Him and their stars.

Chapter 925 Devil's Throat
Of course, the reason why Yu Lian still did not receive any news from the front line was not because his own expeditionary fleet was completely wiped out.After all, at this time, the main forces of the two expeditionary fleets concentrated in the Devil's Labyrinth Nebula have already reached more than three times the total strength of the Predator (estimated).In addition, the commanders King Thorane and Admiral Connerys are both the type of "holding up a stronghold and fighting silently". It is almost impossible to give the Predator fleet any chance to take advantage of the loopholes.

But the problem is that, perhaps because this star field has traces of man-made transformation by the great ancient Enlightenment, although the sky labyrinth has indeed collapsed, the gravitational force between the stars always has some unreasonable fluctuations, and the communication between galaxies and galaxies Traffic has indeed been affected.

In addition, raider fleets of Marauders do haunt supply routes.They don't succeed in finding their prey every time, but they can always find opportunities to destroy unmanned gravitational wave beacons and deep space probes. This is equivalent to the tactics of planing utility poles and cutting telephone lines in the cosmic age.

It's hard to say how much structural damage this kind of coquettish operation can cause to the expeditionary army, but it did hit the smooth communication behind the connection to a considerable extent.Originally, it only took more than a week for the digital letter to travel from the frontline headquarters to New Lushun through the transit of the gravitational wave beacon, but now the time has been doubled directly, and there is even the possibility of sending it out.

No way, the efficiency of destruction is always much faster than that of construction.What's more, even if the Empire and the Commonwealth have a huge force that far exceeds that of their opponents, and the former's fleet is even rich enough to allow battle patrols to serve as supply box patrol fleets, it is impossible to deploy heavy troops on every galaxy in the waterway.

Because of poor communication, Yu Lian didn't know that the army on the front line had actually fought three consecutive battles with the looters who were fighting and retreating, and completely controlled the five stable star systems. .Two of the galaxies even have a naturally habitable Earth-like planet each.

Although the modulus is too small to be convincing, the density of this livable planet is still abnormal, which immediately shocked the upper management of the fleets on both sides, and they became more and more looking forward to the follow-up process.

But then, all the known shipping lanes in the Devil's Labyrinth Starfield finally gathered into one galaxy.In the universe, this situation also occurs from time to time.Generally speaking, such galaxies with several waterways are often the so-called battlegrounds for military strategists.

Obviously, this galaxy is not only a battleground for military strategists in this Devil's Labyrinth star field, but also a pass that is heavily defended by predators.There is bound to be a bad fight here.However, as long as one breaks through here, or annihilates the main force of the predators here, this large invasion of predators, which spans more than two million light-years and involves two major galaxies on the battlefield, attracts the attention of all countries and civilizations. It's time for the end.

In the long run, without such a group of young and middle-aged men with strong combat effectiveness and an elite fleet, the Galactic nomads who have plagued the entire galaxy for nearly a thousand years may be completely reduced to first-class pirates, and it is no longer possible to systematically threaten all countries. safety is at stake.

This is comparable to the glorious feat of completely destroying the Eero Empire more than [-] years ago!No matter how calm and calm the commanders of the two countries are, as long as they think of this, it is inevitable that their blood will rush.

Thus, the real battle officially started on July 832, 7 in the community, in this galaxy later named "Devil's Throat".

They did get the beginning right, they just didn't guess the end.

At nine o’clock in the morning on July 7, Major General Yang Xiyi held his teacup—because it was morning, he didn’t put brandy—huddled in the corner of the conference room, watching the commander, Admiral Connors, who was furious: "Fifteen thousand marines! Fifteen thousand of them will be gone in four hours! That's 31 pigs, the predators can't catch them all if they want to! And you dare to come back, you You deserve to come back?"

Admiral Connors is an academic "Confucian general" who pays great attention to demeanor and manners.But now his eyes are completely cracked, and his beard and hair are rushing to his crown, as if every hair has been filled with blood vessels that are about to burst.

After all, the marines of a full division were wiped out by the formation in less than half a day, and at this time, they really didn't care about their dignity.

The bear general of the Marine Corps who was reprimanded by him was probably also frightened by the abnormal outburst of His Excellency the Commander.Obviously, his physique should be more than twice that of Your Excellency General by visual inspection, but he could only hang his head cautiously when his face was smeared with saliva. :
"But, sir, if it wasn't for Major General Parker's fleet getting out of orbit, I wouldn't..."

