Him and their stars.

Chapter 1685 The Spirit of the Universe is here to chase us

Do you think that Unity Fortress is a public toilet, you can leave whenever you want? You can occupy whenever you want? Major General Ducas couldn't help but look sideways. Although he felt that Yang Xiyi was talking nonsense, he suddenly realized that if the other party really said so, he would definitely not doubt it.

As the commander of the guard fleet, he had occasionally boasted in private, "I was in command of the Leviathan War," but now that he thought about it, he would never be able to do so with such righteousness in his entire life.

At this time, Major General Ducas heard Yang Xiyi say again: "I have been thinking about a possibility... If this situation really happens, we must act in advance and make arrangements in advance, so that it may be of some help to the situation on the mainland."

As expected! The so-called intelligent general must be mysterious to appear smart! Major General Ducas felt that he had learned a lot.

However, under Lieutenant Colonel Akinayama's glasses, there seemed to be a gleam of wisdom, and he seemed to be thinking: "This is also a risk."

"We are taking risks every day. Moreover, after diverting the enemy's attention through the Tower of Babel, my risk index has dropped a lot."

So you all understand! Major General Ducas thought. If he wasn't so old, he would definitely feel that he has been excluded.

"Lieutenant Colonel Akina-san... With the Blood Gate razed to the ground, most of the Bakvi Kingdom burned to ashes, and the main forces of the Empire in the Saide Galaxy suffering heavy casualties in several attacks and unable to make any progress, what choice should the Empire make? How can it achieve the most cost-effective results?"

In fact, this is not a new question. Although the staff and decision-making departments of Yang Fleet are busy playing hide-and-seek, they often focus on other battlefields or even the entire war situation.

As the saying goes, those who do not plan for the overall situation are not qualified to plan for a specific area. Yang Xiyi still believes in this principle.

Major General Ducas was still surprised. It was not that he thought he should not pay attention to this issue, but he originally thought that only the commander of the theater of war and above were qualified to pay attention to such a high-level issue.

"I will not launch a strong attack on the Saide Fortress." Akina Hachiman's tone was very firm.

"Oh, even if the Empire builds military facilities to the standards of the Skyfortress and concentrates more than three times the troops of the remaining company?" Yang Xiyi asked in return.

"The students also found it hard to believe at first. But my boss has seen it. Space cities are like railways. They have to be repaired all the time. After all, the Saide Galaxy is the most important transportation node of the Far Coast Channel. As long as the Skyfort is repaired, it will not be a waste. It will always be useful in the future."

"Very good. Perhaps influenced by that guy, you, the class of 830, are always able to evaluate the overall situation from a higher dimension when thinking about problems. This is where I am actually not as good as you." Yang Xiyi smiled.

Akinayama Hachiman still had no expression on his face. He just pushed his glasses tactically and said, "As for the fleet, if we really want to complete the suppression of the community and restore law and order as quickly as possible, this amount of troops may not be enough. Moreover..."

"Besides, they are also planning to annihilate our entire far-shore cluster, so they will not be stingy in wasting their military forces." Yang Xiyi calculated.

Without waiting for his men's reply, he continued, "According to the sailing plan, where is Horatio Wayne's outpost fleet now?"

The outpost reconnaissance fleet led by Colonel Horatio Wayne was the first fleet to complete replenishment at the Tower of Babel and was also the first fleet to leave the main fleet to conduct reconnaissance.

It was a small fleet consisting of the Victory heavy cruiser led by him personally, a Ranger light cruiser equipped with a deep space probe, a County-class light cruiser, and three destroyers.

At present, Wayne's fleet has been separated from the team for nearly 40 days. As a commander, he certainly still has a certain degree of autonomy.

"If nothing unexpected happens, they have passed through the Dawn Galaxy and are approaching the Dawn Highway via the Buwang Channel. They should now be in the area between the DL182 and 197 star systems." Akina Yamahata quickly opened the star map and pulled up the route plan of the Wayne fleet.

His answer was that before starting these operations, he had already memorized the route plan of the Wayne fleet in his mind.

"If he has indeed arrived here, he should be able to detect the movements of the Imperial Fleet near Dawn Pass. We only need to wait another three to five days to receive a more detailed report."

This meant that the Community's fleet had moved to the "Eastern Section" of the Dawn Star Region for the first time since the Battle of the Tuanjia Fortress, and once again approached Onotia, where everyone had fought and lived, and... the Unity Fortress.

