The Sovereign Hub of this world is a man-made small galaxy. Since it is a man-made object, it is naturally not conventional: this galaxy has no stars. Composed of a large number of space fortresses, not counting those fortresses that may be hidden in the folds of space and ready to take cold shots. There are already thousands of large defense stations that can be identified. These large-scale space facilities that look like several stacked flying discs A circle larger than the Eternal-class mothership, relying on a large number of drones and heavy-duty fortress missile launchers to fight, they run on the high orbit of the sovereign hub, and the fire coverage area of each space fortress is at least as close as five other The forts intersect directly, and there is no gap to drill even without using hyperspace firepower. These behemoths are the defense system of the Sovereign Hub itself. They are strong and durable, and they are powerful—their drone groups can effectively deal with rapid invasions such as assault ships. Troops, while heavy fortress missiles can cause considerable damage to motherships such as the Eternal class. At the same time, there are some special types of scanning towers hidden in the hidden force fields of these space fortresses. The stealth bombers we sent almost So the loss was heavy.
The mobile units of the Fallen Apostles cooperated with these solid space bunkers to form an additional line of defense for the Sovereign Hub. The enemy fleets equivalent to three entire regiments were all gathered in the low-earth orbit of the pair of twin stars. The rough-skinned space The fort intercepted almost all of the Imperial Army's assault ships, so the enemy fleet could shrink back behind the defense line and use their main guns to fight us with peace of mind.
The glaring beams of the Galaxy's main cannon frequently illuminate the dark and dark space. The Imperial fleet is confronting the enemy's defenses at a distance of more than 1.2 million kilometers from the Sovereign Hub. I think I have to announce a not so Good news:
I underestimated the defensive capabilities of the Fallen Apostle's Space Fortress. These stupid-looking space facilities are as hard as Ilson's golden tortoise shell! Moreover, the Fallen Apostles also deployed a large number of shield push towers and boosters around each space fortress. These boosters have no other function, but to continuously create mothership-level shields. They surround each other to form a joint shield. The effect of the shield, so that every space fortress is equivalent to being protected by a joint shield, and it is difficult for the Galaxy's main guns to shake it. Only the fleet salvo can overload these fortresses in seconds.
However, the enemy has set up thousands of such fortresses over their sovereign hub. Even if the imperial army can clean them up one by one, the Fallen Apostle's purpose of delaying time should be achieved.
What's more, their main fleet has now retreated behind the defense line formed by these fortresses. After we kill all the fortresses on the high orbit, we will have to deal with those guys—I am afraid that by then, the imperial army's numerical advantage will be nothing. .
Our initial battle plan was as follows: rush into the abyss area with enough elite soldiers, and then capture a world as soon as possible. The fleet started to expand the front line as an outpost, and this last point is particularly important, otherwise, how could it be possible to sweep the abyss area with the legions we are carrying now.
If the sovereign hub of this world cannot be destroyed as soon as possible now, then the whole plan will be stuck.
"It seems that we picked a bone that is not very easy to chew. It's really bad luck," Sandora frowned and whispered, "This universe should be a fortress world. It must be an important node on the border of the fallen apostles, and it may even be Defense headquarters for other universes."
"Think about it on the bright side, we can open a bigger gap if we knock down this place," I wanted to give Sandora some psychological comfort, "Look at the number of these crazy Space Fortresses, the following The Sovereign Hub must be an important node, maybe there are keys to other universes—just like our key worlds that can directly lead to the capital, as long as we take down this place, how much work can we save... "
Before I finished speaking, I saw a glare flashing on the holographic projection in the center of the command hall, followed by a shock under my feet.
"What happened just now?" Sandora asked immediately, and Bubble's voice replied on the shipboard radio: "One-third of the enemy's fortress fired a salvo of heavy missiles at us, but luckily the joint shield It is strong, only some nodes are overloaded, and there is no major problem."
"Are those fortresses special models?" Sandora looked suspiciously at the disk-on-disc space structures on the holographic projection, "In such a fierce exchange of fire, they can still save their firepower and secretly prepare a salvo..."
"Attention, the drone swarm is approaching!" The early warning radar issued a warning again. When I looked up, I saw overwhelming small aircraft swarming out from the enemy's space fortress. It's like a football with four pairs of swept wings. They rush out from the upper catapult nests of each space tower, looking like a swarm of bees ready to go out for a carnival. The way of leaping accelerated, and in an instant, they came to the front of the imperial fleet, and then began to bomb our joint shield in a way of dying together.
There are high-speed factories in those fortresses, and they can make batches of these suicide drones every ten minutes. The suicide drones are not equipped with any weapons. Psionic crystals, these cheap and annoying little devils are very fragile, and basically any type of anti-aircraft firepower can kill them in seconds, but their huge number and wave birth speed are very troublesome.
