Chapter 17 Retreat and Pursuit (Part 2)
The Longyuan war fortress.
In the heavily guarded combat command hall, stars flashed, and strong people were everywhere. The commanders of the major fleets had gathered together, and the air was filled with a sharp and stern and iron-blooded aura of conquest.
In the middle of the hall is a three-dimensional three-dimensional projection sand table with a length and width of more than 30 meters. On it is the battlefield situation chart of dozens of star fields around the northwest border of the empire and the surrounding areas. A group of high-level wise men are busy busy next to them, analyzing and processing the newly collected information from time to time, and then updating the images on the sand table in time. There is also a team of senior engineers next to it at will.
The sand table is extremely accurate, from the entire galaxy to every planet, every channel, star gate, and wormhole, all are clear and visible! If a certain local area is enlarged, even the shape, size and structure of a certain meteorite are recorded!
In a word, in the northwest of the empire, the vast starry sky that stretches for more than 100,000 light years, any meteorites, ice crystals, dust clouds or other strange objects with a diameter of more than ten meters can be found on this sand table!
Behind this sand table are hundreds of the latest "Chaos Nine" comprehensive data analysis and processing centers from the Empire, tens of thousands of information transfer stations in major star fields, hundreds of millions of intelligent automatic monitoring bases, clusters of reconnaissance fleets, monitoring networks covering the entire fault space, and nano-information collectors spread across every starry sky, such as the Ganges sand count.
After the massive amount of information is collected, it is filtered and sorted by thousands of super optical brain hosts, and then jointly analyzed, deduced, and proofreaded by hundreds of high-level wise men. The final result will be obtained and reflected on this sand table and used as an important reference for commanders to make battlefield decisions.
This is the most intuitive manifestation of the empire's super-strong national strength. It has the ability to conduct such meticulous monitoring of such a vast territory. Except for the Chinese Empire in the human world, any other known powerful alien civilization may not have such extremely powerful human and material resources!
Although the unexpected raid of the Gambino civilization succeeded successfully due to some unknown reasons, it was a variable from outside the battlefield, not a problem with the imperial information monitoring system. Once this system can work normally, its power will definitely be shocking!
Many generals whispered in front of the sand table, exchanging their views on the situation on the battlefield. The battle of chasing and annihilation has lasted for many days, and the various combat units have achieved a lot, but the commander's battalion slipped too fast and has not yet been able to encircle it, so the generals have to work hard for a while.
The familiar footsteps sounded behind it, and the generals turned around and stood attentively, saluting the marshal who had just walked in.
Xue Cangyun looked at the excited and expectant eyes of his subordinates, nodded with satisfaction, walked to the sand table, and asked, "How far is our legion from the bastard of Sagusnoch?"
A female wise man operated a few times on the sand table and replied respectfully: "According to the information fed back from the reconnaissance fleet half an hour ago, they have now reached the edge of the Dominion of Siloa, and are collecting the last batch of occupied warships that were divided, and then... they will follow the Sc-9903 channel to completely withdraw from the sphere of influence of the empire and return to the royal court!"
Although the Empire's monitoring network was damaged to a considerable extent in those occupied areas, it was impossible for the Gambinos to completely block the Empire's eyes and ears in a short period of time. With some secret means being put into use one after another, the Empire Legion is still able to track and monitor them continuously.
The specific locations of the two huge fleets were clearly marked on the sand table, and it can be seen that the cursors representing the two sides are almost overlapping. As long as you chase after a few more wormholes, you can bite the tail of the Gambino army for no more than five hours.
Of course, the pursuit and annihilation war has been underway until now, and the two armies are very close to the outer edge of the empire's sphere of influence. At most one day, they will enter the wilderness between the borders of the traditional forces of the two tribes.
Although Xue Cangyun did not intend to let go of this group of aliens, the orders given to him by the senior officials of the empire before departure did not include permission for cross-border pursuit. If he did not listen to the hello and acted without authorization, it would be a big or small problem.
"The group of fat guys above always like to stick to some inexplicable and meaningless principles. I really don't know what they have in their minds!" The marshal cursed in his heart.
Li Weizhong next to him lowered his head and estimated it, and said, "At our marching speed, we can catch up with this group of dogs and miscellaneous dogs in a maximum of three hours. If we send a part of the high-speed assault fleet to chase them lightly and hold them up first, the problem can be solved in one hour!"
