Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 464 Making Choices
Under the leadership of the four capital ships, more than 100 small warships formed a square formation, uniformly facing the front with the strongest attack power and the strongest defense.

Phalanx is the simplest and most commonly used battle formation.

Simply put, these warships deployed on a vertical plane can concentrate all their firepower in one direction, and can attack one target or multiple targets.Because the warship has the smallest frontal projection area and the strongest protection, it can also improve the overall defense capability of the fleet.

However, the phalanx is not omnipotent, and has a very prominent shortcoming.

That is, the flanks of the phalanx are extremely fragile, and if they are attacked from the side, they can be easily defeated.Therefore, in fleet decisive battles, the phalanx is often formed when fighting an evenly matched opponent, in order to maximize the attack power of the fleet.If you are facing a more powerful opponent, forming a phalanx to fight is courting death.In addition, in some special cases, the phalanx can also play a role.

For example, now, it is necessary to block the enemy and cover the evacuation of other ships.

To put it bluntly, as long as the warships of the Lei Ling clan stand in front, the warships of the Weaving Star clan will not be able to attack the evacuating transport spaceships in the distance.

It is obviously not an easy task to defeat more than 100 Lei Ling warships commanded by four battleships.

Even if Lin Feng was flying the Queen's Fighter, there were only dozens of small warships accompanying her, and she did not have an absolute advantage in strength.Even if the ten Liuying warships are counted, in terms of combat power, they are at most equal to the Lei Ling fleet with four capital ships, and there is no absolute advantage.

Lin Feng didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately flew back in the fighter plane, and gave orders to all the battleships at the same time.

Rushing into the Leiling clan fleet is tantamount to death.

One must know that more than 100 Leiling warships forming a phalanx can concentrate their firepower on one target.If the warships of the Weaving Star Clan attack separately without organization, it is tantamount to allowing the opponents to defeat them one by one.Let alone small warships, even capital ships cannot survive the concentrated fire attack of hundreds of warships.The attack must be organized, and only in this way can the enemy be defeated.

Fortunately, the captains of the warships of the Weaving Star Clan are very smart, and they are very familiar with the tactics of fleet battles.

After Lin Feng gave the order, dozens of warships lined up in a neat formation, but it was not a square formation, but a conical formation that was more conducive to attack.

If the square formation can attack and defend, then the conical formation is a pure offensive formation.

The conical array has a warship as the core, and other warships are lined up behind it, so as to concentrate the attack power of the fleet on one point and use it to break through the enemy's defense line.Under normal circumstances, the most powerful warship in the fleet is the core, and other warships follow in order according to their combat power.

In fact, this is also the most commonly used array for the Star Weaving Clan fleet.

If it is the main fleet of the Weaving Star Clan, then the God Mother must be the core.

The problem is that Lin Feng is not commanding the main fleet of the Weaving Star Clan. Not only does it not have a super warship like the God Mother, but it does not even have a capital ship.

The position at the top of the array was reserved for Lin Feng.

The attack power of small battleships is not strong, especially in front of capital ships. In comparison, the Queen's fighter plane driven by Lin Feng is even more prominent.

Obviously, in order to break through the phalanx formed by the Leiling fleet, especially the blockade of the four capital ships, we can only pin our hopes on the Queen's fighter plane.

Lin Feng did not shirk, she is the commander of this fleet, she should take the lead.

However, the ten Liuying ships did not join the queue.

At this time, the ten female warriors who had previously driven the space fighter to fight the enemy had returned to their battleship and took over the command of the battleship.

When Lin Feng ordered to form an array, ten Liuying ships left the battlefield as quickly as possible.

It's not about escaping or evacuating, but with other plans.

Attacking the fleet phalanx from the front is the most stupid and old-fashioned way.If there is an absolute advantage in combat power, the problem is not too big.If there is no absolute advantage in combat power, especially a strong enough attack power, then attacking from the front will definitely run into trouble.

Obviously, Commander Lin Feng's fleet does not have an absolute advantage in combat power, and its attack power is not strong either.

Even if the attack power of the Queen's Fighter is comparable to that of a capital ship, the other small warships in the fleet lack attack power, not to mention on par with a capital ship, or even not much better than the small warships of the Ralink family.Relying on these small warships, it is obviously impossible to break through the enemy's phalanx.

Attacking from the side is the ideal way to break through the fleet phalanx.

Undoubtedly, the Flowing Shadow Ship has an advantage in speed, and its attack power is not weak.If they can maneuver to the side of the enemy while Lin Feng and the others hold them back, and then launch an attack, they can disrupt the formation of the enemy fleet, thus achieving twice the result with half the effort.

However, Lin Feng still didn't have much confidence.

The key point is that there are four capital ships in the Leiling clan's fleet, and they are all SSS-class capital ships.

