Star Lord: Rob the alien race and you will get a hundred times the reward

Chapter 114 Enemies in the Dark
"Hurry, where's the logistics supply ship? I need fuel, armor repairs, and weapon parts!"

A battleship with a broken shield, scarred outer armor, and its turret's energy-gathering components melted due to overuse retreated to the rear of the line, and the captain kept yelling at the legion's logistics communication channel.

"The application has been approved. Battleship No. 20116 will proceed to the maintenance department for repairs and supplies according to the navigation. Is there any need for psychological counseling for the crew?" The staff of the Corps Logistics Department proactively inquired.

"No need for psychological counseling. Just supply me according to the list and tell the maintenance man to hurry up. We can talk about the external armor later. Get the guns and fuel ready first." After the captain said that, he collapsed in the safety cabin. After a while, he opened the safety cabin and climbed out with a pale face, then went to each crew cabin to check the situation.

"Captain." The first and second mates of the battleship also came out with pale faces. After saluting, they said to the captain, "We have just checked. Among the 220 crew members, 15 are seriously exhausted and need urgent treatment. Another 87 need a deep sleep to recover. The rest of the crew can barely operate the equipment at their posts."

The captain called up the crew inspection report from the shipboard intelligent computer, sighed silently, and waved his hand: "Those who need to go to the medical cabin should go to the medical cabin, and those who need to rest should rest. We have six hours of rotation time."

"Yes!" The big copy wanted to say that this time was not enough to recover, but when he thought of his comrades on the front line, he could only stand at attention and salute, then turn around and arrange for medical robots to transfer the wounded.

The captain walked into the lounge, poured himself a glass of drink, walked to the porthole and opened the optical lens.

Outside the portholes were densely packed temporary repair docks built by the legion's battlefield logistics support, stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers, filled with all kinds of equally damaged warships. Many of the warships were almost cut in half and were undergoing emergency repairs under the operation of two engineering ships. Medical shuttles shuttled back and forth among the warships, and logistics supply ships attached to the surface of the warships like mosquitoes, transporting all kinds of necessary items and No. 105 synthetic element fuel into the warships. In the distance, there were dense spots of light flickering in the void, which were the battlefield logistics support departments of other fleets.

"What a terrible war!" The captain drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. The spiritual energy in it permeated his whole body and nourished his biological cells.

As the captain of a battleship, he knew that he was very lucky to be able to stand here. There were so many warships on the front line, even as powerful as super flagships or mobile fortresses, that would quickly fall and capsize under the close attacks of those dimensional creatures.

What blocked the battlefield radar's view in front of the front line was not the bodies of dimensional creatures, but the asteroid belt formed by the wreckage of their warships.

"Oh!" After a sigh, the captain collapsed on the sofa and fell into a deep sleep. The wine glass in his hand that was about to fall to the ground was pulled back to the wine cabinet by the intelligent robot for cleaning and storage. After detecting that the captain fell asleep, the lights in the lounge turned off automatically, and gas medicine that promoted human absorption and digestion was released in the corner.

On the defense line composed of thousands of legions, combat units based on legions are gradually retreating in cross-cover, and the firepower network formed by dense naval guns is illuminating the void at all times.

In front of the fleet, there are hundreds of millions of dimensional creatures attacking the defense line. Their energy strikes are no weaker than the battleships' guns. Their flexibility and coordination are even better than the coordination between battleships. These small individuals are too flexible. They shuttle through the firepower network and attack the fleet's defense line frantically. Every attack can take away some battleships while breaking the energy shields of many battleships, leaving numerous scars on the hull.

The human fleet's damage ratio is indeed much better than that of the dimensional creatures, but the numerical disadvantage is too great. The lost warships cannot be replenished, making the fleet weaker and weaker. The dimensional creatures seem to have not decreased at all. The offensive and the damage remain the same. From time to time, high-level dimensional evil gods break through the defense line and deal a heavy blow to the fleet. A single rule attack can take away hundreds of warships, forcing the fleet to retreat.

