"Report, boss, we'll be at Qu Narrow Pass in a moment." Jiang Xue first turned off the crystal engine, then reduced the output of the magnetic engine, and the God of War slowly appeared from the void.

Crystal engines alone can fly faster than light, but when combined with magnetic engines, they can reach a maximum speed of one light-year per hour.

The speed of the crystal missile is indeed fast enough, but because there is a small crystal engine in the missile, the speed of the crystal missile is much slower than that of a warship flying at full speed, but the maximum range of the crystal missile is only ten light minutes, and only with the speed of the crystal engine itself, it can fly over this distance in an instant, so there is no need for the crystal missile to install a magnetic engine.

For warships, the magnetic engine is like a catalyst for the crystal engine, which can not only increase the speed of the warship, but also reduce the consumption rate of super-heavy element crystals.

The military once made the speed of the force field engine with the crystal engine, although the maximum speed exceeded the limit of one light year per hour, every time the speed was doubled, the consumption of super-heavy elements would increase tenfold!

Although the military has a lot of super-heavy elements in reserve, how can the expensive super-heavy elements withstand such uncontrolled consumption?

Fleets need speed, but they also have to consider the cost of increasing speed, and the balance between the two is much better than shaving your head and getting hot.

Later, the research department found that the energy consumed by the force field engine was roughly ten times that of the magnetic engine when flying over the same distance, and it was concluded that the consumption rate of the superheavy element crystal was directly proportional to the energy consumption rate.

It is said that the power research department of the base planet is working day and night on a faster magnetic engine, but unfortunately, the magnetic engine at a speed of 100 times the speed of light has reached the limit of human technology. New breakthroughs require sufficient technological accumulation, and no one can tell when the magnetic engine will be able to break through the limit of 100 times the speed of light.

In addition to the more reliable official news, there is also gossip that the military tried to contact the mechanical civilization in exchange for more advanced magnetic engine technology from the mechanical civilization, but there was no follow-up except for this untrue news, and finally it was gone.

When the mechanical civilization helped the military build the stargate, it asked humans to allow the mechanical civilization to use the stargate. At the beginning of 2210, the entire mechanical civilization was connected to the Orion Stargate, when relations between the two sides were very friendly, and the military fulfilled its promises. The whereabouts of the mechanical civilization have not been tracked.

I don't want mechanical civilization to be gone forever. Both China and the United States and Russia have tried to contact them many times, but they have not been able to get any feedback from the mechanical civilization.

The military has also conducted a private internal evaluation of this, and the optimistic conclusion is that the mechanical civilization has completed its mission to help mankind and continues to wander the universe in search of the Outer Bone Man to do evil - the Outer Bone Man who flew to the solar system is just one group of all the Outer Bone Man. Therefore, this speculation is quite reliable.

The pessimistic conclusion has the shadow of a conspiracy theory. It is believed that the mechanical civilization had long anticipated the conflict between humans and the Atlanteans. So leave early and avoid getting involved in this ant-to-elephant war.

There is also a theory that mechanical civilization is involved in the nascent black hole in the nebula, which is purely grandstanding and non-mainstream.

From a certain point of view. The military has always insisted on cooperation with the United States, Russia and Europe because the Atlanteans are too powerful and have to find a few allies to embolden.

A fence with three piles, a hero with three gangs. Even if these allies are still relatively lame, it is better for the Shake Clan to shout than for the military to support it alone, right?

Taking a step back, the colonies of these allies are all concentrated within a range of about a hundred light-years around the solar system, and it is not a problem to act as cannon fodder and attract the attention of the Atlanteans, right?

Far from it.

All in all, the magnetic engine and the crystal engine are the golden power pairings currently mastered by the military of the Republic, and it is estimated that they will be used for a long time.

Outside the Quzhai Pass, the Atlanteans who had arrived in advance had already lined up, and this time they only divided more than a hundred warships to act as the rearguard, and the rest of the troops all flocked to the pass.

"Keep a safe distance, get ready and start firing." Ye Fei said lightly.

The space on the outside of Qu Narrow Pass is much narrower than that of Tong Pass, and there is no room for the power shock ship to exert its might, so it can only use the main gun salvo to grind foreign workers.

The advancing fleet unfurled its petal-like levitation shield ten light-seconds away from the enemy rearguard fleet.

However, before the levitating shield was in place, more than a hundred triangular battleships acting as the rear guard on the opposite side suddenly accelerated away from the fleet, abandoned the rearguard mission, and rushed at full speed towards the advancing fleet that was preparing for artillery bombardment.

"Yo, you're getting smarter." Ye Fei finally began to feel that the boring pursuit had something new.

The best defense is offense, and the Atlanteans may not have heard of it, but they certainly understand it.

"The already charged main gun immediately fires, scissors, prepares crystal missiles." A trace of ruthlessness flashed under Ye Fei's eyes

More than a hundred enemy ships require five to seven salvos to take out, and it takes fifteen to twenty seconds to recharge the main guns at a time, and with five salvo rounds, it would take one minute and fifteen seconds to completely kill these enemy ships without wasting any time and firepower.

Ideally, it would never be possible to save zài, and it is not surprising that if a fight really starts, the time will be delayed tenfold.

Will the Atlanteans give the advancing fleet that much time?

Of course not.

At the speed of a triangular battleship, it would take less than thirty seconds to fly over ten light seconds, and as long as they succeeded in closing the distance, they could give full play to the powerful power of the disintegrating beams, disrupt the layout of the advancing fleet with close combat, and even destroy the advancing fleet.

There are not many crystal missiles left in the fleet, but apart from crystal missiles, Ye Fei does not have any weapons in his hand that can destroy a large number of enemies in a short period of time.

Sporadic lasers shot from the advancing fleet at the attacking enemy forces at full speed, and the ships invariably set their sights on the first few enemy ships.

As the saying goes, the gun shoots the first bird, and these overly active triangular battleships have become the chickens that kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys.

The rest of the monkeys are still very positive, though.

The second round of firing was much more neat than the first, and the losses of the Atlanteans were greater, but time was running out, and with one more round of firing, the enemy would be able to pull the advancing fleet within the effective range of the disintegrating beam.

"Scissors, let's launch a missile." Ye Fei said.

Dozens of crystal missiles flew out of the Ares.

At the same time, those escaped Atlantean battleships rushed into the pass quickly, and what Ye Fei didn't expect was that these battleships actually converged the golden light on the ship's watch, and at first glance it seemed as if they had suddenly disappeared. (To be continued......)