The ninety third-tier fleets, whose main task was to delay time and gather information, suffered almost all casualties in these seven months, with the number of casualties exceeding two trillion.
After experiencing the initial chaos in the direct confrontation with the ten thousand prismatic battleships, the second-tier fleets had a deeper understanding of the prismatic battleships' particle bombs, black hole bombs, beam impacts, blade mantis cluster impacts, and grid connections. They stabilized their positions and were able to use their numerical advantages and complex and varied tactics to deal with the enemy and gradually gain the upper hand.
Although they still could not destroy the enemy ships, the second-tier fleets also collected a huge amount of information.
The Barnard star fleet had gained an overwhelming advantage, and the situation looked very good, both in terms of formation and the course of the battle.
Although the Barnard fleet still suffered casualties from time to time, this level of loss was bearable in the face of the huge manpower investment.
The prismatic battleship still had the advantage of mobility, but the disparity in the strength of the two sides was too great.
Once the prismatic battleship entered the battlefield, no matter how it maneuvered and changed positions, there would always be human battleships nearby that quickly formed a formation and mobilized huge amounts of energy to forcibly suppress it.
Although humans were far inferior to the compound eyes in the use of energy, they could win by sheer numbers.
To give an analogy to the situation of both sides, at this moment, the two sides are like a duel between two people. The fighter representing the compound eyes holds a three-foot-long sword that can kill with one blow, while the fighter representing humans only has a rotten wooden stick.
It seems that the human fighter is almost certain to die, but the rotten wooden stick is three feet long and weighs half a ton.
With this stick, the sword-wielding fighter will certainly be knocked to the ground.
The tactic of the compound eye ridge ship, which has been tried and tested many times, first using grid connections to divide the battlefield and then divide and conquer, has failed.
Because no matter how the ridge ship divides the battlefield, each ridge ship is surrounded.
The cosmic giant ships carried star cannons, black hole bomb arrays, antimatter bomb arrays, space-tearing high-energy blasts, warp-impact neutron bombs that integrated human understanding of curvature subspace, physical toxin bombs with performance comparable to the original blade mantis, space collapse cannons, fighter-mounted phase string guns, Osmos guns and Osmos guns, unified force cutting bombs, ultra-high energy dissolving liquids for devouring secondary life...
All the weapons that humans could use were finally used.
However, none of them achieved the expected effect, and they could not even shake the direction of the enemy ship's advance.
Seven months later, the Barnard Star Fleet had lost about a million space-class battleships, more than 30 million Orion Arm battleships, and countless other small and medium-sized ships and fighters.
The number of compound eye prism ships had not decreased.
Even if human weapons could successfully break through the energy shield on the outer layer of the prism ship, they could not do anything to the battleship hull inside.
The scientists behind the front had already tried their best, but they could not even figure out whether the power of human weapons was just a line away, and after crossing this line, it would be smooth sailing, or whether the gap was still infinite.
The commanders on the battlefield have exhausted all their wisdom and tried countless methods to combine different native weapons with special weapons to attack in different combinations, trying to find a combination variable that represents hope in front of the impenetrable Wall of Sighs.
However, all of them are useless.
It seems that the Barnard Star Fleet has "trapped" this prism fleet, but in a sense, it is the main combat force of mankind that has been dragged on the spot by the opponent.
At this time, the ninety original third-level fleets were almost wiped out, but the intensity of the war in the hundred major war zones has not weakened at all.
More and more reserve forces have been deployed to the battlefield.
Young and even old people among the natives of the planetary systems in the major war zones have enlisted on the spot and rushed to the battlefield.
As for the children in the war zone star system and the elderly who are unable to cope with the intensity of battlefield operations, they have gradually boarded the escape ships and retreated to the outer circle.
The sixty-four development star regions have also completed the wartime deployment. In addition to sending reserve troops to reorganize the third-level fleet, more and more frozen embryos and experts and scholars in various colonial fields such as education, psychology, and construction will be sent to the escape spark ship to try to send more people out of the Orion Arm.
