The plan of action was as follows:
When the enemy's space fortresses released the next batch of drones, the Empire's fleet would remain in a defensive position. This way, the drones would switch to attack mode, actively colliding with and weakening the Imperial Army's joint shield. At that time, our anti-air cannons and various floating cannons would wipe out the drones with maximum efficiency, ensuring that they would be wiped out within ten minutes. Of course, this was only the best we could do. After all, the number of drones was too large, and the space fortresses would always have about a third of the drones stationed around them to strengthen their defense. So, the best result was to wipe out two-thirds of the enemy's fighter jets within ten minutes.
Our assault force would depart at the last three minutes. If the previous step went smoothly, the number of the enemy's drones would have been sharply reduced, and the assault force would have a high chance of breaking through the drone blockade. As the special space fortresses did not have turrets, they relied entirely on a wave of drones produced every ten minutes for defense. So, as long as we made good use of this time difference and did our best to reduce the fortress's close defense within ten minutes, the success rate of this assault would be very high.
After the assault was successful, the Sixth Fleet's "expert team" would try to crack the core protocol of the space fortresses. Using the key that they had when they were the Fallen Apostles, they would be able to make all the space fortresses offline. Then, it would be time for the delightful harvest.
The Imperial Army already had the advantage in numbers. The enemy's fleet had only been able to delay for so long by relying on a strong defense line that had been in place for many years. After losing the space fortresses, the Fallen Apostles, whose fleet was only half the size of the Imperial Army, would not be able to withstand our saturated attacks.
This assault force had to be carefully selected. Considering that there might be a large number of guards in the space fortresses, I decided to bring a group of armored scorpions in. Those scorpions were the best at this, and the women who were useless on the battlefield in space were really bored.
"Brother, shall we go too?" While Sandora was helping to arrange the assault force, Visca suddenly came over and tugged on my sleeve. Pandora was standing next to her. Both of their faces were dark. They had just returned from the battlefield. Their 1.2-meter floating cannons were like cutting melons and vegetables against the drone swarm. They were personally responsible for the defense of the Royal Navy.
I looked at the two dark faces and realized that they were both excited. It had been a long time since they had fought a big battle. The two sisters had been holding it in for so long that they had almost gotten sick. Today, we were here to fight a war, but the two of them were here to celebrate a festival. But Visca's suggestion was not bad. Those space fortresses still had a considerable number of drone swarms around them. The assault force did indeed need a 1.2-meter heavy firepower AOE unit.
"But you just had a big battle outside. Are you alright?" I took out a newspaper from my pocket and rubbed it against Pandora's face. Flames immediately appeared, "Look at how overheated you are!"
White smoke immediately emerged from Pandora's head and began to dissipate the heat …
The two sisters had already been fighting outside for several hours, and the two of them had almost fired the firepower of thousands of anti-aircraft cannons. They were small fighters with poor heat dissipation capabilities, and the two of them were hot-blooded and reckless characters. As a result, both of them were like little furnaces. Looking at the situation, Sandora took out two pieces of bread from her dimensional pocket and rubbed them on Visca's face. The bread was almost cooked.
Visca saw that the rare opportunity to fight was about to be lost because of her poor condition. She immediately ran around on the officer's platform. As she ran, she shouted, "Ah, heat up. Ah, heat up."
Pandora glanced at her silly sister and turned to look at Icetis. They talked for a while. Icetis looked at Pandora in surprise. "Are you sure there won't be a malfunction?"
Pandora nodded. She opened her arms and stood in front of Icetis. Just as I was about to ask them what they were going to do, I heard Sister Bing mumble, "Sure, you won't catch a cold anyway … Beginner Freeze!"
Pandora, who had her arms wide open, was instantly frozen by a cube of ice that was 1.2 meters in length, width, and height. However, this cube of ice didn't even last for a second before its surface was covered in cracks due to the high temperature inside. Water vapor and water that was squeezed out by the high temperature and pressure began to splash all over the surface of the cube of ice. I immediately reacted and hurriedly shouted, "Be careful …"
However, as soon as he shouted these two words, the ice lump exploded with a bang. Shards of ice splashed all over the ground like rain, mixed with boiling water that was almost at the boiling point. The officers' platform was filled with so much steam that they could not see the people on the other side. This was what it meant to be ice and fire at the same time.
Pandora flew in front of me like a bun that had just been released from a steamer. She opened her mouth and spat out a ball of water vapor. "Brother, it has cooled down. Let's go."
I gawked at this creative little girl. She had originally been soaked in water, but now the water was almost dried by her body temperature. There was only a ball of steam around her. Visca, who had been running around, quickly ran over and tugged on Icetis' arm. "Give me a shot too! Give me a shot too! "
Sandora finally couldn't take it anymore. She strode over and tugged on Pandora and Visca's ears. "Stop messing around. Hurry up and report to the launch port. Cool down slowly on the way. Ah Jun, you don't have to stay here and join in the fun. The assault troops are ready. They will depart in a few minutes."
The moment I heard that, I quickly led the two cheering 1.2m men to the Empire Admiral's spaceport. A new batch of assault ships were already on standby. One of the assault ships looked no different from its surroundings, but its interior had been expanded. It was prepared for us.
