Chapter 669: Refugee Tide
At the same time that Nie Yun was implementing the Shattered Star Strategy step by step, on the other side of the wormhole, the war between the Twin Stars and the Locke Consortium was also in full swing......
Go back two months.
Gemini, the Storm Galaxy.
The once thriving waterway is now in dilapidation, with a large number of ships and equipment wreckage forming a distinct ribbon of debris that stretches all the way to the central administrative star......
More than 2,200 warships were divided into 11 sub-fleets, and in a semi-encircled formation, the administrative star cluster was encircled.
"Boom!" The last Floating Fortress Meteorite turned into a ball of fire under the overwhelming firepower.
"Lord Klorus, the other party's resistance has been wiped out!" The adjutant said with a smile on his face.
In less than a month, Klorus' second invasion fleet had destroyed all resistance in the Stormwind system.
In the face of the Locke Consortium's fleet of more than 2,200 regular ships dispatched by the Locke Consortium, the Gemini side, which was almost completely wiped out in the last white dwarf explosion, simply has no ability to assemble a resistance fleet of the same size again in a short period of time.
In addition, the supernova explosion directly hit the hard-working defense system of the Storm Galaxy, destroying more than 60% of the defense facilities.
In this case, the fall of the Storm Galaxy is simply irreversible, something that even an ordinary Gemini officer can analyze.
Stubborn resistance is undoubtedly the stupidest choice.
Therefore, after finding out the huge number of the enemy's second wave fleet, the Gemini Military Department was shocked and did not hesitate to give the order for a complete withdrawal.
Except for a small number of local garrisons that stayed to delay time, all military forces, including Nie Yun and other remnant fleets, withdrew from the Storm System and retreated to the rear as soon as possible.
"Huh? Didn't that lightspeed battle star appear......"
While Clos breathed a sigh of relief, there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
"Yes, it seems that as expected by adults, either this battle star of the other party has harsh conditions for use, or they are worried about falling into our targeted trap." The adjutant said admiringly.
In order to deal with this biggest threat, Kloros has made more than one plan.
This includes splitting the fleet into eleven sub-fleets and reducing the effectiveness of the opponent's attacks by increasing the spatial distance.
Another example is to quietly change ships, allowing your flagship to act as a decoy while avoiding the other party's decapitation.
But now it seems that the other party has no intention of using this secret weapon again, and Klorus's preparations are really a show for the blind man.
So, how do you get it without the other side moving a battlestar......
Just as Cloros was pondering, the adjutant suddenly said. "My lord, we just received a surrender signal from the planet's Gemini."
"Humph! Surrender? Kloros sneered.
"If it's on behalf of their civilization's surrender, then I might be able to accept it, but just an administrative star? Do they think that I will treat the captives preferentially? β
Yes, there are still a lot of twin civilians stranded on Stormstorm.
It's easy for an army to leave, but how easy is it for an entire galaxy to leave?
For a planet that has been around for more than a hundred years, there are more than a billion people on it.
Even if a significant number of people with financial means have voluntarily moved to safer systems after the war has expanded, the remaining population is more than 500 million.
Fortunately, Girard was prepared for the worst-case scenario, and prepared a large number of transport ships to be requisitioned from the Galent Sector in advance.
Immediately after the defeat on the front, the Twin Stars Council issued an emergency evacuation order and began arranging for transport ships to evacuate the population.
However, the carrying capacity of the spaceport has always been limited, and the migration of hundreds of millions of people, even if there are enough transport ships, cannot be completed overnight.
No one expected that the battle situation, which seemed to have a certain advantage, would take a sharp turn for the worse, and the opponent would hit the door in a short period of time.
This also led to the end of more than 20 million people being blocked on the planet before they could board the transport ship.
Hearing Cloros's words full of coldness, the adjutant's brows jumped slightly.
"My lord, judging from some of the information we have captured, the strength of this Gemini civilization is not weak, and if we slaughter their civilians, I am afraid it will cause fierce resistance from the other party."
