Chapter 315 The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole behind it. What else is behind the oriole? [Pre-order request, full pre-order request] (Ch 315)

The loss of 140 T3 starships could be big or small.
To put it in a smaller way, the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet has a total of more than 3,000 T3 starships, so this kind of loss is only about one twentieth of the total.
But to put it in a broader sense, our side pursued and destroyed less than ten enemy starships, but lost 140 of their own, with a loss ratio of 10 to 1!
This is something that the Holy See Empire has never experienced in any battle.
In the interstellar war history of the Holy See Empire, they had the advantage in most of the casualty ratios.
Even when facing extremely tough enemies and encountering extremely bad situations, in the most brutal battles, the overall casualty ratio was only 3 to 1!
But now the enemy doesn’t even have its main fleet, and the casualty ratio has directly climbed to 14 to 1!
If this were to get back to the country, Cardinal Sandra would be so embarrassed that she might even be severely punished by the Pope.
“Report, we encountered an approaching enemy attack right behind our fleet’s route, and the pursuit fleet that is ready around them is asking us whether we should launch a pursuit and encirclement?” The Protoss non-commissioned officer suddenly said beside him.
here we go again!
The same tactics happened again and again.
Although this tactic seems so simple, even crude.
But the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet seemed to have no solution.
“Your Excellency Archbishop, I have a suggestion!” The deputy captain suddenly interrupted.
“Speak.” Cardinal Sandra was now very annoyed. He wanted to win this battle, but at the same time he could not bear too heavy a loss.
The Qingyuan Legion has nearly five thousand starships.
The rough plan he had drawn up before could sustain a loss of no more than 20,000 starships!
This is calculated based on the worst-case casualty ratio of 3 to 1 to 4 to 1.
At that time, he was dismissive of such worst-case data.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Holy See Empire’s military campaign process required calculations of the best and worst outcomes, he wouldn’t have believed that his fleet would suffer such heavy losses.
But now, according to the Qingyuan Legion’s reckless tactics, even if the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet finally captured the Cassiopeia galaxy, or even the entire Milky Way galaxy, and won the battle, it would most likely suffer heavy losses in the end!
He urgently needed a solution.
“The Qingyuan Corps’ tactics are nothing more than relying on their small size and high-quality starships.
However, our fleet is large and it is easy for us to be distracted while focusing on the front.
Then let’s just be direct. Aren’t they trying to lure the enemy out of their hole and then ambush our pursuing starship?
Then we might as well use the same trick again. This time we will still send out starships to pursue them, but…”
The deputy captain paused here intentionally, and said with a wicked smile: “But we will allocate 10,000 starships as the second pursuit fleet, following the T3 Revelation-class heavy interstellar cruisers and T3 Sacrifice-class light interstellar battlecruisers that form the advance team.
If they dare to ambush us again, we will counter-ambush them!
If they discover our intention and do not ambush them, then it is only natural for us to pursue them and increase the casualties on their starships.
Their Qingyuan Legion has less than 5,000 starships at most, and the number of T3 starships is only about one-third of that.
For us, losing hundreds of T3 starships is just a small problem, but for them, if they lose hundreds of T3 starships, it will be a serious blow! ”
Cardinal Sandra’s eyes lit up when he heard the deputy captain’s words.
“What you said is indeed feasible. But it seems that this will slow down our progress, right?”
The deputy captain smiled and said, “My Lord Archbishop, you just made a mistake. You are only thinking about how to capture the Cassiopeia Galaxy Cluster as quickly as possible and then the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
But you should know that this dish has already been served to you. Sooner or later, it will be in your mouth. Why bother about whether it will be sooner or later? ”
After hearing this, Cardinal Sandra suddenly felt enlightened.
This is indeed true. There is a saying in the Milky Way galaxy: Good things are worth waiting for.
“But there is one thing! In order to ensure the success of our plan, the Qingyuan Army might have a backup plan and dispatch starships for support if the situation gets bad.
Therefore, it would be best to arrange the Paladin fleet of the two Paladins for the 10,000 starships we are going to dispatch in this plan.” The deputy captain added.