What's more, their self-destruct power on the joint shield is not weak at all.
The frontier-class fortress ships located on the outskirts of the fleet opened their anti-aircraft armor belts, and the dense anti-aircraft guns began to fire wildly at these little devils. The expedition-class warships deployed a large number of guard turrets on the flanks, in order to intercept these endless Self-explosive drones, and various motherships also opened their carrier hangars. Assault ships and individual fighters began to rush out in groups to clean up these dangerous self-destructives. Thousands of surges are generated on the computer, so that external monitors are blurred under the strong interference. However, although those self-explosive drones are annoying, they are too fragile. Coupled with the abundant anti-aircraft firepower of the Imperial Army, this wave of attacks did not cause much damage to us after all.
However, when the batch of self-destruct drones was cleaned up, those space fortresses had already produced the second batch of drones... and the cycle repeated, endlessly.
Along with the second batch of drones is likely to be a second round of heavy Bastion missiles.
"There is no way to see the saw like this." I didn't expect that the imperial army, which has a numerical advantage, would be held back by the tower defense tactics of the Fallen Apostles, and the frown was almost like a Chinese knot. "Even if we can point their fortresses one by one. Come on, by that time, the reinforcements should have arrived... We still have several fleets waiting to be sent here in the Empire area, what if we can't take down the bridgehead?"
"We must find a way to take those fortresses offline... The fallen apostles rely on those things the most now," Sandora also frowned. She looked at the space fortresses, and quickly queried something on her data terminal, and then Suddenly connected to the Sixth Fleet, "Vincent, do you know what are the weaknesses of those fortresses?"
When the Sixth Fleet was established, it was an "expert force" dedicated to fighting the Fallen Apostles. A considerable number of its senior commanders and combat advisors were former Fallen Apostles, Vincent? Carlo is naturally among them.
"This type of fortress was designed by Occam himself, the chief technician at the time. It is very different from the model of the old empire, and after Occam's death, these fortresses have been improved many times by his successors, so now we also I don't know which aspects they have evolved," Vincent's face appeared on the communicator, "but their general framework should not have improved much. Compared with the old empire models, the most significant change in these fortresses is the cancellation All the psionic cannons were removed, and the vacated gun mounts were changed into heavy-duty missile silos. In addition, Occam also restructured their internal structures. The extra effective space was installed with new types of drone production lines and The missile assembly line…”
"Missile assembly line?" Sandora raised her eyebrows, "Even the heavy missiles it launches are processed on-site inside the fortress?"
"Yes," Vincent nodded, "It has two sets of ammunition supply methods, one is the conventional hyperspace-time ammunition chain, which transmits ammunition from the ammunition general warehouse through time-space transmission, and the second set is the production facility. Missiles are constantly being assembled on-site at lower speeds, so even with their hypersupply shielded, these fortresses will always have ammunition available—just a little less efficient.”
"It's no wonder that they can accumulate the firepower of missile salvos in addition to fierce battles, more launchers, more ammunition supply, cancel the artillery design, and comprehensively enhance the power of missiles... That Occam is really dead. An Sheng," Sandora's mouth twitched slightly, "There must be loopholes to exploit, there is no perfect weapon in the world... Vincent, you said that these fortresses have no artillery, which means their attack speed and close defense ability Will it be low?"
"The attack speed is indeed affected. Without a high-speed turret, it is difficult to attack quickly only by relying on heavy missile launchers," Vincent nodded, "but the close defense capability has not decreased much. Occam uses a large number of drones to make up for it. Due to the lack of high-speed turrets, the defense capabilities of these drones are also very strong. Now those fortresses are actively attacking with drones, but if the imperial army sends assault troops close to those fortresses, these drones will switch to defense in an instant State, they are no weaker than anti-aircraft batteries. We have tried this just now, and the assault force can't get close to the space tower at all."
"Those drones need a ten-minute production cycle," Sandora raised her eyebrows. "As long as all the drones produced in one round can be cleaned up within ten minutes, those fortresses will have a defense gap."
"It's 'Near Defense Blank', Your Majesty." Vincent corrected it seriously, and everyone must have remembered that the Carlo brothers have language compulsive disorder.
"Okay, let's close the defense gap," Sandora waved her hand indifferently, "Now we have found a breakthrough point, Vincent, tell me your suggestion, if we can break through the close defense circle of the fortress, how can we make these people The guy is temporarily abolished?"