Before Commodore Xiongren could finish his words, a thin, beardless Rear Admiral in his fifties jumped up and said in a sharp voice: "Then, that's because you didn't do a good job in enemy investigation! The task of your division's reconnaissance machine infantry battalion should be to determine whether there are looters' air defense positions hidden on the surface! But what happened? My Durandal was damaged! The dignified battle patrol was ambushed on the surface The cold arrow stabbed, this is your problem!"

Brigadier General Xiongren was also angry immediately, thinking that he was a hunk who could break armor with his fists anyway, if he couldn't beat the Commander, wouldn't he be able to beat you, a hermaphrodite's rotten ass?
"That's not a great plain! It's a polar dwarf planet with ice and snow. The ice and snow are so thick that bears can be frozen to death, and the gravity is chaotic. But you only gave me three days, how is that enough?"

The pale-faced Major General Parker chuckled, and looked at Lieutenant General Tivington, the chief of staff who said nothing but his face was livid: "Ma'am, Brigadier General Naion is still shirking responsibility."

Shirk responsibility?But when it comes to this, the biggest person responsible is really not Brigadier General Nai Weng, isn't it you, Madam Chief of Staff?Yang Xiyi took a sip of the black tea and sneered inwardly.

The thing is to talk about July 7, two weeks ago.At that time, the main force of the expeditionary fleet with the solar system fleet as the core, after rounding up the tenth and thirteenth fleets, finally rushed to the "Devil's Throat" galaxy in a mighty way—of course, there was no such official force at that time. name.

Although an academic technocrat like him is not very convincing in terms of record, he still has a lot of experience in communication.During this period of time, Admiral Connerys actually put his main energy on communicating with the empire.Although there were some unknown embarrassments at the banquet hosted by King Suliuka, the overall result was positive.

The relationship between Admiral Connerys and the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, King Thorane was not bad.The two sides also agreed with each other to launch a general offensive together on July 7.

Admiral Connolly is indeed not a brave warrior who has won the three armies, but the more he is, the harder it is to get hot.Such a person will not be able to win too brilliantly, but it is indeed unlikely to make mistakes. In his opinion, the main fleets of the two sides launch attacks from two directions at the same time, and the army is overwhelming, so they will not be drilled by the enemy. Loophole.

that's the truth.

When the mighty main fleet passed through the gravity well, it did catch some abnormal signals, but at that time, the technical department of the community was not too sure what the signals represented.Anyway, the structure of the gravity well is still stable, and it can normally accommodate the communication of the large fleet.

At 7:18 on July 10, all the main warships of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Fleet had arrived in this galaxy.

On the other side, the Vulcan Iran, the general flagship of the empire, entered the galaxy at 11:15. All in place before 10 o'clock.

Before 12:[-] noon of the standard time, the civilization from the Milky Way had gathered a torrent of steel including five Titan ships and twenty dreadnought ships in this galaxy more than two million light-years away from their homeland. The total size of the fleet has exceeded [-] ships.The total number of sailors, stormtroopers, marines, and various auxiliary forces exceeded [-] million.

However, such a heavy army group that can run rampant in any corner of the galaxy did not launch an attack on the enemy immediately.Not because they didn't spot the enemy.

In fact, they had found a fleet of Marauders congregating in the vast space between the fourth and fifth planets of the system, filled with asteroids and dwarf planets.There are ten dreadnought-class fire-breathing ships and motherships alone, and there are two to three hundred other large and small warships.According to the analysis of the enemy fleet passing through the Gate of Glory, at least two-thirds of their main force has indeed gathered here.

Now, the main force of the community and the empire have naturally formed a double-sided force against the predator fleet.If it weren't for the predator's main force, there was something that hated disharmony just by looking at it.They said they couldn't do anything and they were already pressed up.

This very discordant thing looks like a meteorite with a very irregular shape, and the outer layer is indeed covered with a celestial stone shell that seems to be formed naturally.But the problem is that in this universe, there shouldn't be "meteorites" that are comparable in size to a terrestrial planet, let alone "meteorites" that stay in place and seem to be completely unaffected by the revolution of stars.

Soon, the detectors of the Imperial Fleet caught the metal reaction behind those cracks in the earth's crust.

