Chapter 710 Breaking Through the Defense Line

"All warships are ready to disperse! All weapons are in the energy storage state!" The Imperial commander narrowed his eyes and issued the order to the entire fleet through the mental network.

After five salvos from the Federation, the Imperial fleet finally reached the optimal firing distance of the main gun.

After the fifth salvo, the Imperial warships that were hiding behind the White Dwarf class warships suddenly spread out in all directions and aimed all the weapons on the warships at the Federation's unmanned turrets and space fortresses.

"Main guns aim at the space fortress, secondary guns aim at the unmanned turrets, and missiles are fired at the same time!" As the firing order arrived, the Imperial warships began to flash continuously due to the firing of weapons, and antimatter shells gushed out of the barrels.

At the same time, the armor plates on both sides of the warships opened again, and missiles were ejected from the warship launch bays into the air, igniting the rear thrusters in the air and rushing towards the Federation's unmanned turrets.

In less than a second, the entire starry sky was filled with shells and missiles fired by the Empire.

The flying missiles each chose an unmanned turret as their target and rushed over.

At the same time, the White Dwarf class battleship also opened the armor on the hull, exposing its main gun and aiming at the space fortresses with a diameter of tens of kilometers.

Bang, bang, bang, accompanied by the impact sound of the shells being loaded into the barrel, the sound was transmitted into the battleship.

One by one, the shells filled with large doses of antimatter began to be accelerated by the acceleration field in the orbital gun.

These shells rushed out of the muzzle of the main gun, and the thrusters at the tail ignited in mid-air, accelerating the shells to a higher speed.

In the blink of an eye, these shells hit the armor of the Federation fortress, and the outer shields of these fortresses had long been solved by the main guns of the Imperial Zeus class battleships.

When the main gun of the White Dwarf class battleship hit the armor of the fortress, the antimatter inside was instantly pushed to the head of the shell and came into contact with the armor of the fortress.

The antimatter that lost the restraint of the field immediately began to annihilate each other with the metal that made up the fortress armor, and a large amount of energy was released.

In an instant, the heavy armor on the outer layer of the fortress could not withstand the violent energy released and began to bend inward.

The alarm bells in the fortress rang instantly, the lights in the entire fortress turned bright red, and the alarm lights in the corridors kept flashing.

As the outer armor of the fortress continued to deform under the impact of energy, a harsh metal distortion sound came from the entire fortress, and the sound scratched people's eardrums.

At the same time, the huge vibration caused the staff in the fortress to sway left and right. The artificial gravity that was originally used for convenience instead affected people.

A few seconds later, the corridor in the fortress began to twist and deform, and data cables fell from the ceiling to the floor, and huge cracks began to appear on the walls.

Impossible! Impossible! All the staff in the fortress couldn't believe it.

You know, the fortress they work in is a super fortress with a diameter of 50 kilometers and armor as thick as hundreds of meters!

How could such a fortress with such a strong defense not withstand a volley from the opponent! This is absolutely impossible! The soldiers in the battleship ran frantically in the corridor, they wanted to escape to the nearest escape pod.

Looking at the corridor with an increasing distortion angle, looking at the wall that had begun to flash sparks, looking at the data cables flying around, the soldiers no longer believed that the fortress was still safe.

The life of this fortress is coming to an end! They must escape from here.

However, what these soldiers did was useless. Now the energy shock caused by the antimatter shells fired by the main guns of the White Dwarf-class battleships has spread all over the body of several fortresses.

These fortresses finally began to fail, and explosions of varying sizes began to occur inside.

Soon the armor of the fortress could not withstand the energy shock from the outside and began to break into small fragments.

The space fortress, which was attacked from both inside and outside, was engulfed by several larger explosions in the blink of an eye, and turned into several huge debris areas after a dazzling burst of light.

The debris produced by the explosion of these space fortresses shot out frantically, and some unmanned turrets that could not dodge were submerged by the rain of debris from the space fortress. The Empire did not need to do anything at all, and these unmanned turrets next to the space fortress were completely destroyed by the debris.

"Fifty-one percent of the unmanned artillery in the Federation's defense line has been cleared, and the enemy's eight space fortresses have also been destroyed."

"At the same time, the enemy's defense fleet consisting of 135,800 warships was also completely destroyed."

"Now the enemy is left with only a bunch of unmanned artillery with almost zero defense. It can be said that we have taken this node!" An officer reported to the commander.

At the same time, the First Fleet of the Imperial Expeditionary Force also received this good news. Li Mingze knew that it was time for the First Fleet to set off.

The First Fleet and the Imperial Expeditionary Force's flagship Fortress jumped into hyperspace together and rushed to the middle point of the Federation's defense line.

At this time, the Federation also received distress messages from four important nodes of the defense line. One of the nodes had completely lost contact with the command center and was probably in danger.

The two million fleets of the Federation that were originally hidden on the front line could no longer hide. They flew out from the planets of the star system in the middle of the defense line and divided into four parts to rush to the nodes that needed their support.

When this hidden fleet disappeared after the jump, the Empire's First Fleet arrived at the star system where they had just hidden.

On an inconspicuous planetary satellite in this star system, a base hidden tens of kilometers underground was in chaos.

This base is the headquarters of the entire defense line of the Federation. Originally, this base has been in a hidden state, and there are two million fleets responsible for defense, so this headquarters has always been safe.

However, who would have thought that the fleet protecting the headquarters had just disappeared, and a fleet of the Empire came to kill!

"We must start the planetary defense measures immediately!" A general in the base shouted loudly to the other generals.

"No, we should continue to remain silent. After all, the Empire does not know that this is the headquarters of our defense line! The so-called most dangerous and safest place, as long as we are not exposed, we are safe!" A general slapped the table and retorted.

"Impossible! This Sith Empire cannot have equipment for scanning planets. If they discover the existence of our base first, it will be over! We might as well use planetary defense facilities to gain a first-mover advantage!" Another general who advocated attack stood up.