People's Federation will live forever

On the bridge of the Moby Dick, Matthew grasped the railing in front of the high platform with both hands, with a freshly lit cigarette between his fingers.The admiral squinted his eyes, making it impossible to see what kind of expression he had.

"Weaken their numbers first."

A beam of dazzling white light flashed far away, and in the surrounded formation, a row of three Thunder-class ships were pierced by such a beam of light. Their explosions shocked the crew members in the encirclement, but as expected, they appeared from the ambush The kind of cruiser equipped with heavy particle cannons.As a new type of warship for long-range bombardment, the People's Federation suffered from it in the Battle of Pluto, but now they appear in groups and carry out unified bombardment, and perhaps because of the closer distance, their accuracy is very High, every round a few ships of the People's League were hit, and the situation of the besieged troops was deteriorating rapidly!

"Take aim..."

The Hammer of Dawn turned its angle to aim at these dangerous battlefield snipers.Cruisers are indeed a threat to the People's League, but their own fragility is obvious to all. However, the People's League ship just aimed at it and found a huge battleship blocking the shooting range.

Not only that, these giant battleships are spraying their engines with all their strength, approaching the beleaguered People's Federation Fleet, and on the bow of the leading heavy ship, the word "Moby Dick" is clearly written.

"All artillery groups, do not fire for the time being."

Through the screen, Matthew stared at the ever-shrinking number on the laser range finder. They had broken through the number of [-] kilometers, and caught up to [-] very quickly, and finally approached [-] kilometers!

On the Beluga, all the turrets on the bow, deck, and sides are aimed forward, the shells have been loaded, and the whole ship... not stop, there are a total of eight battleships rushing out to encircle the fleet, and they are all gaining momentum Ready to fire, but unlike the frenzied release of barrage by the Sun Fleet, they have not fired for a long time——

"Hold it, stand against a wave of their laser cannons, it doesn't matter if you get hurt." Matthew took a puff of a cigarette, and the sparks on the butt of the cigarette were shining red, "If we get close, we will win."

PS: The People's Federation fleet is very good at medium and long-range firefights. This is determined by the weapons. In the face of most enemies, the People's Federation can reach an effective range of [-] kilometers and is very advantageous in frontal combat.

Because in traditional thinking, the engine must fly over for tactical maneuvers, so as long as we strengthen the acceleration of the Renlian ships, we can effectively realize the kite candy tactics.

But what if, due to environmental reasons, such an advantage is lost, or there will be an enemy capable of FTL jumping in the future, what should we do?

The transition between offense and defense often occurs due to the increase or decrease of a single factor, and members of the People's Federation must take this into consideration.

Hiding warships in space...it's really not that difficult.

You only have so many detection methods, and there are only a few objects in the empty starry sky, so it’s okay to judge, but this place is densely packed with large asteroids everywhere.

Chapter [167] Blood-Stained Augustus

The first ray of light shining from the darkness heralds the coming of dawn.

The torrent of photons shot at the bow of the monster-like battleship, like a high-pressure water column washing over a heavy truck that was galloping at full speed. Such a huge struggle between the two sides was a test for each side.The thick armor wrapped around the bow of the White Whale is rapidly evaporating, not just one laser beam is bombarded, but multiple ones - the surrounded People's United Fleet saw the uniqueness of this ship and did their best. Whale also showed extraordinary resistance.

At the same time, under the full fire of this small fleet, the frontal armor of this wide-body battleship was completely destroyed, and the powerful laser beam even melted into the front 20.00% of the front cabin of this battleship.A large amount of steam rushes into the partitioned vacuum chamber, and the metal vapor is discharged out along with the diversion heat dissipation pipe - for the bridge buried deep inside the hull, the penetration depth of the Renlian's shelling will almost reach this level. The key position!

But Admiral Matthew didn't take it seriously, the floor under his feet was shaking, and the whole ship let out a painful shenyin in the torrent of photons—but from another angle, from the position of the admiral, it was the angry roar of the Moby Dick , is a cry to rush forward with all strength!