It was a fortress wrapped in meteorites.

There is one thing to say, the green skin style of this meteorite wrapping the artificial structure is indeed very in line with the style of the predator.But the problem is, with the ability of the predators, it is absolutely impossible to build a space building of this scale in only half a year.

In other words, even the Galactic Empire, which is keen to demonstrate its authority through space giants, has never built planet-sized space buildings.

This is an Enlightened Legacy!
The command levels of the two armies immediately made such a judgment.

The predators dare to face their own side in this galaxy, and they really have the confidence.

Therefore, King Thorane, who has won the three armies but has a calm mind, and General Connerys, who has only a calm mind, simultaneously issued an order not to act rashly.

But the problem is that all of them have come, and an army of tens of millions of people can't really stare at the enemy fleet here.Even if it is really the fortress left by the Enlightened One, you have to try its footsteps.

So, at 17:45, the empire launched a tentative attack first.The Dawn Angel of Suluka King Brunhilt was the first to dispatch.This has always been the tradition of the Dawn Royal, and the candidates for the throne of all ages have never lacked the courage to fight on the front line.Because of this, the dragon kings of Chenxi have always been the well-deserved leaders of the Tiriluo people in the past few thousand years.

This elegant titan battleship, like a Valkyrie, led a group of guard ships and arsenal ships, and carefully passed through the asteroid belt. Under the cover of a dwarf planet, it opened up and started long-distance bombardment.

However, the dense orbital artillery shells and thousands of missiles of the twelve arsenal ships were all bounced off by the deflecting shields that were suddenly deployed when they were still some distance away from the "unknown relic".

King Suliuka's innate sense of tactics made a contribution at this time.A blow was unsuccessful, and she immediately ordered the transfer of the entire fleet.

Then, just when the strike fleet left the original point of time, a pillar of fire that seemed to be wrapped in lightning, like a magic sword raised from endless hell, tore open the space wantonly, even the previous one Dwarf planets about the size of Ceres have been blasted through each other.

Two frigates dragging at the end of the fleet were still engulfed by the scarlet light beams.This kind of special warship, which specially strengthened its protection and acted as a shield-bearing heavy infantry in the fleet battlefield, was smashed to pieces on the spot.

As a result, just after the war started, the empire lost two large warships, and the bones of more than 4000 sailors remained.

Of course, it is also fortunate that Brunhilt's order was issued in time, otherwise it would not be just this loss.Even the most cutting-edge Titan ship like Dawn Angel can be questioned whether it can withstand such a shot.

Later, according to the analysis of the remaining energy information, this should be a gamma light burst.However, why gamma rays have such penetrating power is beyond everyone's understanding.

The Earth Fleet, which was about to move, immediately calmed down.They can't compare to an empire with a big family and a big business, and they can't act rashly.

Thus, the battle on July 7 ended hastily.Evil battles are naturally evil battles, at least the battle damage ratio definitely meets this standard, but the scale and process are really not worth mentioning.

Fortunately, it is not without any gains.At the later high-level military meeting, Brunhilt took out a holographic projection in front of all the big shots, but it was the sound of a vague aircraft. Facing dense artillery fire and missiles, he unfolded a translucent light curtain.

Everyone realized that this light curtain seemed to be the energy shield that blocked the imperial army's tentative shelling just now.

"I released an unmanned probe before the bombardment and took pictures of this scene. Obviously, this is not an energy shield covering the entire fortress, but an autonomous mobile shield deployed by a small automatic aircraft. It's a bit like Active shields manipulated by 'control' and 'communion' psykers." Brunhilt said.

"It's about the size of an ordinary fighter plane." King Thorane said in a deep thought.

"It's even smaller, but the deflection shield released can block the bombing of the arsenal ship's main gun and at least ten siege missiles. Except for the active shield of the psyker, any shield technology on the technology side It can’t even achieve this effect.” King Suliuka said: “In addition, the shelling of the enemy’s fort just now is needed. It can be seen that the power is far greater than the main gun of the Titan ship, and any kind of energy main gun of the fort that we know. Even if it is a Titan ship, it is difficult to guarantee safety."

Having said that, Brunhilt glanced at the crowd, and said expressionlessly: "Masters, this is not a space city left by ordinary enlightened people, please treat it as ten castles stacked together Turn into a monster! I am definitely not scaremongering."

(End of this chapter)