Knowledge can make people wise, but it can also become a bondage.

The Leopard Man complied with this mistake.

Their estimates of human productivity are seriously skewed.

This deviation was caused by a message sent back by the destroyed locust fleet during the Battle of the River of Stardust.

According to their estimates, the total number of ships currently available to mankind will not exceed 10,000. And the main battleship, I'm afraid it won't even be a thousand.

1000 and 1 million, the gap is too big, big enough to be fatal.

At 33 million kilometers, when the distance between one of the Leopard people's fleet group and the blocking light curtain of the outer city-states was less than this number, the fleet group was ready to open fire.

Judging by the intelligence from the last engagement, after the light curtain is blocked, there is the protective layer, and after that, the enemy fleet. The human side fights by taking advantage of the gap between their own salvos to fire, then quickly erecting a protective layer to protect them, and then using the gap to fire again. And so on and so forth.

In this tactic, the Leopard people chose to shoot non-stop at different levels this time, always having enough artillery fire to strike. As for how to lock on to the target with the existence of the light curtain blocked, it is natural to predict the position according to the trajectory of the opponent's artillery fire.

Such an approach is indeed very passive. However, this time, the locust fleet swarm is 50,000 ships with a full crew, and there are 10,000 huge ships, and the firepower is so dense that it is fully capable of carrying out regional coverage strikes.

Moreover, 33 million kilometers means about 4 hours of sailing time, and the leopards feel that they are sure enough to complete the ride, and then it will be a strangulation annihilation with more fights and fewer fights.

Of course, the leopards have not forgotten that in the later stage of the Battle of the River of Stars, they were lured into the range of the super solar wind by the other side, and then they were ravaged.

It is more than 5 billion kilometers away from the sun, and it takes about 4.63 hours for the solar wind to arrive, so as long as the Grand Fleet does not pursue it deeply, and it is a high-speed pursuit, there is actually a great chance to dodge the deadly solar wind blows.

It is worth mentioning that in the past two years, the construction of the Dyson ring of alien creatures has not made much progress, but has added a top and bottom cover to the sun, although the scale is not large, but it has also effectively eliminated the method of entering the inner solar system at a perpendicular angle to the ecliptic plane.

If it weren't for that, the leopard people would really want to do that.

In their perception, humans are already living under the enslavement of alien creatures. So the main enemy is alien creatures.

Just when the commander of the fleet group was thinking about whether to shoot a blind wave first, maybe it could have the effect of breaking down the opponent's defenses, the outer city-state opened fire first.

33 million kilometers, there are detectors waiting, parameter calibration, precision shooting, each ship locks on to its own target, 350,000 against 50,000, 7V1, each enemy ship will be evenly divided to withstand the blow of 252 light spears.

In an instant, 12.6 million beams shoot out, and they will fly in space for nearly 110 seconds before rushing into the array of locust fleet swarms.

Countless humans watched this scene through the live broadcast, from different angles of detectors in different positions.

The most magnificent and shocking thing is the scene of watching the cannons from the side up close.

The deep dome was illuminated at once, like a huge sun lit up in this space, and the clearly spaced and orderly light shot out like the billionaire light of the sun, and the field of vision was full of this kind of thing, and nothing else.

Many people were shocked by this scene and felt the urge to urinate.

And the leopard people, when they saw this scene, realized that they were playing, and before they died, they demanded that the ships complete as many shells as possible.

In fact, it is enough for a salvo, 110 seconds is not even two minutes, and the energy storage before the light spear is launched is more than that.

Soon after, the flood of light spears shot the entire fleet of the Leopard people to pieces in a devastating manner, and the effect was like a flock of birds under a dense barrage, flesh and blood flying and feathers burning, forming an extremely tragic and spectacular scene in the vast airspace.

