The addition of the federal fleet greatly delayed the retreat of the Blue Flame Insect Wave.
The federal fleet launched a beyond-visual-range attack at a long distance. Once the insect tide counterattacked, the federal fleet immediately retreated far away, bullying the insect tide with its speed advantage.
"It's a pity that the hit rate of over-the-horizon attacks is too low. Otherwise, if this continues, this insect wave may not be able to be wiped out!" Zhang Rui looked at the hit rate of the energy cannon on the command screen and said with some regret.
Over-the-horizon attacks are attacks that are only far beyond the visual field. In the age of the earth, humans have mastered this attack method. When projecting weapons to attack targets thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers away, telescope devices are used to target targets. It can be launched from a distance where the target cannot be seen, or it can be launched with the assistance of other monitoring equipment. It can usually only attack fixed targets, or targets whose flight trajectory is locked and cannot escape the attack range.
Switching to the interstellar battlefield, beyond-visual-range attacks have become a routine method. The two warring parties are often tens of millions of kilometers, hundreds of millions of kilometers, or even light years away. At the same time, both have extremely agile speeds. The hit rate of over-the-horizon attacks is severely reduced.
Now the federal fleet is launching a beyond-visual-range attack more than 100 million kilometers away from the insect swarm. Even at the speed of light, it will take hundreds of seconds to reach the position of the insect swarm. With the speed of the blue flame worms, it is enough to escape from the beyond-visual-range attack. Huge amount of coverage.
"General, do you want the fleet to get closer? The insect tide is too big, and it is more difficult to retain them than expected." Professor Bormai frowned and looked at General Chen Xiaolin.
"It's okay, let's leave it like that for now! There are still a small number of purple flame ice worms in the insect tide, so don't rely on close proximity." General Chen Xiaolin frowned and shook his head.
At this moment, Zhang Rui stared at the holographic screen and shouted anxiously: "General, the insect wave has divided its forces. One group is coming towards us, and the other group retreats quickly."
"If you see them, turn around and avoid them." General Chen Xiaolin ordered.
"Ah! Why don't you eat them and continue the pursuit?" Zhang Rui looked at General Chen Xiaolin, doubting his ears and asked.
"I said, change direction and avoid them!" General Chen Xiaolin ordered with a straight face, raising his voice.
"Yes, general!" Zhang Rui's face turned stern and he immediately responded.
Immediately, the federal fleet changed direction, flew at full speed, and decisively fled the place to avoid a head-on confrontation with the insect tide.
After the small insect wave could not catch up with the federal fleet, it retreated and merged with the insect wave in front.
Soon, the federal fleet came back again, like a cowhide plaster, clinging to this insect tide obscenely and tenaciously, never engaging in a head-on battle with it.
Time passes day by day.
The Federation fleet and the Thoratus civilization fleet launched a war of harassment like brown sugar against the insect tide. They were extremely aggressive, but they would never engage in a head-on battle with them.
The insect swarm seemed to have seen through their intentions and stopped entangled with them too much, speeding up their evacuation to Planet Burlo.
As time goes by, the insect tide gets closer and closer to the planet Burlo.
The atmosphere in the Federation fleet and the flagship command room was solemn. After more than fifty days of struggle day and night, the insect tide finally returned to the Bullo star.
"General, we have detected the movement of the purple flame ice worms on Planet Burlo coming here. We still have two days. If we don't stop them, once they are allowed to merge, we will never have the chance to stop them. ." Zhang Rui looked at General Chen Xiaolin and reminded.
"Understood, then let them go back! We are ready to retreat." General Chen Xiaolin nodded and ordered.
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"General, once this insect wave is allowed to return, they will soon evolve into purple flame soldier insects!" Zhang Rui's expression changed, he looked at General Chen Xiaolin and reminded him solemnly.
General Chen Xiaolin smiled slightly: "Didn't we achieve the purpose of this combat trip? We can go back now. Everyone has been exhausted recently. Now you are allowed to start resting."
"Mission accomplished!"
The officers looked at each other, somewhat surprised.
During the entire battle, they had almost no head-on confrontation with the insect swarm. They all used beyond visual range attacks, which only delayed the insect swarm's return a little, and caused a small number of casualties to the insect swarm. Before fighting with them, The battles are vastly different.
