Launching an attack at the time when Father God and King Huron are guests in the Empire area, I am sure that this is not the original intention of the fallen apostles. I can only say that they have suffered the worst joke that fate has played. : It's really not the right time.
The two bosses boarded the Admiral of the Empire almost with a festive mentality...
Lin Xue's prophecy was soon confirmed. Almost at the same time that the Royal Fleet and the largest First Army of the Empire embarked on their journey, intelligence from the border world showed that a large number of high-concentration abyssal reactions appeared in the void.
It is the army of fallen apostles, and they will arrive in twenty-four hours.
There is plenty of time, we have at least a dozen hours to deploy a new line of defense, the world on the border of the empire is already heavily guarded, plus the two imperial ace armies that are about to arrive, the defense force is enough to deal with this crisis, but before heading to On the way to the front line, I felt very wrong.
Of course, I am not surprised by the attack of the fallen apostle. In fact, since we successfully raided the other party's three scientific research worlds not long ago, we have been prepared: to welcome the enemy's retaliatory attack at any time. Whether it is the fallen apostles or the Xiling apostles, it is impossible to turn a blind eye to such an attack. As long as Harlan regroups his army and has other fallen apostles to support him, the enemy's retaliatory attack will definitely come, and both sides have already touched In the case of the other party's homeland, the most likely target of such a retaliatory strike is the border of the Empire.
In the previous deduction, Sandora and the third intelligence core experts believed that the most likely to be attacked should be the two universes numbered WNN-3 and WEN-116. The universe in the frontier is most likely to have been exposed to the enemy's vision, and as a newly discovered world, only a few military depots and three or four colonial planets are maintained there, and they are of no strategic significance. But it is a suitable springboard to go deeper into the void, for the fallen apostles. Both worlds are easy to attack. Although it can't cause too much damage to the military power of the new empire, it can greatly slow down the expansion of the new empire's territory. This should be the best attack target. It is also based on the results of this deduction that Sandora has recently allocated troops to strengthen the defense of these two worlds that only have numbers but no names.
However, according to the intelligence from the border. The place where the abyss reaction appeared was outside another border world: XF-35-A.
According to the Empire's recently revised border world naming rules, universes that are newly discovered or of no colonial value will not have official names (although its native inhabitants may give their own universes a name). It only has a set of codes. The codes are composed of letters and numbers. The first part of the letters represents the Void Quadrant in which the world is located and the energy level when it is discovered (speaking of which I still have a half-knowledge about the Void Quadrant). The second part is the serial number at the time of registration. Generally, worlds that are not valued are named with these two parts. However, in special cases, the serial numbers of these border worlds will have a third part: a letter, B, A, or S. Delegates have no significant value in themselves, but serve as springboards. They lead to a demesne world of great value. Universes with a suffix of B mean that they have established a world gate leading to a general governed world, such as a Mars sanctuary or a colony, and universes with a suffix of A mean that they lead to a military world, such as Azeroth or In the Vidis Empire, there are currently only two or three frontier universes with the suffix S. This letter means that it can be directly transmitted to the capital of the empire—usually such a world borders the Starfield God Realm.
XF-35-A is located on the frontier, and as a springboard, it leads directly to the universe where the pan-galactic civilization community is located. It is a desolate world that we dragged from the depths of the void (that is, modifying the information representation of the entire world so that it can obtain new void "coordinates" is a big project, but worth the money), and serves as the jumping window of the celestial system fleet. The reason for setting up such a springboard is because the psionic death star's huge shape and huge information disturbance make it cause damage to the surrounding space every time it is transmitted. The more urgent the action is, the more significant the damage is, so we There is a springboard next to the closed universe where the community is located. The psionic Death Star can first fall into this "springboard" close at hand at a low energy level, and then accelerate to the battlefield recklessly. Anyway, XF-35-A has no life Existence, we don't have to worry about how many galaxies will be shredded by the fleet of celestial systems in the process of forcing the jump. And Sandora and I also hope that this world can become a bridgehead for launching larger-scale military operations against the Fallen Apostles in the future-at that time, it may have its own name.
Obviously, in such a place, the defense is quite tight.
The fallen apostle's attack on such a hard bone is the most abnormal thing - not to mention that this XF-35-A is connected to a harder bone than it.
The universe where the community is located is well-defended and heavily stationed. Not only is it docked with the most powerful super-scale fleet of the empire, but it also houses the most powerful servants of the new empire. You can imagine how strong its military power is, even if the local For the fallen apostles, the Imperial Fleet stationed there, the combined fleet of the community should also be an impressive enemy to them. In the barbaric area between the border of the Empire Region and the border of the Fallen Apostles, the Empire has already had many encounters with the fleet of the Fallen Apostles. Basically, they are the ones who quickly wiped out each other as soon as they met and then turned around and ran away. In this kind of battle, the fierce and violent community fleet is almost as dangerous as the regular army of the empire. They have the best equipment supported by the empire (almost the good stuff used by the regular army of Xiling, the gang who fought against the "shepherd" The old pilots who have fought for countless years are familiar with these devices very quickly), and there are the most deadly lunatic pilots in the multiverse except the Xiling Apostles. The Fallen Apostles were careless when they first encountered these mortal fleets. The convulsion tactic of "shooting all the ammunition in one minute" by the pilots of the community suffered a lot.
