Chapter 529: Action Begins

"A perfect raid that only exists in theory?" Murat and Jacob asked almost in unison.

Randall nodded: "Under the current strength gap, we must complete an annihilation battle against the enemy's fleet near the scheduled jump escape point as quickly as possible, and we must not give them the opportunity to attack the other two federations." The fleet reveals our true situation."

"Why can't we reveal our true situation to the Federation fleet?" Jacob asked with some doubts before he figured it out.

"Because 'keeping it mysterious' is our biggest talisman now."

Randall explained patiently:

“If the commander of the Federation Fleet discovers that the galaxy defense fleet was suddenly annihilated in a short period of time, and no information about the enemy has been sent back, he will most likely think that the other party was annihilated by a stronger enemy.

In this case, based on my understanding of the people in the Federation Navy, they will never risk being ambushed by jumping over. Instead, they will most likely send a reconnaissance ship to jump over first to see the situation.

If this is the case, it can buy us at least 3 days. By then, the cargo fleet can give up the recovery fleet after releasing all the aerospace transport fleets, and directly accelerate the jump to leave the Rubin system, and we can also support two unmanned fleets. The arrival of the human fleet. "

"I see."

Jacob nodded thoughtfully, while Murat had new questions.

"But the 'perfect raid' you want to achieve, Colonel, doesn't seem to be a little difficult? Although the Infinity can find a way to maintain a balance on the battleship, what should the opponent do if there are so many heavy cruisers?"

Randall: "So this is what I need to ask Jacob and the others to do. During the battle, I need heavy armored combat boats to help me deal with the extra 30 heavy cruisers."

"It's the colonel! The 'Deep Sea Fish' heavy armored combat boat brigade and the 'Revival Fire' heavy armored combat boat wing will complete the mission at all costs!"

Jacob ‘Snap! ’ He stood at attention and saluted and accepted the order without any hesitation.

The 'Renaissance Fire' unit he spoke of was actually the heavy armored combat boat pilots among the first batch of trainees sent by the Renaissance Alliance.

When Franklin on Rubion 5 confirmed that the Federation was going to take action against the galaxy, he agreed without hesitation that Jacob would temporarily take over the combat trainees.

After all, these trainees arrived with them, as well as the combat boats assigned to them after the final assessment. Sending such a force back to Rubion 5 would not reflect their value.

Only in a fleet commanded by professionals can they exert their full strength, and the Renaissance Alliance and the Atlas Group have already reached a consensus on the point of confronting the Federation.

At the same time, Franklin also knew that if Atlas's fleet could not defeat the Federation fleet in the space fleet battle, then the Renaissance Alliance would also begin to enter the countdown to being defeated by the large force of the Federation's regular army.

Therefore, the HCP pilot trainees, including Johnny Redding, are currently authorized by Franklin to be temporarily incorporated into the Third Task Force as non-staff forces to assist in operations.

After hearing that Jacob had received the mission, Murat continued to ask Randall: "The gap problem between the heavy cruisers has been solved, so how can the communication between the other party and the federal fleet be cut off?

If we want to prevent the garrison fleet from issuing a warning about our detailed formation, in addition to a swift and efficient raid, we also need a powerful enough electronic suppression to crush them to death. "

"Yes, but we can only pray that the electronic warfare attack capabilities of the Infinity after turning on the 'Battle Module' will be as strong as those experts from the design institute say."

Randall paused, seeming to be thinking about something, but he gave up thinking soon after, looked at the time, and continued:

"Forget it, there is nothing to think about now. I only have so many troops on hand if I want to defeat the enemy. I will go and finalize the final battle plan with the fleet staff in a while. The fleet is expected to launch operations in 5 hours.

Murat and Jacob, I will trouble you both to mobilize the HCP pilots and heavy armored combat boat pilots before the war. This battle will be difficult, and the casualties of the HCP and heavy armored combat boats are likely to be very high. heavy"

"Colonel, you don't need to say this, we all know it." Murat looked calm, as if he was saying something he was accustomed to, "This is what we should do. Even if we all turn into stars in this battle, I won’t back down even a step and let Atlas’ honor be tarnished.”

Jacob also said: "Yes, Colonel, please rest assured that there are absolutely no cowards among the pilots of our heavy armored combat boats. Unless all the combat boats in the wing are shot down, we will not stop attacking the enemy." attack."

After hearing the two people's commitment, Randall stood up from the captain's seat and saluted the two.

The two young commanders immediately raised their hands in return, then turned and left the bridge.

Seeing them disappear behind the hatch, Randall also let out a long breath, and then came to the deputy captain in the CIC below the bridge.

"Allen, ask the fleet staff to gather in the No. 1 combat conference room within five minutes, and then notify the entire fleet to carry out the final round of pre-war preparations, and then enter combat status and standby."

"Yes, sir! (Aye aye Captain!)"

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After an unknown time, the Lubyon V was 520,000 kilometers away from the airspace, and the federal fleet planned to jump out of the point.

The main force of the Lubyon galaxy garrison fleet was arranging a fleet mobile formation to maintain alert patrol in the airspace near the coordinates.

In the original reconstruction plan, the garrison fleet, which was severely damaged in the previous battle with the Empire, would be rebuilt to the scale of two standard fleets with the assistance of the Atlas Group.

However, with the conflict between the Atlas Group and the Federation, and the subsequent complete decoupling from the Lubyon galaxy, the reconstruction efficiency of the garrison fleet dropped significantly.

Until the rebellion in the galaxy, the garrison fleet had only completed the construction of one fleet, and the progress of the ship installation of the other fleet was just halfway.

What's more annoying is that after the Atlas Group broke up with the Lubyon galaxy autonomous government, it directly detained a batch of capital ships that were originally to be delivered to the garrison fleet for various reasons.

This resulted in the original plan of the Truth-class battleships and the Hellfire-class heavy cruisers being directly vacated.

If the federal government had not sent a batch of battleships to support the autonomous government of the Rubion Galaxy because it was relatively "obedient" during the "Atlas Incident", the garrison fleet of the Rubion Galaxy might have become the first "main fleet" in history without even a heavy cruiser.

However, during that period, the federal navy was also preparing for the "strategic decisive battle", so 80% of the battleships supported to the autonomous government of the galaxy were old ships that were damaged or even "destroyed" by other fleets and then repaired.

Even so, the establishment of the garrison fleet of the Rubion Galaxy has not been completely filled up until now.

However, in the eyes of the commander of the garrison fleet, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, so he is very confident that he can complete the current task of "guarding the scheduled jump exit point".

After all, according to the latest reconnaissance intelligence, the fleet of the Atlas Group, the biggest threat in the Rubion Galaxy, is not even half a fleet in size, and the size of the battleships is far behind.

Although the opponent's fleet has the behemoth "Infinity", the number of other ships is a bit too small.

If a real fight breaks out, the garrison fleet only needs to find a way to avoid the famous "map cannon", and then rely on the superiority of manpower to eat up the opponent's conventional warships, and the remaining "Infinity" can only suffer in vain under the siege.

So the fleet commander reorganized the other half of the fleet with confidence and assigned them to a position closer to Rubion V to suppress and clear out the defected former garrison warships.

And he only needs to hold on here with the main fleet for another 4 hours, and after the last round of situation confirmation with the 17th and 18th fleets of the Federal Navy, the opponent will enter the jump and arrive in 3 days

This relaxed mood lasted until two and a half hours ago, but then the commander received an important message from the clearing and suppression fleet:

The small task force of the Atlas Group disappeared from the orbit between Rubion V and the satellite.

And this disappearance has not been discovered until now.