The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

In addition, there are 20 groups of engineers who specialize in the construction of various transport ships, industrial ships, maintenance ships and other civilian ships.

In addition, there are senior crew members and ordinary crew members who can configure two large branch fleets.

"what a pity!"

Talent is talent, but he can't use it.

Except for the ten chief engineers of battleships who can be transformed into servants of light and can continue to be used, the others are useless.

According to the appearance of the Shata people, there is a high probability that they will end up badly after being conquered in the future. Even if they are not extinct, they will be disarmed, and the meat quality will be adjusted with genetic technology, and then they will be raised in captivity and reduced to food animals.

This is not to scare people, it is real.

In the course of the development of human civilization, many civilizations have been conquered, but now we have not seen many alien civilizations within the sphere of human influence, most of them have been extinct, and a few have been reduced to pets or food, or entered zoos to be watched.

They were raised in captivity when they were born, they were not allowed to receive any knowledge, and they were not allowed to speak since childhood. Over time, they naturally forgot their own civilization and knowledge, and civilization was cut off. The IQ of the new generation will gradually degenerate. After genetic technology adjustment The human body will also slowly degenerate, and gradually become no different from animals. At most, they used to be intelligent creatures, which are smarter and better domesticated than ordinary beasts.

The cold universe is beautiful and cruel.

There is only one life and death between civilization and civilization in order to survive. Although it is not as completely extreme as the dark forest, the difference is not big.

There is absolutely no day of peaceful coexistence between different civilizations, even two civilizations that are exactly the same.

If human beings encounter a second human civilization that looks exactly like themselves in the human universe, the first reaction is definitely not curiosity, but vigilance.

It is absolutely impossible for two identical species to appear in the universe. If there are two identical species, there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that they used to have the same origin, for example, two civilizations originated from the same birthplace, but one walked out of the planet first.

Or the civilization was once destroyed, and both branches were developed by the fish that slipped through the net of the destroyed civilization. For example, if the United Empire of Mankind is destroyed and a large number of humans escape, if these escaped humans can escape the pursuit and re-develop on the other side of the starry sky, This is also homologous.

Another possibility is to be a little anxious.

As we all know, there are three mainstream ascension routes in the universe, mind is better than matter, spiritual ascension; flesh and blood is weak, mechanical ascension; design evolution, genetic ascension.

When genetic technology reaches a certain level, you can use genetic technology to design your own genes, strengthen your body, change your appearance or shape, etc., or use genetic technology to forcibly create creatures, create a new species, and so on.

It is not surprising at all to redesign a species by imitating a certain race, or if you are not satisfied with the appearance of your own species, and transform the appearance design of your own species into another satisfactory species through genetic design.

Or some genetic ascension masters can directly upgrade a dog through genetic technology, from physical body to intelligence level.

From a dog to a kobold, and then from a kobold to a tiger man, a dinosaur man, an elephant man, etc., as long as your genetic modification technology is good enough, you can do it.

So redesigning a race into a species that is exactly the same as a certain race is a small KISS for those genetic masters. They prefer to make artificial legendary creatures, artificial Leviathans.

Having said that, it was precisely because he could imagine how miserable the Shata people would end up that he did not dare to use these Shata people, at most he dared to use them only after turning them into servants of light.

And when turned into a servant of light, from the body to the mind, and then the will is distorted, in fact, it has nothing to do with the Shata people.

The number of Servants of Enchanting Light is too small, only one per month and twelve per year. There is no way to retain too many talents, only these ten chief engineers of battleships can be retained.

Unknowingly, more than half a month has passed, and the giant shipyard has been split into the universe in the palm, and many Shar slaves have also been put away. After counting, there are about 31.08 million, which is an annoyance that the entire income of the warehouse area is the same as that of the previous Shar. People meet, and the former Shar people will do the ideological work.

After more than half a month, except for the occasional small fleet jumping in for reconnaissance, no enemy came. On the contrary, on the 21st, Crimson and the Horn of Liberty and three other large teams assembled a team except for none. The fleet of conventional warships other than the flagship rushed over and was preparing to attack the Shata III galaxy, which was only seven jumps away.

