Chapter 546 Reinforcements Will Arrive Tomorrow

Then, Guterres, a former vice admiral of the Federation Navy with rich experience in fleet command, made his own suggestions to Randall based on the current situation and the fleet casualties that had just been counted.

After the battle just now, although the Third Task Force defeated the main force of the Rubion Galaxy garrison fleet and captured a large number of ships, it also suffered losses.

The fleet flagship, the "Infinity" super-heavy battleship, survived the radical tactics just now, but the damage to the ship was still unavoidable.

Randall is still a little scared when he thinks about the deflection force field ramming the ship now, and although the collision was successfully completed, the deflection force field generator array at the bow still had 65% equipment overload.

Among them, 30% of the generators were directly scrapped and needed to be replaced urgently.

At the same time, some ship wreckage that passed through the deflection force field and hit the bow also caused damage to the gun ports of 12 heavy particle cannons.

It can only be said that fortunately, the Infinity closed all the gun ports of the main weapons before the collision, otherwise the acceleration track, which is more difficult to repair, might be damaged.

At the same time, the "overload shooting mode" of the electromagnetic reconnection gun also caused damage to part of the acceleration track of the electromagnetic gun, which needed to be replaced urgently.

During the process of recovering HCP and heavy armored combat boats by various ships, the "swarm" on the Infinity had already been dispatched to start repairs and replacements.

As for the six battleships of the battleship division, four were slightly injured and two were seriously injured.

Among the two seriously injured battleships, the more seriously damaged was a "Krax II" class battleship captured from the joint fleet of the military-industrial complex. The captain had even reported the possibility of abandoning the ship.

According to the report of the ship's engineers and the damage control brigade, the maintenance of this battleship in the hands of the military-industrial complex was not in place, and many hidden dangers that were not discovered during routine inspections were buried.

As a result, when the battle intensity just increased, the deflection field generator of this battleship overloaded when it used its better protection as a "meat shield" to cover several warships that were under concentrated fire from the enemy.

The final result was that the bow was almost torn off by several heavy anti-ship penetrators, and the middle section of the ship was also swept by the heavy metal particle jet of a heavy particle cannon. A large area of ​​the external armor was completely stripped off, and the cabins behind the armor were also hit into "sand holes".

If it was just like this, the captain of this battleship would not consider abandoning the ship.

Because the damage control and self-sustaining capabilities of these space battleships are much stronger than most people imagine, and this kind of extremely expensive battleship is not abandoned at will.

After all, fighting in space is different from fighting in the atmosphere. There is no restriction on aerodynamic shape. There is no need to worry about water ingress even if a few holes are punched in the ship. Just close the airtight doors of the adjacent cabins.

This is why after every large-scale fleet battle, in the fleets that withdraw from the battle, you can see that many battleships with basically broken external armor and even most of the bow swept away can continue to sail and jump.

But the reason why the captain of this "Kraken II" class battleship considered abandoning the ship was mainly because the hull was rubbed by the heavy particle cannon, which also had some impact on the fusion furnace. The output power has been steadily decreasing, and the "environmental control equipment" of the superconducting battery stack has also had problems.

According to the calculation of the shipboard control personality, if it cannot be repaired in time, the battleship may completely lose power in 8 hours.

If it is to be repaired, the entire fusion furnace must be dismantled for inspection, but it is obvious that the Third Combined Fleet does not have the ability to do so at this time.

So Randall finally agreed to the battleship captain's request, and asked other ships to assist in the evacuation of personnel, and finally let the battleship execute the self-destruction procedure.

As for the remaining cruisers, destroyers and frigates, they also lost a lot in the battle. From 10 heavy cruisers before the war to 7 now, there are 18 light cruisers, and 58 destroyers and frigates.

However, this casualty situation is actually much lower than the prediction made by Randall and the fleet combat staff before the war.

Moreover, with this lower-than-expected casualty situation, the Third Task Force can be said to have completely defeated the main force of the Rubion Galaxy garrison fleet.

