Inside the colorful Star Road, a huge fleet is marching through it.

"Commander Issa, we expect to arrive at Horton in ten minutes!"

"Well, there's no news from Horton's side yet?"

"Yes, the last time news came was 17 days ago."

"Well, I always feel that something is wrong, tell the fleet in front of you to be careful when you go out, and be ready to attack at any time!"

Because Horton could be attacked by the Kabat Empire at any time, Issa had asked Josel to send an update every ten days.

However, it has been seventeen days since I received any information, and although Isaac does not think that Kabat can break through Horton's defense so easily, he still has a bad feeling.

"Let's hope nothing happens!"

The star system Houghton, Barrell exits the path of the stars in the direction of Barre.

At this moment, the three Federation fleets have already laid a line of defense here.

Lin Fan and the three of them have been waiting here for more than ten days, and speaking of which, it is really tiring to wait for the rabbit.

After all, you don't know when the other person will show up, so you have to be on high alert all the time.

It's not like fighting in ancient times, you can also send out scouts to prepare for the enemy in advance.

When facing the path of the stars, you will only know when the enemy actually comes to you.

So in the past ten days, everyone's spirits have been extremely tense.

But it doesn't mean that everyone can't rest, otherwise the enemy will collapse before he comes!

Lin Fan and the three of them stationed the fleet in 3 squads, which means that when the war did not officially start, one-third of the fleets of each fleet were resting in the back.

The three fleet commanders also took turns resting,

"Commander, the Oaks Imperial fleet sailed out of the path of the stars, the number is 1000!"

"Well, it's finally here, order the fleet to open fire and form a crossfire!"

"Yes!"

Since there is a line of defense, it is impossible for 3 commanders to command together, otherwise it will definitely be chaotic!

Therefore, at present, the command of the second and fourth fleets has been temporarily handed over to Lin Fan, while Liang Xingchen and Jiang Hai are dealing with the affairs of the battleship production base group and various planets respectively, of course, they have a large number of mecha legions and all the commandos.

The path of the stars in the direction of Barre, in terms of width, can be regarded as medium, and can accommodate about 1,000 warships at the same time, which is not slow in terms of speed.

However, on the defensive line, a full 54,000 battle cruisers formed a powerful crossfire from three directions towards the exit, and the firepower was no less than that of a Praetorian Guard of the Oaks Empire! You must know that according to the configuration of the Praetorian Guard, there are only 2,000 battle cruisers for every 10,000 warships.

The warships of the Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard are sailing out through the path of the stars one after another, but each wave will be directly destroyed as soon as it comes out, and there is no room for negotiation.

In just five minutes, 10,000 warships were reimbursed.

It was at this time that the news reached Issa.

"Commander Issa, after our forward fleet arrived at Horton, it was ambushed by the human fleet at the exit of the Star Path, with a number of 60,000!"

"Humans? How can it be human? Are you sure you got it right? ”

"Yes, according to the database comparison, according to the information sent back by the four defenders of Tianyuan before, it is exactly the same as the new warship of the human race."

"Wait, I remember the information sent back by the four defenders of Tianyuan that the new warships of the human race have energy shields, right?"

"Yes, Grand Commander Isa, the news from the fleet in front of us at this moment also says that the attack is completely ineffective!"

Listening to his adjutant's report, Issa suddenly thought of something!

A new type of warship with an energy shield... Tianyuan IV was inexplicably attacked... Is it the curvature engine?

If this is really the case, many things that I didn't understand before can make sense, and it can also explain how humans took Horton without knowing it!

It shouldn't be, how could a human being suddenly promoted to a fourth-level civilization!

But it is impossible to say that the human race bought the warship from the Babawi Empire!

Isa knew that his empire had spent more than a hundred years of savings in order to buy 5,000 warships with shields, not to mention the purchase from Babawi, how many resources would it take to arm 60,000 warships.

The curvature engine alone is something that the Babawi Empire will never sell.

Then the remaining speculation, even if it is unlikely, should be the truth.

That is, human beings have really become a fourth-level civilization, but because of the small population and small territory, the scale of warships is limited.

I have to say that most of Issa's guesses are correct, but the human race is not a real fourth-level civilization at present, and can only be regarded as a pseudo-fourth-level civilization.

But even if it is a pseudo-fourth-level civilization, 60,000 warships with shields, it is not something that Isa's Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard can compete with alone.

Thinking of this, Aisa couldn't help but feel bitter, where was he? This is the way of the stars.

The path of the stars does not rely on the propulsion system of the battleship to move forward, but as soon as you enter the path of the stars, it will automatically move along this channel at a speed of 3 times the speed of light, as if riding the ocean current.

In the path of the stars, you can't accelerate, slow down, or turn around, or even change the attitude of the battleship, so you can only follow the passage all the way until you reach your destination.

In other words, Isa can't do anything now, but watch every wave of 1,000 warships go out and be directly disabled.

"Order all the fighters in the battleship to push me outside!"

"Commander Issa?"

"Still don't understand? As soon as the empty carrier goes out, it will be blown up, and the fighter has no chance to attack at all! Although we are now in the Way of the Stars, the thrusters cannot play a role, but the fighters can be pushed directly out of the ship, so that in addition to the Way of the Stars, the fighters do not have to attack one by one, but can directly pounce on the enemy's defense line! ”

"Yes, Commander!"

This is the only way that Isa can think of, you must know that there are 30,000 empty carriers in the entire Fourth Legion of the Praetorian Guard, and each one has 3,000 fighters, which means that the entire legion has 90 million fighters.

Even if some of the air carriers have been destroyed before out of the Star Path, the remaining ones can still release more than 80 million fighters.

Release these fighters in advance, let the fighters follow the path of the stars on their own, and immediately launch a charge when they go out.

Although it is a question mark whether the number of fighters that can finally break into the human defense line is ten percent of the number of cross-fire networks that cross millions of kilometers against the crossfire network, it is at least better than being blown up along with the empty mother before it comes out of the empty mother, isn't it?

For a while, all the aircraft carriers and fighters that were still in the Star Road were released one after another.

Tens of millions of warplanes accompanied the fleet one by one, and the scene was extremely spectacular!