Chapter 549: There Are No Cowards in TF3

"Yue Bei. Did you really come from this direction?!"

Randall stood up from the captain's seat of the Infinity and quickly walked to the front of the holographic projection platform.

Shipboard controller Ge Selina has already zoomed in on the three-dimensional star map in advance to the celestial system composed of Rubian 5 and two satellites.

Currently, the Third Task Force and the Cargo Fleet are conducting escort and aerospace transport fleet deployment operations in the medium- and high-altitude orbits of Lubion 5.

The unidentified fleet that was just discovered will now be sliding out from the shadow of the No. 2 satellite, the small moon commonly known as 'Penta', with a current straight-line distance of 420,000 kilometers.

This is because the Infinity has just upgraded its whole-ship detection unit. Unless a conventional fleet releases a large number of probes and deploys a 'fleet detection array', it will be difficult to detect a fleet close to the satellite at this distance.

This kind of celestial structure with multiple satellites still has an impact on some conventional fleet detection methods. This is why some classic fleet surprise attacks often occur under similar celestial structures.

Judging from the rough trajectory of the opponent detected by Infinity, Serena speculated that the opponent should be accelerating with the help of the synchronous rotation of Penem2, and then waiting for an opportunity to escape from the orbit of Penem2 and head toward the third Task force position maneuver.

"Captain, according to my search of a large number of fleet combat records in the database, there is a 75% chance that the opponent will launch a high-speed raid, and the next move will be determined based on the investigation results of this round of raid!"

Serena expressed her reasoning quickly and clearly with an intellectual and mature voice. This is also the characteristic of the new generation shipboard control personality of the Atlas Combat Fleet.

In addition to conventional ship control, situational awareness, and electronic warfare countermeasures capabilities, these more intelligent control personalities will also begin to make their own tactical suggestions or make inferences about the current situation.

"High-speed raid. Oh, why didn't I think of deploying some probes to these 'high-risk blind spots' beforehand?"

Randall helplessly covered his forehead for his obviously inexperienced arrangement, but not long after he fell into the mood of self-blame, he heard Serena's words of comfort:

"Captain, actually you don't need to blame yourself. After all, the fleet does not carry too many combat probes, and only a small part of them have been used up in previous battles. So even if you think of this tactical arrangement, we can't Implementation~"

Randall: "."

Officer on duty: "Colonel, this controller personality is quite good at talking."

"Selena, your little mouth is so sweet," Randall said speechlessly.

"You're welcome, Captain~"

Serena had a smile on her face, her hands folded in front of her, and she looked decent.

However, Randall had no time to argue with the shipboard controller at this time. He immediately looked at the officer on duty next to him, and then said seriously:

"Coming to the commanders of the high-speed cargo fleet, they don't have that much time to vote slowly. They must either seize the time and vote for me all at once, or stop working and start running away.

Our combat fleet will find ways to delay them, but judging from the current situation, it certainly cannot be delayed for too long."

The officer on duty nodded in agreement, then turned and left again.

In addition to lamenting that his luck seemed a bit too bad, Randall was also glad that he listened to Guterres's suggestion and adjusted the rest position of the previous fleet so that all the ships of the Third Task Force were currently working. The quality of water and refrigerant have returned to levels above 75%.

At least it avoids the decline in bombardment frequency and hull protection capabilities due to the inability of these warships in the fleet to dissipate heat in time in the following battles.

At the same time, as the large fleet on the back of the "Eight Moon" continued to "reveal its true face", the observation team of the "Infinity" finally obtained more accurate intelligence information.

"Report, the size of the currently detected unknown fleet is expected to be close to two full fleets! Judging from the current observation results, the opponent is changing orbit and adjusting its formation!"

"Copy that, keep monitoring,"

Randall quickly thought about the current situation. The fleet that suddenly appeared from behind the moon was basically the 17th and 18th fleets of the Federation Navy.

Because the only ones that can suddenly appear here right now are these two federal navy fleets.

After all, the coordinates and timing of their escape jump were too tricky, allowing the back of the moon to provide them with cover. Only the Federation Navy, which had a sufficiently complete collection of the astronomical conditions of the galaxy, could achieve this.

Although Randall is not sure yet, why did the Federation fleet choose to jump to this potentially dangerous space after losing contact with the galaxy's guard fleet.

But he knew that the other party had only one purpose, and that was to come for Atlas's fleet.

Thinking of this, Randall looked at a virtual screen near the captain's seat, which was showing the estimated arrival time of the two unmanned fleets coming to support.

"07:42:52"

"07:42:51"

"07:42:50"

"07:42:49"

"It will take nearly eight hours for the reinforcements to arrive. During this period, we can only rely on ourselves."

Randall sighed helplessly. He never expected that the first few fleet battles he encountered when he independently led the team would be so difficult, and every time he would use less to fight more. situation.

Just ended a battle between the Third Task Force and an entire galaxy garrison fleet. It hasn't been long since the fleet's rest and supply were perfect, and a new battle is coming soon.

The enemy forces they are fighting against have even doubled. Where can you ask Randall to reason?

Soon, the duty officer returned to Randall:

"Colonel, the cargo fleet has replied that the fleet has basically entered the medium and low orbit.

If you want to get rid of the planet's gravity and accelerate to the 'jump speed' under full load, the time required will be even longer than the time it takes to retreat under low load after deploying all the aerospace transport fleets."

"Does it mean that we really have to cover them to complete the fleet deployment now?"

"Yes, Colonel." The duty officer looked serious, and he obviously realized what kind of situation he would face next.

"Huh"

Randall took a deep breath of the air in the ship with the smell of oxygen tablets, and then slowly exhaled to calm himself down.

After a moment, he spoke in a calm and firm tone:

"Issue a full combat readiness order for the Third Task Force to immediately begin blocking the approaching fleet and cover the evacuation of the cargo fleet!"

Randall paused for a moment, and some thoughts flashed through his mind. After a moment, he said the last sentence.

"Again, there are no cowards in our Third Task Force."