He quickly turned his head to the big screen beside him. The panoramic projection on the battlefield showed that with the mothership as the center, four Dragon King-class frigates and twelve Ares-class battleships were firing at full speed. The huge soul guide cannon beams, like plowing the courtyard and sweeping the caves, instantly attacked and covered the enemy on the opposite side.
The opposite side also lit up at the same time, with thousands of warships bursting out with lights of various colors, also shooting towards the Federation.
It was similar to what Yan Xinghe had judged before. The opposing warships were unable to stop the Seventh Fleet's artillery fire. Warships exploded one after another, while on the Seventh Fleet's side, a series of brilliant halos burst out from the mothership-based protective shield system, but no enemy rays could penetrate into the protective range.
Amid the violent roar, the sound could not be transmitted to the interior of the battleship, but the vibration could. Even with the protection of the shield, Long San was still in constant vibration.
Lan Xuanyu clenched his fist subconsciously. This pure head-on confrontation was absolutely magnificent and powerful. But deep down, he actually didn't like this way of fighting. This way of fighting had no tactics at all. It was just a hard fight, a hard collision, bombarding each other, and winning by artillery fire.
“Captain, is there no strategy at all when fighting in an open space?” Lan Xuanyu asked doubtfully.
Yan Xinghe said: "It's not that we don't have tactics. It's just that when our shield is strong enough and the enemy can't break through our defense, then what's the use of tactics? Even if they go around behind us, they still can't break through our defense. Why is the mothership so important to a space fleet? It's not about how strong its attack power is, but the most important thing is its defense. Have you noticed that the mothership doesn't have that kind of particularly powerful main gun. In fact, it's not that it's not equipped, but it won't be used easily because it consumes too much energy. All the energy is put into defense. The overall shield of the fleet formed with the mothership and four Dragon King-class frigates as the core is so strong that even a super god-level strongman can't rush in. This is our strongest point. Therefore, those strong men in the Longma Galaxy came up with a plan to disintegrate us from the inside."
Lan Xuanyu knew that the internal disintegration he was talking about must be the Dragon Source Crystal.
At this moment, the fleet of the Longma Galaxy on the opposite side changed its formation. Thousands of warships quickly dispersed, like a big pocket, and surrounded the Seventh Fleet.
In the previous round of shooting, the other side lost at least 30 large warships. This was because the two sides were far away and the power of the artillery could not be fully exerted.
The Seventh Fleet moved forward slowly, maintaining the power of its artillery fire and continuously firing forward and to both sides.
Just as Yan Xinghe said, the attack of the Longma Galaxy Fleet was simply unable to break through the defense of the Seventh Fleet, which made the war a bit boring, as if it was just a continuous consumption of energy.
Yan Xinghe smiled and said, "Now it depends on whether they can bear it or not."
Lan Xuanyu asked curiously, "What can you hold back?"
Yan Xinghe said: "I can't bear not to use your share of the credit." As he said that, he also pointed to the star of general on Lan Xuanyu's shoulder.
After hearing what he said, Lan Xuanyu immediately understood. It was obvious that the Federation had already made a plan for the Dragon Source Crystal. It was specifically aimed at the other party. If the other party used the tactics corresponding to the Dragon Source Crystal at this time, it meant that the tactics would be exposed.
I wonder if a space fleet can satisfy the other party's appetite.
"What if they hold back?" Lan Xuanyu asked.
Yan Xinghe said: "According to the data we have obtained so far, the Longma Galaxy has about 3,000 warships. There are more than 1,000 here, and a large part of them are not here, and are distributed around the galaxy. One fleet is not enough, so don’t we have two wings and two fleets behind us? The attraction of three space fleets should be enough. They don’t actually want to fight us so early. They hope that we can develop Longyuan Star for a longer time and rely more on Dragon Source Crystal as a power source. That way, more warships will be equipped with Dragon Source Crystal. The other party is really bold, and he almost succeeded."
The artillery fire on the battlefield began to become sparse, the reason was simple, the warships of the Longma Galaxy expanded the scope of the encirclement and escaped from the Seventh Fleet's artillery attack range. However, the Seventh Fleet ignored them and continued to fly forward, with the target still in the direction of Tianma Star.
After all, Lan Xuanyu was the best student in the Star Wars Command Department of Shrek Academy. With Yan Xinghe's explanation, he basically understood the Seventh Fleet's combat plan. No wonder Yan Xinghe seemed so relaxed. This tactic was carried out under the premise that our side knew the other side's biggest conspiracy, while the other side still thought the conspiracy had succeeded.
Yan Xinghe checked his soul communicator and said, "The third and fifth fleets should have already started their operations. For the other side, the opportunity will come soon."
"Long San, Long San." A low voice came from the communicator.
"Long San, take your position." Yan Xinghe took a few steps forward and came to his command position.
The big screen flashed, and the face of General Bai Ling, the commander of the Seventh Fleet, appeared on the big screen. "The Third and Fifth Fleets have already made contact with the enemy. Prepare to implement the Source Crystal Plan."
"Yes!" Yan Xinghe stood at attention and saluted. He did not explain to Lan Xuanyu again, but continued to give orders.
"All space mechas and space fighters are ready to go into battle. The source crystal plan has begun. Report the reaction of the induction zone at any time."
Lan Xuanyu's eyes were fixed on the holographic image.
At this time, the local warships had basically surrounded the Seventh Fleet, but they kept a long distance and did not enter the Seventh Fleet's shooting range. When the Seventh Fleet flew forward, they also flew forward.
In fact, such an encirclement is meaningless from a normal tactical point of view, just like an escort. As long as the Seventh Fleet enters the space jump, the encirclement will naturally be lifted.
At this time, each battleship of the Seventh Fleet had a separate metal room. In the room, there were small machines, and inside each machine, there were various forms of Dragon Source Crystals of various sizes. Some of them were large Dragon Source Crystals that even Lan Xuanyu had never seen before.
The surface was shining brightly, emitting a charming glow. The energy of the Dragon Source Crystal inside was continuously output to the outside, as if it was always providing an energy source.
And these separated energies gathered through special channels and were transmitted to somewhere unknown.
This system is called the Energy Filtration and Transmission System by the scientists of the Douluo Federation. In the past, it existed to test the energy intensity of the core of the single positive circulation source.
After the problem of Dragon Source Crystal broke out, scientists within the Federation, after emergency consultation, sent this thing to the major fleets.
Their function is very simple, which is to keep the Dragon Source Crystal in a state of energy release. And this state is like being in use all the time.
No matter how powerful the divine sense of Tianlong, the leader of Tianlong Star, is, he can only remotely sense the status of these dragon source crystals and perform the simplest control on them by dispersing his divine sense into so many dragon source crystals at the same time. Like when Lan Xuanyu and the others discovered it last time, it was because he was too exposed, and that place was the base where dragon source crystals were produced, and there happened to be a divine sense of Tianlong stationed there, so they attacked him brazenly.
After studying the Federation and with many experts, it was found that no matter how powerful Tianlong was, it was impossible for him to sense the true situation around each Dragon Source Crystal across the stars. Lan Xuanyu and the others must have just encountered a distraction from him at that time.