Chapter 241: Danger (I)

Watching Qi Yiming command the Xuefeng to leave without hesitation, the middle-aged man of the Redemption Society was heartbroken.

But these were not important to Qi Yiming at all.

The engine output power of the Xuefeng had been pushed to the maximum by the navigator at this time, but Qi Yiming still complained that the speed was too slow, and even asked the Lightning to provide additional energy for the engine, which increased the jump speed of the Xuefeng again.

At this time, the Federal Light was stepping into the abyss of death step by step.

The fleet of the Turing Republic gathered around the Federal Light. Because they could not use the jump bridge, this war with the Zerg seemed unusually long from the beginning.

The fleet had been on the road for nearly half a year, and they were still lingering less than 70 light years away from the border of the Turing Republic.

It would take at least another half a year to reach the next galaxy.

As the captain of this fleet, Admiral Jiang Bingsheng was commanding such a strange war for the first time since he took charge of the fleet.

Although this situation had been simulated countless times on the simulator, the simulator could adjust the time after all, and this long voyage would often be deliberately shortened a lot during the simulation process.

So Jiang Bingsheng feels very bad now. The long voyage makes his mood extremely bad.

Even his adjutant dared not speak loudly beside him these days.

In fact, the most correct way to sail and fight for such a long distance is to reserve enough people for combat readiness duty, and the rest of the people go into hibernation cabins for hibernation.

This not only saves a lot of materials, but also the combat personnel will not change their temperament due to long-term sailing, thus affecting the fleet's operations.

But unfortunately, in the fleet of the Turing Republic, except for the super flagship equipped with enough hibernation cabins, there are only a few hibernation cabins on the other warships. For a warship with thousands of crew members, there is not much difference between a few hibernation cabins and no hibernation cabins.

So everyone can only endure the long voyage.

Maybe there will be no problem in a few months. After all, when there is a bridge jump, the fleet needs to sail for several months for a combat operation.

But no matter how long it takes, these crew members will not get rest and recuperation, and the battle may break out at any time. Under multiple factors, there will definitely be crew members who can't stand this pressure and have mental problems.

After waiting for the fleet to reach the next star system, the reconnaissance ship ahead received news that the Zerg was no longer in the star system, which meant that the fleet had to move forward.

Suddenly, the fleet was filled with grief. They were really fed up with this long and boring voyage. The captains asked to leave the Federation Light behind and the small warships set off first.

As the captain of the fleet, Jiang Bingsheng had to consider the morale of the crews of each warship.

He knew that if he continued like this, there would be no need to fight when he encountered the Zerg.

Once the front-line combat fleet suffered casualties, it would definitely flee. If the casualties were small, it would be fine. If the losses were heavy, the entire fleet might run away with it.

Jiang Bingsheng had no choice but to send out reconnaissance fleets frequently and on a large scale.

He tried to give all warships the opportunity to leave the slow-moving fleet group and go out for some activities every once in a while, so as to reduce the psychological discomfort caused by long-term sailing.

But what Jiang Bingsheng didn't know was that while he was still trying to solve the psychological problems he encountered during the voyage, the vanguard of the Zerg took advantage of its high mobility. In addition to the main force in the front, two Zerg armies were divided to go around the two wings of the Turing Republic Expeditionary Fleet, forming a battlefield situation of three-sided encirclement of them.

The reason why they have not launched an attack on the human fleet until now is that the human fleet still has hope of escaping after they launch the attack.

Although the Zerg troops are fearless, their queens are also intelligent creatures and do not want to see their troops suffer unnecessary sacrifices.

An imperfect ambush plan caused the enemy to escape and troops needed to be sent to pursue, and the losses caused during the pursuit were a meaningless sacrifice in the eyes of the queen.

So they are waiting, waiting for the human fleet to go deeper into their encirclement.

However, the Creator may be favoring humans. In order to deal with the psychological problems of the crew caused by the long voyage, Jiang Bingsheng sent a large number of reconnaissance fleets, which inadvertently allowed them to avoid being wiped out.

When the first reconnaissance fleet found the traces of the Zerg, news of the discovery of the Zerg was gradually sent back from the flanks of the fleet.

Jiang Bingsheng was so scared when he heard the news that he broke out in a cold sweat and immediately ordered the fleet to stop advancing and raised the fleet's combat readiness level.

The commander of the Zerg vanguard, the Mutant Tyrant, immediately ordered the Zerg to attack after discovering that his plan was discovered by humans.

For a while, Jiang Bingsheng received reports from three directions of the fleet that they were in contact with the Zerg, and then nothing happened.

At first, Jiang Bingsheng thought that the fleet's communication was interfered with in some way, causing the reconnaissance fleet to lose contact with the main fleet.

But when all the reconnaissance fleets lost contact with the main fleet, Jiang Bingsheng finally came to his senses.

But everything seemed a little late.

Before the human main fleet had time to deploy its battle formation, the outermost warships were intensively attacked by the Zerg swarm's explosive mosquitoes.

Then, the dense Leviathans with purple-red afterglow left the jump channel and appeared in front of the human fleet.

When Jiang Bingsheng saw countless Leviathans, he was stunned.

He had personally experienced the war between the Yunhuan Federation and the Zerg as an observer.

He knew clearly how powerful the Zerg Leviathan was.

Back then, the Zerg army brought by just one Leviathan had made it difficult for the human fleet to cope with it. Now, a Leviathan fleet appeared in front of him.

Leviathans of different sizes were piled up in front of him. Jiang Bingsheng couldn't even imagine how many bugs these Leviathans would bring.

Jiang Bingsheng had once strongly advocated the terribleness of the Zerg at the military meeting of the Turing Republic, which made those bigwigs agree to do their best to support the fleet expedition and mobilize all the military forces that could be mobilized.

This also created the largest expedition fleet of the Turing Republic.

Now the number of warships in Jiang Bingsheng's hands has reached a terrifying 470,000, not counting the reconnaissance fleet that was lost in the early stage.

But this number is not worth mentioning in front of the Zerg.

Under the fierce attack of the Zerg, the human fleet loses an average of 812 warships per second.

At this rate, it won't take a few hours for Jiang Bingsheng's warships to be destroyed in this strange galaxy.

"Damn it, which bastard in the Academy of Sciences told me that the Leviathans in the Zerg are their high-level troops and there won't be many of them? I'll dig out his eyes and use them as cannons."

Angry, but there is nothing to be done.

Jiang Bingsheng now has only one idea, which is how to safely evacuate as many warships as possible from the battlefield under the attack of the Zerg.