In the conference room, Aierfei said to Joanna in an unquestionable tone.
"Commander Joanna, as Queen Bella, I order you to immediately lead Fifth Legion to retreat to Hilsay and rearrange the Star Path defense line!"
"Yes, Queen Bella Your Majesty!"
Queen Bella Ordering a retreat and withdrawing from the front yourself are two completely different meanings.
With no more psychological burden, Joanna immediately ordered the fleet to start evacuating the Star Path defense line, using the speed advantage and arc flight to quickly avoid the firepower of the Viers Legion, and distanced itself, flying towards Star Path in the direction of Hilsay!
At the current Star Path exit, although Viers Legion's bridgehead has been established, there are currently only 80,000 warships, which cannot effectively prevent Joanna's Fifth Legion action.
Coupled with the fact that the battleship is 3,000 kilometers per second slower than the opponent, we can only watch the opponent quickly evacuate.
Also evacuating quickly were the logistics personnel in the star port. As for some staff on various planets, Joanna just informed them to hide.
After all, just as Li Cangqiong said, Viers has no time to waste. He will not clean the planet, so the people on the planet are basically safe.
An hour later, after converging with a large number of transport ships carrying logistics personnel that flew out from the star port group, the entire fleet began to enter Star Path and headed for Hilsay.
Just as Fifth Legion of Joanna was evacuating, Viers's flagship also drove out from Star Path.
Looking at the evacuating Io Federation fleet in the distance, Viers frowned deeply.
This is the last thing he wants to see. For Viers, the ideal situation is to wipe out the opponent in Serbia in one fell swoop.
But what about reality? The reality is that the opponent only lost 20,000 warships and retreated when its bridgehead was just established. However, when it established the bridgehead in the early stage, it lost nearly 80,000 warships.
If this were normal, Viers wouldn't care. Exchanging 80,000 battleships for an important node is a very cost-effective thing no matter how you calculate it.
But are these normal times? He has no backup, and the other party has made it clear that he wants to block him all the way and consume his own combat power. When did Io Federation's group of angels become so good at fighting? This clearly means that space is needed in exchange for victory!
But this makes no sense. Without knowing the current situation of the Oakes Empire, using this strategy is tantamount to destroying the Great Wall. After all, once Serbia falls, Oakes Empire's army can continuously enter Io Federation from far away, or even directly hit its Capital Sphere.
Unless angels and humans hook up, Io Federation knows the current situation of the Oakes Empire, and knows that his legion is a lonely army.
Only in this way can we explain why Io Federation adopted such a strategy.
If this is really the case, then you are in danger. Io Federation will definitely not fight us head-on. Instead, just like Serbia's battle, in the early stages of Star Path's defensive battle, they will use their defensive advantages to wipe out a large number of their own fleets.
Later, when the defensive advantage is gradually lost, continue to retreat decisively, continue to deploy the defense line at the next node, and repeat the previous tactics.
Then waiting for your own results, you can only be eaten up bit by bit.
This is not possible, the strategy must be changed, otherwise they will never be able to cross the territory of Io Federation, and they will all die on the road.
But even if Viers wants to change his strategy now, it is not that easy. There are only three choices in front of him.
First, returning Seris is tantamount to courting death, and Viers has not considered it at all.
Second, go to Hilsay, which is 0.2 light years away and takes about 24 days to travel. Moreover, Fifth Legion of Joanna who just retreated is thinking about Hilsay. They will inevitably re-set up their defense line at Star Path.
Third, go to Mihorton, which is 0.3 light years away and takes about 36 days to travel. It is not known whether there are arrangements there, but Viers believes that there must be arrangements there.
For Viers, you don't need to consider the first option at all, mainly the second and third options.
If you choose second, it means that you are being led by Io Federation, and you will inevitably lose at least tens of thousands of warships in Hilsay.
But if you choose three, there is a lot of uncertainty. First of all, it will take an extra twelve days to travel. These twelve days are very fatal.
Viers knows that humans hold Warp Drive Engine, and now they have guessed that humans and angels are probably colluding together, so the extra ten days of journey will be very dangerous. It is very likely that they will be intercepted by the human fleet because of the extra ten days of journey, which will not be beautiful.
Therefore, compared with the uncertainty of option three, Viers believes that it is better to go with Hilsay. The possibility of final success is greater, but the strategy needs to be changed.
After arriving at Hilsay, the opponent will inevitably repeat the actions of Serbia. However, after capturing Hilsay, he can split the fleet and disperse towards multiple Star Path, and then split and disperse again.
In the end, a situation was formed where fleets were everywhere and divided into many routes to advance separately. So as long as a few fleets among them, no, even just one fleet successfully crossed the territory of Io Federation, it would be considered a success.
Viers is also a decisive person. After making up his mind, he immediately sent the more than 200,000 warships that had come out to Hilsay's Star Path. After all, arriving at Hilsay one minute earlier meant that the fleet of Io Federation had one minute less to set up a defense line.
At the same time, the follow-up fleet was notified. After leaving Star Path, immediately go to Hilsay without any stop!
Finally, half an hour after Joanna Fifth Legion all entered the Hilsay direction Star Path, the front part of the Viers Legion also got the entrance and quickly entered it one after another.
"Currently we have entered Star Path of Hilsay. At the same time, according to the report of Serbia's remaining personnel, Viers's legion has all gone in the direction of Hilsay, and is about half an hour behind us!"
Joanna said to everyone in the conference room, with an anxious look on his face.
"Okay, let's allocate tasks now!"
Liang Xingchen stood up, looked around at everyone and said.
"First of all, cancel the support plan of Mihorton. Commander Ailena please lead the fleet to Hilsay, and I will also lead the fleet to rush there."
"Secondly, we must be too late in time. Please ask Commander Joanna to repeat the operation of Serbia, and then choose the shortest route Star Path to continue the evacuation."
"Finally, after our main fleet arrives at Hilsay, we will make a final decisive battle plan based on the direction of Viers. Do you have any questions?"
"No problem!"
Everyone in the conference room except Aierfei Queen Bella stood up and responded!