Chapter 356: Losing Both
"This battle has dragged on long enough, and this system must be taken as soon as possible! Don't forget, there's a Warhorse galaxy waiting for us to conquer......"
Before launching the general attack, Li Xingqi gathered the main officers in the fleet and issued a mobilization to the crowd.
Everyone can see that Li Xingqi is more anxious now, and his delay in taking the Lion King Galaxy has made him very stressed. These pressures come not only from anxiety about the situation of the war, but also from various aspects, such as economic, political, and other enemies.
All in all, the current Li Xingqi is reaching the most important stage of his life, if he defeats the rebels and takes the two galaxies of War Horse and Lion King, his status will be further improved, and at that time, he may really be able to rule the world and become the new master of the Xinghan Empire.
But if Li Xingqi can't overcome these obstacles in front of him, he may be in a state of despair and become a prey that can be eaten and eaten by other competitors.
After the meeting, Li Xingqi ordered the entire fleet to immediately prepare for a general attack, and today's battle must capture the White Lion Star no matter what.
A few hours later, all the combat units were ready, and Li Xingqi did not waste any more time and immediately gave the order to start a general attack.
The battle was fierce from the beginning, and Li Xingqi's fleet changed its previous cautious and steady style, and launched a very fierce attack at the beginning.
In order to improve the hit rate and lethality, Li Xingqi did not hesitate to brave the enemy's dense artillery fire, and ordered the entire fleet to press up as much as possible, striving to quickly break the rebels' defenses.
Seeing Li Xingqi's side attacking so fiercely, the rebel fleet also had to fight with all its strength, and the dense particle cannon beams on both sides, as well as countless missiles, filled the nearby space.
The fierce fighting skyrocketed the loss rate on both sides, and in just two hours the losses were more than in the previous month combined.
The orbit of the White Lion Star was littered with all kinds of wreckage, as if it had arrived at a huge garbage dump, and the density had seriously affected the missile and particle cannon beams on both sides.
Li Xingqi was already red-eyed, and to be honest, he didn't expect the loss to be so huge, even more serious than he expected.
Few of the opponents Li Xingqi had encountered in the past were so tenacious, and many of the enemies had already collapsed under such circumstances, but the rebels never showed signs of defeat.
"Keep pressing up, don't skimp on firepower, and use all the weapons you can use!" Li Xingqi ordered loudly.
Under Li Xingqi's strict orders, the fleet continued to advance under heavy artillery fire, and the loss rate continued to rise, but this move also put the rebels under pressure.
An enemy space city was besieged by numerous warships, and the defensive shield was finally unsustainable, and was pierced by a dense beam of particle cannons.
The space city, which had lost the protection of the defensive shield, was shot to a thousand points in just a few minutes, and a violent explosion occurred inside the space city, and soon the steel fortress was reduced to countless broken steps in a series of explosions and fires.
The huge wreckage of Space City flew everywhere, causing a lot of damage to the nearby rebel fleet, and some of the warships that were closer to each other had no time to avoid it, and were cut into two pieces by the wreckage at once.
To make matters worse, many of the wreckage of the Space City were affected by gravity and began to fall into the atmosphere of the White Lion. These wreckages were not only huge, but also numerous, and after falling into the atmosphere, they quickly heated up, and then burst into flames, as if countless meteorites were rushing towards the earth.
A large number of space city wreckage crashed into the ground, immediately triggering a series of earthquakes and other disasters, one of which hit a large piece of wreckage exactly hit a city, and the huge impact force instantly destroyed most of the city, causing huge casualties and building losses.
However, these huge tragedies could not prevent the continuation of the war, under the onslaught of Li Xingqi's fleet, the rebel fleet gradually became exhausted, and the number of warships became smaller and smaller.
With the destruction of another space city, the rebel fleet became more passive, and the rebels began to send a large number of mecha troops, hoping to disrupt the battle.
Relying on countless wreckage as cover, the rebels' mechs made their way through the messy and dense space junk, risking great danger to keep closing in on Li Xingqi's fleet.
Despite this, there were still a large number of mechs that were destroyed by the dense artillery fire before they could get close to the opposing fleet, and thus became part of countless wreckage.
Li Xingqi discovered the rebels' intentions and immediately ordered the motorized vest troops to be escorted around the fleet to prevent the enemy's mechs from approaching.
Soon, a fierce battle broke out around the battleship, and one mech after another flew back and forth around the battleship, attacking each other in various ways, and from a distance, it seemed that countless fireflies were constantly flickering around the fleet.
When the third Space City was destroyed, the impregnable defensive line that the rebel fleet had worked so hard to build finally began to crumble. Without a strong fortress like Space City as an aid, the rebel fleet's numerical inferiority was immediately apparent.
