Time keeps passing.
The most distinctive feature of interstellar warfare is gradually emerging—its extremely long time span.
When the scope of a war is measured in light-years, it becomes normal for the time scale to be constantly stretched.
As the human civilization expedition fleet draws ever closer to the Alliance's border defenses, the firepower contest between the two sides intensifies.
The Enroget Alliance paid the price with countless warships and lives.
As for the results...
Unfortunately, it didn't have much effect.
The human fleet, like a bulldozer equipped with rocket boosters, quietly and resolutely swept away all obstacles, rapidly approaching the border defense line.
This scene undoubtedly put immense psychological pressure on the Enrogett Alliance.
Many crew members with weaker psychological resilience even followed in Hume's footsteps.
The alliance itself gradually descended into chaos.
The biggest weakness of the Enroget Alliance has emerged—the alliance of over three hundred civilizations is too loose.
When faced with an enemy stronger than themselves, internal chaos within an alliance often significantly weakens its own strength.
The Enrogett Alliance Council is not to be underestimated.
To repel external threats, one must first secure internal stability.
The relatively inexperienced alliance leader, watching the alliance descend into chaos, finally hardened his heart.
With a series of swift and decisive measures, the turmoil within the alliance was barely suppressed. At the same time, almost all the idle labor force was forcibly conscripted to the corresponding production units.
Although these mandatory measures created some rifts within the league, the council couldn't afford to worry about such things when disaster struck.
Survival is the only right thing to do.
...
The Enrojd border defense line.
Kissling's eyes were slightly bloodshot as he stared intently at the several screens on the control panel.
It's unclear when exactly, but the constant explosions and flames outside the portholes have quietly disappeared.
The border defense line seems to have ushered in a long-awaited peace and tranquility.
The images from the tachyon radar revealed the truth—the human fleet was about to reach the defensive line.
This is the calm before the storm.
That's why, the moment the explosion's flames disappeared, the entire border defense line was on high alert!
Silence became the dominant theme along the border.
Under the orders of commanders at all levels, warships and floating gun emplacements waiting in the rear orderly filled the gaps in the defense line caused by the bombardment of human civilization. At the same time, some warships swiftly carried out battlefield cleanup and recovery work.
The debris from those exploding warships is a valuable resource.
The military factories in the rear have long been producing various weapons and equipment, and even large warships, around the clock, but all of these require a lot of resources.
Inventory is ultimately finite.
In order to win this interstellar war, or rather, to maintain its own defenses and resist the invasion of human civilization, the Enroget Alliance had no choice but to turn its attention to the wreckage of the destroyed warships on the battlefield.
...
The dilapidated defenses are visibly recovering to their original state.
The alarm from the tachyon radar finally went off.
"**!"
Kissling glanced at the border map, looking at the several gaps that had not yet been repaired and the border line that had not yet completed its contraction task, and couldn't help but swear.
"Damn human civilization, couldn't it have arrived a little later?!"
The once silent defensive line suddenly became lively.
Both the communication channels and the command center of the warship were filled with all sorts of curses in various tones.
Suddenly, the noise stopped abruptly.
Looking at the screen, Kissling instantly realized the problem.
He trembled slightly and suddenly looked up at the porthole in front of him.
Illuminated by a series of flares, a massive fleet slowly emerged from the deep darkness of space.
Gazing at the fleet arranged in a cone shape, Kissling instinctively held his breath.
This is a scene that the peak signal on a tachyon radar can never express.
The massive fleet, shielded by a large number of drones, hurtled toward the Alliance's border defenses with unparalleled force.
Through the gaps between the dense drones, Kissling could vaguely see the warships inside.
With its high-precision measuring device, it can easily obtain the size data of those warships.
Those colossal ships, often five or six thousand meters long, are themselves symbols of power!
Not to mention the behemoth warship in the center of the fleet, which is nearly nine thousand meters long!
Compared to these warships, the Enrogete Alliance's warships are like children's toys.
Although most Enrogete warships are also in the kilometer range, are warships that are two or three thousand meters long comparable to those that are five or six thousand meters long, or even eight or nine thousand meters long?
I'll say it again.
Even among the five levels of civilization, there are still differences.
A series of minor explosions created ripples in front of the fleet, resembling waves on water—the result of meteorites and warship wreckage being bombarded by laser cannons and crashing into composite shields.
"..."
Kissling opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
At this moment, it seemed to have lost the ability to speak.
Is this their opponent?!
Can the Light-Year Defense Line, painstakingly built by the Enroget Alliance, really stop this fleet's advance?
One question after another kept surfacing in its mind.
The once quiet command ship gradually became noisy.
"They're here! They're here!!"
"Attack! Attack!!"
"..."
The voices of the crowd merged into a buzzing sound that irresistibly entered its ears, pulling it out of its reverie.
It shook its head instinctively, but as the human fleet drew closer, the buzzing grew increasingly noisy.
"Quiet!!!"
It shouted sternly, "Calm down, all of you!!!"
Swish...
It's like adding a spoonful of ice water to a pot of boiling water.
The previously noisy command ship quickly fell silent.
Kissling glanced around at everyone and took a deep breath.
After calming its complex emotions, it issued the command in a deep voice.
"All warships, open fire at will!"
"First echelon, prepare to meet the enemy's first wave of attack!"
...
The moment the human civilization's fleet appeared.
After a few seconds of pause, the once peaceful border defense line suddenly unleashed a barrage of artillery fire several times more intense than before!
Warp drive missiles, antimatter cannons, high-energy laser beams, metal storms...
This is a true artillery duel!
Similar to the Alliance's border defense fleet, the human fleet launched its own attack immediately.
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