With the 173 fleet, a new force, descending from the sky, the battle situation, which seemed to be crumbling under the desperate assault of the puppet army, once again returned to a reluctant balance.

But the situation is still not optimistic.

During the 26-month battle, more than 100 human squads arrived at Oasis Star to join the warband.

In this relatively small theater of operations, mankind has gathered a total of 680,000 ships and a total population of nearly 400 million to form a huge combined fleet.

Relying on the hard work of the front-line soldiers and the natural moat formed by the magma storm, the production and scientific research departments located in the Oasis Star were in full swing, and in just 26 months, they built as many as one million ships, including more than 700,000 unmanned warships and more than 200,000 manned warships.

At the same time, after a total of nine phases of the project continue to strengthen, although it is not impregnable, but it can also be regarded as an iron wall.

A large amount of material left behind by the warring sides in the cave has piled up like a mountain, strung together into a cylindrical asteroid belt.

Humans usually only recover a small number of necessary special materials, and the rest are simply left where they are, but there are also ready-made roadblocks that can block the enemy's advance.

Humans with regional home advantage can also hide treacherous mines in partially broken wreckage.

It's a pity that this place is close to the Silver Heart after all, and it is the core hinterland of the Compound Eye, and in these years, the Compound Eye has already begun to massively expand the slave clan strength in the Silver Heart location.

In order to stop the nameless fleet that exposed its whereabouts in advance, the Compound Eyes had already laid out heavy troops.

Now that the Combined Fleet is stationed in the Oasis, it's like lighting a campfire in the middle of the night in a cold winter forest full of wolves.

Fierce and hungry wolves will be moved by the wind and will gather around them from all sides.

The Nameless Fleet is equivalent to facing the enemy headquarters with the strength of a small branch of the human race, and this comparison of forces is not fair.

However, although there is such a huge disparity in the strength and logistics scale of the enemy and us, relying on the 400 million military and civilian soldiers who only use technical means to quickly rest and work for an average of 2 hours every 24 hours, and at the same time, relying on the application of technology by more scientific researchers in the imperial headquarters to do their best to tackle key problems, in response to the Oasis Star Magma Magnetic Storm and many special mineral deposits, continue to launch various new energy and material rapid development equipment, and rely on the main brain Fanxing to take over the important computing work in the production link of the Oasis Star with nearly one-tenth of the total computing power, and the United Fleet survived.

However, despite the fact that the Combined Fleet has tried every means to rapidly expand its strength, it cannot avoid the problem of continued combat attrition.

The fourth generation, which has only just begun to be cultivated after the United Fleet was stationed, is now the oldest is only more than two years old, and there is still at least six to eight years before it can form a basic combat force.

As time passed, the human warriors inevitably fought fewer and fewer, and the balance of forces on both sides was still slowly tilting in favor of the Compound Eye Army.

In June 2945, an even more unfavorable situation arose, as a large fleet of Compound Eye Slaves suddenly emerged about 160 light-years away from Oasis, with a scale estimated to be close to the huge army of Devourers and Hive Giants encountered by the Nameless Fleet at the time of its prime.

Just half an hour later, when this information was presented to Andre, Zhou Donglai, and the General Staff of the Imperial Headquarters, there was silence in countless conference rooms.

There was a major flaw in the work of the intelligence services, and they failed to discover that a large serpentine stargate with compound eyes was quietly taking shape.

In the blink of an eye, the Combined Fleet was left with only two options.

Either take the risk of being wiped out and wait for help, or evacuate in advance and continue to break into pieces and escape separately.

But at this time, the combined fleet has only been developing for two years and two months, and the production capacity ramp-up has not yet been completed, and most of the production capacity has been used to fight against the invading enemy, and the exploitation of Oasis Star resources has only been completed by less than one-tenth.

If this is dispersed, the original strategic goal of expanding the strength of the Combined Fleet has not been accomplished at all, and the persistence of more than two years has become a dream.

But even if they were stubbornly waiting for reinforcements, with only a small team of hundreds of light-years nearby, it would be difficult to assemble a team that was enough to compete with the strange soldier of the Compound Eye.

At this delicate moment, the Institute of Materials Science, a subsidiary of the Core Fleet, deduced a new way of ship movement by analyzing the wreckage of a previously annihilated biological fleet with space-jumping capabilities.

Collecting the remains of these creatures, refining them, and finally fusing them into the kinetic energy generator of the Snap Engine, it could theoretically support a medium-sized ship to perform continuous warp jumps for several months, gaining the terrifying medium-range maneuverability of up to 2,500 times the speed of light.

It has been calculated that the non-renewable materials collected in the core fleet can be used to transform a total of 400,000 medium-sized ships.

