Eight Hundred and Fourteen Unexpected
The aliens reacted quickly, too. A large grating composed of fine light immediately began to intercept, and the alien fleets left behind in Jupiter also began to gather, forming a second line of defense in Jupiter's low-altitude orbit.
It was hard to say whether the third fleet's feint could break through the first line of defense. The alien fleet set up two lines of defense, which was enough to intercept all human firepower.
But the aliens obviously thought that this was not enough. The second line of defense soon split into two fleets with hundreds of warships each. One of them continued to guard Jupiter, and the other quickly changed its orbit and flew to Jupiter's high-altitude orbit.
Well, with three lines of defense in front, middle and back, Ling Yu couldn't find a place to pick up the loopholes.
At this time, Ling Yu was almost furious. No matter what the third fleet did, the alien fleet immediately counterattacked. If it was on the ground, Ling Yu could completely rely on the terrain and other environmental conditions to set up an ambush circle, and then use a unit to lure the enemy deep into the ground, thereby annihilating part of the enemy.
The way of war is to be treacherous, but there is no condition to use it in this ghost place!
The battle situation fell into a stalemate again, and Ling Yu was extremely unwilling. At this moment, he suddenly found that the alien fleet also dispersed and still blocked the human warships and Jupiter!
Moreover, the alien fleet was very evenly divided. No matter whether it was an aerospace mothership or a landing ship, there were more than a dozen enemy ships in front of each human warship.
Ling Yu blinked his eyes and almost laughed.
This is a chance!
One human warship must not play against ten enemy ships, but an aerospace mothership must crush ten enemy ships, otherwise what is the use of an aerospace mothership?
The Third Fleet should have regrouped after dispersing and firing. Ling Yu hurriedly stopped the fleet from regrouping and ordered the ships to continue to disperse. Once the alien fleet showed signs of approaching, they must retreat immediately and counterattack only with the minimum strength.
This inexplicable order was really hard to understand, but no one questioned the order, and all the captains followed it immediately.
As the human warships spread further and further apart, the alien warships blocking in front also became more and more dispersed, but the distance between the enemy forces had not yet been pulled apart.
Ling Yu hesitated for a moment, picked a destroyer at random, and ordered the warship to advance and feint, and immediately retreat after the exchange of fire.
The destroyer did as it was told, cautiously advancing a distance and then attacking the enemy in front, but the enemy was not fooled at all and always kept at the same level with other alien fleets.
Ling Yu knew very well that he had underestimated the aliens again, so he immediately expanded the order to the entire fleet.
Before the battle with the alien fleet, the image of the aliens in his mind had always been vague, but after several attempts, the image of the aliens became clearer and clearer.
Not the appearance was clear, but the kind of clarity that I understood more and more about the aliens.
More than a dozen warships seemed to be playing whack-a-mole, advancing without any rules to lure the enemy, and then retreating in time after a short battle, using all kinds of provocative means together.
At the beginning, each ship only attacked the enemy ship in front, but the clever captains soon started to play cross-attacks, and then they launched multi-directional concentrated fire, making the alien fleet neither gather nor disperse, and it was in chaos for a while.
The Third Fleet also achieved the result of damaging two enemy ships in the melee. After a long time of struggling, hundreds of missiles and thousands of shells were fired to kill two enemy ships. This achievement is really not worth mentioning.
Ling Yu's face became worse and worse. He had discovered that the feint attack order was a mistake. Not only did it fail to disperse the enemy, but it would also allow the enemy fleets to cover each other.
If this situation cannot be broken, it will be a waste of ammunition to continue the stalemate!
Thinking of this, he decisively ordered: "Wang Tianyu, order all ships to continue the feint attack, Duan Jingwen, Nanzhou will immediately leave the battlefield and turn to the front of Jupiter!"
"Yes!" Two voices said in unison, and the order was quickly executed.
Nanzhou suddenly turned to leave the battle zone, and the alien fleet that had been blocking the front of Nanzhou instinctively chased after it and continued to block Nanzhou and Jupiter.
Ling Yu showed some surprise in his eyes, and secretly shouted: "Duan Jingwen!"
"Here!"
Ling Yu pointed at the group of enemy ships that had separated from the main force on the screen: "Wait a little further,
Send me the aviation force, I don't care how you command, anyway, I want these ice ships!"
"Yes!" Duan Jingwen agreed and immediately began to arrange the action.
Under Duan Jingwen's command, the Nanzhou continued to maintain the density of firepower and fired a batch of smoke bombs at the enemy ships.
Because both sides were accelerating, this wave of smoke failed to stay between the two ships, but was quickly left behind by the two ships.
The aliens casually fired two rounds of gratings at the smoke screen and no longer paid attention to it.
Duan Jingwen excitedly waved his fist and ordered the warship to fire another round of smoke bombs.
His purpose was to use smoke to test the enemy's reaction.
The Third Fleet fought with the alien fleet for a short time. Smoke bombs have always been used in combination 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 size of carrier-based aircraft is much larger than missiles. If carrier-based aircraft are directly sent into battle hidden in the smoke screen, the probability of being hit by the grating plow is very high.
Duan Jingwen deliberately launched a round of smoke screens while accelerating. The smoke screens will soon be left behind by the warships of both sides. Even if there are missiles hidden in the smoke screens, it is impossible to hit the accelerating enemy ships. In addition, the flight direction of the missiles deviates from Jupiter's moon, so the aliens' attitude towards the smoke screens can be tested.
The situation is better than Duan Jingwen expected. The second round of smoke screens even saves the grating.
Ling Yu reminded at the right time: "Duan Jingwen, you fired so many useless smoke bombs, be careful that the enemy will target you."
"It should be fine." Duan Jingwen continued to command the battle with some trepidation.
The Nanzhou slowed down and fired the third round of smoke screens. Dozens of heavy carrier-based aircraft took the opportunity to hide in the smoke screens and slowly flew forward with the smoke screens.
Duan Jingwen hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth and said: "Come over, fire cover!"
The Nanzhou immediately turned around, and at the same time fired several rounds of artillery shells and missiles at the enemy, and there were also some scattered smoke bombs, floating between the two sides.
It is not safe for carrier-based aircraft to hide behind the smoke screen. The distance between the Nanzhou and the enemy ship is not close, so it can be moved closer and strengthen firepower to provide cover. As long as it does not enter the effective range of the thin light, there will be no problem.
The approach of the Nanzhou really attracted the attention of the aliens. The sudden increase in firepower made the aliens more alert. They instinctively concentrated their firepower and swept the missiles and smoke screens from the front, no longer paying attention to the previous waves of smoke screens.
Duan Jingwen breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, the aliens had a high chance of ignoring the smoke screen on the side.