Chapter 275 The Emperor's Performance

This senior of Lu is... so strong.
On his way to the middle-level support, Yang Ming tried hard to integrate the limited information and analyze the capabilities of this mechanical thinking body.
All kinds of incredible operations are actually based on huge computing power.
The empire's strong national strength and the accumulation of tens of thousands of years of the Imperial Star Circle provide the hardware foundation for this computing power;
The mechanical thinking body that followed Levi Sherman and exists to this day for unknown reasons, from the deceased top mechanical civilization, Omnic Twilight, has perfectly mastered this computing power.
The New Federation had developed network security technology for so many years, but it was completely defeated by this "predecessor".
Compared with this predecessor, Lu is on par in terms of software. What they lack is hardware, that is, a super brain and resources.
To put it simply...you still need to make money.
Yang Ming also discovered something very interesting.
This 'predecessor' adopted many effective tactics when capturing this fortress, such as the two downward leaps of the Intelligent Machinery Group.
The mechanical guards and the space carrier's drone swarms are concentrated on the outermost three floors of the fortress. From the fourth floor to the twelfth floor, most of them are living areas for federal soldiers, and are also the areas with the largest number of human soldiers in the fortress.
The intelligent machine army, which was controlled by the Empire's full-territory defense system, suddenly launched an attack in a very short time. While quickly clearing out the human soldiers on the outer three layers, it seized the quick access to the upper and lower parts - the elevator.
If a large number of soldiers want to provide support upwards, they can only do so through safe passages and aircraft routes.
The aircraft route is fully automated and is directly closed by the Imperial Guard system, but the safe passage is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Using a small number of intelligent mechanical forces, it is possible to block the upward passage from the fourth floor and the downward passage from the twelfth floor.
Most of the New Federation's soldiers stationed in the fortress were stuck in the middle, unable to move.
Afterwards, the surface robot army quickly assembled and invaded the middle level of the fortress.
The human armed forces in the middle area of ​​the fortress were insufficient and lacked heavy firepower in fixed positions. The intelligent machine army swept everywhere like a flood, perfectly controlling the situation, and then followed suit and leaped towards the core layer of the fortress.
It is no exaggeration to say that we won with fewer people.
The main reason why the New Federation military leaders made a misjudgment was that they had no experience in fighting against the 'Imperial National Defense System'.
At this moment, fighting was still going on in some areas in the middle section of the fortress.
It didn't take Yang Ming much effort to find Gris, who was leading a cluster of mechanical guards to attack on the front line, and he quickly pulled this guy out of the attack formation.
Grace's first reaction was to ask, "What's going on outside?"
"I don't know. I think they started a fight. Where's Catherine?"
"She's moving boxes over there. She doesn't seem to like cutting these ordinary people," Grace whispered. "You've come at the right time. Several large research institutes are fighting hard. Go over there quickly and don't let them destroy the data!"
Yang Ming snapped his fingers, Bligh nodded with a smile, turned around and jumped onto the back of a transport robot, heading to the area that needed to be attacked to provide support.
His ability to control minds also plays an outstanding role in matters such as persuasion and surrender.
Yang Ming hooked his arm around Grace's neck, glanced around, and whispered, "What did you find?"
"A lot," Gris cleared his throat, "What do you need this for?"
"I still have some of my own assets, private assets," Yang Ming muttered, "Can you find a way to get me a copy of the data?"
"This is... the Imperial Guard System is watching."
Yang Ming smiled wryly: "How can she appreciate the little technology of the New Federation? She wants these technologies only to verify and observe the level of development of the civilization of the New Federation, not to keep them as secrets."
Grace rubbed his nose and stuffed two chips into Yang Ming's hands: "Hand them over. These are some materials I copied. One is about the biochemical experiments of the New Federation, and the other is about the research of new materials in the New Federation. The originals are destroyed."
Yang Ming's eyes lit up: "Thank you, I'll treat you to dinner later."
"Remember to hand in a copy."
"no problem."
Yang Ming put the chip in his pocket and started strolling in the ruins behind with Grace.
Each level within the fortress is very vast.
The twelve outer floors are built with a simulated planetary sky, while the twelve middle floors are decorated with a futuristic feel. Each floor has a height of at least two kilometers, so people will not feel oppressed.
Gris sighed, "How much would it cost for the New Federation to build such a fortress?"
"That can't be measured with money. It takes time, resources, and long-term manpower deployment," Yang Ming said with emotion. "A country as powerful as the New Federation really needs one or two iconic heavy weapons. This time we got a bargain."
"Can this thing be shipped back to the Empire?"
"Of course not," Yang Ming said with a smile, "If you want to pull it out of the current star system, it will take decades at least."
Grace frowned and said, "Then wouldn't it be in vain if we robbed it?"
"We can just dismantle everything that can be used," Yang Ming said with a click of his tongue. "If the high-ranking officials of the empire are ruthless and grit their teeth, and directly use warships to protect this thing and graft the empire's fortress jump technology onto it, wouldn't that mean we would have another Skywrath Fortress?"
