Chapter 226: Fierce Battle

On July 9, 3323, after another civil strife, the Commercial Alliance, under the strong management of the military government, delivered a large number of fresh blood to the front line.

And Qi Yiming also had a lot more cards in his hand because of the upgrading of domestic industries.

When both sides thought they were fully prepared, the coalition led by the Commercial Alliance once again launched an attack on the defense line set up by the New Federation in the Carter Galaxy, the only place where the Ancestral Star Region and the Border Star Region bordered each other.

Although Guo Zhaoyuan hated Qi Yiming to the core, he never mixed any personal feelings in commanding the battle.

He knew clearly that although his warships had an advantage in number, the overall technological level of the warships was slightly lower than that of the New Federation.

So he did not expect the fleet to break through the defense line set up by the New Federation near the jumping bridge to establish a bridgehead for the subsequent fleet.

Half a year before the launch of the campaign, when he had just taken over the position of commander of the coalition, he ordered the remaining fleet of the Commercial Alliance to bring enough supplies and go directly to the Ancestral Star Region through superluminal jump.

Of course, he dared to do so because the distance from the border star field to the ancestral star field was not too far, and it would take at most half a year for the fleet to fly by jump.

And Guo Zhaoyuan just used this half year to stabilize the rear.

Due to Guo Zhaoyuan's tight blockade of the ancestral star field, Qi Yiming found it difficult to obtain intelligence on the movement of the coalition fleet through reconnaissance.

So when the coalition fleet left the jump channel and appeared at the edge of the Carter Galaxy, Qi Yiming was a little confused.

Qi Yiming, who was used to using the jump bridge for intergalactic navigation, didn't even figure out how these warships appeared at the edge of the Carter Galaxy.

When Qi Yiming thought of sending a fleet to intercept, the coalition also used the jump bridge to attack the Carter Galaxy.

Qi Yiming, whose rhythm was disrupted by this sudden tactic, annihilated nearly 2,000 coalition warships near the jump bridge. He was worried that the enemy fleet that appeared at the edge of the Carter Galaxy would cut off his retreat. He had no choice but to abandon the defense line near the jump bridge and retreat to the orbit of the eighth planet in the Carter Galaxy.

Qi Yiming has put a lot of effort into the defense line on the eighth planet's orbit.

Unlike the defense line near the jumping bridge, the front of this defense line on the eighth planet's orbit is very wide, spanning half of the galaxy.

Not only are there a large number of air mines on the defense line to limit the frontal deployment of the coalition forces, but there are also a large number of giant artillery platforms as firepower supplements for the fleet.

At the same time, some large asteroids were hollowed out from the inside and installed with artillery platforms, which were placed at various defense nodes to serve as the defense center.

Don't underestimate these artillery platforms transformed from asteroids. The artillery installed in them is the main gun installed on a defensive artillery platform of pre-humans that Xue Ming and the people of the Academy of Sciences analyzed from the scientific heritage.

This main gun can be said to be a smaller version of the Spear, which also fires high-energy particle streams, but in terms of range and power, it is much smaller than the particle light spear of the Spear, but it has a fatal advantage when facing the coalition fleet.

The only unsatisfactory thing is that the number of this main gun is too small. After all, it is a technology that has just been analyzed not long ago, and it is not easy to produce the real thing so quickly.

After successfully passing the bridge jump, the coalition forces did not rush to continue the attack, but sent a large number of reconnaissance ships to test the firepower distribution of the New Federation's defense line.

Qi Yiming certainly would not let the enemy so easily spy on his strength, so he would try his best to send a fleet to drive the enemy away if he could, and if there was really no other way, he would order the artillery on each defense node to output cautiously.

Finally, after two days of continuous probing, the coalition forces launched a large-scale attack on the New Federation's defense line on the eighth planet's orbit.

The two sides started an artillery battle at a distance of 0.2 light minutes apart.

The main guns of the Commercial Alliance's warships have made great progress with the help of Lu Zhenyang, so they are not much worse than the New Federation's warships in the artillery battle.

The New Federation did not suffer any loss in relying on the defense line to bombard the coalition forces.

So the whole artillery battle eventually turned into a brutal war of attrition.

Less than ten minutes after the coalition attack began, the particle light spear of the Xuefeng killed more than ten battlecruisers in one shot.

In addition, the asteroid defense turrets that were transformed on the defense line opened fire one after another. For a time, the firepower projection of the New Federation was much higher than that of the coalition forces.

For a time, the loss rate of the coalition warships increased sharply. Almost every minute, a warship retreated to the rear of the battle line for emergency repairs due to heavy damage.

And one of every two heavily damaged warships was sunk by the New Federation warships because of untimely evasion.

Fortunately, the warships have incomparable mobility compared to the turrets. After Guo Zhaofei adjusted the fleet formation, the loss rate of some warships was slightly reduced.

However, the disadvantages of the New Federation were also exposed at the same time.

Since many turrets do not have mobility, they are easily hit by the enemy.

Although the defense capabilities of the turrets are superior, they cannot withstand multiple shots from enemy ships.

As the number of turret losses increased, the firepower projection capability of the New Federation was gradually declining.

As one thing went up, the other went down, and the New Federation fleet led by Qi Yiming gradually showed a decline.

Fortunately, the defense capabilities of the New Federation's warships are much stronger than those of the Coalition's warships. It often takes two or three rounds of concentrated fire from several Coalition warships to sink a New Federation cruiser.

When their warships were severely damaged and needed to be pulled to the rear for emergency repairs, they could often withstand one more round of shooting than the coalition warships, so the overall calculation of the New Federation's loss ratio was lower than that of the coalition.

But Qi Yiming knew that a long-term artillery battle was extremely disadvantageous to the New Federation.

When the artillery positions on the defense line were almost cleared by the enemy, the New Federation warships suffered heavy losses.

Rather than losing a large number of warships at that time, it would be better to launch a surprise attack on the enemy fleet when the two sides were deadlocked.

By pulling the enemy into the melee, Qi Yiming could play the advantages of the Wise and attack in a chaotic and orderly manner on the chaotic battlefield. When the coalition found that the situation was abnormal, Qi Yiming could already take the initiative on the battlefield, and then he could fight as he wanted.

But the key is how to get close to the coalition fleet under the enemy's dense firepower?

Qi Yiming really missed Qiao Shan's Azure at this time. If the Azure was there, he could rely on the energy shield deployed by the Azure to cover the fleet and rush into the coalition fleet.

Qi Yiming had no choice but to use the most brutal method to achieve this tactical goal.

Soon the assault fleet was organized and waited for the attack channel specially left on the defense line.

As the main force among the main forces, Xuefeng was of course also in the ranks of the assault fleet.

Moreover, Xuefeng would take on the important responsibility of attracting the firepower of the coalition forces, otherwise the assault fleet would be very likely to be annihilated before it even approaches the coalition fleet.