Him and their stars

So, is this actually a technology that interferes with or even blocks gravity well signals? King Thoraine quickly thought of this possibility. Although he is known as the most capable military commander among elected emperors, he actually has a master's degree in engineering and the title of senior engineer. In other words, quite a few of the empire's senior generals have this educational background. In this way, we can understand the performance of the latest cutting-edge weapons more quickly and develop new tactics more easily.

Of course King Thoren, who holds the title of senior engineer, knows that Wisdom Palace and Tiangong Institute are also developing this technology, but it is only in the demonstration stage. The opposite alliance should also have a plan in this regard, but the progress should not be faster than our own, otherwise the whole universe would have known about the nature of those profiteers trying to cut the pie and cut the leek.

But now, this fortress already has mature technology. No, in other words, it is very likely that it will be an excellent design idea that is many dimensions higher than that of our own researchers...

King Thoren coveted this fortress even more. In his opinion, as long as it can be taken down, the Galactic Empire will obtain the greatest Enlightenment creation in history, which will definitely give the Empire and the Alliance a comprehensive advantage in the struggle for hegemony. From this perspective, isn't the invasion of the Predators and the expedition spanning two million light years a good thing?

"This is what people on Earth say about a blessing in disguise... Ha, an interesting proverb!"

The supreme commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Force still has no doubts about his side's final victory. He did not even feel disappointed because of the failure of his deep penetration tactics. He just calmly comforted the fleet that failed to return and let them Go back to Haosheng to repair.

In addition, King Soren also ordered the arsenal fleet, which had bombarded the entire battle without achieving any results, to withdraw, and invited the scientific officers in the fleet to analyze the situation.

"It should be the shield robot that His Royal Highness King Suliuka mentioned before. We sent assault ships and fighter planes to hide and approach during the bombardment. After losing eleven assault ships and forty-seven fighter planes, we finally We captured one." Lieutenant General Eggman, the fleet's chief scientific officer, said.

The price is quite high. King Thoraine couldn't help but think. However, although his body ached, he still showed appropriate relief and approval: "How long will it take to crack it?"

"Your Highness, I can't give you an exact time." The lieutenant general, who holds the title of Grand Bachelor of the Wisdom Palace, shook his head in distress: "To be honest, when that thing was trapped by us with the tractor beam, it happened. Those with high-energy reactions should be preparing to self-destruct. If Brigadier General Sha... Ymir hadn't used psychic techniques to cool down and strip away the heat source, we wouldn't have been able to successfully capture it."

Brigadier General Ymir is of course someone's "Old Enemy No. 2", the leader of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Astral Knights (youth group), and the much-anticipated true genius boy Viscount Shameen. However, since it is wartime, it is natural that the military rank should be mentioned first instead of the title.

Sorain nodded in relief, still very satisfied with the performance of these young men in the Imperial Army, but then, he also showed a troubled expression like Lieutenant General Eggman.

The relics of the Enlightened One represent progress and opportunity, but they also represent crisis. After all, they are the creations of ancient divine and human civilizations that span countless dimensions beyond this generation. No one knows what their true purpose is, let alone the correct and safe way to start them. Therefore, it often happens that oneself make big news due to careless operation.

If it weren't for the existence of psykers, the galactic civilization's efforts to decipher and reverse-research the legacy of the Enlightened Ones would have been delayed by at least several centuries.

"Continue to crack, I will mobilize two star officers to fully cooperate with you." King Solane could only issue this order with little nutritional value, but Lieutenant General Eggman was already very satisfied and hurriedly thanked him.

The elected emperor then turned to his adjutant: "You just said that a new tactical plan was handed over from the earth?"

"Yes, Your Highness!" the adjutant said quickly: "His Royal Highness King Suliuka has just concluded the liaison meeting with the community and brought back a combat plan, which was personally drawn up by members of their staff."

"Members of Earth's staff?" King Soleyn's eyes lit up: "Major General Yang Xiyi?"

The adjutant was slightly startled. Of course he knew that his master and the empire's top officials had focused their attention on the young general from Earth, but he did not expect that they would attach such importance to him. However, he still said: "Your Highness, the chief of staff of the Community Fleet is Commander Tivington. General. This tactical plan was also presided over by her."

