The enemy didn't show up from the very beginning. Even when the huge death star fortress entered the final blockade zone of the nebula and used a super weapon to open a two-light-year hole in it, they didn't make a move. But now, they all came out at once.
I didn't know if this was a deliberate tactic. If it was, it could only be said that the rebel army had learned to be smarter after so many failures in the past two days.
The enemy knew from the beginning that it was impossible for a regular army to resist the Emperor's Breath attack and come out unscathed. So, when the death star fleet approached, they didn't take the initiative to rush out and die. The rebel army had tried this many times in the past two days, but they only added a few more numbers to the psionic death star's kill record. They were waiting for the behemoth to attack the nebula. The longsong cannon's recovery speed was extremely slow. Even the death star fortress, which had unlimited energy, needed dozens of minutes to calm down the agitated psionic sea after the attack. After the psionic death star attacked the nebula, it wouldn't be able to use the powerful Emperor's Breath again for a period of time. The other weapons would probably need some time to prepare. The rebel army was waiting for this only opportunity to launch an all-out attack while the fortress was on cooldown.
This also showed that the enemy was very confident in the defensive ability of the thing they were guarding. After more than ten unsuccessful interceptions, they must have roughly understood the upper limit of the power of the Emperor's Breath. That was why they set up this plan to lure the enemy.
"It seems that when they are near the nebula, their coordination and intelligence will increase a lot."
Looking at the enemy's orderly attack sequence and the almost perfect multiple defense lines, even the big sister, who didn't know much about military affairs, could see the difference in the enemy.
"Because of those spaceships." I pointed at a certain spot on the bridge. "The command ship of the autonomous spaceships. The nebula is full of these smart spaceships. They can even simulate emotional thinking. We have to think of a way to reduce the number of these things!"
"Pandora and Visca have led the most elite troops there," the big sister immediately replied. "But because we almost suffered a big loss in the east sky, I'm afraid the two little guys can only deal with the command ships near the front line. It's too risky to attack the enemy's rear. Even with the protection of my Misfortune Transfer, we can't let them take the risk."
From the beginning, I knew that no matter how dangerous this battle was, it was impossible to not let the two little lunatics take action. But as generals, they at least had a halo attribute that could increase the combat ability of the entire army. As long as they were careful, the two little girls would be fine. So, I let them be.
The enemy obviously didn't have a comprehensive understanding of the death star fortress. At the very least, the rebel army that had never successfully attacked this fortress knew very little about this monster's defense. So, in the ambush, the enemy used almost all the common offensive methods of the Imperial Army, including hyperspace weapons, spatial collapse weapons, spatial lightning, warp interference, fleet ambushes, and so on. Every weapon from super to ordinary. If we carefully recalled, we would find that these were basically all kinds of plots and schemes that the Imperial Army had used to wipe out the rebel army a while ago. I had to say that these autonomous spaceships had a really high learning ability, applying what they learned on the spot to the Imperial Army …
But fortunately, due to our advanced preparations, most of the enemy's advanced weapons were useless against the death star fleet. The fortress itself had astonishing energy that could create an unprecedentedly powerful gravitational trap, or even a self-locking warp barrier. The enemy's hyperspace attacks and all spatial attacks could not break into the fleet's defensive perimeter, instead landing at least a million kilometers away from the fleet's outermost orbit. But against the rebel fleets that attacked through conventional means and were equipped with countermeasures, the death star fortress's defensive measures were very limited. Now, at the edge of the fleet, an intense exchange of fire had already begun. Distant explosions and battle reports kept being sent to the flagship, and then, under the efficient and precise judgment of the Imperial Army's officers, it became a series of decisive orders that were fed back into the thinking circuits of every soldier on the frontline.
"The twelfth orbital defense ring is in contact with enemy mothership bombardment. The planetary fortress's conventional defense cannons are returning fire. There are too many enemies. Requesting inner orbital motherships for backup!"
