Chapter 425 Before the Exchange of Fire, He Cut Off His Own Arm

Looking at the sudden additional reply in the communication channel, Megan and Bell were stunned for a moment. They both thought they had read it wrong because they were tired from the long voyage, and the fleet's adaptive electronic warfare module did not sound an alarm. .

However, in the list of communication channels, the names of each fleet will have the logo of each company, and the extra 'Atlas Combat Fleet' also has the impressive geometric LOGO in front of it.

The military-industrial complex is no stranger to this LOGO recently, and some people are even on the verge of stress.

Megan, who was born in the federal navy, also immediately realized that the huge combined fleet would have been attacked by electronic warfare.

It was not that he had not expected this situation before the battle, because the intelligence obtained by the military-industrial complex pointed out that Atlas had strong network information warfare and electronic warfare capabilities.

But he really didn't expect that the attack would come so fast. The fleet didn't even get close to the target asteroid base, and it was already hacked during the tactical maneuvering stage.

"The entire fleet, conduct electronic warfare countermeasures immediately! Check all network ports and communication frequency bands! The shipboard control personality immediately conducts electronic warfare virus scanning and killing! Fleet communications are switched to the backup D4 encrypted line!"

Megan immediately issued new instructions, and the Hood's electronic warfare command unit also began to command the electronic warfare modules of all warships in the fleet to start working. This is a mode similar to 'override command', which can be used in emergencies. Skip some unnecessary steps to minimize wasting time.

While the order was being conveyed, the fleet commander Megan also realized that the course of this battle might not be as optimistic as he thought, because the opposite Atlas was obviously an opponent who did not play according to the routine.

According to Megan's previous corporate war experience, there are some differences between fleet battles between companies and battles between regular armies. In theory, before the exchange of fire begins-that is, at this point in time, there should be a final round. Negotiation and other aspects.

After all, more than 90% of the reasons why corporate wars are initiated are due to business competition between the two parties. However, as the competition becomes more and more fierce, it gradually transforms from 'commercial competition' to 'business war', and finally turns into a real battle. A gun showdown.

To put it bluntly, it is still because of the issue of interests.

Therefore, usually at the last minute, the two sides will have a round of so-called "final negotiations" as insurance to try to avoid losses to both parties after the war.

In most cases, the defensive side will be on the weaker side in terms of strength. At this time, as long as the attacking side takes a very tough stance and shows sufficient strength, the 'final negotiations' will achieve certain results.

But what Atlas is doing now means that they don't even bother to talk.

"You are going to fight us to the death," Megan said.

"I guess so, and they should have guessed that we won't let them go easily even if it's a negotiation."

Adjutant Bell nodded and added:

"After all, the boss and the others have the purpose of completely crushing Atlas this time."

While the two were talking, the combined fleet also started electronic jamming and countermeasures operations, and the shipboard control personalities of each ship also eliminated the virus secretly implanted in the core system - at least that's what it seems for now.

Atlas's first round of electronic warfare attacks were more tentative, so they were just scratching the surface and did not go directly to the "hard goods".

However, this kind of electronic warfare attack that did not trigger the adaptive defense unit at all was enough to arouse the vigilance of Megan and others, and also caused Megan to decisively order to switch to the backup encrypted channel.

The protection capabilities of these encrypted channels are indeed better, but the biggest common problem is that encrypted calls that have been translated many times are not stable. Ordinary conversations are fine, but problems are prone to occur when transmitting some complex information.

Just like this moment, Megan ordered the pirate fleet in the distance to attack from another direction, first go around to the other side of the asteroid base, and while trying to 'lead the snake out of the hole', see if he could contain part of the Atlas fleet. .

It's just that the ships of the pirate fleet are not originally equipped with advanced equipment and their service life is too long, so when using the encrypted channel of the combined fleet, there will be an 'incompatibility' situation.

The Hood called for a while, but the pirate fleet only translated some intermittent text and garbled codes.

At this time, the enthusiastic Atlas appeared again, and there was a new user in the encrypted channel that had just been switched over.

Atlas Combat Fleet: "The flagship asked you to switch to the G6 trajectory and detour to the other side of the asteroid base. The specific path has been highlighted for you. You're welcome~"

Megan, Bell, and everyone on the flagship bridge were stunned.

Not only them, but the pirate fleet on the other side was also dumbfounded after seeing this message. For a while, they didn't even know whether to follow this 'instruction' or not.

"The entire fleet, close all regular communication ports and network ports, physically cut off the communication modules and conduct comprehensive anti-virus operations in a safe state. Fleet communications switch to quantum encryption communication mode!"

A somewhat frustrated Megan slammed the armrest and gave an order loudly.

"Sir, if we directly enable the quantum encryption communication mode, the fleet's communication bandwidth will drop significantly, and the communication efficiency will also be greatly affected. Are we going to 'cut off one arm' before the battle begins?"

Bell's tone was a little hesitant. Although he understood Megan Ford's approach, he still felt that this 'one-size-fits-all' approach would likely affect future operations.

"Do you think I want to do this? Isn't there no other way?"

Megan said a little disappointedly: "If there is any other way, I won't do it, but Atlas's electronic warfare attack capability is really unprecedented. Our previous response experience may be completely useless. If we let the other side attack, I suspect that the entire joint fleet will be solved by others 'without bloodshed'."

Hearing Megan's words, Bell also knew that there was really nothing to refute, but he still had other questions in his mind.

"How did they do it? Attacks of this scale cannot be solved by technology alone. The computing power and resources required by the attackers are definitely not low."

"This just proves that the intelligence from the headquarters is correct." Megan suddenly said,

"Atlas's large data center and server array are probably in this asteroid base. For them, this is a real 'home battle', and the advantages it brings can be said to be huge."

As they spoke, the military-industrial complex joint fleet's communication also switched to the quantum encryption communication channel. Although the amount of information exchange between ships dropped like a cliff, at least there was a relatively safe and confidential communication environment.

In this case, Atlas's attack seemed to have come to a temporary end, and the joint fleet successfully completed the long-distance tactical maneuver, bypassing the asteroid debris belt as a 'barrier' and entering the predetermined attack launch position.