The military specialist team (a genuine specialist team. The requirement for this team was to have participated in wars against at least twenty different worlds, and every single one of them was unbelievably cruel) believed that the Fallen Apostles had suffered a great blow in this invasion. According to the intelligence they had, they had mobilized at least half of the reserve forces in the entire country. Due to Godfather and King Huron personally taking action, and Sandora suddenly unleashing her ultimate move at the end, the enemy had lost two armies. Furthermore, these two armies did not achieve any results in battle, unless scaring me was counted as a result.
They had also suffered considerable losses at the other invasion points. Even if it was just a feint, the enemy had lost thousands of large warships and countless light warships in the fierce counterattack of the local defense forces and the main forces of the Empire. In total, they had lost three armies in this invasion.
Such a huge loss would inevitably lead to an empty defense in their homeland and a lack of military strength. If they could grasp this opportunity and forcefully attack the territory of the Fallen Apostles, they would definitely achieve glorious results.
When the specialist team came to this conclusion, they were filled with depression from top to bottom …
Because the military strength that the Empire could muster was simply not enough to take the initiative to attack …
Even if we had lost one less army than the enemy in this battle, it would only make up for the huge gap in military strength between the two sides. The enemy seemed to have calculated many things before they attacked, including whether the Imperial Army would have the ability to organize a retaliatory counterattack after this battle.
Sives sent me a military report from the command center. It mentioned the current main military forces of the New Empire, as well as the speculations on the corresponding combat strength of the Fallen Apostles. In the past, this information was like a heavenly book to me, but now that I had studied it for three to four years, it wasn't difficult for me to understand such a document. From the report, I could see to what extent the military strength of the new Empire had developed. Currently, the Empire's main force had a total of eight armies. Among them, the Royal Fleet and the Vengeance Fleet belonged to the two trump cards of the Emperor. The former was still fine, but the latter was still in the run-in period. There was still room for the heroic souls of the old Vengeance Army to adapt to their new bodies, and they also had to adapt to the brand new Warsong. As a flagship, that guy's mouth was a little too loose. Apart from these two armies, the remaining First to Sixth Armies were the main force of the Empire's conventional forces. The Sixth Army was recently formed, and its combat strength still needed to be improved. However, they used all of the newest technology and equipment the research center produced, and the training of new recruits to the fleet was completed under the guidance of the third intelligence core. They possessed the advantage of fighting against the Fallen Apostles, and their potential was great.
Excluding the Defense Army and the Servant Army that had to be stationed at the borders of the Empire and perform Void Patrol missions, the eight armies above were the main forces of the new Empire.
Of course, some rare special forces were not included, such as the Research Fleet and their escort warships. There were also a few light warships and elite soldiers belonging to the Space Administration. These military groups belonged to a separate organization. There were also three types of heroic soldiers. They did not belong to any army but were under the Royal Fleet. Normally, they were under the direct command of the Emperor of the Empire and could not be considered as the main force.
According to the army structure of the Empire, an army would include less than a thousand motherships (usually 700 to 900), two to three thousand medium-sized warships, and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of light warships/fighters. The last one was commonly known as the little gray aircraft.
The main members of the motherships were the Eternal-class motherships that were responsible for heavy firepower output and the supercarriers that carried a large number of assault ships. The supercarriers were mostly second-class modified from Eternal-class ships. After removing their main cannons, they were modified into large-scale warship carrying platforms. They had thickened armor/shields and complete docks/munitions factories. During frontline battles, they could also be used as a mobile logistics base, providing repair and emergency charging services for small and medium-sized warships.
The medium-sized warships were the most important part of an army. Although they looked smaller than the giant motherships, their diverse functions and sustained combat ability allowed these medium-sized warships to take on seventy percent of combat missions. This included the Borderland-class fortress ships that acted as the key nodes of the Combined Shield, the expeditionary warships that could quickly deliver concentrated firepower and act as mobile forces, the mysterious and dangerous stealth bombardment ships (I don't think I need to say more about the danger of these things), and various other auxiliary ships of the same class.
