From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 563: Federal Fleet: Increased Stakes

"Report! The enemy squadron in the front is moving!"

On the bridge of the 18th Fleet of the Federation Navy, the flagship of the Galileo, Rear Admiral Stoner, who had been in a panic because of the Atlas fleet that appeared in the nadir direction, immediately looked up at the optical sensor screen after hearing the report from the tactical information coordinator.

In the picture that was combined with synthetic aperture radar imaging and adjusted for clarity and brightness, the Atlas Task Force III, which had been hiding behind the unmanned fleet, led by the huge "Infinity", rushed out from above the unmanned fleet and deployed an attack formation.

In the next second, the ship's onboard control personality of the 'Galileo' also issued an alarm.

"Warning, high-energy reaction detected! Based on the characteristics of the energy reaction, it is determined to be a 'super-heavy purification beam'!"

"Warning! Detected."

"warn!"

The shipboard control personality broadcast the warning three times in a row. Since the feature library of the Federal Navy's main fleet had been updated recently, it was able to successfully identify the type of upcoming attack.

But this did not make Rear Admiral Stoner and his men happy, especially when the shipboard control personality issued the same warning again a few seconds later.

However, this time the high-energy response direction is from the fleet's nadir direction.
"Attention, entire fleet! Emergency disband the artillery formation, and all ships should distance themselves from each other and prepare to evade!"

Major General Stoner immediately issued a new order. After Atlas's Infinity-class super flagship had made several "appearances", the commanders of the Federation Navy already knew how outrageous the main gun of this thing was.

Especially after the fleet was arranged in a bombardment formation, a long line of
It's just that Stoner's order was issued a little late, or it can be said that the large fleet composed of four main fleets is inherently not flexible enough.

As a large number of warships opened their attitude control nozzles to adjust their combat positions, two golden purification beams shone from the front and nadir of the fleet.

Since human warships have not yet installed "psychic shield generators" to defend against weapons such as purification beams, there are currently no warships that can block the attacks of purification beams.

The Infinity-class super flagship can greatly reduce the irradiation of the purification beam with its extremely thick physical armor, but according to Saleh's calculations, even if it is hit by one and does not disintegrate, it will basically lose the ability to continue fighting.
So when the two purification beams crossed and swept through the federal fleet, the captains of the federal warships present would be even more desperate than if they encountered an artificial celestial fortress.

After all, with just one sweep of the 'Focusing Rainbow', more than 70% of the warships in the dense formation would be blasted into pieces, so there would be no pain.

But this golden purification beam can be called "top torture". You can only watch the friendly troops on the axis of the beam being penetrated and exploded one by one, but you are powerless and can only pray that the enemy's next attack will not be directed at you.

At the same time, he had to command his own warship and start to avoid the wreckage formed by the sinking of friendly ships in this chaos.
On the bridge of the Galileo, Rear Admiral Stoner fell silent as he looked at the real-time casualties of the fleet on the main screen in front of him.

But even though they were in such an unfavorable situation, he still believed that it was still unclear who would win, after all, they still had the advantage in terms of fleet numbers.

Besides, they don't have any other cards to play.
After two Infinity-class super flagships completed three rounds of irradiation with super-heavy purification beam generators, the nightmare of the Federation Navy warships finally came to an end.

At least in the short term, they don't have to worry about dying from this unreasonable AOE attack.

But at this time, the two Infinity-class super flagships had switched to conventional combat mode, and the 40 heavy particle cannons on the bow began to roar. The "Dawn" even led the Atlas First Fleet, which had already formed an attack formation, to launch an assault.

The entire fleet was like a sharp sword piercing the sky, and the "Dawn" was the tip of the sword, attacking the federal fleet vertically from the ecliptic plane with the force of thunder.

The moment they entered practical attack range, all the warships of the First Fleet opened fire at full power at the same time.

The blue-white beams from the heavy particle cannons poured out like a rainstorm, sweeping past the most vulnerable angles of the Federation Fleet. The warships of the Federation Fleet fell into chaos under this sudden and fierce attack from a tricky angle.

The deflection force field in the direction of the bottom deck of the warship is already of relatively low strength, and in previous exchanges of fire, most warships focused their protection of the deflection force field on the bow direction.

So after suffering an attack from the direction of the bottom deck, the deflection force field in this area quickly collapsed, losing its protective function like broken glass, and the silver-white electric light also dimmed.

One warship after another was hit and exploded, flames bloomed in the universe, and plasma fireballs began to expand, like gorgeous fireworks, but full of the breath of death.

Although there was no shock wave in space, the battleship still threw out a large amount of debris that flew everywhere after it disintegrated and rolled.

Some of them directly collided with other warships that were unable to evade, triggering a chain reaction, causing more explosions and flying more debris.

This directly led to a large number of warships having to activate close-in weapon groups and begin intercepting these equally dangerous targets.

The other part of the debris and the frozen bodies of the crew members were "lucky" enough to drift outside this area of ​​the universe and became cosmic garbage, wandering like lonely ghosts in the endless void.

It was at this moment that Major General Stoner finally issued new orders.

"All fleets, attack the enemy in front with all your might and defeat them first!
All HCP forces, break through the enemy fleet's flank at all costs and carry out anti-ship operations! "

The commander of the federal fleet had a simple idea at this time, which was to defeat part of the Atlas fleet while still having the advantage in troop strength, further expand the advantage in troop strength, and then defeat the remaining enemies.

The reason why he specifically ordered the HCP forces to attack and carry out anti-ship operations was very simple.

He knew very well that the two unmanned fleets on the opposite side did not carry HCPs. Whether it was the "official data" of the previous unmanned fleets or the observations of the unmanned fleets from the beginning of the war to the present, they all made him sure that the two unmanned fleets did not carry aircraft.

Although the remaining Third Task Force has HCP units, their number cannot compare with the massive HCP of the Federal Fleet.

In this case, the numerical advantage of the Federation Fleet's HCP may be greater than the numerical advantage of both fleets.

Once the HCP clusters attacking from both wings are able to break through and penetrate into the enemy's fleet formation, they will also cause great damage to the Atlas fleet.

After all, the Federation Fleet has four main fleets and more than 4 HCPs.
Amber and Randall soon discovered the intention of the federal fleet, and everyone thought of this at the pre-war meeting, but unfortunately there was no good solution.

When having a great disadvantage in military strength, many tactical arrangements will be stretched.

Even Amber and Guterres, who assisted remotely, were unable to come up with a suitable solution.

The final conclusion is that the Third Task Force and the two unmanned fleets must rely on themselves to survive this "dangerous period" until the First Fleet arrives to provide support.
So Randall quickly ordered all the warships of the Third Task Force to also carry out a "full-deck attack". All HCPs and heavy armored combat boats must do their best to help the fleet survive this dangerous period.

Just as one Aegis after another was placed on the electromagnetic catapult track and sent into space, Selina's alarm sounded on the bridge of the Infinity.

"Warning! Unauthorized space fluctuations detected, suspected to be a fleet-level collective jump!"

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(End of this chapter)