In the conference room, Elfie said to Joanna in a tone that left no room for doubt.
"Commander Joanna, as the queen, I order you to immediately lead the Fifth Army to retreat to Sirsay and reposition the Star Road defense line!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The Queen's order to retreat and her own withdrawal from the front are two completely different meanings.
With no more psychological burden, Joanna immediately ordered the fleet to begin to evacuate the Star Road defense line. She used her speed advantage and arc flight to quickly avoid the firepower of the Wells Army, distanced herself, and flew towards the Star Road in the direction of Hilsey!
At the current exit of the Star Road, although the bridgehead of the Wells Legion has been established, there are currently only 80,000 warships, which cannot effectively prevent the actions of Joanna's Fifth Legion.
Coupled with the fact that the warship is 3,000 kilometers per second slower than the opponent, we can only watch the opponent quickly evacuate.
Also evacuating quickly were the logistics staff in the star port. As for some staff on various planets, Joanna just informed them to hide.
After all, as Li Cangqiong said, Wells has no time to waste. He will not clean the planet, so the people on the planet are basically safe.
An hour later, after converging with a large number of transport ships carrying logistics personnel that flew out of the star port group, the entire fleet began to enter the Star Road one after another, heading for Hilsey.
Just as Joanna's Fifth Army was evacuating, Wells' flagship also sailed out of the Star Road.
Looking at the evacuating Io Federation fleet in the distance, Wells frowned deeply.
This is the last thing he wants to see. For Wells, the ideal situation is to wipe out the opponent in one fell swoop in Serbia.
But what about reality? The reality is that the opponent only lost 20,000 warships and retreated when its bridgehead was just established. However, when it established the bridgehead in the early stage, it lost nearly 80,000 warships.
If this was normal, Wells wouldn't care. Exchanging 80,000 warships for an important node is a very cost-effective thing no matter how you calculate it.
But are these normal times? He has no backup, and the opponent has made it clear that he wants to block him all the way and consume his own combat power. When did the angels of the Io Federation become so good at fighting? This clearly means that space is needed in exchange for victory!
But this makes no sense. Without knowing the current situation of the Oaks Empire, using this strategy is tantamount to destroying the Great Wall. After all, once Serbia falls, the Oaks Empire’s army can continuously enter the Io Federation from afar, or even directly All the way to the capital area.
Unless angels and humans hook up, the Io Federation knows the current situation of the Oaks Empire and knows that its legion is a lonely army.
Only in this way can we explain why the Io Federation adopted such a strategy.
If this is really the case, then I will be in danger. The Io Federation will definitely not fight us head-on. Instead, like the battle in Serbia, in the early stages of the Star Road defense battle, they will use their defensive advantages to eliminate themselves in large numbers. fleet.
Later, when the defensive advantage is gradually lost, continue to retreat decisively, continue to deploy the defense line at the next node, and repeat the previous tactics.
Then waiting for your own results, you can only be eaten up bit by bit.
This is not possible, the strategy must be changed, otherwise they will never be able to cross the territory of the Io Federation, and they will all die on the road.
But even if Wells wants to change his strategy now, it will not be easy. There are only three choices in front of him.
First, retreating to Siris would be tantamount to courting death, and Wells did not consider it at all.
Second, go to Hilsey, which is 0.2 light-years away and takes about 24 days to travel. Joanna's fifth legion, which has just retreated, is going to Hilsey. They will inevitably re-set up defense lines on the Star Road.
Third, go to Mihoton, which is 0.3 light years away and takes about 36 days to travel. It is not known whether there are arrangements there, but Wells believes that there will definitely be arrangements there.
For Wells, the first option can be ignored at all, mainly the second and third options.
If you choose the second option, it means that you will be led by the Io Federation, and you will inevitably lose at least tens of thousands of warships in Sirsay.
But if you choose three, there is a lot of uncertainty. First of all, it will take an extra twelve days of journey. These twelve days are very fatal.
Wells knew that humans had jump engines, and now he guessed that humans and angels were probably hooking up, so the extra ten days of journey would be very dangerous, and it was possible that the extra ten days of walking would lead to being killed by humans. If the fleet intercepts it, it won't be beautiful.
Therefore, compared with the uncertainty of option three, Wells believes that it is better to choose Hillside, which has a greater chance of success in the end, but the strategy needs to be changed.
After arriving at the Hill Race, the opponent will inevitably repeat Serbia's actions, but after winning the Hill Race, he can split the fleet, disperse towards multiple star roads, and then split and disperse again.
In the end, a situation was formed where fleets were everywhere and divided into many routes to advance separately. So as long as a few fleets among them, no, even just one fleet successfully crossed the territory of the Io Federation, it would be considered a success.
Wells was also a decisive person. After making up his mind, he immediately sent the more than 200,000 warships that had come out to the Star Road of Hirsey without waiting for the follow-up fleet. After all, they arrived at Hirsey a minute earlier, and the Io Federation The fleet will have one minute less to deploy its defense line.
At the same time, he notified the follow-up fleet to head to Hilsey immediately after leaving the Star Road without any stopover!
Finally, half an hour after Joanna's Fifth Legion all entered the Hilsey Directional Star Road, the front of the Wells Legion also obtained the entrance and quickly entered it one after another.
"Currently, we have entered the Star Path of Shirsai. At the same time, according to reports from the remaining personnel in Serbia, Wells's legions have all moved towards Shirsei, just about half an hour behind us!"
Joanna said to everyone in the conference room, her face still looking anxious.
"Okay, let's allocate tasks now!"
Liang Xingchen stood up, looked around at everyone and said.
"First of all, cancel Mihoton's support plan. Commander Elena, please lead the fleet to Sirsey, and I will also lead the fleet there."
"Secondly, we must be too late in time. Please ask Commander Joanna to repeat Serbia's operation, and then choose the shortest star road to continue the evacuation."
"Finally, after our main fleet arrives at Hill Race, we will make a final battle plan based on Wells's direction of travel. Do you have any questions?"
"no problem!"
Everyone in the conference room, except Queen Elfi, stood up and responded!
(End of chapter)