Chapter 627, You Can Pull

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

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

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

This is almost the peak of life that an Imperial Navy commander can achieve.

Can an ordinary admiral have such a powerful fleet under their command?

I'm afraid it won't work.

Even a navy admiral can't do it, but a navy marshal may be about the same.

However, although Ye Lishia was in charge of many actions before this, Gu Hang's role in them cannot be ignored. Although her husband did not directly interfere with how the fleet acted, the biggest means for the entire fleet to win was undoubtedly Gu Hang's psychic power. The actions of the fleet were to cooperate with Gu Hang's psychic power.

Often, Gu Hang tore open the shield of the enemy ship, and the fleet's firepower would be directed at that enemy ship, and Ye Lishia didn't need to worry too much.

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

She certainly would not be ignorant and ask others to give her a chance to prove her ability.

War is not a joke. If the ship's void shield is hit by one more shot, the energy value of the curse shield consumed is very high; if the armor is hit by one more shot, the dents and cracks will have to be repaired in the dock, and large engineering machinery will be used to repair the surface of the ship.

It's all money!

Nothing that touches the navy is cheap.

But apart from the reality, she has also had similar fantasies in her heart.

She has always been a strong person who is eager to prove herself.

And now, caught off guard, this opportunity is in front of her.

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

And what she has to face is a huge challenge.

An enemy that is stronger than the alliance fleet, with a disadvantageous situation against the wind... 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.

Is there anything wrong with a simple victory?

But the reason why a challenge is a challenge is that it will not be transferred by her will, and she must face it.

And she is also very pragmatic.

This battle cannot be won.

It is not worth it to win.

Although she doesn't know what Gu Hang is like on the battlefield of the two places, whether he can quickly win and then return to the real universe to help. But she can't pin her hopes on this, she must make the right decision independently.

Rather than using the inferior naval force and huge sacrifices here to try to drag Gu Hang to free up his hands, or strive for victory in the war, Ye Lixia decided to play it safe.

She decided to withdraw.

But it is definitely not to turn around and run with the fleet.

Otherwise, under the pursuit of the enemy ships, I don't know how many ships will be lost on the way back to Aramita.

The entire fleet, under the command of Ye Lishia, maintained the fleet formation. The coordination between the ships was relatively tight, and the entire fleet circled to ensure 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 worse the effect of the firepower. When a macro cannon really takes a long time to fly to hit, no matter how powerful the bird divination array, psychic calculation array, and trajectory calculation are, the hit rate will be low to a certain extent.

The light spear will be slightly better, and the hit rate may not be affected so much, but the long distance will make the power of energy weapons attenuate and become exaggerated.

In short, the intensity of the naval battle will naturally decrease with a long distance.

When the distance is far enough, they can leave the battlefield and return directly to Aramita; even if they are always bitten, as long as the intensity of the naval battle is reduced and the loss of ships is acceptable, it is not uncommon for such a naval battle to be entangled repeatedly for ten days or half a month. After entanglement, won’t they return to Aramita while fighting and retreating?

At this time, Ye Lishia had to be thankful that the previous alliance strategy in Aramita was quite valuable.

If they had not taken the place quickly and grasped the orbital defense system and the ground orbital artillery fortress group in their hands, and five army groups with a total of hundreds of millions of alliance troops were stationed on the planet, the situation would have been really bad.

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

Back to Aramita, with the support of the orbital system, they are not afraid.

Although the strength of the Varuk fleet is stronger, it has not opened up a level, and it is impossible to attack the alliance fleet under the cover of the orbital defense system. If they really dare to come up so recklessly, Ye Licia would not mind giving them a head-on blow to win herself a few more glorious military medals.

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 continues to maintain the initiative. The Mechanicus fleet cannot be too presumptuous, otherwise Ye Lishia can attack at any time and bite them hard.

There is nothing wrong with the whole idea.

The problem lies in execution.

Will the mechanical fleet allow them to do this?

It seems that they are unwilling.

They speed up and chase.

And if Ye Lishia wants to stop their pursuit, she must ensure that she has enough deterrence.

The firepower of the main ship is the most important aspect, and the six hundred space warriors who were ordered to attack earlier are another aspect.

The latest news Ye Lishia received is that they all landed successfully.

However, they encountered stubborn resistance inside the fleet.

In the end, only one team completed the task.

The two hundred shadow regiments finished the job. They detonated the engine compartment and energy compartment of the enemy ship, and caused a violent explosion inside the ship!

The explosion directly destroyed the Dragon Snake-class battlecruiser.

Even more than a hundred shadow warriors, just before the explosion, snatched the small attached spacecraft that originally belonged to the Mechanicus ship, 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 miserable.

They can only say that they completed the mission to a certain extent, destroyed 60% of its weapon systems, and briefly occupied the bridge, but failed to destroy it.

When the more than a hundred survivors of the Shadow Regiment came back, 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, still led a considerable number of Space Marines to fight stubbornly inside the enemy ship.

But the losses they suffered in the battle inside the ship were too great, and after the sharp decline in numbers, the possibility of completing the mission became increasingly slim.

At the same time, they could hardly find a chance to evacuate.

At this stage, they can basically be regarded as wiped out.

