Chapter 626, Adversity

Gu Hang stood in the center of the Storm Kingdom, his consciousness spread throughout the Storm Kingdom.

Who will be the final winner in this nearly eternal battle of consumption?

Your swarm is endless, and my heroic spirit is infinitely resurrected.

But in fact, nothing is really endless. What about the Warp Shadow? Did it really turn the Warp into a vacuum? To put it bluntly, isn't it still a force that belongs to the swarm mapped into the Warp?

If we really fight according to this kind of mutual consumption, those invading swarms will be constantly killed and eliminated, which actually means that the Warp Shadow is being continuously weakened.

When this weakening reaches a certain extent, the Warp Shadow may not be able to continue.

But the same thing is true for Gu Hang.

Those invading swarms were destroyed by the thunder from the sky, and the thunder was also consuming the power of the Storm Kingdom; if the swarm destroyed the heroic spirit, then when the heroic spirit was resurrected again, it would also be a consumption of the power of the Kingdom.

If it consumes too much, the Kingdom of Storm God may also collapse.

But no matter what the result is, this kind of consumption will be a very long process. I don’t know how long it will take to consume until the end of time before a result is produced.

Who will win and who will lose in the end?

Gu Hang doesn’t know, at least he doesn’t have a clear answer at the moment.

But Gu Hang has not forgotten how this "eternal" war in the subspace happened: it serves the confrontation between the fleets of both sides in the real universe.

According to the current trend, no matter who will win in the end, at least the naval battle in the real universe must be over.

So what is the situation of the naval battle in the real universe now?

It seems that the Alliance is at a disadvantage.

In the absence of psychic power intervention on both sides, the Alliance fleet is indeed inferior to the other side in strength and scale.

Judging from the conventional naval battle situation, there is a problem with the Alliance’s operation this time. There was originally some gap in the strength level of the fleet. When the other side crossed the jump point, the Alliance did not have a good grasp of the first-hand opportunity, and was curbed by the silky small combos arranged by Varuk.

The most dangerous moment of crossing the astral tunnel and arriving at the jump point has been passed by Varuk's fleet. Now, the two sides are in formation, relying entirely on the fleet's own firepower to fight, so what is there to fear about the mechanical fleet?

The Alliance has an Emperor-class ship, but are the other side's two mechanical arks vegetarian?

A few years ago, among the three mechanical arks of the Alfonzo sect, Alfonzo II, which was the most war-oriented, was destroyed. The two remaining are conventional mechanical arks.

Ordinary mechanical arks are certainly not worse than war arks in terms of ship specifications, but ordinary mechanical arks will have more production and scientific research functions. After all, generally speaking, mechanical arks are not born simply for war.

But despite this, their combat effectiveness is still good. It is a whole level larger than ordinary battleships and can accommodate ten times the size of conventional crew members. After all, it is here. Although it seems a bit dragged down by other non-war equipment, the number of heavy artillery stuffed in is here.

Maybe one mechanical ark is not as good as one emperor-class, but two are definitely better than one emperor.

Not to mention, there are also retribution-class battleships and battlecruisers next to it, and the number is more than that of the alliance.

In the fleet decisive battle, the alliance is not as good in firepower, armor, and shield.

If it continues in this conventional way, the loser will be the alliance fleet.

In fact, the alliance has also realized the problem.

After asking Gu Hang and learning that it may not be able to rely on the support of psychic power in a short time, the alliance also adjusted its strategy in time.

They no longer continue to concentrate firepower to bombard the enemy's main battleships. In the absence of psychic power, it is not the weak side to focus on the giant ship directly.

A mechanical ark was focused, but so what? This kind of core giant ship stays at the core position of its own fleet array, surrounded by many other ships as a barrier.

What are frigates for? Not only the short-range firepower of the giant ship itself will intercept the enemy's artillery fire, but these frigates will do the same thing.

With layers of interception, the firepower that can hit the giant ship itself is already very small. The mechanical ark is large enough, and the void shield and armor are strong, so it is not easy to be destroyed. Although it is called concentrated fire, the firepower that leaked out is so small that it is not enough to do anything to them.

Even if they are unlucky and the interception efficiency cannot be improved for a while, they are beaten, and the void shield even shows some signs of overload, but as long as more frigates and even cruisers are moved directly in front of the giant ship to form a shield, they can also prevent their own giant ship from being destroyed and eliminated.

The weaker side adopts this tactic, which is a bit of a gamble. Unless they are really lucky and some unexpected situation occurs on the battlefield, causing their firepower to really penetrate all kinds of protection and quickly destroy one of the enemy's giant ships, reversing the balance of power on the battlefield, otherwise, they have fought for a long time without any results, which is a big loss!

It is better to go and attack the small boat. If you destroy a frigate, the enemy will have one less barrier; if you destroy a cruiser, the enemy's firepower will also be reduced a little.

Such changes are indeed effective.

The mechanical fleet began to suffer losses.

Even if some small boats were destroyed, it was still a loss.

But under the same conditions, the Alliance lost more small boats.

Because the other side also fought in this way.

In addition, the Alliance had other attempts: Space Marines.

Although, without the help of psychic power for teleportation, it is impossible to reach the enemy ship quickly, smoothly and with a high success rate. However, psychic teleportation has never been the only way to conduct mobilization operations.

It is not that without psychic power, you can't do boarding. In fact, a considerable number of war groups, their think tanks do not have the ability to carry out large-scale teleportation with the team, but when everyone fights, don't they still come here in this way?

Landing spacecraft, boarding torpedoes, boarding cabins... These more traditional means are not unusable.

What's more, the Alliance also has a Zhuge-class aircraft carrier on the scene. This giant ship can also play a significant role in landing operations.

