Chapter 148

  Marindorf Star System is an ecologically quite good star system, one of the closest noble fiefdom star systems to Odin. It has a huge main sequence star, with two relatively terrestrial planets in the distant fourth planetary orbit, and a large gas giant planet in the outer sixth planetary orbit.

  While Reinhardt's main fleet was stationed on the outer side of the gas giant.

  Reinhard's fleet consisted of fleets led by several admirals, including Rozen Ritter, Bittenfeld, Lutz, Mückenberger, and Kempf, with a total scale of 620,000 ships.

  Giraffeis led the fleet of Midas and Mura to suppress Lord Littnerad, and after disappearing for several days, the fleet of Midas and Mura finally arrived at the Valhalla star system. After their arrival, Giraffeis, who had arrived earlier, also changed his usual approach and directly used brutal means to arrest and execute... The entire family of Lord Littnerad, except for children under the age of ten, were executed, and a group of nobles connected to Lord Littnerad were also buried with him.

  Immediately after this, the Child Emperor's orders also came down, and Reinhard became the Imperial Chancellor and Supreme Military Commander, while also conveying to the entire empire "the stripping of Rudolf von Fafnir of his Count title and Imperial Marshal rank."

  "Haha, now I'm a commoner too. Gustav, you are too. That blond kid is really interesting! Are we prepared to defect to his side?" Fafnir said with a smile as he sat on the flagship "Loki".

  "Following your orders, the troublemaker has been thrown into a star. Now are we going to fight that blond kid? Let him know that just talking is useless!"

  "Yes! Order the fleet, Londo's fleet, Yang's fleet to advance to Gimle! The Stotzing fleet continues to launch raids in various star systems loyal to Rosencrantz!"

  A total of 600,000 warships arrived at the outer reaches of the Marinduof star system via warp, and just one hour later, the massive artificial celestial body - Eagle's Nest also arrived in the Marinduof star system via warp.

  The Bald Eagle's Castle has undergone renovation, and Technical Lieutenant Dio installed twelve giant Warp Drive engines on the Bald Eagle's Castle, followed by dozens of giant engines along the center of gravity for general propulsion.

  The fleet of Fahnlehn soon backed up with Bald Eagle Castle and slowly approached the fleet of Reinhardt.

  Reinhard emotionally refused to acknowledge Farnese's military abilities, but intellectually he had to admit: "This rogue dragon is one of the top practical commanders in the Empire."

  At the war council convened, R?ntgen and Bitenfeld proposed concentrating firepower on Lutz and Yang's fleets while the main fleet focused on defense, quickly recalling the Gyrfalcon Fleet to slowly establish an advantage. "We can't adopt a pincer movement from the sides or above, that would put us in line with the main cannon of Bald Eagle Castle, and we'd be bombarded until defeat." These were R?ntgen's words.

  "No, this time we will use the tactic of luring the enemy in deep. I myself will command the directly affiliated fleet to take on the task of luring and delaying the main force of Fezzan's fleet! Wait until he deeply pursues our main force, then with a powerful fleet, take advantage of his fleet being disconnected from the rear's Baldur Castle, make an attacking stance towards the fortress, while several other powerful fleets will take the opportunity to surround Fezzan's fleet and defeat it!" Reinhard said triumphantly.

  "No! It can't be like this, Marshal! Your fleet is no match for Fawzi's, how are you going to defend against and hold him off?" The various admirals all voiced their opposition.

  But Reinhardt picked up the wine glass and poured the liquid onto a stack of white paper on the table. The admirals, led by Lothar, suddenly realized and bowed their heads in admiration for their commander's tactical ability.

  Then, the Rheinhardt fleet formed a semi-circular formation with about 15,000 ships protruding from the other fleets. The left and right wings were respectively the Kampf and Mecklinger fleets. The Rutz fleet had suffered heavy losses and had not been replenished, so it was reinforced to Rovental's fleet on the periphery, preparing to launch a feint attack on Bald Eagle City at the appropriate time. Meanwhile, the Bitenshtein fleet was deployed as a reserve force behind the Rheinhardt fleet, ready to launch a powerful counterattack to thoroughly defeat the Fafnir fleet.

  At a distance of about twenty light seconds, the Fafnir fleet also completed its deployment. General Longstreet was an Imperial Army general in his mid-forties with no outstanding abilities, just a dull but not losing commander, whose greatest advantage was to execute his superiors' orders without discounting them.

  His fleet consisted mainly of battleships and cruisers, numbering around 13,000, and was ordered to take the right wing and lag behind. General Yang Chung-yuan commanded a powerful striking force of 12,000 all-battleship warships as the left-wing vanguard. The Favniel fleet, with its entire fleet of 19,000 warships and torpedo boat motherships, took the center, while another fleet of 6,000 high-speed destroyers and cruisers under General Dark was active behind the left wing, ready to launch a surprise attack at any time. The remaining ships were all anchored in front of Eagle City, ready to be replenished into the first line at any time. Eagle City lagged behind - due to being the slowest... However, Favniel soon ordered the entire fleet to advance slowly after seeing the deployment on the opposite side and informed General Shuttekhauser, the chief of staff on Eagle City, to prepare for the execution of the plan at any time.

  The fleets of both sides gradually approached, and when they were 10 light seconds apart, Yang's left wing vanguard began to fire. Tens of thousands of beams of light pierced through the front of Reinhardt's fleet, and Reinhardt also started a counterattack, with ships on both sides constantly exploding into balls of light.

