$1,385 As for Waiting Until Today?

The Battle of Ceres ended with the evacuation of humans, but the Nanzhou fleet only left Ceres and did not withdraw from the asteroid belt.

Since the expedition plan would withdraw the main force of the human fleet, the Nanzhou fleet was the last mobile force of humans in the asteroid belt and could not be withdrawn at this time.

Fortunately, the main force of the alien fleet went to Mars, and the alien warships left in the asteroid belt were basically on Ceres. The combat pressure of the Nanzhou was not very great, and the two sides were evenly matched.

On the third day after the Battle of Ceres, the main force of the alien fleet arrived on Mars, and the expedition fleet would take another week to fly to Jupiter.

Those who heard the news first breathed a sigh of relief, and then inevitably thought of the delay before departure. Many people had an idea: If Huo Qiang had not been hesitant, the fleet would definitely have arrived at the target before the enemy, or at least at the same time!

To be honest, the fleets of both sides were not in the same direction, and the goals were different. There was no difference between a few days earlier or later, but some people just couldn't get over this hurdle.

Huo Qiang was very calm about this. He didn't care about these things at all. If he had the time and energy, he might as well pay more attention to the war on Mars.

After several months of intensive construction, all the projects on Mars were completed on time, and the engineering personnel withdrew from Mars in advance, leaving only a small number of military personnel and 20,000 servants.

The orbital elevator also withdrew from Mars before the enemy arrived, leaving only the bare base and the straight rails on the wasteland.

Will Mars work?

This is a difficult problem that lingers in the minds of many people. It's not that everyone is too pessimistic, but the strength of the enemy and us is too different.

There are only two battle groups on Mars, Xuzhou and Enterprise, with more than 20 warships at most, and one battle group is left in each of the two major camps in the east and west. Not to mention the combat effectiveness, command and coordination alone is not a small problem.

The enemy is different. The first batch of enemy ships that just arrived has more than 100 ships, and there will be two more batches later, with a total of more than 200 ships. The ratio of warships between the enemy and us is as high as 10 to 1. Such a huge disparity in strength cannot be filled even if all four super cannons are added. No matter how you look at it, the defeat of Mars is only a matter of time. Once Mars is lost, the Earth will be the next target of the enemy.

The Earth's defense system is much more complete than Mars, but the expedition plan has drained the fleet. Although the orbital factory has been operating at full capacity after the fleet left, there are only a few new ships coming off the slipway, which can barely make up a battle group, and there is still no space mothership.

There are not enough fleets near the Earth. There are only super cannons but no warships. It's like a lame leg. In addition, the aliens who landed on the Earth have been restless and jumped out from time to time to stir up trouble. If they cooperate with the alien fleet, the consequences will be disastrous.

Everyone is nervously waiting for the enemy's attack, but the aliens don't seem to be in a hurry to attack Mars. Instead, they are wandering around Mars, patiently waiting for follow-up troops.

When everyone's attention turned to the second and third alien fleets, they realized what the aliens were planning to do - these two fleets were carrying dozens of asteroids of varying sizes!

"Are they going to copy the tactics used on Ceres?" Luo Qi guessed in astonishment.

Aliens don't hit the Earth to colonize, but Mars doesn't have this problem. If an asteroid hits Mars, the result is completely imaginable.

"It's probably true," He Lu said, "No wonder