Him and their stars

Of course, the reason why Yu Lian still hasn't received news from the front line is certainly not because his expedition fleet was completely destroyed. After all, at this time, the main force of the two expedition fleets concentrated in the Devil's Maze Nebula has reached more than three times the total strength of the Predators (estimated). In addition, Commander King Thoraine and Admiral Connors are both of the "stick to the stronghold and fight stupidly" type, and it is almost impossible to give the predator fleet any chance to take advantage of the loopholes.

But the problem is, perhaps because this star field has traces of artificial transformation by the great enlightened beings in ancient times, although the maze of the sky has indeed collapsed, the gravitational force between stars always has some unreasonable fluctuations, and the communication between galaxies and Traffic has indeed been affected.

In addition, the raider's raiding fleet is indeed present on the supply routes. They don't always succeed in finding their prey, but they always find opportunities to destroy unmanned gravitational wave beacons and deep space detectors. This is equivalent to the cosmic age's tactics of digging telephone poles and cutting telephone wires.

It's hard to say how much structural damage this frivolous operation can cause to the expeditionary force, but it does cause a considerable blow to the smooth communication to the rear. Originally, through the transfer of gravitational wave beacons, it only took more than a week for digital letters to go from the frontline headquarters to New Port Arthur, but now the time has doubled, and there is even a possibility of being sent out.

There is no way, the efficiency of destruction is always much faster than construction. What's more, even if the empire and the community have huge military forces that far exceed their opponents, and the former's fleet is even rich enough to allow battle cruisers to serve as supply tank patrol fleets, it is impossible to deploy heavy troops in every star system in the waterway.

Due to poor communication, Yu Lian did not know that the frontline army had actually fought three moderate battles with the retreating predators, completely controlling five stable star systems. . Two of the galaxies even have a naturally habitable Earth-like planet each.

Although the modulus is small and unconvincing, the density of such a livable planet is still abnormal, which immediately shocked the upper management of the fleets on both sides, and they became more and more looking forward to the subsequent march.

But then, all the known routes within the Devil's Labyrinth Starfield finally converged into one galaxy. In the universe, this situation also occurs frequently. Generally speaking, such a galaxy with several channels is often the so-called battleground for military strategists.

It is obvious that this galaxy is not only a battleground for the military strategists in this devil's labyrinth star field, but also a pass where the predators are heavily fortified. There will definitely be a bad fight here. However, as long as we break through here or annihilate the main force of the Predators here, this great invasion of Predators, which spans more than two million light-years, involves two major galaxies on the battlefield, and attracts the attention of all countries and civilizations, will be It's time to come to an end.

In the long run, without such a group of powerful young men and elite fleets, the galactic nomads that have plagued the entire galaxy for nearly a thousand years may completely become pirates and no longer be able to systematically threaten other countries. 's safety is in danger.

This is comparable to the glorious achievement of completely wiping out the Ero Empire more than 800 years ago! No matter how calm and calm the commanders of the two countries are, their blood will inevitably boil when they think of this.

Thus, the real fierce battle officially started on July 18, 832, in the galaxy that was later named "Devil's Throat".

They did guess the beginning, but not the end.

At nine o'clock in the morning on July 31, Major General Yang Xiyi huddled in the corner of the conference room, holding his own tea cup - there was no brandy because it was the morning - and looked at the commander, General Conneris, who was furious: "Fifteen thousand marines! Fifteen thousand people, gone in four hours! Even if there are fifteen thousand pigs, the predators can't catch them all even if they want to! And you actually dare to come back, you You actually deserve to come back?”

Admiral Connors is an academic "Confucian general" who pays great attention to style and manners. But now his eyes are cracked, and his beard and hair are bulging, as if every hair has been filled with blood vessels that are about to burst.

After all, a full division of marines was wiped out by the entire formation in less than half a day. At this time, there was really no regard for dignity.

The Brigadier General of the Marine Corps who was scolded by him was probably frightened by the commander's unusual outburst. It was obvious that his physique was more than twice that of His Excellency the General, but he could only carefully lower his head and endure the drool all over his face. It wasn't until the Excellency the General had enough scolding that he took a sip of mineral water and then said cautiously. :

"But, your Excellency, if Major General Parker's fleet had not derailed, I would not have..."

