The Strongest Interstellar Commander

Chapter 81: Battle of Leo (Part 1)

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At this time, the war between the Kabate Empire and the Oaks Empire has entered a fever pitch.

After winning Vette, Commander Hamid's confidence greatly increased, and he quickly formulated a strategy plan for Russell and Leo.

Of the 1.2 million fleet stationed in Witte, 200,000 were left to guard the Star Road in the direction of Russell, while the remaining 1 million warships set off directly from Witte to attack Leo!

At the same time, Leo was also attacked by the 2 million Kabat Empire army that was already confronting Leo and stationed in Sicily. The total offensive force reached a staggering 3 million.

According to calculations, this war will start in 2 years. After all, Sicily is 6 light years away from Leo, and it takes 2 years to travel to the stars.

The distance between Witt and Leo is about 3 light years. In order to match the attack time, it will take one year to set off.

On the other side, the Oaks Empire stationed 3 Guards Corps and 1 Border Corps in Leo, with a total strength of 1.6 million!

Originally, with the help of favorable conditions, these 1.6 million warships would have no problem defending Sicily's 2 million warships on the Star Road.

But now Witte has fallen. Therefore, in order to deal with the threat from Witte, Leo's defenders had to deploy half of their warships at the entrance and exit of Witte's Star Road, which resulted in the Star Road defense line in the direction of Sicily, leaving only 800,000 battleships.

The most critical thing is that the distance between the entrances of the two Star Paths is 0.2 AU, making it impossible for the defenders on both sides to support each other quickly.

As for the Fourth Guards Corps, which is returning at the moment, it is on its way to Horton and is expected to arrive in three years.

Horton is about 12 light years away from Witte. It is a node that cannot be avoided by Kabat's army in attacking the Oaks capital circle. Unless they go more than half a circle around the perimeter of the Oaks empire, not to mention the time consuming, they may also be attacked by another border force. Legion interception.

Having calculated this accurately, Aisa ran directly to Horton and planned to wait and see.

Two years later, when the time came to the 64th year of the federal calendar, the Battle of Leo finally started!

The first to appear on Leo via the Star Path was the Kabat Empire fleet from Veidt.

Still following the strategy used in the attack on Werther, the trapped fleet was first used to quickly make breakthroughs and tear a hole in the defender's array. The subsequent fleets would use this hole as a basis to tear the entire defender's defense line apart.

If everything goes well, this should be the case, but the Oaks Empire is not stupid. They have already learned about the fall of Witte before, and naturally they know that the Kabat Empire has such a trap fleet of nearly 10,000 warships!

Therefore, Leo's defenders also attached great importance to this fleet. On the front line of defense, the 200,000-strong fleet immediately began to focus fire.

One wave of attacks caused the loss of more than 500 warships to the trapped fleet.

The Kabate Empire had already been prepared for this. Even in Hamid's plan, the trapped fleet was originally used as a bait and was prepared to be buried here.

As long as it can attract the defenders to focus fire and attack for ten minutes, the subsequent fleet can gain a foothold at the exit of the Star Road, and then directly capture the opponent with the difference in strength.

You must know that this is not the narrow Star Road between Werther and Sethia. Ten minutes here is enough for 200,000 warships to pass through the Star Road.

Although there are 800,000 defenders on the Star Road defense line, there are really not that many who can attack at the same time. At most, 300,000 can hold them to death.

If the Kabat Empire's 200,000 battleships are allowed to pass through the Star Road and gain a firm foothold, then the 800,000 defenders will basically have no chance, because the consumption rate of the warships bombarded by both sides cannot match the arrival speed of the Kabat Empire's follow-up fleet. .

So this time Hamid asked the trapped fleet to act as bait to attract firepower.

In Hamid's strategic thinking, as long as Leo's defenders are wiped out, the Oaks Empire's combat strength on the border between the two sides will only be Russell's 1.2 million, while the Kabat Empire's strength will be more than 5 million.

If we can use the remaining 8,000 trapped fleets to help the Kabat Empire gain such an advantage, then why not give it up

Besides, Hamid remembered that Lin Fan said that as long as he captured the Oaks Empire, he would be given more rewards.

Therefore, Leo's defenders were faced with a difficult multiple-choice question.

1. Concentrate all your efforts to annihilate the entrapped fleet, but the consequence will be to allow the opponent's follow-up fleet to establish a bridgehead.

2. According to the normal style of play, there is no special focus on attacking the fleet, but the result is likely to be like Werther, who directly breaks into the formation, eventually leading to a complete collapse.

Finally, Leo's garrison commander gritted his teeth and made a decision.

For the final victory of the Oaks Empire, this trapped fleet must be wiped out here no matter what the cost, even at the cost of Leo's fall!

First destroy the trapped fleet, and then consume the Kabat Empire's warships to the greatest extent before his own side is completely destroyed. This is his current overall policy.

Soon, all the fleets on the defense line received the order and began to focus their fires on the trapped fleet, completely ignoring the follow-up fleet of the Kabate Empire.

In the first ten minutes after the start, the trapped fleet lost more than 7,000 warships, and the Oaks Empire also suffered huge losses.

The trapped fleet alone killed at least 20,000 warships during the assault. In addition, in these 10 minutes, the nearly 200,000 warships that sailed out from the Star Road were not just watching the show, but As soon as they came out, they all joined the attack on the defenders on the defense line, killing at least 50,000 warships.

At this time, just as Leo's garrison commander expected, although the trapped fleet was crippled, the opponent also successfully established a bridgehead, with nearly 200,000 warships deployed there.

The next moment, the real meat grinder started. The defenders on the defense line no longer concentrated fire on the remaining hundreds of warships, but began to cover the exit area of the Star Road, and the Kabat Empire fleet, which had already stood on the bridgehead, naturally fought back with all its strength.

On the battlefield, thousands of warships from both sides were blown up basically every minute. When one warship was blown up, another one behind it would immediately step forward to take over, and both sides were immediately plunged into complete attrition. war.

The difference is that when this war of attrition began, the Kabat Empire still had 1 million warships, while the Oaks Empire only had over 700,000 warships.

Just as Leo's garrison commander was considering whether to mobilize 300,000 warships from the direction of Sicily for support, the Sicilian army from the other side of the Kabat Empire also came to Leo through the Star Road.

The commander of Leo's garrison knew that there were Kabat's warships worth more than 2 million in Sicily.

Although I don’t know if they all came this time, it is obvious that at this time, the defenders can no longer be deployed to support the Star Path in the direction of Witte.

Just one chapter tonight, and two more chapters to be posted in the afternoon.

(End of chapter)