The fog made humans lose their visual advantage.
In large-scale battlefields, the value of vision is particularly important.
If the technological levels of both sides are similar and both sides can accurately locate each other, then space war is a typical war of attrition.
What matters is productivity and the number of each population. Whoever consumes more energy will win.
But when one side masters invisibility or tracking concealment technology like fog, it will gain visual advantage.
When the superior party knows where the inferior party's forces are and in which direction they are moving, they can either arrange long-range large-caliber pre-aiming in advance, or make decisions on the spot and quickly concentrate superior forces to strangle the opponent, or deliberately leave one side empty to let the opponent's forces mobilize and then open a gap from the other side, or deploy a large number of explosives or jammers at the opponent's target in advance.
All these means of gaining an advantage can be easily used.
Mastering information means completely mastering the initiative in war.
Now the human defenders of the Traveler Galaxy have problems in many aspects such as positioning, fire concentration, and firepower network deployment. They can only continuously dispatch a larger number of combat units to minimize their disadvantages.
But the war damage on both sides was completely disproportionate.
When the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, the key to breaking the deadlock was placed on the scientific ship.
When the research on the fish that Tong Ling caught alive is completed, it will be possible to find an opportunity to turn the tide of the war.
At this time, the scientific research force of the entire Voyager Galaxy was mobilized, and scholars from other galaxies in the Morning Wind Empire were also synchronously assisting remotely.
Huge amounts of data are spreading in all directions along the human quantum network with the Voyager Galaxy as the center point.
Not only these people are busy, but Lai Wenming and Glennie, who are still alive in the virtual energy space, are also not idle.
On the one hand, the two are transmitting data to the solar system, and on the other hand, they are also completing some scientific experiments in their own space that are compared with virtual energy.
But the abilities of fish are not part of human technology.
Studying their characteristics is no less difficult than opening up a brand new discipline.
The amount of data collected from just one specimen alone, and the resulting calculations and deductions, would take Fanxing decades to calculate.
But now, if the fog cannot be broken through and the visual advantage cannot be regained, the Voyager Galaxy looks like it can only last less than three days.
In fact, there is an even worse situation in secret. Tong Ling is unconscious, and Chen Feng cannot keep the T100 running stably by himself.
So people have temporarily lost the only cutting-edge combat power that can steadily defeat the enemy in a one-on-one situation.
The situation seems precarious, but as the saying goes, heroes emerge in troubled times. As long as the prerequisites are met, there will always be geniuses who can stand out from the huge population base.
The second core formation of the First Combat Brigade, Xuan Ji.
Xuan Ji is an old heavy battleship born in 2620.
Although Xuan Ji underwent a large-scale upgrade twenty years ago, as an old triangular spike battleship, its internal layout and core components have been basically finalized. The time and material cost of a complete transformation are not even as good as building a new battleship.
After comprehensive consideration, the garrison simply let it continue to serve.
The advantages of old equipment are stable operation, simple maintenance, and relatively comprehensive functional design.
In 2620, humans were still in a period of rapid expansion, and most ships were designed with the function of colony ships. Unlike now, with the arrival of the war cycle, the concept of human ship design has changed greatly in the past thirty years, and more emphasis has been placed on the perfection of a single function.
The Xuan Ji is the one with the best performance among all the old heavy battleships of the same period, so it can still stay in the vanguard fleet.
Most of the other old battleships have been assigned to the center line or the rear.
The captain of the Xuan Ji is Qin Guang, 46 years old, a native traveler star, with a family background in learning.
At the age of only 46, he can become the captain of a heavy battleship in the main battle sequence, which shows Qin Guang's ability.
In the current chaotic situation, under his on-the-spot command, the manpower of the Xuanji was relatively well preserved, and the loss rate of small combat units such as intelligent war machines was also low.
At this time, Qin Guang was standing under the star map projection with an anxious look on his face, his neck almost stiff.
There were large patches of fog in the projection, and from time to time, a few red dots could be seen flashing at the edge of the fog, and then quickly disappeared.
At the same time, there were a large number of green dots representing human units, which were being attacked by these suddenly appearing red dots and quickly extinguished.
The second core formation had a total of hundreds of thousands of large battleships before, and nearly half of them have been destroyed.
The situation in front of everyone made everyone anxious, but they were at a loss.
Qin Guang's mind was racing, and countless chaotic thoughts were rising like bubbles in boiling water.
Suddenly, he turned to the adjutant next to him and asked, "How many energy modules and mass-energy conversion equipment are there on our ship?"
The adjutant reported, "Our Xuan Ji has the function of energy supply, but currently almost no comrades can come to us to replenish energy, so the module reserves are still sufficient."
Qin Guang nodded and ordered, "Order all engineering personnel and automated engineering machinery to go out into space, manufacture a large number of super-heavy mass modules, and then drop them into space in unlimited quantities."
"Ah?"
The adjutant was puzzled.
Qin Guang frowned suddenly, but did not explain, and had skipped the adjutant and issued the order himself.
At the same time, he sent the report to the command center.
About thirty seconds later, except for the Xuanji, all other ships that stored a large number of energy modules began to perform similar operations.
When the situation reaches a point where tricks are no longer effective, sometimes the traditional stupid method may be the final solution to the problem.
At first, many grassroots personnel did not understand the intentions of the top leaders, but as more and more superheavy modules filled the space, the situation gradually changed.
Although fish have the ability to push away obstacles when flying, these superheavy modules themselves have gravitational reactions.
The countless superheavy modules filling the space are like an amplifier, allowing human detectors to capture information at least three times more accurately when disturbed by thick fog.
Moreover, as the density of superheavy modules in the entire battlefield area continues to increase, the flying speed of fish is gradually suppressed below the speed of light.
Although the flying speed of human combat units is also greatly affected, the overall gap between the two sides has been greatly reduced.
After that, Qin Guang was temporarily promoted to the chief of staff of the second core formation. Under his overall planning, the second formation used instantaneous synchronous concentrated fire blasting to wipe out hundreds of thousands of fish in one go.
Chen Feng, who was far away, watched this scene and felt very relieved.
People can't always expect him to save the world every time, and future generations must also show their intelligence.
The rise and fall of civilization should never be just his business.
At this time, Fanxing said to him, "Good news. In the College of Solar System Biology, Lai Wenming's students have just started from the concept of virtual energy and finally captured the thinking code of fish. Now they have preliminarily deciphered their language. It seems that we can communicate directly with fish."
Chen Feng's eyes lit up, "Good!"
"But there is a problem."
"What?"
"The language of fish seems to be a pure quantum random entanglement. Each small fragment contains a lot of information, and this information is randomly combined..."
"Put it simply."
"We need a quantum intelligence of the same scale as the fish, or even higher, to establish a direct thought channel with each other and communicate through pure ideology."
Chen Feng understood now, "You mean I am the only one who can do it? Lai Wenming and Glennie can't directly enter our quantum network, right?"
Fanxing hummed, "Yes."
Chen Feng nodded, "Okay. Let me do it."
Five seconds later, Chen Feng's thinking subject in UV star of Cetacean opened all the quantum network channels.
His consciousness quickly sank, and then he entered a world of ocean.