newbobooks Chapter 560 Before the decisive battle
Chapter 560 Before the decisive battle
The fleet officially entered space navigation mode at 14 PM that day. Since there was not much work to do, the members of the Second Section took turns going back to rest, while Yunlan went to check the work with Zhao Liying and Liu Ruyan.
Currently, besides the three members of the Second Section who are working, there are only a few members of the special forces team in the cockpit. In order to unify command and facilitate communication, the 5000 soldiers and 5000 staff members who are going on this mission have been divided into two parts, namely the combat division and the logistics division.
The overall commander of these two divisions is Li Chenglong, the deputy commander is Yun Lan, the temporary political commissar is Zhao Jinyang, and the temporary chief of staff is Qin Susu. Li Chenglong concurrently serves as the commander of the combat division, while Yun Lan concurrently serves as the commander of the logistics division. The remaining officers are all elite talents selected from the Dawn Army and the Dawn City government, and their appointments were decided after a joint meeting of the Dawn Army Military Commission and the Dawn City General Commission.
Feng Ke, a Level 13 A-grade Seven-Colored Python Spirit Awakener, asked Li Chenglong with some curiosity, "Commander, we have a question that we've been wanting to ask. We wonder if you could help us answer it."
Li Chenglong smiled and said, "Your special forces team used to be a special operations team. I was also the captain of a special operations team for a long time. You can just call me Captain Li from now on. If you have any questions, as long as I know the answer, I will definitely answer them for you."
Feng Ke then said, "Captain Li, I'd like to ask a question about physics, no, it could also be about astronomy. We know that the distances between planets in the universe are extremely vast, and it takes time to travel from one planet to another. Even sunlight takes eight minutes to travel from the sun to the earth. But why is it that our communication with other planets has almost no delay? Right now, the delay in transmitting messages between Dawn City and Roland Star is only a few minutes."
Li Chenglong looked at Sun Menghua, who was standing to the side, and said, "Their special forces team has never dealt with this before, so you answer the question."
Sun Menghua nodded: "Okay. It's common knowledge that we in Dawn City, including Huaxia now, use the most advanced Crystal Network. Crystal Network has extremely strong penetration, good stability, large coverage area, and high transmission quality. Even in the most remote mountainous areas, or in the open ocean or deep-sea submarines, the signal quality remains unchanged."
“When we use the Crystal Network, we find a problem, which is real-time performance. No matter how far the transmission is, it arrives almost instantly. However, in outer space, the speed of the Crystal Network is far from sufficient. Therefore, the Crystal Dimensional Space Jump Network was developed.”
She paused for a moment and continued, "Our conventional communication is from one point to another, but the space network, like our ongoing space travel, moves from one space through space to another, which greatly shortens the distance between them. Thanks to this, we can now transmit information to Roland in just 5 minutes, and even to the center of the Milky Way, it only takes a few hours."
Li Chenglong continued, "While space networks offer many advantages, they also have some drawbacks. Due to the instability that sometimes occurs in interdimensional space, communication quality can be poor at times. Secondly, they are very expensive to build and require high-quality infrastructure from both sides. Currently, only Dawn City in China can conduct space communication, while on Roland Star, only the Royal City and a few other areas can do so."
Feng Ke nodded. After the two explained, she understood some of it. Li Chenglong smiled and said, "You can borrow some books from the Second Section later. The Second Section, the First Section, and the Strategic Information Support Force of the Dawn Army have all received rigorous training in this area. Just ask them if you don't understand anything."
On June 10th of the Cosmic Calendar, after a long space voyage, the fleet finally arrived at the outer edge of the galactic center. As previously agreed, they would merge here and then form the Cosmic Battle Fleet to fight a decisive battle against the legion led by the Apocalypse in the galactic center.
After the fleet emerged from space travel, its external protective armor automatically retracted. As the day of the decisive battle approached and the distance to the battlefield was not far, all the medium-sized warships flew out one after another from the space storage compartments of the large warships.
As soon as Li Chenglong and Yun Lan entered the cockpit, Sun Menghua grabbed Yun Lan's arm and said, "Sister Yun, look outside quickly! There are so many warships, like stars in the sky, no, even more than that!"
Looking around, Li Chenglong saw that this space was completely filled with warships of all sizes, roughly estimated to be no less than two thousand. Moreover, space passages were opening one after another, and other warship groups were flying out from them.
Just as he was about to speak, Queen Raymond appeared on the main screen of the Flying Dragon: "Lord Li, please prepare yourselves. Your Earth United Interstellar Fleet will be sending three people to attend the Allied Conference. Considering the list you submitted earlier, your participants are you, Syndra, and George. You can gather together first, and then come to my flagship together. We will go together then."
After finishing this, Queen Raymond cut off the communication. Li Chenglong contacted the other 13 level 14 powerhouses and finally decided to gather on the Flying Dragon first. Then, Li Chenglong and the other two would go to the meeting, while they would wait on the Flying Dragon for the meeting to end before holding a final combat meeting.
Eight hours later, Li Chenglong, Syndra, and George returned to the Flying Dragon and held a combat meeting with the leaders of various warships and combat units who had gathered there.
The three exchanged glances, and Li Chenglong spoke first: "Let me first introduce the current situation of our space alliance. Before the convening of the alliance conference, we currently have a total of 20 super warships, 317 large warships, 2166 medium warships, and 24973 small warships."
辛德拉接着说：“参战的舰队情况就是这样，接下来由我介绍作战的人员数量。目前宇宙联军一共拥有14级强者452人、13级强者81303人、12级强者415740人、11级和11级以下的共904235人，目前还在继续增加当中，但基本以13级和13级以下的为主。”
After the two finished their introductions, George thought for a moment before saying, "To be honest, this number is indeed a bit low. Although it is still increasing, all of our personnel combined have not yet reached 150 million. As for the enemy, I'm sure you all know how many there are. They number a full 1000 million, and each one of them is a powerful special forces unit."
Li Chenglong nodded: "The ratio of enemy to friendly forces is 7 to 1, and the enemy, regardless of their level of strength, completely overwhelms us in numbers. Therefore, we must find a good way to seize the opportunity to win. After discussion at the Allied Forces Conference, it was unanimously decided that we will launch a breakthrough operation!"
Syndra retrieved the battle plan from the storage space she gained after injecting the space potion and distributed it to all the level 14 powerhouses and the heads of each warship.
Yunlan quickly flipped through the plan; it was thin and she finished it in no time. Li Chenglong explained from the side, "Because of the huge numerical disparity between us, in order to gain a chance of victory, we have devised a breakthrough operation. Simply put, while deploying our forces on the front, we will send out a well-trained and capable fleet and gather all the level 14 experts to strike straight at the heart of the enemy."
"We estimate the strength of the Apocalypse to be level 15. One or two level 14 experts on our side are simply not enough to overcome this. Therefore, we must gather all our strongest forces and try to break in under the cover of the strongest fleet to eliminate the Apocalypse as quickly as possible. As long as we can take down the Apocalypse, which is the core, we will have a chance to win."
After reading the battle plan, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. The plan was indeed simple, but extremely difficult and risky. However, upon closer examination, it was the best possible strategy under the current circumstances. They couldn't imagine any other way to win this battle.