In the next half month, the human expeditionary fleet regained all the remaining 22 stars in the ω Triangulum star field.
However, at the same time, from ω600 in Triangulum to ω800 in Triangulum, a total of 52 stars recaptured by the human fleet were once again occupied by the Mekkatorque fleet.
And over time, the number of stars occupied by the Mekkatorque fleet is still growing.
In the end, in the ω Triangulum star domain, there are 127 important stars on the main route, 52 of which are occupied by the Palestine civilization, and 75 are occupied by the photosynthetic civilization.
"The stars again occupied by the Mekkatorque fleet are mainly distributed in the range from ω500 Triangulum to ω800 Triangulum. Judging from the information obtained, the fleet responsible for capturing these 52 stars is between 12 ships and 24 ships. In the meantime, no large fleet appeared." Zhao Anya summed up the situation in the past half month.
She paused, sighed slightly, and said: "According to the original plan, after we have all occupied the ω Triangular star region, we can enter the ψ Triangular star region. Now the ω Triangul star region is again occupied by Mercator. Ke captured 52 stars. It seems that he can only look back and regain it."
Fang Yuan’s expression is very serious these days. It is necessary to regain the 52 stars in ω500 Triangulum to ω800 Triangulum, but things are far less simple than the surface.
For the time being, there is no other better way, so the fleet can only turn around and get the 52 stars back first.
As a result, the human expeditionary fleet, after occupying the triangle seat ω983, turned around and flew toward the triangle seat ω787 secondly occupied by the Mekkatorque fleet.
In the original two-month voyage, the expeditionary fleet reached ω787 Triangle in only half a month.
The process of regaining ω787 Triangulum was very smooth. Basically, it was going through a cutscene, destroying a few land-based defense turrets, then invading the star defense system, regaining control rights, and the operation was complete.
Subsequently, the expeditionary fleet started from ω787 Triangulum, along the main route, to retrieve all the fallen stars along the way, the process is similar to travel.
However, when the expeditionary fleet recaptured 28 stars, 24 stars remained.
The battle report came from the triangle seat ω983, which was occupied by a 12-ship Mekkatorque fleet.
Followed by the triangle seat ω971, the triangle seat ω960, the triangle seat ω930...
Basically, the human fleet occupies a star, and the Mekkatorque fleet occupies a star at the other end of the star field.
The two sides are like hide-and-seek, you take one, and I take one, without seeing each other.
As a result, the human fleet and the Mekkatorque fleet always control a certain number of stars in the triangulum ω star domain, increasing or decreasing, but no matter how hard humans work, they cannot occupy all the main stars of the triangulum ω.
After going back and forth twice, all space soldiers in the expeditionary fleet saw the problem.
Fang Yuan held a high-level meeting to discuss solutions.
"Looking at the current situation, Mekkatorque does not intend to meet us anymore. We occupy a star, and he will occupy one on the other side of the star field. We rushed over, and Mekkatorque’s fleet had already withdrawn. , Can't even see their shadows." A military research class student, very angrily patted his military cap on the table.
"Everyone is going to talk about it, is there a way to break the game?" Fang Yuan motioned for everyone to speak.
"In fact, the best way to deal with this tactic is to divide the fleet into multiple formations and guard the key routes in the triangulum ω star field. As long as you catch Mekkatork's fleet a few times, it will naturally be broken." Counterattack The captain proposed the simplest plan.
This scheme is indeed the simplest and most direct, but it is not always applicable.
Lang Xiaonian slowly shook his head and reminded: "From the perspective of the complexity of the main route of the ω Triangle star field, if you want to hold the key nodes of the main route, you need to divide the fleet into at least 20 formations.
"We are divided into two or three formations, and we can afford it. If we are divided into 20 formations, if there is an accident, there is no time for rescue."
Zhao Anya took the topic and said: "If you divide it into 20 formations, it means that there are only 12 warships in each formation, which is a very dangerous number.
"Our warship was transformed by a dark matter reactor. Once the Palestine civilization concentrates its forces and siege one of our formations, it is likely that the Palestine civilization will acquire our dark matter reactor.
"This will lead to the risk of leakage of dark matter technology, so it is absolutely undesirable to divide the fleet into 20 formations."
