In truth, this was a psychological game. You had to withdraw your forces while making the enemy believe you had another objective, rather than preparing to use the Doomsday Bomb.
The key was that this supposed alternative objective needed sufficient motivation to lure the enemy in.
And the motivation Lin Fan had provided was this:
By exploiting the fact that neither side had any difference in maximum speed during Sub-light Speed Travel, they would retreat while fighting, always maintaining an enormous numerical gap with the Allied Fleet and keeping the battle loss ratio at an extremely low level.
Not only was this motivation convincing enough, it was also highly feasible. Bonifacio fell for it almost instantly.
Convinced that he had seen through every move of the Moy Union, he immediately issued a "targeted" order.
Each newly arrived wave of warships was to split off a portion and pursue the Moy fleet like a long snake.
Both the Moy fleet and the Allied Fleet were currently traveling at 20% of light speed, the maximum speed warships could achieve without being affected by Time Dilation.
Precisely because of this, the Allied warships arriving later through the Current Mouth could never catch up with the fleet already in pursuit.
Thus, after dozens of waves of warships, the Allied Pursuit Fleet had become a long snake. Only the warships at its head could engage the Moy fleet, numbering fewer than two billion vessels. The numerical disparity between the two sides remained at a staggering hundredfold or more.
With such a massive numerical gap, the warships that caught up and entered firing range were practically throwing themselves away.
However, Bonifacio was not worried about this in the slightest. Everything was within his "control."
As long as they could keep the Moy fleet pinned down, they