In an army, small spaceships and fighters were also indispensable elements. They were weak in firepower and defense, but had astonishing numbers and flexibility. A full army could carry up to three hundred thousand 'grey fighters', which was not too surprising. After all, for a battle in space, small fighters were the same level as a single soldier on the battlefield. They were the most basic combat units. The basic Schilling soldiers usually piloted assault ships, while the war puppets used single-unit fighters that were easier to manufacture. However, there were many exceptions. Ace pilots would also pilot single-unit fighters, but they used special models that were on a completely different level of performance. It could be said that apart from their size, those things could be treated as warships. These grey fighters had a very important value: they could be manufactured on the frontlines. After a battle broke out, the various motherships (especially the supercarriers) carried munitions factories that could be recycled from the battlefield at any time to produce new fighters for the war puppets that had just come off the production line. This greatly extended the endurance of the Imperial Army. Most of the time, the terrifying thing about fighting the Imperial Army was not just their immeasurably powerful main cannons, but also their battlefield production technology that could spit out hundreds and thousands of planes every minute as they fought on the frontlines. The second point was quite disgusting, and those with trypophobia should be aware that they were blinded when they fought the Empire's motherships …
Apart from these conventional spaceships, a legion would also include a small number of special spaceships, such as the crystal power amplifier spaceships used by the Leader Bee, the gravitational trap generators (although they were a type of equipment, gravitational trap generators with the ability to travel and carry passengers were also classified as spaceships), the cutting-edge technology laboratory (the favorite of mad scientists), and so on. These special spaceships were few in number, but the number of them in a legion would usually not exceed a thousand, except in the Royal Fleet.
Those were the normal regiments of the Imperial Army. An army formed according to the above scale was commonly known as a 'group army'. The establishment of a servant army was similar to this. However, due to the differences in the technology trees of each civilization, their main battleships also required different tactics, so there were some differences in the ratio of types of ships. Overall, a group army of a servant army was much more numerous than a regiment of the Imperial Army.
In this battle, the Fallen Apostles had lost more than three groups of combat power (in fact, if those grey fighters were included, they had lost nearly four groups of fleets). If this kind of loss were to happen to the Empire, it would be almost a disaster. Half of the entire army had been annihilated, and the remaining army had to strengthen the defense line at the border. It was equivalent to the destruction of the military power. Even if it were to happen to the Fallen Apostles, it would still be a huge blow. It did not matter if Halland's territory would be annexed by others, but their defensive forces at the border would definitely be empty. Under such circumstances, if they could attack the enemy's homeland, the counterattack force they could organize would be relatively weak.
If only the New Empire had not suffered such a huge loss …
"Looks like you're quite busy."
I was studying the various reports sent to me by the headquarters. I was trying my best to squeeze out some troops to take advantage of the Fallen Apostles' misfortune (mainly because I wanted to help Sandora vent her anger. Otherwise, it would be too suffocating) when I heard a loud female voice. I looked up and saw a petite purple-haired girl standing in front of me with her arms crossed. Behind her stood a helpless Godfather.
The two of them were in high spirits, as if they had just returned from a field trip — even though in reality, they had just fought a group battle with an entire army yesterday and completely annihilated the latter.
The two of them had not returned for the entire night. After the battle yesterday, they said that they had to deal with some "leftover issues" on the battlefield. In the end, they spent the entire night dealing with it. Now, they finally showed up. To be honest, if not for the fact that she knew that Hilla was currently in a weakened state and would definitely not be able to defeat Godfather, Icetis would have thought that King Huron had forcefully kidnapped Godfather back to the Huron Realm to get married.
Even if the two of them returned now, it would not change Icetis's insistence that the two of them had gone out to have sex yesterday.
"You're finally back." I hurriedly stood up. "Many people thought that the two of you eloped."
