It had been more than four hours since the communication blockade on the Yelipok fleet was lifted.
On the other hand, the federal fleet had been maintaining the preheating state of the hyperspace engine for an entire hour.
At this moment, countless blue vortex-shaped hyperspace windows suddenly appeared in the void, almost illuminating the entire starry sky.
"Commander, a large number of hyperspace windows have been detected. There are 200 billion of them, covering almost the entire first and second main spiral arm!"
"Order the fleet to enter the hyperspace according to the predetermined coordinates!"
"Roger!"
Elfi gave the order just as Arnaud's fleet was about to arrive.
They could not afford to waste even a second. Otherwise, once Arnaud's fleet exited the hyperspace, the first thing they would do would be to disrupt the Federation fleet's hyperspace activities.
Therefore, the Federation fleet had to enter the hyperspace before they could do so.
This was also why Elfi had ordered all the warships to adjust the direction of the bow and maintain the hyperspace engine.
In just a few seconds, when Arnaud's fleet exited the hyperspace and arrived at the Syst Galaxy, the entire Federation fleet was nowhere to be seen. All that was left was the slowly closing hyperspace windows in the void.
"Commander, we have confirmed that all the warships have entered the hyperspace. There are no stragglers!"
"Very good. Send out the signal and activate all the interference devices in the Syst Galaxy!"
"Yes, Commander!"
At the same time, on the first main spiral arm of the Syst Galaxy.
"Commander, according to the scan, only the Brent Empire's fleet exists in the entire galaxy. There are 32 billion of them!"
"What about the human fleet?"
"Nothing!"
The adjutant shook his head and said.
"However, when we exited the hyperspace, we found about 25 billion hyperspace windows on the first main spiral arm of the Syst Galaxy. Therefore, we have reason to believe that the human fleet left through hyperspace at the same time we arrived!"
"Damn it!"
Arnold cursed angrily when he heard this.
"Can you determine where they went?"
"The direction is possible, but the exact location is hard to determine."
"Hmm?"
"According to the direction of its hyperspace window, we can determine its direction, but the problem is that there are three different galaxies within 100,000 light-years in that direction. Therefore, we can't determine which one the human fleet has gone to, and …"
"And what?"
Besides, based on the human's behavior in Sastre Galaxy, even if we chase after them, we might also encounter the same thing!
Arnold naturally understood what the adjutant meant by "the same thing".
Just like this time, when his fleet arrived, the humans would immediately leave.
With such a method, as long as the humans did not make any mistakes, it would be useless no matter how much he chased after them.
After all, their military strength was limited!
If the 200 billion warships were split up too much, it would give the Federation a chance to attack them one by one.
However, if they did not split up, and the humans were determined to play this game, they would not be able to catch the tail of the human fleet.
This was a problem that gave him a headache!
How about …
Take a gamble?
All of a sudden, a thought flashed through Arnaud's mind.
After all, the Moi Alliance was an orthodox Tier 9 technological civilization, and its hyperspace technology was better than that of the Federation. There might not be a dimensional gap, but it was still 30% faster!
This 30% speed difference gave Arnold room to maneuver, and at the same time, it gave him a chip to take a gamble.
"Leave two attack groups behind and annihilate the Brent Empire's fleet for me. Then, continue to march towards the imperial capital and finish what Yelipok didn't do!"
"At the same time, the rest of the main fleet will immediately depart and head to Target A!"
Arnaud stood up and waved his hand as he ordered, "Let's go!"
The meaning of this order was actually very simple and crude. Gather all forces and bet that the humans were heading to Target C, then use the 30% hyperspace speed advantage to arrive before the humans.
Once he won the bet, Arnaud's main fleet would deploy everything in advance and wait for the human fleet to arrive. Then, the battle would decide the outcome of the battle.
Of course, the probability of the bet being right was only one in three.
Even if the bet was not right, it would not be a big problem. The fleet would just continue to depart to Target B and Target C.
Arnold believed that since the humans wanted to play this game, they would definitely wait for him at Target B and Target C and leave when his fleet arrived.
When that time came, he would just continue to gamble like he was doing now.
As long as the humans dared to play this game, he would one day win the bet, and once he won the bet, this war would be over!
The idea was good, but the problem was, would Elfi not think of this?
Obviously, this was also impossible.
Otherwise, Elfie would not have left a gift for Arnaud before she left.
"General …"
"Why aren't we leaving yet?"
"The hyperspace engine is not operating normally. A large number of hyperspace interference reactions have been detected. They are spread throughout the Saster system. Number 127!"
"..."
Arnold almost vomited blood when he heard this.
What was this?
He was so confident that he came up with a plan, but before he could even do anything, he was slapped in the face?
"How long will it take to eliminate all of them?"
"General, they are too spread out, and some of them are hundreds of AU away from the nearest warship in our fleet. If we rely on the hyperspace engine …"
Arnold understood. You mean, instead of eliminating them, it's better to just crack their interference parameters, right?
I, I really do understand …
But he was inexplicably unhappy!
The humans were so calculating that they did not even leave a single loophole!
Although the Moira people had a very unique technology to crack hyperspace interference, it was impossible to crack it in an instant. No matter how fast it was, even if everything went smoothly, it would take at least two hours.
And these two hours were enough to completely offset the hyperspace technology advantage of his fleet!
"Damn it …"
"Change the order. Immediately start cracking the hyperspace interference. At the same time, mobilize the main fleet and destroy the Brent Empire fleet in the shortest time possible!"
Gritting his teeth, Arnold changed the previous order and directed all the anger in his heart at the Brent Empire.
It was not easy to survive the Yeribok fleet and obtain a large number of high-tier civilization warship wreckages, and even …
There were more than 40 billion intact Moira warships on the second main spiral arm!
They
were originally very excited …
However, it had only been an hour, right?
In the end, Arnold's main fleet arrived, and the humans …
Ran away!