"Planetary warships operating at full power. All fleets in the hangar are engaged in battle. The sky is completely covered in cannon fire. Visibility of the normal universe background is less than three percent! Overclocking the planetary fortress cannons. We need the energy of the death star to support us! "
"This is the mobility unit of the outer orbit zone. We have successfully broken through the defense line of the enemy's Sixth Battle Zone Fortress. We are now 770,000 kilometers deep and have successfully established a temporary space fortress. Requesting follow-up troops to follow up and expand the position!"
"Inner orbital starships are heading to your position. Please suppress the enemy's mothership cannons."
The battle was going on fiercely.
Since they could not use spatial equipment to directly break into the inner belt of the death star fleet, the rebels had gathered an astonishing number of troops in front of the Imperial Army. They relied on sheer numbers to overwhelm them, and blinding energy beams crisscrossed in the dark and silent outer space like a storm. The Empire's fleet deployed in the twelfth orbit was mainly the assault ships that were good at mobility and a small number of expeditionary cruisers. They relied on the nearby 'Tedrhill' (I built this huge fortress to pay tribute to the Night Elves who died in the Azeroth Salvation War. As for its brothers and sisters, most of them were still serving in the Shadow Realm and the New Keplu Sector), the planetary warships engaged in positional warfare. Relying on the extremely high agility and extraordinary firepower of the lightweight fireships, they destroyed almost half of the enemy's fleet, totaling almost ten thousand assault ships. Such a battle naturally came with a price. The damage suffered by the Imperial Army's fleet in the battle soared in an instant. But this was what gave the rebels the biggest headache — if they had the ability to think like that. The planetary fortress was not just a battery in the frontline battle. It lived up to its name of 'fortress'. Most of the ships that were heavily damaged in the charge would immediately land in the 'Tedrhill's' starport for repairs as long as their structure could support their return flight. They might even be replaced by a newly assembled warship. It was as if the 'Tedrhill' was living in spring … Well, that's what it meant.
Very soon, the rebel army's logic circuit came to a conclusion. As long as they didn't destroy the massive planetary fortress first, the number of spaceships they had to face from the Empire would increase by two or three times!
The Galactic Cannons from the Great Nebula Faction began to converge. They no longer wasted time to lock onto our spaceships. Instead, they entered a slow-firing but shockingly powerful fully charged state. This kind of positional shooting aimed at the fortified fortress was obviously intended to destroy the defending starships of the twelfth orbit in one fell swoop. There were hundreds of fully-charged Galactic Cannons. If they were to land a direct hit, even a starship with a planet-level shield would not be able to withstand it. Therefore, when the ear-piercing high-energy alarm rang through the twelfth orbit's artificial atmosphere, the planetary fortress quickly entered a special response state. The ground cracked inch by inch, and a huge dark red rift instantly covered the crust of the metallic planet. It was as if the energy furnace at its core was exploding.
Then, the enemy's attack arrived. Hundreds of highly focused Galactic Cannons converged into a piercing light beam with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. With destructive power, it tore through the defense line of the Imperial Army before they could completely retreat, and then disappeared in …
In the dark and cold space.
The planetary battleship with a radius similar to Earth seemed to have chosen to self-destruct. Before the attack arrived, it disintegrated along the countless red rifts on its crust. Even the energy furnace at its core flew out. The entire battleship turned into a dark red firework. From afar, it looked like dust and gravel filling the space. The Galactic Cannons that were originally unstoppable passed through the vast space left by the self-destruction of the battleship and slowly dimmed.
Seeing this scene, the leaders of the Resistance Army were probably screaming in shock. However, something even more bizarre had only just begun.
"The Teldrasil will switch to bee swarm mode. The planetary fortress, Sinan, will defend the twelfth orbit's gravity barrier. Please ensure that more than two-thirds of our ship's structure is intact. The Emperor is watching us!"
