Chapter 510: Great Victory in the First Battle
This is impossible...
No, it should be said that this is somewhat beyond my understanding.
The anthropomorphic main control program of the Emperor Guard 2.0 system , an artificial thinking body codenamed 'Labdo', was standing blankly in front of a door.
This is the embodiment of the online world.
Simply put, the surrounding scenery is the result of simulation, and the gate in front of him represents the firewall of the command system of all ships of the Luofeng Alliance in this battlefield.
As long as he pushed open this door, theoretically, he could invade the Luofeng Alliance's command system.
This is the only way to save the Imperial Fleet.
The direction of today's battle completely exceeded Labdo's expectations.
They knew too little about Luo Feng before.
In these short tens of minutes, Luofeng's technology, Luofeng's army, and the fighting will of Luofeng's soldiers all made Labdo look sideways.
And all of this was developed under the nose of the empire, which made Labdo want to curse...
Those lazy MI6 pigs!
——This certainly does not include the man who once worked for the Military Intelligence Agency.
Is it possible that all the huge amount of funding that the Military Intelligence Bureau receives every year is embezzled by people at all levels of the military?
The defeat in today's battle was mainly due to the huge errors in intelligence, which resulted in them being caught off guard by Luo Feng's planetary artillery and dragged into a battle with a large group of drones that was not in reserve in the Empire's war preparedness database.
All the information Labdo had came from the "experience" of his predecessors, and he had no specific way to deal with this situation.
But Labdo also has his own independent thinking ability.
Just like now, he decided to launch a devastating attack on the Luofeng Fleet.
This thinking entity, which has condensed countless advanced technologies of the empire, possesses super computing power and is temporarily in charge of the network world in the core area of the empire, is about to launch a precise dimensionality reduction attack on the battlefield ship network of the Luofeng Alliance!
He pushed!
"Um?"
Labdo looked up at the door in front of him.
Can’t push it?
He mobilized all the computing power he could mobilize at the moment, which accounted for about 15% of his total computing power at the moment. The effect he expected was that the communication method of the Luofeng Alliance fleet would be cracked within a few seconds, and he would be able to invade the onboard systems of some ships of the Luofeng Alliance within a dozen seconds and forcibly shut down their weapon systems and power systems.
But now... the door didn't move at all.
The computing power invested by Labdo continued to calculate, but he seemed to have plunged into a fog and could not find any flaws at all.
Labdo even found that he could not understand the self-protection method of the Fallen Wind Alliance's ship system.
Another new technology that the Empire doesn't have?
How did the Luofeng Alliance do it!
Labdo glanced around the battlefield...
The warships were exploding, flames were rising and falling, and countless drones were flying at high speed among the strings of light bombs, looking for opportunities to attack the ships;
The retreat route is about to be cut off, and the fully-equipped reinforcements of the Guel Alliance are waiting eagerly;
The two dreadnoughts of the Empire had now become the 'point' for the enemy to surround and attack. The enemy's drone swarm that could capture the dreadnoughts posed such a great threat that Labdo had to mobilize more ships to help protect the dreadnoughts.
They fell into the mire.
Some crazy thoughts emerged in Labdu's mind.
He began to mobilize more computing power, temporarily gave up supervision of some planets in the Imperial Star Circle, and temporarily gave up the ships in the rear of the New Federation border because there was no full-scale war there.
He placed his hands on the golden door in front of him.
He must save the imperial soldiers here and bring as many manpower as possible back to the imperial border!
This door must be opened!
The computing power expanded like the tide, and waves hit the ocean of data ahead; Labdo almost reached over it with his head, but was always firmly blocked outside by the door.
Law of thinking space.
Lu's clones were still busy. Lu's main body and Molly huddled together, looking down at a small round plate on Lu's desk.
——This is of course also a concrete demonstration of the data world.
The disc is shaped like a Colosseum, with layers of rings within layers, stacked up one after another, and the structure is extremely complex.
At the outermost edge of the Colosseum, there was a petite man who was pressing hard on the door in front of him with both hands. Veins bulged all over his body and his feet kept slipping, but he was unable to push the door open even a little bit.
"Ah," Molly whispered, "He's so weak."
Lu couldn't help but raise his hand to support his forehead: "It's really weak."
“But he is also called the advanced Li,” Molly gestured with two wings, “The gap is too big. He can’t even enter the data maze you set, let alone walk out... Last time, I saw you and Li fighting in the starry sky with wings.”
"We can't blame him entirely," Lu shook his head. "The level of the omnic Twilight is too high. Although Li and I are growing minds and are far from reaching the ability of a complete body, we are not something that the Empire's network technology can defeat."
"So what are you going to do?"
Molly asked:
"Just trap him in here? That way, we can kill more of the Sherman Empire's forces."
