Chapter 564: Fight to the Death

Randall was very surprised by the sudden space fluctuations, after all, he knew that Atlas had no other reinforcements.

And this unauthorized "jump signature code", if it appears in battle, usually comes from the enemy or a third party.

"The Federation's reinforcement fleet? Or does the Empire also want to intervene?"

Hearing Randall's question in the quantum entanglement command communication channel, Amber shook her head and replied:

"It's definitely not the Empire's. The Rubion galaxy has long become the "rear" after the Federation's counterattack. With the Empire's own affairs now, it will not allow the Royal Navy to send a fleet deep into the Federation."

Speaking of this, Amber took another look at the "jump signature code" information analyzed by the shipboard control personality and gave it to Randall at the same time.

"Look at the analysis of this signature code. Although the starting point cannot be seen, it can be seen that the jump distance is not far. From the perspective of time, the jump was made at the same time as the war started, which means that this force started from the inside of the Rubion system.

I don't believe that the Imperial Royal Navy can send a fleet to lurk in the Rubion system in advance, and it is still under the condition that we are on alert for war with the Federal Navy.

So this is most likely the reinforcement of the Federal Fleet."

Although Amber and his team could not figure out who jumped in when they found the unauthorized space fluctuations and the "jump signature code", these "jump signature codes" developed by the Forerunner civilization can tell them a lot of basic information.

The most important of these is the end time and jump distance of this jump. The former allows the fleet to prepare, while the latter allows the fleet to judge where the other party is coming from.

This is also why the Federal Navy and the Imperial Royal Navy have never carried out "long-distance decapitation operations" or directly jumped to the other party's capital system to "burn glass" in battle.

Because the longer the jump distance, the longer the jump takes, and the earlier the spatial fluctuations at the destination appear, which can even be as long as a week.

So when executing the "long-distance decapitation operation", the first thing to consider is whether the fleet will be directly confronted by the enemy who is ready after leaving the jump.

And the jump detected by Amber and his team did not take too long, so their doubts were quickly answered.

When the jump ended in the flash, a warship with the navy blue paint of the Federal Navy appeared 30,000 kilometers away from the left wing of the Federal Fleet.

The 14th Fleet of the Federal Navy arrived at the battlefield at this critical moment.

Amber: "Look, I was right, it's the enemy's reinforcements~"

Randall: "No. What's so exciting about this, bastard!"

After hearing Amber's voice, Randall almost vomited blood, and Cliffs, who was following Amber on the bridge of the Dawn, asked with some confusion:

"Didn't we cut off the network of the Federation Fleet? And the Third Task Force has always been in an advantageous position in the previous electronic confrontation. When did the Federation Fleet send out the distress signal?"

"No" Amber shook her head, "It wasn't them who sent it, we helped them send it."

"Ah? We helped them send it?" Hearing Amber's answer, Randall immediately became confused.

"When we perform the 'disconnect' operation and temporarily cut off the Federation Fleet's contact with the outside world through electronic warfare, the enemy's reinforcements will know that the battle has started here, and perhaps they will launch a collective jump as agreed in advance."

Cleves immediately understood what Amber meant:

"In other words, regardless of whether our First Fleet launches this raid, the enemy's reinforcements will immediately jump in after the battle begins?!"

"That's right, because they probably want to kill us in one wave, but they didn't dare to put all the 'chips' on the table at the beginning, fearing that we would retreat in the face of difficulties, and thus fail to achieve the goal of annihilating us."

The current situation is naturally unfavorable for Atlas, because Amber really can't take out a ship now.

Although there is still an 'artificial celestial fortress' that can change the situation of the war, that thing is not only far away but also can't quench thirst. If it is rashly launched when LLS943823 is not fully prepared, it may bring other problems.

So he could only rely on the three fleets on the field and the crippled Third Task Force to fight the five fleets of the Federal Navy.

However, the good news is that under the crossfire attack just now, the losses of the four federal fleets that were first put into battle were even greater than the pre-war assessment. The opponent obviously did not expect the attack launched by the Atlas First Fleet from the bottom of the sky.

