Chapter 978: Offense and Defense Transformation

Gloucester's roar echoed throughout the bridge.

then

No one could answer his question.

"Why, you're not talking?"

"Commander Gloucester, we have not detected any opening of the black cavity channel, and the fleet stationed at the mouth of the ocean current has also not found any abnormalities. These fleets seem to have appeared out of thin air!"

After Gloucester's repeated questioning, someone finally spoke.

However, in Gloucester's opinion, it was the same whether he said it or not, it was meaningless!

"Report!"

"explain!"

Just then, an officer on the bridge suddenly stood up and reported.

"We have received three reports stating that they have observed the existence of black cavity channels, but after we tested the coordinates in the reports, we found nothing!"

"Um?"

This issue is worth further study.

The soldier said he saw it, but he detected nothing on his side.

So was it that the soldier was lying, or was there something wrong with the equipment on our side?

In this regard, Gloucester is more inclined to the second possibility. After all, this is not a report from one fleet, but a report from fleets in three different superclusters. The possibility of lying at the same time is too small.

But if this is true, does it mean that the Federation has mastered new black cavity channel technology, and that it is the kind that the Empire cannot detect?

This could explain why almost all of their battle zones were attacked by surprise, but they had no idea where the enemy came from.

But this is a bit difficult to deal with!

"Order the reporting fleet to observe again and transmit the observed images!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Soon, in less than a minute, the three fleets from different war zones had transmitted the real-time images they had observed, and when these images were opened in the bridge.

really

The picture shows the black cavity channel!

"Let the technical team analyze these three coordinates again to see if they can find anything!"

"Yes, Commander!"

After the order was given, Gloucester waited quietly, hoping that it was just a technical failure and not that the Alliance had really mastered new black chamber technology.

But it was obvious that his expectations were doomed to fail.

"Commander, the technical team has used various detection methods, but they are unable to find any black cavity channels open at those three coordinates!"

"Notify the front line, leave the affiliated civilization fleet behind to cover the retreat, and the imperial fleet to evacuate the battlefield immediately!"

"Commander, this."

"Execute immediately. If it's too late, even the Imperial Fleet will be destroyed there!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Gloucester didn't want to give such an order, but he had no choice.

Not to mention that the Empire's conventional fleet needs energy replenishment, the Fiery Sun Fleet needs it even more.

It can even be said that the Fiery Sun Fleet's energy consumption is greater than that of a conventional fleet.

And the most important thing is that black cavity armor is different from a shield. It consumes black cavity particles to block attacks.

Therefore, when the black cavity particles in the armor are consumed too much, they must be pushed to the rear for refilling before they can be restored. Even the Federation's black armored battleships cannot avoid this.

The only difference is that the black cavity armor of the Fiery Sun Fleet is only a prototype. Whether in terms of strength or particle density, it is several dimensions lower than that of the Black Armor Fleet.

If the Federation's Black Armored Battleships can withstand ten thousand standard attacks from a super civilization, then the Empire's Scorching Sun-class Battleships can only withstand a thousand times, or even less than a thousand times.

Although the Fiery Sun Fleet had stole the limelight in the previous battles, they had to retreat to the rear to replenish particles for their armor after almost every high-intensity battle, and their ability to sustain combat was almost at its limit.

Therefore, if the Fiery Sun Fleet continues to stay at the front line, it may be able to suppress the Alliance's fleet in a short period of time, but over time, it will inevitably be slaughtered by the Alliance in turn.

As for the Empire's conventional fleet, without the cooperation of the Fiery Sun Fleet and with the military morale in chaos, if it continued to fight the Alliance, the consequences would not be any better.

The only way now is to withdraw the fleet and stabilize the situation in the rear. Although the losses are heavy, at least we still have 20% to 30% of supplies, right?

Relying on these supplies, it should be no problem to maintain high-intensity combat for another month or so. As long as the war situation stabilizes again, Gloucester will be able to mobilize resources from the surrounding subordinate civilizations to make up for the losses.

But if even these 20% or 30% are lost, then the entire imperial army will be destroyed.

As a result, all the fleets of the affiliated civilizations were once again used as cannon fodder and thrown to the front line to buy time for the Imperial Fleet to evacuate.

"Commander Gloucester, the order has been issued!"

"Very good. Send a message to the mainland to explain the situation and request support. At the same time, issue orders to all subordinate civilizations adjacent to the war zone and have them take action immediately to deliver supplies to the front line through the cosmic ocean currents!"

"Commander, the situation is critical now. Why don't we use the black cavity channel to allow these affiliated civilizations to transport supplies? If we use the ocean currents, it will take a whole month!"

After Rogest gave the order, the adjutant next to him asked with some confusion.

"Don't you know that the Alliance has the technology to destroy our Black Cavity Channel at any location?"

"In this situation, if you were the Alliance, would you not take action after discovering that we opened the black cavity channel to connect to those affiliated civilizations?"

Gloucester looked at his adjutant with some disappointment, and then asked.

The reason is simple. Since the alliance's goal is to destroy its own logistics, it will never give itself the opportunity to establish a channel to transport supplies.

Yes, the Empire does have a large number of dark energy crystals now, but those are on the mainland. The front line currently only has a reserve of about one thousand.

Therefore, if they really want to compete with the Alliance again in the consumption of dark energy crystal reserves, it should be done on the home front, not on the front line.

This is why, in addition to requiring the subordinate civilizations adjacent to each war zone to immediately transport supplies through ocean currents, Gloucester also reported the situation to the mainland and requested support from the mainland.

"Commander, I didn't think it through!"

After realizing his mistake, the adjutant immediately spoke.

"Okay, go and make arrangements right now. Arrange warships to monitor all areas except the battle area. Since the new technology of the Alliance makes it impossible for us to detect the opening of the black cavity channel, we can only use the most primitive method and monitor directly by observation!"

"This must never happen again!"

Gloucester spoke very seriously to his adjutant.

"Yes, Commander!"