The plan to increase the number of artificially cultivated reserve troops has also been strictly implemented.
The human population began to multiply rapidly.
More spare Dyson membrane seeds were released to more and more idle planetary systems, just to develop and utilize more star energy.
Spare modular planetary construction units have also been deployed at full speed. These are temporary settlements built to complete the rapid reproduction plan.
In fact, it is extremely unfair to let these children be born at this moment.
But there is no other way.
Humanity has no way out.
Either win this war, or try to hold the enemy in the Orion Arm for as long as possible, at least to give those who escape a little more chance of survival.
Maybe a large part of these children will not wait to grow up, but if the base number is large enough, even if the compound eyes sweep through galaxies one by one, there will always be someone who can successfully grow up.
Then, if one generation falls, there will be the next generation.
The leadership of the Morning Wind Empire had already set this cruel yet hopeful century-long resistance plan when they found out that their compatriots in neighboring galaxies were being slaughtered without any resistance.
The living in the Morning Wind Empire have only one idea: even if they lose the war, they must keep the enemy in the Orion Arm for a hundred years.
There is no need for Chen Feng to teach them a lesson, as this generation of saviors will have a new concept.
The significance of our sacrifice is not only for the victory of the next timeline, but also for the victory of our generation.
As long as the escaped Earthlings can quietly establish even one colony where the compound eyes cannot find them, as long as humans can still exist in the universe, we will have won the final victory.
When Chen Feng first observed the star map of the Morning Wind Empire, he discovered some information flow threads outside the map.
These threads represent the so-called scientific exploration spacecraft that have traveled beyond the 5,000 light-year boundary. They not only shoulder the mission of exploration, but also the mission of taking away the spark of civilization.
The exploration spacecraft is composed of hundreds of people. In addition to the most experienced and reliable navigators, operators and mechanics, they are also equipped with engineers in various fields who are enough to build a complete colony, and are equipped with independently operated quantum intelligent star sub-bodies.
Each spaceship also carries at least 100,000 and at most hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos.
With the top speed of these spaceships at 20 times the speed of light, it will take at least hundreds of years to fly to the Perseus Arm and the Sagittarius Arm, and at least three generations of effort.
The members of these small spaceships will spend their entire lives in this small space. The journey is certainly long and the journey is certainly difficult, but as long as they can survive, they will be successful.
But in front of the spaceships represented by the extraterritorial filaments that Chen Feng saw, there are more long-distance spaceships that set out earlier and fly at a slightly slower speed.
They have already taken the initiative to cut off contact with the Orion Arm.
There are also some 20 times the speed of light hypercurved spaceships that set out at about the same time, which also cut off contact with the Orion Arm, quietly dived, and never returned.
Some are baits, some are true seeds.
Everyone has a different mission.
The entire huge escape plan designed by the Escape Institute is both in line with probability and a gamble on luck, full of wisdom.
In the eighth timeline, humans just want to leave the solar system and go to the neighboring planet, and countless Endeavours have fallen in various uncontrollable cosmic natural disasters encountered along the way.
This time, humans are leaving the Orion Arm.
The crises lurking in different galactic arms are beyond human imagination.
The radio storm released when the huge black hole in the center of the Milky Way accidentally sucked in a star, the space collapse caused by the twisted gravity that was enough to destroy the curvature subspace, the huge dark energy river that seemed empty but was actually a moving tomb of stars...
In addition to these natural disasters, the previous escape ship continued to send back intelligence before being destroyed.
The spherical battleships that the sage Chen Feng had mentioned before, which had never appeared before, first appeared on the periphery of the Orion Arm, wandering between the Orion Arm and the Perseus Arm, chasing the escape ship everywhere.
Not only that, five days after the destruction of the Proxima system, the hundreds of prismatic battleships that destroyed the Proxima star also appeared scattered outside the territory of the Morrowind Empire, blocking the way for humans to the Perseus Arm and the Sagittarius Arm.
The route of human beings using hypercurved motion to move forward seems to be completely under the control of the compound eye edge ship.
