Divide Tactics
Time flies, and after the main bodies of Human Civilization and Nair Civilization embarked on their journeys again with the help of the Red Dwarf Star, the atmosphere of war was brought to its extreme.
Those who remained knew that the Artificial Intelligence fleet was about to arrive.
Numerous probes were dispatched by the Allied Forces Command to space to probe the direction of the Artificial Intelligence fleet, hoping to detect its presence before the fleet slowed down.
At this moment, all six fleets of the allied forces gathered near the orbit of the Second Planet, waiting quietly.
One day, two days, three days. As they waited, a message suddenly came back from the dispatched probe.
As the Commander-in-Chief of the entire Allied fleet, the Lyra naturally received the information immediately.
"Commander Yue, we've spotted the Artificial Intelligence fleet! Our 7th Probe Team and 15th Probe Team probe squadrons have been sunk! The fleet is 177 Astronomical Unit away. According to probe data, they show no signs of slowing down and are currently rushing into the Binary Star System at 30% of the speed of light!"
The information was immediately deciphered and then echoed within the Lyra Command Center.
At a distance of 177 Astronomical Unit, if the fleet does not slow down, it will arrive at the location of the Allied fleet in 81 hours.
It seems this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness is still as reckless as before; it probably plans to get a little closer before slowing down.
At this distance, it should have already observed the presence of planets near the Red Dwarf Star. Sure enough, a short while later, the staff member who had just broadcast the news spoke up again.
"Report! 13th Probe Team reports that the enemy fleet has slightly adjusted its course and is currently heading towards our location. Based on its maneuvering, experts estimate that the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness has likely already discovered our planet."
Yue Yuan hadn't spoken before, but after hearing those words, he spoke up.
"Good! Order the Fifth Fleet, Sixth Fleet, and Fourth Fleet to prepare. I want them to enter acceleration mode in 24 hours, accelerating to 1% of the speed of light. The course coordinate formula is π."
The so-called route coordinate formula is represented by a dotted line on the star map, just as the order states, instructing the three fleets to sail along a single route.
From the star chart, these three fleets are positioned at opposite ends of each other, forming a triangle when connected. However, the route is not a straight line, but a curved route that widens as it goes further.
Yue Yuan's purpose in doing this was to use the fleet's exhaust flames to tell the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness: We are here!
Judging from the previous rearguard arrangements, Yue Yuan had a general understanding of the nature of this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness: recklessness. Relying on its absolute advantage in warships, it didn't take the Nair Civilization seriously at all.
Therefore, once it discovers the Nair Civilization fleet here, it will most likely, as before, press down with overwhelming force.
Sure enough, shortly after the three fleets began to accelerate the next day, the few surviving detectors that had not been destroyed discovered that the Artificial Intelligence fleet had adjusted its posture again, spread out its entire Great Fleet, and then covered the three accelerating fleets.
"Tell the fourth, fifth, and sixth fleets to stick to the plan and not linger in battle," Yue Yuan instructed after seeing the three fleets accelerate.
At the same time, he also informed Manyuemei and Governor-General Nair, instructing them to begin operations according to the battle plan.
The allied fleet and the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Fleet will not actually meet so soon, but the allied forces obviously cannot wait in place and let the other side attack. Therefore, the fleet must move around before they actually make contact.
The Allied Forces Command's tactics were simple: have the Fourth Fleet, Fifth Fleet, and Sixth Fleet launch the first wave of attacks from the outer edge of the Artificial Intelligence fleet.
Just like peeling a watermelon, they would enter from three outer edges, then quickly exit from their respective outer edges to create distance, and then circle around to the rear of the Artificial Intelligence fleet.
While the three fleets were launching their first attack, Yue Yuan's First Fleet, Manyuemei's Second Fleet, and Governor Nair's Third Fleet would also be launching their second attack at that time.
Just like the first charge, it was a quick engagement followed by a break-in, but the course after disengaging from the battle was different from the first three fleets.
Emerging from the outer edge of the Artificial Intelligence fleet, the first, second, and Third Fleet will make a turn in space before turning back to their orbits on the Second Planet.
At this point, the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Fleet will once again use the same tactics to launch a surprise attack on the Artificial Intelligence fleet from the rear flank.
The Allied Forces Command called this phase of the tactics "Divide and Harass Tactics," which took advantage of the fact that the Artificial Intelligence fleet could not be separated too much, and harassed it to prevent it from exerting the advantages of Great Fleet.
For some time afterward, the Allied Forces Command used this tactic until the Second Planet fell.
At that moment, Yue Yuan's First Fleet and Man Yuemei's Second Fleet would head to the Second Battlefield, while the other Nair People fleets would also make a show of desperately blocking the pursuers and desperately covering the withdrawal of the two fleets.
In this way, the Artificial Intelligence fleet is lured to the Second Battlefield.
It is precisely because of this plan that, in the first phase, the two human fleets will not go all out, so as to avoid the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness discovering that these two human fleets are far more powerful than the Nair Civilization fleet.
As time passed, the distance between the two sides rapidly closed.
Just then, a voice rang out again in the Lyra Command Center, "Commander Yue, the Artificial Intelligence fleet is slowing down."
Upon hearing this, Yue Yuan turned to look at the large screen displaying the synchronized information. On the screen, he saw that the 50,000 warships had changed their posture in just a few seconds.
Like a well-trained army, they simultaneously turned their bows, activated their lateral steering thrusters, pointed their stern Main Thruster in the same direction, and spewed out long tongues of fire.
At this point in time, the previously dispatched unmanned probe teams had basically been destroyed by the small ships deployed by the Artificial Intelligence fleet, so this perspective was clearly captured by the fleet's telescopes.
Fifty thousand tongues of fire erupted almost simultaneously, and this scene instantly increased the number of photons in the entire space. The scattered photons crossed a distance of several Astronomical Unit and arrived at the receiving equipment of the Allied warships, making the entire fleet's exterior shine brighter.
The Commander on each warship also saw a vast expanse of white on their respective bridge screens.
Honestly, looking at the Artificial Intelligence Great Fleet from this perspective, it really does give you a sense of grandeur and power.
The Allied Forces Command knew that this slowdown by the Artificial Intelligence fleet wouldn't reduce its speed to a very low level, because they didn't take the Allied fleet seriously at all. It was probably just doing this to prepare for their arrival on the Second Planet soon.