"Sinan received. Long live the Empire. Eternal victory."
The twelfth starship that had disintegrated began its second battle. This damn thing, it did not self-destruct at all!
If one observed carefully, one would find that the fragments of the starship after it 'exploded' were all geometrical objects of almost the same size and shape. There were no signs of force tearing at the edges at all. The starship had disintegrated autonomously under controlled circumstances. Now, these geometrical objects had formed another kind of 'fleet'. Every twelve fragments formed a garland, with one fragment acting as the core of the 'garland'. Bright energy flow flowed between the fragments that were dozens of kilometers long, quickly interweaving into a complex web, and finally, all of them gathered in the center —
Turning into dazzling blue-white beams, they rushed towards the place where the enemy was most concentrated.
Immediately, the flashes of the explosion spread out in large areas.
The planetary fortress' Teldrasil 'was another brutal weapon created by the Empire's research team led by Tawil after they completely gave up on the bottom line. Although it still could not launch a law attack, it was undoubtedly the most powerful in a conventional battle. Therefore, this thing could bear the heavy responsibility of the fortress in the twelfth defense ring — this was the inevitable first battlefield in a battle with the enemy.
As a planetary warship that completely adopted the technology of recovery, 'Teldrasil' had abandoned the mass-energy conversion beam that was uniformly installed in the 'Zero' series of planetary fortresses, leaving only the anti-air firepower network and the general hangar module. This meant that it could not become an offensive weapon that relied on massive lethality to break the enemy's fortress. The design goal of this planetary fortress was to be a special warship that could survive extreme attacks and effectively fight against human wave tactics. This ability was unique among the giant starships that were generally large and bloated and powerless in the face of human wave tactics.
As you can see, this planetary fortress had undergone deep self-modification. The material remodeling technology allowed this thing's hull to be broken down into tens of thousands of combat units. Each combat unit was equivalent to a spaceship that could fight independently, but their individual combat power was almost negligible. The real strength of the 'Swarm' mode was in its combined attack. The combat units could be combined under unified coordination to form a naked galactic main cannon with weak defense but strong attack performance, or to become an energy shield generator to protect other combat units. This depended on the battlefield situation.
Most of this technology came from the unpopular knowledge in Visca's head. In the Age of Madness, the girl had accumulated a lot of similar strange technology. Just like the 'Superpower Nullification Field' that she used to destroy the Atlantean civilization and the Olympian gods, most of these technologies were used to destroy the world. Therefore, they more or less looked a little crazy. Teldrasil's' Swarm 'attack undoubtedly continued this kind of horror.
To any enemy who dared to attack it, the Swarm would become their biggest nightmare before they died.
"The enemy's first army has been suppressed by the Swarm, but as the defense line is too long, there is a loophole in the gravity trap. A large number of enemies have bypassed the Teldrasil from other directions and entered the eleventh and tenth defense tracks." Xi Weiss quickly selected the most urgent battle report and presented it to Sandora and me. "The warships of the planets in the inner belt are already moving towards the outer belt. The Resistance Army that has been urgently sent into battle has intercepted these enemies in time. However, I'm afraid that the number of rebels will continue to increase. Our smaller army and the weaker spaceships of the Resistance Army won't be able to intercept all of them."
I raised my eyebrows. "Is the Death Star Fortress calm?"
"There are still ten minutes before the second Emperor's Breath is released, but apart from that, most of the weapon systems can be fired again."
"Then let the enemy come in," I said decisively. Then, I enlarged the simulation of the Death Star Fleet. "Open up a gap here and lure the enemy's rapid troops in. The Death Star Fortress's directional explosion will be enough to annihilate these guys with weak defense."
"But that will lengthen the firing time of the Emperor's Breath," Sandora reminded me from the side.
