At the edge of the N77 star field, a blue light flashed, and countless starships jumped out. After many starships completed their jumps, a large blue light band suddenly appeared in the void, outlining the outline of a giant ship. As the outline gradually became clearer, more details appeared, and slowly, a majestic, elegant, and huge battleship appeared in this star field.
This is the most advanced capital ship of the Federation. There are only three battleships of this level in the entire Federation. I didn’t expect it to appear in such a remote star field.
A few light seconds away, another huge fleet completed its jump. This fleet has an obvious community style. It is also led by a capital ship, but there are not as many other starships as the Federation. Instead, it carries a large number of landing ships.
The two fleets approached each other, the communication channel was quickly established, and a magnificent and splendid virtual hall appeared. On both sides of the hall, two teams of people from the Federation and the Community emerged one after another and came to the center of the hall.
The Federation is headed by a middle-aged general who is full of iron-blooded aura. Standing opposite him was a community marshal, tall and powerful, with snow-white beard and hair. The two looked at each other, stretched out their hands at the same time, and held each other tightly.
"Rendall." The federal admiral introduced himself.
"I'm Pang."
Rendel was a rising star of the Federation in the war. In a series of battles with the dynasty, his talent in fleet command was fully demonstrated. At the beginning, almost all of Xu Bingyan's powerful generals had fought against him, and they basically never took advantage. That is to say, Lendl only suffered some losses when facing Xu Bingyan himself, but he had never been defeated. It can be said that Lendl played a major role in preventing the federal war situation from collapsing before the call for battle. Although he is a general now, it is only because he does not have time to go back and be awarded the title. Marshal will be a matter of time sooner or later.
Pang is a veteran marshal of the community. Unlike Rendel, who was born a commoner, this was the top noble of the community from the beginning. His brother is now the lifelong head of state of a union republic, and he has independently commanded the fleet for more than 30 years. This time the two sides formed a joint fleet, each with its own focus.
Pang brought the elite planetary landing force of the community, and they were three integrated armies, with a total of 1.5 million people and all equipment. The main composition of the federal military force is the fleet, and all landing aspects are left to the community. After the merger of the two fleets, the overall strength has exceeded that of ordinary fleets and has reached the level of strengthening the fleet. The estimated combat power is 50% higher than the normal full fleets of the Federation and the Community.
Pang and Lendl's handshake was long-lasting and strong. Although there was an age gap between the two, the fire in their eyes was the same. They had a tacit understanding with each other and had their own reasons for being here.
On the federal side, the establishment of the United Fleet did not go smoothly. On the one hand, the federal fleet was indeed insufficient in force. On the other hand, there were many objections from the military, and the reason was quite appropriate: the Federation and Lightyear had an armistice agreement. But anyone with a discerning eye knows that the military's opposition actually comes from the Austin and Winton families, but they are all speaking through agents. In this context, Lendl stepped forward resolutely and took over the task.
Although Lendl is from a civilian background, there is also a faction behind him when he sits in this position. His faction has always been at odds with the Winton family, and his own achievements in the war are clearly superior to Hathaway's, but his popularity is less than one percent of the little princess's. When it comes to promotion, support, and resources, Hathaway is also the real number one, and the benefits she gets leave her third place far behind. Moreover, she also rejected Rendell's pursuit.
So Rendell came here, ready to destroy Hathaway's lover with his own hands. The only regret is that when all the federal land war generals heard that they were going to fight against light years, they all firmly opposed it and no one was willing to go out. These generals and marshals of the land warfare department are also divided into several factions. They usually fight to the death, but on this matter they have reached a rare agreement. If we can't find enough troops, the planetary landing battle can only be left to the community. Everyone who knows how great the benefits of landing and occupation are.
Pang Ze has his own plan, and the only missing piece of his family puzzle is starship manufacturing. Originally, the Republic of Harvey wanted to take revenge, but the fleet was on the front line, so Pang snatched the good job.
The fleets merged and the two held a brief combat meeting. The meeting went smoothly and without controversy. According to intelligence and past experiences of the Federation and the Community, Lightyear has at most two capital ships under construction, and the degree of completion is not high. Even if it goes to the battlefield, it is pulled directly from the ship's platform, and its combat power is incomplete. Even two complete Frostwolf-class ships are no match for the mixed fleet. During the initial raid on Xu Bingyan's flagship, Rendell was one of the commanders and had personally fought against the Frostwolf class. In his opinion, although the Frostwolf class is difficult to fight, it is not without its shortcomings. As long as they fight in an upright manner, the weakness of the Frostwolf class's lack of comprehensive combat power will be fully exposed, and it is nothing more than a longer fight.
After a short rest, the mixed fleet headed towards the interior of the galaxy.
