At this moment, the front array of Serra's army was in a mess, and the four legions were each being harassed by a human fleet.
Basel's guard corps was penetrated into the core area by 40,000 human warships, and even the flagship was surrounded.
Not only that, now humans have even broken into the flagship and are engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat!
"General Basel, the opponent's combat troops have broken into our ship. According to reports, hand-to-hand combat has begun inside the ship. However, our weapons and equipment are greatly different from the opponent's. We are completely unable to resist and are retreating steadily!"
"Damn it, do you want to capture me alive? Order the surrounding legions to ignore the intercepting and harassing fleets and come to the rescue immediately! At the same time, tell the combatants inside the ship to hold on, reinforcements are on the way!"
"Yes, General Basel!"
Two minutes later.
"This is the 71st Guard Team. There are too many enemies and we can no longer guard the passage!"
"This is the 21st Guard Team. Channel D17 has been lost. Repeat, Channel D17 has been..."
"This is the 97th Guard Squadron. The enemy's firepower is too strong. We need support!"
"This is the 47th Guard Squadron. The D09 channel leading to the bridge is under heavy attack from the enemy, ah..."
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In the communication, all these came, which made Basel look very ugly!
"Have the surrounding battleships not broken through yet?"
"General Basel, in addition to the 1,000 warships surrounding our flagship, the other side has nearly 40,000 warships forming a defensive circle around it. Our army has now been smashed to pieces by two consecutive rounds of assaults. It will take a while and a half.
There is no way to reorganize the attack formation, let alone rush into this defensive circle!"
"Tell them to stop forming any formation and just run right into me..."
"boom!"
Before Basel could finish his words, he was interrupted by a huge explosion. Basel was even thrown away by the shock wave of the explosion and fell heavily to the ground.
In a daze, Basel seemed to see a large group of people in black combat uniforms rushing in. They quickly suppressed the entire bridge. Finally, two people came over and directly lifted themselves up and dragged them out!
"Legion Commander, all targets have been captured and are currently retreating!"
"Okay, good job!"
Lin Fan was very satisfied with Zhang Zhiwei's performance. He completed the task in just 3 minutes. Even including the time to exit, it should not have exceeded 5 minutes!
"Attention everyone, the mission has been completed, I repeat, the mission has been completed!"
Lin Fan picked up the communicator and sent a message to all the commanders of the First Legion!
"Now, according to our combat plan, the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth fleets will continue to attack the rear array with the second army. At the same time, your four fleets will be temporarily handed over to the command of Admiral Liang Xingchen until this time.
The battle is over!"
"The remaining five fleets will go with our guard fleet to the entrance of the Star Road to assist the Io Federation Queen's Fleet!"
"Yes, legion commander!"
Three minutes later, all dispatched mechas and assault ships had returned to their respective battleships. Lin Fan immediately ordered the six fleets to start moving in the direction of the Star Road.
On the way, they completely crushed the Assault Legion of Serra's army's second wave of offensive!
News that the flagship was attacked and the general was captured began to spread among the Serra legions, and the entire Serra Empire army began to become a little confused.
As of now, it has been more than 20 minutes since the two sides started fighting. The coalition's losses were mainly in the Queen's Guards Corps of the Io Federation, which lost about 20,000 warships, while the human side only lost less than 500 warships.
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On the other hand, on the side of the Serra Empire, one assault legion in the front array was completely defeated by the Queen's Guards Corps, and the second assault legion was directly beaten from the rear by Lin Fan with 6 fleets. Now,
150,000 battleships have been lost, and total destruction is imminent.
The rear array was first broken through by the center of the First Army, and then was flanked by four fleets of the First Army and the Second Army for more than ten minutes. The overall loss exceeded 400,000.
After calculation, the battle losses of the Serra Empire's army have exceeded 900,000. Of course, this includes the tens of thousands of warships destroyed by Lin Fan in his own formation when he carried out the decapitation operation!
It was like this with Basel commanding, but now without Basel, the entire Serra army is even more unbearable.
In addition to being under the command of the legion commander in some areas, they can still resist in a decent manner.
But without Basel, the overall situation is in a mess. Each legion is basically fighting on its own, and the whole is in chaos.
In such a situation, even if the individual legion commanders are very capable, they cannot turn the tide.
The battle lasted for more than five hours before it came to an end.
At the expense of the Io Federation's loss of 38,000 battleships and the Human Federation's loss of 2,800 battleships, the coalition annihilated the Serra Empire's more than 3.5 million main battleships and nearly 120,000 Royal Guards battleships.
Elena seemed a little excited. After all, in the history of the Io Federation, there had never been such a big victory.
At the same time, I also gained a deeper understanding of battleships equipped with shields. After all, this is the first time that the Io Federation has dispatched the Queen's Guards Fleet for combat.
This kind of combat power is definitely not something that a third-level civilization can contend with.
However, Lin Fan was a little dissatisfied. Technology completely crushed the opponent, but he still lost 2,800 warships. The most critical problem was quantity. This is also the biggest shortcoming of mankind at present. The population is too small and there are too few warships.
Others have millions of battleships at every turn, while humans only have less than 500,000 battleships even if they attack with an entire army.
After all, the fourth-level civilization is not completely invincible against the third-level civilization. As long as the number is large enough, the fourth-level civilization can still pay a huge price.
Just like this time, if instead of first deceiving the opponent's Royal Guards fleet to encircle and annihilate it, and instead let it fight together with the main fleet of the Serra Empire, then the coalition forces would probably have to pay several times the price to win this battle today.
Therefore, Lin Fan believes that Lin Zhen's subsidiary civilization plan is a very good idea. Since the federation itself cannot make up for the shortcomings of population in a short period of time, it should recruit a group of potential subsidiary civilizations!
Then arm them with energy shields or even warp drives to fight for yourself!
Of course, these equipment are the same as those for the Kabat Civilization, and they must have backdoors!
In this way, humans can have a large number of quasi-level four combat forces in a short period of time, just like the Queen's Guards Fleet of the Io Federation.
At the same time, it can also rely on the arms trade to obtain a large amount of resources and greatly accelerate the development of mankind!
It seems that after returning this time, we will have to think carefully about the plan to conquer the affiliated civilization!