The probe recorded the scene with a large number of in-depth footage and sent it back to the rear, allowing people to see the super scene of 50,000 ships and more than 15 million crew members dying in 10 seconds. With these shots, it is estimated that no one will make disaster movies and war movies in the next few years.

The leopards of the other two locust fleets were a little dumbfounded at the time.

Could it be that you are in the wrong place?

This is also too exaggerated, there are more than 10 million light spears at a time, how many warships are behind this?

Then they look at the light curtains and the feeling becomes different.

There was also a curtain of light on the way ahead of their respective fleets.

So, are these light curtains a cover of emptiness, or a massive group of warships waiting for battle?

The two swarms of locust fleets took their own test methods.

Cluster A drops a large number of probes and advances in a torrent, so it is important to obtain information behind the blocking light.

As a result, the long river of these probes encountered a frigate equipped with a spiral nuclear electromagnetic rapid-fire gun.

This kind of ship actually uses the base frame of a missile destroyer. Like a blooming flower, there is a huge firing platform, and thousands of rapid-fire cannons are firing at the same time.

The nuclear artillery shells fired by dozens of frigates formed a nuclear explosion corridor in space, and few probes that got into it could fly out completely.

After that, the horned snails and sea urchins arrived, intercepting layer by layer, just not to let you see the content behind the broken layer.

Cluster B, on the other hand, took the form of long-range shelling to see if it could force out the truth.

However, the distance itself lacks shooting accuracy, and if you can't see the target, you can only shoot the enemy blindly. It's too hard to do that in space.

Whether it is to supply energy for the blocking light curtain or for the node energy shield, the auxiliary ship is surrounded by dense posture control nozzles, which are extremely flexible, and basically in a stationary state, with excellent displacement control effect.

In this case, a wide range of detectors played an important role. Observing from multiple angles and comprehensively deducing the budget, the empty loopholes of the Leopard Man ship's light spear strike can be calculated.

Next, move to the corresponding position within the time limit, and you can deduce the green leaves in the bushes, the leaves do not stick to the body, and there is no danger to dodge the blow.

After the light curtain is blocked, there is a different scene, and the protective layer needs to calculate how to withstand this round of shelling at the minimum cost.

This is specifically related to the angle and manner of the shooting of the light spears of the leopards. The wolf's eye flashlight exists in a dense array, and sometimes, the leopards are indeed in the right place, and at this time, it is necessary to analyze at what cost to carry this group.

Although these artillery ships have a minimum of flexibility, they are not 35 or 350, but 350,000 ships, and such a huge group, even if it is a dense array, is a big lump, and it is not possible to use the shelling interval to complete the displacement of all of them.

This needs to be calculated, which mode is the most economical, is it to carry half, hide half, or carry it all, or at the cost of hiding and some sacrifices?

In short, the fleet of 50,000 ships will definitely see something real every time, even if it is a trick, it is expensive, so to speak, even if the most successful interaction (basically crooked, not using the protective layer much, that is, the artillery ship array moves), the total energy consumption of the outer city-states is more than the total global electricity consumption in 2017.

And sometimes the locust fleet is so blessed that it can even cause considerable damage, and at most nearly a thousand artillery ships are sunk at one time.

But the outer city-states just don't fight back.

An important reason for being good at forbearance is that the attack interval of this simplified artillery ship is nearly three times longer than that of a new warship or an old warship, almost a wave of 10 minutes.

Xu Changqing didn't want to expose this weakness prematurely. He hopes to make better use of the characteristics of the leopard people who can't figure out the real situation of their own side, and stage a good show of truth and falsehood.

So, from the perspective and senses of the leopards in cluster B, they saw that the rounds of blows were like mud cows entering the sea, without any feedback, but the blocking light curtain always existed. They are increasingly questioning, is it true or false? Is this a temptation? Or is it an empty city?

Although the Leopards don't know the allusion to the empty city plan, this tactic is not very high-level, and they have this concept in their cognition.