Even the lurking fleet that is not in contact with the Orion Arm is still found one after another.
But no one feels despair. This has been expected. From the beginning, no one has imagined that they can leave easily.
The scattered escape fleets made a quick decision to change the movement mode, retreating from the hypercurved motion of twenty times the speed of light to the conventional propulsion that is infinitely close to the speed of light.
Without the protection of the subspace, the threat index of natural disasters in the universe to the escape ship has increased again.
The time for humans to reach the next arm has become thousands of years.
But countless escape ships are still moving forward.
No one knows how many of the escapees who rush out can survive.
But that doesn't matter.
When the nest is overturned, there will be no eggs intact.
Born in the galaxy, who can live in mediocrity?
When Chen Feng checked the battle report, the second batch of reorganized third-level fleets had just entered the battlefield less than fifteen days ago. They took over the responsibility of the war zone's own reserve forces and once again held back the prism fleet that was clearing the galaxy planets and space stations in the war zone.
Since then, the war has entered the second stage.
The Morning Wind Empire named this stage "Glue". Humans do not recognize this as a defeat. As long as there is one person still breathing among the 350 trillion people in the Orion Arm, it is not considered a defeat.
Millions of years ago, the Mi tribe that ruled the galaxy was destroyed by the compound eye civilization that had not yet mastered the prism technology, and the war lasted for thousands of years. The most ideal outcome of this war calculated by Fanxing is that humans can hold out for about a hundred years. It seems that humans are much weaker than the Mi people, but this is not absolute, there are deeper reasons. It took humans only a thousand years to develop from a level 0.7 civilization in the 21st century to the current level of technology that can theoretically reach a level 3 civilization. Speed is an advantage of humans, but also a disadvantage. The time left for the development of earthlings is too short. The strength of a civilization depends not only on the level of technology, but also on the area of the territory. Even if humans still have only the current level of technology, if human footprints are all over the galaxy, and the strategic depth is the entire galaxy with a diameter of 100,000 light years, then the relationship of victory and defeat is really unknown. In just seven months, humans have shown much stronger war potential and tenacious fighting spirit than the Mi people. Billions of years later, when other civilizations in the extragalactic galaxies see this war through optical and electronic messages, they will also be amazed at humans' determination and talent for war. Humans have used all resources to the extreme and have exerted all existing scientific research capabilities to the extreme. The idea of war command is not limited to the battlefield, and the entire civilization has quickly entered the war mode. Obviously, every earthling is an individual with independent thinking and unlimited creative possibilities, but in this war, they have reached a unified belief in an incredible way. Survival is the highest belief of all intelligent life, but there are always trillions of Earthlings rushing to the battlefield. Although there are several intelligent races in the Orion Arm whose ideologies are more unified than humans. But the reason for the unity of those races is that all individuals come from the proliferation and division of the same mother, or the absolute centralized higher individuals suppress the genes of lower individuals, or the clones of the compound eyes directly eat those who disagree. Like humans, a civilized race that is both a perfect independent individual and extremely united is simply incredible and does not conform to the basic laws of the universe. Needless to say, the brain potential and thinking talents of Earthlings are different for each person, but they do not consider themselves at all. You were not forced to control your thoughts. You couldn't win anyway, so shouldn't you run away in despair? It was emotion that prompted the people on Earth to go against the nature of individual creatures without hesitation and make choices that met the needs of the group!
Emotions that override individual survival beliefs are the core of human beings' ability to create cosmic miracles with the power of the entire race.
The reason for this may never be understood by intelligent life that cannot control emotions at the level of humans.
The selfish cosmic beings who believe in survival will never understand why someone would risk their life for the welfare of future generations; why someone would hold a bomb with their hands even though they know they will die; why maternal love can allow a weak woman to lift a car; why would an earthling be willing to sacrifice everything to fight a disaster thousands of years later that has nothing to do with him...
Although Chen Feng did not go to the battlefield in person, he could guess that those compound eyes in the seemingly stable frigates might be fighting with their hearts pounding.