The enemy ships were rapidly approaching the ships of our side staying in the port. This scene fell into the eyes of Major General Ratolova very clearly - "Task Force, retreat, retreat immediately and join the main force!"

"Commander, they can't retreat anymore." Interferon's calm voice sounded, this calm tone that usually gave people a sense of control now sounds very harsh, "The task force has been surrounded. The act of escaping is to expose all angles to the enemy's muzzle. Right now, relying on the port asteroid, we can still only face the frontal enemy..."

"I know!"

Ratolova yelled, but the red AI was unmoved. The major general stared at the increasingly dangerous port fleet on the hologram. She saw the damage of her subordinate battleships, and saw those huge battleships approaching. Know what the result is.

"The fleet advances and breaks the enemy's encirclement." The major general gave an order and conveyed it to every ship, "Rescue the surrounded troops!"

The main force of the cruise strike fleet located on the outskirts of Augustus City, a formation consisting of 15 Twilight-class ships and the remaining 38 Thunder-class ships began to operate immediately.The captains of the ships did not question Ratolova's order at all, and the engines of the battleships spewed white light, and every ship moved forward bravely—this was for their comrades in arms!

"Commander, after entering the range of Augustus Star City, the fleet will lose room to maneuver after being surrounded by cracked stars. And this is exactly what the enemy wants us to do. This is a trap."

The AI ​​is still so calm, so calm that it disgusts the anxious commander at the moment. When it talks about these trapped fleets, it clearly says:

"Matthew Bunker is using them as bait. After calculation, they have been able to completely destroy the trapped troops since the formation of the ambush circle, but they have not. The only explanation is that we hope that all our troops will enter the encirclement circle and lose their maneuverability. Our range advantage is no match for the enemy in numbers."

The enemy army, Matthew Bunker's fleet is very large, and the total number of ships forming the encirclement is currently eighty.But these are visible. According to intelligence, when Matthew Bunker defected to UEG, he not only took away the entire investigation fleet, including 120 ships of various types in the army, but also this person was very famous in the colony. He controlled the entire In the second quadrant, reaching out to the third and fourth quadrants and integrating the garrison fleet willing to follow him, the number of available ships may exceed two hundred.

The destroyers and old-fashioned battleships destroyed by the previous cruise strike fleet were just defective products used as bait. The big fish of the People's Federation has already bit the hook once. Will it bite again?

This calmness stopped Latolova's restless emotions, and brought her consciousness back from the emotional slide to the high ground of reason—no, the major general has always known it, but war may be a calculation problem, but it Not pure mathematics.

I brought them here, and I will bring them back.

"The main fleet will charge once, and try its best to open a passage in the area above Star City, with the Thunder class as the forward." Ratolova pressed her hand on the hologram and drew a line, "The Dusk class does not enter the encirclement completely, but Secure an escape route... It's okay to sacrifice all the Thunderers, get them out!"

It doesn't matter if all the unmanned Thunder-levels are lost here, the operation to control Augustus has failed, and the current situation is that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the battle is meaningless. Ratolova doesn't want to stay for a long time. The stage has begun to warm up the zero element engine, ready to enter the mass effect flight at any time.

Therefore, the People's Federation fleet moved, and it moved very quickly!When Matthew received the news, the United Fleet had been divided into two parts, front and rear. Dozens of warships from the vanguard had already entered the range of Star City, and rushed straight towards the port very quickly——

"Their commander chose to come in so easily? What a group of brave guys!"

Matthew commented that he saw a reconnaissance image, and the United Fleet gathered all the dagger-shaped boats. Matthew remembered that it was called the Thunder Cloud?He rushed in almost like a suicide attack: "Don't he care about the life and death of the crew on these ships?"

Speaking of this, Matthew suddenly remembered the Augustus local garrison fleet that he had sent away just now. A trace of sadness appeared on his face, but he just lowered his head and lit another cigarette for himself.

