Inside the Ouranos, Lin Fan was watching the changes in the battle situation on the defense line.
At this moment, although the Shanhaiguan garrison relied on the absolute difference in numbers in the early stage, it achieved a considerable casualty ratio.
Although its own battle losses were less than 3,000 battleships, it destroyed 300,000 of the opponent's battleships. However, as the number of opponent's battleships increased, the battle losses in the last ten minutes have reached the total battle losses in one hour.
Thirty-five percent.
It is obvious that the Federation's war losses are rising rapidly.
Lin Fan looked at the number of local warships marked in the tactical image, 63,281, and immediately stood up from his seat.
"Order all the defenders on the defense line to begin to retreat, but do not turn. While maintaining firepower, start pushing back and retreat slowly!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Although the battleship is equipped with thrusters everywhere, the main thruster is only found at the tail of the battleship. Most of the ones installed there are small propulsion devices used to control the attitude of the battleship, as well as two medium-sized propulsion devices for reversing.
The main thruster using the tail, which is now the Federation's third-generation sublight propulsion device, can already reach a speed of 90,000 kilometers per second, which is also 30% of the speed of light.
But this premise is that the battleship sails forward. For this reason, the battleship must first use the attitude control devices everywhere to complete the steering. However, in this process, its sides and tail will be exposed to the enemy one by one, thus withstanding huge pressure.
damage.
Of course, there is another option, which is to use the two medium-sized non-sublight propulsion devices on the battleship to directly push back and make the battleship retreat.
However, relying only on these two propulsion devices, the warship can only reach a maximum speed of 5,000 kilometers per second.
After receiving the order, the federal fleet on the defense line immediately implemented it. All warships began to maintain firepower while slowly retreating!
And this information quickly reached Barbarot.
"Commander Barbarot, what is the opponent's intention? The battle loss ratio is still at a high level, but why did they start to retreat?"
After the adjutant reported the latest information, he also asked in confusion.
Obviously, he could not understand Lin Fan's thinking. According to the adjutant's logic, although the battle loss ratio continued to decline as the number of own warships increased, it was still at 1:15.
Even if you want to retreat, it shouldn’t be at this time!
The adjutant said this behavior was simply incomprehensible.
Of course, this is because he does not know that human beings only have a population of more than 20 billion. As a Babawe whose population is measured in Beijing, it is absolutely impossible to understand human beings.
"No matter what the other side wants to do, inform the frontline fleet not to pursue it for the time being and wait for the follow-up fleet to assemble!"
"Yes, Commander Barbarot!"
After Barbarot looked at the intelligence and analyzed it briefly, he immediately ordered.
After all, no matter what the other party is planning, it is always right to let the remaining fleet of more than 2 million sail out of the Star Road and complete the assembly first.
Once the assembly is completed, the combat power ratio between yourself and the opponent will directly become 2.6 to 1!
And when that time comes, no matter what the opponent wants to do, with the absolute difference in combat power in your hands, you can handle it calmly.
Soon, at the exit of the Star Road, the federal fleet was out of the firepower range of the Babavi Empire.
As for the Babavi Empire, there was no previous pursuit. Both sides stopped sending firepower at the same time, as if they had a tacit understanding.
In this first wave of Star Road offensive and defensive battles, the federal fleet lost 3,600 warships, while the Babavi Empire lost 372,000 warships. The battle loss ratio between the two sides directly reached 1:103.
Despite the huge battle damage ratio, in fact, Barbarot didn't feel any distress at all!
To him, it was just a normal operation to exchange 372,000 warships for control of the Star Road Exit.
After all, in his original idea, facing the Star Way defending nearly one million level four civilization battleships, if he wanted to take control of the exit, he would have to pay at least 700,000 to 800,000 battleships to do so. But now, just paying
372,000, which can be said to be quite unexpected.
As for feeling distressed? Forget it, 300,000 warships are nothing in the Babavi Empire. If the productivity is really fully activated, the Babavi Empire can produce millions of warships every year, and with its huge population base, it can recruit ships
There is no pressure on the staff either.
You know, in the Babavi Empire, the army is a very popular place to work. It doesn't matter now, you really can't get in. This is completely opposite to the current situation in the Federation!
At this moment, Lin Fan has led four legions to retreat to the second line of defense, which is the outermost edge of the starry sky defense network.
For a full six hours, neither side made any move, until the last batch of warships from the Babavi Empire sailed out of the Star Road. 2.6 million warships lined up densely in a huge battleship array, which made people shudder.
"Lord Barbarot, all battleships have sailed out of the Star Road and are ready to attack!"
"Has there been any change in the enemy?"
After listening to the adjutant's report, Barbarot nodded with satisfaction and then asked.
"No, the opponent is still deployed 5au away. We scanned a large number of defense settings there. It is very likely that the opponent wants to use the cooperation with the defense to block us."
"Well, your analysis is very accurate, and I think so too, but it is a bit too naive to rely on defense settings to make up for the huge difference in strength between us!"
Barbarot agreed with the adjutant's analysis. After all, this area was very empty. Even the nearest asteroid belt was 10 au away, so there was no room for trouble.
Therefore, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn, and that is that the other party wants to use the cooperation of a large number of defense settings to block its own fleet!
"Send the intelligence here to Marshal Barbania, and at the same time order the fleet to move forward and defeat them from the front!"
"Yes, Commander Barbarot!"
Outside 5au, on the federal defense line, inside the bridge of the Uranos.
"Commander, the Babawi Empire has begun to take action. The total number of warships is 2.628 million. It is expected to enter the combat range in two and a half hours!"
"Are the rail gun array and star cannon ready?"
"The rail gun arrays No. 1 to 9 are all ready and can start attacking at any time! The starry sky cannon has been charged and completed."
"Okay, order the rail gun arrays No. 1 to 3 to fire at area x3175! This will last ten minutes."
"After ten minutes, the rail gun arrays No. 4 to No. 7 will fire continuously at area d1123 for five minutes."
"Finally, all nine rail gun arrays will deliver firepower to area x0913 for ten minutes after twenty minutes!"