The scorching battle continued, and bright clusters of light flickered in the universe, and soon a series of damage appeared on both sides.

"Retreat, retreat!"

"Retreat a little further!"

The battle stars of the Apollo civilization and most of the large flagships fought and retreated, and in ten minutes, they retreated from the vicinity of the air defense identification zone of the new humans, and the battle situation slowly narrowed, and the front line became a battlefield of confrontation between drones.

Several curvature missiles that were urgently launched seemed to hit some target, creating bright clusters of light.

"Report sir, the new human civilization has withdrawn!"

"Got it, hand me the battle report!"

A group of angry squid began to count the losses of this local war and analyze the specific situation.

No matter how angry and angry you are, you still have to have the military quality of the eight classics, and if you don't even know how many soldiers you have lost, you can directly fight back, which is simply a big joke in the world. This war will not end overnight, and a good opportunity will be found to retaliate.

……

Zhang Yuan and the others were anxiously waiting for the battle report ahead.

This time's strategy is too dangerous, and it really takes a big risk!

They have already discussed, if the other party does not even negotiate, and directly loses its heart and attacks the whole army violently, then the new human side still has to pretend to resist for a while, but in the end, it still has to withdraw quickly with a large force to reduce casualties!

After all, the paper strength of the new human civilization is really no match for the other party.

"If there is a real war, how much are we willing to lose?"

This is the first conundrum ahead.

After some discussion, the casualty rate of 5% is the bottom line of people, if the other side really rushes in and fights, people will resist for a while at most, lose at most 5% of their troops, and then they will have to blow up the battle star and flee completely.

So, this is also the last round of psychological confrontation between each other!

It's impossible for the other party to rush in, and directly fight and fight!

Of course, for the time being, humanity still has the possibility of winning the bet, and this Apollo civilization has been hesitating on the edge of the border, indicating that the other side has a lot of concerns. And the other side doesn't know if humans have more hole cards, they just want to get the most benefits......

Bright clusters of light flicker in the universe, and some people will lose their lives as a result......

"But so what?"

Zhang Yuan sighed softly, in a war, there are always people who want to die, where is there a fantasy about the truth of immortality?

Even if humans possess virtual world technology, it is impossible to directly transmit the soldier's consciousness to the computer at the moment of death.

Consciousness uploads are highly demanding on the environment and require a few minutes of preparation time. Moreover, human self-consciousness is far from being able to teleport remotely, so once the spaceship is blown up, the probability of death is extremely high!

But if you want to win this war, you must be tough, so that you can show that you have a bigger hole card!

"Alas, this kind of performance can't be too rough, triggering the other party's retaliation regardless of the cost, it's difficult!"

After another quarter of an hour, the war gradually stopped, and the unmanned spacecraft of the Apollo civilization staying in the air defense identification zone were cleaned up by the new human civilization. It was a rare victory.

After cleaning up these drones, the large flagship of the new human side also hurriedly retreated.

"Everyone, the battle report is out!"

The captain suddenly spoke, and the audience fell silent for a moment.

The loss of humanity is shown on the screen.

Because it was a sudden war, it came and went quickly, and the human war damage was not large, and in addition to the loss of some drones, 6 escort-class ships were also destroyed, plus a cruiser-class spaceship.

The cruiser-class spacecraft can carry at least 20,000 people, which can be regarded as a relatively large combat unit. However, in this operation, this spacecraft did not carry people, but rushed to the front and was controlled by artificial intelligence to attract the opponent's curvature homing missile.

Sure enough, the large spaceship was completely destroyed by the Curvature missile.

In addition, the loss of 6 escort-class ships means that there are at least 600 officers killed or injured on the human side, and the probability of death is far greater than that of injury.

The rescue is too difficult, and less than one in a hundred can survive the destruction of the spaceship.

When he saw these dead and wounded, Zhang Yuan sighed again and mourned in silence for three minutes.

On the other hand, the new humans have more combat results, in addition to destroying some enemy spaceships, they also destroyed a large drone central station, that is, a high-tech platform that was blown to ashes by the "planet buster" at once.

It's a big guy that can be worth much more than a cruiser-class ship.

"Sure enough...... The attacking side does have a greater advantage. It's a big win! ”

"Don't be blindly optimistic, there is no obvious reversal in the balance of strength between the two sides...... Next, the other party may want to retaliate against us. ”

"There's nothing to discuss now, let's move on to the next plan!"

Zhang Yuan urged: "Hurry up and issue an ultimatum to them." ”

"yes, write an ultimatum. We can't afford to delay! ”

In this way, Captain Feng took the plunge and wrote an ultimatum and asked the staff in the communication room to send it over.

[Ultimatum! 】

[The Apollo civilization caused trouble and provocation near the air defense identification zone of our alliance for three years for unprovoked reasons...... After many warnings to no avail, here is an ultimatum! 】

[We demand that all troops be withdrawn from our air defense identification zone within three months!] 】

It is also written at the back that if the Apollo civilization does not leave immediately, the consequences of a full-scale war will be borne by the other side.

[One son is wrong, all the plates are lost, and the Apollo civilization had better rein in the precipice when there is still a chance to save it! ] 】

[If you insist on going your own way, you will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history! ] Don't be unpredictable! 】

In the end, he changed the conversation and softened appropriately, saying that if there was really any problem with the "extra color paper", it could be discussed again.

It's just a very simple sentence, which is to reveal the meaning of negotiation.

"If the other side is not a fool, he should be able to see what the new humans mean: either hurry up and start fighting, or hurry up and negotiate. If you don't fight and don't negotiate, I'm going to come up and fight. ”

There are some vague meanings in this ultimatum, the first is the use of the word "alliance", which used to refer to itself as a new human civilization, and this is the first time in history that "alliance" has been used.

Anyway, let the other party guess!

The second is to give the other side a three-month buffer time, rather than letting the other side evacuate within a day or two, and there is still room for negotiation in between, anyway, to allow time for negotiations.

Of course, there is the meaning of "pulling the big flag and pulling the tiger's skin". The natural ally of the new human civilization, near the solar system more than 1,400 light-years away, the combat effectiveness is unknown, at most some third-level civilizations, and it is really useless to fight.

There is also a military ally, the quietly developing civilization of Toth, which is also four hundred light-years away. The Thoth civilization doesn't even know about it!

All in all, this is a semi-intimidating letter.

How will the other party react?

I don't know, I really don't know.

After kicking the "ball" to the other party, Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Now the opponent's spacecraft is even farther away from the base camp of mankind, and the distance of 4 astronomical units is actually quite far, which is equivalent to the distance between the Earth and Jupiter. Even with the observation equipment in the power armor, it is difficult to see the appearance of the opponent's large flagship.

He suddenly found that he was unconsciously shocked into a cold sweat.

People don't know each other's specifics, everything is gambling.

But the other party also does not know the specific situation of human beings, which is equivalent.

"How will they react to this ultimatum?"