This is what the Alliance did.

The New World Torch volunteered to take the lead, even though they lost more than 200 people in the battle to attack Aramita. However, at this time, they were still willing to take the lead, even though they knew that in the current disadvantaged naval battle, boarding operations would involve great sacrifices, and they would not hesitate.

Wang Mengsong's previous actions eased the relationship between the Atonement Camp and the New Warband, and also made some of the ideas and culture of the Old Torch acceptable, and the tactics were no longer so reckless. However, the trend of thought derived from the entire warband, "cleansing sins with sacrifice", has not changed.

Fury had similar ideas, but not as strong as the Torch. They also volunteered.

Ye Lixia approved their attack, but did not let them really come out in full force.

Let's try it first.

Most of Gu Hang's energy is now in the confrontation in the subspace. It's good that he can occasionally spare some energy to take a look at the situation of the naval battle, and he can't spare time to make decisions. Otherwise, the current balance of confrontation in the Kingdom of Storm God may be broken, and it will be a big loss.

Stripping Gu Hang of his spiritual power, just from the perspective of naval command, Gu Hang is not a professional, so it should be handed over to Ye Lixia.

The two war groups, New World Torch and Wrath Flame, each invested 200 soldiers to board.

At the same time, she also activated her high authority and mobilized another hidden force: the Shadow War Group created with Phoenix seeds.

Of course, she didn't know what the Shadow War Group was. No matter how much Gu Hang trusted her, it was impossible to tell her about such a thing.

But it didn't stop Gu Hang from telling her that it was just a powerful force, with an average quality much better than the other two war groups, and it could be mobilized when necessary.

This is indeed the case.

The potential limitation brought by the gene seed made the proportion of company champions trained by Wrath Flame and New World Torch, two war groups created with "secondary infinite warrior seeds", only 2% to 3%; while the proportion of Phoenix seeds can fluctuate up to 10% to 15%.

In this shadow war group, the number of company champions reached more than 100 people, which can form a champion company.

Ye Lixia did not really smash it. It would be too painful to lose some troops in the process of boarding. She only sent out 200 people, and she only needed to put 20 champions in the normal proportion.

Six hundred space warriors gathered in batches on various warships, boarded landing ships and boarding torpedoes, and were launched.

In the initial stage of flying in space, the risk is relatively low. It is far away, small, and not as noisy as light spears, missiles, and macro cannons, so it is not easy to be discovered and intercepted at a long distance.

When they flew about half of the distance of the battlefield and were about to enter the enemy's key short-range fire interception area, the Eagle Horse exerted its strength.

Before that, its presence was a bit low. Basically, it released the Kirin fighter, cooperated with its own fleet firepower targets, and captured some cruisers and destroyers to play some harassment. Dragon Elephant fighters and even those suicidal patrol ships must be effective when released, otherwise it will be a loss. But in fact, it was difficult to have such an opportunity in previous battles.

But it was time for it to play a role.

The target was the two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers in the Mechanicus warship.

These two battleships were also the targets of the Space Marines.

The Hippogriff launched a patrol ship and more than 20 fighters of various levels to the two targets.

After these deployed firepowers were in place, they pulled full firepower, ignored the threats of the frigates and the battlecruisers themselves, and tried their best to pour out their own firepower.

The damage caused was relatively clear.

Especially after being thrown in the face, some firepower could penetrate the void shield and directly hit the ship.

The two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers suffered a lot of real blows.

However, it was a pity that they failed to blow up the ship, and it would not have a clear impact on the battle situation.

At this time, the Space Marines' boarding torpedoes arrived one after another.

The ships and fighter planes launched by the aircraft carrier were of secondary importance in causing damage. The most important thing was to disrupt the deployment of enemy ships and attract their attention through sudden attacks.

They still achieved their goal.

When the boarding torpedoes and landing craft arrived, the enemy's interception firepower was not fully utilized. It was attracted by the ships launched by the aircraft carriers before. It was not enough to temporarily switch firepower to intercept these boarding torpedoes and craft.

There were a lot of boarding vehicles launched. A considerable number of them were not stuffed with people, or only a small number of army and marines. To put it bluntly, they were indeed positioned as cannon fodder.

If they landed successfully, they would act with the Space Marines and provide assistance. But their biggest role was to serve as interference during the flight of the boarding vehicles.

At most, only one-tenth of the boarding vehicles had Space Marines, and the rest were either empty or loaded with cannon fodder.

Even though the enemy's short-range firepower was attracted away, in fact, one-third of the boarding vehicles were destroyed. Because the flight trajectory and queue of the boarding vehicles were also specially arranged, most of the destroyed ones were actually cannon fodder.

In total, the number of Space Marines who died in the process of boarding the ship did not exceed 100, about 70 or 80.

The rest basically completed the boarding.

The boarding torpedoes and spacecraft smashed into the ship fiercely. The Space Marines and some surviving "cannon fodder" Marines rushed into the ship and engaged in battle with the Skitarii in the two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers.

As they fought, they began to feel something was wrong.

The enemy was not just the Skitarii. The units with both biological and mechanical transformation mentioned in the previous battle report all existed.

These monsters were still no match for the Space Marines and were eventually defeated.

However, not all the Space Marines were able to achieve their combat goals.

They were certainly not here to seize the ship. There was no condition to seize the ship now.

They were here to destroy the ship.

Whether it is destroying the bridge part as the brain of the ship, making the entire ship lose the command center, or destroying the engine part, making the ship lose power, or even detonating in the ammunition depot or fuel depot to destroy the ship directly from the inside... In short, the ship must lose its combat effectiveness.

And it must be done quickly. What's the point of taking a day or two to complete it? I'm afraid the naval battle has entered the end, or even ended.