Vincent thought for a while before raising his head: "Your Majesty, we can consider taking these fortresses offline temporarily. This planetary defense facility operates automatically and is controlled by the fort hosts, and these hosts use Distributed network, each bastion host can be regarded as the host of the planetary defense circle, and at the same time they are all terminals, all bastion hosts are all at the same level in the entire defense system—that is, the highest command host is cancelled. The design was originally designed to improve the survivability of the planetary defense circle. Because there is no highest command host, all fortresses will not be out of control due to the destruction of the control center. No matter how many distributed hosts we destroy, its remaining computing power can always be guaranteed. The planetary defense circle is running, but this distributed network has a flaw: although it cancels the highest command host, it still needs a 'source' that can issue the highest command, and this 'source' can be polluted."
Sandora showed an interested look: "This 'source' doesn't actually exist, right?"
"Yes, it is something like a protocol package, which exists widely in the network of the entire planetary defense system," Vincent nodded, "every bastion host has installed this protocol, when the bastion group needs to fight outside, They use a random host as the highest instruction source, and rely on a series of complex forwarding methods to achieve the coordinated actions of the entire network. When the fortress where the random host is located is destroyed, the network will immediately generate a new host to fill the vacancy. This The process is also designed by Occam, and it is theoretically foolproof."
"Theoretically," Sandora smiled, "most of the theoretical things can be broken through. So, do you have a way to stop these fortresses from forwarding attack plans to each other?"
Vincent pointed to his chest: "This subordinate is a senior general of His Majesty Harlan, and His Majesty Harlan was one of the great warlords in the Abyss area. We used to have many such fortresses, and we know that it will stop. key."
I was suddenly surprised: "These things also have brakes?"
"It's not the brakes, it's the stop key," Vincent corrected me very seriously, "Every weapon should have insurance, and of course this kind of defensive bunker with automatic operation and powerful power is more necessary. The stop key can make the fortress All hosts are shut down for system maintenance or network protocol upgrades.”
At this time, another violent shock came from under the feet: the enemy's space fortress once again bombarded the joint shield of the imperial army with heavy missiles. As in the previous situation, the enemy's attack still cannot break the defense of the Imperial Army, and in turn, it is difficult for us to destroy the sovereign hub in a short time. This shock once again made everyone realize that the current see-saw situation must be broken, Shan Dora glanced at Vincent on the communicator: "Then there is one last question—you have been away from the Fallen Apostles camp for a long time, how can you ensure that this key can still be used? If I were the Chief of Defense of the Fallen Apostles, once I If such a key officer falls into the hands of the enemy, the first thing to do must be to reset the passwords of all the mainframes on the defense line."
Vincent smiled confidently: "Of course they will reset these keys, but this subordinate is sure to crack it. This subordinate has worked with Occam for many years, and was responsible for the management of these space fortresses at the time. The key solution rules. And cracking the key is not the most difficult part—the most difficult thing is knowing which part of the defense system this set of keys works on, and the subordinates are very clear about this."
"The difficulty is not to match the key, but to find the keyhole..." Sandora nodded, "You have to sneak into those fortresses to hack them, right?"
"There is no other way," Vincent replied, "We have lost the ability to control the equipment in the abyss area through the spiritual network. The only feasible solution is to enter the interior of those space fortresses. We only need to crack one, and the distributed network will take care of it." leftover."
"Okay, this plan is feasible," Sandora stood up, then frowned and looked at the space fortresses that started to release the drone swarms again, "The trouble is those drones... the big spacecraft can't hold the fortress missiles, Small spaceships can’t stand up to the drone swarms, and all the drones must be eliminated within ten minutes to find a space to send people in. Vincent, if you rush forward, I’m afraid your people won’t be able to make it through.”
I heard from the sidelines that I couldn’t find a chance to intervene in those professional things before. At this time, I finally talked about the part of throwing my arms up and desperately. Motto: When something happens, you can’t decide to open a big one, or you can’t decide to send a tower... Now this should be considered as sending a tower, right
Oh, that doesn't seem very auspicious...
"I escorted the experts there." I took a step forward and patted Sandora on the shoulder. "You must not find a more resistant bodyguard than me. In the first few minutes, you desperately eliminated the drones, waiting for those little When the number of gadgets was about the same, I personally escorted Vincent’s people there, with such a large battlefield and such a large space, I don’t believe it would be so difficult to send people there.”
Sandora glanced at me, trying to persuade me, but she quickly remembered my habit of throwing my arms around myself, and finally didn't say anything, just squeezed my hand hard: "Please Be careful, once you fail to break through, withdraw immediately. It is not impossible for us to break through this line of defense with conventional methods... It just takes a long time. I don't want to let me go back to guard for tens of thousands of years and wait for your resurrection …”
I patted Sandora's hand with a smile: "Don't worry, I am a man who creates miracles, leave it to me here, I will definitely come back alive, after this battle is over we will..."
As soon as I was halfway through my words, Xiao Xueteng jumped over from the side. She pressed my mouth and jumped up and down: "Dad, you can't be so immoral! Void creatures can't die, okay..."
Me: "..." RS