Such a reconnaissance operation was not without courage. However, according to Yang Xiyi's judgment, the size of the empire's fleet to encircle him had been increasing, and even the most rigorous patrol network would always have loopholes, which made it possible to conduct further reconnaissance.

Then, Horatio Wayne, who was as fearless as a red-haired honeypot, naturally said that the Yang Fleet needed everyone to do their duty. Even if the Empire's patrol network was still intact, reconnaissance in front of the enemy was also their mission and action must be taken.

As the commander of the front line, he even had the autonomy to decide whether to launch a raid on the Empire's patrol fleets and transport fleets.

Of course, since it is a war, there are always risks. If everyone does not receive the latest report next week, it means that the Wayne fleet is actually in danger.

"What should we do if we successfully receive the enemy information from the Wayne fleet?" asked Hachiman Akina.

"Of course, we will go to Onotia and meet up with the Wayne fleet." Yang Xiyi said.

"What if I can't?"

"Of course we will head to Onotia cautiously and wait to meet up with the Bonaparte fleet." Yang Xiyi said as a matter of course.

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In fact, the Wayne fleet, consisting of six small Karami ships, had just escaped a hunt that was almost certain to kill them.

"It's really dangerous! We are only one reconnaissance plane away from being captured." Colonel Horatio Wayne looked at the porthole with lingering fear. His red hair also drooped down, as if it had changed from a burning torch to a faint ember.

As the courage and honor of the 830th class, and the bravest lion in the Lionheart Club, Wayne had almost never shown such an attitude. He knew that if his current appearance was seen by other classmates, especially Yu Lian, he would definitely be laughed at until the next century.

He himself always believed that it would be impossible for him to show fear in front of ordinary officers and soldiers... unless he couldn't help it.

But now, Captain Horatio Wayne, captain of the Victory cruiser and commander of the reconnaissance fleet, tactically took two puffs of his cigar and then blew a puff of smoke out the end of the porthole.

An hour ago, the Empire's incredibly fast dreadnought ship Barbarossa disappeared from that direction.

Horatio Wayne and his friends had reason to be terrified. At the most critical moment, the five warships of the fleet completely shut down almost all engines, communication systems and even life support systems. All members put on space suits and relied on oxygen tanks to survive. The warships were attached to the back of the dwarf planet, disguising themselves as part of the meteorite, which is commonly known as playing dead. As for the silver-painted Barbarossa dreadnought of the Empire, it also passed through the asteroid belt. She was like a hungry wolf chasing a rabbit, hovering in the airspace of the asteroid belt for nearly an hour. At the closest time, she was even less than 100 million kilometers away from the dwarf planet where the Victory was located.

This is simply a scene from a movie. In fact, this scene actually happened in the story of "Galaxy Rangers 3: Mithril Maloo", and it is one of the classic scenes in the history of space movies.

However, Horatio Wayne, as an expert, scoffed at this paragraph. He assured the Spirit of the Universe that he was just talking about the facts, and it was definitely not because Yu Lian was a fan of "Galaxy Rangers", and he definitely did not laugh at that guy's taste.

All in all, perhaps it was the blessing of the spirit of the universe that although everyone was like a rabbit with the entrance of its hole blocked by a wolf, the predator ultimately did not put its mouth into the hole.

In addition, perhaps this huge imperial battleship also had other missions, and she herself was not completely sure about the existence of the Horatio fleet, so she finally left in disappointment.

It was a close call, but the pressure on people was definitely there.

Horatio Wayne never expected that the movie scene he had sneered at would actually happen to him. Even with his shamelessness, he still felt a little painful in the face after being hit by the boomerang.

Wayne said: "Perhaps we should continue hiding in the Dawn System, so that we won't be forced to take risks."

"Your judgment is actually correct. If we had arrived a step later, we would have been trapped in the Dawn System by now. It's too bright there, and we have no room to hide." said Lieutenant Colonel Emma Bolt, who is more than ten years older than Wayne.

She was the captain of the cruiser USS Middle and the second in command of the fleet.

Wayne was grateful that there was an understanding leader in the fleet command to provide emotional value.

"What we need to pay more attention to now is why the Empire's main battleships are appearing in this direction." Fleet Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Adi Mesud also said.

