Chapter 532 The Yellow Bird Is Behind

Hearing the sudden news from the observation team, the captain of the modified reconnaissance ship couldn't help but tremble.

"What's the specific situation?" He suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked in as calm a tone as possible.

"Judging from the continuous tracking of the detection array, the unknown target in the G9 area deviated from our predicted route 30 seconds ago, and is suspected of undergoing an orbit change!"

"Change of track. Has the new route been predicted?"

"Yes, Captain! The shipboard control personality has made a rough prediction. The unknown target seems to have been adjusted according to the movements of the garrison fleet. The current course is still heading towards the garrison fleet!"

While the observation team was answering, the target observation data and virtual course predictions were also updated simultaneously on the screen in front of the captain of the reconnaissance ship.

"Captain, do you need to warn the general?"

The person who spoke was the intelligence officer on the ship. In addition to being responsible for organizing reconnaissance activities and intelligence analysis, this position was also one of his responsibilities to provide timely tactical suggestions to the captain.

"There is only one chance for an early warning. Once an early warning is sent to the fleet, even if the other party cannot decipher the encrypted message within a short period of time, it will still track the point where the early warning was issued in this rubble area. By then we will no longer be able to lurk. "

The captain of the reconnaissance ship did not give a positive or negative instruction, but explained what might happen after the warning was issued.

Intelligence officer: "You mean to wait?"

The captain was silent for a moment, as if he was quickly weighing the pros and cons. After a while, he nodded and said:

"Well, there is still enough redundancy in the response time of the garrison fleet. Let's wait until the opponent leaves the area of ​​influence of the Grand Rubian, allowing us to conduct multi-signature recognition before we consider issuing an early warning.

According to the communication with the Atlas Combat Fleet a long time ago, they are proficient in using decoys equipped with corner reflectors for tactical deception, and some of the newly equipped decoys also have the ability to change orbits. We should be more cautious if we fight with them. Some."

"Yes, Captain! I will lead people to continue to monitor."

The intelligence officer nodded and saluted him, and then with a little force on a handhold near the captain's seat, he floated towards the combat position of the observation team in CIC.

The captain of the reconnaissance ship refocused his eyes on the screen in front of him. The dazzling red predicted route pierced straight towards the garrison fleet, and it also pierced the flank of the fleet with a large projection area.

As one of the few veterans in the garrison fleet who had experienced the previous war with the Star Dragon Empire, the captain of the reconnaissance ship was definitely among the best in the entire fleet in terms of experience and professional level.

In addition, he participated in the entire reconstruction of the garrison fleet and had exchange and training with the Atlas fleet, so Rear Admiral Kimmel deliberately placed his smart reconnaissance ship in this gravel area.

Moreover, only a few people in the entire fleet, including the fleet command and intelligence staff, knew about the deployment of this 'secret sentinel'. The captain of the reconnaissance ship also reported directly to Rear Admiral Kimmel.

This was done mainly because there had been several leaks in the garrison fleet before, which even directly affected the war situation. Even if the Fleet Military Police Department and the Intelligence Department conducted several internal inspections, there was no guarantee that the entire fleet was 'clean'.

This also made Rear Admiral Kimmel realize that this rebuilt fleet has many loopholes in this regard, especially since there are many recruits in the fleet. Their thoughts and spirits are easily affected by the current situation in the Rubian system, so in Regarding some key arrangements, he could only choose to operate in a direction where the fewer people knew about it, the better.

The combat deployment of this modified reconnaissance ship is one of them.

The dim cabin environment under the blackout, coupled with the report from the observation team just now, made other people on the bridge a little nervous.

However, they did not try to figure out the current situation by peeking at the captain's expression, or in other words, in this case, their attention would be involuntarily focused on the workbench in front of them.

Blackout is a tradition that has continued from the blue water navy to this day. No matter how the human navy develops and changes, it has always been maintained.

After all, human vision mainly relies on rod cells in dim conditions.

Rod cells mainly rely on rhodopsin. Rhodopsin is more sensitive to blue light and insensitive to red light. Under red light conditions, this substance decomposes slowly, which also makes humans in red light environments The rate of lower eye fatigue will be greatly slowed down.

This reconnaissance ship has been lurking in this rubble zone for 144 hours, and has maintained a level 2 combat readiness state throughout the entire process. Although various battle positions have been rotated for several rounds, the mental state and physical energy of the crew members are still exhausted. few.