Accompanied by the sound of mechanical joints rubbing against each other, Vega in his scorpion form came before me. He bowed valiantly to me. "Sir, Vega reporting for duty!"
Behind Vega were twenty armored scorpions lined up neatly. These were the assault troops that had been carefully selected. After successfully infiltrating the enemy's space fortress, they would be responsible for clearing out the guards along the way. Of course, if necessary, they would also be responsible for digging through the fortress's isolation barrier. Scorpions were experts at digging holes in walls, although I always felt that they had picked the wrong skill tree.
I nodded at Vega and specially instructed, "The main purpose of this battle is to send the experts to the fortress' mainframe as soon as possible, not to kill the enemy. Have you given your orders?"
Vega nodded and pointed at the scorpion soldiers behind him with his tail excitedly. "Sir, do you need me to arrange another battle strategy?"
I thought about Vega's battle strategy, which basically consisted of 'hack them' and 'hack them as hard as you can'. I immediately waved my hand. "Forget it, forget it. I believe that you are experts in infiltration …"
At this moment, the teleportation device at the launch port was activated once again. The last batch of personnel walked over. I saw that the person leading the team was Vincent. I was surprised. "You are going personally? I thought you would send a group of soldiers. "
"The soldiers' understanding of the system is not as good as mine, the administrator back then." Vincent's expression was especially solemn. "Furthermore, Your Majesty, aren't you going personally?"
I shrugged. "I can't help it. Other than being good at fighting, I don't know anything else. This time, I am just a bodyguard. I am only responsible for sending you safely to the fortress."
Vincent gave a military salute. "It is my honor. I will not disappoint Your Majesty!"
I was not used to this, so I quickly waved at him and led a large group of people into the assault spaceship that was specially prepared for us.
There were hundreds of assault spaceships preparing to depart from the launch port of the Empire Admiral. In addition to the individual fighter aircrafts and assault spaceships that were on standby in other spaceships, there would be a medium-sized assault force. Ninety-nine percent of the spaceships in this force were only responsible for providing cover fire and concealment. Only the spaceship that was carrying the 'expert team' and a few other spaceships filled with armored scorpions and elite soldiers would be carrying out the mission. The latter would wreak havoc in the space fortress after the successful assault, temporarily distracting the enemy so that they would not notice our intentions and block the fortress's main computer from the distributed network.
Now, the enemy's space fortress had just created another batch of drones. The Empire's fleet was still facing off against the enemy more than one million and two hundred thousand kilometers away from the sovereign hub. They did not take the initiative to attack, nor did they release their assault force. Hence, the drone swarms switched to attack mode and began to swarm over to wear down our combined energy shield. At the same time, a third of the drone swarms remained above the space fortress to ensure that the defense of the space fortress would not be interrupted. Only when the next batch of drones was ready in ten minutes would these drones charge out to fight. At the same time, a third of the second batch of drones would remain to guard the mother port … This cycle repeated endlessly.
But now, it was time to put an end to this tortoise shell + hornet's nest combination.
Sandora's voice rang in my head. "Ah Jun, the new drone swarm is rushing over. You will depart in seven minutes. If you successfully rush to the vicinity of the space fortress, you will have less than three minutes to break through the defense. The second batch of drones will be produced in ten minutes, so hurry up."
"Understood. Don't worry here. Pay attention to the defense. I estimate that it may take some time to crack the main computer. Don't act rashly before that."
I hung up the communication and looked up at the holographic device in front of me. The external monitor was showing the image of the battlefield: a large number of drones from the sovereign hub had arrived at the Imperial Army's base. Now, they were bombarding our combined energy shield in waves. Relying on precisely calculated waves of attack, this kind of self-destruction could produce thousands of layers of psionic waves. This was what the combined energy shield was most afraid of: it would reduce the synchronization of the various nodes of the shield, causing the overall efficiency of the combined energy shield to decrease. Ockham, who had designed these drone attacks, was obviously a guy who was well-versed in shield technology. He would not rest easy even if he died.
The Empire's fleet at the periphery of the base had once again activated their anti-air positions. But this time, our counterattack was even fiercer. All the motherships equipped with positional warfare modules had sped up their deployment speed. A large number of space sentry cannons and autonomous unmanned towers appeared on the battlefield in large numbers. Those strangely shaped space stations might not look impressive, but they had a large number of close-range defense cannons. Their role on the battlefield was to deploy additional anti-air firepower around the motherships, and now they were being put to use.
The enemy's droid swarm was being slaughtered quickly. The external monitors automatically tracked the area where the battle was the most intense. In the end, I saw that even the five Protoss cops had appeared on the battlefield. Bryndis was swinging his brick, Lin was carrying Elson, and Uncle Kenser and Monina were at the back, one providing support and the other covering. The five of them charged into the droid swarm, just like naughty kids charging into their relatives' house. No one could stop them. But why was Lin swinging Elson there?
Was another part of the girl's head broken?
