Counterfeit Hero

Thirty years ago, when Hastings stood on a bleak battlefield with the setting sun like blood, he left to the world a thin and majestic figure, and a famous saying that is regarded as a holy book by contemporary soldiers. In order to avoid being dragged down by a war that was strategically impossible to win, the Binart Empire had no choice but to sign an alliance under the city in humiliation.

On behalf of the combat troops who laid down their weapons, it was Sober's father who bent down and signed the surrender document.

The pattern of the human world was settled after a brief but fierce collision.

In the past thirty years, the Republic of Feiyang has stood out, with warships flying the flag of the Feiyang Alliance crossing the seas and showing off its power.

At that time, Sober was just a teenager.

Just like what is described in many novels, in order to regain the honor of his family, to avenge his father who died in depression, and to defeat the enemies of the empire, the talented young man became a soldier and climbed up step by step.

Thirty years ago, no one thought this boy was qualified or had the chance to fight Hastings. Twenty years ago, or even ten years ago, no one believed that Sobol would face Hastings.

Thirty years is not a long time. Peace seems to have just begun.

Although the two camps are always at war with each other in the Supreme United Council of Mankind, no one believes that anyone dares to brazenly launch a war.

Especially the Fimen people. When they drove an interstellar spacecraft loaded with cargo and saw the Feiyang battleships sailing proudly through the interstellar channels, everyone even thought that the Feiyang Alliance would be strong forever, and this kind of peace would continue until the end of the universe. .

However, war broke out.

The Patriotic War in the Southeast Leray Federation suddenly turned into a world war.

From that moment on, everyone understood that there must be a battle between Sobol and Hastings.

However, no one can say for sure which day that will be. No one can know what the world will look like when that day comes.

time flies.

The day that people think is far away has become this day.

On this day, fireworks suddenly exploded in the universe

In the left-wing theater, directly in front of the black star [Deimos], the Phantom fleet patrol group and the oncoming West York patrol group were like two blooming Manjushuahuas, and thousands of threads suddenly stretched out in the air at the same time. Thousands of petals.

This beautiful and spectacular sight dazzled everyone.

Although people have imagined the magnificent scene of this moment countless times, their imaginations have failed in the face of reality.

"This is art"

Lieutenant General Machia looked at the Skynet screen dreamily.

In the telescope lens in front of him, a Feiyang cruiser was raising its bow high, pulling out an arc-shaped blue tail light. Because there is no close reference object for comparison, from the lens, it seems to be frozen in the void of the universe together with the bright stars and colorful nebulae in the distance.

Next to this cruiser is another identical Feiyang cruiser. The same high bow, the same curved tail light trajectory, the only difference is the direction of advancement.

Two cruisers, separated left and right. The ion stream trajectories that were originally very close were like the sparks of fireworks, getting farther and farther apart, and becoming farther and farther apart.

In the endless void of the universe, they are so small and so slow.

However, when the telescope lens suddenly zoomed out, countless identical small warships eclipsed the entire starry sky with beautiful and dazzling arc-shaped streams of light.

This was the first meeting between Hastings and Sober. The two most outstanding and talented military strategists in the human world finally stood on their respective command seats and collided in this troubled world filled with smoke and artillery fire.

"Exquisite and unbelievable." Go Fujii looked at the Skynet screen with the same obsessed eyes. His hands were tightly gripping the railings of the podium due to nervousness and excitement, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging. "This is the real [Wolf Pack] tactic." In the space fleet command we learned in school, the most basic and simple wolf pack tactics are compared with the command skills of His Excellency the Marshal. The combat examples and rules in the textbook are simply bullshit."

As talented generals trained by the Ryan Army, Machia and Fujii Tsuyoshi were both top students from orthodox military academies. They are naturally very familiar with [Wolf Pack], the basic tactic of fleet command.

This tactic originated more than three hundred years ago.

At that time, space fleet battles developed from long-distance salvos to close-range strangulation of patrol groups due to the improvement in the speed and defense of battleships. This tactic also came into being. Its main tactical idea is to use scattered and interrelated movement routes to seize the attack position and destroy the enemy's overall formation when the patrol group engages in battle. In order to achieve the purpose of suppressing, cutting and annihilating the opponent. .

Since the fleet will disperse to different airspaces when executing this tactic, each will be responsible for different tasks such as spying, harassment, main attack, and feint attack. When the attack is launched, they attack in waves, and they attack in groups, which is very similar to the way wolves fight when killing large prey. Therefore, this tactic is vividly named "Wolf Pack" tactic.