"Even if the Emperor's Breath attacks again, it might not be able to destroy the defense of the nebula's core. There should be a true Law level barrier there. We need a longer charging time and a closer attack to try out that 'Supernova Explosion' that can connect to the void. Tawil said that that thing can destroy the Law Barrier. I believe him."
"Alright, I'll listen to you." Sandora nodded without any objections. "Xi Weiss, go."
The rebels definitely did not know how many other attacks the Psionic Death Star had. All this while, they had only seen the Emperor's Breath and the Death Star's own psionic cannons. Now, their actions were clearly focused on those two attacks, which gave me many chances to ambush them, such as catching turtles in a jar.
I had a feeling that in today's battle, the Imperial Army would wipe out more of the rebels than all the rebels we had wiped out in the past two to three months. The intensity of this battle was beyond anyone's imagination. Almost hundreds of millions of spaceships (naturally, that included the cannon fodder assault ships and single soldier aircrafts, as well as the massive numbers of rebel warships) would be reduced to ashes like cheap fireworks in this hellish battlefield. Even the Eternal Mothership, the king of the Empire's main force and the leader of all conventional warships, inevitably plummeted into deep space after using its ultimate weapon. The rebels were still fighting calmly because they had no thoughts, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army were also fighting bravely because they were fearless. However, the rebel forces and New Eden Federal Army who were responsible for filling up the empty space within the Death Star Fleet were getting a little tired. The unimaginable form of battle and the endless deaths and explosions impacted the nerves of the frontline soldiers, and their commanders were gradually feeling helpless. This battle was not suitable for ordinary races to command, and even the commander of the Proteus lacked the mental strength to deal with the current situation. As time passed, the conventional races suffered more and more casualties, and their soldiers were getting worse and worse. They had no choice but to return to the docking area of the planetary fortress, leaving the battlefield to the warships of the Empire. However, they had already accomplished their mission: to reduce the number of enemies as much as possible.
The ambush squad of the rebel army that had rashly charged into the center of the Death Star Fleet suffered an unprecedented blow. They were completely annihilated in a tsunami-like psionic storm. I didn't know if this affected the enemy's morale, but the morale of the Imperial Army was instantly boosted.
As the battle continued, we gradually reduced the enemy's space of activity. At the beginning, the rebel army's spaceships surged out of the nebula in large numbers and gathered at the border of the nebula. However, after a fierce battle, the Imperial Army had completely annihilated the remaining enemies. A small number of the remaining enemies had no choice but to retreat into the nebula. After their defense line was broken, the Death Star Fleet gradually accelerated and charged into the fog ahead. The Imperial Army, who had the absolute advantage, annihilated the last of the enemies along the way while waiting for the Death Star Fortress to prepare a second hyperspace jump.
Now, the space shown on the external projection was no longer pure black. Instead, it was mixed with a very dim reddish-brown color. This was the color of the nebula. This meant that we had entered the dense area of this strange celestial body.
"There is still a journey of at least two light years ahead of us. If this journey is filled with the rebel army, I will return directly."
Sandora yawned and grinned at me. The number of enemies had obviously decreased, which gave her the energy to joke around.
"If that's the case, I will retreat too." I patted Sandora's head. "From the looks of it, most of the enemy's defensive forces have been annihilated. The next resistance that we might encounter should be in the core area. Once the psionic death star is fully charged, we will break through it in one go, along with the last of the enemy. The ultimate weapon, ha. What a great toy."
"Indeed, in most situations, they are the deciding factor." Sandora nodded in agreement. "But it is a pity that they can't fight across worlds …"
… You should at least leave some boundaries for the words' Shiring Apostles'.
Everything seemed to be developing according to our expectations. The enemy's defensive forces were gradually collapsing. Regardless of whether it was the rebel army, the Federation's troops, or the Empire's soldiers, they had all obtained a precious moment of rest. However, at this moment, Liliana suddenly rushed onto the bridge and shouted an explosive news that caused everyone to freeze.
"Boss! Sylvia is missing!! "
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