Survival of the Stars: Rise of the Fourth Scourge

"It's over..."

In the central control survival cabin of the "Zhanxing" destroyer, the expression on Rex's face was very ugly.

He never expected that the "Warhammer" force fleet would dare to ambush in the asteroid group.

That is a group of asteroids, even if there is a shield, the ship will be destroyed if you are not careful.

No one would ambush an enemy in such a dangerous place.

Because this is the choice to kill one thousand enemies and injure eight hundred.

does it worth?
Of course not worth it.

He never thought that the strength of the opponent's battleship could ignore the threat of the asteroid.

In order to go to a habitable planet, he deliberately found a group of asteroids that were not very large.

But I didn't expect to hit the enemy's arms.

If it was a more dangerous asteroid group, would the "Warhammer" forces still choose to ambush in the asteroid group?
"60% of the drone fleet has been lost, Fleet Commander, bring the drones back."

"No, without the restraint of the drone, they will catch up."

"The opponent only has seven warships, and we have already dispersed. The longer the time, the fewer targets they can pursue. Fighting in the asteroid swarm, the loss of the "Earth Elf" drone is too great, and we must preserve our vitality. "

"There are no more seven warships. Only five warships are still moving at high speed. The speed of the other two warships is relatively slow. It should be that the power system was destroyed by the drone swarm. We are already scattered enough and there is no need to continue to lose "Earth Elf "Drones."

In the data stream, Rex browsed the data sent back from the drone.

He was analyzing the situation on the battlefield.

The "Federation of Liberty and Democracy" is taking the route of drones and confronting the enemy with numbers.

Suitable for fighting in the open universe, besieging the enemy like a pack of wolves.

The opponent chose to ambush in the asteroid group, one is to conceal himself, to catch him by surprise, and to use his powerful melee ability.

The second factor is probably related to drones.

The "Warhammer" forces are well aware that dense asteroids can have a great impact on drone swarms.

And indeed, in the first attack wave, enemy warships attacked the asteroid.

The asteroid fragments instantly destroyed hundreds of "Earth Spirit" drones.

In the subsequent battles, 40% of the lost "Earth Spirit" drones were destroyed by collisions with asteroid fragments.

but……

If the battle took place in an empty universe, would the winning side really belong to the "Commonwealth of Liberal Democracies"?

Rex doubted it.

For the first time, he had doubts about the drone route of the "Commonwealth of Liberal Democrats."

Drones are great to use, but too restrictive.

"The ships listened to the order, immediately withdrew the drone group, and immediately evacuated to the border star field of the S-01919 star system."

In the end, Rex gave the order to withdraw the drone swarm.

He knew that at this moment, it was no longer necessary to let the drone swarms entangle the opponent's fleet.

With Rex's order, in the asteroid group on the other side.

The drone swarm swooping around the "Firestorm-class" frigate like flies suddenly turned and left.

They gave up attacking the enemy ships, and flew into the depths of the asteroid group in groups.

"Wang, do you still want to chase?"

There are two enemy warships ahead, shuttling through the asteroid swarm.

Dodging left and right, the engine at the rear spewed out dazzling blue and white tail flames.

From time to time, it will hit an asteroid, causing the shield to flash.

It makes people doubt whether the opponent will be crashed by the asteroid if they continue to chase.

After thinking for a while, Li Meng said: "Don't chase, the fleet retreats, send all Fury-class interceptors to follow them, and find their assembly point."

The opponent's fleet has already dispersed, and there is no point in chasing them any further.

Imperial warships are not completely immune to the asteroid threat either.

The energy of the shield is limited, and the impact of the asteroid will also cause certain damage to the hull.

Navigating at high speeds through a swarm of asteroids is not a sensible thing to do.

Following Li Meng's order, the imperial warships on all sides of the asteroid group slowed down.

The dazzling tail flames of the tail thrusters gradually weakened, and the reverse thrust engine of the ship's bow was activated, spraying out a long white tail flame.

With the withdrawal of both sides, the fighting came to an end.

In the silent group of asteroids, blank areas can be seen.

And in the blank area, there are a lot of metal debris floating.

There are "earth elves" drones, and there are also warship wrecks.

It can also be seen that corpses are floating in the dark universe, struggling.

War is never friendly, and in war, life becomes the cheapest thing.

The harbor gates on both sides of the battleship opened successively.

Fury-class interceptors flew out one after another, plunging into the depths of the asteroid group.

"Fleet commander, they gave up the pursuit, we are safe..."

As the imperial warships withdrew, the captains of the fleeing "Freedom and Democratic Federation" breathed a sigh of relief.

When a giant ship approached from behind, the feeling was too terrifying.

It's like a mountain pressing down, making people breathless.

Although they are immortal, they will still experience the pain of death.

"Retreat to the border assembly area and pay attention to the tail. Our actions have been seen by the other party in the past few months. Otherwise, the other party would not be able to ambush on both sides of the safe route, and we must not let the other party find our assembly point."

"We should have been targeted by the opponent's small aircraft, and we scattered the drone to disturb the opponent's line of sight."

"We are at least one day's flight away from the border assembly area. Don't go in a straight line, go around and return to the assembly area."

"Just do it in your own way, there is always nothing wrong with being careful."

Listening to the voices of the captains on the communication channel, Rex remained silent.

He knew very well that this failure would be the greatest shame in his life.

Is he too careless?
No, he was cautious enough.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have waited for more than a month, waiting for the logistics fleet and support fleet to arrive before heading to the habitable planet.

He thought about all the situations, but he didn't expect that the other party would be ambushing in the dangerous asteroid group.

Where did he go wrong?
Where is the mistake, how could Rex not know.

If he didn't know it before, he knows it now.

His fault lies in his lack of understanding of the technology templates owned by the enemy and his lack of understanding of the enemy's warships.

Looking at the friendly beacons on the tactical map, Rex's heart sank.

The loss was too great. In this battle, the fleet lost two-fifths.

Nearly half of the ship was buried in the asteroid swarm.

Only 27 "Tristan-class" frigates and 13 "Argus-class" destroyers remained.

The "Earth Spirit" drone lost seven tenths of it.

Of more than 1000 drones, more than 700 were lost in less than an hour of fighting.

No fewer than three hundred were destroyed by asteroids.

Although the opponent's two giant ships were paralyzed, they were only paralyzed and not destroyed.