Star Lord: Rob the alien race and you will get a hundred times the reward

Chapter 85: Joint Group to Defeat Intelligent Machines

Liu Wen was just about to send a message when Emperor Huang of Emperor Huang Territory couldn't help but send a message to ask Liu Wen for his opinion, whether to retreat and abandon the territory or unite to resist.

The tenants who heard the approaching omnic fleet were all panicked, especially the Rose Fleet. The warships they ordered have not yet started production, let alone replacement of equipment. Their combat power is at its weakest. Asking them to lead the fleet to fight the omnics is tantamount to giving away their heads.

There were suddenly more than a dozen projections in the conference room. After looking at each other, they all turned their eyes to Liu Wen.

Emperor Huang was the first to ask, "Star Sea Lord, how are you going to deal with the upcoming Omnic Crisis?"

The others stared at Liu Wen, waiting for his answer. Someone might be packing up his belongings and preparing to run away.

Liu Wen smiled and said, "We were just discussing this issue. Even if you didn't come to me, I would have asked you to have a meeting to discuss it."

"We are ready to fight back."

"Counterattack?" Liu Wen's words made everyone a little confused. Brother, that is an intelligent civilization, not some random alien force. The entire human race will have to pay a huge price to expel the existence within the radiation range of human forces. We only have such a small fleet, how can we fight back!

"Your Excellency Lord Star Sea, does the Star Sea territory have hundreds of legion fleets or level seven combat power?" Rose asked in a stiff tone.

"No, there are only three fully-staffed legions in the legion, and there is no level seven combat power." Liu Wen answered truthfully like an honest man.

"With only three fully-strength legions and no level seven combat power, even if all of us are added together, we can only mobilize ten legion fleets. What can we use to fight the intelligent machines?" Rose thought Liu Wen was crazy. With such a small number of troops to fight against the intelligent civilization, which is not even as good as their conventional fleet, how can they defeat the enemy by being stubborn?
Emperor Huang also advised: "Star Sea Lord, think twice before you act. With our current strength, we have almost no chance of winning against the intelligent machines. It is not worth wasting our troops in vain."

Everyone's reactions were within Liu Wen's expectations. These tenants were the most easy-going. They would leave whenever they wanted. Those who came to ask Liu Wen just wanted to hold him and look after him to prevent any accidents.

Only Emperor Huang made the decision to give up his territory with great difficulty, but he did not give up evacuating now. Instead, he would wait until the intelligent machines really reached within dozens of light years and the Human Alliance still did not take action to stop them.

Liu Wen smiled and explained the results of the discussion to everyone. The tenants were stunned and skeptical. The alien races were so easy to unite. Who would the fleet listen to? How to prevent their fleet from being sent to be cannon fodder? How to ensure their respective interests?
When forces of the same race unite, they can argue to the point of collapse, let alone between different races. There is no such thing as trust between each other at all, so how could they obediently hand over their troops to charge into battle for you?

A civilization that trusts others so easily would not survive to the present day. The surviving civilization may not be the most powerful, but it will definitely be as cunning as a fox.

"The reason why we can't unite is because we don't have a common enemy. At the critical moment of life and death of civilization, as long as we still want to ensure the survival of our own civilization, we must make a choice in the shortest time possible. They can't decide what to think. They also know that cooperation is beneficial to both sides." Liu Wen said confidently.

Di Huang was skeptical about Liu Wen's fantastic idea, but that did not stop him from pushing the plan forward.

Just as Liu Wen said, cooperation is a win-win situation, and the intelligent machine army is already approaching, so between two evils, choose the lesser of two evils.

Throw in several legions of fleets. As long as the civilization is preserved, it will be worth it even if all the fleets are killed in battle. The civilization is still there, the industrial system is still there, and the fleet can be rebuilt quickly. If you abandon the civilization territory and choose to go into exile in the starry sky, that would be real chronic suicide.

"Lord of the Star Sea, I can provide you with three full legions of troops and equip them with three special warships." Emperor Huang's words startled Rose and other tenants.

"Thank you for the support, Lord Emperor Phoenix. You won't regret this choice." Liu Wen stood up and thanked him with a smile on his face.

When the tenants saw this scene, no one knew what to think. No one talked about whether to retreat or not. Instead, they said they wanted to discuss it with each other and hung up the communication projection.

After everyone left, Liu Wen also urged Michelle to get to work, send the information out quickly, and then call together the alien forces that had provided feedback to hold a meeting to finalize the rules. Every day of delay would increase the danger.