Before the Bearman Commodore had finished speaking, a Rear Admiral in his fifties, with a slim build and a white face and no beard, jumped up and said in a slightly sharp voice: "Well, that's because you didn't do a good job in enemy reconnaissance! The mission of your division's reconnaissance infantry battalion should be to determine whether there are predators' anti-aircraft positions hidden on the surface! But the result? My Durandal was damaged! The dignified battle patrol was ambushed on the surface. Stung by a cold arrow, this is your problem!"

The Ursine Brigadier General also became angry immediately. He felt that after all, he was a strong man who could break open the armor with his fists. If he couldn't fight the commander, how could he not fight you, a hermaphrodite?

"It's not a vast plain with sweeping views! It's a polar dwarf planet covered in ice and snow. The ice and snow are so thick that it can freeze a bear to death, and the gravity is chaotic. But you only gave me three days, how is that enough?"

Major General Parker, who had a pale face and was slightly feminine, chuckled, and looked at Lieutenant General Tivington, the chief of staff who said nothing but had a livid face: "Madam, Brigadier General Neon is still shirking responsibility."

Shirk responsibility? But when it comes to this, the person who is most responsible is really not Brigadier General Nai Weng, but you, Madam Chief of Staff? Yang Xiyi took a sip of black tea and sneered in her heart.

The matter is about July 18th, two weeks ago. At that time, the main force of the expedition fleet with the Solar System Fleet as the core, after turning around the Tenth and Thirteenth Fleets, finally pounced on the "Devil's Throat" galaxy in a mighty manner - of course, there was no such formal plan at that time. name.

Although academic technocrats like him are not very convincing in terms of performance, they still have some experience in communication. During this period, Admiral Conneris actually focused his main energy on communicating with the empire. Although some unknown minor embarrassments occurred at the previous banquet for King Suliuka, the overall result was positive.

The relationship between Admiral Conneris and King Thoraine, the supreme commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, is not bad. The two sides also agreed with each other that they would launch a general offensive together on July 18.

It is true that Admiral Connelly is not a strong-blooded warrior who is brave enough to conquer the three armies, but the more he is like this, the harder it is for his mind to get hot. Such a person cannot win a brilliant victory, but he is indeed unlikely to make mistakes. In his opinion, if the main fleets of the two sides launch attacks from two directions at the same time, and the armies are overwhelming, they will not be penetrated by the enemy. Loophole.

that's the truth.

The mighty main fleet did capture some abnormal signals when passing through the gravity well, but at that time, the community's technical department was not quite sure what these signals represented. Anyway, the structure of the gravity well is stable and can normally accommodate the communications of the large fleet.

At 10:27 on July 18, all the main battleships of the Community Expedition Fleet had arrived in this system.

On the other side, the empire's general flagship, the Vulcan Airan, entered the galaxy at 11:15. Before that, Titan ships such as the Angel of Dawn, the Horn of Glory, and the Dragon of Time and Space were all in Everyone was in place before 10 o'clock.

Before 12 noon standard time, the civilization from the Milky Way had gathered a torrent of steel, including five Titan ships and twenty dreadnoughts, in this galaxy more than two million light years away from their homeland. The total fleet size has exceeded 4,000 ships. The total number of sailors, stormtroopers, marines and various auxiliary teams exceeds 30 million.

However, such a heavily armed group that could dominate any corner of the galaxy did not immediately launch an attack on the enemy. It wasn't that they didn't see the enemy.

In fact, they had discovered a fleet of predators gathered together in the wide space between the fourth and fifth planets of this galaxy, which was filled with asteroids and dwarf planets. There are ten fearless-level fire-breathing ships and motherships alone, and there are two to three hundred other large and small battleships. According to the analysis of the enemy fleet passing through the Gate of Glory, at least two-thirds of their main force has indeed gathered here.

Now, the main forces of the Community and the Empire have naturally formed a flanking situation for the Predator Fleet. If it weren't for the fact that next to the main force of the Marauders was something that would make you hate the disharmony. They couldn't help but pressed on.

This very disharmonious thing looks like a very irregularly shaped meteorite, and the outer layer is indeed wrapped in a celestial stone shell that seems to be naturally formed. But the problem is that there should not be a "meteorite" in this universe that is comparable in size to an earth-like planet, let alone a "meteorite" that stays in place and seems not to be affected by the revolution of the star at all.

Soon, the detectors of the Imperial Fleet captured the metal reaction behind the cracks in the earth's crust.

