The biggest advantage of the spherical formation is that it can effectively fight against enemy fighter clusters. Huron knew that the pressure brought by the huge aircraft group of mechanical training in the first Angstrom naval battle was not intended to give the other party a chance to replicate the last battle result. Moreover, as a senior "naval warfare expert", Huron dared to conclude that even if a star fort was really stuffed into tens of thousands of fighter jets, it would definitely not be able to recover and launch efficiency in time like satellites. After all, how big the star fort is, it cannot have so many special defensive satellites on the flight deck.
As long as you survive the first two rounds of air strikes, the subsequent Imperial fighter jets will experience rapid declines due to the inability to replenish timely ammunition, and they will be able to attack Soshiyang's fleet and Star Fort with all their strength.
Under Huron's strict orders and the intimidation of the Imperial Fighter Group, the Red Pirates Fleet quickly formed an air defense formation and waited for the impact of the Imperial Fleet Group.
However, the first wave of 4,000 fighter jets and bombers did not attack the Red Pirates' fleet's original formation. Instead, they flew up and down the fleet formation and attacked only the outermost ships, thus avoiding the areas with the most dense air defense firepower.
Soon, more than a dozen small plundering ships and two light cruisers exploded in a massive bombing of fighter jets, but what surprised Huron was that the fighter jets did not return to Star Fort, but flew directly into the distance.
There were only a few Grey Knight's strike cruisers there, and there was no action from the beginning.
But soon Huron knew the reason.
"Master! Scan to a new fleet! The number is over 30! And—"
Huron almost jumped from the commanding throne, and he stood up and shouted:
"Don't stutter, what else!"
"There is a second star castle! It's the hell iris!"
Huron widened his eyes. He never expected that his former pride would become a weapon to deal with him now. For some shameful reason, Huron ordered that the name of hell iris should not be mentioned again. After a long time, he almost forgot that he had a star castle.
Now, he remembered it.
The exploration fleet of the Mechanical Education used gravitational beams to drag the star castle and approached from the edge of the galaxy at an extremely fast speed. They had been hiding themselves with technology before. Although this fleet was not large, more than half were medium-sized ships of light cruisers or above. Although it was an exploration fleet, its armed level was not inferior to any naval power.
This is the two island tactic formulated by Soshiyan.
If a star castle cannot guarantee the efficiency of all fighter jets, what about the two?
The fighter jets taken off by the Blessing Barrier will land on the Victory Mark after consuming all ammunition, while the fighter jets taken off by the Victory Mark will land on the Blessing Barrier. Both can fill up the preparation and take-off and landing efficiency, and can also form a crossed air strike force. This is equivalent to "climbing" the Red Pirates' fleet between two airports and enduring the highest efficiency of air strikes and bombing.
Even if the Red Pirates form a hedgehog array, it doesn't matter, or this is what Soshiyang wants. He doesn't expect to win this naval battle by air strikes. He wants the Red Pirates to shrink into a group, so their shelling efficiency will be reduced, and their number and firepower will not be exerted (human warships, including the Chaos side, have relatively fixed firing boundaries, so the direction of the hull needs to be adjusted significantly when firing). The Empire's fleet can use long-distance artillery to "peel" them little by little like peeling eggs.
Looking at the fleet whizzing past outside the fleet, the newly joined Mechanical Cultivation Fleet and the Star Fortress that had been for himself, Huron was at a loss for a moment, but soon he realized and picked up the communicator.
"It's no big deal. The Imperial fleet is still inferior to us. Everyone sticks to their original position. Their fighter planes cannot be endless."
Just as the command was issued, more fighter jets roared. They passed around the Red Pirates fleet like they encountered a river of reefs, and bombed the enemy with dense point defense fire. Fighters and bombers were constantly hit and exploded, but sparks continued to emerge from the Red Pirates' warships, and even chain explosions were generated.
But so far, the damaged ships are all small ships.