Michelle went there happily, and Luo Shaohua began to reorganize the troops and led the staff to work out a suitable joint fleet plan. A contract on paper is always more convincing than empty words, even if everyone knows that it is just a psychological comfort.

Michelle didn't need to explain the horror of the intelligent civilization. When these alien forces, who were also facing a dilemma, heard that humans wanted to form a joint army to stop the intelligent civilization fleet, the alien forces who had witnessed how the intelligent machines exterminated the civilizations around them responded to the call and sent clear messages expressing their willingness to accept the leadership of the Star Lord.

These alien races are not fools, but they also know that they cannot stop the intelligent civilization by relying on the power of their own civilization. Many alien forces are already packing up their belongings and preparing to become wandering civilizations and leave this crisis-ridden star field.

After receiving the information sent by the Star Sea Territory, the preparations should still be made, but now there is a glimmer of hope. After a brief discussion, the alien forces that are about to arrive at the city have decided to allocate part of their troops to cooperate with this human lord and promote the establishment of a joint fleet, the faster the better.

If something cannot be done, the civilized subject will immediately flee as far away as possible.

Once the joint fleet is successfully formed, their civilization will have hope of continuing here, and the manpower lost by the industrial system will be replenished sooner or later.

As a large number of alien forces expressed their support for the Star Lord, many aliens caught in the middle had to agree to this proposal, but they still had objections to how to command and where to build defenses.

The procrastination tactics of these alien forces were seen through by everyone at a glance. The most anxious alien forces immediately nominated Star Sea Lord Liu Wen as the supreme commander to command the operations of the joint fleet. Each civilization's fleet was under the responsibility of that civilization, but had to obey the command of the commander of the joint fleet.

There is no other way. These alien forces cannot afford and dare not delay. The sooner the alliance is completed, the sooner the intelligent mechanical civilization fleet can be lured into battle, and their civilization territory will have a greater sense of security.

In order to facilitate the establishment of the joint fleet as soon as possible, these alien forces took the initiative to send a group of envoys to the Xinghai star system to meet with Liu Wen. After a brief discussion, each of these dozen alien forces invested four legions of troops to take the lead in forming a joint fleet.

Then the news was released that the combined fleet had formed a force of 60 corps, hoping that those hesitant forces would not continue to delay, as the fleet of the intelligent civilization was growing every day. A warning was also issued that the combined fleet would launch a strike against some forces hiding behind and not thinking about taking action, or open up the relevant defense lines and let them pay the price for their choice.

This series of both defense and fighting demonstrated his current strength, which is enough to ensure that his ideas can be turned into reality.

Many hesitant alien forces who wanted to delay and see how the situation develop had no choice but to join in under the threat of the Combined Fleet. The Combined Fleet itself was not fatal to them, but it was hard to accept having the Combined Fleet protect them and then letting go of their defenses to allow the intelligent machines to advance straight in.

The combined fleet's forces are there, and the intelligent machines are not brainless. They will keep attacking if they can't chew a tough bone in a short time, but that doesn't mean they will only attack this. They also know how to pick on the weak, not to mention that they are good at attacking at multiple points, and using superior forces to nibble away at one by one is their forte.

As a large number of alien forces chose to join the joint fleet, the military strength continued to increase, and soon approached the size of one hundred legions. They also rushed to the front line to support the alien forces that were being attacked.

The blatant large-scale support quickly attracted the surrounding intelligent fleets, which gathered around the battlefield and prepared to annihilate this huge joint fleet in one fell swoop.

The two sides met outside a star system called the Schmincke civilization. Each side had nearly a hundred legions of troops. Compared with the combined fleet's formation that was like a pile of loose sand, the fleet formation of the intelligent civilization was extremely strict. The distance between the warships seemed to have been irradiated by lasers. It was simply an overall model built up by pieces of building blocks.

In the mobile fortress that serves as the flagship of the Star Fleet, Liu Wen stood in the center of the command room. Behind him were representatives of various civilizations, and in front of him were hundreds of staff members. The void projection in front clearly marked the gap in the strength and combat power of both sides.

"Everyone, this is our first battle but it will definitely not be our last. Let the intelligent machines see the power of our combination." Liu Wen symbolically boosted the morale and then handed over the command to Michelle and Luo Shaohua.

As for Bai Haitang and her Galaxy Fleet, they are still hiding in the Bonucci star field. The Bonucci Industrial Zone is still under intensive construction, and hundreds of thousands of technical workers and scientific researchers are busy expanding the production lines.