Including the flagship "Balkan", more than 60% of the fleet's warships were directly sunk in the battle, and all the remaining warships also stopped resisting and surrendered at the speed of light.

Judging from the results of the battle, the Third Task Force's "winning more with fewer" battle can be said to have exceeded its tactical goals.

Guterres: "Have the surrendered warships been controlled?"

"Yes, teacher." Randall nodded,

"We have sent the marines with the 'Soldier Bee' on board. The crew members on board are now divided into groups and isolated in different cabins. The ship's control personality has also been replaced with the 'temporary personality' we brought on board. The original control personality must be 'cleaned' by the group data center before it can be put back into use."

Randall talked about the current fleet, including its own maintenance, rescue, and management measures for surrendered warships. Guterres couldn't help but sigh when he heard the end.

"It's really convenient for you to control the surrendered ships now. You can just change a 'temporary personality' and drive away. If we wanted to control the surrendered ships before, we could only force the other party's control personality offline and then operate the ship manually."

"Times are developing, technology is advancing, and we at Atlas are also at the forefront in this regard~"

"Advertising slogan?"

"Hahaha, you found out, teacher"

Randall scratched his head embarrassedly, and then heard Guterres continue to say:

"I looked at the plan you sent over, and then I was going to jump to an asteroid belt, but I just re-read the astronomical data of the Rubion galaxy, and I suggest that you change the jump target to here."

Guterres said as he sent a new coordinate.

After taking a look at the new coordinates, Randall asked in confusion: "Is this... another asteroid belt? Is there something special about it?"

"The asteroid belt is not only a place for concealed fleets to repair, if you choose the right asteroid belt, you can also make some supplements for the fleet."

Guterres clicked on the detailed information of the new coordinates, and then said:

"There should be a large number of 'Worker Bee' robots on the 'Infinity', right? Other warships are also equipped with some of them, right?

There are a lot of ice crystals and a lot of comet fragments in this asteroid belt. You can send 'Worker Bees' to mine methane ice and solid water, so that when the entire fleet completes the rest, you can at least restore more than 70% of the working fluid water and refrigerant."

Guterres told Randall a lot of tactical decisions suitable for the current situation in detail. Randall was like returning to the classroom, concentrating on recording these suggestions, and quickly sorting them into new orders and issuing them.

After the Third Task Force completed the recovery mission and completely controlled the surrendered ships, the fleet, which was larger than before the war, quickly jumped to the new coordinates provided by Guterres.

Then, all the warships released their "worker bees" and let these robots equipped with "collection modules" to mine the surrounding ice crystals and gravel.

22 hours later, when Atlas's new batch of cargo fleets broke away from the jump, approached Rubion V and joined the much larger Third Task Force.

The commander of the cargo fleet, who finally figured out what happened, was in a bad mood.

Especially after hearing that two federal fleets were eyeing them and didn't know when they would come, he had more black lines on his forehead.

"Don't panic. Now that we're here, we can't go back with so much cargo, right?"

On the bridge of the Infinity, Randall patted the shoulder of the cargo fleet commander who came to report, and said:

"You dispatch all the air and space transport fleets, and then send down the most urgently needed materials and key spare parts of the Renaissance Alliance first-one-way tickets, these air and space transport planes have also been bought by the Renaissance Alliance, and they will be used as their own transport fleet in the future.

According to our previous estimates, without the need to recover the air and space transport planes, the entire cargo fleet can deploy the transport planes while accelerating by the planet's autobiography, and all operations can be completed within 40 hours. At that time, you can directly jump out."

"What if the federal fleet comes to kill us?" The cargo fleet commander was still a little nervous at this time.

"Don't worry, there is someone taller to support you if the sky falls. Even if there is any unexpected situation, our combat fleet will cover your evacuation first, and then"

Randall responded to the cargo fleet commander with a look of "I'm here, don't worry":

"Reinforcements will arrive tomorrow."