Chapter 349: Chapter 241: Earth Retaking Battle l
Translator: 549690339
Human forces began to quickly regroup and reorganize their troops.
Subsequently, the human fleet still had over six million warships remaining.
Nearly two hundred thousand large, intact warships ignited their engines to maximum power, charging straight towards the two war fortresses that were exploding one after another. They headed for the area with a diameter of nearly a thousand kilometers that was swept by the aftershocks.
Behind the large warships were hundreds of thousands of medium- sized warships and more than two million small warships.
The rest, including more than ten thousand large warships led by Caesar Vertical Team, several hundred thousand medium-sized warships, and more than two million small warships, as well as more than twenty-three million regular Eagle Strike Soldiers, were all left behind.
A total of 170 million people.
Their mission was to hold the rear and intercept the enemy forces that were eight times their own military strength.
Due to the need for secrecy, close-range quantum communication during the war was limited to a small scope.
When the distance between the vanguard fleet and the rearguard fleet exceeded ten million kilometers, Nora Camp had no choice but to transfer the command of the rearguard fleet to Gaius.
Although Gaius was also outstanding, the gap between him and Nora Camp was still significant.
It would take the vanguard fleet another eight hours to reach Earth.
This meant that Gaius had to lead a temporary coalition of nearly three million warships and more than twenty-three million Eagle Strike Soldiers, blocking the path of an enemy force eight times their size for eight hours.
This battle was destined to be bloody.
The fate awaiting Gaius and his companions was undoubtedly total annihilation.
The vanguard fleet roared past, breaking through the flames of the explosions and charging forward without hesitation.
Nora Camp in the center of the giant warship formation aboard the Giant Wave Flagship, sweat streamed down her forehead.
She was still fully focused on controlling the situation, even working harder than before.
She had only one hour left to command.
She would do her utmost to tear away as many of the enemy’s forces as possible within this hour, slightly reducing the pressure Gaius would have to face when he took over.
Five minutes had passed, and the vanguard fleet had traveled more than six hundred thousand kilometers under constant acceleration.
The vanguard fleet was getting farther and farther away, and looking back, all they could see was one bright spot of light twinkling in the dark space.
Millions of combat units belonging to both humans and the enemy were fighting tooth and nail in the universe. In the vast and magnificent cosmos, this was just a fragile light spot that could be extinguished at any moment.
And this light spot would continue to shrink as the distance widened, eventually disappearing completely.
Veins bulged on Nora Camp’s forehead, and her voice became hoarse.
“Inject me with energy liquid! Emergency atomic robot repair fluid!”
Nora Camp suddenly shouted without looking back.
She had been commanding the battlefield at a high intensity for more than twenty minutes, which had placed tremendous pressure on her body.
Given that her physical abilities were far inferior to those of Harrison Clark, she now needed urgent medical treatment.
Scott, the professional medical officer who had been standing by, rushed forward, opened the pre-prepared medical box, and two ultra-thin fibers grew out, instantly piercing Nora Camp’s shoulders, left and right, to inject the medicine.
Throughout the process, her hands controlling the virtual keys and tactical map never stopped for a moment.
She didn’t even have time to sit in a portable Quark Therapy Device to avoid interfering with her command operations.
In order to maintain optimal performance, her personal comfort had to be adjusted.
Harrison Clark stood by her side, feeling somewhat uneasy but refraining from persuading her.
There were still so many comrades-in-arms behind her, and every second lives were being lost.
How could Harrison Clark ever bear to be so selfish?
In these five minutes, she managed to reduce the gap between the two sides’ combat capabilities to 7.5:1 by controlling the casualty ratio!
Ten minutes had passed.
She injected the medicine again.
Combat capability gap: 7:1!
Twenty minutes.
Combat capability gap: 5.5:1!
As the number of enemy units decreased, Nora Camp’s control accuracy seemed to increase. However, it was becoming increasingly difficult for Nora Camp to trade few for many as the disparity in battle strength grew larger.
Half an hour later, the combat power gap changed to 5:1.
An entire hour had passed, and the signal was about to be interrupted.
Nora Camp had injected a total of eleven doses of medicine, finally suppressing the battle strength ratio to 4:1.
“Gaius, it’s up to you now.”
After saying this, Nora Camp didn’t wait for Gaius’ response before collapsing with a pale face, conveniently lying down in the portable Quark Therapy Device that had been prepared for her beforehand.
This was the first time Harrison Clark had observed Nora Camp’s full high- intensity command process since during previous battles, he was mostly fighting on the front lines.
Although her position did not require her to be directly exposed to gunfire, the invisible battlefield was still a bloody place, with casualties on both sides.
Each of her decisions would instantly change the lives of countless people.
With a seemingly casual stroke on the tactical map, perhaps thousands or hundreds of thousands, or even more, would launch suicide attacks without hesitation.
Even though this was for victory, her hands were still stained with blood.But if there are indeed gods in the heavens and karmic fires burning upon one’s death, every top-level commander must surely be ablaze with towering karmic flames.
The immense psychological pressure is beyond description and unimaginable for ordinary people.
In Harrison Clark’s original era, giving such orders, even deliberately sacrificing dozens or just a few people for the sake of a mission posed the risk of being brought to a military tribunal.
In the present era, it can only be said that each generation is nurtured by its time.
The Hundred Years’ War has forged countless iron-blooded souls.
