Chapter 161 Investigation
Since the battle has been decided, Qi Yiming has to plan it well.
After all, this battle is different from the past. They will face a reorganized interstellar fleet.
At least there will be a fleet of 5 battleships, 10 battlecruisers, 25 cruisers, 50 destroyers and more than 100 frigates.
The firepower of the Xuefeng warship alone is not enough to deal with so many warships, so the Xuefeng must act in a disassembled state this time.
Qi Yiming still commands the Ares combined with the Heavy Hammer. She will become the heavy firepower of the fleet and the main combat power of the fleet. Wang Sen was temporarily transferred to the captain of the Heavy Hammer because of his bad criminal record.
The Redemption is the core of the entire temporary fleet. He must provide key support to every warship that needs him at the most critical moment, so her captain must have a good enough overall view, so Wang Shuhua was appointed as the temporary captain of the Redemption.
As for the Lightning, it was still commanded by He Zhenzhu. Because the Lightning was combined with the Exploration, she had ultra-long-range and ultra-high-speed shooting capabilities, becoming the precision shooter of the entire fleet, mainly dealing with warships or flagships that posed a high threat to the enemy.
The Wise was separated to provide intelligence support for the fleet and electromagnetic suppression of the enemy fleet. Under the guidance of Qi Yiming, Hao Chengqi temporarily became familiar with the main functions of the Wise and took over the position of captain.
After assigning the combat tasks of each warship, Qi Yiming began to explain the battle plan.
"Our warships are at an absolute disadvantage, so it is unrealistic to defeat the enemy from the front, so we have to use our advantages in the pursuit battle to eat up the enemy's main force one by one."
In fact, the core of Qi Yiming's tactics is the Wise that he had just obtained.
Qi Yiming believed that when they appeared in front of the local fleet, the enemy would definitely press on.
At that time, Qi Yiming would command the fleet to break away from contact with the enemy.
If the commander of the enemy fleet is eager to make a contribution, he will definitely command the fleet to catch up.
Then the Wise will start electromagnetic suppression, causing the enemy's detection radar to significantly reduce the detection range and even have a short-term detection blind spot.
At this time, Qi Yiming will lead the fleet to engage in the first battle with the enemy, taking advantage of the short-term confusion caused by the enemy's radar failure to eat up several warships to anger the enemy commander.
The battle plan is very delicate. Qi Yiming has used the performance of each warship to the extreme, and made full use of psychological warfare to try to anger the enemy commander and disrupt the opponent's deployment.
Wang Shuhua and others nodded frequently after listening. If Qi Yiming's tactics are implemented very successfully, then the possibility of their escape will be very high.
After clarifying their own combat missions, Qi Yiming ordered each ship to check the war preparations, and then led the fleet into the jump channel and flew towards the border of the Commercial Alliance.
The fleet left the jump channel at a position 0.5 light minutes away from the border of the Commercial Alliance, and the Wise rushed forward as a reconnaissance ship for reconnaissance.
The remaining three warships formed a triangle formation, with the God of War in front, and the Lightning and the Redemption slightly behind.
Although the Exploration has the most advanced fire control radar in the fleet, the Wise is still better at grasping battlefield dynamics than the Exploration, compared with the battlefield reconnaissance radar on the Wise.
Under the reconnaissance of the battlefield scanning radar of the Wise, the situation of the local fleet is clear at a glance.
The composition of the local fleet is not much different from what Qi Yiming and his team guessed, but the only good news is that the number of battleships in the local fleet is not 5, but 4.
As Qi Yiming's fleet gradually approached, the enemy fleet also discovered this fleet that suddenly appeared near them.
"Captain, an unidentified fleet of 4 ships was found at 11 o'clock." The radar operator on the flagship of the Second Fleet of the Commercial Alliance quickly reported the detected situation.
Wang Ruilin, the commander of the Second Fleet, sat up straight after hearing the report: "The fleet is on alert at level one, and the reconnaissance ship is attacking."
As the youngest fleet commander in the alliance, this is the first time Wang Ruilin has performed a combat mission since he took office.
The intelligence of the Xuefeng had been sent to the fleet command long before the fleet set out. He had a certain understanding of the combat power of the Xuefeng, so he did not rely on the superior number of his warships to order the fleet to rush forward, but first sent a Class B reconnaissance fleet led by a cruiser to conduct reconnaissance.
Qi Yiming saw that the other commander was so cautious, and immediately changed the battle plan. The fleet that was originally going to evacuate slowed down and kept a safe distance from the enemy's reconnaissance fleet. He wanted to find an opportunity to kill this reconnaissance fleet under the eyes of the local commander.
Such a cautious commander wanted to take advantage of the other party's eagerness to make merit, and this battle plan was basically bankrupt.
If a reconnaissance fleet was killed in front of the other commander, it would be a good blow to the morale of the enemy, which is also an invisible advantage.
This kind of small-scale fleet battle is very familiar to Qi Yiming.
It only took five minutes for Qi Yiming's Ares to forcibly swallow this Class B reconnaissance fleet led by a cruiser under the firepower of the local reconnaissance fleet.
Qi Yiming did not let the Wiseman expose the ability of battlefield electromagnetic suppression too early. He would not use this trump card before mobilizing the entire local fleet.
Now keeping the local fleet in a smooth chain of command is conducive to the exchange of intelligence between local warships, thus prompting Wang Ruilin to issue a pursuit order.
However, Wang Ruilin's caution exceeded Qi Yiming's expectations. After seeing Qi Yiming's temporary fleet easily devour a Class B reconnaissance fleet led by a cruiser, Wang Ruilin did not rush to command the fleet to press forward, but once again sent out a Class A fleet led by a battleship to continue to put pressure on Qi Yiming.
Obviously, Wang Ruilin is still testing Qi Yiming's fleet combat power. Before he has a thorough understanding of Qi Yiming's trump card, Wang Ruilin will not command the fleet to pursue.
"Sure enough, every person who can climb to the level of fleet commander is simple." Qi Yiming's battle plan was disrupted again, and he couldn't help but sigh.
"So what should we do next?" Wang Shuhua, who was experiencing this level of battle for the first time, was very calm, showing the qualities of an excellent fleet commander early on.
"It's a bit difficult to deal with an A-class fleet led by a battleship, but this refueling tactic can create new opportunities for us?" Qi Yiming was a little depressed by Wang Ruilin's caution.
Although this way of fighting brought a lot of pressure to Qi Yiming, Wang Ruilin's cautious style gave Qi Yiming the opportunity to defeat them one by one.
"The Hammer prepares super-heavy space jump torpedoes, and the Ares super-heavy main guns charge." Qi Yiming's instructions were very clear: "Lightning and Redemption each choose valuable targets to attack, and provide air defense cover for the Ares."
As soon as the order was issued, thousands of missiles in the enemy's fleet rushed towards them with white tail flames.