The total loss of 500 Space Marines is quite large. But in Ye Lishia's view, this sacrifice is worthwhile and necessary.

It directly led to the destruction of one of the enemy's battlecruisers and the chaos of another. Even if their subsequent ship damage management department can repair part of the firepower and part of the command system, the effect of emergency repairs will probably not be too good, and the combat effectiveness of the ship will inevitably be seriously affected.

Let one of the enemy's six battlecruisers be destroyed and one paralyzed, which has greatly reduced the pressure on our side.

This is not just reflected in the direct confrontation of the fleet.

Ye Lishia's plan is to detour, increase the combat distance, and reduce the intensity of the battle. In this plan, the biggest threat is not the two mechanical arks and two retribution-class battleships in the Varuk fleet.

The frontal combat capabilities of these four giant ships are very strong, but they are all bulky guys. The real trouble is the six dragon snakes.

The battlecruisers run fast, so they can get entangled first, delay and annoy the Alliance Fleet. They can even temporarily break away from their own formation and bypass the Alliance Fleet's path to intercept and delay it.

Although Ye Lishia also has some plans to deal with it, the risk is definitely greatly increased.

It would be the best if two ships could be eliminated immediately, and the subsequent pressure would be much less.

Even, Ye Lishia was thinking about doing it again.

Even if 500 more Space Marines were sacrificed to replace the two battleships on the opposite side, it would not be impossible.

However, for the sake of caution, she did not send so many troops in the second wave of attacks.

Although the New World Torch and Fury Flame still wanted to continue fighting, they even hoped to send them to the battleship where the brothers had fought before, on the one hand to complete the unfinished mission, and on the other hand, to try to save some people.

But it was rejected by Ye Lishia.

She only silently sent out two hundred shadow battle groups, targeting the third Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers.

But this time, the result was not ideal.

There were still fighters launched by the Hippogriff aircraft carrier to provide cover, but the losses during the boarding process this time were relatively large, with more than 50 people being shot down on the way before they boarded the ship.

Then, the 150 people who successfully boarded the ship, with the assistance of a small number of marines, failed to complete the task perfectly, and still only paralyzed the command system of the enemy ship, but failed to completely destroy it.

And they were unable to withdraw.

Ye Lishia also clearly realized that the previous success might be a small probability.

She no longer gambled.

After all, not all Space Marines can be used for such things.

The Varuk fleet was also boarding. Those strange, anti-reconnaissance properties, which can stick to the ship armor and invade by corroding a hole, are also quite disgusting. The invasion caused by the suicide squadrons that rushed up before has not been resolved after two standard Terra days since the start of the naval battle.

And the Mechanicus is still persistently sending these boarding spores in the opposite 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.

Even, their probability of successful landing is not low, at least higher than conventional boarding torpedoes and boarding ships. Now only a few occasionally float over, causing some trouble, but can we rule out the possibility of large-scale deployment by the enemy?

I'm afraid not.

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

Need to be on guard.

Now, using the tactics of the Space Marines boarding, a battle cruiser has been destroyed, and the combat effectiveness of two battle cruisers has been greatly reduced, which is enough.

In the subsequent process of increasing the combat distance and even fighting and retreating, the remaining three battle cruisers in the Mechanicus can pose a relatively limited threat.

They also tried to conduct a detour interception, but suffered a great loss instead. It did delay the pace of the Alliance fleet a little, but the price paid was that a Dragon Snake-class battle cruiser was severely damaged and almost destroyed.

After being repelled, they tried to launch a wave of high-density boarding spores, but the embarrassing thing was that this type of boarding spores had the advantages of being secretive and having a high success rate of boarding, but its speed was really not fast.

During the high-speed maneuvering of the Alliance Fleet, more than half of them failed to land at the scheduled location and could only be embarrassingly recovered by the Varuk Fleet later.

The remaining boarding spores that arrived at the scheduled location at the scheduled time did indeed play their role. Except for those that were intercepted, a considerable proportion of the remaining ones completed the landing and released the half-mechanical, half-insect modified servitors into the interior of the Alliance ships.

But they were fiercely counterattacked.

Ye Lishia's hand was also effective at this time.

The Glory Guards, Battle Sisters, and Space Marines, the three elite forces of the Alliance, had already boarded various small ships and fighter planes when they detected that a large number of boarding spores were approaching.

Transferring between their own ships, the risk is definitely very small, and being hit by the artillery fire from the enemy fleet from afar... There are indeed cases, but they are very rare, and only very unlucky can encounter them.

Most of them can complete the transfer smoothly.

They are a rapid response force, and they will go to the ship that is most seriously invaded by the boarding spores, assist the marines in the ship, and solve the invading enemies.

The whole process is about speed.

This crisis was passed in this way.

Afterwards, the Mechanicus fleet also launched a full-army rapid advance, but the bulky mechanical ark with two retribution-class battleships was really not fast.

Later, they seemed to have accepted their fate.

They even stopped chasing Ye Lishia's ship, but turned their target directly and went to Aramita.

Anyway, doesn't your alliance want to go back?

Then I am faster than you, wouldn't it be better to intercept at the destination?

But this time, they still failed.

The Alliance had some fleets that returned to Aramita first.