Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 430 New Battle Plan
2042 7 Month 21 Day.

The capital of the Special Administrative Region of the Asteroid Belt - Penglai City on Ceres.

Meng Ye kept looking at the time on the watch, restless.

Xu Yongfu, the chief executive of Ceres who was standing with him, said helplessly: "Old Meng, what are you in a hurry for? The planes of Director Zheng and Director Wu will arrive in half an hour!"

Meng Ye said dissatisfiedly: "Then you asked me to wait so early, you don't know how busy I am now, Vesta has been fighting for three days, and we are eagerly waiting for our support, but our space fleet is still here Don't move!"

Meng Ye is now the commander-in-chief of the federal army on the asteroid belt defense line, and the 20 troops deployed by the federation in the asteroid belt are all under his jurisdiction, except for the first space fleet.

In fact, there is only one space fleet in the Federation now, and the framework of the second space fleet has been built, but the space battleship is still being built in the starship base of the Red Star Company.

Xu Yongfu persuaded: "Commander Zhang and Director Zheng came back together. When they arrive, the space fleet can set off. No one thought that war would break out so soon!"

The Commander Zhang that Xu Yongfu spoke of was Zhang Qian, the commander of the First Space Fleet. He was reporting his duties in Haicheng when the war broke out.

Moreover, the hundreds of warships of the First Fleet are usually distributed in various places in the asteroid belt, and half of the [-] officers and soldiers are on vacation. The assembly in three days is already very fast.

The long period of peace and the establishment of the Human Federation made the Federation Army unprepared for the sudden war.

Ceres, as the planet where the capital of the special administrative region of the asteroid belt is located, is different from other planets in the asteroid belt, and has established a relatively complete industrial system.

Although it is not yet possible to build large-scale space battleships, the small and medium-sized space battleships, space fighters, and battle armor manufacturing bases assisted by Red Star Corporation have been put into production, and various artillery manufacturing factories have also formed large-scale production.

Of the more than 300 million people on Ceres, a small half are related to military production, and are responsible for providing weapons and equipment for the entire asteroid belt defense line.

This is also the reason why high-level federal officials did not order all enterprises to switch to military production after the war broke out.

Half an hour later, a 206 Luanniao aerospace plane landed at the space military port in Penglai City.

Because of the microgravity environment of Ceres, there is no space elevator like that on Earth, Mars, and the moon, and both military and civilian space ports are built on the ground.

It's just that special aerodynamic devices are designed for the take-off and landing runways of space vehicles to assist large space vehicles in taking off and landing.

Zheng Qingwu, director of the Federal Defense Agency, and Wu Tie, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, stepped off the aerospace plane together.

The two looked dignified, and after politely greeting the people who came to greet them, they asked Mengye and Xu Yongfu to take them to the headquarters of the asteroid belt defense line to hold a pre-war mobilization meeting.

Zheng Qingwu brought the Federation's authorization letter for the use of force against the rebels, and appointed Meng Ye as the front-line commander-in-chief and Zhang Qian as the deputy commander-in-chief, fully responsible for the war in the asteroid belt.

Meng Ye introduced the latest battle situation to the participants.

On July 7, the Jupiter rebels disguised themselves as representative missions to raid the Vesta City space port, and captured Vesta City one day later.

Part of the defenders of Vesta City retreated to various fortifications on Vesta to resist.

At present, the rebel army is estimated to have more than 5 people in Vista City, and they are still cleaning up the resistance forces in the city, and the direction of Jupiter is still increasing troops to Vesta.

Five assault ships and three frigates from the Third Squadron of the Federal Space First Fleet near Vesta rushed to Vesta yesterday and exchanged fire with the rebel space battleships. No follow-up reports have yet been received.

After Meng Ye sat down, Zheng Qingwu said sadly: "We have received news that the eight warships of the Third Squadron have all been destroyed or captured by the rebels!"

"what?!"

All the participants turned pale with shock, Meng Ye stood up with a "swish", his face was livid.

Zhang Gan nodded, confirming the news.

He said: "We underestimated the enemy too much. From the intelligence analysis we received, we thought that the rebel army only had one space battleship transformed from a medium-sized civilian spaceship."

"As a result, a space fleet not smaller than the First Fleet was hidden near Vesta, and the eight warships of the Third Squadron rushed into the airspace of Vesta and entered the encirclement!"

"hiss!"

The military officers participating in the meeting all gasped. The space fleet is not smaller than the First Fleet, which cannot be built in two or three years.

The rebels of Jupiter and Saturn have been plotting for a long time!
This bad news made the atmosphere in the meeting room tense.

There were at least 1 officers and soldiers on the five assault ships and three frigates, and counting the sacrificed personnel in Vesta City, the federal army lost at least [-] people in just three days.

The cruelty of war made it difficult for everyone to accept for a while.

A few minutes later, Zheng Qingwu broke the silence, "According to the current situation, our original battle plan is no longer suitable. Commander Zhang, please tell us about the new battle plan!"

Zhang Qian asked the combat staff to call out the current holographic map of the solar system, and began to explain to the holographic map:
"Currently, Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta are located in a triangle, lying between Jupiter, the Earth, and Mars, and Juno is on the other side of the sun, so don't consider it for now."

"Ceres is 2.5 million kilometers away from Vesta, 2.1 million kilometers away from Pallas, and Vesta is only 0.6 million kilometers away from Pallas."

"It will take three days for the First Fleet to reach Vesta. According to the current battle situation, it will not help the situation. Instead, the rebels will rely on the defensive forts on Vesta to attack the First Fleet."

"Therefore, the new battle plan is that the First Fleet will go directly to Pallas to consolidate the defense of Pallas, and then decide to fight the rebel fleet according to the situation to recover Vesta."

Just after Zhang Gan finished speaking, Meng Ye asked loudly: "Then we don't care about the defense forces on Vesta?"

Zheng Qingwu and Zhang Gan didn't answer, Meng Ye understood, it's not that he didn't want to rescue them, it's that he didn't have the ability.

Now Vesta has become a bait, and the rebels are very insidious with the idea of ​​encircling the spot to send aid.

If you don't have several times their strength, you can only die as many as you want.

Meng Ye sat down heavily, lowered his head in pain, those were all his troops.

Wu Tie said in a deep voice: "I have obtained the authorization of the Federation to notify all the enterprises of the Federation to enter the state of wartime production. We must believe in the capabilities of the Red Star Company and the Federation's enterprises. Soon the Second Space Fleet will be completed. The fleet is also being prepared."

"As long as we persist for a period of time, our space battleships will continue to enter the asteroid belt, and none of the rebels will want to escape!"

Wu Tie's words cheered up the spirits of the participants. Red Star's manufacturing capabilities have never disappointed.

Victory must belong to the Human Federation of the Solar System!
(End of this chapter)