A few days later, the Jizhou battle group.

The virtual conference room was full, and the command team headed by Huo Qiang and eleven captains were all gathered together, and all eyes were focused on Huo Qiang.

Chief of Staff Wu Han unfolded the virtual screen in front of him, and with a stroke of his finger, the virtual screen floated to Huo Qiang: "Commander, this is the observation report of the past few days, and the situation is already very obvious, the enemy's target is Mars nine out of nine." ”

To be honest, Wu Han was very dissatisfied with Huo Qiang in his heart.

The fleet had already sent out alien anomalies, but Huo Qiang had to observe for a few more days, wasting several days in vain.

At the moment, the direction and speed of each battle group are not as good as the aliens, and even if they return immediately, the aliens will arrive at Mars first. If you make a decisive return a few days ago, the fleet will be able to return to Mars before the enemy forces and stop the enemy's plan to attack Mars.

Capture Ceres first, and then crush the enemy's attack, and you can draw a perfect end to this battle.

But now? Huo Qiang dragged on and on, and he simply buried the good situation, which was simply to put the initiative in the hands of the enemy. Many people secretly speculated about what kind of medicine Huo Qiang was selling in the gourd, and Wu Han was naturally no exception, and he vaguely felt that Huo Qiang seemed to be worried that aliens would not attack Mars!

It's a strange feeling, but it's really real.

Although he had some thoughts in his heart, Wu Han knew very well what to say and what not to say, so he only singled out the most critical things and said everything else in his heart.

Huo Qiang didn't even glance at the report, and said in a deep voice: "Have the enemy's warships all flown to Mars?" ”

"Nope." Wu Han said, "About 80 percent, and the remaining fifth is not moving, probably trying to hit our block." ”

"Block?" Huo Qiang couldn't help but laugh, "This is interesting, we are going to the bottom of the aliens, but they have hit our idea?" Hehe, wishful thinking is a good one! ”

His tone was like ice in the cold winter of counting, exuding a faint chill.

Zhuang Bo hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "Commander, should we rush back immediately?" I've already calculated, the location of each battle group is good, it's still too late to hurry up, at most it's a few days later than the aliens, there is the Xuzhou battle group on Mars, and there are four super cannons, how can you hold on to the fleet to help. ”

Huo Qiang pursed his lips and nodded: "The plan is okay, but it's a little conservative." ”

Zhuang Bo was stunned for a moment, and said tentatively: "Then return at full speed and intercept the enemy halfway." ”

Wu Han reminded: "It's difficult, the enemy ships are too scattered. ”

Except for the enemy army in the direction of Ceres, which was a well-assembled fleet, the enemy ships of the other bodies were all scattered, with three or five ships at most and only one at least.

In addition to the enemy ships that failed to arrive at the assembly point in time, there are also many enemy ships that have emerged one after another in the past few days, with locations all over several star fields, a large number and a wide range of distribution, and all enemy ships are advancing in the direction of Mars, relying only on these dozens of warships under Huo Qiang, they can't stop so many enemy ships at all.

Zhuang Bo spread his hands: "It's not okay to return, and it's not okay to intercept it halfway, I really can't think of a way." ”

Huo Qiang's gaze turned to the captain present: "What about you?" Any thoughts? ”

Everyone was like a gourd with a sawed mouth, and there was silence in the conference room.

"No idea?" Huo Qiang raised his voice, but there were wisps of disappointment hidden in his eyes.

Ye Han wanted to talk about dispersion and interception, but couldn't others think of such a simple answer? After a moment of hesitation, he finally decided to keep his mouth shut and honestly listen to what others thought.

"Be bold and speak your mind, no matter how outrageous your ideas are." Huo Qiang encouraged.

"Or ...... Let's come back. One captain said with difficulty, "There is only one battle group on Mars, and the enemy army has at least two hundred warships, and the gap is really too big." ”

"That's right!" Another captain chimed in, "Even with super cannons, one battle group is too few!" ”

"It's nothing to let aliens occupy Mars, what if they don't occupy Mars and attack Earth directly?" Another captain said worriedly.

"That's it, Mars still has a battle group, the earth has nothing but super cannons, landing a wave of aliens is enough, if there is another wave of ......" His words only said this, and the things that had been thought of suddenly did not know how to describe it.

But everyone else understood what he meant, and they agreed.

These captains took a good start, and the others finally opened their mouths when they saw this, and the captains expressed their opinions, although the specific statements were not quite the same, but there were only two points of view, most people's idea was to return to the fire star as soon as possible, and a few people's suggestion was to intercept on the spot.

Ye Han wanted to say something fresh, but he was really not that material, racked his brains, and didn't come up with anything new, and finally gritted his teeth and stood in the ranks of the minority, becoming a Menshevik.

Choosing to intercept on the spot was not how thoughtful Ye Han was, he simply felt that the field style of playing with his own ideas was more suitable for him.

After Huo Qiang and the other captains finished speaking, they couldn't help but sigh: "You guys, to be honest, I'm disappointed!" Speaking of this, his voice suddenly stopped, and after a long time, it turned into a sigh, "Do you think that the target of this all-army dispatch is Mars or Ceres?" ”

From Zhuang Bo to every captain, everyone present looked at each other, and they didn't understand what Huo Qiang meant.

Huo Qiang said again: "Do you still think that this time the mission is to use Ceres to contain the enemy and buy time for Mars?" ”

Zhuang Bo couldn't help it: "Commander, I don't understand what you mean, what do you want to say?" ”

Huo Qiang pointed a little beside him, and a top view of the solar system suddenly appeared in the void, and a few of his fingers swiped on the map, and the star map quickly enlarged.

"Let me tell you the truth," he said, "our target is not Ceres, nor Mars, but it!" ”

Huo Qiang's finger poked the star map, and the constantly enlarged star map suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at it, Huo Qiang's finger was impressively pointed at Jupiter.

Huo Qiang's words were like a thunderbolt in everyone's hearts, Ye Han looked at Jupiter in a daze, and then moved to Huo Qiang's expressionless face, as if a string in his mind suddenly broke.

Understood, everything understood, no wonder I always felt that something was wrong, it turned out that the target above was Jupiter!

He suddenly got up and asked in an extremely eager tone, "Commander, our mission is to counterattack Jupiter?" ”

"It's not a counteroffensive, it's an expedition, the fifth expedition!" Huo Qiang smashed his fist on the star map, smashing Jupiter to pieces.