Half an hour ago.
In the barren cosmos belt far away from the lighthouse star, a Kunde fleet jumped out of the star gate, quickly divided into multiple groups, entered the transition mode, and drove to the lighthouse star along different routes.
After the ravages of the Radiance Federation and Ethereal Religion, the range of the cordon set up by the Scarlet Empire near the lighthouse star has been expanded several times. Not long after the Kunde fleet appeared, it was discovered by the space monitoring device in the area, and this batch of The Kunde fleet turned a blind eye to this, ignored it, and went straight forward.
The command room of the main ship is dominated by crystal blue and dark gray, and the various consoles are structures suitable for crustaceans. The fleet commander is a large lobster man who is obviously bigger than ordinary people, and there is fire on the carapace. red stripes.
The Kunde people are also divided into different branch groups. One of the groups has a characteristic. When different emotions are generated, some carapace parts on the body surface will change color accordingly. The red pattern represents anger and excitement. The commander The official was in a state of anger at this time, and the object of his anger was the enemy Scarlet Empire.
Ye Lu, the iron-blooded officer of the Kunde tribe, known for his aggressive style, volunteered to participate in the attack. He and most of the crew of the fleet knew that it was 80% impossible to return, but he still did not turn back.
"How far is the lighthouse star marked by the star map?"
"Report Commander, there are still about four hours away."
"Speed up again."
Ye Lu's tone was full of suffocation, and he could not wait to immediately dump the ship's shells on the enemy's hinterland.
It only took a few years for the Kunde people to obtain a full set of Stargate technology and advanced transition engines. Even if the productivity of the star cluster-level civilization is strong, they cannot be massacred. Naturally, the Kunde people have insufficient experience in using these two technologies and cannot play. How many tricks, until now, many Kunde soldiers have not adapted to these new technologies.
The four-hour rush time naturally won't achieve the effect of a sneak attack, but this is the limit of what the Kunde people can do. At most, their stealth troops can only quietly place the stargate in this position, and hide it when it is closer. No longer.
However, this fleet did not care about being discovered, and adopted a plan of assault.
In the data of the falling spaceship, the location of the lighthouse star and the approximate warning range are marked, and it is stated that this is the command core of the Scarlet Empire. The Kunde people confirmed the authenticity of this through targeted remote observation, so they formulated This plan of stealing home - taking advantage of the opportunity of the Scarlet Empire to send most of its troops out to attack itself, try to attack the empire's ass from behind.
If they are fighting head-on, the Kunde people know that there is a lot of misfortune, so they can only take risks. If they can blow up the enemy's command core, then they will gain a staged advantage, and the enemy will inevitably lose an important retreat.
This fleet is equipped with a large number of primitive nether energy weapons. The Kunde people believe in the power of this thing. As long as it is close to the lighthouse star and hits this planet with any shot, the strategic goal will be successful. The primitive nether energy almost ignores the defense. Part of the shield will only be assimilated by it, providing energy for its expansion.
Although they knew that this act was a disaster, the crew of this fleet, including Ye Lu, were basically firm in their beliefs and were not afraid of death.
On the one hand, it is the anger and hostility towards the empire, and on the other hand, it is the fear in the bottom of their hearts, and the reason for their fear happens to have a lot to do with Han Xiao.
Originally, because of the disadvantage in combat power, the Kunde people paid great attention to hiding their position. As long as the territory was not exposed, they could do a lot of things with the strategic depth of the light dust star cluster.
However, the army of the Scarlet Empire had been out for half a month, and there was not much exploration, and they came straight to their territory. This suddenly disrupted the plans of the Kunde people and made them panic.
The civilized territory is exposed, which will invalidate most of the means prepared by the Kunde people, and put all their troops in a dangerous situation. Countless people are fortunate to have sent away the vast majority of civilians early, otherwise they would be more passive.
Out of desperation, the Kunde people had no choice but to use this pending home stealing plan. As the so-called switch of all tactics, since their old nest was exposed, the Kunde people tried to use a surprise army to destroy the empire's back road. .
The initiator of this scene, Han Xiao, who provided information, helped the empire save a lot of energy, and also forced the Kunde people to choose to take risks.
