The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1945. The Xilu people’s counterattack

Unknown Star Territory, the former capital of the Xilu Empire, the planet Levik.

A fierce battle is unfolding outside Levik's planet. The extremely huge figure of the Eternity-class super aircraft carrier towers like a mountain. The three particle light spears arranged in a zigzag shape at the front continue to fire, and the beam of death shines on everyone. All that passes by is destruction and burning!

Near the Eternity, a formation composed of the Steadfast-class heavy cruiser and the Double-Blade electronic warfare light cruiser were also firing wildly. Covering this main fleet, there are about 10 flat-shaped cruisers. These are cruisers built by the Piaik people and are derogatoryly called slave ships in the Xilu Empire.

What they faced were a total of 20 Sirui-class battlecruisers from the original Sirui Empire, and more than 30 small and medium-sized battleships. In the face of such a huge force, even the Eternal super aircraft carrier is very difficult.

After all, the particle light spear of the Eternal super aircraft carrier is naturally very powerful, even when facing a Siri-class battlecruiser, it can shoot one at a time. However, the battleship's particle light spear is fixed at the front of the battleship. To aim, the Eternal's huge 5,694-meter-long hull must move with it, which makes aiming very difficult.

Under normal circumstances, when the two sides are still far apart, a few shots from the particle light spear are enough to collapse the opponent's morale. But this time, the remaining forces of the original Xilu Empire obviously came to fight for their lives! !

As for the reason for their desperate efforts, it is very simple. It is floating in the outer orbit of Levik's planet - a super giant ring-shaped building with a diameter of more than 40,000 meters.

For such buildings, all civilizations that have entered the interstellar era actually have a similar understanding, regardless of whether they can really master this technology...

That is, Stargate!

This giant structure that looks like it is related to interstellar navigation is placed here, and when it is about to be completed, it has begun to emit extremely strong hyperspace fluctuations. Everyone understands what this means!

You must know that the super battleship with a length of more than 5,000 meters did not appear out of thin air. Once a civilization that can build such a powerful battleship can open the passage to travel freely, the Xilu people will be completely dead. There is no room for struggle!

The leader of the remaining forces of the original Xilu Empire, General Lepix decisively devoted his last strength and launched the final assault on the planet Levik!

In fact, the reason why he was so desperate was because the remaining forces he commanded were simply unsustainable.

The Xilu Empire is a very deformed empire. They regard all foreigners except their own race as batteries. It can be said to be an anti-civilization and anti-social form. They make enemies and plunder everywhere, so naturally they have no friends.

They were afraid of retaliation, fear of resistance and overthrow, so they took an extreme approach - building all the most critical scientific research, military industry, and industry in their capital, Kryak Palace.

This approach has indeed made the Xilu Empire an extremely centralized empire, and it has also effectively curbed the emergence of internal opposition forces. But the problem is...this time their enemies come from outside.

Shepard and the Unknown Star Territory Exploration Fleet used very sharp raid tactics to directly capture the Kryak Palace, destroying the administrative core of the Xilu Empire, and inadvertently cutting off the Xilu Empire's scientific research, military industry and Industrial supplies.

Therefore, after General Lepicus took away the main fleet of the Xilu Empire, he soon discovered that without the production and supply of Kryak Palace, he could not maintain the expenses of this huge fleet. As time goes by, the condition of the warships in his hands will only get worse and worse, and the combatants will only become more and more slack.

And the very fatal factor is that when the human batteries on the battleship in his hand are used up, Admiral Lepiux can't even find a place to replenish them!

Therefore, General Lepuix was forced to have no choice but to bite the bullet and launch this desperate attack!

However, he seems to have made the right bet.

When the attack and defense were in different positions, the seemingly invincible super battleship suddenly fell into trouble!

Admiral Lepic knew that the 5,600-meter super battleship relied on two terrible things. First, the indestructible and powerful main gun was not only powerful, but also had an extremely long range, and could even reach the entire planetary system! Second, it is the mobility that can jump into hyperspace from within the gravitational circle!

But now, in such a defensive battle, the mobility of the super battleship cannot be used, so this is just an ordinary battleship with powerful firepower.

Therefore, faced with the siege of 20 battlecruisers, even the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier is no longer sustainable!

But Shepard can't retreat, and neither can the commander of the exploration fleet, Vice Admiral Heru! Because the construction of the Star Gate has reached the most critical time, if retreating at this time causes the Star Gate to be destroyed, then the results of their exploration will become empty talk!

However, they are not fighting alone. They have also received great support from the resistance forces, especially the Piaiks, a race that was once a subsidiary race of the Xilu people!

In fact, after the Xilu Empire's capital Kriyak Palace was captured and the Xilu Empire fell, the Piaike people who had been enslaved by the Xilu people finally realized that they could resist, and the Xilu people could Conquered!

Therefore, while the Siru people set off a wave of uprisings in various parts of Levik's planet, the Piak people finally rose up and pulled the trigger on the Siru people who had always been superior!

The Dawn Principality's exploration fleet distributed all the weapons and equipment stored in the Kryak Palace to the Piaik people who rose up in resistance everywhere. At the same time, with their absolute air supremacy and powerful marines, they also used the Kryak Palace to As a base, they operate throughout the planet. As long as a large-scale Xilu army is found, the Marines will immediately set off in a spaceship to completely defeat the Xilu army.

Under such circumstances, more than 90 Piak resistance bases have gradually formed on Levik's planet. Some of these bases have more than 50,000 troops, and some even have a million troops!

The arms factory in the Kryak Palace has also resumed operation with the help of the Piak people, and a large amount of weapons and equipment are produced every day and handed over to the Piak resistance forces. On the other hand, the Xilu people don't even have the ability to make a blaster rifle! Because the military factories are all in Kryak Palace!