This old sailor, who was thirty years older than Wayne, was also the latter's old partner. They had been fighting together since the Battle of Judgment. Currently, he was the captain of the reconnaissance light cruiser Changhu and the deputy commander of the reconnaissance fleet.

Wayne is also very grateful that he has an experienced elderly person as his assistant to help him fill in the gaps.

He spent three seconds to dispel the panic just now, and another half a minute to get himself back into combat mode, and began to seriously analyze the intelligence he had just obtained: "I can confirm that the dreadnought just now was the Duke of Midea, the third ship of the Barbarossa class. However, in December, she was still in the Ring of Miracles."

This information was naturally sent by the Malowen Division of the Miracle Ring. One of the practical significances of the Miracle Ring's resistance is reflected here. Even if there are only one or two observation groups left to operate in more than 20,000 continental plates, they can provide timely intelligence on the Imperial Army on the scene.

"This Duke of Midya and the Prince of United are reinforcements transferred from the mainland to destroy us. I have heard of this saying." said Lieutenant Colonel Maisud.

This time, Wayne only took half a minute to make a decision: "Then, we will follow the original plan and continue along Queen Brunhilde's route towards the Dawn Passage. The maneuvering target will be revised to Dawn Pass."

No one raised any objections. In fact, the purpose of their operation originally included the reconnaissance of Dawn Pass and Unity Fortress. If they could find an opportunity to do something big to one or two guerrilla fleets without escort, that would be even better.

As for the incident where they were almost caught and destroyed by the Empire's battleship, it was just a small accident.

The small fleet of six warships made a very charming U-turn, and 40 hours later, they returned to the Dawn Galaxy where they had just encountered the enemy.

Fortunately, the automatic probe left in the galaxy was not destroyed by the Imperial fleet that just came. This should be the result of its plain and low-key appearance. More importantly, after the control program was rewritten, the unmanned probe will sense the presence of a ship that is not on the identification list in the galaxy and put itself in communication silence.

Of course, while the communications were silent, its computer continued to run, analyzing the movements of the enemy fleet through the subtle gravitational changes and mass flows within the galaxy.

So Horatio quickly extracted the gravity and mass change data of the past 40 hours from the detector's database.

The technical team had already entered standby mode. This long period of hide-and-seek had indeed allowed them to accumulate a wealth of experience. So, only ten minutes later, an analysis report that made the commanders frown was delivered to them.

"...Titan? Are you sure? It's not a large transport ship? And it's going through gravity well No. 1?" asked the old lieutenant colonel.

"The Empire does not have transport ships of this mass equipped in the New World. If we take into account the overlap of the projection of the mass outlines, it can only be the Titan. Moreover, I am 80% sure that it is the Vulcan." said the technical officer.

This technical officer was about 40 years old, which was the golden age for a technician. He was a smart, hardworking and calm technician, and he was born in the Red Star Research Institute.

Horatio Wayne decided to trust the other party's judgment completely.

However, since there are no technical problems, the military issues are very puzzling.

"Does this mean that the Vulcan and Marshal Farrell have already left the Ring of Miracles? If they took Gravity Well No. 1, they are heading towards the Unity Fortress? So, where is their destination?"

After half a minute of doubt, Wayne suddenly tapped his palms and said, "There's no point in being suspicious here. Pass on my order and send a telegram to the fleet headquarters to inform them of the situation here. Tell Commander Yang that we will revise the cruise route, speed up through the new joint channel to bypass the Dawn Highway, and strive to reach Dawn Pass before April."

"Are you planning to intercept the Vulcan at the Unity Fortress?" Lieutenant Colonel Mesud asked with a smile.

"If I had one or two Enterprise-class ships, I might be able to give it a try," said Horatio Wayne.

As an old comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Maisood could certainly see that this guy was truly sincere!

"However, to be more realistic, we can still arrive at Dawn Pass in advance to ambush and observe the enemy's movements. If we really find a Titan, we can also follow her for a while to determine her movements."

Everyone always felt that this order was actually a bit crazy, but considering that Horatio Wayne was like this, and after all, following the Titan was better than attacking the Titan with one or two aircraft carriers.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Emma Bolt thought about the scene carefully and suddenly revealed an unbearable expression: "Following the Vulcan? I always feel that it feels very stealthy!"

"No, actually, we are chasing them." Wayne said seriously, "Even if the Spirit of the Universe comes, we will still chase them!"