Eve asked angrily, "Can we rely on the speed of the ship to catch the opposite person by surprise? When Mekkatorque captures a star, we immediately rushed over with the'photon jump' and killed them."
"This method cannot be achieved."
Lang Xiaonian shook his head and said helplessly: "Actually, I have studied the time and place each time Mekkatorque occupies a star.
"The opponent's strategy is carefully calculated. The time and place of each occupation of the star is outside the range of our pursuit, and there is even a long redundant distance.
"If you want to immediately rush to catch them after the Mekkatorque fleet has captured a star, then the speed of our fleet needs to reach a very exaggerated speed."
"How much?" Eve was curious.
"At least 1,000 times the speed of light. From this point of view, Mekkatork’s character is very cautious. He didn’t play a bit of thrilling games. If he wants to play a heartbeat, he can touch the distance at 200 times the speed of light. However, he was cautious enough to pull this safe value to 1000 times the speed of light. This speed is impossible for us to achieve. Even if the dark matter reactor is optimized and upgraded, it is impossible to increase that much." Lang Xiaonian reluctantly shook his head.
Niu Dazhi scratched his head, and said with a grumpy temper, "Is this dog thing interesting?"
"For the Palestine civilization, it's interesting. Mekkatork's fleet alone dragged us down. What even Zandar Ikochi could not do, one of his students did." Zhao Anya Said helplessly.
"Then we will rush to their lair and blast away their fleet base!" Eve said with a fist.
"This plan definitely won't work."
Zhao Anya raised her voice and said solemnly: "Now that the secrets of dark matter technology can no longer be kept secret, it is possible for the Palestine civilization to send a Star God level existence against us.
"Going deep into the Palestine control star field is too deep. Once we encounter the Palestine Star God, then we will be wiped out.
"Even if the Palese Star God did not appear, in the Triangulum Galaxy, the stars occupied by the Palese civilization originally belonged to the Carbon-based Alliance.
"In other words, the stars of the Triangulum galaxy can be abandoned for the Palestine civilization.
"Like Mekkatorque now, he gave up the star of Omega Triangulum. It was a joy, and he would not resist at all, and he would not leave a warship.
"As soon as we came, he left. We left, and he returned again.
"It makes us look like a plague god. As long as we are there, within 200 light years, we won't be able to see a Palese battleship.
"However, all stars over 200 light-years are under Palleté's control."
...
The next month.
The human expeditionary fleet and the Mekkatorque fleet are spent in this game of occupying the stars where you come and go.
If you only look at the star map, it's like a map coloring game.
The human fleet painted a star system blue, and Mekkatorque painted a star system red.
Back and forth, endlessly.
There was a stalemate for two months.
There is a feeling that the expeditionary fleet is incapable of being powerful.
All the space soldiers in the fleet are not afraid of battle, but they are afraid of this situation where they can't even see the shadow of the opponent's ghost.
After the meeting on this day.
Fang Yuan heard the cries of his daughter in the monitor, and handed over the affairs of the fleet to others, and returned to the resting cabin to see his daughter.
"What's wrong with my little baby?" Fang Yuan took Xiao Nunan from Han Youwei's hand, patted her back, and coaxed softly.
As soon as Xiao Nun was in her father's arms, she stopped crying immediately.
This made Han Youwei unhappy, and said sternly, "What do you mean? I screamed when I held it. You won't cry when you come back."
"Isn't it obvious? The girl missed me." Fang Yuan smiled happily, and took the stubble that hadn't been shaved on his chin for two days to pierce Xiao Nun's face.
"Isn't there a solution yet?" Han Youwei asked casually about the situation of the fleet.
"It's really a bit difficult. The main reason is that our fleet is special. If we disperse into small formations, once a small formation is encircled and annihilated by the Palestine civilization, then the dark matter reactor will fall into the hands of the Palestine civilization... …"
Fang Yuan put the little girl in the cradle and sat beside him while shaking and talking: "Although the technology of the dark matter reactor is unique, with the level of technology of the Palestine civilization, once you get the real thing, you will definitely be able to analyze it. Dark matter technology."
