Chapter 1543: Gathering and Attack
This should be the most bizarre march scene since the founding of the new empire:
The imperial fleet is in the center and serves as the front force. The huge starship formation is driven across the starry sky by the quasi-coordinate engine. The divine troops are in the rear. The magnificent battle temple and the tower building with unknown function are the mobile divine kingdom, like a brilliant field. Following the imperial army like a sea of glow, and serving as guards and guides in the outer space of the battle formation... it was the abyssal fleet that exuded a depressing atmosphere. It was once called the fallen apostle and fought against the empire. The "polluter" who has been fighting for several years.
This is a coalition, but it is also a strange coalition. If we go back a few months, the bravest people would not dare to claim that the Imperial Army would fight side by side with the fallen apostles. However, this is the fact, the fact that is before everyone.
This huge coalition has no experience in joint operations, especially since the combat units of the Gods and Xiling are different, and it is even more difficult to cooperate. Therefore, this queue is only temporary and will be allocated again when it comes to the battlefield. But even the temporary queue is very particular. The imperial army is in the middle, the gods are at the back, and the abyss fleet is guarding the outside in order to prevent an ambush from the new army: Abyss Xiling's troops are familiar with the local environment, especially the new army, so they can survive when they are attacked. The first to react when attacking, they naturally serve as peripheral guards. The Imperial Army is good at attacking fortresses. The instantaneous explosive power and joint shield protection of things like battleships are extremely strong, so they can take on the responsibility of the front army, while the explosive power of the Protoss is weaker. But they are the type that become more courageous as they fight. As long as they are given time to form battle formations, activate various magical spells, and get good buffs, the combat power of the Gods will increase exponentially over time, so they are suitable to be placed in the back formation. Of course, the "front and back" here are different from those on a flat battlefield. In space battles, the possibility of enemies appearing from any angle must be considered, so the Protoss is actually in the middle and back of the entire queue. Behind them is a group of abyssal fleets. The latter are equivalent to full bodyguards and are responsible for the defense of the entire team.
After all, we are in the abyss area, and the new army is a cunning enemy who can deceive all the abyssal spirits. It is beneficial to march cautiously.
But the chance of being attacked is still very low now. We are currently in the absolute control zone of the "Old Army". Here and several surrounding universes are the territory of the Abyss Xiling. It is unlikely that the enemy can penetrate into such a place.
The combined forces organized their formation in this unstable frontier universe and joined forces with the "Old Army". They first confirmed the safety of the route ahead, and then waited for the last conventional fleet - servants from the Civilized Community, the New Eden Federation, and the Hessian Tribe. military.
The huge "General" aircraft carrier slowly floated out from the gate of the world, and the aircraft carrier formation was surrounded by unmanned warning aircraft like a swarm of bees. Although the Merova people have done a lot of evil things, the spacecraft they built is indeed a good thing. Now it has almost become the standard equipment of all servant armies.
In the last battle, we hardly brought many servants. Only the fleet of the Civilized Community joined the battlefield at the end of the battle in order to prevent the weak servants from suffering excessive losses in the abyss. But this time Sandora decided to let The servant army also accompanied the army on the expedition. And the number of recruits is quite large.
There is a reason for this: the combat effectiveness of the servant army is indeed not as good as that of the regular army, but they have installed a large number of general aircraft carriers that we obtained from the Merova people. This special psionic warship has greatly improved their combat effectiveness and can make The servant army has the ability to fight head-on when facing Xiling troops; secondly, we also re-evaluated the pollution situation in the abyss area and found that the environment deep in this area is not as bad as previously expected. The bridge is being built here, and nature has been adjusting the environmental conditions in the abyss area. Although the concentration of pollution here is very high, the abyss in most areas has become inert, and even ordinary races will not be infected and go crazy here; finally, the New Army has given up their peripheral territories and transferred all their energy to the "Tranquility Core" "Going in, this means that the imperial army will easily capture a large number of weakly defended worlds. These worlds may have little colonial value, but they are valuable in themselves as springboards and forward bases. We need sufficient troops to guard and control these." "Cheap results", and the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army, the Protoss or the old army is all valuable. We can't waste the regular army guarding the gate - this requires a large number of servants to help. They are familiar with various imperial facilities, and elite commanders know how to control the World Gate and Sovereignty Hub (this is an important achievement of the Military Command in the past three years). If they only serve as temporary administrators of some peripheral universes, the servant army is more than enough.
The only servant armies that have been recruited are the three forces mentioned above. This is not because the Salvation Army, the Vidis Empire Army and other armies are unwilling to come here to participate in the war. However, the servant army also has issues of strength and technical specialization. Currently, only the above three civilizations are familiar with space operations, familiar with "advanced equipment" and have relatively high technological capabilities. They also assist the Imperial Army in space patrols on weekdays. and the main force of Void Vigilance, while the remaining servant army has basically just escaped from planetary civilization. No matter how fast they learn, they will not be able to exert much strength in pure space battles. The latter is usually responsible for local security tasks in the imperial colonies or other regional combat tasks. The two types of servant armies can be regarded as "space special police" and "community police" respectively... Although it sounds a bit like that, the differences between the several major families cannot be ignored.