"Oh, that top student!" King Sorain chuckled, as if he didn't want to watch it for a generation. It took him half a minute to rectify his emotions, and then he carefully opened the other party's report with a pinched nose expression.

In fact, just as the arsenal ship was bombarding the shield drones that were randomly grabbed, King Sulyuka Brynhilt also personally had a call with the top brass of the Earth Fleet.

As mentioned before, Admiral Conneris, the commander of the Community Fleet, the first high-ranking Imperial Army official to entertain was His Royal Highness Brunhildt, the youngest of the elected emperors, but the final process and ending were... It's far from perfect. Although the participants on both sides were chatting and laughing in harmony, and the Xuan Emperor himself maintained basic etiquette on the surface, anyone with a little bit of discernment could sense the dissatisfaction and irritability of His Highness the Xuan Emperor.

...For Admiral Conneris, who organized the banquet, this was simply a torment, and he even had a bit of self-doubt. You know, before this, he had always been very confident in his social skills.

This time, His Highness Brunhilt came to visit him personally, which made him feel a little bit flattered.

What made him even more flattered was that this time King Suliuka behaved sincerely and gently, and his smile was as warm and genial as the sun at eight or nine o'clock.

"The battle has been going badly these days, and I haven't had time to come back to you. I'm so rude." Brynhilt bowed his head slightly and apologized. Admiral Connery never imagined that one day he would receive an apology from an elected emperor, and he almost felt that he was about to reach the peak of his life.

Fortunately, as a veteran who writes "general" and reads "technocrat", the admiral finally regained his senses before completely drifting and asked seriously: "Since ancient times, fortified cities have always been difficult to conquer, but our strategic advantage It is unshakable, as long as everyone does their duty, there will always be success one day!"

King Suliuka smiled and nodded: "You are right, we really need everyone to fulfill their duties! So, after three days of fighting, is there anything you can teach me?"

Her words seemed to imply that the people on earth were watching a show these past three days. However, because his attitude is very upright, his voice is gentle, and his smile is amazing, it doesn't offend anyone.

In fact, although the main attack in these three days was the imperial fleet, the community did not do nothing at all. Except for the flagship Independence, which did not move, the remaining half of the fleet, with the three Independence-class dreadnoughts as the core, also participated in the general attack on the first day, pounced on the other side of the fortress, and sank at least one in the melee. More than five large and medium-sized predator warships also painted a continuous explosion zone on the outer wall of the fortress.

However, during the battle for the fortress, the Community fleet was also sunk by one battle cruiser, three guard ships, two arsenal ships, and three heavy cruisers, as well as more than twenty other large and medium-sized ships. Fortunately, because the main force of the fleet did not suffer any structural damage and the rescue was timely, the number of sailors who died in the battle was only "just" over 8,000.

However, this is just the first day of the war. The aloof Admiral Conneris is a technocrat. Of course, he is definitely not the type who comes from the grassroots actual combat troops and loves his soldiers like his own son. However, after all, he has been serving in the peaceful Central Sector, and he can only face the biggest fierce battles. Suppressing pirates, never seen such a scene before. Faced with this bloody and stark casualty figure, he could not help but waver.

But no matter what, although the exchange ratio is not good-looking, no one dares to say that the people on earth are watching a show.

In addition, compared to the fleet, the White Devil fighter equipped with light wing accessories performed quite amazingly. They interspersed across the vast battlefield with lightning speed, rushed in front of the shield at extremely high speed, then switched to a relatively "low speed", physically penetrated the deflection shield of the fortress, and then launched an attack from behind. Downed at least double digits of ancient shield drones.

This tactic was of course proposed by Yang Xiyi. He believed that since these unusually strong deflection shields were emitted by drones, if these drones could be shot down, wouldn't it be possible to peel off the tortoise shell of this fortress?

Of course, these deflection shields are no longer scientific enough to deflect railgun shells, which means they can resist high-velocity, low-mass objects. So, can we try to penetrate it with relatively "low speed" and "high quality" objects?

Yang Xiyi admitted that the tactics he proposed were gambling, and the stakes were not money, but the lives of the pilots. However, as senior generals, this is the cause and effect they must bear.

But no matter what, he won the bet.

The fighter group spearheaded by the White Devil Squadron did indeed pass through the interception network formed by the deflection shield, and then started fighting with the Predator fighters. They opened a smooth path for the arrival of subsequent friendly fighter planes.