"It seems that we all have to make some last resort choices." General Matthew, who was smoking and coughing, smiled, "That's how it is...inform the second action group, and the People's Federation Fleet has divided up again. , let them stop those Twilight-level main forces at all costs!"

As for the immediate side, since the opposing commander has already taken action to save the trapped people, Matthew doesn't want to delay any longer.

"Destroy them, and then the main force will encircle the intruding small boats. All cruisers avoid the firefighting area. The heavy particle cannon is the only means we can fight the Renlian head-on. We will concentrate and deal with those Twilight-class in a while."

The soot fell to the ground, and was immediately shaken by violent tremors throughout the entire ship—this was not the artillery fire of the People's League, but the turret on the Beluga finally broke out with its firepower!

The idea behind the design of the UEG battleship is to become the backbone of the battlefield with absolutely dense firepower and its own powerful defense. In the era of war, battleships are the rulers of the battlefield.

With a 600-meter hull, eighteen triple main guns on the front deck, and 180-degree rotatable sideboards, a total of 32 dual-mounted turrets constitute a total of more than a hundred powerful firepower.The barrage of plasma cannonballs can destroy all enemies in front of them. Although the photoelectricity and fire control level of the Union Defense Force is not as good as that of the People's League, the People's League who have experienced the Battle of Syrah is not willing to engage in close combat with these battleships, and what Matthew wants This is it.

The artillery fire is like rain. At a distance of [-] kilometers, it only takes a few seconds for a super-high-speed artillery shell to reach the target. This round of salvo is densely packed with bullets. Pushing the barrage in front of the Renlian ship like a wall, the mass barrier collapsed instantly, and the armor of the battleship The hull collapsed and the hull deformed. The thunder-classes blocking the front exploded with shining sparks, while the twilight-classes at the rear responded with artillery fire, but how weak they looked in this sea of ​​artillery fire!

The old story of the Battle of Scylla was repeated, and more than that, broadcast from the Moby Dick.

"The United Fleet at the scene!

I am the Federation of the Galactic Republic, the Republic Navy Admiral Matthew Bunker, and we hereby declare our claim——

The Alliance of Galactic Republics is the only legal regime chosen by all the people who have separated from the UEG human colonies, and it is also the reasonable successor of all traditional human colonies. The UEG has been abandoned, and our goal is to unify the earth civilization again to form complete independence and unity.

Therefore, the United Human Power Councils occupying the eighth quadrant and invading the solar system, we have already understood what it means to sink the universe, and also realize that you are the rationality of alien sinking human civilization, and we are willing to admit your independence , but you, as outsiders, are not qualified to enter our territory, drive troops into our cities and impose your system on our native earth civilization!We are here to protest and will take action! "

"We ask the People's Federation government to recognize the Galaxy Republic Alliance as the only legal regime of this civilization, and the army immediately completely separate from the territory of this civilization and stop intervening. We will promise here that when the Galaxy Republic Alliance completes the unification of our civilization, those who are willing and independent We will establish equal diplomatic relations with the United Nations - but until that day, the Republican Army will fight against the invasion of the United Nations forces that invade our territory, just like today!"

Round after round of artillery bombarded the hull of the Twilight class, explosions everywhere, and fire everywhere.The enemy doesn't care at all whether there are any personnel left by them in this port... No, they are not the same as the local garrison at all, so the shells bombarded the asteroid port without any scruples, as if they wanted to separate the United Fleet and the The facility was blown up together.

Of course they don't care, what they are fighting against the invaders is a just battle, so all their actions are just!

Accompanied by another explosion, the bridge of the trapped fleet leader ship trembled violently, and the captain was thrown into the air—along with countless fragments of the broken bridge, these fast-flying debris collided and ejected inside the bridge, and the bullets Usually hit the captain.

Drops of bright red blood splashed in the air, and the captain coughed a few times and floated on his back, because the strike ship had lost artificial gravity. At this time, the emergency maintenance cabin opened, and a drone flew over and pulled it with a mechanical arm. The captain tried to drag him out.

"Cough... Interferon..."