Therefore, in the past few months, the Xilu people have been retreating, while the Piaik people have been advancing vigorously. At the same time, the Piacs and the Dawn Principality’s exploration fleet have also formally formed an alliance and become friendly forces.

The Pyak people began to help the exploration fleet in production and combat operations. The warships they built were also incorporated into the exploration fleet and joined the Levik planet defense battle.

And the most important thing is that the Piak people sent their best engineers and scientists to join the exploration fleet and build star gates for them!

The Stargate, which originally took a year to complete in Lieutenant General He Ru's plan, was reduced to 3 to 4 months after the Piaks joined. In other words, it was one step away from completion. !

There is actually another important reason why the backlash of the Piak people is so strong, and it is precisely because of the ubiquitous exploitation of the Piak people by the Xilu people.

Because the Piaik and Siru people are racially of the same origin, they have many things in common. Although the Xilu people have made all other races into batteries, they have retained a considerable part of the Piak people because the Piak people can easily help them do many things.

Of course, when the battery is not enough, the Piek people still have to lie down in the battery obediently.

Therefore, as the Xilu people's centralization of power continued to deepen, they gradually became superior, and many tasks were handed over to the Piaik people. This has led to the fact that in all walks of life, although the managers are all Xilu people, at the worker level, there are a large number of Piaike people.

Therefore, when the Piaik people rose up, began to resist and established their own political power, they did not have any transition problems. Because the Piaik people themselves can maintain the operation of this society.

The Pyak people have engineers, scientists, teachers, doctors, and everything. However, because of their status as slaves, they can only continue to work at the bottom.

The Siru people have finally paid the price for their brutal exploitation, and the very people they exploited and oppressed, the Piaiks, are now taking their place.

When Admiral Lepic launched a desperate attack on the Levik planet, the Levik planet was being occupied by the Piek people at an extremely fast speed. In this process, the people of Xilu shed blood like rivers!

The Piaik people will never be polite to the Xilu people. They only have one word for treating the Xilu people - kill!

The Piaike people, who have experienced oppression and exploitation, have long since given up all illusions about the Xilu people. They are the ones who have stronger military power now, and they will never leave any chance to the Xilu people, because they also know that once the Xilu people are restored, they will also carry out genocide against the Piaik people!

Although the exploration fleet is also beginning to give the Piek people the use of other energy sources besides human batteries, such as controllable nuclear fusion. But it will still take a long time to replace it. After all, all energy supply and energy transmission networks on Levik Planet are built based on human body battery technology.

So during this transitional period, the Piaik people are still using human batteries, but this time, it is the Xilu people who are stuffed into the batteries!

Lieutenant General He Ru has ordered the destruction of all factories producing human batteries and deleted all human battery data. Led by him and Shepard, everyone in the exploration fleet was determined not to let this anti-human, anti-society and anti-civilization technology spread. The human batteries still in use on Levik's planet are using one less battery. Eventually, this technology will disappear completely.

In the outer space of the planet, this air battle has been going on for a whole day.

The Eternity-class super aircraft carrier has been severely damaged under the siege of several Sirui-class battlecruisers, and due to the continuous launch, the particle lance system has overheated and is temporarily unusable. Now what the Eternal can use to fight back are other weapon systems installed on the battleship.

Two Steadfast-class cruisers have been sunk, one Double-Blade electronic warfare light cruiser has been destroyed, two have been severely damaged, and six slave battleships provided by the Piaks have also been destroyed.

The Normandy commanded by Shepard is still active. With its stealth system and super maneuverability, the Normandy continues to assault and detour among the Xilu fleet, killing and injuring lone battleships, and constantly causing trouble.

However, the Normandy was too small and had limited firepower to influence the battle situation.

"Attack! Attack!! No matter what the cost! Destroy that super battleship for me!!!" Admiral Lepic, the leader of the participating forces of the Xilu Empire, commanded from a small Urieff-class cruiser Fighting, looking at this extremely cruel battlefield, his eyes turned red and he roared loudly.

He was still very rational and did not choose the Siri-class battlecruiser when choosing his flagship. Because he knows that the super battleship is equipped with one main gun, even if it is a Siri-class battlecruiser. If he is sitting on the Siri-class, every time the opponent fires, he will have a 1/20 chance of being shot. The cannon was fired.

Under the strict orders of Admiral Lepuix, the remaining fleet of the Xilu Empire attacked like crazy! Not only are their capital ships with an absolute advantage in numbers, but their drones that use human batteries are also very difficult opponents!

The exploration fleet also went all out. The Eternal super aircraft carrier even directly used its own body to block the gunfire fired by the Xilu warship towards the star gate!

The construction of the Star Gate has reached its final moment!

Vasari engineers have gone to the control room of the star gate to make final adjustments to the star gate. Being familiar with and understanding of phase technology, they also understand that even if the structure of the star gate is not completely completed, it can still support one or two small-scale voyages.

And this is what they are doing!

"Fire for me! Crash for me!!!" The captain of a Xilu Urifu-class cruiser almost went crazy. He roared loudly and commanded the warship to ram directly towards the Eternity super aircraft carrier!

But on the exploration fleet's side, due to the continuous losses of battleships, gaps have appeared in the formation. In this direction, no other battleship can stop the Urief-class cruiser that collides.

The cruiser fired wildly while approaching at high speed. The Eternal was unable to dodge and was directly hit by the cruiser on the space port at the bottom of the front end!

The violent impact immediately shattered the spaceport, and the Eternal's hull was also knocked crooked.

At this moment, a colorful laser beam suddenly shined over! The relatively intact second half of the Uriff-class cruiser was immediately ignited by this laser beam, and then triggered a violent explosion! !

At this time, several black figures appeared in the center of the star gate! !