Chapter 520: Courage
The first confrontation between light and darkness officially broke out, and the fleets of both sides began to charge against each other under the command of the two gods of mechanical thinking bodies.
For human civilization in the Milky Way, this is just a high-intensity, high-severity war that broke out in the region, and many truths will be buried under history.
Although the history of the Milky Way is not written by the victors, but by higher-dimensional civilizations;
But higher-dimensional civilizations also seem to be hiding something.
As a result, when later generations of the four major political systems involved in the war looked back at this history, they could only find some vague fragments on some key information.
The galactic literary classic "Fall of Empire" summarizes this war like this:
[When the Luofeng Empire announced its reform and independence, the rulers of the empire did not feel threatened by this political system.
What threat could such a country pose? Twenty years ago, it was just one of the many vassal states of the empire, only slightly larger in size and able to provide more annual silver to the empire, and was also a standard victim of the Emperor Replacement Plan.
But right under the nose of the Empire, they formed a regional alliance, and the Empire considered the alliance harmless in its initial assessment.
The wise Emperor Edwang of Fallen Wind and the praised Queen Emilia of Fallen Wind planned and designed everything. They built a coffin with their own hands and buried the glory of the Sherman family that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years.
If we were to classify the fall of the empire into several iconic events, in order of importance, they would be - the Battle of Shelter and the Ghost Uprising.
Yes, the importance of the Battle of Xie Luo should be ranked before the Ghost Uprising.
This was a war that dealt a heavy blow to Sherman's empire in many ways.
After this war, the Empire shifted from external advantage to active defense, and the free camp and democratic camp in the Milky Way began a massive anti-Imperial crusade.
And how was this war lost... We're sorry, our team only found a few fragmentary descriptions in the old database of the Imperial Military, and the rest of the data has been deleted.
These depictions show a conversation that should be the captains shouting to the headquarters:
"Damn it! They're coming for us! We have to get out of this war!"
"Bugs! They are bugs! This is the way bugs fight!"
"Damn it! The Levi Fleet is being overwhelmed ! We have to do something! We have to support the Levi Fleet!"
These are the only data we have about this war.
Later generations may be intrigued by this summary and want to learn more information, and most of them will refer to a best-selling book published in the later years of a war survivor.
"The Last Legend of the Empire - Memoirs of Revell".
The description of the Battle of Xie Luo here is the most detailed of all the written records circulating.
Revell wrote in his book:
[That is the Levi Fleet, the most powerful and invincible fleet. Eighty percent of the reason why the Empire is called the Evil Empire can be attributed to the existence of the Levi Fleet.
When I learned that the Levi Fleet had arrived, my tense nerves finally relaxed.
The matter is simple - if even the Levi Fleet can't defeat the Falling Wind Alliance, then what other tricks do we have? Will the Levi Fleet lose? The possibility is almost zero. The direction of this extremely high-intensity war has changed. Our noble fleets that were pulled in to make up the numbers are no longer useful.
Everyone knows what happened next. The empire actually lost the war.
I fell asleep and became unconscious due to the shock of the explosion. When I woke up again, my ship was drifting alone in the starry sky. In the distance there was a meteorite belt filled with the wreckage of starships.
When I found the staff officer assigned to me by the military, he was sitting outside the door of the medical cabin, leaning against the wall with an empty look in his eyes. He had lost the ability to respond to the outside world for a while.
When I asked him, did we win?
He nodded numbly, then shook his head. As strong as he was, he suddenly held his head and sobbed. - I shared in the previous story that he was an extremely strong and battle-hardened officer, but this war was indeed beyond the limit of what humans could endure.
The following war records were all told to me orally by him, or reported to me by him.
The mysterious fleet belonging to the Falling Wind Alliance changed everything.
Only half the galaxy away after I fell asleep, the war broke out in full swing. There was no dialogue between the two sides because there was no need for any additional dialogue due to the heavy casualties in the previous two wars.
Our tactical deployment was to separate the invincible Levi fleet from the conventional fleet, opening up three battlefields: upper, middle, and lower; the opponent's tactical deployment was to combine their mysterious fleet with the conventional fleet, opening up three battlefields: left, middle, and right.
Then, under the tough attitude of the commanders on both sides, the battlefield was divided into nine pieces, like a nine-square grid.
The density of ships on both sides is not too high, because both sides have amazing strategic weapons - planetary guns and dreadnoughts.
What followed was a head-on confrontation that lasted for six galaxies.
