"Commander, the enemy's firepower is increasing!"

"If we continue to advance the front, we can no longer guarantee that our fleet will have zero casualties as it does now!"

Bocaul's fingertips slid on the three-dimensional sand table, the three-dimensional projection of the planet was magnified in some areas, and the situation on the front line was more intuitively displayed in his field of vision, fine enough to capture every high-speed projectile shuttling through the frontline battlefield.

Under the control of Hogu's will, the output firepower of the planet's surface increased, but this still failed to reverse the battlefield situation between Hogu's side and the alien Fourth Fleet, and those spare projectiles were well intercepted by the frigate groups on the front line, while the surface was still passively beaten.

Bocowar turned the projection of the planet a few times, looking at the crater area colonized by the Imperial colonies.

"This distance ......"

After a moment's scrutiny, Bocaul manually entered information on the console, exported the parameters of the mothership's weapons, and then glanced at the ball next to the armrest of his captain's seat, and there was nothing in the ball, only a line with undulating ripples.

"Tell me, the actual range of our current killing effect at this distance is based on the premise that the shock wave is not considered."

Equipped with AI, it responds the next moment.

[5.0×10^23 joules, diameter approx. 180 km]

Bocauer bowed slightly, thoughtfully retracting his gaze to the stereoscopic projection, and at the same time giving instructions to the AI.

"Import the resulting parameters into the model and I'll take a look."

【Importing ......】

Soon, the projection of the planet in front of Bokauer changed, and countless dense rings appeared on the surface of the planet, like ripples splashed by raindrops on the surface of the water, and in just a few minutes, the ring group completely covered the surface of the planet, and at the same time, Bocauer also showed a satisfied expression.

Bocaure turned his head and gave the order to the staff officer.

"Command the fleet, mothership-class main guns ready, using annihilation bombing mode."

"Comply with ......"

"Division, commander, you just said annihilation bombing?!"

The staff officer with a frozen expression couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with his hearing organs, otherwise how could he have heard that the order contained such a message as 'annihilation bombing'?

As early as one hundred and fifty years ago, a military theory was born in the alien civilization, which was based on the 'complete eradication of the enemy', relying on powerful firepower to cover the entire planet's surface, so that every inch of land was saturated and bombed by the orbital fleet.

As for how long this bombing will last?

That depends on when the surface enemy dies.

However, this kind of military thinking is not very acceptable as a high-level aspect of imperial strategy of the proposer.

It's not that it's a meaningless thing like compassion, it's mainly that this way of fighting is very uneconomical, and there are at least post-war prisoners who are willing to accept surrender, and once this war mentality is used, there will be nothing left after the war is over.

Moreover, it is impossible to have enemies in every corner of a planet, which means that a lot of firepower will be wasted in uninhabited areas.

In addition, the empire has a powerful weapon like the mothership class, just staying in low-earth orbit without firing a single bullet is enough to make any rebel frightened, you know, reality is not a movie, not all motherships have a fatal point like in American movies can be shot into the soul.

It would have been unlikely that a war mentality like 'annihilation bombing' would have been born, at least until the Empire came into contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.

However, at that time, the cultural trend of 'alien invasion' was prevalent in the alien civilization, and all kinds of alien invasion movies were popular, and the horror was even more exaggerated than the movies made by human beings, occupying almost all cultural circles and the people's will, so this kind of war thinking came into being.

It is not surprising that the staff would have that kind of reaction when it was first proposed as a war mentality that was thrown into the trash can by the top echelons of the imperial strategy, and as a simple introduction that could not even occupy one page on the page of a simple military book, and was put into use under military orders.

"You want to disobey?"

Seeing the hesitation of his subordinates, Bocaul's eyes were cold, although his tone was still very calm, but the staff officer who was familiar with Bocaul knew that his boss had already moved to kill, and this question was to give him the last chance to live, if the answer was not good enough, it would be a dead end.

The staff officer gritted his teeth and explained his thoughts truthfully.

"There are still hundreds of millions of people of the empire on the planet, and once the annihilation bombing is carried out, they will ......"

"They'll be fine, the volcanic cone structure that surrounds the colony will protect them well, just be careful to avoid it, the AI has just explained to me, if something happens, I'll take it as I can, and now I'll obey the order."

Before the staff officer could finish speaking, he was roughly interrupted by Bocauer, but he withdrew his gaze from the staff officer, and at the same time, it also meant that the murderous intent to enforce military law was put away.

Although the staff officer still thought it was too risky, he was not the decision-maker, and Bocauer, as commander of the Fourth Fleet, personally explained to him that he had made concessions for the sake of the people of the Empire, and the staff officer was well aware of this.

“…… Be. ”

Just like the staff officers, the crew members in charge of the attack part of the mothership knew that the order was 'annihilation and bombing', and their first reaction was that there was a problem with their auditory senses, and they confirmed it several times before they were sure that they had heard correctly.

In this way, without Hogu's knowledge, the Alien Fourth Fleet began to prepare for a second wave of strikes.

The mothership-class warships, which have always been the rear of the Fourth Fleet, began to change their original formation, forming a circle horizontally around the planet's equator, while other types of warships changed with the change of the mothership class.

There was no flashy scene, just that at an agreed point in time, all the warships carrying the 'pop', including the mothership class, rained all their bombs on the surface, and those cylindrical missiles unique to the aliens rushed to the surface of the planet like rain.

Of course, Huogu caught these and made targeted interceptions, but unfortunately he couldn't stop them.

The pops of other types of warships are fine, but the mothership-class ones are different, the super-giant missiles use the same kind of armor as the battleship, and the interceptor missiles turn into powder when they first come into contact with the giant missile, unless they are intercepted with high-energy rays like lasers.

These 'raindrops' soon reached the surface, and the indescribable magnificence was presented to the eyes of every Fourth Fleet ship operator, and the area of the circle the size of a grain of rice gradually and slowly expanded, and then reached the level of a biscuit, and hundreds of millions of circles appeared on the surface.

After a while, Twilight changed into a new appearance, red and dark complexion, the ground was brighter than the sky, and at night with his back to the sun, he looked up at the sky on the ground, and could not see even a trace of starlight.

Of course, the rhizomes on the surface of the earth are swept away, as are the underground rhizomes close to the ground.

But the aliens who are the initiators, their most intuitive feeling is not the pleasure of destroying the enemy, but the cold like falling into an ice cellar, and this cold is called 'fear'.