For Amber and his team, the enemy's chaos at this moment is their best and last chance.

Thinking of this, looking at the federal fleet that was pressing step by step on the three-dimensional battlefield situation map, Amber couldn't help but sigh:

"The federal government really thinks highly of us. I really didn't expect that they would send out five main fleets at once, and one of them even carried out such a high degree of confidentiality. "Stealth maneuver. Speaking of which, this should be the last mobile force they have at present, right?"

"To be precise, it should be the last batch of mobile forces in an organized manner."

Cleves interrupted:

"Except for the two garrison fleets in the capital system that would never leave unless the country was destroyed, the rest of the mobile forces were basically in a 'half-crippled' or 'very crippled' state, or were collectively queuing outside the dock waiting for maintenance."

Soon, Amber ordered the First Fleet to speed up the assault, forcing the other fleet to allocate part of its forces to defend the nadir direction, thereby reducing the pressure on Randall's side.

But even so, Randall and his men had to survive these twenty minutes, and in many classic battles, the decision to win or lose was often made in those few minutes-

When Johnny Riding learned that they were about to face an enemy far outnumbering them, although he was afraid, he couldn't help but attack at this juncture.

After all, if he lost this battle, not only would he die, but the Renaissance Alliance on Rubion V and his family would also be liquidated by the Federation.

So now it has reached a point where there is no way to retreat, not to mention that Atlas and other people who have no direct relationship with the Rubion galaxy are fighting hard, but they, the "natives" of the Rubion galaxy, are hiding behind. It is unreasonable.

"Pilot, please pay attention, the electromagnetic catapult track is electromagnetically stable, prepare for catapult!"

The voice of the flight deck controller sounded in the communication channel, and Johnny Riding immediately focused his attention on the battle in front of him.

"It's ready, ready to eject at any time!" Johnny Riding replied after confirming that the monitoring data of the body was normal.

Since the "full deck attack" was carried out under extremely tight time, the flight deck controllers of each ship did not hand over the ejection right to the pilots as before, letting them control the ejection time by themselves, but the ejection control room was responsible for unified dispatch.

After confirming with the controller, Johnny Riding adjusted his body into the "ejection posture". At the same time, the control system detected his body movements and judged his thoughts, so it tightened the seat belt and let Johnny Riding's back lean against the back of the chair.

In the cold and dark universe in front of him, there were only some scattered starlights as embellishments. The heavy cruiser "Sun Reward" under Johnny Riding's feet should theoretically be rushing towards the federal fleet at a relative speed of tens of kilometers per second.

However, due to the lack of reference objects, and the fact that the stars in the distance were just hanging in the sky, Johnny Riding occasionally had the illusion that the ship was in a stationary state.

From time to time, a burst of "stars" flashed on the background of the universe in front of him - that meant that the federal fleet launched another round of salvos. After a few seconds, a large number of beams of light of different colors swept past nearby, but fortunately, the "Sun Reward" was not hit in this round of attack.

"I don't want to be the unlucky one who dies on the ejection track!" Johnny Laiding thought to himself, and as if responding to his thoughts, the voice of the flight deck controller sounded again.

"Prepare for ejection. 54321 ejection!"

A huge push back came instantly, pressing Johnny Laiding tightly against the back of the chair. As the red-painted 'Fully Equipped Holy Shield' left the battleship and flew to the battlefield, the 'genius boy' quickly adapted and pushed the throttle forward again.

"CTM's Federal Army, I'm here!"

"CTM's Federal Army, how can there be so many"

When Johnny Laiding saw the dense red dots of light on the full-circle screen that symbolized the enemy units, he admitted that he was indeed a little scared.

If the gap between the enemy and us in the previous battle with the Rubion Galaxy Garrison Fleet could be made up by the equipment advantages and disadvantages, personnel quality, and tactical coordination of the combat units of both sides, then the current battle is purely the Federal Fleet's absolute numerical advantage in 'one force defeats ten skills'.

Johnny Laiding must describe his feelings, that is - the stars in the sky are all enemies

"Unit 3, report status!" In the command interface on the multi-function screen, Johnny Laiding immediately asked in the communication channel after seeing the icon of Unit 3 of his team glowing red.