Everything was going smoothly. This time, we wiped out the attacking drone swarm as quickly as possible. Moreover, the enemy had yet to discover our intentions. When the seven-minute countdown ended, although there were still a small number of drone swarm lingering around the Imperial Army's base, they were no longer a threat. Even if the drones returned to defend, they would not be able to stop our assault force.
"Attention all units! Engines overload, full speed attack! "
The broadcast from the spaceport was quickly left behind. In the next second, the assault ship had already rushed past the airlock barrier of the Empire Admiral. The light outside the porthole only flickered for a moment before it was left behind like an elongated ribbon. The assault ship began to charge towards the sovereign hub at high sub-light speed.
The enemy's gravity trap covered the entire battlefield. The closer we got to their sovereign hub, the stronger the interference to the warp engine. That was why we could only move forward at high sub-light speed. However, at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers, it would only take a few seconds.
"Entering the predetermined diversion point. Fleet split up!"
The battlefield assistant mainframe issued a warning according to the preset program. Then, thousands of assault ships and an even larger number of individual fighters immediately split into more than a dozen units, each heading towards a different space fortress. We could not let the enemy have the slightest chance of guessing our intentions. So, we had to do everything on the surface. This operation had to be disguised as a normal assault.
The distance of 1.2 million kilometers was covered in the blink of an eye. The assault ship had already reached the predetermined position and began to decelerate. The light outside the porthole had distorted into an aperture state and the severe red-blue shift phenomenon had returned to normal. A black fortress the size of a mountain appeared in our vision. This huge building gave off an even more oppressive feeling when seen up close. It looked very "smooth", but under the disc-shaped structure were all missile silos and layers of shield generators. This was why it was so durable.
As soon as the assault ship appeared near the fortress, it immediately came under fierce attack from the enemy.
An overwhelming swarm of drones swarmed in from all directions. These agile self-destruct bombs made people's scalps go numb. The assault ships with low HP and HP could attack well, but their defense was definitely not that good. So, immediately, a few of the assault ships were in a precarious situation. I stood up and patted Pandora and Visca's head … but I hit nothing but air. The two of them had already run to the teleporter and were waiting to rush out.
"We will go out and deal with the drones. You guys just need to use the cover to rush in." I turned and said to Vincent. Then, Pandora and I directly teleported into outer space.
The extremely sensitive drone swarm had blocked every inch of space for the assault troops to advance. Of course, the feeling of seeing it with your own eyes and watching it through the surveillance camera on the spaceship was obviously different. Only by seeing it in person would you realize how insane the number of drones these space fortresses had created at once. No matter where you looked, you could only see the self-destruct drones shuttling around.
Pandora and Visca summoned their signature floating cannons array without saying a word. The cannons covered the sky and formed two huge walls. The cannons began to fire like a storm and forcibly cleared a path through the dense sea of drones. But there was always an endless stream of drones coming in, so the clearing became extremely difficult. I began to create a large number of energy detonation points in the drone swarm. Each detonation point would cause the nearby drones to self-destruct in advance, and the unlucky ones that self-destructed would also cause the nearby drones to explode together. This chain reaction could even spread for a kilometer if the situation was good. Every energy detonation would create a spherical vacuum zone in the drone swarm. But just like what I said earlier, there would always be new drones coming in to fill the vacuum zone.
It might have been easier for me to destroy the entire fortress, but I had to slowly wipe out all the drones around me without damaging the fortress at all. Not only that, but I had to protect the fragile assault ships as well. That was a little depressing — I wasn't good at such meticulous work.
Of course, the two little lunatics who were bombing in space were even worse at it.
"It's not a good idea to advance slowly like this." I teleported behind Pandora, who was excitedly bombing everywhere. "You and Visca can attract some of the drones away. I will use the void field to 'surround' the assault ships and charge straight in."
Pandora looked up at me and nodded silently.
I immediately teleported to the front of the small assault ships' combined shield. The drone swarm was blocked by Pandora and Visca's cannons, which temporarily weakened the bombardment on the combined shield, so the assault ships were still safe. I got in touch with the people below. "Later, I will inject the power of the void into your combined shield. Activate the orderly field and then charge straight in. As long as you can get close to the outer wall of the fortress, we will win."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
This required a lot of coordination and precise control of the void power. It was very difficult to protect a small group of assault ships in such a small area. It was almost like the process of threading a needle. Furthermore, it was like threading a needle with a woolen glove. This kind of delicate work was completely different from when I had transported the entire Fifth Fleet from the other side of the void. But fortunately, I had grown. At least in terms of controlling my own power, I was quite familiar with it.
Reality proved that this strategy was very effective.
Under the protection of the void environment, the assault ships temporarily entered a state of invincibility. The drones with limited intelligence still charged forward fearlessly in an attempt to interrupt them, but without exception, they were swallowed up by the void fissures around them. Some of the drones might have judged that I was the 'key point' and charged forward to distract me. But Pandora and Visca were not acting cute. The two of them, who were 1.2 meters tall, unleashed their full firepower and blasted me black on the spot.
They also blasted the drones away.
Of course, it could be the other way around. They blasted the drones away, but the smoke from the explosion also blasted me black …
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