In the void in front of the front line, thousands of psychic warships roamed the battlefield in a seemingly loose and messy formation, tying down high-level combat forces for the ordinary fleet. There were distortions and confusions everywhere in the sky full of firepower. This was the collision of the rule attacks launched by both sides.

The rule protection barrier that the psychic battleship built for the ordinary fleet needs to be re-covered every once in a while, otherwise the aftermath of their battle will break the rule barrier, allowing the dimensional evil god to remotely assist low- and medium-level dimensional creatures in attacking the ordinary fleet.

Combined Fleet Headquarters, Command Center.

Liu Wen frowned as he looked at the battle damage data, then looked at the warships sent as reinforcements by various alien civilizations and human overlords, and his heart sank.

Alien civilizations are easier to deal with, as they do not need to accept conscription orders from the human world. Therefore, each civilization has retained some troops to protect the migration fleet. At the same time, civilizations that have not been affected by the war are still working overtime to manufacture military equipment.

The human lords were in a much worse situation. They did not have many basic protective forces left in their territories, and they also had to protect the migration fleet and transfer their citizens to the rear. They had no extra warships to reinforce the front lines.

Even for territories that have the ability to manufacture warships, the speed of building warships is too slow. It takes one or two months to build one ship. Even if all the shipyards start construction at the same time, only a batch of ships can be put into service in stages, which makes it difficult to keep up with the needs of the war.

Therefore, apart from his star sea territory that could add a batch of biological warships every few hours, only the alien civilization gritted its teeth and sent in a batch of warships for reinforcement, but the total number was less than two hundred legions, which could only add some firepower but could not contain the offensive of the dimensional creatures.

"When will the 1001st Army arrive?" The reserve troops have been sent up to the defense lines in other areas, and the Operations Department has dispatched a group of regular fleets of the Human League to provide support. As they have the support of the Tianhe Unit, their casualties are the least, so the Human League has not paid too much attention to them.

As the reserve force of Zone B, the 1001st Army was also ordered to reinforce the defense line of the 1002nd Army in a timely manner. However, apart from the initial contact and confirmation that they would come to reinforce, after a few hours, there was no news at all. The 1881st Army was not found within the exploration range of the territories of the human lords along the way.

Liu Wen was very angry about this, but he could do nothing about it, because reinforcements were not a mandatory order, but an independent decision based on the battlefield situation. It was up to them to reinforce the front line or build a second line of defense. Unless Liu Wen's defenses collapsed completely like the defenses in other areas and a large area of ​​the territory was lost, the other side would have to build a defense line head-on to intercept the attack of the dimensional creatures.

When asked about the movements of the 1001st Army, Xu Zemin said with a dark face: "There is still no clear response to the communication we sent out, except that reinforcements are on the way."

"On the way? How come it takes them several months to travel tens of thousands of light years away?" Liu Wen asked, "What is the origin of this Li Kui? Have you found out?"

"There is no specific information. I checked with my friend in the Operations Department, but I didn't have the permission to access it. When I asked other people, I just got a very complicated reply." Xu Zemin hated this kind of people with connections, but he was also jealous that he was not the one with connections.

Pioneers with backstage support are much better than pioneer lords like them who are only supported by ordinary group companies. At least the territory income does not need to be spent, and can all be used for territory development.

"Li Kui! I really hope you are worthy of this name!" Liu Wen took a deep breath and had to give up the idea of ​​having the 1001st Army come up to replace his own army. However, it was not a solution to continue fighting like this. The mental strength of the crew was limited. As time went by, the crew would be exhausted and could not recover, so their combat effectiveness would inevitably drop significantly. As a result, the overall combat effectiveness of the fleet would drop and the loss ratio would increase.

This will lead to a vicious cycle, with troops unable to be replenished, crew members unable to rest and recover, and the army's combat effectiveness will only become weaker and weaker.