"The Community of Civilization fleet has arrived on the battlefield!"
"New Eden Federal Government troops have arrived on the battlefield!"
"The Hessian Tribal Fleet arrives on the battlefield! Fight for the General and the Empire!"
Following reports of fleet readiness, one-third of the servitor fleet blended into the coalition forces under the guidance of navigation signals, and found its position in the vast space between the Protoss and the Imperial Army. The remaining huge number Two-thirds of the fleet will have to wait in place: they will then serve as the second wave of advancement/construction troops, advancing steadily with the celestial system fleet, taking over the captured New Army territory while assisting in suppressing the local forces. Counterattack forces and build fast forward bases. The celestial system fleet has now arrived at the border, but the movement speed of the behemoths is really slow, and they certainly cannot follow the main force in the forward position.
At this time, I suddenly saw a familiar face on the communicator: "Roland Gale? Why are you here in person?"
Roland Gale! The old lion of the pan-galactic civilization community! I didn't expect that he would personally lead the community fleet here. The commanders of each servant army were arranged by themselves. There is no need to report to the head of Xiling, so I was very surprised to see this familiar old man - after experiencing so many ups and downs, I feel that this old man should have retired to live in retirement, even if he continues to serve as a civilized man. As the governor of the community, he won't continue to go to the battlefield, right?
"The emperor is on the battlefield. Why can't I come," Roland Gale said in high spirits. Several years of comfortable life have not dulled his spirit. Even through the communicator, I seem to be able to feel this old lion all over his body. He is wearing the military uniform of a civilized community. With a smile on his face, "I have been fighting for many years, and my intuition tells me that this is probably the largest battle that many people will encounter in their lifetimes. You have to completely destroy the most dangerous legion in the void, so I'm here to help. .”
Sandora said lightly: "This battle will be very difficult. Not only will you serve as auxiliary troops, you will even have to face the Xiling battleship directly."
Roland Gale shrugged: "Okay, let's face it again."
After hanging up the communication, I looked at Sandora with some sigh, and couldn't help but mutter in unison: "This old lion..."
Anyway, we will try our best to avoid letting the fragile servant army compete head-on with the enemy's regular army, so let Roland Gale meet the most glorious war in his life as he wishes, and there should be no problem.
At this time, my sister looked at the central projection with a little worry. A group of general-class warships with black stripes were displayed on it, and among those general-class warships were mixed many strange-looking large spaceships: "Both the Civilized Community and the New Eden Federation are easy to say, but only those Hessian tribes Their combat effectiveness has not been tested yet. This is their first time participating in a large-scale battle. Will there be any problems?"
"This race is amazing," Sandora said indifferently, with a little admiration in her tone. "Their technological level was not high at the beginning. It can only be said that they have developed to the pinnacle of space civilization and have not yet been able to jump out. universe. But after being exposed to the knowledge taught by the empire, they quickly caught up with the 'progress'... It seems that the messy knowledge that Visca left them had laid the foundation for the Hessian tribe. Their learning It is very capable and adaptable beyond imagination. It only took a short time to train a large number of 'general' aircraft carrier pilots, and they used the technology of the general aircraft carrier to modify their own spaceships. In the end, this race from top to bottom They are all fearless. They worship Viska almost as a god, and have developed an almost religious view of war - silently reciting the general's name when dying on the battlefield can sublimate the soul, and be listed as a heroic soul after death. Among them, they firmly believe this, and they still believe it until now. I don't doubt the combat effectiveness of the Hessians. Perhaps the only thing I need to worry about is whether they will be too passionate... After all, they are a race of lunatics 'educated' by Viska ah."
A race of lunatics educated by Viska...
I couldn't help but sigh with Shandora, my eyes drifted to the position of the two sisters, but the person involved didn't seem to feel the slightest, and Viska didn't even pay attention when the commander of the Hessian tribe reported the situation. Looking up, she was doing a very meaningful thing: polishing and waxing her baby bump. It seemed that nothing else could distract her attention.
"The second calibration of the World Gate is completed," Abyss Xiling said to bring my attention back. She looked at the jump route map in front of her quietly and said, "All the troops have arrived, then... there will be no Stayed.”
The fleet shifted from a short-term slow cruise to speeding up again, surging toward another world gate ahead like a huge wave.
What followed was a series of jumps, without stopping in the middle. The large-scale coalition forces quickly traveled through the abyss area as if they were in no man's land. We passed through more than a dozen universes along the way, most of which were desolate, and a few of them were crazy. Twisted, but each universe is heavily guarded and can join up with part of the Abyss Fleet. At the beginning, Abyss Xiling's troops were only a small part of the coalition, but as each world arrived, a group was added. Later, her fleet almost caught up with the number of the Imperial Army. This was still the case for most of her troops. The result of being dragged into the "Tranquility Core" - this guy's family background is indeed not weak. I can't help but start to think about how many troops there were here before the abyss area was split.
