Chapter 1,229 Artillery, More Artillery
This is the heart of the Milky Way.
What is the most extreme environment in the universe? Not the core of a star, which is as comfortable as a hot spring in terms of universal "extreme measures"; nor the surface of a black hole, which, although it eats everything, is not huge; nor the nebula-making clouds, although It is full of energy and intense activity, but there are still gaps of tranquility. What can truly be called an extreme environment in the universe is actually the most brilliant galaxy core - it is magnificent and brilliant, but it is an absolute death zone: at least for those civilizations that have just stepped into the universe.
The galaxy we landed on has a large-sized central core. Within this area with a radius of one point and one light-year, there are death vortexes that are difficult to move everywhere. Astonishing mass is compressed in this radius of one point and one light-year. A supermassive and ancient black hole is formed at its core. Outside the event horizon of this black hole, at the "safe distance" boundary that cannot be captured by the black hole, the bright and violent primitive matter is compressed into a dense "cloud shell". And constantly stimulates violent gamma rays and various ionizing rays. The intense energy release and material flow cause everything in this area to be ejected outward, and push everything outside the central core. Highly active matter and The collision, reaction, and fusion of low-activity matter releases bright light and surging material jets (the main component is hydrogen, and a very small amount of helium reacted in the jet) extending to 15,000 light-years away. , so that when looking at this area from deep space, it looks like a hazy silver dome lying in the center of the Milky Way.
The black hole will be disturbed within a light-year range of the central core, although this environment cannot have much impact on the Imperial starship. But it's not a good place to fight a war: neither side is concerned, so let's move our attention outwards and see what's going on outside this core.
Once you leave this area, you will enter the expansion area. The fatal gravity of the black hole is only effective within its event horizon. Outside the event horizon, its gravity can only be as "soft" as regular celestial bodies. In this area, there are at least thirty Unprecedentedly huge stars are rapidly passing through their short and glorious life. The smallest of these huge stars has a mass equivalent to thousands of times that of the sun. They were born in the center of the material-rich Milky Way. The body is bloated and reacts violently. A large amount of gaseous material is ejected from the surface to form a cloud that is tens of thousands of times larger than the star itself. Every space entity here is young and will soon grow old. They are squandering and The inherent huge mass quickly transformed into the remains of stars with excessive heavy elements. Then, under the impact of the explosion and the blowing of the hydrogen jet from the center of the Milky Way, they turned into star fragments rushing to the edge of the Milky Way, with new stars to replace them. s position. As for the corpses of those stars. They will finally stop after hundreds of millions or even billions of years and become a golden necklace around the neck of some civilized creature. The iron crown on the forehead of a certain tribal chief is placed on a display stand in a palace or a museum. In the flash of spotlights, it is endowed with a history and story that is meaningless to them. A group of intelligent animals that have only been around for centuries tell it. Looking at the deeds of these fragments of stars that have gone through hundreds of millions of years, I am dazzled by the faint flash of gold and other heavy elements - this flash is not as bright as one billionth of what I see in front of me.
Lin Xue and others stood on the bridge. In front of us was the cradle of the Milky Way. It was so huge and brilliant. It can be dazzling without even realizing it. I heard that in ordinary star-making nests where the matter is relatively loose, there are even thousands of young stars crowded together, but that place is definitely not as "enthusiastic" as the center of the Milky Way. The density of matter and the intensity of reactions between the two are not the same. Of course, the gravitational environment is also very different. No matter which environment a spaceship made by ordinary civilization enters, it will probably be torn to pieces, but I guess it is here. They will be torn into smaller pieces.
She touched my arm lightly, and the magnificent space environment in front of her made her sigh: "It's so bright, it's dazzling."
I nodded: "Well, it's a blind spot - my eyes are sore from seeing it."
"Are we really going to fight here? We can't see anything."
"It's okay. As long as the radar can see it, it's a beyond-visual-range war anyway..."
Lin Xue poked the mini Medivh in the palm of her hand, and was stunned when she heard this: "Seeing this situation, you are discussing this?"
"Otherwise?" Qianqian and I asked in unison.
The eldest lady: "...Forget it, I shouldn't have any expectations for you two."
"Most worlds have similar star-making processes," Lilina said, wearing sunglasses that covered half of her face. "This is the star-making model with the shortest known process and the highest cycle rate. All kinds of noise and interference generated in this environment are very strong, and it is quite smart for the Merova people to use this environment to gather troops."
The fleet is now assembled in the material expansion zone of the galactic center. Although it has not entered the central core, it is still dangerous here. The tug-of-war between gravity and material jets has caused deadly undercurrents everywhere in this area, but it is only 0.14 light years away. A giant star that is actively moving has marked a relatively stable "shaded area" for the fleet. We can save a little energy that was originally used to maintain the attitude of the warship. This energy may not be important, but for the efficient and accurate Xiling As far as the apostles are concerned, any wasteful behavior will not be forgiven. At the same time, with the help of the ionizing radiation emitted by this star, the fleet disguised itself as an undercurrent that would not attract attention. The Merova people have not discovered them yet. Such a huge number of savage beasts have gathered outside the fleet. Hundreds of Eternal-class motherships are already on standby in these bright clouds, their main guns charged, and all assault ships are in transition critical state, just waiting for an order from the chief flagship.
