Chapter 1538 Precise Response

After the full-strength division's inspection, some of the starship fragments were not from the Alliance, and they could be seen at a glance as fragments of the Empire's starships.

As for where Commodore Popbis and the remaining forces of the fleet went, no one knew.

According to various signs, the fleet may have been wiped out, but... that was the strength of two and a half regiments.

The military believes that this possibility is too small.

It is not impossible that two and a half regiments were annihilated, but it is too weird that not a single starship escaped.

From Popbis's warning to the arrival of reinforcements on the battlefield, theoretically there was only a difference of fifteen hours.

With such a short time, even the full-strength division as reinforcements did not think that they could do this.

It is easy to defeat, but not a single one escaped... How great is the difference in strength to achieve this?

As reinforcements, the full-strength division felt cold in their hearts - they might not be able to beat such an opponent!

Logically, they should search around and try to chase.

However, the commander of the full-strength division was very experienced and led the fleet directly to a meteorite 30 million kilometers away.

This meteorite was not very big, with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers, but fortunately it was a high-density meteorite and was quite strong.

This kind of meteorite was the most suitable one they could find nearby.

With this meteorite as a support, they could build a simple space field fortification.

The commander was a brigadier general himself, and the full-strength division he led was also directly under the army, which was originally slightly higher than Brigadier General Bobis.

Moreover, he had to think about his own troops, and seeking self-protection first was the kingly way!

Finding Bobis was a military mission, which was indeed very important, but not so important that he could ignore the casualties of his subordinates!

The progress of the full-strength division came to a standstill, but two days later, there was more bad news.

In addition to Bobis's fleet, there was also a support fleet, which lost contact soon after!

Similarly, this fleet was also chasing a small harassing fleet of the Empire!

And the one responsible for reinforcing this fleet was a reinforced mixed division!

As it is called strengthened, the size of this division will definitely not be bad, and it is even larger than most reorganized divisions.

But "mixed"... is very interesting. Some are mixed in ship type and purpose, but some are mixed in organization.

This mixed division is a mixed organization, with direct troops and local troops.

A normal full-strength division is four to five regiments, and some divisional troops.

A reorganized division can have five to six regiments, and also divisional troops.

This mixed division has seven regiments, two of which are directly affiliated to the troops, and four are local troops.

There is also a regiment, which is a reserve regiment, but it is also in the military sequence and is not under the jurisdiction of the local government.

Generally speaking, this regiment is here for training, and there is basically no need to expect much combat effectiveness.

But in the same way, in order to better command the army, the commander of this mixed division is a major general.

The major general also heard the news that Brigadier General Bobis was suspected of being wiped out. To be honest, he did not think that Digital Phantom had this ability.

But this kind of thing, we have to prevent it, so he ordered everyone to form a battle formation and continue to move forward.

However, three of the four local regiments under his command had strong resistance.

The local regiments have their own information channels, which are not much worse than the major general.

At least they know that the opponent is not easy to deal with, and the local government attaches more importance to the safety of Tianyu.

Whoever eats the food is responsible for the management, so they are not very interested in continuing to move forward to search.

Searching for enemies in space is the main job, and returning to Tianyu to assist in defense is also a job.

However, local troops mainly rely on the support of local governments, not to mention that relying on planetary defense has a higher survival rate than space field battles!

Only the head of a local regiment was wavering - this guy was originally transferred from the direct army to the local area.

In short, although this mixed division is huge, its attitude towards this matter... is a bit hard to describe.

The major general was extremely annoyed by this situation and ordered the three local regiments to pursue.

But the three local regiments had already agreed and said directly: It’s okay for us to lead, we believe in the direction we judge more.

They did not directly resist, which was absolutely inappropriate, that is, if they were allowed to lead, they would choose the road themselves.

The major general would certainly not agree, saying that we have the most authoritative tracking means and should follow our guidance.

Then the three local regiments went crazy: Are you trying to order us directly?

Please, major general, please figure it out, we have autonomy, okay?

Anyway, their attitude is very clear: If we are not allowed to decide the direction of the investigation, then we will not be the pioneers!

If you can, you can do it, don’t let your people point fingers at us and complain - who will be responsible for the loss?

The major general was so angry that his liver hurt, but he had no choice.

He couldn’t say that if you were allowed to choose the direction, you probably wouldn’t know where you were chasing - it was definitely not the right direction!

The three regiments of the local forces were really not a force to be underestimated.

In the end, he had no choice but to let one of his own regiments stand in the front, followed by two local regiments.

