Under the leadership of the four battleships, more than one hundred small battleships lined up in a square formation, uniformly facing the front with the strongest attack power and the strongest defense.
The phalanx is the simplest and most commonly used battle formation.
Simply put, these warships deployed on a vertical plane can concentrate all their firepower in one direction, and can attack either one target or multiple targets. Because the frontal projection area of the warship is the smallest and the protection is the strongest, it can also improve the overall defense capability of the fleet.
However, the phalanx is not omnipotent, and has a very prominent shortcoming.
This is, the flanks of the phalanx are extremely fragile, and if they are attacked from the side, they are easily defeated. Therefore, in fleet decisive battles, square formations are often formed when fighting evenly matched opponents in order to maximize the offensive power of the fleet. If facing a stronger opponent, forming a square formation to fight is to die. In addition, in some special circumstances, the phalanx can also play a role.
For example, now, it is necessary to block the enemy and cover the evacuation of other ships.
To put it bluntly, as long as the warships of the Lei Ling clan stand in front, the warships of the Star Weaver clan cannot attack the transporting spaceships that are evacuating in the distance.
It was obviously not an easy task to defeat more than one hundred Leiling clan battleships commanded by four capital ships.
Even if Lin Feng was driving the Queen's fighter plane, only dozens of small warships accompanied her, and there was no absolute advantage in military strength. Even if the ten Yukage ships are counted, their combat power is at most the same as the Lei Ling fleet with four capital ships, and there is no absolute advantage.
How dare Lin Feng hesitate, and immediately flew back with the fighter plane, and at the same time gave orders to all the warships.
Rushing into the Lei Ling fleet is tantamount to death.
You know, the more than one hundred Leiling clan warships that make up the phalanx can focus their firepower on one target. If the Star Weaver warships split their attacks without being organized, it would be equivalent to letting their opponents destroy them individually. Let alone small battleships, even capital ships cannot survive the fire-intensive attacks of hundreds of battleships. It must be organized to launch an offensive, and only in this way can the enemy be defeated.
Fortunately, the captains of the Zhixing clan warships are very clever and very familiar with the tactics of fleet engagement.
After Lin Feng gave the order, dozens of warships lined up in a neat line, but not a square formation, but a cone formation that was more conducive to offensive.
If the square can be offensive and defensive, then the cone is a pure offensive array.
The cone array is centered on a warship, and other warships are arranged in steps behind it, thus concentrating the attack power of the fleet to one point, which is used to break through the enemy's line of defense. Under normal circumstances, the most powerful warship in the fleet is the core, and the other warships follow up in order of their strength.
In fact, this is also the most commonly used array for the Star Weaver fleet.
If it is the main force fleet of the Star Weavers, then the godmother must be the core.
The problem is that Lin Feng is not commanding the main force fleet of the Star Weavers. Not only does there not have a super battleship like the Godmother, there is not even a capital ship.
The top position of the array was reserved, and it was for Lin Feng.
The offensive power of the small warships is not strong, especially in front of the capital ships. In contrast, the Empress fighter piloted by Lin Feng is more prominent.
Obviously, if you want to break through the phalanx formed by the Lei Ling fleet, especially the blockade of the four capital ships, you can only pin your hopes on the Queen's fighter plane.
Lin Feng didn't evade, she was the commander of this fleet and should take the lead.
However, the ten Liuying ships did not join the queue.
At this time, the ten female warriors who flew out to fight the enemy with space fighters have returned to their warships and took over the command of the warships.
When Lin Feng ordered the formation of an array, the ten Liuying ships left the battlefield at the fastest speed.
It is not to escape, nor to evacuate, but to have another plan.
Attacking the fleet's phalanx from the front is the most stupid and old-fashioned method. If there is an absolute advantage in combat power, the problem is not too big. If there is no absolute advantage in combat power, especially strong enough offensive power, then attacking from the front will definitely be in trouble.
Obviously, Lin Feng's fleet does not have an absolute advantage in combat power, and its offensive power is not strong.
Even if the attack power of the Empress fighter is equivalent to that of the battleship, the other small battleships in the fleet lack attack power, not to mention that it is on par with the battleship, or even not much better than the smaller battleships of the Lei Ling clan. Relying on these small warships, it is obviously impossible to break through the enemy's phalanx.
Attacking from the side is the ideal way to break through the fleet phalanx.
There is no doubt that Yukage ship has the advantage in speed, and the attack power is not weak. If they can move to the side of the enemy while Lin Feng and the others are dragging the enemy, and then launch an attack, they can disrupt the enemy fleet's array and achieve the goal of getting twice the result with half the effort.
However, Lin Feng still didn't have much confidence.
The key is that there are four battleships in the Lei Ling tribe's fleet, and they are all SSS-class battleships.
Although they were four battleships built more than a thousand years ago, during the Fifth Greenwich War, they are considered old-fashioned, but battleships are battleships, and their attack power and protection capabilities are far smaller. On the battleship, the only thing inferior is the maneuverability.
