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Chapter 627: You Can Pull

This moment may be the most stressful moment in Ye Lixia's life.

She had been a navy officer for quite some time, but before joining the Alliance Navy, she had only been the captain of a single ship. It was in the Alliance that she became an admiral of the Imperial Navy, commanding the Alliance's huge fleet.

Battleships, aircraft carriers, battlecruisers...are all under her command.

This is almost the pinnacle of life that an imperial naval commander can achieve.

Can an ordinary admiral have such a powerful fleet under his command?
I'm afraid that won't work.

Even an admiral wouldn't be enough, but a marshal might be enough.

However, although Ye Lixia had commanded many of the previous actions, Gu Hang's role could not be ignored. Although her husband did not directly interfere with the actions of the fleet, the greatest means of victory for the entire fleet was undoubtedly Gu Hang's psychic power. The actions of the fleet were to be coordinated with Gu Hang's psychic power.

Usually, whenever Gu Hang tears open the shield of an enemy ship, the fleet's firepower will be directed at that enemy ship, so Ye Licia doesn't need to worry too much.

Although she was very happy about the victory after victory, which became her medal of honor as a naval commander, she also understood that those things did not belong to her completely, and were not obtained entirely by her ability, but by taking advantage of Gu Hang.

She certainly wouldn't be so ignorant as to ask for a chance to prove her abilities.

War is no joke. If a ship's void shield is hit by one more shot, the energy consumed by the shield will be valuable. If the armor is hit by one more shot, the dents and cracks will need to be repaired in the dock, using large-scale engineering machinery to repair the surface of the ship.

It's all money!
Nothing related to the navy is cheap.

But putting aside the reality, she had similar fantasies in her heart.

She has always been a strong-willed person eager to prove herself.

And now, unexpectedly, this opportunity was before her.

Without the help of psychic power, Gu Hang devoted himself to the battlefield of another dimension and had no time to care about the naval battle in the real universe. He also fully delegated power and trusted her. She is now the supreme commander of the entire fleet, and everything is up to her.

What she has to face is a huge challenge.

The enemy is more powerful than the Alliance Fleet, and she is at a disadvantage... How is she going to fight this battle?

When such a challenge was really put in front of her, she regretted it and would rather not have such an opportunity.

What's wrong with a simple victory?

But the reason why a challenge is a challenge is that it cannot be diverted by her will and she must face it.

And she is also very pragmatic.

This battle cannot be won.

It's not worth it to win.

Although, she didn't know what Gu Hang's situation was like on the battlefields of the two worlds, and whether he could quickly win and return to the real universe to help, she couldn't pin her hopes on this, she had to make the right decision independently.

Rather than staying here, using inferior naval forces and making huge sacrifices to try to delay the situation until Gu Hang was free, or to win the war, Ye Licia decided that it would be better to be safe.

She decided to withdraw.

But it definitely doesn't mean he will just turn around and run away with the fleet.

Otherwise, under the pursuit of enemy ships, who knows how many ships would be lost on the way back to Aramita.

The entire fleet, under the command of Ye Lixia, maintained its fleet formation. The coordination between the ships was relatively tight, and the entire fleet circled around, ensuring that the frontal firepower was facing the enemy while trying to increase the distance between the two sides.

The biggest advantage of this strategy is that the greater the distance between the two sides, the less effective the firepower will be. When a macro cannon takes a long time to fly to hit, no matter how powerful the auspicious array, psychic calculation array, and trajectory calculation are, the hit rate will be low to a certain extent.

The light spear would be slightly better, and the hit rate might not be affected that much, but the power attenuation of energy weapons would become exaggerated due to the long distance.

In short, as the distance increases, the intensity of the naval battle will naturally decrease.

When the distance is far enough, they can leave the battlefield and return directly to Aramita; even if they are still being attacked, as long as the intensity of the naval battle is reduced and the damage to the ships is acceptable, it is not uncommon for such a naval battle to last for ten days or half a month. After a long battle, wouldn't they be able to return to Aramita while fighting and retreating?
At this point, Ye Licia had to be thankful that the alliance's previous strategy in Aramita was quite valuable.