The route had been safe so far, but we slowly discovered the traces of the fierce fighting. At the end of the twenty-first jump. The fleet has left the absolute control area of the Abyss Xiling and entered the "junction area" once jointly controlled by the new army and the old army. Battlefield debris began to appear in space, and broken metal floated in the orbit around the World Gate and the Sovereign Hub. Abnormal distorted light can also be seen in distant space. Those were the embers of a large-scale psionic energy explosion. The situation got worse after the twenty-seventh jump. Although the route was still open, the remaining space facilities in the universe proved that Abyss Xiling spent a huge price to maintain these territories: the gate to the world was a temporary model, and the debris in space was scorching. Over the air mass, the broken artificial planet, only a few battlestars and a group of eternal motherships maintained the safety of the traffic points. Torn pieces of the spacecraft can be seen everywhere.
The thirty-second jump, the original military base of this universe has obviously been completely destroyed by the war, and there is no shadow of the sovereign hub at all. There is only a solitary temporary world gate in the space, and a group of fortress ships act as semi-circles around the gate. Apart from the fixed military base, there are no fixed facilities at all.
This is getting closer to the area where fighting is still raging. However, the sparse defenses in space are disturbing. Fortress ships alone cannot resist the New Army's counterattack (if they really intend to counterattack). Of course Abyss Xiling also knew this, and her expression was a little helpless: "The new army's fighting method is very extreme, that is, destroying everything within the range. Once the battle situation turns to a disadvantage, they will even destroy their own back roads and There are irrelevant celestial bodies around, so even if you can capture their positions, all you will get is a piece of scorched earth. You can't even find the space entities used to build the sovereign hub, so you can only temporarily drag a few artificial planets from other worlds to cope with the situation. Or find another place. I conquered this world in one raid. The new army quickly abandoned the place, but they blew up everything before evacuating... As you can see, it can only be taken from Zero rebuilding.”
The thirty-fifth jump, we finally enter a universe that is being fought over.
This is a world in a state of chaos, with dim and thin primitive gas filling the entire space. The space is filled with a gray tone, and there is strong primitive energy radiation everywhere, but no formed celestial bodies can be seen. There is not even an obvious dense zone of matter visible. It seems that the universe has not begun to evolve at all. It has only grown evenly since its birth. It feels like a thin and boring "Taichu cosmic soup".
The combined forces enter the world through a makeshift Abyss Gate, which serves as a contested zone. The new army has not had time to destroy things here, so behind us is a complete space base. Those huge man-made celestial bodies somewhat add a little scenery to this monotonous and chaotic space. There is no battle visible within the visual range. From the pictures transmitted from the external monitor, it seems that the place is peaceful. Except for the extremely empty space, it seems that the whole world is peaceful. However, after turning on the early warning radar, the true situation of this world is revealed. In front of everyone:
There are a large number of exchange points in space. Among them, there is a violently turbulent high-energy reaction 1.5 billion light-years away. It should be the fleet that is fighting fiercely. Although the high-energy reaction 3.2 billion light-years away is not explosive, However, the radar read that a large cloud of astonishingly powerful psionic energy was "growing" rapidly. It seemed that the battle was over, and both warring parties died together under the impact of the super weapon.
These are the two most obvious high-energy reaction areas, but there are many weaker energy reaction explosion points throughout the universe. They continue to flicker and fade within tens of billions of light-years, and together they form a three-dimensional war galaxy star map... ...Oh, we can’t talk about the Milky Way Star Map. This world doesn’t even have a star-making movement, it’s simply desolate.
Even a half-empty commander like me can see the situation from the energy distribution map returned by the radar: the new army and the old army are repeatedly fighting for control of the universe, and they are constantly establishing sovereign hubs and world gates in space. , while desperately defending these key facilities, they are also desperately attacking the enemy's sovereign facilities. Each high-energy reaction zone is a blazing battlefield. The flames will never be extinguished until one of the warring parties is completely burned out. .
At present, it seems that Abyss Xiling has the upper hand: she controls the world barrier and the largest world gate in this world, so that the combined forces can be transmitted smoothly. But according to the jump route map, it takes three jumps to reach the "Tranquility Core" from here...
In other words, the main force of Abyss Xiling was trapped three jumps away from the core of tranquility. Her control will become weaker the further forward. As for the two old army legions trapped in the core of tranquility, , now completely isolated and helpless.
"This is the transportation thoroughfare leading to the core of tranquility. The Gate of the World connects hundreds of surrounding universes. I have destroyed more than half of the original large portal here. The rest are basically under the control of the old army, but the new The army built a large number of temporary portals... There are so many of them that they can hardly be suppressed." Abyss Xiling admitted that the situation here is not as good as it seems. "Now that we have sufficient troops, no matter what, we must first suppress the people of this universe. Let’s take back control completely.”
Shandora nodded and issued instructions to all imperial fleets through the mental network: "The main forces' hyperspace weapon systems are online, target e33-w15-n22, saturation bombing, the first and sixth legions will break away from the array and reorganize themselves to support each theater. .Full-scale attack, begin!”