They also discovered the Jialan Legion that was plundering Shata No. 5. Gu Shenzhou sent someone to ask him if he wanted to send a fleet there, but Li Qing refused.

The garrison over there is not much different from that of the giant shipyard. It is not a problem to capture it with the strength of a joint team, but it will definitely not be so easy.

Although he didn't go there, Li Qing was still very concerned about the battle situation there. He wanted to see if the battle situation over there was deadlocked, and the capital of the southern province of Shata, which was only one jump away, would send reinforcements over.

Not sending the combined fleet to destroy this garrison can also relieve the pressure on himself. If reinforcements are sent over, the pressure will be reduced when he enters the reef lair later.

It’s not like staying in this galaxy every day these days. The small ships and occasional small fleets sent out to scout around have almost touched the galaxy near the reef lair.

Ever since he knew that he had a Titan super-flag and three flagships here, and found out their strength through the garrison here, the division-level fleet stationed in the capital of the southern province stayed there, and it seemed that they wanted to defend to the death. capital.

Li Qing didn't think about seduce tactics, it's useless, the opponent will definitely not come out, he can only attack by force.

The plunder was about the same. On this day, Li Qing finally ordered the fleet to move to the galaxy MK471.

It is the galaxy at the crossroads, from there is the Shata-3 galaxy to the north, the Shata-5 galaxy to the south, the Human Expeditionary Force to the west, and the six galaxies to the east are the Reef Lair, the capital of the southern province of the Shata Civilization.

It is very strange that this critical intersection galaxy has no defenders, it is empty.

But looking at the entire star map, it is not uncommon for there to be no defenders.

From their point of view, this is a key intersection, but from the perspective of the Shata civilization, it is just an ordinary intersection. There are routes from other locations to the capital galaxy. There are only two key intersections in the entire southern province. , one is the Cuerta Fortress galaxy, and the other is behind the capital galaxy, the Locke Fortress at the junction between the southern province and another province within the Shata civilization.

There is a key intersection, and there is a crack extending from the interference zone. Not only is the difficulty of the transition soaring, but the hyperspace channels of the surrounding galaxies are also broken. The remaining hyperspace channels are just connected to this critical intersection galaxy. The source's transition strength bonus, under normal circumstances, even the flagship is difficult to directly transition over.

The Shata civilization established a fortress galaxy in that galaxy, and there are two full division-level fleets stationed there all year round.

This is also one of the risks that Li Qing considered. If there is support there, although the environment is limited and it is impossible to jump over directly, it only takes about a week to reach the reef lair galaxy if you are prepared.

In other words, he must completely defeat the defenders in the reef lair within a week, and then block the support from the fortress galaxy.

Up to now, Li Qing has guessed some unreasonable places in the Shata civilization. Why the central government does not directly support it? The high probability is that the southern province belongs to the sphere of influence of one of the eight tribes in Shata, and the central government belongs to another tribe. Although these tribes have jointly formed a powerful civilization, they are not of the same tribe after all, and the union is not very close, so everyone is still wary of each other.

The possibility of this guess is very high. If they are all of the same race, they can sweep out the expeditionary army with just some support.

Li Qing felt that the root cause of this kind of thinking error was that the joint civilization of the Shata tribe did not know how strong human civilization is. It is estimated that the human civilization in their eyes is at most as strong as the Yu clan located in Jinmen. They probably thought that Jinmen The Menyu clan is human civilization.

If this is used as a reference, the strength of the Jinmen Yu clan is definitely not as good as that of the entire Shata tribe. In addition, the main force of the Shata civilization is now fighting with the Sivis Council on the other side. The Shata does not want to fight on three sides. It is not impossible for people to abandon the southern provinces strategically.

After all, it was just giving up one of the tribes. There are eight tribes in the Shata, and the loss of one other tribe can get more benefits.

In the Shata-3 galaxy, there is a huge barren planet suspended in an orbit more than 100 million kilometers away from the main sequence star. In addition to two satellites, there are hundreds of habitation stations in the orbit of the planet. There are tens of billions of Shata people living in this huge residential complex.

On the planet, there is a huge industrial base, densely packed civilian ships are shuttling back and forth between the residential station groups, transporting a large number of civilians away.

