Chapter 557: The Great Fleet

"The Infinity is fine for now, and it can continue to fight after replenishing some consumables and supplies.

Except for the warships of the Rubion Galaxy Garrison Fleet that we seized before, the Third Task Force currently has four battleships left, five heavy cruisers left, 14 light cruisers left, and 50 destroyers and frigates left.

The high-speed raid of the Federation Fleet was indeed very sudden, but with the "Cliffs Tactics" and the early arrival of the unmanned fleet, it did not cause us too much damage.

At present, the rescue work for the survivors of the sunken ships has been completed, and the casualties have been counted. The cargo fleet entered the jump after completing the deployment of the aerospace transport fleet. The Third Task Force has completed its mission. Please give instructions."

This was Randall's report heard by Amber and Cliffs after they arrived with the reinforcement fleet three days after the battle.

And Cliffs still twisted his body uncomfortably after hearing his senior say the word "Cliffs Tactics" seriously.

"Thank you for your hard work, Randall. Two consecutive fleet battles are too difficult for both you and the Third Task Force."

Amber walked to Randall's side and saluted him solemnly.

He had to admit that this "playboy" former federal naval officer did take the lead in this emergency and prevented the situation from developing into a worse situation.

Hearing Amber's words, Randall shook his head and said:

"What's so hard about this? It's what our fleet should do. If our Third Task Force escapes, then Atlas's previous operations in the Rubion system will be in vain."

Speaking of this, Randall raised his eyebrows and looked at Amber and said:

"And what do you mean by 'too difficult'? This is obviously beyond the scope, okay! How many warships does our Third Task Force have? What is the scale of the enemy encountered in these two fleet battles?"

"Of course we know, otherwise why did we rush here as soon as the problem occurred in the Rubion system?"

Amber put his arm around Randall's shoulders. He knew that the latter was in a state of excitement that would only appear after 'surviving a disaster'.

"Don't worry, old buddy. Since we are here, you don't have to worry. No matter what we encounter next, I will be in front of it."

After speaking, Amber patted Randall on the shoulder and walked to the panoramic porthole of the 'Dawn'.

At this moment, near the Dawn, many combat pre-positioned ships that were like "mobile docks" after being deployed were urgently repairing the damaged ships of the Third Task Force.

The Atlas fleet has completed the suppression of the three space elevators of Rubion V, and the fleet controls the arrival area of ​​the space elevator and the higher starport.

The Marines, who temporarily acted as orbital paratroopers, under the leadership of the Immortal Legion, cooperated with the ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance to control the base area of ​​the space elevator.

So far, the external passage of Rubion V has been completely controlled by the Atlas Group and the Renaissance Alliance.

It can be said that there is actually not much suspense in the next ground battle.

Although there are still a large number of "rebels" and "rebellious forces" under various banners on the entire planet, the Rubion Galaxy Government also firmly controls the administrative capital and surrounding areas, and gradually fortified them during this period.

But as Atlas' ground forces began to deploy to the surface of the planet with the help of space elevators and aerospace transport fleets, whether it was Amber, Franklin or other forces on the planet, they all knew that it was only a matter of time before the war ended.

By the way, after the attack on the Secretary of State of the Federation, a group of senior officials of the autonomous government of the Rubion Galaxy, led by Alex, immediately rushed back to Rubion V to appease the people and hid in the bunker of the administrative capital, perhaps worried that the deep space colony satellite where they were located would be attacked by the Federation fleet.

As a result, they were all blocked on the planet at this time

However, although the situation on Rubion V was developing in a one-sided direction, Amber did not order a large-scale ground operation immediately.

Because the situation of the entire Rubion Galaxy was not clear yet.

Especially after receiving the news that the 23rd and 24th fleets of the Federation Navy had entered the jump and were most likely to support the Rubion Galaxy, Amber knew that everything was not settled yet.

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Five days later, the reassembled Federation fleet was discovered in the orbit of Rubion IV by the ultra-long-range detection array jointly built by the Dawn and the Infinity.

According to everyone's inference, the Federation fleet should be near this gaseous planet and released a collection ship to collect some antihydrogen and deuterium in low orbit to provide fuel for the battleship fusion furnace.

This also means that the Federation fleet is preparing for the next battle.

The ultra-long-range detection array of the two super flagships, the tracking and detection results in the next few days, also confirmed everyone's speculation-after completing the supply, the Federation's large fleet began to accelerate with the help of the ecliptic plane and rushed back to the position of Rubion V.

As the distance continued to close, the Atlas combat fleet also detected more and more detailed information.

"Judging from the scale of the fleet, the support force of the Federation Navy seems to have brought a lot of extra warships, which has supplemented the establishment of the 17th and 18th fleets. You see, no more, no less, exactly four full fleets. characteristics.”

On the bridge of the Infinity, Randall looked at the combat information presented on the holographic projection platform and said.

"This is in line with the combat style of the Federation Navy."

An older voice came from the screen on the other side. It was 'Senior Advisor' Guterres who was participating in the combat meeting through the ultra-long-distance communication system.

"When conducting support operations, if conditions permit, the supporting fleet will generally bring more ships to supplement the supported fleet."

Guterres seemed to have thought of something and continued after a pause:

"This also shows that the 23rd and 24th fleets have actually received orders to support the Rubian system long ago and have been on standby. Otherwise, in the event of an emergency dispatch, there will definitely be no time to bring these additional warships. "

"The Federation has already planned it. It seems that it wants to take this opportunity to fight with us?"

Amber's voice came from the other side, but it was emitted by the speaker of the holographic projection equipment, and his own figure was also made of holographic images.

Because the Dawn is not near Rubian 5 at the moment, Amber took the Dawn and part of the fleet to jump into the deep space of the Rubian system and lurk two days ago.

Although he knew that the Federation fleet had probably detected this situation, but without knowing the whereabouts of the Dawn and these warships, the other party would definitely be wary.

"So Amber, what are your plans?" Randall asked.

"At this point, the federal government has no intention of communicating with us. What else can we plan to do? Of course we will attack them head-on!"