"General, is it because of those five thousand third-generation intercontinental ships?" Zhang Rui looked at General Chen Xiaolin and asked in surprise.
"Yes, we have greatly slowed down the evolution speed of the insect swarm. Let them take charge of the next battle, and we will not have to fight with the insect swarm." General Chen Xiaolin smiled and nodded.
"Ah! So that's it?"
"Are the third-generation intercontinental ships really so powerful? Can they deal with this insect wave?"
“…”
The officers were surprised and asked questions one after another.
"General, this is General Miller's communication!" At this time, Zhang Rui reported to General Chen Xiaolin.
"Take it!" General Chen Xiaolin said immediately.
Zhang Rui acted as ordered, and the next second, the image of General Miller appeared on the large command screen.
"General Chen, have you issued a retreat order?" General Miller asked Zhang Zhang as soon as he appeared.
"Yes, General Miller, the purple flame ice insect swarm has been dispatched. It is too risky to continue to follow up. We can almost retreat." General Chen Xiaolin confirmed.
"If this insect swarm is allowed to return to Planet Bullo, will our previous sacrifices still be meaningful?" After hearing this, General Miller's expression changed and he immediately asked.
In the previous battle, the federal fleet made huge sacrifices to eliminate the blue flame insect swarm. Now another blue flame insect swarm is about to return to Bullo. They have worked hard to stop it for so long because they are afraid of the entire insect swarm. After completing the evolution, let alone starting from the battle, the war broke out between the Thoratus civilization and this insect tide. It was precisely because of the sudden evolution of the insect tide that they were reduced to the point where they needed to ask for help from the Galactic Alliance. You can imagine the heavy price they paid. And know.
Now, once the blue flame insect swarm returns to Bullo Star, all their previous efforts will be in vain, which is why General Miller becomes so eager.
"How could it be meaningless! We have tried our best to successfully delay the evolution of the Blue Flame Insect. We can just let the reinforcements take charge of the next battle." General Chen Xiaolin smiled understandingly and replied.
"This... isn't there only 5,000 warships in the reinforcements this time? Can they take down the entire insect tide without us fighting?" General Miller frowned and asked with some worry.
"Quality can erase the advantage of quantity, don't worry! We will win this war!" General Chen Xiaolin said with confidence with a smile.
Chen Xiaolin said so, and General Miller could only nod his head: "Okay! I'll wait and see!"
Soon, the fleets of the Human Federation and Thoratus Civilization evacuated the Burlo Star, while they began to rest and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.
The soldiers of the Federation fleet had a rare holiday. Except for the soldiers on duty who needed to supervise the maintenance of the robots, almost all the soldiers began to relax their tense nerves.
Inside the huge intercontinental ship, there are basketball courts, football fields, swimming pools, virtual game rooms... all kinds of entertainment facilities are available. Some of the soldiers on vacation are sweating profusely on the court, and some are lying loosely on lounge chairs. Rest... Everyone has a lazy and happy smile on their face.
After experiencing a life-and-death battle, the soldiers rarely enjoyed this happy time and cherished it especially.
On the bar table, soldiers and officers gathered together in twos and threes, drinking and discussing something.
"Captain, the reinforcements will arrive in five days. Do we really not need to go to the battlefield?" Zhang Kai took a sip of the cocktail in his glass and asked their captain, Li Qiangdao, with some worry.
"Yes! The battle is about to begin. If the vacation is not canceled immediately, the soldiers will not be able to regain their combat effectiveness in such a short period of time." Colonel Porter looked at Li Qiang and agreed.
Li Qiang smiled slightly, looked at his subordinates and comforted him: "Everyone, just keep your heart in your stomach! Since the general asked you to rest, you should have a good rest. Don't worry about the next battle. Everyone has worked hard during this period. "
During this period of time, he did not know how many times he had answered questions from his subordinates. In fact, even he himself was very surprised by this holiday. He could not imagine that General Chen would issue such an order at this time.
The only reason is that General Chen has absolute confidence in the 5,000 third-generation intercontinental ships, and there is no need for them to intervene on the battlefield. Otherwise, why would he issue such a ridiculous order to give the soldiers a holiday during wartime.
Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It would be best not to fight. Interstellar warfare is extremely cruel. Once a battleship is severely damaged by enemy fire, their chance of survival is almost zero.
"Captain, Captain, reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived early!" At this moment, a soldier on duty hurried to Li Qiang and reported excitedly.
With a "crash", Li Qiang suddenly stood up, looked at the soldiers who came to report, and ordered excitedly: "Quick, call everyone to the large conference room to watch this battle live."
"Understood!" The soldier on duty nodded happily and ran out happily.
Li Qiang and his entourage rushed straight to the large conference room.
Soon, the light watch worn by the soldier's wrist responded to the call signal.
The faces of the resting soldiers all changed. They stopped their entertainment and went straight to the large conference room.
"What's going on! Are you going to fight?"
"It's a summons signal, not a combat signal. It shouldn't be a combat mission!"
"Isn't it the same as announcing the cancellation of vacation after convening and preparing for battle?"
“…”
The soldiers hurried to the large conference room in groups, talking quietly on the way.
This vacation is supposed to be a long time away, and they have repeatedly confirmed to their superiors that there will be no change in this vacation. Who knows, it hasn't been long yet! Suddenly a summons signal comes. If you can't do it, don't say it! The soldiers couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with the above.
However, obeying orders is the bounden duty of soldiers. After the soldiers arrived in the large conference room, they all stopped complaining and sat upright under the conference table, looking at their captain, Li Qiang, intently.
Sensing the purpose of the soldiers' dissatisfaction, Li Qiang smiled slightly and quickly reassured: "Don't worry, everyone, this call is not to announce the cancellation of vacation, but to let you watch a battle."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qiang stepped aside, and a starry sky was projected on the holographic screen behind him.
I saw a ray of silver light moving forward rapidly in space, almost reaching the speed of light, emitting a dazzling light that made it difficult to see its true appearance.
The soldiers stared wide-eyed, confused.
"Is that the Bumut galaxy in the back? They should be near the seventeenth planet, Gorlo."
"Haha, I know who they are, our reinforcements have arrived early!"
"Yes, the planet they passed was a giant gas star. It was the eighteenth planet of the Bumut galaxy!"
"Wow, they're so fast. The tunnel monitors can't even match their speed."
“…”
The conference room was in chaos, and the soldiers looked at the picture on the holographic screen and speculated excitedly.
The bright silver light was very fast. In the blink of an eye, it had already passed by the eighteenth planet and was approaching them rapidly.
The picture on the holographic screen suddenly changed. The galloping fleet suddenly slowed down and finally maintained a relatively static speed in space. Then, they lined up one by one to form a circular array.
"Hey, why did they stop moving forward?"
"Yes! What do you mean by setting up this formation? Are they ready to attack?"
"Ah! No! How can you hit accurately at such a long distance?"
"Impossible! They should be adjusting!"
“…”
The soldiers stared at the holographic screen with their eyes wide open. They were all confused and speculating. They didn't understand why the fleet stopped moving in the middle.
Just when the soldiers were puzzled by this, the fleet changed again. The bow of each warship had a muzzle that split into two halves, and red energy could be seen continuously gathering, emitting a dazzling light group.
"Ah! We are really about to launch an attack!"
"Their location must be at least three billion kilometers away from the Burlo star! Who are they trying to hit!"
"Did you make a mistake? Launch an attack from this position?"
“…”
Seeing the fleet put into attack formation and the main guns beginning to gather a large amount of energy, the soldiers opened their eyes wide and screamed in confusion. They were all shocked by the strange behavior of the fleet.
The soldiers held their breath and concentrated, missing the magnificent scene of the fleet launching an attack.
However, something unexpected happened to the soldiers. The energy of the fleet's main naval gun gathered at its peak. The red energy group suddenly flashed away and disappeared. The fleet resumed its appearance of gathering energy.
"Hey, there's nothing!"
"This hasn't even started yet, are you already weak?"
"What's the use of just showing off your momentum? It's an anticlimax!"
"What's going on? Did the main gun fail to gather energy?"
…
Seeing the inexplicable situation of the fleet, the audience booed and the soldiers booed, very disappointed with the fleet's performance.