Chapter 94: Fight When You Say So

Some launch silos on the ground of the planet Volk launched a large number of impact drones towards the battleship array assembled by the Group of 18. These drones directly crashed into the outer surface of the battleship array. Although the momentum was very strong, the actual effect was like using rotten eggs to hit stones - it was useless.

The Federation's Golden Fleet retreated a distance, seemingly to make room for this minor friction, but this also seemed to imply that they would not intervene in this war for the time being.

"That's good news, isn't it?" Newberland's high-ranking officers, while reading the battle report, gave orders to the battleships in formation with dissatisfaction, demanding they immediately open fire on the surface of Volk, so that these untouchables could experience what real interstellar warfare was like.

Before the battleships could determine their targets, a second wave of impact drones were launched towards them.

"Never mind, let's get rid of these drones first."

The commanders of the 18-nation battleship fleet had originally thought so, but they hadn't anticipated that the strike missiles would collide with the drone swarm as soon as they were fired. The energy wave generated by the explosion in space directly caused the entire battleship fleet to retreat, almost crashing into the gravitational spiral of the planet Arka.

Arka Planet could no longer sit still and strongly requested that the battleships of the Group of Eighteen nations relocate their anchorages, or that they not all come to this star region.

Before the G18 could respond, the damage caused by the new round of drone strikes had already prompted the warship commanders to submit repair requests. Newberland's leadership proposed using technological warfare to contain the dense, seemingly free, swarm of drones.

The answer I got was: There is no way.

"What do you mean there's no way?" Newberland's higher-ups were confused, and the corresponding technological warfare experts had to explain: "These drone swarms aren't equipped with the proper signal transmission and reception equipment. Volk uses the most ancient delivery method: drones are loaded into silos like artillery shells, launched into space, and then allowed to use the thrust of their tails to navigate toward the gravity attractor installed on the lead aircraft. In short, using technology to stop a drone swarm is like trying to intercept an ancient firework canister with a computer program. It's impossible."

Newberan Planet High Level: ???

"To be precise, these aren't even drones. They're just iron bombs filled with explosives, wrapped in a drone shell. Their tail fins are powered by a base fuel. Once launched into space, the metal in the tail automatically breaks off, triggering an explosion within the fuel to generate thrust. As for the gravity ball at the head, you simply set it in one direction during launch, and it will continue moving in that direction in space, accelerating until it's destroyed."

Newberan Planet High-level: ...

"It's worth mentioning that this offensive method is very clever, very cost-effective, and very efficient. Unless we can quickly detect the location of the gravity attractor when each wave of drones is launched, and use a second gravity attractor to interfere, thereby causing the entire drone group to turn..."

"You don't need to say any more." The Newberan executives could no longer bear to hear anything more and only asked one question: "Can't we just fire directly at the place on Volk other than Ghost Mountain?"

"Of course, after all, Planet Volker still has key targets like the main city area and the Melt Cave."

The top brass of Newberland fell silent. They felt that striking such a key target right from the start would block any subsequent negotiations with the Federal Bureau.

"Besides these two targets, are there any other places we can attack? For example... their ammunition depots, command rooms, power plants, transportation hubs, and communication towers?"

The Newberland executives laughed after they said this. Ammunition depot? Only Ghost Mountain seemed to have one, but they couldn't attack it because the black gold mine was invaluable and they wanted to keep it.

The command room, needless to say, must be in the main city of Volk Planet.

Power plant? Volk Planet didn't have such a thing, not to mention that since Midsummer declared a state of emergency, even the main city area was using makeshift flashlights that received cosmic energy and converted it into electricity.

A transportation hub? Right now, there's just some foundation... but it's not the scale of a hub.

Communication tower? The communication towers on Volk's planet are all temporary structures. After use, they are put into pockets and run away. Want to lock it with a bomb? The scene is a bit funny.

Let's blow up other mountains. Not only will it be useless, but it would be heartbreaking if we hit a black gold vein.

After such a detailed calculation, the planet Volker is too poor, too backward, and too dilapidated...there are actually no targets worth focusing on.

"Perhaps we can choose to attack their granary?" The fleet commander suggested this. The senior officials of the planet Newberland immediately adopted this suggestion and asked the fleet commander to contact Agent Sells on the planet Volk to determine the exact location of the granary.

Soon, Agent Sellers provided them with the exact locations of twenty-five granaries.

This time, the battleship fleet assembled by the Group of 18 finally achieved some results.

The roar woke up everyone living on the planet Volk. Crowds walked out of their shelters and watched the bombs explode on the surface. The hatred in their hearts came much faster than fear.

