In a vacuum where there was no friction at all, how difficult would it be for a hundred thousand starships that had been accelerated to the highest speed with the planet's gravity to make a 180-degree turn at the same time, and how much chaos would it cause?
One only needed to imagine how a hundred thousand wild boars that were running crazily in the same direction would turn around and run away when they heard the roars of a tyrannosaurus.
In the Heaven Return Fleet, not all the captains of the starships agreed with such a cowardly and idiotic tactic.
But this was exactly what it meant to be 'involuntary'. Everyone was running, and none of them could care about each other's flanks. Whoever hesitated for half a second would become the last meat shield to face the scourge of the human-shaped tyrannosaurus that was a hundred thousand tons of fury.
Therefore, even the captains who had been planning to try their luck, after seeing that their allies were so lethargic and even had ill intentions, did not hesitate at all. They all chose to make an emergency brake without caring about the sturdiness of the starship's structure and the crazy consumption of fuel and made a desperate turn in a super small range.
It was exactly an avalanche chain reaction and a vicious cycle.
Run, run, run. All the captains had the same idea. They did not need to run faster than the enemy, or Bai Xingjian's Bloodthirsty Saber. It would be fine as long as they ran faster than their allies!
They could break through Lei Chenghu's broken battle formation and retreat to the orbit of the Jade Tripod Planet. After all, there were still abundant land-based heavy firepower units on the surface of the Jade Tripod Planet that could provide powerful support. By then, they would have a much greater choice whether they wanted to regroup and fight another battle or flee back to the Yellow Dragon Sector.
It was a very good plan, but it was a pity that the captains, directors, ministers, and chairmen had neglected one thing.
There were two kinds of Immortal Cultivators in the world. They belonged to one kind, and Lei Chenghu belonged to the other kind. He was the Immortal Cultivator that was entirely different from them and had been forgotten by them. They were even secretly mocking him for his foolishness.
Right when the Heaven Return Fleet changed the route desperately and made a 180-degree turn, Lei Chenghu's seemingly broken battle formation had astonishing changes, too.
The previously lackluster spiritual shield was glittering a hundred times more brilliantly than before, like burning supernovas. The power units that had been silent in the past few days as if they had been blown up spurted out thousands of powerful flames of spiritual energy, making the starships dash forward like the most ferocious cannonballs. The messy, disordered soldiers that had lost their morale and even effective control had been revived. While they were moving forward at a super high speed, they had been deployed in the most perfect cone-shaped attack formation!
The stunned nobles then realized two things as if they had just woken up from a dream.
Firstly, it was true that Lei Chenghu's fleet had suffered heavy losses in the past few days, and he had even voluntarily abandoned a lot of starships that were moving slowly. However, all the starships that had been destroyed and abandoned were mainly maintenance ships and comprehensive supply ships. Those super-heavy starships that were loaded with tremendous assets, while essential for a protracted battle, were not necessarily so important in a short assault.
Furthermore, after abandoning the maintenance ships, comprehensive supply ships, and all kinds of clumsy ancillary warships, the arrows made of shield warships and arsenal warships were even lighter, sharper, and more fatal!
Secondly, including the flagship, the forces that Lei Chenghu still controlled were not as heavily damaged as they appeared earlier. He had concealed half of his firepower and defense during the fierce battle of a high intensity for an entire day and night, pretending to be weak on purpose.
It was not until this moment, when the fattest prey had completely fallen into the trap, that he finally triggered his full combat ability and bared the sharpest tusks of the "God of War"!
"Well …"
All the nobles of the Heaven Return Fleet would be drowned in their own cold sweat and drown in it.
"Pretending to be weak on purpose" sounded simple, but it was almost impossible to perform it perfectly in a real battle.
It meant that the commander had absolute control over the fleet, as well as the commander's iron-like willpower and ruthless nerves. When it was necessary, he would have to watch the starships under his command that did not have sufficient spiritual shields to be blown up by the enemy without being able to provide reinforcements in time.
One could only be more ruthless to the enemy if they were ruthless to themselves.
The Immortal Cultivators of the four families could achieve the latter half perfectly, but they had forgotten that the former half represented the essence of the true path of immortality.
Even so, even though Lei Chenghu was ruthless enough to sacrifice his own people and pretend that he was vulnerable to the first attack in order to lure the Heaven Return Fleet, the fact that his fleet fell apart in chaos just now was a fact that everybody had witnessed with their own eyes. The nobles could not figure it out at all. Even though he was known as the "God of War", it was impossible for him to complete the perfect gathering the moment they turned around!
It was true that one "God of War" was not enough.
However, "God of War" and "A Boxing Champion" were more or less enough.