Hilla craned her neck to look out the window. There was a dazzling ball of light that took up one-third of the sky to the west. "Your wife has this function? You guys are really going all out to deal with the energy crisis! "
I was speechless.
Alright, if it wasn't for the fact that I couldn't defeat her … But then again, Sandora was really learning how to revolve around the sun from Gaia. In another half an hour, Sandora would be descending the mountain.
I grinned as I looked at the two of them who seemed to have failed in their elopement. I rubbed my hands and asked, "Where's the surprise you were talking about?"
Hilla went to the side to get a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. "We placed the two of them outside the city. Originally, there were a few of them, but I was nervous at that time. I was almost killed by them together. I was so excited that I pulled Shingchen along and released the big one. I don't even know where the others went. In the end, the situation didn't end well. The ball in the middle suddenly fell apart after I dug it out. It was so scary. Shingchen and I fiddled with it in outer space for three hours, but we couldn't put it back together. He even blamed me for not using my brain. In the end, I had no choice but to bring a bunch of spare parts over. It was such a pity. But no matter what, I managed to get it back … Sigh! Why did they run away? "
Just as Hilla finished her last sentence, I had already teleported to the square outside. Then, I sat on the seven hundred billion and headed straight to the outskirts of the Shadow City. Along the way, I saw many shuttles from the Research Center rushing in the same direction as me. I even saw Tawil flying in the air without using any transportation. It wasn't a projection, but a real mature lady with long black glasses.
I moved closer and Tawil immediately sat on the front of the seven hundred billion car. Then, she turned her head and leaned against the windshield. Her excited voice could be heard through our mental link, "Your Majesty! The two God Kings have brought back an impressive spoil of war! "
"Sit to the side," I said awkwardly. "Be more mindful of your personal image. You are a woman."
The Shadow City had already grown to an unbelievable size. The Shadow Fortress was a few hundred kilometers away from the outskirts of the city. However, the journey only took seven hundred billion minutes. By the time we arrived at the scene, there were already many researchers setting up their equipment. We all knew that the Shadow City was built on a piece of land that floated in space. As the Bubble continued to add new data, the city was expanding every day. The land that the city was built on was growing at an even faster rate. Now, the Shadow City only occupied a third of the floating island's area. Outside of the floating island was a rather large piece of undeveloped land. The undeveloped land was a monotonous area that was similar to a desert. The ground was covered in silver-gray sand and there was no end to it. From the boundary of the city all the way to the edge of the floating island, it stretched for almost a thousand kilometers. It was also this large enough empty space that could fit the trash that the two Protoss had brought back.
Those things occupied a large area of sand with a radius of three hundred kilometers, and they were piled high into the clouds. If one did not look down from a height of more than ten kilometers, one would not even be able to see where the edge of the pile of rubble was. It was as if they had formed an unprecedented steel jungle! The first thing that came into view were countless long strips of black metal structures. Their size was definitely considered large even among the equipment of the Empire. Even the smallest piece was probably a few kilometers long. These long strips of metal structures looked flat at first glance, but when I looked at the larger, sky-piercing fragments, I realized that they actually had slight arcs. These things looked more like they had collapsed from a huge ring. Just the fragments were already as tall as a mountain. One could imagine the scale of the ring when they were assembled. After a closer look, I saw that there was an extremely complicated structure hidden behind the metal fragments. It seemed that they were the core components of the entire mechanism. With my shallow knowledge, it was difficult to tell what these mechanical devices were used for. I could only vaguely tell that they had energy redundancy circuits that were far beyond the norm. This meant that this huge thing would be filled with extremely concentrated energy for a long period of time. The large number of redundancy circuits gave it security under extreme working conditions. These huge black mechanical fragments piled up into a steel mountain that stretched as far as the eye could see. It looked like a technological relic in the style of the Gothic Ruins. At the top of the mountain was a huge ball with a diameter of more than ten kilometers. Its surface was black and didn't even reflect any light. From this angle, it looked like a piece of the sky had suddenly gone missing. It took a long time to recognize that it was a black ball.
My heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, and stomach were shivering in turn. Tawil was shivering with me. The two of us shivered for a while before the bespectacled lady spoke. She grabbed my arm excitedly and said, "Your Majesty! It's King's Landing! The core is all here! "
"Oh, oh, I know. Stop shaking." I was embarrassed. Tawil was as calm as a rock most of the time. However, once she got excited about scientific research, she wasn't much calmer than Pandora. I still remembered the scene of her hugging a bunch of bombs and throwing them around in the Great Nebula. "I've seen it once, but it's the first time I've seen it dismantle to this extent …"
That's right. In front of us was an unprecedented pile of junk that occupied a radius of more than three hundred kilometers. According to Tawil's appraisal, it should be the remains of a King's Landing -level strategic fortress. I couldn't help but be impressed by the combat power of the two veteran Void Creatures. Father God and King Huron had dismantled this thing and piled it here. The only thing that remained intact was the ball that served as the fortress's core. They had even creatively placed the ball on top of the rubbish pile, like the cherry on top of a cake. Anyway, according to Hilla herself, after they took the ball down, the fortress collapsed on its own. No matter how I listened to it, it sounded like she was trying to avoid responsibility …
The mighty King's Landing fortress that relied on its invincible three axes had been turned into such a pile of performance art. It was really lamentable, especially when Icetis, who heard the news and came over to join in the fun, sighed and said, "The core idea of this sculpture is that three axes can't even top a ball."
A normal girl's speech would be described as containing as much sugar as possible, but I felt that Icetis's speech should be described as containing as much sand as possible. Just a casual sentence from her would be enough for you to sift through for half a year.
It was such a huge gift. No wonder Father God and King Huron were so secretive. I was far more excited than I appeared to be, not to mention Tawil. The bespectacled lady had already rushed forward to instruct the staff to do a full body scan of the wreckage. Her first step was to assign a number to each of the fragments and see if they could be assembled into a valuable whole. This was a tedious task, but it wasn't as difficult as it looked. The wreckage was complete. Father God and King Huron had carefully packed up all the fragments they could find and brought them over. Perhaps this was to make up for the fact that they had accidentally destroyed something completely. I looked at Tawil excitedly commanding the staff. My gloomy mood from not being able to launch a retaliatory strike against the Fallen Apostle was slightly put aside. That matter could be considered later. Right now, I only knew one thing. The Imperial Army was about to welcome a new super warship!
At this moment, Father God and King Huron finally caught up. Hilla's face was full of satisfaction. "How is it? Good stuff, right? I heard from Xing Chen that this big guy was your most powerful weapon in the past. It was said that when it was fully activated, even a high-tier god would have to avoid it. I was almost killed by this thing in the void. Normal attacks couldn't hurt it at all. Instead, I was smashed in the face. "
At this moment, the incomparably huge black ball at the core of King's Landing was slowly lowered. No matter what, it was too dangerous to place such a thing that was even more majestic than Taihang Mountain on a pile of garbage that was a hundred kilometers tall. King Huron was really daring. She was using this thing as a city sculpture.
Under the effect of the anti-gravity field, the huge core was placed steadily on an empty space that had just been set up with all kinds of temporary scanning equipment. Could you imagine the terrifying scene of a ball with a diameter of more than ten kilometers and a weight that was even more exaggerated than the Himalayas being placed on the ground? This was a completely different visual effect from looking at a planet's warship in space. No matter how big the latter was, it had to be placed in the background of space. On the other hand, even if the former was only a "mere" ten kilometers, it was still something that couldn't be seen with a single glance. I was very glad that the gravity field of the entire Shadow City was personally controlled by Bubble. Otherwise, this thing would definitely smash a hole in the continent. Then, I would be able to tie a rope to a big hole in the outskirts of the city and play bungee jumping. Below me was Sandora with a radius of 5300 kilometers. Speaking of which, could the gravity around the Shadow City be any messier …
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