"Hmm...... You're right, I don't care if these ants live or die, but they may be more useful alive than dead......" Clos thought for a moment, a smirk on his face.
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Soon after, a large number of trapped Gemini citizens scrambled to escape Stormstorm in a spaceship, driven by naval guns.
However, before they could be surprised by the mercy of their enemies and rejoice that they had escaped, a dazzling streamer shot straight from the fleet of the Locke Consortium towards Stormstorm.
The next moment, the land sank and the plates cracked......
A huge shockwave that is visible to the naked eye in space slowly swept through the entire planet!
"Oh! Oh, my God! β
"These demons!"
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There were exclamations of fear and anger from the crowd on the ship.
They don't understand why these invaders let them leave safely one moment and brutally destroy their homes the next.
"Run! Escape to civilization! β
Witnessing the cruel reality of the destruction of their homes, countless people have only one thought in their minds, and that is to escape!
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Two months later.
Galent Star Zone, Rock Fortress.
"Report! The Yunlan Galaxy has fallen! β
"Report! The IsΓ¨re system has fallen! β
"Report! The Bermuda galaxy has fallen! β
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The bad news from the front made the faces of the high-ranking officers present extremely heavy.
After the Storm Galaxy, Klorus divided into five groups, followed in the footsteps of the refugees, and began to burn the flames of war against the rest of the twin star systems.
"Arthas, what do you say, what's going to happen next in this battle?" Renault asked worriedly.
The main force of the Twin Stars in the Galent sector was severely damaged, and the Dreadnought Battlestar sank, forcing them to concentrate all their remaining forces to retreat to the Rock Fortress and urgently establish a second line of defense.
This has the advantage of avoiding being defeated by the opponent one by one, but the disadvantage is that it is equivalent to giving up several outer galaxies.
It's a tough trade-off for Gemini.
Originally, they still had the opportunity to arrange an orderly evacuation, but they didn't expect that after the first wave of the opponent's fleet was almost wiped out, the second wave of the fleet would come so much and so quickly.
"If there is no external interference, I am afraid that the best outcome is to lose a quarter of the territory." Nie Yun sighed a little.
Kloros really deserves to be a long-established commander in the Woolf Empire, with a vicious eye, and he actually took advantage of the refugee wave to make a fuss!
Every time a place is captured, the other party not only does not carry out slaughter and purge, but drives out a large number of refugees, and then directly destroys the planet with a star-destroying weapon!
There is only one purpose for this...... Attack Gemini's logistics system!
That's pretty damn!
At present, except for some local garrison fleets, there is not much mobile force to be withdrawn, and the deployment of fleets in other star regions takes a lot of time, and it is far from quenching the thirst of the near.
The average combat effectiveness of the warships of the Woolf Empire is only higher than that of the Gemini side, and in the face of the enemy's fleet of at least 400 or more ships per way, it is simply a food delivery to go less.
It is conservatively estimated that at least 500 or more warships will be needed to withstand one of the fleets.
But today's Galent Star Zone, where to gather these 500 warships?
And these pitiful fleets, because of the impact of the massive number of refugees, have to devote a large part of their energy to maintaining order among the panicked people and providing the necessary survival guarantees.
This further weakens Gemini's ability to mobilize for war.
Even the internal chaos is in chaos, how can we talk about defending against external enemies?
As a result, the fleet of the Locke Consortium received one galaxy after another almost bloodlessly, and then continued to create more waves of refugees.
The falling galaxies have caused even the people of the galaxy who have not yet been invaded to panic, and then fled to the other three safer star sectors.
This undoubtedly further exacerbated the spread of chaos.
Burning the flames of war into the enemy's hinterland is the advantage of playing away, and the Twins have to swallow the bitter pill of the door wide open and the defeat of the defense.
"It's just about driving away the refugees, so why destroy the planet?
Such an approach...... It doesn't seem like they want to occupy and develop a colony at all, but instead they are deliberately creating panic and putting psychological pressure on the Gemini higher-ups?
What the hell is the other party trying to do......"