“Harrison Clark, Captain Camp must have fainted by now, right? But I, Gaius Julius, swear to lead everyone to fight until the last moment! We will never back down!”
After Gaius finished speaking, the real-time information in the near-field quantum communication is interrupted instantaneously.
Next, Nora Camp will spend at least six hours in a rapid recovery treatment within the Quark device. Harrison Clark will temporarily assume the position of commander, but he has nothing to do and can’t do anything.
He can no longer intervene in the rear battlefield and can only follow the simple battle reports available on the quantum information network.
Another hour passed.
There were still 1.6 million human battleships and 14 million Eagle Strike Warriors left in the rearguard fleet.
The enemy-to-our force ratio had become 3.5:1.
Three hours passed.
There were still 860,000 human battleships and 7.3 million Eagle Strike Warriors. The force ratio was 3.2:1.
Radium’s control was getting better and better.
After six hours, Nora Camp woke up.
There were only about 300,000 human battleships and 4.2 million Eagle Strike Warriors left. The force ratio was 3.3:1.
The distance was not getting closer, but rather gradually increasing again.
Harrison Clark’s eyes were red.
However, Nora Camp leaned over from the side and snapped off the real-time broadcast.
Harrison Clark asked her, “Why?”
“No reason. Trust them and focus on our job,” Nora Camp replied, still gazing at the increasingly closer blue planet with her hands behind her back.
Harrison Clark silently turned around and found a chair to sit down.
Another hour passed, and a quantum announcement came through.
Gaius had died, and the entire Caesar Vertical Team had perished. The last flagship of the vertical team—Sevi Vertical Team Commander Chikov took over as commander of the rearguard fleet.
Only 50,000 human battleships and 3.1 million Eagle Strike Warriors remained. The force ratio was 5:1.
Eight hours later.
Chikov was dead, the rearguard fleet had been annihilated, and the Eagle Strike Warriors had been entirely wiped out.
They fired their last particle bullets and shed their last drop of blood, gaining the vanguard fleet a precious eight hours.
The remnants of the enemy forces began to regroup and pursue the vanguard fleet, but it was in vain.
Nearly eight million human battleships from the massive fleet converged on Earth from four different directions almost simultaneously.
Yes, the original plan called for 22 million battleships to arrive, but in the end, only eight million did.
Radium’s space-based weapons had changed direction, over 3 million Triangular Pyramid Warships had ascended into the sky, and more than 8,000 Fortress Motherships and four War Fortresses were hiding behind these Triangular Pyramid Warships.
In Earth’s upper atmosphere, countless Black Light War Beasts and Triangular Warplanes hovered silently.
This was the full extent of Radium’s military power, achieved by exhausting a century of plundered resources and exploding soldiers at breakneck speed in just four months!
The commanders of the four fleets exchanged brief communications, each reporting their combat achievements in the previous interception battle.
Nora Camp overwhelmingly surpassed Mr. Green, Lawrence, and Felipe, the other three commanders in different war zones.
She ‘only” sacrificed less than half of her forces to breakthrough Radium’s blockade.
The Mars fleet alone brought a total of nearly three million warships of different types and 32 million Eagle Strike Warriors.
The combined forces of the other three fleets totaled five million battleships and 7.1 million Eagle Strike Warriors.
Nora Camp, already in her prime, readily assumed the role of the overall commander.
She took a deep breath, and her eyes sparkled again, “Commence the general attack! Charge! Activate all high-frequency gamma-ray interference transmitters at full power! East Wind 193 heavy nuclear missiles for covering strikes. First, destroy Radium’s space-based weapons! Venus fleet, adopt Arrowhead Formation, medium-sized warships in front, small warships in the middle, large warships hidden at the back. Be ready to increase power for a united assault at any time! Mercury fleet, use Cantilever Formation…”
Upon her order, the four fleets surrounding the far-earth orbit started to maneuver around Earth, as if the galactic arm was circling the galaxy center.
“All ordinary enhanced Eagle Strike Soldiers, line up! Those who are called upon, inject the Meteor Enhancement Potion! Prepare to engage the Black Light War Beasts and Triangular Warplane Legions! No more chain defense— disperse for single-soldier combat and be ready to withstand the sweep of the Sky-based Cannon!”
“Small warships, open the Triple Force Shields and form Red Cliff Deck Formation. Move horizontally to impede the advance of the enemy’s large Triangular Warships! Approach the enemy ships and launch cluster gamma- ray interference explosive rounds!11
“Medium warships, prepare to charge the K4 main cannons! Fire immediately after the small warships’ interference rounds take effect!”
On the other side, Radium’s new warships were not to be underestimated. They burst out with incredible flying speeds, dispersing and crisscrossing as they besieged the human fleet.
That’s right, although Radium’s new warships were fewer in number, they nevertheless possessed an absolute speed advantage thanks to an unprecedented new propulsion method that combined pseudo-curvature engines and ordinary medium engines that had never been seen before.
She sought to use the high-speed mobility advantage of her warships to surround the larger human fleet with a small number of ships!
At this point, Harrison Clark wasn’t idle either. He had already mixed in with the ranks of ordinary Eagle Strike Soldiers with many elite soldiers, maintaining the advance speed of ordinary soldiers and quietly approaching the onrushing Black Light War Beasts and Triangular Warplane legions.
The final battle between mankind and Radium began with a bang.