And the small troops sent by the fallen apostles to inquire about intelligence several times before will encounter this pack of wolves every time they are near XF-35-A, so they should know that these servants with abnormal combat effectiveness are permanently stationed in XF-35-A Next to this special servant army, there must be a regular army of the Empire stationed nearby, just like if you see a group of hounds in the forest, you should first guess that there must be a group of hunters with guns nearby, where the community fleet frequents There is definitely a group of imperial fleets stationed here, so even if you don't know the location of the community universe. Fallen apostles shouldn't attack XF-35-A rashly.
"The ship will arrive at the target in thirty minutes."
The broadcast sound of the shipboard host interrupted my thinking, and before I knew it, the fleet was almost at the end. Sandora is studying the battle report ahead. Noticed I came back from the fugue state. She waved over here.
"The enemy came swaggeringly, not a sneak attack."
Sandora pointed to the battle report and said, "The enemy's abyss reaction has not been camouflaged, and their fleet has not made multiple jumps in a confusing manner. It can be said to come straight. At present, a large number of signals have gathered at the world barrier of this universe Outside, the number is still increasing rapidly. I don’t know how many spaceships they have assembled. This is a strong attack, and they just want to directly destroy the springboard of XF-35-A.”
"Why are you attacking?" Qianqian lay on my arm with a confused face, "Isn't this the crowd watching?"
"If you don't attack by force, you won't be watched?" I shrugged. Qianqian immediately bit her tongue. "We have a prophet here, they should have known about it a long time ago, so they have no possibility of sneak attack at all."
The eldest lady immediately raised her chin complacently, while Qianqian began to glare at me with her mouth covered.
"I always feel that something is wrong." My sister looked worriedly at the holographic projection, and there were more and more spaces marked as possible breakthrough points. "XF-35-A is not an easy place to take down. The Fallen Apostle has hit a nail here several times. It is impossible for them not to think that there are heavy guards here."
It seems that I am not the only one who thought of this. Sandora also nodded in agreement after the elder sister's voice fell, but who can say for sure the actions of the fallen apostles
At this time, all the fleets that came to consolidate the defense line had arrived at the position mark, and the shipboard host turned on the external observation equipment of the Admiral Empire, and the scene in space was directly transmitted to the giant holographic projection in the center of the command hall.
What is presented before our eyes is an iron-gray chaos: many places in the XF-35-A space are filled with aerosol-like clouds composed of heavy metals and unstable compounds, which are often hundreds of millions of light-years wide. The aerosol cloud cluster is the most important celestial body system in this universe, which is the iron-gray area diffused outside the fleet. Due to the differences in some physical constants, the number of planets with fixed forms in this universe is extremely rare, and they often cannot move along a stable orbit for a long time. The state of the entire space is like a pot of thin and cold soup. In the depths of the iron-gray fog in front of our eyes, there are some purple-red cracks that are slowly expanding. The radar system has marked these cracks with eye-catching colors and words. They are the world barriers that are gradually melting. The early warning radar's judgment is very accurate , several major breakthrough points of the Fallen Apostle fleet have been found.
Seeing those cracks expand, we don't do nothing. Although it is not cost-effective to attack the enemy fleet that is still in the void, we can place some space mines on these cracks in advance. These mines may damage the enemy's large The unit effect is insufficient, but for the assault fleet with thin skin and little blood, it is almost a must-kill.
"The Garden of Death is online, and ninety-nine percent of the universe is under full surveillance," Sandora said softly, "They will be exposed wherever they come from."
"If you need help, just say it." Sheila patted me on the shoulder, "I haven't fought with Xing Chen for many years."
"You just watch it," Sandora said, "Our own battle, we solve it ourselves."
"The barrier is broken, and a large mass is being generated from the space." The ship's host computer issued an alarm to interrupt their conversation, and the bridge flashed red for a moment, entering a combat state. Immediately afterwards, the largest point on the holographic screen The space rift was enveloped by continuous explosions. It was the space mine that was activated, and the enemy's vanguard had entered the material plane, and the first thing that greeted them was a large-yield bomb.
"It's really a strong attack." My sister twitched her lips, looking at the small black dots constantly rushing out from the afterglow of the explosion. They were the assault fleet that had crossed the blockade line. Behind them, the iron-gray mist and bright In the exploding light group, more huge black shadows are gradually poking out.
"The second wave of space mines has been posted," a commander reported in the communication link. "More enemy ships are taking shape."
"Release the fortress missiles, don't be stingy with firepower. They are not afraid of battle damage this time." Sandora immediately ordered to release the giant warheads dedicated to the mothership. Because the radar shows that the enemy's mothership formation is closely behind the assault fleet, just like a tactic of flat pushing by a large army.
