Chapter 230 Industrial Upgrade
In order to prevent the temporary retreat of the coalition forces from turning into a rout, Guo Zhaoyuan could only let the melee continue.
When the fleets outside the battlefield received the order to retreat, all the captains breathed a sigh of relief.
Although these captains assisted the fleets in the periphery to compress the space for the New Federation fleet to move, they saw everything that happened in the center of the battle group clearly from beginning to end.
The confidence of many captains had been shattered by the particle light spears fired by the Xuefeng many times, and some captains even had serious psychological trauma from the high-energy particle flow.
So as soon as the captains of the coalition received the order to retreat, they ordered the navigator to turn the bow without thinking and quickly left the battlefield.
Fortunately, Guo Zhaoyuan made effective arrangements. Although the retreat of the coalition forces seemed a bit hasty and panic, it did not turn into a rout.
It was a pity that the fleet entangled with Qi Yiming became a lamb to be slaughtered after losing the support of friendly ships outside.
The assault fleet of the New Federation only paid the price of less than 100 warships to swallow this enemy ship in one bite.
Seeing the enemy troops that had already completed their retreat, Qi Yiming had no intention to catch up. After cleaning up the battlefield and salvaging the lifeboats scattered around the battlefield, the assault fleet returned to its own defense line with high spirits.
Qi Yiming then counted the results of this attack.
The results of this assault can be described as an epic victory.
The New Federation assault fleet sank 18,173 warships of various types of the coalition forces and severely damaged more than 2,000 warships while losing 2,113 warships of its own.
This does not include the losses of the coalition forces in the long-range artillery battle with the New Federation in the early stage of the attack.
If this loss is added, the coalition forces have nearly 20,000 warships sunk in this battle, and countless warships have retreated for emergency repairs.
Qi Yiming estimated that it would be a bit difficult for the coalition forces to launch a second attack in a short period of time, but it is not ruled out that the enemy commander is stubborn and starts a war again when the fleet has not been fully rested.
Compared with the heavy losses of the coalition forces, the losses of the New Federation side are relatively small.
Except for the destruction of part of the artillery on the defense line by the enemy, the total loss of the New Federation Fleet was less than 5,000 ships.
However, because of the victory in the melee, Qi Yiming also dragged back hundreds of warships paralyzed by the enemy from the battlefield.
Although these warships will not return to the battlefield again after repair, they are still heavy enough to serve as mobile artillery.
As for the lost fixed artillery, there are many of them in the New Federation Logistics Headquarters, but the defense line is too long, and the loss of artillery is relatively large, and redeployment will consume a lot of time.
Fortunately, the coalition did not launch a second attack immediately after retreating, so Qi Yiming took advantage of the interval between battles to let the engineers redeploy the artillery, hoping to repair the loopholes in the defense line before the enemy launched the second wave of offensive.
The news of the victory on the front line was not transmitted back to Gaia Star until a few days later.
The citizens evacuated from the border star field rushed to tell each other, wishing that Qi Yiming would rescue their homes from the clutches of the commercial alliance again in the next second.
While Qi Yiming was busy on the front line, the Academy of Sciences led by Xue Ming was also busy.
He led a group of scientists to run around the two warship production lines that were being transformed all day.
Now that the war on the front line is tight, the upgrade of these two production lines is particularly important.
On the day when the news of the great victory came back from the front line, the two production lines also completed the technical upgrade on the same day.
This made Wang Sen, who was returning to Gaia Star for material transportation, very excited.
Although Wang Sen was sincerely happy about the victory on the front line like everyone else, he knew that the situation on the front line was not optimistic at all.
The most important problem is that the number of available warships is too small. This time, Qi Yiming took advantage of the incomplete enemy intelligence to catch the enemy off guard. It is almost impossible to have such a big victory next time.
So the next battle is the time to fight for strength.
If the New Federation cannot replenish the combat losses on the front line in time in the next battle, it will be a matter of time for the enemy to break through the defense line of the Carter Galaxy.
Now that the two warship production lines have been upgraded and put into production, the recovery speed of the New Federation fleet will be greatly improved, which is what makes Wang Sen happy.
After receiving the news, Wang Sen rushed to the nearest warship production line to visit as soon as possible.
Countless nanorobot nozzles in the dock kept spraying nanorobots into the dock, and after being sprayed out, these robots would fly to the designated position according to the design drawings of the warship and quickly merge with the previous batch of robots.
It took less than half a day to build the outer shell of a cruiser from the beginning to the completion, and the cruiser being built would be dragged by the robot to the next dock to start the installation of internal equipment.
Wang Sen observed for a whole day, and the total time for a cruiser from the beginning of production to flying out of the dock would not exceed three days.
When he saw the production line in front of him using nano production technology to quickly build warships like a magic trick, he knew that the New Federation was already invincible in this war.
This is just the speed of a production line. Although the New Federation has just been established for a short time, there are not many warship production lines running online, but Wang Sen knows that as time goes by, the production speed of the New Federation warships will only get faster and faster.
As long as the front line persists long enough, Wang Sen believes that he will definitely see a large number of warships completed and sent to the front line every day in the New Federation.
He quickly passed the news to Qi Yiming, who was at the front line, through the deep space communication system.
Qi Yiming was also very excited when he heard the news, but the war on the front line was tight, otherwise he would definitely go to the Awakener Galaxy to inspect the two warship production lines that had been completed.
With these two production lines and the Engineer's continuous manufacturing day and night, Qi Yiming can get 5 cruisers from the rear every day.
Although the five warships will not play a big role in the current war situation, Qi Yiming is confident that the coalition fleet will be firmly supported in the Carter Galaxy.
After all, Qi Yiming dared to fight the enemy head-on in the Carter Galaxy, he would definitely not be without support, but it is not time to show his trump card yet.
After the coalition retreated hastily to the jumping bridge near the Carter Galaxy, it was indeed as Qi Yiming thought, and did not rush to launch a second round of attacks.
Guo Zhaoyuan was waiting for support from the rear.
He wanted to further increase the advantage of the number of his own warships.
Even though the Commercial Alliance had experienced two civil wars, it had existed in this universe for nearly a thousand years, and its foundation was much stronger than that of the New Federation.
Under Guo Zhaoyuan's strong suppression, all warship production factories in the Commercial Alliance were working at full capacity, producing more than 70 cruisers a day to deliver fresh blood to the front line.
The battlefield was briefly quiet again.
Occasionally, more than a dozen salvage and recovery ships could be seen searching for lifeboats left in various corners near the battlefield.