497 Things that must be resolved before the decisive battle
"Report, the direct army has completed the 77th round of attacks. The Elf Legion is currently sailing in hyperspace. The 78th round of attacks will begin in 77 seconds."
In the battle star of Kaitian, Jiang Xingchen nodded slightly as he listened to the report.
For three days, there was an attack every less than an hour on average, and each attack forced the mechanical civilization to dispatch a large number of battleships and annihilators.
Even the thousands of Slayer spacecraft equipped with hyperspace engines had to be started back and forth.
Although a safe distance was maintained, the total of 77 rounds of attacks did not cause much damage to the mechanical civilization.
After all, from such a distance, the hit rate is really terrible.
And the energy consumption is even more terrifying.
After all, each time requires continuous output for at least half an hour.
But the good news is that since it is a unilateral strike outside the range, there is no need to activate the space shield.
Without this large part of energy consumption, it can barely sustain itself by relying on star core energy alone.
Coupled with the special nature of the star core energy system, actually developing the fleet is like not consuming any energy.
On the contrary, it is a mechanical civilization. A large number of troops are constantly mobilized back and forth. They finally rush into the range and a wave of attacks hits them without anyone evading or defending at all.
because...
They just started the hyperspace engine and ran away!
There is no way, at a distance of ten light seconds, if this wave hits, it will also take more than ten seconds to hit.
But more than ten seconds were enough for the federal fleet to escape.
Of course, mechanical civilization is not stupid either. After being fooled a few times, it stopped doing so later.
Instead, they directly dispatched thousands of Slayer warships with hyperspace navigation capabilities.
What's the result?
You fly over in hyperspace, and they fly away in hyperspace. If you chase after them, they run away again.
So, during the five rounds of attacks, they chased and escaped hundreds of times. In the end, because the energy consumption in the Slayer battleship was too high, they retreated for supplies.
After all, hyperspace navigation also consumes a lot of energy.
I think back then, it was because of energy problems that only the Star in the entire Federation could conduct hyperspace navigation.
Later, it was only after the development of an energy-saving version with castrated performance that other warships without zero-point energy modules were allowed to use this technology.
But it is a pity that mechanical civilization can only analyze and copy, but has no ability to create.
Therefore, the hyperspace engine they manufactured was not the energy-saving version used by the Federation.
Although the energy technology of mechanical civilization is not weak, it is at least much stronger than that of fourth-order civilization.
But after all, it still cannot reach the level of fifth-order civilization.
The energy of the hyperspace engine and mechanical civilization is indeed enough to start and ensure operation, but with such frequent use, the consumption is also terrifying.
After hundreds of consecutive hyperspace voyages, 80% of the energy reserves in these Slayer warships were directly consumed.
After that, after trying a few more times, mechanical civilization gave up.
Because, as soon as their fleet comes out, the pioneering fleet will once again stage a chase and escape, using non-contact tactics.
They don't appear to have any effect other than consuming energy.
Therefore, the current mechanical civilization is actually quite frustrating.
The energy supply channel itself has been destroyed, but the other party does not seem to care about energy consumption, even if the energy it consumes is more than ten times that of itself.
Of course, it’s not like mechanical civilization has never tried to simply ignore the opponent.
But the problem is, if you ignore it, they will keep attacking.
Although at this distance, as long as the speed and maneuverability of mechanical civilization are used, the pioneering fleet will not be able to gain much results.
But the problem is...
Crazy acceleration and constant super maneuvering, doesn’t this consume energy?
Disperse the troops, take the initiative, and attack the base camp of the pioneering fleet hiding hundreds of light years away?
They've tried it too.
Either they were divided and attacked, or they were missed directly.
They just ran away and made a fuss.
In the end, mechanical civilization can only lie flat.
The offense doesn't work, and the defense doesn't work either.
The most disgusting thing is that people don't care about the results, they just want to play.
Even mechanical civilization is disgusted.
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Ten days later.
Kaitian battle star, bridge.
The six legions have now taken turns attacking hundreds of times.
At the same time, the warships that dispersed also destroyed all the mechanical civilization energy factories that were missed in the first round around the battlefield.
It can be said that at this moment, mechanical civilization can only rely on the energy stored in more than 200 mechanical planets.
Jiang Xingchen didn't know how much energy this contained.
But what can be seen is that since a week ago, the force dispatched by the mechanical civilization each time has been less than half of the initial strength.
Obviously, they are controlling energy consumption.
This also shows from the side that even if the energy of mechanical civilization has not reached the point of extreme shortage, it is definitely not very rich.
As long as this continues, when the energy reserves of mechanical civilization are not enough to support all the troops for a high-intensity battle.
That is the final stage of this battle, and it is time to start.
However, what concerns Jiang Xingchen is...
That thing, surrounded by more than two hundred mechanical planets, seems to be nearing the end of its construction.
Jiang Xingchen discussed the unknown, because in war, the unknown often leads to extremely serious consequences.
But for now, the pioneering fleet really can't directly threaten that thing.
Directly arrange a warship to carry strategic weapons, that is, gravity bombs or zero-point vacuum energy bombs, and then use hyperspace to send them there?
It is possible, but judging from the current layout of mechanical civilization, I am afraid that the battleship will be accurately focused by countless firepower the moment it exits hyperspace.
There was no time to detonate.
Not to mention failing to achieve the tactical target, it will also be a waste of a strategic-level weapon that even the Federation does not have many.
wrong...
There seems to be a blind spot in my own logic.
Jiang Xingchen suddenly thought of something and was stunned for a moment.
"No need to destroy, only partial destruction..."
"Well, it works!"
"Ling Xiao, inform Ouyang Qing that the main brain's analysis work will stop for a moment and immediately access the virtual war room to report."
"And Duan Xingke too!"
Hearing this, although he didn't know what Jiang Xingchen wanted to do, Ling Xiao still nodded and went to do it immediately.
A few minutes later.
Virtual war room.
Jiang Xingchen, Ling Xiao, Duan Xingke, and Ouyang Qing are all in place.
On the table between the four people, a three-dimensional spherical creation was projected.
It is the thing currently surrounded by more than two hundred mechanical planets.
As can be seen from this three-dimensional image, the degree of completion of this thing is very high at this moment, and I am afraid it will not be long before it is completely completed and put into use.