From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 432: The Federation's Two-Bird Strategy

"Doctor Mephisto, are you sure you want to do it yourself?"

The commander of the 24th Fleet, the newly promoted Rear Admiral Mueller, after finishing his communication with the commander of the 23rd Fleet, turned to look at Dr. Mephisto.

"If others can't handle it, I will definitely do it myself." Dr. Mephisto came back to his senses and looked at Major General Mueller and said:

"I'll go to the deployment bay to prepare. From now on, it's up to you to lead us to the appropriate distance."

Before Mueller could say anything, the old man floated towards the hatch of the bridge, ready to take the elevator to the deployment bay on the bottom deck.

"Doctor. Be safe."

"Don't worry, Major General, just focus on commanding and don't worry about us."

Dr. Mephisto smiled and said one last thing before the hatch closed:
"If something goes wrong and we are trapped in the fortress, don't hesitate and don't send anyone to rescue us. Command the fleet to evacuate immediately. You have a more important mission."

As Dr. Mephisto finished his words, the hatch leading to the outside world on the bridge closed again.

Rear Admiral Mueller sat back in the captain's seat, looked at the burning space outside the panoramic window, took a deep breath and ordered:
"All fleets, begin attacking according to the battle plan and cover the assault team's breakthrough into the target fortress!"

Under his order, all the lights inside the warships turned red in combat mode. The mixed red light shone on the transparent helmet of Muller's cabin suit, obscuring his expression.

As the fleet commander of the newly formed 24th Fleet, Mueller and Barak, who had also just been promoted to major general and was in charge of commanding the newly formed 23rd Fleet, were originally going to lead two fully equipped fleets straight to the front line as fresh forces to support Marshal Trafalgar's "strategic decisive battle."

But a few days before departure, Defense Secretary Miller, after communicating with Marshal Trafalgar, temporarily "intercepted" the two fleets. At the same time, he and the Chief of Staff of the Naval Command personally found the two newly promoted major generals and asked them to secretly lead the fleets to participate in the operation against Atlas.

Naturally, the two had heard of this private enterprise that had defeated the Federation Army and even directly crushed the Thirteenth Fleet in the Pyla IV conflict.

At first, the two of them thought they were going to lead the fleet to directly support the military-industrial complex's fleet battle - this was even the arrangement when the federal government and the military-industrial complex discussed it.

But when they arrived at the attack preparation airspace and opened the encrypted message left by Miller, they realized that their real mission was to escort the commandos and Dr. Mephisto into the fortress while the Corporate Fleet was attacking.

In other words, regardless of whether the military-industrial complex fleet sends them a distress signal, the 23rd and 24th fleets will find opportunities to enter the scene.

Mueller was born into a naval family. Having grown up in such an environment, he knows much more than ordinary people about the unsavory affairs between the federal government, the military, and the military-industrial complex.

So after seeing the real mission of their two fleets this time, he quickly guessed that this was actually a two-birds-with-one-stone strategy for the Federation.

When he was sitting in the captain's seat and broke away from the jump, and saw the beaten Combined Fleet, he knew that his guess was very likely to be true.

When the Corporate Fleet and Atlas are fighting fiercely, they can take the opportunity to send the commandos into the fortress to carry out the mission, which can also cause serious damage to the military-industrial complex or Atlas.

Judging from the current situation, it seems that the losses of the military-industrial complex are even more serious. Mueller estimates that if their two main naval fleets do not take action, Atlas may really destroy the joint fleet of the military-industrial complex.

On the other side, Amber, Guterres and others, as well as the military-industrial complex, also noticed the two federal naval fleets that came to "support". This moment can be said to be a mixed bag. Amber and others were still a little surprised and nervous when they saw these two regular military fleets with complete organization and no reduction in ship quality.

Firstly, no one expected that the Federation would have assembled two fully staffed fleets, and secondly, no one expected that the federal government would send these two fleets, whose ships looked very new, to support the military-industrial complex.

Megan, Bell and the others felt a sense of relief after seeing the arrival of the "friendly" fleet. Megan even shouted in a trembling voice on the communication channel: "The reinforcements have arrived, and victory will eventually belong to us!"

But soon, both Amber and Megan found that the situation was a little different from what they thought.

The two newly arrived federal naval fleets did not follow the usual procedures and deploy standard artillery formations to attack the unmanned fleet or the A.Bava.Ku asteroid fortress. Instead, they deployed a formation for a forced breakthrough and rushed directly in the direction of the fortress.

When Megan saw this scene, the excitement on his face was quickly extinguished. He immediately realized that the two federal naval fleets that entered the scene were not here to support them at all.

"Warning! The deflection field generator is overloaded!" The sudden warning from the shipboard control personality brought Megan back to her senses.

Ever since the unmanned fleet entered the field and began the attack, his flagship had become the enemy's main target of attack. Under the control of the shipborne control personalities adjusted by Lilith, the shooting accuracy of the unmanned fleet was far higher than that of the corporate joint fleet.

So the deflection field of the USS Hood, where Megan was, could no longer hold on and was directly overloaded after withstanding several rounds of concentrated fire from the main battleships of the unmanned fleet.

"This ship is in emergency evasion! Send a signal to Bunker Hill and Evanis to take over at the same time. The damage control team and technical team should immediately organize emergency repairs!"

At the same time Megan issued the order, the most complete unmanned fleet 6500 kilometers away also captured the Kraken-class battleship, which was the main target of attack, and was urgently adjusting its posture and trying to hide behind friendly forces.

The onboard control personalities of the five Kraken-class unmanned battleships reacted quickly at this moment. After releasing the working fluid for forced cooling, the main guns at the bow immediately launched a new round of salvos.

Dozens of heavy metal ion jets traveled a distance of 6500 kilometers and arrived in front of the Hood two seconds later, but most of the attacks were blocked by the other two heavy cruisers that were already in position.

Although this round of salvos also overloaded their deflection field generators, it still prevented the Hood from having to use its "body" to withstand dozens of heavy metal particle jets.

Unfortunately, two heavy metal jets almost brushed past the deflection field of the heavy cruiser, and the attack that was supposed to hit the main armor belt of the bow of the Hood was slightly deflected by the magnetic field.
It directly tore open the side armor of the Hood battleship at a large angle, and then the scattered heavy metal particles were like shotgun shells fired at close range, making sand holes in the black body coating and titanium alloy frame under the main armor, and finally swept across a group of superconducting battery stacks.

"Warning, superconducting battery stack No. 04 has lost its superconductivity! Emergency isolation is in progress."

"boom!"

The high-temperature plasma, which had lost its restraint, violently broke through the isolation door that had not yet been closed, and then directly spread along the channels and pipelines to the other two adjacent superconducting battery stacks.

"grass!"

Megan Ford, commander of the Combined Fleet, only had time to utter her last word before she, along with the Hood and thousands of crew members on board, were engulfed by the high-temperature plasma fireball.

(End of this chapter)