Although the military action of the Group of Eighteen was met with a lot of public opposition, this did not stop them from taking action. They took advantage of the moment when Volk Planet did not launch a counterattack and sent out a large number of drones with the aim of penetrating into the core of Volk Planet and completing the strike on higher-level targets.

But… the happiness of the G18 didn't last more than a day. The next day, before the online criticism had died down, Shengxia delivered a star-domain speech, announcing that the Volker planet defense forces had intercepted all the drones sent by the G18 to Volker, totaling 5,688.

"These drones are well-equipped and have excellent combat skills. Although we have dismantled them, we have posted the corresponding design drawings and disassembled parts in our live broadcast room. If you need them, please feel free to take pictures. We will ship them after the war subsides."

The top leaders of the G18 were stunned. Was Sheng Xia's words a reasonable person? "Well-equipped and with excellent combat skills, even though we dismantled them?"

demolished???

Just one day???

They intercepted and dismantled everything???

What made them even more angry was that Shengxia later announced that the places where the 18-nation warships had attacked were 18 in the form of ruined buildings and chicken farms, and the remaining seven were abandoned factories, landfills, and prison sites.

"We were thinking that if we wanted to dispose of these ruins and rebuild, it would be a huge expense. Now we have found that these places have been completely destroyed. There is no doubt that the G18 has saved us this money."

Before the top leaders of the Group of Eighteen could get angry, the counterattack from the planet Volker came. This time, their launch silos did not launch drones, but instead launched a large number of missiles and starships from the "rat holes" in the Ghost Mountain. The target of the attack was very clear - the strategic-class main ship of the planet Newberland.

You should know that in the previous drone bombing, the battleship hull of the Newberland planet did not undergo any basic repairs. After all, the drone explosion had a very limited impact on the battleship's outer armor.

Therefore, when the starship □□ arrived, a big hole was directly blown out in the battleship's armor, which was already slightly damaged. The commander-in-chief of the fleet had to order a docking at the planet Arka for repairs.

The top brass of Newberland were furious and issued an order to bombard the main urban area of ​​Volk. At the same time, they also carried out indiscriminate bombing of the places outside the main urban area where power grids and space energy converters were set up, and the launch silos scattered across the surface of Volk were also to be bombed.

As a result, Shengxia turned around and attacked the Newberan Military Base on the nearest planet, Stya. Using a "homemade drone" worth less than 3,000 star coins, they tricked the Newberan Military Base into deploying 68 interceptor missiles worth 50 million star coins each.

The main idea is to let the planet Newberland enjoy the joy of a luxury battleship hitting a bicycle.

At the same time, five minutes after the main city of Volk was bombed, Shengxia excitedly announced that from now on Volk would only attack the warships of Newberland, and would also launch an attack on the Newberland military base on the nearest planet.

Soon, the sharp-eyed Star Network viewers noticed that the drone swarm product that had been dismantled in the official live broadcast room of Volk Planet had been removed from the shelves, and the densely packed launch silos on the surface of Volk Planet were continuously launching large numbers of drone swarms towards the Newberland Military Base on the nearby planet at an exaggerated speed that was difficult to describe.

What's worse is that since this group of drones was modified from the previously intercepted drones, some of them were able to miraculously pass the verification of the New Belland Military Base and then directly "bomb" the New Belland Military Base.

As for the round-the-clock bombing that the Newberland planet's leaders angrily demanded, as long as the warships entered the attack range of Volk's missiles, Volk would attack them as if it were free:

Sometimes it was useless smoke bombs, sometimes it was drone swarms, sometimes it was old missiles, sometimes it was high-performance missiles, sometimes it was starship blasts, and there were also some signal flares and illumination flares, interspersed in disorder to make the battleships of the 18-nation group of ships feel overwhelmed.

These modified smoke bombs, signal flares, illumination flares, drone swarms, and the tops of old missiles could all mimic the "lock-on" effect of a starship missile. However, the people in the battleship formation didn't dare to gamble on whether it was a real starship missile. After all, one shot was enough to send them to the maintenance port for a while.

The profit from bombing the main city of Volk Planet was basically a business that lost a lot of money. You have to know that this place was originally a ruin except for the government hall after the storm. Even if a part of it was rebuilt later, the previous bombing also destroyed that part.

So the bombing has no effect at all except making the ruins look more dilapidated.

What was even more confusing to the G18 leaders was that the war had already lasted four days, and there were injured personnel in their fleets, but there was still no definite report of casualties on the planet Volk.

Although they asked Agent Searles on the planet Walker to submit the exact location of the civilian shelter as soon as possible, strangely, Agent Searles has not provided the corresponding location coordinates until now.