At the outer edge of the galaxy, the reconnaissance ship has discovered the location of the mixed fleet, and a huge fleet is gathering. Chu Jungui's flagship was set up on a heavy cruiser and followed the fleet to the battlefield from a distance.
The fleets of both sides approached quickly. Looking at the information fed back by the scan, Rendell showed a rare smile. As expected, Light Years was already dead. Only seven or eight medium-sized starships were photographed, and not a single capital ship was seen.
Rendell stretched out his hand and drew a line on the star map, and rushed out a squadron from both wings, trying to outflank the opponent's retreat. However, Lightyear's fleet ignored the fact that its retreat was cut off and rushed directly towards the main force of the mixed fleet.
As the first high-energy beam cuts through deep space, the second N77 battle officially begins.
Ten minutes after the battle started, Lendl's face didn't look so good. The Lightyear fleet was completely suicidal, rushing to the center of the mixed fleet under fire, and the situation suddenly turned into a melee. The light-year starships are full of firepower and have extremely thick defenses, far superior to those of the Federation and Community starships. In the fierce battle so far, the combined fleet's absolute numerical advantage has only destroyed one destroyer. The destroyer was almost completely shattered before it stopped fighting. The strange thing is that even after it completely disintegrated, no life capsule popped up.
In the center of the battlefield, the only Lightyear heavy cruiser was being attacked by two battleships and numerous starships. Its shield had already collapsed, and it relied entirely on its hull to resist the attack. High-energy beams of light struck it, ablating and melting pieces of armor. Then there was a wave of space torpedo attacks. Dozens of heavy torpedoes swarmed in like a pack of wolves, and the violent explosion almost submerged the entire starship! When the fire light dissipated, the heavy cruiser finally couldn't bear the torture and slowly broke into two pieces in the middle.
But a shocking scene appeared. The disconnected starship was still fighting, and the main guns at the head and tail were still firing, catching an unprepared federal destroyer until it burned.
Rendell stared at the cross-section of the starship, and then he didn't see a life capsule.
He frowned, feeling something was wrong.
At this moment, the star map suddenly began to flash red! With a thought, Rendell quickly zoomed in and saw the fleet behind him flashing, signaling an attack!
The rear fleet is dominated by the community, mainly landing ships and mobile bases, and there is also a defense fleet. Rendell raised his eyebrows, not very worried. The defense fleet was deployed by him personally, with a total of four heavy cruisers. It was not easy to defeat the defense fleet with light-year strength, not to mention that the defenses of the large landing ships and mobile bases themselves were not weak. But only a minute later, the detailed data of the attack fleet was transmitted, and there was a battleship in it!
"That's the main force of Light Years over there!" Lendl immediately made a judgment.
He was about to detach a squadron and rush back for rescue, when suddenly a new fleet appeared on the star map! In the center of the fleet, three huge shadows made people feel chilly.
Lightyear actually has four capital ships? !
Rendell suddenly wanted to throw everyone in the federal intelligence department into the sun. There is no reminder for such important information? Although the Frostwolf class is the weakest battleship, no matter how weak it is, it is still a battleship and cannot be stopped by a few heavy cruisers.
The newly appeared fleet was extremely fast and rushed straight to the battlefield, while the mixed fleet in the melee was bitten by the small fleet and could no longer escape. Even now it's too late to speed up.
Rendell calmed down and issued a series of orders. After a dazzling maneuver, the huge fleet miraculously separated a main force and faced the incoming Lightyear Fleet.
A tough fight.
Lendl has fought many hard battles, but never as hard as today. At the battleship level, the two new battleships still had the upper hand against the three Frostwolf-class ships. However, the Frostwolf that was targeted did not evade or dodge at all, and withstood the opponent's firepower throughout the whole process. The other two ships seemed indifferent to the situation of their companions, and just stared at their targets and attacked desperately.
After several hours of fierce fighting, the frost wolf that was set on fire lost almost half of its hull. Finally, it could no longer hold up and disintegrated, and was completely destroyed. One of the battleships in the mixed fleet was seriously injured. It seems that the situation of the mixed fleet is gaining the upper hand, but other battlefields are taking a turn for the worse. All the Lightyear starships acted as if they were desperate. No matter which one the Federation chose to focus on, that starship did not dodge, but kept silent and continued to attack until it was beaten until it disintegrated.
Soon the morale of the Federation was not right. It's like two people fighting. One of them doesn't speak during the whole process. No matter how his opponent attacks, he just stabs him with an expressionless face, exchanging injuries for injuries.
Fire continued to shine in the space, and starships exploded one after another, some of which were light-year old, and some of which were from the Federation and the Community. Lendl brought with him all battle-hardened elites, many of whom had gone through recruitment battles and were still able to persevere at this moment. However, the Community fleet could not hold on any longer and began to collapse when it lost more than a quarter. Some starships turned around and tried to leave the battlefield.
