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Chapter 529 Start taking action

"A perfect raid that only exists in theory?" Murat and Jacob asked almost in unison.

Randall nodded. "Even with the current gap in power, we must complete an annihilation battle against the enemy fleet near the 'predetermined jump exit point' as quickly as possible, and we must not allow them the opportunity to reveal our true situation to the other two federal fleets."

"Why can't we reveal our true situation to the federal fleet?" Jacob asked with some confusion before he figured out the key points.

"Because 'keeping it secret' is our greatest amulet now."

Randall explained patiently:

“If the commander of the Federation Fleet discovered that the Star System Defense Fleet was suddenly annihilated in a short period of time and no intelligence about the enemy was sent back, he would most likely believe that the other side was annihilated by a stronger enemy.

In this case, based on my understanding of the Federal Navy, they will definitely not risk being ambushed by jumping over. Instead, they are very likely to send a reconnaissance ship to jump over first to check out the situation.

If this is the case, it will at least buy us three days. By then, the cargo fleet can abandon the recovery fleet after releasing all the aerospace transport fleets and directly accelerate the jump out of the Rubion system, and we can also hold on until the arrival of the two unmanned fleets. "

"I see."

Jacob nodded thoughtfully, and Murat had a new question.

"But the 'perfect raid' you want to achieve, Colonel, seems to be quite difficult. Although the Infinity can find a way to maintain balance on the battleship, what about the other side's many heavy cruisers?"

Randall: "So this is why I need to ask Jacob and the others for help. In the battle, I need heavy armored combat boats to help me deal with the extra 30 heavy cruisers."

"Yes, Colonel! The 'Deep Sea Fish' Heavy Armored Combat Boat Squadron and the 'Fire of Renaissance' Heavy Armored Combat Boat Wing will complete the mission at all costs!"

Jacob stood at attention and saluted without hesitation.

The "Flame of Renaissance" wing he mentioned was actually the heavy armored combat boat pilots among the first batch of trainees sent by the Renaissance Alliance.

When Franklin on the Rubion V confirmed that the Federation was going to take action against the galaxy, he agreed without hesitation to Jacob's decision to temporarily take over these combat trainees.

After all, along with these trainees arrived were the combat boats assigned to them after the final assessment. Sending such a force back to Rubion V would not reflect their value.

Only when placed in a fleet commanded by professionals can their full strength be brought into play, and on the point of confronting the Federation, the Renaissance Alliance and the Atlas Group have already reached a consensus.

At the same time, Franklin also knew that if the Atlas fleet could not defeat the federal fleet in the space fleet battle, then the Renaissance Alliance would begin the countdown to being defeated by the federal regular army.

Therefore, HCP pilot trainees including Johnny Riding have also been authorized by Franklin to be temporarily assigned to the Third Task Force as non-staff forces to assist in combat.

After hearing that Jacob had received the mission, Murat continued to ask Randall: "The problem of the gap in heavy cruisers has been solved, so how do we cut off the communication between the other party and the federal fleet?

If we want to prevent the garrison fleet from issuing a warning about our detailed formation, in addition to a swift and efficient raid, we also need a sufficiently powerful electronic suppression to crush them to death."

"Yes, but we can only pray that the electronic warfare attack capability of the Infinity after the 'Battle Module' is activated is as strong as those experts from the Design Institute said."

Randall paused, as if he was thinking about something, but soon he gave up thinking, glanced at the time and continued:

"Forget it. There's nothing to think about now. I only have so many troops. I will go and finalize the final battle plan with the fleet staff in a moment. The fleet is expected to start the operation in 5 hours.
Murat, Jacob, I'll trouble you two to mobilize the HCP pilots and heavy armored combat boat pilots before the war. This battle will be difficult, and the casualties of HCP and heavy armored combat boats are likely to be very heavy. "Colonel, you don't have to say this, we all know it." Murat's expression was calm, as if he was talking about something he was accustomed to. "This is what we should do. Even if we all turn into stars in this battle, we will not retreat a single step and let the honor of Atlas be tarnished."

Jacob also spoke up, "Yes, Colonel, please rest assured that there are absolutely no cowards among the pilots of our heavy armored combat boats. Unless all the combat boats in the squadron are shot down, we will not stop attacking the enemy."

Hearing their promise, Randall stood up from the captain's seat and saluted them.

The two young commanders immediately raised their hands in return, then turned and left the bridge.

Watching their figures disappear behind the hatch, Randall let out a long breath, and then came to the deputy captain in the CIC under the bridge.

"Alan, have the fleet staff gather in the No. 1 combat conference room within five minutes, and then notify the entire fleet to carry out the final round of pre-war preparations, and then enter combat status and stand by."

"Aye aye Captain!"
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After an unknown time, Rubion V was 52 kilometers away from the airspace, and the federal fleet planned to jump out of the point.

The main force of the Rubion galaxy garrison fleet is deploying a fleet mobile formation and maintaining alert cruising in the airspace near the coordinates.

According to the original reconstruction plan, the garrison fleet that had been severely damaged in the previous battle with the Empire would be rebuilt to the size of two standard fleets with the assistance of the Atlas Group.

However, with the conflict between the Atlas Group and the Federation, and the subsequent complete separation from the Rubion Galaxy, the efficiency of the garrison fleet's reconstruction has dropped significantly.

Until the rebellion broke out in the galaxy, the garrison fleet had only completed the construction of one fleet, and the progress of commissioning ships for the other fleet was just over halfway.

What's even more annoying is that after the Atlas Group fell out with the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government, it directly detained a batch of battleships that were originally to be delivered to the garrison fleet for various reasons.

This resulted in the originally planned Truth-class battleships and Hellfire-class heavy cruisers being vacated.

If the federal government had not sent a number of battleships to support the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government in the "Atlas Incident", the Rubion Galaxy's garrison fleet might have become the first "main fleet" in history without even a heavy cruiser.

However, during that period, the Federation Navy was also preparing for a "strategic decisive battle", so 80% of the battleships that supported the galaxy autonomous government were old ships that had been repaired after being damaged or even "severely broken" by other fleets.

Even so, the Rubion galaxy garrison fleet has not yet been fully filled.

However, in the eyes of the commander of the garrison fleet, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, so he is very confident that he can complete the current task of "guarding the scheduled jump exit point".

After all, according to the latest reconnaissance intelligence, the biggest threat in the Rubion system, the fleet of the Atlas Group, is not even half a fleet in size, and the size of the main battleship is far behind.
Although the enemy fleet had the huge ship 'Infinity', the number of other ships was a bit too small.

If a real fight breaks out, the garrison fleet just needs to find a way to avoid the famous "map cannon", and then rely on its troop advantage to eat up the opponent's conventional warships, and the remaining "Infinity" will have no choice but to suffer under siege.

So the fleet commander confidently reorganized the other half of the fleet and assigned them to a position closer to Rubion V to suppress and clear out the rebellious former garrison warships.

As long as he leads the main fleet to hold out here for another 4 hours and conduct a final round of situation confirmation with the 3th and th Fleets of the Federal Navy, the other side will enter the jump and arrive in days.
This relaxed mood lasted until two and a half hours ago, but then the commander received an important message from the clearing and suppression fleet he had sent out:
The small task force of the Atlas Group disappeared from the orbit between Rubion V and the satellite.

And this disappearance has not been discovered until now.

(End of this chapter)