"There are opportunities and risks. Now that most of the scattered enemy fleets near Oasis are close to the war zone, we still have a third of our reserve forces in the outer layer. Over the years, the Xuanyuan Armor has been rapidly and gradually replacing the Forgai armor, and the Xuanyuan Armor derivative equipment for the new main frame has been gradually innovated. ”

"All the large and small detachments have gone through a lot of blood and fire trials over the years, and those that have been able to persist until now have more than ten games, and some have three or four games. Our combat effectiveness has only increased compared to 20 years ago, and we have every chance of winning. As long as we can use the task force to defeat the opponent's stargate first, then within this area, we can concentrate our superior forces to attack the enemy. The formation of the main attack task force is the responsibility of the core fleet, and the rest of the fleet is gradually getting closer, waiting for the fighters to form an encirclement trend! ”

Zhou Donglai made a decisive decision and ordered the core fleet engineering department to immediately start renovating the ships and selecting fighters at the same time.

Yes, after years of amassing strength in the core fleet, it's time for the blade to come out of its sheath again.

In the past week, a special attack team composed of 20 million elite fighters, 50,000 special medium warships, and 350,000 brand-new intelligent unmanned warships has been formed, directly allocating half of the existing strength of the core fleet.

Not only that, but Tong Ling and the other 3,000 full-strength peak fighters formed a special combat team that was also reorganized.

The stakes are very high, and Tong Ling, as the number one combat force of the human race, is also time to dispatch.

But what I didn't expect was that the link that finally determined the commander of the task force went wrong.

Zhou Donglai actually planned to transition his post as commander-in-chief of the nameless fleet to Tang Xiaao, who was now 36 years old and had just been promoted to the post of deputy commander-in-chief of the core fleet, and then he himself led the team to the expedition.

This was strongly opposed by Tang Xiaao and other commanders.

Zhou Donglai's reason was that Tang Xiaao was mature enough and showed enough military command talent to be worthy of the position of commander-in-chief.

However, Tang Xiaao's reason was that he was not good at administrative management and could not be qualified for the position of commander-in-chief of the nameless fleet.

Others find it even more inappropriate.

They were not dissatisfied with Tang Xiaao, but felt that for decades, after Zhou Donglai took over Qin Guang, he had played an excellent role in the overall control of various fields, and he was no longer a pure military personnel, and he had to be allowed to stay in the core fleet in order to play the greatest role, and it would be more beneficial to mankind.

As long as Zhou Donglai is still there, even if this battle is lost, the Nameless Fleet will have a chance to make a comeback and regather combat power.

Zhou Donglai continued to argue that there was no room for loss in this battle, only victory and not defeat, and he had to go into battle in person to feel steady, and there was no better commander in the fleet than himself.

He even said very forcefully that his mind had been decided and could not be discussed again.

Unexpectedly, Tang Xiaao refuted it in public and challenged him to command a simulated special operations fleet.

"Now that my offspring embryo has taken shape, Nuwa plans to sit back and relax, I can die in battle, but I don't have any worries. Since you said that there is no room for loss, the strongest one will go. Let's give it a try. If I win, then it's mine. ”

Twenty-four hours later, the simulated battle ended, and Tang Xiaao won an indisputable victory with a battle loss ratio of up to 7%.

Zhou Donglai, who was helpless, lost the command of the task force, and honestly took charge of logistics for Tang Xiaao.

The others were also shocked, before the challenge ended, few people really thought that Tang Xiaao, who was only thirty-six years old and had only commanded several times in the previous small-scale contact battles, would be able to win Zhou Donglai in a large-scale special warfare simulation.

You must know that before this, Tang Xiaao had not had time to contact this scale of campaign training, and it was the first time to get started, which was purely talented.

But Zhou Donglai is not an ordinary person!

Is this the ability of Tang Tianxin's great-grandfather, the strongest commander in the history of nothingness?

Seeing Tang Xiaao lead the fleet to disappear quickly in a twist and turn, Zhou Donglai turned around and turned on the projection again, looking at the newborn who had just turned 1 month.

This is a baby girl, who is Tang Tianxin's grandmother.

Even if he is as calm as Zhou Donglai, he can't help but secretly look forward to it in his heart.

If you persist for another half a century, you will be able to see the strange woman who is enough to carry the command of all the military forces of all mankind with the strength of one shoulder.

I don't know how strong that girl can be.

In the past three months, the task force has completed a total of more than 17,000 medium-range turnarounds at the cost of losing one-third of the unmanned ships and one-eighth of the manned ships due to technical reasons, and successfully reached the location of the hidden giant serpentine stargate, and the fierce exchange of fire with the 300,000 slave fleet stationed here immediately began.

At first, Zhou Donglai and the others thought that Tang Xiaao would choose to concentrate all his strength on attacking the Star Gate first, but they never expected that Tang Xiaao would choose to divide the troops into three ways while engaging the battle.

