Chapter 467 The Ultimate Showdown Between Old School Commanders

Guterres did not need to explain too much, and the other members of the "Command Observation Group" also quickly understood what he meant.

In the past, when the speed of long-distance communication was limited, it was difficult for the naval fleet to fight on a very long front. At most, the time for launching an attack and tactical retreat was uniformly stipulated. The efficiency of joint operations was extremely poor, and there was no complex operation such as "front linkage".

Therefore, large-scale fleet decisive battles often involve both sides concentrating their forces and then fighting to the death in a certain galaxy.

This also led to the fact that although the fronts controlled by both sides were very long, there were only a few key galaxies where large-scale battles could break out.

In the land battles on the surface of the planet, the spectacular scene of both sides attacking on all fronts has never appeared in the fleet battles in space.

However, the "quantum entanglement communication technology" developed by the Atlas Group directly supplemented the last "technical puzzle" needed for the "long-distance front control theory".

Because among the five key elements supporting the military theory studied by Marshal Trafalgar - communication and information processing, resource and material support, command and control, decision-making support system, and dynamic scheduling algorithm, the most important one is "communication and information processing" which ranks first.

This is also the basis for realizing the coordinated attack and defense of a large number of fleets on the long-distance front.

When the members of the "Command Observation Group" were discussing the possible battles that might happen next on the star map, Cleves suddenly said:

"By the way, our Atlas has communication business cooperation with the Federation and the Empire. Since both of them currently have ultra-long-distance real-time communication technology, there is no technological gap on the Imperial Royal Navy side, and they should also develop similar military theories, right?"

Hearing his words, everyone stopped discussing and nodded in agreement, and Guterres' expression on his face was still a little embarrassed when he nodded.

After he and Van Fleet officially joined the Atlas Group, Amber quickly took him to meet Cleves and Randall.

When Guterres learned that the commander of the Atlas Fleet, who defeated the 13th Fleet led by him in the fleet battle on the orbit of Pyra IV, was a student of his when he taught at the Federal Naval Academy, the former Vice Admiral of the Federal Navy felt a mixed feeling.

He was proud of the student he taught, who was still not very impressive, for being able to achieve such achievements as "defeating the main fleet of the Navy with fewer troops" in fleet command.

At the same time, he also felt a little embarrassed that he and the 13th Fleet became the "background board" of this achievement.

Especially when he thought that in the future, as long as the classic battles of the Atlas combat fleet were mentioned, and the tactics of using a large number of plasma torpedoes launched in advance to circle the planet to attack the enemy, he and the 13th Fleet would definitely be pulled out to "whip the corpse", he felt even more ashamed.

And Amber, after noticing Guterres' emotions at the time, also comforted him with a very "high emotional intelligence".

"Don't feel depressed. Think from a different perspective and be more open-minded. No loser will be remembered, except you~"

Although Guterres' heart was in turmoil when he thought of this, he quickly adjusted his state.

At the same time, Amber also answered Cliffs' question.

"Of course the Empire will also develop similar military theories. This is bound to happen, but not now. Although the Star Dragon Empire's navy carries the title of 'Royal', in fact, the Royal Navy fleet is still relatively fragmented due to domestic 'party struggles'.

In addition, the fleets of the major nobles also account for a considerable proportion of the Empire's naval power, so the situation is even more complicated.

This also makes it impossible for them to be like the Federation Navy in a short period of time, where the entire army obeys one person's command and carries out joint operations without compromise."

Amber paused, zoomed in on the star map to Luerna and the surrounding galaxies, and then continued:

"Although we don't know the specific deployment of the Federation Fleet, we only know that the Luerna galaxy will most likely be the target of attack, but we can still use this to deduce.

Marshal Trafalgar's purpose is very simple, that is, through a series of pre-war preparations, deployments and secret maneuvers of the fleet, to confuse the Empire's reconnaissance forces so that they cannot obtain the accurate movements of the Federation Navy.

At the same time, put two mobile fortresses in the open like bait, and then divert some attention, and at the same time force the Imperial Fleet to deploy enough fleets in these two directions to prevent the mobile fortresses from attacking with superior forces.

After taking the initiative, Marshal Trafalgar should concentrate superior forces and launch attacks from two to four directions, trying to quickly defeat the Imperial Fleet in these directions.

If the battle can be resolved before the Imperial Fleet reacts, the Empire will fall into a greater passive position. If they want to counterattack, they will be hesitant because they don’t know whether these "superior forces" will come back to form a larger scale of "more against less".

If the defense is contracted, they will have to worry about whether the fleets of various galaxies will be blocked by the Federation attack fleet during the maneuver.

Under normal circumstances, the Imperial Royal Navy will not be so restrained, but given the complexity of their current command system, I can only say that this possibility is very high. "

Amber's answer and speculation made everyone in the "command observation group" think, especially Guterres, who had a deep understanding of the Federation Navy. He put the "current situation" of the Empire Fleet provided by Amber into the "deduction model" constructed in his mind.

Soon, this former Vice Admiral of the Federation Navy, who belonged to the "old-school command" in Amber's definition, like Marshal Trafalgar and several dukes on the Empire side, also came up with his own deduction results-basically no different from what Amber said.

Just when Guterres wanted to go deeper into this issue, Amber's voice came into his ears again.

"Of course, it doesn't mean that the Empire will definitely suffer a big loss. If Marshal Trafalgar's "multi-point breakthrough" cannot quickly achieve results, or even fall into a protracted war, then the situation will be completely different.

The Empire will soon discover the fact that the Federation Navy dispersed its troops in order to achieve a "multi-point breakthrough". At this time, no matter who is leading the command of the Empire's naval forces, it is likely that they will make one of the favorite tactics of the "old-school naval commanders."

"What tactics?" Randall, who had been listening carefully but did not speak, asked curiously.

"Change home."