In the eyes of most officers, there is nothing unusual about wolf pack tactics. Many people even think that using wolf pack tactics in battle is a very tasteless thing.

This kind of low-level tactics, which was born three hundred years ago and was learned in the lower grades of military academies, has been evolved and supplemented for many years, but neither the changes nor the power can be combined with those advanced tactics that require extremely high tactical cultivation to learn and use. Similar tactics.

It will always be labeled as mass tactics and basic subjects.

In actual combat, commanders only ordered the implementation of wolf pack tactics when the fleet had an absolute advantage and were too lazy to bother.

After giving such an order, they usually don't give any more instructions. Instead, the commanders of the fleets under their command were left to their own devices. After all, this tactic only has a few tricks to go back and forth. It is nothing more than attacking in groups, biting the opponent, breaking up the formation, seizing the attack position and firing wantonly...not to mention the fleet commander and the ship. Long, even a low-level staff officer can master and use it skillfully.

But today, the wolf pack tactics in Hastings' hands completely subverted their concepts.

If the wolf pack tactics in the textbook were just a dull and crude puppet, then Hastings' command made this puppet completely come to life.

Machia and Fujii Tsuyoshi and other Fiji League generals could clearly see from the Skynet screen that when the five Double-Headed Eagle*-class fleets commanded by Licht were bypassing [Deimos], the fleet was still Standard group formation. The distance between the patrol group in front and the main battleship array in the rear is no more than 500 kilometers. The front and back steps are coordinated and uniform. It looked like troops being paraded through the square.

No one is surprised by this.

The phantom fleet formed by Hastings, as the family force of the military god, is to some extent even more well-trained than the double-headed eagle fleet of Feiyang's military. Not only are its battleships strictly configured in accordance with the Double-Headed Eagle Fleet, but even the soldiers among them are experienced veterans who have retired from the Double-Headed Eagle Fleet.

The subtle thing is the change

As Hastings pointed out the coordinates on the tactical computer, the Fei Alliance fleet suddenly exploded like fireworks and scattered. The route and angle of each battleship's navigation happened to be the closest attack position to itself, and it was also the most uncomfortable place for the oncoming West York fleet.

Just like a group of hungry wolves hunting bison, they seized the attack position next to the prey in an instant, took a posture, opened their mouths, and were ready to attack the shoulder blades, abdomen, tail, neck, back... Only No one stopped in front of the bison to meet its sharp horns.

Five *-level fleets, with a total of 600 cruise ships, that is, sixty cruise battle formations

It is simply unimaginable for ordinary people to complete such tactical actions with so many formations at the same time and at the same perfect line angle. An ordinary commander can command up to twenty formations at the same time. And it is even more impossible to achieve such a 100% perfect completion rate.

This is the skill of command.

A simple wolf pack tactic, in the hands of Hastings, turned it into a miracle, and it was a sure kill in one encounter.

No matter it was Macchia, Fujii Tsuyoshi or other Fei League generals, they had no doubts at this moment. If he were to face Hastings, he would have lost the qualification to win without having to fight to the next stage.

However, Hastings's opponent is Sobol.

This military genius recognized by the human world as the only one qualified to challenge Hastings chose the same tactic at this moment.

The nine West York-class fleets, 1,080 patrol battleships, and 108 patrol formations in front of them exploded, bloomed, and spread in all directions almost at the same time as the Phantom Fleet's patrol group.

Although not every one of these fleets is perfectly positioned. However, judging from the scene, Sobol lived up to his reputation. Not only did he provide the positioning coordinates of more than a hundred patrol formations at the same time, but among them, as many as ninety were perfectly positioned.

What kind of terrifying command technique is this?

Although the total number of patrol formations commanded by Hastings was only sixty, the 100% perfect positioning showed that the old man still had higher strength. However, Sobol's performance still made the Fei League generals present feel a sense of powerlessness deep in their hearts.

If, before today, many people still thought that Li Fo was Sobol's opponent, then when this scene appeared in front of them, everyone was just glad that the Fei League still had Hastings. Even Tsuyoshi Fujii, who admires Li Fu the most, is no exception.

This is a kind of joy in fear. No one dares to imagine that when the Fi League loses Hastings, who can stop Sober's pace?

In the void, two fireworks exploded suddenly, blooming into thousands of sparks that intertwined with each other.

As the battleship cluster behind them fired simultaneously, huge white light groups suddenly formed vertical and horizontal light nets.

Wandering, fighting, artillery fire, annihilation.

For thirty years, this flower of fate and hatred has been blooming in the southeast starry sky.

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