Cardinal Sandra nodded and agreed with this point. Judging from the current situation, the starship combat power of the Qingyuan Corps is quite strong and it is indeed not advisable to take it lightly.
Otherwise, even if you win, you will suffer heavy losses.
“Let’s let them go for now until we are ready for the next wave. Now go and notify Paladin Arthur and Paladin Grahead to be ready.” said Cardinal Sandra.
“yes.”
Soon, in this wave of attacks, the Qingyuan Legion’s starships once again gained the upper hand, and then sailed away rampantly, causing the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet to lose nearly a hundred starships.
Afterwards, there were several more ‘feint’ type attacks.
The expeditionary fleet of the Holy See Empire remained unmoved and continued to sail along its own route.
It was as if they had already ignored it and just wanted to reach the Cassiopeia Galaxy Cluster as soon as possible.
finally!
An hour later, the Qingyuan Legion’s starships launched another large-scale attack, and the interstellar missiles of the T3 Destruction Flare-class heavy interstellar missile ships fell among the starships of the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet.
Even the Protoss officers of the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet trembled in their hearts just by looking at the flames of destruction. After all, the power was so terrifying.
Even a T3 starship with an energy shield still has a certain probability of being destroyed if the slightest mistake is made.
But this time, looking at the attacking starships of the Qingyuan Legion.
The Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet, like the tigers that had long been ready, bared their fangs.
“Took the bait!” Paladin Arthur, on his flagship, looked at the Green Kite Legion on the screen, a bloodthirsty and crazy grin rising from his lips.
According to the combat order issued by Cardinal Sandra, since there are only two Paladin fleets, only two “hounds” can be deployed.
They were located on both wings of the fleet, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
And the location that was attacked this time happened to be on the side of Paladin Arthur!
In addition, Paladin Arthur himself has a deep hatred and resentment towards the Qingyuan Legion. Now that he has the opportunity, he naturally will not let it go.
He gave the order directly, first ordering the assembled T3 Revelation-class heavy interstellar cruisers and T3 Blasphemy-class light interstellar battlecruisers to form a pursuit advance fleet as before, and chase the Qingyuan starship relentlessly.
The plot is basically the same as last time.
The Qingyuan starship, which encountered a fierce counterattack, turned around and ran away, while the T3 Revelation-class heavy interstellar cruiser and T3 Blasphemy-class light interstellar battlecruiser behind it chased it relentlessly!
The only difference from the last plot is that behind the T3 Revelation-class heavy interstellar cruisers and the T3 Blasphemous-class light interstellar battlecruisers, there are nearly 10,000 starships sailing into the fleet camp.
Although their speed is not as fast as the T3 Revelation-class heavy star cruiser and the T3 Sacrifice-class light star battle cruiser.
But also following behind.
Among these ten thousand starships, there is also Paladin Arthur’s Paladin Fleet, which is like the sharp claws and fangs of this tiger!
“Sun He! Last time I didn’t bring my fleet, otherwise the result wouldn’t be like that. This time, I will make you pay for your blood with blood!” Paladin Arthur whispered with gritted teeth.
As a religious believer, he seems to be a devil at this moment. Who would believe that he is a kind and loving believer?
Let’s get back to the topic.
Cardinal Sandra was closely following the developments here. Although he had handed over the command here to Paladin Arthur long ago, he was still concerned about the battlefield here.
After all, he had suffered a loss once before, and if he suffered a loss again this time, he really wouldn’t know what to do!
Fortunately, the plan went very smoothly.
Soon, the pursuing advance fleet was ambushed by the Qingyuan Legion just like before.
However, this time these starships did not panic, but launched a defensive counterattack in an orderly manner.
Because they knew very well that there was a large army of 10,000 starships following behind them.
After a tense moment, Paladin Arthur led the 10,000 starships into the battlefield. The starships of the Qingyuan Legion noticed the starships of the Holy See Empire’s expeditionary fleet.
They began to shrink their starship formation and gave up the plan to encircle and annihilate those T3 Revelation-class heavy star cruisers and T2 Sacrifice-class light star battle cruisers.
There is even an intention to withdraw from the battlefield.