"Of course," Lu thought for a moment, "I'll open a door for him. I originally thought that giving him some resistance when he enters the door would give him a sense of reality, and he can treat this data maze as our shipboard control system."
Molly nodded, seeming to be hesitant to speak.
But seeing that Lu had no intention of asking her about the young man's condition, she just kept quiet and didn't say anything more.
Lu opened the golden door a crack.
In front of the door , Labdo was stunned.
He had just adjusted the total computing power by 30 percent and tried to push the door open, but the door did not move at all.
Now, because he didn't dare to concentrate all the computing power here, Labdo, who had already reallocated the computing power, felt inexplicably frightened when he saw the door suddenly open a crack.
What's going on?
He clearly didn't understand how things worked here, and couldn't find their underlying architecture, let alone decipher their various data;
Now, there is a sudden opportunity to go inside...
Is this a fraud?
The other party's network technology is so advanced, maybe he also has a thinking body similar to mine.
Labdo looked inside through the crack in the door and saw countless data links. To him, this was simply a paradise emitting golden light.
But Labdo hesitated.
He thought and deduced, and finally wisely chose to take two steps back.
If he were to be invaded in reverse, the entire empire's military force would be destroyed!
Labdo evacuated the place instantly.
In the command ship, Labdo opened his eyes and frowned as he looked at General Akuz beside him.
"General, please evacuate immediately. I failed to hack into the enemy ship's control system. They have a technological level that is one era higher than ours."
General Akuz frowned and glared at Labdo.
This anger was not directed at Labdo, but at the current war situation which was beyond redemption.
Akzi's mood was somewhat sad.
The Sixth Expeditionary Fleet actually persisted for a full one and a half galactic hours under Luo Feng's tactics.
"Retreat," Akzi whispered, "The headquarters will cover the rear, and all ships are ready to leave the battle. Labdo, let the ships that cannot leave kill as many enemy troops as possible."
"Yes, General."
Labdo answered with a gloomy expression.
…
"My Lord Earl! We have received the order to retreat!"
"retreat?"
Revil turned his head and glared at the staff officer:
"Such a huge sacrifice! You want us to retreat? Did the soldiers who died in the battle die in vain? Half of my ships have been destroyed! Now you want us to retreat?"
"Luo Feng's firepower is too strong. We have no way to resist it. If we can't withdraw during this window, their huge planetary cannon will finish charging, and then we won't be able to leave!"
The staff officer said quickly:
"We must preserve enough manpower now!"
"Fuck the living force!"
Revell's eyes were bloodshot: "It's only been a short time since the war started! We can still fight!"
"Lord Earl! We are temporarily unable to cope with the opponent's tactics!"
"Their drones can't get close to us!"
"That's because your ship has been equipped with excessive anti-aircraft capabilities. The Empire's standard ships do not take into account the impact of drones in this regard! We only need to activate some of the inventory warships and take out the drone swarm defense ships, and we can perfectly restrain them!"
"asshole!"
Revell paced back and forth anxiously on the narrow command platform.
Outside the portholes, lines of light bullets crisscrossed back and forth, and three to five meter long combat drones shuttled back and forth madly, exploding into pieces in the rain of bullets.
"We must be decisive now!"
The staff officer grabbed Revil's arm and growled:
"The fact that we were able to get the order to retreat proves that the higher-ups wanted us to survive. Many ships did not receive the order to retreat, and they will be the ones to be sacrificed! Revel! Luo Feng and his men are 10,000 times more prepared than we are! This war was lost at the start! We are unjust!"
Revell tried to break free from the staff officer's hand, but after he struggled a few times, the staff officer's big hand did not move at all.
He closed his eyes tightly and gasped a few times.
In the past few dozen minutes, his mood changed from self-mockery at the beginning, to indifference before the battle, to the shock of his pupils when the enemy's planetary cannon shattered his dreadnought, and then to anxiety when the two fleets were bombarding each other...
Now, Revelle suddenly calmed down.
He took a breath and whispered, "Retreat! Take more people and escape!"
"The Guel Alliance is trying to outflank us from the rear. We can only prioritize ensuring that we are not destroyed."
The staff officer spoke in a deep voice and then ran directly to the driving console.
Revil held onto the railing and slowly sat down on the ground.
He looked at the chaotic battlefield outside the window and saw a battleship not far away being pierced and exploded by an ion beam. There was only deep fatigue in his eyes.
unjust war;
And lost so easily.
Could this be the future of the empire...
…
"Boss! Some of the Empire's ships are beginning to leave the battlefield!"
Next to Yang Ming, Lu appeared hurriedly and reported quickly:
“Several fleets of the Empire have begun to attack frantically. They seem to be trying to detonate their power reactors, making it impossible for us to pursue them for the time being.
"They ran quite decisively."
Yang Ming nodded slightly, sat in his chair, and looked at the battlefield that was just around the corner.