"Well, you can consider this method." The Marshal nodded, "If you have any other ideas, you might as well tell me what you think!"
Meng Yuequan thought for a while and said, "That commander is one of the few powerful figures in the Gambino King's Court. He may not have no powerful trump cards at hand. We just chased after him, maybe we were just going to be his plan, so it's better to be cautious."
"Let's take a step back, even if there is no conspiracy, it will be difficult for us to do if it is willing to give up some of its forces to hold us back and let the main force retreat at full speed."
Compared with current strength, the Imperial Legion certainly has the upper hand. Even though the number of Gambino fleets is still ahead of the Empire, in terms of actual combat power, the two are not on the same level at all. So in this case, the best way is to abandon some of the troops and lose some of the spoils, and accelerate the retreat!
As long as you exit the border and enter the wild star field, the nature of the war will be different.
Xue Cangyun frowned slightly, then thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think?"
"I will be outside, and I will not accept the order!" A cold voice sounded,
"We just want to cross-border pursuit and annihilation. When all the invading hybrids are solved and the news is blocked later, no one will know what we have done at the border!"
The generals looked over and found that Feng Linbo, who was speaking, was actually the haggard-looking Feng Linbo. Since the collapse of the northwest defense line, the general had few troops left, and he had been drinking to relieve his sorrow all day long, and he was almost completely depressed.
Although there is no news from above, everyone knows in their hearts that after the war is over, he will definitely be sent to the Imperial Military Court, even if the main responsibility for the matter is not on him.
Xue Cangyun looked at the robe who had once had outstanding military achievements, and felt a little sad and said:
"Of course I want to do this, but once we leave the border, our information advantage will not be so obvious. Moreover, it is easy to deal with a Sagusnoch, but if their Wang Ting decides to send troops to support us, we have to face the elite main force of the entire Wang Ting! The war will inevitably become long-term and complicated, and then..."
Others didn't know it, but he knew it in his heart. Although the incident happened suddenly, the top leaders of the empire did not intend to start a full-scale war with the Gambino civilization again, because most of the empire's mobile strategic forces had been deployed to the Xiaoyang Galaxy and were fighting with the Beiming Prison civilization there. The battle situation had entered a critical stage and no longer allowed to rashly start another large-scale war. Unless the empire ordered the whole country to mobilize.
Li Weizhong's eyes rolled and said, "According to the information we have, there has been no sign of a large-scale military deployment in Gambino. So I think cross-border pursuit is not a big deal. Moreover, with our strength, even if we encounter the main force of Wang Ting, we can guarantee that we can escape unscathed. Well... the only concern is the dissatisfaction of the old guys above."
"It's better to do this," Meng Yuequan said,
"Marson, you can issue a document to the Imperial Army, asking for cross-border pursuit, but you cannot let the Supreme Council know about it, so that you can..."
Xue Cangyun knew in his heart that the military's top leaders were relatively single in their consideration of issues, and always had military factors first. They would not need to take into account too many aspects like those politicians. Therefore, his request would most likely be approved. When the superiors pursued it, there would naturally be a big boss from the military to fight them with verbal battles.
"Okay, let's do it like this!" The marshal nodded and made up his mind and ordered:
"Feng Linbo, I will give you 150,000 high-speed assault ships, plus 30 superpower legions. You should lead the army and set off now. You must hold their main force! Can it be done?"
The general was shocked and immediately realized that the marshal wanted to make meritorious service in this way. Even if he was captured by some forces as a scapegoat in the future, he would not have no power to fight back.
He glanced at the Marshal gratefully and saluted in awe: "Please guarantee to complete the task!"
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In the camp of the commander.
Vikras was discussing retreat with Sagusnoch, and the cunning and gloomy wise man was also a little confused about the fact that the imperial army was getting closer and closer.
"...We have not had much time, so our subordinates feel that we will have the chance to return to the royal court safely by abandoning half of our troops and spoiling them regardless of casualties!" It persuaded Sagusnochi.
"Can't we have so many fleets, can't we fight a good fight with them?" The commander obviously felt a little unwilling to accept it and said in a cold tone.
"Your Excellency, I'm sorry, the result of the comparison of strength between the two sides... should be like this!" said the old wise man helplessly.
Chapter completed!