Michelle's eyes flashed with excitement as she looked at the intelligent civilization. As a young commander who had just graduated a few years ago, as long as he did not make any low-level mistakes when commanding such a large-scale battle, regardless of victory or defeat, he could get a good job and have no worries about food and clothing with this resume anywhere.

"Everyone is here, ready to attack!"

"The fleet's two wings are deployed, forming a three-three attack formation. Each fleet enters the designated position and charges its weapons."

"attack!"

At Michel's command, the combined fleet advanced forward in a loose formation.

The intelligent civilization discovered that the enemy had actually launched an attack on them, and immediately began to advance. The two sides met in the void more than ten minutes later. At a distance of tens of light seconds, the ultra-long-range firepower of both sides began to be fully output. In order to ensure the hit rate, they chose to concentrate their fire.

The energy beams in the void were connected to each other, but unfortunately they were too far apart. Even a superluminal attack would still take one or two seconds at this distance, and this time was enough for the warships that had reached sub-light speed to make emergency avoidance.

Therefore, although the two sides fought fiercely and consumed enough energy to allow a regular army to engage in a fierce battle, in terms of the results of the battle, both sides achieved zero results.

As the two sides approached to a distance of more than ten light seconds, the optical lenses of both sides could already see the charging process of each other's naval guns. At this time, the hit rate of each other increased dramatically. One after another, the frigate-class warships used to withstand the firepower were blown up on the spot. The dense sub-light-speed missiles in the void were like a rainstorm, shuttling through the artillery fire, and the dotted tail flames were embedded in the void like billions of stars twinkling in the night sky.

Casualties on both sides rose rapidly, and the wreckage of the warships gradually blocked the shooting windows of the warships behind. For this reason, the entire fleet formation had to keep moving. On the one hand, it was to avoid enemy firepower by moving quickly, and on the other hand, it was to find a better attack window, just like the principle of seizing the upper wind in the era of sailing battleships.

As casualties gradually increased, the faces of many representatives of other races began to look grim. Fortunately, they knew that casualties were inevitable, so no one deserted or went against their will.

But the damage ratio was too ugly. In less than half an hour of fighting, the Combined Fleet lost more than 3,000 warships, while the Intelligent Civilization Fleet lost less than 2,000. The damage ratio was close to 5 to 3. And as the Intelligent Civilization became familiar with the Combined Fleet's tactics and firepower, this damage ratio was still gradually rising.

"Don't hide it. Let your fleet prepare special weapons, but don't tell me you don't have them. Is a civilization without even special weapons worthy of joining the joint fleet? It would be better to hand over its resources to the civilization of the joint fleet to build more warships. Don't you think so?" Liu Wen turned and said to the alien representatives in the rear.

"The Star Lord is right. Civilizations that are unwilling to contribute to the joint fleet should be treated as deserters and their resources and territories should be directly deprived to strengthen the strength of other civilizations and contribute to the resistance against the intelligent machine civilization." An alien representative shouted excitedly.

Most of the alien races looked at each other and agreed, which made the faces of the minority alien representatives even uglier, but no one dared to speak out in opposition. Opposing Liu Wen now meant opposing all members of the joint fleet, and they were not that stupid.

After receiving Liu Wen's signal, Michelle found the right opportunity and ordered various civilizations to use special weapons. He did not even think of counting and planning their use in advance because there was no need.

This battle was the stage Liu Wen set for himself, using the military force of alien forces to pave the way for his rise.

Therefore, as long as these alien civilizations use special weapons and record which civilization has what weapons, the final key is still in Michel's hands. Liu Wen provided him with thirty special warships. The purpose is to determine the outcome in one fell swoop, and at the same time, to serve as a warning to more alien forces, so that they can see the strength of the joint fleet and join in.

Under Michelle's orders and with Liu Wen's advance preparations, these alien representatives had no choice but to pass the information back to civilization, which then issued combat orders. Although the extra link in the middle caused some delays, the result was correct.

Dozens of alien forces used their respective special weapons. Although the intelligent civilization fleet was prepared, it was still caught off guard by the various special weapons of dozens of alien races.

Buds bloomed in the starry sky, and colorful energy rays were rampant in the fleet of the intelligent civilization. Weapons of mass destruction born from various different theories attacked the fleet of the intelligent civilization and even collided with each other, resulting in larger-scale chain reactions or annihilation reactions.

The intelligent fleet suffered massive losses. Millions of kilometers of void were swept away by various energies. Under the collision and compression of special weapons, the rules would be violated from time to time. Every fluctuation of the rules could take away a large part of the intelligent fleet. The losses on both sides were reversed in an instant.

(End of this chapter)