Him and their stars

The hundreds of battleships that jumped into the Lion's Den Galaxy first were indeed small and medium-sized ships, mainly light high-speed cruisers, paired with ten assault carriers and ten arsenal ships... Well, according to the Predators The "terminology" should be called fire-breathing ship.

Unlike most of the cantilever nations located outside the Galactic Center, there are no requirements for protecting trade routes, fighting crime, or maintaining public order in the sea of ​​​​Galaxies within the Galactic Center of the Predator. In addition, the life in that damn place The situation is indeed a bit bad. There are basically no small ships such as assault ships and destroyers in their fleet organization. In addition, their fleet actually does not have the standard classification of ship types like other countries.

In order to facilitate the robbery, almost every one of their ships, including the lightest cruisers, had a hangar for loading assault landing craft, as well as a sailor's room for carrying stormtroopers.

In addition, they only have two types of large combat ships, the mothership, which is used to carry more looting thugs and loot, and the flamethrower, which is used to carry more trolls.

Of course, there are still larger warships. The raiders, especially after obtaining the remnants and technological heritage of the Ero Empire, also mastered the manufacturing technology of dreadnoughts, but there are still only the above two models, and some even carry the function of settlements.

After all, they are "nomads", so this simple but not simple combination of ship types is probably more suitable for their tactics.

A little bigger are the immigration ships and various function ships. For example, the agricultural ship Dr. Xie once worked on is a type of functional ship.

According to the current intelligence of various countries, in this large star field in the center of the Milky Way, there is almost no Earth-like planet that can recuperate and reproduce, so we can only move towards the relatively less intense situation like those ancient nomads. Galaxies are migrating and struggling to survive.

Admiral Selerius did not find any giant ships of the dreadnought level among the local vanguard. However, if the predators really tried to attack the Lion's Den Fortress, it would be absolutely impossible with this small amount of troops.

Sure enough, as Admiral Selerius expected, when the vanguard fleet completely entered the local system, the fortress radar transmitted a signal again, showing that the individual battleships with a wavelength of 1 and the total mass had exceeded 5 million tons.

It's a dreadnought!

Although the No. 3 gravity well leading to the center of the galaxy is still expanding, it is still incomparable to the core areas of the Milky Way, those transportation thoroughfares that can easily carry hundreds of millions of tons of mass at the same time.

In fact, in the past history, all fleet battles that took place in remote star areas required the fleets of both sides to jump into the battlefield in waves.

At this time, according to the empire's tactical regulations, it is necessary to take advantage of the enemy's unsteady footing and attack first. As long as you force the enemy into a fueling tactic, half the victory will be won.

Of course, there is also a more confident and ruthless method, which is to allow all enemy fleets to enter the local system and gather together to annihilate them. Anyway, the gravity well passage is relatively narrow, so once everyone is put in, it will be difficult to escape.

If the Yongjin and the main force of the fortress garrison fleet were here, Admiral Selerius would probably choose the latter approach. But the fleet he currently has is limited, and part of it is allocated to protect the distant planet, which is a bit stretched.

More importantly, these predator fleets behaved very smartly and did not directly enter the fortress gun range of the Lion's Den Fortress. They used high-speed cruisers to form two groups and began to clear the surrounding drone turrets. The core, with twenty large warships as the main force, spread out in a bombardment formation.

Under the cover of the drone turret cluster, the two squadrons of the fortress began fighting with the predators, but the battle could only be described as unbeatable.

After nearly two hours of fighting, the elite Imperial fleet indeed sank more Predator warships than its own, but it was still unable to drive them away. And when a towering castle-like dreadnought jumped into the local system, they could only fight and retreat.

The Imperial fleet's actions were timely. You know, the Dreadnought was obviously a "Spitfire" type. As soon as the hull was stabilized, hundreds of gun holes were opened, and a large row of dense missiles and torpedoes were fired out. If the Imperial fleet takes one step slower, half of it will be wiped out in an instant.

But despite this, the devastating output this time still completely tore the broken guard ship into space junk.

Admiral Selerius rejected the squadron admiral's request to reorganize and fight again, and ordered him to return to the fortress for repairs. He knew that there was no point in continuing to fight when the enemy's dreadnought had already jumped into the system and opened its cannons.

However, as a lifelong veteran of the imperial army, although Selerius felt it was a pity, he was not too worried. After all, the Lion's Den Fortress where he is located is also the Sky Fortress that the empire spent a lot of money to build, and there is no doubt about its protection and firepower. Even a large fleet of more than a thousand ships with the Titan ship as the core cannot break through its own defenses from the outside.

In addition, the Far Country Star is also within the protection and defense of the fortress, so there is no need to worry too much about the residents there being killed by looters.

The veteran decided to sit tight and wait for help. Of course, in order to prevent them from being defeated one by one by the enemy, he also ordered Vice Admiral Omoti, who was on the Titan ship Brave Advance, to gather the nearby patrol fleet and come to the rescue.

