Battle in Full Swing
"Full fleet turn, maximum thrust, targets 5518***, 665***, 2222***." Yue Yuan immediately issued the order to the helmsman team of the Lyra via the ship's internal communication.
This is a set of coordinate axes centered on this Yellow Dwarf Star, with the direction being a Void. According to the observations of the probes, one of the three fleets of the Interstellar Transaction Market will pass through this coordinate.
Seeing that the Interstellar Transaction Market had divided the Great Fleet into three, and that the fleet in this direction only numbered around four million ships, not much different from the number of the Lyra warship cluster, Yue Yuan felt it was an opportunity.
Upon receiving the order, the Lyra battleship group, under the control of Strong Artificial Intelligence, immediately reacted.
The entire spherical formation was stretched out like a flock of geese changing formation, and soon it became a large elliptical sphere. The warships tilted towards the target like Flowing Water.
Seeing the actions of the human fleet, the Interstellar Transaction Market naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity. The warships that had previously engaged in long-range firefights with the human fleet immediately reacted, pulling their thrust to maximum and charging towards the human fleet, hoping to take this opportunity to close the distance between the two sides.
The human fleet turned to drive, while the fleet from the Interstellar Transaction Market accelerated at full speed to approach. This shift in power did indeed bring the two fleets much closer together.
Before the human warships could complete their acceleration, the vanguard of over 800,000 warships had closed the distance between the two sides to about 8 light-seconds. This distance was not considered close, but the hit probability of the Laser Energy Cannon was greatly improved.
Thus, in the short time it took for the Lyra battleship group to move around, the Interstellar Transaction Market side destroyed more than a thousand unmanned Sea-Class Warship of humanity through firepower coverage.
But that's not all. Since the human fleet had already engaged in direct combat with the enemy, and the Interstellar Transaction Market had divided its fleet into three, it was also using one of its five million warships to contain the humans.
Therefore, when the Lyra battleship group turned, its flanks were completely exposed to the enemy fleet's artillery. Fortunately, the armor of the human warships was strong enough that they could often withstand several rounds of active attacks after the Polarization Shield were destroyed before being destroyed.
In order to facilitate a smooth transition, the human side deployed approximately 100,000 warships to form a square formation during the Great Fleet's turn, thus providing cover for the Great Fleet's shift.
These 100,000 warships had just completed their formation, and like a square curtain hanging in the starry sky, they charged towards the main fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market.
Clearly, these 100,000 warships have been abandoned by humanity. Their only purpose in charging forward is to provide cover for the human Great Fleet's relocation.
The effects were quickly apparent, with these 100,000 warships engaging in close-quarters combat with the enemy's vanguard of over 800,000 warships. Nano Weapon proved invaluable at this point, mounted on Electromagnetic Railgun and functioning as warheads in the battle.
With 100,000 against 800,000, and the enemy having over 4 million more warships approaching, the fate of those 100,000 warships was predictable. In a short time, they were all destroyed in the Void by the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Interstellar Transaction Market forces.
Although all 100,000 rearguard warships were destroyed, it bought the Lyra fleet time to regroup. A glance across the starry sky revealed that two hours later, the Lyra fleet had completely distanced itself from the central fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market and was heading towards its other squadron.
However, the central fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market did not seem to intend to let the Lyra battleship group go. After destroying the 100,000 warships that brought up the rear, they accelerated again and followed the Lyra battleship group's trajectory to attack.
Meanwhile, one of their squadrons, the one that the human fleet was facing—a fleet of over four million warships—also began to turn around a few minutes later and charged towards the human fleet.
Clearly, they intended to attack from both sides and destroy the human fleet in one fell swoop.
At this moment, the third fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market also began to turn in space at the location of the Five Lights Divide. Obviously, the goal of this fleet was also to gang up on the human fleet from another direction.
Because space is three-dimensional, warfare offers a great deal of freedom, allowing fleets to travel in any direction.
Without the Asteroid Belt terrain, the enemy's actions were even more obvious, so the moment the human fleet took action, their intentions were discovered by the enemy.
However, Yue Yuan had anticipated this change in the situation.
The disparity in fleet size is undeniable, and in terms of deployment flexibility, humanity naturally cannot compete with the Interstellar Transaction Market. However, the opponent's strategy of splitting the fleet into three parts gives humanity the opportunity to avoid facing the entire Great Fleet.
Therefore, after learning about the actions of the two fleets in the Interstellar Transaction Market, Yue Yuan not only made no progress, but also directly added another instruction to the Strong Artificial Intelligence, and at the same time notified all combat personnel of the Lyra through internal communication.
"Maximum thrust, full speed ahead!"
Once the order was given, everyone knew what to do. Even the Strong Artificial Intelligence knew what Yue Yuan wanted the Lyra warship cluster to do next.
That's right, it's all about charging forward, charging forward, charging forward, charging forward, charging forward.
It's still that kind of unrelenting, high-speed charge.
In a close contest, the brave will prevail. Yue Yuan intends to pit the Lyra fleet, which currently has 2.7 million warships remaining, against the Second Sub-Fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market in a head-on confrontation.
Two million seven hundred thousand warships against four million warships, using a high-speed infiltration maneuver, like a cavalry charge, directly penetrated through.
If my guess is correct, Interstellar Transaction Market really does only have one Strong Artificial Intelligence, and it is assigned to the squadron that is currently fighting the North Sea warship group, then the control method of these three squadrons is either Intelligent Program or Sentient Life form.
If it is the latter, Yue Yuan does not believe that the other side can withstand such a large loss of personnel.
Even a highly automated Level 3 Civilization, without Strong Artificial Intelligence to fully utilize the capabilities of a Sea-Class Warship, would need at least three thousand people. In comparison, even if factors such as the form of life forms in the Interstellar Transaction Market differ, the differences shouldn't be significant.
Of course, if they are not Group Technological Civilization composed of individual lives like humans, then that's a different story. However, judging from past experience, most civilizations in the universe are technological civilizations in the form of collective intelligence and individual beings.
Judging from the fact that some warships have been routed during wars, the Interstellar Transaction Market is likely to follow the same pattern.
"My 78th warship squadron's attack was effective. The enemy ship's Polarization Shield are overloaded. The enemy warship has been destroyed!"
"My 18th warship squadron's attack was effective. The enemy ship's Polarization Shield are overloaded. The enemy warship has been destroyed!"
"My 698th warship squadron's attack was effective. The enemy ship's Polarization Shield are overloaded. The enemy warship has been destroyed!"
As soon as the lead ships of the Lyra warship group engaged the enemy, a series of victory reports appeared on the Lyra's data summary screen.