Chapter 322: Race Against Time

Although the combat effectiveness of a single Corruptor warship is not high, the huge number of the Corruptor fleet covers up this defect, just like a group of ants can bite an elephant to death, the power of the group is very terrible.

Countless shells instantly destroyed a small half of the shields of the space fortress group that the Empire had specially strengthened the shield strength.

Although the space fortress group kept firing wildly around, before the next salvo of the Corruptor fleet, at most tens of thousands of Corruptor warships would be taken away.

Although tens of thousands of warships seem to be a lot, for the Corruptors with 30 million warships, it is like scratching a little skin, and it still doesn't feel the pain.

When the Corruptor fleet finished accumulating energy and fired the second salvo, the shield of the Empire's space fortress group had reached the bottom. If the Corruptor fired another salvo, the Empire's fortress group would lose the protection of the shield.

At this time, a large number of fortresses suddenly lowered the outer layer of heavy armor, revealing a honeycomb-shaped launch nest, and tens of millions of mass acceleration shells shot out from these fixed artillery storm launchers.

Flying towards the Corruptor fleet that surrounded the space fortress!

The Corruptors did not expect that the dying Imperial space fortress group actually had such a trick up their sleeves. The Corruptor fleet, which was in a very compact formation, was like a target that was delivered to their doorstep.

The mass acceleration shell hit rate of these shell storms reached 99% under the formation of the Corruptor fleet!

Such a high hit rate brought huge casualties of up to hundreds of thousands!

The Corruptor warships parked in the front position turned into flying debris under the attack of countless shells.

Unfortunately, these shell storms are one-time and cannot be reloaded because they occupy too large a volume.

Of course, this is also related to the cost reduction for mass construction. After one shot, the shell storm launchers in these space fortresses will be completely damaged and can only be dismantled and installed with new ones.

However, the Empire originally intended to use the first two lines of defense as disposable consumables. Their role is to delay the time for the third line of defense as much as possible so that the preparations for the third line of defense can be more adequate.

After dispersing the formation, the commander of the Corruptor Expeditionary Fleet waited for a long time before he found that the Empire had no next attack. Only then did he realize that the weapon of the Empire's space fortress was disposable.

Feeling fooled, the Corruptor commander viciously ordered the fleet to press forward and fill the gaps between the warships again.

At this time, the Empire's space fortress had successfully delayed for another six hours.

In these six hours, the shield of the Empire's space fortress has recovered 20%, plus the remaining 20% ​​of the shield, the Empire's space fortress can resist the next salvo of the Corruptor fleet again, which invisibly delays the Empire for several hours.

After several hours of energy storage, the Corruptor fleet fired again, hitting the shield of the Empire's space fortress group to a state where only a trace of it remained, and the space fortress group of the second line of defense was already in danger.

At this time, the second detachment of the Empire's expeditionary fleet was very close to the capital star system of the Incubator, and it only took eight or nine days to reach it.

There are still four days before the third line of defense falls.

At this time, the second line of defense had been breached by the Corruptor Expeditionary Fleet six days ago, and countless fortress wreckage was suspended in disorder in the universe.

And the Corruptor Expeditionary Fleet has even arrived outside the last line of defense of the empire.

At this time, hundreds of huge space fortresses are distributed in the galaxy in a spherical shape on the last line of defense of the empire. The advantage of this formation is that no matter which direction the enemy is in, at least half of the space fortresses can attack them.

The space fortresses on the other side can also attack the enemy on this side through the huge gaps between the fortresses on this side.

In addition, in the hangars of all the fortresses, rows of space fighters stacked together have all been fully charged, and nuclear warhead missiles have been installed in the fighters.

In the drone launch cabin on the other side, countless drones have also been loaded with missiles, quietly waiting for the order to come.

And around the fortress, there are densely packed unmanned artillery turrets, which are constantly rotating in space, scanning the vast starry sky.

On the back of the space fortress, the newly built Imperial warships were quietly suspended in space. After the first round of salvos from the Corruptor Expeditionary Fleet, they would come out in droves with the space fighters and drones.

A few hours later, the well-prepared Corruptor fleet arrived outside the range of the Empire's third line of defense.

With the commander's order, countless Corruptor warships formed a huge wall formation.

The Corruptor destroyers with thick armor and shields were lined up in front, forming a shield wall.

The other replacement destroyers were lined up behind the first destroyer, followed by the Corruptor frigates and five Corruptor flagships (cruisers).

The reason why the Corruptor commander chose this formation is that in this head-on offensive and defensive battle, instead of flying around, it is better to use the shield advantage of large warships to attract firepower, while the relatively weak frigates followed behind and could shoot at the enemy in front at the right time.

"Open fire!" With the order from the Corruptor commander, countless shells flew out from behind the shield wall and headed towards the Empire's space fortress group.

However, it is obvious that such a large number of shells will not cause much damage to the Imperial fortresses that have already connected their shields together. It seems that conquering this line of defense is a long-term project.

After being fired at by the Corruptor Expeditionary Fleet, the Imperial fortresses were not to be outdone. While countless main guns were firing, the outer armor of the fortresses also opened up, revealing the shell storm launchers inside.

"All spare destroyers are ready to replace!" Seeing that the Empire had unexpectedly revealed this disposable weapon, the Corruptor commander sneered disdainfully.

As the launch port wrapping paper of the shell storm launcher was torn open by the shells, one shell after another rushed towards the Corruptor fleet.

The Corruptor warship did not dodge, but ordered the destroyers in the second row to prepare to replace the destroyers in the first row.

However, this group of Corruptors did not expect that the Empire would not play by the rules at all. All the mass acceleration shells were replaced with extremely expensive nuclear warheads.

These mass acceleration shells have gone beyond the scope of kinetic weapons! Countless small nuclear explosions flashed on the shield wall of the Corruptor.

The blinding white light caused the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Imperial Fortress Command Center to automatically change color until the light was no longer so blinding.