In fact, these four battleships are not backward.
Quite simply, the peaceful and prosperous age that has lasted for a thousand years has made all top civilizations, including the Leiling clan, pay little attention to the construction and development of military power. The result of this is that in the past thousand years, the Galactic Alliance's military technology has not made much progress.
Although after the end of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Galactic Alliance did not believe that an armistice treaty would bring permanent peace, and the Silicon Magic Alliance would not forget the shame brought about by the fiasco. Therefore, the armistice treaty is just an armistice and only allows both parties. There is time to regain vitality, and when they have the ability to launch wars again, the war will break out again. Therefore, in the following four hundred years, including the top civilizations, most of the civilizations of the Galactic Alliance focus on military construction, not only Maintained the size of the army during the war, and also spent a lot of resources to develop military technology. However, after that, the war did not break out again as most people expected, and all aspects of intelligence showed that the Silicon Magic Alliance did not have the ability to launch an invasion in a short period of time, nor did it prepare for the war. As a result, the civilizations of the Galactic Alliance, including the seven top civilizations, have gradually reduced their emphasis on military construction, and even the Human Federation has been affected. In the next five hundred years, the military technology of the Galaxy Alliance has not achieved substantial development. Even some advanced technologies that have been developed have not been promoted and applied due to factors such as cost.
It can be said that the Galactic Alliance has wasted these five hundred years.
Although they are maintaining military forces, including the Lei Ling clan, the seven top civilizations of the Galactic Alliance have successively built some new battleships. For example, in the past five hundred years, the Lei Ling clan has built more than 300 new battleships. A large number of emerging technologies have been adopted, but compared with the large number of battleships in existence, the newly built battleships are not many at all. Even in the Leiling family fleet, it is still dominated by those battleships built during the Fifth Greenwich War, and the proportion of newly built battleships is less than 30%. In addition, through improvements and other methods, many battleships that have been in service for more than a thousand years still have sufficient combat effectiveness.
Before the outbreak of the Sixth Greenwich War, I am afraid that even the King Wanluo believed that those battleships that have undergone modernization and improvement are sufficient to deal with the threat of the Silicon Magic Alliance.
Obviously, this is not the case.
The battle that took place in the North Fourth District has proved that in the past thousand years, the Silicon Magic Alliance has not been making preparations, but has been making preparations, but has not been discovered by the Galaxy Alliance. More importantly, the Silicon Magic Alliance puts the focus of war preparations on military technology. Apart from other things, the Silicon Magic army can bypass the Greenwich Line of Defense and appear directly in the North Fourth District. It must have mastered more advanced space jumping technology.
Of course, these are all said far.
Although the ten Liuying ships were maneuvering to the side of the Leiling Clan fleet, Lin Feng still didn't have much confidence. Even if the power of all warships is concentrated to attack an enemy ship, only one capital ship can be destroyed. When the Lei Ling clan fleet launches a counterattack, these small warships under Commander Lin Feng will be destroyed. You know, even the Yukage ship may not be able to block the powerful firepower of the capital ship, let alone ordinary small warships.
Is it necessary to smash the enemy
At this time, Lin Feng hesitated, or in other words, became rational.
In the distance, the Lei Ling Clan's transport fleet is retreating under the protection of the warships, that is, making a space jump, and the remaining warships are only responsible for the break. Obviously, after the transport fleet is withdrawn, these warships will also retreat, and will not fight a decisive battle with the Star Weaver fleet led by the Empress. If there is a decisive battle, at least there will be no more than a hundred warships left, nor will it take the initiative to rush over to fight the Weaver Star Clan fleet.
The enemy has already planned to retreat, is it necessary to fight to the end
Don't forget, Lin Feng's purpose here is to meet Yang Yi and the others, not to annihilate the Leiling Clan fleet, and no one expects her to use dozens of small warships to annihilate the Leiling Clan fleet.
More importantly, Lin Feng already knew at this time that Yang Yi was not here, but on the Slag Star.
In addition, the twenty human legions brought by Yang Yi are also on the Slag Star, and they are facing more than a dozen Lei Ling clan legions that have stationed in the Slag Star.
Obviously, the withdrawal of the Lei Ling Clan fleet indicated that it had given up the legions stationed in the Slag Star.
In other words, even if the Lei Ling clan battleship that was left behind was annihilated, it would not be of any help to the human legion that was fighting the Lei Ling clan legion on the slag star.
On the contrary, if you delay too much time here, it will be very detrimental to the human legion.
Don't forget, the combat effectiveness of the Lei Ling Clan Legion is absolutely higher than that of the Human Legion.
Lin Feng had already thought that if the situation were not urgent, Yang Yi would never let the ten Liuying ships attack the Lei Ling Clan fleet, so the situation on the Slag Star must be very bad.
It is not difficult at all to choose between annihilating the enemy's broken fleet and rescuing Yang Yi.