Under the guidance of the three space gates, more and more fleets that belonged to the four families jumped over, blocking and suppressing the reformists like an iron wall. A lot of super enormous engineering starships that carried infrastructure resources jumped over too. Seven days after the battle started, an entire space fortress even appeared in the Empyreal Terminus Sector in six hours!
With the support of abundant resources, the fleets were gathered into solid battle formations. The coalition army of nobles marched forward unstoppably.
The Empyreal Terminus Sector was the heart of the Imperium after all. Countless defense lines had been established in space in the past thousand years, and they had been strengthened and upgraded nonstop. A lot of bases and three-dimensional defense bases had been established on almost every solid planet, satellite, and stable asteroid belt. Even though the four families had the absolute advantage in terms of combat ability, they were not in a hurry to break the capital, the core of the capital.
Step by step, they cleared every obstacle on the way to the capital unhurriedly and conquered all the space fortresses and satellite bases at the edge of the universe. After every defense base was conquered, they would immediately summon their own fleets to defend it and deliver abundant assets to start the construction.
This was a war between one Greater Thousand Worlds and one Greater Thousand World. The four families had enough time and resources to play a crushing game without taking any risks.
On the twentieth day after the battle in the capital, the No. 5 solid planet closest to the capital was occupied by the four families, which became the best platform for them to attack the capital.
It meant that the hand of death that locked the throat of the reformists had been completely closed.
The final general attack was about to begin.
Faced with the aggressive and dominating performance of the four families, the reformists were naturally unwilling to wait to be killed.
The Deep Sea Fleet and the Imperial Guards organized quite a few aggressive counterattacks, but they were all defeated by the dense battle formations, solid defense, and overwhelming soldiers of the four families.
Even though the warriors of the reformists boasted the courage and combat ability to annihilate enemies five times their number, they could do nothing when faced with overwhelming enemies.
The enemies were too many and too strong!
After a month of the battle, the greatest problem that the reformists were faced with was not the competition on the battlefield but the complete blockade of communication. It was barely possible to reach out to the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the Thunder Fleet, the other two main forces at the Seven Seas Space Zone at the edge of the Imperium.
The Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors represented billions of small and medium capitals in the Imperium as well as the forces of countless warlords.
The Thunder Fleet, on the other hand, was very likely to win the support of the expeditionary army, which was still neutral.
Those two main forces were the only hope that the reformists had right now.
However, it was extremely difficult for two Sectors that were thousands of lightyears apart to communicate with each other. Real-time communication had to rely on the "hyperspace communication base stations" built at the edge of space zones, so that information and data could only be delivered to each other through "four-dimensional jumps".
If a message was transmitted through conventional means, even if the message was maintained at the speed of light forever, it would take tens of thousands of years for the other party to receive it, which was meaningless.
However, the dozens of "hyperspace communication bases" that the reformists deployed at the edge of the Empyreal Terminus Sector were all discovered, occupied, or destroyed by the ace fleets of the four families.
Also, the four families had projected tremendous powerful sources of interference in the entire space, releasing twisted radiations and spiritual waves incessantly to disrupt the secret communication bases that were likely to exist.
As a result, the capital seemed to be enshrouded in lead clouds, cutting off from the outside world, or more importantly, the Seven Seas Space Zone. It was barely possible to learn the situation of the battle in the Seven Seas Space Zone, and it was impossible to command Lei Chenghu or Jin Yuyan to make corresponding changes.
It was almost impossible for the Deep Sea Fleet and the Imperial Guards to break the information blockade of the ace fleets of the four families with their feeble troops.
It was true that they had hidden a few mobile secret communication bases at a certain point in the vast sea of stars. There were also a few powerful communication warships that were hiding in the asteroid belts with complicated environments that had not been discovered by the enemy yet.
However, both the secret communication bases and the communication warships would release tremendous information waves once they were activated, and they would be discovered by the ace fleets of the four families immediately, resulting in a catastrophe.
According to the evaluation of the leadership of the Imperial Guards, every mobile secret communication base would be discovered and destroyed by the enemy after it was activated for half an hour at most.
The communication warships were relatively fast and had a higher survival ability. They could persist for about an hour from the moment they released the first information wave before they were destroyed by the enemy.
However, the power of the super-remote communication units on the communication warships was relatively low, and the information that could be transmitted was limited.
In other words, the real-time communication between the capital and the Seven Seas Space Zone could only last half an hour to an hour at most. Also, every communication would require the precious price of a mobile secret communication base or a communication warship.