…
Lighthouse Star Command, Tarrokov and all the officers who stayed behind gathered in the command room, looking at the star map on the virtual big screen together, marking the red dot of the Kunde fleet is slowly approaching, the upper right corner There is also a countdown to expected arrival.
"As you can see, the enemy is attacking the lighthouse star and will arrive in more than three hours."
Tarrokov stood with his hands behind his back, looking around at everyone, his expression was calm and there was no pressure at all.
Everyone's face was as usual, and there was no surprise at this.
This situation is a possibility of their deduction, and a response plan has been prepared for a long time. In Tarrokov's strategic sand table, the enemy has almost no possibility of victory in frontal combat, and the probability of taking risks is 95% high.
In the Expeditionary War, the Scarlet Empire has been attacked many times, and the experienced officers are not only not panic, but even want to laugh.
—Compared with their group of old drivers, this indigenous civilization with little war experience is still too young, and every move is within their expectations.
Without a high-dimensional apocalypse transmitter, still want to attack
Without the fate of the Radiance Federation, I got the disease of the Radiance Federation.
Beacon Star has many disasters and disasters. To be honest, they are all used to others coming directly to them.
After the last lesson, even if a large force is sent out, the lighthouse star still retains enough fleet, and the expanded alert range causes the enemy to take longer to jump to the lighthouse star, a few hours are enough for Gaolu, Renoir, Crown Huan's ally troops rushed to this place through the star gate, and even the army sent out could jump back all the way through the star gate built along the way.
"Everyone already knows the situation. The only threat of the enemy's surprise attack is the original nether energy weapon itself."
Tarrokov paced and said slowly: "We have plenty of reserved time, and we must intercept and eliminate all incoming troops in the middle. If any enemy ship is allowed to drop the original nether energy bomb near the lighthouse star, then we will trouble."
"I applied for the use of primitive nether energy, just like Black Star said, come and go without being indecent." A hard-line officer sneered.
"Well, yes." Tarrokov nodded.
The use of primitive nether energy has been explicitly prohibited in the Expeditionary Universe, but since the enemy has used it, the empire will not hide it any more. Anyway, it will be polluted horizontally and vertically.
However, although this big killer is allowed to be used, Tarrokov has other plans, and said solemnly: "The lethality of the original nether energy is too large, if possible, try to fight with conventional weapons and capture the enemy's spaceship. With the clansmen, this is a good opportunity to obtain information about the enemy, don’t forget, we still know almost nothing about their civilization, and the virtual mechanic troops should be on standby, they should be used.”
The empire itself has a large number of virtual mechanics, and to deal with this indigenous civilization, it does not intend to rely on the power of Transcendent A Grade allies... After all, Black Star's appearance fee is still a bit high today.
…
After sensing the enemy's sneak attack attempt, Lighthouse Star summoned garrison troops from all over the country through the star gate, quickly assembled the army, and then sent out to intercept the sneak attack fleet from the Kunde people.
It didn't take long for the two sides to encounter a confrontation in the barren cosmos belt near the lighthouse star. This time, it was not as friendly as the conventional naval guns in the internal war of the explored universe. The two sides were frantically throwing primitive nether energy at each other. Same as shit.
In the universe, the original nether energy expands slightly less fast. After all, there is no matter of an entire planet for it to be transformed and swallowed, but it is equally dangerous because it will not dissipate.
The primitive nether energy light clusters stayed on the battlefield for a long time and became obstacles that were almost dead on the touch. Swallow all kinds of broken spaceship parts, like small black holes.
In such a complex battlefield environment, everyone is afraid of the other party's long-range strikes, and the frequency of pick-up battles has instead increased. It is mainly dominated by the empire.
"Report Commander, spacecraft No. 078, No. 075, and No. 102 were boarded by the enemy, and the guards on board were completely unstoppable."
In the command room of the Kunde main ship, the virtual screen played a picture of the power user slaughtering the Kunde armored soldiers.
Ye Lu looked at this scene with a bad tone, "This is the so-called power user in the data? Is there a way to get super power without genetic debugging?!"
"Commander, the war situation is not good for us, what should we do now?"