With the help of powerful engines, the Mechanical Fleet quickly arrived at the area where the Grey Knights Fleet was located. Star Fort has received the first wave of surviving fighters and quickly replenished and repaired them.
Suddenly, a dazzling beam of light struck the void and hit the Retribution-level battleship Desperate Prayer, causing its void shield to be extinguished after a flash.
This was the shooting of the hidden main gun from the Eternal Loyal, which also sounded the horn of the Imperial Fleet's attack. The main battleships opened fire one after another, with the goal of hitting the Desperate Prayer, which had lost its shield protection, and drowning the huge hull in a continuous explosion and flash.
The Red Pirates Fleet immediately fought back, but because of the spherical formation, the main battleships were protected by many small ships, so their shooting often required to avoid friendly forces or adjust the hull, which was much lower than normal.
At the same time, the Mechanical Cultivator fleet also began to shoot. Compared with other navies in the Empire, the Mechanical Cultivator ships emphasized long distances and high precision, so the shooting effect was even better than the Expeditionary Fleet led by Soshyan. In the first round, it severely damaged a heavy cruiser and destroyed several small ships.
"Blackhearted King!"
Just as Huron tried to command the fleet to fight against the surrounding fighter planes and the Imperial fleet's two ends, Zhu Fu's anxious voice rang out on the bridge.
"You can't be so passive anymore. If you continue, our army will be defeated! The only way now is to rush! No matter which side it is, concentrate your strength to attack in one direction, don't worry about any casualties, and throw all the jumping teams to Star Fort!"
"this--"
Although Huron knew that Zhu Fu was right, he was still uneasy. He wanted to force the jump gang against such a large number of fighter jets. The casualties were unimaginable.
Moreover, Soshiyang scattered so much "garbage" in the void, which means that if they want to jump to the gang, they must find a way to clean up the clean passage. This process is not easy.
"Can't hesitate anymore! I'm willing to lead the assault myself!"
After hearing what Zhu Fu said, Huron gritted his teeth.
"Okay! Just do what you said! It depends on you, brother Zhu Fu! The whole army attacked Suoshiyang in the direction!"
"Don't forget about Blackheart King, and things near Angustom Six!"
After reminding his wizard lord, Huron immediately remembered that he had an arrangement at Angustom Six.
"Um?"
Soshiyang suddenly discovered that the Red Pirates had unfolded the formation, some of the fleet remained on the spot against the Mechanical Fleet, some of them ran towards themselves in an assault formation, and some of them were small ships heading towards the planets.
"Huron...is he going to fight to the death?"
The other party's reaction was within his expectations, so he immediately sent a full-army communication.
"All firepower concentrates on attacking the enemy's main battleship!"
"Blessing Barrier is ready to fight against the counter-jumping Gang!"
From the imager, we can see that Huron's flagship did not follow the assault. Soshiyan just didn't know what the small ships heading towards the planet were going to do, and there should be nothing there.
So he asked several destroyer formations to monitor the other party and focused on the Red Pirates' assault fleet.
The main force of this assault team is a battleship, a combat barge, three large/heavy cruisers, and more than fifty small and medium-sized ships. They opened fire all the way and rushed all the way to try to pass through the previously made metal fragment belt, but were fiercely blocked by the Imperial Fleet.
At this moment, the Red Pirates made the first move that surprised Soshiyan.
They fired vortex torpedoes, but the target was not the Imperial fleet, but in the "metal isolation belt" that was previously built.
As the flashes of the sub-space burst out, huge amounts of metal garbage and debris were sucked into the sub-space, and even affected some small ships of the Red Pirates, but they also successfully destroyed Soshiyang's design.
He immediately realized that the person who led this commando must be a very decisive and crazy person, not Huron who was looking forward to the front and back. You must know that the whirlpool is not a big deal. If you are willing to use this thing to open the way, you will definitely have extraordinary courage.
So Soshiyan immediately focused on the Red Pirate's death attack.
Chapter completed!