Of course, the rescue information was also sent to Tianyu and Luyuanxing, and they received responses quickly.

The imperial bosses were naturally surprised, but they also agreed with Admiral Selerius's judgment that he would stand firm and wait for reinforcements. They also said that the main fleet assembled on Luyuan Star had begun to use live ammunition and would soon attack. Kill these flies.

What a hell! You know, there are more than 3,000 large and small warships gathered in and around Luyuan Star - although nearly half of them are allies (xiao) and friends (di) of the empire. Even if all those interstellar nomadic thugs emerge from the center of the galaxy, they will probably use this kind of force, right?

Moreover, the Jiji galaxy is a border galaxy after all. Although the population is not large, it is under the pressure of national defense and there will be no shortage of various military factories. But no matter how you put it, there are more than 3,000 warships, and there are more than 200 giant ships with over 3 million tons. One can imagine how much time it will take to complete the live ammunition replacement of so many warships.

So, in the next twelve hours, the main force of the Predator fleet, with six ugly battleships the size of a dreadnought as the core, all entered the Lion's Den Galaxy. By this time, the number of predator fleets in Lion's Den Fortress had exceeded 500. Based on past combat experience with the Predators, it is estimated that the opponent's crew and stormtroopers should have exceeded one million people.

Eighteen years ago, when the Raiders launched a rare offensive against the Lion's Den Fortress, this was the force they had.

...Of course, the result eighteen years ago was that the main force of the looters was beaten to death in front of the fortress's protection. Ever since, Admiral Selerius remained very calm. He still feels that compared to the plunderers, the "ghost" who doesn't know the truth inside the fortress is more threatening.

Wait, if the so-called "ghost" is a conspiracy of the predators and wants to play tricks with them, wouldn't that be troublesome? The veteran thought of this blind spot, and then thought of the refugee ship that came some time ago, and all the logical problems suddenly connected.

"Indeed. So compared to the fleet, we may need the support of extraordinary people more." Security Director Brigadier General Kesore nodded.

"So, where are the psykers closest to us who can provide us with reinforcements?" the admiral asked the senior officers on the scene.

After a few seconds, a colonel in charge of external relations raised his hand and answered: "It's the Yaoguang Angel, which is affiliated with the Astral Knights. They were assigned to the blue side under Marshal Este during the exercise and have been operating under The red side is conducting guerrilla warfare in the star domain controlled by the red side. The last confirmed position was in the Tianjian 6 galaxy, which is four jumps away from us and 350 light years away. The entire fleet includes one Archangel-class armored aircraft carrier and three Clear Sky-class cruisers. Five Aegis-class cruisers and more than a hundred Astral Knights are commanded by Commodore Shameen. The fleet commander is Rear Admiral Baiya."

Since it is a support fleet belonging to the Knights, it must be a highly mobile warship with a full crew. It should only take two or three days to reach the fortress. Admiral Celerius breathed a sigh of relief, but then he realized that the problem now is that there is a fleet of predators outside the fortress, so we can't let the precious astral knights sit on the ship and attack the tower, right?

Therefore, we still need our own fleet to rush to clear the area next!

By four o'clock in the afternoon on October 25, the main force of the Marauders had already spread out their ranks and pressed forward in the direction of the Lion's Den Fortress. They seemed to be preparing to launch a general attack on the fortress.

At this time, it would still take 18 hours before the Tireluo Yongjin arrived at the Lion's Den Galaxy. It will take at least 40 hours before the Yaoguang Angel and the Astral Knights arrive, if they can be contacted immediately. As for the arrival of the fleet from the Luhara galaxy... that's really unclear.

Of course, what Admiral Selerius on the Lion's Den Fortress didn't know was that, except for the Lion's Den Fortress where he was located, traces of the Predator fleet had been discovered in almost all galaxies connected to the Galactic Center in the Extreme Sector. Some have only one cruiser, while others have more than a dozen. Obviously, this is a small fleet of suspected soldiers.

In addition, a huge group of predators also appeared in front of the other Sky Castle fortress guarding the Galactic Center, the Gate of Glory, which was even larger than before the Lion's Den Fortress.

At this point, normal people know that the predators who have always been twitching periodically have reached the moment of twitching and going crazy again.

At this moment, on Luyuan Planet, the mobilization order was naturally quickly issued to all the exercise fleets, even including the empire's "ally" fleets. Yes, the two imperial army bosses present, Marshal Ester and King Sorain, who also had the rank of marshal, took over the command of all the fleets present in an almost brutal manner. As for those "allied" commanders, no matter what they think in their hearts, on the surface they can only say with a smile that being the empire's dog is the greatest happiness and so on!

Of course, there are also the members of the delegations from various countries on Luyuan Planet.

At this time, five days had passed since the Glory mission officially ended and the Colossus weapon was unveiled. Most of the members of the military observation group had already packed their bags and left Luyuan Planet. Who would have thought that such a big situation would occur.