Hearing this, Ye Lu glanced at the overall situation. There was a gap between the technology and military strength of the battleship, and the fleet suffered heavy losses.
Although this action was similar to a suicide attack, it was obviously impossible to do so without even seeing the shadow of the lighthouse star.
Everyone looked at him and seemed to be mentally prepared.
Ye Lu gritted his teeth and slammed the table with a ferocious tone:
"It's my honor to fight side by side with you... The whole army obeys the order and activates the time-space cutter!"
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On the other hand, at the beginning of the battle, Han Xiao received the news and descended on the Beacon Star for a remote projection to observe the battle situation.
The empire's interception of the Kunde fleet can be described as devastating. The enemy has almost no ability to resist, and the generational difference in battleship technology is not so easy to make up.
In the command room, Tarrokov calmly commanded the overall situation, and Han Xiao played soy sauce on the side.
Seeing that the battle was going well, Han Xiao was a little puzzled.
"Strange, the Kunde people seem to be vulnerable... How did they cause trouble to the empire in the past life?"
The current situation is different from what he expected. In his opinion, since the historical background of the previous life has written that the Kunde people caused trouble to the empire, then at least they have to fight back and forth, right? Why the enemy? Such a dish.
A group of virtual mechanic troops are working hard to crack the quantum network firewall of this Kunde warship, and the progress is gratifying.
In another ten minutes, maybe an entire fleet will be captured without having to do it yourself.
"The Kunde people have no chance to come back, and they have been beaten up until now. It's strange..." Han Xiao muttered secretly.
Just as he was thinking about it, the virtual mechanic team on the side suddenly snorted, looked puzzled, and hurriedly said:
"Report to the commander-in-chief, there is a problem on our side."
Tarrokov looked over and wondered, "What's the problem?"
"This... just a moment ago, the quantum network node of the enemy fleet disappeared, we couldn't receive any signal, the virtual invasion was automatically interrupted, not the network disconnection,"
Before Tarrokov had time to think about it, a strange scene suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
Suddenly, all the Kunde fleets seemed to be stagnant and stopped in place.
The Imperial Army would not be in a daze together. They concentrated fire violently, and instantly destroyed most of the battleships, including Ye Lu's main ship.
At this time, the mutation suddenly occurred!
I saw white noise and subtle space distortions appear on the appearance of these destroyed battleships. Before everyone could react, the next moment, these spaceships suddenly became intact and returned to the state before they were hit. The front moved for a long time, without any moving process, and it was in a standstill state.
The Imperial Fleet hesitated for a while, opened fire again, and exploded these spaceships, but the same scene was staged again, and the position of the Kunde fleet was moved forward by a large section.
This time, the imperial fleet did not attack. After a few seconds, the Kunde fleet suddenly jumped again, and the position jumped forward for a long time. There was also no movement process, as if the frame was skipped.
"what is this… "
Tarrokov, who was watching the battle from a distance on the Beacon Star, was surprised.
buzzing—
Just then, a piercing alarm sounded in the room!
"Severe fluctuations in space-time coefficients have been detected, the degree of distortion is unknown, the database model is being matched... The match failed, the database has no similar model, and a new file is being created... "
At the same time, the Imperial Fleet on the front line also used all means to attack, but no matter how many times they exploded these warships, they could always return to their original state, and they moved in the direction of the lighthouse star again and again, like skipping frames, and they couldn't stop them.
Seeing this, Tarrokov's eyes changed slightly, he exhaled, quickly adjusted his mentality, and shook his head: "It seems that they are underestimated. Oh, you can't underestimate any civilization."
Everyone looked at each other with different expressions.
They originally thought it was a battle to easily hang their opponents, but they did not expect that this indigenous civilization took out an unknown black technology from the crotch, which seemed to be related to time and space, and did not know how the technology tree climbed.
Just when a group of officers was in shock, Han Xiao on the other side was also a little stunned, and subconsciously put down his arms.
This technique... he knows!
I just didn't expect it to come from the Kunde people. In the historical background of the previous life, there is no description at all!
This trick, but they have explored one of the trump cards that the universe used to beat the World Tree!