"How's the emergency recruitment of replacement crew members going?" When Liu Wen found something wrong, he followed the advice of the General Staff and recruited crew members in batches to join the combat fleet. The worst crew members would be replaced in turn. In this way, the combat effectiveness could be maintained by bringing the old with the new, and the fleet would not be overturned due to major changes.

Xu Zemin pulled up the data projection: "Currently, a total of 2 billion crew members have been recruited in various territories. The first batch of 300 million retired crew members have been sent to the front line. It is expected that the first batch of rotation will be completed in two and a half hours." "The remaining 1.6 billion crew members are still in training. According to the wartime emergency training regulations, it will take another 12 hours before they can go to the warships to serve."

"Twelve more hours? I'd like to give them more time, but the situation at the frontline may not allow them enough time to train with peace of mind!" Liu Wen quickly thought about how to break the deadlock.

Generally speaking, after the arrival of the psychic fleet, Zone B's defense line was relatively solid with the many special weapons and special warships he brought out, as well as the occasional level 7 warships carrying out targeted attacks on areas with a high density of dimensional creatures.

So far, the fleet's casualties have been only one-third, of course this is the result without taking into account the biological warships.

But at present, apart from the biological warships that can quickly produce troops, he has nothing else that can quickly increase combat effectiveness. The construction speed of special warships and level 7 warships is too slow. Even if a few ships are built, they can only play the role of stabilizing the defense line on the local battlefield. There is no way to expand the results of the battle from a point to a whole area.

After much thought, if there is no follow-up reinforcement for a long time, then the only option is to choose the final plan, using the headquarters of the joint fleet with ten layers of defense as a barrier to resist the dimensional creatures and give the fleet enough rest time.

This rest refers to the crew's shifts in the undamaged warships. The warships all work in three shifts, but now the intensity of the battle is too great, resulting in increased mental exhaustion of the crew. The replenishment cannot keep up with the consumption, which makes the overall repair plan of the fleet fail. They are forced to use urgently recruited crew members to replace them, increasing the crew's rest time to allow them to have more time to recover.

"Let them gradually withdraw to the headquarters area and continue to strengthen the firepower of the defense system. We may need to be trapped for a long time." Liu Wen said to Xu Zemin.

Xu Zemin did not object, but simply asked: "Then should I notify the surrounding territories and alien races to start evacuating now?"

"Let them all retreat, and finally evacuate this star field directly. After we are trapped, what the dimensional creatures will do will no longer be under our control." Liu Wen nodded in agreement with Xu Zemin's suggestion.

The order for a full evacuation was issued from the command center. Various human territories and alien forces accelerated their actions. The migration fleet expanded again and again. Except for the necessary supervisory personnel, all civilians and equipment and facilities that could be taken away were dismantled and taken away.

The destination of alien civilizations is basically towards the Bonucci star field. Later, those who had no place could only continue to go deeper into the void, while the human territory evacuated towards the Human Alliance defense line. Military combat troops would not evacuate, but ordinary citizens could retreat to the front of the Human Alliance defense line. When necessary, they could erase their citizenship by disbanding the territory or withdrawing from the territory, thereby entering the Human Alliance supervision area as a free citizen and getting a chance to save their lives.

But this situation also means that the territory is in a paralyzed state. Even if the territory is rebuilt later, it is still a question how many people can return.

Through the performance of the territory in the war, they who have become free citizens will be more inclined to join the territory that shines in the war. Only some nostalgic ones will choose to return and rebuild the territory without considering the development prospects.

The issuance of a large-scale migration order also means a precipitous decline in the production capacity and logistical support capabilities of various territories and ethnic groups, as well as a gap in the territory's own defense capabilities.

Dimensional creatures can completely blockade the surrounding star fields and destroy all territory production facilities to cut off the logistical support for the headquarters area of ​​the Joint Fleet.

This has naturally been taken into consideration long ago. Ever since the combined fleet appeared here, the storage of logistical supplies in the defense system that has been established has never been interrupted, and the massive amounts of materials previously plundered from the Tuomu Thunder Galaxy are also piled up here. Although high-precision processing is not possible, there is no problem in providing basic support for the fleet with primary processing.