The captain gritted his teeth and shouted, the red mark on his retina lit up, and the AI ​​reported flashing:

"The functional area of ​​the hull is damaged, the airtightness cannot be maintained, 78 electrical circuits on the whole ship are on fire, and the keel is deformed...Protocol three, protect the crew, you should enter the escape cabin."

A sharp fragment pierced the captain's abdomen. The severe pain made it difficult for him to breathe, but the captain was still conscious: "No, I won't go. There are no prisoners in the Human Alliance fleet. I can't...I just wait Here, it cannot fall into the hands of Sira's enemies! Interferon, implement Protocol Five!"

"Agreement 1.4, destroy the data and self-destruct the ship to prevent Renlian technology from being lost - the zero element engine is overloaded, all [-] tons of zero element will be converted and will not be left behind." Interferon flashed again, "You do Has a decision been made, Captain."

"Tell General Ratolova, this is a trap, don't come to rescue us, let the main force go!" The young captain opened his mouth wide, but could hardly catch his breath, "Tell the general, although I sank with the ship today, Having seen the war won, we have no grudges in our hearts."

The interferon silently carried out the task, and the captain coughed, and he stretched out his hand, but the interferon was just a projection and he couldn't catch it—and in the last few strokes, blood loss and hypoxia made him close his eyes forever.

"Captain, this unit is honored to work with you."

The red interferon image has also become blurred, flames popped out of the flickering circuit in the bridge, and more than a dozen shells hit the battleship, one of which penetrated the crack and hit the bridge in the center of the hull... .

"The data integration is complete, return to the ontology."

Over the port, the fire is blooming, it falls in everyone's eyes, and it also falls in the heart of General Ratolova.

The major general didn't say anything, and her expression didn't change. No one knew what she was thinking, and the AI ​​was the same. When the last words from the trapped troops were played, Major General Ratolova's hand holding the chair clicked. .

"Rescue failed, Interferon, get us out."

Ratolova lowered her voice, and at this moment, the alarm sounded, and an enemy battleship appeared from the back of the United Fleet!

They appeared from the space junkyard, the stone camouflage was being peeled off from the surface of the hull due to inertia, and the heavy artillery headed forward, outflanking the United Fleet from the side: "This is the second action group, we have arrived... "

Suddenly, a series of nuclear explosion flashes erupted in front of them, and the light radiation and EMP submerged the fleet-didn't they release this, and the Human Alliance fleet should still be facing them now?

The nuclear flash bomb has not yet disappeared, dozens of beams of light have penetrated the leading heavy battleship, and the ensuing ion artillery fire slammed on the armor of the ship, and the whole ship was pushed flat for several kilometers!Before the optical observation resumed, the obstacle detection radar had issued a collision warning!

The People's Alliance Fleet, at some point, had already turned its bow and rushed towards the second action team. The relative speed of the two armies was too fast, which made the human captain feel that he hadn't reacted at all. By the side of the troops!

Nearby, it is really only a few tens of kilometers away!The trouble now is that the light radiation interferes with the enemy's situation. Their turrets have not turned around yet, but the Renlian warships are already ready to go.

"Fleet..." Latolova took off her military cap and gently stroked the silver badge, "Fire freely."

A formation of 15 remaining Twilight-class ships, a total of 4 with 5 Hammers of Dawn, 120 plasma reconnection cannons, 240 laser close-in defense cannons, 90 "Blizzard" mass launchers with a rate of fire of 12 rounds per second, And 360 nuclear missile silos, at the same time pouring all the firepower on the encircling troops that are close at hand!

In Augustus Star City, after completing the siege of the port, the Matthew Bunker fleet headed by the Beluga is gathering. Right in front of them, the Thunder-class fleet failed to Did not turn, but continued to move forward.

Facing the enemy army that has completed the assembly and has a total of more than 120 warships, these Thunder-class unleash all their firepower and maximize the engine output!

"What are they doing?" Matthew frowned, and then suddenly realized, "Crash... quick, sink them!"

