Chapter 217 The Attack Begins
The third planet of the Landu galaxy, like a purple crystal, quietly revolves around the star.
The humans living here habitually call it the Violet Star.
Since the garrison fleet stationed on the Violet Star suddenly set sail three days ago, many people have been privately discussing whether the Commercial Alliance is going to fight back?
After just a few days of freedom and comfort, the humans on the Violet Star have already developed a very deep resistance to the rule of the Commercial Alliance.
Even as soon as the rumors spread, a large number of Violet Star residents began to move their families.
As a result, the small shuttles heading to the Ancestral Star Region filled the waterway, which has seriously affected the transportation speed of the fleet's supplies.
Wang Shuhua had to send some troops to maintain order on the waterway, and at the same time sent Qi Yiming all the information about what happened in the Landu galaxy.
Qi Yiming really didn't expect this situation. After all, when he was in the Landu galaxy, the humans on the Violet Star were extremely indifferent and didn't care about the war happening in the universe at all.
After knowing that Qi Yiming completely controlled the Landu Galaxy, the humans on Violet Star even sent representatives to negotiate with Qi Yiming, expressing their willingness to obey Qi Yiming's leadership.
But this time, the humans on Violet Star actually fled, and their destination was the heartland of the New Federation.
The demands of these people were simple. They did not want to return to the rule of the Commercial Alliance. As long as the New Federation existed, they would never abandon the New Federation.
This was a matter of great significance to Qi Yiming.
This showed that the New Federation had been recognized by these humans, and they would rather leave their homes than leave the New Federation.
Against this background, the Commercial Alliance suddenly launched a strong attack on the Landu Galaxy on February 3, 3323.
The newly formed Seventh and Ninth Fleets of the Commercial Alliance took turns to enter the Landu Galaxy, trying to seize the exit position of the jumping bridge from Wang Shuhua, in preparation for the army to enter the Landu Galaxy smoothly later.
Both sides were heading for a decisive battle from the beginning.
The Seventh Fleet and the Ninth Fleet activated the jumping bridge in four batches with a total of more than 20,000 warships to enter the Landu Galaxy.
Although the attack was launched relatively suddenly, Wang Shuhua had increased the combat readiness level of the fleet since he detected that a large number of enemy ships were gathering in the Proxima Galaxy, so the effect of the surprise attack was not ideal.
Wang Shuhua led the only large fleet of the New Federation that was close to full strength to firmly defend the jump bridge connecting the Lando Galaxy to the outside. The two fleets of the Commercial Alliance abandoned more than 800 warships at the exit of the jump bridge and evacuated the Lando Galaxy in a panic.
As the commander of the coalition forces, Lu Zhenyang was very annoyed with the performance of the Commercial Alliance fleet. He had never seen a fleet with such a poor fighting will. The two fleets had a total of more than 20,000 warships, and only lost more than 800 warships and retreated in a hurry.
Even the lifeboats scattered near the battlefield were not recovered in time. If this was placed in the fleet of the former Human Federation, the commander's grave grass would have been two meters high.
Unfortunately, although he was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, he did not even have the right to deal with his commanders. He could only look at the commander who had just escaped from the battlefield standing in front of him with murderous eyes.
"You..." Lu Zhenyang wanted to curse, but when he saw the contemptuous smiles on the faces of the two commanders, he immediately shut up.
In the end, he could only wave his hand helplessly to let the two leave his flagship.
Then he asked the liaison officer assigned by the coalition: "Has the Yunhuan Federation sent any war reports?"
The liaison officer shook his head: "It's been less than two days since the war started. The battlefield of the Yunhuan Federation is at least 11 million light years away from us. The deep space communication device can't contact us at all. We can only wait for the messenger to convey it. It will take at least three to four days to get accurate news."
Although the liaison officer did not disrespect Lu Zhenyang, his tone of voice was also very stiff, and Lu Zhenyang was accustomed to it.
According to the plan, the New Federation will be attacked by the coalition forces in two directions at the same time. Unfortunately, although the Yunhuan Federation agreed to the proposal of joint operations on the surface, the front-line commanders did not take action at the agreed time of the attack.
This strange coalition with ulterior motives really gave Lu Zhenyang a headache for a long time.
Fortunately, the attack direction of the Yunhuan Federation was not the main attack direction of the coalition forces. Their mission was to delay part of the fleet of the New Federation. Therefore, even if the Yunhuan Federation did not launch an attack immediately, Qi Yiming did not dare to take the risk of withdrawing the fleet.
So from this aspect, the Yunhuan Federation did meet Lu Zhenyang's requirements for them.
But the problem is that after Qi Yiming discovered this problem, he immediately realized that the coalition forces were not a monolithic entity. Although Qi Yiming could not disintegrate the coalition forces with a random divisive strategy, it was simply a pipe dream for such a coalition forces to perfectly implement their combat plan.
After the fleet in the direction of the Commercial Alliance rested for two days, it finally launched a second attack slowly under Lu Zhenyang's repeated requests and urging.
This time, Lu Zhenyang directly put all four fleets assembled by the Commercial Alliance into the battlefield.
He originally planned to draw two fleets from the Commercial Alliance, and then draw one fleet from the Taro Empire and the Turing Republic, and then launch an attack on the Landu Galaxy.
What's funny is that the commanders of the Taro Empire and the Turing Republic actually refused to fight because the supplies had not yet arrived.
When Lu Zhenyang heard this excuse, he was so angry that he laughed.
Fortunately, the attack of the Commercial Alliance did not disappoint Lu Zhenyang. Although the battle was extremely difficult, the four fleets were put into the battlefield at the same time, which put great pressure on Wang Shuhua's fleet.
In the end, Wang Shuhua had to order the abandonment of the entrance of the Landu galaxy jump bridge and began to implement the key defense operation plan.
This was discussed by him and Qi Yiming. If the jump bridge position was lost, the New Federation Fleet with only more than 13,000 warships would completely lose the advantage of local operations. If Wang Shuhua fought the enemy in this situation, he would be facing a completely failed battle.
So after retreating from the jump bridge position, Wang Shuhua moved the battle line to the revolution orbit of the fourth planet in the Landu galaxy.
The revolution orbit of the fourth planet is full of various types of defense facilities, the most eye-catching of which is an electromagnetic railgun that is more than 200 kilometers long.
This is a big killer that Qi Yiming found from the reserve arsenal of Violet Star after occupying the Landu galaxy.
This super-large electromagnetic railgun can easily penetrate the outer armor of a battleship when it is in full-power attack mode.
Unfortunately, there are too few of them, and Qi Yiming only found one in the arsenal.
Fortunately, there are not many battleships in the commercial alliance, and a super-large electromagnetic railgun is enough to delay the enemy's attack waves, so that Wang Shuhua can calmly arrange the main combat tasks of each battleship.