Therefore, unless there was a particularly important and urgent military situation, the real-time communication channel between the capital and the Seven Seas Space Zone would not be turned on every day. Instead, they would communicate in a more primitive way, which was the traffic warships.
The traffic warships were small, fast starships that were no more than fifty meters long. They did not carry a lot of attack magical equipment but were fully loaded with storage chips.
Every day, the highest commanders of the capital and the Seven Seas Space Zone would input the latest data of the command chain and the orders and demands of their superiors and subordinates into the storage chips of the traffic warships. Then, they would send the most reliable officers to escort the traffic warships. With the super teleportation arrays such as the "Cosmic Slingshot" and their own four-dimensional jump magical equipment, they would send the warships directly to the enemy's Sector.
So far, a few space gates were still controlled by the reformists on the two sides, allowing them to maintain the minimal exchange of personnel and assets. The landing points of the traffic warships were relatively precise and would not be too far away from the space gates.
Also, every spaceship was equipped with the most advanced concealment magical equipment. They were very small in size and mass. In the vast space, they were like a drop in the ocean. It was extremely difficult for the enemy to detect them.
Even if they were scanned and captured by the enemy, every transport boat was equipped with triple self-destruct devices. The escorting officers had to enter the security password every five minutes, or all the data would be wiped clean within ten seconds. It could be said that there was no chance of anything going wrong.
Although the information exchange efficiency of the traffic boats was extremely low, the amount of information that each traffic boat could carry was an extremely unstable wireless transmission method. It would take more than three days and three nights to transmit all the information. Furthermore, there was no need to worry that the enemy would hack into their communication network. In terms of reliability and security, it was significantly improved.
Therefore, the traffic warships became the main means of communication between the capital and the Seven Seas Space Zone. Dozens of traffic warships were traveling between the two places every day.
The intelligence was gradually grasped by the ace fleets of the four families, too.
They did not want the Thunder Fleet or the garrisons of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors to suddenly jump out and stab them in the back when they launched a general attack on the capital planet.
Therefore, after the throat of the capital was grasped, the scanning and destruction of the traffic warships became the top priority.
The four families mobilized countless cyberspace warships and reconnaissance warships to perform thorough blockades and scanning on the space zone near the capital planet, not letting go of the tiniest space ripples. The moment they sensed space ripples, they would immediately send the most elite rapid response troops to block them and not allow them to enter the defense circle of the capital planet.
The Imperial Guards and the Deep Sea Fleet, who had retreated to the orbit of the capital planet, showed astonishing courage at this moment too. They marched out to protect the traffic warships that had just jumped to the Empyreal Terminus Sector without bothering about anything, hoping to get the latest news from the Seven Seas Space Zone at the cost of tremendous casualties.
That was exactly why the short battle that took place today was so fierce.
Three traffic warships from the Seven Seas Space Zone appeared in space not far away from the capital planet like inconspicuous loaches, but they immediately raised the attention of the hunters lurking nearby.
The starships of the hunters immediately spurted out the most brilliant brilliance, lunging at the three tiny loaches like sharks that bared their shining teeth.
The three loaches fled to the capital planet in panic, but before they entered the orbit of the capital planet, they were hit by a second team of hunters that came from another direction. Right when the three loaches were about to be ripped apart by two groups of sharks, the daring squads of the Deep Sea Fleet and the Imperial Guards dashed out and pierced into the sharks like a hundred fast swordfish.
The swordfish and the sharks were engaged in a fierce battle. Blood was flowing like a river.
The three loaches took the opportunity to rush to the capital planet, but they were still hit by the cannons of the hunters. One of the traffic warships disintegrated on the spot into brilliant fireworks, and the other two traffic warships were riddled with holes and almost debris. They could not maintain the sailing route anymore, but they were captured by the gravity of the capital planet and fell to the surface of the capital planet.
The sharks finally got rid of the obstruction of the swordfish. They bit the tails of the other two loaches and crazily poured firepower on them. The two boats were on the verge of collapsing, as if they would disintegrate in the next second.
However, exactly at this moment, thousands of dazzling lines of fire interweaved into an impenetrable web of fire and covered the sharks overwhelmingly. Because they were too far forward, they had entered the orbit of the capital planet without them knowing it.
However powerful the ace fleets of the four families were, they were still not enough to compete with the defense of a whole planet that was the heart of the Imperium in terms of firepower.
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