"Wait a minute...their transmission hasn't ended yet...Now that they're here, we need to leave a few more behind."
Lin Xue's eyes glowed with a faint white light. She did not look at the combat star map. She just teased the little girl in her hand and said casually, "How many starships the Merovans will gather is originally the opponent's military." Confidential, but to the Prophet. Everything has been a transparent secret for a long time. Under Lin Xue's reminder, the fleet is still standing still.
But the time for the general attack has almost arrived.
The Imperial fleet is now hidden behind a violent hydrogen jet. This hydrogen jet comes from the center of the Milky Way and is millions of kilometers wide. Under microwave observation, it looks like a blurry floating ribbon. On the other side of the hydrogen jet, there are about a dozen lights. Beyond that is the jumping point for the Merova people. They also chose the "calm zone" marked by the giant star 0.14 light-years away as the jumping point, and probably used the gravity of the giant star to calibrate their jump. Now twelve lights In addition, thousands of huge Merova starships have been gathered, as well as the huge escort fleet brought by these starships. Based on the information previously obtained. Those pale golden battleships that are almost as huge as the Eternal Class are the Merova people's "General Class Aircraft Carriers" and are the enemy's main spacecraft. This is a spacecraft that can deliver huge numbers of drones and is also equipped with a powerful main gun. Their design ideas are probably influenced by the imperial style. In previous battles to raid military nodes on the enemy's border, we were able to determine The main guns of these spacecraft are almost comparable to those of the one-third strength "Galaxy". However, the fire control technology and main gun cooling technology of the Merovans are obviously not in place. The biggest threat to these general-class aircraft carriers is the jump-type missiles they launch. Drones - Those annoying things are basically a swarm of little jump missiles. So this time we brought a large number of anti-aircraft frigates, just to restrain the Merovans' general-class aircraft carriers.
When the Merova people's last wave of general-class aircraft carriers slowly emerged from the "dark zone" in the center of the jump point. The light in Lin Xue's eyes flickered slightly, and she waved her arm vigorously: "All ships. Fire at will! Teleport space bombs!"
In an instant, the Eternal Formation's artillery fire, which had been preparing for a long time, was fired. The dazzling torrent of psionic energy was several times more brilliant than the bright clouds in space. It seemed to dim the center of the Milky Way. At the same time, The ejection bays of hundreds of heavy bombers opened one after another, and the capsule-shaped bombs surrounded by blue light disappeared into the space cracks in front of the ejection bays. The information priority of psionic energy is higher than that of conventional matter in the world, so it has infinite speed and can arrive immediately. The huge bomb dropped by the heavy bomber traveled outside the world, also ignoring the distance of twelve light minutes, and arrived over the Merova fleet almost at the same time as the nether energy bombardment. After all, the Merova regular army still has the background of being the Empire's minions. After knowing that they have to confront the Empire fleet, they at least know to always use giant shield-shaped spaceships to protect the fleet: because the attacks of the Xiling army have always been Sudden and rapid. Outside the Melova fleet, within the spherical shell-shaped space, there were originally a large number of oblate spherical medium-sized spacecraft. These spaceships turned out to be their joint shield generators. Our army's first wave of artillery fire bombarded this joint shield, and a considerable part of it was blocked. It seems that the Merova people learned from the old empire. There are quite a lot of things, and shield technology is not uncommon. But the United Shield is a very high-end gadget, and they are very skilled at copying it.
But it was a counterfeit product after all. A galactic salvo had already caused the seemingly thick shield to flicker violently, and the jump bomb that hit at about the same time finally tore a big hole in the shield. The biggest feature of the joint shield is that it is not like a conventional shield that only has two states: "complete" and "dissipated". A conventional shield does not have a "wound" setting. It either remains intact or disappears completely. But the Joint Shield is different. Just like physical armor, it will suffer from localized strength drops and create regional vacuum zones (think of the hole in the ozone layer). When the vacuum zone appeared, the gravity trap generator originally protected by the joint shield had to be exposed to the subsequent torrent of psionic energy. The continuous star river bombardment immediately destroyed the Merova people's gravity trap protection circle— -Although it is only temporary, this moment is enough.
The other half of the heavy bombers followed closely and launched a second batch of "munitions". This time it was not a space bomb, but a one-time transmission blocker.
This is a "bomb" that contains a set of high-strength gravitational trap generators and a set of jamming equipment. They are specially designed to destroy the opening space channel. These little devils caught off guard and got into the jumping field of the Merova people. At the center, a violently oscillating interference signal was released, where the coordinates of the entire space were disrupted, and the consequences were devastating.