If they hadn't taken over that place quickly and decisively, and hadn't taken control of the orbital defense system and the ground-based orbital artillery fortress, with five army groups and a total of over 100 million Alliance Army troops stationed on the planet, the situation would have been really dire.

Now, they at least have a perfect backup to rely on.

Back to Aramita, with the support of the rail system, there is nothing to worry about.

Although the strength of the Varuk fleet is stronger, it is not on the same level. It is impossible for them to attack the Alliance fleet under the cover of the orbital defense system. If they really dare to come up so recklessly, then Ye Lishia will not mind using a head-on attack to add a few more glorious medals for herself.

If the Varuk fleet chooses to besiege and cut off external supply lines, there is nothing to worry about. When the main fleet of the Alliance suffers little loss, it will continue to maintain the initiative, and the Mechanicus fleet cannot be too presumptuous, otherwise Yelishia can attack at any time and bite them hard.

There's nothing wrong with the whole idea.

The problem is execution.

Will the mechanical fleet allow them to do this?
It seems that he is unwilling.

They sped up and rushed up again, chasing.

If Ye Licia wants to stop their pursuit, she must ensure that she has enough deterrent power.

The firepower of the main battleship is the most important aspect, and the six hundred Space Marines who were previously ordered to attack are another aspect.

The latest news Ye Licia received was that they all landed successfully.

However, they encountered stubborn resistance within the fleet.

In the end, only one team completed the mission.

The two hundred shadow warriors finished their work. They detonated the enemy ship's engine compartment and energy compartment, and caused a violent explosion inside the ship!

The explosion directly destroyed the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser.

In fact, more than a hundred shadow warriors, at the moment before the explosion, snatched the small spaceship that originally belonged to the ship of the Mechanicus, or found the landing spacecraft they used when they came and ran back.

However, the fate of the other four hundred Space Marines was more tragic.

They could only say that they had accomplished their mission to some extent, destroying 60% of its weapon systems and briefly occupying the bridge, but failed to destroy it.

When the more than one hundred survivors of the Shadow Regiment returned, the progress of the four hundred warriors of Fury and New World Torch remained at the current stage.

They should not have died yet, the second captain of the New World Torch, Erich, was still leading a considerable number of space warriors to fight stubbornly inside the enemy ship. However, the losses they suffered in the battle inside the ship were too great, and after the number of them was sharply reduced, the possibility of completing the mission became increasingly slim.

At the same time, they had almost no chance to evacuate.

At this stage, they can basically be considered wiped out.

The total loss of 500 Space Marines was quite large, but in Ye Lishia's opinion, this sacrifice was worthwhile and necessary.

This directly resulted in one of the other battlecruisers being destroyed and another one falling into chaos. Even if their subsequent ship damage management department could repair some of the firepower and some of the command system, the effect of the emergency repair would probably not be very good, and the ship's combat effectiveness would inevitably be severely affected.

Destroying one and paralyzing one of the enemy's six battlecruisers has greatly reduced the pressure on our side.

This is not just reflected in the head-on confrontation between the fleets.

Ye Lixia's plan was to make a detour, increase the distance between the two and reduce the intensity of the battle. In this plan, the biggest threat was not the two mechanical arks and two retribution-class battleships in the Varuk fleet.

The four ships were powerful in frontal combat, but they were all heavy and bulky. The real trouble was the six Dragon Snake class ships.

Battlecruisers run fast, so they can catch up first, delay and annoy the Alliance Fleet. They can even temporarily break away from their own formation and bypass the Alliance Fleet to intercept and delay it.

Although Ye Licia also had some plans to deal with it, the risks were definitely greatly increased.

It would be best if we could eliminate the two ships right away, as this would reduce the subsequent pressure a lot.

Ye Licia even thought about doing it again.

Even if we sacrifice another 500 Space Marines to exchange for the two opposing battleships, it is not impossible.

However, to be on the safe side, she did not send out as many troops in the second wave.