The delegation of the Blue Star Community has not left yet. It is said that Admiral Maxell and the Empire still have some matters to discuss, and they held four or five meetings accompanied by Major General Watt Rall.

After all, the empire and the community have not yet broken up, so there is naturally room for deals and compromises. As the leader of the observation team, the old principal will indeed undertake some diplomatic missions.

However, judging from this action, the rumors that the pro-imperial Co-Prosperity Party is wooing him into politics are not groundless.

The alliance's delegation did not leave either. It was said that they were preparing to have a party with the Cirke Kingdom. After all, there are many countries between the two countries, and there are rare opportunities to meet each other. At this time, it is time to celebrate as much as possible. Admiral Akbar from the Alliance, who looks like a big fat fish, feels that the Circassians who look like snapping turtles are very close to each other. Isn't it reasonable?

In short, on one occasion, Yu Lian saw with his own eyes the 1.7 meter tall General Akbar and the over 2 meter tall General Usti, walking arm in arm on the streets of Luyuan Star, carrying wine bottles, singing and dancing loudly. Gao Ge, at first glance, looks like a fat-headed fish spirit and a turtle spirit jumping happily and getting ready to eat Tang Monk's meat.

They were followed not far away by their respective security guards, as well as several plainclothes spies from the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs. This scene made Yu Lian feel quite friendly, so he ran over to say hello.

The two generals naturally knew Yu Lian, the "God's Chosen Champion", and said that no matter who it was, as long as he still slapped the imperial devils in the face, he was their half-brother from a different race, and they enthusiastically invited him to join. Come in.

An Earthling, a Montmarie who looked like a large fat-headed fish, and a Circassian who looked like an upright snapping turtle, just found a bar and played until the early hours of the morning. During this period, Admiral Akbar also heard the news of the raider invasion from the adjutant who came to look for him, and his big mouth almost reached his ears.

"It's so enjoyable!" He laughed loudly, gloating like a villain in front of the nearby imperial intelligence personnel: "This should be the imperial ghost... the noble man fired at the center of the galaxy, stabbing Is it a hornet's nest?"

In fact, the Alliance has had many wars with predators in the past. In other words, because it is too wealthy and is still a federal system, the defense arrangement on the border is unbalanced, and the degree of harm caused by predators is even greater than that of the Empire.

But again, as long as he slaps the imperial devil in the face, he is his half-brother from a different race and father, Admiral Akbar!

The one who succeeded even more mischievously was Lieutenant General Usti, whose motherland was still in war.

He ordered a plate of the Empire's famous dish, the "Golden Feast." This dish, to put it bluntly, is a golden soup boiled with large meat and poured onto golden-brown pancakes. It has a bit of the flavor of the world's famous dish "Crisp Stir-fried Pork".

The scalding soup was poured on the noodles, and the refreshing aroma, accompanied by the appetizing "sizzling" sound, immediately spread to the entire audience.

"This dish is called Bombing Sky... ah no, region!" Lieutenant General Usti laughed.

This is a bit carried away! Yu Lian could clearly see that the expressions of the two plainclothes spies huddled in the corner of the bar had changed. But it must be admitted that although this is a bar that specializes in wine and other drinks that can excite carbon-based mammalian intelligent creatures, this "Bombing the Sky" is still quite delicious.

In short, in the following days, General Akbar and Lieutenant General Usti seemed to be walking with wind.

Yu Lian, Feifei and several other friends from the delegation went to the docks and naval ports every day to observe the battle preparation process of the fleet. However, they had to admit that although they were facing a sudden enemy invasion, their combat preparations were not good enough. It is indeed being carried out in an orderly manner, and the efficiency is amazing. It is so high that it is higher than the community.

"Actually, our combat readiness planning and doctrine are all learned from the empire, but unfortunately, all perfect doctrines must be implemented by people." Yu Lian said to Feifei.

"Then try to change people." Feifei smiled.

"Isn't this what I'm working towards?" Yu Lian held Feifei's hand.

Colonel Silva, the "old senior" on the side, looked at it and thought to himself that I didn't hear anything you said today.

On the third day of watching the empire's preparations for war, that is, on October 28, when Yu Lian and Feifei returned to the hotel from the dock on the outskirts of the city, they suddenly had the idea to take the girl to the tavern to taste the incomparable taste. Delicious "bombing the sky".

However, when the two of them went out, they found that a luxury car with dragon-patterned chess pieces was already parked at the door, and waiting beside the car was Countess Giafel.

Wait, why did I say that again? Yu Lian thought about it and sighed: "It's so haunting..."

Feifei smiled and pushed Yu Lian with her crutch, saying that this was really rude.

No, the Countess opposite did show an awkward smile: "I feel offended... But, Colonel, and Fina, His Highness did invite you to dinner and discuss something. Don't worry, absolutely. It’s a good thing!”