In the void, millions of kilometers away from the residential stations, two extremely large fleets were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire. Energy light beams lit up one after another, and from time to time, the flames of battleship explosions rose and lit up the void.

After less than an hour of fighting, the United Fleet, which has an advantage in ship capacity, has already gained the upper hand.

If there are no accidents, victory is inevitable. The difference lies in when the enemy collapses and how much one loses.

"Bing Feng, the fleet you are leading is slowly leaving the battlefield. They will definitely find a way to escape. I need you to listen to the order to intercept it later."

Gu Shenzhou, the interim commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, is closely watching the ever-changing battlefield, and keeps issuing various orders:

"Blade, did you see the mark I sent you? If you pass the intercepted signal, there is a high probability that it is one of the enemy's command flagships. I need you to sink it at any cost."

"Tianji, in the latest news I'm sending you now, keep an eye on the movement of all blue-marked enemy ships. If there is no abnormality, you can continue to implement tactics. If there is an abnormality, intercept it immediately."

"Everyone, the enemy has fallen into a disadvantage, so follow my order to entangle them. The victory must be ours. This galaxy has tens of billions of people and a huge amount of supplies. As long as we capture it, we can make a fortune. No matter how big it was before All losses can be recovered.”

When Li Qing's fleet came over, the battle had already entered a fierce state. The isolated and helpless defenders fought a desperate battle with the United Fleet, and the battle was quite fierce.

There are burning and smoking wrecks of warships everywhere in the void, and a large number of rescue pods are drifting among the wreckages. The defenders have suffered heavy losses but are still stubbornly resisting.

A normal fleet will waver when it loses more than 30%, and it is close to collapse when it loses more than 50%. Very few elites can last longer, but they will definitely not be able to fight to the death like in myths and novels, unless they have special His talent can make his subordinates not fear life and death.

If the same faction is fighting normally, one of the parties has already started to flee or seek peace according to the current battle loss rate.

But now it is a battle between civilizations and civilizations, and there is no talk of surrender.

Once unable to escape, there is only one way to fight to the death.

Li Qing himself did not participate in the battle, but sent Li Qi and Li Lie to lead the fleet to circle around and prepare to intercept. If the enemy breaks through the blockade of the combined fleet, he will attack, and if he does not break through, it will be fine.

Without a flagship, the battle would last a very long time. Even with an absolute advantage, it still took eight hours for the combined fleet to defeat the opponent, and it took even longer to wipe out the defeated troops.

Li Qing was not in a hurry, and waited for them to wipe out all the routs before leading the fleet to approach the huge residential station group in the center of the galaxy.

During the communication, Li Qing looked at Gu Shenzhou, Feng Lixiu and three unknown team leaders and said:

"Congratulations on taking down this galaxy."

Gu Shenzhou sighed and said:

"Although it was won, the loss was heavy. A total of nearly 100 battleships were sunk, more than 200 cruisers, more than 400 destroyers, and more than 2,000 frigates were sunk."

Li Qing said with a smile:

"What is that? Look at the harvest in this galaxy. There are so many living station groups, with at least tens of billions of people. I don't know how many supplies are enough to make up for all the losses."

"Hopefully!"

Li Qing smiled and said nothing, he was just crying poor.

As soon as his eyes fell on the light curtain in front of him, the screen showed that there was a community of hundreds of residential stations above the orbit of the planet, which looked like bunches of grapes hanging above the orbit of the planet.

This residential station group is divided into five groups, one large and four small. The largest one is composed of seventy to eighty large and small residential stations, and the largest one is a giant residential station with a diameter of two hundred kilometers.

They brought a large number of industrial ships and transport ships. After the battle, they entered and stopped in the orbit of the planet. A large number of clone warriors entered the residence station in assault boats to drive out the Shata people in the residence station.

In fact, the best way of hauling is to use a tractor beam on a large or giant industrial ship to pull these living stations off the track, and haul them back like a trailer for normal transportation.

But if you want to do this, you must completely seal off each of these living stations, otherwise you will not be able to pass through the hyperspace channel.

This is a big project, and it is not as laborious as transporting it directly with a treated trailer.

Of course, there is another important reason. These residential stations, Li Qing, said they wanted it before, and they couldn't do it even if they wanted to.