Fortress missiles, in the current imperial weapon arsenal, specifically refer to two types of jump warheads, one is "X3-Gravedigger". A super-heavy jump missile with a body length of hundreds of meters, which can space jump to the vicinity of the target and then end-guidance. A high-concentration psionic "plasma" ball is buried in its warhead, relying on psionic explosions to produce brutal and effective direct damage. The second type is the recently successfully manufactured "X4-Death Knell". A cutting-edge missile with compound kills. Its propulsion mechanism is the same as that of the gravedigger, but in addition to psionic explosion, the warhead can also generate a wide range of mathematical disorder, which can make the strength of strong mutual force and weak mutual force in the target area disordered or even disappear for a short time. At the same time, it can also induce space collapse, and even dimension collapse, for units with entities. Its killing effect is almost infinitely high: the psionic explosion first destroys the enemy's possible psionic shields, and then the mathematical laws start to tear their armor and hull. This is an amazing effect produced by a set of "mathematical law distortion device". This missile comes from the reverse engineering of the Warsong. Tavel created this "miniaturized" equipment when trying to copy the law weapon on the Warsong, but due to lack of technology, she couldn't make this thing run stably for a long time after it was started, and it could only run for a minute , at first we thought it was a waste product, but soon those unrestrained scientists found that it was perfectly suitable to install it on a heavy missile: anyway, the warhead of a missile only takes a few seconds.
So "X4-Death Knell" was born.
However, since the manufacturing process requires a special Xiling host to personally supervise and debug, the war factories capable of manufacturing "X4-Death Knell" are all concentrated in the capital world. This limited-production Fortress missile is only equipped in the Royal Fleet and the First Army. In fact, the Defense Forces of the Frontier can't afford this thing. The "X3-Gravedigger" is still the mainstay of the Imperial Jump missile family.
The huge super-heavy missile like the Babel rushed out of the silo in the dazzling blue light package, tearing ripples in the air, and bombarded the enemy formation tens of millions of kilometers away in a few seconds , the follow-up missiles are like bee swarms, rushing towards the target in groups to ensure the continuity of firepower: the mothership has rough skin and thick flesh, and the shield recharges extremely fast. If the continuous firepower cannot be guaranteed, it is tantamount to tickling.
At the same time, Xinghe began to recharge, waiting for the best time for a full-scale bombing: when the enemy's fortress ships were destroyed by those super-heavy warheads.
The homeland defense forces have approached those world rifts from the flanks. Behind them is a larger community joint fleet. The wolves are already waiting for an opportunity. When the fleet of the fallen apostles has to face the royal fleet head-on, these wolves will Bite in the back of the enemy's ass. So far, it seems that everything is under control. The combination of a frontal attack and a prepared defensive battle is such a boring thing. The tricks that the two sides can play are really limited. The mothership formation confronts in the end. Of course, the defenders should be more flexible: after all, we still have space fortresses and positional artillery to provide support, and the Home Guard and servants are also mobile forces that can be flexibly mobilized.
"More enemy ships are entering this world." Sandora's expression gradually became serious, "but it's not that Harlan's army... Look at these images, sent back from the line of fire, these marks are the military emblem of another fallen emperor."
"I'm a little uncomfortable." Lin Xue suddenly covered her head and muttered, "They seem to be trying to interfere with me. Is there a strong source of interference in these fleets?"
Sandora hurriedly searched, and found something after a while, and immediately shouted: "Here! A warship that has never been seen before, and the energy response is amazing!"
What appeared on the screen was an extremely ugly and strange thing. If it is a battleship, there should be no other words to describe it. It looks like a half-rotten tomato, with pits and holes, and the surface is covered with lightning-like protrusions. Well, when the radar focused on this ugly monster, the picture appeared extremely unstable, and the scan results showed that its energy response exceeded that of any major battleship. However, this thing seems to have no attack power. Apart from constantly releasing messy information pulses and psionic radiation, it just hides in the guard group of countless motherships and does not participate in the battle.
"The picture is starting to blur... Get rid of this thing!" The eldest lady covered her head, trying to concentrate, "It's disturbing me!"
"Then we have to destroy hundreds of Eternal-class ships in the middle of the road first." Sandora realized that the situation might not be right, but that ugly thing was protected by layers, and it couldn't hurt it at all in a short time "Garden of the Dead, try to see if you can pull it out!"
The Death Garden has the power to manipulate part of the data of another universe across the void, which also includes modifying the space coordinates of some places, such as making two star systems in different worlds collide with such a cruel thing. Under the effect of the Death Garden, that The rotten persimmon-shaped thing disappeared for a moment, but just when we thought it would fall into the imperial firepower net, it reappeared in place.
"Okay, space anchoring, multiple layers of false coordinates" Sandora smashed the table "Lin Xue, how are you?"
"Headache, dizziness, and blurred vision when looking into the future." Lin Xue took a few deep breaths, "But after stopping the prophecy ability, everything will be fine. They are very good, and they specially made such a thing to deal with Miss Ben."
"I'm more worried about one thing now." Sandora frowned. "What are they trying to do to block the prophet's eyes!?"