A few hours later, the migration fleets from the surrounding territories had all set sail, and the front-line fleet, under Xu Zemin's arrangement, accelerated its retreat. The frequency of battles decreased, giving the crew more time to rest and recover, allowing the fleet's combat effectiveness to remain good.

After receiving the order to retreat, Tianhe Unit 1 did not keep in phase with the fleet, but continued to persist for a while, blocking the high-level dimensional evil god. After the ordinary fleet withdrew hundreds of light years, it withdrew from the battle and retreated to the rear after a fierce attack.

When passing by the fleet's defense line, all kinds of high-powered rule weapons were scattered throughout the surrounding void like garbage. Billions of dimensional creatures had no power to fight back or escape under this large-scale, high-level armed bombardment, and were annihilated one after another in the attack.

Thousands of psychic warships cleared out nearly 500 million low- and middle-level dimensional creatures, as well as a small number of level seven dimensional evil gods at one time, interrupting the offensive of the dimensional creatures.

The high-level dimensional evil god that was chasing from behind started fighting with the psychic battleship in a rage, and the fight between the two sides became more intense, especially the dimensional evil god's side, which did not care about ordinary attacks at all, and gradually developed a trend of not caring about you even if it meant getting hurt.

In the energy tides that filled the sky, one or two dimensional evil gods would be smashed into pieces from time to time. The broken limbs would float in the void after being wiped out by the spirit and cleansed by the rules, carrying the carriers in the energy tides that filled the sky.

During the battle between the two sides, from time to time, the space layer would be broken, the space energy would be released, and various abnormal regular energies would form a storm that swept across one side.

Faced with this situation, ordinary fleets can only speed up their retreat to avoid being affected by the fire at the city gate.

Because the combat coverage area of ​​high-level combat power is too large, after the offensive rhythm was interrupted by the psychic fleet, the dimensional creatures were unable to continue to gather troops to launch an attack for a while. The middle and low-level dimensional creatures could only choose to bypass the high-level battlefield and spend more time attacking the fleet from both wings. Many dimensional creatures, after losing the supervision of the dimensional evil god, chose to cross the battlefield and advance towards the depths of the open star field, entering one star system after another to find intelligent life to devour.

But at this time, both alien civilizations and human territories had already migrated away on a large scale, and all kinds of defense equipment in the star system were pulled to the highest level. A small number of dimensional creatures rushed into the star system and could not even enter the door. They were hit by the super-standard firepower of the star system's defense system and turned into basic particles floating in the void.

However, many dimensional creatures who chose to go around behind the fleet and prepare to surround and intercept the fleet actually gained some benefits. That is, some logistics ships that did not have time to evacuate and some warships that were severely damaged and needed to be towed were completely left on the battlefield due to the surprise attack of the dimensional creatures.

Fortunately, the situation was discovered in time and the remaining ships were protected. The troops on the front battlefield of the fleet were transferred back to clear the way, and the encirclement was easily torn apart and quickly evacuated to the headquarters of the Combined Fleet.

Yang Zhenshan then found Liu Wen and said, "I just received a message from the Operations Department. The intelligence department has discovered abnormal spatial fluctuations in some of the pioneering star regions. They suspect that the enemy has hidden its fleet through space technology and is lurking here. They remind us to be extra careful and on guard."

"Spatial anomaly? Mezzanine space, or space bubble or something like that? Since we have found traces, we will have some guesses, right?" Liu Wen asked.

"It is suspected that they used space corridor technology, or there may be dimensional power involved, wrapped in dimensional bubble, and avoided the detectors of the Human Union through dimensionality reduction or upgrading." Yang Zhenshan was not surprised by this phenomenon. As long as the civilization that can be the enemy of mankind is not easily killed with one blow, then the technological level of the other party will not be bad. At the very least, they have some excellent technologies. Otherwise, how could they survive the attack of human civilization?

(End of this chapter)