Although the four battleships were built more than 1000 years ago, that is, during the Fifth Greenwich War, they can be regarded as old-fashioned, but a battleship is a battleship, and its attack power and protection capabilities are far superior to those of small warships. In terms of performance, the only thing that is not as good is the maneuverability.

In fact, these four battleships are not far behind.

Quite simply, the peaceful and prosperous world that lasted for 1000 years made all top civilizations, including the Leiling clan, pay less attention to the construction and development of military power.As a result, the military technology of the Galactic Federation has not advanced much in the past 1000 years.

Although after the end of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Galactic Alliance did not believe that a truce would bring permanent peace, and the Silicon Magic Alliance would not forget the shame brought about by the fiasco. Therefore, the truce is only a truce, which only allows the two sides to If you have time to recover, the war will break out again when you have the strength to start a war again. Therefore, in the next 400 years or so, most civilizations in the Galactic Alliance, including the top civilizations, focus on military construction. The size of the army during the war was reduced, and a lot of resources were spent on developing military technology.But after that, the war did not break out again as most people expected, and all kinds of intelligence showed that the Silicon Magic Alliance did not have the ability to launch an invasion in the short term, nor did it prepare for the war.The result is that, including the seven top-level civilizations, the various civilizations of the Milky Way Alliance have successively reduced their emphasis on military construction, and even the Human Federation has been affected.In the following 500 years, the military technology of the Galactic Alliance has not achieved substantial development. Even some advanced technologies that have been developed have not been popularized and applied due to factors such as cost.

It can be said that the Galactic Federation wasted these 500 years.

Although they are maintaining their military power, the seven top civilizations of the Galactic Alliance, including the Railing Clan, have successively built some new warships. New technologies have been introduced, but compared with the large number of capital ships in existence, the newly built capital ships are not many at all.Even in the Lei Ling fleet, the main battleships built during the Fifth Greenwich War are still the main ones, and the proportion of newly built battleships is less than 500%.In addition, through improvements and other methods, many battleships that have been in service for more than 300 years still have sufficient combat effectiveness.

Before the outbreak of the Sixth Greenwich War, I am afraid that even Wanluo Warlord believed that those capital ships that had undergone modernization and improvements were sufficient to deal with the threat of the Silicon Demon Alliance.

Obviously, this is not the case.

The battle that took place in the fourth area of ​​the North has proved that in the past 1000 years, the Silicon Magic Alliance has not been unprepared, but has been preparing, but it has not been discovered by the Galactic Alliance.More importantly, the Silicon Ghost Alliance has focused its war preparations on military technology.Among other things, if the Silicon Charm army was able to bypass the Greenwich defense line and directly appear in the fourth northern district, they must have mastered more advanced space jumping technology.

Of course, these are far-fetched.

Although ten Liuying warships were maneuvering to the side of the Leiling clan fleet, Lin Feng still didn't have much confidence.Even if all the battleships are concentrated to attack an enemy ship, only one capital ship can be destroyed.When the Lei Ling clan's fleet launched a counterattack, these small warships commanded by Lin Feng would suffer catastrophe.One must know that even a streamer might not be able to block the powerful firepower of a capital ship, let alone an ordinary small warship.

Is it necessary to fight to the death with the enemy?
At this time, Lin Feng hesitated, or became rational.

In the distance, the transport fleet of the Lei Ling clan is retreating under the protection of battleships, that is, performing space jumps, and the remaining battleships are only responsible for breaking the rear.Obviously, after the transport fleet withdrew, these warships would also retreat and would not fight a decisive battle with the Star Weaving Clan fleet led by the Empress Fighter.If there is a decisive battle, at least not only more than 100 warships will be left behind, nor will they rush over to fight the Weaving Star Clan fleet.

The enemy is already planning to retreat, is it necessary to fight to the end?

Don't forget, the purpose of Lin Feng's coming here is to support Yang Yi and the others, not to annihilate the Leiling clan fleet, and no one expects her to use dozens of small warships to wipe out the Leiling clan fleet.

More importantly, Lin Feng already knew that Yang Yi was not here, but on Slag Star.

In addition, the [-] human legions brought by Yang Yi are also on the slag planet, and they are facing more than a dozen Leiling clan legions that have already entered the slag planet.

Apparently, the withdrawal of the Lei Ling clan fleet indicated that the legion stationed on Slag Star had been abandoned.

That is to say, even if we wiped out the surviving Leiling Clan warships, it would not help the human legions who were fighting with the Leiling Clan Legion on Slag Planet.

On the contrary, if too much time is delayed here, it will be very detrimental to the human legion.

Don't forget, the combat power of the Lei Ling clan's legion is definitely higher than that of the human legion.

Lin Feng had already thought that if the situation was not urgent, Yang Yi would never let ten Liuying ships attack the Lei Ling fleet, so the situation on Slag Planet must be very bad.

It is not difficult at all to choose between annihilating the enemy's fleet and rescuing Yang Yi.

(End of this chapter)