Every battlefield was chaotic, but the loss ratio of warships on both sides was always close to '1'.
This is a battle of wills. Whoever shows cowardice or whose battle formation is shaken will see his front line collapse directly.
The soldiers of the Free United States and the Confederation of Güell have a strong fighting spirit and are professional armies.
The ragtag army of the Luofeng Alliance shocked people for the third time. They united together for a certain belief and burst out with a fighting will that was not inferior to that of the soldiers of the four major powers.
On the surface, the battlefield continued to be tense, but in the eyes of the top leaders of the Guel Alliance and the Free United States, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Why?
It's very simple, because among these nine battlefields, four belong to the Levi Fleet and the Luofeng Mysterious Fleet. These two extremely powerful fleets have crushed the armies of other political systems, and their casualty ratio is infinitely close to one to one.
This is a scene that has never appeared in the tens of thousands of years of history of the empire.
According to the information I heard later, at this time, the two major political systems had completely believed that the higher-dimensional civilization that controlled the Milky Way had abandoned the Sherman Empire, and that the Fallen Wind Alliance was the lucky one chosen by the higher-dimensional civilization.
They will definitely complain - why don’t higher-dimensional civilizations choose us?
In fact, the higher-dimensional civilization did not have any clear attitude or instructions in this war. Everything originated from the psychological offensive launched by my idol, Mr. White Ghost.
Being on par with the Levi Fleet is a huge advantage.
The top leaders of the two families chose to trust the Faya people. They began to take out the troops hidden nearby and continued to fill this huge furnace like dry firewood.
The scale of the war began to get out of control.
The empire also had to let its reserve troops continue to move forward, and squeeze out new reserve troops from the basic defense forces in the rear to go to the front line.
At the most intense moment of the Battle of Sherlock, the Imperial Military Department had suggested to the Sherman family to withdraw the New Federation's expeditionary force and fully support the Battle of Sherlock. At this time, the New Federation, which had been timid, suddenly launched a full-scale counterattack against the Imperial Expeditionary Force.
It was a real counterattack. Those hypocritical Federation guys showed their brutal face as space pirates and fought a fierce battle with the Imperial Expeditionary Force.
Of course, the result of the fierce battle was that the Imperial Expeditionary Force, supported by a small number of Levi Fleet Regiments, gave the New Federation a severe lesson.
It was precisely this victory that the Empire achieved in the New Federation that prevented the Empire from being completely passive.
Let’s get back to the Battle of Xie Luo.
After six galactic hours of fighting, the Levi Fleet's first 13,000 warships had suffered a 35% loss, which was comparable to the loss of warships in the Mysterious Fleet.
At this time, a detail appeared, and this detail determined the direction of the war.
A slogan suddenly appeared above the mysterious fleet: We will launch a suicide attack on your troops.
Then, thousands of warships accelerated synchronously and locked onto the remaining Levi fleet.
At this time, the reinforcements of both sides were still in the rear and had not moved forward. The remaining energy of the remaining ships of the Mysterious Fleet and Levi's Fleet was not much, but the ships of the Luofeng Mysterious Fleet showed shocking performance. This is also the project that all countries are now tackling - super-explosive negative energy engine.
Missing that scene is a lifelong regret of mine. I can only describe that scene to you through the narration of my chief of staff and soldiers .
The first was the overwhelming swarm of drones. Tens of millions of drones were bombing us continuously, and the number of the enemy's drones was increasing, successfully blocking our retreat path.
At the same time, the fleets of the Fallen Wind Alliance, the Guell Alliance, and the Free United States began to cover our fleet with full firepower. They were like crazy, filling their main guns with all their energy. The precious self-propelled planetary guns risked self-destruction and stored energy in advance to fire, just to cover the ships of the mysterious fleet.
My staff officer said...it was a starry hell.
The two sides were originally engaged in a melee, and the mysterious fleet rushed into our battle formation at a speed close to sub-light speed. About 50% of the silver-white ships in the field entered the formation of Levi's fleet under the cover of a swarm of drones, and 30% of the silver-white ships entered the cover range of our conventional fleet.
The explosion began.
We didn't know how this technology came about, but huge balls of light appeared one after another across the battlefield, like supernova explosions or helium flashes from stars. Later we learned that these ships' superexplosive negative energy engines had energy output comparable to that of matter-antimatter annihilation.
This is an extremely exaggerated idea. They turned the ship itself into a super bomb.
