Inside Uranus, Lin Fan is watching the changes in the battle situation on the defense line.
At this moment, although the Shanhai Pass defenders relied on the absolute difference in numbers in the early stage, they achieved a considerable casualty ratio.
Although its own battle losses were less than 3,000 battleships, it destroyed 300,000 of the opponent's battleships. However, as the number of opponent's battleships increased, the battle losses in the last ten minutes had reached 35% of the total battle losses in one hour.
It was obvious that the Federation's war losses were rising rapidly.
Lin Fan looked at the number of local warships marked in the tactical image, 63,281, and immediately stood up from his seat.
"Order all the defenders on the defense line to start retreating, but do not turn. While maintaining firepower, start pushing back and retreat slowly!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Although the battleship is equipped with thrusters everywhere, the main thruster is only found at the tail of the battleship. Most of the ones installed there are some small Propulsion Device used to control the attitude of the battleship, and two medium-sized Propulsion Device for reversing.
The main thruster using the tail, which is now the Federation's third-generation sublight speed Propulsion Device, can already reach a speed of 90,000 kilometers per second, which is also 30% of the speed of light.
But this premise is that the battleship sails forward. For this reason, the battleship must first use the attitude control devices everywhere to complete the steering. However, in this process, its sides and tail will be exposed to the enemy one by one, thereby suffering huge damage.
Of course, there is another option, which is to use the two medium-sized non-sublight speed Propulsion Device on the battleship to directly push back and make the battleship retreat.
However, relying only on these two Propulsion Device, the battleship can only reach a maximum speed of 5,000 kilometers per second.
Federal Fleet on the defense line immediately implemented the order after receiving the order. All warships began to maintain firepower while slowly retreating!
And this information quickly reached Babarot.
"Commander Babarot, what is the opponent's plan? It is obvious that the battle loss ratio is still maintained at a high level, but why did it start to retreat?"
After the adjutant reported the latest information, he also asked in confusion.
Obviously, he could not understand Lin Fan's thinking. According to the adjutant's logic, although the battle loss ratio continued to decline as the number of own warships increased, it was still at 1:15.
Even if you want to retreat, it shouldn't be at this time!
The adjutant said the behavior was simply incomprehensible.
Of course, this is because he does not know that human beings only have a population of more than 20 billion. As a Babawe whose population is measured in Beijing, it is absolutely impossible to understand human beings.
"No matter what the other side wants to do, inform the frontline fleet not to pursue for the time being and wait for the follow-up fleet to assemble!"
"Yes, Commander Babarot!"
Babarot looked at the information and analyzed it briefly, then immediately ordered.
After all, no matter what the other party is planning, it is always right to let the remaining fleet of more than 2 million sail out of Star Path to complete the assembly.
Once the assembly is completed, the combat power ratio between yourself and the opponent will directly become 2.6 to 1!
And at that time, no matter what the opponent wants to do, with the absolute difference in combat power in his hands, he can deal with it calmly.
Soon, at the Star Path exit, the federal fleet was out of the Babawi Empire's fire range.
As for the Babawi Empire, there was no previous pursuit. The two sides stopped transmitting firepower at the same time as if they had a tacit understanding.
In this first wave of Star Path offensive and defensive battles, Federal Fleet lost 3,600 warships, while Babawi Empire lost 372,000 warships. The battle loss ratio between the two sides directly reached 1:103.
Even though the battle loss ratio is so high, in fact, Babarot doesn't feel distressed at all!
To him, it was just a normal operation to exchange 372,000 warships for control of the Star Path export.
After all, in his original idea, facing Star Path defended by nearly one million Level 4 Civilization warships, if he wanted to take control of the exit, he would have to pay at least 700,000 to 800,000 warships. But now, he only paid 372,000, which can be said to be very unexpected.
As for feeling distressed? Forget it, the 300,000-plus warships are nothing in the Babawi Empire. If productivity were to be fully unleashed, Babawi Empire could produce millions of warships every year, and with its huge population base, there would be no pressure to recruit crews.
You know, in the Babawi Empire, the army is a very popular place to work. It doesn't matter now, you really can't get in. This is completely opposite to the current situation in the Federation!
At this moment, Lin Fan has led four legions back to the second line of defense, which is the outermost edge of Starry Sky Defense Network.
For a full six hours, neither side made any move, until the last batch of the Babawi Empire warships sailed out of Star Path. 2.6 million warships lined up densely in a huge battleship array, which made people shudder.
"Sir Babarot, all battleships have sailed out Star Path and are ready to attack!"
"Has there been any change in the enemy?"
Listening to the adjutant's report, Babarot nodded with satisfaction, and then asked.
"No, the opponent is still deployed outside 5AU. We scanned a large number of defense settings there. It is very likely that the opponent wants to use the cooperation with the defense to block us."
"Well, your analysis is very accurate, and I think so too, but it is a bit too naive to rely on defense settings to make up for the huge difference in strength between us!"
Babarot agreed with the adjutant's analysis. After all, this area was very empty. Even the nearest Asteroid Belt was 10 AU away, so there was no room for trouble.
Therefore, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn, and that is that the other party wants to use the cooperation of a large number of defense settings to block its own fleet!
"Send the information here to Marshal Babania, and at the same time order the fleet to start moving forward and defeat them from the front!"
"Yes, Commander Babarot!"
5AU outside, on the federal defense line, inside the Uranus bridge.
"Commander, Babawi Empire has begun action. The total number of warships is 2.628 million. It is expected to enter the combat range in two and a half hours!"
"Are the Railgun array and Star Cannon ready?"
"Railgun arrays 1 to 6 are all ready and can start attacking at any time! Star Cannon has been charged and completed."
"Okay, order Railgun arrays No. 1 to 3 to shoot at area X3175! Continue to deliver ten waves of firepower."
"Railgun arrays four to six fired continuously at area X1123, also delivering ten waves of firepower."
Lin Fan looked at the tactical video, judged the opponent's marching route and speed, and immediately issued the order!
"Yes, Commander!"