"The right arm is damaged and the left weapon container has fallen off, but the remaining weapon units, power systems and deflection force fields can still support combat!"

"You can't even hold the heavy sword, and you are still supporting it! Hurry up and get back to the mothership for emergency repairs!"

Johnny Laiding rejected the other party's request to continue fighting without hesitation, and at the same time sent an application to the nearest light cruiser with HCP heavy maintenance capabilities.

After quickly receiving the other party's reply that it can be repaired, Johnny Laiding, who had found the location of Unit 3, raised his HCP right foot and kicked the shield hanging on the left side of the other party to force it away.

After doing this, he then modified the "combat responsibilities" of the three teams in the squadron he commanded on the command interface.

"Team Johnny, we are temporarily short of one aircraft. We will adjust from vanguard combat to rear fire support!"

"Team Morabi, keep the flank support unchanged. Team Mandela will start to take charge of vanguard and close-range combat!"

As Johnny Riding operated and reported the order on the squadron communication channel, the three squads in the 'Resurgence Alliance Task Force-1st HCP Combat Squadron' that he was currently commanding also immediately adjusted their positions according to the order.

Four intact Holy Shields quickly rushed past Johnny Riding and the remaining two members of the team, holding the shields and maintaining the power of the plasma heavy swords, and rushed to the front of the squadron's combat formation.

After the last battle with the Rubion Galaxy Garrison Fleet, Johnny Riding was promoted to the captain of the "Revival Alliance Task Force-First HCP Combat Squadron" by the Fireline due to the death of the squadron leader and his outstanding performance in the battle.

Although this "genius pilot" does have some knowledge in HCP driving operations, combat command is completely unfamiliar to him, which also led to him not relaxing much after the last battle.

In addition to rest and daily training, the rest of the time was spent on catching up on the content of HCP squadron combat command, and he successfully became friends with the captain of the "Avengers" squadron on the Atlas side, and received a lot of help and guidance from the latter.

But even so, Johnny Riding, who was commanding an entire squadron for the first time, was still a little nervous and a little flustered during the command process.

The only thing to be thankful for is that, although the squadron has withdrawn 4 HCPs for repair, no one has been lost and there have been no casualties.

However, Johnny Riding knew very well that with the next few waves of enemies coming, casualties would be inevitable, so he had prepared himself mentally for all this.

"Relax, Johnny Riding, you are the 'Real Red Lightning' everyone is talking about! You can do it!

Major Murat and his men only brought so few people, but they had to face the enemy attack on the entire right wing. The number of friendly forces on the left wing is much larger than theirs, so there must be no mistakes!"

Due to the limited number of HCPs and heavy armored combat boats in the Third Combined Fleet, Murat and Jacob finally decided to take part of the elite forces to take on the task of defending one side alone when facing the attack of the federal fleet.

The other side was responsible for by more conventional troops and the 'Revival Alliance Task Force'.

Johnny Riding naturally knew how much pressure Murat and his team were under for such an arrangement, and he also knew that he could only live up to the other party's arrangement by leading his team to do his best to hold back the enemy.

As the first wave of HCPs of the Federation Fleet had completely rushed to the front, the exchange of fire near the Atlas frontal fleet immediately became fierce.

The light of the directed energy weapon was like a sharp sword, piercing the darkness again and again, and the anti-ship missiles and torpedoes of the plasma warhead were like silent assassins on the battlefield, passing silently.

The entire battle space seemed to be caught in a blazing sea of ​​fire, with shining light and explosions one after another.

And Johnny Riding could become the "genius pilot" in Amber's impression, and it was naturally not just talk. His learning and growth speed could be said to be like a monster.

One round of battle after another made him quickly familiar with the command of the squadron.

And his innate "combat talent" also made him quickly understand how to use the tactics and methods that he had been cramming during this period.

Under his leadership, the entire squadron was like an indestructible blade, galloping across the battlefield, invincible and quickly becoming the "star" of the left wing.

But on the battlefield, being a "star" is obviously not a good thing.