The coalition warships and the ships of the Horn Empire chased and fled through the T2318 system.

T2318 is similar to the Solar System, with a star about the mass of the Sun, eleven planets and an asteroid belt.

The Horn Imperial warship hastily passed through the planetary system, without turning on the elaborate scanning system to observe the planets. The human coalition was in hot pursuit, and they simply didn't have time to take the planets in stride.

If they turned on the detailed scanning system, they could see that three of the planets were already moored on the ground with their backs to their course. This is the second, third, fourth, and fifth fleets of the human alliance, and these warships have all turned off their main engines and are quietly moored on the surface of the planet.

Due to the scarcity of energy overflow and the obscuration of planets, the Horn Empire did not find these fleets.

Xie Wanning commanded the First Fleet to chase after it, passing through T2318, and then also ordered the fleet to slow down. Enemy support will arrive soon, and it will be dangerous if you chase your side too closely.

The two fleets supported by the Horn Empire jumped out of hyperspace and flew head-on towards the First Fleet of the Human Alliance.

Xie Wanning simply turned around and ran, turning on the maximum speed to escape back to T2318. How could the Horn Empire let go of this piece of fat that was close to its mouth? The three fleets pursued with all their might.

After the three fleets of the Horn Empire entered T2318, the commanders of the two fleets who had just arrived hesitated slightly, and it was a bit inappropriate to enter an unfamiliar planetary system rashly.

But the other fleet did not slow down in the slightest, and kept chasing after it, and they followed.

That fleet was already entering T2318 for the second time, and the commander's vigilance dropped considerably. When you walk into an unfamiliar place for the first time, your vigilance is the greatest, but you won't subconsciously feel any danger when you re-enter the road you have just walked.

Moreover, they identified that their opponent was an anemone, even if they had received the ruins or help of some high-level civilization and were promoted to a level 3 civilization in a short period of time, but after all, the time was still short. There can't be much accumulation. They felt that the amount of a fleet that Anemone could put together was already the limit, and it was impossible to have backup.

The fleets of the Human Alliance and the Horn Empire have entered the T2318 planetary element.

The fleets of the human alliance began to slow down again, and the commanders of the three fleets of the Horn Empire suddenly felt like they had fallen into a trap, but it was too late.

It's very close to a planet for the Horn Imperial fleet. Eight dazzling rays of light lit up on the planet, and eight pillars of light pierced through the pitch-black space and instantly shot at a large warship.

At the same time, a large number of warships rose from several planets, forming an encirclement of the three fleets of the Horn Empire.

The eight energy beams shot from the planet were extremely powerful, and they were fired by the planetary battery. More than twenty planetary batteries are installed on the surface of this planet. Regardless of the planet's rotation, there are always seven or eight batteries that can be pointed in this direction.

These planetary turrets can also be moved, and with the tactical arrangement of installing them on different planets, the turrets are extremely powerful, but although it takes a lot of time to install and dismantle, it is not very convenient to use in space warfare.

The firepower of these batteries was stronger than that of large warships, and under the sneak attack of the eight planetary batteries with full firepower, the energy shield of the large battleship of the Horn Empire plummeted, and it only lasted more than a minute before it exploded.

The commander of one of the fleets of the Horn Empire was on that large battleship, and he died. The command was taken over by the lieutenant on the other ship, but the command was affected somewhat.

The human alliance formed a combined encirclement, and for a while, the firepower was in full swing, and the brilliant energy beams crisscrossed the entire space, and a large number of mecha strangled together.

The battle did not last long, because the human alliance army had an absolute advantage in numbers.

It was not a close battle, the defeat of the Horn Imperial fleet was very rapid, and there was nowhere to escape from the surroundment, and all the battleships were annihilated. Only sporadic mechs escaped. But the mech is too vast to travel faster than light in space, and it does not carry enough survival supplies, so the chance of surviving until the rescue ship arrives is almost zero.

At a very small cost, the human alliance completely annihilated the three fleets of the Horn Empire.

News and battle footage are sent back to Earth. The whole world is boiling. Although the previous propaganda of the Wisdom Cube had given the citizens great confidence, Naozheng won a brilliant victory, and everyone's mood stabilized.

As for the chance and irreproducibility of this victory, mainstream public opinion does not care about this, and there is not enough information among the people to make such a judgment.

After this battle, the pace of expansion of the Horn Empire stopped, and the strategy shifted to shrinking defense.

Half a month later......

Li Hao has been closely observing the Horn Empire's every move. In the past half a month, in addition to urgently shrinking its defense, the Horn Empire has simultaneously launched thousands of unmanned probes to the Anemone Galaxy.

At a small meeting of the Staff of the Human Alliance, Li Hao once again detailed the movements of the Horn Empire.