Grace smiled and shook his head: "I think it's difficult. The fortress jump technology is the top secret of the empire. It is unlikely to be constructed in the New Federation."
"I don't know how the fight is going outside."
As soon as Yang Ming finished speaking, the fortress began to shake continuously, as if it was under continuous attack.
"I'll go up there and take a look," Yang Ming whispered.
"I'll go find a ship for escape," Gris understood, "and then notify the three of them."
The two looked at each other and put away their previous playful smiles.
They are not out of danger yet. If the New Federation goes crazy and destroys this "rebel fortress" at all costs, then the five of them will really die here.
Half an hour later, the five-man team gathered again.
They stood on the first floor of the fortress, which was littered with corpses, gathered in front of a large screen and looked up at the battle scene on the screen.
From a distance, they could only see the constantly flashing ion beams and the fusion light balls that appeared one after another.
Only when the fusion light ball flashed could one barely see the extremely large fleets of both sides.
The battle situation has become extremely tense.
The New Federation's fleet was completely suppressed by the Empire's Invincible Fleet. They were now fighting and retreating, trying to lure the Imperial fleet into the effective range of the planetary defense system.
However, the Empire's Invincible Fleet always maintained its distance from the planetary defense system, using the advantage of the longer range of the main guns of its main battleships to comprehensively suppress the New Federation fleet.
The entire Imperial fleet was moving against the direction of the planet's rotation.
The Empire did not actively attack the 'Mint City' star, but it exerted enormous pressure on the New Federation. The New Federation fleet could only passively defend at this moment, following the Empire fleet and moving synchronously in the inner circle.
The big circle revolves around the small circle, and the small circle may collapse at any time.
This tactic... Yang Ming was stunned.
He found that as an ordinary player, he had seen too little of the world in "Abyss" after all.
As the two sides circled each other, the other two fortresses left on the periphery by the New Federation fleet were exposed to the range of the Imperial dreadnoughts.
——Because of their large size and the influence of the planet's gravity, these two fortresses cannot be too close to the "Mint City" star.
The Empire's Third and Sixth Battle Groups suddenly switched their fire and headed straight for the two fortresses.
The bulk battle groups of the dependent countries in the rear immediately followed and provided fire support for the imperial battle groups.
At this moment, the New Federation fleet was suppressed near the planetary defense system and had no way to support the two fortresses.
Not only that, the New Federation's top brass soon discovered that the main firepower of the Imperial fleet was concentrated on their battleships, information jamming ships and large-caliber gunboats, and the Empire did not care about those so-called new ships at all.
The escort fleets near the two fortresses were quickly driven away or annihilated.
Under the full-powered bombardment of the Imperial Dreadnoughts, the protective shields of the two fortresses were in danger. They fell one after another within a few minutes and were blown into cosmic debris, pulled by the gravity of the planet.
The Empire is determined to destroy their heavy firepower!
At this moment, the New Federation was facing the Imperial fleet as a whole and was completely unable to fight back.
“Is the gap really that big?”
Gris crossed his arms and frowned and muttered.
Bligh smiled and said, "Only if the New Federation, the Free United States, and the Guel Alliance unite unconditionally and without reservation can they challenge the Empire's conventional forces, but the Empire has the most unconventional means."
The female team member also sighed and said, "I now believe that statement. The reason why the Empire's territory is limited to a corner of the Milky Way is not because the Empire has lost the ability to expand, but because there is no need to expand for the time being."
“It’s because the expansion has stopped.”
Yang Ming corrected:
"When the distance is too great, it will make it difficult for people to have commercial and cultural exchanges. When there is too little communication between the people, the people will not have centripetal force and sense of identity. It is impossible to achieve peace by relying solely on military rule.
“So the empire would have dozens of vassal states, rather than annexing all of them.
"In addition, the relationship between occupied territory and population size is not simply positively correlated. What is important is whether the Imperial Star Circle can expand outward."
"That's even harder," Gris said with a smile, "The people in the Imperial Star Circle have a deep-rooted sense of superiority, and many places are already very xenophobic."
Catherine said seriously: "We are in wartime now, please stop joking and be ready to join the battle at any time."
"We couldn't help much in the past. This was a large-scale battle with more than 40,000 ships involved," Yang Ming shrugged. "We have done enough."
Grace: "Are you hungry? Want to have some barbecue? I see there's a cafeteria over there."
The female team member frowned as she looked at the corpses scattered around and the sanitation robots wandering around, and complained, "I'll just eat some energy cookies. You're really in the mood."
"That's how war is."
Gris stretched himself:
"There is one thing we must understand. This military action is a retaliation for the New Federation's plan to bury the insects. So many of our people have died innocently in the insect tide and in the ambitions of the New Federation's politicians and generals. We have never provoked the New Federation before."