  Soon after, when the central fleet of Farnese entered range, Reinhard's fleet broke through the defensive line, but another battle line appeared in front and began to exchange fire.

  "What the...?! What is Reinhard trying to do? This tactic? Doesn't he learn from his mistakes?" Farnese exclaimed after carefully observing Reinhard's tactics.

  Reinhardt adopted a tactic of dispersing his troops to the left and right, each time a unit was defeated, it retreated to the other side to regroup, then re-entered the battlefield from the left and right to resist.

  "Has he never studied the Lancastrian tactics? The only purpose of this tactic is to send his own troops to die under my artillery fire, and every time they come to defend, their numbers are insufficient and easily defeated. This kind of battle collapses faster and faster as it goes on..." Fafnir sneered.

  "Why did the Golden Hair insist on deploying other fleets in the rear wings? Why not come up and exchange fire with me from the start, and sandwich Yang instead? At least that way we wouldn't be at a disadvantage, and who knows, maybe we could even drive Yang back."

  "Continue to slow down! This fleet is too! The Longridsstedt fleet slightly accelerates, and after entering the range, it also slows down! Counterfire with him!" Fafnir said, snapping his fingers.

  The bombardment by the Fahrenheit fleet put Reinhardt in a dilemma, his multi-layered defense tactics caused his own fleet to rapidly decrease under the concentrated fire of the enemy, while the losses inflicted on the enemy were also increasingly ineffective. Moreover, the Fahrenheit fleet is now clearly slowing down its advance, focusing on firing at his formation, and the loss figures are rising linearly.

  "We must change tactics!" said the blond lioness to herself, biting her nails.

  "Bring up the fleets on both sides!"

  The two wings of Kampfgruppe and Meklinger's fleet came up quickly, at this moment the central protruding Rheinhardt fleet had been beaten into a flat line.

  "Don't raise the speed! We're exchanging losses with them! Tell the Bald Eagle's Castle to change direction according to plan and advance!" Fafnir continued to give orders, his fleet also bathed in the torrent of beams, exchanging warships with Reinhard's fleet.

  The Bald Eagle's Castle altered its course of advance, starting to move from the rear of Fafnir's fleet to the flank, pulling Rostalt's fleet that had been trying to insert itself between the fortress and Fafnir's fleet.

  If Rosthorn's fleet were to gamble and insert itself between the fortress and the fleet, it would give Fafnir a headache, but he himself would probably be finished. Now Rosthorn is leading the Lutz fleet in a probing attack on the fortress, but their flank will have to withstand the fire of the Londstadt fleet, which has begun to turn ninety degrees, unless they make a detour and go around to the outside, using the fortress to block the Londstadt fleet's line of fire. However, if they do this, for a period of time they will become vagrants, unable to play any role at all.

  The battle had been going on for six hours, during which time Reinhardt lost a quarter of his immediate command, and his own line began to show gaps, necessitating Kampf and Mecklinger to fill in troops at the center to maintain formation.

  "No way! Beidou Futei! Strike!"

  "Alright, call Dark's attack, he's within range!"

  Both sides simultaneously dispatched their high-speed assault fleets. Reinhardt's were all painted black high-speed warships, led by the flagship "Wong Hu", which charged towards Fafnir's fleet with great momentum from the gap in Reinhardt's formation.

  At the same time, between Yang's and Fafnir's fleets, 6,000 intact high-speed destroyers also charged towards the enemy formation under the command of a Salamander-class division flagship "Gulengast".

  The two commanders simultaneously let out a roar: "Charge! Charge! Full force breakthrough!"

  The number of black gun cavalry is around eight thousand, the strongest assault fleet in Reinhardt's army, they launched a high-speed assault on Fafnir's main camp.

  "What a troublesome opponent. Alright, the battleship division will take the top! We'll slow them down no matter what the cost in casualties! Torpedo boats and cruisers, prepare!"

  A single blow from the Black Knights' Gunmen took away over 2,000 of Fawful's warships forever, but there were still many ships that put their bodies in the way of the Black Knights' charge, even if they were destroyed to create a roadblock.

  The speed of the Black Knights slowed down, and Bitfeld's attention was focused on the fleet in front of him. At this moment, he had successfully destroyed more than 3,000 warships of the Fafnir fleet, wiping out a branch fleet. However, at this very moment, countless railguns and beams from the side enveloped the entire Black Knights... It was also a successful hit, causing the Black Gun Fleet to lose many comrades, the biggest trouble is - their speed suddenly slowed down.

  "Hahaha! The enemy's butt is exposed! Attack! Attack!" Admiral Dark laughed maniacally as he ordered the fleet to turn 180 degrees and launch a surprise attack on the Black Gun Cavalry from behind, completely ignoring the fact that Reinhardt's fleet was also firing at his own butt.

  The barrage from the Reinhardt fleet erased over two thousand ships of the Dark fleet from space, but the cannon fire also inflicted losses on the Black Gunmen riding ahead... Just as the Dark fleet charged into the rear of the Black Gunmen without regard for their losses, "Fire desperately!! Use up all the ammo! I don't care if it overheats to death!!!" The Dark fleet had already entered a state of frenzy.

  The black gun cavalry disappeared in an instant...... "Admiral Bittenfeld's communication has been cut off!" The communications officer on Berenheim shouted. Reinhardt stood up.

  "Admiral Dozle's transmission has been cut off!" The communications officer on Lohengrin also cried out...