The formation of the large fleet assembled at a low speed is not good to start changing immediately, even if they are the elite trained by Matthew himself.The man at the helm is not a god. If every ship moves, it is easy to collide.So this fleet began to fire forward - more than 40 small boats, facing a wave of tens of thousands of bullets...

Even though it was destroyed, the ships with a speed of a hundred times the speed of sound and a total weight of more than tens of thousands of tons still crashed into the front line by virtue of inertia.The devastating impact pushed the megaton warship out, the big ship hitting the small ship, the small ship hitting the big ship, and finally the asteroid.Huge chaos spread like dominoes, and the complex and narrow space of the Augustus space made it impossible for the Matthew Fleet, which appeared in a dense formation, to avoid collisions—this is by no means a tactic that a decent person would adopt, but this is the first time. Second time!

Once again, Matthew's strategy failed because of suicidal unconventional tactics. These lunatics from the People's League were in Sylla last time, and this time in Augustus. Do they like collisions so much?

And the fleet of the second action group in the distance has been completely wiped out under the attack of artillery fire and zero-distance nuclear explosions. The blue engine flames of the United Fleet have formed a line in the distance and are moving away from them——

But, soon, as soon as Matthew, who lost his hat due to the impact, just got up, his fleet received a message from the commander of the People's Federation Fleet who had already left at this moment.The communication is on a standard channel and is audio only, and is addressed to Matthew by name.

The audio was playing, and only then did Matthew know.

"So my opponent is a woman?"

He shrugged: "It still looks like a terrible woman."

[People's Federation Commander Ratolova respectfully warns the traitor of UEG, the white-eyed wolf of the Republican Army, and the careerist with evil intentions, Matthew Bunker. 】

【The enmity between Sira and Augustus this time, you will definitely pay back, we will find you, hunt you down, and finally destroy you completely! 】

PS: Dear readers, hand over your tickets, otherwise I... seem to have nothing to do?

Chapter [168] The Knowledge Seeker

The streets of Hyperion have returned to calm now.

The wreckage of the accident was finally cleaned up under the organization, and now the appearance of the city has been greatly changed. With the banners hanging on the streets, the large lanterns and the slogans painted on the walls have become the new city. The scenery—this kind of style did not exist in the original world, and the strange sense of strangeness attracted people to watch. The slogans shouted in unison were sonorous and powerful, and the people in the parade were shouting for the coming of the new world. All kinds of men and women walked through the streets and alleys, and beside the team, Republican Army cadres wearing armbands followed and watched together.

Liberty, equality, progress... The slogan rings in my ears, and it seems that the whole person is filled with a world of propaganda.Even the dullest people will understand that the sky has changed, UEG's blue earth flag has been replaced by the orange spark flag, which means that their ideals and careers will surely burn and illuminate the universe.

Ling Zhouzilan walked step by step to the roof of the building, located on the former Governor's Tower at a height of more than 400 meters, from which he could easily overlook the scenery of the whole city.Hyperion has no dome. As the oldest colony, the planet's artificial gravity field binds the oxygen circle to the settlements, creating a "limited" ecological circle.It must be admitted that a civilization has its own advantages. Even if the interstellar civilizations of the past 40 years are limping, they have gone beyond the reach of the United Nations. They are far superior to the United Nations in the work of transforming and colonizing extraterrestrial planets. There are 20 billion people on the planet, and Hyperion, as the main star of the first quadrant, has a total population of 400 billion people inside and outside the planet—in short, just like UEG people can’t understand the existence of the People’s Federation, the vast majority of the People’s Federation People also cannot understand how complicated and huge a civilization that has been inward for [-] years is.

As for the head of the Security Bureau of the People's Federation, Ling Zhouzilan, who has been released for two and a half years, understands.

The crowds walking under the city are like ants. They piled up layer by layer, working on the ground day and night, and built this wide ant nest.Then, some ants live on top of other ants, and some step on top of other ants—sometimes the two are the same thing.Those below are working hard to climb up, and those above are working hard to prevent those below from climbing up, and this momentum has recently undergone a major reversal, status and wealth have been re-divided, many below have reached the top, and those above have turned into corpses and gone to the sky— —

That's right, it's heaven.