In the previous timeline, the Compound Eyes' contempt for humans continued until the very last moment. Chen Feng disappeared completely only after he rushed out on his own driving the Starfront Colossus, and took the initiative to ask his name.
Of course, that was also a trap to seduce Chen Feng to talk and try to capture him.
But this time, the Compound Eyes may have tasted the horror of humans from the beginning, and was glad that he acted early enough.
Chen Feng thought of himself, and then looked at the last important message again, and sighed.
This is why he deliberately controlled himself from following the battle report in real time.
He was really afraid that he could not control himself.
Long before the war broke out, the human leadership had been frantically looking for him.
The imperial government even established a special agency called the Shadow of the Sage.
The organizations of the Shadow of the Ancient Sages are spread across the major planetary systems of the Orion Arm, with a total of tens of millions of members, including historians, biologists, philosophers, reasoning experts, and detective talents.
But the Shadow of the Ancient Sages went in the wrong direction from the beginning.
Historians have conducted rigorous argumentation on the historical materials passed down by the Savior and reached an indisputable conclusion.
Every time Chen Feng descends across time, he must directly replace a descendant who looks exactly like him, has a very high genetic similarity, and has the same name.
This situation has happened eight times in a row.
There is no reason for an accident to occur the ninth time.
The result is that since 2980, anyone who looks like Chen Feng in historical records and whose underlying genetic information is more than 99.97% similar, regardless of their parents' surnames, will be named Chen Feng, and will be included in the candidate list. They will all choose to join the army without hesitation, and regardless of their talent, they will all serve as privates in the reserve barracks.
There are so many Chen Fengs in the Orion Arm that they must add a digital code after their names.
The code starts from 1 and goes up to hundreds of thousands.
If a Chen Feng dies for some reason and someone happens to pass the genetic comparison, then this person's code will be inherited.
All people named Chen Feng generally know the principle of being replaced, and know that their consciousness will completely disappear and become a non-existent person.
But no one has any grudges, and every Chen Feng hopes that he will be replaced by a real sage.
In the 31st century, this idea is actually very superstitious and very unscientific.
But people did it and looked forward to it.
Unfortunately, people made a fatal mistake again.
No one expected that Chen Feng would use his own body to revive on Earth this time.
Scholars were too superstitious about the golden rules passed down by the savior, thinking that all humans in the solar system were extinct, and Chen Feng would not be able to appear on the mother planet.
The shadow of the sage became dark under the lamp, and did not go back to the long-destroyed solar system.
With the outbreak of war, the shadow of the sage had to stop its activities.
One after another, Chen Feng rushed to the battlefield.
But until the war entered the second stage, the leadership of the Morning Wind Empire did not wait for the expected identity of the sage to be revealed.
Some people speculated about the sage's plan, thinking that he might have other arrangements, so he deliberately lurked in the army, intending to collect information first, adapt to the times, and restore his abilities.
He is too dazzling. Once exposed, he might be beheaded by the Compound Eyes. He
must be fully prepared before he can appear out of nowhere and save the situation.
The sage always has his considerations, and he will definitely not die accidentally in a war.
Because he is Chen Feng.
This concept is very popular and quickly recognized.
People who struggle in despair often secretly guess that the Chen Feng beside them may be him.
In short, he must be watching us somewhere, fighting side by side with me or other comrades.
This almost superstitious concept actually supports the will of many soldiers.
After reading the information, Chen Feng turned off Weixing's intelligence system.
Continuing to ponder the meaning inside, he really couldn't be a secret observer any more.
At this moment, the alarm suddenly sounded in the command room.
Chen Feng was shocked and quickly retrieved the details of the alarm.
It was not that he was found by the compound eyes or others, but that an accident happened to Fredes.
Fredes, who was dismantling the quantum intelligence chip five kilometers underground on the planet, was attacked!
The life monitoring system showed that Fredes' heartbeat had stopped!
Consciousness was dissipating at a very fast rate!
Thirty seconds later, Chen Feng, wearing the Galaxy Armor, broke through the cover of the armor room and rushed out.