One after another, the rebel warships were destroyed one by one under the siege of several times the enemy ships, and the morale of the rebels finally reached the critical point of collapse as the entire formation gradually became more and more sparse.
Li Xingqi, who had an experienced command, immediately sensed this sign, so he ordered to change the fleet formation to a triangular formation suitable for a breakthrough, and began to launch a final surprise attack on the enemy.
Although the rebels appeared to be extremely tenacious and struggled to support themselves even in such an adverse situation, the battle was not something that could be sustained by spirit alone.
Relying on the superiority of numbers and confidence, Li Xingqi's fleet swept the rebel formation to pieces in one fell swoop, and one fleet after another had to be in a state of fighting on its own.
When the battle came to this point, both Li Xingqi and the rebels knew very well in their hearts that the battle situation of the rebels had been decided, and what remained was just a one-sided simple slaughter.
The few remaining rebel fleets had lost the courage to continue the fight and began to try to break through and escape, but Li Xingqi would not let them go easily, and ordered the fleet not to be relentless, as long as it was the enemy's ships, they were not allowed to let go.
A few hours later, one of the remaining two space cities was destroyed and one chose to blow itself up, and most of the remaining rebel fleets were destroyed, except for a few who chose to surrender.
The battlefield finally quieted down, and when I saw that the orbit of the White Lion Star had become another world entirely, countless wrecks and debris were full of debris and fragments around the White Lion Star, like a star ring.
Although Li Xingqi's fleet was victorious, the price paid was extremely heavy, and the combined loss rate of all fleets reached more than 40%, which is not an exaggeration to say that it was a crushing victory.
Among them, the heaviest losses were the newly transferred Eagle fleet, which had a loss rate of more than 60%, which was almost equivalent to being scrapped.
Li Xingqi looked at such a result, in addition to being surprised, he was more angry, it was the first time in his military career that he had suffered such a heavy loss.
If this is just a battle, at most it will be more time and money to restore the lost fleet. However, this is a complete war, and winning this battle alone is not enough to win the whole war.
Now that it is so difficult to fight just one White Lion Star, and the rebels also have a more tightly defended War Horse Galaxy, Li Xingqi can't even think about it anymore, can these fleets really capture the War Horse System with the current fleet?
Despite the heavy losses, what needs to be done must be continued, there are three colonized planets in the Lion King system, and now the White Lion Star and the Winged Lion Star have been captured, and there is only one Yellow Lion Star left.
Fortunately, the Yellow Lion Star did not have too strong defenses, and after Li Xingqi carried out a simple reorganization of the fleet, he led the fleet to the Yellow Lion Star.
The rebels stationed in the Yellow Lion Star have already run away, and the rest of those who can't have changed their faces and hid among the local residents.
As soon as Li Xingqi's fleet arrived, the local government chose to surrender, after all, the army had run away, and it was useless not to surrender.
Now the entire Lion King Galaxy has finally fallen into the hands of Li Xingqi, since this galaxy fell into the hands of the rebels, this is the first time that someone has defeated the rebels, and from this point of view alone, Li Xingqi has made history.
Although Li Xingqi's goal of conquering the rebels has been half achieved, what happened next made Li Xingqi very difficult.
After the reorganization, only two fleets were left that were able to continue fighting, plus a reserve fleet, for a total of three fleets. Relying only on these three fleets, Li Xingqi was really not sure that he would be able to defeat the War Horse Galaxy, and the tenacious monk battle of the rebels left an extremely deep impression on him.
In addition to the lack of troops, the state of the Lion King system is also worrying, and although the rebels have been defeated, the resistance of the locals continues.
Li Xingqi's ground occupation forces met with strong resistance in many cities, and the rebels once again exerted their housekeeping skills, hiding among the civilians, and taking advantage of every opportunity to carry out sneak attacks and sabotage, which greatly hampered the occupation mission.
If society can't settle down, then the war waged by Li Xingqi is meaningless, and what he needs is a colonial galaxy that is stable and rich and can bring stable economic income, not a mess.
"Damn! Can't you just think of a way? What do I need to do? Li Xingqi was furious at the regular meeting of the fleet.
Li Xingqi's subordinates will only know how to fight, and let them be responsible for restoring social order and calming the local people, which is really embarrassing for them.
Looking at these people around him, Li Xingqi sighed secretly in his heart, and said in his heart: "There is no one who can be of great use, if only there was a person who understands administrative management and can restore the economy......"
Thinking of this, Li Xingqi's mind unconsciously remembered one, which was a person Li Xingqi was very familiar with, but it was impossible to come back to help him.