…
On Lei Chenghu's flagship, the renowned "God of War" of the Imperium stood under the glittering light beam with his hands behind his back. Next to him was a silver iron giant. Almost a hundred cables were connected to the back of the giant's head to the spine, extending all the way to the mainframe crystal processor of the flagship. At first glance, it had been melted with the mainframe crystal processor of the flagship and even the crystal processors of all the starships in Lei Chenghu's fleet, constituting a strengthened command chain that was as fast as lightning and a super battle network that covered all the stars in the universe.
It was exactly "A Boxing Champion". Different from Xiaoming, Wenwen, and even Fuxi, he was an information life that was born purely for battles, wars, and destruction and trained, upgrading, and evolving toward the goal of being the strongest in the universe.
It was the experience, willpower, and commanding ability of the God of War, together with the computational ability of A Boxing Champion and the enhancement of the battle network, that they were able to turn something rotten into something marvelous and accomplish the unbelievable gathering and assault.
"The expedition army of the Federation has marched forward. All the starships have entered the sub-light speed state, leaving no room for retreat for themselves. How determined they are!"
The cables behind A Boxing Champion shivered softly, as if the data that was flooding in were of mass and turned into scorching magma, burning his crystal cameras. He quickly analyzed the data of the allies on the opposite side. Then, he exclaimed in shock, "It is Ding Ling Dong, their Speaker, who is leading the charge. What's the meaning of this? Is it the unique battle habit of the civilizations of mankind at the edge of the cosmos? This is … truly unbelievable! "
Pausing for a moment, he found a plausible explanation after a quick calculation. "However, no matter how unbelievable it is, everything will make sense when you consider that she is the wife of 'Vulture Li Yao'."
Lei Chenghu looked at the rapidly changing information and the data that were pouring out like a waterfall on the light beam. Ding Ling Dong's roar that was enough to break a galaxy was echoing in his ears, too.
"Ding Ling Dong, Speaker of the Xing Yao Federation, is here. Who will fight me to the death?"
Lei Chenghu's lips twitched. There was confusion and surprise on the cold-blooded God of War's face that seemed to be made of iron, too.
"Another monster has come."
With a bitter smile, Lei Chenghu mumbled to himself, "Li Yao, Long Yangjun, Bai Xingjian, His Majesty, and the mysterious, unpredictable information lives with infinite potential such as yourself. Now, Ding Ling Dong, who likes to lead the charge despite being the leader of a military country, is here. There are more and more monsters at the center of the cosmos today. It is getting more and more lively."
"Commander Lei, what did you say?"
A Boxing Champion asked.
"Nothing. I just feel that I am too old, and my head is completely stiff. It is hard for me to understand the monsters such as you and the … surging, marvelous new era."
Lei Chenghu remarked with mixed feelings. "The old era that belongs to me is gradually withering. I can't keep up with the monsters like you anymore. It seems that I should find a decent exit and leave the stage to the newcomers.
"However …"
The War God of the Imperium took a deep breath. Despite what he said, stubbornness, competitiveness, and bloodthirstiness beamed out of his eyes. He stared at the dispersing Turnaround Fleet on the light beam, and his eyes, which were so solid, were almost tearing apart every mystic ray that made up the light beam.
"I can walk off the stage where I have been fighting for two hundred years on my own, but as long as I stand on the stage for one second, I will be the almighty War God. Nobody can force me to walk off, and nobody can defeat me in the bloodstained sea of stars, Lei Chenghu of the Imperium!"
Lei Chenghu squeezed the communicator so hard that it was squeaking. He roared at the whole army that had been repressed for a long time. "Do you see it? The soldiers of the new Imperium, the guest army from the edge of the cosmos, are already so brave and arrogant when they have just marched into a battlefield that they are not familiar with. How cowardly, selfish, panicked, and disgraceful the enemies on their opposite side, who claim to be 'Immortal Cultivators', are! They have disgraced all the Immortal Cultivators!
"We will never admit that those cowardly, hilarious guys are Immortal Cultivators. They are just maggots and cockroaches! It will be the gravest insult to the true path of immortality as long as they continue to live! Let's end the despicable lives of the maggots with our own hands and tell the guest army from afar what the real Immortal Cultivators are like! "
Before the roars echoed in every starship under his command, Lei Chenghu had already ordered the flagship to accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again, crashing into the route that the Turnaround Fleet was fleeing.
All the starships below the flagship reduced the output power of the spiritual shield to the minimum. The arc-shaped defense was mainly focused on the head of the starship, abandoning the defense on the flanks and the rear. In such a way, all the spiritual energy was concentrated on the billions of turrets, which boosted the most powerful firepower.
Such a brutal strategy required a high control over the starship to ensure that their flanks would never be exposed to the enemy's barrage.
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