Based on the technological level of human stellar civilization, the science and technology of higher civilizations can be analyzed.
Want to make Palestine civilization unable to analyze the technology of the dark matter reactor?
That is almost impossible.
Therefore, it is not advisable for the human expeditionary fleet to disperse into small formations.
In this way, the biggest shortcoming of the expeditionary fleet appeared.
That is invincible in a frontal battle, but unable to fight against small formations.
"Then let the photosynthetic civilization conduct joint operations." Han Youwei said whatever she thought of.
Although it has not undergone rigorous analysis, it is actually another way to let the photosynthetic civilization send fleets to conduct joint operations.
Fang Yuan shook his head and said, "The photosynthetic civilization is not willing to send a fleet to battle, and the combat effectiveness of the photosynthetic civilization is indeed very worrying.
"When confronted with the Palerce Fleet, the fleet of the photosynthetic civilization is easily defeated, mainly because the will of the photosynthetic race is too weak to fight."
On the battlefield, morale and fighting will are too important.
In the era of land warfare, if the casualties exceed 10% in the war, there will be a defeat. When the casualties exceed 30%, the army will almost certainly be defeated.
Whether it is a hot weapon or a cold weapon war, there are very few battles that are truly destroyed without defeat.
In battles with more than half of the casualties, in fact, most of the casualties were killed and wounded after the defeat.
As for whether it is defeated at 10% casualties or at 30% casualties, it depends on the morale and fighting will of the army.
And the fleet of photosynthetic civilization is very weak to fight. Basically, a fleet charge begins to rout.
This is a natural problem of the photosynthetic tribe, and there is no way for a group of sheep to go to war with the wolves.
There is basically no solution to this matter.
Han Youwei thought for a while and said, "Why don't our generals go to command the fleet of the photosynthetic civilization, arrange our deputy captain, go to the warship of the photosynthetic civilization to be the captain, and send a team to assist."
When Fang Yuan heard this thought, his eyes suddenly brightened: "This idea is good, and it can deepen our relationship with the photosynthetic race. If we get along well, it will be of great help to the alliance of civilizations in the future."
Speaking of this, Fang Yuan immediately connected the communication of the staff team and said: "Go and check to see if the photosynthetic tribe and the three-eyed tribe have cooperated in commanding the fleet, and whether the tri-eye tribe has ever boarded the photosynthetic tribe. The warship, commanding the fleet for the photosynthetic tribe."
After listening to Han Youwei's thoughts, Fang Yuan thought a lot.
Speaking of which, this method is not too novel.
The photosynthetic civilization and the Three-Eyed Civilization Alliance may have used this scheme for so long.
This kind of plan can completely change the problem of photosynthetic civilization fleet, which is broken at the touch of a touch.
It didn't take long for the staff to read relevant materials and gave a preliminary report.
"General, there are few instances where the three-eyed generals will only fight when boarding the photosynthetic civilization fleet, dating back to the ancient history of the carbon-based alliance, there was once in the record, but the record is very simple, only one sentence, no details."
After Fang Yuan listened to it, he thought for a while and said, "Help me connect with Piggs."
It didn't take long before Piggs' communication came in.
"Hello, General Fang Yuan. Wow! Is this your child? She is really an angel, so cute. It even makes me want to adopt a human child." Piggs exhausted everything possible. The adjectives that come to mind come to praise Xiao Nun.
"Well, I have something to ask you. The photosynthetic fleet is easily defeated in battle, so I don't need to explain more. What I am curious is, why don't you let the generals of the Three Eyes command your fleet?" Fang Yuan asked very directly.
"This..."
Piggs was stunned, and then said after a long while: "This matter seems to be a matter of convention. Our photosynthetic warships rarely allow the Three Eyes to board.
"If I have to say why, I'm afraid.
"You know, our photosynthetic clan is in the recipe of the three-eyed clan.
"Do you think the sheep will be happy if you put a wolf in the sheep pen?"
Fang Yuan was stunned after listening, feeling very reasonable.
Even if this wolf can restrain the appetite, the sheep will not be happy.
"In this case, let our human generals board your battleship and command your fleet to fight, what do you think?" Fang Yuan said this idea.