Chapter 563: Federal Fleet: Increased Stakes

"Report! The enemy squadron in the front enemy formation is moving!"

On the bridge of the 18th Fleet of the Federal Navy, the flagship of the Galileo, Rear Admiral Stoner, who was originally in a panic because of the Atlas fleet that appeared in the nadir direction, immediately looked up at the optical sensor screen after hearing the report of the tactical information coordinator.

On the screen that was combined with synthetic aperture radar imaging and adjusted for clarity and brightness, the Atlas Third Task Force, which was originally hidden behind the unmanned fleet, rushed out from above the unmanned fleet under the leadership of the huge Infinity and deployed an attack formation.

In the next second, the shipboard control personality of the Galileo also issued an alarm.

"Warning, high-energy reaction detected! According to the energy reaction characteristics, it is judged to be irradiated by the "super-heavy purification beam"!"

"Warning! Detected."

"Warning!"

The shipboard control personality's alarm was broadcast three times in a row. Since the feature library of the main fleet of the Federal Navy has been updated recently, it has successfully identified the type of the upcoming attack.

But this did not make Rear Admiral Stoner and his men happy, especially when the shipboard control personality issued the same warning again a few seconds later.

However, this time the high-energy reaction direction came from the nadir direction of the fleet

"Attention to the entire fleet! Emergency disband the artillery formation, and each ship should open up the distance to prepare for evasion!"

Rear Admiral Stoner immediately issued a new order. After Atlas's Infinity-class super flagship had "appeared" many times, the commanders of the Federation Navy already knew how outrageous the main gun of this thing was.

Especially after the fleet was arranged in an artillery formation, it was pierced by a long string of purification beams

But Stoner's order was still issued a little late, or the large fleet composed of four main fleets was naturally not flexible enough.

When a large number of warships opened the attitude control nozzles to adjust their positions, two golden purification beams shone from the front and nadir of the fleet.

Since human warships have not yet installed "psychic shield generators" for defense against weapons such as purification beams, no warships can block the attack of purification beams for the time being.

The Infinity-class super flagship can greatly weaken the irradiation of the purification beam with its extremely thick physical armor, but according to Saleh's calculations, even if it is hit by one and does not disintegrate, it basically loses the ability to continue fighting.

So when two purification beams cross-sweep the Federation fleet, the captains of the Federation warships present will be even more desperate than encountering artificial celestial fortresses.

After all, when the "Focusing Rainbow" sweeps, more than 70% of the warships in the dense formation will be blasted into stars, and there is no pain.

But this golden purification beam is a "top torture". You can only watch the friendly forces on the ray axis being penetrated and exploded one by one, but you can't do anything about it. You can only pray that the enemy's next attack will not sweep towards your position.

At the same time, you have to command your own warship to start avoiding the wreckage formed when the friendly ships sank in this chaos.

On the bridge of the "Galileo", Major General Stoner looked at the real-time casualties of the fleet on the main screen in front of him and fell into silence.

But even in such an unfavorable situation, he still thought it was still unknown who would win, after all, they still had an advantage in the number of fleets.

Moreover, they were not without other trump cards.

After the two Infinity-class super flagships completed three rounds of irradiation with super-heavy purification beam generators, the nightmare of the Federation Navy warships finally came to an end.

At least in the short term, they didn't have to worry about dying from such unreasonable AOE attacks.

But at this time, the two Infinity-class super flagships had switched to conventional combat mode, and the 40 heavy particle cannons on the bow began to roar. The 'Dawn' led the Atlas First Fleet, which had already formed an attack formation, to launch an assault.

The entire fleet was like a sharp sword piercing the sky, and the 'Dawn' was the tip of the sword, attacking the Federation Fleet vertically from the ecliptic plane with a thunderous force.

At the moment of entering the practical attack range, all the warships of the First Fleet opened fire at the same time.

The blue-white beams of the heavy particle cannons poured out like a rainstorm and swept through the most vulnerable angle of the federal fleet.

The warships of the federal fleet fell into chaos under this sudden and sharp attack.

The deflection force field in the direction of the bottom deck of the warship was originally of low strength. In the previous shooting, most warships focused on the protection of the deflection force field in the bow direction.

So after being attacked from the bottom deck, the deflection force field in this area quickly collapsed, losing its protective function like broken glass, and the silver-white electric light also dimmed.

One warship after another was hit and exploded, and the flames bloomed in the universe. The plasma fireball began to expand, like a gorgeous firework, but full of the breath of death.

Although there was no shock wave in space, the warships still threw out a lot of debris after disintegrating and rolling.

Some directly hit other warships that could not avoid them, triggering a chain reaction, causing more explosions and scattering more debris.

This directly led to a large number of warships having to activate close-in weapon groups and begin intercepting these equally dangerous targets.

The other fragments and the freeze-dried corpses of the crew members were 'lucky' to float outside this space and became cosmic garbage, like lonely ghosts, wandering in the endless void.

It was at this moment that Major General Stoner finally issued a new order.

"The entire fleet, attack the enemies directly ahead with all your strength, and defeat them first!

All HCP troops, break through the flanks of the enemy fleet at all costs and perform anti-ship operations! "

The commander of the Federation Fleet had a simple idea at this time, which was to defeat part of Atlas's fleet first while still possessing the advantage in force, continue to expand the advantage in force, and then defeat the remaining enemies.

The reason why he specifically ordered the HCP troops to attack and carry out anti-ship operations is also very simple.

That is, he knew very well that the two unmanned fleets on the opposite side were not equipped with HCP. Whether it was the previous 'official information' of the unmanned fleets or his observations of the unmanned fleets from the beginning of the war to the present, he was convinced that these two unmanned fleets were not equipped with HCPs. The unmanned fleet does not have carrier aircraft.

Although the remaining third task force has HCP troops, their numbers are naturally unable to compare with the massive number of HCPs on the Federation fleet.

In this case, the numerical advantage of the federal fleet's HCP may be greater than the numerical advantage of both fleets.

Once the HCP cluster attacking from both wings is able to break through and enter the opponent's fleet formation, it will also cause great losses to Atlas's fleet.

After all, the federal fleet has four main fleets and more than 15,000 HCPs.

Amber and Randall soon discovered the intentions of the federal fleet, and everyone thought of this at the pre-war meeting, but unfortunately there was no good solution.

With a large disadvantage in terms of military strength, many tactical arrangements will be stretched.

Even Amber and Guterres, who assisted remotely, could not think of a suitable solution at this time.

The final conclusion is that the Third Task Force and the two unmanned fleets must survive this 'dangerous period' on their own until the First Fleet arrives for support.

So Randall quickly ordered all warships of the Third Task Force to also carry out a "full deck attack". All HCPs and heavy armored combat boats must do their best to help the fleet survive this dangerous period.

Just as the 'Aegis' stations were on electromagnetic ejection orbits and being sent into space one after another, Serena's warning also sounded on the bridge of the 'Infinity'.

"Warning! Unauthorized space fluctuations have been detected, suspected to be a fleet-level collective jump!"

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