Voyage of the Stars

However, many times the ideal is plump, but the appearance is skinny.

Humanity does not know that the Red Flame Civilization wants to delay the time until thirty years later, and it stands to reason that the longer the delay, the more beneficial it will be to mankind, because starting from this year, the human warship manufacturing capacity has surpassed the Red Flame Civilization.

However, the human side does not intend to drag it out like this, nor does it stop developing for a few years or more after a battle like before. Instead, after a year or two of slight repairs, it will once again lead the large fleet towards the next goal. And go.

Humanity no longer has any extra strong artificial intelligence for production. Four bases are already the limit. Although it will be more and more advantageous to delay, it will also be accompanied by unknown risks. Therefore, after destroying the second planetary base of the Red Flame Civilization, The top human beings decided to continue the war.

There is another factor in making this decision, that is, the members of the three fleets feel that time is running out, and if they continue to fight so slowly, they may not be able to finish the war if their lifespan is exhausted.

It can be said that the urgency of human lifespan caused them to accidentally disrupt the Red Flame Civilization's attempt to delay time. However, the fleet sorties were similar to the previous ones. They were not all dispatched because of the urgency. The third fleet was still arranged to patrol and stay behind. on the task.

After some modifications and additions, the large fleet deployed this time consisted of eight million assault ships and six million battleships. The First Fleet and the Second Fleet each led half of the battleships.

When the large fleet arrived at the scheduled separation point, Yue Yuan made tactical explanations to Man Yuemei, the commander of the second fleet, through the combat channel.

He raised his finger and pointed at a planet in the real-time shared star map and said: "This is the first orbiting planet. The Third Fleet had already razed the defense facilities on it to the ground, but after so many years, the interstellar trading market is on it again. Resource development facilities have been re-established. According to detection information, most of the rare earth elements required for the core shipbuilding base of the interstellar trading market come from this planet."

Most of this information was obtained when the Third Fleet conducted orbital bombing of the planet. It was discovered that lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, rubidium, promethium, samarium, gadolinium and other important rare elements are very abundant on this planet. , accounting for a high proportion, and is extremely easy to mine.

Of course, other planets also have these various elements, but mining them is relatively difficult. In order to obtain resources more quickly, the Red Flame Civilization chose to resume mining of the first-orbiting planets.

At this time, Yue Yuan glanced at Manyuemei on the screen, then raised his sword finger in the sensor screen, drew an arc towards the star map, and continued to say to Manyuemei: "Your fleet will proceed from this route. , we must paralyze the resource mining base of the interstellar trading market within half a year, and our first fleet will pass through here, threaten their core star field, and attract the opponent's main force for you.

After your fleet successfully paralyzes its base, come and join our first fleet to jointly attack its core area. The core of this battle is not orbital bombing, but to do your best to destroy the opponent's warships. "

"I see!"

After a distinctive royal sister's sound, the large fleet split into two and headed towards their respective goals.

The seven million warships of the First Fleet headed straight for the opponent's core area. About an hour later, a huge gaseous planet came into view. Oh no, it should be displayed on the Lyra's screen.

It can be seen that the Lyra has arrived at the opponent's core area, and at this time the second fleet has begun to fight with the opponent's first planetary defense force.

"An enemy fleet was discovered, with a size of 8 million and a distance of 0.241 astronomical units. The number of new warships is unknown. The estimated time of contact with the enemy is"

A report reminded all Tianqin combat personnel that the battle was about to begin.

0.241 astronomical units is about 120 light seconds. At the level of third-level civilization, this is already a very short distance.

"The fleet is on rudder 18, half-acceleration and deceleration have begun, and the formation has been changed to a long-range engagement formation." Yue Yuan immediately spoke. While speaking, he also transmitted the command to the Tianqin's strong artificial intelligence through the auxiliary chip.

The so-called long-range engagement formation actually changes the original spherical formation into a rectangular formation. The main ship is in front of the assault ship and relies on its armor advantage to shoot at the opponent from a long distance. This formation looks like a group of warships spread out on a carpet. generally.

The current goal of the First Fleet is to buy time for the Second Fleet, rather than directly occupying its core star field. Humanity does not feel that it can completely eliminate the interstellar trading market in this battle.

"Report, the results of the neutrino detection data are available." At this moment, the staff in charge of the detection module sent an image of the neutrino detection results to the shared terminal.

Yue Yuan immediately exported it, then stared at the image and conclusion.

"So many?!" Yue Yuan was stunned when he saw the detection results.

Now the First Fleet is close enough to the core area of ​​Chiyan Civilization. Although there is still a gaseous planet separated by it, neutrino detection has been able to accurately outline the general situation on the gaseous backside.

So what Yue Yuan saw at this glance was a dense mass of small dots. He knew what these dots meant in neutrino detection. They were battleships or spaceships made of steel.

And now there are more than 70 million small dots appearing in the detection results. This result tells him that there are 70 million warships or spaceships in the interstellar trading market.

"Shuai Yue, it is most likely their residential spacecraft cluster." At this time, the science officer on the Tianqin analyzed: "This interstellar trading market obviously comes from other star fields, and the detector is not in this star system. Traces of its parent star were found in it.

If they still have so many warships, there is no reason to hide them all the time. They can definitely pull them out at the beginning of the war and use their numerical advantage to eliminate us. Moreover, the fleet that came out to fight us has already shown that they do not have much fighting power. "

Yue Yuan nodded, it was indeed true. The fleet in front of him only had 8 million ships. The interstellar trading market, which has been at war with humans for many years, could not possibly not know how powerful human warships are. With a small difference in numbers, they were definitely no match for humans. Therefore, if their warships are still sufficient, it is impossible to dispatch such a small number of warships.

It seems that after so many years of consumption, coupled with the improvement of human shipbuilding capabilities, the warships on one side of the interstellar trading market have really become less and less, so much so that they cannot even produce twice the number of human warships. number of fleets.

The balance of victory has completely tilted towards mankind, and Yue Yuan estimates that he will be able to achieve final victory in more than ten years.