It was a fortress wrapped in meteorites.

One thing to say, this green-skin style of meteorite-wrapped artificial constructs is indeed very consistent with the style of the Predator. But the problem is that with the capabilities of the Predator, it is impossible to build a space building of this size in only half a year.

In other words, even the Galactic Empire, which is very keen to demonstrate its authority through space giants, has never built a planet-sized space building.

This is an enlightened legacy!

The command levels of the two armies immediately made this judgment.

The Predators are indeed confident enough to dare to fight against their own side in this galaxy.

Therefore, King Thrane, who was brave but calm-minded, and Admiral Conneris, who was only calm-minded, issued orders at the same time not to act rashly.

But the problem is that now that they are here, an army of tens of millions of people can't just stare at the enemy fleet here. Even if it is really the fortress left by the Enlightened One, it must be tested.

So, at 17:45, the empire launched a tentative attack first. The Dawn Angel of Sulyuka King Brynhilt was the first to dispatch. This has always been the tradition of the Dawn Royal Family. Candidates for the throne in the past generations have never lacked the courage to fight on the front line. Because of this, the Dragon Kings of Dawn have always been the well-deserved leaders of the Tireluo people over the past few thousand years.

This titan battleship, as elegant as a Valkyrie, led a group of guard ships and arsenal ships, carefully passed through the asteroid belt, and under the cover of a dwarf planet, it opened up and began a long-range bombardment.

However, the dense orbital shells and thousands of missiles from the twelve arsenal ships were all deflected by the suddenly deployed deflection shield when they were still some distance away from the "unidentified relic".

King Suliuka's innate tactical sense came into play at this time. When the attack failed, she immediately ordered the entire fleet to move.

Then, just when the strike fleet left the original point of the universe, a pillar of fire that seemed to be wrapped in thunder and lightning, like a magic sword raised from the endless hell, tore open the space wantonly, even the previous one Dwarf planets about the same size as Ceres were blasted through each other.

Two frigates towed at the end of the fleet were still caught in the scarlet beam. This special warship, which had specially strengthened its protective power and acted as a shield-carrying heavy infantry in the fleet battlefield, was shattered to pieces on the spot.

As a result, just after the war began, the empire lost two large battleships, and more than 4,000 crew members were left dead.

Of course, it was fortunate that Brunhildt's order was issued in time, otherwise it would not be just this loss. There is a question mark as to whether even the most cutting-edge Titan ships like Dawn Angel can withstand such a shot.

Later, based on the analysis of the remaining energy information, this should be a gamma light burst. However, why gamma rays have such penetrating power is beyond everyone's understanding.

The Earth Fleet, which was about to move, suddenly calmed down. They can't compare to an empire that has a big family and a big business, and they can't act rashly.

Thus, the battle on July 18 ended hastily. A bad battle is naturally a bad battle, at least the battle damage ratio definitely meets this standard, but the scale and process are really not worth mentioning.

Fortunately, it is not without any gains. At the later high-level military meeting, Brunhildt took out a holographic projection in front of a group of big guys, but it was a vague sound of an aircraft. Facing the intensive artillery fire and missiles, he unfolded a translucent projection. Light curtain.

Everyone realized that this light curtain seemed to be the energy shield that had just blocked the imperial army's exploratory bombardment.

"I released the unmanned detector before the bombardment and took this scene. Obviously, this is not an energy shield covering the entire fortress, but an autonomous mobile shield deployed by a small autonomous aircraft. It's a bit like Active shields controlled by the 'Harness' and 'Communion' psyker gates," Brynhilt said.

"It's probably only the size of an ordinary fighter plane." King Solain muttered.

"Even smaller, but the deflection shield released can block the main gun of the arsenal ship and the bombardment of at least ten siege missiles. In addition to the active shield of psykers, any shield technology on the technology side None of them can achieve this effect." King Suliuka said: "In addition, the shelling of the enemy's fortress just now is also needed. It can be seen that the power is far greater than the main gun of the Titan ship, as well as any of the fortress energy main guns we know. Above. Even if it is a Titan ship, it is difficult to guarantee safety."

Having said this, Brunhilt glanced at everyone and said expressionlessly: "Gentlemen, this is not an ordinary space city left by the enlightened ones. Please think of it as ten overlapping castles. Become a monster! I am definitely not being alarmist."