Chapter 551: Crossing the Sea of Creatures
However, as Zhu Lei's breakthrough speed accelerated, the losses of the fleet became larger and larger, and even the loss of capital ships had already begun.
Therefore, Zhu Lei's face became extremely ugly, after all, the capital ship began to be damaged, which meant that in addition to the Baiyun Civilization and the Atlantis Civilization, the Ming Empire's own personnel also began to suffer.
This is a very unacceptable thing for Zhu Lei, "Order all non-capital warships in the fleet to give priority to protecting the safety of capital ships." ”
This is due to the fact that there are certain problems in the coordination between the capital ships and the non-capital ships of the Ming Empire's fleet, so the capital ships began to be damaged.
But it's no wonder, after all, the Baiyun civilization and the Atlantean civilization have only been able to join the Ming Empire and become vassals of the Ming Empire for such a short time, not to mention that they must first be familiar with the Ming Empire's spaceship piloting methods, and secondly, they must cooperate with the Ming Empire's capital ships to conduct wars, although before departure, the fleet has gone through many simulation exercises, but the simulation drills are not actual combat after all, so it is inevitable that some mistakes will occur.
With the increase in losses, Zhu Lei and the others had to use space bombs to attack some space biological spaceships that broke through five astronomical units, after all, all the damage of capital ships was those bites at close range after breaking through five astronomical units.
Although the capital ships of the Ming Empire are not comparable to small ships in terms of protective shields and armor, even if they are powerful armor and protective shields, they are useless to the spaceships of biological civilizations like papier-mâché.
"The Fifth Fleet applied for the use of special artillery shells, and there was a hole in the area we defended, and three large biological ships of biological civilization entered."
"Permission to use."
With the use of special space shells, the number of casualties in the fleet finally began to decline, but the number of stocks of special shells also began to decline rapidly.
You must know that although Zhu Lei's fleet is a main fleet, before coming to this star field, he had already engaged in a large-scale interstellar war with the Mandala civilization, and the consumption of special artillery shells was already very serious.
If it is like now, then Zhu Lei's fleet will not be able to support it for long, and the special shells will be exhausted.
"How long will it be before we break through the third blockade."
As time went on, Zhu Lei's face became extremely ugly, and he thought it was very simple to break through the blockade.
Unexpectedly, the situation has become so grim now, in addition to the endless sea of creatures around them, the biological spaceship that is several light years away is also flying towards the side of the Ming Empire's fleet at an extremely high speed at this time.
You must know that today's Ming Empire is not short of money, technology, and resources, but it is a lack of people, although the Ming Empire has hundreds of millions of people, but for a quasi-sixth-stage cosmic civilization, such a population is still too small, compared to other sixth-level or quasi-sixth-level civilizations in the universe, the current population of the Ming Empire is less than 1/10 of others.
Therefore, for the Ming Empire, everyone is a very valuable asset, especially the soldiers who can enter the Vermilion Bird Army of the Ming Empire through many selections, and the people who can enter the Vermilion Bird Army of the Ming Empire, each of them basically has cultivation above the Yuan Infant Period, and they are the best people in the young generation of the Ming Empire.
So Zhu Lei turned his head and asked the signal soldier, "When will the receiving fleet of the Balabala civilization arrive?" ”
"Lord Wang, according to the Barabba civilization's answer, their receiving fleet has reached less than a hundred light-years away from us, but the receiving fleet has also fallen into the biological sea of biological civilization like us, and it will not be able to catch up with us for a while."
Hearing the words of the communication soldier, Zhu Lei was very disappointed, you must know that when Zhu Lei and they set off from the Atlantis system, the Barabba civilization and their receiving fleet also set off at the same time, but the fleet of the Ming Empire has traveled nearly a thousand light years and has broken through two blockade lines, while the Barabba civilization has not even reached the third blockade line, how can this not disappoint Zhu Lei.
You must know that the Barabba civilization is also a fifth-level top-level civilization with a well-known galaxy, a fifth-level top-level veteran civilization, but in the war with this biological civilization, and now in the war with the biological civilization, it will be so bad.
Although Zhu Lei and the others were very skeptical about the combat effectiveness of the Barabba civilization, the Ming Empire would never give up on the globular star cluster in front of them.
Not to mention that the globular cluster in front is the bridgehead for foreign civilizations to enter the galaxy, and it is the top spirit stone mine in the globular cluster in front of it, and it is also worthy of the Ming Empire to occupy that globular cluster at all costs.
But the fleet cost a huge amount, and after two light years of shuttling in a dense sea of creatures, the last spaceship of the Ming Empire was finally freed from the entanglement of these biological ships in the biological civilization.
At this time, there are not many small and medium-sized unmanned combat spaceships left in the entire fleet, even if they are manned small combat spaceships, they have almost lost more than half, and even if they are medium and large spaceships, almost every one of them is injured, so you can imagine how much the Ming Empire spent in order to cross the blockade line.
The entire fleet lost countless people, just the Baiyun civilization lost hundreds of millions of people, you must know that these losses are all young and middle-aged, but in such a large-scale interstellar war, it is just a bunch of cold numbers.
And the loss of the people of the Atlantean civilization is also nearly 100 million, you must know that the people of the Atlantean civilization are treated much better than those of the Baiyun civilization, and most of the people they ride are medium and large spaceships, whether it is the size of the spaceship, defense and other performance, it is not comparable to a small combat spaceship.
In addition to these two subordinate civilizations, even the Ming Empire itself has lost more than 1,000 combatants, you must know that these are all soldiers with Yuan Infant cultivation, not ordinary people without cultivation, so in order to penetrate the third blockade line, the losses caused have far exceeded Zhu Lei's imagination.
Such a huge loss is the first time that the Ming Empire has suffered such a huge loss since it entered the interstellar era.
Although Zhu Lei's heart was very uncomfortable, there would definitely be casualties in the war, not to mention that this biological civilization was a sixth-level civilization, and these biological spaceships were all fifth-level top-level spaceships, and the number was dozens or even hundreds of times that of Zhu Lei's fleet.
And in the process of crossing the blockade line, Zhu Lei and their fleet at least eliminated more than 2/3 of the opponent's warships this time, such a huge result is already very remarkable, after all, when the number reaches a certain scale, it will cause qualitative changes, if it is replaced by a spaceship of other civilizations, it is impossible to cross such a sea of creatures under the same number.