The last batch of general-class aircraft carriers that were about to complete their materialization began to twist and deform, and were smashed into countless small pieces under the chaotic spatial coordinates. If you get close enough, you can even see the Merovans split in half right down the middle. They turned into grotesque slender strips of meat, their bodies fragmented due to wrong coordinates. However, they did not bleed or suffer, and they were even alive briefly now: before the collapse of space, these disordered coordinates were still connected in higher dimensions. Together, so the shattering scene you see is like seeing human internal organs in a three-dimensional space from a four-dimensional space, or seeing the middle part of a two-dimensional image from a three-dimensional space. However, as those one-time jamming devices shut down, all chaos None of the coordinates will be fixed. These split things will fall back from high dimensions to the three-dimensional world and truly become a puddle of fragments. The captains of these general-class aircraft carriers were still able to think. They realized with horror what kind of weapon they had been attacked by, and frantically called the rear base to stop the transmission. However, it was too late, and the clock of the transmission blocker had reached its end. , the coordinate jamming system shut down, the gravity trap also failed, and the last fragments of these general-class aircraft carriers were shot to the center of the Melova fleet. Then there was a series of big explosions.
Sivis drew out her command knife, and Storm Commander's power instantly covered the entire Imperial fleet: "The second echelon of attacks begins. Do not reserve firepower. In the name of the Emperor, no one will be left alive!!"
More artillery fire and more jump warheads began to pour out, instantly crossing the hydrogen jet area between the two armies, bombarding the Merovans who had just reacted, with heavy assault ships as the vanguard. The rest of the assault ships and individual fighters followed, and the spacecraft responsible for the assault entered the jumping state one after another. Their mission was to tear apart the Merovans' joint shield at close range and on the flanks. If possible, try to destroy the enemy's gravity trap generator, and we can once again deliver a round of super-heavy bombs into the interior of the enemy position. The formation of the Merovans was obviously in chaos after the first wave of strong attacks. However, after all, they were the ace servant army of the past, and they were influenced by the military thinking of the old empire for a long time. Their fighting quality was indeed not low. At this time The formation has been adjusted and the joint shield has been re-opened. Facing the second round of artillery fire from the Imperial Army, even though the shield was in danger, the Merovans calmly organized a counterattack.
But no matter how far their counterattack force reaches, the battle situation is still tilting in the direction that is beneficial to our army: the overall combat effectiveness of the imperial fleet is higher than that of the Merova people. If they could seize the upper hand, they might be able to fight the Imperial Army with their numerical advantage. However, now they don't even have the upper hand, and their numerical advantage has been greatly reduced by the big explosion that occurred during the last wave of jumps. Press If this situation continues to develop, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the Merova people are completely annihilated.
"Mumu, do you feel something is wrong?" Lin Xue stood on the officer's seat with her arms folded. Dingdang and Little Crow were holding her shoulders one by one, like two symmetrically distributed epaulettes. The latter seemed to know that fighting is very serious. Although I didn’t understand the matter, I calmed down honestly and watched us talk while holding a leek.
"There is indeed something wrong," I nodded and looked at the thing I had been holding in my hand until now: it was a piece of sky-blue irregular crystal, with a glow of energy on the surface. Sandora's breath emanated from the crystal, as if It was as if she was standing next to her in person: this is a resonance crystal, made of the crystal material special to the Jingfeng planet, and now, it is the material carrier for the extension of Sandora's will, "Why didn't the servant army of the Merova people come out? "
I feel that the current situation is a little different than expected - the Merova people have a servant army, and they will never take the lives of the servant soldiers seriously, so in theory, they will let the servants when they jump into this galaxy The army should open the way in front of them. They would let those slave races serve as cannon fodder and human shields, instead of using their regular army to fight with the imperial fleet like now, but letting their slaves hide in a safe place.
I hold the resonance crystal in my hand, and there is a special device at the bow of the flagship. There is a larger crystal and a set of amplifying antennas installed there. The device can spread the power of the crystal to an entire light-year. Range - Enough to cover the largest battlefields. Before setting off, we considered that the Merova people might drive the slave race to the battlefield as cannon fodder, so we prepared this thing. Although Sandora is currently transforming in the void and cannot be present on the battlefield in person, her power can still be transmitted through resonance. The crystal passed on, even if she did not enter the glory form, it would be effortless for her to suppress the slave race that may appear on a mere battlefield. This is why we can come to the center of the Galaxy to face the Merova people with such confidence. But now it seems... the enemy doesn't seem to be acting according to the script that Sandora and I imagined.
"Let's see what tricks they are going to play again," Lin Xue squinted her eyes and looked at the star map. Although she couldn't understand it, the distribution of fleets on the star map helped her concentrate her efforts and pay attention. A more specific thing. After a moment, she smiled and said, "Ha... you are worthy of being an ignorant and ignorant king... Note that there will be two more troops jumping into the battlefield later. Barian has invested more troops than expected. Now it’s just an appetizer.”
"What else? Does he really want to mobilize the entire country's troops in this battle?"
"It can only be said that Barian has more troops than Turazzo knew. It seems that after the unlucky old man was squeezed out, Barian secretly increased the number of troops. This part of the army is another group of 'secret troops'. Barian's men are all secret troops, and the troops don't know the formation of friendly forces... This... this is really a weird tyrant, he almost doesn't even believe in himself!"
Me: "..." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)