The two young pilots, Li Baolu and Martha Daken, have officially turned themselves into double aces. The average number of kills of the White Devil Squadron also exceeded five. With this fighter plane alone, the achievements of the squadron commander Colonel Dutt can already be included in the air combat textbook.

However, Colonel Dutt realized that even if the deflection shield was torn, it would be impossible for the fighter plane to break through the subsequent fluid metal layer and energy film shield. More importantly, he suddenly discovered that more shield robots of the same type emerged from under the rock formations of the fortress, like soldier ants emerging from their nests, and he immediately ordered all fighter planes to evacuate.

In short, the community's fleet fought hard for a day, but returned without success. However, compared to the ferocity of the neighboring empire that successfully landed on the fortress despite intensive enemy artillery fire, the fighting here was indeed a bit too "plain".

King Suliuka was clearly not blaming himself, but Admiral Conneris still felt an inexplicable sense of guilt, so he could only look at Lieutenant General Tivington, who quickly gave a new battle plan. plan.

The Thirteenth Fleet, which acts as a guerrilla fleet on the outskirts of the galaxy, successfully intercepted a predator fleet that had been lying in wait here for an unknown length of time at the edge of the orbit of the eighth planet in this galaxy, a huge polar planet. It was a small fleet composed of a large work ship, two large motherships and more than ten ordinary warships.

The Thirteenth Fleet successfully sank one mothership, seriously damaged another, dispersed the remaining enemy ships, and captured the work ship. By the way, they also killed a group of Marauder Marines who had landed on the surface. From the mouths of the captured Marauder officers, we learned that the Marauders' defense line on the Demon's Throat was not just a fortress, but extended to all surrounding planets where defense facilities could be built. The most important of these are the two polar dwarf planets near the fortress.

"The captives of the Predator confessed that they did get some kind of weapon that shielded the signal of the gravity well from the legacy of the Enlightened One, but not all of these weapons were set up on the fortress. There are relay equipment on the two dwarf planets next to it. The fifth and sixth planets have second-round diffusers. If the diffusers are set up on the eighth planet, the gravity well shielding signal can be spread to the entire galaxy."

Seeing Brunhildt's thoughtful expression, Lieutenant General Tivington felt a little proud, so he took the opportunity to propose that he would launch a strong attack and landing operation on the two dwarf planets, and he must seize the transfer equipment on them! "

"If it doesn't work, we can still destroy it. If we can really destroy the Predator's gravity well shielding weapon, we can find a route to the hinterland of the star field."

At that time, whether the fortress should be attacked or besieged will all depend on everyone's judgment.

"The two dwarf planets are within the coverage of the fortress artillery. We have no way to conduct orbital bombing support." Brunhildt said.

"We will land from behind the planet." Admiral Conneris quickly added: "We can also avoid the attack from the fortress. We will launch the attack on time before 6 o'clock tomorrow morning! If everything goes well, in 20 hours Within a few days, you’ll get some good news.”

Regarding this combat plan, Brunhildt was noncommittal, but still left an encouraging smile: "Then, I will wait for your good news."

Then, just after the communication with King Suliuka was closed, Yang Xiyi immediately put forward a different explanation.

"Let's not talk about whether the information left by the predator captives is true. Even if such a strategic target does exist, we know nothing about the conditions of these two dwarf planets. But in comparison, the predators are at least already on them. It has been in operation for two or three months. We need to conduct at least a week of advance reconnaissance operations, and also..."

However, Lieutenant General Tivington interrupted the other party: "I understand what your noble officer means, and your considerations are also the words of the country."

"So……"

"But, this is really just a military consideration! Major General Yang, if we only consider it from a military perspective, things would be too simple." Lieutenant General Tivington showed a reserved smile and said, "Young man, you Still superficial".

Is this guy really a graduate of the Alliance National Naval Academy? Isn't it a completely closed salon run by some politician? Yang Xiyi finally managed to hold back his snort and looked at the Commander again.

Didn't you say that you would leave military affairs to me? Yang Xiyi expressed this meaning with his eyes.

However, Admiral Conneris turned his eyes away slightly, flashing a hint of guilt, but still pretended to be firm: "We need to get some gratifying results in advance before the empire!"