From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 467: The Ultimate Showdown of Old School Commanders

There was no need for Guterres to explain much, as other members of the "Command Observation Group" quickly understood what he meant.

In the past, when the speed of long-distance communications was limited, it was difficult for naval fleets to fight on an extremely long front. At most, they could uniformly stipulate the time for launching an attack and tactical retreat. The efficiency of joint operations was extremely poor, and there was no such thing as complex operations such as "front line linkage."

Therefore, large-scale fleet decisive battles often involve both sides concentrating their forces and then fighting to the death in a certain galaxy.

This also means that although the battle lines controlled by both sides are very long, there are only a few key galaxies where large-scale fighting can break out.

In land battles on the surface of planets, the spectacular scenes of both sides launching all-out attacks have never appeared in fleet battles in space.

However, the "quantum entanglement communication technology" developed by the Atlas Group directly fills in the last "technical puzzle" needed for "long-distance frontline cybernetics".

Because among the five key elements supporting the military theory studied by Marshal Trafalgar - communication and information processing, resource and material support, command and control, decision support system, and dynamic scheduling algorithm, the most important one is "communication and information processing" which ranks first.

This is also the basis for achieving coordinated attack and defense of a large number of fleets on long-distance battle lines.

When the members of the "Command Observation Group" were discussing the possible battle that might happen next based on the star map, Cleves suddenly spoke up:
"Speaking of which, Atlas has communication business cooperation with the Federation and the Empire. Since both of them currently have ultra-long-distance real-time communication technology, there is no technological gap on the Imperial Royal Navy side. They should also be able to develop similar military theories, right?"

After hearing his words, everyone stopped discussing and nodded in agreement, but Guterres still looked a little embarrassed while nodding.

After he and Van Fleet officially joined the Atlas Group, Amber quickly took him to meet Cleves and Randall.

When Guterres learned that the commander of the Atlas Fleet that defeated the 13th Fleet led by him in the fleet battle in the orbit of Pella IV was his student when he taught at the Federal Naval Academy, the former Federal Navy Vice Admiral felt complicated.

He was proud of the student he taught - the kind he had no impression of - for being able to achieve such an achievement in fleet command as 'defeating the main fleet of the navy with a smaller force'.

At the same time, he also felt a little embarrassed that he and the 13th Fleet became the "background board" of this achievement.

He felt even more ashamed when he thought that in the future whenever the Atlas combat fleet's classic battles and the tactic of using massive pre-launched plasma torpedoes to circle the planet to attack the enemy were mentioned, he and the 13th Fleet would definitely be dragged out and "whipped".

When Amber noticed Guterres' emotions, she was very "emotionally intelligent" and spoke to comfort him.

"Don't feel depressed, think from a different perspective and be more open-minded. No loser will be remembered, except you~"

Although Guterres' heart was in turmoil when he thought about this, he quickly adjusted himself.

At the same time, Amber also answered Cleves' question. "Of course the Empire will also develop similar military theories. This is bound to happen, but not now. Although the Star Dragon Empire's navy has the title of 'Royal', in fact, the Royal Navy fleet is still quite divided due to domestic 'party disputes'.

Moreover, the fleets of the major nobles account for a considerable proportion of the empire's naval power, so the situation is even more complicated.

This also means that they will not be able to achieve the same level of joint operations as the Federation Navy, where the entire army obeys one person’s command and carries out joint operations without compromise. "

Amber paused, zoomed in on the star map to Lurna and the surrounding galaxies, and continued:

“Although we don’t know the specific deployment of the Federation Fleet, we only know that the Lurna Galaxy will most likely be the target of attack, but we can still make deductions based on this.

Marshal Trafalgar's purpose was simple, which was to confuse the Empire's reconnaissance forces through a series of pre-war preparations, deployments, and covert fleet maneuvers so that they could not obtain the accurate movements of the Federation Navy.

At the same time, the two mobile fortresses were placed in the open like bait to divert some attention and force the Imperial Fleet to deploy sufficient fleets in these two directions to prevent the mobile fortresses from attacking with superior forces.

After taking the initiative, Marshal Trafalgar should concentrate superior forces and launch attacks from two to four directions, trying to quickly defeat the Imperial fleets in these directions.

If the battle can be resolved before the Imperial Fleet can react, the Empire will be in a passive position. If they want to launch a counterattack, they will be hesitant because they don't know whether these "superior forces" will strike back to form a larger "more against fewer" situation.

If the defense is reduced, there will be concerns about whether the fleets of various galaxies will be blocked by the federal attack fleet during the maneuvering process.
Under normal circumstances, the Imperial Royal Navy would not be so handicapped, but given the complexity of their current command system, I can only say that this possibility is very high. "

Amber's answer and speculation made everyone in the "Command Observation Group" think deeply, especially Guterres, who had a deep understanding of the Federal Navy. He put the "current situation" of the Imperial Fleet provided by Amber into the "deduction model" constructed in his mind.

Soon, this former vice admiral of the Federation Navy, who, in Amber's definition, belonged to the "old-school commander" like Marshal Trafalgar and several dukes from the Empire, also came up with his own deduction results - which were basically the same as what Amber said.

Just when Guterres wanted to go deeper into this issue, Amber's voice came into his ears again.

"Of course, this doesn't mean that the Empire will definitely suffer a great loss. If Marshal Trafalgar's 'multi-point breakthrough' fails to achieve quick results, or even ends up in a protracted war, then the situation will be completely different.

The Empire will soon discover that the Federation Navy has dispersed its forces in order to achieve a 'multi-point breakthrough'. At this time, no matter who is in charge of the Imperial Navy, there is a high probability that they will use one of the favorite tactics of the 'old-school naval commanders'. "

"What tactics?" Randall, who had been listening carefully but not speaking, asked curiously.

"Change home."

(End of this chapter)