration has been completely released, and the engine power has reached its limit.