Although New World Torch and Rage Flame still wanted to continue fighting, and even hoped to be sent to the battleship where their brothers had fought before, on the one hand to complete the unfinished mission, on the other hand, to try to rescue some people.

But it was rejected by Ye Lishia.

She just silently sent out two hundred shadow regiments, targeting the third Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser.

But this time, the results were less than ideal.

They still had the cover of fighter jets launched by the HMS Eagle Horse, but the losses during the boarding process were relatively heavy this time, with more than fifty people being shot down on the way before they even got on board.

Then, the 150 people who successfully boarded the ship, with the assistance of a small number of Marines, failed to complete the mission perfectly. They still only paralyzed the enemy ship's command system but failed to completely destroy it.

And, they were unable to withdraw.

Ye Licia also clearly realized that the previous success might have a small probability.

She stopped gambling.

After all, not all Space Marines can be used for this kind of thing.

The Varuk fleet was also boarding. Those strange, anti-reconnaissance spores that could stick to the ship's armor and corrode a hole to invade were also quite disgusting. The invasion caused by the suicide squadrons that rushed up earlier had not been resolved even after two standard Terra days at the beginning of the naval battle.

Moreover, the Mechanicus is still continuously sending these boarding spores in the reverse direction.

The Alliance Fleet has greatly increased its vigilance and strengthened its interception efforts. But just as our own boarding torpedoes can board enemy ships, those boarding spores cannot be completely intercepted.

In fact, their probability of successful landing is not low, at least higher than conventional boarding torpedoes and boarding spacecraft. Now only a few occasionally float over and cause some trouble, but can we rule out the possibility of the enemy launching a large-scale attack?

I'm afraid not.

In this situation, the Space Marines have to take small boats to rescue the invaded ships of their own.

You need to be on guard.

Now, using the Space Marines' boarding tactics, one battlecruiser has been destroyed, greatly reducing the combat effectiveness of the two battlecruisers. This is enough.

In the subsequent process of increasing the combat distance, or even fighting and retreating, the threat posed by the remaining three battlecruisers of the Mechanicus was relatively limited.

They also tried to conduct a detour to intercept, but suffered a great loss. It did delay the Alliance fleet a little, but the price they paid was that a Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser was severely damaged and nearly destroyed.

After being beaten back, they tried to launch another wave of high-density boarding spores, but the embarrassing thing was that this type of boarding spores had the advantages of stealth and high success rate of boarding, but its speed was really slow.

During the high-speed maneuvers of the Alliance fleet, more than half of them failed to land at the designated positions and could only be embarrassingly recovered by the Varuk fleet later.

The remaining boarding spores that arrived at the designated location at the designated time did indeed exert their effect. Except for those that were intercepted, a considerable proportion of the rest completed the landing and released the half-mechanical, half-insect modified servitors into the interior of the alliance ship.

But they were met with fierce counterattack.

The trick that Ye Licia had kept came in handy at this time.

The three elite forces of the Alliance, the Glory Guards, the Battle Sisters, and the Space Marines, had already boarded various small ships and fighter planes when they detected the approach of large-scale boarding spores.

When transferring between one's own ships, the risk is definitely very small. There are indeed cases where one is hit by the artillery fire from the enemy fleet from afar, but they are very rare and only occur to the very unlucky.

In the vast majority of cases, the transfer can be completed smoothly.

They are a rapid response force that will go to the ships most severely invaded by boarding spores to assist the Marines on board to resolve the invading enemies.

The whole process is about speed.

This crisis was overcome in this way.

Afterwards, the Mechanicus fleet launched a full-force rapid advance, but the bulky mechanical ark carrying two Retribution-class battleships could not move fast enough.

In the end, they seemed to have accepted their fate.

They even stopped chasing Yelicia's ships and turned their target directly to Aramita.

Anyway, doesn’t your alliance want to go back?
Then wouldn’t it be better if I’m faster than you and intercept you at the destination?

But this time, they failed again.

The Alliance had some fleets return to Aramita first.

(End of this chapter)