When he made this decision, he even felt a little sad: With this kind of awareness, how can you resist the alien race?

The soldiers in the front are fighting bloody battles, but you are just hustling in the back. It's really sad and lamentable...

Originally, they could still pursue relatively quickly, at least not much worse than a full-strength division.

But there is such a nonsense happening internally, even if I want to catch up faster, I can't get up!

The major general kept urging at first, but in the end he realized it: not only the local regiments were working for foreigners, but his own family was too!

In fact, the performance of the Manchu Division is already very illustrative of the problem - as a force directly under the military, they always choose a place to hold on!

So when they arrived at Area 3, they were two days later than expected!

The time difference between these two days is enough for Jia Shuiqing's fleet to jump into place.

The fleet of the mixed division is really huge: one division-level ship, seven regiment-level ships, plus one regiment-level fire support ship.

There are more than 20 battalion-level ships, nearly a hundred company-level ships, and thousands of small ships of various types!

There are also supply ships, frigates, and the like.

All in all, it's overwhelming, and at first glance, it feels like it's untouchable.

But when the fleet arrived at the scene, they saw debris all over space.

Looking around, there was nothing unusual, "Did you... run away?"

It's normal to run away after winning a fight, let alone in an enemy country.

So the fleet began to sweep the battlefield around, looking for anyone alive and searching for useful information in the debris.

Although there was a lot of debris, there were also many people supporting the fleet, and the battlefield was roughly cleared in half a day.

Unfortunately, the whereabouts of the enemy have not been discovered yet, and there are no surviving soldiers.

Based on the known clues, it can be determined that most of the soldiers did not die at the scene, but disappeared.

It is said that a large number of soldiers from another support fleet have also disappeared. Now it seems that they may have been captured by the other side.

Of course, the possibility of being massacred is also very high, because the enemy... is fighting within the alliance.

This has nothing to do with cruelty. All soldiers know how dangerous it is to fight behind enemy lines.

Carrying captives takes up valuable space, and the prisoners' food, drink, and daily necessities also take up daily necessities.

And people must be assigned to guard them to prevent prisoners from rioting.

No matter from which point you look at it, if you capture prisoners while fighting behind enemy lines, they are definitely a burden. You can kill them as soon as you get a confession.

Otherwise, it is irresponsible on one's own side.

The only ones worth saving their lives are probably a few high-value prisoners, such as Brigadier General Bobis.

There are more than 2,000 missing soldiers. Such a large-scale killing of prisoners will inevitably increase the hatred between the Alliance and the Empire.

However, do these two Guojia still have a little bit of hatred?

Seriously, if there are too many prisoners, they will have to kill them - this is too much of a burden.

The more the major general thought about it, the darker his face became. Knowing that so many soldiers were likely to encounter something unexpected soon, he felt really panicked.

Fortunately, someone next to him said, "This evil imperial soldier won't kill everyone, will he?"

The major general sighed inwardly: Compared with the people of the Empire, the people of the Alliance... are still too kind.

Anyway, he was getting more and more unhappy, "The fleets separated, with a radius of one billion kilometers, to search for the enemy's whereabouts."

"What?" Others were quite surprised when they heard this.

A radius of one billion kilometers - if you encounter the other party, you will probably be dead before you can wait for rescue.

This order made everyone feel quite conflicted.

It would be fine if the major general designated a direction and everyone pursued it together.

At least such a large fleet can give people a sense of security.

That's right, it's just a little more sense of security. Some people suspect that one's own side may not be the opponent's opponent.

Although they didn't know how strong the other party was, the two fleets with multiple regiments were gone.

Not even a single surviving soldier could be found, and no detailed information was released!

With such strength, it's hard to say whether our mixed editor can achieve it...

However, this time, the rear admiral was really anxious, "The eight regiment-level ships are divided into three groups and must be searched everywhere. This is an order!"

"You have to understand that once the captured soldiers give their confessions, they will no longer be able to survive!"

"The lives of our comrades are in your hands!"

"If you are worried about encountering attacks or ambushes, the search team can be lengthened and divided into batches... Don't say you don't understand!"

Having said this, no one can object anymore. It is the natural mission of soldiers to rescue friendly forces.

And with the ferocity of the Imperial people, killing prisoners... is actually a high probability event.

In addition, the major general uses military orders to suppress people, who dares to say no again?

So the full complement of seven regiments was divided into three groups, three by two.

Among the two regiment groups, one group was assigned to the regiment-level fire support ship.

Another group was assigned to a reserve regiment, and the other group was still a local regiment.

This group has the weakest strength, but division-level ships will be in this group.

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