One of them accounted for fifty percent of the troops, with Tong Ling's attack team as the arrow, and went straight to the star gate.

The other way, accounting for 20% of the troops, turned around and pursued the Compound Eye Slave army that was rushing towards the Oasis Star, and put on a posture of slamming the tail of the tail.

The last one accounted for 30% of the troops, but did nothing, only scattered in a large area in the middle of the other two forces, and began to frantically detonate a huge number of medium-sized fragmentation bombs and various space mines and missiles that can create long-lasting storms.

Three days later, under Tang Xiaao's micro-manipulation, the main force of the task force successfully penetrated the enemy's defensive line, tore apart the Star Gate, and blocked the other Compound Eye Nu Clan support army that was about to pass through the Star Gate on the other side of the Star Gate.

The other way is still chasing the main team of the enemy army.

The third road still detonates bombs frantically, and continues to expand its coverage, going to star after star along the way, and walking away like a dragonfly in water.

At the same time, the compound eye army that had been rushing towards the Oasis Star was only two weeks away from reaching the destination Oasis System, but at the moment when the Star Gate was destroyed, they immediately turned around and attacked the task force.

At this time, the main force of the assault team could not get out, and the enemy fleet guarding the Star Gate was still fighting each other.

When the Compound Eye Army retreated to a distance of thirty light-years from the Star Gate, they engaged in an exchange of fire with the Second Route Army, a task force that accounted for 20% of the force.

However, the Second Route Army did not fight with it, and often withdrew after only one touch, doing everything possible to attack and disturb, just to constantly drive the opponent out of the curvature flight channel and delay the opponent's advance.

Time was delayed for nearly a month, and with the support of the superior force brought by Tong Ling and other peak soldiers, the first army of the special attack team completely annihilated the defenders at the cost of losing 30% of the troops, and began to head in the direction where the compound eye army came.

After another three weeks, the compound eye army finally approached within fifteen light years of the First Route Army in the attack of the Second Route Army.

At this time, the Second Route Army had been completely damaged in the attack, but the advance speed of the Compound Eye Army did not speed up, but it fell into the quagmire created by the detonation everywhere before the Third Route Army.

Flying at full curvature was no longer safe, and jumping was even more dangerous, and the Compound Eyes army could only barely turn on low-speed curvature flight in an attempt to wade through the quagmire.

But when the compound eye army just rushed to the center of the quagmire, the mutation regenerated.

A million stars within a radius of fifteen light-years in diameter trembled violently at the same time and exploded violently.

The explosion of a single star is nothing to a ship of this technology.

But the supernova explosion of millions of stars at almost the same time has set off a terrible energy storm in the region.

The terrifying gamma rays are like a mountain roaring tsunami, unstoppable.

Massive amounts of high-energy particles are scattered everywhere and fill the space.

The empty universe turned into a quagmire, into a raging sea of energy.

The gravitational lines of curvature are completely disturbed, interrupted.

The Hop Tunnel has become a must-kill place.

This large-scale army of compound eyes is trapped in it, and can only start regular flight at close to the speed of light.

After that, Tang Xiaao began to integrate the 123rd Route Army, patrolling along the outer layer of the stellar explosion zone made by himself, while opening scientific experiments, while using the maneuver advantage brought by the leap, to quickly kill some enemy reconnaissance troops who risked using curvature flight to rush out.

It will take at least a hundred years for such a terrifying yield of stellar explosion radiation to subside.

Then, if the enemy's large forces want to rush out, no matter which direction they choose, it will take at least seven years!

Not only that, but this fifteen-light-year diameter area will continue to expand, eventually forming a spherical dividing belt spanning forty-five light-years after fifteen years, blocking the shortest path for the enemy's reinforcements from the direction of the Silver Heart.

If the other party still wants to attack the Oasis Star, then they must take a long detour.

This is a spherical Great Wall of 45 light years!

On the other hand, because this important new force that can affect the balance of the battlefield is completely mired, the enemy's refueling tactics are suddenly like being stolen from a gas station.

The Oasis Combined Fleet began to gradually gain battlefield superiority.

Tang Xiaao succeeded.

He managed to buy the Oasis fleet for at least ten years.

Another half a year passed, and the Oasis Combined Fleet completely gained the upper hand and began to counterattack.

More than 40 other fleets that were originally in the vicinity were also gradually approaching the blast zone.

The special attack force of the Combined Fleet, represented by the 173 fleet, was integrated and formed, and a force with 30,000 large warships, 100,000 medium warships, and 200,000 new powerful attack intelligent ships began to rush out, directly attacking the stellar explosion coverage area, trying to strangle all the compound eye army here.