According to the combat doctrine of the Federal Navy, except for the two special types of long-distance reconnaissance ships and penetration reconnaissance ships, other conventional reconnaissance ships or part-time destroyers and frigates, when performing high-risk reconnaissance missions, the longest mission deployment time cannot be More than 160 hours.

When approaching this time limit, the ship must be rotated with other ships that have undergone rest.

For this reconnaissance ship with a "half-new, half-old" crew, this mission is also the longest since the garrison fleet was rebuilt. The longest combat mission deployment time for many new crew members was only 86 hours. .

Although the captain was previously worried that his crew would suffer serious mental and physical decline due to long-term combat deployment, it seems lucky now that he has not received such a report from the boatswain. .

And after a while, the observation team made the final identification of the unknown units in the G9 area, and the mission of their reconnaissance ship was basically coming to an end.

If the unknown unit in the G9 area is really the Atlas fleet, then he will not hesitate to issue an early warning to Rear Admiral Kimmel, and at the same time command the reconnaissance ship to retreat from the rubble zone - he believed it after the location was exposed The enemy will not hesitate to cover the area with fire.

Although such an attack may not necessarily hit the ship, the collision and chaos caused by the gravel belt will be fatal to the reconnaissance ship.

"No matter what, all this will finally come to an end."

The captain of the reconnaissance ship was thinking silently, but at the same time, he always felt like he was being 'peeped', as if someone was secretly observing him in the dark.

But the question is, isn’t my reconnaissance ship in the ‘dark place’?

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"Do you think we won the jackpot?"

"Should... maybe?"

"The captain of the enemy's reconnaissance ship was discovered in the lurking gravel belt. This is a bit outrageous no matter how you think about it. Why don't you wait until this matter is over to participate in the group's monthly 'contribution lottery' ?”

On the equally dim bridge of the Polarized Light, the captain of this special mission ship, Tom, was talking with the bridge duty officer and tactical operations officer.

This special mission ship, which was previously sent to the Lubion system to secretly support the Renaissance Alliance, joined the formation after Randall led the fleet and received supplies together with the other two special mission ships, and was organized into a team. Independent investigation team.

The special mission ship's advantages in covert operations allowed Tom and his team to perform reconnaissance missions with ease, even with some ease.

But even Tom, who was full of confidence in this battleship, did not expect that they would actually touch a reconnaissance ship under their noses.

The Polarized Light was originally sent by Randall to perform surveillance missions in this rubble. Due to the location and natural concealment of this rubble, the commanders of both sides chose to 'insert eyes' here.

Moreover, the Polarized Light, which arrived a step later, did not discover this reconnaissance ship with the optical camouflage activated at first. After all, the other ship was also a ship modified with the help of Atlas, and its stealth performance was not bad.

The two sides coexisted in the same gravel belt without disturbing each other for several hours. Even because of the different surveillance directions of the two sides, the two warships did not detect the radar waves emitted by the other side.

However, the omnidirectional warning monitoring on board the Polarized Light finally discovered an abnormal "picture fluctuation" in the vicinity of a certain star at any time - it was a moment of chaos caused by the battleship's optical camouflage after being hit by a larger gravel.

Although the 'picture fluctuation' lasted only half a second, it was still captured by the personality of the shipboard controller on the polarized light, and Tom and others soon realized that they had 'won the jackpot'.

As for the mission the other party is performing here?

Tom figured it out with his butt that he was acting as a 'secret sentry' in this gravel belt.

However, according to the subsequent surveillance of the reconnaissance ship by the Polarized Light, Tom and others also confirmed that most of the time the other party had not issued an early warning to the garrison fleet, but this was only temporary.

Because Tom knew that the 'unknown unit' in the G9 area was the third task force commanded by Randall.

Judging from the current situation, Randall's tactical deception did work. The Rubian system garrison fleet was indeed misled and rushed towards the torpedo decoy group.

But if the Polarized Light doesn't find a way to deal with the reconnaissance ship 500 kilometers away in the next ten minutes or so, the other party will probably issue a warning to the garrison fleet soon.

Thinking of this, Tom couldn't help but turn his attention to the three-dimensional model in low-brightness mode in front of him.

In this rubble belt model generated by the shipboard control personality, two miniature ship models, one green and one red, are marking the positions of the Polarized Light and the enemy ships.

Between the two warships, there were four other small green dots passing through the rubble and approaching the enemy ships.

Seeing this scene, Tom couldn't help but shake his head and sighed:

"Crossing the gravel belt without power, and then 'physically implanting' the electronic warfare virus, Captain Banninger, it seems that only your Immortal Legion can perform such a cunning operation."