Those imperial ships have begun to carry out forced jumps, risking damage to their own jump system hardware. At the moment of forced jump, several ships' own power reactors were detonated by unstable energy and exploded into huge starry sky fireworks.
Yang Ming didn't ask any more questions, just watched quietly.
The Luofeng fleet is trying to expand its victory as much as possible. The swarm of drones has already connected into a piece in the deep sky, like a piece of dark cloud.
'Mechanical Swarm'.
This word inexplicably came to Yang Ming's mind, and thus this tactic got a new name.
Victory reports from various fleet commanders came over the communication channel.
Yang Ming heard cheers from far and near.
His command ship was also celebrating symbolically, but everyone on board was a mechanical thinking body covered in simulated leather, so it was just a token gesture.
The two generals beside Yang Ming, who had been replaced for many years, continued to convey orders.
Thanks to General Akz's decisiveness, some of the imperial ships escaped successfully, while the remaining ships were quickly destroyed by Luo Feng.
Originally, Yang Ming thought this was a big victory...it was indeed a big victory.
The hidden fist of the Luofeng Alliance was suddenly swung out, catching the Sherman Empire off guard. It would be extremely difficult to achieve such a tactical effect again in the future.
But when the lawyer reported the number of casualties on his side, Yang Ming still felt a pang in his heart.
Because of the stimulation of the planetary cannon bombardment of the dreadnought, the battle was fast and fierce, and the casualties were huge.
The Sherman Empire lost more than 7,200 ships, 1,900 of which were directly destroyed or damaged by planetary cannons, and three dreadnoughts were destroyed.
One hundred and twenty-six ships were captured, all of which were medium and large combat ships;
Another 1,300 ships have lost their combat effectiveness and require emergency maintenance, and the possibility of direct scrapping cannot be ruled out.
In the empire's punitive force, the regular army lost nearly half of its combat power, the nobles' private army lost 60%, and more than 80 nobles above the rank of earl were killed or injured.
Luo Feng's side lost more than 4,300 ships, mainly because there were no ordinary ships on the route where the two dreadnoughts bombarded the planetary cannons.
Two self-propelled planetary guns were lost.
Due to the high intensity of the war, the drone fleet lost 1.25 million aircraft.
The number of soldiers killed in battle in the empire is estimated at 19.6 million;
About 8.92 million soldiers died in the Luofeng battle.
Eight million nine hundred and twenty thousand...
Yang Ming rubbed his forehead hard, slumped in the chair, his eyes looking a little empty.
This is the high-intensity war in the galaxy.
The New Federation and the Empire are also capable of fighting this kind of war, but each time both sides are involved in too many political factors and are avoiding war intentionally or unintentionally.
On the surface, it seems that Luo Feng was able to achieve such a brilliant result by defeating the strong with the weak.
In fact, Yang Ming knew that this was the technical accumulation brought by Lu. The combat power of Luo Feng and the Empire was almost the same, and due to various factors, both sides did not hold back when they attacked.
"Boss," Lu said softly, "The defeated empire soldiers have joined forces with the reinforcements in the rear, and are about to form a super fleet consisting of more than 13,000 ships. They are also urgently mobilizing troops in the rear."
Yang Ming nodded numbly and asked, "What do the Guell Alliance and the Free United States say?"
"The fleet of the Guell Alliance has begun to approach us. They expressed their congratulations and admiration for our victory and invited us to connect with the command system."
"Tell them that if they want to help, they can follow our instructions."
"yes!"
A few minutes later.
Lu's figure reappeared: "Boss, they have agreed to our request. Next, these two battle groups will cooperate with us in tactical deployment. The fleet of the Free United States will arrive in two galactic hours. Should we announce the formation of a coalition?"
"Well," Yang Ming said, "publicize the results of the first battle throughout the territory, and all the soldiers who died in the battle will receive a higher pension according to the pension standards we set."
"Yes... Her Highness Emilia sent a communication request."
"Letting other generals appear on camera is just political propaganda," Yang Ming rubbed his forehead, "Let me adjust it. When will the Empire launch another attack?"
Lu said softly, "At the fastest, it will take three galaxies. However, in the next war, the Empire should make a choice. They are very likely to withdraw the fleets that invaded other tributary countries and focus on dealing with us and the New Federation."
Yang Ming said: "As long as we win the next battle, the empire will lose the ability to publicize its hegemony in the next ten years... Prepare for war with all your strength and use all the power you can."
"clear."
Just as Lu's projection was about to disappear, he suddenly turned around and said:
"Boss, 026's nephew died in the battle."
"who?"
"026's nephew, a 19-year-old young man."
Yang Ming was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's his name?"
"Xingyu Sakr," Lu explained, "We tried to rescue him, but the ship he was on was bombarded by the battleship's main guns..."
"I understand," Yang Ming said, "Let 026 mourn for her. I will comfort her after the war is over."
"good."