As long as you look up, you can see that there are many white cabinets above the planet, arranged around the gravity tunnel, because there is no real atmosphere, it is much simpler than seeing the International Space Station, and each of these cabinets Both are about [-] times larger than the International Space Station.

Thanks to the coldness and sterility of the vacuum, each space cemetery holds millions of remains, and some tens of millions.The dead wore white robes, their faces were serene and even smiling, and they crossed their hands in front of their chests in a gesture of "returning to oneness".It doesn't look like they are dead, just asleep and will wake up one day.

Do you really want to wake up?

No news from the solar system could reach this Republican Army headquarters at all, and the people here didn't know what happened in Titan City.But at the moment when the People's Federation is arresting Unitarians on a large scale in the Saturn circle and the eighth quadrant, a large number of people flee to the Republican Army-controlled area in the upper quadrant every day. Spread the word about how the People's Federation "made up" lies to take the lives of innocent people, compared to the Republican Army who started to cooperate with the Reformists of the Unity Church, at least the Republican Army is just trying to redistribute their property.

"We made the biggest bomb in the world with our own hands."

Ling Zhouzilan said to herself that the pupils of his eyes changed imperceptibly, and his eyes looked like the lens of the camera had just finished focusing, indifferently withdrawing from the two things of looking up at the sky and looking down at the earth, but He also looked at the large space station above the sky above the city of Hyperion—it was an asteroid dragged by the planetary disintegration technology, similar to the Phobos base on Mars of the United Nations, and it is a channel to maintain the gravity converging The end point of this orbital elevator is also the largest space fortress and interstellar port in the area.In this evening, the ships of the Republican Army entering and exiting the port are clearly visible, and the tail flames are like stars, one of which is extraordinarily large.

[Information has been confirmed, the largest planetary cracking ship under the former CE Harmony Group, and also the largest armored aircraft carrier in the history of UEG human beings - the Ishimura is in Hyperion Airport]

A line of small characters appeared in Ling Zhouzilan's eyes, and then disappeared.And soon, Ling Zhouzilan's pupils lit up with other words, as if his eyes were a display screen.And the minister also put on the sunglasses conveniently, as if he didn't notice that it was evening at all.

【Ishimura, is that the ship that fled from Titan City under the firepower of the fleet?Let me see... 1.6KM long, man, they still have such a big boat? 】

The incident happened two months ago, just when the situation in Titan City was about to be brought under control, this giant industrial mother ship that was "scrapped" and was about to be turned into a museum was suddenly activated. The ship attacked, but the ship was so large that the Hammer of Dawn could not even penetrate its vitals.Without waiting for the flagship Yao Xingxing to notice this situation, the Ishimura made an emergency jump to the impact point-this is theoretically impossible, otherwise UEG would not have been beaten so badly by the team.

[The data shows that the Ishimura has multiple extremely large-scale impact point engines, and its effective range is more than five times that of ordinary ships. Because of its power is too powerful, the CE Group once let the Ishimura open a wormhole for a fleet—what does it sound like? So much like Yao Xingxing... It seems that everything makes sense. There are republican agents in Titan City. Since they can pick the right timing so accurately, it seems that the Guiyi Sect is also involved. 】

[This is not surprising, although the Republican Army claims that they want to completely reform the Unification Church, but a cult is always a cult. 】

[This Langton has already contacted the top leaders of the Guiyi Sect. He probably already knows about the God Seal and the corpse mutant, and he also knows what happened in Titan City, but he still chooses to cooperate with the Guiyi Sect?Baby, is this something that humans can do? 】

【Cole, don't get me wrong, this guy has changed from Robin Hood to Sheriff of Nottingham, and if he changes his position, he will change his mind.You can think back to Prescott, or Li Wei. In the eyes of these dictators, human life is just a number. No matter how terrible the seal of God is, as long as it does not fall on his own head, he does not care about the life and death of others. 】