Bly said calmly: "Too few people died today. If the three fortresses could be controlled like this and then smashed directly into Minter City, it would be a profound lesson for the New Federation."
Yang Ming: …
My goodness, I almost thought he had turned over a new leaf!
With one of the three New Federation fortresses defecting and two being blown up, most of the New Federation's main battleships were destroyed, and the New Federation fleet withdrew into the inner side of the planetary defense system.
The people of Minter City looked up and saw the sky full of ships, but they didn't feel safe at all.
Fireballs kept falling from the sky and were then destroyed by ion beams shot from the ground.
The sky seemed to be covered with a layer of metal shell.
Sometimes dark clouds gather in the air, but they are quickly dispersed by the planet's weather control system.
The sound of the explosion suddenly disappeared, and the shaking of the earth was no longer noticeable.
After the fleet battle lasted for several hours, it seemed to have come to a temporary end as most of the New Federation's ships withdrew into the atmosphere.
it's over?
Or maybe, the Imperial fleet is preparing and recharging its energy to complete the final assault?
Nearly 10 billion New Federation citizens on the planet Mint can only wrap their emotions in panic and wait for the armed trial from the Imperial fleet .
The eyes of the entire galaxy are focused on this point.
More importantly, the rest of the large and medium-sized countries in the galaxy, which had tried to reach an agreement to send a main fleet if the Empire attacked Minter City, remained silent at this moment.
Even though the New Federation had prepared the "traction track" beforehand, and even though the CIA agents were frantically contacting officials from other countries that had been attacked, in the end, no ship could directly jump outside the battlefield of Minter City.
Faced with the most powerful empire in the galaxy, the stars fell silent.
Yang Ming realized that this was actually a critical point.
If the city of Minter turns into cosmic dust, the empire will most likely be retaliated by the stars.
If the rest of the countries cannot even guarantee their own security, how can they talk about standing tall in the galaxy?
What will the Empire choose?
Sizzle, sizzle…
Electromagnetic noise suddenly came from the headphones of Yang Ming and the other four people. This is an inevitable physical phenomenon during high-power electromagnetic broadcasting.
Then, Yang Ming and the others heard a strong female voice:
"The glory of the Imperial Star! Shining brightly over the city of Minter today!
“The Empire’s invincible fleet has surrounded the Star of Minter City today!
"The light of the dreadnought is enough to destroy everything your country has created, and this is just the Empire's reasonable revenge for your country's insect-burying and leading the Second Disaster to harm our citizens!
"Your country has continuously broken the bottom line of human civilization, acted recklessly, oppressed the weak, and bullied the Milky Way. In just a few hundred years, you have annexed dozens of political systems, used external plunder to promote your own strength, and used capital to manipulate the economies of small countries to show your superiority. The well-being of your people is built on the flesh and blood of many weak civilizations in the Milky Way!
"Today, the Empire has sufficient reason to completely destroy your nation's first planet.
“But the great emperor of the empire, following the principles of benevolence and righteousness and following the example of the previous emperors of the empire, does not want to see tens of billions of humans vanish into thin air.
"Your Majesty will make an important speech to your state."
Ray tubes were extended from the cabins of dozens of medium-sized ships, and beams of light intertwined. The figure of the emperor of the empire appeared in space, on electronic screens throughout Minte City, and outside the sky of Minte City.
The emperor was wearing traditional imperial dress, a crown on his head and a scepter in his hand. His old face was full of seriousness and the light in his eyes was extremely sharp.
'Is this a filter?'
Yang Ming complained in his heart and continued looking at the projection screen in front of him.
The Emperor began his speech:
“There shouldn’t be irreconcilable hatred between humans.
"The soldiers of my empire fought bravely just to seek justice from your country.
"I actually don't have any power to order you to be released. The souls of the innocent people who died in the insect plague in the empire are watching me, making me, the emperor, feel like a thorn in my side and unable to sleep all day!
“But I think, if I give the order to attack this planet, more humans will disappear in the light of the Milky Way, more hatred will take root between humans, and more humans will die in vain in the subsequent wars.
“The Empire has always taken raising the level of civilization, developing civilization technology, driving civilization progress, and improving the welfare of the people of the Empire as its own goal.
"The world has many misunderstandings about our empire, and your country has also done its best to discredit us over the past few hundred years, but all of this should be seen by the human civilization in the Milky Way. The right and wrong will be judged by the public.
“I declare.
"For the long-term survival of human civilization in the Milky Way, if your country admits that it was your country that buried the insects and caused the insect plague, the Empire will withdraw its troops and let the planet Mint go.
“If not, I will give the order to attack in fifteen minutes.
"The soldiers who participated in the counterattack against the New Confederacy today are all heroes of my Sherman Empire."
call out!
The Emperor's image disappeared, and the Imperial Invincible Fleet stopped broadcasting to the outside world.
Yang Ming couldn't help but shook his head.
Obviously, the Empire did not dare to destroy the city of Minter directly, but it had to act so "righteous and kind".
hero?
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