At this time, the probe cluster on the side of cluster A failed to break through, and it was never able to send back the information after blocking the light curtain.

This situation is very bad, before the Battle of the River of Stars, the locust fleet also used probes intensively, but they were countered, and in the context of the loss of intelligence support, they fell into the pit and were killed in a serial manner.

But now it is difficult to ride a tiger, so they are unwilling to retreat like this. rush, and it is possible to hit headlong into a fatal surprise.

And at this time, the invisible blocking light curtain that has annihilated the C cluster is already moving, and there must be more goods there.

What's even more interesting is that the outer city-states have set up not only three, not even thirty, but more than three hundred.

They are both movable, and sometimes even the two become one and then separate.

It's like three bowls pounding back and forth, and there's only one egg, but which one is it? You guess?

So it won't be long before they can't determine where the huge fleet that turned cluster C into cosmic dust has gone. According to their calculations, with the enemy's firepower coverage, let alone 30 million kilometers, even if it is 100 million kilometers away, it will inevitably suffer losses if it strikes in the area with all its might.

In less than 6 minutes, 50,000 warships can dodge an area attack built by 12 million light spears? Not to mention that they are rushing at high speeds, even if they are in a low-speed state that is most suitable for turning and dodging, it is impossible to be so sharp.

There is another problem, and that is that the super solar wind of alien creatures that have never been able to exert their power cannot be treated as non-existent.

It's okay for the fleet to lose the planetary occlusion occasionally, because a few hours is enough time to retake the planetary occlusion, but if it's too far away, it's dangerous. So don't look at the huge airspace, many areas are spent X, once the fleet group appears in those positions, it is equivalent to begging for its own.

In addition, there is also the issue of the rotation of the planets, compared to the planets that are used as shields, the locust fleet is in the position of the outer wheel, and the planets are in the position of the axis closer, which means that the fleet group has to rotate much faster than the planets in order to always use the planets as shields.

How fast it is depends on which planet is used as a shield. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the Inner Star Domain are definitely not suitable. Too close to the axis of the sun, the fleet group wants to synchronize with others at a position of 5 billion kilometers, and the legs have to be broken.

The largest is Jupiter, then Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The leopard people chose Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.

Cluster C was killed by enemies in Pluto's orbit, and now both A and B have crossed Pluto's orbit and gone diagonally into the solar system, while Cluster C is destroyed by a straight insertion.

If the current trend continues, the Grand Fleet will not have a chance to intercept A and B, but there is a premise, that is, A and B will always maintain an inherent breakthrough posture.

After some weighing, AB exchanged information for two sets and decided to bet.

The two clusters changed their combat schemes, the A cluster that released the detectors before, at this time began to shell forward, and the B cluster, which advanced before the shelling, released the detectors, hoping that the closer distance, the torrent of detectors, could break through and collect valuable information.

It has to be said that, in comparison, Group B's choice is the optimal solution, which caused certain losses to the outer city-states in the early stage, and released enough detectors in the later stage to carry out forcible reconnaissance.

Although the detector interception system composed of the outer city-states is very powerful, it still needs strategic depth, which is about 120 million kilometers, and the shorter it is, the more likely it is to be breached.

Faced with this question, Xu Changqing's answer after thinking about it was to wait for it to break through, observe its behavior, and then choose whether to put it into the fight.

He said this mainly because of the communication problem, after the Battle of the River of Star Chips, no quantum communication technology was found from the Leopard Man's ship.

Without this technology, it is useless to rush into the blocking light curtain, because this blocking is a full range, which is equivalent to using energy to establish a three-dimensional cage, and with the energy intensity of the communication signal, it is impossible to break through the blocking force field.

And if it is quantum communication technology, then it is not affected by blocking. With the scientific and technological level of the leopard people, there is no difficulty in lighting up this technology, but it was not ordered before, and two years have passed, and it may not have been made up.

As it turns out, the leopards have closed this loophole!

(End of chapter)