“Want to leave now?” Paladin Arthur looked at the starships of the Qingyuan Legion in the star map and said with a grim smile, “I will never let you go.
Today, all of you starships from the Qingyuan Legion must stay here.
This is the first great gift I prepared for your commander!”
Soon, these 10,000 starships caught up with the Qingyuan Legion fleet and a tug-of-war began.
“Report, Lord Paladin Arthur’s fleet has caught up with the fleet of the Green Kite Legion. And it can be confirmed that it should be one of the main fleets of the Green Kite Legion, but it is still unknown which fleet it is!
Lord Paladin Arthur told us to go first, and he will destroy the starships of the Green Kite Legion within the next three hours, and then catch up with us. “The Protoss Sergeant reported excitedly at this time.
This is the first pretty good information I have received in recent times.
“Good! Good! Good!” Cardinal Sandra said several good words in a row, and it felt like she was letting out the bad breath in her chest.
“Ten thousand starships, plus the Paladin Fleet of Lord Paladin Arthur. No matter which fleet of the Qingyuan Legion this is, it will not be able to escape!” the deputy captain said confidently beside him.
Because this was the tactical plan he came up with, and Cardinal Sandra will definitely reward him well later!
“What if the Qingyuan Legion mobilizes other fleets to encircle Paladin Arthur’s fleet?” Cardinal Sandra suddenly said worriedly.
The deputy captain raised his lips and said, “If that’s the case, that would be great. According to our previous arrangements, the speed of our fleet has been reduced to one third of the original speed.
Even if the Qingyuan Legion is really preparing to send heavy troops to the battlefield where Lord Paladin Arthur is!
Wouldn’t we do that?
I have already told Lord Paladin Arthur that if the Qingyuan Legion really does this.
No matter how many fleets the Qingyuan Legion sent over, he would hold on to these fleets tightly and drag their starships into a quagmire of war.
And we can directly change direction and support the starships that are encircling and annihilating the Qingyuan Legion.
We are eager to have a decisive battle with the main fleet of the Qingyuan Legion. We now have your Cardinal Fleet and the Paladin Fleet of Lord Paladin Grahead.
Both fleets are T3 starships and are fully capable of performing space jumps to support the battlefield.
As long as Lord Paladin Arthur can delay for twenty minutes to half an hour, our two powerful fleets will be able to support the battlefield!
Within one to two hours, the main fleet can form an encirclement and destroy the entire Qingyuan Legion!
In twenty minutes to half an hour, as long as Paladin Arthur focuses on defense, even if the entire fleet of the Green Kite Legion comes forward, it is impossible to consume these 10,000 starships, including a Paladin fleet, in such a short time!”
I heard what the deputy captain said.
Cardinal Sandra’s eyes lit up, and he looked at his deputy captain with appreciation: “Not bad, you are worthy of following me for so many years. I will reward you well when I return.
There happened to be several vacancies for bishops.”
Hearing this, the deputy captain was overjoyed and immediately put his hands on his chest and saluted: “No! This is all because of the glory of the God Kara and you shining on me.
If possible, I would like to serve the God Kara all my life and follow Cardinal Sandra to fight in the stars! ”
In the Holy See Empire, the best way to praise someone is to compare that person to the God of Kara. This is the best compliment!
Cardinal Sandra raised the corner of her mouth. Even the star spirits like them liked to hear such flattering and praising words from others.
“Report! Another Qingyuan starship appeared on the left side of our fleet and attacked our flank!”
Upon hearing the news, Cardinal Sandra frowned slightly.
“What are they doing? Don’t they know that their fleet is being entangled and surrounded by our starships?”
The deputy captain hesitated for a moment, then suddenly realized: “They are anxious! They have carried out two consecutive waves of high-intensity harassment.
They want us to withdraw our starships to the battlefield over there, which means our tactics have successfully threatened the starships of the Qingyuan Legion.”
“So what should we do now?” asked Cardinal Sandra.
The deputy captain clenched his fist and said seriously: “Just like before, send the Paladin of Grahead to lead 10,000 starships to encircle and destroy the starships of the Qingyuan Legion.
Since they have come to our door, how can we refuse them?
After all, what we lack the least is starships!”