Chapter 489 The Situation Is Over
If there were no other fleets, then the battle of the First Fleet would have been a foregone conclusion. The Chiyan Civilization obviously knew this, so when the fleets of both sides were about to make contact, their other fleet entered the field of view of the detector of the First Fleet of Humanity.
It was a fleet with 5 million warships. Judging from the area where they appeared and the original direction of action, they were supposed to support their First Planetary Defense Force. Perhaps they found that the human fleet that appeared here was not something that their fleet could handle, so they temporarily changed their route and turned to the First Fleet of Humanity.
The two fleets together had 13 million ships. Yue Yuan was used to fighting with fewer ships against more ships, and the strong artificial intelligence had already summed up many sets of coordinated fighting methods, which could be said to be skillful.
The Chiyan Civilization naturally knew the human tactics, but they had no better way to deal with it. They only had a numerical advantage of less than twice. If they wanted to win, they had to conduct a close combat raid and destroy the human flagship, otherwise they could only gradually fall into a greater disadvantage in the long-range consumption.
So the moment the fleets of both sides just entered the effective range of the laser energy cannon, humans began the kite tactics, maneuvering and fighting at the same time, trying to keep the distance beyond 15 light seconds.
As soon as the two sides started fighting, humans had a big advantage of a 1:4 loss ratio.
However, this tactic changed slightly as another fleet of the Red Flame Civilization joined the battlefield from another direction. The desperate charge of the Red Flame Civilization made the first fleet of humans unable to rely on maneuvers to maintain distance. Many of the warships that were originally in the front echelon had been trapped in the quagmire of close combat.
Yue Yuan was not surprised or afraid of this, because in the long-range consumption that just ended, the opponent had destroyed more than two million warships because of the eager charge, while his first fleet had only lost less than 400,000 battleships.
Of course, judging from the feedback from the attack, humans also discovered that these destroyed warships were not their new warships because they were too fragile.
Indeed, the new warships of the Red Flame Civilization were all in the rear echelon. The purpose was self-evident. They wanted to use the relatively powerful armor of the new warships to attack the core of the human fleet and then destroy the Lyra.
The tactics were good, but the effect was not very good.
These new warships did withstand the long-range firepower of humans and successfully rushed into the first fleet of humans, but what they were facing at the moment was not the flagship Tianqin of humans, but the assault warships that were originally in the rear.
After discovering that the new warships of the Red Flame Civilization successfully broke into the fleet cluster, the human main battleships consciously turned to avoid them, and the assault warships in the rear charged instead.
When the commander of the Red Flame Civilization saw the human assault warships charging at first, he was still very happy, but when he saw the acceleration of these warships and the fact that they did not fire even a single laser energy cannon during the charge, he felt something was wrong.
However, when he saw that these assault warships of the other side were hit by several electromagnetic railguns of his new warships and then destroyed by the ultra-micro nanorobots in the warhead of the shells, he felt that he had thought too much.
It was not until the fleet commander saw that his new warship was penetrated by the armor of the other side's electromagnetic railgun and exploded internally that he realized that he had made a mistake.
But it was too late. He could only watch his proud armor being pierced and new warships being destroyed in explosions from the inside.
"Damn it! Inform the headquarters that Earth civilization has mastered a technology that can penetrate the armor of new warships. Although I don't want to admit it, we have failed. Tell the main civilization to run while there is still time. We don't have 30 years. We can't hold on until then. I will use my life to buy as much time as possible for evacuation."
After conveying the order to the communicator, the commander immediately opened the communication of the entire fleet and ordered: "Cancel the subsequent new warship raid order, the fleet stops charging, and the rear fleet immediately turns and distances itself!"
"Long-range combat? Sir Coxsterling, do you know what this means?" The fleet commander who came to support the Red Flame civilization questioned.
The commander called Cocksterling was silent for a while: "I know that our two fleets will be buried in this starry sky, but at least this can buy three months for the main civilization. If we engage in close combat with this Earth civilization fleet, or even raid their flagship at all costs, we can certainly destroy their warships faster and more, but relatively speaking, our two fleets will also be destroyed faster.
Sir Korqin, you need to know that at this distance, neutrino detection can already illuminate our spacecraft hidden on the back of the gas planet. At that time, if the Earth civilization knows that we don’t have many warships there, our people will be finished.
So, while they haven’t discovered it yet, let’s buy some more time and let the new leader take our people away quickly. If the commander-in-chief hadn’t died in the previous battle, with his decisiveness, he would have left with the main body of civilization ten years ago, instead of hesitating and waiting until now."
"Perhaps you are right, Lord Sterling. In the final analysis, our Chiyan civilization is too careless. We think that we can walk sideways with the technology of the third-level civilization when we come to the remote star field. The unknown of the universe is not something that the interstellar trading market can explore clearly. This Earth civilization is obviously not an existence that has just entered the third-level civilization from the second-level civilization. The interstellar trading market has not even listed this star field as a safe star field."
"It is useless to say this now, Lord Korqin. Let us contribute our last strength to our Chiyan civilization! I hope that our main civilization can learn a lesson from this disaster and no longer make such stupid broadcasts in the future."
"Okay, let's fight to our heart's content."
The conversation between the commanders of the two fleets of the Chiyan civilization has explained the problem. However, Yue Yuan does not know the real situation, and the goal set this time is only to delay the opponent and buy enough time for the second fleet, rather than to destroy it directly.
So after discovering that the opponent suddenly gave up the surprise attack tactics and turned to distance himself, although Yue Yuan felt strange, he was more cautious and happy to achieve the first-stage strategic goal.
Yes, as the other commander said, although humans detected the situation on the back of the gas planet through neutrino detection, they did not know the specific type of spacecraft, so the leadership of the Tianqin still believed that it was safest to continue to take steady steps at this stage.
As a result, humans missed the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the main civilization of the Red Flame Civilization, and the two fleets of the Red Flame Civilization also unexpectedly completed their goal of delaying the Earth Civilization Fleet as they had said to their main civilization.
It can be said that both sides achieved their strategic goals by accident.
It was not until the second fleet successfully destroyed the other side's first orbital planetary defense force, paralyzed the other side's resource mining site, and then came to join the first fleet that humans realized that something seemed to be wrong.