Chapter 488: One Rises While the Other Falls

However, ideals are often full, but reality is skinny.

Humans don't know that the Chiyan civilization wants to delay the time to thirty years later, and it stands to reason that the longer the time is delayed, the more beneficial it is to humans, because from this year on, the human warship manufacturing capacity has surpassed the Chiyan civilization.

However, the human side does not intend to drag it on like this, nor does it stop to develop for a few years or more after fighting a war like before. Instead, after a year or two of slight repairs, it will lead the fleet again and head to the next goal.

Humans no longer have extra strong artificial intelligence for production, and four bases are already the limit. Although dragging it on will become more and more advantageous, it is also accompanied by unknown risks. Therefore, after destroying the second planetary base of the Chiyan civilization, the human leaders decided to continue the war.

There is another factor in making this decision, that is, the members of the three fleets feel that time is running out. If they continue to fight so slowly, they may not be able to finish this war until their lifespan is exhausted.

It can be said that the sense of urgency of human lifespan made them accidentally disrupt the pace of the Red Flame Civilization to delay time, but the fleet's attack was similar to the previous times. It was not fully dispatched due to urgency. The Third Fleet was still assigned to patrol and stay.

After a little repair and replenishment, the large fleet that went out this time was composed of 8 million assault ships and 6 million battleships. The First Fleet and the Second Fleet each led half of the warships.

When the large fleet sailed to the scheduled separation point, Yue Yuan made tactical explanations to the commander of the Second Fleet, Man Yuemei, through the combat channel.

He pointed to a planet in the real-time shared star map and said, "This is the first orbit planet. The Third Fleet had already razed its defense facilities to the ground. However, after so many years, the Interstellar Trading Market has rebuilt resource development facilities on it. According to the detection intelligence, most of the rare earth elements needed for the core shipbuilding base of the Interstellar Trading Market come from this planet."

Most of this information was obtained when the Third Fleet conducted orbital bombardment on this planet. It was found that lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, rubidium, promethium, samarium, gadolinium and other important rare elements are very abundant on this planet, with a high proportion and are extremely easy to mine.

Of course, other planets also have these elements, but it is more difficult to mine them. In order to obtain resources more quickly, the Chiyan civilization chose to resume mining on the first orbit planet.

At this time, Yue Yuan glanced at Manyuemei on the screen, then raised his sword finger on the sensor screen, drew an arc towards the star map, and continued to say to Manyuemei: "Your fleet will set out from this route and must paralyze the resource mining base of the interstellar trading market within half a year, and my First Fleet will pass through here, threaten their core star field, and attract the opponent's main force for you.

After your fleet successfully paralyzes its base, it will join my First Fleet and jointly attack its core area. The core of this battle is not orbital bombing, but to do our best to destroy the opponent's warships."

"I understand!"

After a distinctive royal sister voice, the large fleet split into two and headed towards their respective targets.

The seven million warships of the First Fleet went straight to the opponent's core area. About an hour later, a huge gas planet came into view, oh no, it should be displayed on the screen of the Tianqin.

It can be seen that the Tianqin has arrived at the opponent's core area, and at this time the Second Fleet has begun to fight with the opponent's first planetary defense force.

"Enemy fleet discovered, size 8 million, distance 0.241 AU, number of new warships unknown, estimated time of contact"

A report reminded all combatants on the Tianqin that the battle would begin soon.

0.241 AU is about 120 light seconds, which is already a very close distance at the level of Level 3 civilization.

"Fleet on rudder 18, half-acceleration deceleration begins, formation changes to long-range engagement formation." Yue Yuan immediately spoke, and at the same time, he also transmitted the command to the Tianqin's strong artificial intelligence through the auxiliary chip.

The so-called long-range engagement formation is actually to change the original spherical formation into a rectangular formation, with the main battleship in front of the assault ship, relying on the armor advantage to shoot at the opponent at a long distance. This formation looks like a group of warships spread out like a carpet.

The current goal of the First Fleet is to buy time for the Second Fleet, rather than directly capture its core star field. Humans do not think they can completely eliminate the interstellar trading market in this battle.

"Report, the neutrino detection data has results." At this moment, the staff in charge of the detection module sent a picture of the neutrino detection results to the shared terminal.

Yue Yuan immediately exported it, and then stared at the image and conclusion.

"So many?!" Yue Yuan was stunned when he saw the detection results.

Now the First Fleet is close enough to the core area of ​​the Red Flame Civilization. Although there is still a gas planet between them, neutrino detection can accurately outline the general situation of the gas back.

So Yue Yuan saw a dense mass of small dots at a glance. He knew what these dots meant in neutrino detection. They were warships or spaceships made of steel.

Now there are more than 70 million small dots appearing in the detection results. This result tells him that there are still 70 million warships or spaceships on the interstellar trading market side.

"General Yue, it is most likely their residential spaceship cluster." At this time, the scientific officer on the Tianqin analyzed: "This interstellar trading market obviously came from other star fields, and the detector did not find any traces of its mother star in this star system.

If they still have so many warships, there is no reason to keep hiding them. They can completely pull them out at the beginning of the war to destroy us with the advantage of numbers. And the fleet sent out to fight us has already shown that they don't have much combat power."

Yue Yuan nodded. It was true. The fleet in front of him was only 8 million ships. The interstellar trading market, which had been fighting with humans for many years, could not be unaware of the power of human warships. If the number difference was not large, they would definitely not be the opponent of humans. So if they still had enough warships, it would be impossible for them to send out so few.

It seems that after so many years of consumption, coupled with the improvement of human shipbuilding capabilities, the warships on the side of the interstellar trading market have really become fewer and fewer, so that they can't even pull out a fleet with twice the number of human warships.

The balance of victory has completely tilted towards humans. Yue Yuan estimates that in another ten years, he will be able to achieve the final victory.