"More than an hour ago, the Third Fleet of the Horn Empire launched several thousand unmanned probes again, and according to the flight trajectory of these probes into hyperspace, they are no longer aimed at Anemone Star, but all the planets where civilizations exist in the Orion Spiral Arm of the Milky Way, including Earth."

A senior staff officer worried: "It seems that the Horns already know that it was not the Anemone Star who attacked them last time, and they have to look for an opponent in a larger area." If this continues, the Earth will soon be exposed to the Horns. ”

Another staff officer said: "Can we take down those probes and continue to let them not know who their opponents are." If we let a probe fall on Earth, we will be immediately exposed, because the media on Earth are reporting on the war with the Horn Empire. ”

The weapons technical officer of the First Fleet said: "We can't intercept all of the thousands of probes flying along different targets in hyperspace, at most we can intercept one or two hundred of them. ”

Another staff officer said: "Then intercept the one or two hundred that fly in the direction of the earth." ”

"Then the Horn Empire will also be vigilant, at least it will know our approximate star range."

Xie Wanning frowned: "I have an ominous premonition, if we are exposed, the Horn Empire will definitely launch an extremely fierce attack, and pounce on the earth with all its might, without giving us any chance." If I were the commander of the Horn Empire, I would definitely do it. ”

"What are we going to do if the Horn Empire pounces on us with all our might?"

Xie Wanning said: "We can't go head-to-head with them, we will lose, we have to harass them before they rush with all their might, harass them in the rear, contain their main force, and prevent their main force from going straight to the earth." We are going to fight guerrilla warfare. ”

"I agree with Mr. Xie's strategy, and we need to act before the earth is exposed."

"If you want to defeat the strong with the weak, and constantly eat the enemy's troops in the form of guerrilla warfare and movement warfare, and constantly strengthen your own strength, this is indeed the appropriate choice at present. There are two keys to fighting guerrilla warfare well: one is to grasp the battlefield information, and in this regard, with the enemy's information provided by Mr. Li, he can grasp the enemy's every move, and this is no problem; Another is mobility, our fleet moves at about the same speed as the enemy, and there is no advantage in this regard. ”

"So we should try our best to plan the flight route of the fleet, and we must not be dumplings by the enemy."

Li Hao pondered for a long time before he said, "I can intercept all of these detectors and not miss any of them." But there is not much time left for us, and the next time the Horn Empire expands the number of probes, the earth will be exposed. ”

The warship of the Level 4 civilization of the Water Cloud Federation can still be intercepted by the detector this time.

Xie Wanning said: "You can't wait so passively, it's better to take the initiative." Find the weak link in the Horn Empire and attack again to disrupt their deployment. ”

After repeated discussions, they decided on a specific operational plan for guerrilla warfare.

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Four months later, another fleet of the Horn Empire was ambushed and nearly wiped out.

Although the command of the Horn Empire is quite outstanding, under the scanning of the wormhole intelligence system, their every move is exposed to the sight of the human coalition, and the human coalition will always seize the opportunity.

If this continues, the human alliance can gradually deplete the forces of the Horn Empire. In the past few months, another fleet of the Blue Dragon Star has been delivered to the Human Alliance, making the Human Alliance already have 6 fleets. The strength of the Earth and the Horn Empire has shrunk a bit.

It's a pity that there are always unexpected changes in war, and on this day, Li Hao suddenly received a message from the robot stationed on the earth, and a probe of the Horn Empire appeared on the earth, which was destroyed by the robot soldier activating the energy cannon.

Li Hao immediately asked Xie Wanning to convene a staff meeting, at which he announced this information.

The high-ranking members of the coalition army were worried: "So the Horn Empire already knows that their opponent is Earth?" ”

Li Hao said: "It is very likely that you already know that the function of that detector is extremely powerful, and it can collect a large amount of information in an instant. The defense arrangement on Earth, as well as the public media information, are enough for them to judge that they have Level 3 civilization technology. ”

"How can that probe break through our defenses in the solar system and still be on Earth? It's impossible. A staff officer was stunned.

Li Hao shook his head and said, "That probe didn't break through our defense line to reach Earth, but ...... It has always been on Earth. Maybe hundreds of years ago, maybe thousands of years ago, the Horn Empire sent that probe to Earth to collect information on Earth. After gathering information, the probe went into hibernation and sank deep into the mantle. ”

At this time, the staff officers all understood: "The Horn Empire only activated that probe recently?" ”

"Yes, there may be many other habitable planets with probes left behind by the Horn Empire thousands of years ago. Perhaps the Horn Empire has long forgotten about these probes, and recently we intercepted a large number of their probes, and they only thought of those dormant antiques. ”

Xie Wanning said: "Trouble, the Horn Empire will not give us another chance to fight guerrilla warfare." ”

"But we can't do it head-on." One of the staff officers emphasized.

Another staff officer said: "If you can't beat it, you have to fight, if the Horn Empire directly attacks the earth, we still have a fart guerrilla war, and the nest will be gone." (To be continued.) )