Full text without ads Chapter 274 Space Strategy (Part I)

Looking at the Empire's record of engagement with the Insats since 2076, it is clear that in the many battles that have taken place in the past ten years, the human legions have invariably dominated the course of the war, and almost every battle has been a one-sided massacre. Judging from the statistics of the post-war period, it seems that the Insats, whom Hoffmann the Great regarded as their great enemy, were no match for humanity at all.

However, if you look at the current situation without these combat records, you can see that in the Great Magellanic system, the sphere of influence of humanity always seems to be shrinking, while the sphere of influence controlled by the Insats can expand at a rocket-like rate.

This is an incomprehensible contradiction, and even makes the people of the empire doubt the authenticity of the army's war report. After all, the fact that the sphere of influence under its control is shrinking despite the army's successive victories seems unreasonable from any point of view. Perhaps, only after truly understanding the Insats race, and how this race reproduces, will people understand what this is all about.

Until 2086, when Robin officially took over the affairs of the Empire and terminated the Extragalactic Expedition, the Empire had been pursuing a strategy of annihilation developed by Hoffmann the Great.

Through research, Hoffmann the Great found that the social system of the Insats was very dependent on the dragon chrysalis, a large strategic biological warship, and it can be said that their entire civilization system was completed with the dragon chrysalis as the carrier. Analyzing the growth process of the dragon chrysalis, it can be found that the growth of this giant creature is very slow. Although the growth period of about 100 years can be said to be very fast in terms of their huge size, from the perspective of human beings, the productivity of the empire allows the empire to produce dozens of Titan aircraft carriers that are larger and more combat-ready than the dragon chrysalis in a year. So what about stretching the time span to a hundred years? And what should that number be?

The sheer productivity of the human race is the greatest advantage against the Insats, which makes it easy for the human fleet to use a year's savings to take out the dragon chrysalis that the Insats have spent a hundred years to cultivate. Therefore, Hoffmann the Great, seeing this advantage, immediately listed the dragon chrysalis battleship of the Insats as the main target. He sent more than seventy percent of the Empire's fleet to the extragalactic galaxy to roam the starry sky and hunt down any dragon chrysalis warships they found. With this kind of war of attrition that the Insats could not bear, the living force of the Insats was slowly disintegrated.

From a tactical point of view, Hoffmann the Great's strategic plan was undoubtedly brilliant. After all, the growth cycle of the dragon chrysalis is as long as a hundred years, and in terms of the life span of human beings, the dragon chrysalis is almost a non-renewable weapon, and it is natural to defeat one less one. As long as the dragon chrysalis battleship can be continuously destroyed, then in the future, the Insats will become toothless tigers, and it is impossible to have the ability to carry out expeditionary invasions of the galaxy.

And in terms of the early effect, this tactic of Hoffmann the Great has indeed achieved great success. Not only did it destroy a number of dragon chrysalis warships, but it also continued to occupy dozens of star systems, quickly opening up a vast territory in the galaxy beyond the river.

However, after all, the Insats are high-end intelligent species, and they are not those beasts that do not know how to think, but can only be hunted by humans one by one. They quickly figured out a way to hide from the human fleet by hiding in the asteroid belt, and changed the main target to the planet, and countered the human civilization with the invasion of ground forces and the irregular release of dragon chrysalis eggs.

There is no doubt that this is a very rogue tactic. This directly forced the Empire to station a large number of land forces on each planet, and made the large territory occupied by Hoffmann the Great in the early stage of the expedition instantly become a huge burden for the Empire. Even many times, after the Empire's ground forces managed to gain a foothold on a planet, they found that there were already one or two dragon chrysalis eggs that had been hatched inside the planet. This means that in a hundred years, the planet will collapse and become cosmic dust. Therefore, gradually, the expeditionary force was forced by the status quo to no longer develop the planetary lands they occupied, but regarded these planets as mere resource stars, and competed with the Insats for the resources of the extragalactic system through rapid exploitation. Well, in this case, a gradual reduction of the territory is inevitable.

It can be said that the later setback of the expeditionary plan of the extragalactic galaxy was entirely caused by the failure of the strategic plan to keep up with the times. When human beings cannot choose the most suitable tactics for themselves, then at the strategic level, human beings are slowly losing this war. Moreover, due to the wrong strategic planning, the Imperial Army was too scattered due to the sheer size of the territory, which made it impossible for each planet to fully guarantee against invasion. In addition, coupled with the aristocratic feudal system pursued by the empire, the empire had to rely excessively on the army in the hands of the knightly nobles in terms of development strategy, which also buried a huge hidden danger in the country.

It was not until Robin replaced Hoffmann the Great in charge of the state and carried out a series of political reforms that the current situation that bound the empire was slowly improved.

It is true that Robin terminated the expedition to the extragalactic system for five years, and indeed made a large part of the extragalactic galaxy occupy the Insats. However, after experiencing the Battle of Hayden and witnessing how the Insats fought, he developed a new strategy for the Empire, and it was this strategy that began to propel humanity towards a true transformation towards life in the universe.

From 2022 to the present, it has been less than 70 years since mankind left the earth and stepped into the universe. In other words, human beings may have entered the space age in science and technology, but they still have not gotten rid of the shackles of earthlings' thinking in terms of thinking.

Just like now, when human beings are obviously capable of building large-scale space fortresses with certain ecological circulation capabilities, human beings are still accustomed to living on planets, developing planets one after another like the earth, and treating these planets as indispensable homes.

If there is only one intelligent species in the universe, human beings, then this mode of development is not undesirable. But now, when humanity is confronted with the planet-feeding Insats, the existence of such thinking seems a little stupid.

Of course, at this stage, developing a planet with a superior ecological environment is far easier than building a large space fortress, so Robin can't completely abandon the planet right now and change humanity into a space life that is purely dependent on machines.

Like Hoffmann the Great, he also regarded planets with superior ecosystems as extremely important bases for mankind.

The difference, though, is that Robin is not aggressively trying to snatch the planet from the Insats. In terms of future development, he is more inclined to develop high-quality planets with natural superior ecological environments that have not been set foot in by the Insats.

With such planets as the main targets, the defensive pressure on the planets will not be so great, and the armies that need to be stationed will not need to hoard huge numbers like war zones. This gives the Empire more opportunities to take possession of more galaxies with its existing forces, and to take advantage of humanity's productivity far beyond that of the Insats to forge these galaxies in advance.

As for the galaxies that had been occupied by the Insats, Robin dealt with them with a different kind of vision.

Compared with the Insats, the instantaneous lethality and destructive power shown by humans in war are far from being comparable to those of the Insats, who have a more primitive combat mode. So... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］