They never thought about our habitual way of thinking - using tactics and methods to effectively eliminate the enemy and try to preserve themselves.
It was as if the purpose of the birth of these mysterious fleets was for today, to perish together with the invincible Levi Fleet of the Sherman Empire.
Half of the battle was cleared, and the explosion caused some accidental injuries to them, but they had the overall advantage in the battle situation, and they launched the final stranglehold on us.
When the reserve forces behind the empire and more Levi fleets began to jump, countless silver-white warships appeared behind the Luofeng Alliance.
The good news is, they are still far away.
The bad news is that their numbers are equal to those of the Levi Fleet.
The losses of the empire have been too great, so great that we cannot bear it; and the excited United States of Freedom and the Güell Alliance are ready to take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack against Sherman's Empire. Their politicians are already shouting slogans such as "Infiltrate Sherman" and "Liberate Sherman".
In the history of the Empire, heavy losses in the Empire's conventional military were occasional. Over tens of thousands of years, the Empire suppressed dozens of regimes that attempted to challenge its hegemony. Some of these regimes were even more powerful than the New Federation at its peak.
But in the history of the Empire, there has never been a case where the Levi Fleet suffered heavy losses.
It was then that we realized a terrible fact - the Levi Fleet was a semi-permanent fleet. There were not many production lines in the empire that could produce semi-permanent materials. This was the crystallization of tens of thousands of years of accumulation of the empire and an almost non-renewable resource.
Under the current situation, especially before the Imperial military industry is fully activated and produces sufficient output, no more ships of the Levi Fleet can be allowed to be destroyed.
We can only retreat, a shameful retreat.
The Empire lost 13,000 Levi's ships, 21,000 conventional warships, and nearly 80 million soldiers were killed or wounded.
Of course, the Confederation of Güell and the Free United States also suffered heavy losses.
In this war, there is only one winner, and that is the Luofeng Alliance.
Their powerful mysterious ships have become a new deterrent force, and their official code name is "Mystery".
The number of their mysterious ships was surprisingly equal to that of the Sherman Empire's Levi Fleet, and they were able to adopt suicide and self-destruction tactics without hesitation.
After this battle, the military strength of the Luofeng Alliance was ranked among the top five in the Milky Way, and dozens of surrounding regimes sent requests to join the alliance; but the arrogant Luofeng Alliance closed its door, and the review of member countries became extremely harsh, which also brought more benefits to itself.
These are all lasting effects of the war.
When the war was over, after I listened to the staff officer's story, my first reaction was not whether the Empire could get back at the Luofeng Alliance, but whether we could defend ourselves well during the difficult period that followed.
Ninety percent of the ships in my fleet, which was built with all my family's hard work, failed to return home.
But I was also lucky, I survived, survived the sleep and coma.
This war also touched me deeply. The Battle of Xie Luo tore off the last fig leaf of this ancient and decadent empire. At this time, we already knew that we should face the problems that we had been avoiding before. 】
Next, let’s travel through this strange time dimension and go back to the moment when the war just ended.
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After the Sherman Empire withdrew its troops from the periphery, the Dark Star Fleet also began to jump.
They did not return to the Luofeng Alliance, but went straight to the other side of the border of the Luofeng Alliance.
When everything was settled, Yang Ming in the command ship had slumped in his chair.
Lu on the side was reporting the losses of the war.
On the big screen in front of Yang Ming, tens of thousands of ships of the Dark Star Fleet had completed continuous jumps, arrived at the airspace near Dark Star Base No. 9, and accelerated towards Dark Star Base No. 9.
Yang Ming shouldn't have laughed at this time.
With so many deaths and the loss of so many fleets, the conventional military losses of the Luofeng Alliance were also extremely huge, but he couldn't help but laugh. There was relaxation and relief in his smile.
Two-thirds of the tens of thousands of ships in the Dark Star Fleet began to self-'collapse' - energy-storing drones flew out from the hulls, the mass of the ships themselves shrank rapidly, and the energy stored in the ships themselves was exhausted, barely maintaining a constant speed forward.
There was no error or omission in the judgment made by Li at that time;
With the explosive development of mechanical civilization, the Dark Star Fleet is still several years behind the Levi Fleet.
Boss Yang climbed out of his chair and took out the "Emperor's Biography" which he had always carried with him.
The character weakness of the Levi and Li combination is that they are too conservative and cautious.
It’s said in the book.
