"How stupid, to defend ten fronts at the same time!"
After fighting for ten days, the path chosen by the Moi United was beyond everyone's expectations.
Instead of blocking part of the ocean currents and concentrating their forces to defend the narrowest ocean current channels, as the Coalition General Staff had speculated, they divided their forces into ten groups and defended all the external channels at the same time.
According to the information from the frontline over the past few days, the enemy's reserve fleet was not detected behind all the ocean current defensive lines, and the number of warships on the defensive lines was decreasing with every loss. There was no reserve force to replenish them.
And the consumption in the past ten days had almost caused every defensive line to lose almost 10% of their combat power.
But if one thought about it carefully, this was not surprising.
After all, they were defending ten defensive lines at the same time, plus the warships lost in the battle of Milsey. It was not easy for the Moi United to gather a fleet on the defensive lines, as for the rear forces … Hehe!
Bonifacio could not help but sneer at this …
"Commander Bonifacio, the latest battle situation on the frontline, the Moi United fleet has begun to retreat!"
"Oh? I thought they would be tough for at least a month, but they're scared after only ten days? "
While mocking, Bonifacio pulled up the tactical images of various parts of the frontline, but he soon frowned.
Logically speaking, if they really wanted to retreat, they should be like the Milsey Supercluster, concentrating their firepower to destroy all the hyperspace interference devices of the Coalition Forces, and then taking the opportunity to retreat using hyperspace navigation, so that the Coalition Forces would not be able to pursue them for a short time.
But now, the enemy did not do so, but maintained their firepower while retreating.
"Inform the General Staff to analyze the motive of the Moi United's move!"
"Yes, Commander Bonifacio!"
No matter how he looked at it, it was a little abnormal. Bonifacio decided to let the General Staff of the Coalition Forces analyze the strange behavior of the enemy. Was there any conspiracy in it?
If it was Bonifacio before the battle of Milsey, he would not have so many concerns.
But obviously, that battle had left a lot of shadows in Bonifacio's heart, making him hesitate …
After receiving the order, a huge General Staff of more than two hundred civilizations, consisting of more than three thousand top tactical forecasters, immediately made various deductions based on the current situation.
In the end …
A conclusion was reached!
Because the gap between the two sides was rapidly narrowing, and the Moi had no backup forces to replenish.
Therefore, in order to maintain the advantage brought about by the difference in numbers, the Moirans gave up on the confrontation at the ocean's mouth, and instead used spatial interference to retreat at sub-light speed while maintaining the exchange of fire.
The advantage of this was that if the coalition forces chased after them, the Moyi people could always maintain an absolute advantage in numbers.
For example, the number of warships left on the Moi's defensive line was about 280 billion, while the number of warships gathered at the exit of the ocean current was about 40 billion. The gap between the two sides was about seven times.
According to the calculations, this gap would be equalized after more than 20 days. After that, it would be completely reversed.
However, what would happen if the Moyi people abandoned the defense line of ocean currents and chose to retreat at the sub-light speed while exchanging fire with the pursuing fleet?
In order to not be affected by the time dilation effect, even the most advanced civilization could only maintain sub-light speed at 20%.
In other words, after the Moi people destroyed the pursuing fleet of more than 40 billion warships, the fleet that arrived at the rear of the coalition forces would never be able to catch up with the retreating fleet of the Moi people.
After all, everyone's speed was the same. As long as you were out of range, you would always be out of range.
In this way, the Moi people would have the initiative. They could completely reduce their speed, wait for the fleet behind to catch up, and then accelerate to 20% of the speed of light again and engage in battle.
As long as they controlled it well, the Moi people could even exchange fire with the coalition forces with a hundred times the number difference, unless the coalition forces gave up the pursuit!
"Commander Bonifacio, should we give up the pursuit?"
"No, let the fleet continue the pursuit!"
"But the coalition forces will suffer great losses, won't they …"
"You forgot one thing, the mysterious weapon of the Moi Alliance!"
Shaking his head, Bonifacio said.
The expressions of the commanders of the other civilizations changed when they heard this. After all, the White Tiger Empire had shared this information with all the civilizations in the coalition forces.
However …
The battles over the past few days had made them gradually forget this point until Bonifacio brought it up again.
"So, we still have to give chase. As long as we bite the enemy's fleet, the Moi people won't dare to use that weapon, unless they are prepared to destroy their own fleet as well!"
"So that's how it is …"
Everyone nodded and accepted this explanation.
Indeed, if the Moi people used that mysterious weapon in this situation, it could bring huge casualties to the coalition forces, but at the same time, their own fleet would also be destroyed.
Therefore, sending a part of the fleet to give chase and bite the Moi people's fleet was the most suitable battle plan.
"Of course, we can't always gather the fleet at the exit of the ocean current. While biting the Moi people's fleet, the other fleets gathered at the exit of the ocean current in each theater of operations must immediately start to break the hyperspace interference of the enemy and spread out."
"Only when the fleet is completely dispersed can the great threat posed by the enemy's mysterious weapon be resolved. Otherwise, if the enemy really launches the attack in a moment of desperation, it is not entirely impossible that they will be annihilated together with their own fleet!"
Pondering for a moment, Bonifacio decided to add another layer of insurance.
Regarding this proposal, no one had any objections. Perhaps the Terminal Bomb's killing range was indeed very large, but the enemy definitely did not have a lot of them. Otherwise, they would not have used it at the end when they could not hold on any longer.
And with this as the basis for analysis, naturally, the more the fleet spread out, the less the threat they would face.
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At the same time, in the virtual joint command center of the humans and the Moi people.
"It seems that everything is going according to plan, but Your Excellency Lin Fan, I still don't understand. If it's just to kill more fleets of the coalition forces, there's no need to use the sublight speed retreat as bait, right? You just need to use the hyperspace interference device to contain the enemy for a while until the number of fleets gathered has reached a certain number!"
After looking at the situation on the front line, Larnas asked.
This was something he never understood. He always felt that Lin Fan's move of using the fleet as bait was a bit redundant.
"If you were the enemy's commander, and you knew that we have the Terminal Bomb, when you saw that the defenders have all retreated and the area around the exit of the ocean current is all covered by hyperspace interference, what would you think?"
"Would you … think that we are preparing to use the Terminal Bomb to clear the area in advance?"
"That's right. Then, if you found out that my fleet is only retreating at sublight speed, and you have the opportunity to bite my fleet, what would you think?"
"This …"
Larnas immediately came to a realization.
Was there a need to ask?
If I can bite your fleet, I will naturally continue to boldly …
Send it over through the ocean current!